Climate Crisis: Are we doing enough?

[albion]

https://amp.theguardian.com/society...dders-it-makes-more-sense-than-a-nine-to-five

Makes little sense to me. The pollution from wood burning is damaging to both health and climate.

 

[mudsticks]

https://amp.theguardian.com/society...dders-it-makes-more-sense-than-a-nine-to-five

Makes little sense to me. The pollution from wood burning is damaging to both health and climate.

If you grow the trees and replant or pollard / coppice them onsite, then burning them for fuel is carbon neutral.

The trees at Tinkers Bubble are overgrown evergreen plantation.

Larger trees are taken out and planked with the steam (wood) powered sawmill.
The planks are used in building and or sold (so that carbon is sequestered)

Thinnings / offcuts / brash is used for fuel onsite.

I agree it's not such a great idea to transport wood into towns and cities to burn there, where particulates are already a problem, and the carbon cost of transportation is high.

But in relatively low density rural settlement that is off grid, and by its nature already low in its power consumption then burning some wood, for space and water heating isn't the worst eco-crime by a long shot.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Yesterday was the hottest day on earth, possibly the hottest in 125k years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/05/hottest-day-ever-recorded/

 

[mudsticks]

What many of us have been banging on about (and in some cases practicing) for years.

Now let's make it happen.

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...protect-food-security-and-slow-global-heating

 

[Pale Rider]

Yesterday was the hottest day on earth, possibly the hottest in 125k years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/05/hottest-day-ever-recorded/

A classic example of what we hacks call 'top spin'.

The headline boldly asserts 'hottest day on earth', but the story says 'some scientists believe' and 'may have been'.

Which is a slight pity, because otherwise the piece was well-researched and put together.

 

[matticus]

A classic example of what we hacks call 'top spin'.

The headline boldly asserts 'hottest day on earth', but the story says 'some scientists believe' and 'may have been'.

Which is a slight pity, because otherwise the piece was well-researched and put together.

Would you have gone with
'Hottest day on earth?'
?

 

[albion]

Surely, someone had a thermometer 125,000 years ago, though obviously China was supplying them in 1979.

 

[matticus]

Meanwhile at Wimbledon ... you can't say JSO protestors lack class:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/tennis/66111111

 

[mudsticks]

Surely, someone had a thermometer 125,000 years ago, though obviously China was supplying them in 1979.

You can tell what temperatures were pre history of human recording by looking at the geological record.

 

[Deleted member 49]

Well done...give that kid a medal !

View: https://twitter.com/GNDRising/status/1676895915318165504?t=M2JU0LOEi8z4iHCa_Spx3w&s=19

 

[Deleted member 49]

View: https://twitter.com/NWBylines/status/1677045715229458433?t=k6v0Yd2MBTSGWyptHRCN5w&s=19

 

[Deleted member 28]

Poor Greta....................

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...6fb345dc45de4c32a6bdde886a7c9a71&ei=8#image=1

 

[matticus]

Guardian headline writers Ace it:

 

[the snail]

Poor Greta....................

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...6fb345dc45de4c32a6bdde886a7c9a71&ei=8#image=1

Good for her, standing up for what she believes in and not backing down. She's got more balls than Starmer - or keyboard warriors like you for that matter.

 

[mudsticks]

Good for her, standing up for what she believes in and not backing down. She's got more balls than Starmer - or keyboard warriors like you for that matter.

I've got many friends and acquaintances who have been variously sanctioned, including being arrested, and imprisoned for protesting on this issue over the decades.

I've done a lot of activism and protesting too, but somehow avoided arrest as of yet.

Its something that I still believe is worth that possibility though.

I'd far rather be an active citizen fighting for what l believe in, than give into lazy "Who gives a cr@p?" cynicism .

A livable planet is the baseline survival requirement for the human race, and the other species we share it with .

If that's not worth fighting for, then what exactly is.??