#climate_crisis — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #climate_crisis, aggregated by home.social.
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Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief (The Guardian)
Effects of crisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action.
Political cowardice is hindering European efforts to face up to the effects of the climate crisis, even as the continent is pummelled by a record-breaking heatwave.
#extreme_weather #climate_scepticism #climate_crisis #climate_change #global_warming #eu #european_union #green_politics
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A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up. (The Guardian)
About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority.
We believe the current mismatch between public will and government action amounts to a deficit in democracy.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2025/apr/23/climate-action-public-support
#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #extreme_weather #media #news #journalism #journalist #democracy
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The rest of the world needs to recognize that the United States is no longer a rational state. At this time when humans are facing mass extinction, nations have to focus instead on disruptions caused by this rouge nation.
#survival
#climate_crisis
#threat
#economy
#democracy
#totalitarianism
#fascism
#graft
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CW: Bullshit with a grain of truth
#JavaScript is killing the planet and if you run a server in JavaScript, you should feel bad for it. In the time of a raging #climate_crisis we should reduce the instructions our CPUs have to process this goes well beyond mere deployment though: a #Golang program can be written in an afternoon and is reasonably efficient, #javascript takes a skilled engineer about as long but eats more resources, #Rust takes (noobs like me) way longer to write.
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EU launches action against 20 airlines for greenwashing
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/eu-launches-action-against-20-airlines-for-greenwashing
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Scientists confirm record highs for three most important heat-trapping gases (The Guardian)
Global concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide climbed to unseen levels in 2023, underlining climate crisis.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/record-highs-heat-trapping-gases-climate-crisis
#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #global_warming #antarctic #greenhouse_gas
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Oil giant fined just $780k after 'one of biggest ever' methane leaks
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/kazakhstan-oil-firm-methane-leak-b2498997.html
#ycombinator #Kazakhstan #oil_company #emissions #Methane #Oil_and_Gas #Climate_crisis #Internal -
Europe is heading for perilous waters, and its leaders are dozing at the tiller (The Guardian)
Ukraine needs more help, the far right is on the rise and the Middle East crisis gets worse. Where is the European Union’s vision?
Quotes from article: https://diasp.nl/posts/3950397
#europe #european_union #gaza #israel #palestine #palestinians #red_sea #germany #france #china #ukraine #russia #putin #far_right #migration #climate_crisis #climate_change #trump #nato #borrell
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@randahl Low price means more consumption. This can only mean return to more fossil fuel, thus deepening #climate_crisis
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An odd silence - at the end of humanity’s hottest year…yet (The Crucial Years)
Because the most important thing that happened this year was the heat.
And yet you really wouldn’t know it from reading the wrap-ups of the year’s news now appearing on one website after another.
In geological terms, we’re warming at hellish pace.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-odd-silence
#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #heatwaves #extreme_weather #flooding #fossil_fuel #co2 #media #news #news_cycle #journalism
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Why AI is a disaster for the climate (The Guardian)
The technology consumes electricity at a colossal rate.
So maybe the best hope for the planet would be for generative AI to topple down the slippery slope into Gartner’s “trough of disillusionment”.
Quotes from the article: https://diasp.nl/posts/3914572
#artificial_intelligence #ai #chatgtp #computing #energy #energy_transition #carbon_footprint #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #global_warming
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UN chief warns Nepal's mountains have lost one-third of their ice
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/30/stop-the-madness-un-chief-warns-nepals-mountains-have-lost-one-third-of-their-ice
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European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building, report finds (The Guardian)
The length of motorways in Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while railways shrank 6.5%.
We should be talking less about fares and a lot more about infrastructure.
#climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #europe #eu #european_union #transport #cars #public_transport #roads #rail #railways #infrastructure #greenhouse_gas_emissions #greenhouse_gas #air_pollution