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3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3 bln

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Carlson: 'If you've ever driven a car or flown in a private jet, EVERYTHING else you've done to fight climate change is nullified.'

You did not watch the video did you? Rhetorical question, of course you didn't. Tucker never mentioned anything about driving a car. That would be you. You are ridiculously trying to lump the automobile into the same class as the private jet. YOU are the one mentioning them in the same sentence, like they have something in common. They don't. They are light years apart. There are an estimated 1.4 billion cars on the planet. Many of those cars spend their time transporting people for pay, like taxi cabs. Many people who do not own a car ride in one every year. There are 23,241 private jets on the planet. Private jets are less then .00166 percent of automobiles. Billions of people ride in automobiles every year. Thousands of people ride in private jets every year. Not only has the vast majority of people on the planet never rode in a private jet, they do not personally know anyone who has. That is how rare private jet flights are.

The typical car will emit 4.6 tons of carbon dioxide in a year. A single 10 minute flight of Floyd Mayweather's private jet produced one ton of carbon dioxide. Some rich douchebag's private jet generated one ton in ten minutes. The average car will generate a little over four times that in an entire year. If anything deserves the sarcastic eyeroll emoji its your pathetic attempt to put the private automobile in the same class as the private jet.

Tucker never said shit about the automobile, that was you. He called out the hypocrites who do not practice what they preach. NO ONE who gives a shit about the environment (or claims that they do )has any business riding around in a private jet. NO ONE!!! Period!!! Full stop!!! So stop putting words in Tucker's mouth, and stop defending the assholes destroying our environment by riding in private jets just because you have some personal beef with Tucker's politics.

I'll admit I didn't watch the whole video, but that's because I can't stand Tucker's smarmy 'I know better than you' attitude.

You're correct that he didn't mention the car (at least in the third I watched), but the point - lost on you obviously - is that is the standard criticism of anyone who says anything about climate change or environmental issues.

If someone owns a large house, they are hypocrites.

If they fly to conferences, they are hypocrites.

Basically, if environmentalists don't live like a hermit in fucking cave, they are hypocrites. Nevermind that many do all sorts of other things to at least reduce their carbon footprint. Meanwhile, conservative politicians and pundits who hate the idea of anything environmental, do all the same shit and then some, but have the nerve to cast shade on anyone else who lives even partially like they do.

So yeah, I stand by my point, he and all those bashing climate change and environmentalism because they might have flown private or own a minivan or a large house are hypocrites themselves.

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Polar bear decline in Western Hudson Bay 'a lot larger' than expected, researcher says

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Polar bears in Canada's Western Hudson Bay — on the southern edge of the Arctic — are continuing to die in high numbers, a new government survey of the land carnivore has found. Females and bear cubs are having an especially hard time.

Researchers surveyed Western Hudson Bay — home to Churchill, Man., known as the "Polar Bear Capital of the World" — by air in 2021 and estimated there were 618 bears, compared to the 842 in 2016, when they were last surveyed.

"The actual decline is a lot larger than I would have expected," said Andrew Derocher, a biology professor at the University of Alberta who has studied Hudson Bay polar bears for nearly four decades. Derocher was not involved in the study.

Since the 1980s, the number of bears in the region has fallen by nearly 50 per cent, the authors found. The ice essential to their survival is disappearing.

Polar bears rely on arctic sea ice — frozen ocean water — that shrinks in the summer with warmer temperatures and forms again in the long winter. They use it to hunt, perching near holes in the thick ice to spot seals, their favourite food, coming up for air.

But as the Arctic has warmed twice as fast as the rest of the world because of climate change, sea ice is cracking earlier in the year and taking longer to freeze in the fall.

That has left many polar bears that live across the Arctic with less ice on which to live, hunt and reproduce.

Polar bears are not only critical predators in the Arctic. For years, before climate change began affecting people around the globe, they were also the best-known face of climate change.

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Why Japan is plotting a 'nuclear renaissance' 11 years after the disaster in Fukushima

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Electric vehicle sales are racing ahead, but is there a plan for the waste they create?

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There's a new venture taking place in a large, nondescript warehouse in Kingston, Ont.: Lithium-ion battery recycling. And it could be an important component of Canada's net-zero future.

The facility, owned by Canadian startup Li-Cycle, houses stacks of depleted lithium-ion batteries that not long ago would have been destined for a landfill. The company is giving them new life — recycling the batteries that power most electric vehicles, phones and laptops.

"It's kind of like urban mining," said Li-Cycle CEO Ajay Kochar. "Basically, we can ensure that whatever we get out of the ground and put into batteries, we get as much of it back.

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A startup says it’s begun releasing particles into the atmosphere, in an effort to tweak the climate

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A startup claims it has launched weather balloons that may have released reflective sulfur particles in the stratosphere, potentially crossing a controversial barrier in the field of solar geoengineering.

Geoengineering refers to deliberate efforts to manipulate the climate by reflecting more sunlight back into space, mimicking a natural process that occurs in the aftermath of large volcanic eruptions. In theory, spraying sulfur and similar particles in sufficient quantities could potentially ease global warming.

It’s not technically difficult to release such compounds into the stratosphere. But scientists have mostly (though not entirely) refrained from carrying out even small-scale outdoor experiments. And it’s not clear that any have yet injected materials into that specific layer of the atmosphere in the context of geoengineering-related research.

That’s in part because it’s highly controversial. Little is known about the real-world effect of such deliberate interventions at large scales, but they could have dangerous side effects. The impacts could also be worse in some regions than others, which could provoke geopolitical conflicts.

What could go wrong?

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Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System

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On a November afternoon, mosquitoes swarmed above plastic trash piled 6 feet high off one of the city’s main roads. A few children picked through the mounds, looking for discarded toys while unmasked waste pickers sifted for metal cans or intact plastic bottles that could be sold. Although much of it was sodden or shredded, labels hinted at how far these items had traveled: Kirkland-brand almonds from Costco, Nestlé's Purina-brand dog food containers, the wrapping for Trader Joe’s mangoes.

Most ubiquitous of all were Amazon.com shipping envelopes thrown out by US and Canadian consumers some 7,000 miles away. An up-close look at the piles also turned up countless examples of the three arrows that form the recycling logo, while some plastic packages had messages such as “Recycle Me” written across them.
A worker sorts through a pile of plastic discarded from a paper mill, identifying metal and other items to recycle at a plastic scrap contractors yard, in Muzaffarnagar District, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022.

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Smyla felt manipulated to find her carefully sorted waste had joined the mountains of trash at Muzaffarnagar. “I feel betrayed as a consumer,” she says. “That recycling symbol — it’s all a marketing feel-good message and very deceptive. It should not be harming other people in other parts of the world.”

For Kumar, the mechanic living beside heaps of North American plastic waiting to burn, those good intentions can’t blunt the harm that’s an everyday fact of his life. “My kids and the neighbors all have allergies and breathing problems,” he says. “I worry about diseases.”

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Well the deep freeze here last week used to be normal for this time of year when I moved here... and now it's shot back up to +5...
It was warming up the night my house burned down at the end of Feb 1989, it had climbed back up to -37.
I just texted my sister that it's nice to use Celsius degrees again rather than degrees Kelvin!

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Ford Lightning owner powers home essentials for 2 days and still had battery left in the tank

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Alaska’s Arctic Waterways Are Turning a Foreboding Orange

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‘Extreme event’: warm January weather breaks records across Europe

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‘Extreme event’: warm January weather breaks records across Europe

Poland sees record high January temperatures of almost 19°C on first day of year