“They’re going to let Mother Nature clean it up, and that’s a hell of a thing to say.”
From the archives, 2020: On the central #Texas coast, Lavaca Bay is already poisoned by mercury. Climate change will only make matters worse there—and at 944 other hazardous-waste sites across the country. https://www.texasobserver.org/superfund-texas/
This week's Featured Links post has links to articles about how an update to the Drake equation suggests we may be alone in the galaxy, how Hispanics in South Florida are fighting disinformation, will Musk's Starlink satellites lead to Kessler syndrome, and more.
"University of Calgary researchers have now used a century’s worth of entries from the hut’s log to illuminate how climate change is erasing historic climbs, making others more dangerous and altering the face of Canadian mountaineering."
A wind-driven fire continued to scorch thousands of acres 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Francisco, prompting residents to flee their homes and the closure of two major freeways near the central California city of Tracy
"According to the Australia Institute, the government collects {twice as much} money from the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT)." Joëlle Gergis, Guardian, 030624. #climate#climatechange#climatecrisis#auspol
"For decades, scientists have known the flames from a gas stovetop produce nitrogen dioxide, a pungent gas that can inflame a person’s lungs when inhaled. But for the first time, a team of researchers from Stanford University and Oakland-based research institute PSE Healthy Energy published a nationwide estimate of the long-term health consequences associated with cooking with natural gas and propane stoves."
“in Norway they tax the fossil fuel industry and give kids free university education, in Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge kids a fortune to go to university.”
We have got to get off using potable water to flush toilets. I'd say we need to get off using water toilets altogether, but I don't think some folks are ready for that conversation.
Fresh clean water has already gotten scarcer. Treating water only to use it to flush shit down is a really warped thing our society does.
This supreme court case about fisherman is flying under the radar, but could soon ‘create chaos.'
For decades, the Chevron deference doctrine has given broad powers to federal agencies. Now it could be overturned – with major consequences. #ClimateChange