Notices by Extinction Rebellion Global (extinctionr@social.rebellion.global)

A custom AI chatbot: the “Canadian Civic Advisor,” powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT is being used to persuade local government members in Canada to drop climate protection measures. It has already been effective in some places.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/investigations/weaponized-ai-chatbot-city-councils-climate-misinformation

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSkRJPwJ1/

More than 7,500 people have now been evacuated in Buenos Aires Province due to flooding caused by heavy rains. The (provincial Governor) Kicillof blames "climate change."

https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/more-than-7500-evacuated-from-flooding-in-buenos-aires-province.phtml

Men in France emit significantly more CO2e than women, and a major factor is said to be 'red meat and cars'.

#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250514-red-meat-cars-french-men-carbon-footprint-26-higher-than-women-study-finds

Which are the most plastic polluting corporations?

From https://brandaudit.breakfreefromplastic.org/brand-audit-2023/

Fixed That For You.

(not actually us.)

Clean air is not that hard.

Cities are for people not cars.
Bravo Paris♥️

Even if you aren't in a country where elections will be held very soon (Canada, Australia, Singapore, Philippines) it's worth knowing just about 9 out of 10 people globally want more climate action.
This is drowned out by propaganda from the fossil fuel industry and their paid shills.
#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/spiral-of-silence-climate-action-very-popular-why-dont-people-realise

Elon Musk’s xAI is running 35 methane gas burning turbines (enough for a small city) while only having a permit for 15 to power the Colossus supercomputer with over 100,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs in Tennessee. The Southern Environmental Law Center contends the generators are "illegal," yet they can keep running, reports The Guardian.

#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment #AI #enshittifaction

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-allegedly-powers-colossus-supercomputer-facility-using-illegal-generators

“We now expect a 3°C world,” Morgan Stanley analysts wrote earlier this month, citing “recent setbacks to global decarbonization efforts.”

Morgan Stanley’s climate forecast was tucked into a mundane research report on the future of air conditioning stocks.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/big-banks-predict-catastrophic-warming-with-profit-potential/

South Korea is facing one of the worst forest fires in its history around Uiseong county. 27 people have been killed and 32 injured so far.
There has also been significant damage to cultural heritage. The fires have already destroyed the Gounsa temple, which was built in 618 AD and was one of the largest temples in the province.
#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment #wildfire
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y214x9lw1o

Parisians have approved an ambitious plan to block 500 streets to road traffic and replace miles of asphalt with plants and trees, signaling a willingness to support climate policies even if they might have a disruptive impact on daily life.

This is what progress means putting traffic and congestion last. Finally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/23/paris-car-free-vote-anne-hidalgo/

We know it feels like the world is burning down, but the good news is UK coal use is at its lowest since, um London burnt down in 1666.
Overall emissions are now at their lowest since 1872!

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-emissions-fall-3-6-in-2024-as-coal-use-drops-to-lowest-since-1666/

Brazil is competing with the US for the event that leaves you dumbfounded the longest.

"Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191rgn1o

"Solar farms can host up to three times as many birds as crop fields – new research...
After all, the mixed-habitat solar farms we surveyed contained many of the features birds prefer (similar to nature-friendly farms in less intensively farmed areas). "

https://theconversation.com/solar-farms-can-host-up-to-three-times-as-many-birds-as-crop-fields-new-research-249551

After the US withdrew from the Paris Agreement a second time, Indonesia the 6th largest global emitter is considering withdrawing as well.

#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment

https://www.thejakartapost.com/indonesia/2025/02/04/government-wavering-on-climate-commitments-amid-global-uncertainty.html

Intense war and the destruction of the majority of a small country caused greenhouse emissions. Who would have thought?

"The emissions from the first 120 days of the Israel-Gaza conflict exceeded the annual emissions of 26 individual countries. This period saw intense military activity, including bombing raids, reconnaissance flights, and rocket attacks."

Military emissions are still not covered by the Paris Agreement.

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/media/news/2024/hss/new-study-reveals-substantial-carbon-emissions-from-the-ongoing-israel-gaza-conflict.html

"Already in 2023, air pollution related to powering U.S. data centers led to 360 premature deaths and total health costs of $5.6 billion across the nation, the researchers estimated. But those figures factored in just the average power-plant pollutant emissions."

#AI #climate #ClimateCollapse #environment

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/ai-induced-pollution-could-kill-hundreds-cost-billions-researchers-say/article_6449a044-e811-11ef-88d2-473a3ec5a724.html

Last year was the hottest year on record. Governments and businesses have been rolling back their climate promises as we've been experiencing record floods and fires around the world.

The time for collective action on the climate emergency has never been more urgent. Now is not the time to step aside, we need to come together and demand change. Business as usual cannot continue.

Get active in your community, find common ground with your neighbors, stand up for the planet and for humanity.

Explain like I'm 10 years old that the #LAFirestorm2025 won't be ~USD50Bn in economic losses that could have been invested in decarbonisation to prevent it all 30 years ago without the vast human harm?
#ClimatePolicy

Yes, the fires in Los Angeles are far worse than they would have been because global heating has made winters warmer, fuel drier, droughts worse.

https://www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfire/wildfire-climate-connection