#greenhouse
Colorado bans state use of gas-powered lawn equipment
https://kdvr.com/news/colorado-bans-state-use-of-gas-powered-lawn-equipment/
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-halt-lng-buildout
'A Pause Isn't Enough': Biden to Reportedly Halt LNG Buildout
OLIVIA ROSANE
Jan 24, 2024
..."#climate advocates and Louisiana residents have been mobilizing against the buildout of LNG infrastructure, with a sit-in planned at the DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C. for February. If approved, activists have noted, CP2 would emit 20 times more #greenhouse gas #emissions than the controversial Willow oil drilling project, and the more than 20 LNG export facilities planned for the U.S. Gulf Coast would release more climate #pollution each year than the European Union.
"Biden's action shows two things," Oil Change International's U.S. Program Manager Allie Rosenbluth said in a statement about the reported delay. "One, the marches, petitions, and grassroots organizing from frontline communities and their allies are working. And two, Biden is afraid that his climate hypocrisy will cost him the election if he doesn't make real progress on fossil fuels."
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"If it's true, and I think it is, this is the biggest thing a U.S. president has ever done to stand up to the fossil fuel industry," McKibben said.
Jamie Henn, the director of Fossil Free Media, told Common Dreams that "if this reporting is correct, it's a major win in the fight against fossil fuels."
"This decision would stop nearly 20 new LNG facilities, representing 675 coal-fired power plants of emissions, dead in their tracks," Henn said.
Jean Su, director of the the Center for Biological Diversity's Energy Justice program said, "We would welcome the Biden administration pausing the monstrous, climate-killing CP2 project, but a pause isn't enough."
"Growing national pressure from youth and frontline communities to end fossil fuel expansion got us here. Now the administration needs to go the full nine yards and reject CP2 and all new oil and gas projects. To preserve a livable planet, we need a public interest test that denies any new project that would drive us further into climate catastrophe and violate U.S. commitments to transition away from fossil fuels."...
Quantifying Global #Greenhouse Gas #Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide #Energy #Policy
source: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/16/6074
Several studies are consistent with the “1000-ton rule,” according to which a future person is killed every time 1000 tons of fossil carbon are burned (order-of-magnitude estimate). If warming reaches or exceeds 2 °C this century, mainly richer humans will be responsible for killing roughly 1 billion mainly poorer humans through anthropogenic global warming, which is comparable with involuntary or negligent manslaughter.
#death #future #humanity #earth #environment #temperature #warming #poverty #justice #problem #crime #news #science
One-year anniversary
#cartoon by Clay #Bennett
Related #article by Linda #Greenhouse -> https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/opinion/abortion-supreme-court-dobbs.html
Lightsource bp closes tax equity deal for 481MW portfolio with Wells Fargo
Lightsource bp has closed its first tax equity deal, worth US$267 million, with financial services company Wells Fargo for a 481MW solar portfolio.
https://www.pv-tech.org/lightsource-bp-closes-tax-equity-deal-for-481mw-portfolio-with-wells-fargo/
#bp, #solar, #emissions, #lightsource, #finance, #greenhouse, #gas, #news, #us
The Great Palm House (VIenna)
Impressive inside and out. Known also (depending on translation) as the Large, or Great Palm House (US: 'Greenhouse').
With steam,
"The Schönbrunn Palm House was the last of its type to be constructed in continental Europe." - Source (see below, pls pora*)
The Palm House is located on the site of the former Dutch Botanical Garden and was erected in 1881/2 to designs by [Emperor] Franz Xaver Segenschmid.
One hundred and thirteen metres long, the Palm House consists of a 28-metre high central pavilion and two lateral pavilions which are three metres lower. Linked by tunnel-like passages, the pavilions contain different climatic zones: a ‘cold’ house to the north, a temperate zone in the central pavilion and a tropical zone in the south pavilion.
In the 1800's.
#MyPhoto #Schönbrunn #Vienna #Wien #Architecture #travel #photography #Fenfotos #greenhouse #PalmHouse
Names and Locations of the Top 100 People Killing the Planet
Just 100 companies are responsible for more than 70% of the world’s #greenhouse gas #emissions since 1988.
#climate #crisis #earth #problem #economy #world #responsibility #politics #nature #environment #pollution #map #society
#greenhouse
April 27, 2022
6:22 a.m. Mountain Time. Wednesday
Abandoned Greenhouse.
I love Greenhouses and abandoned places..
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-WiNXH6hI
"We are pouring #carbon #dioxide and other #gases into the #atmosphere with hardly any concern for its long term and #global-effects ... the #solutions to these #problems requires a #perspective that embraces the #planet and the #future because we are all in this #greenhouse #together."
(Sobering to watch in 2021)
#carlsagan #sagan #congress #1985 #climatechange #science #greenhouse-effect #international #amity #global #consciousness
#COP26 - Actionable #Climate #Science for Policymakers
Source: http://berkeleyearth.org/policy-insights/
That is well above the goals of the #Paris climate #agreement and would lead to catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate. To keep global #warming below 1.5°C this century, the aspirational goal of the Paris Agreement, the world needs to halve annual #greenhouse gas #emissions in the next eight years.
Not a single G20 country is in line with the Paris Agreement on climate
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/15/world/climate-pledges-insufficient-cat-intl/index.html
"None of the #world's #major #economies - including the entire #G20 - have a #climate #plan that meets their #obligations under the #2015 #ParisAgreement"
This is of course excluding huge parts of our #emissions and aspect of #equity. Not even then are we on track.
#video #environment #climatechange #cat #pledges #cop26 #us #china #uk #eu #japan #common #interest #fossilfuels #coal #greenhouse #gas #reduce #carbon #emissions #global-warming #floods #fires #hurricanes #earth #ecosystem
Air pollution is slashing years off the lives of billions, report finds
“ #Air #pollution is the greatest #external #threat to #human #health on the #planet, and that is not widely recognised, or not recognised with the force and vigour that one might expect."
#environment #energy #climate #crisis #coal #burning #fossil #fuels #greenhouse #gas #emissions #wildfires #dirty-air #life #aqli #report
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report ~ 09August2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z149vLKn9d8
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/
https://t.co/4t8uyqoLXN
' #Climatechange includes both #global #warming driven by #human-induced #emissions of #greenhouse #gases and the resulting large-scale #shifts in #weather #patterns.'
According to the new #IntergovernmentalPanelOnClimateChange #IPCC #climatereport, the #carbon #budget that gives us the best odds of staying below 1,5°C runs out in less than 5 and a half years at our current #emissions rate. The new report contains no real surprises. It confirms what we already know from thousands of previous studies and reports - that we are in an #emergency. It’s a solid (but cautious) #summary of the current best available science. It doesn't tell us what to do. It is up to us to be brave and take decisions based on the #scientific #evidence provided in these reports. We can still avoid the worst #consequences, but not if we continue like today, and not without treating the #crisis like a crisis.
#environment #sixth #assessment #press #conference #climate #2021 #physical #science #basis #weather #global #warming #un #WorldMeteorologicalOrganization #wmo #q-a
Extreme Weather Events and Capitalism
The #Ice Is #Melting
The #Land Is #Burning
The #Ocean Is #Dying
The #Living #Planet Is #Unravelling
It's happening on our watch.
No more delays ...
#Climate #scientists around the world are alarmed by a triple climate-change-related crisis that hit the western U.S. and Canada in June and July.
Normally climatologists are careful in their assessment of extreme weather events, under pressure from energy industry profiteers and anti-science climate change deniers. They go to great pains to avoid being accused of exaggeration, and rarely (really never) point to climate change as the cause of specific freakish #weather events.
The severity of what has happened in June and July has pushed past many of their carefully calculated projections. The fingerprints of capitalist-induced global warming are all over the crime scene.
A severe #drought in the western states of the U.S. that has been worsening for months has nearly drained Lake Mead in Nevada, Lake Oroville in California and other major reservoirs, threatening #power #generation for millions of people. A series of intense, widespread, sustained heat waves tortured a quarter of the U.S. as well as western Canada for weeks, taking the lives of hundreds of people.
The super-dry conditions in the region have caused 83 wildfires, including the Dixie Fire in northern California and the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon. They are two of the largest #wildfires in #history and are both still raging.
Mild Pacific Northwest goes wild
The southwest U.S. is no stranger to deadly heat, but what is most unexpected is that this extreme heat has hit the Pacific Northwest, a region known for mild temperatures and damp weather.
Roads buckled in Seattle from the sweltering heat. For several days Portland, Ore., was the fourth-hottest place on earth. British Columbia suffered the highest death toll with more than 800 deaths between the end of June and middle of July — quadruple the average number of deaths.
The village of Lytton in British Columbia burned to the ground just as Paradise, Calif., did in 2018 — essentially nothing left but ashes and smoke.
In Canada’s British Columbia province, and the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon and northern California, the heat broke all-time temperature records, and then broke those records again, and then again.
Electric power for millions threatened
Nevada and California’s livability depends on a system of 1,500 human-made reservoirs, not only for drinking water and agriculture but for electricity from hydroelectric generators.
Engineers say that the water level in Lake Mead will be below the minimum water level needed to generate power to 1.3 million people in a matter of days. Lake Oroville will likely last until September, when it won’t be able to supply electricity for another 800,000.
Normally, power companies buy power from nearby regions when needed. But constantly running air conditioning in a wide swath of the western U.S. during 2021 has diminished power surpluses that normally allow that to happen.
All told, the fires have burned 1.3 million acres — an area larger than Los Angeles, New York City and Chicago combined. The smoke has journeyed cross-country to the East Coast, prompting air quality warnings along the northern part of the Eastern Seaboard and as far inland as central Virginia.
In addition to California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, the heatwaves hit Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho.
Heat deadly for agricultural workers
Thirty-eight-year-old Sebastián Francisco Pérez from Guatemala was working at an Oregon tree farm on June 26 when he collapsed and died from the heat. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 53 #agricultural #workers died from heat nationwide in 2019, but this was the first in Oregon directly attributable to heat.
Only four states have laws in place to protect farmworkers. Oregon became the third after the death of Sebastián. Washington State quickly followed with some emergency measures. Some other states merely have “guidelines.”
Irene Ruiz, an #environmental #justice organizer from Boise, Idaho, messaged about the heightened danger to agricultural workers during heatwaves. “Guidelines are not enough. These are the people who put food on our tables and are the most affected and in danger of extreme heat.”
#Imperialism and #globalwarming
Recent decades have seen extreme weather events become more frequent and much more severe than previous periods. Experts point to that quickening pace and increasing severity as caused directly by global warming, even though they usually avoid blaming global warming for specific weather events.
The opposing narrative, motivated by energy profiteers, is that the warming of the atmosphere during this period is a natural cycle, that it has happened before over the millennia, and that it will pass.
But a #scientific #paper published in the journal Nature on July 28 referenced two large, decades-long studies of the #Earth’s “ #energy balance” — the amount of the sun’s energy entering Earth’s atmosphere compared to the amount of energy reflected back out into space. Both studies confirm that greenhouse gases are keeping the sun’s energy trapped in our atmosphere.
The paper asserts that there is less than a 1% chance that the rise in global temperatures and all of its frightening consequences are a natural occurrence.
#Greenhouse #gases began to heat the #atmosphere with the dawn of #industrial #capitalism in the latter part of the 19th century. That much is readily admitted in the capitalist press these days. What isn’t written about enough is the role of imperialist domination in this crisis for #humanity.
The machinery of war is the greatest consumer of oil, and like a dog chasing its tail, pollutes the world while fighting to control oil markets. If the #US military machine were to be ranked in the list of countries that indicates how much they contribute to pollutants that heat the atmosphere, the list would show it ahead of 46 countries.
Estimates of the cost of stopping global warming vary from $300 billion to Forbes Magazine’s price tag of $50 trillion. Underdevelopment and poverty have been imposed on much of the world by #imperialist #military #force and #economic #leverage for more than a century. The stolen wealth is now concentrated in the hands of the tiny group of billionaires that have profited immensely — as a class — from the control of oil markets. That stolen wealth is key to mitigating climate change.
The world is being told to put its faith in international agreements to solve the crisis. The #ParisClimateAgreement is supposed to oblige each participating country to limit greenhouse gases and commit rich nations — and in some cases private corporations — to help fund efforts by poor nations with $100 billion per year in grants, loans and other forms of financing, to help them switch to clean energy.
That agreement still shifts the blame to the poorest countries, when in fact 20 industrialized countries are responsible for 78% of greenhouse gases.
Historically, no country has put more carbon dioxide into the air than the imperialist U.S. #empire. The ultimate goal of the Paris Agreement is to limit greenhouse gases to a 2% increase per year, and “if possible” to 1.5% per year. As of today, the rich countries haven’t come up with the first $100 billion that was due in 2018.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-july-2021
#Capitalism is a #roadblock on the path to mitigating this huge crisis for #humankind. It will take a #global #environmental #movement that is #revolutionary — #conscious of the need to #eradicate imperialism — to stop the crisis of global warming and climate change ~
#scottscheffer #climate-emergency #climate-action #climate-crisis #climate-change #climate-strike