81% Finns for active role of municipalities in climate change risks
The Texas Institute of Letters recognized Dylan Baddour's article, “Forgotten Keepers of the Rio Grande Delta,” as the best short nonfiction of 2024.
Congratulations Dylan! 
We are proud to have published this important story, and so many others you've contributed. https://www.texasobserver.org/forgotten-keepers-of-the-rio-grande-delta/
Farmer in #Peru Takes Major #Germany Energy Firm to Court Over Emissions https://www.ecowatch.com/peru-farmer-germany-climate-lawsuit.html #ClimateChange
I have Bill Gates' book on stopping #climatechange.
Apparently, he wasn't serious.
Look at this gorgeous print cover spread!
#solarpunk stories from Renan Bernardo, @sarenaulibarri @tkrex Danielle Arostegui @BrightFlame @ana
Releases Earth Day (April 22)
https://susankayequinn.com/books/bright-green-futures-2024-solarpunk-anthology
It's really the red states that need to pray most...or move.
'There will be chaos': Extreme weather expert says Trump cutting 'backbone of everything'
https://www.alternet.org/trump-weather-budget-cuts/
“What if we put solar panels on every roof in the world?”
Johanna Wagstaffe, Meteorologist and Seismologist for the CBC, is truly a woman after my own heart because this is exactly the dorky kind of back-of-the-napkin exercise I stay up into the wee hours of the morning figuring out. And she found a study were scientists actually did the calculations for real and turns out, it would make a real measurable impact.
We need to do this maybe not on every roof, but certainly on every roof that makes sense in every town, city and village in the world.
#ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6685258
Important court day. A farmer from Peru is suing German coal major RWE for contributing to climate change which is bound to cause a rockslide into the glacial lake uphill from the farner's honetown.. and drown them all... unless an expensive protection dam is built. The cost of which RWE shall have to pay.
The verdict by the first instance court in 2017 denied the argument.
Today's court, Oberlandesgericht Hamm, starts from scratch. The judges even did an onsite visit in 2022 as preparation.
And they appointed a court expert on specific climate attribution, too...who, it turns out, is on the side of RWE... See the second to last post in below thread...
Here's a live ticker from the court room. This is the last post in the thread:
https://bsky.app/profile/duycks.bsky.social/post/3lkll4ejlzc22
Next court day is Wednesday.
#ClimateJustice #ClimateLitigation #SaulvsRWE #ClimateChange #ClimateScienceEquity
Amazing: Chicago org bringing EVs to underserved Black neighborhood, w/history of 1900s EVs and #GreatMigration
Also clean #microgrid, econ dev, better air quality
Tying EVs to self sufficiency, history of Black innovation and resilience 
#Local #ev #climatechange #climatehope #Chicago #Bronzeville #BlackHistory #cleanenergy #transitequity #publichealth #environmentaljustice #EJ
It turns out billionaires like Bill Gates care more about themselves and their money than about maintaining a livable planet for the rest of us.
Are you surprised? I’m not.
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In decades past, as the effects of climate change slowly became undeniable, some people looked to the super-rich for solutions. By the early 2020s, a few billionaires had positioned themselves as masters of climate change policy, taking advantage of their great fortunes to become indispensable to environmentalism.
Now, however, many of those same billionaires are pulling their support at an alarming rate. Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the sixth richest man in the world, is the latest among them. Breakthrough Energy — Gates' climate change nonprofit — has locked the doors on its policy and advocacy office, laying off dozens of employees throughout Europe and the US.
Ever since billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump won his second presidential election, tech barons like Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and of course Elon Musk have made no bones about shedding their progressive skin and embracing the new administration.
Gates, too, is cozying up to the returning president. In early January, the Microsoft founder spent three hours dining with his fellow billionaire, telling the Wall Street Journal he was "frankly impressed" by Trump's grasp on the issues dear to him.
Though many no doubt feel betrayed by what seems like a sudden rightward turn, billionaires like Gates have always behaved like wolves in sheep's clothing, prioritizing their fortunes above all.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://futurism.com/bill-gates-gives-up-climate-change
SEE ALSO -- “Bill Gates Is Giving Up on Climate Change”
https://gizmodo.com/bill-gates-is-giving-up-on-climate-change-as-trump-drains-the-woke-out-of-washington-2000576270
Peruvian farmer goes head to head with German energy giant in climate test case.
The lawsuit opens in a German court Monday, as a Peruvian farmer sues a German energy giant over the threat to his home from a mountain lake glacier meltwater. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming
Climate change not only means warming temperatures. It means a total breakdown in how we've always expected the climate to behave...
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Climate whiplash is hitting major cities around the world, bringing deadly swings between extreme wet and dry weather as the climate crisis intensifies, a report has revealed.
Cities across the world are affected but the data shows some regional trends, with drying hitting Europe, the already-parched Arabian peninsula, and much of the US, while cities in south and south-east Asia are experiencing bigger downpours.
The analysis illustrates the climate chaos being brought to urban areas by human-caused global heating. Too little or too much water is the cause of 90% of climate disasters.
The savage wildfires in Los Angeles in January were an example of a single whiplash event, with a wet period spurring vegetation growth, which then fueled the fires when hot and dry weather followed. Such events are increasing due to human-caused global heating.
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I’ve been posting weekly reminders about Business As Usual every Monday morning for about two years now.
But you know what? I could legitimately have been doing it each week for the past 30 or 40 years! Because that’s how long the ‘elite’ rulers of our society have been fully aware of what they are doing and yet continued pushing non-stop in a destructive rapacious exploitative colonial capitalist frenzy — completely ignoring the science and dooming the rest of us to a disastrous ecological breakdown.
All in the name of profits.
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It's time for another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored by Toyota, Comcast, and the U.S. military-industrial complex.
"Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 
I live on a beach and this is quite big.
Minimum floor levels are being raised in low-lying coastal parts of Dunedin, effective today.
When my neighbour built about ten years ago, the minimum was 0.5m. The new minimum floor level is 3.05m - 3.17m above sea level "in certain areas".
Three metres! While I approve the forward thinking, we'll have a lot of houses on poles.
Thanks to @paw for his @dccnews bot.
https://www.dunedin.govt.nz/news-and-events/news/march-2025/changes-to-minimum-floor-levels
Pobre México, tan lejos de Dios y tan cerca de Estados Unidos. #Petrofuture Mexico — 66m sea level rise on a 1956 Shell gas station map.
Higher-res images:
https://conspiracyofcartographers.com
I, for one, expect our NOAA scientists to be employed by a government ("of the people, by the people, for the people" - thank you Pres. Lincoln [R]) alerting me for the safety of me & my family in real-time to climate and weather events in this uber-connected bot world
Government exists solely to do what private industry will not - get to work!
Pakistan emerges from smog season
Tens of millions of Pakistanis spent at least four months breathing toxic air pollution 20 times above safe levels, in the worst winter smog season for several years, according to data analysed by AFP
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2534689/pakistan-emerges-from-smog-season
Industry leaders warn climate change could make NZ homes uninsurable
Survey shows strong public support for increased investment in climate resilience
Scientists warn that a popular Hawaiian island is sinking 40 times faster than expected and terrible flooding could start wiping out businesses and homes within decades
Es ist möglich, dass die außergewöhnlich hohen Temperaturen des Nordatlantiks in den letzten beiden Jahren lediglich extreme Ereignisse waren und noch mit den Klimaprognosen übereinstimmen [1].
Betrachtet man die Daten ab dem Jahr 1982 (Bild a), so lässt sich mithilfe einer geeigneten Analyse (hier ein LMR – Linear Mixed Model) der saisonale Trend entfernen (Bild b), sodass der reine Jahreseffekt dargestellt werden kann (Bild c). Auf dieser Grundlage lassen sich Konfidenzbereiche für die Beobachtungen berechnen. Die Jahre 2023 und 2024 liegen knapp auf oder außerhalb der 3-Sigma-Grenze (99 % Konfidenzbereich), während das Jahr 2025 bislang noch innerhalb bleibt.
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