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"Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says"
#Climate #ClimateChange

https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/climate-action-is-now-harm-reduction

"Climate misinformation turning crisis into catastrophe, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/19/climate-misinformation-turning-crisis-into-catastrophe-ipie-report?

"Lurie has consistently maintained that ushering San Francisco towards its Climate Action Plan goals — ultimately leading to zero carbon emissions in 2040 — is a top priority while he’s in office. "
Yet, a sentence further on: "But in his first budget proposal as mayor released last month, Lurie called for slashing the Environment Department’s budget by 13%,"
And most of that cut will hit the climate related programs, including programs focusing on supportin…

SF climate czar touts new award
U.S. Conference of Mayors recognizes environmental work.

"Lurie has consistently maintained that ushering San Francisco towards its Climate Action Plan goals — ultimately leading to zero carbon emissions in 2040 — is a top priority while he’s in office. "
Yet, a sentence further on: "But in his first budget proposal as mayor released last month, Lurie called for slashing the Environment Department’s budget by 13%,"
And most of that cut will hit the climate related programs, including programs focusing on supportin…

SF climate czar touts new award
U.S. Conference of Mayors recognizes environmental work.

"Pupils in England face lost learning from flooding and extreme heat, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

67,000 homes in Ireland still use peat for heating. However, Bord Na Mona stopped extracting peat last year and closed its last peat power station. Now restoring peatlands which in a dried out, denatured state are carbon emitters. Big wind farms now on former extraction sites too. A great deal of historical damage has been done.
#peat

"This report shows definitively that climate change is hitting us where it hurts: our wallets. 65% of Australians polled agreed that on-farm climate impacts are the top reason for increased food prices."
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"First climate action plan targets increase in electricity from renewable sources in Northern Ireland"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy

How Viable are Energy Savings in Smart Homes? A Call to Embrace Rebound Effects in Sustainable HCI
Christina Bremer, Harshit Gujral, Michelle Lin, Lily Hinkers, Christoph Becker, Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14653

How Viable are Energy Savings in Smart Homes? A Call to Embrace Rebound Effects in Sustainable HCI
As part of global climate action, digital technologies are seen as a key enabler of energy efficiency savings. A popular application domain for this work is smart homes. There is a risk, however, that these efficiency gains result in rebound effects, which reduce or even overcompensate the savings. Rebound effects are well-established in economics, but it is less clear whether they also inform smart energy research in other disciplines. In this paper, we ask: to what extent have rebound effects…

Urge Coach to Stop Selling Leather #AnimalRights

Urge Coach to Stop Selling Leather
Cows suffer for leather, and animal agriculture – which includes the leather industry – is a leading contributor to the climate catastrophe. We can help stop this.

Great stuff in this article but I do not know if unplugging from the broligarch's platforms is the solution to end their delusional grandeur.
It is the same with the climate crisis. This cannot hinge on the individual to solve but the whole system has to change. Individual action is good but that is not enough.
(For all its shortfalls the EU is regulating parts of the tech industry, but there has to be more.)

What You’ve Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective

"L'obstruction, le retard ou l'affaiblissement de réglementations démocratiquement adoptées signalent un changement de priorités en faveur du profit privé Š court terme, au détriment des objectifs sociaux et environnementaux Š long terme"
#RulesToProtect #démocratie

Geo-Disasters: geocoding climate-related events in the international disaster database EM-DAT
Khalil Teber, M\'elanie Weynants, Fabian Gans, Miguel D. Mahecha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03797

Geo-Disasters: geocoding climate-related events in the international disaster database EM-DAT
Climate hazards can escalate into humanitarian disasters. Understanding their trajectories -- considering hazard intensity, human exposure, and societal vulnerability -- is essential for effective anticipatory action. The International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) is the only freely available global resource of humanitarian disaster records. However, it lacks exact geospatial information, limiting its use for climate hazard impact research. Here, we provide geocoding of 9,217 climate-related disa…

Anytime someone says, "AI is here to stay, nothing we can do about it," I think, there's a person who is not doing the big, deep work of climate action.
If they think we can't do anything about an overtly exploitative and corrosive technology that has only just emerged in the last few years, then they couldn't conceive of the major shifts the rest of us have been and are doing.

The #ClimateCrisis is fueled by #disinformation, aka #lies. (And the liars have become more sophisticated since the #TobaccoIndustry

The #ClimateCrisis is fueled by #disinformation, aka #lies. (And the liars have become more sophisticated since the #TobaccoIndustry

"One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change"
#Climate #ClimateChange

One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change
Legal action by a Peruvian farmer has signalled a shift in the global conversation.

UK Records Its Hottest and Sunniest Spring, With 43% More Sunshine Than Usual #UnitedKingdom

UK Records Its Hottest and Sunniest Spring, With 43% More Sunshine Than Usual
The United Kingdom has recorded its warmest spring since records began in 1884, prompting warnings for needed action on climate change.

“An assessment of updated National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) shows the EU is on course to achieve a 54 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 - just one per cent shy of its legally binding 55 per cent target.”
Fun fact, if Canada joined the EU it would probably hurt it from an emissions reduction perspective because Oil and Gas.
“It attributed the progress towards the 2030 goal to action in the energy sector, with renewables covering 24 per cent of energy consumption in the EU in 2023. Most member states are now aligned with the target of reaching a share of 42.5 per cent by 2030, according to the Commission.”
Weird how they don’t mention LNG as being a reason why Europe has been able to meet its goals. Almost like renewables are essentially the only way to decarbonize the industry, just like the scientists say it is.
“States have a legal obligation to deliver climate action, and the Commission has a clear responsibility to uphold and enforce EU law in response.”
Imagine Danielle Smith whining about unfair laws…
Wonder how much #bclmg Europe will be asking for…
#bcpoli #abpoli #climateAction #ClimateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/28/eu-on-track-to-meet-2030-emissions-goal-thanks-to-strong-progress-on-renewables?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

A Bayesian hierarchical model for methane emission source apportionment
William S. Daniels, Douglas W. Nychka, Dorit M. Hammerling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03395

A Bayesian hierarchical model for methane emission source apportionment
Reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas sector is a key component of short-term climate action. Emission reduction efforts are often conducted at the individual site-level, where being able to apportion emissions between a finite number of potentially emitting equipment is necessary for leak detection and repair as well as regulatory reporting of annualized emissions. We present a hierarchical Bayesian model, referred to as the multisource detection, localization, and quantification (MD…

Andrew Sheer is currently spinning a conspiracy theory that “ties” Carney while in the UK to lobbying for “rules" to "force" aviation companies to use "non-conventional" fuel and then “he invests in that company and makes millions”.
And that, folks, is how the Conservatives are going to tie "New World Order" conspiracies to any kind of climate action, even very weak action like Sustainable Airline Fuel.
God I hate this guy's gross smile.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

"Anti-Net Zero Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns Urges Offshore Wind Investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy #WindTurbines

Anti-Net Zero Reform Mayor Andrea Jenkyns Urges Offshore Wind Investment
A Reform UK mayor who claims “net zero madness” is “bankrupting Britain” has called for investment in an offshore wind project “to boost growth” in the local economy. Dame Andrea Jenkyns, who was elected as Greater Lincolnshire Mayor in the 1 May local elections, has been a vocal opponent of climate action and renewable energy […]