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  1. At Climatematch Academy, we believe high-quality education should be free and accessible to everyone. That’s why we’ve made our full course content open-source and ready for use in your classroom, workshop, or self-study.

    Our materials are modular, Creative Commons licensed, and built by a global community of educators and researchers. Concepts covered includes: fundamentals of computational #ClimateScience #ClimateData, future #climate, and #ClimateResponse.

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  2. TechXplore: Passive cooling paint sweats off heat to deliver 10X cooling and 30% energy savings. “This design enabled [the paint] to achieve superior cooling by combining both radiative, evaporative and reflective cooling mechanisms, which allowed it to reflect 88–92% of sunlight, emit 95% of the heat as infrared radiation, and hold about 30% of its weight in water, making it a paint ideal […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/21/techxplore-passive-cooling-paint-sweats-off-heat-to-deliver-10x-cooling-and-30-energy-savings/

  3. Tubefilter: DOGE cut decades-old climate science departments. So 200 scientists are sharing their research on YouTube.. “YouTube has always been a place where humans teach each other, and under an administration where basic provable science is being questioned, it’s becoming a vehicle for climate and weather scientists to reach the masses.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/02/tubefilter-doge-cut-decades-old-climate-science-departments-so-200-scientists-are-sharing-their-research-on-youtube/

  4. Actuia: Watershed Launches Free Version of Its Climate Database. “Watershed, a platform specializing in corporate sustainability, announced on May 22 the public release of its global carbon data archive, the Comprehensive Environmental Data Archive (CEDA)…. Covering 148 countries, 400 industrial sectors, and representing 95% of the global GDP, CEDA aims to establish a common benchmark for […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/24/actuia-watershed-launches-free-version-of-its-climate-database/

  5. EU Startups: German search engine Ecosia unveils new climate impact experience for users, shifting away from tree planting. “Berlin-based Ecosia, the green search engine which invests 100% of its profits into climate action initiatives, is launching a new climate impact experience for its 20 million users – moving their primary focus away from planting trees. They can now log in to a new […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/17/eu-startups-german-search-engine-ecosia-unveils-new-climate-impact-experience-for-users-shifting-away-from-tree-planting/

  6. Blooloop: New tool to reduce environmental impact of touring exhibitions. “This tool was created to support museum professionals to ask the right questions at the right time when developing touring exhibitions and displays, said Elise Foster Vander Elst, head of exhibitions and environmental impact lead at the Design Museum, in a Teo article. Additionally, the new tool signposts various […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/27/blooloop-new-tool-to-reduce-environmental-impact-of-touring-exhibitions/

  7. Fast Company: If you think Big Oil is trying to manipulate you on social media—you’re right. “Other branches of the fossil fuel industry—including plastic producers and agrichemical companies, both of which depend on oil and gas and their byproducts—have also taken to social media to discourage actions to reduce the use of their products. In a new paper published last week in the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/24/fast-company-if-you-think-big-oil-is-trying-to-manipulate-you-on-social-media-youre-right/

  8. @Perrin42

    I've had very similar thoughts, though expressed in less poetic form.

    It's a thing we need to keep pondering because on Climate Change we're told we can't change too quickly. For Covid we did, though, as you note. To me, at least, it's an iron-clad proof what we lack is not the capacity to change, but the belief that there's reason to. We're in denial. My telling, in case you're curious:

    The Two Economies
    netsettlement.blogspot.com/202

    #Climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateResponse #capitalism #LateStageCapitalism

  9. @breadandcircuses

    At this point I find myself almost wondering if there's any research being done and how to stop a big fire, distinct from a small one. It feels like our approach must be wrong, that at the scale we're talking about, you can't solve these things by sending individual human beings out to little bits of the edge.

    Are we producing firemen at the right rate? Are people seeing the need and rushing to become firemen, or are they seeing the deaths and avoiding it. Are we going to run out of firemen?

    Are we going to need more and more airplanes?

    This is like its own little war. And, like if it were a war, I would like to see graphs that show us how much territory has been ceded and how much remains. How much grows back in between onslaughts, and a kind of progress bar until we don't have any more forest.

    Not even to mention a progress bar of our various sources of oxygen. We're deoxygenating the ocean, and that's taking a toll on things. We're chopping down rainforests. How many of these can we bear before we literally start changing the oxygen content of the atmosphere?

    Just looking at these pictures it feels like anyone who's talking what's the world will look like in 2100 it's just plain crazy. Who could possibly be here still to see it? Surely this is diminishing key resources at a rate that cannot sustain us. How could there possibly be 75 more of these summers left in Canada? Or the world?

    And is there an effect here, like the air pollution aerosol effect, where we're getting some perverse BENEFIT from the smoke, such that if/when we put these out we're going to be in worse shape for the lack of aerosols because we've come to rely on the reflectivity, thinking we've got climate under control, only to find we were relying on forest fires to mess up our measurements, and that other getting things under control was mirage.

    In my mind, I keep wanting to see that they've carved gaps into the forests, dividing them into a grid, with something flame proof in between, so that the fires can't spread more than a certain amount before hitting a firewall. Yeah, I presume that would really hurt animal life. Lots of stuff needs to migrate across those boundaries on a regular basis. So probably not a practical solution. At some point though, you have to ask whether the fires are going to hurt them worse. I don't see discussion of these kinds of things.

    We need people trained with career specialties in these areas, how many not to burden them with debt. The points to how badly we as a public need education, if we are going to survive things. We need to stop treating education like it is a personal indulgence. We should have whole schools for people we're going to solve these problems, or think tanks.

    Instead we have think tanks for how we're going to make people believe these problems are not here. Let's just make that illegal, a crime against humanity, sieze the money they've taken orchestrating this fiasco, and use it for better purposes.

    I don't know if these are even the right questions. They are the things that occur to me when I look at pictures like this, but I'm just one random person. We need a more robust discussion among more people to make sure that things are not being overlooked, both problems and suggestions about how to solve them.

    I feel like the media is failing us by just seeing these things, shrugging, and moving on to hockey scores or some other trivial matter. I wish that the world could be about trivial matters, but I can only do that with a firm foundation. And right now there's a war going on that is not being adequately talked about, and therefore also not adequately prioritized.

    #climate #fires #wildfires #ClimateCrisis #collapse #education #research #ClimateResponse #media #journalism #JournalismFail #society #LateStageCapitalism #ClimateCommunication #ClimateMetrics

  10. @breadandcircuses

    At this point I find myself almost wondering if there's any research being done and how to stop a big fire, distinct from a small one. It feels like our approach must be wrong, that at the scale we're talking about, you can't solve these things by sending individual human beings out to little bits of the edge.

    Are we producing firemen at the right rate? Are people seeing the need and rushing to become firemen, or are they seeing the deaths and avoiding it. Are we going to run out of firemen?

    Are we going to need more and more airplanes?

    This is like its own little war. And, like if it were a war, I would like to see graphs that show us how much territory has been ceded and how much remains. How much grows back in between onslaughts, and a kind of progress bar until we don't have any more forest.

    Not even to mention a progress bar of our various sources of oxygen. We're deoxygenating the ocean, and that's taking a toll on things. We're chopping down rainforests. How many of these can we bear before we literally start changing the oxygen content of the atmosphere?

    Just looking at these pictures it feels like anyone who's talking what's the world will look like in 2100 it's just plain crazy. Who could possibly be here still to see it? Surely this is diminishing key resources at a rate that cannot sustain us. How could there possibly be 75 more of these summers left in Canada? Or the world?

    And is there an effect here, like the air pollution aerosol effect, where we're getting some perverse BENEFIT from the smoke, such that if/when we put these out we're going to be in worse shape for the lack of aerosols because we've come to rely on the reflectivity, thinking we've got climate under control, only to find we were relying on forest fires to mess up our measurements, and that other getting things under control was mirage.

    In my mind, I keep wanting to see that they've carved gaps into the forests, dividing them into a grid, with something flame proof in between, so that the fires can't spread more than a certain amount before hitting a firewall. Yeah, I presume that would really hurt animal life. Lots of stuff needs to migrate across those boundaries on a regular basis. So probably not a practical solution. At some point though, you have to ask whether the fires are going to hurt them worse. I don't see discussion of these kinds of things.

    We need people trained with career specialties in these areas, how many not to burden them with debt. The points to how badly we as a public need education, if we are going to survive things. We need to stop treating education like it is a personal indulgence. We should have whole schools for people we're going to solve these problems, or think tanks.

    Instead we have think tanks for how we're going to make people believe these problems are not here. Let's just make that illegal, a crime against humanity, sieze the money they've taken orchestrating this fiasco, and use it for better purposes.

    I don't know if these are even the right questions. They are the things that occur to me when I look at pictures like this, but I'm just one random person. We need a more robust discussion among more people to make sure that things are not being overlooked, both problems and suggestions about how to solve them.

    I feel like the media is failing us by just seeing these things, shrugging, and moving on to hockey scores or some other trivial matter. I wish that the world could be about trivial matters, but I can only do that with a firm foundation. And right now there's a war going on that is not being adequately talked about, and therefore also not adequately prioritized.

    #climate #fires #wildfires #ClimateCrisis #collapse #education #research #ClimateResponse #media #journalism #JournalismFail #society #LateStageCapitalism #ClimateCommunication #ClimateMetrics

  11. @breadandcircuses

    At this point I find myself almost wondering if there's any research being done and how to stop a big fire, distinct from a small one. It feels like our approach must be wrong, that at the scale we're talking about, you can't solve these things by sending individual human beings out to little bits of the edge.

    Are we producing firemen at the right rate? Are people seeing the need and rushing to become firemen, or are they seeing the deaths and avoiding it. Are we going to run out of firemen?

    Are we going to need more and more airplanes?

    This is like its own little war. And, like if it were a war, I would like to see graphs that show us how much territory has been ceded and how much remains. How much grows back in between onslaughts, and a kind of progress bar until we don't have any more forest.

    Not even to mention a progress bar of our various sources of oxygen. We're deoxygenating the ocean, and that's taking a toll on things. We're chopping down rainforests. How many of these can we bear before we literally start changing the oxygen content of the atmosphere?

    Just looking at these pictures it feels like anyone who's talking what's the world will look like in 2100 it's just plain crazy. Who could possibly be here still to see it? Surely this is diminishing key resources at a rate that cannot sustain us. How could there possibly be 75 more of these summers left in Canada? Or the world?

    And is there an effect here, like the air pollution aerosol effect, where we're getting some perverse BENEFIT from the smoke, such that if/when we put these out we're going to be in worse shape for the lack of aerosols because we've come to rely on the reflectivity, thinking we've got climate under control, only to find we were relying on forest fires to mess up our measurements, and that other getting things under control was mirage.

    In my mind, I keep wanting to see that they've carved gaps into the forests, dividing them into a grid, with something flame proof in between, so that the fires can't spread more than a certain amount before hitting a firewall. Yeah, I presume that would really hurt animal life. Lots of stuff needs to migrate across those boundaries on a regular basis. So probably not a practical solution. At some point though, you have to ask whether the fires are going to hurt them worse. I don't see discussion of these kinds of things.

    We need people trained with career specialties in these areas, how many not to burden them with debt. The points to how badly we as a public need education, if we are going to survive things. We need to stop treating education like it is a personal indulgence. We should have whole schools for people we're going to solve these problems, or think tanks.

    Instead we have think tanks for how we're going to make people believe these problems are not here. Let's just make that illegal, a crime against humanity, sieze the money they've taken orchestrating this fiasco, and use it for better purposes.

    I don't know if these are even the right questions. They are the things that occur to me when I look at pictures like this, but I'm just one random person. We need a more robust discussion among more people to make sure that things are not being overlooked, both problems and suggestions about how to solve them.

    I feel like the media is failing us by just seeing these things, shrugging, and moving on to hockey scores or some other trivial matter. I wish that the world could be about trivial matters, but I can only do that with a firm foundation. And right now there's a war going on that is not being adequately talked about, and therefore also not adequately prioritized.

    #climate #fires #wildfires #ClimateCrisis #collapse #education #research #ClimateResponse #media #journalism #JournalismFail #society #LateStageCapitalism #ClimateCommunication #ClimateMetrics

  12. @breadandcircuses

    At this point I find myself almost wondering if there's any research being done and how to stop a big fire, distinct from a small one. It feels like our approach must be wrong, that at the scale we're talking about, you can't solve these things by sending individual human beings out to little bits of the edge.

    Are we producing firemen at the right rate? Are people seeing the need and rushing to become firemen, or are they seeing the deaths and avoiding it. Are we going to run out of firemen?

    Are we going to need more and more airplanes?

    This is like its own little war. And, like if it were a war, I would like to see graphs that show us how much territory has been ceded and how much remains. How much grows back in between onslaughts, and a kind of progress bar until we don't have any more forest.

    Not even to mention a progress bar of our various sources of oxygen. We're deoxygenating the ocean, and that's taking a toll on things. We're chopping down rainforests. How many of these can we bear before we literally start changing the oxygen content of the atmosphere?

    Just looking at these pictures it feels like anyone who's talking what's the world will look like in 2100 it's just plain crazy. Who could possibly be here still to see it? Surely this is diminishing key resources at a rate that cannot sustain us. How could there possibly be 75 more of these summers left in Canada? Or the world?

    And is there an effect here, like the air pollution aerosol effect, where we're getting some perverse BENEFIT from the smoke, such that if/when we put these out we're going to be in worse shape for the lack of aerosols because we've come to rely on the reflectivity, thinking we've got climate under control, only to find we were relying on forest fires to mess up our measurements, and that other getting things under control was mirage.

    In my mind, I keep wanting to see that they've carved gaps into the forests, dividing them into a grid, with something flame proof in between, so that the fires can't spread more than a certain amount before hitting a firewall. Yeah, I presume that would really hurt animal life. Lots of stuff needs to migrate across those boundaries on a regular basis. So probably not a practical solution. At some point though, you have to ask whether the fires are going to hurt them worse. I don't see discussion of these kinds of things.

    We need people trained with career specialties in these areas, how many not to burden them with debt. The points to how badly we as a public need education, if we are going to survive things. We need to stop treating education like it is a personal indulgence. We should have whole schools for people we're going to solve these problems, or think tanks.

    Instead we have think tanks for how we're going to make people believe these problems are not here. Let's just make that illegal, a crime against humanity, sieze the money they've taken orchestrating this fiasco, and use it for better purposes.

    I don't know if these are even the right questions. They are the things that occur to me when I look at pictures like this, but I'm just one random person. We need a more robust discussion among more people to make sure that things are not being overlooked, both problems and suggestions about how to solve them.

    I feel like the media is failing us by just seeing these things, shrugging, and moving on to hockey scores or some other trivial matter. I wish that the world could be about trivial matters, but I can only do that with a firm foundation. And right now there's a war going on that is not being adequately talked about, and therefore also not adequately prioritized.

    #climate #fires #wildfires #ClimateCrisis #collapse #education #research #ClimateResponse #media #journalism #JournalismFail #society #LateStageCapitalism #ClimateCommunication #ClimateMetrics

  13. @breadandcircuses

    At this point I find myself almost wondering if there's any research being done and how to stop a big fire, distinct from a small one. It feels like our approach must be wrong, that at the scale we're talking about, you can't solve these things by sending individual human beings out to little bits of the edge.

    Are we producing firemen at the right rate? Are people seeing the need and rushing to become firemen, or are they seeing the deaths and avoiding it. Are we going to run out of firemen?

    Are we going to need more and more airplanes?

    This is like its own little war. And, like if it were a war, I would like to see graphs that show us how much territory has been ceded and how much remains. How much grows back in between onslaughts, and a kind of progress bar until we don't have any more forest.

    Not even to mention a progress bar of our various sources of oxygen. We're deoxygenating the ocean, and that's taking a toll on things. We're chopping down rainforests. How many of these can we bear before we literally start changing the oxygen content of the atmosphere?

    Just looking at these pictures it feels like anyone who's talking what's the world will look like in 2100 it's just plain crazy. Who could possibly be here still to see it? Surely this is diminishing key resources at a rate that cannot sustain us. How could there possibly be 75 more of these summers left in Canada? Or the world?

    And is there an effect here, like the air pollution aerosol effect, where we're getting some perverse BENEFIT from the smoke, such that if/when we put these out we're going to be in worse shape for the lack of aerosols because we've come to rely on the reflectivity, thinking we've got climate under control, only to find we were relying on forest fires to mess up our measurements, and that other getting things under control was mirage.

    In my mind, I keep wanting to see that they've carved gaps into the forests, dividing them into a grid, with something flame proof in between, so that the fires can't spread more than a certain amount before hitting a firewall. Yeah, I presume that would really hurt animal life. Lots of stuff needs to migrate across those boundaries on a regular basis. So probably not a practical solution. At some point though, you have to ask whether the fires are going to hurt them worse. I don't see discussion of these kinds of things.

    We need people trained with career specialties in these areas, how many not to burden them with debt. The points to how badly we as a public need education, if we are going to survive things. We need to stop treating education like it is a personal indulgence. We should have whole schools for people we're going to solve these problems, or think tanks.

    Instead we have think tanks for how we're going to make people believe these problems are not here. Let's just make that illegal, a crime against humanity, sieze the money they've taken orchestrating this fiasco, and use it for better purposes.

    I don't know if these are even the right questions. They are the things that occur to me when I look at pictures like this, but I'm just one random person. We need a more robust discussion among more people to make sure that things are not being overlooked, both problems and suggestions about how to solve them.

    I feel like the media is failing us by just seeing these things, shrugging, and moving on to hockey scores or some other trivial matter. I wish that the world could be about trivial matters, but I can only do that with a firm foundation. And right now there's a war going on that is not being adequately talked about, and therefore also not adequately prioritized.

    #climate #fires #wildfires #ClimateCrisis #collapse #education #research #ClimateResponse #media #journalism #JournalismFail #society #LateStageCapitalism #ClimateCommunication #ClimateMetrics

  14. "Something has to change so markets and systems provide the best environmental choices to consumers – but that doesn’t mean you’re off the hook entirely."

    Why it’s so hard to make good climate choices:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/25-07-2023/why-its-so-hard-to-make-good-climate-choices
    #ClimateResponse #ClimateChange

  15. While I like the idea of people not having to use cars to get everywhere, I’ve realised that my approach has become one where I use a car for short trips around the neighbourhood but use public transport for commuting (3 hours travel a day). Locally, I am normally delivering stuff. I couldn’t get a bag of balls, a team bag and portable goals to soccer training without a car. And I am less mobile these days, anyway, so couldn’t carry all that stuff.

    My mantra has become ‘minimise where possible’ rather than eliminate to point of impossibility. And keep it local, which really helps to minimise.
    #ClimateResponse

  16. @mnutty —I’m given some relief by documentaries like the “Wild Hope” series—just saw one on the reintroduction of beavers to the British countryside; as a keystone species beavers bring back biodiversity but also mitigate drought and flooding issues by broadening river wetlands.
    #climateresponse
    pbswisconsin.org/watch/nature/

  17. Melting permafrost, the rising sea, and storm surges have rendered Newtok—along with dozens of other Alaska Native communities in northern and western Alaska—unlivable. Most residents have been forced to relocate.

    #Alaska #Newtok #ClimateChange #Relocation #Permafrost #Sinking #AlaskaNative #ClimateResponse #FEMA #Law #Legal #Funding #Community

    hakaimagazine.com/news/could-t

  18. Melting permafrost, the rising sea, and storm surges have rendered Newtok—along with dozens of other Alaska Native communities in northern and western Alaska—unlivable. Most residents have been forced to relocate.

    #Alaska #Newtok #ClimateChange #Relocation #Permafrost #Sinking #AlaskaNative #ClimateResponse #FEMA #Law #Legal #Funding #Community

    hakaimagazine.com/news/could-t

  19. Melting permafrost, the rising sea, and storm surges have rendered Newtok—along with dozens of other Alaska Native communities in northern and western Alaska—unlivable. Most residents have been forced to relocate.

    #Alaska #Newtok #ClimateChange #Relocation #Permafrost #Sinking #AlaskaNative #ClimateResponse #FEMA #Law #Legal #Funding #Community

    hakaimagazine.com/news/could-t

  20. Melting permafrost, the rising sea, and storm surges have rendered Newtok—along with dozens of other Alaska Native communities in northern and western Alaska—unlivable. Most residents have been forced to relocate.

    #Alaska #Newtok #ClimateChange #Relocation #Permafrost #Sinking #AlaskaNative #ClimateResponse #FEMA #Law #Legal #Funding #Community

    hakaimagazine.com/news/could-t

  21. Melting permafrost, the rising sea, and storm surges have rendered Newtok—along with dozens of other Alaska Native communities in northern and western Alaska—unlivable. Most residents have been forced to relocate.

    #Alaska #Newtok #ClimateChange #Relocation #Permafrost #Sinking #AlaskaNative #ClimateResponse #FEMA #Law #Legal #Funding #Community

    hakaimagazine.com/news/could-t