https://act.citizen.org/page/63324/petition/1?locale=en-US

Fossil fuel behemoth BP made $13.8 billion in profits last year.

To put that number in context:
• Suppose you make the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. (Yes, the federal minimum wage is still stuck where it was 15 years ago.)
• You work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. (No vacation for you!)
• It would take 915,119 years to earn $13.8 billion. (And that could hardly be considered profits. You would have been scraping by. For almost a million years. Which is about three times longer than human beings have actually existed.)

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl
#USSettlerColonialGenrontocracyFundsGenocide
#KeepItInTheGround
#FossilFuelsViolateHumanRights
#PetroOligarchsAreRICO
#NationalizeFossilFuels
#IfNotNowThenAtWhatTemperature #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobsEvenBullshitJobs

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/climate-change-fossil-fuels-warming/

Leader of #COP28 busy generating #Carbonbombs: as head of Adnoc, #AlJaber is still slated to oversee a massive expansion of #oilandgas production.

#NationalizeFossilFuels #blahblahblah

Exclude Fossil Fuel Firms From COP 28 if They Only Want to Obstruct

“My patience ran out,” said Christiana Figueres, who for years had advocated for oil companies to be involved in policymaking talks.

The Nation

#NewAbnormal: The disturbing fact that puts everything in perspective is that this summer will likely be among the mildest summers that you and I will experience for the rest of our lives.

#NationalizeFossilFuels

From: @andybrwn
https://sfba.social/@andybrwn/111115806580865754

andybrwn (@[email protected])

Harsh, doomy, but not wrong article about the inter generational injustice of climate change impacts. “In the U.S., the richest 10% produce 40% of the country's global warming pollution. Another study concluded that "a billionaire emits a million times more greenhouse gasses than the average person."” https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/111115631499073725

SFBA.social
As extreme downpours trigger flooding around the world, scientists take a closer look at global warming's role

There’s a rule of thumb that rainfall intensity increases by about 7% per degree Celsius as temperatures rise. But the increase is much higher in the mountains, scientists found.

The Conversation
400 Climate Scientists Endorse Call to Halt Fossil Fuels Ahead of Major <span class="caps">NYC</span> Climate March

Ahead of a March to End Fossil Fuels in New York City on Sunday, some 400 scientists endorsed the demands of the march in an open letter to President Biden, blasting him for claiming he would “listen to the science” while his policies “fail to align with what the science tells us must happen to avert calamity.” We speak with Rose Abramoff, an Earth scientist and one of the signatories, who was arrested last week blocking construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. “We feel like the science has come to such a complete consensus and we just want fossil fuels to stop,” says Abramoff. “I wouldn’t feel the need to risk my job with activism, to risk felony level charges by locking myself to a pipeline drill if I felt like the voice of the scientific community was being properly heard.”

Democracy Now!
New Study Identifies United States as ‘Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief’

Planned fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. accounts for more than a third of new oil and gas extraction projects set to begin through 2050, according to Oil Change International.

scheerpost.com

#NationalizeFossilFuels: #forest #fires might be eroding the state’s #climategoals, with UCLA scientists describing the state’s efforts as “up in smoke.” #wildfireemissions should be a bigger part of California’s #climatepolicy… scaling back #fossilfuels has to be #California’s priority

#DeterioratingCarbonSinks #AcceleratingKeelingCurve

https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/09/california-wildfire-smoke-climate-change/

California’s wildfire smoke and climate change: 4 things to know

California wildfires every year emit as much carbon as almost 2 million cars, posing a threat to efforts to battle climate change.

CalMatters

#Kleptocracy’s inner machinations: powerful California lobbying firms — including those with ties to Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state Democratic leaders — are effectively acting as double agents for both the culprits of climate change and its victims, according to F Minus…lawmakers are preparing to vote on a climate bill

#PetroOligarchsAreRICO #NationalizeFossilFuels #AcceleratingKeelingCurve

https://progressivehub.net/californias-climate-crisis-double-agents/

California’s Climate Crisis Double Agents

Exclusive: A watchdog group finds that lobbyists in California are working for both the culprits of climate change and its victims.

Progressive Hub

a proposed law calls the bluff and sets #CCS as a requirement. In response #utilities lost their absolute minds and are fighting like hell to oppose the #technology they once supported, back when it was a hollow promise used to #greenwash
#omnicide #CigaretteScience #corruptrobertscourt #NationalizeFossilFuels

From: @ketan
https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/111002991148946263

Ketan Joshi (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image G'day everyone, here's a brand new post for you to enjoy - about why it's really bad that carbon removal - a technology that was always vulnerable to becoming a tool for climate delay - is showing all the early signs of joining technologies like CCS, fossil hydrogen and synthetic fuels in doing more harm than good. Namely: the rapid proliferation of fossil fuel partnerships in the very very explicit context of enabling ongoing emissions, alongside the indiscriminate sale of carbon credits to whoever, and for whatever purpose. So many technologies that end up as greenwashing cudgels do have some narrow, important applications - but this gets absolutely buried underneath a tsunami of bad-faith, climate-delaying rhetoric. Have a read - it's an interesting space and I've been chipping away at this piece in my free time for a few weeks now. If you enjoy it, please share! https://ketanjoshi.co/2023/09/03/carbon-removals-default-destiny-is-playing-out-as-expected-but-it-can-be-changed/

Climate Justice Social

Dementia risk grows with increased exposure to air pollution, study finds https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-29/dementia-risk-grows-with-increased-exposure-to-air-pollution

No wonder politicians forget to #NationalizeFossilFuels: people living with higher levels of fine particulate matter, or PM2.5, could face a greater risk of being stricken with dementia.

#AirPollutionKills #keepitintheground #GreenNewDealJobs

Dementia risk grows with increased exposure to air pollution

Long-term exposure to fine particulate pollution may increase the risk of developing dementia, new research says.

Los Angeles Times