TerraformingTerra

Climate Engineering // Biodiversity / Responsibility // Curating with LinkedData, experimenting with presentation styles, techniques & automation.

[Ontotext @ontotext]

.@annasschild & @jospang from @dw_innovation look at what has been achieved & where they are heading on the one-year anniversary of @veraai_eu - the project that builds professional trustworthy AI solutions against advanced disinformation techniques. ➡️ https://t.co/XLA333Bh8j

[Ros Rodríguez @Ros_Rodriguez_]

When you realise that under the current dominant economic system, a forest has no value until it's felled, you begin to see the crux of ecological crises.

How much longer are we going to tolerate this system that pushes our common home to the brink of disaster?

#ClimateActionNow
@Tiredearth
@blogsostenible
@Global_Witness
@ExtinctionR

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

For those who need a refresher course on doom, this article hits all the key points:

"...the Earth’s ecosystem as we know it today is lost. The only question is: How long do we have until we see the collapse of modern economies and civilization?"

https://t.co/b58p63IwOs

[Tony Juniper @TonyJuniper]

Science is very clear. It’s not net zero in 2050 that must be the headline goal, but cutting emissions before then, including 50% cut by 2030. Delaying action deepens peril for our children & grandchildren. Think Libya, Greece, mass migration & all the rest, & on a massive scale.

[CDRterra @CDRterra]

📢We proudly present our:
🌎#CDRDialog 2023 - CO₂-Entnahme mit Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Politk & Bildung diskutieren
vom 10. - 12. Oktober im @DeutschesMuseum in München!🌎
Das Thema #CO2Entnahme ist aktueller & dringender denn je. Um #CDR-Methoden schnellstmöglich & sinnvoll einzusetzen, ist der Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft & Gesellschaft zentral. Beim CDR-Dialog 2023 werden wir unsere wissenschaftliche Expertise Akteur:innen aus Wirtschaft, Forschung, Politik & Bildung vorstellen & diese zusammenbringen, um das Thema #CarbonDioxideRemoval auf die gesellschaftliche & politische Agenda zu setzen.

Weitere Infos: ▶ https://t.co/IOI1m5pT5X

🔶 For english info about the CDR dialog click here: ▶ https://t.co/bZTNQli2A2 🔶

Die 3 Säulen des CDR-Dialogs:

🔅 CDR-Bildungskonferenz: CO₂-Entnahme in den Unterricht integrieren ▶ https://t.co/FnKZOpVBHq

🔅 CDR Stakeholder Workshop: Mögliche Pfade der Kohlendioxidentnahme in Deutschland

🔅 CDR Science Workshop: Entwicklung eines umfassenden Bewertungsrahmens für CDR-Methoden in Deutschland

🔅 Das Motto der ersten bundesweiten Bildungskonferenz zu CDR für Lehrkräfte, Hochschuldidaktiker:innen sowie Forschende & Entscheidungstragende aus dem Bildungsbereich lautet: „Perspektiven entwickeln, Erarbeitungs- und Vermittlungsformate erproben, Unterricht gestalten.“ Gemeinsam soll vom 10. bis 11. Oktober überlegt werden, wie man ein so komplexes & kontrovers diskutiertes Thema zum Bestandteil schulischer Bildung machen kann.

🔅 Im „CDR Stakeholder Workshop“ vom 10. bis 11. Oktober beleuchten CDRterra-Forschende gemeinsam mit Akteur:innen aus Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft mögliche CDR-Pfade in Deutschland aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Was für Vor- und Nachteile sehen die jeweiligen Akteur:innen und welche Faktoren sollten bei einer Bewertung der CO₂-Entnahmemethoden aus ihrer Sicht berücksichtigt werden?

🔅 Die Ergebnisse dieser Dialoge fließen anschließend in den „CDR Science Workshop“ (11. bis 12. Oktober) mit ein, bei dem CDRterra-Forschende an der weiteren Entwicklung eines umfassenden Bewertungsrahmens zu CO₂-Entnahmemethoden und -Portfolios in Deutschland arbeiten. Dieser soll als Wissensgrundlage dienen, auf der ein sinnvoller Mix an Methoden zur CO₂-Entnahme für 🇩🇪 entwickelt werden kann.

❗ Beim CDR Stakeholder- und beim CDR Science Workshop handelt es sich um geschlossene Veranstaltungen. Akteur:innen aus dem Bildungsbereich können sich jedoch ab sofort zur CDR-Bildungskonferenz anmelden: ▶ https://t.co/n00nKlPJAw❗

Zum vorläufigen Programm des CDR-Dialogs: ▶ https://t.co/ciuiEnIKix

Partner sind @CDRmare @LMU_Muenchen @msc_lab & el mundo
Finanziert vom @BMBF_Bund

[Melanie Mitchell @MelMitchell1]

Tired: Pseudoscience
Wired: Alchemy!

https://t.co/TD4swJHEFj

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Jaw-dropping: UK is spending $3bn/year, for 100+ years, to decommission nuclear plants - with no waste storage plan

Every $ for nuclear vastly delays decarbonization compared to that same $ invested in renewables (and I'm being polite)

h/t @Edinburgreen

https://t.co/8H6vSVHVga

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

When the insurance industry publishes doomer news, you know the canary is dead.

"Researchers have run a full fitness examination on Earth by analyzing nine boundaries that define a safe operating space for humanity. Six of these have been crossed..."

https://t.co/iCIVdv2Z2j

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

“I used to think that the top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation. And we scientists don’t know how to do that.” ~ Gus Speth

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

The G20 agreed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies in 2009, 14 years ago. They then said they're accelerating this at the Glasgow COP26 climate conference in 2021

Result: In an amazing act of self-harm, the IMF says we subsidized Big Oil with a record $7 TRILLION in 2022

THREAD

[TerraformingTerra @TerraformingT]

Seen in #TateModern

[Roger Harrabin @RHarrabin]

400,000 trees planted in roadwork schemes have died. This is exactly why we shouldn’t rely on treeplanting carbon offsets. We should wake up to the fact that #netzero is not enough. We need absolute zero. ⁦@billmckibben⁩ ⁦⁦@ProfBillMcGuire⁩

https://t.co/EnsB5gGxfz

[ECMWF @ECMWF]

@JeanNoelThepaut, Director of @CopernicusECMWF: "It’s an auspicious day as we mark 25 years and the remarkable collaborations and contributions @CopernicusEU has made to our understanding of #EarthObservation.

#Copernicus25 #EUSpace

🧵

[Climate Defiance @ClimateDefiance]

This is hard news to share but a new study from the NOAA just found CO2 levels have hit their highest level in recorded human history.

Worse, the RATE of increate is rising.

We are in unchartered territory and we do not even fully grasp the extent of the danger ahead.

(1/9)🧵

[Copernicus EU @CopernicusEU]

#Copernicus for #AirQuality monitoring

In the last few days, a large plume of #Saharan #dust has been travelling from West Africa to the Atlantic Ocean islands such as Canarias and Cabo Verde, affecting air quality

⬇️#Sentinel3🇪🇺🛰️ captured this image on 31 March

[Carbon180 @carbon_180]

🌳When it comes to removing CO2, nobody’s got a longer track record than our forests — but their full potential remains untapped. That’s why we’re pushing for a holistic, science-based approach to reforestation in the Farm Bill 🧵

[Ben Franta @BenFranta]

Compiled by @VatanHuzeir, the latest cache of internal documents describing Big Oil's concealed knowledge of global warming is a gold mine.

One bombshell is a confidential @Shell scenario report from 1989 which imagined two futures: SUSTAINABLE WORLD and GLOBAL MERCANTILISM 🧵