"I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone" by Richard Brautigan

📢 YOU'RE INVITED! Join us at the Rainproof NYC full-day Symposium. 🕒 Time: 9:30 AM, June 25, 2024 📍 John Jay College Hear our Rainproof NYC Working Groups’ collective recommendations to address NYC’s growing rainfall challenge. RSVP today: bit.ly/june25symposium #RainproofNYC

Starts on Thursday! (June 20)

BREAKING: MTA admits that it has STOPPED work on the Second Ave. subway because of #CongestionKathy's abandonment of a state law that would have provided funding for the work ... and more: nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/06/18/wor…

We often focus on global temperatures, but land regions where we all live have been warming much faster. For #showyourstripes day, here are land, ocean, and global climate stripes shown on the same color scale:

🔵 Every 🟡 fraction 🟠 of a degree 🟤 of global warming 🔴 matters. The extent to which current and future generations will experience a hotter and different world depends on the choices we make today and in the coming years. #ShowYourStripes Day | Ed Hawkins | IPCC

Las Vegas is a hot place. But today it was three degrees hotter than it's ever been before

A clear and alarming visual animation that contextualizes what we can feel and see. It’s not hypothetical anymore; it’s happening, and we're entering uncharted (rising, warming) water. We have tools to decarbonize and adapt faster, and we need your help-plz vote w/ this in mind!

The total amount of metals needed for the energy transition (that can also be recycled) is far smaller than the total weight of fossil fuels we burn away each year. Net zero means more metals, but less extraction from the Earth. My newsletter this week: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Electric vehicles are already displacing nearly 1.8 million barrels of oil every day, a number set to double by 2027 and triple by 2029, per BloombergNEF's Road Fuel Outlook. 🔗 Read more: bloom.bg/3XNsHTZ #FuelOutlook #ElectricVehicles

The US🇺🇸 has always been, and still is, in a very different league..

I don’t want to hear anything else about wind turbines killing birds

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Climate change is disrupting energy and commodity markets, altering supply chains, and affecting prices. 🌎 BloombergNEF’s analysis identifies five significant impacts already reshaping US commodities, emphasizing how changing weather patterns create challenges and opportunities

this is INCREDIBLE, congestion pricing is already working wonders traffic at 1:30PM on the average Sunday vs today Holland Tunnel: 27 mins ➡️ 9 mins Lincoln Tunnel: 10 mins ➡️ 3 mins Williamsburg Bridge: 11 mins ➡️ 6 mins

Flying over aurora; intensely green.

Here’s a simple way to illustrate how the warming rate has increased over the past few decades. It’s an extrapolation of the linear trend of global avg temp in 2000 vs the same for 2024. In 2024 we reach +1.5C by 2030. In 2000 the trend showed 2041. Tool via Copernicus.

The now-confirmed and rumored additional cuts to come at NOAA/NWS are spectacularly short-sighted, and ultimately will deal a major self-inflicted wound to the public safety of Americans and the resiliency of the American economy to weather and climate-related disasters. 11/11

The village of Blatten in Switzerland is partly buried by the collapse of a glacier which melted because our greenhouse gas emissions warmed the climate. Another reminder that not investing enough today to reduce emissions means far greater costs for society in the long term.