WTF Climate Change News

[Arkady Arkright]

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you misinterpreted my reference to "checking out" as a potential voluntary action on my part.

I did make that assumption, for which I apologise.

As opposed to the fact that I have progressive heart disease and damaged lungs. My "intentions" to live as long as possible are irrelevant.

Six months ago I very nearly died from heart failure (down to 10% efficiency). Only an immediate visit to the operating theatre followed by two weeks of hospitalisation kept me alive. That experience has made me even more determined to last as long as possible - I won't be 'checking out' of life, I'll have to be evicted from it...

 

[Clara D.]

I just want to outlive Trump and McConnell. I'll know then, that the world will be a better place.

And the remaining Koch. And Rupert Murdoch . . etc.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Fleeing the desert's shifting sands

Rising temperatures and desertification are forcing many Mauritanians to leave their ancestral homes.

www.bbc.co.uk

There's a clip in the link, and the full broadcast (15 mins) is here

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

I'm kind of Arkady and Beebs rolled into one. Even with my not so good health, as long as I am not in any lasting pain, I'll fight the Reaper tooth and nail.

When I go, I intend to go out kicking and screaming.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

When I go, I intend to go out kicking and screaming.

If I don't go out suddenly, then I intend to go out high as a kite on hospital grade morphine, in a hospice or elsewhere.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

UK’s net zero plan falls short on ambition and funding, say critics

Government says strategy would create 440,000 jobs, but Treasury warns taxes may need to rise to fund changes

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

Kevin Anderson, a professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester, said: “The UK’s net zero strategy falls far short of both its Paris and G7 temperature and equity commitments. Scour the associated spreadsheets and the numbers reveal a story of subterfuge, delusion, offsetting and piecemeal policies – all dressed up as a shiny new strategy for Cop26. Remove the reliance on other nations offsetting our emissions and today’s children deploying ‘negative emission technologies’ to suck our CO2 out of the atmosphere, and the UK’s total carbon budget is more in line with 2.5-3C of warming than 1.5-2C.

“As our government rubs its hands at the prospect of oil revenues from the Cambo and Clair South fields, invests £27bn in new roads, [supports] overseas airport expansions, and pumps £1bn of taxpayers’ money into a huge new liquefied natural gas field in Mozambique, its PR machine, accompanied by the voices of high-emitting CEOs and senior academics, swings into full gloss paint mode. The climate, however, will see through this, responding as it always does to emissions rather than slick presentations, accountancy scams and half-baked strategies.”

 

[WolfEyes]

El Niño and La Niña currents (msn.com)

 

[Arkady Arkright]

UK’s net zero plan falls short on ambition and funding, say critics

Government says strategy would create 440,000 jobs, but Treasury warns taxes may need to rise to fund changes

www.theguardian.com

Going on Boris' past form this will be touted loudly until the end of COP26, and then slowly sink from view...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Stop overfishing or we’ll buy elsewhere, top UK fish firm warns European states

Young’s Seafood joins calls for sustainable quotas of mackerel, herring and blue whiting to be agreed in line with scientific advice

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

Not sure if this is climate change but it's certainly anthropogenic change.

 

[WolfEyes]

A message to humanity from Harvard's modern-day Darwin (msn.com)

Watch the video.

 

[Free]

Xoilac TV chính thức - Trực tiếp bóng đá Xoilac HD - BLV Roy

Xoilac TV - Xem trực tiếp bóng đá xôi lạc HD, bình luận Tiếng Việt. Kênh XoiacTV cập nhật nhanh lịch thi đấu, nhận định, tỷ số bóng đá, BXH.

dontchooseextinction.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Storm disruption holds up COP26 travellers from Euston station

High winds and fallen trees disrupt travel from London, amid storm damage across England.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The Indian village that could disappear under water

A village in the eastern coast of India faces the risk of going under water amid rising sea levels.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Joe Manchin: who gave you authority to decide the fate of the planet? | Daniel Sherrell

My rage against the senator might consume me if I couldn’t set it down here

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[WolfEyes]

COP26: Indigenous climate activist tells delegates, 'We have no more time' - BBC News

A 24-year-old indigenous climate activist from the Brazilian Amazon has said global leaders have "closed their eyes" to climate change.

Txai Surui says her father told her to listen to the stars, moon, animals and trees.

"The Earth is speaking: she tells us we have no more time," she says.

She pleaded with leaders to put indigenous people at the centre of the decisions made as they are in "the front line of the climate emergency", adding her friend had been murdered for protecting the forest.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Welp....

MSN

 

[Free]

Welp....

MSN

Only 49 years from now.

*tap* *tap* *tap*

 

[Free]

 

[Free]

Jeff Bezos pledges $2 billion to protect the environment

Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has pledged $2 billion in funding to help restore nature and transform food systems.

www.cnbc.com

That should take care of things.

 

[Archer]

Is this a response to Elon's gum flapping about ending world hunger?