The risk is that the tipping point is reached sooner that we can stop human-driven climate change. In that event the system will flip irrespective of how fast or slowly the tipping point was approached.
Nothing new here, except that almost nobody grasps it and it's the most important information in the world.
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Great, I hope it will. Will you keep me informed how it goes?
Amen to this spot-on analysis. The fossil era is dying in plain sight.
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Alarmist?
Are the Trump administration's actions in the Iran war driven by need to feed Trump's real power base - the US oil companies? That would imply an unholy confidence in the administration's ability to quash electoral resistance in November.
And if you have kids, have a good think about cognitive dissonance.
Study reported in Nature says historical emissions will cause TEN TIMES MORE damage in future than they have up to now. Damage caused by just ONE long-haul flight per year over the last decade will have caused $25,000 damages by end of century. Think about that the next time you consider flying!
On the social cost of carbon emissions. Stone cold language; horrifying numbers on the level of economic destruction that future citizens (currently our kids) are faced with.
'Quantifying climate loss and damage consistent with a social cost of carbon' | Nature share.google/GF2Eo9fksR3j...
Finally! This is great, but what's with the blind spot on farming and food? There's no national security without an adequately fed population.
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Robert Habeck: 'I had to deal with the energy shock in Germany after Putin invaded Ukraine. The solution now is the same: buy ourselves out of the fossil fuels trap'.
This time, let's actually do it!
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Our magnolia, finally freed from traditional gardening constraints to grow into the true tree that it is.
I suspect we can say thank you Oh Great Orange One for instilling in us a fresh sense of right and wrong, and a strong impetus finally to do the right thing ourselves - get the f..k off of fossil fuels as fast as our skinny legs will carry us.
Yes, though to a degree that's happening. Electric cars are nearly as affordable as petrol ones with govt subsidy and (for those who can charge at home or work) cost much less to run. Likewise heavily subsidised small heat pumps have v short payback times. It's up to all of us to think and respond.
I suspect we can say thank you Oh Great Orange One for instilling in us a fresh sense of right and wrong, and a strong impetus finally to do the right thing ourselves - get the f..k off of fossil fuels as fast as our skinny legs will carry us.
True, but as far as possible, also indirectly. We haven't flown for many years, we buy organic vegetables from a company that uses mainly electric delivery vans, we grow organically a small but significant fraction of our food, and our no-dig plot and garden are gradually storing up carbon 🌱🌳🍂
In my experience, 'doing the right thing' on energy use has dramatically paid off. We got rid of our petrol cars for electric, took practical steps to cut heat loss from our house, and installed a heat pump in place of an oil boiler.
Today we use no oil or gas for ANYTHING.
Instead of fighting over the Strait of Hormuz, let's engineer a radical, steep reduction in demand for fossil fuels. There are so many creative ways to achieve this that are currently being neglected through fear of the fossil-funded right.
Europe spent years debating whether the energy transition was affordable.
Spain quietly answered the question: gas now sets its electricity price in only 7% of hours.
Strategic autonomy doesn’t arrive via summit communiqués. It’s built in advance — in wind farms, solar parks, and grid investment
'There’s nothing sinister about Muslim prayers in Trafalgar Square. As a bishop, I reject the right’s attacks on worship'
Arun Arora, Bishop of Kirkstall, diocese of Leeds
So should Kemi Badenoch, if she values what it is to be British above cheap nastiness.
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Dusking: 'All you need is a chair and a view'.
This is something we've done for the last couple of years from a quiet spot in our garden, most often in summer when evenings are long and warm. It's peace giving and revitalising after an active day.
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A positive amongst the many scary negatives of climate change
"A simple water shift could turn Arctic farmland into a carbon sink | ScienceDaily" share.google/ZkehnG7rqwgq...
Rain intensity has ALREADY increased by more than 20% after just 1.5°C of global heating - enough to cause the extensive, long lasting winter flooding we've seen. Imagine the effects of the 3°C and more that we face as climate deniers fight to slow our green transition.
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Interesting! Ab initio modelling might offer us our first ever realistic assessment of climate impacts on economic (in)stability
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All very well, but you need to listen to the indigenous people of the Pantanal, whose leaders have been urging you to cut your ties with the fossil-fuel corporations that are causing this destruction – stop taking money from BP and Adani. It's thoroughly immoral for you to be doing this.
All very well, but you need to listen to the indigenous people of the Pantanal, whose leaders have been urging you to cut your ties with the fossil-fuel corporations that are causing this destruction – stop taking money from BP and Adani. It's thoroughly immoral for you to be doing this.
Trump administration takes steps to gut protections against toxic chemicals in consumer products. Watch for the next step, when Trump is outraged that foreigners don't want to buy US-produced goods and the US balance of payments sags still further.
Duh 🤔
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