Historians will look back on this lede from #Carbon County, #Pennsylvania with a disgust we can't even comprehend. tl;dr: Burning used tires and waste #coal to mine #Bitcoin.
Via WBRE/WYOU: "Panther Creek Electric Generating Facility in #Nesquehoning was approved on May 1 to burn tires along with waste coal to create power for its facility. Everything the plant produces goes to crypto mining for Bitcoin."
https://www.pahomepage.com/news/carbon-county-power-plant-gets-approval-to-burn-tires/
The latest data comes from those known lefty rabble-rousers at the, uh, University of Chicago Booth School of Business & the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, who estimated that THE SOCIAL COST OF THE #CARBON #EMISSIONS of US COMPANIES will amount to $87 TRILLION THROUGH 2050. That's 131% of the total value of #corporate equity and about 3 times the size of GDP.
...with a 12% hit to global #GDP for every 1° of warming above pre-industrial averages. #climate
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-02/carbon-costs-corporate-america-owes-us-87-trillion
#Indigenous peoples in #LatinAmerica say no to the fake #greenwashing of #carbon markets at #REDD an organise to defend their territories - they have their say in this documentary by World Rainforest Movement #BoycottPalmOil
https://youtu.be/LCvRLDonzEs?si=ISf9hwWWfBUmojbr&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
As political winds shift in the U.S. and big corporations pull back on their climate ambition, investors, too, are giving the cold shoulder to a nascent technology that will be vital to tackling climate change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/05/02/tech/investors-sour-direct-air-capture/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #climatechange #investments #carbon #emissions
A new report has found that protected areas and Indigenous territories in the Amazon store more aboveground carbon than the rest of the rainforest.
Protected areas and Indigenous territories were also found to serve as significant carbon sinks between 2013 and 2022, absorbing 257 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.
By Abhishyant Kidangoor
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/new-report-reinforces-critical-role-of-amazonian-protected-areas-in-climate-fight/
#XPRIZE makes history, awards $100M prize for groundbreaking #carbon removal
#MatiCarbon developed sequestration technique called enhanced rock weatherin. The company spreads crushed basalt on farms in India and Africa. Silica-rich volcanic rock improves soil quality for crops but also helps remove #carbondioxide from air. It does this by reacting with dissolved #CO2 in soil's water, turning it into bicarbonate ions and preventing it from returning to the atmosphere.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/xprize-makes-history-awards-100m-prize-for-groundbreaking-carbon-removal-solutions-302435179.html
Can we sue fossil fuel companies for causing global warming?
New study claims to have calculated the individual contributions to the climate crisis by major corporations. And they estimate that damage to be $28 trillion from 1990-2020
@bookstodon See also:
The Sixth Element How Carbon Shapes Our World by Theodore P. Snow & Don Brownlee, 2024
The story of carbon from a cosmic perspective—how it was born in the fiery furnaces of stars, what special chemical and physical properties it has, and how it forms the chemical backbone of the planets and all life as we know it.
Carbon: The Book of Life by Paul Hawken, 2025
Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earth’s composition, our planet is lifeless without it. Yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilization.
'Cryosphere meltdown' will impact Arctic marine carbon cycles and ecosystems, new study warns https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/04/250425113612.htm
https://www.europesays.com/uk/51455/ Trump officials pressure world’s top energy agency to drop climate mission – POLITICO #Carbon #ClimateChange #Data #Decarbonization #DonaldTrump #EdMiliband #emissions #Energy #EnergyInfrastructure #EnergyMarkets #EnergySecurity #EnergySupply #Environment #Exports #FatihBirol #FossilFuels #gas #NaturalGas #Oil #RenewableEnergy #Research #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStates
Japan's greenhouse gas emissions in fiscal 2023 have declined 4.0% from the previous year to a record low of 1,071 million tons in carbon dioxide equivalent. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/25/japan/greenhouse-emissions-lowest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #emissions #environment #climatechange #carbon #renewables #nuclearenergy #environmentministry
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell announced measures Tuesday to cut the city’s stubborn carbon emissions, including more electric-vehicle charging stations and a program for e-cargo bike deliveries.
https://www.kuow.org/stories/seattle-launches-new-actions-to-tame-transport-s-climate-impact
#KUOW #News #Climate #Carbon #ClimateChange #Environment #Seattle
If the so called Labour government cannot arrange a sane BBC, if it indeed is itself sane enough to understand how raging mad this is, then there is no point in Labour and rhe British working class needs to look at different solutions.
BBC Prevents shows talking about effing heat pumps.
Fire the BBC news dept. In its entirety. All of it. From copy editors to talking nobs.
For Japan’s largest utilities, lab-made fuels are a meaningful step toward greener energy that also extends the life of existing fossil-fuel infrastructure. Their critics says they are an expensive distraction. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/21/japan-lab-made-fuels-renewables/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #energy #utilities #renewables #gas #emissions #carbon #methane #2025osakaexpo
Australia’s biggest industrial polluter receives millions in carbon credits despite rising emissions https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/21/australias-biggest-industrial-polluter-receives-millions-in-carbon-credits-despite-rising-emissions
Increasingly, hitting climate targets looks like it will require the world to turn to technologies that can suck carbon straight from the air in a bid to turn the global thermostat down. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/04/19/carbon-capture-bets/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #emissions #energy #carbon
read why the ocean is the last frontier of our last days >
https://medium.com/@acefujiwara/oceanic-frontier-of-our-last-days-2025-edition-776b7da82b44
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