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#ClimateCatastrophe

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The world won’t stay below 1.5C of warming, largely because we’re already there.

“We now expect a 3C world,” states a March analysis by Morgan Stanley. This level of global heating above preindustrial times is well beyond the 2C limit agreed to by governments and would lead to catastrophic heatwaves, floods, economic strife and other upheavals.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · US banks predict climate goals will fail – but air conditioning firms will thriveBy Oliver Milman

The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.

The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurerBy Damian Carrington

Economic models have systematically underestimated how global heating will affect people’s wealth, according to a new study that finds 4C warming will make the average person 40% poorer – an almost four-fold increase on some estimates.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

theguardian.com/environment/20

The Guardian · Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research showsBy Graham Readfearn

Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Change

#MorganStanley, #JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that #ClimateChange will likely exceed the #ParisAgreement's 2 degree goal and are examining how to maintain profits.

The big banks' acknowledgment that the world is likely to fail at preventing warming of more than 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels is spelled out in obscure reports for clients, investors and trade association members. Most were published after the reelection of President Donald Trump, who is seeking to repeal federal policies that support clean energy while turbocharging the production of oil, gas and coal — the main sources of #GlobalWarming.

"We now expect a 3°C world," Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month, citing "recent setbacks to global decarbonization efforts."

Morgan Stanley’s #climate forecast was tucked into a mundane research report on the future of air conditioning stocks, which it provided to clients on March 17. A 3 degree warming scenario, the analysts determined, could more than double the growth rate of the $235 billion cooling market every year, from 3 percent to 7 percent until 2030.

scientificamerican.com/article

#ClimateCatastrophe
#Capitalism

6 bundles of US $100 bills standing vertically on edge of white shelf.
Scientific American · Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate ChangeBy Corbin Hiar

Normally, two-thirds of sea level rise is due to melting ice from mountain glaciers and Greenland and Antarctic ice caps, and one-third from the thermal expansion of the oceans.

Last year, the hottest year on record, this was reversed, with warmer water accounting for two-thirds of the sea level rise of 0.59cm (0.23in) – considerably more than the 0.43cm scientists were expecting.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/

The Guardian · Weatherwatch: warmer water drives higher-than-expected rise in sea levelBy Paul Brown

Hello fediverse solarpunks! We’re Solarpunk Presents Podcast, a podcast run on a shoestring budget by two lady solarpunks, one in Canada (@arielkroon) and one in Germany (@xtinadr@wandering.shop). We’re not great with technology, but we happen to both be PhDs from the opposite sides of the spectrum between STEM and Humanities/the Arts, and we’re united in our working towards solarpunk futures.

Our podcast is an interview-style podcast where we talk to guests and each other about various aspects of solarpunk, renewable energies, political action, and more. Often, our guests are people who wouldn’t label themselves as solarpunks, but are (and have been, often for years) quietly involved in working towards making the world a better place to live in. We strongly believe that once you get past the aesthetic and hype about renewables, solarpunk at its core promotes compassion, kinship with non-humans and humans alike, and grace for our fellow human beings as we all work together to survive on our shared planet.

You can support the podcast on Patreon, with tiers starting at just $1 USD! We host a monthly solarpunk hangout that all of our patrons are invited to, and all Patrons at the $3 tier and up receive early access to our episodes. There are more tiers with more extras, so head to patreon.com/solarpunkpresents to see them all. We also take one-time or recurring donations over at our PayPal: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt
Even if you’re not in the financial position to donate, we really value other forms of support, such as positive reviews on your podcatcher of choice (it helps us be more visible and reach more solarpunks!), or subscriptions to our YouTube channel and comments there. As writers, we thrive on feedback, and we are continually trying to make the podcast better and want to know what you think.

As I’ve said before, it's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.

#Patreon #solarpunk #SolarpunkPresents #SolarpunkPresentsPodcast #support #hope #hopepunk #environmentalism #ClimateCatastrophe #ClimateGrief #reviews #ReviewsPlz #SharingIsCaring# compassion #imagination #Future#PositiveFuture #Futurism #PositiveFuturism #SolarpunkPodcast #SolarpunkPodcasting #ClimateHope #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid

#FYI #PaulBeckwith literature review #economy

(We will have a severe problem much sooner me thinks - like in the coming 5-10 years - because of food insecurity, famines. Last year 40% global crop loss was calculated for 2025 due to weather disasters alone. There's no sense in calculating some imaginary GDP if there's nothing left to eat.)

youtube.com/watch?v=XhMeBvQ0Z7U

#FYI #ArcticNews by #SamCarana Update 24.Mar. 2025

"Accelerating Temperature Rise
The Northern Hemisphere temperature was 12.86°C on March 19, 2025, a record daily high and 1.65°C higher than 1979-2000."
"Very high temperature anomalies are forecast over the Arctic Ocean for November 2025. "

arctic-news.blogspot.com

arctic-news.blogspot.comArctic NewsBlog edited by Sam Carana, with news on climate change and warming in the Arctic due to snow and ice loss and methane releases from the seafloor.

#FYI #MichaelMann #PBSNewsHour

"EPA said it is reconsidering the scientific finding that greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. This comes as research shows average global temperatures in 2024 likely rose above a 1.5 degree Celsius threshold that for years has been a red line for climate change."

youtube.com/watch?v=iGkLcqLWxMA

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@rahmstorf

I've just watched a family on the morning news, talking about the recent floods in their area (not the first, either). They were saying the local council, the state govt, the federal govt weren't doing enough to support them.

Not a word about how about we stop burning fossil fuel? Nothing about we can't continue the way we are, because these events are happening more often with greater impact each time.

People just don't get it.
#ClimateCatastrophe #climatecrisis

Sur France Info tout à l'heure : un défilé d'invités (je dis bien "invités", au masculin - avec des couilles, hein) qui se la touchent en évoquant avec délectation la nécessité impérieuse de bâtir dès aujourd'hui une véritable "économie de guerre" en Europe, avec parapluie nucléaire, re-industries d'armement (comme s'il n'y en avait pas déjà assez !), et rétablissement éventuel du service national. Leur jouissance laisse supposer qu'ils n'attendaient que ça, qu'ils en rêvaient en se rasant.

Et l'invité suivant qui disserte sur la mort de l'industrie automobile européenne si "on ne fait rien".

Tout cela pue l'extraction sans limite, les destructions environnementales, l'intoxication des subalternes, la militarisation des infrastructures, la surveillance généralisée, la répression policière brutale, les états d'urgence et les états d'exception, tout cela pue la nécropolitique, tout cela pue la MORT.

Et tout cela pue la catastrophe climatique accélérée.

outsiderland.com/danahilliot/d

Et tout cela n'a rien de nouveau (une économie de guerre "économique" - productiviste, en vue d'assurer la croissance - produit déjà les mêmes effets nécropolitiques partout dans le monde. Juste que là, ça va être encore pire.)

MAIS
MAIS
Tant qu'un mec comme Poutine répand la terreur aux portes de l'Europe - quel sens y'aurait-il à se dire pacifiste ? Sinon à sacrifier l'Ukraine (puis qui ? Les pays Baltes ? La Pologne ? On ne s'est guère précipité pour défendre la Georgie en tous cas).

Comme on a sacrifié les Sudètes en espérant que cette "concession" suffirait à assurer une paix durable ?

Je hais de tout mon cœur vraiment, le capitalisme néolibéral et ses Thuriféraires. Mais bordel, tant qu'un type comme Poutine n'est pas mis hors d'état de nuire, il semble que les seuls avenirs qui s'offrent désormais (et pas seulement pour l'Europe !) ce soit :

ou bien un nouveau conflit majeur (pourquoi pas nucléaire : comparé à la situation géopolitique actuelle, et les zigues qui sont au pouvoir et disposent de l'armement nucléaire actuellement, la guerre froide ressemble à une aimable partie de jeux de stratégie sur table (ce serait oublier évidemment, les dizaine de millions de morts qui furent les victimes de cette guerre soi-disant froide partout sur la planète *)

ou bien une catastrophe climatique encore plus dramatique et surtout plus rapide.

Mais ne nous leurrons pas : il n'a jamais existé rien de tel qu'une économie de guerre qui garantisse une paix durable et surtout globale. Quelqu'un, quelque part, des populations entières, et pas forcément les belligérants déclarés, paient et paieront pour ça (et ils n'ont jamais cessé de payer).

* Heonik Kwon, un des auteurs les plus importants de notre temps, a écrit concernant la guerre froide un petit livre fascinant et iconoclaste : The Other Cold War.

Un extrait :

"Comme le note Walter LaFeber, cette vision de la guerre froide n'est qu'une demi-vérité de l'histoire de la bipolarité. Elle représente l'expérience occidentale (et soviétique) dominante de la guerre froide comme une « guerre imaginaire », se référant à la politique de préparation compétitive à la guerre dans l'espoir d'éviter le déclenchement d'une guerre réelle, mais l'identification de la seconde moitié du vingtième siècle comme une période exceptionnellement longue de paix internationale serait difficilement compréhensible pour la majeure partie du reste du monde. L'ère de la guerre froide a fait quarante millions de victimes humaines dans différentes parties du monde, comme le mentionne LaFeber ; la manière de concilier cette réalité historique exceptionnellement violente avec la perception occidentale prédominante d'une paix exceptionnellement longue est une question cruciale pour saisir la signification de la guerre froide mondiale.

(...)

Si la guerre froide mondiale a été à la fois une guerre imaginaire et une expérience généralisée de terreur politique et de mort de masse, nous devons raconter son histoire en conséquence, en incluant les événements de mort sismique vécus par les communautés, plutôt que de considérer ces derniers comme des épisodes superficiels et marginaux dans une lutte de pouvoir par ailleurs pacifique et équilibrée.
Le concept général de guerre froide résiste à cet effort, mais nous ne devons pas permettre que cette lutte pour le pouvoir, au nom trompeur, continue à nous tromper et à nous empêcher de voir qu'elle a laissé derrière elle d'innombrables morts, dont beaucoup n'ont toujours pas été recensés. La fin de la guerre froide signifie donc bien plus que la fin d'un ordre politique particulier. Elle signifie la fin de la manière traditionnelle de centrer cet ordre politique sur le paradigme de la guerre imaginaire ; elle signifie la revitalisation de la lutte sémantique contre le sens dominant de la guerre froide et le début d'une pensée alternative, plus moderne, libérée d'une composition hiérarchique centre/périphérie."

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-othe

#FYI #PaulBeckwith video lecture and literature review

""Each boreal summer (summer in the northern hemisphere) the vegetation springs to life and captures huge amounts of CO2, drawing down the global atmospheric levels about 7 ppm. This so-called natural sequestration peaked in 2008, and has been declining since"

youtube.com/watch?v=GTVt6S_Cz2A

Composting the Mess to Make Room to Plant

In the swirling chaos of the digital landscape, it's easy to feel lost. The #Fediverse, should be a beacon of hope for a decentralized, community-driven internet, but as always is facing an onslaught of push back and pressures from every direction. The #dotcons loom large, #NGO agendas quietly co-opt grassroots energy, and the #encryptionists lash out with SPAM money to drown out critique. It’s messy, but mess is where compost comes from, and compost is where new life grows. Pick up a […]

hamishcampbell.com/composting-

BP is NOT SORRY!

"BP has announced it will cut its renewable energy investments and instead focus on increasing oil and gas production.

"The energy giant revealed the shift in strategy on Wednesday following pressure from some investors unhappy its profits and share price have been lower than its rivals.

"BP said it would increase its investments in oil and gas by about 20% to $10bn (£7.9bn) a year, while decreasing previously planned funding for renewables by more than $5bn (£3.9bn).

"The move comes as rivals #Shell and Norwegian company #Equinor have also scaled back plans to invest in green energy and US President Donald Trump's '#DrillBabyDrill' comments have encouraged investment in #FossilFuels."

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3374e
#BPKnew #ExxonKnew #BigOilAndGas #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #ThanksBigOil #Oiligarchy

Hello fediverse solarpunks! We’re Solarpunk Presents Podcast, a podcast run on a shoestring budget by two lady solarpunks, one in Canada (@arielkroon) and one in Germany (@xtinadlr). We’re not great with technology, but we happen to both be PhDs from the opposite sides of the spectrum between STEM and Humanities/the Arts, and we’re united in our working towards solarpunk futures.

Our podcast is an interview-style podcast where we talk to guests and each other about various aspects of solarpunk, renewable energies, political action, and more. Often, our guests are people who wouldn’t label themselves as solarpunks, but are (and have been, often for years) quietly involved in working towards making the world a better place to live in. We strongly believe that once you get past the aesthetic and hype about renewables, solarpunk at its core promotes compassion, kinship with non-humans and humans alike, and grace for our fellow human beings as we all work together to survive on our shared planet.

You can support the podcast on Patreon, with tiers starting at just $1 USD! We host a monthly solarpunk hangout that all of our patrons are invited to, and all Patrons at the $3 tier and up receive early access to our episodes. There are more tiers with more extras, so head to patreon.com/solarpunkpresents to see them all. We also take one-time or recurring donations over at our PayPal: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt
Even if you’re not in the financial position to donate, we really value other forms of support, such as positive reviews on your podcatcher of choice (it helps us be more visible and reach more solarpunks!), or subscriptions to our YouTube channel and comments there. As writers, we thrive on feedback, and we are continually trying to make the podcast better and want to know what you think.

As I’ve said before, it's rough out there for anyone valuing the environment, social justice, compassion, and more, and we want to keep doing our part to keep hope alive. We want to broaden the imagination of what it's possible to do to contribute to a better world, no matter who you are, where you live, or what life stage you're at.