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  1. chdot
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    More than 200,000 Danes have signed a satirical petition to buy California from the US.

    “Have you ever looked at a map and thought, ‘You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates.’ Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality,” the petition reads. “Let’s buy California from Donald Trump!”

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    “We’ll bring hygge to Hollywood, bike lanes to Beverly Hills and organic smørrebrød to every street corner. Rule of law, universal healthcare and fact-based politics might apply,” the petition continues.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/denmark-california-greenland-california

    Posted 2 months ago #

  2. chdot
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    Peatlands occupy just 3% of all land, but contain more carbon than all of the world’s forests. However, farmers and miners are draining the peatlands, releasing so much CO2 that if they were a country, they would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world after China, the US and India.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/13/worlds-largely-unprotected-peatlands-are-ticking-carbon-bomb-warns-study

    Posted 2 months ago #

  3. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/14/brake-pad-dust-toxic-exhaust-emissions

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  4. chdot
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    Extreme weather expected to cause food price volatility in 2025 after cost of cocoa and coffee doubles

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/15/extreme-weather-likely-to-cause-further-food-price-volatility-analysts-say

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  5. chdot
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    Reintroducing wolves in the Scottish Highlands could lead to an expansion of native woodland, which could take in and store 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, researchers have suggested.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/17/wolves-reintroduction-to-highlands-could-help-native-woodlands-to-recover-says-study

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  6. chdot
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    The UN climate summit in the United Arab Emirates in 2023 ended with a call to "transition away from fossil fuels". It was applauded as a historic milestone in global climate action.

    Barely a year later, however, there are fears that the global commitment may be losing momentum, as the growth of clean energy transition is slowing, external down while burning of fossil fuels continues to rise.

    And now there is US President Donald Trump's "national energy emergency", embracing fossil fuels and ditching clean energy policies – that has also begun to influence some countries and energy companies already.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce85709xdk4o

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  7. chdot
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    To give a couple of examples, the fires in Los Angeles this year are expected to cost, on various estimates, between $28bn and $75bn in insured losses alone. Estimates of total losses range from $160bn to $275bn. These immense costs are likely to be dwarfed by future climate disasters. As Trump rips down environmental protections and trashes federal responsiveness, the impacts will spiral. They could include non-linear shocks to either the insurance sector or homeowners, escalating into US-wide economic and social crisis.

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    Every government should hope for the best and prepare for the worst. But, as they do with climate and ecological breakdown, freshwater depletion, the possibility of food system collapse, antibiotic resistance and nuclear proliferation, most governments, including the UK’s, now seem to hope for the best and leave it there. So, though there is no substitute for effective government, we must seek to create our own backup systems.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/18/donald-trump-global-collapse-wildfires-pandemic-financial-crisis

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  8. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/19/melting-glaciers-cause-almost-2cm-of-sea-level-rise-this-century-study-reveals

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  9. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/21/rolling-back-on-climate-actions-may-spell-rise-in-preventable-illness-study

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  10. acsimpson
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    Have they confused zero burn with net zero. Even if the net zero isn't achieved with scammy "I promise I'll not cut the trees down" credits it still allows you to burn what you like and offset it elsewhere.
    Drax is apparently Net-Zero but is likely the UK's largest single source of pollution.

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  11. chdot
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    Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says

    Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/24/britain-net-zero-economy-booming-cbi-green-sector-jobs-energy-security

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  12. chdot
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    Scots could face more drastic restrictions to replace gas boilers and stop using cars to keep legal climate aims on track after a report suggested a “very high risk” the net zero target will be missed.

    SNP ministers were forced to scrap a legally-binding 2030 target to cut emissions by 75 per cent after concluding it was no longer possible to achieve it.

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    https://archive.ph/2025.02.25-081236/https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/scottish-government-2045-net-zero-transport-emissions-5004893

    Posted 2 months ago #

  13. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/26/bp-oil-and-gas-spending-green-energy-scale-back

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  14. chdot
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    End the fossil fuel age for a secure and prosperous

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    https://www.theccc.org.uk/2025/02/26/end-the-fossil-fuel-age-for-a-secure-and-prosperous-future/

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  15. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/28/cop-16-climate-nature-funding-agreement

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  16. chdot
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    https://archive.ph/2025.03.04-111946/https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/edinburgh-climate-change-street-trees-energy-projects-and-flood-protection-among-66-steps-in-new-plan-5015530

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  17. chdot
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    Financial speculators are investing in a growing number of lawsuits against governments over environmental laws and other regulations that affect profits, often generating lucrative awards, the Guardian has found.

    For a long time, litigation finance thrived primarily in the realm of car crashes and employment claims. “Had an accident that wasn’t your fault?” was the industry’s billboard catchphrase, offering to finance lawsuits in exchange for a cut of any payout.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/revealed-how-wall-street-is-making-millions-betting-against-green-laws-isds-aoe

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  18. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/06/is-climate-change-supercharging-tropical-cyclone-alfred-as-it-powers-towards-australia

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  19. chdot
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    LONG read

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    Some key insights from the UK Climate Change Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget

    What would it take for the UK to get to net-zero by 2050?

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    https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/

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  20. chdot
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    In thinking about the war being waged against life on Earth by Donald Trump, Elon Musk and their minions, I keep bumping into a horrible suspicion. Could it be that this is not just about delivering the world to oligarchs and corporations – not just about wringing as much profit from living systems as they can? Could it be that they want to see the destruction of the habitable planet?

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    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/05/humans-earth-donald-trump-nihilism-maga

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  21. chdot
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    Wind and waves are set to be included in calculations of the size of countries' economies for the first time, as part of changes approved at the United Nations.

    Assets like oilfields were already factored in under the rules - last updated in 2008.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czedpnen168o.amp

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  22. chdot
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    On 7 January, a series of catastrophic wildfires engulfed parts of Los Angeles, changing America’s second-largest city forever.

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    This film examines how climate change and claims of underfunding for public services collided

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028wd3/panorama-the-day-los-angeles-burned

    8:00 or iPlayer

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  23. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/global-weirding-climate-whiplash-hitting-worlds-biggest-cities-study-reveals

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  24. chdot
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    Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials

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    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/solar-geoengineering-uk

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  25. chdot
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    Foyers power station was built in 1974, and after a 40-year absence, pumped hydro storage is back on the agenda and with it fresh questions about who the water belongs to.

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/12/loch-ness-hydro-storage-schemes-scotland

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  26. chdot
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    We can't fight the climate and nature crises without addressing the ever-widening gaps between rich and poor, the powerful and the weak. Environmentalist Tony Juniper reveals in this eye-opening book that green technologies won't work on their own – in order to save and restore the natural systems which sustain society, the economy and civilisation, it is vital that we break the traps set by inequalities.

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    https://www.nhbs.com/just-earth-book

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  27. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/15/green-leader-adrian-ramsay-labour-growth-v-nature-framing-is-an-outrage

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  28. chdot
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    https://www.thenational.scot/news/25009536.uk-wants-build-new-nuclear-plants-scotland-ed-miliband-says/

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  29. LaidBack
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    Sarwar sent question to Milliband to suggest that ScotGov opposition to nuclear is a bad thing. Conveniently forgetting that the party trading as 'Scottish Labour' is also against nuclear power, weapons and waste in Scotland.

    Nuclear plants take aeons to build and are always over budget. No t easy to switch off and on. Useful for nuclear weapon stock.

    Responding to the exchange, SNP MSP Jackie Dunbar said Sarwar “has been silent on Grangemouth and compensation for WASPI women, but he appears to have found his voice on nuclear”.

    “Nuclear power stations are exorbitantly expensive and produce vast quantities of radioactive waste which remains dangerous for thousands of years; and yet the Labour Party wants to put them in your backyard,” she went on.

    “After a myriad of broken promises to bring energy bills down by £300, bills are rising under Labour. Nuclear power is not the solution.

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  30. chdot
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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/17/conservative-party-to-ditch-commitment-to-net-zero-in-uk-by-2050

    Posted 1 month ago #

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