No surprises here - #Arctic Ocean stripes are off the scale. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. #ShowYourStripes

➡️ Explore your own climate change stripes from around the world! https://showyourstripes.info (Global) and https://observablehq.com/@climatecentral/stripes-day (U.S.)

What's in your area?

The oil industry MUST keep producing more and more plastic. Given the steady shift toward renewable energy, it's their only sure way to keep making billions of dollars in profits. 💵 💵 💵

But who pays the price for all those profits?
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Chemical pollution tied to fossil fuel operations poses serious risks to human health, warns a new analysis published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Citing data from dozens of studies, the report points to an alarming rise in neurodevelopmental issues, diabetes, chronic respiratory disease, and certain cancers in young people taking place amid what the paper’s author calls “explosive growth” in the petrochemical industry.

Between 1990 and 2019, rates of certain cancers in people under 50 increased dramatically. Meanwhile, fossil fuel use and petrochemical production have increased fifteen-fold since the 1950s, according to the report.

“One of the major factors driving climate change is also increasing our exposures to chemicals that are adversely impacting health,” said the report’s author, Tracey Woodruff, a professor at the University of California San Francisco. “Typically people say cancer is a disease of the aging, but now we’re seeing it increasing in people under 50.”

The report points to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), chemicals commonly found in plastics and other products that interfere with healthy hormonal function, as a key threat.

EDCs are found in several everyday materials, including pesticides, building materials and cosmetics, as well as in many fabrics and children’s toys, according to the new analysis.

These chemicals are part of a broader pollution burden that has become the leading cause of premature deaths around the world, according to the analysis. Chemical pollution is estimated to be responsible for at least 1.8 million deaths each year, the paper states.

Due in part to a boom in single-use plastics production, petrochemical production continues to climb despite growing use of renewable energy sources to power homes and vehicles.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/increase-fossil-fuel-pollution-health-risk-report

#Plastic #Pollution #Health #Science #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist and climate activist, was interviewed yesterday by Democracy Now about the impacts of Hurricane Helene. Here is part of what he said...
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I was reading articles about the flooding in western North Carolina in The New York Times. The articles did not even mention climate change, not a single mention. This is what’s driving it. And then there’s the larger context of irreversible global overheating, which is caused by the fossil fuel industry. They’ve been lying and blocking action for decades.

The planet’s overheating. It’s irreversible. It’s caused by the fossil fuel industry. And the reason I say “industry” specifically, not “fossil fuels,” is because this industry has been systematically blocking action for almost 50 years, for decades and decades.

This will get worse as the planet continues to get hotter. We’ll see even worse storms in the future. Every day that we continue burning fossil fuels and allowing this industry to continue spreading disinformation and blocking action, the planet gets hotter.

Hotter oceans fuels these storms, causing them to intensify more rapidly, to get much more powerful. And a hotter atmosphere holds more water, so we get these intense rainfalls, which cause the sort of flooding that’s happening right now.

I think that this is the most evil thing that's possible to imagine, that fossil fuel executives and lobbyists will continue to lie so they can line their bank accounts at the irreversible expense of our planet and the future of humanity.
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LEARN MORE -- https://truthout.org/video/media-fails-to-link-hurricane-helene-to-fossil-fueled-climate-change/

#Media #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Update:
117F at Phoenix
HOTTEST SEPTEMBER DAY IN HISTORY 3 days before the start of October

Absolutely mind blowing, it's one of the most extreme event in US climatic history
and 9F higher than any temperature ever recorded that late in over a century.

US climatic history is writing a new page today