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Trump's War on The Environment Continues
Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a
As President Donald Trump announced moves to ease restrictions on the U.S. coal industry Tuesday, he extolled what he views as its values.
The order will "end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure," per the White House.
PLEASE READ THE AUSTRALIAN CLIMATE REPORT 2024
It’s horrifying
Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report. (New York Times)
Excerpt from this New York Times story:
More than 85 American and international scientists have condemned a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda.
The scientists submitted their critique as part of a public comment period on the report, which was to close Tuesday night.
“No one should doubt that human-caused climate change is real, is already producing potentially dangerous impacts, and that humanity is on track for a geologically enormous amount of warming,” the scientists wrote. They compared the administration’s report to efforts by the tobacco industry to create doubt around the health links between smoking and cancer.
The five researchers who prepared the administration’s July report were handpicked by Chris Wright, the energy secretary, and they all reject the established scientific consensus that the burning of oil, gas and coal is dangerously heating the planet. They acknowledged that the Earth is warming but said that climate change is “less damaging economically than commonly believed.”
The administration used the report to justify its recent announcement that it would repeal limits on greenhouse gas emissions that stem from burning fossil fuels.
The Trump administration is pursuing an aggressive agenda to ramp up the production and use of coal, oil and gas, the burning of which is the main driver of climate change.
At the same time, average global temperatures have risen by between 1.25 and 1.41 degrees Celsius (or 2.25 to 2.53 degrees Fahrenheit), compared with preindustrial times. That may sound small, but the warming has impacted every region of the planet with more frequent and intense heat waves, floods, wildfires, droughts and other disasters.
The Energy Department report could have a significant impact on federal policy. Climate denialists have for years acknowledged that they wanted to put the imprimatur of the federal government on research that runs counter to accepted climate science. That could give them more influence with Congress and strengthen their ability to legally challenge climate regulations.
Already the Environmental Protection Agency is using the Energy Department analysis to justify the repeal of the endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific declaration that climate change poses a danger to human health and welfare. That finding is the basis for regulations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from such sources as automobiles and power plants.
Climate risk assessment find heat-related deaths would surge 450% in Sydney if global heating surpasses 3C
Anthony Albanese says a landmark report on the climate risks confronting Australia is a “wake-up call” that reinforces the need for “serious” action to combat global heating. The prime minister said the findings of the national climate risk assessment would inform the government’s soon-to-be released 2035 emissions target, while stressing the need to plan for an “orderly” energy transition to avoid losing public support for climate action. The government on Monday released the long-awaited climate risk assessment, offering the most detailed picture of the severe and far-reaching social and economic consequences of the climate crisis for Australia. Led by the Australian Climate Service, the inaugural assessment modelled the impact of climate-related hazards such as heatwaves, drought and floods on different parts of the community, economy and environment under three global heating scenarios: above 1.5C, above 2C and above 3C. Warming across the Australian continent has already reached 1.5C, the report notes. -Among scores of findings, the modelling shows that under a 3C scenario, the number of heat-related deaths in Sydney increases by 444% and by 423% in Darwin.
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Fine words from the leader of the world's second-largest coal exporter, after Indonesia. Did they really need a report? This stuff was already known. Granted, the report is specific to Australia but its finding will apply to the whole globe to a greater or lesser extent.
The new IPCC Report just came out and Justin Trudeau's government says that they need to build the Trans Mountain Pipeline to fight climate change.
Kudos to the GOAT George Carlin for this phrase but it fits here because in no way is building the pipeline and exporting oil helping us. It is making things worse. We are not on track at all in Canada and with our exports we are making things worse globally in whatever country gets our oil.
At what point will this stupid ass country acknowledge that prioritizing a thriving economy is literally killing us
A bit of October 8th history...
1480 - Great Standing on the Ugra River: standoff between forces of Akhmat Khan, Khan of the Great Horde, and Ivan III Grand Prince of all Rus; Tatar-Mongols retreat, leads to disintegration of the Horde
1871 - Great Fire of Chicago kills 200 people and destroys over 4 square miles of buildings and the original Emancipation Proclamation (pictured)
1917 - Leon Trotsky named chairman of Petrograd Soviets as Bolsheviks gain control
1945 - Microwave oven patented
1971 - John Lennon releases the single “Imagine”
1998 - US House of Reps votes to begin impeachment hearings against President Clinton on charges of lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky
2001 - US President GW Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security
2018 - Major climate report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the UN says planet will warm 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit by 2040 with dire results
2019 - FBI confirm Samuel Little is America’s most prolific serial killer in history after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders
Hey asking for a friend.
How do we make sure politicians actually sit down and make climate plans and also set them in action before the planet's fucked beyond repair?
How do we make sure corperations lower their insanely high CO2 output without them telling us we should take shorter showers and eat less meat?
Does anyone give a fuck?
Hello?
I might want to have kids you know, and they might want to have kids too.
Again asking for a friend
