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Norway's vital climate leap

samedi 9 mars 2024 à 21:51

Norway now judges approval of undersea oil wells counting the carbon emissions from burning the fossil fuels extracted from the well.

This is a necessary part of any regulatory system intended to curb global heating from fossil fuels. The fossil fuel companies fight against this, not only in law but in people's minds. They emit publicity about their efforts to reduce the (fairly small) emissions from their own activities, distracting people from the emissions from burning the fuel they sell

Possible Iceless Arctic Summers

samedi 9 mars 2024 à 21:51

Global heating is going so fast that Arctic summers may be iceless by 2035.

Deadly heat in Florida and Texas prisons

samedi 9 mars 2024 à 21:51

Prisons can be deadly in the summer because of hazardous heat.

In the US, prisons in Florida and Texas are the hottest, and those states have governments that think it is fine if the heat kills prisoners.

Police spied on Ireland journalists

samedi 9 mars 2024 à 21:51

UK thugs arrested some Northern Ireland journalists after collecting evidence with secret surveillance. The journalist, once freed, demanded an investigation of that surveillance. The investigation is occurring, but it is being kept secret.

RTO disadvantages

samedi 9 mars 2024 à 21:51

A study found that when companies required employees to work from the office again, this provided no benefit for the company's work, but did make employees dissatisfied.

*The data [are] consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control and scapegoat workers.*