Floods, Fires, and Heat Domes (the climate change thread)

Anybody understand why they would fall? This ruling means they can crank up the furnace and throw away the scrubbers without any repercussions.

Maybe Joe Manchin knows.

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Maybe it means they can import cheap coal from elsewhere?

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Maybe we can just… stop using coal altogether.

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In the greenhouse future, where changes can mean the re-establishment of tropical diseases in areas previously unsuitable for mosquito breeding, the natural world has provided us with this food for thought:

See also:

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How terrible.

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Five young people whose resolve was hardened by floods and wildfires recently took their governments to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Their claim concerns each country’s membership of an obscure treaty they argue makes climate action impossible by protecting fossil fuel investors.

The energy charter treaty has 52 signatory countries which are mostly EU states but include the UK and Japan. The claimants are suing 12 of them including France, Germany and the UK—all countries in which energy companies are using the treaty to sue governments over policies that interfere with fossil fuel extraction. For example, the German company RWE is suing the Netherlands for €1.4 billion ($1.42 billion) because it plans to phase out coal.

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Junk science? I don’t know but it’s worth thinking about.

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60°C = 140°F

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