#ClimateChange

Oh, I see the government has an "AI plan".

Not a single mention of its carbon footprint. This government really doesn't understand that the number one threat we face is not from rogue AI, from economic slowdown, or from Russia, it's from climate collapse.

What is wrong with these people?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-unveils-britains-ambitious-plan-for-ai

#UKPolitics #AI #ClimateCollapse #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange

This country runs on 98 percent renewable electricity

Fifteen years ago, Uruguay was experiencing an energy crisis brought on by its reliance on fossil fuels; today, the nation produces 98 percent of its electricity from renewable sources (and even exports extra energy to neighboring countries). How did they turn things around so quickly? Uruguay's former secretary of energy, Ramón Méndez Galain, explains how they pulled off this unprecedented shift -- and shares how any other country can do the same.

https://www.ted.com/talks/ramon_mendez_galain_this_country_runs_on_98_percent_renewable_electricity

#climatechange #renewables #renewableenergy #uruguay #solarpunk

From now on, there always are heat anomalies and cascades somewhere on the planet.

Here is an article: https://www.cnbcafrica.com/2026/giant-heat-storms-are-scorching-the-earth-this-is-the-story-of-the-biggest-one-on-record

#climate #climateChange #globalHeating #drought #heatWaves #heatStorms #weather

#electricity #production costs in #nuclear #france now higher now than #germany #strom #erneuerbare #renewables #climatechange

You don’t say.

U.S. is a big reason the world is losing ground in the fight against climate change, U.N. report says

#Climate #ClimateChange

Big AI companies are fighting hard to keep their energy consumption a secret. Yet, we thankfully have Open Source tools that start to estimate their climate impact.
#AI #opensource #climatechange
https://www.sei.org/about-sei/press-room/the-same-ai-request-emits-ten-times-more-co-in-texas-than-in-sweden/

So Labour are ending neoliberalism... ...by giving into a multinational corporation like Shell and by doing so adding to the destruction of our planet!

🎶 And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don't believe
We're on the eve of destruction 🎶

UK government approves Jackdaw gas field, and says production will start this month: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw8rzgvlmjznt

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #UKPol #UKPolitics #Jackdaw #StopJackdaw #FossilFuel

"Move signals Andy Burnham’s commitment to North Sea industry but threatens to undermine Labour’s green credentials"

"undermine" is not how you normally spell "completely blow out of the water"

Andy Burn''em living up to his name, I see.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/20/jackdaw-north-sea-gas-field-to-get-go-ahead-in-blow-to-climate-campaigners

#Jackdaw #ClimateCollapse #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #UKPolitics

Reuters has produced an exceptional piece of journalism here. They've created parameters to define a "heat storm", then used it to track them over the decades.

#ClimateChange
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-heatstorms-science/

"The effects of El Niño are already being clearly felt on the archipelago. “There have now been two major hurricane events in #Hawaii this summer, in a place where ordinarily we go a decade with none,” Swain says.

"Warming waters in the Pacific have increased the risk to Hawaii from such supercharged storms. In August, Hurricane Lala became the first hurricane to make a direct hit on Big Island since 1871."

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/these-are-the-us-states-that-will-be-worst-hit-by-el-nino

#ElNiño #ClimateChange