Two civil rights attorneys who... - Alt National Park Service
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The Trump administration has announced sweeping measures to expand coal production on public lands. It intends to open 13.1 million acres of public land for coal leasing, significantly loosen the royalty rates that mining companies pay, and allocate large sums toward existing coal-fired power plants. A central component of the plan is to dismantle or weaken dozens of environmental regulations that restrict pollution from coal operations and power plants.

The Trump administration’s coal plan does not stop at opening millions of acres of public land or reducing royalties. It is paired with an unprecedented wave of environmental deregulation that collectively weakens protections for air, water, and climate. Rules that once limited carbon emissions from power plants, such as the Clean Power Plan and its successors, have been repealed or replaced with far weaker standards, allowing utilities to emit far more greenhouse gases at a time when global climate goals demand steep reductions.

Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, designed to curb neurotoxic pollution that damages brain development and causes respiratory illness, have been scaled back, with nearly seventy coal plants granted exemptions from compliance. Similarly, the administration has rolled back limits on particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides (pollutants linked directly to asthma, heart disease, and premature deaths) while loosening oversight of methane emissions, a potent greenhouse gas.

Water protections have also been eroded. The Stream Protection Rule, which restricted coal companies from dumping mining waste into rivers and streams, was repealed, increasing the risk of heavy metals and toxins entering drinking water sources. Wastewater and coal ash standards for power plants have been relaxed, enabling greater discharge of arsenic, selenium, and other contaminants into waterways. By narrowing the scope of the Clean Water Act, fewer wetlands and tributaries now receive federal protection, leaving them vulnerable to pollution.

Collectively, these changes lower costs for coal operators but shift the burden onto communities, which face higher health risks from toxic air and water, degraded ecosystems, and accelerating climate change.

Trumpuv projev v OSN hodinu zpět byl výběr z hroznů:

"The 'carbon footprint' is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they're heading down a path of total destruction."

"Europe loses more than 175,000 to heat deaths every year because the costs are so expensive you can't turn on an air conditioner. What is that all about? That's not Europe. That's not the Europe that I love and know. All in the name of pretending to stop the global warming hoax."

A mnoho dalších perel a verbálních diamantů...
Vydržel jsem 15minut, pak mi začala téct z uší krev ;)

M Berg
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Málo se o tom mluví, nebo se dokonce mnohem častěji říká, že se jinde ve světě nic neděje, ale v Číně emise klesají.

Růst čisté energie pomohl v první polovině roku snížit čínské emise oxidu uhličitého, a to i přes nárůst poptávky po elektřině, jak vyplývá z nové analýzy pro Carbon Brief. Emise v první polovině roku klesly meziročně o 1 %, čímž se prodloužil klesající trend, který začal v březnu 2024, uvádí analýza.

Produkce CO2 v čínském energetickém sektoru klesla o 3 %, přičemž růst solární energie sám o sobě odpovídal nárůstu poptávky po elektřině v zemi. Emise klesly také v odvětvích stavebních materiálů, oceli a vytápění, dodává analýza, kterou najdete zde: https://lnkd.in/exQUDkPE

YMLADRIS: Tohle technické očůrávání potřeby snižovat emise je hlavně jedna z metod jak ty emise reálně nesnižovot. Asi jako když Richard Branson sliboval obří peníze na vynalezení bezuhlikoveho paliva/carbon captur apod. S tímhle bohulibým záměrem v zádech vybudovat obří aerolinky a z bezemisní letecké dopravy nakonec nic nebylo.

bylo ze carbon storage asi nepujde?

A study led by researchers from NASA found that the world doesn’t have remotely enough safe places to store carbon dioxide to realize some of humanity’s more ambitious carbon capture plans. These plans typically assume that carbon dioxide, once captured, would be pumped under pressure underground into suitable rocks and sealed there. But finding rock formations where the carbon dioxide does not leak back out isn’t all that easy. The researchers also excluded any locations nearby human settlements due to the risk inherent in such storage, and any locations that would make storage too costly. They conclude that the places left could effectively reduce global warming by about 0.7°C if fully used – far less than the 5-6°C assumed to be possible in some scenarios (especially those favored by the fossil fuel industry).

While it’s good to quantify the problem, I think these numbers are redundant because the technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere (or even capture it effectively at fossil fuel power plants) is currently so inefficient and costly it won’t make any difference for global warming, certainly not in the near future, and quite possibly not ever. Press release here. Paper here.

(newsletter Sabine Hossenfelder)

https://esgnews.com/china-to-impose-absolute-emissions-caps-from-2027-for-nationwide-carbon-market/

Čína plánuje zavedení absolutních emisních limitů pro průmysl a některé podniky. Učinit tak chce v rámci celostátního systému obchodování s povolenkami. Zavedení absolutních limitů je v Číně novinkou, doposud totiž využívala opatření zaměřená na emisní intenzitu

Čína spustí celostátní systém obchodování s emisemi
https://oenergetice.cz/zahranicni/cina-spusti-celostatni-system-obchodovani-s-emisemi

Země tím indikuje přechod k plně funkčnímu celostátnímu trhu s uhlíkem - fungovat by měl do konce tohoto desetiletí a nahradí roztříštěné provinční systémy. Absolutní emisní limity budou aplikovány od roku 2027 na vybraná odvětví, a nahradí tak současný systém založený na referenčních hodnotách uhlíkové intenzity. Do roku 2030 by pak měl být systém ETS založený na absolutních cílech snížení emisí plně zaveden v celé zemi a nahradit mozaiku pilotních systémů spuštěných po roce 2021.

The Trump administration is... - Alt National Park Service
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The Trump administration is moving from denying climate change to rewriting it. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a longtime oil industry executive, just announced plans to “update” past National Climate Assessments, the gold-standard, peer-reviewed reports that lay out the risks of the climate crisis in detail.

Scientists are calling this their “worst fears” come true. Why? Because this isn’t about adding new data, it’s about erasing inconvenient truths. The administration has already:

- Fired hundreds of scientists working on the next report.
- Pulled past climate reports from public websites.
- Released a so-called “study” by climate contrarians that downplays the danger of carbon pollution.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen political leaders try to rewrite reality. From the Bush administration editing climate reports in the 2000s, to authoritarian regimes rewriting history books, the tactic is always the same. Manipulate the facts so you can justify harmful policies.

Climate scientist Michael Mann compared it to “exactly what Joseph Stalin did”, because Stalin was infamous for altering historical records, airbrushing people out of photos, and replacing facts with state-approved propaganda.

And remember this isn’t just any official doing this. It’s an oil man in charge of the Department of Energy, reshaping science to serve the fossil fuel industry.
Once you change the official record, you can gut regulations, strip protections, and pretend the crisis doesn’t exist. It’s not just science under attack, it’s the truth.

Trump couldn’t get it passed... - Alt National Park Service
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Trump couldn’t get it passed in his big 💩 bill, so now here are his executive orders.

Let’s break down what Trump’s new AI executive orders actually mean. On July 23, the administration issued a sweeping directive to “facilitate the rapid and efficient buildout” of AI infrastructure by, in its own words, “easing Federal regulatory burdens.” One order explicitly calls on agencies to “streamline environmental reviews and permitting” by using existing exemptions or creating new ones. In practice, that means fewer safeguards, less public input, and fast-tracked approval for massive data center construction, even on federal land.

What’s more, the administration brags that it “revokes a Biden-era Executive Order that would have saddled AI data center development … with pages of DEI and climate requirements.” This signals a wholesale retreat from environmental accountability. These data centers are notoriously energy and water intensive, using millions of gallons of water daily and consuming electricity at rates that rival entire cities. And under this new policy, they can now be built without the oversight meant to protect air quality, local ecosystems, and public health.

We’re already seeing the real-world impact. In South Memphis, particularly in Boxtown, a neighborhood long burdened by industrial pollution, residents are now facing a new threat: up to 35 unpermitted methane gas turbines powering xAI’s “Colossus” supercomputer. These turbines emit massive quantities of nitrogen oxides and formaldehyde, smog-forming and carcinogenic pollutants that have increased local ozone by 30 to 60 percent and worsened asthma rates in a community already leading the state in emergency asthma visits. Advocacy groups, including the NAACP and the Southern Environmental Law Center, issued a Clean Air Act notice, calling the site potentially “the largest industrial source of smog-forming pollutants in Memphis.” Residents report rising cases of respiratory illness, days too unhealthy to be outside, and a cancer risk four times the national average. Although local officials recently approved a turbine permit, the very next day brought a Code Orange air alert, underscoring the mounting public health crisis tied to unchecked AI development.

The orders don’t stop there. They also cancel major clean energy infrastructure, like the 4.9 billion dollar Grain Belt Express transmission line, and steer AI growth toward fossil fuels and nuclear instead of renewables. This could severely hinder U.S. climate goals and lock in decades of carbon-heavy infrastructure. Taken together, the language of these executive orders makes it crystal clear: this isn’t just about AI, it’s a full-speed deregulation plan that prioritizes corporate expansion over the health of American communities.

Next EU climate target to allow carbon offsets from 2036, draft shows – POLITICO
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-comission-climate-target-2036-plan/

The European Commission will permit countries to outsource a portion of their climate efforts to poorer countries from 2036, according to a draft proposal obtained by POLITICO.

The EU executive plans to present the bloc’s 2040 emissions-reduction target on Wednesday after several months of delay. The goal will be set at 90 percent below 1990 levels, the draft amendment to the European Climate Law shows.

But as POLITICO reported in mid-June, the Commission intends to meet up to 3 percentage points of the new target with international carbon credits, despite fierce criticism from its own scientific advisers. This plan aligns with Germany’s position on the 2040 goal.

Some species of fig trees store calcium carbonate in their trunks – essentially turning themselves (partially) into stone, new research has found. The team of Kenyan, U.S., Austrian, and Swiss scientists found that the trees could draw carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it as calcium carbonate ‘rocks’ in the surrounding soil.

The research is being presented this week at the Goldschmidt conference in Prague.

The trees – native to Kenya – are one of the first fruit trees shown to have this ability, known as the oxalate carbonate pathway.

Fig trees convert atmospheric CO2 to stone | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1089863

Z cyklu seriozne #doomed

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar
https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications?

“We are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere—something we’ve never seen before,” explains Antonio Turiel, ICM-CSIC researcher and co-author of the study. “While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC in the North Atlantic, we’re seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed. This could have unprecedented global climate impacts.”

According to the research team, the consequences of this reversal are already becoming visible. The upwelling of deep, warm, CO₂-rich waters is believed to be driving the accelerated melting of sea ice in the Southern Ocean. In the long term, this process could double current atmospheric CO₂ concentrations by releasing carbon that has been stored in the deep ocean for centuries—potentially with catastrophic consequences for the global climate.
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“The new processor has allowed us to obtain surface salinity data of unprecedented quality in this region,” explains Verónica González. “Thanks to this improvement, we can now provide a coherent explanation for the rapid Antarctic sea ice loss that had puzzled the scientific community.”