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Sanderde
Dave Sanderson 🇨🇦🍁 @Sanderde@mstdn.ca · 4d ago
“Over the first five months of 2026 [in the United States], utility-scale solar output rose 21.6 percent from a year earlier, while coal generation dropped 10.9 percent. The agency projects that solar, wind, and battery storage will add about 83 gigawatts of new capacity by May 2027. Fossil and nuclear capacity are set to slip by nearly 4.7 gigawatts over the same period.” Nuclear power may be cleaner than fossil fuels but it takes years to implement and the costs are exorbitant, not to mention what to do with the radioactive waste. Wind and solar should be the focus now. “[Google and Meta] moved for the same reason. Solar is now the cheapest and fastest new power they can buy, and they need staggering amounts of it for their datacenters. That appetite is the driver of the curve.” #FossilFuels #RenewableEnergy https://www.inc.com/soren-kaplan/the-biggest-solar-story-isnt-that-it-passed-coal-and-wind-its-what-happens-next/91386698
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golgaloth
Dave Dawkins (D. Harrigon) @golgaloth@writing.exchange · 4d ago
Does your fantasy world involve burning massive amounts of fossil fuels? Where does it all come from? #AmWriting #writing #fantasy #WritingCommunity #WorldBuilding #ttrpg #dnd #GameDev #ClimateChange #FossilFuels
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cbcbc_mirror
CBC British Columbia @cbcbc_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Aug 06, 2026
Climate change made Canadian wildfires in N.W.T. and Ontario roughly twice as likely, analysis finds A new rapid analysis has found that human-induced climate change has made wildfire in the Northwest Territories and Ontario about twice as likely to occur, and it warns that the world must step away from fossil fuels. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wwa-study-climate-change-wildfires-9.7297131?cmp=rss
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CBC Ottawa @cbcottawa_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Aug 06, 2026
Climate change made Canadian wildfires in N.W.T. and Ontario roughly twice as likely, analysis finds A new rapid analysis has found that human-induced climate change has made wildfire in the Northwest Territories and Ontario about twice as likely to occur, and it warns that the world must step away from fossil fuels. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wwa-study-climate-change-wildfires-9.7297131?cmp=rss
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CBC Technology Science @cbctech_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Aug 06, 2026
Climate change made Canadian wildfires in N.W.T. and Ontario roughly twice as likely, analysis finds A new rapid analysis has found that human-induced climate change has made wildfire in the Northwest Territories and Ontario about twice as likely to occur, and it warns that the world must step away from fossil fuels. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wwa-study-climate-change-wildfires-9.7297131?cmp=rss
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CBC Kitchener-Waterloo @cbckw_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Aug 06, 2026
Climate change made Canadian wildfires in N.W.T. and Ontario roughly twice as likely, analysis finds A new rapid analysis has found that human-induced climate change has made wildfire in the Northwest Territories and Ontario about twice as likely to occur, and it warns that the world must step away from fossil fuels. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wwa-study-climate-change-wildfires-9.7297131?cmp=rss
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CBC Toronto @cbctor_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Aug 06, 2026
Climate change made Canadian wildfires in N.W.T. and Ontario roughly twice as likely, analysis finds A new rapid analysis has found that human-induced climate change has made wildfire in the Northwest Territories and Ontario about twice as likely to occur, and it warns that the world must step away from fossil fuels. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wwa-study-climate-change-wildfires-9.7297131?cmp=rss
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CBC Saskatchewan @cbcsk_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Aug 06, 2026
Climate change made Canadian wildfires in N.W.T. and Ontario roughly twice as likely, analysis finds A new rapid analysis has found that human-induced climate change has made wildfire in the Northwest Territories and Ontario about twice as likely to occur, and it warns that the world must step away from fossil fuels. https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/wwa-study-climate-change-wildfires-9.7297131?cmp=rss
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Bellingen
BellingenNSW @Bellingen@mastodon.au · Aug 05, 2026
Here we go "How Australia can prepare for war." "New parliamentary committee to examine how Australia can prepare for war for first time since World War II." >> https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/new-plan-proposed-to-prepare-australia-for-impacts-of-war/107001286 #war #geopolitics #Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #technology #AI #debt #bubble
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maugendre
Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre@mas.to · Aug 02, 2026
Climate forcing: some activities force the climate. The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused or climate change, but forcing and attribution to fossil fuels, mining, bovine husbandry, tree plantations, etc. In the same vein, here is an article by Hayley Fowler and Ed Hawkins: https://theconversation.com/was-this-heatwave-caused-by-climate-change-were-asking-the-wrong-question-288637 #attribution #climateForcing #climateChange #fossilFuels
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Dragofix
Dragofix @Dragofix@veganism.social · Aug 04, 2026
It’s time to prosecute climate crimes – with laws that already exist | Aaron Regunberg https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/28/prosecute-climate-crimes-big-oil #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #fossilfuel #fossilfuels #crime
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HarriettMB @HarriettMB@toot.wales · Aug 03, 2026
Says the man who increased the US debt by 28% in less than two years, so it’s now an unmentionable trillions and trillions worth. Should those bills be called in the USA will be so bankrupt it will have nothing Also NO. #Trump #FossilFuels #Lies #Burnham Bankrupt Britain needs to tap into North Sea oil gold, says Donald Trump | Belfast Telegraph https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/uk-world/bankrupt-britain-needs-to-tap-into-north-sea-oil-gold-says-donald-trump/a/159565222.html
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dbattistella
DB 🌱💦 @dbattistella@mstdn.ca · Aug 03, 2026
Carbon capture is a scam. The technology has captured only a tiny fraction of global emissions after decades of operation, it relies heavily on public subsidies, and is frequently used by oil companies to pump more crude oil out of the ground through Enhanced Oil Recovery. "If there is one thing that the fossil fuel industry is good at, it’s peddling false solutions to a problem they created. Their latest miracle cure for the climate crisis, carbon capture and storage (CCS) promises to suck up carbon emissions like a vacuum and bury them deep underground. Sounds good in theory. In reality? It is a dangerous distraction, gobbling up billions in public money, enabling more pollution and keeping us hooked on fossil fuels for decades to come. " #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming #CarbonCapture #Scam https://environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/23/carbon-capture-and-storage-the-billion-dollar-scam/
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Akshay
Akshay @Akshay@eupolicy.social · Aug 03, 2026
”[Droughts worsened by climate change] exposed the vulnerability of Zambia and Zimbabwe’s hydropower-dependent electricity systems, triggering severe power shortages and renewing interest in coal.” But: “Thousands of households and businesses have installed rooftop solar systems to reduce dependence on the unreliable national grid.” https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/climate-shocks-hit-hydropower-in-southern-africa-reviving-interest-in-coal/ #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Drought #Hydropower #Water #Renewables #Coal #FossilFuels #Electricity
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dbattistella
DB 🌱💦 @dbattistella@mstdn.ca · Aug 03, 2026
📍 Spokane, Washington In 2024 US politicians gave $725 billion of taxpayer money to the fossil fuel industry. This is the direct result. People are not nearly angry enough. C: @climatedad #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming #FossilFuels
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Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Aug 03, 2026
Replying to @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot
@urlyman@mastodon.social alternatively, if we concentrate on electric smelters and kilns, we won't have enough clean energy to power them. Of course, we could continue to burn #FossilFuels to do either the power generation or the materials processing, but in that case we all die fairly quickly — probably this century. Or else we could use our available power and structural materials to build #GenAI #DataCentres, in which case we all die even more quickly. #ClimateEmergency /Continued
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simon_brooke
Simon Brooke @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot · Aug 03, 2026
Replying to @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot

@urlyman@mastodon.social if we want to survive, we have pretty quickly (within at most 5 years) switch to

  1. Stop burning #FossilFuels altogether;
  2. Build some new clean generating capacity;
  3. Build some new clean materials processing capacity;
  4. Invest in #Organic low input agriculture;
  5. Invest in efficient transport infrastructure to distribute food;
  6. Use an absolute minimum of power or structural materials for anything else at all;
  7. Fight no wars at all.

#ClimateEmergency /Continued

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touaregtweet
Touaregtweet @touaregtweet@mastodon.social · Aug 03, 2026
Replying to @JoostThissen@mastodon.social
@JoostThissen@mastodon.social Linksom of rechtsom, het zal Shell er niet van weerhouden zich alleen maar bezig te houden met zelfverrijking van het bedrijf, de aandeelhouders en de olieindustrie. #fossilfuels #Shell #FuckShell
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