WTF Climate Change News

[Innula Zenovka]

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[Sid]

Our biggest pension fund ABP has announced to sell all their Shell stocks over the next months because Shell sticks to much to the old fossile energy sources.
And now all of a sudden Shell campaigns on tv as if they are big energy renewers. Yeah right, what a coincidence.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Shells anyway just wants to greenwash their image, nothing more nothing else. Just like BP did with the invention of the personal "carbon footprint", which was just a tool to divert attention about the generation of emissions away from them to their customers.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Postal Workers Are Dying In Heat Waves. It’s Only Going To Get Hotter.

USPS letter carrier Peggy Frank never made it home on a 117-degree day. As temperatures soar, jobs like hers will become more and more dangerous.

www.huffpost.com

 

[Beebo Brink]

Washington Post: 2021 brought a wave of extreme weather disasters. Scientists say worse lies ahead.

“The weather of the past will not be the weather of the future," says a NOAA scientist. “As long as we are emitting greenhouse gases at a historically unprecedented rate, we should expect this change to continue."

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

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Decades late and trillions of dollars short.

 

[Beebo Brink]

‘This new snow has no name’: Sami reindeer herders face climate disaster

The only indigenous people left in Europe are struggling to keep their way of life as the Arctic warms up

www.theguardian.com

 

[Soen Eber]

Shells anyway just wants to greenwash their image, nothing more nothing else. Just like BP did with the invention of the personal "carbon footprint", which was just a tool to divert attention about the generation of emissions away from them to their customers.

...and the car companies going after the "nuts behind the wheels" and the American Advertising Council doing the "crying Indian" thang generations back. Same old same old.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

By ditching landmark climate legislation, America makes the world unsafe | Kate Aronoff

The rest of the world needs to start treating the US as what it is: a dangerous country that needs to be reined in

www.theguardian.com

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[Beebo Brink]

The U.S. is owned and run by corporations, which in turn are run by sociopaths.

 

[WolfEyes]

...and the car companies going after the "nuts behind the wheels" and the American Advertising Council doing the "crying Indian" thang generations back. Same old same old.

That actor wasn't even First Nations. He was Italian-American by the name of Espera de Corta. Iron Eyes Cody was a stage name.

The ‘Crying Indian’ ad that fooled the environmental movement

Editor’s note: This was published in 2017. Read the latest from Chicago Tribune Opinion here. It’s probably the most famous tear in American history: Iron Eyes Cody, an actor in Native American garb, paddles a birch bark canoe on water …

www.chicagotribune.com

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia

A group of editors is working tirelessly to keep bad climate info off the user-generated encyclopaedia.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Climate change: Small army of volunteers keeping deniers off Wikipedia

A group of editors is working tirelessly to keep bad climate info off the user-generated encyclopaedia.

www.bbc.co.uk

I love how that's post 2012.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I don't know if this is climate change or poor resource management driven by economic policy and exacerbated by climate change, but

The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains

Acute scarcity drives the search for water underground. But the West’s major aquifers are in trouble, too.

www.theatlantic.com

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[WolfEyes]

I don't know if this is climate change or poor resource management driven by economic policy and exacerbated by climate change, but

The Next Disaster Coming to the Great Plains

Acute scarcity drives the search for water underground. But the West’s major aquifers are in trouble, too.

www.theatlantic.com

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There's a reason the plains tribes were nomadic and semi-nomadic. The only tribes that weren't at least semi-nomadic were some of the southern plains tribes like the Wichita.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Crocodiles turn on humans amid Iran water crisis

The creatures are attacking as their habitats shrink, a grim side-effect of Iran's water shortages.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Rose Karuna]

I thought that this was worth noting and climate changes seems to be a good spot to put it because buying a better (even used) bicycle (instead of one poorly made and unfixable) would do a couple of good things to help the environment.

The Bikes That Last Four Months — Streetsblog USA

While we’re all annoyed when our latest electronic gizmo conks out after just a few months, by now it’s not all that surprising. But a bike? Surely a bike should last longer, right? Here's how to spot an unfixable bike designed for the dump.

usa.streetsblog.org

 

[Innula Zenovka]

In their own words, how Americans are experiencing the climate crisis

From hurricanes and deadly heatwaves to droughts and floods, the climate crisis is unfolding in myriad expected - and unexpected - ways for regular Americans. Louise Boyle hears their stories.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[danielravennest]

Renewable capacity installations worldwide by year. For comparison, total US utility electric capacity is 1135 GW, and world fossil fuel capacity was 4200 GW in 2019. The plain "Solar PV" here means utility solar farms, vs commercial & industrial (where they use the power for themselves) or residential.

 

[Clara D.]

I thought that this was worth noting and climate changes seems to be a good spot to put it because buying a better (even used) bicycle (instead of one poorly made and unfixable) would do a couple of good things to help the environment.

The Bikes That Last Four Months — Streetsblog USA

While we’re all annoyed when our latest electronic gizmo conks out after just a few months, by now it’s not all that surprising. But a bike? Surely a bike should last longer, right? Here's how to spot an unfixable bike designed for the dump.

usa.streetsblog.org

Wow, Wal-Mart grade bikes have gotten way worse -- at least the old Huffy's and the like had vague potential.

Advice: if you're anywhere near a university/college, check offer-up/craigslist for cheap bikes at the end of semesters.