@gregbester.bsky.social:
Using a trade war as cover for helping to destroy the planet. Slow clap for Mark Carney.
@feralcommie.bsky.social:
A glacier collapses in Nepal. Villages disappear. Hundreds are dead. More are missing.
Somewhere else it’s fires.
Somewhere else drought.
Somewhere else floods.
And every time we treat it as another isolated disaster.
Climate collapse isn’t coming.
We’re living through the fucking thing.
@nytimes.com:
The massive, deadly flooding that swept through a mountainous region of Nepal knocked out more than a tenth of the country’s hydropower capacity within minutes, a blow to an industry Nepal has made central to its economic future.
@lorennacleary.bsky.social:
The number of verified missing now moves to over 3,000, with nearly 12,000 reported through the government missing persons app.
The death toll nearly 700.
It is day four.
@csilverandgold.bsky.social:
And the people who gave Donald Trump and Elon Musk the power to destroy USAID will go to church tomorrow and claim they love a God who came to earth to die for the very people they have helped to kill.
“If you have to draw a distinction between a cult and a religion… If the
leader is going to fuck your wife, it’s a cult. If the leader is going to fuck
your kids, it’s a religion. That’s basically it.” – Jimmy Carr
The world’s richest man is a Nazi who wants all non whites eliminated. He knew damned well what he was doing DOGE-ing USA, as did Nazi Trump et al.
@clnz.bsky.social:
The catastrophic floods and landslides along the Nepal–Tibet border have killed at least 676 people, with nearly 3,000 still missing. 💔
Humanitarian response:
🇨🇦 Canada: C$5 million
🇬🇧 UK: £5 million
🇪🇺 EU: €2 million
🇺🇸 U.S.: US$500,000
The world’s richest country. The weakest response.
@djohnhvii.bsky.social:
And the Alps and The Andes and the Rockies and…..
John Pomeroy, director of the University of Saskatchewan’s Centre for Hydrology, says horrific events like this are becoming much more frequent as the effects of climate change are “destroying our natural infrastructure.”
“And it’s happening in a wink of an eye in Earth’s history and too fast for humans to easily adapt,” he said.And ordinary humans in the world haven’t got a chance to cope with selfish ass jerks like Steve Harper, Mark Carney, Trump etc. and the super polluting toxic rich fuckers refusing to do anything to reduce fossil fuel pollution, energy waste (all war is wasted fuel and subsequent pollution)
@thedeanofbluesky.bsky.social:
Not only is it happening too fast for humans to adapt in some cases it is happening too fast for humans to run to safety.
Dr. Thomas Ronge @thomasronge.bsky.social:
Permafrost might not be your first thought when thinking mountains. But most of them are stabilized by a network of it that acts like natural cement holding the slopes together.
The research shaft in the first image used to be 6ft high and is now filled with re-frozen water from melting permafrost.
@marietree.bsky.social:
Föreställ er: “In the case of the Nepal-Tibet disaster, imagine a block of ice some 600m wide and about 50m thick collapsing. That represents around half a million tons of ice crashing into the valley.”
It went 2.5 km up stream. The actual elevation gain was only 200-400m. Still!
… All the people we see are running upstream along the side channel, away from the main river. Which should have been correct. It just wasn’t enough.
@doctorvive.bsky.social:
The flood in Nepal shows us why the claim we can just “adapt” to #ClimateChange is so dishonest (or foolhardy): climate change will break and remake our places so we cannot live in them safely, often with sudden and overwhelming violence.
There is no such thing as bouncing back.
Carney government asks court to strike down climate litigation, Ottawa argues courts should not direct climate policy by David Thurton · CBC News · Posted: Aug 29, 2026
The federal government is asking a court to toss out a high-profile environmental lawsuit, arguing that it’s not required to update Canada’s climate plan to meet national emissions reduction targets.Ya, ’cause Carney got rid of the targets, FFS, to please his besties, Trump and American oil and gas rich fuckers.
@sashafury.myatproto.social:
Carney: The courts shouldn’t get to determine climate policy, and neither should the government. Climate policy is strictly the purview of oil and gas executives. They told me so themselves.
This fucking guy.
The government also says it’s not the court’s role to make or direct climate policy, and has filed a motion asking the court to strike the case before it goes to full hearings.
In June, three young people and two environmental groups launched a lawsuit asking the Federal Court to order Ottawa to amend its climate plan.
Since the plan was first launched in 2022, the Liberal Carney Republican government has eliminated key measures needed for Canada to achieve the 2030 target.
The lawsuit alleges that not updating the climate plan violates Canada’s climate accountability act, formally known as the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act.
In its first major response on Aug. 14, the government pointed out to the court that the act states that “the Minister may amend an emissions target … or an emissions reduction plan.”
In a legal document sent to the court, the government states that line alone is grounds to dismiss the lawsuit before the first hearing.
“Read in its ordinary and grammatical sense, the use of the word ‘may’ clearly does not impose any obligation to amend,” the government said in its submission.
Ottawa also said Canada’s courts don’t make or direct climate policy.
“[The lawsuit] raises broad political and policy issues, these are beyond the Court’s institutional capacity to address,” the government’s legal submission states.
CBC asked the environment minister’s office if this means the federal government will not update its 2030 climate plan.
“The Government of Canada is committed to but not really, we’re lying to you fighting climate change and reaching net-zero emissions by 2050. As this matter is before the courts, we cannot comment further,” said Keean Nembhard, a spokesperson for the minister.
WATCH | Climate groups take Carney government to court in June:
Carney’s taken a ‘wrecking ball’ to Canada’s climate progress plan: Environmental Defence
June 16|
Duration 1:34Environmental groups are suing the Carney government to try and force the development of a climate plan they say will achieve Canada’s legally binding climate targets. Environmental Defence Canada’s Julia Levin called Carney’s recent decisions a ‘deeply irresponsible and cynical way to govern.’
Although the minister’s office didn’t say whether it will update its climate plan, the young people who launched the challenge are calling on the court to reject any calls to dismiss it.
“Canadians are living through the devastating reality of not having a meaningful plan to address climate change,” said Marie Maltais in a statement. “Yet, at this critical moment, the government is fighting to throw our case out of court, while simultaneously moving ahead with fossil fuel expansion and rolling back key climate protections.”
Kyle Harrietha, who worked for a decade in several roles including as the chief of staff to the energy minister and parliamentary affairs director for the environment minister, believes the government should update its climate plan.
Harrietha helped shepherd the Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act through Parliament in 2021, and now runs his own parliamentary consulting firm, DOPA Services.
“I’m not sure the government has unfettered discretion on this,” Harrietha said. “I would say as someone who was in the room when this act was developed … that discretion was never intended to create a circumstance where the government would make major changes to its climate policy and then leave the plan unamended.”
@jeffgoodell.bsky.social:
Heat waves causing buildings to crack in London and the mayor says it will cost the city $50 billion a year to adapt to climate change by 2050. But wait…. there are still a few barrels of oil left at the bottom of the North Sea? Let’s drill it, sell it, burn it!
@wxnb.bsky.social:
70 straight days with above-average temperatures in France.
Let that sink in.
Painting roads and rails white? It’s much more effective to quit making human babies until we quit poisoning earth and atmosphere with fossil fuel pollution.
To feed fucking Nazi American AI. And when extreme heat from our dramatically escalating pollution with you giving extreme American polluters more and more billions of our tax dollars renders our doubled grid useless? What then Mr. Harper?
Mark Carney’s AI Strategy Will Block Renewables From Canada’s Grid, Backing massive gas-burning data centres is no way to build a cleaner, more connected electricity system. by Mitch Anderson, Aug 13, 2026, desmog
Series: Carney’s Climate Betrayal
Last May, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a national electricity strategy aimed at building Canadian energy independence, lowering costs to consumers, and reducing climate destabilizing emissions. “Canada’s electricity system is currently fragmented across provincial and territorial grids, costing us billions of dollars in outages, duplicative infrastructure, and wasted power,” Carney’s government explained at the time.
Building a more interconnected electrical system to bolster Canada’s energy sovereignty is long overdue. But has Carney undermined his own efforts by unleashing a gas-fired data centre boom heeding Trump’s orders in Alberta? It sure looks that way.
Consultations with provinces are only beginning and Ottawa has already emphasized a role for fossil fuels and upcoming cuts to clean energy regulations. In an apparent sop to Alberta, Carney conceded that implementing the strategy will, “require a willingness to use a wide range of energy – including natural gas. That’s why we intend to adjust clean electricity regulations to provide the flexibility needed to keep energy costs for all Canadian families reliable and affordable, while reducing emissions and building the clean energy system of the future.”He’s such an evil liar. Carney and Smith know well that AI will drive up electricity costs for all Canadians even in provinces with hydro.
Alberta and BC are the two provinces that might benefit most from improved power sharing. BC’s abundant hydro resources could act as a baseload battery when paired with Canada’s best wind and solar sites in Alberta, reducing the eye-watering prices paid by Alberta households while also reducing emissions.Nazi Smith will never allow that, she’s oil and gas and coal and now AI all the fucking way.
Building grid connections is not a new idea. Way back in 1986, the only existing transmission intertie between Alberta and BC was completed near Cranbrook, engineered to deliver 1.2 gigawatts of capacity. However, lack of investment by Alberta grid operators means that allowed energy imports from BC are currently restricted to a mere quarter of that amount.
The Alberta Chambers of Commerce estimates these restrictions cost Alberta ratepayers $300 to $500 million a year in higher bills.
“It’s crazy,” Madeleine McPherson, a civil engineer at the University of Victoria told Business in Vancouver regarding the underutilized BC-Alberta connection. “You would think that the hard part is done, and yet here it is and it’s not being used… The fact they haven’t, that’s political. That’s insane.” Yup, Alberta is insane. I think because greedy American Repuglicans run the show there.
Under the Canadian constitution, electricity generation and distribution is a provincial responsibility. Ottawa can offer incentives but cannot intrude into this jurisdictional sandbox unless invited. Carney is instead offering incentives for more polluting forms of energy.
By caving on federal clean energy regulations in his memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Alberta, Carney created favourable conditions for a massive gas-fired data-centre boom with the enthusiastic support of Smith. Will powerful natural gas incumbents now gorging on government-driven AI demand resist the very national grid he is promoting?
Alberta is now considering 21 GW of data centres which could be powered by gas– an amount described by one expert as “absurdly high” – and is inviting developers to “bring their own power” as long as that power involves burning natural gas. Alberta’s Minister of Technology and Innovation, Nate Glubish, recently stated that he sees “data centers as digital pipelines and digital refineries for us to help get the value from our natural gas to global markets.”
Nearly a hundred data-centre projects are in the works across Canada, and roughly nine in ten are slated for Alberta. The AI build-out is essentially a machine for manufacturing new long-term demand for natural gas.
Simultaneously, Smith has repeatedly acted to limit competition from cheaper and cleaner electricity sources, such as her surprise moratorium on renewable energy approvals or onerous restrictions on wind and solar siting and reclamation. Such ham-handed interventions to limit electricity competition are likely about to get worse with Alberta households paying the price.
Every new gas plant built to fuel Alberta’s data centre feeding frenzy contributes to a infrastructure-driven carbon lock-in that incentivizes incumbent producers to keep cheaper and cleaner power out. Gas fired generation facilities have a lifespan of about 30 years. Operators making such long-term investments based on Alberta’s current pro-gas policies may strongly resist any efforts to change them, undermining Carney’s energy strategy.
Current incumbents are already pushing back against cleaner cheaper competition. Oil sands giant Suncor is one of Alberta’s largest electricity generators with 2.2 megawatts of cogeneration capacity connected to the grid and is already resisting electricity interties. In 2024, Suncor filed a complaint with the Alberta Utilities Commission asking the regulator to impose a new charge on electricity imports based on an audacious “public interest” argument, citing fairness and supply adequacy. In response, the Alberta Energy System Operator filed expert evidence concluding such charges would instead worsen reliability by suppressing electricity imports when Alberta needs them most.
Even the right-leaning MacDonald Laurier Institute (MLI) acknowledges that Alberta’s grid is isolated by design, resulting in frequent price spikes and some of the highest electricity rates in the country. MLI just released a report on Carney’s national energy strategy that states, “Alberta is the largest example of a policy-induced near-isolated grid in Canada…Before restructuring in 2000, prices for electricity in Alberta were modest and relatively stable. Afterward, they have been relatively high and more volatile, reflecting the dynamics of an isolated and liberalized wholesale market.”
Despite this, MLI still writes that “The federal government must resist the temptation to impose its will – for which it has uncertain authority anyway.” This is unsurprising as MLI is a member of the Atlas Network, described by SourceWatch as “The Johnny Appleseed of antiregulation groups.”
That is the contradiction Carney needs to confront. The whole point of an east-west electricity grid is to increase competition and interconnection. His MOU with Alberta is fuelling an AI gas build-out whose beneficiaries have a strong incentive to resist this laudable effort. If Ottawa is serious about east–west power, it will have to treat intertie access — not just intertie construction — as a national-interest question and be willing to take on provincial and corporate gatekeepers who profit from keeping existing walls up.
The stakes are high. We may soon see if our nation is run by our elected leaders, or if the real power resides with polluting giants like Suncor. As the old joke goes, is Canada a country or just three oil companies in a trench coat?
How Christian of the GOP “Christians.”
Our CO2 pollution is rising in our blood too, and all other species with blood. I bet CO2 in blood, from human fucking pollution, will soon kill.
@cindymacd.bsky.social:
I interviewed a doctor working in BC’s largest ER who took care of 20 CTAS 1 (highest triage level) and almost constant Code Blues (quite a few in the waiting room!) on the worst day of the 2021 heat dome here. The ER ran out of ice and they had to send runners to get more. It was madness.And as it gets hotter and hotter as humans keep mass over producing offspring, and pollution, and grids fail, ice will be legislated forbidden for all but the very rich kid rapists
But let’s just slam massive heat producing stupid stolen completely unnecessary AI data centres everywhere to add more heat and pollution and guzzled water, says Mark Carney, because Canada must please the American AI Nazis and the orange Pedo king they bought!
Ha, fat chance of that. With the tech billionaires running the show, Trump, if still alive, will steal that election too, as he will the midterms. American citizens have gone to sleep, hanging on the hope of a change in gov’t. There’s mostly silence other than a few no kings protests. Same in Canada as Herr Carney works hard and fast to serve the world’s richest and worst polluters, American oil and gas, and AI.
♫ Smoke Gets in Your Eyes ♫ and your lungs, your blood stream, your brain, just about everywhere by Andrew Dessler, Aug 12, 2026
There’s been a lot of discussion recently of wildfires and their relationship to climate change. Here at TCB, we’ve written a lot about the connection between climate change and wildfires.
To be clear: Climate change is absolutely making these wildfires more severe — there should be zero doubt about that.
Thankfully, most of you will never come face-to-face with one of these massive, climate-enhanced beasts. But a lot of you will breathe the smoke they produce.
In some respects, this is worse than the fires themselves: wildfire smoke kills 24,000 Americans per year. And it negatively impacts our lives: it forces people to stay indoors, ruins vacations, drives people to spend money on air purifierswhich use electricity, much of which in North American is extremely polluting. And what when grids fail in extreme heat which is getting more and more extreme?, destroys ice cream bars, and so on.
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Here are maps of the NASA smoke frequency over the past 25 years:
