Ketan Joshi: AI versus the climate - the AI bubble as fossil fuel marketing
A discussion with an expert on the nature of powering “AI” data centers.
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Some activities are forcing climate change
CH4 emissions from livestock digestion:
- Pakistan doubles emissions between 2005 and 2024.
- Pakistan and Brazil each emit 3,000 Gg/year more in 2023 than in 2005.
#GreenHouseForcing #emissions #methane #beef #cattle #bovines #livestock #dairy #food #GHG #climateChange #FAO #EDGAR #Copernicus #CH4
Replying to @maugendre@mas.to
@agriculture@a.gup.pe @ecology@a.gup.pe 🧵
Against #methane 🚦
• Institutions should support vegetal proteins and dairy.
• Social movements may target the meat industry.
• Animal husbandry in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, are the emittive from enteric fermentation. Corporations should look at how other continents (not Australia) work.
• Any country should ban bovine import from Brazil, Argentina, US, Australia.
• Any country should castrate male calves. Particular buffalos in Pakistan & India.
#beef #emissions #GHG
Replying to @maugendre@mas.to
Let's consider activities that force the Greenhouse Effect, thus @climate@a.gup.pe change. 🧵
#Livestock digestion emits too much #methane:
• People farm too many bovines in India, Pakistan, Brazil, United States, China;
• People farm too many goats in India, Pakistan, China, Nigeria;
• People farm too many pigs in China and the United States.
#GreenHouseForcing #emissions #goats #beef #cattle #bovines #dairy #food #GHG #climateChange #FAO #EDGAR #Copernicus #CH4 #climateBreakdown #climateCollapse
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Replying to @maugendre@mas.to
Across 165 countries, the highest GHG emissions from diet are among highly educated urban men aged 15-34.
Median is 5.7 kgCO2e/day, against 2.9 for rural women aged 35-54 with low education. In others words, the impact on climate is roughly double in a group with more resources, choice, and agency.
Visualizer: https://matilda.food/
#diet #food #beef #animalProduction #deforestation #imports #GHG #carbon #emissions #climateChange #globalWarming
Replying to on mas.to
The expansion of LNG depends on the support of banks and asset managers who continue to pump unrestricted finance into the sector, with banks providing US$213 billion for LNG expansion between 2021 and 2023.
The #report assesses financial flows (project financing and corporate financing) to and investments (bonds and equity) in the 150 largest LNG developers: https://reclaimfinance.org/site/en/2024/12/05/frozen-gas-boiling-planet-how-the-support-of-banks-and-investors-to-lng-fuels-a-climate-disaster/
#LNG #oilAndGas #energy #GHG #exports #emissions #carbon #methane #assets #capacity #commodities #ReclaimFinance
Replying to @maugendre@mas.to
We should not be burning methane gas in our homes (or anywhere).
New research report: Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved.
Not only did symptoms improve but ditching gas was *better than medicine.*
https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-stoves-asthma
#LNG #oilAndGas #GHG #emissions #methane #asthma #health #methaneGas #naturalGas #electricity #stoves
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#News: #UK start-up named after the endangered #sunbear is using precision fermentation to make #palmoil‑like #fats from food side streams 🐻🌴 Their product aims to reduce #deforestation #GHG emissions by up to 90%. #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
https://www.fdiforum.net/mag/featured/sun-bear-biofuture-scales-low-cost-production-model-for-sustainable-oils/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
Replying to @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
climate change, ableism, covid, negative Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place
Agreed. We didn't beat #Covid: we grew bored of it, abandoned all infection control measures, and called it victory.
There are striking parallels between Covid and #GlobalWarming: both get politicised; both get denied; both are subjects of wishful thinking (vax-and-relax and carbon capture, respectively); and we have the tools to deal with them both, but we refuse to use them. Our response to Covid was a speed-run of our response to global warming, and both responses are caused by the same human characteristics.
If people just wore a respirator in the office and the supermarket, their risk of Covid would be substantially reduced, but that's apparently too much to ask. The sacrifices people would have to make to reduce #GHG emissions are far larger than that. There's not a chance that people will make them.
I hope you're enjoying this summer, because it only gets hotter from here.
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