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CW: US Politics / Offshore Wind Policy / Environmental Protection
Trump’s offshore wind opposition was never really…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/trumps-offshore-wind-opposition-whales#OffshoreWind #CleanEnergy #EnergyPolicy #ClimatePolitics #USPolitics
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The New Republic | Kathy Hochul Has One Last Chance to Do the Right Thing on Climate by Ilana Cohen
In recent weeks, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has indicated that she wants to roll back the state’s landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act—to the horror of everyday New Yorkers and civil society organizations, who have called to keep the act intact. But by passing a second extension to budget negotiations this week, New York lawmakers have given Hochul a little more time to reconsider.
The CLCPA passed in 2019 amid global climate strikes and the determined efforts of local advocacy groups like NY Renews. Enacting the CLCPA put New York on track to significantly curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and align itself with environmental justice. Setting legally binding emissions reductions targets, the CLCPA upon passage was celebrated as the strongest climate law in the nation, and a mark of New York’s commitment to climate leadership. Now, amid unprecedented environmental deregulation—including the rollback of the Endangerment Finding, which allowed the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases, and a second withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement—the CLCPA is one of the last serious U.S. climate policies left standing.
Yet over the last few months, the CLCPA has fallen subject to an extremely high-stakes and last-minute attempt to substantially alter its core provisions.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208715/hochul-clcpa-budget-extension
#climate #climatepolitics #kathyhochul #newyork #climateleadershipandcommunityprotectionact
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The Flamethrower Strategy: How America Plans to Win Climate Change
READ NOW 👉 https://alimcforever.substack.com/p/the-flamethrower-strategy-how-america
New from @alimcforever: how Alberta, Alaska and Greenland fit into America’s plan to win climate change – not stop it. Fossil power, Arctic maps, separatists, and short‑term extractive greed.
#alberta #albertaseparatism #canadapolitics #climatepolitics #arcticpolitics
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.#auspol #mediawatch #billionairepower #thinktanks #politicalinfluence #propaganda #climatepolitics #energytransition #fossilfuels #corporatepower #democracy #publicinterest #ipa #mininglobby #wealthandpower
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Why Mark Carney’s pipeline deal with Alberta puts the Canadian federation in jeopardy
#IndigenousPeoples #Canada #Alberta #BritishColumbia #Politics #CanadianFederation #PipelineDebate #Federalism #IndigenousRights #ClimatePolitics #EnergyPolicy #The14
https://the-14.com/why-mark-carneys-pipeline-deal-with-alberta-puts-the-canadian-federation-in-jeopardy/ -
Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther - #ClimateCrisis | #TheGuardian
"One bright spot of #Cop30 is that #Colombia and the #Netherlands, backed by 22 nations, will independently advance a roadmap to #fossilfuelphaseout, beginning with a conference in April 2026. This conference could be a gamechanger. #UN rules require all Cop decision texts to be approved unanimously, giving the #petrostates veto power over global #climatepolitics. The creation of a fossil-fuel roadmap outside the Cop process may establish a trading bloc that could begin to sanction nations – and banks – that refuse to wind down #fossilfuels."
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"Why are the targets for reducing emissions not being met or now even agreed? The answer is money. Despite the harm, the world’s governments provided $956bn in direct fossil fuel subsidies in 2023."
Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/cop-30-its-no-joke/
#climateChange #capitalism #economics #macroEconomy #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #climatePolicies #climatePolitics #transition #energyTransition #creditGuidance #money #moneyCreation #banks #banking #finance #GHG #CO2 #carbon #climateBreakdown #politicalEconomy
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"Why are the targets for reducing emissions not being met or now even agreed? The answer is money. Despite the harm, the world’s governments provided $956bn in direct fossil fuel subsidies in 2023."
Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/cop-30-its-no-joke/
#climateChange #capitalism #economics #macroEconomy #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #climatePolicies #climatePolitics #transition #energyTransition #creditGuidance #money #moneyCreation #banks #banking #finance #GHG #CO2 #carbon #climateBreakdown #politicalEconomy
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"Why are the targets for reducing emissions not being met or now even agreed? The answer is money. Despite the harm, the world’s governments provided $956bn in direct fossil fuel subsidies in 2023."
Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/cop-30-its-no-joke/
#climateChange #capitalism #economics #macroEconomy #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #climatePolicies #climatePolitics #transition #energyTransition #creditGuidance #money #moneyCreation #banks #banking #finance #GHG #CO2 #carbon #climateBreakdown #politicalEconomy
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"Why are the targets for reducing emissions not being met or now even agreed? The answer is money. Despite the harm, the world’s governments provided $956bn in direct fossil fuel subsidies in 2023."
Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/cop-30-its-no-joke/
#climateChange #capitalism #economics #macroEconomy #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #climatePolicies #climatePolitics #transition #energyTransition #creditGuidance #money #moneyCreation #banks #banking #finance #GHG #CO2 #carbon #climateBreakdown #politicalEconomy
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"Why are the targets for reducing emissions not being met or now even agreed? The answer is money. Despite the harm, the world’s governments provided $956bn in direct fossil fuel subsidies in 2023."
Michael Roberts: https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/cop-30-its-no-joke/
#climateChange #capitalism #economics #macroEconomy #oilAndGas #fossilFuels #climatePolicies #climatePolitics #transition #energyTransition #creditGuidance #money #moneyCreation #banks #banking #finance #GHG #CO2 #carbon #climateBreakdown #politicalEconomy
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@CelloMomOnCars
“We have to work together. You have 1.4 billion Catholics in the world, and you have 200,000 churches, and you have approximately 400,000 priests. Imagine the power of communication,” Schwarzenegger added. #ClimatePolitics -
#FDotM nailed it back in November when the #ALP #Albo government granted the #BurrupHub extension:
"It seems like our only options now are death or revolution, and it's hard to decide because revolution sounds like a lot of work."
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2/ about the new paper on "The History of a 3°C Future"
Remarkable that no IAM run that I know of has projected 3°C by 2050, or even over. The worst case scenarios only start to diverge from the other scenarios in 2045 or so, by which time, 2°C was about to be exceeded. "was" – because apparently, everyone now assumes 2°C will have been passed by 2040.
Regarding this:
"global economy would need to shrink substantially by 2050 in order to meet international climate targets. Such a protracted economic contraction also has no historical precedent."
Not on a global scale, okay.
But we can see it in the war period when all nations involved upped their fossil emissions, ie grew their economic activity.
Except UK. Who rationed everything and only ended this rationing in 1955 or so, see
https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?stackMode=relative&time=1927..1949&country=USA~GBR~DEU~JPN&focus=~GBR&Gas+or+Warming=CO%E2%82%82&Accounting=Territorial&Fuel+or+Land+Use+Change=All+fossil+emissions&Count=Per+capitaAlso, this was a good thing for their society, for example because equal rations stopped inequality, and also because nutrition was so much better for the majority of people.
You can read more about the whole rationing thingy and politics in war-time UK (and less so in the US) here, by historian Andrew Simms https://rapidtransition.org/stories/when-everything-changed-the-us-uk-economies-in-world-war-ii/
"When everything changed: the US & UK economies in World War II"This is the form of #Degrowth that's historically proven to work.
And it can be done by many societies at the same time, making it a global degrowth reality.You might say, but UK did not reduce her emission so this would not suffice in our case where emissions need to drop.
True that.
But a) we're not spewing out war tools made of CO2-laden steel as UK did and b) we're replacing those CO2 sources with renewables that we deem important enough for society so they had escaped our initial shutdowns of superfluous emission drivers. UK also shut down unimportant companies and individual CO2-heavy activities. But UK did not replace CO2 emitters with non-emitters. We will. 🖖🏽#ClimateChange #climatepolitics #ClimateEconomics #Economics #Degrowth #Capitalism
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"Our history does not look like the past of a 2°C future."
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"Failing such an unprecedented technological change or a substantial contraction of the global economy,
by 2050 global mean surface temperatures will rise more than 3 °C above pre-industrial levels."https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378025000469
They look at the history of drivers of emission growth. And the way this used to play out globally and regionally with the political economics of growth and technological advancements, they conclude, it'll be more than 3°C by 2050.
"As shown above, sustaining economic growth at the pace projected by the OECD would require unprecedented efficiency improvements in the carbon intensity of the global economy. Conversely, if carbon intensity were to continue declining at its current historical average, meeting climate goals would only be possible through a sustained global GDP contraction of around –1.4 % per year. Such a prolonged recession, however, has no regional or global precedent in modern global history.
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They also say something about IPCC Integrated Assessment Models, IAM:
"With a few exceptions (Keyßer and Lenzen, 2021, Li et al., 2023), integrated assessment models do not consider degrowth alternatives, which makes it difficult to technically assess their viability, beyond the very substantial political obstacles to their implementation. According to our results, if efficiency gains stay in a bussiness-as-usual path, the global economy would need to shrink substantially by 2050 in order to meet international climate targets.
Such a protracted economic contraction also has no historical precedent."I think, they're wrong there. See 2/ below
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sure, 1.5's bad
but we only just got there
wake me in ten years#haiku #senryu #poem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #ShortPoem #climate #weather #temperature #heat #ExtremeHeat #ClimatePolitics
A few notes to follow as a comment.
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A bit optimistic, perhaps.
For a dozen and a half years, 2035 seemed the worrisome date, but of late I can't extrapolate any societal effect curves in ways that help me see how we get even that far. People shouldn't get too comfortable with this far out dates that seem to anchor the conversation safely in the future. Even my mention of 2035 is not intended to suggest that's a good anchor date.
Especially with the accelerant we've this week poured on the fire in the US, destroying progress, reversing course, undercutting safety nets.
People will differ on this, but I don't think individual protesting in the US will help because I think this administration is looking for an excuse to declare martial law and to have something they can point to and characterize as dangerous as part of bootstrapping dictatorship. I'm told this is how it's been done elsewhere.
But I do think there are intact legal processes that need to be used. I do think that the people now in office are nervous about this and that pleas from constituents can still affect things. I think slowing the onset of dictatorship long enough to get to the midterm elections (2 years out) in the US and possibly create a legal roadblock is our best bet. It's a long ways off, and I'm not for a moment suggesting physics is willing to hold itself up waiting for process to run. But I think the climate science is not the issue at this point. It's all about politics.
I will say also that not that many days or weeks or months ago, depending on where you count from, but not long, all this stuff in the US was just so much academic talk. And today it is reality for many of us. There's an analogy to be made with Climate. It all seems academic right now, but soon enough the fires of LA won't seem like isolated events. For many around the world who don't control the media focus, it already is reality.
In the Asimov & Silverberg novel Nightfall (not the short story), after a big global cataclysm (which I think is not a spoiler since the story is about the how, not the what), a psychologist named Sheerin who'd predicted social chaos says later, looking back:
«"It's one thing to predict it. It's something else to be right in the middle of it. It's a very humbling thing, Theremon, for an academic like me to find his abstract theories turning into concrete reality. I was so glib, so blithely unconcerned. 'Tomorrow there won't be a city standing unharmed in all [the world]' I said, and it was all just so many words to me, really, just a philosophical exercise, completely abstract. 'The end of the world you used to live in.' Yes. Yes." Sheerin shivered. "And it all happened, just like I said. But I suppose I didn't really believe my own dire predictions, until everything came crashing down around me.»
We all talk about what's coming but we aren't going to really be able to hear ourselves until it happens. And then we're going to be horrified beyond imagination and wonder why we didn't do more.
To lighten the mood slightly, and only slightly, I'll end by noting I'm also reminded of a parody movie poster from decades ago that showed then British-PM Thatcher in then-President-and-former-movie-star Reagan's arms and bore the caption "She promised to follow him to the end of the earth. He promised to organise it!" The concern at the time was nuclear war, which seems almost a quaintly simple concern at this point. This is the sequel that never should have been made.
https://archives.victoria.ac.nz/repositories/2/archival_objects/3029
(There's a color version at https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fgg84vtmnw6f31.jpg as well. I wish I knew who owned the IP to find out the license restrictions or I'd have included the image more directly.)
#climate #ClimateDenial #dictatorship #fascism #USPolitics #politics #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimatePolitics #Nightfall #Reagan #Thatcher
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voters vote their purse
asking for cheap food and gas
and kinder physics#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #climate #ClimateDenial #elections #politics #ClimatePolitics #FossilFuels #FoodInsecurity
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Pauline quoted Radhika Govindrajan from the ex-bird site in a Climate Diary entry*:
> It's so hot in Delhi that bats are dropping dead from trees.
While I think it is immensely valuable to document these things, and I mean by this no denigration of any such diary entry in whatever raw and personal form it is perceived, here's how I wish most such things were more commonly reported:
Climate Change brings heat that can kill mammals dead in their tracks. Early victims include bats in Delhi, seen dropping dead from trees. But it's too easy to convince ourselves that this is a problem only bats will experience, that other mammals, such as humans, are immune. Too easy to think that most of us reading this far away from Delhi are somehow safe.
We're in denial if we are not looking at this and thinking "I could be next, and will be if I don't do something." Instead of thinking it's "happening (t)here", think and say "it's happening (t)here FIRST". This is not an isolated event. It is a step in the march of an aggressive enemy unconcerned about what is crushed beneath the storm of its boots.
None of us will escape climate change's wrath. We must not persist in denial but instead turn to face it directly, join arms together, and meet it head on with a whole-society response.
Time to insist on bold action. It is NOT extreme to take sweeping and powerful climate action. It is extreme to NOT meet an extreme threat with a proportional response.
#Climate #FTFY #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenial #ClimateAction #heat #ExtremeHeat #collapse #extinction #journalism #media #politics #ClimatePolitics
*Edit: I originally attributed this to Pauline, but see it's an included reference. My remarks are the same.
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Government defeated in High Court over climate plans
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Could journalists have understood that this was just an experiment? You need a good amount of #criticalthinking, but you may suppose that this is a distinctive capability of journalists. YouTuber Alex Prinz (aka #dunklerparabelritter) was able to spot it and has thus shown that it was possible with a good amount of critical thinking. We need more of this in the current political landscape, where #ClimatePolitics is under daily attack by populists https://youtu.be/a7MRDvKt7sc?si=Wbkm6a_esfUMMEsm
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Labour ditches £28bn green investment pledge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68232133
#timing #policyFailure #LabourUK
#environment #climatePolitics
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#ClimatePolitics
#COP28 #NowTheyHoldTheGavvel
#BigOil #BigFinance @AlGore @IMF
#ClimateWeekNYC @SimonSteill @EmilyShuckburgh @RoseMutiso @NaomiOreskes
#FossilFuelSubsidies #A12SHELL IS NOT EVEN #GreenWashing ANYMORE !
"Big Oil, Big Lies and Big Al..." (16 min)
by Just Have a Thinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN2ETuroink
Quotes (loosely)
Just Have a Think:
"if we stopped giving that money (subsidies) to the fossil fuel companies, we could cover the ENTIRE COST of suppporting our friends in the GLOBAL SOUTH and have enough left over to COMPLETELY fund the global expansion of RENEWABLES required by 2030 to actally achieve NET ZERO in 2050"
Naomi Oreskes:
"By 2100 economic damage will be so great that it essentially matches global GDP"
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No longer dead cats, this was a live cat thrown into the room (apologies to all cats everywhere)
(Possibly) this whole Sunak statement was a ploy to distract from Chris Packham on Channel4
#Sunak #Packham #climateCrisis
#climatePolitics
#climateBreakdown
#StopOil
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#eu #politics #ClimateCrisis #ilmastokriisi #luontokato #biodiversity #news #uutisvahti #ilmastopolitiikka #corporations #business #ClimatePolitics #economy #talous #hallitusneuvottelut
kaveri oli löytänyt tän mielenkiintoisen tosiasian, eli että muutaman erittäin ekologisesti ongelmallisen firman toimija (Ikea, Nestle ja H&M) kannattaa EU:n biodiversiteettilakia, ja pohdimme tämän merkitystä.
alkuperäinen artikkeli, eli laki vaikuttaa etenevän, jee🧡: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/15/key-eu-biodiversity-law-makes-next-stage-despite-rebellion-from-meps
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OnlineFirst - "Mapping the catastrophic imaginary
The organisation of environmental politics through climate change" by Nicholas Beuret:#Catastrophicfutures #climatechange #climatepolitics #imaginary #environmentalpolitics
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25148486231168395
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Publication alert💥New special issue of Journal og European Public Policy exploring the role of #climatepolicy #climatepolitics #Climategovernance for #climateaction. The issue discusses the importance of #politicalscience #polisci for future #climate research. My first Mastodon 🧵1/n https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13501763.2022.2150272?needAccess=true&role=button
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"Lives With Others: Climate Change and Human-Animal Relations" - Rebecca Cassidy
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145706
#anthropology #aiart #midjourney @anthropology #anthrozoology #perspectivism #appliedanthropology #climatepolitics -
"Lives With Others: Climate Change and Human-Animal Relations" - Rebecca Cassidy
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145706
#anthropology #aiart #midjourney @anthropology #anthrozoology #perspectivism #appliedanthropology #climatepolitics -
"Lives With Others: Climate Change and Human-Animal Relations" - Rebecca Cassidy
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145706
#anthropology #aiart #midjourney @anthropology #anthrozoology #perspectivism #appliedanthropology #climatepolitics
