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Between April 2021 and October 2024, British physicist Michael de Podesta paid £40 per month to carbon capture company Climeworks. In return, the company promised to remove 50 kilograms of carbon dioxide each month. But in September 2024, de Podesta wrote that “when I checked the other day they had removed precisely no CO₂ from the atmosphere”.

The following day, de Podesta wrote, “I conclude that I am indeed a gullible idiot.”

Climateworks’ business model involves selling carbon credits for CO₂ that it hopes to capture in the future

Good scam if you can convince people...so have they convinced anyone

Microsoft, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Stripe, Shopify, British Airways, Lego, Swiss Air, PwC, and TikTok.

Oh /s

I guess "in the future" is a promise you can always give, like "free beeer tomorrow"

new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/23109024

Its collapse was in many ways a good thing for a lot of people.

Looking around me, as it will be again

Its collapse was in many ways a good thing for a lot of people.

Looking around me, as it will be again

A woman in the Philippines who scored a surprise win against an Australian business in the Fair Work Commission has blazed a trail for potential legal claims — including class actions — by offshore workers, lawyers say.

Joanna Pascua, who was sacked last year by a Brisbane credit repair outfit for whom she was doing paralegal work from her home in Manila, drew on her experience advocating for clients in Australia to file an unfair dismissal claim.

Hobart's River Derwent and other south-east Tasmanian waterways have experienced some extraordinary marine events since December: jellyfish population explosions, toxic algal blooms, wild shellfish health alerts, and mass salmon and sardine deaths.

Toxic industries abound in Tassie

Here in the Northern Territory, Filipinos are the number one migrant community according to Australian Bureau of Statistics country of birth data.

In every other Australian jurisdiction, that spot is held by English, Indian, Chinese or New Zealander migrants.

So why do so many Filipinos choose to call the territory home?

New York City has won a temporary reprieve in its legal battle against the administration of US President Donald Trump, which had threatened to withhold federal funding from New York state unless the city ended its congestion pricing programme

Car brained Feds!

As a Republican state lawmaker for 16 years, a Texas rancher and a staunch supporter of Donald Trump, John Davis’s conservative credentials are impeccable

Lol

The bills come as Trump has ramped up anti-renewable rhetoric on the national stage, calling wind turbines “ugly” and “disgusting” and barring major clean energy projects on federal lands and waters. “We don’t want windmills in this country,” Trump, who has enjoyed strong electoral support from farmers, said shortly after being inaugurated as president.

Davis retired as state legislator in 2015 to spend more time on his ranch but has lately been donning a suit and traveling back to Austin to urge his former colleagues to reject the anti-renewables bills. “I testify as a conservative and say: ‘What are you guys doing? Have you lost your mind?’” he said.

Yes, i believe so :)

“Some of these bills are attacking battery storage of all things. How dumb is that? It’s sacrificing your core conservative value principles in order to protect the oil and gas industry.”

It’s not productive or helpful when he spouts off like that,” Corbin said of Trump’s comments on wind and solar.

80%

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/22770178

The point of protesting in peak hour is to point out the disparity between how motorists are treated when one major route into the city is closed for an hour, versus how active transport users are treated."

She said the protest would not go ahead if the court ruled it to be illegal.

The point of protesting in peak hour is to point out the disparity between how motorists are treated when one major route into the city is closed for an hour, versus how active transport users are treated."

She said the protest would not go ahead if the court ruled it to be illegal.

Those people who have sought to deify our wilderness … those days are over. We are not going to sit around and read poetry to rare lizards, whilst our current account deficit goes down the gurgler,” Jones said.

Lol :)

As an aethiest, if you must be into the whole deity thing, deifying nature is no bad thing, it literally underpins everything.