Notices by CelloMom On Cars (cellomomoncars@mastodon.social)

Disinformation will be rampant on facebook

"The company will end US-based third-party fact-checking organizations in March 2025. The planned changes slated to roll out to US users won't affect fact-checking content viewed by users outside the US. The tech industry faces greater regulations on combating misinformation in other regions, such as the European Union."

https://www.sciencealert.com/climate-misinformation-to-escalate-on-social-media-expert-warns

(The same reason that cosmetics and foods are cleaner in the EU than in the US: regulations.)

"While users who type "#Democrat" or "#Democrats" see no results, the hashtag "Republican" returns 3.3 million posts on the social media platform.

By manually searching Instagram for "Democrats", rather than clicking on a hashtag, users are greeted by a screen reading "we've hidden these results"."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o

Meta says it's a "technical problem" But since both searches fail this looks more like a trial balloon to me.

I see you, meta.

Paris has joined the #Xodus

https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/01/are-european-governments-next-paris-joins-growing-exodus-from-musks-x/

"New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny #ClimateChange and delay solutions."

https://grist.org/accountability/fossil-fuel-sectors-climate-obstruction-twitter-x/

(And of course the strategies are not confined to Xitter).
#disinformation

People Who Get Most of Their News From Social Media Sources Are More Likely to Think #ClimateChange Is a Conspiracy: Study

"A quarter of respondents who primarily got their news from social media believed that the climate crisis was a conspiracy.

Just two percent who relied on public radio for their news and six percent for whom public television was their main source believed climate change was a conspiracy."

https://www.ecowatch.com/social-media-climate-change-denial.html

Global economy could face 50% loss in #GDP between 2070 and 2090 from #climate shocks, say actuaries

“Current approaches are failing to properly assess escalating planetary risks or help control them. Planetary solvency applies the established approaches of risk professionals to our life-support system and finds it in jeopardy. It offers a clear way of seeing global risks and prioritising action to limit them.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/economic-growth-could-fall-50-over-20-years-from-climate-shocks-say-actuaries

Climate Scorpion – the sting is in the tail
"[The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries' third report] calls for a realistic #risk assessment of #ClimateChange as a matter of urgency, taking into account the full range of outcomes, including tipping points, realistic worst-case scenarios, and the risk of ruin.

It introduces the concept of Planetary Solvency to support long-term policy decisions."

https://actuaries.org.uk/news-and-media-releases/news-articles/2024/mar/14-mar-24-climate-scorpion-the-sting-is-in-the-tail/

And yet, despite his work lacking grounding in climate reality, Nordhaus won a Nobel Prize, economists jumped on his bandwagon, "expert" advisors reading their papers get it wrong too, and policy makers relying on them don't feel the urge to do something about climate change.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/great-new-video-120404361?post_id=120404361

@ketanjoshi.co

The economist Steve Keen says that if the Nobel Prize winning work of #Nordhaus on the economics of climate change had been reviewed by climate scientists, it would not have passed the review process and it would never have been published.

The assumptions are wrong: they don't include real world results from climate science. Nordhaus' model vastly underestimate the damage that #ClimateChange wreaks on the #economy.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/great-new-video-120404361?post_id=120404361

"The world’s #FinancialStability watchdog has warned that disasters caused by #ClimateChange are increasingly likely to trigger broader panic in financial markets.

“There could also be an abrupt, broad-based repricing of climate-physical risk, as the expectation of larger future losses are incorporated into current prices and impact sectors and jurisdictions not currently directly affected by disasters.” "

https://www.ft.com/content/c907d5f7-1a85-4527-8970-d0e157138f7e

Actuaries, the people whose job is risk assessment, say

– The stability of the Earth system is threatened
– Unmitigated climate change and nature-driven
risks have been hugely underestimated

The severity and frequency of extreme events are unprecedented and beyond model projections.

https://actuaries.org.uk/document-library/thought-leadership/thought-leadership-campaigns/climate-papers/planetary-solvency-finding-our-balance-with-nature/

Translation: We're in an early phase of FAFO but when we get to the. "finding out" phase it will not be pretty.

Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals

"Under our new research, the optimal amount of global warming, balancing short-term costs with long-term benefits, is 1.7°C – a figure broadly consistent with the Paris Agreement’s most ambitious target."

https://theconversation.com/global-warming-of-more-than-3-c-this-century-may-wipe-40-off-the-worlds-economy-new-analysis-reveals-253032

IOW:
#ClimateChange is bad for #GDP

"The team predicted a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 without immediate policy action in their recently published Planetary Solvency report.

Now the team have launched a new #ClimateRisk tool that addresses the discrepancy between climate projections and policy outcomes by providing a comprehensive overview of current and projected risks (up to 2050) across four key domains: climate, nature, society, and the economy."

https://news.exeter.ac.uk/global-systems-institute/risk-informed-policies-needed-to-avoid-climate-meltdown/

"Wall Street ... expects warming to exceed 2 degrees, explained Jain, the former investment banker.

The stunning conclusion indicates that the bank believes the planet is hurtling toward a future in which severe droughts and harvest failures become widespread, sea-level rise is measured in feet rather than inches and tropical regions experience episodes of extreme heat and humidity for weeks at a time that would bring deadly risks to people who work outdoors."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/big-banks-quietly-prepare-for-catastrophic-climate-change/

"First and foremost, the campaigners are calling for a reduction in the production of plastic.

“The single-use #plastics that we are being inundated with in our life everywhere, when we have other options, are basically Big Oil’s way of continuing to push for the expansion of the fossil fuel industry,” says Dr Singh."

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/03/29/coca-cola-and-unilever-among-dozens-of-plastic-brands-tied-to-texas-fracking-investigation

Reminder: Plastics "Recycling" is a MYTH.

"For the first time, #fracking operations in the US have been linked to ethane exports to Europe through major petrochemical companies and on to globally recognised brands.

#Plastic is a supply-driven issue, the campaigners emphasise.
Despite consumers being guilt tripped over their plastic use, it’s this influx of cheap ethane that spurs on the industry to produce more, she says, and to create new markets when some close."

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/03/29/coca-cola-and-unilever-among-dozens-of-plastic-brands-tied-to-texas-fracking-investigation

"The majority of household brands named in this research have made voluntary pledges to address the plastic pollution their products cause, including reducing their use of virgin plastic. Yet several have actually increased their annual plastic use, and all the companies continue to rely on single-use plastic.

A binding Global Plastics Treaty is essential to hold these companies accountable and cut plastic production at the source."

Plastics supply chain map:
https://stand.earth/resources/fracked-plastics/

Will #Texas self-destruct its #CleanEnergy industry?

"The legislation would require 50% of new power plant capacity to be“sourced from dispatchable generation other than battery energy storage,” penalizing solar and wind power, which pair best with batteries.

An earlier iteration of SB 388 explicitly called for half of new power plants to “use natural gas,” and though the bill text no longer says that, the outcome would be the same: Gas would be the key beneficiary."

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/will-texas-self-destruct-its-clean-energy-industry

Meanwhile, precious freshwater is being rather permanently poisoned, effectively.

"One company wants small nuclear reactors to power the energy-intensive process of purifying vast volumes of toxic “produced water” for use in agriculture and industry."

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24032025/texas-oilfield-wastewater-treatment-small-nuclear-reactors/

"Produced water" is a greenwashing word for water laced with proprietary chemicals, injected into fracking wells and spit out again. The exact makeup of the toxic brine is unknown.

Global #SoilMoisture in ‘permanent’ decline due to #ClimateChange

"The findings, published in Science, suggest the decline is primarily driven by an increasingly thirsty atmosphere as global temperatures rise, as well as shifts in rainfall patterns

The drying out of soil “increases the severity and frequency” of major droughts, with consequences for humans, ecosystems and agriculture."

https://www.carbonbrief.org/global-soil-moisture-in-permanent-decline-due-to-climate-change/
#water #HydrologicalCycle