and while we are busy destroying our planet & doing nothing but pay lipservice to climate change, the morons of this country elected a guy who things windmills cause cancer. humanity is doomed by our own stupidity
Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds
"Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS"
#Corruption #Climate #Environment #News #AUSPol #Activism #HumanRights #ClimateChange
“Without significant rainfall, Corpus Christi is headed for a ‘water emergency’ within months and total depletion of the system next year, according to the city’s website.” #Climate #Water #Texas #Drought #CorpusChristi
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/texas-corpus-christi-water-crisis/
“THE FIRST ATTEMPT to drill through the Greenland ice sheet was made in the early nineteen-sixties at a U.S. Army outpost called Camp Century. Some fifty years later, the camp remains far and away the biggest thing ever built on—or, really, under the Greenland ice. Camp Century had a bar, a chapel, a barbershop, a movie theater, and a nuclear reactor. All were housed in a network of snow tunnels like those at EGRIP [the East Greenland Ice-Core Project], but extending for miles. The ostensible purpose of the base was to promote Arctic science, but in the nineteen-nineties an investigation by the Danish government revealed this to be a ruse. What the army had really been up to was developing a new system for storing intercontinental ballistic missiles. Its plan was to install a subglacial railway and shuttle ICBMs around in a Cold War shell game. The code name for the scheme was Project Iceworm.” - A passage from the chapter, A Song of Ice Greenland Is Melting from the book, Life On A Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World by Elizabeth Kolbert (2025) which I am reading.
#Greenland #Denmark #Bookstodon #Climate #Science #Nature #Environment
US DOT Aviation Climate Plan
I am currently on the Amtrak Cascades line between Seattle and Vancouver, returning from the awesome SeaGL 2025 conference at the University of Washington. I decided to cancel the US leg of my flight home because of the airport chaos caused by cancelling 10% of domestic flights. But it got me thinking that reducing air travel by 10% could have a huge effect on the USA’s greenhouse gas emissions.
My best estimate from the US Greenhouse Gas Inventory is that aviation emissions are about 125Mt annually. If we assume that the air traffic reduction will last about 1 month, that month would normally account for about 10Mt of emissions. A 10% reduction would thus make up about 1Mt of emissions.
For scale, that’s about the annual emissions of around 54,000 Americans. Not a bad reduction! It’s kind of a small percent of the total 6343 Mt the US puts out every year — about 0.016% — but I guess every bit counts. Given how tepid other climate action, even unintentional, has been in the US this year, we should probably congratulate the US DOT for its bold climate action.
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