WTF Climate Change News

[Govi]

I thought it would be appropriate to offer a reaction of coals to Newcastle.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A lengthy and not-uncritical look at Extinction Rebellion's progress, and the different strands of thinking encompassed by the moment before Covid-19 and some thoughts on its prospects for the future

Jeremy Harding · The Arrestables: Extinction Rebellion · LRB 4 April 2020

Extinction Rebellion has come under fire for suggesting, as Roger Hallam has, that prison isn’t such a bad experience...

www.lrb.co.uk

Jeremy Harding · The Arrestables · LRB 4 April 2020

The Red Brigade in London, October 2019 London, April 2019. Police have confined supporters of the environmentalist movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) at Marble Arch after more than a week of protest...

www.evernote.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

PANDEMIC: Coronavirus is reducing CO2. Why that's worrisome

And this is why we're driving full speed over a cliff where climate change is concerned. We're seeing first-hand how much effort it takes to make minimal changes to emissions. Our current emergency-driven model of staying at home isn't sustainable and is bringing global economies near collapse.

But even today, with millions of people around the world stuck at home, the world economy is consuming vast quantities of fossil fuel and emitting large amounts of CO2.

The dynamic highlights the limits of individual action and the need to transform how the economy is fueled, said Shahzeen Attari, a professor who studies human behavior and climate change at the University of Indiana.

"I think what we need is structural change, and that comes from transitioning our entire energy system, the type of vehicles we buy, electricity we consume, weatherizing our homes," Attari said. "Individuals can, in aggregate, push the system, but we need to figure out these pathways of pushing the system."

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

/me uncorks a bottle of pure cynicism.

The political pendulum may swing back next election... but it's clear to me (looking at Covidiots & trump supporters) that if it does... people are going to start SHOOTING at it.

Republicans won't address climate change, and they're going to prevent democrats from doing anything about it either.

The worse it gets, clearly the more people are going to double-down on their delusion and brazenly do the -worst- things imaginable, screaming "MAH FREEDUMBS!! I'LL DO WHAT I WANT NO MATTER HOW MANY PEOPLE IT KILLS!"

*sigh* So yeah, I've basically stopped caring about climate change. It's clear this ship won't turn in time to miss that iceberg. May as well have another drink and listen to the band.

 

[Beebo Brink]

*sigh* So yeah, I've basically stopped caring about climate change. It's clear this ship won't turn in time to miss that iceberg. May as well have another drink and listen to the band.

Some problems can't be solved.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Some problems can't be solved.

Well... They can. But humankind won't be around to see the results.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Will Florida be lost forever to the climate crisis?

From sea level rise to habitat loss, the effects of the climate crisis are on the verge of making south Florida uninhabitable

www.theguardian.com

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Will Florida be lost forever to the climate crisis?

From sea level rise to habitat loss, the effects of the climate crisis are on the verge of making south Florida uninhabitable

www.theguardian.com

The -biggest- consolation right now is I live in one part of the state were we should still be above sea level even in a worse case scenario.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

Will Florida be lost forever to the climate crisis?

From sea level rise to habitat loss, the effects of the climate crisis are on the verge of making south Florida uninhabitable

www.theguardian.com

With all due respect for family and folks here who live there... a large part of me really wishes that climate change would rob Florida of its electoral college votes in the near future.

 

[Kara Spengler]

With all due respect for family and folks here who live there... a large part of me really wishes that climate change would rob Florida of its electoral college votes in the near future.

Can we have their status as a state?

We got dissed on the funds any state got, even though we are larger than some of them, in the stimulus. Instead getting the much smaller amount territories get, even though we pay taxes and they do not. Usually you hear 'the 50 states and dc' .... not this time.

So what reason did the rs give? We are not a state. Then people wonder why dc citizens want to be a state.

 

[Sovereignty]

Can we have their status as a state?

We got dissed on the funds any state got, even though we are larger than some of them, in the stimulus. Instead getting the much smaller amount territories get, even though we pay taxes and they do not. Usually you hear 'the 50 states and dc' .... not this time.

So what reason did the rs give? We are not a state. Then people wonder why dc citizens want to be a state.

Cuomo is complaining that states got NO funds from stimulus bills. He is saying New York state will have to cut funding by 20% to teachers, etc. That would occur nationwide [I presume, in some form]. The bill passed today does not change that.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Cuomo is complaining that states got NO funds from stimulus bills. He is saying New York state will have to cut funding by 20% to teachers, etc. That would occur nationwide [I presume, in some form]. The bill passed today does not change that.

Maybe he was only talking about the second one? The article I read was saying it was in the first but the state relief did not include dc.

 

[Sovereignty]

Maybe he was only talking about the second one? The article I read was saying it was in the first but the state relief did not include dc.

Cuomo emphatically and repeatedly stated over the last few days in his briefings that the states need help and have not gotten it.

I did hear something on MSNBC tonight about some provision for special state COVID expenses in an earlier bill. The way they said it indicated those expenses do not meet the needs of teachers, firemen, etc (ordinary expenses). Now the bill today did help hospitals in some manner. Hospitals were on Cuomo's list of cuts that would otherwise be required. I wonder if Cuomo will change his list the next time he brings it up.

The stories on MSNBC were also talking about mayors needing help, a nice way to avoid listing cities, towns, villages, wide places in the road, and Washington D.C.

 

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[Free]

There are few people who make me laugh more at such purposeful obtuseness than Shapiro does.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Meteorologists say 2020 on course to be hottest year since records began

Global lockdowns have lowered emissions but longer-term changes needed, say scientists

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Britain breaks record for coal-free power generation

Coal-fired plants have not contributed to electricity grid for 18 consecutive days

www.theguardian.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down

Planet of the Humans, which takes aim at the green movement, is ‘full of misinformation’, says one online library

www.theguardian.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down

Planet of the Humans, which takes aim at the green movement, is ‘full of misinformation’, says one online library

www.theguardian.com

I'm a little wary of the accusations against this film. Generally speaking, I'm not a Michael Moore fan, but this statement in particular is dead-on:

Jeff Gibbs, who wrote and directed the film, has suggested that unrestrained economic and population growth should be the target of environmentalists’ efforts rather than technological fixes.

There is so much useless, ineffective "green" activity (at least from the perspective of mitigating climate change) that there are, I'm sure, plenty of targets for Moore's type of muck-raking. And I'm sure they would holler like stuck pigs at being called out. All the more so because so many are well-meaning and sincere and don't acknowledge the futility of what they are promoting.

Either way, however, I'm not sure I care enough to see the film and make a judgment. Not these days. I'm sapped of all outrage.