Clara Vondrich

@claravondrich.bsky.social

Climate Counsel @Public Citizen New Mama to Laska 🍄 Hunter & 🧘🏽‍♀️ UVA Law /Colorado College

Come hear from @repmaxwellfrost and @nallelicobo about why climate can’t wait - at a virtual Youth Town Hall. Bring your questions and your friends. All are welcome! #climatetownhall @publiccitizen.bsky.social Details and sign up here:

Youth Climate Townhall with Rep Maxwell Frost · Climate Action Campaign

Right now, young people are being forced to inherit a climate crisis they didn’t create while the Trump administration treats our future as expendable. The good news is countless young people are taking action and organizing to build the world we want and need to thrive. One of them is named MAXWELL FROST. He's the youngest person in Congress, elected at age 25. But he's not only a tireless climate advocate, he's also a drummer known for his sick beats.* Come hear from him how young people can grow the movement to tackle climate change! Nalleli Cobo will moderate the town hall and share her inspiring story of turning outrage into activism and eventually victory.** Join from anywhere. Just bring your IDEAS, QUESTIONS and FRIENDS. Cosponsored by: genCLEO, Sunrise Orlando, Climate Power, Earthjustice, Environmental Defense Fund, League of Conservation Voters, Moms Clean Air Force, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, Next Gen Education Fund, Poder Latinx, Public Citizen, Physicians for Social Responsibility Florida, Rock the Vote, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, Voters of Tomorrow, Young, Gifted, & Green, Clean Water Fund, NAACP Grand Rapids Chapter, Community Collaboration on Climate Change, Elected Officials to Protect America, Youth Action Fund *https://www.teenvogue.com/story/maxwell-frost-congress-drumming-music **https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poKAYPHqmpY&t=4s

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Man, we'll do just about anything to avoid short-term discomfort! Slashing fossil fuel emissions surely brings some tough choices, but the payoff could be survival. Instead, we'd rather skip the grind and throw our fate with unproven potentially catastrophic geoengineering. Makes perfect sense.

ClimateBook@climatebook.bsky.social · last mo.

What About GEOMIP? One of the themes of our recent Guardian piece on geoengineering www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... is that would-be geoengineers are charging full-speed ahead to develop the technology for deployment, before any of the really serious scientific questions ...

At least 18 dead in France in fossil-fueled heat wave -- 5 from overheating, including 2 kids, and 13 by drowning as masses seek to beat the heat. A nightmare scenario predicted by Big Oil decades ago. While people die, Big Oil rides a sugar high from the Iran War & welfare from the Administration.

At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe bakes

At least 18 people died in France, including two children left in a hot car, as a ​heatwave hung over Europe, smashing temperature records in several cities on Monday.

reuters.com

Dude - the latest best thinking of Democrats and Abundance purveyors is that we can't talk about climate if we want to win elections. What a bunch of horse shit! Do we really think Americans are that morbidly dumb? Climate is the ultimate cost-of-living crisis now and tomorrow.

This is classic AI direction of travel: Meta fires 8K people, then promptly starts a ‘Workforce Academy’ to train workers to build data centers. "Forget about learning to code. Meta Platforms says it’s time to pick up a wrench." Jesus Christ. We are literally just cogs in the wheel now.

Meta Launches ‘Workforce Academy’ to Train Workers to Build Data Centers

The five-week program, which is free of charge and guarantees a job, follows a recent layoff of 8,000 employees.

wsj.com

JP Morgan admits climate tipping points are coming, but refuses to name the problem. Fossil fuels are driving us to tipping points and mega-banks are leading investors in fossil fuels. Banks have to get real like Tay-Tay: "Hi, I'm the problem, it's me." @carbonbubble

JP Morgan becomes one of the first banks to look at climate tipping points

Leading bank outlines how firms can start thinking about climate tipping points in a report aimed at institutional investors.

greencentralbanking.com

Even the plunder of the dirtiest, most expensive oil makes sense if you’re paid to do it. These oil guys are as tricky as they are twisted, as clever as they are corrupt. We just have a few decades left until the current ruling class is dead and gone. But, man, the damage possible in that time …

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

So it turns out fossil fuel companies are in fact very interested in Venezuelan oil and the performance of disinterest was a political tactic so they could extract even more tax breaks, subsidies and deregulation

Exports on the rise
1.25 million.
Venezuela’s oil exports rose for the third consecutive month, to 1.25 million barrels per day in May, a sign that steps to revitalize the country’s battered oil sector are working. Venezuela is on pace to push exports to 1.37 million barrels per day by the end of the year, which would mark a 22% increase from 2025 and the highest level since the first US sanctions were imposed in 2019. But more work is needed to convince US oil companies to reinvest: ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips are seeking new financial protections in negotiations with Venezuelan officials before returning to the country, and Chevron CEO Mike Wirth warned on Friday that the country’s current tax rate is too high for investors to make an adequate return.

The @volts.wtf pod is stomach-turning. Pier Lafarge trots out all the nationalist American exceptionalism rhetoric that the fossil fuel industry does -- we have to beat China at all costs and "it matters whether we put data centers in Ohio and Kansas versus Saudi Arabia. We don't and it doesn't.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

I've listened to three separate podcasts about the way batteries, demand flexibility and grid utilisation for data centres and *not a single one* addresses the question of whether these things actually erase the emissions / climate impact of data centre growth. The focus is solely on power prices