Climate Change to Shrink World Economy. Global income projected to fall 1/5th ($38tn/yr) compared to no global warming. This results from historical emissions, effects of rising temps & economic growth factors, excluding extreme weather impacts.
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Scientists in disbelief as Antarctic sea ice has been disappearing over the last several summers
What would have been shocking for 2070 has already happened in 2023
' it was 2023, not 2070,' Ariaan Purich, an Antarctic climate researcher

livescience.com/planet-earth/a…

Sunak’s weakening of #climate targets ‘retrograde’. UK govt’s decision to weaken its climate commitments was a “retrograde step” that will set back vital cross-party action to cut carbon emissions, Claire O’Neill a former Conservative climate minister said theguardian.com/environment/20…

From our archives: There are more than 400 dead zones in the world’s oceans, all largely the result of fertilizer runoff.

The largest dead zone, located in the Baltic Sea, often covers more than 20,000 square miles.
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From pollinating our crops to producing sweet honey, bees give us many of the foods we love 🐝🍎
But did you know they're also vital for biodiversity?
Watch International Fund for Agricultural Development's video to know more⬇️

The quote in the BBC video below says it all, 'We need really joined up thinking across Whitehall'. But #ClimateCrisis deniers like Steve Baker MP (Wycombe, Cons), & Rishi Sunak actively work for the opposite. They are all about power & profit, forgetting the people & planet.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorises it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frederic Bastiat

Our treatment of Earth's resources & ecosystems amounts to gross plunder. It may well bring the end of our civilisation.

🌎 Happy #EarthDay2024 🌎

🌱 Bees pollinate 90 of the wild flowering plants
🐝 Population🔻80%
⚠️ Bee-killing pesticides must be banned

🆘 Sign & Share the Petition 🆘
change.org/SaveTheBee

#SaveTheBees 🌻

It remained a secret until 10 years ag0
Astonishing plant
The vine Boquila trifoliolata is a shapeshifter
It can mimic and pretend to be other plants

A man in Utah who appears to have induced one to imitate a plastic plant on his windowsill.the-scientist.com/can-plants-see…

By 2050 global emissions from plastic production could account for 1/5th of Earth’s remaining carbon budget, study finds. This is more evidence that the plastic industry is “undermining the world effort to address climate change”. theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

'They support around 500 million livelihoods in 100 countries around the planet & supply a significant portion of the world’s food.'
Coral catastrophe signals our own undoing

➡️johnmenadue.com/coral-catastro…
Julian Cribb
#HappyEarthDay2024 #ClimateCrisis

Amazon’s plastic packaging waste alone could encircle the globe 500 times: buff.ly/39H6cqB. We need to do better.

Use less, buy less, waste less.

#ActOnClimate #climate

When a #nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania went from a technological miracle to a pile of radioactive rubble in a matter of moments.
beyondnuclearinternational.org/2024/04/21/sea…

#TaylorSwift does not give a stuff
Her private jet usage amounted to an estimated 8,300 tonnes of carbon emissions in 2022 – that's 1,800 times average human's annual emissions, or 576 times that of the average American and about 1,000 times that of the average European.

New feedbacks in Antarctica
phys.org/news/2024-04-f…

This was a ground-breaking book with astonishing predictions that are so far coming true. But we can change things...

World’s biggest offshore floating #wind farm set to be built off the coast of #Scotland .

independent.co.uk/business/world…

Trees have thoughts and desires, Wohlleben writes, and they converse via fungi that connect their roots “like fibre-optic internet cables”
Some can even clone themselves
Some plants may even see and can mimic and pretend to be other plants
theguardian.com/environment/20…

If we truly want a habitable planet for future generations (of all life forms), we must live as if #EveryDayIsEarthDay .

#Wind overtakes fossil fuels for UK electricity generation:

Stat of the day.

25.3 terawatt hours (TWh) of the UK's energy was generated by wind in the first quarter of 2024, beating fossil fuel gas generation.

#RenewableEnergy #climate
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