The climate crisis is on track to destroy capitalism, a top insurer has warned, with the vast cost of extreme weather impacts leaving the financial sector unable to operate.

The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments.

#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer

Yeah. Insurers know. #climate #environment #climatechange #climatecrisis #fire #flooding

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/climate-crisis-on-track-to-destroy-capitalism-warns-allianz-insurer

Countries that are still fighting to reverse the climate crisis haven’t changed their minds about buying EVs.

They’re simply no longer buying Teslas because of Elon Musk and his fascist beliefs.

Mastodon! I'm delivering a talk to a couple of grade 9 classes in a month on the use of space (mainly satellites, but probes to other planets, comets, etc., will be included).

How does your work benefit from satellites?

I'm thinking of a direct use of the data, as opposed to stuff like “internet access” or “my bank relies on satellites to transfer my grant money from one account to another”

Anecdotes, rants, personal stories are all fair game
(To the inevitable suggestion that I just Google this, yes, I can, and have, but I want the human element - I want to be able to say "someone I ‘know’ uses satellites for their job, and this is what they like about the tech”)

Hashtag suggestions are welcome.
(Also - question: Does Mastodon discriminate hashtags with different capitalization? Are #Astronomy and #astronomy functionally different? We *really* need some kind of ISO standard )

#Archaeology #Physics #SolarActivity #Geology #SevereWeather #Climate #ClimateChange
#Satellite #Satellites #Agriculture #oceanography

"Climate skeptics" are a thing of the past?

No. That's why we're here.

Bogus #ClimateSkepticism comes in various flavors. Many so-called skeptics are indeed cranks but others come in the passive form, their basis of doubt or disbelief mired in innocent ignorance.

Innocent ignorance can be fostered, cultivated-- and that's exactly what's happened over the course of decades in connection with #ScientificConsensus on #ClimateChange.

Learn more:

https://skepticalscience.com/webinars-consensus-on-human-caused-global-warming.html?utm-source=mastodon&utm-campaign=socialnetworks&utm-term=sks

Here is a short (13-minute) informative video titled “The Insanity of the Carbon Capture Deception.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrFtReaFMY

It’s about the lies we’re being told to justify continuing with Business As Usual, about the false promise of futuristic new technologies that will magically stop climate change and save us all.

There was a time not very long ago when talking about the possibility that global warming might reach 3°C above the baseline was considered alarmist. You couldn’t say that without being labeled as a Doomer.

But today it’s not just “alarmists” like me who are talking about 3° of warming. Now it’s the allegedly respectable adults in the room, like Morgan Stanley…
https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/114262652848236074

And like Barack Obama…
https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/113985510174651079

Except, stunningly, when those “elites” discuss such realities, it’s NOT to raise the alarm. It’s NOT to call for system change — which we so obviously need.

Rather, it’s to point out all the wonderful new possibilities for profit-taking. And it’s to calm everyone down. No need to worry, they tell us. Everything is under control. Capitalism has the solutions. We can live happily and even thrive in a 3°C world.

#Trump has White House studying cost of #Greenland takeover

The WH is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal govt to control Greenland as a territory, acc/to 3 people with knowledge of the matter, the most concrete effort yet to turn Trump’s [#delusional, unsolicited & unwelcome] desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable #policy.

#geopolitics #Denmark #USexpansionism #Greed #ShippingRoutes #NaturalResources #ClimateChange
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/trump-greenland-us-territory-cost/

#ClimateChange is happening and causes disaster. Just ask the #insurance companies... #globalwarming #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00892-9

OK, it's official now. The Netherlands' main meteorological station in De Bilt has its driest month of March on record (1901-), by far.
With just 1.5 mm of rain, it was 97.4% below 'normal' (58 mm) and 79% below the 1929 record so far (7.1 mm).
No rain foreseen for the coming 14 days either.
#extremeweather #ClimateChange #ClimatechangeisWaterchange

Rainforest Oil Exploration Stopped as Court Rules Uncontacted Tribes Have Right to Remain in Isolation https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/rainforest-oil-exploration-stopped-as-court-rules-uncontacted-tribes-have-right-to-remain-in-isolation/ #Ecuador #Indigenous #HumanRights #ClimateChange

To fix the climate crisis we need systemic change

We should ask ourselves - which systems are within our reach to change? What can we do on a community level, here and now?

Well, one thing we can do is hosting Mastodon servers and plant trees. Here's how to use that for systemic change

1/n #Mastodon #ClimateChange

People in the know know what's coming.

Climate scientists know.

Top Wall Street financiers know.

Our "leaders" in business and government know.

Global warming *will* exceed 1.5°C above the pre-industrial average. Effectively it already has.

Any hope of staying below 2°C also appears to be lost. We are now heading toward a 3° world, if not higher.

Of course we should continue working hard to limit the catastrophic damage as much as possible. But you’re a fool if you’re not beginning at this point to prepare for the worst — because that's what's coming.

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

New Investigation Exposes More than 25 Global Brands Driving Fracking and Fueling the Plastic Crisis

The findings include the Fracked Plastics Map, an interactive tool that traces the connections between more than 25 major consumer brands — including Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé — & petrochemicals sourced from fracking in Texas’s Permian Basin, including major intermediaries

https://www.ciel.org/news/fracking-plastics-texas-emissions-climate/

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

... and they adjust their strategies to profit form catastrophic climate change.

As aways blind to the long-term consequences of their opportunism.

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