#fossil fuel phase out

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Citroen eC3 Aircross - Full Detailed Review & Drive

Citroen eC3 Aircross - Full Detailed Review & Drive

P.S. Drive electric and forget about gasoline prices! and dependence on oil prices set by OPEC cartel...

[andmaybegayer]

I don't know I find this very normal looking fuel station in the middle of a gigantic oil refinery complex extremely funny. Like yeah just hook me up.

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"In October, Vicki Hollub, CEO of Occidental, one of the largest operators there, promised­ yet more production in a basin that Bloomberg last year described as “uniquely positioned to become the world’s most important growth engine for oil production.”

Did nobody tell them about climate change? " @Yale Environment 360

[bumblebeeappletree]

Many climate activists think having an oil exec as president of COP28 is a conflict of interest — especially following these comments by Sultan Al Jaber.

Originally posted on YouTube on December 6th, 2023.

[dyanamic]

The world marks a historic moment as the last coal power plant shuts down, signaling the end of an era and a bold step toward a sustainable, clean energy future. 

[dogmoder]

german greens are opposed to nuclear for stupid ideological reasons. that's pretty much it

germany's green party after the country phases out all nuclear energy to save the planet and becomes the EU's largest coal consumer

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Norway's car market is 94% EVs – and a quarter of them are Chinese

No other country comes close to Norway’s level of market penetration. Unlike the U.S. and EU, the Scandinavian country does not impose tariffs on Chinese cars – and they represent almost a quarter of the EV market. CGTN’s Johannes Pleschberger reports from Oslo

[hope-for-the-planet]

From the article:

Seven countries now generate nearly all of their electricity from renewable energy sources according to newly compiled figures. Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo produced more than 99.7 per cent of the electricity they consumed using geothermal, hydro, solar or wind power. Data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) also revealed that a further 40 countries generated at least 50 per cent of the electricity they consumed from renewable energy technologies in 2021 and 2022 – including 11 European countries.

[reasonsforhope]

"Almost all new homes in England will be fitted with solar panels during construction within two years, the government will announce after Keir Starmer rejected Tony Blair’s criticism of net zero policies.

Housebuilders will be legally required to install solar panels on the roofs of new properties by 2027 under the plans.

The policy is estimated to add between £3,000 and £4,000 to building a home but homeowners would save more than £1,000 on their annual energy bills, according to the Times.

Labour has set a target of building 1.5m homes by the end of the parliament [May 2029]. The party has promised to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 and cut household energy bills by £300 a year.

Ministers are also preparing to offer government-funded loans and grants for the installation of solar panels on existing homes.

The move is a sign that the government will press ahead with its net zero agenda after Starmer rejected criticisms of climate policy from Blair.

In a high-profile intervention days before the local elections, Blair said there needed to be a radical reset of “irrational” net zero policies that were ��doomed to fail”.

The former Labour prime minister argued that the public was being asked to make “financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle” that would have “minimal” effect on global emissions. He said the drive to phase out fossil fuels in the short term was “doomed to fail” because their production and demand were rising.

His remarks angered government figures and triggered a response from senior No 10 officials, who called the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) and urged it to address the fallout. The TBI issued a clarifying statement on Wednesday morning saying it believed the government’s net zero policy was “the right one”.

Blair’s remarks were interpreted as an attack on Starmer’s policy agenda after the prime minister said last week that tackling the climate crisis and bolstering energy security were “in the DNA of my government”...

Campaigners have welcomed the news that the government is going to mandate solar panels on new homes.

Lily-Rose Ellis, Greenpeace UK’s climate campaigner, said: “For too long we’ve wasted the free energy that falls on the roofs of houses every single day. Now, people living in new-build homes will save hundreds of pounds every year on their energy bills, thanks to this commonsense decision from the government.”

A government spokesperson said: “We have always been clear that we want solar panels on as many new homes as possible because they are a vital technology to help cut bills for families, boost our national energy security and help deliver net zero.

“Through the Future Homes Standard we plan to maximise the installation of solar panels on new homes as part of our ambition to ensure all new homes are energy efficient, and will set out final plans in due course.”"

-via The Guardian, May 1, 2025

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

"An oil executive is leading the UN climate summit. It’s going as well as you’d expect."

“#AlJaber’s comments are absurd and troubling, betraying both an ignorance about the science and a dismissiveness about the need for rapid #decarbonization, which is at the very center of the proceedings over which he is in principle presiding as #COP28 president,” University of Pennsylvania climate scientist #MichaelEMann told Vox.

"“The outcome of COP28 must be that all the oil, gas, and coal nations of the world see that now we are truly at the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel era for the world economy. And that we are now starting to bend the curve, properly,” Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, told CNBC."

[deadsetobsessions]

Sea Cryptic!Danny Phantom- pt. 8

[Pt.1] [Pt.2] [Pt.3] [Pt.4] [Pt.5] [Pt.6] [Pt.7] [Pt.9] [Pt.10]

If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been to the hospital in the past three years, I’d have enough money to buy a bag of skittles from Target. Most of it wasn’t for me though lol I’ll add this onto the list in a bit, but I tend to do that from my desktop but I’m still currently attached to an IV drip. I’ve also never been this hydrated in my life lmao

——

Danny poked a puffed up pufferfish. The poison floated through his ghost form and did nothing but give him a little zap. Danny chuckled, wiping away a bit of oil that had gotten onto the fish from a nearby oil spill. Jesus fuck. Danny knew that bald headed, easily drawn Vlad wannabe from across the river would do something terrible to Gotham’s waters (not that it needed help being atrocious to Danny’s clean water appreciation).

The puffer fish- Danny gave up on understanding Gotham’s water ecosystem, having realized that it was a cursed mix of saltwater and freshwater and swamp- gave a fearful little wiggle and Danny let it go, turning to the oil particles floating around.

Danny took out his phone.

“Danny? Why the hell are you calling at three in the morning?”

Danny raised a hand and blasted out some ice, gathering the oil up. “Hey Sam. If I got you into contact with Poison Ivy, do you think you could team up to get rid of Lex Luthor’s new holding company in Gotham?”

“Danny, are you asking me to commit an act of ecoterrorism?”

“That’s not even the weirdest thing I’ve ever asked you to do.” Danny placed a hand on the ice mass and flew it, the oil, and himself across the river to Metropolis.

“Deal.” Sam’s voice gets further away as she pulled her phone from her ear. “I’ll text Tucker, see if he could futz with Luthor’s taxes. I heard her doesn’t even give his workers a livable wage, and that’s so not gonna fly.”

“Perfect! Thanks! We could totally meet up and hang out with my new friends!”

“Hah! That Tim guy? The one that wanted you to introduce Phantom to him?”

“Yeah, yeah, laugh it up, goth girl.”

“Sure, dork. I’ll swing by Friday?”

“Sure! Want me to pick you up?” Danny phased through Lex Luthor’s frankly ridiculous amounts of security measures, still completely invisible and towing a giant mass of oil covered ice.

“Cool. Now hang up. I actually need sleep.”

“Ah, you must be dead tired. I get it.”

Sam hung up, and a second later, Danny got a pic of her holding up a middle finger with her signature purple nail polish.

Danny stared down at the sleeping billionaire. Gross. He let his face re enter the visible spectrum and lowered the temperature of the room drastically. Luthor groaned, waking up as he shivered like a hyped up chihuahua.

Danny bared his teeth, glowing green skin reflecting the black holes of the universe and imploding stars and burning planets as he leaned towards the frozen two bit villain.

“RESPECT THE PLANET,” Danny snarled. He unmelted the invisible ice as he simultaneously made the oil visible, the entirety of the oil spill coating every single inch of Luthor’s penthouse bedroom. Danny winked out, but not before snapping a quick picture of Lex Luthor’s absolutely covered in his company’s oil spill.

If Danny had made sure that there were fish droppings mixed in with the oil… that was his own damn business.

——

Danny floated over to a brooding Batman.

“Do you have two hundred dollars on you?” Danny asked in lieu of a greeting.

Batman grunted a yes.

“Two hundred dollars for a photo of Lex Luthor being hit with karma.”

Batman instantly handed over the cash and received a printed out photo of Lex Luthor (in his Lexcorp pjs) covered by fossil fuel.

"Is this..."

"The oil from his oil spill? Yes."

Batman stared at the picture.

"Why was this more expensive than ID'ing corpses?"

"Cause it's funnier. And dead people deserve more consideration than a egg looking ass polluting everything he touches."

Superman zoomed into the space in front of them, face eager.

"I heard you had something about Luthor?"

Danny figured that Batman probably contacted the hero, and confidently said, "$200 for personal use, $300 for commercial use."

Superman quickly got together three hundred dollars in cash and quickly forked it over. Danny gave him another physical copy of the photo and a usb drive with the photo in a digital format.

"I am so pinning this up." Superman muttered.

"Get out of my city." Batman said flatly. Superman waved a hand, beamed at Danny, and left.

"Did you know Gotham's waters is a mixture of freshwater, swamp, and saltwater habitats?"

Batman grunted.

"Also, please stop stalking Danny Fenton. It's odd."

Batman swiveled his head over. "What."

Danny stared him down. "Stop. Stalking. Innocent. Bystanders. Or else I will recreate the phrase "drowned rat" with you as the subject."

Batman stilled.

"I don't kill, by the way. I can, however, dunk you in the sea and lift you up like a goth version of Simba."

Batman relaxed minutely. "I can't."

"And why not?"

Batman gave him a despairing look. "Have you met my children?"

"... Point."

[tea-the-not-understanding]

The medic that everybody needed the most. She always come ready to help others, no matter what the problems is, she do her best. She'll give it a full 100% and more. All to help others and gain some recognition as trust worthy and a perfect to befriends with.

For her information's, She's a nautilus. The aquatic nautilus, the cool looking aquatic creature. She's a marine biologist and a paleontologist. But in this case, she's also a medic. Being in Wasteland, many needed medic and tending to wounds and finding cures and medicines, creating medicines out of herbs or what ever they got. She become to great at it that she considering on changing profession from researcher into a nurse.

She's very kind and generous, so generous that she would sacrifice her own life for another. Even when she couldn't run very fast or defend back for herself, she still gives everything to others. Thinking that she owe them and considered herself the most useless toon out of the most. What fueled this feeling of self doubt more into is her ichor tolerant are average. at least. And she know, how painful the progress is. She remembers and is thankful that it didn't reach phase two in time because she know she would've died back there.

I did a doodle @fizzyboy (sorry for the mention) But she be pushing herself very hard and do most work for the group for sursies.

She be a very chatter box around Shelly, talking a lot about dinosaur, prehistoric critters and fossils. She considered herself closed friend to Shelly and have a slight crush on Shelly. But she know that Shelly probably have a special spot for someone in her heart, so she kept quiet and respect her. She will always be by her side and help her what ever she could With Brightney, she got along very well since these two are book worms and doing researches, sometimes together while another time, she overworked at nighttime while letting Brightney take over in the daytime. Although both are overworked, I could guess that they would try to force one another to go take a break or rest to recharge. With Razzle and Dazzle, she felt the most heart broken for the two. Knowing the two, especially Razzle having a very hard time in this Wasteland then any she know. These two, are a fuel for her determination to push herself to research more to find the cure/antidote to help them. But even then, when ever she got time, she always pay them a visits with what ever healthy snacks she got or drinks to make sure they are alright and feeling not alone.

she would so own a bone saw and this could happened when ever the adrenaline kicks in. Only when she needed to save someone life.

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

P.S. Nothing to worry about: In countries that do not have their own fossil fuel reserves, RENEWABLE ENERGY is the CHEAPEST AND MOST EFFICIENT ENERGY SOURCE ANYWAY! The fact that US "conservatives" want to turn into an energy Taliban and voluntarily gift the world energy market to communist China, these are the problems of these fake "conservative" idiots. Insidious "conservatism" that is based on lies and abandonment of common sense IS DESTINED TO FAIL...! 

“Against a backdrop of record-breaking heat and floods this year, the $22m endeavor, Project 2025, was convened by the notorious rightwing, climate-denying thinktank the Heritage Foundation, which has ties to fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch” https://ow.ly/xuZX50PuxWV

[saywhat-politics]

Politics

Republicans propose gutting Biden climate bill for Trump tax cuts

By Seiji Yamashita, Tracy J. Wholf

May 15, 2025 / 12:31 AM EDT / CBS News

House Republicans Wednesday moved forward with a tax bill to cut billions of dollars in climate-related funding, reduce regulations and prematurely phase out clean energy tax credits as part of President Trump's "One, Big, Beautiful Bill." 

The heart of the Republican budget legislation targets key climate and energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Cuts would impact businesses and consumers, affecting renewable energy, manufacturing, energy efficiency and electric vehicles. Concurrently, House Republicans proposed streamlining permitting for fossil fuels, rescinding Clean Air Act pollution funding and allocating $2 billion to the strategic petroleum reserve. 

The Inflation Reduction Act has led to $321 billion worth of climate investment being completed, with $522 billion worth of investments still in process, according to a report from the Clean Investment Monitor. Congress was tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts to fund Mr. Trump's tax cuts.

House Republicans are hoping to have a floor vote next week prior to Memorial Day, after which the bill will go to the Senate.