Create accountLogin

Recent searches

No recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.
sfba.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A Mastodon instance for the San Francisco Bay Area. Come on in and join us!

Administered by:

Server stats:

2.4K
active users

sfba.social: AboutProfiles directoryPrivacy policy

Mastodon: AboutGet the appKeyboard shortcutsView source codev4.3.4

#AcceleratingKeelingCurve

0 posts0 participants0 posts today
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

and haven’t cared who is president since the 50s: Beryl’s strength and rapid intensification were unusual for a storm so early in the season. This year, that is especially alarming as forecasters expect an exceptionally active Atlantic hurricane season.


juancole.com/2024/07/startling

Informed Comment · Startling Climate Change Impact: Hurricane Beryl’s Rapid intensification to Category 5 is OminousBy Brian Tang, University at Albany, State University of New York | - (The Conversation) - Hurricane Beryl was the latest Atlantic storm to rapidly intensify, growing quickly from a tropical storm into the strongest June hurricane on record in the Atlantic. It hit the Grenadine Islands with 150 mph winds and a destructive storm surge on July 1, 2024, then continued to intensify into the basin’s earliest Category 5 storm on record. The damage Beryl caused, particularly on Carriacou and Petite Martinique, was extensive, Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told a news briefing. “In half an hour, Carriacou was
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

the annual increases are increasing. When increases are increasing, you’re accelerating. And when you are doing that with the primary control knob of the Earth’s climate — CO2 — you’re accelerating away from climate stability and safety.
Net zero?
To stop the climate crisis (and its evil twin, ocean acidification) from growing increasingly extreme and dangerous, CO2 levels in the atmosphere must stop rising.


nationalobserver.com/2024/03/2

Canada's National Observer · CO2 jumped by record amount last yearDespite decades of global efforts to prevent a full-blown climate crisis, the primary driver of it — CO2 — continues to pile up in our atmosphere at an accelerating rate.
#PentagonIsTheBiggestEmitter
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

: As it turns out, beef producers aren’t the only ones getting older. A recent study from Tulane University in New Orleans found that 12 percent of Americans account for 50 percent of beef consumption in the U.S. Most of this consumption is done by middle-aged males, while beef consumption is lower among younger consumers and college graduates. The study is sparking concerns — and hopes — that America’s population could be aging out of beef.

ambrook.com/research/studies/b

Ambrook · Aging Out of Beef | Ambrook ResearchNew research exposes how America’s beef industry is increasingly propped up by the consumption habits of middle-aged men.
#AcceleratingKeelingCurve
Public *
Gladwyn d’Souza

State Farm, California’s largest insurer, announced that it will discontinue coverage for 72,000 homes and apartments starting this summer, a move likely to sharply inflate housing costs for affected residents in a state that’s reeling from a series of destructive recent wildfires.

But Karl Susman, an independent broker and industry expert based in Los Angeles, said those who will be dropped are almost certainly properties in and around wildland areas considered at greater risk of wildfires, where standard coverage has become nearly impossible to get.

eastbaytimes.com/2024/03/21/ca

East Bay Times · California home insurance meltdown worsens as State Farm sheds 72,000 policiesBy John Woolfolk
#AcceleratingKeelingCurve
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

open.substack.com/pub/heated/p

NoTHiNg tO SeE hEre! ☀️🏖️
Bloomberg also listed a number of Biden advisors who are not on board with implementing a stricter test for the massive projects…could add up to 317 plants worth of emissions to the atmosphere over the coming decade
That list included Biden’s senior energy advisor Amos Hochstein—a particularly influential confidant to the president, who has reportedly “raised concerns” about the economic and geopolitical impacts of a pause.

HEATED · The fossil fuel executive inside the White HouseBy Emily Atkin
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

latimes.com/business/story/202

- no indication what kind of at Intuit Dome is being offset in South Inglewood, or with what, despite lots of name drops, including Ben Jealous and Leonard DiCaprio, by the: fast-growing, opaque and lightly regulated market for voluntary -- a crucial tool for corporations looking to fulfill pledges. The marketplace has quadrupled in size since 2020 to about $2 billion, and Morgan Stanley estimates it could grow to $250 billion by 2050.

Los Angeles Times · Clippers arena deal dragged into U.S. probe of California fintechBy Tom Schoenberg and Allyson Versprille
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

: A six-figure salary to spread climate misinformation- “It's sending a message to current Senators that maybe you shouldn't be so harsh on the industry, if they're going to take care of you after you finish,” he said.

substack.com/inbox/post/140792

HEATED · Here’s how much Democrats get paid to shill for fossil fuelsBy Arielle Samuelson
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

latimes.com/environment/newsle

: As I wrote in November 2020, before it was clear who the next U.S. president would be, a Biden victory “wouldn’t magically solve the ” any more than a Trump victory would guarantee our doom. We’ve got a long way to go. Even if we can’t stop temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees, 2 degrees would be a hell of a lot better than 3.
Whoever wins the White House, I’ll probably look back at 2024 with disappointment and frustration over all the climate progress we could have made but didn’t. But that won’t mean we should throw up our collective hands in despair, or give up- Sammy Roth

Los Angeles Times · Column: It's 2024. Time to start acting like climate change actually mattersHere are five stories I'm watching in 2024. You should watch them too.
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

reuters.com/business/energy/us

: Sales of U.S. crude to other nations are now a record 3.4 million barrels per day (bpd), with exports of about 3 million bpd of refined products like gasoline and diesel fuel. The United States is also the leading liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, where growth is expected to soar in coming years.

ReutersU.S. poised to become net exporter of crude oil in 2023The United States has become a global crude oil exporting power over the last few years, but exports have not exceeded its imports since World War II. That could change next year.
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

grist.org/international/world-

takes on the : the failures of its past programs, which led to debt crises that compounded in many developing nations during the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, the Bank’s track record as a major investor in projects around the world has led some critics to question its fitness for a position meant to battle climate change. 

Grist · The World Bank is running the first-ever climate reparations fund. Nobody is happy about it.By Naveena Sadasivam
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet theguardian.com/commentisfree/

: Since the climate negotiations began in 1992 more carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels has been released worldwide than in all preceding human history. This year is likely to set a new emissions record. They are talking us to oblivion.
It’s like allowing weapons manufacturers to dominate a peace conference.

The Guardian · Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planetBy George Monbiot
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

africanews.com/2023/12/06/tanz

: The disaster has prompted President Samia Suluhu Hassan to cut short her visit to Dubai for the COP28 climate talks, with her office saying she would visit the affected area on Thursday.
Tanzania and its East African neighbours Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are battling flash floods exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the region just as it emerges from the worst drought in four decades that left millions hungry.

Africanews · Tanzania: Residents of towns ravaged by landslides count their losses | Africanews"I have lost all the bag of maize I had kept in store, in addition to that loss I had given my money to the middlemen who help me to buy maize. Up to now, none of them is available on the phone and I don’t know if they are alive or dead." Gudila Massawe, affected by landslide
Public
Gladwyn d’Souza

insideclimatenews.org/news/041

: The UNFCCC is the foundational treaty that has served as the basis for international climate talks since it was signed by 155 countries in 1992.  But President George H.W. Bush said then that the United States wouldn’t join the global effort if the treaty included specific targets and timetables for emissions reductions by rich countries.



Inside Climate News · More Than 100 Countries at COP28 Call For Fossil Fuel Phaseout - Inside Climate NewsDUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Under a blanket of petro-smog, more than half the 198 countries  in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change called for a fossil fuel phaseout on the second day of COP28, marking a turning point after 27 years of climate negotiations. Since the talks began at COP1 in Berlin in the […]
ExploreLive feeds
About