Climate crisis

https://youtu.be/fMzFCcv1d3Q?si=ZmjVCYBcDoqQYM24

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but last week the Grauniad ran a powerful, urgent argument in favour of two climate engineering projects https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/humanity-survival-emissions-resilience-ecosystems-greenhouse-gases It wasn't tagged as geo or climate engineering. It doesn't even use the evil e- word. And there was bugger-all reaction or debate. I'm very confused.

The podcast I just linked touches on it, we are likely in a world where we will almost certainly do geoengineering as politically it is easier than consumers paying more for fossil fuels

I wonder what the definition of investment is here?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/06/investment-in-clean-energy-likely-to-be-double-figure-for-fossil-fuels-in-2024-iea-says?

Thanks. I am still not entirely certain, but it sounds like capital investment in clean energy sources.

edit - i looked at the report and it is defined as follows:

Investment throughout is measured as ongoing capital spending on new and existing power capacity

https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/692328d0-3d49-49a5-8698-1f6aaba357be/WorldEnergyInvestment2024.pdf

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/20/what-if-there-just-is-no-solution-how-we-are-all-in-denial-about-the-climate-crisis

Well done, Trudi, so glad this is over.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/aug/15/government-drops-appeal-over-climate-activist-who-held-sign-outside-uk-court

The planned benefit on the 1st September at the Rose & Crown in Walthamstow should still go ahead, as it is meant to raise funds for Defend Our Juries.

https://walthamstowfolk.co.uk/guests/01-09-2024/

https://defendourjuries.org/

Good article as always from James Dyke
https://theconversation.com/the-overshoot-myth-you-cant-keep-burning-fossil-fuels-and-expect-scientists-of-the-future-to-get-us-back-to-1-5-c-230814

Can see him as being particularly worried by flooding.

What about organising a bike jumble in Walthamstow or Stoke Newington even with proceeds split 50/50 between gia and Ukraine?

So what do you propose? That Ukrainians just give up and let Russia take over?

As I thought, you're an idiot and possibly a Russian troll.

What do I know but I don't think Russia has any intention of "taking over" Ukraine

What do you know? Fuck all, evidently. They invaded, headed straight to Kyiv, and planned to install a puppet regime so they could impose direct rule on Ukraine. How does that not amount to "taking over"?

Say less, man.

Soz. Feeding the trolls is my weak spot sometimes.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/15/catastrophe-of-epic-proportions-six-drown-in-europe-amid-heavy-floods-storm-boris-poland-austria-slovakia-hungary

I've changed settings so that I don't get notified every time someone has a minuscule proto thought.

More on the catastrophe in Poland, Austria, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/central-europe-flooding-rivers-storm-boris

The pictures and details coming out of Valencia are truly shocking.

There's only a single mention of climate change being a factor in this event on the BBC live coverage which is disheartening.

These things have been known about and predicted for decades and nothing has been done. I doubt it will. Doing something effective challenges too many assumptions people make about how they ought to be able to live—individual mass motorisation, fly everywhere at the drop of a hat, waste energy willy-nilly, run billions of computers 24/7 with the Internet probably being the technology carrying the greatest unfulfilled potential of any technology ever, and that's not even to mention the absolute nonsense of making things in only a few places and then carting them all across the globe, dismantling good delivery systems like the old postal services and replacing them with wasteful and regressive privatisations, the packaging madness, and certain people starting wars, just like that, and causing more waste and devastation, including blowing up energy infrastructure of all kinds—, and right now the distribution of flooding is still confined to individual regions, so that unaffected regions can come to help—that's not going to remain the case.

The Spanish floods are now officially worse than the flood in the Ahr Valley in Germany, which is admittedly a much smaller area, with at least 140 dead and rising (135 in the Ahr Valley).

We're all completely fucked. Nothing will ever change until it is far too late (and it's quite probably already far too late). Just have some fun while you still can.

The EU could have steered the car industry towards lightweight vehicles which use half the energy of a SUV. How did they get it so wrong? If our species has a grave stone there should be a Range Rover on it. The Brits have done a great job of killing everyone. First the industrial revolution, now the wankpanzer. We are safe in our temperate climate, where wine can now be grown in Yorkshire. But agriculture in Africa is collapsing, with people being forced to migrate to shanty towns next to the big cities. It's colonialism 2.0. The brown and black people aren't as sophisticated as the ruling whites. Let them starve or drown.

It's just so depressing.

“This is our fifth storm in three weeks. We have no time to repair between the storms,” Moraleda said. Last month, typhoon Kong-rey and typhoon Trami – the deadliest of all the storms – also battered the province.

[...]

The Philippines can be struck by 20 typhoons a year. Human-caused climate breakdown has increased the occurrence of the most intense and destructive tropical cyclones (though the overall number per year has not changed globally). This is because warming oceans provide more energy, producing stronger storms.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/15/philippines-weather-typhoon-yinxing-toraji-usagi