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"With the Nationals now openly campaigning against net zero, Labor can frame even modest measures as bold, lowering the bar for climate ambition even further."

- Climate & Energy Director Polly Hemming in the latest Saturday Paper
@pollyjhemming.bsky.social @thesaturdaypaper.com.au #auspol

child crouched playing with a yellow digger in a sandpit. at back is a banner with the word coal. rest of the banner is hidden behind a crouching adult

It's 2025, we've passed 1.5C of warming and fossil fuel companies are running incursions into Australian primary schools to teach the kids how to dig up coal in the sandpit.

And the school THANKS THEM.

When does the next bus come? GoTriangle reduces wait time on its busiest routes The regional agency joins GoDurham and GoRaleigh in offering bus service at 15-minute intervals between Durham and Chapel Hill.

Raleigh increased bus service from every 30 min to every 15 min on its route serving Glenwood Ave. Ridership then doubled in the year that followed.

Over last year, city’s high-frequency routes have had 89% ridership growth.

People will ride when you give them service that they can rely on!

Analysis: The US government has declared war on the very idea of climate change | CNN Politics Americans are used to whiplash in their climate policy. The US has been in and out and in and out again of the key Paris climate agreement over the past four presidencies.

“In his second administration, President Donald Trump is not just approaching climate science with skepticism. Instead, his administration is moving to destroy the methods by which his or any future administration can respond to climate change.“

I would not recommend to anyone to start a science PhD in the US right now.

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

Thanks everyone, it’s been fun being a scientist in the US. 👋

Map/graphic of Tokyo transit system

Tokyo’s rail/public transport system. Y’know, for perspective.

Great cities run on transit.

HT @scootfoundation.bsky.social

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

Picture of the Jawa Sandcrawler giant tank machine thing with the text "North Americans be like: opps we're out of milk I'll just run to the store to get some"

As seen on Reddit

www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/c...

At least 3 killed and others injured in train derailment in southern Germany A regional passenger train has derailed in southern Germany, killing at least three people and seriously injuring others.

One reason a German train accident is international news and German car accidents are not is that roughly 1000x more people die in car accidents each year in Germany. It’s so common that it’s not newsworthy.

The man predicted the future and he told you exactly how it was going to happen, too

A note for advocates: Despite the frequency of transit funding crises, they are not inevitable or “natural.” Starving transit is a political choice, and we must name and shame the elected officials who are allowing it to happen.

There is a way out of the transit fiscal cliff! States & cities must commit the funds to supporting their transit systems, and preventing them from cutting service—or the result will be less ridership, more pollution, more traffic.

Portland’s TriMet transit service is going to have to make major service cuts—18% on its light rail lines & 8% on buses—by 2027 because the state legislature has failed to fill its funding gap.

It’s a story repeating all over the country right now as transit agencies are hitting the fiscal cliff.

Accelerating increase in the duration of heatwaves under global warming Nature Geoscience - The duration of long heatwaves increases at an accelerating rate with warming such that a large increase in the risk of long-lasting heatwaves results from relatively modest...

As the planet warms, heatwaves don’t just increase — they increase in duration faster with each degree rise in temperature. Something to look forward to. 🥵

“What if it’s a hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”

15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner.

Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

It's time for clear eyed thinking about the potential for the large-scale destruction of public transit in American cities. It could happen in the next two years. Thread... 1/

In many US cities, Walmarts are often some of the busiest transit destinations.

Here is the typical relationship between a Walmart (far right) and its nearest bus stop (far left).

Note the details of the pedestrian experience between one and the other. 1/🧵

It's not just that this car would crush another human being easily, it's also an issue that when parked this behemoth will obscure visibility for pedestrians and other drivers. It's dangerous even when parked!

Driver Purposely Plows Car Into Crowd in Los Angeles, Injuring at Least 30

At some point we should come to terms with the fact that cars are weapons and protect bystanders accordingly.

My eight-year-old fell asleep on the subway today despite the incessant murders and assaults that Sean Duffy experiences.

Thoughts of a crow.

Panel 1: Hmm. What should I do today?
Panel 2: I am feeling a bit peckish…
Panel 3: Ha. Peckish.
Panel 4: What was I thinking again?

Kangaroo burger or kangaroo sausages?

"Six speeding tickets in three-plus months makes Cuomo one of the city's most prolific reckless drivers."

USA somehow managed to end up at the end of the worst pandemic in 100 years still deciding not to ... have guaranteed sick leave.

We should make our society far more accessible and prioritize disability justice. Everyone deserves ease and to be able to flourish. We could make life a lot easier for lots of people so let's do it.

Plus, if you aren't disabled yet, that could change today.

Yup. If more elected officials depended on public transit in their daily lives, we would have vastly more reliable & frequent transit service and better quality sidewalks. Plus shade at bus stops.

"When you can buy a personal bubble of coolness and not truly feel the heat, the screaming urgency to tackle the collective issue of a world on fire can recede slightly."

Forget air conditioning. She's describing cars. Let's do something about that.

Ex-farm worker here.

We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing.

Not true AT ALL.

Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are.

The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour.

At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Great Zohran video focusing on transit service improvements & how Eric Adams turned his back on bus riders