#fuel for disaster

[reasonsforhope]

Masterpost: Reasons I firmly believe we will beat climate change

Posts are in reverse chronological order (by post date, not article date), mostly taken from my "climate change" tag, which I went through all the way back to the literal beginning of my blog. Will update periodically.

Especially big deal articles/posts are in bold.

Big picture:

Mature trees offer hope in world of rising emissions (x)

Spying from space: How satellites can help identify and rein in a potent climate pollutant (x)

Good news: Tiny urban green spaces can cool cities and save lives (x)

Conservation and economic development go hand in hand, more often than expected (x)

The exponential growth of solar power will change the world (x)

Sun Machines: Solar, an energy that gets cheaper and cheaper, is going to be huge (x)

Wealthy nations finally deliver promised climate aid, as calls for more equitable funding for poor countries grow (x)

For Earth Day 2024, experts are spreading optimism – not doom. Here's why. (x)

Opinion: I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore. (x)

The World’s Forests Are Doing Much Better Than We Think (x)

‘Staggering’ green growth gives hope for 1.5C, says global energy chief (x)

Beyond Catastrophe: A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View (x)

Young Forests Capture Carbon Quicker than Previously Thought (x)

Yes, climate change can be beaten by 2050. Here's how. (x)

Soil improvements could keep planet within 1.5C heating target, research shows (x)

The global treaty to save the ozone layer has also slowed Arctic ice melt (x)

The doomers are wrong about humanity’s future — and its past (x)

Scientists Find Methane is Actually Offsetting 30% of its Own Heating Effect on Planet (x)

Are debt-for-climate swaps finally taking off? (x)

High seas treaty: historic deal to protect international waters finally reached at UN (x)

How Could Positive ‘Tipping Points’ Accelerate Climate Action? (x)

Specific examples:

Environmental Campaigners Celebrate As Labour Ends Tory Ban On New Onshore Wind Projects (x)

Private firms are driving a revolution in solar power in Africa (x)

How the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu drastically cut plastic pollution (x)

Rewilding sites have seen 400% increase in jobs since 2008, research finds [Scotland] (x)

The American Climate Corps take flight, with most jobs based in the West (x)

Waste Heat Generated from Electronics to Warm Finnish City in Winter Thanks to Groundbreaking Thermal Energy Project (x)

Climate protection is now a human right — and lawsuits will follow [European Union] (x)

A new EU ecocide law ‘marks the end of impunity for environmental criminals’ (x)

Solar hits a renewable energy milestone not seen since WWII [United States] (x)

These are the climate grannies. They’ll do whatever it takes to protect their grandchildren. [United States and Native American Nations] (x)

Century of Tree Planting Stalls the Warming Effects in the Eastern United States, Says Study (x)

Chart: Wind and solar are closing in on fossil fuels in the EU (x)

UK use of gas and coal for electricity at lowest since 1957, figures show (x)

Countries That Generate 100% Renewable Energy Electricity (x)

Indigenous advocacy leads to largest dam removal project in US history [United States and Native American Nations] (x)

India’s clean energy transition is rapidly underway, benefiting the entire world (x)

China is set to shatter its wind and solar target five years early, new report finds (x)

‘Game changing’: spate of US lawsuits calls big oil to account for climate crisis (x)

Largest-ever data set collection shows how coral reefs can survive climate change (x)

The Biggest Climate Bill of Your Life - But What Does It DO? [United States] (x)

Good Climate News: Headline Roundup April 1st through April 15th, 2023 (x)

How agroforestry can restore degraded lands and provide income in the Amazon (x) [Brazil]

Loss of Climate-Crucial Mangrove Forests Has Slowed to Near-Negligable Amount Worldwide, Report Hails (x)

Agroecology schools help communities restore degraded land in Guatemala (x)

Climate adaptation:

Solar-powered generators pull clean drinking water 'from thin air,' aiding communities in need: 'It transforms lives' (x)

‘Sponge’ Cities Combat Urban Flooding by Letting Nature Do the Work [China] (x)

Indian Engineers Tackle Water Shortages with Star Wars Tech in Kerala (x)

A green roof or rooftop solar? You can combine them in a biosolar roof — boosting both biodiversity and power output (x)

Global death tolls from natural disasters have actually plummeted over the last century (x)

Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be (x)

This city turns sewage into drinking water in 24 hours. The concept is catching on [Namibia] (x)

Plants teach their offspring how to adapt to climate change, scientists find (x)

Resurrecting Climate-Resilient Rice in India (x)

Edit 1/12/25: Yes, I know a bunch of the links disappeared. I'll try to fix that when I get the chance. In the meantime, read all the other stuff!!

Other Masterposts:

Going carbon negative and how we're going to fix global heating (x)

[didi-doof]

I believe in uncle Perry supremacy 🙌

Pose reference by @albanenechi !!

Then I had to figure out a background and somehow. it worked?? Insane fr

[jeeaark]

Hi just here to gush

I love your art so much, the panels are so incredibly alive and colorful, i dont know how to explain it but there is so much love and passion in everything you seem to do. Sometimes I randomly think about the "please, continue" raphael comic and get this tight feeling in my chest because it's literally stunning. The colors! The movements! The Greygold! I never gave a shit about the Emperor but boy do I now because of your comics!

You dont have to respond to this publically or anything but I just wanted to hop in and say that you inspire me so much as an artist and I love going through your catalogue and rereading the whole thing ^-^

[spacehorrors]

fathers, sons and gods

nicola yoon / the phantom menace / the empire strikes back / joan tierney (filmnoirsbian) / dvoyd / attack of the clones / return of the jedi / ethel cain / elizabeth lindsey rogers

[allykakamatsu]

The Princess Now has to Free the Queen, oh how the tables have turned~

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[confused-disaster32]

Apologising/warning moots and/or followers that I'm actually gonna be SOOOO annoying the next couple of days talking about Ghost.

Like, my Ghost phase has been rehitting HARD the past couple of weeks - but when Papa V is introduced, I'm gonna be non-stop posting about him

[rednblacksalamander]

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Capitalism’s climate catastrophe: How fossil fuel giants fueled the storm crisis

By Scott Scheffer

On Sept. 26, Hurricane Helene hit near Tampa, Florida, and tore north and then northwest through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina, even reaching the eastern part of Tennessee.

Helene stretched about 400 miles across and sustained 140 mph winds, smashing into homes and leaving millions without electricity. The flooding and devastation from the wind were at a historic level. 

No areas near the path were spared, and the mountain community of Asheville, North Carolina, was utterly destroyed by flooding. A local journalist reported seeing two homes being swept away by raging water that then crashed into each other.

Just two weeks later, Hurricane Milton landed 75 miles south of Helene’s landfall and ripped its way north/northwest across the panhandle and then out into the Atlantic. Work crews were clearing debris from Helene when Milton arrived. 

It’s not unusual for hurricanes to spawn a few tornados. Usually, they’re weak and fizzle out quickly. Not these. The storm yielded a record 38 of them, and they smashed everything in their paths.

As of Oct. 15, the combined death toll had climbed to 268, and there were still 192 people unaccounted for. Damage estimates are all over the map, from $35 billion to $200 billion.

These were two of the most destructive storms in history. “Thousand-year” storms are happening frequently now. Hurricanes, droughts, and cyclones are increasing in severity. Heat waves are more frequent and threaten to make some cities that millions call home uninhabitable.

This is all a product of the capitalist economy. Giant energy companies and their banking partners have pushed the exploitation of fossil fuels, spewed gigatons of CO2, methane, and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and caused global warming. 

[tomorrowusa]

Even if you don't live in a particularly climate sensitive area in the US, your home insurance rates may increase because of climate disasters caused in more affected areas.

[N]owhere is safe from climate-worsened extreme weather risks: Hurricanes arriving from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic seaboard. Hail in the Midwest. Floods in the East. Sea level rise along the coasts. Wildfires in the West, most recently exemplified by the devastating and costly fires around Los Angeles. And worsening extreme weather translates into more expensive property damages, growing insurance claims, and rising insurance rates. Somebody has to pay for the costs to repair, rebuild, and replace damaged homes and vehicles, but with insurance companies raising rates and dropping customers, the situation is quickly threatening to trigger an insurance crisis. Despite rapidly rising policy rates, the homeowner’s insurance market lost money in 18 states in 2023. As a recent Senate Budget Committee staff report concluded, climate-worsened extreme weather is “destabilizing insurance markets.” And the problem extends beyond insurance policy costs. “If home values fall, governments take in less tax revenue. That means less money for schools and police,” said New York Times climate change reporter Christopher Flavelle on The Daily podcast. “Maybe instead of climate change wrecking communities in the form of a big storm or a wildfire or a flood, maybe even before those things happen, climate change can wreck communities by something as seemingly mundane and even boring as insurance.”

People are free to live in sensitive areas which are more prone to danger. But they need to understand what they're getting into and be willing to pay the costs.

Ultimately, somebody has to pay for the rising costs of property damages from climate-worsened extreme weather. As insurance companies pass those costs along to their customers, or drop some policy coverage altogether, property owners are left with suboptimal options to reduce financial burdens. Individuals can reduce their insurance plan coverage, leaving them more financially vulnerable if a disaster strikes. They can shift to parametric insurance, where payments are based on the amount by which a certain parameter like wind speed or rainfall exceeds a given threshold, rather than on the amount of damage done. Payments are made relatively fast, but these parametric plans run a substantial risk of providing insufficient money to cover actual damages.

"Managed retreats" are one way to deal with future issues.

One partial solution to the problem involves the opposite behavior – encouraging managed retreats from high-risk areas. This is a challenging and complex topic because people tend to have strong attachments to their homes. But when a house is badly damaged by extreme weather and faces a high risk of a repeat event in the future, tying insurance payouts to a move to a safer area is one possible solution. It’s one that the Canadian province of Quebec employed after destructive flood events along the Ottawa River in 2017 and 2019. Other regulatory and market-based tools can help discourage new property developments in high-risk areas.

However there are still people moving into climate sensitive areas.

In the long run, we simply need to get carbon emissions down.

Ultimately the solution must involve prevention: reaching net zero global climate pollution to stop global warming so that these extreme weather events cease to worsen. Until then, extensive efforts will be required to avert a potential insurance crisis.

For now, people should factor climate costs into there decisions regarding where to settle down.

[justanotherbarrelrat]

Matthias: My ghost won’t associate with your ghost

Me: But will you associate with your family’s ghosts?

[perelka-l]

Do you figure Giovanni tries to encourage Archer’s crush/obsession? I feel like very tiny gestures would go a long way, with Archer, and maybe Gio indulges him a bit, but like…via things that other people may not give a second thought to. (Not that Giovanni would have to be deliberate to stoke those flames, but maybe he gets a bit of a kick out of it)

To be honest... I don't know. I genuinely don't know which one would suit them more.

On one hand, it feels very much in character for Giovanni to use whoever he is influencing to the fullest. Trying to push Archer's crush further, drawing him in with things that could mean something only if you are obsessed with the other person (while perfectly aware it's not mutual), it's a risky tactic that I think Gio could play, maybe even wondering how much he can torture (for lack of better word) Archer and how fast he snaps back.

On the other hand... I feel like Giovanni has a degree of respect towards Archer (and other executives for that matter), such things would feel like going an extra mile for something that's already firmly in your hand.

Additionally, I like the thought as well that Giovanni doesn't need anything extra for Archer to crush as hard as he does. It's all just Giovanni on his normal charisma and charm levels. He may of course use it, but not in a, let's call it, purpose that would hit where Archer's vulnerable spot is. He simply doesn't have to. Archer is his, heart, body and soul.

Both are delicious and I can't decide ;w;

[marionmabelle]

me when i wonder why my heart is racing (i just chased my double espresso with an energy drink)

[oleander-neruim]

I think Tim Stoker and Michael Shelley would've gotten along.

[shittyhorrorgifs]

13 Minutes - The Tornado Hits Town

[sonuvablitz]

@literatetrashpanda and I just came up with the idea of a zoo full of disaster bi/pan characters.

So far, we already came up with:

Blitz (Helluva Boss)

Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)

Henry "Monty" Montague (The Gentleman's Guide To Vice and Virtue)

Jaskier (The Witcher)

Astarion (Baldur's Gate 3)

Deadpool

Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn 99)

Jayce Talis (Arcane)

Norma Khan (Dead End: Paranormal Park)

It's still a very tiny zoo, so please reblog this post and add to our zoo, so it can grow to an infinite size! 💕