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Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer

And insurers are in it to win it.

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Climate Firm That Partnered With Meta, Microsoft Goes Bankrupt

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Climate startup Aspiration Partners Inc., which boasted a roster of celebrity backers and arranged carbon credits for Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corp. and other large companies, filed bankruptcy weeks after its co-founder was arrested on fraud charges.

Big tech was lying about climate goals? I am shocked.

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Scientists say they can calculate the cost of oil giants’ role in global warming

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Collectively, greenhouse emissions from 111 fossil fuel companies caused the world $28 trillion in damage from extreme heat from 1991 to 2020, according to a paper published Wednesday in Nature.

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Air pollution still plagues nearly half of Americans. That does a number on our health

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A grim signal: Atmospheric CO2 soared in 2024

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In recent decades, the increase has often been in annual increments of 1 to 2 ppm. But last year, the increase measured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory was 3.75 ppm, according to the lab’s early April update of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.

Drill baby drill! (for water)

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It's okay, we won't even know about 2025 cause NOAA will be gone I'm sure.

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Chemical in plastics linked to 350K heart disease deaths: Research

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The BYD Dolphin review: Here’s what we’re missing out on in America

Plug your car into a solar panel, drive for almost free! Why doesn't the far right like "free"?

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Membrane-permeable trehalose 6-phosphate precursor spray increases wheat yields in field trials

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Trehalose 6-phosphate (T6P) is an endogenous sugar signal in plants that promotes growth, yet it cannot be introduced directly into crops or fully genetically controlled. Here we show that wheat yields were improved using a timed microdose of a plant-permeable, sunlight-activated T6P signaling precursor, DMNB-T6P, under a variety of agricultural conditions. Under both well-watered and water-stressed conditions over 4 years, DMNB-T6P stimulated yield of three elite varieties. Yield increases were an order of magnitude larger than average annual genetic gains of breeding programs and occurred without additional water or fertilizer.

Grow bigger yields, no fertilizers to pollute the environment.

Not seeing a downside.

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Airborne pollution map of Paris after they added bike lanes and banned cars.

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A half-century of climate change in major agricultural regions: Trends, impacts, and surprises

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Linking agroclimatic data to crop productivity, we estimate that climate trends have caused current global yields of wheat, maize, and barley to be 10, 4, and 13% lower than they would have otherwise been. These losses likely exceeded the benefits of CO2 increases over the same period, whereas CO2 benefits likely exceeded climate-related losses for soybean and rice. Aggregate global yield losses are very similar to what models would have predicted, with the two biases above largely offsetting each other. Climate model biases in reproducing VPD trends may partially explain the ineffectiveness of some adaptations predicted by modeling studies, such as farmer shifts to longer maturing varieties.

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Estate of woman who died in 2021 heat dome sues Big Oil for wrongful death

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World’s oceans reaching dangerous acidification levels earlier than thought