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- Why and how Americans can help elect Harris
I'll be taking a bus to a swing state to help elect Harris this coming weekend. You don't need to do quite that much; there are actions hosted near you to join.
The reason is that while Harris isn't in absolute 100% agreement with me on every detail (unless I run for office, no candidate will be), she's the candidate much closer to taking adequate climate action. The Biden/Harris administration did a lot, starting with Harris casting the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act., a key piece of climate legislation. We even saw major cuts to the leasing of federal lands for coal, as well as big cuts to oil and gas leasing
By contrast, Trump appointed a coal lobbyist to run the EPA and took steps to increase not just greenhouse gas emissions, but a wide variety of human-impacting pollutants, and surrounded by people who want to eliminate any effort to address the climate problem
- One California City Wants to Get Rid of Gas | Residents of liberal Berkeley will get to vote on a second attempt to curb use of the fuel in buildings.www.bloomberg.com One California City Wants to Get Rid of Gas
Residents of liberal Berkeley will get to vote on a second attempt to curb use of the fuel in buildings.
- What could stop the global green energy race? A Trump victorywww.ft.com What could stop the global green energy race? A Trump victory
He could also take tougher steps to stymie decarbonisation efforts next time around
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- The Case for Kamala Harris in a Burning World | The race between Harris and Trump is not about saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselveswww.rollingstone.com The Case for Kamala Harris in a Burning World
The race between Harris and Trump is not about saving the planet. It’s about saving ourselves.
- I used to conserve artworks. Now I am in prison for taking climate action | It was my dream job. But what’s the point of preserving masterpieces for a future being destroyed by fossil fuel companies?www.theguardian.com I used to conserve artworks. Now I am in prison for taking climate action | Margaret Reid
What’s the point of preserving masterpieces for a future being destroyed by fossil fuel companies? says Margaret Reid, Just Stop Oil activist and former museum professional
To be clear: they splashed soup on the glass in front of a piece of art.
- Southern Company is promoting “propaganda” disguised as research | The utility is laundering strategic messaging about the energy transition through a partnership with The Atlantic's marketing team.www.exxonknews.org Southern Company is promoting “propaganda” disguised as research — with help from a major media company
The utility is laundering strategic messaging about the energy transition through a partnership with The Atlantic's marketing team.
- 'Words Fail': WMO Report Finds CO2 Accumulating at Record Levelswww.commondreams.org 'Words Fail': WMO Report Finds CO2 Accumulating at Record Levels | Common Dreams
"The report is very clear: This crisis is driven by the profit-driven production of coal, oil, and gas," one climate advocacy group said.
- ‘Green bank’ launches $250M effort to electrify California’s port truckswww.canarymedia.com ‘Green bank’ launches $250M effort to electrify California’s port…
The program, from Climate United and Forum Mobility, will help secure the EV trucks and charging stations needed to phase out diesel trucks at the state’s…
>On Tuesday, Climate United, one of the country’s newly established nonprofit “green banks,” unveiled a $250 million plan with electric truck-charging startup Forum Mobility aimed at overcoming those barriers. The money will help secure low-cost financing for up to 500 U.S.-built Class 8 electric trucks — the largest such order of electric trucks in the country — for small freight companies and independent truckers serving California’s busiest and most heavily polluted seaports. > >The ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle about 30 percent of U.S. container imports, and about 80 percent of the “drayage” trucks that haul those containers to inland distribution centers are owned by small fleet operators and independent drivers, said Beth Bafford, CEO of Climate United.
- How Vintage Nike Airs Exposed a Flaw in a $700 Million Carbon Market | Everything from wildfires to fraud adds risk for investors in carbon offsets. New questions about how the market insures itselfwww.bloomberg.com How Vintage Nike Airs Exposed a Flaw in a $700 Million Carbon Market
Everything from wildfires to fraud is adding risk for investors in carbon offsets. Now there are new questions about how the market is trying to insure itself.
TL;DR;
Nike used to put SF6, a greenhouse gas which causes 24300 times more warming than CO2 over 100 years, in the "air" cushions in their shoes. Nike stopped, and sold carbon offsets based on the counterfactual of what the world would be like if they kept putting it in shoes. These offsets are part of the "buffer pool" to compensate for the fact that some offsets turn out to be bogus or simply fail due to unanticipated consequences.
- Why climate experts say this election could be our last chance for meaningful action | If Trump wins in 2024, there is little hope of limiting climate damagewww.salon.com Why climate experts say this election could be our last chance for meaningful action
If Trump wins in 2024, there is little hope of limiting climate damage
The Biden/Harris administration did a lot, starting with Harris casting the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act., a key piece of climate legislation. We even saw major cuts to the leasing of federal lands for coal, as well as big cuts to oil and gas leasing
By contrast, Trump appointed a coal lobbyist to run the EPA and took steps to increase not just greenhouse gas emissions, but a wide variety of human-impacting pollutants, is surrounded by people who want to eliminate any effort to address the climate problem, and solicited a billion-dollar bribe from the oil industry
Harris may not have done enough yet and some of the language she uses about fossil fuel extraction is designed to appeal to people who still depend on oil to get to work, but the choice is very clear. Vote for Harris — and volunteer if you can
- Gas Stoves Linked to 40,000 Premature Deaths in Europe Annuallywww.bnnbloomberg.ca Gas Stoves Linked to 40,000 Premature Deaths in Europe Annually
Scientists have been investigating the health risks pollution from cooking with gas indoors poses to adults and children.
The underlying report is here
- Carbon across the Amazon (part 3): Key Cases of Carbon Loss & Gainwww.maaproject.org MAAP #220: Carbon across the Amazon (part 3): Key Cases of Carbon Loss & Gain - MAAP
In part 1 of this series (MAAP #215), we introduced a critical new dataset (Planet’s Forest Carbon Diligence) with wall-to-wall estimates for aboveground carbon at an unprecedented 30-meter resolution between 2013 and 2022. This data uniquely merges machine learning, satellite imagery, airborne lase...
- Trump’s Environmental Claims Ignore Decades of Climate Science | He says he wants “clean air and clean water,” but has rolled back environmental rules and dismissed the scientific consensus on climate
If you want to stop him from rolling back environmental and climate protections, like he did last time then don't just vote; actively volunteer for the Harris campaign
- Still no snow on Japan's Mount Fuji, breaking recordwww.france24.com Still no snow on Japan's Mount Fuji, breaking record
Japan's Mount Fuji remained snow-less as of Monday -- the latest date that its majestic slopes have been bare since records began 130 years ago, the weather agency said.
- More than a third of all trees species at risk of extinction, global assessment findswww.cbsnews.com More than a third of all trees species at risk of extinction, global assessment finds
The International Union for Conservation of Nature found more than one in three tree species worldwide faces extinction.
- Do Not Pin Your Hopes for Guilt-Free Hamburgers on Seaweednewrepublic.com Do Not Pin Your Hopes for Guilt-Free Hamburgers on Seaweed
The media is trumpeting studies that say we can drastically reduce cows’ methane emissions merely by feeding them a particular seaweed. But I did the math, and it doesn’t add up.
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- Biden administration to award $3bn to US ports for climate-friendly improvements | Grants to be use to improve port infrastructure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at 55 sites across the countrywww.theguardian.com Biden administration to award $3bn to US ports for climate-friendly improvements
Grants to be use to improve port infrastructure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at 55 sites across the country
Because what is being electrified at ports is typically diesel equipment, and the people living near ports and their onshore transportation corridors tend to be poor, this tends to sharply reduce the exposure of the poorest Americans to harmful particulate pollution.
- Apparently fake social media accounts boost Azerbaijan before Cop29 | Linked accounts on X push petrostate’s posts about climate summit and drown out criticismwww.theguardian.com Apparently fake social media accounts boost Azerbaijan before Cop29
Exclusive: Linked accounts on X push petrostate’s posts about climate summit and drown out criticism
> The last climate summit, Cop28, was also held in a petrostate, the United Arab Emirates. In the runup to that conference, an army of fake social media accounts promoted and defended the UAE. Countries failed to agree to “phase out” fossil fuels at Cop28, as many wanted, instead choosing the weaker ambition of “transitioning away from fossil fuels”.
- Climate crisis caused half of European heat deaths in 2022, says studywww.theguardian.com Climate crisis caused half of European heat deaths in 2022, says study
Researchers found 38,000 fewer people – 10 times number of murders – would have died if atmosphere was not clogged with greenhouse pollutants
The paper is here
- Planet-warming pollution is growing at the fastest rate in history, scientists say | Most of the growth comes from people burning coal, oil and gas, the report said.
There are a bunch of reasons to think that the rate of emissions is going to start falling at some point during 2024; the US and EU are already seeing falling emissions & China's seem to be on the cusp of doing the same.
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- Santos sued by its own shareholder in world-first greenwashing casewww.theguardian.com Santos sued by its own shareholder in world-first greenwashing case
Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility alleges Santos’s plan to reach net zero by 2040 is ‘little more than a series of speculations’
- I've been enjoying all of this creators videos
First saw her collab with Andrewism (who is also fantastic) and seen some great content since! Big love to SolarpunkAlana
https://youtu.be/mbbaPsvCDDE?si=gyNVz5RQ7DXR7B75
- Two hurricanes stir up voter backlash to Florida Republicans’ climate denialism | Destruction caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton bring climate crisis to top of mind, especially for young voterswww.theguardian.com Two hurricanes stir up voter backlash to Florida Republicans’ climate denialism
Destruction caused by Hurricanes Helene and Milton bring climate crisis to top of mind, especially for young voters
- Miscarriages due to climate crisis a ‘blind spot’ in action plans – report | The harm to babies and mothers is one of the warnings being sent to Cop29 decision-makers by leading scientistswww.theguardian.com Miscarriages due to climate crisis a ‘blind spot’ in action plans – report
The harm to babies and mothers is one of the warnings being sent to Cop29 decision-makers by leading scientists
- Just about everything related to climate hinges on the election outcome.www.motherjones.com Just about everything related to climate hinges on the election outcome.
Energy, food prices, health, public lands—here are 15 areas to think about.
- Antarctica’s Fate Will Impact the World. Is It Time to Give The Region a Voice at Climate Talks? - Inside Climate Newsinsideclimatenews.org Antarctica’s Fate Will Impact the World. Is It Time to Give The Region a Voice at Climate Talks? - Inside Climate News
A new declaration aims to make the southernmost continent an autonomous legal entity, akin to a nation-state, with inherent rights to participate in decision making that affects it.
> A new declaration aims to make the southernmost continent an autonomous legal entity, akin to a nation-state, with inherent rights to participate in decision making that affects it.
- Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists saywww.theguardian.com Corporations using ‘ineffectual’ carbon offsets are slowing path to ‘real zero’, more than 60 climate scientists say
Pledge signed by scientists from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have reduced emissions
- Stop punishing doctors who take part in climate protests, regulator told | Hundreds of health workers sign letter to General Medical Council calling for halt to suspensions as GP faces jailwww.theguardian.com Stop punishing doctors who take part in climate protests, regulator told
Hundreds of health workers sign letter to General Medical Council calling for halt to suspensions as GP faces jail for activism
- Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate | Second Trump term would restore climate denialism to an Oval Office efficiently dismantling protections”www.theguardian.com Five ways a Trump presidency would be disastrous for the climate
Second Trump term would restore climate denialism to an Oval Office efficiently dismantling protections”
- A dangerous and uncertain future
- Climate denialism would return to the Oval Office
- Clean energy policies unpicked
- A purge of science
- International relations shaken
- A core California climate tool is under threat this election. How leaders are bracing for impact
> if Donald Trump or the Supreme Court dismantles one of the state’s key weapons against carbon emissions, a half-century old Environmental Protection Agency waiver program that allows California to set regulations that are stronger than federal rules. “If California has its authority under the Clean Air Act limited, that is a blow,” said Ann Carlson, who served as head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under Joe Biden. “Not just to California, but the whole country. California’s leadership is often followed by other states and frankly by the federal government.”
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- A Pivotal Choice: Trump vs. Harris on Climate Change | Kamala Harris calls global warming an “existential threat.” Donald Trump dismisses it as a “scam.”
The Biden/Harris administration did a lot, starting with Harris casting the deciding vote for the Inflation Reduction Act., a key piece of climate legislation. We even saw major cuts to the leasing of federal lands for coal, as well as big cuts to oil and gas leasing
By contrast, Trump appointed a coal lobbyist to run the EPA and took steps to increase not just greenhouse gas emissions, but a wide variety of human-impacting pollutants, is surrounded by people who want to eliminate any effort to address the climate problem, and solicited a billion-dollar bribe from the oil industry
Harris may not have done enough yet and some of the language she uses about fossil fuel extraction is designed to appeal to people who still depend on oil to get to work, but the choice is very clear. Vote for Harris — and volunteer if you can
