profit?

Labour says it will insulate 2m houses in first year to cut bills | Cost of living crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/19/labour-says-it-will-insulate-2m-houses-in-first-year-to-cut-bills

Just Stop Oil suspends actions until 25th April – Just Stop Oil
https://juststopoil.org/2022/04/19/just-stop-oil-suspends-actions-until-25th-april/

There are times when faced with a grave injustice or a harmful government, citizens have a right, a duty to break laws to prevent a greater crime being committed. And we can see that harm happening, right now, across the world and in the nations least responsible for the climate crisis.

We know that the course being charted by our government, by many governments, that of continuing to invest in new fossil fuels, has only one outcome, the mass loss of life and unimaginable horror visited on those who survive.

That this has not been well or widely communicated does not make it any less true, if you drop a glass it falls, if you burn carbon you heat the planet, if you destroy nature you lose the basic building blocks for life to flourish.

Right now, in 2022, those of us alive are witnessing the greatest crime ever committed, that of destroying the ‘liveable planet’ for profit. The scale and recklessness of this endeavor is hard to fathom. Scientist after scientist, report after report has concluded that we must escape the grip of oil, and the first step to finding our way is to stop new oil and gas.

It really is that simple, burn shit, heat the planet, lose all you love. So let’s Just Stop Oil.

That’s why across the globe, people are now engaging in civil resistance. That is why five Just Stop Oil supporters are currently on remand in prison. The era of protest, marches and petitions is drawing to a close – either we put our bodies in the way of the machine or we accept the loss of our only home.

roger hallam

https://twitter.com/RogerHallamCS21/status/1516314110237028354?s=19

Every time people go on the street I get raided and arrested, and the police run off with my phone and laptops. This time twice in 48 hours. Cell reading: A biography of St Augustine. In 410AD Rome was sacked and the world was never the same again.

Our "sack of Rome" will be going over 1.5C before 2030.

#offshore #infrastructure

The first US offshore wind farm has had no negative effect on fish, finds groundbreaking study
https://electrek.co/2022/04/18/the-first-us-offshore-wind-farm-has-had-no-negative-effect-on-fish-finds-groundbreaking-study/

The only meaningful effect they found by the wind turbines was positive: a lot more black sea bass were congregating around the Block Island wind farm, probably because they like to hang out near physical structures like wind turbine foundations. Scientists also found more Atlantic cod there, but not often enough to draw any firm conclusions.

The study not only looked at what fish were caught, but also what sort of condition they were in and what was in their stomachs. Some were eating more mussels, which indicated they were feeding off of mussels growing on the turbines themselves.

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This study, which was designed by scientists and commercial fishermen at INSPIRE International, has the potential to help remove obstacles for the young offshore wind industry in the United States

#food #mitigation

Ancient Protein Rubisco Could Be Used to Save Future Food Crops From Dying in Hot Climates
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ancient-protein-rubisco-could-be-used-to-save-future-food-crops-from-dying-in-hot-climates

Researchers at Cornell University have found a way to resurrect an ancient form of an enzyme called rubisco, or RuBisCo, that promoted photosynthesis in plants millions of years ago, when Earth was experiencing one of its hottest climates in the last 50 million years. In a study published April 15 in the journal Science Advances, the researchers were able to use modern-day versions of rubisco to piece together an idea of what the enzyme looked like in ancient times. As a result, scientists may be able to harness its power once again to help ensure our crops of the future can adapt and resist climate change and provide us with all the fresh fruits, vegetables, and grains we need.

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To solve this conundrum, the Cornell researchers took a trip down memory lane—25 to 50 million years ago when Earth was much hotter thanks to high amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide (a whopping 500 to 800 parts per million, compared to the 413 ppm estimated in 2020). This meant modern-day rubisco likely had an ancestral version that was adapted to working under such extreme carbon dioxide levels.

funkcni biologicka infrastruktura jako nahrada fosilnich hnojiv

Petr Havel: Válka urychlila odklon od průmyslových hnojiv | E15.cz
https://www.e15.cz/nazory/valka-urychlila-odklon-od-prumyslovych-hnojiv-pise-analytik-petr-havel-1389285

and noone cares..... humanity is just failed species

Climate scientists are desperate: we’re crying, begging and getting arrested | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/climate-scientists-are-desperate-were-crying-begging-and-getting-arrested

'It’s Not Political to Tell the Truth': Scientists Arrested Over Climate Protests
https://gizmodo.com/it-s-not-political-to-tell-the-truth-scientists-arrest-1848795165

“In rich societies, we have to understand that our wealth and stability are based on poverty and organized instability in many other parts of the world,” he said. “We live in externalized societies that continuously externalize the negative effects of their mode of production…so what these activists say [is] ‘this is what we’re exporting to the rest of the world.’”

Several scientist activists chained themselves to a Chase Bank in Los Angeles. Scientists in Spain threw fake blood on a government building. Others held teach-ins and organized community speaking events in countries including Malawi and Rwanda. Scientist Rebellion spokesperson Tadzio Mueller pointed to the “inconvenience” of the protests and how it mirrors the disruptions that will occur as more people are exposed to extreme weather.




video thread z US: https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1512456606570717189?s=19