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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Destroying the Future Is the Most Cost-Effective


    "Given the sheer enormity of climate change, it’s okay to be depressed, to grieve. But please, don’t stay there too long. Join me in pure, unadulterated, righteous anger."


    "I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. Once you start to act, the hope is everywhere."

    "Our best scientists tell us insistently that a calamity is unfolding, that the life-support systems of the Earth are being damaged in ways that threaten our survival. Yet in the face of these facts we carry on as usual."

    “We’ve got to stop burning fossil fuels. So many aspects of life depend on fossil fuels, except for music and love and education and happiness. These things, which hardly use fossil fuels, are what we must focus on.”

    A nejde o to, že na to nemáme dostatečné technologie, ty by na řešení použít šly, ale chybí nám vůle a představivost je využít. Zůstáváme při zemi, přemýšlíme až moc rezervovaně. Technologický pokrok to sám o sobě nevyřeší. Problém jsme my, ne technologické nástroje.

    Rostouci hladiny oceanu, zmena atmosferickeho proudeni, zmeny v distribuci srazek a sucha. Zmeny karbonoveho, fosforoveho a dusikoveho cyklu, okyselovani oceanu. Jake jsou bezpecnostni rizika a jake potencialni klady dramatickych zmen fungovani zemskeho systemu?
    Ale take jak funguji masove dezinformacni kampane ropneho prumyslu a boj o verejne mineni na prahu noveho klimatickeho rezimu post-holocenu.
    rozbalit záhlaví
    TUHO
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    TADEAS: lehce malm vibrs

    In the first chapter, Malm describes a protest he participated outside the COP1 United Nations climate conference in 1995.[2] He asks "At what point do we escalate?",[5]: 8  stating that the modern climate movement has remained committed to "absolute non-violence" and avoided property destruction.[5]: 22–23  He criticizes what he defines as "moral pacifism" for failing to account for defensive violence[5]: 30–32  and argues that "strategic pacifism" as advocated by Bill McKibben and Extinction Rebellion is ahistorical, discussing the radical flank effect in the context of the civil rights movement and questioning whether there are "convincing reasons" to believe that "the struggle against fossil fuels ... will succeed only on condition of utter peacefulness".[5]: 34–54 

    Malm describes Ende Gelände 2016, during which he and other activists blockaded the Schwarze Pumpe power station, writing that politicians and the media described the action as violent because the activists broke fences. He quotes The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, stating that Fanon wrote violence "frees the native 'from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect'". He concludes that "There has been a time for a Gandhian climate movement; perhaps there might come a time for a Fanonian one. The breaking of fences may one day be seen as a very minor misdemeanour indeed."[5]: 158–161 

    How to Blow Up a Pipeline - Wikipedia
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Blow_Up_a_Pipeline
    YMLADRIS
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    Ještě ty datacentra / jak je možný že celý svět se v řádu jednotek let vybodnul na climate action

    Můj model: pro nejmocnější lidi na planetě je aktuální MIQ ta AI. Je to jako by připlouvali nepředvídatelní mimozemšťani a zbrojilo se o sto šest na všech frontách. Berou to jako definující moment v historii, jak to teď dopadne, koho to položí, kdo bude profitovat, ... Zabije to lidi, pomůže to lidem..

    "Podružné" otázky, jako climate action, demokracie, .. to asi berou jako takovou prioritu jako lidi někde na UA nebo v Gaze uprostřed akce. Hraje se o důležitější věci

    (Most important question)

    P.S. ocenila bych kdybych byla chápána jako že se snažím popisovat chemické reakce skrz nějaké rovnice. Unavuje mě furt to "takže ty jako souhlasíš s tím že ta voda se rozpadá na kzslik a vodík jo, jak můžeš"
    YMLADRIS
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    SCHWEPZ: o muskove pozici vůči klimatu vím jen to že přešel z "nejděsivější experiment ever" (pumpování CO2) na "long term vážná věc, short term ne tak hrozny". Ještě je ta indicie jak mluvil o problémech s kognici při 1000ppm, jestli teda došel k závěru že snižování emisí je mrtvý a budou se řešit problémy kolem 1000ppm - ale žádný takový přímý vyjádření jsem neviděla. Ohledně EU - no tak když podporuje Trumpa, tudíž odstup od climate action, tak možná EU klimatický závazky už neřeší vůbec?

    Já nevím jestli jsi koukal na to video od Sabine na který reaguješ. Všichni, včetně např googlu (kterej chtěl být net zero od 2007!!!!!!) to položili. Moje interpretace je že jde o ta datová centra

    Ale tak každý si vykládá realitu podle toho jak se mu to vypočítá. "Musk schválně chce zničit Earth aby se mohl vrátit zpět domů na Mars" určitě má virální potenciál .. :)
    TUHO
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    Katerina Kolouchova (Fakta oklimatu)


    🇪🇺 European Commission dnes představila očekávaný Kompas konkurenceschopnosti, ve kterém v návaznosti na Draghiho zprávu nastiňuje, jak chce zvýšit konkurenceschopnost unijních podniků.

    Celé je to hodně o zjednodušování (povolovacích procesů, státní podpory, reportingu), inovacích, zvyšování soběstačnosti a odolnosti.

    💡 Důležité je pro mě opakované potvrzení, že cíle Zelené dohody a klimatické neutrality v roce 2050 zůstávají a že Komise stojí za emisním cílem −90 % pro rok 2040. Stejně tak zůstávají stejné emisní cíle pro automobilový průmysl (ač s explicitní zmínkou technologické neutrality a e-paliv).

    Jsem zvědavá na konkrétnější vykreslení dekarbonizačních opatření, které na konci února přinese Clean Industrial Deal.

    V samotném Kompasu mě ještě mj. zaujalo, že Komise navrhne vznik 28. právního režimu, ve kterém by pro inovativní podniky odpadaly starosti s 27 různými regulačními prostředími.

    Co v Kompasu zaujalo vás?

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    Kompas obsahuje i časový rámec pro jednotlivé iniciativy, např.:

    – Clean Industrial Deal and an Action Plan on Affordable Energy [Q1 2025]
    – Amendment of the Climate Law [2025]
    – Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act [Q4 2025]
    – New State Aid Framework [Q2 2025]
    – Strategic dialogue on the future of the European automotive industry and Industrial Action Plan [Q1 2025].
    – Joint purchasing platform for Critical Raw Minerals [Q2-3 2025]
    – Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism Review [2025]
    – Circular Economy Act [Q4 2026]
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    ⚖️ Scientists prize neutrality – that doesn’t cut it any more. In 2025, they must fully back the climate movement
    https://rogerhallam.com/scientists-prize-neutrality-that-doesnt-cut-it-any-more-in-2025-they-must-fully-back-the-climate-movement-2/

    There are nearly 9 million scientists in the world, making up a tribe that is one of the most trusted groups on the planet. Imagine the noise they could make if they spoke with one voice; think of the impetus it would give climate activism. The UK courts have tried to silence climate scientists in the past few years, by keeping their expert testimony out of court cases. As we start out on the second quarter of the 21st century, let’s show them what we can really do.

    Inevitably, there are those who demand impartiality from scientists, but being impartial doesn’t mean not telling the truth; it doesn’t mean playing down threats; and it certainly doesn’t mean keeping silent at a time of global emergency. Wanting to remain apolitical no longer cuts it. It is naive at the best of times, but this is now a matter of survival, not politics. So, throw your weight behind those groups and organisations fighting to tackle climate breakdown, work to bring colleagues on board, and use your influence in the best way you can to drive serious action. As we have said before, there are no grant-awarding committees on a dead planet, so it is time to choose which side of history you are on.
    CHOSIE
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    Ještě k tématu, pesticidy jsem nechtěl zmínit v kontextu Evropy, nebyl jsem si jist, zda se to tu od USA neliší, neliší. Nejen přímé znehodnocení a degradace půdy a biodiverzity a dopad na zdraví, ale i PFAS. Jinak syntetická hnojiva jsou zase pro změnu obalena v plastu kvůli pomalejšímu uvolňování, no, tak asi počkáme na něco nového a lepšího.
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    https://ekolist.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/zpravy/vedci-nasli-v-mineralni-vode-v-nekolika-evropskych-zemich-vecne-chemikalie
    Vědci se domnívají, že kontaminaci vody způsobilo nadměrné používání pesticidů obsahujících TFA nebo sloučenin, které se na něj v životním prostředí mění. Sdružení evropských neziskových organizací Pesticide Action Network Europe zjistilo přítomnost TFA v deseti z 19 minerálních vod, a to v množství až 32krát vyšším, než je prahová hodnota.
    TADEAS
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    YMLADRIS: climate change is too abstract and frightening to trigger useful action, they recommend that scientists avoid using the idea
    YMLADRIS
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    Frightening :)

    ‘Tipping points’ cause confusion, not clarity
    A focus on climate ‘tipping points’ — moments of abrupt and irreversible shifts in the Earth system, such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest — isn’t helpful, argues an interdisciplinary group of ten researchers that includes climate scientists, science communicators and environmental sociologists. The issues involved are important to study, but the framing is too abstract and frightening to trigger useful action, and not rigorous enough to inform policy, they argue. They recommend that scientists avoid using the idea as a scholarly tool and instead consider it “a fuzzy, boundary-spanning concept akin to ‘sustainability’”.

    Nature Climate Change | 27 min read

    ‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action | Nature Climate Change
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02196-8
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    Fury as US argues against climate obligations at top UN court | Climate crisis | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/04/us-climate-crisis-legal-court

    Australia, China and Saudi Arabia – major fossil fuel economies and among the world’s worst greenhouse gas emitters – also argued against legal accountability that developing nations are pushing for.

    After years of campaigning by vulnerable nations and the global climate justice movement, the UN asked the ICJ to provide an advisory opinion on what obligations states have to tackle climate change and what the legal consequences could be if they fail to do so. More than 100 countries and organisations are testifying over the course of two weeks, and many hope the hearings will elevate science to the forefront, ensuring international law reflects the realities of climate breakdown and the urgent need for transformative action
    CHOSIE
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    Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems
    At COP29 in Baku, developed-country parties such as the EU, the US and Japan agreed to help raise “at least” $300bn a year by 2035 for climate action in developing countries.

    If inflation over the next decade follows this trend (3% inflation/year), the $300bn pledged in 2024 would only be worth $217bn in today’s money in 2035 – a 28% reduction in value.

    In order to offer climate finance with a real value of $300bn in 2035, countries would have needed to set a goal for that year of around $415bn.


    Analysis: Why the $300bn climate-finance goal is even less ambitious than it seems - Carbon Brief
    https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-why-the-300bn-climate-finance-goal-is-even-less-ambitious-than-it-seems/
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    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X22002255

    Abstract
    The impacts of global climate change on international security and geopolitics could be of historic proportion, challenging those of previous global threats such as nuclear weapons proliferation, the Great Depression, and terrorism. But while the evidence surrounding the security impacts of climate change is fairly well-understood and improving, less is known about the security risks to climate-technology deployment. In this study, we focus on the geopolitical, security, and military risks facing negative emissions and solar geoengineering options. Although controversial, these options could become the future backbone of a low-carbon or net-zero society, given that they avoid the need for coordinated or global action (and can be deployed by a smaller group of actors, even non-state actors), and that they can “buy time” for mitigation and other options to be scaled up. We utilize a large and diverse expert-interview exercise (N = 125) to critically examine the security risks associated with ten negative emission options (or greenhouse gas removal technologies) and ten solar geoengineering options (or solar radiation management technologies). We ask: What geopolitical considerations does deployment give rise to? What particular military applications exist? What risks do these options entail in terms of weaponization, misuse, and miscalculation? We examine such existing and prospective security risks across a novel conceptual framework envisioning their use as (i) diplomatic or military negotiating tools, (ii) objectives for building capacity, control, or deterrence, (iii) targets in ongoing conflicts, and (iv) causes of new conflicts. This enables us to capture a far broader spectrum of security concerns than those which exist in the extant literature and to go well beyond insights derived from climate modelling or game theory by drawing on a novel, rich, and original dataset of expert perceptions.
    TADEAS
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    Our Science, Your Future: Next Generation of Antarctic Scientists Call for Collaborative Action - AAPP
    https://aappartnership.org.au/next-generation-of-antarctic-scientists-call-for-collaborative-action/

    Antarctic researchers warn of possible 'catastrophic' sea level rise | ABC News
    https://youtu.be/IbgsmEJRWWg?si=tzZcm1AZpW3QZAZM


    Antarctic researchers warn of possible 'catastrophic' sea level rise within our lifetime in group statement - ABC News
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-22/researchers-warn-of-possible-catastrophic-sea-level-rise/104626804

    Hundreds of polar researchers have issued an emergency statement calling for urgent action to deal with the impacts of climate change in Antarctica.

    Antarctica and the Southern Ocean have been undergoing rapid and extreme changes in recent years, including unprecedented heatwaves and record-low sea ice levels.

    Over the past week, more than 450 researchers gathered in Hobart for the inaugural Australian Antarctic Research Conference — the first such event in more than a decade.

    Almost two thirds of attendees were early career researchers, who have released a joint statement titled, Making Antarctica Cool Again.

    The statement warns of the potential dire consequences of global sea level rise caused by melting ice sheets.
    TUHO
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    After catastrophic floods engulfed Valencia last month, killing more than 200 people, it might seem counterintuitive to think about water shortages. But as the torrents of filthy water swept through towns and villages, people were left without electricity, food supplies – and drinking water. “It was brutal: cars, chunks of machinery, big stones, even dead bodies were swept along in the water. It gushed into the ground floor of buildings, into little shops, bakeries, hairdressers, the English school, bars: all were destroyed. This was climate change for real, climate change in capital letters,” says Josep de la Rubia of Valencia’s Ecologists in Action, describing the scene in the satellite towns south of the Valencian capital.

    In the aftermath, hundreds of thousands of people were reliant on emergency tankers of water or donations of bottled water from citizen volunteers. Within a fortnight, the authorities had reconnected the tap water of 90% of the 850,000 people in affected areas, but all were advised to boil it before drinking it or to use bottled water. Across the region, 100 sewage treatment plants were damaged; in some areas, human waste seeped into flood waters, dead animals were swept into rivers and sodden rubbish and debris piled up. Valencia is on the brink of a sanitation crisis.

    ‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water | Water | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/nov/23/spanish-villages-people-forced-to-buy-back-own-drinking-water-drought-flood
    TUHO
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    Saudi Arabia opposition to targeting of fossil fuels breaks into the open
    Damian Carrington
    At UN climate Cops, oil-rich Saudi Arabia is a persistent obstructor of action to cut the burning of fossil fuels, which drives the climate crisis. It’s been described as a “wrecking ball” at Cop29. But it usually works behind the scenes, in the private negotiations.

    Today it said it out loud, in the plenary session where nations were setting out their many objections the deal texts currently on the table.

    “The Arab group will not accept any text that targets any specific sectors, including fossil fuels,” said Albara Tawfiq from the Saudi delegation.

    Cop29 live: Saudi Arabia opposition to targeting of fossil fuels breaks into the open | Cop29 | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/21/cop29-live-draft-texts-negotiations-climate-crisis?page=with:block-673f34868f083ae557dd226b#block-673f34868f083ae557dd226b
    YMLADRIS
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    Pardon za délku, líbilo se mi na redditu, ještě jsem výrazně zkrátila :)

    hyperobjects are a concept introduced by philosopher timothy morton to describe things so vast in scale, duration, or interconnectedness, existing through such vast expanses of space *and* time that they transcend the biological capabilities of human perception and comprehension. they are objects or phenomena that we interact with but cannot fully grasp due to their inherent complexity and distributed nature. hyperobjects include things like climate change, radioactive materials, global capitalism, or even the internet.

    hyperobjects exist on such expansive spatial and temporal scales that they are quite literally everywhere and nowhere all at once. for example, you can experience the effects of climate change (like extreme weather), but you can never point to a single, tangible "climate change" because it is dispersed across the entire globe and throughout time. hyperobjects persist over timeframes that dwarf human lifespans. radioactive waste and climate change remain dangerous for thousand of years, potentially outlasting human civilization.

    hyperobjects stick to you and are inescapable. you might try to avoid thinking about a hyperobject, but its presence infiltrates daily life like the slow creep of rising sea levels or the omnipresence microplastics in the air you breathe, the water you drink, and the soil your food is grown in.

    hyperobjects exist not in isolation but in constant interaction with other objects and systems. for instance, the carbon cycle connects human industry, ecosystems, and atmospheric chemistry in ways that cannot be disentangled. hyperobjects are real, but they don’t appear fully at once. you can only perceive fragments of them through their effects (melting glaciers or sulfur dioxide in maritime shipping fuel) and through the models used to understand them (e.g., CMIP6).

    hyperobjects push beyond what is called humanity’s epistemic horizon, the boundary of what we can conceptually process. they are too vast in both space and time, existing beyond the direct experience of one human lifespan. the geological timescales of climate change make it challenging to fully perceive its urgency or consequences. the causes and effects of hyperobjects are enmeshed in complex systems, making them harder to discern. global warming involves atmospheric chemistry, ocean currents, human behavior, economic systems and things we aren't even aware of. all of which often manifests indirectly, requiring abstract models, simulations, and data interpretation over time for us to engage with them meaningfully.

    this sheer scale and complexity often leads to psychological overwhelm or cognitive dissonance, resulting in denial or inaction. humans often approach hyperobjects by breaking them into smaller, more manageable parts like focusing on reducing personal carbon footprints rather than addressing systemic industrial ecocide. even just recognizing a hyperobject requires collective action, interdisciplinary research, and systems-level thinking, again, over time. meaningfully addressing climate change would necessitate coordination between nations, localities, municipalities, industries, and individuals.

    art, literature, and philosophy are further ways humans historically seem to engage with hyperobjects. perhaps the abstract, individual, hyperobject-like elements of art itself help to make hyperobjects themselves more relatable and comprehensible, even if only metaphorically. art can influence individuals as well as entire cultures.

    COVID-19, UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena also known as ''the phenomena''), and AI all exhibit hyperobject-like characteristics. Also consciousness.
    XCHAOS
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    Cutting forests for solar energy 'misses the plot' on climate action (commentary)
    https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/cutting-forests-for-solar-energy-misses-the-plot-on-climate-action-commentary/
    SCHWEPZ
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    Jste taky tak nadšení jako Elon a Donald,z tohoto vývoje situace?

    USA podle listu za jeho vlády odstoupí od některých klimatických zákonů zavedených za Bidena nebo překreslí národní parky,
    aby se mohlo těžit i v dosud chráněných oblastech.
    Trump podle deníku plánuje také zrušit každý úřad zabývající se snižováním emisí a hodlá odstoupit od Pařížské dohody z roku 2015.

    Na rozdíl od vlád většiny států světa, které se loni shodly na tom, že je potřeba odstoupit od těžby a využívání fosilních paliv, jejichž emise přispívají k oteplování planety, Trump těžbu propaguje. Společnosti těžící ropu a plyn se objevovaly i mezi dárci Trumpovy kampaně.

    Trumpova výhra jako jed. Změna klimatu je podvod, hlásá a chce zmenšit národní parky - Aktuálně.cz
    https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/zahranici/usa-cop-trump-znecisteni/r~26cb84faa03e11efa1910cc47ab5f122/

    https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/11/climate/cop29-climate-talks-trump/index.html

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/climate/trump-climate-change.html

    Experts: What does a Trump presidency mean for climate action? - Carbon Brief
    https://www.carbonbrief.org/experts-what-does-a-trump-presidency-mean-for-climate-action/
    TADEAS
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    Miscarriages due to climate crisis a ‘blind spot’ in action plans – report | Climate crisis | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/miscarriages-due-to-climate-crisis-a-blind-spot-in-action-plans-report
    TUHO
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    PALEONTOLOG: Ad Alpy a doby ledovy: Jo? Tak tech linii mohlo bejt vic.
    Nicmene je mozny, ze to tam zjednodusil moc, mam za to, ze mluvi o praci Louise Agassize a mam totiz zato, ja to cetl i v jinym zdroji o historii klimatologie, ale za boha si ted nemuzu vzpomenout kde...

    Jinak trosku vic rozepsany ma ten popis Weart tady:
    Past Climate Cycles: Ice Age Speculations
    https://history.aip.org/climate/cycles.htm

    jinak prispevek na wiki o Agassizovi

    The vacation of 1836 was spent by Agassiz and his wife in the little village of Bex, where he met Jean de Charpentier and Ignaz Venetz. Their recently announced glacial theories had startled the scientific world, and Agassiz returned to Neuchâtel as an enthusiastic convert.[10] In 1837, Agassiz proposed that the Earth had been subjected to a past ice age.[11] He presented the theory to the Helvetic Society that ancient glaciers flowed outward from the Alps, and even larger glaciers had covered the plains and mountains of Europe, Asia, and North America and smothered the entire Northern Hemisphere in a prolonged ice age. In the same year, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Before that proposal, Goethe, de Saussure, Ignaz Venetz, Jean de Charpentier, Karl Friedrich Schimper, and others had studied the glaciers of the Alps, and Goethe,[12] Charpentier, and Schimper[11] had even concluded that the erratic blocks of alpine rocks scattered over the slopes and summits of the Jura Mountains had been moved there by glaciers. Those ideas attracted the attention of Agassiz, and he discussed them with Charpentier and Schimper, whom he accompanied on successive trips to the Alps. Agassiz even had a hut constructed upon one of the Aar Glaciers and for a time made it his home to investigate the structure and movements of the ice.[4]

    Agassiz visited England, and with William Buckland, the only English naturalist who shared his ideas, made a tour of the British Isles in search of glacial phenomena, and became satisfied that his theory of an ice age was correct.[10] In 1840, Agassiz published a two-volume work, Études sur les glaciers ("Studies on Glaciers").[13] In it, he discussed the movements of the glaciers, their moraines, and their influence in grooving and rounding the rocks and in producing the striations and roches moutonnées seen in Alpine-style landscapes. He accepted Charpentier and Schimper's idea that some of the alpine glaciers had extended across the wide plains and valleys of the Aar and Rhône, but he went further by concluding that in the recent past, Switzerland had been covered with one vast sheet of ice originating in the higher Alps and extending over the valley of northwestern Switzerland to the southern slopes of the Jura. The publication of the work gave fresh impetus to the study of glacial phenomena in all parts of the world.[14]

    Familiar then with recent glaciation, Agassiz and the English geologist William Buckland visited the mountains of Scotland in 1840. There, they found clear evidence in different locations of glacial action. The discovery was announced to the Geological Society of London in successive communications. The mountainous districts of England, Wales, and Ireland were understood to have been centres for the dispersion of glacial debris. Agassiz remarked "that great sheets of ice, resembling those now existing in Greenland, once covered all the countries in which unstratified gravel (boulder drift) is found; that this gravel was in general produced by the trituration of the sheets of ice upon the subjacent surface, etc."[15]

    Louis Agassiz - Wikipedia
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz
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    Europe was a leader on saving nature. Now, its backsliding could threaten global progress | Biodiversity | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/europe-eu-green-deal-backsliding-nature-biodiversity-farmers-far-right-cop16-aoe

    EU leaders scaled back plans to cut pollution and protect habitats after angry protests from farmers at the start of the year. A law to restore nature was turned into a political punching bag, barely securing majorities in key votes to rubber-stamp the deal, and a regulation to reduce deforestation will be delayed by a year, the commission announced last week.

    The backsliding has alarmed conservationists and scientists, who fear that biodiversity loss is being pushed to the sidelines on the eve of the world’s most significant nature negotiations.

    ...

    The most vocal opponents of Europe’s nature protection plans are far-right parties, which completely oppose the EU’s “green deal”, and centre-right parties, which nominally back the project but have repeatedly tried to weaken it. Both groups gained seats at the expense of the Greens in European parliament elections in June, in a rightward shift that has been echoed in national and regional elections across the continent.

    ...

    Pe’er said: “Instead of resilience, sustainability and planetary boundaries – not to speak of nature or biodiversity – we now hear the words competitiveness, boosting our economy, and helping the industry.

    ...

    Europe’s recent efforts to protect nature have been mixed. The EU failed to meet its 2020 biodiversity targets and risks falling short of its 2030 protection targets, too. In 2021, most of its member countries failed to pay their fair share of a $20bn (£15.3bn) a year commitment to protect nature, according to an analysis from the ODI in June.

    Just eight of the 27 member states have revised their national biodiversity strategies and action plans, and only the same number have submitted pledges to protect nature
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