Tag climate-change

With crypto crashing, hopefully to zero, we have a potential ~0.1 Gt-CO2 per year savings in greenhouse gas emissions on the table. Cool. That’s 10,000x larger than all the world’s carbon capture technologies to date. And it could happen immediately.

Dr. Jonathan Foley (@GlobalEcoGuy)Thu, 12 May 2022 13:06 +0000

Coke switched to plastic bottles not because consumers wanted it ( we all used to take bottles back to the shops lol) but because they figured that disposable plastic was cheaper than maintaining the bottle collection system

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The world is not addicted to plastic. People don't buy products in plastic packages because they just can't get enough plastic, they buy them because there's no other choice. Corporations are addicted to plastic, and governments are addicted to not regulating corporations.

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Mary Gillis (@living_marble)Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:59 +0000

mumbi (@pasrealiste)Fri, 01 Apr 2022 17:55 +0000

The world is not addicted to plastic. People don't buy products in plastic packages because they just can't get enough plastic, they buy them because there's no other choice. Corporations are addicted to plastic, and governments are addicted to not regulating corporations.

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The world is addicted to plastic. To address the problem, researchers are turning to some unlikely substances: the roots of mushrooms, and byproducts from wheat and lentil production, to create bioplastics. Read more: globalnews.ca/news/8707787/h…

Globalnews.ca (@globalnews)Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:34 +0000

Mary Gillis (@living_marble)Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:59 +0000

JUST IN: wanna see how powerful that EF-3 tornado in Jacksboro was? This is security footage taken as the tornado ripped through the gym at the high school. Absolutely wild. (@wfaa/@wfaaweather)

Matt Howerton (@HowertonNews)Fri, 25 Mar 2022 23:42 GMT

Not to be that guy but this should be the biggest news out there right now

Read Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell (@JoshuaPotash)Sun, 20 Mar 2022 22:30 GMT

https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1498364944441647108

1,248 mile (1,085 NM) flight from AUS to VNY ~ 1,375 gallons (5,206 liters). ~ 9,218 pds (4,181 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $7,069 cost of fuel. ~ 15 tons of CO2 emissions.

Elon Musk's Jet (@ElonJet)Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:30 GMT

I hope I recycle correctly this week.

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https://twitter.com/ElonJet/status/1498364944441647108

1,248 mile (1,085 NM) flight from AUS to VNY ~ 1,375 gallons (5,206 liters). ~ 9,218 pds (4,181 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $7,069 cost of fuel. ~ 15 tons of CO2 emissions.

Elon Musk's Jet (@ElonJet)Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:30 GMT

Zachary Forrest y Salazar (he/him) (@zdfs)Mon, 28 Feb 2022 18:37 GMT

Me in 2019: “I’m not spending £20k on solar panels, it’ll take 24 years for them to pay for themselves!” 2023: “Bugger, those £20k solar panels would have paid for themselves in 24 months…” 2025: “Bugger, those £20k solar panels would have paid for themselves in 24 days…”

Paul Lomax (@PaulLomax)Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:24 GMT

https://twitter.com/charkie/status/1488620507306119178

Also, props to the developers working with Team17 who came out immediately to say they disapproved of this scheme.

Charkie (@charkie)Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:11 GMT

but don't forget to turn off the lights when you leave home!

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Brussels Airlines runs 3,000 empty flights to maintain take-off and landing slots thebulletin.be/brussels-airli…

The Bulletin (@_TheBulletin)Wed, 05 Jan 2022 07:55 GMT

Bes D. Marx (@besf0rt)Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:17 GMT

well I mean they're not wrong 🤷‍♂️

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Liran Tal | Developer-first AppSec 🚀 (@liran_tal)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 09:20 GMT

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News Reader claiming “Good News, it’s the hottest New Years Eve on record!” is exactly what #DontLookUp was about. People will just chortle away about the climate crisis until the rising seas, gigafires, firenados and just general bloody air pollution finish us all.

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BREAKING: The UK has seen its warmest New Year's Eve on record with temperatures provisionally reaching 15.3C (59.54F), the Met Office said. Read more: trib.al/GftOcvx

Sky News (@SkyNews)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 12:34 GMT

Wandering Woodsman 🔥🚴‍♂️🌳 (@philsturgeon)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 10:08 GMT

It is not ignorance that prevents governments from stopping climate breakdown. It is their obsession with capitalist growth. #DontLookUp

Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 11:20 GMT

We don’t talk about how much damage anti-Nuclear hippies of the 70s did to the earth.

Sean (@dukakis_poster)Mon, 27 Dec 2021 05:00 GMT

My parents think I’m a loony lib for thinking about a heat pump for the new house. Boomers grew up in the era of cheap energy and it was easy to ignore the crisis they got us into. What I can’t understand is ignorance of the mounting evidence and that in the end efficiency wins

Katie Fenn (@katie_fenn)Mon, 27 Dec 2021 12:01 GMT

Jeff Bezos' 9-minute joyride to the edge of space created more carbon emissions than 1 billion people produce in an entire lifetime

W.E.D.em Boyz (@LeftistWonk)Thu, 09 Dec 2021 04:55 GMT

I saw Microsoft's executives were tweeting very concerned things about climate change and Hurricane Ida recently so I went to go look at the company's recent PAC donations and, well, guess what heated.world/p/microsoft-tw…

Emily Atkin (@emorwee)Tue, 07 Sep 2021 14:53 +0000

Confident that we’ll all do our bit to tackle the climate crisis given that people have spent the last two years pissing their pants about having to wear a bit of cloth over their face around the Big Tesco to stop their Nan from doing a dead

James Felton (@JimMFelton)Mon, 09 Aug 2021 09:25 +0000

Nothing will have as big an impact on your life (and everyone else’s) in the next 5, 10, 30 years as CLIMATE. Nothing. Climate change is the one thing that will shape all else: health, economy, security, nations, everything. Please think well about who you vote, how you live.

Peter Bihr (@peterbihr)Fri, 06 Aug 2021 09:05 +0000

billionaires are taking day trips into space

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🧼 People should consider not rinsing plates before putting them in the dishwasher to limit the impact on the environment, Boris Johnson’s COP26 spokeswoman has suggested telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…

The Telegraph (@Telegraph)Tue, 27 Jul 2021 10:31 +0000

Kate Flood (@KateFlood)Tue, 27 Jul 2021 14:14 +0000

“We’ve charged you full fare for this journey because you did not tap out” twitter.com/avasantina/sta…

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‘Good service on all lines’

Ava-Santina (@AvaSantina)Sun, 25 Jul 2021 18:30 +0000

Kieran McHugh (@kieranmch)Sun, 25 Jul 2021 21:33 +0000

In one photo.

P. Friedlingstein (@PFriedling)Thu, 15 Jul 2021 19:10 +0000

did i do this right

carina (adult human sbemail 💌) (@checarina)Sat, 03 Jul 2021 05:00 +0000

A proposal: all international climate negotiations should be held in 45 degree C rooms.

Dan Rutherford (@rutherdan)Thu, 01 Jul 2021 01:08 +0000

Just a reminder

Brian Kahn (@blkahn)Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:23 +0000