'Tree planting in the wake of clearcuts is causing dire consequences for wildlife, increasing the risks of floods and wildfires and slowly killing #forests ...When they say they're reforesting, they're not, they're just replanting, and how many survive?' infotel.ca/newsitem/why-t…

Profiting from the destruction of our life support systems

#ClimateEmergency
#ClimateBreakdown
#EndFossilFuels

Shell unveils new $3.5bn share buy-back after higher profits than expected theguardian.com/business/artic…

#ThursdayMorning - #Environment Wins and Losses: A follow up on the votes this week of some of the bills brought to our attention by reporting earlier this week. One passed the House (oil and gas leases) but will likely die in the Senate, one was defeated (mining): Read more:

Time to remove deliberately life-endangering drivers from the public domain entirely

w/sentence commensurate to level of threat, harm & obstruction caused;

Impound/crush/recycle their offending traffic machinery

X strikes & #BanForLife

… No? 💀

#NoExcuseForRoadAbuse

Everyone cares about river pollution & there's an understandable focus on human sewage.

But it seems relatively unspoken that a key source of river pollution is the huge production/consumption of cheap meat. Looking after our rivers is another good reason to go #plantbased 🌱

“Ignore all climate crisis claims...they are invented to justify the creation of dictatorships'....any expert who says CO2 is a pollutant is “either confused, wrong or lying”

Lunatics, ignorant fools and dangerous idiots

DON'T VOTE Reform UK

theguardian.com/politics/artic…

More than 79,000 homes in Gaza have been “completely destroyed” in the conflict, with another 370,000 damaged, the new assessment found.

theguardian.com/world/article/…

Human induced climate change denier Tony Heller lies for a living. He has blocked me for pointing out how he tricks his followers. Please share the link to this video with his followers youtube.com/watch?v=7pa3nV… #ClimateBrawl

Does anyone know what farmers are using to create this tragedy? Is it Roundup?

Will Midwest Choke on Smoke again this Summer? thinc.blog/2024/05/02/wil… via Peter Sinclair

What stands out about this season is steering. Last spring the models clearly projected a recurving storm track for peak hurricane season. That ended up being correct. This year there’s a robust model consensus that the average storm track will be into the Caribbean. 1/

SUNAK TO ALLOW OIL AND GAS EXPLOR ATION AT SITES INTENDED FOR OFFSHORE WIND

Can you actually believe this?

Rishi Sunak #climate criminal. You will pay for this.

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

And this is what they call progress. We've really messed this planet up. Oil & Gas, a truly dirty business. Thousands of Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Pollute the Texas Landscape via Capital & Main - capitalandmain.com/thousands-of-a…

Main Topic: Will California’s Big Drought Reprieve Be Its Last for Decades to Come? via @borenbears
On the Extreme Temperature Diary- THU 5/02/2024
guyonclimate.com/2024/05/02/ext…
+new #climate , record temp + #weather links
Prof Michael E. Mann Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈 Prof. Peter Strachan

Toby Young Your disinfo post contains two misleading graphs, one from a fossil fuel lobby group and they other is omits key info such as this: nature.com/articles/s4146… The graph is also debunked here x.com/Ceist8/status/…

Humans, especially those with money, can find ways to escape excessive heat. Animals often aren't so lucky.

Hundreds of thousands of fish die after the drought/heatwave in Vietnam dries out the Song May reservoir.

h/t Prof Lisa Schipper 🌎 ✊

phys.org/news/2024-05-m…

Thank you Carly Mallenbaum for sharing my thoughts!

'Van Dis says it's her hypothesis that the rise in those conditions is due to 'environmental exposure,' and she cites the increasing use of plastics.'

axios.com/2024/04/29/c-s…

Thames Water paid dividend to its parent company; £37m in 2021/22, £45m in 2022/23, £37.5m in Sept 2023.

It says they aren’t really dividends.

Former OFWAT CEO is a Thames director

In Dec 2023 OFWAT began investigation. So far no report

Why the delay?
theguardian.com/business/2023/…