I mean for a revolution, not for being stronger assholes. Leaders in movements against capitalism and conservatism (hierarchy).

war crime

Yep. One of my pet peeves sources of blood pressure increase is leftists who dodge individual action, as if The Glorious Revolution will manifest emerge out of the world like the AI bros waiting for AGI. As if networks, movements, organizations, aren’t made of people. As if extraterrestrials would drop in to do it for us. Here’s a thing: people don’t like organizing around and following hypocrites and selfish bastards. And being a selfish bastard also makes one vulnerable to blackmail from the rich and powerful (being compromised).

As expected. What we need now is for those researchers who published estimations showing that “it only get as bad as +2.7 ℃” to retract those papers or to write corrections, as they are based on hopeful promises. It’s a very bad idea to make promises without the plans for deep change required to fulfill those promises.

would be the “COP of truth,” he said.

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In the end, it may well have been a more honest COP than those that preceded it — just not in the way President Lula intended.

Precisely. The mask is slowly falling off. We’re on the BAU scenario, RCP8.5.

“It would have been crazy,” said Felix Finkbeiner, founder of a conservation organization called Plant for the Planet who has been attending COPs since 2010. “Transitioning away from fossil fuels was set as a vague goal at COP28, but this would have been an actual process that initiated a massive step forward.”

Yeah, escalating like that would help reveal the bullshitters:

As the conference stretched past its official ending time, the parties negotiating behind closed doors became increasingly frustrated with the lack of movement on the fossil fuel road map. The obstacles to success, said Peter Wittoeck, one of the negotiators for Belgium, were the same oil-rich countries that had been blocking more ambitious action on climate change at COPs for decades.

“The major pushback is coming from the Like-Minded Developing Countries and the Arab Group,” Wittoeck said, referring, in the former case, to a coalition of large emerging economies that includes China, India, and South Africa, as well as a group of 20 Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Those nations, he said, “represent fossil fuel interests, obviously, and the fear of being limited in their economic development.”

Of course. Petrostates.

But how much money, how quickly it’s delivered, and what kinds of projects it should fund has always been a matter of debate. This year, it stormed into the spotlight, and it’s not hard to see why. The consequences of climate change have begun to spill into plain view, and countries are starting to feel serious economic pressure as a result. Gallagher Re, a global reinsurance broker, estimates that the direct cost of natural perils around the world in 2024 totaled a staggering $417 billion. Public and private insurance companies covered more than $150 billion of that, meaning the rest of the balance was covered by governments, policyholders, taxpayers, and everyday people.

It will cost everything.

European negotiators told Grist that the focus on adaptation put them in a tough spot. In the absence of a U.S. presence at COP, Europe has sought to position itself as the de facto global leader on climate action by trying to force the fossil fuel road map language into the final text. But its negotiators quickly found that the developing countries they were trying to align themselves with were laser-focused on adaptation financing.

Adaptation is seen as a compromise because it’s not mitigation, so it allows more GHGs from burning fossil fuels and turning forests into pastures and feed. The problems is that adaptation works relative to stable goal. If you invest lots of money into a sea wall for +3℃ and the temperature goes to +3.5℃, your sea wall is useless. The same applies for all infrastructure and big projects for adaptation. And it only gets more useless as the temperature goes and the chaos increases (not linear).

“The world has changed,” said Joe Thwaites, a senior advocate for international climate finance at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “They are feeling the political strain back home and are very sensitive to headlines about how much money is being spent internationally.”

Because they allowed right-wing populists to spread their disinformation. And with that, it means that fossil fuels will be phased out when they run out of the cheap stuff. That should get interesting in the next decade.

Do Lago had to pause the plenary to confer with Colombia and other nations. After 30 minutes of haggling, the parties came back to the table to finish the conference with an agreement to continue conversations in the future. Do Lago also promised to launch two road maps of his own, one aimed at phasing out fossil fuels and the other in service of ending deforestation. Those efforts will take place outside the binding authority of the Paris Agreement, however, and are essentially opt-in endeavors.

mhm.

I hope that the children and the next generations never forgive the adults. Every day, every adult on this planet is working towards achieving the status of being irredeemable.

This is one of the reasons I try to point out that there’s a generational conflict. A lot of leftists act like this isn’t happening, but, well, it is. I noticed it some time ago with relation to BP: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/may/20/revealed-bps-close-ties-with-the-uk-government

Conflicting commitments? Examining pension funds, fossil fuel assets and climate policy in the organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD) - ScienceDirect

The 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change implicitly calls for leaving 80% of coal, 50% of gas and 33% of oil reserves underground. This paper studies the scarcely addressed relationship between investors like pension funds and climate policy implementation by addressing the question: what is the extent of pension fund investments in the fossil fuel sector, what is the range of actions that pension funds take to address environmental issues, and what does this suggest about pension fund commitments to ambitious climate targets through leaving fossil fuels underground? A small sample of pension funds alone manages at least €79 billion in liquid fossil fuel assets, suggesting that OECD pension funds may jointly manage between €238–828 billion. Sustainability reports reveal that pension funds engage in five actions to implement climate policies: 1) divestment; 2) direct engagement; 3) carbon footprint calculations; 4) investing in ‘green’ alternatives; and 5) engaging in climate-oriented coalitions. However, their use of these actions is so far ineffective and counterproductive to taming the fossil fuel sector. Pension funds are not fully committed to leaving fossil fuels underground, which de facto renders them not yet committed to meeting ambitious climate targets. Forthcoming policies must target investors like pension funds to improve the prospects of meeting such targets and protect vulnerable countries from inheriting the risks of stranded assets.

I really want to read this and I also really hate such economists.

There’s never been a better time to go vegan.

race to the bottom.

Are we including entrepreneurs in this?

It would be a moral win, which is still needed. Motivational :)

Teleportation would also be cool. We could teleport concentrated carbon to outer space or somewhere deep underground.

I see that more as a statement of intent, a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Such marks are an element of the so-called mensur, a combative masculinity ritual practiced in fencing fraternities. Also known as academic fencing, combatants battle with a sharp blade, leaving parts of their faces unprotected. Rosenkranz has belonged to such a fraternity since his youth.

Oh, yeah, this fits with the Nazi & related fascist fantasies about being descended from “knights” if not nobility. It’s all about the LARP.

Ah, so like Tesla’s shtick.

Butter, milk, beef, chocolate and coffee accounted for about 40 per cent of the increase in food prices over the past year, despite making up barely a tenth of the typical household food basket, according to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) research group.

Switching to a plant-based pattern solves the top 3.

wtf is a pool?

It’s possibly everywhere it’s needed. Cities are not built for cars.

Cities and cars are natural enemies, it’s an unstable equilibrium. In the end, and it will end, either cars are expelled or cities become clusters of car garages and parking lots.

Buddies of European conservatives? The Fascist Lobby? McFascism franchise?

fascism hiding in a wellness costume.

I don’t get sad, I get angry.