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14 votes
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Coal is powering the energy transition
8 votes -
Fossil fuels aren’t the biggest source of surging methane emissions
9 votes -
Donald Trump and the Joe Biden White House both say the United States should have a sovereign wealth fund – Norway, home to the world's largest, may offer a few lessons
21 votes -
Victims of toxic waste dump in Ivory Coast still seeking justice
7 votes -
Kyiv will not extend gas transit deal, Ukraine tells Slovakia
10 votes -
Lawsuits allege deadly 2021 Texas blackouts were an inside job, that energy companies reduced energy supply before storm
18 votes -
The UK helped usher in the coal era — now it’s closing its last remaining plant
8 votes -
Norway’s oil capital Stavanger feels the squeeze as krone slides. The krone has lost about 20% against the euro since 2022.
4 votes -
The Hague will become first city to ban fossil fuel ads by law. Legally binding crackdown will include promotion of petrol cars, flights and cruise ships.
26 votes -
Texas is close to adopting new oil and gas waste rules, first in decades
9 votes -
Volvo Cars has abandoned its plan to become a fully electric car manufacturer by 2030 due to weakening consumer demand for pure electric vehicles
42 votes -
US Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to invest $76 million closing legacy oil & gas wells in Pennsylvania
16 votes -
How Italy’s largest fossil fuel company uses sustainability-linked bonds as a loophole to keep financing hydrocarbons
9 votes -
Cache Energy’s mysterious white pellets could help kill coal and natural gas
9 votes -
I met the activists getting arrested for fighting fossil fuels
20 votes -
Could Britain's soaring taxes push energy companies to Norway? Taxes on oil and gas profits have risen from 40% to about 78%, prompting several to think about pulling out.
7 votes -
Sustainable US transit advocates unite for Kamala Harris-Tim Walz — and against Donald Trump’s embrace of fossil fuel
20 votes -
Climate hero or villain? As it rapidly adopts clean technologies while drilling furiously for oil and gas, Norway is a paradox.
11 votes -
Climate disinformation researcher Geoffrey Supran's presentation to the European Parliament about Exxon's propaganda campaign
44 votes -
America misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change
32 votes -
Powerful climate change deniers knowingly committed heinous crimes, and they should be put on Nuremberg style trials
I'm gonna try to be brief. This is the worst I've ever felt, weather-wise, in my life, and it's only the start of summer. It's heavily negatively affecting both my physical and mental health. I...
I'm gonna try to be brief. This is the worst I've ever felt, weather-wise, in my life, and it's only the start of summer. It's heavily negatively affecting both my physical and mental health. I can't even properly work. I don't have AC. I can't afford it. Everybody around me is suffering very similarly.
I've been following climate crisis for years, but I've never thought I'd see such an extreme worsening this early. Even if I knew in theory that anomalies like this could happen, as it's very widely agreed upon that they would, it's much different to live through. It's hell on earth.
I'm one of the luckier ones, relatively speaking. There are over hundred thousand people dying from heatwaves each year. It's probably much higher than officially reported, because most governments don't track heatwave deaths. Millions and millions of people in India have been experiencing bigger and bigger water crises. Just in 2019, 600 million people faced a water crisis in India.. Hundreds of millions of people in Africa are suffering due to climate change related climate extremes and food security crises.
I also just found out that a location in Antarctica exhibited 70F (38C) higher than normal temperatures this year. Faster than expected, right?
I think this is inexcusable. Oil companies and such knew what was coming. There are countless documents and studies detailing this. Here are a few.
- Exxon confirmed global warming due to their emissions was happening in 1982.
- American Patroleum Institute similary knew in 1980.
- Exxon knowingly spread climate change denialism in response (source 1, source 2)
- Even in 2015, Exxon was dodging responsibility, telling people to "read the documents". So, two scientists, Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes, did that. And found out that Exxon acknowledged global warming in the internal documents, while they denied it in public (article 1, source 2). In other words, it's been empirically shown that they fucking manipulated the public with full knowledge.
- Exxon is not alone. ExxonMobil, Chevrontexaco, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Conocophillips spent 3.6 billion dollars for lobbying in US alone during 1986-2015.. 61% of these expenditures are after 2006, when climate change started becoming a hot topic. So, when they attracted attention, they doubled down.
- Another document is of American Patroleum Institute from 1998, showing they intentionally focused on exaggerating the uncertainties of climate science in front of the public.
- Big Oil still opposes science and us. A study published in 2019 shows that ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, and Total spent 1 billion dollars on lobbying and branding after the 2016 Paris Agreement.
- Oil companies are not alone. A study examining the 2000-2016 time-frame in US found that "fossil fuel and transportation corporations, utilities, and affiliated trade associations" are all major climate lobbyists. Only 3% of the total climate change lobbying was done by environmental organizations and renewable energy corporations.
These crimes are inexcusable. The people responsible should pay for them. And these should be treated as crimes against humanity and the planet, of the highest degree. These people don't deserve anything but to pay. They are the evil, who, in great awareness, have unreversibly damaged the planet, caused untold suffering. They still continue to do this, and even if they stopped now (hah!), their evil will continue to haunt humanity and a myriad of other species for unimaginable generations.
They should pay.
68 votes -
Peak oil: glut predicted by 2029
10 votes -
Water is bursting from another abandoned West Texas oil well, continuing a troubling trend
13 votes -
Surge in India’s renewables set to keep coal’s share below 50% in total installed capacity
7 votes -
Europe's gas supply once again hinges on one company – Equinor now plays an outsized role in the ups and downs of the continent's gas prices
6 votes -
Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming
33 votes -
Fuel-guzzling ‘yank tanks’ face a costly future in Australia after new vehicle emissions changes approved
23 votes -
New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039
33 votes -
Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return
8 votes -
European Commission approves creation of an environmental zone in the city centre of Stockholm, where petrol and diesel cars will be banned entirely from 2025
25 votes -
Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, says Swedish foreign minister
10 votes -
How to escape from the Iron Age? We cannot lower carbon emissions if we keep producing steel with fossil fuels.
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Connecticut, USA wants to penalize insurers for backing fossil-fuel projects
13 votes -
Russian ‘dark fleet’ lacks disaster insurance, leaks suggest
6 votes -
Inside the brazen Arctic trip supplying Vladimir Putin’s flagship energy scheme
7 votes -
Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf
45 votes -
Guyana is trying to keep its oil blessing from becoming a curse
16 votes -
Tobago oil spill spreads to Grenada waters and could affect Venezuela
7 votes -
Gen Z and millennials proudly wear ‘lab-grown’ diamonds, oblivious to the fact they’re made from burning coal in China and India
31 votes -
EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit sixty-year low
11 votes -
Oil firms forced to consider full climate effects of new drilling, following landmark Norwegian court ruling
9 votes -
'Smoking gun proof': fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show
28 votes -
Tallow to margarine
11 votes -
Oil companies will soon pay fees for emitting a climate ‘super-pollutant’
11 votes -
Have you tried Fossil scm, an alternative to git?
Have any of you tried out fossil as an alternative to git? I have been using it for about a week, and I think I am in love. I have used git for years, since having some sort of source control is...
Have any of you tried out fossil as an alternative to git? I have been using it for about a week, and I think I am in love. I have used git for years, since having some sort of source control is absolutely essential in programming. But I never liked git or felt comfortable using it. Within a week of messing with fossil, I feel like I understand it and can use it without a guide or external tools. It also has an issue tracker, forums, and a wiki built in.
I recommend reading all of that, especially section 2.5. Their description of cathedral style development lines up much more closely to everything I have worked on than git's bazaar style. Another thing I love is the ability to have the same repo open in multiple different folders at the same time. Basically everything about fossil lines up much more closely with what I think a source control program should be, at least for my use.
24 votes -
The site of a mining town on Svalbard is now being returned to nature in one of Norway's biggest-ever restoration projects
4 votes -
Nations at climate summit agree to move away from fossil fuels
24 votes -
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels
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Norway's new gas field highlights tensions as COP28 climate talks open – new North Sea projects jar with push to phase out fossil fuels
4 votes