As is, to some extent, the Great Barrier Reef: "Coral has recovered from storms and bleaching events to record levels across much of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, a survey has found." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-62402891

Still thought to be pretty vulnerable.

They knew it more than 40 years ago.

BBC

Irresponsible and malevolent in a willfully ignorant manner, thinking only of shareholder profits -- E companies.



Meanwhile, we drive our overweight SUVs and pickup trucks into economic slavery and toward biological oblivion -- all of U.S.



All the while smilingly proud of our increasing annual incomes -- stockholders


Fools -- all of us doing nothing about the quality of our earthly habitat, simply living in an unsustainble but comfortable lifestyle.



Our grandchildren have a justifiable right to be pissed at ours and, especially, earlier generations.

Thanks to Leclerc & TorC - Greta Loves You... I was about to post a few links....

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...akdown-oil-gas

https://www.theguardian.com/business...rming-research

Germany in Crisis with gross Climate Hypocrisy.. Carbon saving goals or Hypocritical own Coal, sorry Goal..

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...mine-lutzerath

Greta Thunberg joined thousands of demonstrators to march in a large-scale protest in Germany against the demolition of a village to make way for an opencast coalmine extension.

“Germany is really embarrassing itself right now,” the climate activist said before the protest on Saturday.

She described the force used by police in their clearance of the protest camp earlier this week as “outrageous”.

“When the government and corporations act like this, destroying the environment … the people step up,” she said.

“The science is clear: we need to keep the carbon in the ground,” Thunberg told reporters, after meeting protesters and touring the mine’s crater.

She compared the landscape of the mining area to Mordor, the fictional realm of the evil villain Sauron in JRR Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings. “It shows what we are fighting against, what we are trying to prevent.”

Guys, you're spot on with your assessments.

But this was all foretold over 1900 years ago. This will be solved. But humans are not going to solve it, it will take bigger forces. And we appear to be the generation that's going to see it. If not us, certainly Greta Thunberg's. But this is hardly a forum topic, so we'd better move to PM if you want to go there.

I've kind of taken a mental snapshot of all the Invincible Idiocy that's being talked so as to pass it on to future generations. I'm sure they'll be incredulous.

Foretold? Oh then we can surely count on that right?

More than 90% of Carbon Credits Worthless (so they say)

https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/0...analysis-shows

That doesn't surprise me. Most of these credits are earned by "planting forests". But of course, the company that produces the carbon doesn't plant them itself; it pays another company to do so and in many cases nothing actually gets planted. Where trees are actually planted, there's nothing in the rules about keeping them alive. That would take active forestry, which requires more money. In practice most of these new trees die as saplings and the carbon they contain is quickly returned to the atmosphere.

So-called Carbon Credit studies are now too often a false science serving to alleviate unclean consciences and to gain government-funded grants for cooked studies corroborating foregone conclusions the feds and their corporate cronies want to see 'verified' in order to dupe the ignorant public even more into believing their environmental posturing and their statistical lies.

I was in grad School and met with a professor just beginning to research the subterfuge of Carbon Credits around 1999. 'Nuff said.

I was always inclined to think that once people in poorer countries cottoned on to selling a piece of paper with "credit" written on it and getting real money in exchange, they were never going to run out, were they? That's even better than a ponzi scheme.

ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE

More division over non-political issues

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/us/politics/abortion-republicans-roe-v-wade.html

Meanwhile the most vulnerable are already at-risk from Climate Change

https://www.hcn.org/articles/ideas-s...nd-death-issue

Anybody want to sail accross the north pole summer of 2025? Should be melted enough by then. Do all winds blow south when you are on the north pole?

Just put the motorcycle away after winter riding.

"The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued its final rule in the Federal Register to certify NuScale Power’s small modular reactor.

The company’s power module becomes the first SMR design certified by the NRC and just the seventh reactor design cleared for use in the United States.

The rule takes effects February 21, 2023 and equips the nation with a new clean power source to help drive down emissions across the country."

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/n...reactor-design
https://www.federalregister.gov/docu...-certification

As long as we're not counting output from a damaged reactor as emissions.
I gather they are much safer than the last generation, but still...