Canada’s 2025 wildfire season now second-worst on record, fuelled by Prairies blazes
CFJC Today Kamloops · Canada’s 2025 wildfire season now second-worst on record, fuelled by Prairies blazes
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#FYI #ClimateGenn #NickBreeze #MarkMaslin
"There are eight richest billionaires [who] own the same amount of wealth as the poorest four billion people… That should make everybody angry, pick up their pitchforks and demand change"
Uniper slows down its green transition, stronger focus on gas
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/uniper-slows-down-its-green-transition-stronger-focus-gas #natgas #fossilfuels #renewables
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/uniper-slows-down-its-green-transition-stronger-focus-gas
Clean Energy Wire · Uniper slows down its green transition, stronger focus on gas
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #JamesHansen
Yes, it is 4.5°C, not 3°C for 2xCO2, by 99% We know this already, but here is why.
https://www.europesays.com/2310780/ Judge dismisses City of Charleston’s climate-based lawsuit against oil companies #charleston #Climate #ClimateChange #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #JudgeYoung #lawsuit #OilCompanies #SeaLevelRise
EUROPE SAYS · Judge dismisses City of Charleston's climate-based lawsuit against oil companies - EUROPE SAYSCHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — Charleston's landmark lawsuit against oil companies, which claimed they engaged in a public disinformation campaign against global
via Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net
Your 'moment of doom' for Aug. 7, 2025
~ July, 2025 was likely 3rd hottest in last 120,000 years.
BreakingNews.ie · July was Earth’s third-warmest on record, EU scientists say
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Plastic Politicians ?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-07/un-plastics-treaty-negotiations-us-australia-odds/105622490
#Dow #ExxonMobil #BASF #ChevronPhillips #Shell #SABIC and INEOS expanded plastic production capacity by 1.4 million tonnes… Dow earned US$5.1 billion from plastics, sending at least 21 lobbyists into treaty negotiations.
https://www.greenpeace.org/international/press-release/77716/greenpeace-activists-paint-geneva-streets-black-to-call-out-big-oils-chokehold-on-global-plastic-treaty-talks-demand-un-kicks-out-fossil-fuel-lobbyists/
ABC News · Australia and the US are at odds on a plastics treaty, with last-ditch negotiations underway
https://www.europesays.com/2307794/ Wall Street Oil & Gas Lending Down 25% YTD #banks #business #Economy #ESG #FossilFuels #funding #gas #markets #oil #WallStreet
#FYI #fossilfuels #Co2 #KeepitInTheGround
via Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net
"The good news is that CO2 is definitely not rising at an all-time record rate. That record curently belongs to February, 2019.
The bad news is that CO2 is still rising at nearly a record rate."
https://bsky.app/profile/climatecasino.net/post/3lvqdzohqes2k
Bluesky Social · Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@climatecasino.net)There's good news and bad news about the long-term rate of CO2 growth.
The good news is that CO2 is definitely not rising at an all-time record rate. That record curently belongs to February, 2019.
The bad news is that CO2 is still rising at nearly a record rate.
"BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off coast of Brazil"
The Guardian · BP makes its biggest oil and gas discovery in 25 years off coast of Brazil
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Original open access article
Bowling et al. 30 July 2025, Nat Geosci
Outburst of a subglacial flood from the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet
#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review #Greenland #icemelting
"In how many different ways can a glacier like those on Greenland melt?"
The Guardian view on #plasticPollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge
Editorial
Delegates at UN treaty talks must not allow negotiations to be derailed again by fossil fuel interests
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/05/the-guardian-view-on-plastic-pollution-global-action-is-desperately-needed-to-deal-with-this-scourge #science #environment #pollution #plastics #policy #fossilFuels
The Guardian · The Guardian view on plastic pollution: global action is desperately needed to deal with this scourge
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“Coincident with the expected finalisation of this treaty, we are launching an independent, indicator-based global monitoring system: the Lancet Countdown on #health & #plastics. This Countdown will identify, track, & regularly report on a suite of geographically & temporally representative indicators that monitor progress toward reducing #plastic exposures & mitigating plastics' harms to human & planetary health.”
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#Similar to air #pollution & lead, #plastics' harms can be mitigated cost-effectively by evidence-based, transparently tracked, effectively implemented, & adequately financed laws & policies. To address plastics' harms globally, #UN member states unanimously resolved in 2022 to develop a comprehensive, legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, namely the Global #PlasticsTreaty covering the full lifecycle of #plastic.
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“The principal driver of this crisis is accelerating growth in #plastic production—from 2 megatonnes (Mt) in 1950, to 475 Mt in 2022 that is projected to be 1200 Mt by 2060. #PlasticPollution has also worsened, & 8000 Mt of plastic waste now pollute the #planet. Less than 10% of plastic is #recycled. Yet, continued worsening of #plastics' harms is not inevitable.
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“#Plastics are a grave, growing, & under-recognised danger to human & planetary #health. Plastics cause #disease & #death from infancy to old age & are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1.5 trillion annually. These impacts fall disproportionately upon #LowIncome & #AtRisk populations.
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#Plastic production is set to triple by 2060, fueled by petrochemical-producing countries.
A global “#PlasticsCrisis” is costing governments & taxpayers $1.5 trillion annually as they try to cope with escalating injuries, #disability & #deaths as the substance pollutes our land, seas & bodies, acc/to a new report by leading #medical journal The Lancet.
#law #PlasticsTreaty #PlasticPollution #FossilFuels #Oceans #Climate #health #wildlife
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01447-3/abstract
"...strong GDP appears in the data alongside weaker jobs and income data because the natural gas industry is capital-intensive, but not labor-intensive."
"In other words, it requires a lot of money to develop, but due to improved technology and efficiency, they don’t require much labor. Therefore, while the revenue generated from those plants will manifest in a stronger GDP, not as much money is infused into the local economy through wages."
www.wfmj.comORVI report says fracking industry fails to deliver on economic promisesThe 2025