Hey r/ClimateOffensive! I just made a short video exploring an intriguing “what if”: imagine each of us literally returns to Earth in a future lifetime—and how that possibility might supercharge our commitment to climate action right now.

• Why It Matters: If there’s even a tiny chance we come back, our present-day choices about emissions, energy, and ecology aren’t just “for future generations”—they’re possibly for ourselves.
• Call to Action:
• Local + Global: Vote for climate-forward policies, support local legislation on renewables, and push for international agreements.
• Personal Impact: Reduce your carbon footprint, go zero-waste, or join a reforestation project—any step that curbs greenhouse gases matters.
• Collective Accountability: If we might literally inherit the long-term effects of climate neglect, it’s one more reason to champion structural solutions instead of waiting for others to act.

Would love to hear your thoughts on whether picturing ourselves in a future Earth shifts your urgency to get involved! Let’s turn that perspective into tangible climate wins—together.

Globally, drained peatlands unleash more heat-trapping gas than the aviation industry.Germany is pushing to restore peatlands drained for farming, and to harvest their reeds and sedges for use in insulation and packaging. Read more.

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Data.gov is dropping datasets fast!

I just checked, it has a steady and big increase in datasets until Jan 21, 2025, at 307,854 datasets http://web.archive.org/web/20250120135355/https://data.gov/

Now it has lost 2,290 datasets in 9 days!

Look at this huge decrease on Jan 21, between 03:04:19 and 15:15:42 http://web.archive.org/web/20250120135355/https://data.gov/ http://web.archive.org/web/20250121233247/https://data.gov/

Drops from 307,854 to 306,012 datasets!!! It's been decreasing everyday and today it's at 305,564 data.gov

This needs to be on the news! We need to back up as much information as possible relating to climate change and anything tengentally connected to "Green New Deal"!

NASA is actively removing climate and earth data from it's websites. r/GIS is sounding the alarm on actively finding and hoarding climate data from government websites that are likely going to be scrubbed from the internet soon.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gis/s/vJ4gUPmSlR

Sign up here for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-can-our-world-rethink-climate-mobility-tickets-1119182287349?aff=Reddit

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Zócalo Public Square and Carnegie California present “How Can Our World Rethink Climate Mobility?” on Feb 6 at the Natural History Museum of LA County. Join us for a panel conversation and reception with free food and beverages, international sounds by DJ Rani de Leon, and vinyl deep listening sessions with Sounds from Afar.

Some computer scientists at U Waterloo in Canada and a Linux kernel developer have come up with an addition to Linux that could save up to 30% of processor power consumption.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/linux_kernel_tweak/

Even if they are exaggerating, let's get this deployed. If you're in a position to do so, upgrade your servers, or ask your vendors to upgrade theirs. Remember that data center power gets sucked down by the servers AND the cooling for those servers.

Every detail counts.

Trump has pulled out the Paris climate agreement as well as abolished multiple environmental orders and organizations. As well as the very scary “drill baby drill” comment. What does this mean for the climate and environment. I know it’s bad news but what exactly are the ramifications. I know there is that whole timer for when we will hit irreversible climate change that’s up in like 3 or 4 years so we aren’t getting someone new who can fix damage caused by trump. So, what do we do is there anything we can or is the environment just fucked?

Edit: I am aware that America is not the only country and it’s a global effort. I guess my question was more just centered around what this means in America and if we stop participating in global efforts. As well as the fact that there are also numerous other leaders in other countries who also are taking a similar overall routes. However, I only really know about American politics so I’m not really comfortable talking about other specific countries actions. Also, thank you for all the comments a lot have been very helpful.

We are Change the Chamber and we are co-hosting rallies in Atlanta (Feb 8th), Pittsburgh (Feb 8th), and Detroit (Feb 15th) to show Congress and the Trump Administration that climate is non-negotiable and we still are standing up for a strong and equitable future. Don't miss out. Join us to meet others who are concerned about the recent actions taken and their climate implications, and let these cities know we are not backing down. RSVP and find more details for each city in the links below. Feel free to share these links with others as well.

Atlanta: https://www.mobilize.us/climateactioncampaign/event/746037?source=CTC

Pittsburgh: https://www.mobilize.us/climateactioncampaign/event/746040?source=CTC

Detroit: https://www.mobilize.us/climateactioncampaign/event/746043?source=CTC

Looking to become a better consumer and fight climate change. Any good tech recs ?

I was trying to find the organizationns who sell credits to offset individual carbon emissions with complete transparency. I want to list those on my platform. The ones I found either lack the transparency of the funds utilization or the credit source, or are simply selling fake credits.

Check out this article by antitrust lawyer Basel Musharbash from Matt Stoller's substack about monopolies. It's about how a private equity firm bought up all the fire-truck factories, raised prices, and slowed deliveries. And how that made life really hard for the Los Angeles Fire Department in the recent fires.

So, rhetorical question: would we rather have corporate America pretending climate change is a hoax, or profiteering off its effects? How about both?

Let's stay awake to this possibility.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/24/nx-s1-5271530/hacking-investigation-climate-change

Wish I was more surprised.

There are people out there who believe that man made climate change doesn't exist because it happened before (natural climate change) and of course they are incorrect about it but how can you explain to someone that there is a difference between man made climate change and natural climate change?

I come from a small city in a conservative state. There are limited environmental justice organizations here, even fewer that are active, and most of those require high membership fees that I simply cannot afford. I do not want to be a performance activist and cry behind a TikTok page while doing nothing in practice. I already live a low-waste, low-emissions lifestyle. What can I tangibly do? Are there any organizations that I can join to take action or travel to visit protests? I cannot find any organization that seems to be hosting events at all. It feels impossible to have any sense of direction.

What are the differences between the two and can Mirror array power plants be something greater than the average solar panel power station?

Atmospheric carbon removal should be used to restore Earths climate to its pre-industrial state. The only real solution to climate change is to restore Earths climate to its pre-industrial state by removing CO2 from the atmosphere after all human activities have been made carbon neutral. We need to pair carbon removal with efforts to establish carbon neutrality in order to achieve climate restoration. The global climate action plan should be changed from mitigation & adaptation to mitigation & restoration (climate restoration) if we truly care about human civilization and the natural environment.

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere will need be be reduced from 420 PPM to 280 PPM to restore Earths climate. No single carbon removal method can achieve this. We will need multiple carbon removal methods that are either not enegry intensive or self-powering. There are many such carbon removal methods which currently exist.

Here are the atmospheric carbon removal methods which should be used to restore Earths climate

- Biochar

- Regenerative Agriculture

- Enhanced Rock Weathering

- Turning biomass (ideally forest thinning waste) into fossil fuels to be put back underground

https://charmindustrial.com

https://recoal.net/en/

- Killing and sinking hazardous algae blooms

https://carbonherald.com/first-ever-carbon-credits-from-toxic-algal-remediation-are-issued/

- Dissolving limestone in wastewater

https://crewcarbon.com

- Sinking seaweed (seaweed can be grown or natural)

- Turning biogenic CO2 into carbon nanotubes

Carbon offsetting will underutilize carbon removal because carbon removal has the potential to restore Earths climate to its pre-industrial state rather than do the same thing as emissions elimination. Climate restoration should be the ultimate end goal of climate action because it is the best solution. Not allowing present and future generations to inhabit the better world which used to exist when we have the technologies to bring back that better world is immoral. Humanity is capable of restoring Earths climate so therefore we should do it for the betterment of human civilization and the natural environment.

And most of the people there were Covid-19 anti-vaxxers, 5G conspiracists and climate deniers. I came with a small group of climate activists trying to get some climate-related motions pasted, mostly about emissions targets, tracking emissions and declaring a climate emergency.

I couldn't help myself from speaking up against their anti-science non-sense and had to leave before I was torn apart by an angry mob. Despite my best efforts not to insult anyone I apparently come off as extremely condescending according to one person who yelled at me.

If this is indicative of annual general meetings in your local council then I think we are going to need to get a lot more active people in the space. We need to get organised enough to drown out their nonsense.

At the risk of spamming this group, I'm curious about this question. My perspective is that no nation is really leading a climate transition seriously enough; there have been record emissions pumped into the air over the past few years, and market-based solutions seem like only a partial answer.

Where does this group turn to when considering what a nation like America should be doing to meet the challenge of climate change? In past years, the proposal of a Green New Deal made sense to me, but also seemed somewhat handwavy in terms of what exactly the strategy was to seriously cut emissions.

I'm curious if there are any climate scientists who have put forward policy proposals that would blaze a path on this issue.

Hello! My name’s Cameron, a PhD researcher from the University of Manchester, UK.  This is my research account, which I’ll be using to investigate the relationships between climate change, social media, and algorithms. The bulk of my work will be ethnographic, a fancy phrase for just observation, immersion, and participation within climate change subreddits. In this post, you can find all the key information about my research; please take the time to read it in your own time, and feel free to discuss it with others if you wish. Please contact me directly via email (cameron.coakley@manchester.ac.uk) if there’s anything that’s unclear, if you would like more information, or you would be interested in taking part in this research. Thanks!

About the research

Ø  Who will conduct the research?

Cameron Coakley, from the Department of Geography at the University of Manchester (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cameron-coakley) 

Ø  What is the purpose of the research?

Through this research I will be trying to understand how members of climate change Subreddits understand, view, and feel about, algorithms and social media platforms. I am also hoping to understand how members of these subreddits imagine and view the future regarding climate change, and what they hope and want from social media going forward. 

Ø  What am I doing here?

Primarily, I will be observing how your subreddit works, and how Reddit as a social media platform serves people interested in climate change. As part of this, I will be reading, thinking about, and taking notes on the sort of things I read here, and may make copies of posts that are relevant to my research. These copies will be completely anonymised, and won’t be directly quoted in my research, but will inform it. More information about this is below.

Ø  Will the outcomes of the research be published?

The primary outcome of this research will be a doctoral thesis (hopefully), but may also include published articles and presentations at conferences. You will not be identifiable in any of these. I will also make a post to my Reddit profile when anything related to this research is published.  

Ø  Who has reviewed the research project?

This project has been reviewed by the SEED (School of Environment, Education and Development) Ethics Committee at the University of Manchester.

What would my involvement be?

Ø  What would I be asked to do if I took part?

Nothing – you are not obliged to do anything specifically for this part of the research. I may interact with you on posts/comments, and may later put out a public advertisement inviting yourself and other Reddit users for an interview, but you will be provided with further details and asked for your consent at that time. This would be done via email. 

Ø  Will I be compensated for taking part?

There is no compensation for taking part in any part of this research.

Ø  What happens if I do not want to take part or if I change my mind?

If you wish for me to exclude my future interactions with yourself or any future content (comments, posts etc.) produced by you from my research, please contact me directly at cameron.coakley@manchester.ac.uk. Because the copies of posts I make will be anonymised as soon as they are collected, I won’t be able to remove data that has already been collected from my study. If you would like further information about this, please contact me via email.

Data Protection and Confidentiality

Ø  What information will you collect about me? 

As part of observations, I may record fieldnotes about public interactions I have had within subreddits. These may contain quotes, which would be paraphrased if included in a published output of this research. I may also collect screen-captures of specific posts, particularly when the post is an image or video. No personal identifiable information will be collected, and copies of posts will be entirely anonymised (usernames and any personal information will be removed, and the original copy deleted). 

Ø  Under what legal basis are you collecting this information?

We are collecting and storing this personal identifiable information in accordance with UK data protection law which protect your rights.  These state that we must have a legal basis (specific reason) for collecting your data. For this study, the specific reason is that it is “a public interest task” and “a process necessary for research purposes”. This research is being conducted in accordance with Reddit’s Terms and Conditions, User Agreement, Privacy Policy, and Public Content Policy. 

Ø  Will my participation in the study be confidential and my personal identifiable information be protected? 

·      Data from posts will be anonymised immediately after it is collected, and the original (unanonymised) version deleted.

·      Data will be stored on my personal, encrypted laptop, before being uploaded to a secure University of Manchester server.

o   At the end of the project we will deposit a fully anonymised dataset] in an open data repository where it will be permanently stored. We will use ICPSR. Researchers at other institutions and others can access the anonymised data directly from the repository and use it for further research or to check our analysis and results.

Ø  What if I have a complaint? 

If you have a complaint that you wish to direct to members of the research team, please contact:

·       Dr. Nathaniel Millington - nate.millington@manchester.ac.uk

·       Prof. Erik Swyngedouw – erik.swyngedouw@manchester.ac.uk

If you wish to make a formal complaint to someone independent of the research team or if you are not satisfied with the response you have gained from the researchers in the first instance then please contact:

·      The Research Ethics Manager, Research Office, Christie Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, by emailing: research.complaints@manchester.ac.uk  or by telephoning 0161 306 8089.

If you wish to contact us about your data protection rights, please email dataprotection@manchester.ac.uk or write to The Information Governance Office, Christie Building, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL at the University and we will guide you through the process of exercising your rights.

You also have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office about complaints relating to your personal identifiable information: Tel 0303 123 1113  

The state of the world and impending doom are extremely similar. So many people are in denial about climate change. Trump also really fits into Meryl Streep's character.

In the Age of Tik Tok and other short form media our attention spans are horrible. We latch on to the digestible facts. I am offering a unique point of view to this community today. I feel called to action to do my part to turn the climate crisis around. With that being said and behalf of all ignorant people on the matter... If a child asked me what actually needs to be done on a wide scale level to turn this around, I simply wouldn't know. We are told to stop using plastic straws, conserve water, not to waste food. Deep down we all know this is only a small percent of the solution. So tell me simply, what needs to happen? From a general outside perspective looking in everyone seems so wrapped up in the small details. Yet then were told it's life and death, it's a CRISIS. So if the educated people expect others to treat it like a CRISIS how about focus on the most effective solutions. Then maybe we could break those big solutions down into more organized smaller actions. What if all this energy was directed towards getting people to call out specific company's. Imagine a company getting millions of calls and emails for weeks. Tell me that wouldn't be more effective than telling people to use beeswax paper instead of seran wrap. Once again I don't know what the big solutions are because they are never discussed as much as the small details.

For many years, I've thought that the online retailers that I go to (mostly Amazon, but occasionally others) would do well to offer a straightforward easy-to-use filter that would allow for a purchaser only shopping from a list of goods that are made and distributed from within one's own country. (so, if I am in the USA, then I could shop made in USA). While there are potentially various political hot-button issues associated with arguing over whether it is good or not good to sell or purchase in such a way, it seems to me that there is a low carbon angle to such a purchasing experience. If, for example, I purchase something from APAC or EMEA and it travels by air or boat to reach the US, then does that transportation process not add to the carbon footprint of the process?

I think Amazon and others could improve their low-carbon calculations by providing a reliable purchasing filter to customers so that those customers can somewhat lower the carbon footprint of their shopping.

Thoughts from others?

Even on this sub, people keep using the fact that big corporations have a huge environmental impact as an excuse not to change their own behavior. I keep reading stuff like "I'll keep buying Amazon, it's Jeff bezos' responsibility to make his business sustainable", "I'm just a small fluctuation compared to Elon Musk", or "I'm just a drop in the bucket, my actions will make no difference so I won't change them". This is exactly what they want you to think so you'll keep buying their shit and giving them money, can't you see it? Corporations don't want you to think you have the power to say no.

In order to live in an ethical and sustainable world, the aim is to reduce the global emissions per capita to around 2 tonnes of CO2 a year. The current world average is 4.86 tonnes, twice and a half as much. In the US, the consumption based emissions per capita are 14.9 tonnes a year, 3 times the current global average and 7.5 times what it should be. Other "typical reddit or countries" might be a tad bit lower but they're still multiple times what they should be. This is not fluctuations.

All the Elon Musk's and Mark Zuckerbergs in the world could lower their own emissions to 2 tons per year, and you'd probably still need to lower yours.

Realistically, if you live in a western country, you'll probably need to do a lot of different things to achieve the 2 tonnes mark, like giving up meat, quitting centralized heating/cooling, not buying anything new unless absolutely necessary, drastically reducing your time in the car, and quitting air travel that can be substituted with less than 24 hours by train. It seems like a lot but compared to the global average lifestyle it's really not much to ask. An estimated 90% to 95% of the worlds population has never been on a plane anyway.

If you're not willing to do these things, you're not willing to get yourself down to the required global average. Which means that either 1. You don't care to reduce human emissions or 2. You care but you expect someone else to take care of the problem and offset you by being significantly below average. If it's the former, what are you doing on this sub anyway? If it's the latter, you're advocating for a world with significant inequality where some people (including you) pollute more, at the expense of all the people that pollute less.

Let's all take responsibility. Yes, it's not nice, sometimes it's tiring, and sometimes we just want to give ourselves a pat on the back for using a tote bag and riding a bike to work. Which we should do. But the fact that we might already be doing something right is not an excuse to stop there. We have power, a lot more than most of the humans that existed in history. Let's use it, and let's stop listening to corporations when they try to convince us that there's nothing we can do on our own, because we are not on our own.

We've breached 1.5C. Wildfires are getting more unpredictable. Droughts more severe. The AMOC is on the verge of collapsing. We've locked in for complete environmental collapse.

What do we do now? Hold out on hope? Or kick the bucket.

I’m curious why we don’t have annual contests for innovative climate change solutions, with separate categories for adults and children. Wouldn’t offering big cash prizes get everyone engaged and motivated? How would this community design such a contest for maximum impact?