Facebook still spreading fake climate news & denial

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

Analysis shows that about half the posts from long established and well-known fake news publishers were posted with no warnings from Facebook

by Elizabeth Culliford, 24/02/2022 in Reuters Technology
Facebook did not label posts from top climate change deniers, report says: Facebook did not add labels to half of posts pushing content from top climate change deniers, according to an analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate

  • See also: The Toxic Ten: How 10 fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial

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Easy ways to lower your carbon emissions footprint

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

The article is from America and it lists several ways you can lower your carbon emissions — but no subsidy in Oz for replacing your gas guzzler!

by Washington Post Staff, 22/02/2022 in the Washington Post Climate Solutions
10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint: Small changes alone won’t stop climate change, but your actions are still worthwhile.

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Coral reef ecosystems on the way to being cooked

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

The accelerating heat content of the world’s oceans will soon be forcing coral reef ecosystems towards their collapse into mass extinction

Click here for a detailed explanation of the graph…

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Insane Gov’t stops replacing of burnt community hall

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

COALition Gov’t bureaucracy blocks grant to cover costs to replace Sarsfield (Vic) Community Centre incinerated in Black Summer

by Jedda Costa, 21/02/2022 in ABC News (Gippsland)
Bushfire-ravaged Sarsfield misses out on recovery grant due to ABN issue

The bushfire ravaged town of Sarsfield in eastern Victoria’s Gippsland region has missed out on a $3.6 million recovery grant to build a new community hall at a recreation reserve.

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IPCC’s 28 Feb climate change report will be bad news

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

Part 2 of AR6 – The IPCC’s report on climate change impacts will likely be bad enough. However the actual truth will probably be even worse

by Matt McGrath, 22/02/2022 in BBC News/Science
IPCC: Climate change report to sound warning on impacts

A new report on the impacts of climate change will likely be the most worrying assessment yet of how rising temperatures affect every living thing.

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High Arctic is warming 4x faster than the world

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

The true Arctic zone above the Arctic Circle that drives world climate change is heating at a prodigious rate. Bad news for our one Earth!

See the full article….

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What do you fix first? Methane or CO₂?

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

Methane is more powerful than CO₂ but has a relatively short life in the atmosphere. CO₂ hangs around for centuries. Both are bad news!

by John Lynch, 21/02/2022 in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Fatal distraction: the problem with the methane pledge

Over the past year, the world has experienced severe heatwaves, wildfires, and drought. As global temperature continues to creep upwards, these events will become more frequent and more extreme. Obviously, humanity needs to make a concerted effort to rapidly bring down greenhouse gas emissions to limit warming to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, as global leaders agreed to do when they signed the Paris Agreement.

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Interesting: green power can avoid winter blackouts

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

Washington Post analyzes last winter’s Texas Blackout to show renewable energy networks can cope better than fossil fuel based systems

by Kasha Patel, 21/02/2022 in The Washington Post
A year after Texas cold spell, study shows renewable energy could help prevent blackouts

Electricity blackouts could be avoided across the nation by switching to solar, wind and water energy sources, the report argues

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Offshore wind generation set to grow fast in USA

William P. Hall on February 23, 2022

Projects in pipeline promise more than Biden’s 30 GW by 2030, but struggle for financing. Why can’t govt. provide it in climate emergency?

by Emma Penrod, 17/02/2022 in UTILITYDIVE
Offshore wind on track to hit, possibly exceed Biden’s 30 GW target by 2030

Two independent analyses completed this month have determined that the U.S. is now on track to deploy at least 30 GW of offshore wind generation by 2030, meeting a key goal established by the Biden administration.

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Humanity’s massive carbon footprint on our only planet

William P. Hall on February 23, 2022

Almost without exception, every one of those traces was made by burning prodigious quantities of fossil carbon to heat our only world.

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