#climate-change — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climate-change, aggregated by home.social.
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The rush to power data centers is weakening the Clean Air Act.
New guidance from the EPA takes away one of the most reliable tools for tracking pollution from power plants — and encourages data centers to build their own. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
https://grist.org/regulation/the-rush-to-power-data-centers-is-weakening-the-clean-air-act/
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Nepal Floods: Rescue Amidst Himalayan Risks: Heavy monsoon rains trigger widespread flooding and landslides across the Himalayan nation, killing nearly 200 people and prompting international rescue efforts.
https://tnl.st/j9his5
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Lake overflows on Nepal-China border
A lake formed by a landslide on the Nepal-China border started to overflow on Friday, triggering panic and putting at risk areas devastated by a flash flood two days ago as rescue efforts were briefly halted. Wednesday’s catastrophic flood caused by a glacier collapse killed 489 people in Nepal and five in China’s Tibet, with […]
https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/world/lake-overflows-on-nepal-china-border/
#NepalNews #News #Nepal #China #ExtremeWeather #ChinaNews #ClimateChange #Climate #Weather
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New from Dylan Baddour at Inside Climate News: In Corpus Christi, still under a record-breaking #drought, you can #water your lawn but the city won't water the wetlands.
Experts say this policy could turn the bay into a giant "septic tank." https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-lifting-restrictions-lawns/
#Environment #ClimateChange #GulfCoast #Texas #News #CorpusChristi
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Nepal-Tibet #flood: this is the cost of not acting in the face of the climate crisis
Nepalis and Tibetans must not pay the price (with their lives, livelihoods and money meant for #education and #health) for global heating caused by wealthy states
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Documents shed light on the earliest-known instance of #ClimateScience funded by the #FossilFuel industry, adding to growing understanding of #BigOil ’s knowledge of #ClimateChange . Fossil fuel industry sponsored climate science in 1954.
February 1, 2024, Rebecca John
Excerpt: "Unknown until now, however, is the fact that Keeling’s earliest research into carbon dioxide across the western U.S. was funded in part by the fossil fuel industry via a private foundation — and that in 1954 this foundation was informed of the potential impact of manmade carbon dioxide emissions on both the climate and human civilization.
"Newly discovered documents affirm that the #automobile and #petroleum industries funded early climate science #Keeling conducted at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) between 1954 and 1956. Records show that 'oil and auto companies' sponsored the scientist’s research via an organization called the Southern California Air Pollution Foundation, formed in 1953 to tackle Los Angeles’s infamous smog. American Motors, #Chrysler, #Ford, and #GeneralMotors were among 18 automotive companies that gave money to the foundation.
"A 1959 internal U.S. Public Health Service memo also identifies the #AmericanPetroleumInstitute ( #API ) and the #WesternOilAndGasAssociation — the oldest petroleum trade association in the U.S., which is now known as the #WesternStatesPetroleumAssociation — as 'major contributors to the funds of the Air Pollution Foundation.' Its Board of Trustees included top-level representatives from the Southern California Gas Company, the Southern California Edison Co., Chrysler, General Motors, and Union Oil (now #Chevron).
"And from mid-1955, these trustees were also appraised of research projects by a seven-man 'technical advisory committee,' which included a senior official from API as well as scientists from the Richfield Oil Corporation (now #BP ) and #Chrysler.
"With the discovery of these Air Pollution Foundation documents, it is now possible to date the earliest sponsorship of climate science by the fossil fuel industry to 1954, approximately a quarter of a century before Exxon’s internal research program of the late 1970s. These new documents provide important evidence that the fossil fuel industry has been intricately connected to climate science from its earliest beginnings — not only as a driver of the greenhouse effect behind climate change, but also as a contributor to the scientific discoveries that would transform our understanding of humanity’s relationship with the Earth and its atmosphere. "
#ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew #FossilFuels #ExxonLied #Oligarchy #Oiligarchy #ClimateDenial #BigOil #BigOilStillLies #ClimateDeception #ClimateCrisis
#Capitalism #Exxon #ClimateCrisis
#MakeCorporatePollutersPay #Glaciers
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28-Aug-2026
#Insects could face an uphill battle adapting to #climateChange -
Hey everyone! Today's @solarpunkpresents #Podcast episode for the Carbon Neutral Strike shows an except of an analysis of the Carbon Neutral Strike Updates 1 to 30, looking into the most used word, "Just" and what thoughts surface from that analysis:
#Nowplaying #podcast #listen #listentothis #climate #climatechange #environment #climatecrisis #solarpunk #lunarpunk #writing #writerscommunity
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RHS issues warning to gardeners after record-breaking heatwave but says 'don't panic'
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/how-to-save-garden-heatwave-37601226
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One of East Coast’s largest data centers accused of ‘violating federal law'.
Thermal drone footage shows DataOne — the Microsoft-backed AI data center in Vineland — is powering its operations with dozens of unpermitted generators. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
https://floodlightnews.org/new-jersey-data-center-federal-violation/
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Unfortunately, only on LinkedIn, but look at this visualization by #AnnamariaLuongo !
#climatechange #ClimateCommunication #summer
lnkd.in/p/ejgVRuKD
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Nepal flood survivors rescued from hydropower tunnel
Nepali soldiers rescued around 100 people trapped inside a flooded hydropower tunnel as the death toll from the Nepal-China floods continued to climb, with more than 1,500 people still missing. Rescue efforts were briefly suspended over fears that an overflowing landslide lake could trigger more flooding, while families across [...]
https://www.france24.com/en/nepal-flood-survivors-rescued-from-hydropower-tunnel
#Nepal #News #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #Climate #Weather #NepalNews
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What needs to be done to strengthen climate resilience in UK urban areas? Take a look at our new academic research article published by Christopher John Medland, Jonathan Chenoweth & Donya Hajializadeh.
doi.org/10.1080/1753...
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Environmental Crisis: The Unseen Threat to Our Planet
📰 Original title: Mission impossible? Quantifying military emissions
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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#MakePollutersPay ! #BigOilAndGas is responsible for this tragedy!
How the deadly Nepal and Tibet flash flood unfolded – a visual guide
US Geological Survey says massive #GlacialCollapse caused catastrophic flash floods in the #Himalayan border region of #Nepal and #Tibet
by By Mark Saunokonoko, Nick Evershed, Mike Hohnen, Paul Scruton, Harvey Symons, Glenn Swann and Lucy Swan
Thu 27 Aug 2026 12.07 EDT"The steep slopes and the lush valleys below are especially vulnerable to flooding and landslides, and extreme weather events such as intense monsoons and melting glaciers have become more common because of warming due to human-caused #ClimateChange.
"Researchers in Kathmandu found earlier this year that glaciers across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region were melting faster, with ice loss rates doubling since 2000."
#ClimateCrisis #BigOilKnew #BigOilAndGas #MakeCorporatePollutersPay #Glaciers #GlobalWarming
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Can northern countries cool old homes without AC?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP8q5EdqX1U #ClimateChange #Sustainability
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This is the deadliest event caused by #climatechange so far.
Glacial collapse triggers flash flood on Nepal-China border
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"Cities shouldn’t wait for an extreme weather wake-up call, researcher says"
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Watch: Why rescuers fear new barrier lake could cause new Nepal-Tibet flood - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cj06j16vpr5o#Nepal #NepalFlood #Tibet #TibetFlood #ClimateChange #ClimateWarming
