Rooney’s old account @girls_can@qoto.org

EXCLUSIVE: How incinerator industry tried to delay plans to close ‘loophole’ and force firms to pay for emissions.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/incinerators-emissions-trading-scheme-loophole-pollution-save-500-million-government-lobbied/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social

#Waste #Carbon #UK #Climatechange #UKlaw #lobbying #incinerators

RT Virginijus Sinkevičius
An area the size of Switzerland was cleared from Earth’s 🌍 most pristine rainforests in 2022.
Our pioneering 🇪🇺 legislation to tackle global deforestation enters into force tomorrow.
It is our legacy to ensure our supply chains are deforestation-free.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/destruction-of-worlds-pristine-rainforests-soared-in-2022-despite-cop26-pledge?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other https://t.co/WDdsccQRlW

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/VSinkevicius/status/1673985375419637760

For over a year, the Western Mediterranean has been hit by high temperatures and exceptionally low rainfall.
This combination has led to a severe drought that affected:
🔸Agriculture
🔸Water resources
🔸Energy production
The full @CopernicusEMS report: http://europa.eu/!hWkWXy https://t.co/6LiZGK4Syd

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUClimateAction/status/1673972746718527496

A zebra can't change its stripes ... but we absolutely must change these 👇👇👇

https://showyourstripes.info/l

#ClimateBrawl #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

The climate deniers who claim that climate scientists are in it for the grant money should be forced to write and submit 10 grants.gov proposals as punishment.

I remember when applying for my law license, having to disclose toll violations & parking tickets from a decade prior amounting to less than $100.

Absurd that is sitting SCOTUS justice claims a $150K vacation didn’t require disclosure or recusal.

Where is the accountability?

Time For 9 o'clock #HashtagGames hosted by @paul
Summer brings the little critters that like to sting and bite us. Let's Play

#BugBiteASong
#HashtagGames

How to play: Write something awesome, Use the Hashtag, Toot/Post and Repeat!

"Regenerating natural ecosystems may best enhance the co-benefits of carbon sequestration and biodiversity."

Revisiting the carbon–biodiversity connection - Gamon - Global Change Biology - Wiley Online Library
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.16829?campaign=wolearlyview#sq_hf3z7lyxov

Rampant Groundwater Pumping Has Changed the Tilt of Earth’s Axis
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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rampant-groundwater-pumping-has-changed-the-tilt-of-earths-axis/ <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL103509 <-- shared paper
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“ • Earth's pole has drifted toward 64.16°E at a speed of 4.36 cm/yr during 1993–2010 due to groundwater depletion and resulting sea level rise

• Including groundwater depletion effects, the estimated drift of Earth's rotational pole agrees remarkably well with observations…”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geodetic #geodesy #earth #water #research #earthaxis #axis #pole #gravity #remotesensing #groundwater #pumping #global #waterresources #watersecurity #watersupply #sealevelrise #subsidence #earthobservation #aquifer

@steve sometimes I feel like I know a lot already and then I see a graph like the one in this post https://fediscience.org/@steve/110585281414232544

and I try to think about what would be necessary to change those Gigatons, it looks like a lot of change.

but if you read this , maybe its just 2,095 billionaires ? https://theconversation.com/private-planes-mansions-and-superyachts-what-gives-billionaires-like-musk-and-abramovich-such-a-massive-carbon-footprint-152514

#ClimateDiary

In today’s “yikes” file for food and nutrition research:

New UC Riverside research shows soybean oil not only leads to #obesity and #diabetes, but could also affect neurological conditions like #autism, #alzheimers disease, anxiety, and #depression.

https://neurosciencenews.com/soybean-oil-genetics-asd-15505/

We've pumped out so much groundwater that we've literally altered the spin of the Earth around its axis.

https://news.agu.org/press-release/weve-pumped-so-much-groundwater-that-weve-nudged-the-earths-spin

It's wild to me that there's currently so much panic & fear about what #AI *might* do to "destroy" humanity, yet - at the same time - so little attention to the way that human behaviors are already, knowingly, putting billions of people & global biodiversity at tremendous risk. 🌍 #climatechange

As bad as my week is going, at least I’m not trapped in a playstation-controlled tin can at the bottom of the ocean while 4 men contemplate killing me for more oxygen time. MY GOD.

Temperatures in England since 1884 – one hundred and thirty nine years on record. Quite the trend, for the last 30 years. An extremely worrying trend given the consequences of a "mere" change in 1 or 2 degrees Celsius in the average temperatures.
https://showyourstripes.info/l/europe/unitedkingdom/england

#ShowYourStripes

HT https://fediscience.org/@ed_hawkins/110576050664784775

The #poppy field was too beautiful!!!