@SallyStrange i find the underreporting of that disaster insane. 1/2 a city almost the size of houston was/still is under 2 meters of water. and fully predicted by the state's own climate projections. it's like a sign of what's coming for many other places.
Fossil fuel use increased again last year, the only metric that matters is GHG concentrations and last March saw the largest recorded PPM increase ever in the Keeling Curve, last years CO2 and CH4 went up...again.
We haven't even flatted the curve, it's still going UP, let alone reduced by the 10-11% per annum needed to have some small chance here.
This is not a game of "oh well, we tried our best now let's go home for tea". Failing means the end of civilisation, that's the deliberate choice we've made.
Anecdotally, I have yet to meet anyone in real life who cares, many in here say they they do while still flying and driving cars. Their actions speaking louder then the lies of their rhetoric and platitudes, or as Greta T words it, their blah blah blah.
As to political and business interests, for sure that's an issie but that's because of voter greed, apathy, stupidty and entitlement. How do we know this ? Once again, evidence. If voters cared we'd be voting Green and moving the Overton Window, instead we see the rise of the right and doing more stupid, dumb shit.
We have made progress. All of it in the wrong dirextion becase we really don't grok how dangerous this is.
There's a lot of evidence that renewable electricity is cheaper than fossil-fuel electricity with costs continuing to fall. Solutions for decarbonizing heavy industry are rapidly improving and will end up cheaper as well.
All of the health benefits being documented increases the value of renewables.
The only question is how quickly that cost advantage overwhelms the use of fossil-fuels.
IRA investments are speeding that day.
Will it be fast enough? Time will tell.
From wooden buildings to air filters – how green cities could remove CO2 from the atmosphere
More than a thousand cities around the world now have #NetZero pledges: they want to emit only as much #CO2 into the atmosphere as they can simultaneously recapture.
Technically speaking, urban removals of this most important #GreenhouseGas could add up to one gigatonne (i.e. 1,000 million tonnes) per year by mid-century.
example: (1) adding 4% biochar to cement as a building material in urban construction, or using wood as a building material for nine out of ten new houses; in addition, (2) returning a third of all city lawns to treescapes; (3) mixing biochar into the soil of urban green spaces, street trees and roof gardens at rates ranging from 2.5 to 20%, depending on the soil type; and (4) equipping 15% of all commercial buildings with small air filters that extract CO2-rich indoor air in urban structures.
🇧🇷 #Brazil: Among the 497 cities in the state, 414 have been hit. As you read this, there is a chance people are still waiting on roofs for rescue, trapped in houses and buildings surrounded by water. Others are still looking for victims of landslides. Many are without access to clean water, power, or ways of coming and going from their cities, with bridges missing and roads destroyed.
Climate catastrophe news. This is a before and after of the Brazilian State of Rio Grande del Sul, following four days of relentless torrential rain.
However, in better news, Rishi Sunak's climate policy has been declared unlawful by the High Court this morning (via Adam Bienkov of Byline, see tweet). I'll post the link to the judgment when it surfaces.
Report: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/03/britain-climate-action-plan-unlawful-high-court
@fkamiah17 Thanks for the clear comparison pictures! Makes the reality of flooding, being multiple meters of difference (a whole building height) a lot more frightening. The city never knew what was coming.