The Climate crisis

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Jasper fire: Canadians mourn as jewel of the Rockies burns

The wildfire destruction to Jasper National Park has reverberated across all of Canada.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Saintjay]

Jasper fire: Canadians mourn as jewel of the Rockies burns

The wildfire destruction to Jasper National Park has reverberated across all of Canada.

www.bbc.co.uk

That's crazy bad. I'm due to visit Calgary again next year. Banff and Jasper national parks are my favourite places on earth.

 

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London City airport: 54% of journeys take under six hours by train, data shows

Exclusive: Most popular routes can be reached quickly by train, as government mulls expansion proposal

www.theguardian.com

 

[Amiga500]

London City airport: 54% of journeys take under six hours by train, data shows

Exclusive: Most popular routes can be reached quickly by train, as government mulls expansion proposal

www.theguardian.com

Well, a generic rule that'd be worth considering trying to put together:

The landing fee tax is (i) both proportional to the number of people on the flight and inversely proportional to the distance of the flight or (ii) inversely proportional to the difference in time taken to reach the destination by other public transport.

London City can't even do true long haul, runway length isn't big enough.

But longest scheduled commercial flight in the world is around 15,500 km, Singapore to New York.
Shortest is < 3km... between two of the Orkneys. Don't understand why the Scottish govt feel the need to subsidise that route. A boat would cover that distance in minutes as well and probably be more weather resilient.

You'd probably want a formula that'd add ~£150 per ticket to the price of London City to say Amsterdam, but the fee from London City to New York would be nominal. [feel a bit dirty saying that, as its likely bwankers using that flight, but fair is fair, they've no realistic alternative outside airtravel.]

 

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Climate crisis fuelled storm that sank yacht in Sicily, say experts

Record sea temperatures in the Mediterranean contributed to waterspout that hit Bayesian

www.theguardian.com

 

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UK to close last coal power station after 142 years

The UK's last coal power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, is due to end operations on Monday.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

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Government pledges nearly £22bn for carbon capture projects

Sir Keir Starmer says carbon capture clusters on Merseyside and Teesside will reignite industrial heartlands.

www.bbc.co.uk

Miliband on BBC breakfast news. Actually holding his own with the questioning.

 

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Milton just made landfall, off the back of Helene. These Hurricanes and typhoons are going to get worse.

I was in Orlando back in 2017 when Irma hit and that was also category 4. Remember waking up and it felt like the a bomb hitting the hotel. But thankfully we weren't coastal - but couldn't get to Tampa and St Peter'sburg. All the disruption afterwards was pretty bad - with no electricity for 2 days afterwards.

Lady in the Disney store just went pfft. When we were discussing it. They are so used to it.

 

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Apparently winds of 13000mph plus arriving.

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Not sure my fence is gonna survive that

 

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People are angry about the floods – but turning to Reform endangers us all

The climate crisis can’t be ignored, yet UK voters are being pushed by inaction towards a party that denies its existence

www.theguardian.com

 

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Heat pumps and EVs – how to fight climate change from home

The government has been told that the public will need to change how we drive and heat our homes.

www.bbc.co.uk

BP's shareholders want it to make money, not climate policy

The oil and gas producer faces criticism for its shift away from green energy, but many support it.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sums up the diametrically opposing actions.

 

[AlRums]

Heat pumps and EVs – how to fight climate change from home

The government has been told that the public will need to change how we drive and heat our homes.

www.bbc.co.uk

BP's shareholders want it to make money, not climate policy

The oil and gas producer faces criticism for its shift away from green energy, but many support it.

www.bbc.co.uk

Sums up the diametrically opposing actions.

Trump may axe holy grail regulation that could spell global disaster

The Trump Administration may soon do away with a major scientific finding that has been the basis for hundreds of billions in government spending on climate change.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Which Tyler]

Sums up the diametrically opposing actions.

This is only what? 15 years old by now?

 

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[Which Tyler]

Increasingly glad that Ali and I decided to be childless.
World is going to shit, and it's going to be worse for each future generation. I don't think the climate is going to recover from a 2nd Trump term - it was going to be tough as hell without active sabotage!

 

[Weldit]

On top of climate change, it's just becoming impossible for people to live. The bottom of the job market is on it's arse with wages not covering the basics like housing, food, services etc. I honestly am not hopeful things will get better.

 

[Which Tyler]

On top of climate change, it's just becoming impossible for people to live. The bottom of the job market is on it's arse with wages not covering the basics like housing, food, services etc. I honestly am not hopeful things will get better.

Absolutely - climate is an existential crisis; economy and housing is a practical crisis; rise of the far right is a moral crisis; consumption of resources is a future quality of life crisis...
Combine them, and this is not a collapse I wish to speed up; and it's not looking like a world I wish to subject people I love to.