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"
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“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
It took five decades of work, but one of the world’s driest regions is being transformed into a carbon sink. You’ve heard plenty about deforestation. @ScienceAlert provides a more upbeat look at an afforestation project in northwestern China that may add one piece to the puzzle in the fight against climate change:
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