The Climate Crisis Post 2

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Philosopher Hannah Arendt

Climate news

We are about to lose everything if we don’t stop the fossil fuel industry, warns NASA scientist Peter Kalmus https://www.newsweek.com/sadly-its-not-just-another-summer-we-must-end-fossil-fuel-industry-opinion-1832188

The green transition has not even started, according to the DNV report https://e24.no/energi-og-klima/i/bgvPdk/dnv-omstillingen-i-det-globale-energisystemet-har-ikke-startet

The climate crisis is a major threat to democracy https://klassekampen.no/artikkel/2023-10-10/demokratitrusselen/BeVu

The oil company Halliburton has built its wealth on the invasion of Iraq and the construction of Guantanamo Bay https://www.huffpost.com/entry/halliburton-and-cheney-wa_b_29635

The verdict against Greta Thunberg shows that we are in a conflict between scientific and knowledge-based government and a fascist mob government where “might makes right” becomes the applicable principle. When a democracy no longer has a method for establishing facts, science, democracy also disappears https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2023-10-11/aterfallsforbrytaren-som-laser-vetenskapliga-rapporter-och-blir-athutad

Exxon buys oil giant Pioneer Natural Resources and calls it an environmentally friendly investment https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/11/exxon-buys-pioneer-natural-resources-fossil-fuels

Oppression of Indigenous people in Australia is being organized by the fossil fuel-funded Atlas Network https://cssn.org/no-campaign-referendum-to-recognise-indigenous-australia-led-by-fossil-fuel-corporations/

Geoengineering, releasing gases to cool the globe again, will probably only make things worse. But can it be guaranteed that some countries won’t try anyway? https://heatmap.news/politics/geoengineering-solar-radiation-china-united-states

Geoengineering can destroy food production https://www.thedailybeast.com/blocking-the-sun-may-fight-climate-change-but-kill-our-crops

Research news

The social cost of CO2 emissions must be adjusted upwards, new figures show https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05224-9

An extremely large number of plant and mushroom species are in the process of being exterminated by the climate crisis https://www.carbonbrief.org/kew-report-five-key-extinction-risks-facing-the-worlds-plants-and-fungi/

Areosols from pollution, which are normally cooling, are driving Himalayan warming https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723033569

Good news

Activists have succeeded in massive roadblocks in the Netherlands against fossil fuel subsidies that have now been passed in parliament https://extinctionrebellion.nl/a12-blockades-netherlands-effective-lower-house-asks-cabinet-for-phase-out-plan-for-fossil-fuel-subsidies/

The head of COP28, who is also the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, Sultan al-Jaber, asks the fossil fuel industry to prepare for a faster phase-out of fossil fuels https://www.ft.com/content/1f37f3c8-862b-4bb3-86b4-9c06202c33bd

California signs the Right to repair act and thus ensures better and cheaper circularity. https://pirg.org/california/media-center/statement-governor-newsom-signs-right-to-repair-act/

KLP wants a halt in oil and gas developments https://www.adressa.no/nyheter/innenriks/i/rl2GQR/klp-vil-ha-stans-i-olje-og-gassutbygging

The EU has now started its ambitious climate tariff https://grist.org/energy/the-eu-just-kicked-off-its-biggest-climate-experiment-yet/

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