Ed_Carley

Ed_Carley, 28 days ago to climate

I finally got around to getting off of Substack and I just published my weekly list of #CleanEnergy, #Climate, and #Sustainability Jobs on Ghost for the first time. Happy to move to a platform that doesn’t directly support nazis.

Check the jobs out and share with a friend. #CleanEnergyJobs #ClimateJobs #SustainabilityJobs #ESG #ESGJobs #EnergyTransition https://edscleanenergysustainabilityjobs.com/eds-clean-energy-sustainability-jobs-list-05-12-24-2/?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

HopePunkFTW, 2 months ago to solarpunk

I don't know how to do this, but I am certainly interested in this Guerrilla Grafting.

Is this more #EcoPunk or #SolarPunk?

bryanhansel, 4 months ago to random

Is there a way to check how many of your Mastodon followers are still active on the platform?

CelloMomOnCars, 5 months ago to Florida

#Florida the only state to turn down millions to lessen #emissions, feds say

"The state transportation department left $320 million on the table, saying it wouldn’t support the “continued politicization of our roadways.”

Rather than accepting the federal money, Perdue wrote in the letter that Florida would focus on building roads and bridges, “not reducing carbon emissions.”"

https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2023/12/16/florida-only-state-turn-down-millions-lessen-emissions-feds-say/

ArtPhotosDesk, 7 months ago to photography

#Photographers: What's on your wishlist this holiday season, or what are some of the best gifts you've ever received related to #photography?

protecttruth, 8 months ago to random

“Harlan Crow’s Minions Are Keeping Your Rent High.”

The corrupt US courts, and the billionaires that bribe them, are actively harming all of us.

“Crow Holdings…a privately-held real estate company, managing over $29 billion in assets.”

“NMHC has spent millions fighting for a pro-corporate, anti-tenant agenda – including defeating rent control and eviction protections.”
#USPol #SCOTUS #billionaires #fascism

https://www.therevolvingdoorproject.org/harlan-crow-nmhc/

breadandcircuses, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to brazil

A post over at Reddit warns of a dangerous and potentially deadly heat dome in Brazil, where temperatures could climb as high as 49°C (120°F) next week...

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In recent days, climate models have consistently indicated a potential temperature record in much of central and southern South America. In reality, as the date approaches, the models are indicating even more intense heat.

For September 26, the models are predicting up to 49°C in Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. But the heat record will affect a large part of Brazil, not just the Midwest. Records are also expected to be set in Paraguay, northern Argentina, and Bolivia.

The models indicate a temperature anomaly of more than 20°C — that is, 20°C (36°F) above normal for this time of the year.

Evidence from studies suggests that climate change is increasing the frequency of intense heat domes, pumping them higher into the atmosphere, not unlike adding more hot air to an already heated balloon. Therefore, several studies point to an increase in the intensity, duration, and frequency of heatwaves in Brazil and around the world.

Never in the history of global climate observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin as in the historic heatwave of late June 2021 in western North America, an effect of a massive heat dome. It was the second most deadly climate disaster of the year with 1,037 deaths: 808 in western Canada and 229 in the northwestern US.

Canada broke its national all-time temperature record on three consecutive days in Lytton, British Columbia, which reached an impressive 49.6°C on June 29, a day before the town was engulfed in a fierce wildfire fueled by extreme heat. The old Canadian heat record was 45.0°C on July 5, 1937.

"This was the most anomalous regional extreme heat event to occur anywhere on Earth since the beginning of temperature records. Nothing compares," said climate historian Christopher Burt, author of the book Extreme Weather. Pointing to Lytton, Canada, he added, "There has never been a national heat record in a country with an extensive period of record and a multitude of observation locations that was surpassed by 4°C."

A rapid response study from the World Weather Attribution program found that the high daily temperatures observed in a study area covering much of western Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia in June 2021 would have been "virtually impossible without human-caused climate change." The study estimated that it was approximately a one in 1000 year event in today's climate, but in a world with 2°C of global warming, which is projected for two decades from now, a similar event could occur approximately every five to ten years.

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We are in a climate emergency, and it's time we started acting like it.

REDDIT POST -- https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/16kxx5u/brazil_will_hit_49c_in_september_this_year/

#Brazil #Canada #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

ajsadauskas, 8 months ago to climate

Right now, could you prepare a slice of toast with zero embodied carbon emissions?

Since at least the 2000s, big polluters have tried to frame carbon emissions as an issue to be solved through the purchasing choices of individual consumers.

Solving climate change, we've been told, is not a matter of public policy or infrastructure. Instead, it's about convincing individual consumers to reduce their "carbon footprint" (a term coined by BP: https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook).

Yet, right now, millions of people couldn't prepare a slice of toast without causing carbon emissions, even if they wanted to.

In many low-density single-use-zoned suburbs, the only realistic option for getting to the store to get a loaf of bread is to drive. The power coming out of the mains includes energy from coal or gas.

But.

Even if they invested in solar panels, and an inverter, and a battery system, and only used an electric toaster, and baked the loaf themselves in an electric oven, and walked/cycled/drove an EV to the store to get flour and yeast, there are still embodied carbon emissions in that loaf of bread.

Just think about the diesel powered trucks used to transport the grains and packaging to the flour factory, the energy used to power the milling equipment, and the diesel fuel used to transport that flour to the store.

Basically, unless you go completely off grid and grow your own organic wheat, your zero emissions toast just ain't happening.

And that's for the most basic of food products!

Unless we get the infrastructure in place to move to a 100% renewables and storage grid, and use it to power fully electric freight rail and zero emissions passenger transport, pretty much all of our decarbonisation efforts are non-starters.

This is fundamentally an infrastructure and public policy problem, not a problem of individual consumer choice.

#ClimateChange #urbanism #infrastructure #energy #grid #politics #power @green

arstechnica, 8 months ago to random

This student-built EV just set a new world record for 0–62 mph

This student-built electric racer needed just 12.3 meters to hit 62 mph.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/this-student-built-ev-just-set-a-new-world-record-for-0-62-mph/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

coloradosun, 9 months ago to random

Colorado’s governor has filled commission that determines who he appoints to state’s highest courts with Democrats, Democratic donors
https://coloradosun.com/2023/08/29/colorado-judicial-nominating-commission-jared-polis/?utm_content=buffer804e7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

annaleen, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

I feel like everyone I know somehow got COVID this week (including me, for the first time). Did you also get COVID this week?

davidho, 9 months ago to random

Climate activists disrupting flights at Frankfurt airport.

Oh wait, I’m told it’s a flood.

video/mp4

TheWarOnCars, 10 months ago to Podcast

New Patreon BONUS episode: "Chaos in the Bike Lane with Aaron Gordon."

There's been a growing problem of motorcycles and mopeds in New York City's bike lanes. It's impossible to ignore, but the solutions are complicated — especially in world where cities don't seem capable of basic governance.

What can be done? We talk about it.

https://thewaroncars.org/2023/08/08/teaser-chaos-in-the-bike-lane-with-aaron-gordon/

#thewaroncars #podcast

fulelo, 10 months ago to random

Morning all, back with my news hat on, what global stories would you like to hear about on the radio tomorrow morning? Let me know, please, as some of these might actually make it on air - this is my first attempt to get set up prompts for a programme on Mastodon. 😉 On twi it was routinely easy to find excellent experts to explain certain topics - i think masto will fare not worse, fingers crossed 😀

ArtPhotosDesk, 10 months ago to random

#ICYMI: Drone photography offers "the possibility to see things differently." Witness some of the breath-taking award winners and runners up from the sixth annual Drone Photo Awards. https://flip.it/eTb69e

#dronephotography #photography

annaleen, 10 months ago to random

What is everybody using as their link organizing app? Asking because I use Evernote basically for creating archives of links for research that I'm doing. And now Evernote is going away ...

pwramsey, 11 months ago to random

I try to avoid climate catastrophism, because things have gotten so much better in just the last 10 years, in terms of there being actual, available technology to de-carbonize the economy, and do it cost competitively against fossil fuels.

Like, the trend line on solar installation and generation is a relentless upwards curve.