Rambling Readers

Kriszta Satori

#BBCNews - Norway on track to be first to go all-electric
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg52543v6rmo
#EVs #ZeroEmission #Climate #ClimateChange

Nathan Olsen

The world of tomorrow feels closer than ever. 🔥

#sundaecomics #webcomic #comics #ClimateChange #SciFi #dystopia

A mother takes her children to the lake for a picnic in this sci-fi webcomic.

The Japan Times

Homeowners in increasingly risky areas can’t obtain adequate coverage as insurers flee the state to avoid losses. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/01/12/world/california-fire-insurance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #losangeles #california #us #wildfires #insurance #climatechange

Peter Gleick

If anyone claims slowing or stopping #climate change is too expensive, they have it exactly backwards.
Failing to slow or stop #climatechange is what's expensive.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07g73p4805o

Good news! I just learnt that the director of the @cnrs National Institute for Earth Sciences (INSU) in France sent a letter to all lab directors in which he set an annual greenhouse gas reduction target of -6%. That’s a clear message and trajectory!

#ResponsibleScience #ClimateChange

Scientist Rebellion

We must stop fossil fuels.

🔥 Deadly #wildfires in winter! This is what #ClimateChange looks like. Five people dead and over two thousand buildings burned in out of control fires ravaging Los Angeles.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-role-of-climate-change-in-the-catastrophic-2025-los-angeles-fires/

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Kriszta Satori

#BBCNews - 2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o
#Climate #ClimateChange

azteclady

Welp.

#LAFires #ClimateChange #OctaviaButler

Bluesky post by Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social (timestamp January 9 2025 at 3:09 PM):

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist president has just won office with the campaign slogan "make America great again".

She was a modern day Noatradamus. If only we'd listened.

(below the text there's the cover of a recent edition of _Parable of the Sower_, showing a Black woman dressed in a pastel dress, with a high fabric headdress. There's a cover quote by John Green, praising the book, and text indicating that there's a new foreword by N.K. Jemisin)

Assoc for Scottish Literature

…and outside
unnoticed the ghost-blue of juniper needle and berry
and the ghost-rising of smoke from the fires we
claimed we had not set…

—Sheila Black, “Climate (7) (Past Tense)”
published in BREAK IN CASE OF SILENCE: New Writing Scotland 39, ed. Rachelle Atalla & Marjorie Lotfi (ASL, 2021)

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #climate #climatechange

Sheila Black
Climate (7) (Past Tense)

dear small daughter for a long time I did not write
what had already become past-tense was past-tense
and I am sorry I was not able to hold it as one might
in a dream hold a stream of water and sing it to sleep
and I am sorry that I told you this image as if it were
in truth perdurable plangent and constant moon
over our seas when it is the shifting that matters.
dear small the birds the mockingbirds they sang
in the middle of the night and for this we cursed
them but then we came upon their nests in the black
of day noon when the sun is a diamond burning
through however much blue and the two of them
circled so tirelessly with their wings fanning the
turquoise eggs inside the nest of dead grass and we
understood we were not the only ones but even this
could not stop us from doing as we had done all
our lives long and the cars we pulled out of driveways
and the highways that took us into the buzzing
electric of buildings poured in dense concrete
and the cooling chemicals seeping and cycling
as though through calm artificial hearts and outside
unnoticed the ghost-blue of juniper needle and berry
and the ghost-rising of smoke from the fires we
claimed we had not set. dear daughter now that we
must use the past-tense for what we thought was ours
now as we move into the possible distance I open
my hand to give you this picture of two wings.

Bruce Mirken

"There is no 'firefighting' in these kinds of conditions," said one meteorologist. "There is only saving as many lives as possible and getting the heck out of the fire's way." Yes, #California has always had #wildfires, but NOT in January. https://www.commondreams.org/news/wildfires-los-angeles?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=2e1d488592-News+Alert%3A+%27Unprecedented%27+Fires+Ravage+LA&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4da0978648-600541243

#climatechange

Kriszta Satori

#BBCNews - Bumblebees winter nest-building 'due to climate'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg17mwnx73o
#ClimateChange

7sleepersmusic

Hoping to watch #ARoadNotTaken, a Swiss-made 2010 documentary of #JimmyCarter's visionary solar energy policy, and the subsequent administrations who abandoned it. #RenewableEnergy #SolarEnergy #ClimateChange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9VD6MdEt0U

Assoc for Scottish Literature

When It Burns
28 Jan, Dumfries, & 8 Feb, Castle Douglas – £5

What is the role of poetry & the poet in a climate & biodiversity crisis? Robert Burns is celebrated for his profound understanding and appreciation of nature: on the heels of Burns Night, Tawona Sitholé & Genevieve Carver will share their work & discuss what language can do

https://dgartsfestival.org.uk/events/year-round/when-it-burns/

#Scottish #literature #poetry #climatechange #climatecrisis

Andrew

"The bicycle as we know it today, with two similarly sized wheels and a chain drive system, was originally commercialized by John Starley and William Sutton in 1885. And since then, nothing better has been invented in terms of energy efficient travel."

https://www.statista.com/chart/28710/energy-efficiency-of-modes-of-transport/

#BikeTooter #Cycling #ClimateChange #ClimateSolutions #Statista

(moving this post from my old account)

A graphic showing the average energy required to travel one kilometer for selected modes of transport. Bicycle: 5.5 Wh/km, Walking: 10Wh/km, Electric bicycle: 14 Wh/km, Electric scooter: 29 Wh/km, Electric car: 150 Wh/km.

Bob Jamieson

We’re closer than ever to ending new oil and gas for good!

After hitting pause on new approvals, Labour is asking the public what to do. The consultation ends in days on January 8th.

This refers to Labour in the UK.

Sign the call for a future without drilling with one click and then submit a short message - Avaaz and partners will deliver our voices into the consultation, submitting every signature alongside powerful messages.

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/end_uk_drilling_lc_loc/?copy

#GlobalBoiling #ClimateChange #climate