Climate

Developing countries face possible shelving of crucial green action plan at IMF and World Bank spring meetings

For US cities, getting off of fossil gas for heating, and fossil fuels for transportation is quite difficult; it needs displacement faster than the natural replacement rate for cars and furnaces. And we're not actually replacing 100% of vehicles or furnaces with electric models.

The animals might be entering the Bay in search of food as climate change disrupts traditional sources. They face huge risks from ships in the area.

Wildfire expert Mike Flannigan says this year will be his "litmus test" for whether Canada's wildfire seasons, already in uncharted territory and fuelled by human-caused climate change, have entered a "new reality."

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Sltldr: "They're just throwing away money, planting trees in the desert for them to die."

The Great Green Wall is a top down, big government intervention that has little to no local buy-in and isn't sustainable without continued big government funding.

Not surprisingly, the funding has mostly dried up, and so has the land.

Microsoft made 90% of all carbon removal purchases worldwide last year, according to data from the third-party industry monitor CDR.fyi. The company is generally cited as making somewhere between 79% to 90% of all historic carbon removal purchases.

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Many blue states are rethinking ambitious strategies to cut emissions as they struggle with rising electricity costs and new hurdles for renewable energy.

The big problem is that rising electricity costs are caused by fossil fuel prices going up, and can be avoided with large-scale wind and solar deployment. The US federal government is working to make that hard; state governments don't need to go along, even if some politicians are trying to use it as an excuse to avoid deploying renewables.

Washington will likely reach a high of 94F (34C) on the National Mall on Wednesday, while New York’s Central Park is set to reach 87F, the National Weather Service said. The heat will extend across much of the Mid-Atlantic and southeast with at least 165 daily records expected to be threatened or broken next week.

Emphasis mine.