Finally, Australians are being encouraged to swap four wheels for two. Governments are investing in cycling infrastructure, and calls for e-bike subsidies are growing louder.

But our research suggests there’s a missing piece in this puzzle.

Giving people access to an e-bike is important. Building safer cycling infrastructure is fundamental

I think they missed another important piece of the pizzle, pushback by boomers and Gen X in particular who despise a world that's cleaner, quieter, lower medical coat, less pollution, less CO2 and they want less greenspace and more asphalt and concrete.

Carbon pollution has fuelled a “massive expansion” of marine heatwaves in Europe this summer, research has found, with some waters recording temperatures 6C higher than normal.

cant even be ass'd to vote Green, rather vote Reform .. we get what we deserve, in every democracy we are going backwards

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50908658

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/54183911

A “massive influx” of jellyfish has forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant and reduce output at a fourth, curbing power supply at a time when extremely hot weather is boosting demand.

this happens more then you might think, for example last year

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/11/swarm-of-jellyfish-shuts-nuclear-power-plant-in-france

and elsewhere on desal plants

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-26/jellyfish-swarm-israel-coast-as-ocean-temperatures-rise/101271964

and this from 2015

https://www.heraldnet.com/2015/07/06/jellyfish-have-become-natures-ultimate-guerrilla-protesters-against-power-plants/

our new jellyfish overlords?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/58415336

thought folks might be interested

In “Here There Was Cerrado” — the Second-Place Winner of the 2026 Yale Environment 360 Film Contest

In 2025, environmental historian Natascha Otoya traveled for a week through Brazil’s Cerrado region, pedaling more than 200 miles through western Bahia and Tocantins.

Adding huge quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere is set to cause the Earth’s forests to wither and die rather than flourish, according to a new study that counters erroneous claims that fossil fuel pollution will green the planet

ye ol' plant food argument

Aweek earlier the crop, located in Gangwon province, had looked fine. Now the potatoes came up soft and collapsing, “like boiled potatoes”, spoiled by heat that had turned the ground into something closer to an oven.

“It’s not just one or two fields like this. How can I even put it into words? It’s so upsetting,” he told local broadcaster SBS.

His ruined harvest is one thread in a punishing summer across east Asia, as record heat swept through South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong in recent weeks.

All I ever read is AC is the answer

At any given moment, there are always places around the world suffering from droughts or floods or experiencing water scarcity – a normal consequence of the natural variability of our climate and weather.

But what we’re experiencing now is not normal; it is the direct consequence of accelerating human-caused climate changes, on top of decades of neglect and underinvestment in our water institutions and infrastructure.

For years, climate scientists have warned that continued emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and other human activities would alter the planet’s climate, raise temperatures, disrupt weather patterns and worsen extreme events, raise sea levels, and accelerate the spread of disease vectors. Those warnings were ignored, dismissed, downplayed. And now we are reaping what we’ve sown.

Yet our politicians continue to prevaricate

welllll... the ones who said they would ignore it or prevaricate are the ones we elect, so kudos to them for doing what they said I guess.

Shame on the deplorable who vote this way but it is what it is. US, Italy, Germany, New Zealand, Australia and Canada and others are all same same with differences only over the minutiae.

For those interested, the author is on Mastodon and can be followed there.

“I really don’t think you understand how much difference you make to people,” Thursby tells him, bringing coffee amid moldering vegetation and a thick fug of petrol fumes from his trimmer. “Demons have been going in my head over this,” she adds, gazing at the partly cleared space. “Instantly, the weight is gone off my shoulders.”

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Mark Maslin, a professor of earth system science at University College London, said he had “run out of expletives to describe the record-breaking weather we are seeing all around the world”. The UK is forecast to experience what would be its fifth heatwave this week, with the Met Office anticipating a peak of more than 36C in parts of south-east England.

Richard Allan, climate science professor at the University of Reading, said cutting greenhouse gas emissions was the “only realistic way to limit the growing intensification of droughts, deluges and heatwaves on land and in the ocean that are already crystal clear in data”.

He added: “We are beyond the point of asking why weather extremes are intensifying — it is an obvious and expected response to the heating planet.”

sorry paywalled and archive doesn't work

Mark Maslin, a professor of earth system science at University College London, said he had “run out of expletives to describe the record-breaking weather we are seeing all around the world”. The UK is forecast to experience what would be its fifth heatwave this week, with the Met Office anticipating a peak of more than 36C in parts of south-east England.

Richard Allan, climate science professor at the University of Reading, said cutting greenhouse gas emissions was the “only realistic way to limit the growing intensification of droughts, deluges and heatwaves on land and in the ocean that are already crystal clear in data”.

He added: “We are beyond the point of asking why weather extremes are intensifying — it is an obvious and expected response to the heating planet.”

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/50612551

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John Gannon, a lifelong Republican who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, says he deeply regrets that decision after his fiancée, Yasmin Suarez Reyes, was detained by ICE at a Houston airport. Gannon says the experience changed his view of the administration’s immigration enforcement, arguing that authorities should prioritize violent criminals rather than people like his fiancée.

The energy minister, Chris Bowen, says the federal government will override state governments that oppose new national rules on datacentres, with commonwealth legislation forcing new AI datacentres to be powered by renewable energy and banning those fuelled by gas.

Bowen said he expected his counterparts in Queensland and the Northern Territory – who had protested against the new federal rules at a meeting last week – to be unhappy with the move, but said the Albanese government was committed to powering the AI revolution with renewable energy.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/64535091

What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/futuroprossimo/statuses/117019461710579459

Vi ricordate lo scooter elettrico con i pannelli solari nella carrozzeria, quello presentato con un prezzo da 4.995 dollari e le prime consegne annunciate per gennaio 2025? Siamo tornati a vedere come sta andando davvero, quante persone lo stanno guidando in giro. Il sito ufficiale racconta una storia curiosa, che non è proprio quella dei comunicati stampa.

https://www.futuroprossimo.it/2026/08/otherlab-e-lo-scooter-solare-che-non-arriva-cronaca-di-unattesa/

@tecnologia

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/54309926

The vines are dying. The grass is yellow and now we can smell the smoke,” Uyen Do, an organic farmer in the Dordogne region of France says, almost in tears. “It’s already very difficult to survive economically and now with climate change it’s becoming a struggle that I’m not sure we’re capable of going through.”

Do took over the farm in 2018 and adopted organic farming practices in the hope to build resilience against the climate crisis. But with the climate changing much faster than most predicted, Do says her farm is just not able to adapt quickly enough. “It’s too fast. It’s too big,” she says.