#carbonemissions — Public Fediverse posts
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Train troubles in Europe expose transit’s fatal flaw — contempt for riders https://www.byteseu.com/2337983/ #CarbonEmissions #Europe #Germany #GreenEnergy #HolidayTravel #Opinion #Rail #trains
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/1187118/ Train troubles in Europe expose transit’s fatal flaw — contempt for riders #CarbonEmissions #EU #Europe #European #Germany #GreenEnergy #HolidayTravel #Opinion #Rail #Trains
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Train troubles in Europe expose transit’s fatal flaw — contempt for riders
When I traveled to Europe last month for a summer rail adventure, I knew to allow plenty of…
#Europe #EU #carbonemissions #Germany #greenenergy #holidaytravel #Opinion #rail #Trains
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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports
Source: PBS News Hour
In a first-of-its-kind report issued Wednesday, the United Nations has said that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Now, the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials warn. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate agreement because of warming from the burning of coal, oil,...
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #1point5Degrees #UNReport #ParisAgreement #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #SustainableFuture #CarbonEmissions #EnvironmentNews
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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports
Source: PBS News Hour
In a first-of-its-kind report issued Wednesday, the United Nations has said that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Now, the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials warn. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate agreement because of warming from the burning of coal, oil,...
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DATE: September 4, 2026 at 11:18AM
SOURCE: SOCIALPSYCHOLOGY.ORGTITLE: Global Warming Will Top 1.5-Degree Limit, U.N. Reports
Source: PBS News Hour
In a first-of-its-kind report issued Wednesday, the United Nations has said that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Now, the world must figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety, officials warn. Earth is soon going to exceed the safe temperature threshold agreed upon by the world in the 2015 Paris climate agreement because of warming from the burning of coal, oil,...
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #1point5Degrees #UNReport #ParisAgreement #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #SustainableFuture #CarbonEmissions #EnvironmentNews
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Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
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Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
#AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering -
Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
#AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering -
Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
#AI #carbonemissions #klimaatverandering -
Mag dit nieuwe onderzoek op de voorpagina van alle kranten?
'AI-driven productivity increases net global annual CO₂ emissions by 0.47–1.8 Gt, equivalent to 1.2–4.8% of total global
energy-related CO₂ emissions in 2024'.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-026-00411-0
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Two planned #datacentres will have higher #UK #CarbonEmissions than #ExxonMobil, analysis finds | Datacentres - UK | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/25/planned-datacentres-carbon-emissions-uk-exxonmobil
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National Security Archive: New Documents Detail Industry Efforts to Roll Back Federal Methane Regulations But Maintain Emissions Monitoring System. “The fossil fuel industry is trying to weaken methane reporting requirements while simultaneously fighting to preserve the related federal emissions database it relies on for credibility, according to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/21/national-security-archives-new-documents-detail-industry-efforts-to-roll-back-federal-methane-regulations-but-maintain-emissions-monitoring-system/ -
Financial markets can’t drive Canada’s climate transition alone
#Canada #ClimateChange #ClimateFinance #ClimatePolicy #EnergyTransition #ClimateRisk #CleanEnergy #OilAndGas #Economy #NetZero #GreenFinance #Business #Finance #Environment #CarbonEmissions #RenewableEnergy
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Fossils show huge #carbonemissions harm forests, not ‘green the planet’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/13/forests-carbon-dioxide-emissions #climate
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RE: https://scholar.social/@Aepasek/117071328036683992
'our central finding is that the climate impact of subsea data transmission is significantly lower than previously assumed, which can help recalibrate how ICT-sector emissions are calculated as global network traffic accelerates. Subsea cables contrast sharply with mobile- and satellite-based systems, whose emissions are substantially higher'
#polycrisis #carbonEmissions #technology #communicationsInfrastructure #infrastructure
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Prof. Kevin Anderson "We're going to be seeing unpecedented societal and ecological collapse."
Internal Exxon documents already knew this as early as the mid-to-late 1970s.#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #fridaysforfuture #politics #globalwarming #globalwarning #science #migration #ClimateRefugees #fossil #carbonemissions
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This is as close as we plan to get this year to “Car Week” events. Did errands in Monterey today, ready to stay out of all high traffic areas through Aug 16. How we feel about these 10 days of #car events, which reportedly bring 100,000+ visitors to Monterey County: https://bikemonterey.org/reflecting-on-monterey-car-week.html.
With friends in #Spokane and elsewhere impacted by #wildfires, our dedication to to doing what we can to help people reduce #CarbonEmissions of #transportation choices continues! #ActOnClimate
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6-Aug-2026
Thinking about trading your car in for an #EV? Here’s a compelling new reason to do it now
Research shows the #carbonEmissions benefits are far greater than you might imagine^^Only 58 % reduction of carbon emissions over 16 years. Better to have no car and 100% reduction ...
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And, which countries/regions are the world’s highest emitters #CarbonEmissions? Reported 2022, but the emission numbers are 🤯 -- which contribute to #ExtremeWeather #wildfires
"Once heat trapping gases get into the atmosphere, the effects are global. Trapping the sun’s energy doesn’t stop at national borders."
"Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for as much as 200 years or longer. So historic emissions matter."
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I will likely never own or drive a fossil-fueled car. Why? Not only cars are money-wasting machines and a pain in the ass to park, but also the private ownership of fossil-fueled cars is the biggest attributable source of carbon emissions.
"Guardian analysis found that the eight listed oil producers made almost $93bn (£69bn) in the three months to the end of June – the first full financial quarter after the US-Israeli war on Iran triggered a surge in global oil prices to highs above $126 a barrel.
The companies have used the biggest disruption of fossil fuel supplies in the market’s history to almost double their combined profits from just under $50bn in the same period last year, with campaigners warning that millions of households are left paying the price in higher bills and climate chaos.
The data suggests the eight oil companies – Aramco, BP, Shell, Equinor, TotalEnergies, Eni, Chevron and ExxonMobil – made more than $700,000 of profit every minute over the spring quarter.
While their market valuations were swelling by about $600bn to above $3tn, temperatures built towards a run of deadly heatwaves, all made more likely and more severe by burning fossil fuels.
Carbon emissions from the world’s biggest fossil fuel firms were directly linked to fatal spells of hot weather for the first time by scientific analysis published last September. It found the emissions from any one of the 14 biggest companies were each enough to cause more than 50 heatwaves that would otherwise have been virtually impossible."
#BigOil #FossilFuels #CarbonEmissions #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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China Doubles Down on Clean Energy Even as Coal Keeps Growing
China has announced plans to double down on its already ambitious renewable energy targets by massively expanding its…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #batterystorage #CA #Canada #carbonemissions #China #coal #electricity #energytransition #five-yearplan #renewableenergy #Science #solarpower #windpower
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China Doubles Down on Clean Energy Even as Coal Keeps Growing
China has announced plans to double down on its already ambitious renewable energy targets by massively expanding its…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Environment #batterystorage #carbonemissions #China #coal #electricity #energytransition #five-yearplan #RenewableEnergy #Science #solarpower #windpower
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/799731/ -
China Doubles Down on Clean Energy Even as Coal Keeps Growing
China has announced plans to double down on its already ambitious renewable energy targets by massively expanding its…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #batterystorage #carbonemissions #China #coal #Electricity #energytransition #environment #Five-yearplan #renewableenergy #Science #solarpower #UK #UnitedKingdom #windpower
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Donald Trump blames Canada for wildfire smoke — but global warming is loading the wildfire dice
#Trump #Canada #Wildfires #WildfireSmoke #NorthAmerica #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Environment #ForestFires #CarbonEmissions #ParisAgreement #Smoke #ElNino
https://the-14.com/donald-trump-blames-canada-for-wildfire-smoke-but-global-warming-is-loading-the-wildfire-dice/ -
Metal mining greatly increases the surface area of sulfide minerals that are exposed to weathering (mine surfaces and waste from crushed ore), and weathering of those minerals produces sulfuric acid. A new study estimates that the long-term carbon footprint of neutralizing acid mine drainage will be many times higher than that of the mining itself.
Original paper: https://pubs.acs.org/esthag/article/doi/10.1021/acs.est.6c05684/5206320/Carbon-Dioxide-Emissions-from-Acid-Mine-Drainage
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Study Reveals Drying Lakebeds Emitting Significant Carbon Dioxide
📰 Original title: Drying Lakebeds Are Releasing Massive Amounts of Carbon, Study Finds
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/study-reveals-drying-lakebeds-emitting-significant-carbon-dioxide.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Airline emissions bills and carbon credits for investment dominate a revamp of the EU’s labyrinthine emissions scheme.
International flights arriving in Europe from destinations within 5000 km will be required to pay for their CO2 emissions from 2029 as part of a major overhaul of the EU’s emissions trading system announced on Friday.
#EU #EmissionsTradingSystem #Airlines #Aviation #ETS #CarbonEmissions #CarbonTrading #Politics #Environment
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🇪🇺 EU proposes slowing down cuts to carbon emissions for businesses
｢ The reforms would relax the rules of the bloc's emissions trading system (ETS) to give businesses more time to reduce their carbon output than previously planned ｣
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“You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”*…
The first two installments of what will be an on-going series from ProPublica and Drilled, covering fossil fuel companies in the 1990s who, even as they denied the reality of climate change, were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses…
An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.
The research produced by those schools in turn shaped global climate models, as well as the policy and technology solutions adopted by governments around the world.
Ultimately, it fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels — a notion that has delayed emissions cuts by decades.
Corporate funders sponsored entire centers, paid the salaries of researchers, kept offices on campus and in some cases had veto power over projects.
Companies maintain they are supporting innovation and needed science. Universities say that with safeguards, sponsorship enhances research programs while preserving academic independence.
Still, the impact of funding constitutes a pattern that Benjamin Franta, an associate professor of climate litigation at University of Oxford, called the “colonization of academia.”…
“Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change“- For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. From Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron.
“How Oil Execs Shaped A Landmark Climate Study“- BP created an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” shaped climate discourse for a generation. From Maddie Stone.
As the first piece concludes…
Climate experts know about the costs, technical troubles, and failures of CCS [Carbon Capture and Sequestration] test projects.
Yet many of them have continued to boost the technology, even as they have downplayed solutions showing greater progress.
For example, the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.
A distressing– but critically important– read. How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: “Carbon Captured,” from @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
And as a reminder that, while climate change is certainly reason enough, it’s by no means the only reason to care: “Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds.”
* Bill McKibben
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As we face facts, we might give ourselves a short break on this, the anniversary of “Raspberry Beret,” by Prince & The Revolution, hitting #1 on the charts in 1985.
Here is the official video (now in 4K). Directed by his Purple Majesty himself, it features graphics and animation from Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, and the crew at Colossal Pictures.
https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?si=lEGZZM2x16Ulk2fx
#BP #carbon #carbonCapture #carbonEmissions #climateChange #culture #fossilFuels #globalWarming #history #music #musicVideo #Prince #Princeton #RaspberryBeret -
“You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”*…
The first two installments of what will be an on-going series from ProPublica and Drilled, covering fossil fuel companies in the 1990s who, even as they denied the reality of climate change, were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses…
An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.
The research produced by those schools in turn shaped global climate models, as well as the policy and technology solutions adopted by governments around the world.
Ultimately, it fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels — a notion that has delayed emissions cuts by decades.
Corporate funders sponsored entire centers, paid the salaries of researchers, kept offices on campus and in some cases had veto power over projects.
Companies maintain they are supporting innovation and needed science. Universities say that with safeguards, sponsorship enhances research programs while preserving academic independence.
Still, the impact of funding constitutes a pattern that Benjamin Franta, an associate professor of climate litigation at University of Oxford, called the “colonization of academia.”…
“Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change“- For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. From Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron.
“How Oil Execs Shaped A Landmark Climate Study“- BP created an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” shaped climate discourse for a generation. From Maddie Stone.
As the first piece concludes…
Climate experts know about the costs, technical troubles, and failures of CCS [Carbon Capture and Sequestration] test projects.
Yet many of them have continued to boost the technology, even as they have downplayed solutions showing greater progress.
For example, the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.
A distressing– but critically important– read. How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: “Carbon Captured,” from @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
And as a reminder that, while climate change is certainly reason enough, it’s by no means the only reason to care: “Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds.”
* Bill McKibben
###
As we face facts, we might give ourselves a short break on this, the anniversary of “Raspberry Beret,” by Prince & The Revolution, hitting #1 on the charts in 1985.
Here is the official video (now in 4K). Directed by his Purple Majesty himself, it features graphics and animation from Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, and the crew at Colossal Pictures.
https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?si=lEGZZM2x16Ulk2fx
#BP #carbon #carbonCapture #carbonEmissions #climateChange #culture #fossilFuels #globalWarming #history #music #musicVideo #Prince #Princeton #RaspberryBeret -
“You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”*…
The first two installments of what will be an on-going series from ProPublica and Drilled, covering fossil fuel companies in the 1990s who, even as they denied the reality of climate change, were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses…
An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.
The research produced by those schools in turn shaped global climate models, as well as the policy and technology solutions adopted by governments around the world.
Ultimately, it fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels — a notion that has delayed emissions cuts by decades.
Corporate funders sponsored entire centers, paid the salaries of researchers, kept offices on campus and in some cases had veto power over projects.
Companies maintain they are supporting innovation and needed science. Universities say that with safeguards, sponsorship enhances research programs while preserving academic independence.
Still, the impact of funding constitutes a pattern that Benjamin Franta, an associate professor of climate litigation at University of Oxford, called the “colonization of academia.”…
“Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change“- For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. From Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron.
“How Oil Execs Shaped A Landmark Climate Study“- BP created an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” shaped climate discourse for a generation. From Maddie Stone.
As the first piece concludes…
Climate experts know about the costs, technical troubles, and failures of CCS [Carbon Capture and Sequestration] test projects.
Yet many of them have continued to boost the technology, even as they have downplayed solutions showing greater progress.
For example, the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.
A distressing– but critically important– read. How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: “Carbon Captured,” from @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
And as a reminder that, while climate change is certainly reason enough, it’s by no means the only reason to care: “Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds.”
* Bill McKibben
###
As we face facts, we might give ourselves a short break on this, the anniversary of “Raspberry Beret,” by Prince & The Revolution, hitting #1 on the charts in 1985.
Here is the official video (now in 4K). Directed by his Purple Majesty himself, it features graphics and animation from Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, and the crew at Colossal Pictures.
https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?si=lEGZZM2x16Ulk2fx
#BP #carbon #carbonCapture #carbonEmissions #climateChange #culture #fossilFuels #globalWarming #history #music #musicVideo #Prince #Princeton #RaspberryBeret -
“You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”*…
The first two installments of what will be an on-going series from ProPublica and Drilled, covering fossil fuel companies in the 1990s who, even as they denied the reality of climate change, were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses…
An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.
The research produced by those schools in turn shaped global climate models, as well as the policy and technology solutions adopted by governments around the world.
Ultimately, it fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels — a notion that has delayed emissions cuts by decades.
Corporate funders sponsored entire centers, paid the salaries of researchers, kept offices on campus and in some cases had veto power over projects.
Companies maintain they are supporting innovation and needed science. Universities say that with safeguards, sponsorship enhances research programs while preserving academic independence.
Still, the impact of funding constitutes a pattern that Benjamin Franta, an associate professor of climate litigation at University of Oxford, called the “colonization of academia.”…
“Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change“- For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. From Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron.
“How Oil Execs Shaped A Landmark Climate Study“- BP created an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” shaped climate discourse for a generation. From Maddie Stone.
As the first piece concludes…
Climate experts know about the costs, technical troubles, and failures of CCS [Carbon Capture and Sequestration] test projects.
Yet many of them have continued to boost the technology, even as they have downplayed solutions showing greater progress.
For example, the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.
A distressing– but critically important– read. How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: “Carbon Captured,” from @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
And as a reminder that, while climate change is certainly reason enough, it’s by no means the only reason to care: “Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds.”
* Bill McKibben
###
As we face facts, we might give ourselves a short break on this, the anniversary of “Raspberry Beret,” by Prince & The Revolution, hitting #1 on the charts in 1985.
Here is the official video (now in 4K). Directed by his Purple Majesty himself, it features graphics and animation from Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, and the crew at Colossal Pictures.
https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?si=lEGZZM2x16Ulk2fx
#BP #carbon #carbonCapture #carbonEmissions #climateChange #culture #fossilFuels #globalWarming #history #music #musicVideo #Prince #Princeton #RaspberryBeret -
“You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”*…
The first two installments of what will be an on-going series from ProPublica and Drilled, covering fossil fuel companies in the 1990s who, even as they denied the reality of climate change, were quietly funding research that favored climate fixes that would protect their businesses…
An investigation by ProPublica and Drilled has found that fossil fuel companies have been funding climate research at prestigious U.S. universities for more than 30 years. Their support has helped amplify the work of scientists who promote the idea that we can stop the climate crisis without breaking our dependence on oil, gas, and coal.
The research produced by those schools in turn shaped global climate models, as well as the policy and technology solutions adopted by governments around the world.
Ultimately, it fostered a misperception that climate change could be solved without dramatically curtailing fossil fuels — a notion that has delayed emissions cuts by decades.
Corporate funders sponsored entire centers, paid the salaries of researchers, kept offices on campus and in some cases had veto power over projects.
Companies maintain they are supporting innovation and needed science. Universities say that with safeguards, sponsorship enhances research programs while preserving academic independence.
Still, the impact of funding constitutes a pattern that Benjamin Franta, an associate professor of climate litigation at University of Oxford, called the “colonization of academia.”…
“Why Carbon Capture Can’t Conceivably Solve Climate Change“- For decades, oil companies have funded universities’ research into climate change “solutions” that would not require the public to stop using oil and gas. Carbon capture is one of their favored ideas. One snag: It won’t fix the climate crisis. From Katie Worth and Lucas Waldron.
“How Oil Execs Shaped A Landmark Climate Study“- BP created an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels. Its key work, a paper known as “Wedges,” shaped climate discourse for a generation. From Maddie Stone.
As the first piece concludes…
Climate experts know about the costs, technical troubles, and failures of CCS [Carbon Capture and Sequestration] test projects.
Yet many of them have continued to boost the technology, even as they have downplayed solutions showing greater progress.
For example, the same modelers who overestimated the potential of geological carbon storage repeatedly underestimated solar power — one of the energy technologies that would allow more oil to remain in the ground.
A distressing– but critically important– read. How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself: “Carbon Captured,” from @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social.
And as a reminder that, while climate change is certainly reason enough, it’s by no means the only reason to care: “Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds.”
* Bill McKibben
###
As we face facts, we might give ourselves a short break on this, the anniversary of “Raspberry Beret,” by Prince & The Revolution, hitting #1 on the charts in 1985.
Here is the official video (now in 4K). Directed by his Purple Majesty himself, it features graphics and animation from Drew Takahashi, George Evelyn, and the crew at Colossal Pictures.
https://youtu.be/l7vRSu_wsNc?si=lEGZZM2x16Ulk2fx
#BP #carbon #carbonCapture #carbonEmissions #climateChange #culture #fossilFuels #globalWarming #history #music #musicVideo #Prince #Princeton #RaspberryBeret -
DHL Expands Decarbonization Push With Wind-Powered Cargo Ships
DHL is seeking to further cut carbon emissions across its freight ecosystem via a new partnership with Vela,…
#Germany #DE #Europe #EU #Europa #DHL #carbonemissions #cargoships #decarbonization #DeutschePost #DHLGlobalForwarding #freightbooking #freightforwarding #metrictons #oceanfreight
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Monroe County vaccine plant gets $10.6 million boost
THE LANCASTER COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY SAYING THEY WILL BE PART OF THE PROCE…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Sanofi #$10.6million #Carbonemissions #Commonwealth #dehydrators #eggwaste #fertilizedeggs #fluvaccine #JoshShapiro #LifeSciences #manufacturingplant #monroecounty #naturalgas #paddledryer #Pennsylvania #Shapiroadministration #Swiftwater #vaccinedoses #vaccinemanufacturing #vaccineplant
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Rock Weathering Can Counteract River CO2 Emissions Induced By Permafrost Thaw
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10664-8 <-- shared paper
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H/T @aaron Bufe
“[The researchers] measured carbon emissions and water chemistry in 50 headwater rivers draining 780,000 km² of the Tibetan Plateau.
The rivers flow in landscapes underlain by continuous permafrost and landscapes in which the permafrost has retreated since the last glacial maximum. They collect[ed] organic carbon from soils and dissolved inorganic carbon that is fixed by rock-weathering.
Where the permafrost cover is continuous, rivers emit CO2 from degrading (permafrost) soil carbon. Weathering reactions in these catchments are relatively slow.
In landscapes with (almost) no permafrost, carbon fluxes from weathering are faster than CO2 emissions from rivers.
Thus, as permafrost landscapes transition to landscapes without permafrost cover, chemical weathering reactions may play an ever more important role in riverine carbon cycling.
Interestingly, weathering can affect the carbon cycle in different ways. Where sulfide minerals are present, weathering reactions can emit CO2. Where silicate minerals dominate, weathering draws down CO2 from the atmosphere…”
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“Climate-induced permafrost thaw unlocks large stores of organic carbon that are mineralized and emitted as carbon dioxide (CO2) from rivers to the atmosphere. Concurrently, warming and permafrost thaw can increase mineral weathering rates, thus affecting the release and sequestration of inorganic carbon. Yet how these biological and geological carbon cycles interact and jointly affect CO2 dynamics (emission compared with drawdown) in permafrost rivers remains unknown. Here [they] combine[d] CO2 emissions, organic and inorganic solute concentrations, dual carbon isotopes (δ13C–Δ14C) and geochemical modelling to infer how permafrost thaw may affect river biogeochemistry over decades to centuries across the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Leveraging a gradient of thermal permafrost degradation, we find that river CO2 emissions decline, whereas solute fluxes from rock weathering increase with decreasing permafrost cover. Across this region, net CO2 drawdown fluxes from rock weathering are about 35% of river CO2 emissions, varying from around 15% in catchments with continuous permafrost to more than 100% in catchments with discontinuous or isolated permafrost. Thus, carbon fluxes from chemical weathering may become increasingly important with ongoing permafrost thaw, potentially even outpacing river CO2 emissions. [Their] findings disentangle the interplay between biological and geological carbon fluxes that are important for the cryosphere and the global carbon cycle…”
#permafrost #melting #thaw #climatechange #warming #Tibet #TibetanPlateau #Qinghai #water #hydrology #carbonemissions #CO2 #emissions #waterchemistry #waterquality #cryosphere #sediment #sedimentation #weathering #rock #carbon #river #riverine #carboncyling #geochemistry #biology #geology #soil -
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Could glacier melt slow climate change? Scientists thought so – until now
A “long-standing silver lining” to the wrath of climate change has been put under scrutiny, as scientists find…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #Antarctica #carbonemissions #ClimateChange #environment #glaciers #globalwarming #meltingice #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom
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A depleted oil field will become Europe’s first offshore CO2 storage site.
In a process that almost reverses oil extraction, chemical giant INEOS plans to inject liquefied CO2 deep down into depleted oil reservoirs, 1 800 metres beneath the seabed.
When the project begins commercial operations next year, it is expected to become the EU’s first fully-operational offshore CO2 storage site.
#CarbonStorage #CarbonDioxide #CarbonEmissions #Technology #OilIndustry #NorthSea
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A Common #Parasite Could One Day Deliver #Drugs To The #Brain : Medium
#CarbonEmissions from private #Jets have exploded in recent years : New Sci
The World’s Earliest #Writing System May Have Been Influenced by Older Symbols Found on Stone ‘#Cylinder #Seals’ : Misc
Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Carbonemissions of richest 1% increase #hunger, #poverty and #deaths, says #Oxfam
Consumption of world’s #wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit #globalheating to 1.5C
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Friday is farmers market day at Del Monte Center, Monterey. Don’t know who rode this bike to DMC today, just appreciate that they did. Related tips in “Bike to Farmers Markets” https://bikemonterey.org/tips-for-tourists/food-for-all and in “Shopping by Bike”: https://bikemonterey.org/tips-for-tourists/unique-attractions
DMC is in city of Monterey. The city’s bike-aware leaders, e.g., Mayor Tyller Williamson and Council Member Gino Garcia (whose day job is working for Ecology Action of Santa Cruz / Lets Modo) may be unaware that we formerly had in that Shopping section of the Tips guide a detailed map listing all Del Monte Center bike rack locations. Their ED at that time himself biked to work! Why is that detailed map no longer in our guide? Because DMC 🔥REMOVED those bike racks! 😭#NotProgress #GoingBackward #CarbonEmissions #TrafficCongestion #Monterey #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #transportation
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #BikeMonterey #BicyclingMonterey #ShopByBike #BikeToShop #ShoppingCenters #ParkingLots #ebike #DelMonteCenter #DelMonteShoppingCenter
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Our favorite sort of visitors are people who (if able) bike, walk, skate, scoot, or use public transportation. We met two such #Monterey County visitors on 10 Feb 2024: this couple from #Fresno who'd rented #bicycles to enjoy #cycling along the #PacificGrove shoreline and elsewhere. They were grooving on the sunshine after all the recent rains!
#BikeTooter #MontereyCounty #MontereyBay #BikeLove #ResponsibleTourism #ecotourism #CarbonEmissions #TrafficCongestion #tourism #EcoTravel #VisitMontereyCounty #BikeDate
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“We aim to help our customers and consumers save CO2 – for example by washing at lower temperatures or by switching to haircare products that do not need to be rinsed out and so do not require water to be heated up.“
If I get this right, my not rinsing out the shampoo will stop climate change and save the planet. Well done, #Henkel. Makes me wanna put a bullet through my head for translating that #PurposefulGrowth bullshit agenda of yours.
#ClimateChange #CorporateGreenwashing #co2emissions #CO2Emissionen #greenwashing #GlobalWarming #CarbonFootprint #CarbonEmissions #environment #sustainability #NowTranslating #AmTranslating #translating #translator #translation #xl8 #xl8or #xl8freelancer
Picture: Lucia Vergaglia/CC BY 3.0 IT DEED Attribution 3.0 Italy
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Study Shows Bitcoin Mining Could Accelerate Transition to Renewable Energy - A new study suggests bitcoin mining could actually help drive the transition to re... - https://news.bitcoin.com/study-shows-bitcoin-mining-could-accelerate-transition-to-renewable-energy/ #electricityconsumption #environmentalimpact #capacityexpansion #carbonemissions #decarbonization #renewableenergy #sustainability #climatechange #gridstability #profitability #energygrids #flexibility #greenenergy #proofofwork
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#Mexico #Carbon Forum 2023
en #Queretaro #MXOrganiza: MÉXICO₂ y la Secretaría de #DesarrolloSustentable del Estado de Querétaro.
Dias: 14 y 15 Agosto 2023
Costo: Gratuito
Formato: Presencial
Objetivo: Reunir grupos de interés, identificar el alto potencial de las nuevas #politicas y tendencias que generen reducciones de #emisiones y apoyar la transición hacia una #economia más baja en carbono.
+Info: https://www.mexicocarbon.com/
#CarbonEmissions #Sustainability #ClimateChange #LatinAmerica
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#UK agency has backed billions’ worth of #aviation deals since #ParisAgreement
Government’s #UKEF criticised for ‘locking us all into more #CarbonEmissions for decades to come’ with assistance for the sector
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/06/uk-agency-has-backed-billions-worth-of-of-aviation-deals-since-paris-agreement
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