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SnakeBoy
12-20-2024, 04:39 PM
It's cooler in the shade. Thanks science.
Winehole23
12-21-2024, 08:13 AM
It's cooler in the shade. Thanks science.measuring the change in the extent of cloud cover over time was the impressive thing, tbh
Winehole23
12-21-2024, 08:14 AM
Snake Boy so trite
Winehole23
08-03-2025, 08:56 AM
The Trump EPA is about to gut clean air enforcement. He's currently shaking down universities and cancelling scientific research grants en masse
Advantage, pseudoscience
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/epa) (EPA) announced a proposal to undo the 2009 “endangerment finding”, which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources. Hours later, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a 150-page report defending the proposal, claiming scientific concern about the climate crisis is overblown.
“Climate change (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis) is a challenge – not a catastrophe,” wrote the energy secretary, Chris Wright, in the report’s introduction.
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https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b1658fd15ac32a7af37a9de21bd013d9362ff3fe/441_0_4413_3531/master/4413.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&
‘Shooting ourselves in the foot’: how Trump is fumbling geothermal energy
Read more
(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/trump-geothermal-energy)
The energy department published the report hours after the EPA announced a plan (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/trump-zeldin-epa-greenhouse-gas-emissions) to roll back 2009’s “endangerment finding”, a seminal ruling that provided the legal basis for the agency to regulate climate-heating pollution under the Clean Air Act. If finalized, the move would topple virtually all US climate regulation. (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/trump-epa-endangerment-finding)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/trump-epa-climate-change-report
Winehole23
08-03-2025, 08:57 AM
The Trump EPA is about to gut clean air enforcement. He's currently shaking down universities and cancelling scientific research grants en masse
Advantage, pseudoscience
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/epa) (EPA) announced a proposal to undo the 2009 “endangerment finding”, which allows the agency to limit planet-heating pollution from cars and trucks, power plants and other industrial sources. Hours later, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a 150-page report defending the proposal, claiming scientific concern about the climate crisis is overblown.
“Climate change (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis) is a challenge – not a catastrophe,” wrote the energy secretary, Chris Wright, in the report’s introduction.
...
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b1658fd15ac32a7af37a9de21bd013d9362ff3fe/441_0_4413_3531/master/4413.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&
‘Shooting ourselves in the foot’: how Trump is fumbling geothermal energy
Read more
(https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/trump-geothermal-energy)
The energy department published the report hours after the EPA announced a plan (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/29/trump-zeldin-epa-greenhouse-gas-emissions) to roll back 2009’s “endangerment finding”, a seminal ruling that provided the legal basis for the agency to regulate climate-heating pollution under the Clean Air Act. If finalized, the move would topple virtually all US climate regulation. (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/31/trump-epa-endangerment-finding)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/trump-epa-climate-change-report
SnakeBoy
08-06-2025, 06:16 PM
:tu
ChumpDumper
08-06-2025, 06:19 PM
:tu
Why do you hate breathing and love pedophiles?
velik_m
08-09-2025, 12:16 AM
US to rewrite its past national climate reports
The decision, announced by Energy Secretary Chris Wright during a CNN appearance Tuesday night, follows the government's revocation of the Endangerment Finding, a scientific determination that underpins a host of regulations aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
Asked by CNN's Kaitlan Collins why previous editions of the National Climate Assessment were no longer available online, former fracking company CEO Wright responded: "Because we're reviewing them, and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those."
First published in 2000, the National Climate Assessment has long been viewed as a cornerstone of the US government's understanding of climate science, synthesizing input from federal agencies and hundreds of external experts.
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https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports
velik_m
08-11-2025, 09:52 AM
The Whole World Is Switching to EVs Faster Than You
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China (where plug-in vehicles have nearly half the market) gets most of the attention, but neighboring Vietnam isn’t far behind: Pure-play EV-maker VinFast Auto Ltd. accounted for more than a third of car sales in the first half of this year. Turkey’s 13% sales share for fully electric vehicles in the first quarter was about double the penetration rate in Spain and Australia, according to a survey by Strategy&. In Indonesia, the share was about the same as in the US, at 7.4%. In Malaysia, it was 8.6% in the first half.
Those countries all have legacy car industries still pumping out internal combustion engines. Things are moving even faster in nations wholly dependent on imports. More than three-quarters of the value of vehicles brought into Nepal, Sri Lanka and Djibouti last year was purely electric. Import shares in Ethiopia and Laos were 40% and 30% respectively1. Plug-in sales increased by 60% in developing countries as a whole in 2024, according to the International Energy Agency.
As with the wave of EVs taking over the Gulf’s oil producers, it’s a sign of a world switching to electric mobility with breathtaking speed. The pace of the change makes the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, which expects developing economies’ oil consumption to increase by half by 2050, look deluded.
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The stronger argument for the resilience of road fuel at this point isn’t that emerging markets are going to start using more of it. It’s clear this battle is already being lost. Instead, it’s that rich countries have raised tariff barriers, bungled charger rollouts, and loosened fuel-economy rules to the point where they’ve sabotaged their own transition plans.
That’s giving incumbent carmakers a chance to eke a few more years out of their obsolete businesses, while competitors in the Global South seize the technological lead. Most of the world is already taking advantage of cleaner, cheaper road transportation. By the time developed countries realize how far they’ve fallen behind, it will be too late to catch up.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-10/the-whole-world-is-switching-to-evs-faster-than-you
Winehole23
08-11-2025, 10:24 AM
Big lost opportunity
Trump's massive duties on industrial inputs bodes ill for attracting new plants to the USA
Winehole23
10-18-2025, 07:42 AM
By the way, do you believe Michael Mann "cherry-picked" his data to arrive at the famous hockey stick graph? Would that be logically flawed and dishonest?trend proved him out, it seems
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G3UpEfIWwAE-JAz?format=png&name=small
GAustex
10-29-2025, 09:22 AM
And the hysteria over climate change has disappeared like a fart in the wind
Winehole23
10-29-2025, 09:35 AM
^^^ doesn't read anything but verified MAGA propaganda
ChumpDumper
10-29-2025, 11:35 AM
And the hysteria over climate change has disappeared like a fart in the wind
According to whom?
Please explain.
SnakeBoy
10-29-2025, 01:36 PM
And the hysteria over climate change has disappeared like a fart in the wind
You knew the hoax was unraveling when they started blaming cow farts
GAustex
10-29-2025, 09:51 PM
https://x.com/grandoldmemes/status/1983706710448673146
ChumpDumper
10-29-2025, 09:56 PM
https://x.com/grandoldmemes/status/1983706710448673146
lol can't embed? won't read
Winehole23
10-29-2025, 10:00 PM
You knew the hoax was unraveling when they started blaming cow fartswhat hoax?
Winehole23
10-30-2025, 08:45 PM
Snake Boy with nothing to say about his own post
So much the worse for whatever he might have been trying to say
velik_m
02-01-2026, 01:00 PM
EVs Just Outsold Gas Cars In Europe For The First Time
Electric cars outsold traditional gas-powered passenger vehicles for the first time in Europe in December of last year, marking a huge shift in the regional car market. Despite a proposed loosening of the upcoming 2035 gas car ban, Europeans bought over 300,000 EVs last month, boosting the year-over-year figures by a solid 50% and overtaking gas cars, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA).
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https://insideevs.com/news/785541/ev-sales-surpass-gas-cars-europe-first-time/
DarrinS
02-01-2026, 11:59 PM
https://insideevs.com/news/782405/ev-sales-drop-2025-tax-credit-trump/
ChumpDumper
02-02-2026, 12:54 AM
https://insideevs.com/news/782405/ev-sales-drop-2025-tax-credit-trump/
:lol remember when you said there would never be enough electricity for EVs and you'd be forced to buy $50 light bulbs?
DarrinS
02-02-2026, 01:12 AM
:lol remember when you said there would never be enough electricity for EVs and you'd be forced to buy $50 light bulbs?
There won't be enough electricity for EVs, if everyone adopted them. They really suck in sub freezing temps.
ChumpDumper
02-02-2026, 01:45 AM
There won't be enough electricity for EVs, if everyone adopted them.Look at the outlays for your AI the next decade.
Tell me how that compares.
BadMotorscooter
02-02-2026, 03:44 AM
Look at the outlays for your AI the next decade.
Tell me how that compares.
Prove it.
Blake
02-18-2026, 11:25 PM
Forecast says 93 degrees for the high next Friday.
February 27.
I guess it's time to get the pool ready, amirite, Darrin?
Blake
02-19-2026, 10:26 PM
Aww forecast changed to mid 80s. Maybe we'll open the pool the following week to start March off.
Winehole23
02-20-2026, 09:57 AM
heat accumulation
natural feedback loops will not be mocked
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HBiu6CXWIAAz093?format=png&name=900x900
Blake
02-26-2026, 12:54 PM
High heat incoming: San Antonio could break a 72-year old record on Thursday
https://www.expressnews.com/san-antonio-weather/forecast/article/san-antonio-heat-record-weather-hot-texas-21941259.php
February time is now pool time!
Winehole23
02-27-2026, 07:36 AM
"Warming has already melted so much ice in Greenland and Antarctica that Earth’s rotation has slowed and its axis has shifted, slightly altering the length of the day and disrupting the precision of satellite tracking, global positioning systems and timekeeping."hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion/blizzard-snow-storm-winter.html?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2026-02-25
Winehole23
06-12-2026, 08:49 AM
Exxon projected anthropogenic climate change roughly in line with academic projections from 1977-2003
Many of the uncovered fossil fuel industry documents include explicit projections of the amount of warming expected to occur over time in response to rising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Yet, these numerical and graphical data have received little attention. Indeed, no one has systematically reviewed climate modeling projections by any fossil fuel interest. What exactly did oil and gas companies know, and how accurate did their knowledge prove to be? Here, we address these questions by reporting and analyzing all known global warming projections documented by—and in many cases modeled by—Exxon and ExxonMobil Corp scientists between 1977 and 2003.
Our results show that in private and academic circles since the late 1970s and early 1980s, ExxonMobil predicted global warming correctly and skillfully. Using established statistical techniques, we find that 63 to 83% of the climate projections reported by ExxonMobil scientists were accurate in predicting subsequent global warming. ExxonMobil’s average projected warming was 0.20° ± 0.04°C per decade, which is, within uncertainty, the same as that of independent academic and government projections published between 1970 and 2007. The average “skill score” and level of uncertainty of ExxonMobil’s climate models (67 to 75% and ±21%, respectively) were also similar to those of the independent models.
Moreover, we show that ExxonMobil scientists correctly dismissed the possibility of a coming ice age in favor of a “carbon dioxide induced ‘super-interglacial’”; accurately predicted that human-caused global warming would first be detectable in the year 2000 ± 5; and reasonably estimated how much CO2 would lead to dangerous warming.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abk0063
Winehole23
06-12-2026, 08:52 AM
Wall Street and PE looking to make $$$ off extreme weather
Attention: DOGE’d (https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/12/24/trump-climate-science-funding-cuts/) and RIF’ed (https://www.science.org/content/article/nasa-eliminate-chief-scientist-position#:~:text=The%20reductions%2C%20which,major %20climate%20assessment.) U.S. government meteorologists and climate scientists (https://gizmodo.com/trump-administration-fires-hundreds-of-weather-forecasters-and-other-noaa-employees-2000570142). JPMorgan Chase & Co. is looking to hire (https://jpmc.fa.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/210748685) a new executive director focused on “catastrophe modeling.” Ideally, someone who could be a “subject matter expert in natural catastrophe and climate,” upping their portfolio’s “resilience to physical climate risks.”
And they’re not alone. Some hedge funds are offering as much as $1 million per year for the right extreme weather forecaster. As one recruiter who specializes in placing experts in this niche world of “insurance-linked securities” told (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-07/hedge-funds-are-hiring-experts-in-catastrophe-risk) Bloomberg News, anthropogenic climate change’s most canny and enterprising Cassandras have been netting “exponentially higher” pay bumps compared to their past salaries over the last two years.
Not unlike the mortgage-backed securities of the 2008 financial crisis (https://irle.berkeley.edu/publications/irle-policy-brief/what-really-caused-the-great-recession/), insurance-linked securities (ILS) reimagine an insurance company’s outstanding policy risks and potential rewards as assets that it can market to outside investors, like hedge funds.
https://gizmodo.com/hedge-funds-are-hiring-climate-scientists-to-profit-off-extreme-weather-risks-2000770164
Winehole23
07-19-2026, 08:54 AM
the danger of smoke from climate-driven wildfires alone likely exceeds the mortality burden from climate change itself
Here we quantify the mortality burden in the USA due to wildfire smoke fine particulate matter (PM2.5) under climate change. We construct an ensemble of statistical and machine learning models that link climate to wildfire smoke PM2.5 and empirically estimate smoke PM2.5–mortality relationships using data on all recorded deaths in the USA. We project that smoke PM2.5 could result in 71,420 excess deaths (95% confidence interval: 34,930–98,430) per year by 2050 under a high-warming scenario (shared socioeconomic pathway scenario 3-7.0, SSP3-7.0)—a 73% increase relative to the estimated 2011–2020 average annual excess deaths from smoke. Cumulative excess deaths from smoke PM2.5 could reach 1.9 million between 2026 and 2055. We find evidence for mortality impacts of smoke PM2.5 that last up to 3 years after exposure. When monetized, climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the USA4 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09611-w#ref-CR4),5 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09611-w#ref-CR5). Our research suggests that the health impacts of climate-driven wildfire smoke could be among the most important and costly consequences of a warming climate in the USA.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09611-w
Winehole23
08-11-2026, 07:41 AM
more empirical support for the "hockey stick"
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lb7jeizjwxjcn3bvkohqxkba/bafkreihnhlvpwbbgfyku6pbsx2slqvzzihmfiduw7jx5ebtxz zita2jef4
Winehole23
08-19-2026, 07:34 AM
2088649414722117871
Winehole23
08-19-2026, 07:38 AM
Rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may be leaving a measurable imprint inside the human body. Researchers analyzing more than two decades of U.S. health data found that blood bicarbonate levels have climbed about 7% since 1999, while calcium and phosphorus have declined—changes that closely track increasing atmospheric CO2.
Bicarbonate is essential for regulating the body's acid-base balance. As CO2 increases, the body can retain additional bicarbonate to help keep blood pH stable. Although this response helps preserve that balance, maintaining it over long periods could have physiological effects.
"If current trends continue, modeling indicates average bicarbonate levels could approach the upper limit of today's accepted healthy range within 50 years," A/Prof Larcombe said
"Calcium and phosphorus levels could also reach the lower end of their healthy ranges later this century."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260814235845.htm
Winehole23
08-23-2026, 04:37 PM
some climatologists think it likely that this is the highest SST since the interglacial period 125,000 years ago
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pwrqw4ij2qgsrfa2gtyz2pbd/bafkreidbnloe5dduvqyenqy4fnrf77ycvjgxujqc7po3z6fxn 3slpad74e
Winehole23
08-23-2026, 04:40 PM
Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years, compared with just under 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015. The acceleration, which becomes visible around 2013 to 2015, appeared across five major global temperature datasets with more than 98% statistical certainty.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260801093239.htm
velik_m
08-25-2026, 09:08 AM
World's oceans hit highest temperature on record as El Niño grows
The world's oceans are hotter than ever recorded, new data suggests, as they suffer from human-caused climate change and the growing El Niño weather phenomenon.
The average surface temperature of the planet's seas outside the polar regions hit 21.1C (70F) on Saturday, according to figures from the European Copernicus climate change service.
That edges past the 21.09C recorded in March 2024, and is far above average for the time of year.
Warmer oceans can have wide-reaching consequences, including supercharging extreme weather, raising sea levels and harming marine life.
"This record is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress," said Dr Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus.
"El Niño is adding heat to the system, but it is doing so on top of decades of human-driven warming," she added.
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l Niño is expected to keep strengthening until Christmas time, with scientists warning that it is on course to be the strongest in centuries.
This could see ocean temperatures climb yet further.
"The fact that we are already breaking records is an early indicator of how strong the El Niño is becoming," said Dr Jeremy Grist, senior research fellow at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton.
"All things being equal we might expect the ocean temperature record to be broken again in March [or] April 2027," he added.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o
Blake
08-25-2026, 12:58 PM
I don't think it's hyperbole to say humans will rid themselves from this planet at this rate
Winehole23
08-25-2026, 02:58 PM
I don't think it's hyperbole to say humans will rid themselves from this planet at this ratewhat happens beforehand is more worrisome, tbh
Winehole23
08-25-2026, 04:47 PM
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lb7jeizjwxjcn3bvkohqxkba/bafkreibl6givodkafvtixre3fezkjxige3yby74o2tky2nmds uyvsfuxfu
Winehole23
08-27-2026, 08:17 PM
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pljsa5ve74sv4zpm46uxyrx7/bafkreieci4u3t4vn2woalj46yizg4dvhk4kqljhwwupxtbt34 l5ridwuvy
ChumpDumper
08-28-2026, 03:28 AM
We almost ended ourselves twice with CFCs and leaded gasoline -- both completely unnecessary corporate options.
We're just going to keep on doing it.
Winehole23
09-02-2026, 06:43 AM
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lb7jeizjwxjcn3bvkohqxkba/bafkreieswzutgy7gbef2jo3iu5ujo2zvrtzfufxvjgfefris2 epv2xhhg4
Winehole23
09-05-2026, 09:45 AM
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HROeQ8_XsAAKqhF?format=png&name=900x900
Winehole23
09-10-2026, 08:08 PM
“The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration this week announced that for the Lower 48 states, this summer– from June to August– was the warmest in 132 years of record-keeping. Globally, August ties with July 2023 as the hottest month on record…”
Winehole23
09-12-2026, 08:11 AM
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Winehole23
09-14-2026, 06:55 AM
Trump 2.0 is a toxic airborne event
The Trump administration plans to announce Monday that the United States will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas, according to two people familiar with the proposal.
The power sector is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the United States. This pollution accumulates in the atmosphere, where it traps the sun’s heat, raising temperatures and supercharging extreme weather events around the globe.
Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, is expected to announce the change during a meeting of energy ministers from the Group of 20 nations in Houston, according to the two people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to describe the proposal before it is made public.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/climate/epa-power-plant-climate-rules.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BFE.w5hC.5--Z7F0MW0pN&smid=nytcore-ios-share
Winehole23
09-14-2026, 06:55 AM
if the U.S. power sector were its own country, it would be the fifth-largest climate polluter in the world after China, the entire United States, India and Russia.
Winehole23
09-14-2026, 06:56 AM
Earlier this year, the E.P.A. eliminated greenhouse gas standards for car tailpipes (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/what-to-know-epa-endangerment-finding.html) and eased restrictions on planet-warming chemicals (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/climate/trump-super-pollutants-hfc-epa-climate-change.html) used in air-conditioners and refrigerators. Most consequentially, the agency repealed the scientific determination (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/what-to-know-epa-endangerment-finding.html) that gave it the legal authority to create climate regulations in the first place.
Winehole23
09-14-2026, 06:57 AM
Under the Trump administration, the E.P.A. has stopped estimating the public health benefits (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/climate/trump-epa-air-pollution.html) of reducing pollution in the cost-benefit analyses necessary for clean-air regulations. Instead, the agency has estimated only the costs to businesses of complying with the rules.
Winehole23
09-15-2026, 09:27 PM
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:lb7jeizjwxjcn3bvkohqxkba/bafkreigh7xfansjdjj45ke4msjekwjgaycyhixhlnjfweqkmg ejib2qdvq
Winehole23
09-15-2026, 09:29 PM
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gkblzvva3k5h2aiu3kdtfa24/bafkreignw2yxb57vmh6gucg4hfgimin4c37nsu6spgrsh5rhl p6hljrple
Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:q4ts3lj2o52il2umdp52ekiq)
shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer.
"No words...", he adds on LinkedIn
Winehole23
09-19-2026, 04:23 AM
Exxon bases its investments in part on these projections
The projections represent accelerated global warming relative to previous scientific projections
The "fearmongers" of 20-30 years ago appear to have been on the conservative side
Exxon's outlook, which provides the basis for its investment decisions, does not account for the Middle East conflict because it is too early to determine the full ramifications, Joshi said.
"We need a few more years to really understand what the impact is going to be on long-term fundamentals," he said.
Here are more details on Exxon's energy outlook:
Annual global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions are projected to fall #to 30 billion metric tons by 2050, far above the level of 11 billion metric tons that a United Nations body determined would be needed to limit increases to the average global temperature.
That level of emissions in 2050 implies global temperatures could rise between 2.5 and 3 degrees Celsius, Joshi said.
Last year, Exxon projected annual 2050 global emissions would be 27 billion metric tons.
Exxon also lowered its estimate for the amount of carbon that will be captured globally and stored underground. The company forecasts that amount could reach 2 billion metric tons by 2050, down from its prior estimate of 3.1 billion metric tons.
Oil demand will reach about 105 million barrels per day in 2050, up from the global consumption of 100 million bpd last year. The projection is unchanged from Exxon's previous estimate.
Global electricity demand is expected to grow 65% by 2050 from 2025, largely in line with Exxon's previous estimate. The demand growth will be driven by industrial sectors and the increasing number of data centers.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-raises-2050-global-emissions-forecast-sees-slower-coal-decline-2026-09-17/
velik_m
09-20-2026, 11:44 PM
US Revokes Limits on Power Plants’ Climate Pollution
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on September 14 that it is repealing limits on climate-warming pollution from coal and gas-fired power plants, the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the country.
By gutting the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, the EPA is eliminating most of the limits on power plants’ carbon emissions. The move is one of the Trump administration’s most significant attacks yet on the US government’s ability to confront the climate crisis and protect communities devastated by pollution.
The 2024 standards required existing coal plants and new gas plants to capture 90 percent of carbon emissions or shut down by 2039, which would have reduced carbon pollution by an estimated 1.38 billion metric tons through 2047. The Biden-era rule was also projected to help reduce power plants’ emissions of health-harming pollutants, including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and fine particulate matter.
Human Rights Watch has documented how these pollutants from industrial operations can degrade air quality and harm the health of communities living nearby. Our research in countries like Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Türkiye has shown how coal-fired plants, in particular, can emit pollution that contributes to dangerous levels of air pollution. The Biden administration estimated that the 2024 Carbon Standards would prevent 1,200 deaths and 360,000 asthma attacks in the US in 2035 alone.
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https://text.hrw.org/news/2026/09/17/us-revokes-limits-on-power-plants-climate-pollution
Winehole23
10-06-2026, 10:29 AM
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Winehole23
10-12-2026, 09:04 AM
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Winehole23
10-15-2026, 08:53 AM
the projections of Al Gore and early 20th century climate change "fearmongers" were quite conservative compared to observed trends
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https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biag125/8836482?login=false
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