CIRCLE WITH A DOT

#techIn response to recent news that Microsoft is in talks about abandoning its leading clean energy commitment, more than 50 organizations across North America and around the globe co-signed a letter published today denouncing the company’s backsliding and calling on it to hold the commitment, including Stand.earth; Sierra Club; Greenpeace USA; Public Citizen; Friends of the Earth U.S.; Hip Hop Caucus; and Amazon Employees for Climate Justicehttps://stand.earth/press-releases/microsofts-faltering-commitment-to-decarbonization-goals-prompts-criticism-in-open-letter-signed-by-over-50-organizations/#ClimateChange #climate

Monthly global climate data update from NASA/GISS for the month of April 2026.Third hottest month of April since 1880.#climatehttps://datagraver.com/climate-data-set-nasa-giss/

Gotta regulate wealth, not just emissions.#Climate #ClimateVillains

You know how, for solar, China dominates >90% of the global supply chain, for wind 'only' a bit over 50%?Trump: Lemme fix that.#climate #wind #trump #china #us #energy

I, for one, will never stop talking about #climate change no matter what some political pundit says.There will be too little progress on addressing the quintessential environmental risk facing humanity if no one talks about it, acknowledges it, and acts to address it.

@alexskunz That photo is from Instagram or TikTok. A link to some relatively nice photos without the text: Climate Change Photos https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/shocking-new-images-illustrate-arctic-glaciers-retreat-in-last-century/

@PeterLG Because heat is drying continents. And the excess heat won't stop growing until oil is dead.#climate

@Powerfromspace1 #ClimateCrisis

@ProPublica Damn USA really has an elected monarchy.. Democratic my butt..

Related to this, a recent open house had 100 people turn out in a small rural town near Cold Lake Alberta to oppose the CCUS project. Communities in the US have done the same and in some cases, blocked and/or delayed carbon pipelines.https://www.lakelandtoday.ca/st-paul-news/group-opposed-to-carbon-capture-pipeline-makes-stop-in-mallaig-12223718

"During #Trump’s second term, the number of peer-reviewed studies authored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA) scientists has dramatically declined…[reflecting] a steep reduction in the scientific research being conducted at EPA. So far in 2026, there have only been 61 peer-reviewed publications by EPA scientists, compared to 339 in 2024."https://peer.org/sharp-dropoff-epa-scientific-publications/#Climate #DefendResearch #Environment #Funding #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

"Surgeon warns that climate change can disrupt cancer care"#Climate #ClimateChangehttps://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/surgeon-warns-that-climate-change-can-disrupt-cancer-care/

@SnowyCA Cenovus just wants another $1B taxpayer gift?Sk’s Boundary Dam carbon capture coil plant is contracted to supply Cenovus with CO2 it uses for enhanced oil recoveryBoundary Dam has _never_ performed to specification. A cynical costly effort to earn votes in Estevan? Cenovus has been a generous supporter of Sask Partyhttps://ieefa.org/resources/carbon-capture-boundary-dam-3-still-underperforming-failurehttps://thenarwhal.ca/alberta-energy-companies-pumping-money-brad-wall-s-saskatchewan-party/

@littlealex IF we pull together now, this can be a gift. Emissions that have gone underestimated for years can be turned into a change of greater than predicted impact. What we must do has not changed. Perhaps though, the results of doing it has.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.#ai #google #chrome #climate https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Indeed, after decades of investment, renewables still account for a minuscule amount — about 0.13 percent — of total energy produced by the world’s largest 250 oil and gas companies, according to a recent research paper. ​“I think the article resolves the debate on whether the fossil fuel industry is honestly engaging with the climate crisis or not,” said the paper’s lead researcher. ​“Their interest ends with their profits.”https://inthesetimes.com/article/is-ethical-capitalism-possible-myth-esg-criticism-climate-change#ClimateChange #pollution #ecology #climate

You can see the scale of the problem when 4GB isn't just "micro" it's "nano"... supposedly super-tiny, barely noticeable... Also, I would be remiss in not recommending an alternative. I've been doing this a Long Time; I run four different browsers across my systems for different things, but if I hadda run _just one_, it would be Vivaldi. Why? 1) It's the most Chrome-like without (most of) Chrome's bad habits. This is useful for e-commerce sites where *fox variants won't work. 2) The founders are two guys who jumped ship when Opera got acquired. While they didn't open-source the product, they've been burned by crapitalism (specific-variant sense) and the featureset they've added, including translation, RSS, IMAP/POP, adblock/tracker block, and hibernation of tabs just really tickles my inner nerd... although, much like Emacs, to which it has been compared, it's perfectly possible to use a basic subset of the browser's full power and still have a good experience. 3) It can do web apps. I don't have Slack or Mapy or Windy apps on my desktop. I have Vivaldi web apps. It saves having multiple Electron images in memory of varying sorts, and it also saves rather a lot of disk... I'm tempted to try doing other piggy, fussy apps in there... I trust Vivaldi's sandboxing way more than I do a proprietary Electron.. 4) Running the IMAP client _in a browser_ means I can do browser-y things on an email message (like translate it in-situ or right-click "open in private window") which you can't do with things like Fastmail or Sylpheed... (no, I don't like running webmail in any other browser because it's too easy to lose the webmail tab... but in Vivaldi the inbox widget is findable from any Vivaldi window...) 5) oh, and they're on Mastodon. THEY HAVE THEIR OWN NODE and encourage Vivaldi account holders to use it. What do I not like? Its default VPN support is Proton. The app itself isn't open source. I wish I knew whether webapps were really sandboxed. I haven't figured out how to WebDAV Contacts/Calendar (yet). That's about it.

Removing lawn, planting perennials, and installing drip lines. Yard work is hard work. Feels good. #gardening #climate #savewater

@garo @Larvitz Ok. But the AI processes the Weather report to spit it out based on your promt in a little different wording. Like, just open your danm weather app, put a widget on your home screen or whatever and check yourself. You do not need AI for that lmao.

@ProPublica LOL. Gym Jordan is famous for ignoring reality, especially if it's going on in the men's showers.