#climatecriss — Public Fediverse posts

Although the quintessential #EarthDay song is Mercy Me – #MarvinGaye

#music #climate #ClimateCriss #conservation #wildlife #air #water #ecosystems #sustainability #PublicHealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f5xq6vCQS8

My favorite #EarthDay song

Monkey Gone to Heaven – #Pixies

* disclaimer: I don’t adhere to any belief in “god”

#music #climate #ClimateCriss #conservation #wildlife #air #water #ecosystems #sustainability #PublicHealth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHC9HE7vazI

Today, on #EarthDay, a sobering new report says #US #AirQuality is putting millions of Americans at risk of #health problems. Nearly half the US population — or about 152 million people — breathes unhealthy #air & lives in a county that received a failing grade for #pollution, data shows.

#ALA #StateOfTheAir #SOTA #climate #ClimateCriss #PublicHealth
https://www.lung.org/research/sota

Glad to see that the US commerce secretary can't promote coal over renewables in public without being heckled by Al Gore

From https://www.ft.com/content/e2ae0417-6146-4428-96db-0484a6b024d1?accessToken=zwAGSOawkN5QkdPirgQXYUZEKNOW2wSEprAk0Q.MEUCIHykXw9LSZTpWzYaYsVg_mLm_4HmeiMaY9XvJflEobvyAiEA-UVmDPmBISd2SER1YOHVw4s7KCnMY-FPzUAaxy74DeE&sharetype=gift&token=1d7b541d-51d1-4e0c-9ef2-5680b68c21f8

#ClimateCriss #GiftArticle #GiftLink

The #oilandgas industry knew in 1954 that CO2 emissions would increase global temperatures. #ClimateCriss #CoverUp
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/30/fossil-fuel-industry-air-pollution-fund-research-caltech-climate-change-denial?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@emorwee on how the fossil fuel utilities in the southeast US have been buying off the press, using a combination of direct payments (laundered through a consulting firm) and a freelancer who was willing to use her status as a journalist to gain trust to carry out interviews which were actually hit pieces.

https://heated.world/p/buying-the-press

#climate #climatecriss #climateemergency

Denver appears to have figured out how to put together an effective eBike incentive program:

https://wapo.st/3V5HSEp

The result has been to move a few thousand people onto ebikes, which in turn lowers car dependence:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X22002475?via%3Dihub

Kind of embarrassing that others haven't managed to do this; the local California air board eBike programs tend to have a reputation for dysfunction.

#climate #ebikes #climatecriss #climateemergency

This is well-done coverage of Ro Khanna's release of documents from his congressional committee investigation into big oil disinformation.

Link is paywall-bypassing for the next two weeks.

#climate #oil #climatecriss #uspolitics #climateemergency

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/12/09/oil-companies-house-documents-climate/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjMyNTI1MTg4IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTY3MDU5MjExMywiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTY3MTgwMTcxMywiaWF0IjoxNjcwNTkyMTEzLCJqdGkiOiJhMGM3MWE5Yi0zYWM4LTQxZjctOWFhYi1hOWQ3OWQ5ZGZhZDMiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vY2xpbWF0ZS1lbnZpcm9ubWVudC8yMDIyLzEyLzA5L29pbC1jb21wYW5pZXMtaG91c2UtZG9jdW1lbnRzLWNsaW1hdGUvIn0.BayxSobwcdBuIOcL_YPWwk-KFNoeHV5zrlT0rCGquM8