A new nationwide survey finds majorities across every US voter group support the US government taking action to address climate change:
Overall, 70%
Republicans, 54%
Independents, 74%
Democrats, 87%
Youth, under 35, 81%
https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/1/31/drill-baby-drill-the-well-of-public-opinion-is-drying-up-on-trumps-climate-policy
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The AI Tulip Mania clown-car
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania) rolls on: stocks of “Nvidia, the leading supplier of AI chips, fell nearly 17% losing $588.8 billion in market value — by far the most value a stock has EVER lost in a single day, more than doubling the previous record.
For perspective, Nvidia lost more in market value Monday than all but 13 companies are worth — PERIOD.
Nvidia began the day as the most valuable publicly traded stock on the US Stock Market.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/tech/deepseek-stocks-ai-china/index.html
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Drone video of Palisades fire aftermath:
https://youtu.be/BuHbUnu5XpY
[#]FossilFuels vs. #Earth
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FYI… If you want to cut ties with the Meta, it’s not as simple as deleting your Facebook and Instagram accounts. Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use a #Meta platform, and it profits from having YOUR data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know and do:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
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US Supreme Court swiftly REJECTS the State of Utah’s brazen land grab lawsuit, and affirms the power of the federal government to hold and manage public lands on behalf of all Americans. A reminder that our public lands should not be privatized or exploited for short-term benefits.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2025/01/13/utah-public-lands-us-supreme-court/
[#]PublicLand #NationalPark
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2024: Seventeen US states had their hottest year EVER (130 years of record keeping), and all 48 contiguous states except for Oregon and Washington had a top-five hottest year.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/earth-roasts-through-its-second-consecutive-hottest-year-on-record/
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45 Square Miles.
FOURTY-FIVE SQUARE MILES.
Few homes stand in the Pacific Palisades section of Los Angeles on 9 January 2025. Photograph: Mark J Terrill/AP
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Big Oil Did This, And This Is A Crime.
Prosecute Fossil-Fuel Executives And Make Them Pay All Recocery Costs.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-los-angeles-fires?draft=1&utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=d6d0f2302a-News+Alert%3A+%27Big+Oil+Did+This%27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4da0978648-600407119
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“Internal documents demonstrate that the FFCs goal in deceiving the public was to delay or block regulatory policy that would curb their intensively lethal but highly profitable conduct.
They achieved this goal spectacularly, making trillions of dollars from their deception while most of humanity pays an increasingly devastating price.”
[#]FossilFuel #BigOil
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“Climate change is not a tragedy, it’s a crime.”
Here’s why: fossil fuel companies (FFCs) like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell have long understood—with shocking accuracy that their fossil fuel products would cause, in their own words, “globally catastrophic” climate change.
Instead of changing their business model, FFCs concealed what they knew and ran a multi-million dollar disinformation campaign to spread doubt about climate science.
Environmental Law Journal https://nyuelj.org/2025/01/causing-or-risking-climate-catastrophe/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/04/everything-is-destroyed-the-residents-facing-financial-ruin-after-merseysides-flood-defences-failed-yet-again
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In the US, pet food accounts for 25% of all meat products. Doggy and kitty dinner time has significant real-world consequences.
As an alternative, lab-based meat cultivation uses 45% less energy than traditional beef farming. And if powered by renewable energy, a 92% reduction in overall greenhouse gas emissions, plus water and land use reductions of 78% and 95% respectively.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/04/lab-grown-meat-britain-eu-us
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Just released new music from Tuluum Shimmering. So sweet. Listen here:
▶︎ The Carolina Lady | Tuluum Shimmering https://tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/the-carolina-lady?from=fanpub_fnb
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“Spotify has gone to war against musicians and record labels.”
And that’s a fact. Of course their war began quite a few years ago.
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally
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These three photos by John Seakwood, courtesy of Third Act.
[#]ThirdAct #KathyHochul #ClimateChange #NYPol
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This legislation would require corporations responsible for their fossil fuels’ damage to NY infrastructure pay monetary damages.
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A three day sit-in outside of NY Governor Hochul’s office demanding that she sign the (already passed by the NY Senate and Assembly) Climate Change Superfund Act bill results in multiple arrests.
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/50940/20241213/activists-arrested-at-nys-capitol-during-protests-over-climate-legislation #ClimateChange #SuperfundAct
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“The era of clean electricity is about harnessing the power of Britain’s natural resources so we can protect working people from the ravages of global #energy markets.
“The clean power sprint is the national security, economic security, and social justice fight of our time – and this plan gives us the tools we need to win this fight for the British people.”
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UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband sounding VERY GOOD here: “A new era of clean electricity for our country offers a positive vision of Britain’s future with energy security, lower bills, good jobs and climate action. This can only happen with big, bold change and that is why the government is embarking on the most ambitious reforms to our energy system in generations.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/13/ed-miliband-pledges-most-ambitious-reforms-to-uk-energy-system-in-generations
[#]Energy #Climate
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