#AcceleratingKeelingCurve and #DeterioratingCarbonSinks haven’t cared who is president since the 50s: Beryl’s strength and rapid intensification were unusual for a storm so early in the season. This year, that is especially alarming as forecasters expect an exceptionally active Atlantic hurricane season.

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#DisplacedAndStarvingPeopleAroundTheRedSeaProtectCarbonBombShippingLanes

https://www.juancole.com/2024/07/startling-hurricane-intensification.html

Startling Climate Change Impact: Hurricane Beryl’s Rapid intensification to Category 5 is Ominous

By Brian Tang, University at Albany, State University of New York | - (The Conversation) - Hurricane Beryl was the latest Atlantic storm to rapidly intensify, growing quickly from a tropical storm into the strongest June hurricane on record in the Atlantic. It hit the Grenadine Islands with 150 mph winds and a destructive storm surge on July 1, 2024, then continued to intensify into the basin’s earliest Category 5 storm on record. The damage Beryl caused, particularly on Carriacou and Petite Martinique, was extensive, Grenada Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told a news briefing. “In half an hour, Carriacou was

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the annual increases are increasing. When increases are increasing, you’re accelerating. And when you are doing that with the primary control knob of the Earth’s climate — CO2 — you’re accelerating away from climate stability and safety.
Net zero?
To stop the climate crisis (and its evil twin, ocean acidification) from growing increasingly extreme and dangerous, CO2 levels in the atmosphere must stop rising.
#AcceleratingKeelingCurve
#DisplacedAndStarvingPeopleAroundTheRedSeaProtectCarbonBombShippingLanes
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/03/27/analysis/co2-jumped-record-amount-last-year

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CO2 jumped by record amount last year

Despite decades of global efforts to prevent a full-blown climate crisis, the primary driver of it — CO2 — continues to pile up in our atmosphere at an accelerating rate.

Canada's National Observer

#afluenza: As it turns out, beef producers aren’t the only ones getting older. A recent study from Tulane University in New Orleans found that 12 percent of Americans account for 50 percent of beef consumption in the U.S. Most of this consumption is done by middle-aged males, while beef consumption is lower among younger consumers and college graduates. The study is sparking concerns — and hopes — that America’s population could be aging out of beef.

#CattleWreckedLandscapeByBibleBeefAndBullets

https://ambrook.com/research/studies/beef-consumption-middle-aged-men?utm_source=Ambrook+Research+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b624bc2c53-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_26_02_47_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d85bfec4c4-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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Aging Out of Beef | Ambrook Research

New research exposes how America’s beef industry is increasingly propped up by the consumption habits of middle-aged men.

Ambrook

#PowerLineWildfire State Farm, California’s largest insurer, announced that it will discontinue coverage for 72,000 homes and apartments starting this summer, a move likely to sharply inflate housing costs for affected residents in a state that’s reeling from a series of destructive recent wildfires.

But Karl Susman, an independent broker and industry expert based in Los Angeles, said those who will be dropped are almost certainly properties in and around wildland areas considered at greater risk of wildfires, where standard coverage has become nearly impossible to get.

#StopIntrusionIntoTheWUIAndRematriateLandBack

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/03/21/california-home-insurance-meltdown-worsens-as-state-farm-sheds-72000-policies/

#AcceleratingKeelingCurve

California home insurance meltdown worsens as State Farm sheds 72,000 policies

State Farm, California’s largest insurer, announced it will not renew coverage for 72,000 homes and apartments as the wildfire-ravaged state’s insurance market continues to reel.

East Bay Times

https://open.substack.com/pub/heated/p/the-fossil-fuel-executive-inside?r=11rw36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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Bloomberg also listed a number of Biden advisors who are not on board with implementing a stricter #climate test for the massive #fossilfuel projects…could add up to 317 #coal plants worth of #carbon emissions to the atmosphere over the coming decade
That list included Biden’s senior energy advisor Amos Hochstein—a particularly influential confidant to the president, who has reportedly “raised concerns” about the economic and geopolitical impacts of a pause.
#100WWSS #RenewablesAreDeflationary #AcceleratingKeelingCurve #StopDeterioratingCarbonSinks #BillionairesDontNeedSubsidiesAndTaxBreak

The fossil fuel executive inside the White House

As Biden faces the biggest climate decision of his term, he's hearing "concerns" from one of his closest advisors—who happens to be a former gas executive.

HEATED

#ZionistProjectProtectsCarbonBombShippingLanes: Tankers to move fuel cargoes are instead being hired to sail to Asia instead of Europe, sparking a surge in earnings. At the same time, several Iraqi crude shipments have been booked on tankers that will take a thousands-of-miles detour around Africa.

#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation
#PentagonIsTheBiggestEmitter
#BidenAustinBlinkenAreWMDs
#RenewablesAreDeflationary
#AcceleratingKeelingCurve
#ThankGoodnessForYemen
#GenocideJoeKnows
#USAShitShow
#Gaza

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-20/the-oil-market-is-making-plans-for-red-sea-chaos-to-last-weeks

Red Sea Crisis: Oil Markets Make Contingency Plans for Weeks of Chaos

The oil market appears to be bracing for a weeks-long disruption to shipping in the southern Red Sea, where Houthi militants have for months been attacking merchant vessels in response to Israel’s war in Gaza.

Bloomberg

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240122-carbon-emissions-and-climate-costs-of-israel-war-on-gaza/

#AcceleratingKeelingCurve: According to the study, greenhouse gas emissions from the first 60 days of the (Israel Gaza) war (on occupied civilians) are “roughly the equivalent of 75 coal-fired power plants operating for a year.”

#ZionistProjectProtectsCarbonBombShippingLanes #PentagonIsTheBiggestEmitter #GenocideJoeKnows #Gaza

Carbon emissions and climate costs of Israel war on Gaza

With Israel’s war in Gaza now in its fourth month, concerns are mounting over the environmental consequences, particularly the carbon emissions, generated by the ongoing hostilities. A recent study published...

Middle East Monitor

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-01-18/clippers-arena-deal-dragged-into-u-s-probe-of-california-fintech

#MediaDisinformation- no indication what kind of #pollution at Intuit Dome is being offset in South Inglewood, or with what, despite lots of name drops, including Ben Jealous and Leonard DiCaprio, by the: fast-growing, opaque and lightly regulated market for voluntary #carbonoffsets -- a crucial tool for corporations looking to fulfill #netzero pledges. The marketplace has quadrupled in size since 2020 to about $2 billion, and Morgan Stanley estimates it could grow to $250 billion by 2050.
#MakePollutersPay #UnGlamourousSolutionsAreClimateJustice
#AcceleratingKeelingCurve

Clippers arena deal dragged into U.S. probe of California fintech

Federal investigators are looking into whether former Clippers sponsor Aspiration misled customers about carbon offsets related to Intuit Dome, sources say.

Los Angeles Times

#AcceleratingKeelingCurve: A six-figure salary to spread climate misinformation- “It's sending a message to current Senators that maybe you shouldn't be so harsh on the industry, if they're going to take care of you after you finish,” he said.

#FossilFuelsViolateHumanRights #GoldenHandshakeTrumpsDoTheRightThing

https://substack.com/inbox/post/140792626

Here’s how much Democrats get paid to shill for fossil fuels

Two former Democratic lawmakers made six-figure salaries for falsely promoting methane gas as a climate solution, tax documents seen by HEATED show.

HEATED

https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2024-01-04/column-its-2024-time-to-start-acting-like-climate-change-actually-matters-boiling-point

#AcceleratingKeelingCurve: As I wrote in November 2020, before it was clear who the next U.S. president would be, a Biden victory “wouldn’t magically solve the #climatecrisis” any more than a Trump victory would guarantee our doom. We’ve got a long way to go. Even if we can’t stop temperatures from rising 1.5 degrees, 2 degrees would be a hell of a lot better than 3.
Whoever wins the White House, I’ll probably look back at 2024 with disappointment and frustration over all the climate progress we could have made but didn’t. But that won’t mean we should throw up our collective hands in despair, or give up- Sammy Roth
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Column: It's 2024. Time to start acting like climate change actually matters

Here are five stories I'm watching in 2024. You should watch them too.

Los Angeles Times