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New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers, new research finds
City is sinking approximately 1-2mm each year on average, worsening effects of sea level rise and flooding threat
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/19/new-york-city-sinking-skyscrapers-climate-crisis
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Doug Parr, chief scientist for Greenpeace UK, said: “In the middle of a climate and nature emergency we need clean energy developments that work in harmony with nature without damaging it further. Tidal energy may have a useful role to play, particularly energy from tidal currents, but a barrage has been tried in UK before and the costs and level of ecological damage were not encouraging.
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Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia, a study has estimated, exposing them to unprecedented temperatures and extreme weather.
The world is on track for 2.7C of heating with current action plans and this would mean 2 billion people experiencing average annual temperatures above 29C by 2030, a level at which very few communities have lived in the past.
Up to 1 billion people could choose to migrate to cooler places, the scientists said, although those areas remaining within the climate niche would still experience more frequent heatwaves and droughts.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/22/global-heating-human-climate-niche
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Europe is beginning to turn against the prophets of climate alarmism
Levels of eco-anxiety are rising among the young, but the planet’s future is brighter than many think
FRASER NELSON
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Why would anyone believe anything written in the billionaire-owned and fossil fuel funded Telegraph?
Not fit to line a cat litter tray
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The head of the world’s leading carbon credit certifier has announced he will step down as CEO next month.
It comes amid concerns that Verra, a Washington-based non-profit, approved tens of millions of worthless offsets that are used by major companies for climate and biodiversity commitments, according to a joint Guardian investigation earlier this year.
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Britain and America’s efforts to combat the climate crisis will require mobilisation and deployment of troops as if they were waging a major war, the US climate envoy John Kerry has warned MPs.
Appearing before the Commons defence committee, Kerry was upbeat about the chances of “winning this battle” even though he accepted it would be a “hard lift” to keep global heating to 1.5C.
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An international team of scientists sampled wastewater from a state-of-the-art recycling plant at an undisclosed location in the UK. They found that the microplastics released in the water amounted to 13% of the plastic processed.
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‘Worthless’: Chevron’s carbon offsets are mostly junk and some may harm, research says
Exclusive: investigation finds energy giant’s efforts to offset its huge emissions rely on schemes with little impact
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/chevron-carbon-offset-climate-crisis
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Reddy understands the challenges of going public, not least for the likes of climate scientists amid the vicious politics and conspiracy theories around global heating. One way to deal with that, he says, is to keep it local.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/25/science-crisis-book-christopher-reddy
Think that’s worth it’s own thread!
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These are the sorts of solutions that Labour should consider to boost the British economy and confront concentrated markets. Biden is making the US one of the most dynamic economies in the world by combining a pro-worker, pro-fairness, pro-climate and pro-business agenda, all while confronting corporate power.
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A modest wealth tax on the richest 350 families in the UK could raise more than £20bn a year – enough to fund the construction of 145,000 new affordable homes a year – according to research by fairer taxation campaigners.
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A tax on wealthy Britons of just 0.5% could more than meet the UK’s entire “fair share” contribution to the international loss and damage fund established to support countries worst hit by global climate breakdown, a charity has suggested.
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INDUSTRY bosses and trade unions in the North East have reacted with anger to Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to block all new oil and gas developments.
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Rock “flour” produced by the grinding under Greenland’s glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields, research has shown for the first time.
Natural chemical reactions break down the rock powder and lead to CO2 from the air being fixed in new carbonate minerals. Scientists believe measures to speed up the process, called enhanced rock weathering (ERW), have global potential and could remove billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere, helping to prevent extreme global heating.
Soil fertility naturally depends on rock weathering to provide essential nutrients, so enhancing the process delivers an extra benefit. Spreading the Greenland rock flour on fields in Denmark, including those growing barley for the Carlsberg brewery, significantly increased yields.
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Yeah, this is greenwash by the mining industry
And how much CO2 emission will be created by mining and grinding the rock to a powder in the first place?
The same grift closer to home
Say it after me:
There Is No Scalable Way To Capture The Millions Of Tonnes Of Carbon We Emit Every Day.
Time To Stop The Burning
Engineering solutions for climate change - shades of the 'The Ministry for the Future' novel pumping out water from under glaciers and refreezing on top.
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So should the government be doing deals like this to try to make the UK more competitive? The answer is that one-off deals unfortunately don’t work. For this to be more than a desperate attempt to woo back capital flight, ministers need a more thoughtful approach to industrial strategy. Deals must be part of a broader, joined-up plan to align investments with commitments to decarbonise transport and supply chains across the economy. On this front, the UK faces steep competition. The US and EU are ramping up industrial strategy investments.
The US’s industrial strategy could lead to public and private investment reaching a total of about $3.5tr over the next decade. At the same time, the EU is financing its largest stimulus package ever, with a €2tr deal aimed at building a green and digital future. The UK has nothing of this kind. In fact, with austerity back on the agenda, the country is moving in the opposite direction.
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My husband was killed for exposing the Amazon’s plunder. But his work lives on
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If those sorts of statistics worry you, though, you need fret no more; because it seems that a substantial section of Scotland’s political class – more noisy than numerous, but hard to ignore – has discovered a solution to the climate change crisis, and to the multiple other forms of environmental breakdown that now threaten our future; one that will enable us to ignore the whole annoying subject, and get back to the “real-world” business of pursuing perpetual economic growth, at any cost.
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Four hundred and seventy million pounds! On a rural road. To deal with symptoms and not the root cause!
This is absurd
Do they just have infinite amounts of money to spend on roads, with little justification or scrutiny required?
The transport minister said: "Work will now be taken forward at pace..." Have we ever heard that said about a bike lane, or anything else that might deal with the climate crisis for that matter?
"We will build electrified railways and safe cycling facilities at pace" - aye ok, in yer drrreams pal
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