“Anti-protest bills that seek to expand criminal punishments for constitutionally protected peaceful protests – especially targeting those speaking out on the US-backed war in Gaza and the climate crisis – have spiked since Trump’s inauguration.” Just like the UK then. #Protest #ClimateCrisis #Gaza

Regardless of the cheeto regime's hatred of not being able to pollute the planet and profiteer ridiculously off people, most individuals and communities are moving toward renewables - both for climate mitigation and because over the long haul it costs less.

It can provide local control and secure energy supplies as well. Best of all, it's a big F U to fossil fuel corporations.

Oh boy...!

Record-challenging heat to build over #Southwest, including over 100 F in #Phoenix

Temperatures will reach triple digits over part of the interior Southwest into this weekend, and dry air paired with the heat will rise the risk of #wildfires.

By Alex Sosnowski, AccuWeather senior meteorologist

Published Apr 8, 2025 2:06 PM EDT | Updated Apr 9, 2025 2:14 PM EDT

Excerpt:
"Temperatures will run 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit above historical averages at the peak, with records challenged. Factoring in April sunshine, which is equivalent to sunshine in August, AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperatures can spike to 10 degrees or more above the actual temperature during the day.

"'Phoenix is likely to experience its first 100 F or higher reading of the year on Thursday,' Zehr said, 'Friday and Saturday may also top 100.'

"The average date for the first 100 is May 2 at Phoenix. The earliest date was March 26, 1988."

Source:
https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/record-challenging-heat-to-build-over-southwest-including-over-100-f-in-phoenix/1763928
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeHeat

Climate and health litigation mounting in Australia as exposure to heat waves grows https://phys.org/news/2025-04-climate-health-litigation-mounting-australia.html

CocaCola is the No1 polluter on the planet. Its packaging is needlessly damaging, its product massively damages health & the company exists SOLELY to enrich shareholders. Its very existence & success is enough evidence ON ITS OWN that we need to break from this suicidal system.

#FYI #ScottDuncan #weather #climate #forecast

Eastern Europe: Cold snap incoming

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIHS-7Zs-o6/

Trump takes aim at city and state climate laws in executive order https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/trump-climate-state-laws-executive-order #Trumpadministration #Oilandgascompanies #Climatecrisis #DonaldTrump #Environment #Fossilfuels #USpolitics #NewYork #Vermont #USnews

We presently face the most radical of challenges to the continuation of a livable biosphere — and indeed to humanity’s existence as a species — and therefore I believe the most radical response is justified and is urgently required.

First: Nationalize and then shut down the fossil fuel industry, the auto industry, the airlines, and the factory farms. The US military budget also must be deeply slashed, as they are the world's biggest single source of institutional emissions.

When I say shut down all those industries, I don't mean literally overnight. I realize of course that we can't stop burning fossil fuels instantly. I'm suggesting, however, a very rapid reduction, something on the order of 20% per year, meaning after five years we are down to zero. TRUE zero, not the phony greenwashed “net-zero.”

Second: Confiscate all previous financial holdings from fossil fuel corporations, their executives and their major investors, and dedicate a portion of those funds to help countries in the Global South raise standards of living without overly expanding the use of fossil fuels. Some of the funds can also be used to ease a transition for employees of the shuttered industries.

Third: Let the dust settle, see where we are with emissions, and maybe then consider deploying some solar geoengineering techniques, but only as a last resort.

Now, you might be concerned that many people would suffer and have to endure hardships if we shut down the fossil fuel industry and the auto industry and the airlines and the factory farms — and you’re right, they would.

However, that’s almost nothing compared to how many people will suffer and how great their hardships will be in the next few decades if we DON’T do all those things now.

Would this plan be easy to accomplish? No, not at all. Would it cause inconvenience and misery? Yes, certainly. Real change comes at a real cost.

Sorry to say it, but the choice we face is between a very bad outcome and a very VERY bad outcome.

Climate anxiety is concentrated in big U.S. metros and some coastal communities, recent estimates find.

The findings paint a stark picture of how attitudes toward climate change vary nationwide.

About 63.3% of U.S. adults overall are "somewhat" or "very" worried about global warming as of 2024, per Yale Program on Climate Change Communication estimates  based on survey data
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatechange #climatecrisis

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/09/american-climate-change-anxiety-map

The Guardian knows how to report the news:

“Donald Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reviving coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel that has long been in decline, and which substantially contributes to planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.”

#USPolitics #FuckTrump #GOPFail #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-executiver-order-coal-power-plants?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

There are many things that I find objectionable about the Government of China. Their stand against #Trump is not one of them. A bully thrives on weakness, Trump will pick off countries one by one. A group of countries can bring Trump back to rationality and an empathic view of humanity. https://shorturl.at/AaNDw #RejoinEU #StandwithUkraine #ClimateCrisis

Does anyone know if there’s a #Welsh or UK wide #GreenParty page on fedi?

Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/09/big-tech-datacentres-water #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Trumpadministration #Desertification #Climatecrisis #Australianews #Environment #DonaldTrump #AsiaPacific #E-commerce #Technology #USpolitics #Microsoft #Computing #Worldnews #DeepSeek #Americas #Drought #ChatGPT #Arizona #Amazon #Google #OpenAI #Oracle #Africa #Europe #USnews #Water #Texas #Spain

#FYI #shorts #ReginaValdez #PaulBeckwith #PeterCarter #ClimateEmergencyForum

Just sayin'

the present rate is leading to about 8°C warming (fyi: that paper was in 2022. It didn't get less.)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1ov_FH881E8

The full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6Xx4zZJyE

This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits

The photographer who captured the #Amazon as a desert: ‘It was dystopian, a moment of radical transformation for the planet’ #ClimateCrisis

https://english.elpais.com/climate/2025-04-08/the-photographer-who-captured-the-amazon-as-a-desert-it-was-dystopian-a-moment-of-radical-transformation-for-the-planet.html

Peruvian-Mexican Musuk Nolte won this year’s World Press Photo in the South America stories category for his coverage of the drought in Manaus, #Brazil

This is what people voted for screw our kid's future world. Traitor Trump tries to revive US coal industry
Sociopath Trump signed four executive orders on Tuesday aimed at reviving coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel that has long been in decline, and which substantially contributes to planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions and pollution.
that kills tens of thousands of Americans from cancer, lung and heart deases every year.
#TrumpRegimeCrimesAgainstAmerica #Climatecrisis https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-executiver-order-coal-power-plants?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

How is this supposed to continue? Since the beginning of the year, we've been missing more than 70 Millimeters of water. And no rain in sight for as far as the forecast can see.

People still talk about how to prevent climate change. There's no preventing what we are in the middle of. It's here.

(Source: kachelmannwetter.de)