Some steak dinners being had by BP lawyers tonight I guess
Fucking shameless
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 July 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
Oh sorry, I misread that - they spilled 7 tonnes of crude oil and were fined £95,000.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 30 July 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
^ not true, but it's great that even that would be insanely fucked
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 30 July 2020 12:02 (three years ago) link
Two months ago:The processes of this taxpayer-funded commission are not open to the public.Yesterday: On Monday, prime minister Scott Morrison announced that he was reconstituting the National Covid Coordination Commission as a body that reports directly to the federal cabinet.... The change is likely to further reduce the transparency and public visibility of what the Commission is advising government, as cabinet deliberations are not released to the public and are generally exempt from freedom of information laws.
The processes of this taxpayer-funded commission are not open to the public.
Yesterday:
On Monday, prime minister Scott Morrison announced that he was reconstituting the National Covid Coordination Commission as a body that reports directly to the federal cabinet.
...
The change is likely to further reduce the transparency and public visibility of what the Commission is advising government, as cabinet deliberations are not released to the public and are generally exempt from freedom of information laws.
Today, in response to freedom of information requests:
"The prime minister’s department refused to publicly release 1,100 documents linked to the Covid-19 commission’s discussion of gas projects and 690 documents about potential conflicts of interest, while also redacting its meeting minutes on economic and national security grounds."
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 30 July 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths
The evidence is now clear enough that it can be stated unequivocally: It would be worth freeing ourselves from fossil fuels even if global warming didn’t exist. Especially now that clean energy has gotten so cheap, the air quality benefits alone are enough to pay for the energy transition....Shindell’s testimony reveals that the effects of air pollution are roughly twice as bad as previously estimated. That is a bombshell — in a sane world, it would be front-page news across the country.“The air quality scientific community has hypothesized this for at least a decade, but research advances have let us quantify and confirm this notion, over and over,” says Rebecca Saari, an air quality expert who teaches in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. “The air quality ‘co-benefits’ are generally so valuable that they exceed the cost of climate action, often many times over.”
Shindell’s testimony reveals that the effects of air pollution are roughly twice as bad as previously estimated. That is a bombshell — in a sane world, it would be front-page news across the country.
“The air quality scientific community has hypothesized this for at least a decade, but research advances have let us quantify and confirm this notion, over and over,” says Rebecca Saari, an air quality expert who teaches in civil and environmental engineering at the University of Waterloo. “The air quality ‘co-benefits’ are generally so valuable that they exceed the cost of climate action, often many times over.”
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Thursday, 13 August 2020 04:58 (three years ago) link
thank you for that link, sic
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 August 2020 08:27 (three years ago) link
The Hammersmith Bridge in London has been closed due to climate change: increased heat has exacerbated a crack to the point of emergency.
A tweet thread from climate futurist Alex Steffen on the Brittleness Bubble:
The Brittleness Bubble is far, far bigger than we're acknowledging.A staggering percentage of the world's critical infrastructure is now entering a world where climate conditions routinely exceed the tolerances for which that infrastructure was designed. https://t.co/chIOcoZ4Gw— Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen) August 13, 2020
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Friday, 14 August 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
TBF even if it is the canary in the coalmine the Hammersmith bridge has always been a shit bridge.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 14 August 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link
It looks so nice though!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 14 August 2020 09:59 (three years ago) link
It’s been falling down and in an almost constant state of repair since they built it.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Friday, 14 August 2020 10:07 (three years ago) link
it does seem to be closed more than it's open
if you walk across it you can see the individual wooden planks that are the base of the road
https://www.reelstreets.com/wp-content/uploads/Films/repulsion/re022.jpg
― koogs, Friday, 14 August 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
(http://movie-tourist.blogspot.com/2012/07/repulsion-1965.html)
― koogs, Friday, 14 August 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
Great news, everyone! We're way ahead of schedule
Apparently this event was modeled as the *worst case scenario* in 2050 and it is happening right now. This is real sublime terror, this is an abyss, I don't know what this means. https://t.co/PgI1TvrNqv— blue lives splatter 📉 (@postcyborg) August 16, 2020
― poparse's eye (sic), Sunday, 16 August 2020 10:21 (three years ago) link
Scientists aren't holding back on the science in our papers. Why would we? (IPCC summaries are another matter.) But in public it's "Here are some graphs" and the language is constrained. In private over beers it's "We're fucked."— Peter Kalmus is the People's Climate Scientist (@ClimateHuman) August 8, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 16 August 2020 10:23 (three years ago) link
The last 12.000 years. pic.twitter.com/5KAnqmO2Tv— Alexander Radtke (@alxrdk) August 16, 2020
― poparse's eye (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
*sigh*
― Isinglass Ponys (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 17 August 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Fuck yeah. Fuck yeah, we did it!!!
The highest temperature ever reliably recorded was reached today, with Death Valley in California hitting 130°F (54.4444°C). In July 2018, the Valley's average temperature of 108.1 degrees represented the hottest month ever measured on the planet.
― poparse's eye (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
"The Trump administration on Monday authorized a sweeping plan to sell drilling rights and spur oil development in Alaska’s rugged Arctic refuge, setting up a possible auction by the end of 2020 and a political clash if the president loses the November election."
― healthy butts on perfect cocaine (sic), Monday, 17 August 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
average temperature of 108.1 degrees
in case it wasn't obvious an average temperature includes both high and low temps, not just high temps.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Monday, 17 August 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
Studies in the last decade have suggested that global warming is exacerbating the effects of El Niño and La Niña events.
Today the Bureau of Meterology announced Australia is facing three-times the normal threat level of deadly rain and cyclones to end 2020.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Tuesday, 18 August 2020 21:21 (three years ago) link
VOTE DADDY / MOMMY 2020
https://earther.gizmodo.com/democrats-quietly-cut-opposition-to-fossil-fuel-subsidi-1844768172
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:28 (three years ago) link
There are at least 367 wildfires active across California today.
Since the state relies on slave labour for firefighters, one single COVID-19 outbreak at a Lassen Country prison means that only 30 of California's 77 wildfire crews (17 prisoners per team) are available.
Still, nice to know you have options of what hideous lung damage you can endure for $2 an hour pay (plus $1 while actively in a fire).
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
Time to place your bets! Will the rain put out, or will the cyclones spread, the bushfires? 702 fires have been fought in Australia's third-smallest state since July 1st, and the latest is so large that the official fire season is being brought up to start September 1, the first day of spring.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2020 05:08 (three years ago) link
The Greenland ice sheet lost one million tonnes per minute in 2019.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 20 August 2020 21:25 (three years ago) link
As of yesterday, two of the fires in California ranked as the seventh- and tenth-worst in the state's history.
By sun-up today, those two ranked second and fourth.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Saturday, 22 August 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
VOTE DADDY / MOMMY 2020https://earther.gizmodo.com/democrats-quietly-cut-opposition-to-fossil-fuel-subsidi-1844768172
Even before the primaries, the Sunrise Movement rated Biden an F-
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 24 August 2020 18:41 (three years ago) link
on "preserving a livable planet" -related policies
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/05/sanders-scores-highest-mark-sunrise-movements-climate-report-card-while-biden-told#
good news, guys! California is to ban fracking and to nationalise the for-profit company that just emerged from bankruptcy after being held responsible for the 2017-18 wildfires
California fires in 2019:- 4,927 fires- 118k acres burned.California fires in 2020 (so far):- 7,606 fires- 2.3 million acres burned.CLIMATE. CHANGE. IS. REAL.— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 8, 2020
wait no
the governor will do a second, firm tweet though
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 10 September 2020 05:41 (three years ago) link
average population drop of 68% across all animals since 1970
https://livingplanet.panda.org/en-gb/
😬
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 September 2020 08:11 (three years ago) link
🤔 pic.twitter.com/4q7Ers10B6— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) September 10, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 10 September 2020 08:39 (three years ago) link
you've granted 48 fracking permits since April https://t.co/EyZDoRbMLr— Anna Bahr (@anna_bahr) September 11, 2020
Fuck Newsom sucks so hard. Thank god he’s probably too much of a weasel to be President.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Saturday, 12 September 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
Spectacularly awful anti XR piece in today’s age reprinted from the Daily Telegarph. It’s all fine nothing to see here the free market has fixed climate change.
https://www.theage.com.au/business/the-economy/the-problems-climate-activists-still-worry-about-are-already-solved-20200911-p55ulc.html
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Saturday, 12 September 2020 06:58 (three years ago) link
they could have saved us all some time by deleting the article and pasting thisisfine.jpg underneath the headline instead
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 12 September 2020 07:05 (three years ago) link
https://rosaluxnycblog.org/california-fires/amp/?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 12 September 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
As is this extract from Davis' book:
https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/amp/
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 September 2020 16:45 (three years ago) link
This seems like the right thread, for some reason:
https://doggielawn.com
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:37 (three years ago) link
Australian PM Scott Morrison has said, of reaching net zero emissions by 2050, that the country is "doing it in a canter."
The government's own projections show them doing it by... 2303.
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Monday, 21 September 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
This is really good on the UK's efforts:
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/uk-climate-just-transition/tnamp/?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 22 September 2020 15:38 (three years ago) link
Great article and a particularly good middle section on exporting emissions, particularly important right now as both the Australian liberals and labour are trying to set Australia up as an even more massive importer of emissions through natural gas to hydrogen programmes.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 21:37 (three years ago) link
hmm
at a guess, this timeline for fusion power is super-optimistic, but might be achieved if it had Manhattan Project-scale state backing https://t.co/fg0Yz1qKZV— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper) September 29, 2020
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 18:40 (three years ago) link
thing is, there are also a lot of clean energy tech that already works well, and which are also expected to improve over time. a Manhattan/Apollo Program-scale effort, for clean energy, would achieve many of the same goals as nuclear fusion, but would be much, much more likely to succeed
― idkwtf (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link
sounds like socialism
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
but fusion was one of those things i thought was really cool when i was 12 so there's that
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
reminds me of 12-year-old elon musk, dreaming about building single-car tunnels
― idkwtf (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
Figuring out grid-scale longer term power storage seems a way bigger priority than the never ending jobs program for Physics PhDs that fusion research has been for the past 60+ years. Even for nuclear engineers, modular fission reactors, thorium reactors, and travelling wave breeders have way better prospects of making a dent.
― Voulez-vous un coup d'etat, ce soir? (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
I don’t care I’m with map it was cool when I first learned what “torus” meant and I want it to happen.
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
i was being mostly sarcastic ftr but yes there is a small, sweet and silly part of me that thinks it would be cool if fusion happened before the planet becomes completely inhospitable and i'm truly sorry
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:12 (three years ago) link
Grid scale longer term energy storage doesn't need figuring out, it needs building, but more important than that is connecting disparate grids to take advantage of geographical diversity to minimise the need for storage.
Also renewables don't need a Manhattan project, they are bankable, and much cheaper than fossil alternatives. If you want to spend money, spend money on the grid infrastructure to connect them and move the energy around (see above).
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
Xps:
I'm still there for the aesthetic of multi=billion dollar fusion reactors. Just not for the practicality.
https://fusion.bsc.es/wp-content/uploads/jet_in-e1583947675875.jpg
― Voulez-vous un coup d'etat, ce soir? (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
same but with tokamak
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link