Clean energy & resiliency advocate. Grateful Turtle Islander. Rescuer of spiders.
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Peter Ronald retweeted
A study from one of Canada’s premiere climate labs says methane emissions from Alberta’s energy industry are underestimated by almost 50% theglobeandmail.com/canada/a… #ableg #cdnecon #cdnpoli
Yesterday, Nov. 18, 2023, the planet’s temperature went past the 2.0 degree Celsius barrier for the first time.
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We have almost no time to slow that heating—the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we need to cut emissions in half in the next six years to have an outside shot at holding temperatures to anything like a livable level.
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Whose Police? @cbcfifth profiles the @rcmpgrcpolice Community-Industry Response Group's excessive interventions in service of resource companies in #unistoten #wetsueten #cgl #fairycreek #oldgrowth #IndigenousRights #bcpoli
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Peter Ronald retweeted
#ExxonKnew, #ShellKnew, and so did Suncor. In our presser on "Climate Crisis and Canada's Energy Sector," @CharlieAngusNDP connects the dots with a flaming Sharpie: teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1PlKQDWqV… #canpoli #oilandgas
Cat Bohannon, author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, interviewed by Quirks & Quarks' Bob McDonald.
Check out this segment from CBC's Quirks and Quarks:
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2023 Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Garth Lenz of Victoria highly commended in photojournalism category for an aerial, early morning shot of the biggest open excavation on Earth, the massive Bingham Canyon copper mine in Utah i.cbc.ca/1.6992859.169704828…
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"Global Stocktake"says countries are trying, but urgently need improvement #ClimateCodeRed nytimes.com/2023/09/08/clima…
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Until now scientists hadn’t teased apart how much of the most extreme precipitation will fall as snow and how much as rain. Rain tends to produce more hazards for humans than snow does, including floods, landslides and soil erosion. nytimes.com/2023/06/28/clima…
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U.S. wind and solar sources generated a combined 252 terawatt-hours through the first five months of 2023, compared with coal output of 249 TWh. Hydro generated an additional 117 TWh through May.
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The Age of Stupid: We know there is an existential threat. We know there are solutions. We know the costs (economic, human, planetary) will only increase if we do not act quickly. The signs and symptoms become more and more evident.
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Carbon dioxide levels are now more than 50% higher than they were before the onset of the industrial era.
Announced earlier today, Carbon dioxide levels measured at NOAA’s Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory peaked at 423 parts per million in May, continuing a steady climb further into territory not seen for millions of years.
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ALT sensors on a wooden post surrounded by railings while in the distance are mountains
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Peter Ronald retweeted
A few personal notes:
I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. The scientific findings are so fucked up. Experts on tropical rainforests told me privately that they think the Amazon has already passed its tipping point. Let that sink in. The world needs to know
January 2023's global average atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) was ~419 parts per million (ppm), a roughly 50% increase since 1750. Countless scientists, climate experts, and government officials agree that 350 ppm is the “safe” level of carbon dioxide.
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Remember the "Climate Spiral"? This popular visualization now runs up to 2022. climate.nasa.gov/climate_res…
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Some 260 fires are active across the parched region of Chile. The wildfires have consumed some 270,000 hectares, as of Sunday. globalnews.ca/news/9462931/c…
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"We have an agreement to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, to work on restoration, to reduce the use of pesticides. This is tremendous progress." cbc.ca/news/science/cop15-mo…
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Global coal-fired power generation is set to rise to a new record of around 10.3 terawatt hours this year, while coal production is forecast to rise by 5.4% to around 8.3 billion tonnes, also an all-time high. reuters.com/markets/commodit…
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Peter Ronald retweeted
Opened in 1957, the pulp and paper mill in Crofton, BC has faced its share of public protests over pollution and odors. The paper mill will soon close its doors but leaves behind a legacy of toxic pollution in nearby ecosystems.
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