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Climate Refugees: The Human Face of #EnvironmentalDisplacement
By Marco Kopinke, M.Sc.
February 20, 2025"In recent years, the world has witnessed a dramatic surge in the number of people #displaced due to climate-related #NaturalDisasters. In 2022 alone, approximately 36.2 million individuals were forced to leave their homes as a direct result of #environmental challenges linked to #ClimateChange. This marked a significant increase compared to previous years, highlighting an alarming trend that is reshaping lives and communities across the globe. The stark reality is that these numbers are not just statistics; they represent families torn apart, livelihoods disrupted, and futures uncertain. As we continue to see the effects of climate change intensify, the number of #ClimateRefugees is expected to rise, creating a #humanitarian challenge that requires immediate attention and action.
"Looking ahead, the projections paint an even grimmer picture. By the year 2050, it is estimated that up to 1.2 billion people could be displaced worldwide due to the impacts of climate change and natural disasters. This staggering figure underscores the urgency of addressing the root causes of climate-induced displacement. It is crucial to understand that these projections are not mere forecasts but a call to action for governments, organizations, and individuals to mitigate the factors contributing to such mass displacement. The potential scale of this crisis demands a coordinated global response to ensure that those affected are provided with the necessary support and resources to rebuild their lives."
#BigOilAndGas #ExxonKnew #ExxonLied #Chevron #ClimateCatastrophe #Oiligarchy #NoHumanIsIllegal
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#Klimakrise #BigOil #Lobbyismus
Im Zusammenhang mit den global zunehmenden #Extremwetterereignissen ist interessant, dass die Lobbyausgaben des US-Branchenverbands #AFPM in 2024 den Höchsten Stand aller Zeiten erreichten:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113328595930386788
#AFPM #KochIndustries #KochBrothers #Shell #OccidentalPetroleum #ConocoPhillips #Chevron #ExxonMobil #AmericanPetroleumInstitute #Phillips66 #BigOilAndGas #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew
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#Klimakrise #BigOil #Lobbyismus
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*[Ausgaben für] Öl- und Gaslobbyismus erreichen 72 Millionen Dollar in der ersten Hälfte des Jahres 2024*
Von #MollyTaylor (OpenSECRETS.ORG)
15. August 2024"Der amerikanische Verband der Kraftstoff- und #Petrochemiehersteller...
#AFPM #KochIndustries #KochBrothers #Shell #OccidentalPetroleum #ConocoPhillips #Chevron #ExxonMobil #AmericanPetroleumInstitute #Phillips66 #BigOilAndGas #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew
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OH radicals are born if NOx is hit by UV radiation in sunlight. (And water vapour in the air reduces this OH-birthing process, see posts above.) OH Radicals only have a very short lifetime of less than a few seconds because they bomb anything to bits that comes their way, or rather, they react with anything in their neighborhood. If a #methane molecule is bombed by OH radicals, the result is water vapour and CO2.
NOx is born in cow and pig shit, in artificial fertilizer, and also in high-heat combustion processes like lightening strikes, forest fires, and cars, trucks, planes, and ships.
NOx and the chemicals born when NOx is hit by UV sunlight (eg ozone), are harmful to living beings. So anthropogenic NOx gets reduced technologically after national and regional #CleanAir regulations. And by the international shipping organisation IMO, see eg https://www.ukpandi.com/news-and-resources/articles/2022/imo-tier-iii-nitrogen-oxide-nox-emission-compliance/ It also describes some techy ways for reducing NOx emissions during fuel combustion.
IIUC, #diesel engines burn fuel at higher heat than Otto motors. This makes diesel motors more efficient, leading to less CO2 emissions per km – but to more #NOx. Which must then be scrubbed from the exhaust.
We all recall the two (!) diesel scandals 2004 and 2015 where European car industry was found to cheat deliberately wrt NOx from diesel. (Cheating isn't the right word when you consider that people get sick and die from NOx' ozone pollution. Hence the regulations. And people with the car industry know this – so their cheating is really murder according to German law and recent verdicts [on other cases but with similar circumstances relevant to the legal definition of #murder].
The fact that German state attorneys chose to only prosecute the fraud speaks volumes wrt how car-centred their minds work. IMO, those managers and engineers should spend their lives in a prison cell. #Dieselgate #CleanDiesel Together with the software manufacturers at #Bosch, and the Rex Tillersons of this world. #ExxonKnew
Murderous cheating wrt Otto motors is also known https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abgasskandal#Manipulation_bei_Fahrzeugen_mit_Ottomotoren
Here it is a software for reducing #CO2 emissions on the testing stand. )Anyway. Where was I?
Ah, yes, the NOx-creation process and how these give birth to OH radicals in UV sunlight: OH radicals are born when UV sunlight hits NOx molecules. After only a few seconds, the suicidal radical bombs a suitable molecule like methane. But new radicals are born all day long. Because NOx is replenished constantly, in lightening strikes, forest fires, burning fossil fuels in🏭🏠, and:🚗🚚✈️🚢Together with the new finding that more moisture in the air due to global warming reduces UV sunlight, and hence reduces the births of OH radicals, which in turn increases CH4 lifetime https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adn0415 #Prather et al 2024🔒
I have been also wondering for a few years now whether NOx regulations and technological scrubbing (where it does occur, harr harr), and also a serious electrification in transport, industry and homes already have, and will have later on, a sufficiently large effect on increasing CH4 lifetime.And I am wondering again whether a reduced NOx abundance during the warm=wet and less fire-prone, stronger forested #Miocene caused CH4 to linger for longer because fewer OH radicals were born.
Adding the new finding to this theory, that more water vapour decreases OH concentration, makes my theory even more pertinent:
With high temperatures during the miocene at surprisingly low CO2 values, methane could explain parts of the discrepancy. But we don't have proxies for methane concentration.
Kind of important because today's climate sensitivity for doubling CO2 = 3°C, is in part fed by findings in #paleoclimate such as the Miocene.The Miocene had a different land mass layout, different ocean currents, and also different biomes, hydrological cycle and whatnot.
So it's not a good analog for our experiment today as I often point out, eg in this thread https://climatejustice.social/@anlomedad/112767092856263574
It's also mentioned in passing in Gavin Schmidt's new blog post about the paper that had prompted my thread above, with its spurious claim of climate sensitivity. https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/08/oh-my-oh-miocene/#ITEM-25598-4
So these system setting differences explain part of the temperature/CO2 discrepancy.
But not all.
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No surprise...!
Oil and gas lobbying reaches $72 million in first half of 2024
By Molly Taylor
August 15, 2024"The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers led the oil and gas industry in federal lobbying expenditures in the first half of 2024, marking the first time the trade association outspent the top individual companies in the industry.
"The trade association, which represents 450 fuel refining and petrochemical companies, leads the oil and gas industry with $8.1 million in federal lobbying expenditures over the first half of 2024. This level of spending marks a shift in influence, as individual oil and gas companies have typically outspent the trade association by millions of dollars.
"The oil and gas industry altogether spent $72 million on federal lobbying in the first six months of 2024 as the #EPA introduced some of its strongest-ever regulations to reduce #FossilFuel emissions. The industry is on track to exceed last year’s expenditures, which totaled $137 million after adjustment for inflation, and is the fifth-highest lobbying industry of the year.
"The American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers emerged as the top spender after doubling its federal lobbying expenditures from 2022. Between 2016 and 2022, the trade organization spent, on average, $3.4 million annually without adjusting for inflation. In 2023, spending jumped to $6.9 million in 2023.
"In the first six months of 2024, the American Fuel and #Petrochemical
Manufacturers has already spent more on federal lobbying than any prior year."#AFPM #KochIndustries #KochBrothers #Shell #OccidentalPetroleum #ConocoPhillips #Chevron #ExxonMobil #AmericanPetroleumInstitute #Phillips66 #BigOilAndGas #ExxonKnew #BigOilKnew
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This makes me very angry. Especially after I found out that #Koonin used to work for #BP as their "Chief Scientist"!
Hot weather does not mean climate change
Published 7/25/2023
"[W]hat if we were not in a #ClimateCrisis after all, and trillions of dollars in planned tax credits and #GreenEnergy expenditures are a misuse of taxpayer resources?
"New York University professor #StevenKoonin has presented data in his bestselling book, 'Unsettled,' to show that the science is not as settled as many politicians [???] would have us believe.
"Koonin is a respected academic physicist. He was former undersecretary for science at the U.S. Department of Energy under President Barack Obama when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. His portfolio included the climate research program and energy technology. He has a bachelor of science in physics from Caltech and a doctorate in theoretical physics from MIT. Koonin taught for 30 years at Caltech and has published 200 peer-reviewed scientific papers."
#BPKnew #ExxonKnew #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #BigOilKnew #USGovernmentKnew