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Manly Blog

Mass mortality events - A hot and polluted ocean

"It's too much. The ocean can't take it … the ecosystem is teetering on collapse."

"It is the biggest "bloom" in almost a decade...The bloom had been caused by an oversupply of nutrients in the water, from runoff, overfishing, and a natural upwelling in the ocean."

"We need to reduce pollution and other pressures on our rivers and coastal waters to make them as resilient as possible. This would include the reduction in nutrient loads from fish farming, agriculture and sewage."
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abc.net.au/news/2025-06-02/hea
#Ocean #rivers #pollution #HABs #Biodiversity #marine #FossilFuels #climate #salmon #agriculture #runoff #coast #sewage #toxic #algalblooms #overfishing

ABC News · Six months of major marine events in south-east TasmaniaBy Penny McLeod
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Richard Ashwell

Nigel Farage’s #Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

The anti-net zero party has been bankrolled by oil and gas investors, aviation entrepreneurs, and those who reject climate science.

#ReformUK has received more than £2.3 million from #oil and #gas interests, highly polluting industries, and #climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations.

desmog.com/2024/06/04/nigel-fa

DeSmog · Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 ElectionReform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations.  This week, Nigel Farage confirmed he would be returning as leader of Reform and standing in the general election, threatening to split the already […]
#ClimateChange#FossilFuels
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Climate Camp Scotland

Fossil Fascism threatens all lives on earth. Let’s dismantle it together.

👉 Sign up to Climate Camp Scotland 2025 now: climatecamp.scot/

📚 More readings on fascism:
👉 Umberto Eco on Ur-Fascism: theanarchistlibrary.org/librar
👉 Jason Stanley, How Fascism Works
👉 Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism
👉 The Zetkin Collective, White Skin Black Fuel - On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism

#fossilfuels#climate#climatechange
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"We’re stuck with this mental model where we think industrialized, rich countries in the West are where the emissions mostly come from. That was true a generation ago. That’s how it was in 1970—70% of emissions came from rich countries, and about a third came from the developing world. Now, that’s flipped. It’s actually just 30% of emissions that come from rich countries, and almost all the new emissions are coming from developing countries. I mean, China and India are an important part of that, but the rest of the developing world is, too. The really important part of this is when you look at emissions growth, because emissions are falling in the developed countries—slowly, but they are falling. But in the developing world, they’re growing really fast. So for every one ton of carbon dioxide that the rich countries stopped emitting in the last 15 or 17 years, developing countries have added five. It just puts a different perspective on the way we talk about emissions reductions
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I don’t really have a lot of leverage over decision-making in Indonesia and in Brazil and in China and in the places where emissions are continuing to grow, where they’re still building coal-powered power plants. So it brings me to this realization that I think a lot of people resist, because we haven’t been taught to think about it this way—but we need to come around to understanding that emissions reductions are: A) outside of our control—the ones that really matter—because they’re not in the countries where the people who listen to this podcast live, mostly; and B) they’re just not going to be enough. So we need to look at other pathways to make the climate safe for everybody. And they do exist. It’s just that we don’t usually talk about them so much because we’ve gotten conditioned to think about climate as an emissions-reduction problem, which is actually a small part of it."

yaschamounk.substack.com/p/qui

Yascha Mounk · Quico Toro on How to Save the ClimateBy Yascha Mounk
#ClimateChange#GlobalWarming#FossilFuels
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formuchdeliberation

What are the effects of global warming?…

Since the Industrial Revolution—an event made possible by the use of #fossilfuels in everything from power plants to transportation - #Earth has gotten hotter. 2024 was the hottest year on record and the first year Earth's temperature surpassed 1.5°C (2.7°F)... continue reading at National Geographic #globalwarming #climatechange #polarregions

formuchdeliberation.wordpress.

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DoomsdaysCW

From 2023: Warming Set the Stage for Canada’s Record Fires, Study Finds

#ClimateChange has made hot, dry and windy conditions like those that fueled this year’s blazes at least twice as common as they would otherwise be.

By Raymond Zhong
Aug. 22, 2023

"Hot, dry and gusty conditions like those that fed this year’s #wildfires in eastern Canada are now at least twice as likely to occur there as they would be in a world that humans hadn’t warmed by burning #FossilFuels, a team of researchers said Tuesday, providing a first scientific assessment of climate change’s role in intensifying the country’s fires.

"So far this year, fires have ravaged 37 million acres across nearly every Canadian province and territory. That’s more than twice as large as the amount of Canadian land that burned in any other year on record. Tens of thousands of people — including most of Yellowknife, the capital of the Northwest Territories — have fled their homes. Smoke has turned the air toxic in cities as far south as Atlanta.

"Wildfires can be ignited by lightning or human-related causes such as unattended campfires, downed power lines and arson. The way fires spread and grow is shaped by the structure and composition of the forests and landscape. But heat, rain and snow affect how flammable the trees and brush are, which can determine how intensely blazes burn and how tough they are to put out.

"In an analysis issued Tuesday, researchers with the World Weather Attribution initiative estimated that eastern Canada now had a 4 to 5 percent chance, in any given year, of experiencing high-fire-risk conditions as severe or worse than this year’s. This likelihood is at least double what it would be in a hypothetical world without human-caused climate change, they said. And the probability will increase as nations blanket the planet with more heat-trapping gases.

" 'Fire-weather risks due to climate change are increasing,' said Dorothy Heinrich, a technical adviser at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center who worked on the analysis. 'Both mitigation and dedicated adaptation strategies are going to be required to reduce the drivers of risk and decrease its impacts on people’s lives, livelihoods and communities.' "

Read more:
nytimes.com/2023/08/22/climate

Archived version:
archive.ph/IuoTp

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#CanadaWx #Wildfires #ClimateDiary

Wildfire smoke in northern Quebec last month.
The New York Times · Canadian Wildfires Twice as Likely Because of Climate Change, Study FindsBy Raymond Zhong
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