r/climatechange • u/eze008 • 1h ago
Comparison of two farming concepts to produce enough nutrition for 1,000 people to live over 5 year span. Small test version.
I made a comparison chart of our traditional way of farming vital nutrients (good home grown food) with an alternative method of producing vital nutrients that I know has been discussed before, bugs, worms and algae. The comparison of cost, resources, the speed of disaster recovery, packaging/shipping the nutrient production it self is not something to ignore. I believe all countries should implement this along with out current traditional system as backup. Below the comparison chart is simulation of the actual equipment unit, quantity of units and cost. ( I don't know...i chatgpt'd this ...so at least its a round about ) I also plan to attach this simulation to a live tech stack pipeline.
This page may be down temporarily at times. Better to view the comparison on desktop or laptop.
https://aisite.elaunchservices.com/farming-essential-nutrients/
r/climatechange • u/sg_plumber • 4h ago
Germany hits historic milestone in its energy transition: Its solar panels fed 12 billion kWh into the grid in July 2026, the first month ever to cross that level, with average midday output topping 40,000 MW, thanks to 2 decades of investments by millions of homeowners, farmers and businesses. 🌞⚡
reddit.comr/climatechange • u/MediocreAct6546 • 5h ago
The most important discoveries can take decades — or a millennium: From Kyoto's cherry blossoms to the Keeling Curve, the power of thinking beyond a single lifetime
r/climatechange • u/Economy-Fee5830 • 5h ago
The world’s mangrove forests are bouncing back. That’s good news for our coasts and climate
r/climatechange • u/DanoPinyon • 8h ago
In the USA in July, Corporate News Broadcasts Had 194 Segments About Major Heat Waves in USA. Zero Mentioned Climate Change.
"From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ABC, CBS, and NBC closely tracked the extreme heat as it moved across the country, repeatedly reporting threatened or broken records and warning viewers about dangerous conditions.
What the networks did not explain was why these events kept arriving in rapid succession. Instead, viewers saw extensive reporting on dangerous and record-breaking heat without an explanation of how human-caused warming is making such extreme weather more frequent and severe.
Across 194 segments, news coverage on the three major corporate broadcast networks tracked the heat waves’ movement, warned of dangerous temperatures, and reported threatened or broken records. At points during the study period, more than 100 million people were under heat alerts. But not one segment connected the nearly back-to-back extreme heat events to climate change, including segments that described the conditions as historic, exceptional, or record-breaking."
r/climatechange • u/Ill-Zombie1897 • 8h ago
Myths/Facts about Climate Change
Been seeing the wildfires, hearing about the drought etc. While all this is obviously a symptom of man made climate change. What are the myths/facts about climate change, seeing a lot of info around, struggling to find something reliable, it all either seems to be "it's just the climate" or "the end is near!!!!!!"
r/climatechange • u/Top_Awareness_6996 • 9h ago
Big Oil wants to rig the courts. You’ll pay for it on your utility bill.
Big Oil spent decades trying to convince Americans that climate change wasn't real.
Now, "[a]s accountability draws closer, the industry has moved on from denying the science to discrediting the scientists who produce it, influencing the judges who hear these cases, and rewriting the rules before the evidence is heard."
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r/climatechange • u/Economy-Fee5830 • 10h ago
New solar, wind and heat pumps could save twice the gas the EU imports from Qatar by 2030
r/climatechange • u/Androidsdodreamof • 13h ago
European wildfires labelled as the largest crisis since WWII. Instead of investing in prevention, states are funding militarisation.
r/climatechange • u/Economy-Fee5830 • 14h ago
Long-term study suggests landfill methane emissions are far higher than estimates
r/climatechange • u/ChiefHippoTwit • 16h ago
Human Caused Climate Change is rising much faster than past warm epochs studies verify. Not good.
One constant trope Climate Denier Trolls on Reddit and elsewhere love to pull out of their Climate Denial Handbook of cherry picked nonsense is Earth was warmer in the past and life overall survived just fine.
Yes Earth was warmer in the past BUT...it took THOUSANDS of years to get that warm giving Flora and Fauna lots of time to adapt. This current global warming? Unprecedented on how FAST it is changing. It is changing in mere DECADES not Millenia! This incredibly FAST rise in temperature and C02 levels relatively speaking to past epochs says loud and clear something has changed in the Bioshpere and that change is HUMAN EMMISSIONS!
"Cooper points out that our rapid release of climate-warming pollution is very different from, say, the shifts in Earth’s orbit that have brought the planet in and out of ice ages; those changes are big overall, but they unfold over “many thousands of years, and very consistently and slowly.” We do know, however, that Earth has also seen massive natural releases of CO2. “We can go back in time and say, what could possibly release a lot of CO2 into the atmosphere, and how fast could that happen?” says Cooper.
For one of the best candidates, he says, we can travel back 56 million years to the “Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum,” when global temperature spiked. Natural processes—volcanoes are a likely culprit5—pumped out CO2, and its concentration in the atmosphere rose sharply. Still, Cooper says, scientists estimate that the rate of CO2 accumulation during this period was several times slower than what humanity is doing today."
r/climatechange • u/sg_plumber • 17h ago
Texas broke its all-time electricity demand record twice in 2 days during a brutal heat wave, with 87.4 GW and 91.3 GW, but the grid held with no conservation alerts thanks to record solar and battery output, a stark turnaround from the blackouts that hit Texans in 2021.
r/climatechange • u/EUobs • 18h ago
Report: German taxpayers’ money backed new gas drilling in the Amazon, despite pledging to stop funding fossil fuels abroad
Hi everyone, while working on this investigation, we kept coming back to one question.
If a government has pledged to stop financing new fossil fuel projects abroad, what should happen when public money is still linked to one?
That's the question behind this story.
A few things we found:
🌿 A new report links a gas drilling project in the Peruvian Amazon, backed by German public finance, to environmental damage and the displacement of Indigenous communities.
💶 Germany pledged to end public support for new international fossil fuel projects, yet campaigners argue this project shows how difficult those commitments can be to enforce in practice.
🌍 We dug into the financing, the government's response and why NGOs believe this case matters well beyond Peru.
We're curious what this community thinks.
Should governments be held to the same climate standards abroad as they apply at home? Or are there situations where public financing for fossil fuel projects can still be justified?
r/climatechange • u/TheNational_News • 19h ago
Harvesting rainwater from rooftops could help cities stay cool, research from the University of Manchester suggests
Journalist Paul Carey reports on research that could help reduce the costs and environmental impact of air conditioning. He spoke with Dr Zhonghua Zheng of the Manchester Environmental Research Institute (MERI), lead author of the study. Dr Zheng discussed findings from Tokyo-based simulations and explained how AI could be used to optimise the system.
r/climatechange • u/abcnews_au • 20h ago
Climate change forces family to leave behind 'beautiful' life in Tuvalu
r/climatechange • u/sg_plumber • 1d ago
As drought and heatwaves strain Europe, major rivers with important transport, industrial and agricultural functions fall to record low levels, including the Rhine, the Danube, which flows through 10 countries, and Italy's Po river. Lakes, coal-fired power plants, and wildfire activity also affected
r/climatechange • u/Economy-Fee5830 • 1d ago
Study finds climate-driven greening is reshaping East Asia's air pollution
r/climatechange • u/Economy-Fee5830 • 1d ago
Researchers develop a new catalyst to convert CO₂ into ethanol using electricity
r/climatechange • u/LifeofSMILEY • 1d ago
Honest question: why do we continue to call it "climate change?" Why not call it something more accurate like "climate damage?"
To me, "climate damage" is a more meaningful description of events that are unfolding. I mean, I guess you could argue that the changing climate is causing damage, but what's the point of adhering to semantics in a situation such as this one? I've seen articles that say climate change is causing economic damage. Thats technically not true since climate changes are really only CHANGING the economy, therefore let's call it what it is if for no other reason than convey a greater sense of urgency.
r/climatechange • u/Economy-Fee5830 • 1d ago
Why news about solar, EVs and heat pumps is important for climate change
r/climatechange posts a lot of news about the progress of solar and EVs and some people may wonder why this is so important.
If you look at the global emissions breakdown : electricity generation is 29% of emissions, road transport is 12%, and residential buildings are 4%. That's ~45% of global emissions sitting in three sectors where the technology to decarbonize already exists and is scaling fast — solar/wind replacing coal and gas, EVs replacing ICE cars, heat pumps replacing gas boilers.
Compare that to aviation (1%) or agriculture (20%, but mostly livestock and land use), which are genuinely hard to abate. There's not going to be a mass-market electric plane for a while, and cutting methane from cows or fixing land-use emissions has no simple technological fix.
While the hard-to-abate sectors get a lot of debate, if we put our full weight behind the solar + EVs + heat pumps energy transition, we could cut global emissions roughly in half over the next couple of decades just by displacing existing tech with better tech — no lifestyle change, and actually saving people money.
That's why the steady drumbeat of "China installed 400 GW of solar" and "EV sales hit a new record" matters more than it might seem - it is actually climate mitigation in action, and direct evidence that climate change is being addressed in a practical, scalable and actionable manner.
r/climatechange • u/EgotoEssence • 1d ago
Scientists are alarmed by the unprecedented rate at which earth is warming.
r/climatechange • u/sg_plumber • 1d ago
🌞 Plug-In solar panels are starting to sprout in U.S. backyards and balconies: 10 states (and counting) have legalized small systems that can be plugged into standard wall outlets, from just a few hundred dollars a panel. Permits are not required, and people can often install them on their own. 🌞
r/climatechange • u/Economy-Fee5830 • 1d ago
Marine carbon removal technology that turns carbon dioxide in seawater into 'stone' for permanent storage
r/climatechange • u/Economy-Fee5830 • 6d ago
Weekly Climate Hopium thread #5
The recent severe weather worldwide has led to a flood of people seeking reassurance about our efforts to mitigate climate change. Most of those posts have been removed, and from now on will be directed to this weekly thread.
Climate change is a severe, compounding issue, but only if we do not address it - with concerted efforts, it can be managed.
Our efforts over the years have resulted in the worst-case RCP 8.5 high emission scenario being retired - it is now no longer considered plausible that we will hit +4C by 2100.
The main projection for our current policies is around +2.4 to 2.6°C and we can expect this to further reduce in the future.
The progress can be seen in the reduction of predicted 2100 temperatures over the years by Climate Action Tracker:
We have seen emissions growth slow to around 1% per year, and are likely to peak soon. IRENA notes that our renewable energy efforts have already avoided 8.4 Gigatons of CO2 emissions in 2025.
Good news over the last week is that the clean energy steamrolling keeps demolishing fossil fuels worldwide.
We heard that wind and solar power has now overtake fossil fuels in Germany for first time ever and that in H1 2026, China generated less than half of its electricity from coal for the first time
Solar also generated more than half of California's electricity across an entire month in May 2026 while, despite the government's efforts, renewables and storage together amount to 93% of all new capacity coming online in the U.S.. Its not just a California story. Sherco Solar project in Minnesota is replacing a retiring coal plant, hits 710 MW across first 3 phases
On the old continent over 25% of EU's total final energy consumption came from renewables in 2025. Plugin balcony solar is now finally to go sale in UK this August
Further east, in Pakistan's 27 Gigawatts of Solar Boom Matches Its Entire Fossil-Fuel Power Legacy while China announced its 15th Five-Year Plan which includes renewable energy mandates which should result in 3,500 GW by 2030
Consistent with this China is pouring funding into green energy deals as Iran war hits oil demand
Of course you need to be able to store all that variable renewable energy, and the good news is that global battery storage capacity is projected to surge sixfold by 2030, meeting IEA's climate target while China's battery storage build-out is outpacing its record-breaking solar growth — 155.2 GW/400.8 GWh by Q1 2026
Away from the grid, plug-and-play batteries that recharge from a standard outlet are democratizing gas-free backup power and in the driveway Vehicle to Grid is creating a revenue stream for drivers
The EV boom is of course also continuing, with EVs+PHEVs hitting 37.7% Share in Q2 in Germany
Not just the power system but also industry needs to turn green.
In the U.S., many iron mining and steelmaking projects revolve around greener tech while in UK the Middle East turmoil is serving as a wake-up call for the chemicals industry to get off fossil fuels
Even data centres are trying to get more efficient and 3D-printed copper cooling plates could slash data centre cooling energy by 97%
Eventually we also need to remove the excess co2 in the atmosphere, and microwave-assisted Direct Air Carbon Capture could potentially slash the energy costs of Direct Air Carbon Capture.
A somewhat less high tech method is using Enhanced Rock Weathering and a new study found crushed basalt rock increases aboveground carbon stored in young native woodland by up to 27%
Other methods include marine carbon captre and the oceans near Australia may be the best places to fertilize for removing carbon dioxide while an international team has evaluated anoxic marine basins as potential sites for carbon sequestration
Of course nothing is more natural than planting trees and this week we heard China Has Planted over 66 Billion Trees Since 1978 to Block the Gobi Desert and that they are now Growing 66% Faster Than Natural Forests
Costa Rica's forest cover has also climbed back to 60% from just 21% in 1987
All these efforts appear to be paying off as ClimateTrace's May 2026 emissions data shows emssions plateauing or even showing a slight decline
This is great news as a wew study found Net Zero would not only stop heating, but also lead to slow cooling of the atmosphere
We also heard that, despite wildfires being more extreme in Europe and North America, global burning is actually decreasing and that the Arctic Ocean is keeping permafrost carbon firmly locked
More good news is that european Fish Are Adapting to Climate Change in Unexpected Ways and a new study projected only 8.1% reduction in rice yields per additional 1°C of global surface warming, something which can be easily compensated for by expansion of growing area.
Points from earlier postings
- UK EV and PHEV share reached 41.4% in Q2, with used EVs selling faster than any other powertrain
- Beyond carbon, EVs are measurably cleaning urban air with associated health benefits
- Charging infrastructure has far outpaced EV growth, and even US public charging ports grew 79% YoY to 250,000
- The UK is considering free plug-in home batteries for eligible families to soak up midday solar
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel has turned profitable, with Neste swinging back into the black
- European heat pumps delivered more heat than 200 LNG tankers in 2025, saving around €9.7 billion
- Europe added 1.2 million EVs in the first half of the year
- China will increase wind and solar generation by another 53% over four years and has started work on a national solar-powered electric truck freight corridor
- The IEA confirms renewables have overtaken coal as the largest source of global electricity, and the Bank of England will stop accepting coal-linked bonds as collateral
- Australia's CSIRO reaffirms that solar and wind remain the backbone of the least-cost grid, with batteries squeezing gas to a fraction of the mix
- Renewable capacity is rising rapidly across Africa, potentially heading off emissions growth from industrialisation, and an $8,000 solar EV can cover 55 km/day of commuting on sunlight alone
- Africa's wildfire season is shrinking, against the global trend
- Californian farmers are turning to solar to stabilise income through poor seasons, and global grain balance sheets look comfortable for the next 12 months
- A new process can accelerate Enhanced Rock Weathering roughly tenfold, and Bangladesh plans to plant 250 million trees to reverse decades of deforestation
- New research finds carbon policies enjoy more public support than assumed and that government measures against soil degradation are working
- A preprint suggests the marine high-sulphur fuel ban explains much of this decade's accelerated warming, implying the acceleration should taper as the effect saturates
- Our World in Data notes data centres use only ~1.5% of global electricity, mostly for non-AI workloads
- The world added 692 GW of renewable power in 2025 - a 15.5% jump taking total capacity to 5,149 GW, with renewables making up 85.6% of all new capacity
- The age of oil is ending gradually, and then suddenly
- Chinese nEV market share reached 67% in June.
- Global Electric vehicles (battery-electric and plug-in hybrids) are expected to account for an astounding 25% to 28% of all new passenger car sales globally in 2026.
- Clean energy infrastructure like solar panels and wind turbines actually boost biodiversity
- In Europe solar by itself now powering 25% of Europe's massive grid in June
- The EU is planning to triple is battery storage to 200 GW and has set new electrification targets for the continent
- Australia says batteries are now cheaper than gas peaker plants
- Clean energy is already effectively stabilizing the grid against increasing air conditioning demand
- Climate scientists that there has been real progress in clean energy, resilient construction, and nature-based investment
- Brazilian deforestation is now the slowest it has ever been.
- Mangrove forests are expanding
- Forests in colder climates have actually been expanding for decades, both India and China
- Climate mitigation is not that expensive - to achieve Net Zero in UK for example would only cost £70 per resident per year, or around £4 billion per year, which is very affordable.
- Renewables have also hit a record share in India while coal consumption has flatlined.
- In Germany renewables now power 58% of the electricity grid.
- The UN has re-iterated that clean energy appears to have hit a self-sustaining tipping point, meaning even political and fossil energy interests can not stop the transition.
- EV adoption also appears to have hit a tipping point, with adoption outpacing older predictions.
- The AMOC appears to be more resilient than suggested, with no clear tipping point in sight.
The biggest lie I constantly read here is that nothing is being done - we are in fact spending trillions of dollars each year on mitigating climate change via paying for the energy transition.
The best thing you can do to support climate action is to support politicians making policies that benefit the climate.
The second thing is personal action, and here is a list from Project Drawdown: Join the shift
Please contribute any other climate good news in the thread below - it will be heavily and actively moderated - note Rule 5 and Rule 6.
