Pauli Vennervirta
pauliven.bsky.social
Pauli Vennervirta
@pauliven.bsky.social
Adult education professional, part time retired. Interested in sustainability, climate change, martial arts, HEMA, tai chi, boxing, outdoors, archery.
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Climate laggard Poland?

Not anymore - coal used to provide 95% of Polish electricity.

Last year it was 53.5% with wind & solar providing almost one quarter.

Source: @ember-energy.org
April 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Forgot to repost something extremely cool that the Guardian did, which is an extremely direct form of public service that deserves to be recognized.
This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.
Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Investing in #ClimateAction is good for the planet—it creates stability, security, and peace.

See how UNEP’ is working with partners in helping countries integrate climate solutions with resilience and security efforts: www.unep.org/topics/disas...
April 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Thinning Arctic sea ice is leading to changes in the Beaufort Gyre that threaten to release huge volumes of freshwater into the North Atlantic.

Freshwater input is a serious threat to the stability of the AMOC.

www.gu.se/en/news/thin...
#climatechange #AMOC #arctic
Thinner Arctic sea ice may affect the AMOC
One of the ocean currents in the Arctic Ocean is at risk of disappearing this century because of climate change, according to research from the University of Gothenburg. As a result, the North Atlanti...
www.gu.se
April 1, 2025 at 3:54 PM
March 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Sykli etsii työelämäpalveluiden asiantuntijaa, jonka keskeisin vastuualue on työelämäyhteistyö sekä koulutusten koordinointi.
sykli.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
TYÖELÄMÄPALVELUIDEN ASIANTUNTIJA
sykli.rekrytointi.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Friendly reminder because it is more important than ever:

A 2021 survey of 90.000 (!) peer-reviewed articles found more than 99 percent agreement on human-caused climate change.
‘Case closed’: 99.9% of scientists agree climate emergency caused by humans
Trawl of 90,000 studies finds consensus, leading to call for Facebook and Twitter to curb disinformation
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Yet another study finds that diverse forests store far more carbon than monoculture plantations. Previous research in the tropics showed it could be 40x more.

Natural forests also help stabilise the climate in other, equally vital ways. WHEN will this penny drop?
scienceblog.com/tree-diversi...
Tree diversity increases carbon sequestration
The world's oldest tropical tree diversity experiment has delivered compelling evidence that forests with multiple tree species capture significantly more
scienceblog.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Using data through Feb. 23, 2025 and assuming warming is accelerating, the planet is now set to cross the 1.5°C line in mid-2026.
February 25, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *lowest* on record (JAXA data)

• about 570,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,140,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 1,670,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,040,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... 🧪
February 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Global sea ice has reached its minimum for 2025.

It has dropped 18% since 1979 🧪 #GreenSky
February 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Refuse/resist. We in Europe are watching and supporting you.
February 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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As we showed in our paper

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟎-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐠𝐨?

led by the great Karina von Schuckmann, only 4% of the additional heat accumulating in the Earth system has been directed to the melting of ice (incl sea ice):
essd.copernicus.org/articles/15/...
February 1, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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And who, you might ask, is putting this pressure on the EU to backtrack on climate goals? Yep, it's ExxonMobil and friends.
Well. That’s going to be fun.

Martin Porter, executive chair of the @cisl.cam.ac.uk said there was a “clear risk” that “a broad simplification agenda unravels policies which businesses have already invested against”.

So much for EU aim to use climate action/sustainability as a growth driver.
Brussels under pressure to curb green agenda in response to Trump
Industry and EU member states urge European Commission to wind back sustainability rules
on.ft.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Hallituksen päätös ajaa alas Yleisradion toimintaa on kun suoraan äärioikeiston pelikirjasta.

Yleisradion alasajo on hallituksen pahimpia toimia www.soininvaara.fi/2025/01/25/y...
Yleisradion alasajo on hallituksen pahimpia toimia
www.soininvaara.fi
January 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Ocean Heat Content is a key measure of global warming since over 90% of the heat from the greenhouse effect is absorbed by the world’s oceans.

A lot of attention is on the SST which has been rising rapidly, but what of the deep ocean?

The first graph shows the Ocean Heat Content at 3 depths.
January 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Globally, fossil fuel subsidies were $7 trillion or 7.1 percent of GDP in 2022, reflecting a $2 trillion increase since 2020 due to government support.

Similar numbers now ...

www.imf.org/en/Topics/cl...
Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Subsidies are intended to protect consumers by keeping prices low, but they come at a high cost. Subsidies have sizable fiscal costs (leading to higher taxes/borrowing or lower spending), promote inef...
www.imf.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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NASA data shows that the rate of global warming over the past 15 years was about 9 times as high as between 1880 and 1970!

There is more and more evidence that the rate of global warming has doubled since 2010!

Visualization by the great Makiko Sato:
January 22, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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President Donald Trump will withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement for the second time, delivering a blow to the effort to keep global temperatures from rising to dangerous levels.

🔗 www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
January 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
www.hs.fi/politiikka/a...

Kun viesti ei miellytä, ryhdytään kontrolloimaan viestintuojaa. On vielä mahdollista, että päätös ei ole laillinen, koska ilmastopaneelista säädetään ilmastolaissa.
HS:n tiedot | Hallitus aikoo lakkauttaa ilmastopaneelin ja vähentää uuden tiedon tuottamista
Hallitus aikoo mullistaa päätöksenteon tueksi tietoa kokoavat tiedepaneelit. Nykyisenlaiset ilmasto- ja luontopaneelit yhdistettäisiin yhteen ”jättipaneeliin”.
www.hs.fi
January 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
“Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies."

www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ban...
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www.facebook.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2
Air monitoring station records biggest ever jump in atmospheric CO2
Wildfires and fossil fuel burning in 2024 contributed to the biggest annual rise in atmospheric CO2 levels ever recorded at the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii
www.newscientist.com
January 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM