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Editorial: There's no persuading fossil fuel companies, which still place profit above Earth's future

It’s becoming clearer to some environmental leaders that fossil fuel companies have no real plans to change in response to the climate crisis. The only way forward is without them.

Los Angeles Times
“This Is the Climate Crisis”: Climate Scientist Michael Mann on Maui Wildfires

YouTube
EPA Overrules Texas Plan to Reduce Haze From Air Pollution at National Parks - Inside Climate News

GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, Texas—Reviewing the day’s hike over a dinner of chicken tacos earlier this summer, Cristina Ramirez told her fellow campers that she felt a mix of elation and disappointment. That morning, the group of campers had tramped up Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas at 8,751 feet. The strenuous 8.5-mile round-trip […]

Inside Climate News

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/13/louisiana-carbon-capture-emissions

NoTHiNg tO SeE hEre! ☀️🏖️

30 #carboncapture projects have been proposed in Louisiana spurred by federal #subsidies and supercharged by increased incentives in the #InflationReductionAct intended to address #globalwarming (to) undermine efforts to phase out #FossilFuels.

#ParisAligned #GreenwashingScience #CigaretteScience #DisposablePlaces #environmentalracism

Carbon-capture gold rush an ‘insult’ to locals in emissions-hit Louisiana

US government plans to roll out carbon capture rather than phase out fossil fuels prompts outcry in heavily industrial state

The Guardian

https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelthomaswrites/p/america-needs-to-install-a-lot-more?r=11rw36&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

To #decarbonize the #housing sector, we need to go from 66 million fossil fuel #heatingsystems to zero over the next three decades. 
In order to achieve this goal, we need to phase out 2.4 million #fossilfuel #furnaces every single year for the next 27 years. This is where the math gets a little scary.

#electrifyeverything #DefenseProductionAct #efficiency #ClimateEquity #ParisAligned

America Needs To Install A Lot More Heat Pumps

In order to meet its climate goals, America needs to replace 2.4 million fossil fuel furnaces every year for the next 27 years.

Distilled
Citizens' Climate Lobby: The heart of climate justice

Empowering women, supporting women, and investing in women is the key to building climate resilience and equity in all communities — locally and worldwide.

The Holland Sentinel

A report in Nature concluded that we have already exceeded seven of eight “#safe and #just #Earth #systemboundaries” that it studied—from #groundwater supplies and #fertilizer #overuse to #temperature
“We are moving in the wrong direction on basically all of these,” Johan Rockström, the paper’s lead author and the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told reporters.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower

#KeepItInTheGround #KeelingCurve
#Sufficiency #Sharing #ParisAligned