Stefan Urbat

Cost of direct air carbon capture to remain higher than hoped The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped. This is the conclusion reached by ETH researchers on the basis of new calcu...

"The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped.

This is the conclusion reached by @ethz.ch researchers on the basis of new calculations. Efforts to reduce carbon emissions should therefore continue at pace"

Turns out that sucking CO2 from air is fairly expensive and not easy (and we won't be able to do it at the scale that is needed to ease CO2 emissions in any great quantity at timescales needed). Curbing CO2 emissions is the easiest and fastest way, if we can just agree on it as a society...

Climate Change and Food Prices | Climate Central Extreme events fueled by climate change can damage crops, reduce yields, and disrupt supply chains — all of which can drive food prices higher.

Just in time for US Thanksgiving, in a new edition of Climate Matters, Climate Central lays out the connections between agriculture and emissions — food systems account for about one-quarter of all heat-trapping pollution — and climate change and food prices.

Meanwhile, even the people ostensibly on the right side of the issue can't find right words. "We are not fighting fossil fuels, we are fighting the emissions from fossil fuels," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said at a press conference last week, in a feat of absurdism. This is like fighting gun violence by saying the real villain is gunshot wounds. She said this just a day after a literal fire broke out inside the pavillion at COP30, prompting a full evacuation and sending 13 people for treatment for smoke inhalation and some mirthless deity straight to metaphor jail.

I’ll say it—I don’t think COP30 went very well

www.gravityisgone.com/the-un-clima...

More blood for oil.

Brought to you by the fossil fuel industry, which is killing us and our beautiful planet.

From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.

What was lost with recent federal defunding of 3 out of 9 regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CASCs), written by leaders/staff from Northeast, South Central and Pacific Islands CASCs.

We haven't given up on getting their funding restored, along with other cuts to the rest of the network.

A call to ban non-essential microplastics used in cosmetics, festival and holiday decorations | Cambridge Prisms: Plastics | Cambridge Core A call to ban non-essential microplastics used in cosmetics, festival and holiday decorations - Volume 3

A call to ban non-essential microplastics used in cosmetics, festival and holiday decorations

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#micoplastics
#plasticpollution
#christmas
#holidays
#festivals
#glitter
#fakesnow

“stop using lithium-ion batteries for Rad Power Bikes e-bikes, model numbers RP-1304 and HL-RP-S1304” ebike peeps heads up

Definitely solid reporting here: “Key to the cutback is the elimination of NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, which in the last decade has increasingly fallen in line with the global climate change hysteria.” Still, though… 👀

U.S. dams, levees, stormwater, and wastewater systems get D to D+ grades, need almost $1 trillion in upgrades » Yale Climate Connections Climate change is increasingly stressing dams, levees, wastewater, and stormwater systems through heavier precipitation events.

The adaptation gap amplified by aging infrastructure.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/11/u-s-...

Undersea ‘storms’ are melting the ‘doomsday’ glacier’s ice shelf Spinning vortices of water trapped under the Thwaites glacier ice shelf account for 20 per cent of the ice melt. They’re expected to get worse as the world warms

"This sets off a feedback loop, in which the cold, fresh water released by that melt interacts with the warm, salty water to intensify the spinning of the underwater storm, causing even more melting"

#Antarctica

Last week, the U.S. @departmentofenergy.bsky.social (DOE) established a new Office of Fusion — a good first step in bringing a new federal focus to this critical energy source. Now we need to ensure this office is set up for success with the leadership, the mission, and the resources it needs. 1/5

This look at COP30 quotes Matthew Huber's Bulletin piece on what would happen if Earth became too hot for animals.

"In the United States, just 3 degrees Celsius of warming conditions in simulations tend to be hotter—when humidity is factored in—than heat waves in North Africa today."

Ach - daher weht der Wind: Ostermann (Präsidentin bei „Die Familienunternehmer“) sitzt im Beirat der rechtsradikalen Denkfabrik „Republik 21“, die die Zusammenarbeit zwischen CDU und A*D zum Ziel hat:

Deutsche Bank wirft Familienunternehmer nach Einladung von AfD Politikern raus

Haltung. So wichtig.

Violating the First Amendment to hide the record of all their violations of the Fourth Amendment.

Brandmauer in der Wirtschaft: Deutsche Bank kündigt Vertrag mit Familienunternehmern wegen AfD Der Verband der Familienunternehmer hat die AfD zu einem seiner Treffen eingeladen. Die Deutsche Bank schließt die Unternehmer nun aus ihren Räumen aus.

"Die Deutsche Bank hat nach Informationen der ZEIT einen Vertrag mit dem Verband der Familienunternehmer für eine in ihren Räumen geplante Veranstaltung gekündigt. Die Bank begründete das damit, dass der Verband zu einem Treffen in ihren Räumlichkeiten auch Vertreter der AfD eingeladen hatte.

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

Exclusive: This startup wants to build a fusion reactor — on a boat | TechCrunch Startups are still racing to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant on land, but Maritime Fusion thinks the path will be easier out at sea.

Startups are still racing to build the world's first commercial fusion power plant on land, but Maritime Fusion thinks the path will be easier out at sea.

Maritime Fusion Secures $4.5 Million Seed Funding to Transform Shipping with Fusion Energy Maritime Fusion has raised $4.5 million in seed funding to advance its groundbreaking fusion reactor technology aimed at maritime applications, promising a new era of zero-emission shipping.

Maritime Fusion Secures $4.5 Million Seed Funding to Transform Shipping with Fusion Energy #USA #San_Francisco #Fusion_Energy #Maritime_Fusion #Paul_Graham

👉 Bayern plant ein Beteiligungsgesetz für Wind & Solar, setzt auf Bioenergie, Wasserstoff & Kernfusion – Klimaziel 2040 und Heizungstausch-Förderung stehen aber auf der Kippe.

💬 Zum Interview: www.energate-messenger.de/news/258336/... (€)

Warum es keinen keinen #Adventskalender mehr bei #IKEA gibt?

Das liege laut BILD womöglich an einem Streit mit dem Hersteller Hachez, die gestiegenen Kakaopreise seien der Auslöser.

Die Kakaopreise sind wegen klimabedingter Ernteausfällen durch Extremwetter stark gestiegen.

#Klimakatastrophe

Warum Künstliche Intelligenz nicht als Suchmaschine taugt Die Hälfte der Deutschen verwendet mittlerweile ChatGPT & Co. als Google-Ersatz. Gleichzeitig arbeiten auch die klassischen Suchmaschinen immer mehr mit KI. Warum das ein Problem ist. Von Till Bücker.

"Schaut man rein auf die Korrektheit der Antworten, beinhaltet ChatGPT zu 51,5 Prozent, Copilot zu 45,4 Prozent, Gemini zu 50 Prozent und Perplexity zu 45,7 Prozent wesentliche Fehler oder Ungenauigkeiten."
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#Klimakrise #ZombieFires die borealen Landschaften in Alaska, Kanada, Sibirien brennen immer häufiger und oft über Jahre

The GOP/SCOTUS fascists and Peter Thiel are using Palantir tracking and surveillance to watch everyone's movements and note any "suspicious" activity. This is a fascist fuckery by the GOP criminals to intimidate EVERYONE. These bastards are criminals.

What do these corporations all have in common?

-Lockheed Martin
-Palantir
-Microsoft
-Amazon
-Comcast
-Google
-Apple
-Meta
-HP
-Nvidia
-T-Mobile

They all have lucrative government contracts
and they're all donors to Trump's ballroom.

From CIA cash to local police: How Palantir got its start The low point in Palantir’s very first quest for investors came during a pitch meeting in 2004 that CEO Alex Karp and some colleagues had with Sequoia Capital, which was arguably the most influential...

From CIA cash to local police: How Palantir got its start #Technology #Business #Startups Other #Palantir #TechnologyNews

#Palantir lässt sich nicht von US-Politik trennen. Sensible Persönlichkeitsprofile, der Ursprung der Daten ist kaum noch nachvollziehbar, Palantir-Mitarbeitende pflegen die Software in Deutschland. Wo landen die Daten und wie passt das zu rechtsstaatlicher Souveränität? 2/3

Das BVerfG hat zu verfassungswidrigen Befugnissen und Datenverknüpfung schon vieles gesagt. Dobrindt sollte die Software nicht für Sicherheitsbehörden einführen. Die Kritik der Grünen wirkt unglaubwürdig, solange sie in BaWü und NRW mitregieren und Palantir dort nicht verhindern. 3/3

All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir

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