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“More people will die,” said Cory Zigler, a professor of biostatistics at Brown who has studied #air #pollution #deaths from #coal-fired #PowerPlants. “More of this type of pollution that we know kills people will be in the air.”

…Virtually all the benefits from the rules come from restricting the burning of coal, #oil & natural #gas. The #FossilFuel industry was a heavy contributor to #Trump’s campaign & #Republicans overall.

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@Michael_Collins
The corporatisation of the #tertiarySector is paying its dividends in the most egregious way. The neoliberal thinking that education can be run like a business and that markets would somehow nurture and develop educational institutions (in the economic sense) is shown, well and truly, to be a delusion.

The sector needs to be fully funded from the public purse and left to its previous collegiate form of governance. Funding could be made available from the ‘rapping of the land’ by #ExtractiveIndustries and a sensible PRRT increase (together with cuts in tax examption allowances for #FossilFuel Exporters)。

Gumption is all that is required from our govt。

The smoke from #Canada’s #wildfires may be even more #toxic than usual

A legacy of #mining means that #ToxicMetals could be carried along plumes of smoke.

by Matt Simon, June 5, 2025

"More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern parts of the United States. The smoke is even reaching Europe.

"As the climate changes, the far north is drying and warming, which means wildfires are getting bigger and more intense. The area burned in Canada is now the second largest on record for this time of year, trailing behind the brutal wildfire season of 2023. That year, the amount of #carbon blazed into the atmosphere was about three times the country’s #FossilFuel emissions. And the more carbon that’s emitted from wildfires — in Canada and elsewhere — the faster the #PlanetaryWarming, and the worse the fires.

" 'There’s obviously the #ClimateFeedback concern,' said Mike Waddington, an environmental scientist at McMaster University in Ontario who studies Canada’s forests. 'But increasingly we’re also concerned about the smoke.'

"That’s because there’s much more to wildfire smoke than charred sticks and leaves, especially where these blazes are burning in Canada. The country’s #forests have long been #mined, operations that loaded #soils and #waterways with #ToxicMetals like #lead and #mercury, especially before clean-air standards kicked in 50 years ago. Now everyone downwind of these wildfires may have to contend with that legacy and those pollutants, in addition to all the other nasties inherent in #WildfireSmoke, which are known to exacerbate respiratory and cardiac problems.

" 'You have there the burning of these organic soils resulting in a lot of carbon and a lot of #ParticulateMatter,' said Waddington. 'Now you have this triple whammy, where you have the metals #remobilized in addition to that.'

"What exactly is lurking in the smoke from Canadian wildfires will require further testing by scientists. But an area of particular concern is around the mining city of #FlinFlon, in #ManitobaCanada, which is known to have elevated levels of toxic metals in the landscape, said Colin McCarter, an environmental scientist who studies pollutants at Ontario’s #NipissingUniversity. Flin Flon’s 5,000 residents have been evacuated as a wildfire approaches, though so far no structures have been destroyed.

"But a fire doesn’t need to directly burn mining operations to mobilize toxicants. For example, in #Yellowknife, in Canada’s #NorthwestTerritories, #GoldMining operations between 1934 and 2004 spread #arsenic as far as 18 miles away, adding to a landscape with an already high concentration of naturally occurring arsenic. In a paper published last year, Waddington and McCarter estimated that between 1972 and 2023, wildfires around Yellowknife fired up to 840,000 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere. Arsenic is a known carcinogen associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and developmental problems, according to the World Health Organization. (After the 2023 #LahainaFire in Maui, officials reported elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and other toxic substances in ash samples. California officials also found lots of lead in smoke from 2018’s #CampFire.)"

Source:
grist.org/climate/canada-wildf

Grist · The smoke from Canada’s wildfires may be even more toxic than usualBy Matt Simon
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@Snoro In addition to the poisoning and destruction of #soils and #ecological habitats, the #carbonFootprint of #wars is so desastrous that people would end every #war immediately if they were aware of it. Unfortunately, most countries do not count the entire balance sheet, for example when they ‘only’ buy weapons from elsewhere. Wars are still #fossilFuel driven.

I once researched real numbers for an article, it was quite impossible, so I gave up. 1/2

It was a little strange talking with some of the #Australia focused climate/energy groups for this @thejapantimes story.

They really wanted to focus on #Japan, and not #China - despite the latter being the main driver of #LNG growth and the country signing the most long-term deals with #Australian #fossilfuel companies.

And since I published the article, only the #Aussies haven't responded or shared the piece.

japantimes.co.jp/environment/2

The Japan Times · China is challenging Japan's LNG dominance. What does that mean for Japanese buyers?By Nithin Coca

I'm not looking forward to the future.

"The landslide that buried most of a Swiss village this week is focusing renewed attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world and the increasing dangers.

How glaciers collapse can differ, scientists say. But in almost every instance, climate change is playing a role."

apnews.com/article/switzerland

"This is not an #intelligence I recognize.

What matters here, to me, is that the most advanced technologies, processes and businesses on the planet — #artificialintelligence and #machinelearning platforms built by IBM, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and others — are brought to bear on #fossilfuel extraction, production and distribution: the number one driver of #climatechange, of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions, and of #globalextinction."

"#WaysofBeing: Animal, Plants, Machines: the search for a #planetaryIntelligence", James Bridle — Introduction: More Than Human

#BookPreview: google.com.br/books/edition/Wa

The mining company #FortescueMetals – owned by the billionaire #AndrewForrest, who says he aims to meet “real zero” carbon emissions – has sharply #criticised the #Albanese government’s approval of a 40-year life extension for the #NorthWestShelf #gas processing facility.

The company’s chief executive, #DinoOtranto, said the idea that #Australia could lock in #fossilfuel projects until 2070 while still claiming progress toward #netzero was “concerning”. #auspol

theguardian.com/australia-news

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