Ben Trister @ben@librem.one

A Secret Recording Reveals Oil Executives’ Private Views on Climate Change
At a meeting last year, industry leaders contradicted public claims that emissions of climate-warming methane are under control
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/12/climate/methane-natural-gas-flaring.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Facebook: Privacy Is Cool, but Have You Guys Heard of Money? https://gizmodo.com/facebook-privacy-is-cool-but-have-you-guys-heard-of-m-1845025587 #facebook #bigtech #privacy #purism

A Climate Reckoning in Wildfire-Stricken California
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/us/climate-change-california-wildfires.html #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

High-fidelity record of Earth's climate history puts current changes in context
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200910150313.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis #leadonclimate

Humans, not climate, have driven rapidly rising mammal extinction rate

Human impact can explain ninety-six percent of all mammal species extinctions of the last hundred thousand years, according to a new study.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200909100244.htm #extinction

Ice Sheet Melting Is Perfectly in Line With Our Worst-Case Scenario, Scientists Warn https://smartnews.link/w/EUxq #climatechange #climatecrisis

Big Tech turns your every move into profit https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-dipayan-ghosh-terms-of-disservice-153003394.html #bigtech #purism #privacy

Let’s Check in on the Amazon, and Damn, That’s Not Good
https://earther.gizmodo.com/let-s-check-in-on-the-amazon-and-damn-that-s-not-good-1844882608 #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction

The Pandemic’s Economic Crisis Calls for a Green Recovery
Rachel Kyte, the dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University, shows what a climate-focused recovery might look like and why the time to get started is right now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/us/pandemic-economic-crisis-calls-for-a-green-recovery-rachel-kyte.html #climatechange #climatecrisis

Are We Already Living in a Tech Dystopia?
https://gizmodo.com/are-we-already-living-in-a-tech-dystopia-1844824718 #bigtech #purism

Add the Prospect of ‘Gigafires’ to Your List of 2020 Horrors
https://earther.gizmodo.com/add-the-prospect-of-gigafires-to-your-list-of-2020-ho-1844806881 #climatechange #climatecrisis

Anthropogenic CO2 increase is unprecedented
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200820151335.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis

Loss of Greenland Ice Sheet Reached a Record Last Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/climate/greenland-ice-loss-climate-change.html #climatechange #climatecrisis

The Climate Disasters We Ignore Today Will Eventually Come for Us
https://earther.gizmodo.com/the-climate-disasters-we-ignore-today-will-eventually-c-1844779261 #climatechange #climatecrisis

Heating our climate damages our economies: Study reveals greater costs than expected
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200819102815.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis

Doomsday Report Author: Earth’s Leaders Have Failed
https://futurism.com/the-byte/doomsday-climate-report-leaders-failed #climatechange #climatecrisis #extinction

What Would Happen if We Burned All the Fossil Fuels?
https://earther.gizmodo.com/what-would-happen-if-we-burned-all-the-fossil-fuels-1844632959 #climatechange #climatecrisis

Oil Companies Wonder If It’s Worth Looking for Oil Anymore https://smartnews.link/w/3kHN #climatechange #climatecrisis

Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200813123550.htm #climatechange #climatecrisis

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is Soaring
https://earther.gizmodo.com/deforestation-in-the-brazilian-amazon-is-soaring-1844653246 #climatechange #climatecrisis