like the “Florida will be underwater xD” jokes are all cute and funny until you realize all the poor brown and black people, especially immigrants, in (south) Florida who will be battered with hurricanes from global warming and get little to no help from the government…..like these people consistently vote blue but by all means get ur top kek
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Toronto beats temperature record as students swelter in schools without AC
Students and teachers at hundreds of Toronto schools without air conditioning sweltered their way through record-breaking heat on Wednesday, as the city’s largest school board said it understood why some parents might choose to keep their children at home.
Forecasts said the city might hit a high of 32 C, but the mercury topped 33.9 C at Pearson International Airport by mid-afternoon. With the humidity, it felt like it was in the low 40s. The scorching temperatures beat a 73-year-old record for Sept. 5, set back in 1945 when Toronto hit 31.7 C.
With high humidity amplifying the heat, conditions were unbearable enough to have some people spending as little time as possible outdoors.
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Ontario PC government cancels $100-million school repair fund
Toronto beats temperature record as students swelter in schools without AC
‘I Couldn’t Breathe’: The Looming Health Crisis in the Aftermath of the California Wildfires
Liberals plan to soften carbon tax plan over competitiveness concerns
The Liberal government is curtailing its plan to price carbon pollution after hearing concern from Canadian industry officials.
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Looks like our already watered down plan to fight climate change is getting even more watered down.
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Submitted by @cosmicdwarf.
This is why I’ve become more skeptical of carbon taxes lately. I think it’s also suspicious that fossil fuel companies tend to support them and I think this is precisely why. What’s required is massive government planned renewable energy/decarbonization projects on the scale of rural electrification or the interstate highway system in the US and Canada. Nothing less.
Liberals plan to soften carbon tax plan over competitiveness concerns
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replied to your link “Liberals plan to soften carbon tax plan over competitiveness concerns”Oh quit complaining about Justin Trudeau when we have a giant orange-headed turd as President I would love to have Justin Trudeau to complain about ha
I can and will continue to complain about Justin Trudeau.
Donald Fucking Trump is not the bench mark that all leaders should rise above to be considered ‘good’.
Justin Trudeau is not a good Prime Minister. He is a mediocre, flawed, and status quo politician in Canada, and he is actively harming many communities.
Would criticizing Obama as he killed countless people in the middle east and committed mass deportations be considered not allowed?
Would criticizing George W Bush and his war on terror be not allowed, just because there were other dictators such as North Korea’s Kim Jong-il?
Canada has one of the largest untapped reserves of oil on the planet. If Justin Trudeau, and collectively Canada continues to exploit them, the impacts of climate change from that extraction is going to effect every single person on Earth.
In order for us to really save our planet’s climate, we will have to literally win a battle against a handful of the biggest corporations on earth.
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver showing what the climate change “debate” actually looks like.
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YES GOOD
Technique doubles conversion of CO2 to plastic component
Fossil fuels have long been the precursor to plastic, but new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and European collaborators could help send that era up in smoke—carbon dioxide, to be exact.
Produced almost entirely from burning fossil fuels, carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have risen from 280 parts per million in the pre-industrial era to about 410 PPM today. That trend, combined with the finite supply of fossil fuels, has pushed researchers to explore methods for producing plastic from CO2 rather than petroleum or natural gas—recycling CO2 just as plastic is now.
Nebraska’s Vitaly Alexandrov and colleagues have now detailed a catalyst-based technique that can double the amount of carbon dioxide converted to ethylene, an essential component of the world’s most common plastic, polyethylene.
Not sure if putting more CO2 into the ocean as plastic is a good idea =/
This woman fundamentally changed climate science — and you’ve probably never heard of her
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It was “blind luck” said Ray Sorenson, a retired petroleum geologist, regarding how he first came across Eunice Foote’s name. Sorenson, whose basement in Oklahoma is full of more than 300 pre-Civil War era technical books, discovered Foote’s name sometime in 2010.
Sorenson had found copies of the Annual Scientific Discovery by David A. Wells, and “I really liked them, and started collecting them,” he told ThinkProgress. It was while reading the 1857 volume that he stumbled upon Foote.
As he quickly realized, Foote was the first scientist to make the connection between carbon dioxide and climate change. She discovered CO2’s warming properties in 1856, more than 160 years ago and three years before John Tyndall, a British scientist who has widely been credited with first establishing the connection between increased global temperatures and carbon dioxide.
But for a number of reasons — chief among them the fact that she was a woman — Foote’s name was until recently lost to history, a minor footnote within climate science.
“I knew just enough about the history of climate science,” Sorenson said of his ability to grasp the significance of the name and date. “I recognized that it was something that had been missed by historians,” he explained, “and I felt she deserved recognition.”
In January 2011, Sorenson published his findings in the journal AAPG Search and Discovery as an independent researcher. “I’ve had more response to that than anything else I’ve ever written,” he said.
This woman fundamentally changed climate science — and you’ve probably never heard of her
Arctic temperatures are soaring, and scientists are freaking out – ThinkProgress
“We are seeing what scientists have predicted for years. The temperatures in the Arctic are off the chart. This matters for the rest of us because this is the time of year when the Arctic ice should be growing. But it isn’t growing like it should. So, this summer, there will be less ice and more open waters that will lead to more warming … What is particularly frightening is that this is happening in a La Nina year, when if anything, the Earth should be a little bit cooler than normal … If this isn’t a clarion call to take action, I don’t know what is.”
Arctic temperatures are soaring, and scientists are freaking out – ThinkProgress
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