The current monstrous heatwave frying the US southwest and south is Heatwave Chevron according to former Weather Channel meterologist Guy Walton, who says we should call scorching heatwaves after the giants of the petrochemical industry to name and shame them. Since they've walked us into this mess knowing full well what was ahead.

#ClimateChange #heat #HeatWave #petrochemical #OilandGas

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/ex-meteorologist-names-us-heatwaves-after-oil-gas-firms

With hundreds of explosive #chemical plants, #Louisiana could be a ticking time bomb this #hurricane season

by Russel Honoré, July 10, 2023

"The science is clear: the warmer the oceans, the stronger the storms. Heat is energy, and the more of it there is in the ocean, the more fuel for increasingly destructive storms. At the same time, rising sea levels, caused by the melting of the South Pole’s ice caps and Arctic glaciers, mean higher storm surges.

"I don’t have to tell you that storm surges are the deadliest part of a hurricane making landfall. They occur when a storm pushes a wall of seawater several feet high onto the land, causing lethal flooding and costly property damage. In #NewOrleans, I saw the city’s Lower 9th Ward all but razed by fierce ocean waters. Residents evacuated as far as other states; nearly two decades later, many have never returned.

"Tragically for Louisiana, the state has 740 #petrochemical plants that are vulnerable to tropical storms, according to a new report by The Times-Picayune and The Advocate. While most have weathered storms in the past, there’s no evidence to show they will be able to withstand the storm surges of the powerful #superstorms that are becoming the new norm.

"It’s outrageous that #chemical plant owners can put the health and safety of some 1.2 million Louisiana residents at risk. The rest of us understand we need to undertake additional precautionary measures now that hurricane season is becoming increasingly deadly. Petrochemical companies should not be able to put us in harm’s way by denying this reality."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/with-hundreds-of-explosive-chemical-plants-louisiana-could-be-a-ticking-time-bomb-this-hurricane-season/ar-AA1dG8dS?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=91a65af4d5f4419fe13f9641855524d3&ei=6

#ClimateChange #EnvironmentalRacism #ClimateCatastrophe #WaterIsLife

"World’s largest collection of ancient rock art threatened by Australia’s #petrochemical plants"

https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-largest-collection-ancient-rock-art-threatened-australia-s-petrochemical-plants
#AIrPollution #art #RockArt

CNBF Daily Brief 18.2.2023 – #China's #mobile phone shipments drop 22.6% year on year, China's #furniture industry reported profit growth in 2022, China saw more #wealth management product investors in 2022, China's #petrochemical industry saw an increase in revenues and a decline in profits, and China's #photovoltaic (#PV) sector posted robust growth https://cnbusinessforum.com/cnbf-daily-brief-18-2-2023/

"In St. Croix, which was home
to the largest refinery & #petrochemical plant in the world for a number of years, the #refinery laid waste to the island’s freshwater #aquifer & rendered large parts of the island unsuitable for farming or housing before filing for bankruptcy at the first sign of a real investigation into these damages. +

In what job do you earn $1.2 million for meeting only 0.2% of your targets? One where your bosses want you to fail. Meet the Alliance to End #Plastic Waste, funded by #petrochemical companies intent on delaying limits on plastic production. #plasticpollution #greenwashing

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-exxon-mobil-plastic-waste-cleanup-greenwashing/?leadSource=uverify%20wall

Almost four years since the Alliance to End #PlasticWaste launched, its on-the-ground #recycling is negligible compared to the new #plastic produced by its core members, #petrochemical companies.

15.12.2022, photos:

Powerful #explosion at #Russian #Angarsk #petrochemical company.

The explosion was so strong that seismography identified it as an #earthquake, and ceilings fell down several kilometers from the explosion site.

"Despite relying on #fossil feedstock and being solidly placed in the fossil #economy, petrochemical majors increasingly focus on repositioning themselves proactively as transition enablers."

#Petrochemical #transition narratives: Selling #FossilFuel solutions in a decarbonizing world
(Joachim Peter Tilsted et al, Dec 2022)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102880

RT @ToxicsFree@twitter.com

The
American Chemistry Council Lobby /
#Petrochemical Lobby
blames the plastic crisis on
the public at the #PlasticsTreaty in Uruguay

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ToxicsFree/status/1597668523794628608

A #LFP #battery is a #steel can containing primarily (A) #graphite (synthetic or natural), and (B) #iron #phosphate (which is basically fertilizer). The next largest component is #electrolyte, primarily organic carbonates (a #petrochemical #solvent - on the lower toxicity end as far as solvents go). Next most common are the metal foils (#alumium and #copper). Next is the (#plastic) separator membrane.

In tiny quantities at the bottom of the list? Electrolyte additives and the #lithium itself.

RT @Meeratweets@twitter.com

Scientists warn that plastics & other pollutants are pushing past a #PlanetaryBoundary, even as #petrochemical comps increase #plastic production. 175 countries have said: ENOUGH. #PlasticsTreaty negotiations underway #INC1. I looked at the data needed to make it stick. @Nature@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Meeratweets/status/1596905693751017472

RT @Meeratweets@twitter.com

Scientists warn that plastics & other pollutants are pushing past a #PlanetaryBoundary, even as #petrochemical comps increase #plastic production. 175 countries have said: ENOUGH. #PlasticsTreaty negotiations underway #INC1. I looked at the data needed to make it stick. @Nature@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Meeratweets/status/1596905693751017472

Scientists warn that plastics & other pollutants are pushing past a #PlanetaryBoundary, even as #petrochemical comps increase #plastic production. 175 countries have said: ENOUGH. #PlasticsTreaty negotiations underway #INC1. I looked at the data needed to make it stick. @Nature@twitter.com

#PetroChemical & #Plastics industry trying to muzzle stakeholder input at the #PlasticsTreaty #INC1 negotiations.

RT @andresdelcas@twitter.com

Sitting parties in a stakeholder forum might be an act of peace. But we will still calling perpetrators those who put us in the plastic crises until reparation (restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction & guarantees of non-repetition) is provided #PlasticsTreaty 🧵

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/andresdelcas/status/1596819456617070594

@Timmy While there's lots of #nickel out there, the rate of scaling up battery-grade nickel production is believed to be slower than the capability to scale up #LFP production, hence the expected shift to LFP in the coming years.

So we've now covered the #anode and #cathode. The next greatest bulk comes from the casing (#steel) and the #electrolyte (mainly organic carbonates - a #petrochemical product). After this comes the #alumium and #copper current collector foils, then the...

@ConradHalling That sounds interesting. Though I hope the Climate change deniers don't "cherry-pick" that information and ignore all the data about #GreenHouseGas emissions and air pollution in general. They will and do!

"Air pollution" is the #petrochemical companies taboo word. Their company motto must be "we don't talk about air pollution".

However, "Chiang noted that the distance effect is already incorporated into climate models"