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Russia’s Coal Collapse Marks The End Of Fossil Fuel Post-War Illusion Russia’s Coal Collapse signals the end of the fossil era. From bankrupt mines to battery booms, the global energy transition is accelerating but facing political resistance.

Highly recommend reading this whole thing but if you take away one thing, I'd recommend it be this bit as this is at the heart of why things are changing so fast.

"Batteries are doing for electricity what silos once did for grain: turning abundance into reliability."

IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries - Carbon Brief More than 100 countries have cut their dependence on fossil-fuel imports and saved hundreds of billions of dollars by continuing to invest in renewables

Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries, saving hundreds of billions of dollars, report @iea.org

- including UK, Germany and Chile etc

Story by @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social
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the amount of Chinese investment in green tech around the developing world is simply mind boggling www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

The big cover-up: ‘We should bring back old habits of shading windows’ Shutters and awnings can cool properties down, and look good, too

NEW: Some cities used to be far better at shading windows and doors to keep buildings cool in summer... I spoke to one designer who has looked to the past for climate adaptation ideas.

www.thereengineer.pro/p/the-big-co...

bad news for countries still hitching their carts to expanding fossil fuel production

‘A climate of unparalleled malevolence’: are we on our way to the sixth major mass extinction? The long read: Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

Most of the Earth's mass extinctions – including the very worst ever by far – were caused not by asteroids, but by volcanic eruptions that injected catastrophic amounts of CO2 into the air + oceans.

Those who ignore this physical reality are the REAL extremists.
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Australia's insurance gap is a risk to financial system, says actuary Insurance in Australia is becoming increasingly unaffordable, which could affect the wider economy as climate change worsens, an Australian actuary told

🇦🇺 Insurance in Australia is becoming increasingly unaffordable, which could affect the wider economy as climate change worsens, @sharanjit.bsky.social‬, an actuary at Finity, told Green Central Banking.

GreenCB.co/40O0JtA

#Insurance #Australia #ClimateRisk

Cartoon. Title: Matter of Time... In a huge glass panelled room a father and his daughter are enjoying time together. He's reading a newspaper article out loud, "It says here that New Zealand is forecast to see increasing extreme weather events..." He's got a cuppa looking relaxed, maybe a little worried. Behind him his little girl is tapping frantically on his arm and pointing out the windows. In the distance a mammoth sized dark rumbling stormy cloud with angry eyes and a deep gaping mouth is on its way. She can see the danger.

My cartoon in today's www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

Extreme weather is here to stay. The warnings are getting louder and louder. We need to do everything we can to prepare.

#ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #Flooding #Awareness #Cartoon #EditorialCartoon #NewZealand

One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other aquatic life.

Seems bad:

"We identified more than 30,000 tire wear particles in 24 liters of stormwater runoff from roads and parking lots after two rainstorms. In heavy traffic areas, we believe the concentrations could be much higher."

Portfolio managers beware: climate risk to stocks to be bigger than expected Call for better modelling to capture real climate risk for funds

🇳🇴 Norway’s oil fund (NBIM), world’s biggest asset manager, warned US equity investments could lose 19% from disasters 🌪️🌊 if climate policies stay on current path & temperature rises avg. 3° by 2100.🌡️

🔗 Read more: GreenCB.co/3GFjKaI

#ClimateRisk

Britons could soon install balcony solar panels in flats and rental homes Proposals would enable Britons to save on energy bills and join millions of people in Europe who use ‘plug-in’ panels

Great idea for #renters: i love the fact that I can take my #Tado heating control system with me if I sell my house. This type of #mobile #renewables can help those who want to be more energy self sufficient to do so without having to own their own home💡🧪🔌

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The security reason to electrify transport is not about oil imports, it’s economic resilience. Oil powers 90% of US vehicles, so when the price of oil spikes because of a war, people & companies pay more for energy, which hurts the economy. The more transport is electrified, econ security goes up.

Legal experts and economists sound the alarm over the EU's sustainability rules rollback Legal and economics scholars, environmental organizations and businesses, along with countries such as Sweden and Denmark, have united to defend the regulations.

🚨NEW from me: legal scholars, economists, businesses and NGOs are piling pressure on the European Commission to not dump key environmental and supply chain regulations in the face of Trump pressure. With comment from the excellent Thom Wetzer.

The impact of sea-level and groundwater rise on indoor exposure to volatile organic compounds near contaminated sites in the San Francisco Bay Area AUTHORSE. Lasky1, L. Davar2, L. L. Dillon3, G. Griggs2, J. A. Jacobs2, C. Pickett4, S. Sacoolas5, K.Befus6, C. Reid7, K. Hill11University of California, Berkeley, Department of Landscape Architecture ...

Rising seas will cause coastal groundwater to rise in some areas - mobilizing soil contamination near old factories, dry cleaners and military bases.

The really fun part is that it can enter your house. 🧪

#hydrology
#climate

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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It would be interesting to see if these are first time buyers or tesla owners trading up for a newer model

Her åpnes Norges første bensinfrie «bensinstasjon» | St1 Norge I dag åpnet «pumpene» på St1 Marienlyst etter lengre tids ombygging. Stasjonen har eksistert i 65 år og blir Norges – og kanskje Nordens - første helombygde stasjon, hvor alle de tradisjonelle bensin-...

Norway's first 'EV only' gas station opened today. Not only are all the diesel and petrol pumps gone, but the 'Shell' branding will also disappear from Norway.

Similar conversions of forecourts into EV-only charging stations can be found in London 🇬🇧, Rotterdam 🇳🇱 and Paris 🇫🇷.

A shifting global order and the pressures of climate change may see land grabs become commonplace as pressure builds on territorial acquisition.

Michael Albertus, professor of political science, explains the melting pot causing this global change.

Full ep: www.planetcritical.com/p/the-age-of...

Fmr Senator Doug Cameron: fossils are only considered a 'cheap' energy source because they have never paid for their externalities - their waste, their environmental impacts or their social cost.
#auspol #climateintegrity #climate @dncameron.bsky.social

Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership (Gift Article) A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.

“Climate change is upending the basic assumption that Americans can continue to build wealth and financial security by owning their own home. In a sense, it is upending the American dream.”

It is morally repugnant that the world's richest man is working to de-fund programs that give aid to some of the neediest people on Earth.
Elon Musk's legacy will be that of a weak narcissist who, even with untold riches and power, was unhappy, unloved, unfulfilled, and unredeemable.

When climate scientists say that we’re headed towards 2.7°C of warming based on existing emissions scenarios, it’s important to note this doesn’t preclude the possibility of resulting in closer to 4°C of warming stemming from climate feedbacks and sensitivity uncertainty.

2024 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record, with global temperatures surpassing 1.5 °C of warming.

The latest 10 New Insights in Climate Science report, launched at COP29 last year, highlights the profound impacts of this warming.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/4jlCuKQ

Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis

You know who understands risk? Actuaries. And guess what they're saying: "... the plausible worst-case hit to global economies would be 50% in the two decades before 2090."

I'm bad at budgeting, can someone tell me whether 50% is a lot?

The subtext of all the misinformation on the LA wildfires is: we could have prevented this from happening, even with climate change, by competent "adaptation."

I think it would be really helpful if trusted scientific voices could start making it even more clear that adaptation has limits.

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The fires in Los Angeles County are climate change in action. Today, I spoke with BBC News about how drought is causing devastating impacts in what should be the rainy season. Thanks to climate change, the fire season in California is now year round.

As I wrote last year, the companies that insure the insurance companies have no choice but to take climate change seriously.

Some of the latest images showing the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county, where the Aveson School of Leaders elementary school is among the buildings affected. | via @theguardian.com

📷 Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

1/ I'm not sure that ppl outside of California have grasped the magnitude of this deadly and still-escalating wildfire catastrophe. Fires in WUIs, fanned by 80 mph+ winds, bone dry stubble, after 2 yrs of growth in wet winters. Thousands of ppl are fleeing homes
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