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Most people don’t realise that you don’t actually need fired bricks to build masonry houses. That’s why bricklayers aren’t called ‘bricklayers of fossil-fuelled fired bricks’. Don’t let yourselves become dependent on them – you have excellent jobs and skills. #earthbuilding

Jesus would have helped farmers grow more food. Jesus would have helped farmers protect soil. Jesus would have helped starving people to be fed. Nobody destroying our climate can call themselves a Christian.

Climate emissions resulting from approving drilling at Rosebank, expanding Heathrow airport, watering down UK’s EV targets, cutting heat pump grants would be 402m tonnes of CO2 over the next 25 years Greater than the annual emissions of 106 coal plants www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Jesus would not have destroyed the climate. Every Christian destroying the climate is simply not a follower of Jesus. Quite simple.

We spoke to the climate, and the climate says it doesn’t care where the greenhouse gases come from or which greenhouse gas it is and the spreadsheet it is recorded on. Thousands more British grandmothers will now die thanks to Andy Burnham’s actions. Actions have consequences.

Absolutely brilliant to see. Yet fossil fuel use and emissions are STILL increasing, because capitalist economies require endless growth. On a finite planet, that can only end one way. Without system change, much of our efforts are little more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.

“I don’t think anyone will switch back to diesel trucks,” said the 39-year-old, who has spent the last three years behind the wheel of an electrified hauler. “Nobody wants to return to a last-generation technology.”

One week to go, five new changes on the Crystal Ball rankings: FLSen: Safe R -> Likely R NCSen: Leans D -> Likely D SCSen: Likely R -> Leans R AZGov: Leans D -> Likely D VTGov: Likely R -> Leans R

In an unlikely dream scenario the U.S. Senate is not only flipped, but shifts to a 60 DEM majority. One can hope. And dream.

All followers please note @indoorcoyote.bsky.social has blocked Climate News. Discussing the climate offended the poor right wing brain dead soul.

“Neurodivergents are too early with their warnings and that’s the problem” is often portrayed as the intellectual interpretation of why normies go into overshoot and mass collapse. “Normies are too slow and too dumb to realise what’s happening” is never portrayed as the problem. Chop chop normies.

Important for the pessimistic german crowd who believe the AfD success is inevitable. Go where the people are, most people want a good future.

Google is evil Wolves Descend on Finnish Villages After Google Hacked Down 1,300 Acres of Habitat to Make Room for AI Data Centers They have nowhere else to go after Google destroyed their forest home Authorities will now probably shoot the wolves futurism.com/future-socie...

Australia's data centre mania and how communities are rising up in resistance (plus the bigger questions we’re not asking!): thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spin...

This is what climate change looks like... The evidence is here. We need to make it impossible to ignore. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Last month observed the largest relative warming signal in the Arctic, which is not surprising for this time of year as the sea ice reforms. The tropical (El Niño) signal is really remarkable though. [Plot shows zonal-mean temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance).]

Number one on this week’s Climate News Weekend Watchlist is from At The Water’s Edge discusses the difference between a global war and a world war 3. Professor Robert Pape explains the difference in detail. Worth watching.

Models that say we can overshoot 1.5°C & come back down assume: - we will transform our food systems from carbon source to sink - forests and soils keep absorbing 25% of our emissions - oceans keep absorbing another 25% - we enact a vast build-out of tech to pull CO2 back out of the air

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day Claim to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at her £1.2million four-bedroom pad in a five-month period. Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor, unfortunate.

With the UK set to almost double its #solar capacity by 2030, new scheme encouraging developers to create habitats for wildlife alongside clean electricity generation. www.positive.news/environment/...

Northern Hemisphere temperature are projected off the chart next week. The ongoing Super El Niño is starting to increase global temperatures and the weather disasters will come with it. H/t @khaustein.bsky.social www.karstenhaustein.com/reanalysis/g...

Bird flu came out of industrial poultry farming, and has been devastating wild bird populations ever since. Via industrial fur farming, it now threatens to do the same to us. Animal farming is one of the greatest dangers to life on Earth.

I wonder if a straw bale shelter (available, fast, efficient, circular, able to be made permanent without breaking the bank) hands on WORKSHOP for humanitarian purposes would be an event that you would travel to Verden, Germany for? Say for a week. I'd need a group of 15+ folks to make it happen.

Plus, the biggest living organism on Earth is an aspen. Such a very special tree.

In the coming century, there will be very few people.

In Irish, aspen is 'crann creathach' – trembling tree – because of how its leaves quiver and rustle in the wind. One of the most palatable tree species to deer, sheep, etc, its very distinctive, evocative sound is sadly now uncommon in Ireland.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "It’s extraordinary to realise that we are witnessing the great unravelling; the beginning of the end of things. I honestly never thought I’d live to see the start of what sometimes feels like the apocalypse." www.climatecodered.org/2023/06/what...

The compromise is having farmland to provide food, and rewilded areas for nature. As things stand, it's only the first and none of the second. But you think that's compromise? Nature would disagree.

Former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: “Our support for Ukraine is not charity. “It is an investment in our own security and in the future of a democratic and peaceful Europe. “We cannot allow Russia to succeed. The fight for freedom must continue.”

That’s an arrogant take by the former NATO Secretary General who is well known for his past failures. Ukraine is essential for NATO survival. Most NATO commanders and generals are clueless muppets stuck in tank land of the 1940s-1970s. Ukraine has the drone tech every nation craves.

Time for NATO and the EU to stop pretending they’re the rich nations who might grant Ukraine accession. Bullshit. Europe & NATO are imploding. Ukraine has the unique power to save both (if the USA is ejected from both; yes the USA is entirely fucking the EU abusively with military intercourse).

Poverty is a policy decision. Concentrated wealth is a policy decision. Inequality is a policy decision. Remember this.

Ever feel like you're actually living that nightmare in which you open your mouth to cry out, but no sound comes? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Amazon is shifting from carbon sink to carbon source. 15 yrs of CO2 data show that fires are the dominant carbon source and now outpace forest uptake. Deforestation is driving the damage, amplified by drought and El Niño. Protecting forests is climate action. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

South Terrace, Cork city centre: polypody, heart's tongue and maidenhair spleenwort ferns spring from a damp old brick wall. If your eyes are open to it, we're surrounded by the relics of our lost natural rainforest heritage.

Here's how private equity killed your local mall.

🌊 Nearly all of the world’s coral reefs now Critically Endangered Coral reefs are one of the clearest indicators of the ocean’s health. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/nearly-...

From fetching water to surviving floods, Kenyan women carry the heaviest weight of climate impacts. A report highlights why climate financing and just transition policies must address unpaid care work and ensure affected communities have a real seat at the table. Fellow Ouma Elvine Tina reports.

They’re white. They’re men. They’re wealthy. They adore capitalism. If any of that is you - what’s wrong with everything about your soul? Why are you pretending to be a human?

Nationalise SpaceX. Now.

It’s fascinating how many so-called battery experts announced that this was all just fake hype as recently as a year ago.

an important thing to understand Wonderful illustration too!

Also an important thing to understand bsky.app/profile/clim...

Top health care companies in the Fortune 500: United Health: #3 CVS Health: #6 Cigna: #14 One way they did it? By buying up every part of the health care system—and squeezing you dry. You shouldn't have to worry about going broke when you get sick. Let's break up Big Medicine.

“I will save you from the fascist. Here, let me first murder you with some fossil fuels. If you don’t like it you can just die.” - Mark Carney

Marine scientists have warned for a long time about this. Will the warnings about other tipping points also be mostly ignored? Or will the world start to prioritise stopping global warming? We can do it, but time is running. No more delays is phasing out fossil fuels! www.cp24.com/news/world/2...

What most people don't know: when you fill up a petrol car most of the energy never moves it. Petrol car: 13–21% of the crude oil's energy reaches wheels. Electric car on today's UK grid: 43–45%. Electric car on wind+solar: 77–80%. That's why we don't need to replace fossil energy one for one.

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