General Environment Thrad

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2 - Scientific American

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Arctic stronghold of world's seeds flooded after permafrost melts | Environment | The Guardian

[Dragar]

Plant life in Antarctica is booming because of climate change, researchers say - The Washington Post

[JoeP]

Finally some good news!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Exxon to Trump: Don't ditch Paris climate change deal - Mar. 29, 2017

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

Exxon to Trump: Don't ditch Paris climate change deal - Mar. 29, 2017

And why is that, exactly?

Shareholders force ExxonMobil to come clean on cost of climate change | Business | The Guardian

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Year four (three? lol 1%) of no new coal plants in the USA.

[JoeP]

Thanks, Obama!

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Speaking of coal plants,

Southern Co. suspends Mississippi clean-coal plant

Converting that fairy tale castle into natural gas.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[But]

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

There's a mini thread behind there with a few hot takes to support this, but this one sums it up.

To sum up, someone with no scientific expertise is deciding on science grants for reasons of ideology & spite 4/ https://t.co/tbgoyiuWA8

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) September 5, 2017

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

China Invests $132 Billion in Climate Change Hoax

[Dingfod]

Originally Posted by Kamilah Hauptmann

China Invests $132 Billion in Climate Change Hoax

Trumped.

[The Man]

Last male northern white rhino is put down | Environment | The Guardian

Awful news.

[JoeP]

[SR71]

BREAKING!! BOATY MCBOATFACE ON SAFARI!!!

British and US scientists are to examine the risk of the Thwaites glacier collapsing, which is already responsible for a 4% sea-level rise

[slimshady2357]

An interesting graphic showing how overall warming is ramping up

A clear way to watch the Earth's temperature changes over the past 137 years.
(from historic & @NASA data, via @anttilip) pic.twitter.com/1N0NRnuU5c

— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) 28 August 2018

[chunksmediocrites]

BBC: Air pollution may harm cognitive intelligence, study says

Chronic exposure to air pollution could be linked to cognitive performance, a new study in China suggests.
...>snip<...
Over four years, the maths and verbal skills of some 20,000 people in China were monitored by the US-Chinese study.

Researchers believe the results have global relevance, with more than 80% of the world's urban population breathing unsafe levels of air pollution.

However, while establishing a link between pollution and lower test scores, the study did not prove cause and effect.
...>snip<...
Described as an invisible killer, air pollution causes an estimated seven million premature deaths a year worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.

Hmm. That seems bad.

Outsideonline.com: The EPA Is Gutting Regulations That Keep Us Safe

Under Pruitt and now Wheeler, the EPA’s working agenda is impressive: On the past 19 months, the agency has gutted regulations on methane emissions, decided not to ban a likely neurotoxic pesticide it had previously planned to outlaw, loosened regulations on air pollution, halted efforts to increase gas mileage in new cars, relaxed rules on how coal plants store toxic coal ash, delayed implementing Obama-era smog-reduction rules, suspended regulations against unpermitted dumping in streams and wetlands, opted not to ban cancer-causing asbestos, and moved to rewrite regulations to reduce haze in national parks. All told, the agency has removed or is in the process of rescinding 76 different regulations. In the EPA’s first full year under Trump, penalties against polluters were down by almost 50 percent, compared to the first years under Clinton, Bush, and Obama.

Well, fuck.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

The apocalypse can be rather pretty:



Taken a few days ago at Crescent Beach, BC. The air quality advisory was alarming and my nostrils had enough crustaceans in them to make a seafood salad.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

Piecemeal reading this, may or may not finish it.

[Stephen Maturin]

UN Climate Report: Mother Nature Is About to Fuck Us Raw

Good thing climate change is a big fat hoax, else there might be stuff to worry about up in here.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I wish this were parody pic.twitter.com/BqUxE1KyyR

— Katie Mack (@AstroKatie) December 16, 2018

[JoeP]

Technically correct, though.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

This thrad.

This is maybe the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say on this godforsaken website. https://t.co/TrqjacmGH3

— Robert McNees (@mcnees) December 15, 2018