@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"We are like individual cancer cells becoming self aware of the situation" — that is actually a great analogy for the #ClimateEmergency
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: Just Stop Oil!?: The Economic Foundation We Ignore | Frankly Archives 39 (2023)
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@ellie@ellieayla.netDo you remember being able to safely breathe air you couldn't see?
#ClimateEmergency
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotWe can have oil and gas now, or we can have a habitable planet for our children and grandchildren to live on into the future.
We cannot have both.
Which would you prefer?
#ClimateEmergency
#ThereIsNoEconomyOnADeadPlanet
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialEarth's futures can be divided into two categories: futures which support human life and those that don't.
The IPCC reports have avoided framing things this way, but burn enough fossil fuels quickly enough and you tip over into the later.
Note that this logic applies to any sub-region of the Earth too: some unknown number of years ago, thanks to ExxonMobil's sales of oil and duplicity about the known risks, the tipping point into "unlivable future" was crossed with respect to a segment of the Trishuli river in Nepal, and just this year that future was realized quite suddenly. In individual apartments across North America and Europe this summer thousands of people found themselves in unlivable futures due to heat waves, and millions more avoided that fate narrowly through the use of air conditioning which could well fail in future heat waves...
What the IPCC reports have been detailing for literally more than three decades is what it would take to tip things the other way. They report this in various forms, but usually at the level of how much CO2 emissions can be permitted on what schedule in order to prevent (locally-)unlivable futures (abstracted as a number of degrees of warming relative to a baseline).
The IPCC reports of emissions and mitigations can be translated into actions: what kind of policy would have to be enacted when by which government in order to avoid an unlivable future. In general however, hierarchical nation-states have proven collectively incapable of meeting *any* of these targets, and so indeed, translating emissions targets into policy actions is increasingly impossible, and has always been an improbable path towards survival. The longer nation states fail to meet the necessary emissions goals (or even accelerate oil drilling), the more drastic action is necessary. We can continue to talk about what kind of national policies might avoid unlivable futures, even as those futures are realized for more and more people, but national policies are not the only kinds of actions that can change the future. Fire example, a national policy shutting down an oil pipeline might avert a certain amount of emissions, but the pipeline owner could also shut it down themselves, or an activist could sabotage it, and the effect would be the same. Lots of different actors have different kinds of actions they can take to create similar effects, and it's the effects that are necessary to avoid unlivable futures.
Effectively, assuming that we will not wind up in a totally unlivable future, this leads to a principle of action substitution. We know what effects are necessary, and if nation states refuse to enact those via policies and companies likewise refuse to make any voluntary changes, then the only actions that remain to be taken are drastic direct actions. Simply put: the longer nations and corporations refuse to do anything to create livable futures, the more people will simply take direct action to achieve the needed carbon emissions reductions, because the alternative for them is death and that alternative is becoming clearer with each climate casualty, so it will be increasingly impossible to threaten them into giving up their lives for corporate profits.
#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThe only 100% accurate statement on the #ClimateEmergency that you're going to see this week.
#ThereIsNoEconomyOnADeadPlanet
#ClimateChange
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe best part of this article is the sub heading says the quiet part out loud. Finally.
“'We’ve got to stop burning fossil fuels,' says one wildfire expert”
Thank to that Wildfire expert for saying it, and the CBC for putting it (almost) where it deserves to be.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #carneycons #climateemergency #bcwildfire #drought #wildfires
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotI'm reading the Scottish Government's latest #Biodiversity Action Plan. A great deal of it is pure fantasy unless we also urgently tackle the #ClimateEmergency (which we are not doing) but the ambition is good.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotA fortnight ago, I posted a blog post about the risk of mass deaths given the #metoffice predictions for summer temperatures mid-century; but then I noticed I'd made a significant mistake, and rolled it back.
I've now revised it. It's not quite as bleak as it was. It's pretty bleak.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotVery interesting interview with a thermodynamicist who works for the Saudi government and has worked for several of the oil majors. You'd think he'd be a #GreenWashing. #GlobalWarming denier, but quite the contrary!
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caHomes now on evacuation alert in Anmore north of Vancouver.
#bcwildfire #canpoli #cdnpoli #climateemergency #endfossilfuels #transmountain #tmx #alberta #abpoli
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caGood news today that the fire is now listed as “Being Held”. Same size, 1.5ha.
#bcwildfire #canpoli #cdnpoli #climateemergency #endfossilfuels #transmountain #tmx #alberta #abpoli
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments."
#ClimateEmergency
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotHumanity has less than a five year window to take decisive action on climate change, the UK’s former chief scientist told the opening session of the National Climate Emergency Summit in Melbourne.
“We have to move rapidly,” said Professor Sir David King, founder and chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University...
Reader, that was five years ago. We've done nothing.
#ClimateEmergency
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThat Government of Canada energy ad…
The fact they had to go to other countries to find pictures of massive wind and solar farms… and switch to LNG and Big Hydro for Canada.
We’re screwed. This government is a fraud and they know it.
#climateEmergency #wildfire
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caMark Carney: I don’t care about Climate Change, I’m building another oil pipeline to Burnaby. Canada Strong!
Mother Nature: How strong exactly? Hold my beer.
(A wildfire has broken out on the north side of Burrard Inlet, about 7km northeast of the Burnaby oil terminal, the terminus of the Transmountain Pipeline. It is currently 1.5ha and out of control but updates often come slowly on the web. News reports are that a few homes have been “tactically evacuated” and more evacuations may come according to Metro Vancouver government.)
#bcwildfire #canpoli #cdnpoli #climateemergency #endfossilfuels #transmountain #tmx #alberta #abpoli
https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2026&incidentNumber=V11470&source=map
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caBoth Canada and the USA cancelled events in their national capitals on their national holidays due to extreme weather.
But pipelines!
But Secure, stable, fossil fuel deliveries!
But divisiveness!
But Jobs!
But The Economeeehhhhh!!
#endfossilfuels #climateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli #canadaDay #fourthOfJuly
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe most depressing news of the week, and this decade so far, is the UN's report that leaves no doubt that we will fail to hold global warming below 1.5ºC. But there is also hope, read on.
The world agreed in 2015 on 1.5ºC, championed, I might add, by a certain Canadian Prime Minister. Now, the best we could hold it to would be 1.8ºC and that would be at breakneck speed.
That Prime Minister is now hanging out with his kids, his girlfriend, and is generally getting on just fine...while his party oversees what they intend to be the greatest expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure and emissions (LNG and TMX2) in Canadian history.
Meanwhile the rest of us are left breathing in the smoke and fleeing the fires.
As a young adult 25 years ago, I thought we had time. I was optimistic. I thought surely we'd make the correction once the every-day consequences started to hit.
Well here we are, fully in the *beginning* of those consequences, and our governments have never been more committed to being the last one to sell the last drop of oil, coal, or gas.
No one disputes anymore that we have and are changing the climate.
The deniers lost.
But the oil companies are still winning.
The only way to save ourselves at this time and to have any hope of 1.8ºC or 2ºC or whatever the lowest possible temperature is that we can achieve, is to take the fight to the oil companies directly.
Physically.
Economically.
Until they cannot operate, pollute or continue as going concerns.
We are all of us feeling the impacts of climate change and what oil companies have done. That means today we have many many more people ready to fight than we ever have before.
We have to fight because they are already killing us, and because the rest of us must survive.
We will fight because if we don't, both they, and we, will die on a planet rendered unliveable by our own stupidity and greed.
So we fight. In every way you can. You fight.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels #TransitionNow
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThis is a straight-up, flat-out, outright lie from the #SNP #ScotGov.
#GreenWashing
#ClimateEmergency
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caDear Prime Minister Carney. This is Mother Nature sending you a message on Canada Day.
#climateEmergency #climateChange #canPoli #cdnpoli #endfossilfuels
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.cait's rainy on Vancouver Island which is great... but now our firefighters need to go help try to extinguish giant fires in the rest of the province. again.
it is almost every year now.
my kids have never known anything different.
but I have. And it fills me with guilt that I got to experience a better world that was ruined and continues to be ruined by people who knew better and CHOSE this.
Including every PM
Carney
Trudeau Jr
Harper
Martin
Chretien
Mulroney
Trudeau Sr
..... all of them had choices they could have made.
But it is the most recent ones that are the most culpable...
because every day, every year, that passes, the losses
mount, the path gets harder, the damage grows. "Evidence" at this point is irrelevant because every damn person knows it in their soul regardless what words come out of their mouth.
Every politician that continues this is complicit and should have done more. That includes every level of government including my brief moment.
So we fight on. So our kids might know something other than it always getting worse.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #climateEmergency #endfossilfuels
https://cheknews.ca/island-firefighters-deployed-to-help-battle-b-c-s-more-than-120-wildfires-1338610/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caJudith Curry is possibly the most confusing and infuriating scientist in the entire climatological arena. She contributed to major understandings around the changes in the jet stream, the Arctic, and other processes that helped explain the impact climate change has already had on our day to day weather.
But then she left academia and essentially became a mouthpiece for Neo-denialism, claiming others were being “alarmist” and that while CO2 was the main cause, we really shouldn’t be spending money on reducing emissions.
Her final blog announcing its retirement is an interesting combination of declaring victory, mostly thanks to Trump and his acolytes (like Carney) who have pivoted fully into the arms of the fossil fuel industry, and declaring she was tired of it all and just wants to be in her garden and stop the flow of now $16,000 (!!) to maintain her Wordpress blog for the past 15 years.
She has done real damage to efforts to stop CO2 emissions. But another part of me wonders if this is an admission of guilt. Very often people come to a point, even subconsciously, where they realize they’re in with the wrong crowd.
I wonder if she has had that moment with Trump. She probably thinks it’s all irrelevant and out of her hands now. Other players, namely the oil industry, Trump, Putin, etc. will decide what happens and scientists like her will have no impact.
I am glad she is tapping out, as so many deniers inevitably do, but it is clear she is doing it because she thinks she’s won, and that is very very bad for the world.
#climateChange #carney #cdnpoli #canpoli #climateEmergency #climateDenial #science #JudithCurry #theAmericanFascist
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caCarney: Oil to keep the country from seperating!
Mother Earth: Oil to keep burning down your country.
#bcwildfire #canpoli #cdnpoli #climateEmergency #endfossilfuels
but dont worry they say....
we have to do this for the economy because (this time) of trump....
we can't go too fast
we cant
we cant
we cant
burn. That's what they want us to do. burn.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caHey Canadians. If you’re experiencing troublesome weather this Canada Day, you should sign this petition, and if you have already signed, thank you, please share it!
Petition to the Government of Canada
Whereas:
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) plays a critical role in protecting Canadians through weather forecasting, severe weather warnings, climate monitoring and scientific research;
Canada is experiencing increasingly frequent and severe weather and climate related events, including wildfires, floods, atmospheric rivers, hurricanes, heat waves, winter storms and derechos;
Weather radar research, observation stations, Weatheradio services and frontline meteorological staff are essential public safety tools, particularly for rural, remote and Indigenous communities;
Recent and proposed reductions to ECCC staffing, research capacity, and public weather services risk weakening Canada’s ability to predict, monitor, and respond to dangerous weather events;
Reliable weather forecasting and climate science are vital to emergency preparedness, transportation safety, agriculture, marine operations and public confidence; and
Canadians deserve a strong, modern and fully supported public weather service.
We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to
1. Reverse cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada that impact weather forecasting, meteorological research and climate science;
2. Restore and maintain Weatheradio and other accessible public alert systems;
3. Protect and expand weather observation and climate monitoring stations across Canada;
4. Ensure adequate staffing and long-term funding for ECCC programs, scientists, meteorologists and technical experts; and
5. Recognize weather forecasting and climate monitoring as essential public safety infrastructure.
#canada #canadaDay #climateChange #e7465 #RestoreECCC #climateEmergency #weather #wxtooter #eccc
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe northern hemisphere is literally on fire from North America, to Europe, to Russia from the the Mediterranean and California Coasts to the Arctic.
But it’s fine, let’s keep pipelining, gassing, oiling, and coaling our way to oblivion.
Screenshot from FIRMS NASA data today July 29, 2026 at 19:50 Pacific Time shows massive groupings of red dots representing hot areas, most of which are fires of some sort and most of those being wildfires in forests around the globe.
#EndFossilFuels #climateEmergency #climateChange #carneyCons #canPoli #CdnPOLI #earth #wildfires
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caWe in BC and in Canada have this on our conscience as the world burns. Carney and Eby plan on doubling this facility and adding others.
Our governments, and by extension we, are not only complicit, but directly responsible for allowing this.
We the people are the only ones who can make it stop.
#BCLNG #BCPoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caOn Wednesday, the House of Commons petition #e7465 for reversing the cuts to Environment Canada closed and closed and yesterday it was certified for presentation in the House!
#poolpond, work, family, and other things over the summer I was not able to put much effort into promotion, but we got more than enough for it to be presented! So let's hope it has a good response from Government.
Thank you again for all your help!
#CanPoli #Canada #EnvironmentCanada #Science #ClimateChange #CarneyCuts #RestoreECCC #ClimateEmergency #Weather #WxToot
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caAnd they are STILL doing this shit with the blessing of governments. Including the B.C. and Canadian governments with Kitimat’s LNG Canada plant admitting to releasing 141 cubic metres of gas PER MINUTE, compared to their permitted 7.4 cubic metres per minute.
Tell me I’m wrong: the oil and gas industry are the worst thing to happen to this planet and humanity, ever.
NYT historical study: #endfossilfuels #climatechoas #climateEmergency #climatechange #globalWarming #bcNDP #CanPoli #Cdnpoli
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caBetween the absolute attention whoring idiocy of these Michigan Republicans, and the Nero-esque fiddling and double-speak by past and current Canadian and American governments, including Carney, on reducing CO2 emissions over the past 30 years while their countries increasingly literally burn…
It’s enough to drive a guy to freaking drink. 😡
We know why this is happening and it’s not because the forest isn’t swept.
Stop burning fuels!
#canpoli #cdnpoli #climateEmergency #climatechange #wildfire #theAmericanFascist #endFossilFuels
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI have a question about oil pipelines in Canada.
What happens in the event the Transmountain pipeline is overrun by a Rank 4 or 5 wildfire?
I know these pipelines carry different product at different times. I know they can be shut. But what would happen if it was a section transporting NGL-diluted bitumen?
#bcwildfire #bcpoli #canpoli #abpoli #climatechange #climateemergency
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/08/10/news/bc-first-nations-chiefs-ask-carney-smith-halt-pipeline-advancement
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThis is the first time I have heard this “weakness” when it comes to fossil fuel refineries:
“Layer on extreme temperatures disrupting the cool conditions refineries need for proper distillation, and you’ve got yourself a big problem.”
They’re literally creating conditions that is making it harder to produce their own product.
That’s how stupid we are….
#climatechange #endfossilfuels #climateEmergency #abpoli #canpoli #cdnpoli #hormuz #iranusaIsraelWar
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caThe current state of the Canadian Economy as directed by the Liberal-Conservative Majority Government of Mark Carney, in a picture.
Transition Now. End Fossil Fuels. Renewables Now.
#ClimateEmergency #EndFossilFuels #CanPoli #CdnPoli #CarneyCon #MarkCarney #LiberalParty #CPC #Canada #Wildfire #ClimateCatastrophe #Economy #ElectrifyNow
