I for one had not connected the dots from AI to weather forecasting.

The ECMWF forecast is the default one in Windy which for me and many others is the go-to source of accurate global weather data.

Well said!

It seems to me that the unfortunate reality is that hitting people with facts has either already succeeded (that's most of us reading this thread I would guess), or it will cause eyes to glaze over, and the cognitive dissonance to kick in to high gear; so we do need to do something different to persuade the rest to do something useful.

But, simply "making friends and telling stories" (to trivialise the article) is useless, there are very many resources on 'nonnormative non-violent' action and at least one study that confirm that it is statistically effective (dense scientific paper). Here's some resources:

• Nonviolent Direct Action and the Struggle for Climate Justice: A Perspective from 350 Seattle
• Foreign Policy News Nonviolent action: Why and how it works
• Organising Stories and Lessons from the 350 Organising Story Telling Lab
• International Center on Nonviolent Conflict 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

There's a great searchable database (two actually - US and "rest-of-the-world") of litigation here.

From the About page:

This website provides two databases of climate change litigation: (1) a U.S. Climate Change Litigation database and (2) a Global Climate Change Litigation database, which includes all cases except those in the U.S.

The U.S. Climate Change Litigation database is a joint project of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School and Arnold & Porter. Michael B. Gerrard, then a partner at Arnold & Porter and now Faculty Director of the Sabin Center, and J. Cullen Howe, an environmental law specialist at Arnold & Porter, first created the U.S. Climate Litigation Chart in 2007. In 2017, it was relaunched as an interactive and searchable database. The U.S. chart is updated on a monthly basis, and currently includes 1621 cases* with links to 10550 case documents.

The Global Climate Change Litigation database was created in 2011 and is updated regularly. It currently includes 750 cases, with links to 1557 case documents. At present, the Global database features cases from over 55 countries. The database also includes climate litigation cases brought before international or regional courts or tribunals.

Edit: For example, here's a quick list of all 37 climate change cases involving Exxon.

... remember the 21st century’s most important physical fact: warm air holds more water vapor; July set a new record for U.S. thunderstorms

aka hot, wet & stormy.

Why the down votes on this? I had a quick look at the github repo and it looks pretty neat to me. I must be missing something...

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Good. From the article the turn-down was Pathways Alliance, which is a fossil industry greenwashing lobby & advertising group. They are being investigated for false advertising.

Why do we have such pathetic passenger trains in Canada? VIA is a useless expensive boondoggle, and we tear up existing rail lines to put "landscaping ties" in exec yards. What gives?

What happened to faster, cheaper sleeper trains à la EU?

I have some suggested additions:

• Cenovus
• Irving
• Royal [bank of Canada]

others??

plan to meet it's climate goals by increasing LNG production

Smith & co. are truly Orwellian - rereading that quote it's remarkably on-point.

As an interviewee in the article says, "unabated" is a weasel word.

Despite his creds, Guilbeault has shown disappointingly little backbone.

I hate the word "soon".

We've been saying "soon" for decades. Just rip the bandaid off & fscking do it!

Incrementalism will literally be the death of us - by wild fire or drowning.

Think of Team Lemmy behind you! 👍

I agree. My first reaction when it broke about them blocking news was 'I don't see them or use them as a news aggregator anyway, so who cares'; let them take their click bait promotion and dwell time algorithms elsewhere.

Although I just saw this.

That (wilful?) cognitive dissonance is very widespread unfortunately.

I am having a hard time trying to get an investment advisor (of all people) to understand that these assets will be stranded, and I do not want any money getting close to them. All I get back is things like 'lovely sunny day', 'they're not that bad', 'you can have some fun with climate investing' (all quotes).

Exasperating.

“The carbon dioxide problem is the defining problem of our life, of our existence,” Varanasi says. “So clearly, we need all the help we can get.”

Indeed.

All $hit highly processed "foods" anyway. Better off without them.

Just this: echo 'Suella Braverman' | sed s/S/Cr/

Why I left there decades ago and have never gone back.

I just finished The Deluge by Stephen Markley (all 900pp!)

It's basically a US-centric "narrative" of the 2030's, told from the PoV of about a dozen different characters, with the thread of climate change prominent throughout.

Really it's hard to describe it as good or bad, an enjoyable read etc. It is certainly well written, and characterisation is exceptionally good and detailed, but for me it was by turns scary, amusing, depressing, profoundly sad and wrenching in its humanity. I have no reason to doubt its accuracy based on the science.

It took me almost a month to read because I had to take breaks to get my "cognitive dissonance" recharged.

I would definitely recommend it.

It would make a good streaming series on Amazon Prime or Apple TV.