#climate-emergency — Public Fediverse posts
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El Niño is being supersized before our eyes. The science leaves no room for doubt: the planet is in uncharted waters, and those waters are heating up.
The race now is between rising risks and our commitment to take climate action and protect people. We must win that race.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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The most depressing news of the week, and this decade so far, is the UN's report that leaves no doubt that we will fail to hold global warming below 1.5ºC. But there is also hope, read on.
The world agreed in 2015 on 1.5ºC, championed, I might add, by a certain Canadian Prime Minister. Now, the best we could hold it to would be 1.8ºC and that would be at breakneck speed.
That Prime Minister is now hanging out with his kids, his girlfriend, and is generally getting on just fine...while his party oversees what they intend to be the greatest expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure and emissions (LNG and TMX2) in Canadian history.
Meanwhile the rest of us are left breathing in the smoke and fleeing the fires.
As a young adult 25 years ago, I thought we had time. I was optimistic. I thought surely we'd make the correction once the every-day consequences started to hit.
Well here we are, fully in the *beginning* of those consequences, and our governments have never been more committed to being the last one to sell the last drop of oil, coal, or gas.
No one disputes anymore that we have and are changing the climate.
The deniers lost.
But the oil companies are still winning.
The only way to save ourselves at this time and to have any hope of 1.8ºC or 2ºC or whatever the lowest possible temperature is that we can achieve, is to take the fight to the oil companies directly.
Physically.
Economically.
Until they cannot operate, pollute or continue as going concerns.
We are all of us feeling the impacts of climate change and what oil companies have done. That means today we have many many more people ready to fight than we ever have before.
We have to fight because they are already killing us, and because the rest of us must survive.
We will fight because if we don't, both they, and we, will die on a planet rendered unliveable by our own stupidity and greed.
So we fight. In every way you can. You fight.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels #TransitionNow
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"...The most optimistic scenario will see temperature rise peak at 1.8°C above pre-industrial levels, above the goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C set by the Paris Agreement. Most other scenarios predict higher peaks...."
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United Nations:
UNEP: World set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperatures
"...“This summer’s scorching heat, raging wildfires and deadly floods are a warning of what lies ahead. We must make the overshoot above 1.5 degrees as small and short as possible. That demands an overshoot of ambition” said UN Secretary-General Antőnio Guterres. ..."
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"Literally, the cool thing about the house which Elemental lead architect Amrutha Kishor built for them is that it acts like a fan all by itself."
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/indian-home-stays-cool-without-a-c-through-clever-clay-architecture/
https://www.elemental-architects.com/projects
#architecture #goodnews #india #naturalCooling #autoCooling #climateCrisis #climateEmergency #sustainability #sustainable
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#FYI #US #USA #AmericanResiliency #EmilySchoerning #resilience #TimesOfChange #wildfire #wildfires
After the #fire
follow up from #Spokane #Washington#disaster #evacuation #preparation advice
#climate #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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Meanwhile on the #ClimateChange front… The U.N. warns the world is close to crossing a dangerous climate change threshold - is anyone paying attention as the planet burns? Parasitic, resource extracting humans are actively destroying our host - with #FossilFuels firms leading the charge while conservative, right-wing governments are in denial. https://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/g-s1-141595/united-nations-climate-change-threshold #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming
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#BerkeleyEarth #ENSO #ElNino #GodzillaElNino
#NovaraMedia feat. #ZekeHausfather on #SuperElNino riding on the back of our #climatechange
"... we did it to ourselves." Jupp, we deserve a medal -.-
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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I just published "Generative AI – The new pandemic".👇
https://meanmicio.org/2026/09/03/generative-ai-the-new-pandemic/
#noAI #slop #FreeSoftware #ClimateEmergency #PublicHealth #HumanRights #genAI #ArtificialIntelligence -
AP: EPA proposal could leave the public in the dark on data center plans
Sep 3, 2026 12:14 PM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked backlash in communities across the United States ...
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#UK - Protect nature for the future: make #wildfire prevention a national priority
Demand our Government protects people, places and #nature and takes action that matches the scale and urgency of the challenge.
#NationalTrust Petition:
#fires #GlobalWarming #ClimateEmergency #Firefighting #England
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#ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #PacificIslandNations
From AP News.com: Pacific island nations seek to turn geopolitics into funding to offset climate change harm
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Grim. There needs to be a renewed urgency to limiting temperature increases, and the duration of overshoot, as much as possible. Without dramatic cuts to fossil fuel use, we are heading for catastrophic levels of warming and loss of #biodiversity. #ClimateEmergency #GlobalHeating
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bg6jm6febtd2qborc6irokot/post/3mujhm3fzi22z -
We reach Rabaul after 4 days of navigation over the Bismarck Sea. I am now docked at the Kute shipping quay for how many days I don't know yet. The good thing is that there's a new company covering the last stretch of my journey, from Rabaul to Buka, Bougainville. I'll just have to wait for the time the ship is ready to depart. In the meantime, I watch at slave-like work of a group of men downloading copra from a cargo ship and uploading it on trucks delivering it on local markets. They tell me they get the equivalent of €2 for every ton of copra downloaded, to be divided among a team of 6. Slavery I said.
More to watch here: https://youtube.com/shorts/Srl5RPy6gE0?feature=share 95/
I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.
#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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@iris_meredith Indeed.
And that is why we will all die.
Our politicians, who depend on the ultra wealthy for their campaign finance to get elected, are not going to tell the ultra wealthy (who actually could do this without suffering) to curtail their lifestyles for the public good.
In fact, we in the west almost all need to curtail our lifestyles significantly; but we won't. And that's why there is no hope.
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Day 75-78: Conditions are not exactly first class on the vessel taking me from Lae to Rabaul: There's no couchette and no shower room. However, people leave me some space to roll out my 2-inch mattress on the floor (I'm the only one onboard except for crew members enjoying this luxury), so I get some rest. All other passengers sleep crammed on the floor or on the seats. For washing we rely on the "bucket system" in small cabin rooms that get constantly flooded with (rather filthy) water. Surely I'm a white fly on board and everyone wants to speak with me. In spite of this and the breathtaking view of the sunset, I get on with my work...
I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.
#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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@malducin
Wish they wouldn't say "worst" impacts are unavoidable.Yes, thanks to inaction by the responsible parties (governments) that allowed industry to continue on damaging paths, we have locked. In bad impacts. That is unavoidable.
If we continue to tolerate business as usual, the impacts will get even worse. That is avoidable
IFF we treat this as an emergency and act accordingly. -
CW: Climate catastrophe and direct action
Earth's futures can be divided into two categories: futures which support human life and those that don't.
The IPCC reports have avoided framing things this way, but burn enough fossil fuels quickly enough and you tip over into the later.
Note that this logic applies to any sub-region of the Earth too: some unknown number of years ago, thanks to ExxonMobil's sales of oil and duplicity about the known risks, the tipping point into "unlivable future" was crossed with respect to a segment of the Trishuli river in Nepal, and just this year that future was realized quite suddenly. In individual apartments across North America and Europe this summer thousands of people found themselves in unlivable futures due to heat waves, and millions more avoided that fate narrowly through the use of air conditioning which could well fail in future heat waves...
What the IPCC reports have been detailing for literally more than three decades is what it would take to tip things the other way. They report this in various forms, but usually at the level of how much CO2 emissions can be permitted on what schedule in order to prevent (locally-)unlivable futures (abstracted as a number of degrees of warming relative to a baseline).
The IPCC reports of emissions and mitigations can be translated into actions: what kind of policy would have to be enacted when by which government in order to avoid an unlivable future. In general however, hierarchical nation-states have proven collectively incapable of meeting *any* of these targets, and so indeed, translating emissions targets into policy actions is increasingly impossible, and has always been an improbable path towards survival. The longer nation states fail to meet the necessary emissions goals (or even accelerate oil drilling), the more drastic action is necessary. We can continue to talk about what kind of national policies might avoid unlivable futures, even as those futures are realized for more and more people, but national policies are not the only kinds of actions that can change the future. Fire example, a national policy shutting down an oil pipeline might avert a certain amount of emissions, but the pipeline owner could also shut it down themselves, or an activist could sabotage it, and the effect would be the same. Lots of different actors have different kinds of actions they can take to create similar effects, and it's the effects that are necessary to avoid unlivable futures.
Effectively, assuming that we will not wind up in a totally unlivable future, this leads to a principle of action substitution. We know what effects are necessary, and if nation states refuse to enact those via policies and companies likewise refuse to make any voluntary changes, then the only actions that remain to be taken are drastic direct actions. Simply put: the longer nations and corporations refuse to do anything to create livable futures, the more people will simply take direct action to achieve the needed carbon emissions reductions, because the alternative for them is death and that alternative is becoming clearer with each climate casualty, so it will be increasingly impossible to threaten them into giving up their lives for corporate profits.
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Rohde, Calvert & Hausfather 01 Sep 2026 Earth Syst Sci Data Discuss
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature – High-Resolution (BEST-HR): a 0.25° Global Gridded Temperature Data Set for Climate Monitoring
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2026-412
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateDisruption #globalWarming #globalHeating #ExtremeWeather #polycrisis
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"...Many of the villages here were swept away entirely and are only accessibly by army helicopter. Some are still so cut-off and the ground conditions so precarious that the fate of hundreds of people remains unknown...."
(My comment: probably thousands still, they still haven't accessed areas and entire villages destroyed with no one to report the missing... Which at this scale doesn't matter, except that it does matter.)
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The Guardian: After the flood: human suffering on an unfathomable scale in Nepal’s worst-hit districts
Thousands remain missing and aid is hampered by treacherous conditions in communities almost wiped out of existence
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The International Court of Justice has made it clear – keeping to 1.5C is not a choice, it is a legal obligation. We are not asking for your goodwill. We are not begging you. We are telling you what international law requires of you. End fossil fuel expansion. Your corporate profits cannot be allowed to extinguish our future.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
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Day 75-78: I don't think I'll ever see as much as beauty as in these breath-taking sunsets over the Bismarck Sea. They fall gently like leaves caressed by an autumn breeze.
https://youtube.com/shorts/qA-dFbqb4ic?feature=shareThey are an utmost pleasure in my 4- day 1,100km ferry trip from Lae to Rabaul. Conditions are not exactly first class on the vessel: there's no couchette and no shower room. But people leave me some space to roll out my 2-inch mattress on the floor (I'm the only one onboard except for crew members enjoying this luxury), so I get some rest. All passengers sleep crammed on the floor or on the seats. For washing we rely on the "bucket system" in small cabin rooms that get constantly flooded with (rather filthy) water. Surely I'm a white fly on board and everyone wants to speak with me. In spite of this and the breathtaking view of the sunset, I get on with my work...
I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates: see https://ourworldindata.org/travel-carbon-footprint ) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do. 93/
#RefuseTofly #EnvironmentalBreakdown #ClimateAction #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #StrictlyPublicTransport #climateemergency #BismarckSea #PNG #ferrytravel #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
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"...UMOM originally planned for the center to help 50 families over the course of the summer. Instead, demand has far outpaced that estimate, with the shelter already serving well over 700 people...." #heatwaves #heat #AZwx #climateemergency
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"...Officials at UMOM said the need for cool, safe places to sleep has grown so high that the shelter has had to pitch tents indoors to handle the influx of people seeking help since opening its 24/7 overnight heat relief center this year.
There is currently a 200-person waitlist, officials said.
The surge comes as the Valley endures an unusually deadly summer, with more than 700 deaths classified as heat-related or possibly heat-related...."
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AZFamily: ‘Doing everything that we can’: Phoenix shelter pitches indoor tents amid overnight heat
Shelter says the need for cool spaces has outpaced expectations, with more than 200 people on a waitlist