The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has unleashed their Special Report on the impact of global warming reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
“This IPCC report is set to outline a rescue plan for humanity,”
“1.5°C is the new 2°C,”
If we stick to Paris Climate Agreement commitments, we could still see a global warming of about 3°C by 2100.
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Tomi Engdahl says:
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2019/11/14/do-the-worlds-energy-policies-make-sense/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Motors and their control systems account for almost half of all electricity consumed worldwide. Whereas, nearly 30% of electricity generated globally is used by industrial drives. Given that, the amount of energy consumed by industry is expected to roughly double by 2040, thus the need for urgent action is evident.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Carbon Dioxide Reaches Highest Recorded Levels In Human History
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/11/30/carbon-dioxide-reaches-highest-recorded-levels-in-human-history/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Valerie/#76616c657269
We are in an unprecedented era, at no point in human history has carbon dioxide levels been this high, presenting concerning questions over what lies ahead.
This week the World Meteorological Organization published their yearly report on the “State of Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere,” compiling data up to 2018.
The report, unsurprisingly, found that carbon dioxide reached an all-time high in 2018 since pre-industrial amounts. The highest recorded measurement in 2018 was 415.70 ppm on May 15, 2019, higher than it has ever been during human history.
Earth has experienced carbon dioxide levels much higher than current levels, which was discovered by the same climate scientists who now warn of the dangers associated with current greenhouse gas emissions.
Carbon dioxide has been as high as 4,000 ppm during the Cambrian, about 500 million years ago and as low as 180 ppm in the Quaternary glaciation (the most recent “ice age” on Earth).
We’ve seen CO2 levels rise faster in the past century than ever before in natural history. The annual increase in CO2 levels is increasing about 100 times faster than recorded during natural increases in Earth’s history.
Humans have largely built our world around Earth’s current climate state and a widespread change in climate will inevitably lead to hardship, economic loss, and death.
Uncharted territory makes people nervous
What happens when an environment changes around a static human environment?
The other key concern is that humans have built our world expecting a largely static environment. Our infrastructure, agriculture, areas of concentrated populations, and energy systems are all built to serve humans in a relatively static environment.
There are countless examples where climate change can throw a wrench in how we operate our daily lives.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Jason Momoa aka Aquaman has made a speech in the UN which is quite similar and powerful in an address at the United Nations. He spoke at the Small Islands Event on 27th September and his message coincided with that of Greta – that our world leaders were not using their powers for environmental welfare. However, he did not only blame the politicians. He blamed Humanity as a whole – he called it a disease.
https://truththeory.com/2019/10/07/some-say-jason-momoa-went-too-far-shaming-humanity-and-calling-it-a-disease-at-the-un-climate-summit/
https://mashable.com/video/jason-momoa-climate-change-speech-un/?europe=true
The actor recently went to the UN’s headquarters to discuss the effects of global warming on the Earth’s oceans and island nations.
Tomi Engdahl says:
US power usage is declining, or is it?
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/power-points/4462455/US-power-usage-is-declining–or-is-it-?utm_content=buffer01b07&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal caught my attention, but its news received no other attention that I saw. The article, “Americans Are No Longer Gluttons for Electricity—Thank the LED Bulb” (sorry, it may be behind a paywall), pointed out that average per-residence electricity use in the US has declined since 2010 according to statistics collected by the US Department of Energy.
But wait, there’s the inevitable caveat: “Last year, driven by a hot summer and cold winter, the numbers ticked up to an average of 10.97 megawatt-hours per residence, but the overall trend remained down.” Data points that don’t fit the explanation are almost always due to the weather!
Tomi Engdahl says:
Engineers face their greatest challenge as energy and transportation converge
Crafting new ways to rapidly shift from fossil fuels to electrification may well be the biggest challenge mankind will ever face.
https://www.designnews.com/electronics-test/engineers-face-their-greatest-challenge-energy-and-transportation-converge/63304013161961?ADTRK=InformaMarkets&elq_mid=11344&elq_cid=876648
Tomi Engdahl says:
Carbon dioxide emissions are set to hit a record high this year (it’s not fine, but not hopeless)
https://tcrn.ch/2RfOeUw
Carbon dioxide emissions, one of the main contributors to the climate changes bringing extreme weather, rising oceans, and more frequent fires that have killed hundreds of Americans and cost the U.S. billions of dollars, are set to reach another record high in 2019.
“When the good news is that emissions growth is slower than last year, we need help,” said Jackson, a professor of Earth system science in Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth), in a statement. “When will emissions start to drop?”
Globally, carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel sources (which are over 90 percent of all emissions) are expected to grow 0.6 percent over the 2018 emissions. In 2018 that figure was 2.1 percent above the 2017 figure, which was, itself, a 1.5 percent increase over 2016 emissions figures.
Even as the use of coal is in drastic decline around the world, natural gas and oil use is climbing, according to researchers, and stubbornly high per capita emissions in affluent countries mean that reductions won’t be enough to offset the emissions from developing countries as they turn to natural gas and gasoline for their energy and transportation needs.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Global CO2 Emissions To Reach Record High In 2019, Despite Slowing Down
https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-co2-emissions-to-reach-record-high-in-2019-despite-slowing-down-/
The annual Global Carbon Budget for 2019 reveals that though carbon emissions are growing more slowly thanks to a decline in coal use, it is still set to grow by 0.6 percent. This equates to 40.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) entering our atmosphere.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Lightweight contenders: how innovations in packaging are turning the tide on waste
https://www.theguardian.com/product-innovation-with-henkel/2019/sep/12/lightweight-contenders-how-innovations-in-packaging-are-turning-the-tide-on-waste?utm_source=pdscl&utm_medium=sfbk&utm_campaign=Glabs_Henkel2019_240919&CMP_TU=macqn&CMP_BUNIT=labs
Small changes in product packaging can make for major improvements to the environment over time. And thanks to a new tool, manufacturers can weigh up packaging recyclability at the design stage
Tomi Engdahl says:
Euroopan ympäristöongelmat jo hyvin vakavia – “Näemme jo peruuttamattomia tuhoja”
https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/euroopan-ymparistoongelmat-jo-hyvin-vakavia-naemme-jo-peruuttamattomia-tuhoja/7649420#gs.l0m8zs
Euroopan ympäristön tila on huonontunut tällä vuosikymmenellä. Luonnon monimuotoisuus heikkenee edelleen, luonnonvaroja ylikulutetaan ja ilmastonmuutoksen vaikutukset etenevät. Näin kertoo tänään julkistettu Euroopan ympäristön tila -raportti. Raportissa korostetaan, että ympäristön tilan parantaminen vaatii nopeita muutoksia esimerkiksi liikkumiseen ja energiantuotantoon.
Monessa Euroopan kaupungissa ilmanlaatu on ajoittain huono. Pienhiukkasille altistuminen aiheuttaa joka vuosi 400 000 ennenaikaista kuolemaa. Tämä on vain yksi Euroopan vakavista ympäristöongelmista.
– Oikeastaan energia-, liikenne- ja ruokajärjestelmät ovat kaikki kestämättömällä pohjalla, jos ajatellaan ympäristöä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The European environment — state and outlook 2020: knowledge for transition to a sustainable Europe
https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer-2020
Europe will not achieve its 2030 goals without urgent action during the next 10 years to address the alarming rate of biodiversity loss, increasing impacts of climate change and the overconsumption of natural resources. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) latest ‘State of the Environment’ report states that Europe faces environmental challenges of unprecedented scale and urgency.
“Europe’s environment is at a tipping point. We have a narrow window of opportunity in the next decade to scale up measures to protect nature, lessen the impacts of climate change and radically reduce our consumption of natural resources.
We already have the knowledge, technologies and tools we need to make key production and consumption systems such as food, mobility and energy sustainable.
Tomi Engdahl says:
SSAB aloittaa Suomessa tutkimuksen fossiilivapaan teräksen tavoitteessaan
https://news.cision.com/fi/ssab/r/ssab-aloittaa-suomessa-tutkimuksen-fossiilivapaan-teraksen-tavoitteessaan,c2981973
Tomi Engdahl says:
There May Be A Million Times More Microplastics In The Oceans Than Previously Estimated
https://www.iflscience.com/environment/there-may-be-a-million-times-more-microplastics-in-the-oceans-than-previously-estimated/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Climate change: Oceans running out of oxygen as temperatures rise
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50690995
Climate change and nutrient pollution are driving the oxygen from our oceans, and threatening many species of fish.
That’s the conclusion of the biggest study of its kind, undertaken by conservation group IUCN.
Ocean deoxygenation : everyone’s problem
https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/48892
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/12/10/2316229/greenlands-ice-sheet-melting-seven-times-faster-than-in-1990s?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot%2Fto+%28%28Title%29Slashdot+%28rdf%29%29
Tomi Engdahl says:
IL Madridissa: Greta Thunberg moitti ilmastokokouksessa poliitikkoja ja yritysjohtajia – ”Jos lapsi seisoo tiellä ja auto ajaa kohti, et käännä katsettasi”
https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/ec124bcf-e699-4c9e-b72e-3b733a0873a9
Ilmastoaktivisti Greta Thunbergilta kuultiin keskiviikkoaamuna puhe Madridin ilmastokokouksessa.
Thunberg sanoi, että maat löytävät fiksuja keinoja vältellä päästövähennyksiä siirtämällä päästöjään merten yli ja tekemällä tuplalaskentaa, eli laskemalla samoja päästövähenemiä useamman maan sitoumuksiin.
– Uskon edelleen, että suurin vaara on siinä, kun poliitikot ja toimitusjohtajat näyttävät, että jotain olisi tehty, vaikka ei olisi tehty mitään.
Tälle Thunberg sai suuret aplodit salissa.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ylen kysely: Suomalaiset kannattavat ydinvoimaa ilmastotaistelun työkaluna – erityisesti nuoret pitävät kestävänä energiamuotona
EU:ssa ydinvoimasta käydään kovaa kädenvääntöä.
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11091940?utm_source=facebook-share&utm_medium=social
Lähes puolet suomalaisista pitää ydinvoimaa kestävänä energiamuotona ilmastonmuutoksen hillinnässä. Asia selviää Ylen teettämästä kyselystä.
Kysyimme asiaa näin:
EU haluaa suunnata rahoitusta ilmaston kannalta kestäviin energiamuotoihin. Onko ydinvoima mielestänne kestävä ratkaisu ilmastonmuutoksen hillitsemiseksi?
Suomalaiset vastasivat näin:
Ydinvoimaa pitää kestävänä 48 prosenttia
Ydinvoimaa ei pidä kestävänä 35 prosenttia
Kantaansa ei osaa sanoa 17 prosenttia
– Veikkaan, että ihmiset ovat aika hereillä asiasta ja tietoisia siitä, että ydinvoima on kuitenkin aika turvallista. Totta kai siinä on omat ongelmansa, mutta fossiilisissa polttoaineissa on isommat ongelmat
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ydinvoima jäämässä ilman rahoitusalan ekoleimaa EU:ssa – Energiateollisuus: Ilmastonmuutoksen torjunta kallistuu, jos päätös jää voimaan
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11108117
Tomi Engdahl says:
TIME
2019
PERSON OF THE YEAR
GRETA THUNBERG
https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2019-greta-thunberg/
“We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow,” she says, tugging on the sleeve of her blue sweatshirt. “That is all we are saying.”
It’s a simple truth, delivered by a teenage girl in a fateful moment.
United Nations is hosting this year’s climate conference. It is the last such summit before nations commit to new plans to meet a major deadline set by the Paris Agreement. Unless they agree on transformative action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the world’s temperature rise since the Industrial Revolution will hit the 1.5°C mark—an eventuality that scientists warn will expose some 350 million additional people to drought and push roughly 120 million people into extreme poverty by 2030.
For every fraction of a degree that temperatures increase, these problems will worsen. This is not fearmongering; this is science. For decades, researchers and activists have struggled to get world leaders to take the climate threat seriously. But this year, an unlikely teenager somehow got the world’s attention.
Thunberg began a global movement by skipping school: starting in August 2018, she spent her days camped out in front of the Swedish Parliament, holding a sign painted in black letters on a white background that read Skolstrejk för klimatet: “School Strike for Climate.” In the 16 months since, she has addressed heads of state at the U.N., met with the Pope, sparred with the President of the United States and inspired 4 million people to join the global climate strike on September 20, 2019, in what was the largest climate demonstration in human history. Her image has been celebrated in murals and Halloween costumes, and her name has been attached to everything from bike shares to beetles.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Raportti: Mobiiliala lähtee mukaan ilmastotalkoisiin
https://www.uusiteknologia.fi/2019/12/13/raportti-mobiiliala-lahtee-mukaan-ilmastotalkoisiin/
The Enablement Effect
The impact of mobile communications technologies on carbon emission reductions
https://www.gsma.com/betterfuture/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/GSMA_Enablement_Effect.pdf
Tomi Engdahl says:
IEEE Fellow Frede Blaabjerg received this year’s Global Energy Prize.
Power Electronics Pioneer’s Inventions Have Made Renewable Energy More Affordable
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/power-electronics-pioneers-inventions-have-made-renewable-energy-more-affordable
Tomi Engdahl says:
#TBT: “This disaster can be averted if researchers aim for goals that seem nearly impossible. We’re hopeful, because sometimes engineers and scientists do achieve the impossible.”
What It Would Really Take to Reverse Climate Change
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change
Tomi Engdahl says:
we came to the conclusion that even if Google and others had led the way toward a wholesale adoption of renewable energy, that switch would not have resulted in significant reductions of carbon dioxide emissions. Trying to combat climate change exclusively with today’s renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach. So we’re issuing a call to action. There’s hope to avert disaster if our society takes a hard look at the true scale of the problem and uses that reckoning to shape its priorities.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/what-it-would-really-take-to-reverse-climate-change
Climate scientists have definitively shown [PDF] that the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere poses a looming danger. Whether measured in dollars or human suffering, climate change threatens to take a terrible toll on civilization over the next century. To radically cut the emission of greenhouse gases, the obvious first target is the energy sector, the largest single source of global emissions.
What’s needed, we concluded, are reliable zero-carbon energy sources so cheap that the operators of power plants and industrial facilities alike have an economic rationale for switching over soon—say, within the next 40 years. Let’s face it, businesses won’t make sacrifices and pay more for clean energy based on altruism alone. Instead, we need solutions that appeal to their profit motives
Consider an average U.S. coal or natural gas plant that has been in service for decades; its cost of electricity generation is about 4 to 6 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour.
The owner would have to factor in the capital investment for construction and continued costs of operation and maintenance—and still make a profit while generating electricity for less than $0.04/kWh to $0.06/kWh.
That’s a tough target to meet. But that’s not the whole story. Although the electricity from a giant coal plant is physically indistinguishable from the electricity from a rooftop solar panel, the value of generated electricity varies. In the marketplace, utility companies pay different prices for electricity, depending on how easily it can be supplied to reliably meet local demand.
“Dispatchable” power, which can be ramped up and down quickly, fetches the highest market price. Distributed power, generated close to the electricity meter, can also be worth more, as it avoids the costs and losses associated with transmission and distribution
Residential customers in the contiguous United States pay from $0.09/kWh to $0.20/kWh, a significant portion of which pays for transmission and distribution costs.
distributed, dispatchable power source could prompt a switchover if it could undercut those end-user prices, selling electricity for less than $0.09/kWh to $0.20/kWh in local marketplaces.
Unfortunately, most of today’s clean generation sources can’t provide power that is both distributed and dispatchable. Solar panels, for example, can be put on every rooftop but can’t provide power if the sun isn’t shining. Yet if we invented a distributed, dispatchable power technology, it could transform the energy marketplace and the roles played by utilities and their customers.
Across the board, we need solutions that don’t require subsidies or government regulations that penalize fossil fuel usage. Of course, anything that makes fossil fuels more expensive, whether it’s pollution limits or an outright tax on carbon emissions, helps competing energy technologies locally. But industry can simply move manufacturing (and emissions) somewhere else.
Subsidies may help at first, but only private sector involvement, with eager money-making investors, will lead to rapid adoption of a new technology. Each year’s profits must be sufficient to keep investors happy while also financing the next year’s capital investments.
if all power plants and industrial facilities switch over to zero-carbon energy sources right now, we’ll still be left with a ruinous amount of CO2 in the atmosphere
To bring levels down below the safety threshold, Hansen’s models show that we must not only cease emitting CO2 as soon as possible but also actively remove the gas from the air and store the carbon in a stable form. Hansen suggests reforestation as a carbon sink. We’re all for more trees, and we also exhort scientists and engineers to seek disruptive technologies in carbon storage.
Today, the energy innovation cycle is measured in decades, in large part because so little money is spent on critical types of R&D.
We’re hopeful, because sometimes engineers and scientists do achieve the impossible. Consider the space program,
Tomi Engdahl says:
Here are 3 reasons (among many) that climate change impacts in the Arctic matter for you.
http://on.forbes.com/61811V2k7
The study, published in the journal Nature, used 26 independent satellite datasets to evaluate how Greenland is contributing to sea level rise over the period of 1992 to 2018. It also forecasts “an approximate 3 to 5 inches (70 to 130 millimeters) of global sea level rise by 2100”, according to a NASA press release, which aligns with worst-case scenario projections. While it is not likely that all of the Greenland or Antarctic Ice Sheets will melt, even a portion of melting at these observed rates is dangerous to humanity. The Arctic Report Card is right to present the findings with a sense of urgency.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Some scientists are more worried about cooling than warming of environment:
“Driving forces include the sun, the atmosphere, and its interaction with the ocean,” Wu said. “We have detected no evidence of human influence. But that doesn’t mean we can just relax and do nothing.”
Wu said the latest study, with 10,000 years’ worth of new data, not only helped to draw a more complete picture of the 500-year cycle, but also revealed a previously unknown mechanism behind the phenomenon, which suggested the impact of the sun on the Earth’s climate may be greater than previously thought.
As a result of the research findings, Wu said she was now more worried about cooling than warming.
“A sharp drop of temperature will benefit nobody. The biggest problem is, we know it will come, but we don’t know exactly when.”
China scientists warn of global cooling trick up nature’s sleeve
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3022136/china-scientists-warn-global-cooling-trick-natures-sleeve
Research sheds light on 500-year Chinese weather cycle and suggests a cool change could be on the way
Tomi Engdahl says:
Greenland ice loss much faster than expected
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/Greenland_ice_loss_much_faster_than_expected
The Greenland ice sheet is losing mass seven times faster than in the 1990s, according to new research.
They estimate that Greenland lost 3.8 trillion tonnes of ice between 1992 and 2018 – enough to push global sea level up by 10.6 millimetres. Over the study period, the rate of ice loss was found to have increased seven-fold from 33 billion tonnes per year in the 1990s to 254 billion tonnes per year in the last decade.
Marcus Engdahl from ESA, one of the co-authors of the paper comments, “Satellite observations show that the Greenland ice sheet has reacted rapidly to environmental change by losing mass. This is especially worrying as the global mean sea-level rise caused by the melting ice sheet is irreversible in human or societal time scales.”
Previous satellite-based studies describe Greenland and Antarctica ice sheet losses and their contribution to global sea-level rise over recent decades.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Yksipuolinen ilmastokeskustelu alkaa muistuttaa jo taistolaisvuosien mielipideterroria – se oli kunniatonta aikaa, joka pitäisi perata läpikotaisin
https://www.satakunnankansa.fi/a/3bc822fe-5f87-41cb-8dd3-95911408c833?c=1528874183846
Ilmastokeskustelun yksipuolisuus, päälle hyökyvä ilmapiiri, jossa ei eriäviä mielipiteitä sallita, on nyt tätä aikaa. Monelle varttuneelle kansalaiselle se tuo mieleen 1970-luvun repivät taistolaisvuodet, jolloin sallittiin vain yksi totuus.
Enemmistö suomalaisista tuskin ajattelee ilmastonmuutoksesta yhtä jyrkästi kuin he, jotka ovat nyt eniten äänessä.
Medialla ja erityisesti sosiaalisella medialla on osuutensa myös nykyisessä keskusteluilmapiirissä.
Tomi Engdahl says:
WASHINGTON D.C.
‘So they knew’: Ocasio-Cortez questions Exxon scientist on climate crisis denial
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVW9vJ773k&feature=share
House Democrats on Wednesday laid out evidence that the oil behemoth ExxonMobil had known since the 1970s about the potential for a climate crisis and intentionally sowed doubt about it. One of those testifying was Martin Hoffert, a scientist consultant for Exxon Research and Engineering in the 1980s.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Greenland ice loss much faster than expected
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Space_for_our_climate/Greenland_ice_loss_much_faster_than_expected
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.climate.news/wp-content/uploads/sites/381/2019/08/Battle-of-the-Graphs-Mann-vs-Ball.jpg
Tomi Engdahl says:
Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2018
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1855-2
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tästähän ilmastomuutoshysteriassa on kyse: halutaan pakottaa lisää sosialismia (ja sitä myötä myös totalitarismia) kaikille länsimaille. Hintalappu on melkoinen:
“Ilmastonmuutoksen torjuntaan vaadittavien investointien hinta on 50 000 miljardia dollaria, arvioi Aalto-yliopiston teknillisen fysiikan professori Peter Lund.”
Talousnobelisti haluaa kapitalismille uuden alun: Kaikki investoinnit palvelemaan ilmastonmuutoksen vastaista taistelua
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11115531?fbclid=IwAR0fijZINsm_sMDFwee-kD0qEi_Hp6N8GFmemfOx8mAucSYOpRlN-1e4tjs&utm_source=facebook-share&utm_medium=social
Maailma puhuu nyt Green Dealeistä. Puhe ei ole pelkkää viherpesua, sillä ilmastonmuutos taltutetaan jättimäisillä investoinneilla.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Professori Peter Lund sanoo, että sähkösektorilla jo nyt uusi teknologia on kahmaissut 60–80 prosenttia uusista investoinneista. Ennusteiden mukaan 2020-luvun lopulla suurin osa Euroopan kuluttamasta sähköstä on tuotettu uudella teknologialla.
Nyt Euroopan unionin tavoite on tehdä koko sähköntuotannosta päästötöntä vuoteen 2050 mennessä. Käytännössä tämä tulee tarkoittamaan sitä, että 30 vuodessa kaikki fossiilinen tuotanto on ajettu alas
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11115531?fbclid=IwAR0fijZINsm_sMDFwee-kD0qEi_Hp6N8GFmemfOx8mAucSYOpRlN-1e4tjs&utm_source=facebook-share&utm_medium=social
Tomi Engdahl says:
Chicken has come from behind to become by far the most-consumed meat in the United States. Here’s why.
How Chicken Beat Beef in America
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/how-chicken-beat-beef-in-america
For generations, beef was the United States’ dominant meat, followed by pork. When annual beef consumption peaked in 1976 at about 40 kilograms (boneless weight) per capita, it accounted for nearly half of all meat. Chicken had just a 20 percent share. But chicken caught up by 2010, and in 2018 chicken’s share came to 36 percent of the total, nearly 20 percentage points higher than beef. The average American now eats 30 kg of boneless chicken every year, bought overwhelmingly as cut-up or processed parts (from boneless breast to Chicken McNuggets).
The United States’ constant obsession with diet, in this case the fear of dietary cholesterol and saturated fat in red meat, has been a factor in the shift. The differences, however, are not striking: 100 grams of lean beef has 1.5 grams of saturated fat, compared with 1 gram in skinless chicken breast—which actually has more cholesterol.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hiilivoiman käyttö 1927-2019. Useimmissa Euroopan maissa hiilivoiman käyttö on alkanut hiipua, samaa ei voi sanot kehittyvistä maista, eritoten Intia, Kiina ja Yhdysvaltain kaakkoisosa erottuvat mustina alueina, joissa hiilivoimaa käytetään valtavasti.
Tällä vauhdilla Intiasta tulee koko Eurooppaa suurempi saastuttaja jo lähivuosina ja jos kehitys jatkuu, Intiasta tulee koko planeetan suurin saastuttaja.
COALEvery Coal Power Plant in the World (1927-2019)
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/every-coal-power-plant-1927-2019/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Ilmastonmuutoksesta puhuttiin vuonna 2019 enemmän kuin koskaan, mutta liha on yhä suomalaisten ykkösherkku ja lentojen määrä vain kasva
https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11135960?utm_source=facebook-share&utm_medium=social
Sekasyönti eli fleksaus nostaa päätään: kasvisruokaa lounaalla ja kanaa illalla.
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/stephen-hawking-thinks-humanity-only-has-100-years-left-on-earth
Tomi Engdahl says:
Prince William Launches Multimillion Dollar Earthshot Prize for Climate Action
https://www.ecowatch.com/prince-william-prize-climate-action-2643128397.html
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge and second in line to the throne, announced today a multimillion-dollar prize to encourage the world’s greatest problem solvers to tackle the climate crisis, as Reuters reported.
The newly announced Earthshot Prize, which bills itself as “a decade of action to repair the Earth,” has been planned for the last year, according to a statement from Kensington Palace. The prize will be given to five winners a year for the next 10 years starting in 2021 with the goal of funding 50 creative and achievable solutions to the world’s greatest threat by 2030, as CNN reported.
The name Earthshot is a play on the term moonshot, which is shorthand for labelling ambitious and groundbreaking goals.
Tomi Engdahl says:
8 kestävää säästövinkkiä – näillä valinnoilla säästät vuodessa 5 000 euroa ja 2 500 kiloa hiilidioksidia
https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2018/11/08/8-kestavaa-saastovinkkia-nailla-valinnoilla-saastat-vuodessa-5000-euroa-ja-2500
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Kuluttajien muovipakkausten keräys
Ilman keräystä ei ole kierrätystä – lajittele muovipakkaukset. Käytä omalla kiinteistöllä olevaa keräysastiaa tai vie Rinki-Ekopisteeseen.
http://www.uusiomuovi.fi/fin/kuluttajalle/usein_kysyttya_kierratyksesta/
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Food Trends For 2020: The Push To Cut Back On Plastic Gets Personal
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelinemaynard/2019/12/09/food-trends-for-2020-the-push-to-cut-back-on-plastic-gets-personal/
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Scientists caught ‘adjusting’ sea level data to create false impression of rising oceans
https://www.sott.net/article/413892-Scientists-caught-adjusting-sea-level-data-to-create-false-impression-of-rising-oceans
A scientific paper published by a team of Australian researchers has revealed a startling find: Scientists at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) have been “adjusting” historical data regarding tide levels in the Indian Ocean. Their “highly questionable” activities have depicted rapidly rising seas – but the truth is that there is no reason to be alarmed at all. Scientists have found that sea levels are stable – and have been for the entirety of the 20th century.
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Murdoch-owned newspapers in Australia are accused of downplaying massive bushfires, and The Australian has been consistent in pushing climate change denialism
The Australian: Murdoch-owned newspaper accused of downplaying bushfires in favour of picnic races
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/04/the-australian-murdoch-owned-newspaper-accused-of-downplaying-bushfires-in-favour-of-picnic-races
Herald Sun relegates bushfires to page 4 while Courier Mail brings good news via ‘Onion Oracle’
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https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/39e3b568-129f-4d7a-9d14-70846d402949
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‘Most ice on Earth is very close to melting conditions’
https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/most-ice-earth-very-close-melting-conditions.html?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=Most%20ice%20earth%20very%20close%20melting%20conditions
We need to understand how glaciers are shrinking in order to better adapt to climate change impacts such as changes to water supply, landslides and avalanches, says Professor Andreas Kääb, a glacier expert from the University of Oslo in Norway.
Measuring ice melt and the unprecedented changes in our cryosphere – the frozen parts of the planet which regulate the climate by reflecting the sun’s heat – is crucial for understanding future situations, he says.
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Global Weather Has Been Affected By Climate Change Every Single Day Since 2012
https://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-weather-affected-climate-change-every-single-day-since-2012/
Despite the overwhelming evidence for climate change, deniers love to point out that it can still sometimes be a bit chilly outside as a basis for their ridiculous arguments. Scientists will naturally counter such claims by explaining the difference between weather and climate, but having been repeatedly ignored, researchers are now confronting the skeptics on their own terms by showing how the weather paints a picture of global warming. Every. Single. Day.
Results showed that global temperatures have been higher than natural models predicted every single day since March 2012, suggesting that the weather can indeed be taken as an indicator of climate change.
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Scientists call for a complete ban on GLITTER because the particles are polluting oceans and hurting marine life
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7777837/Scientists-call-complete-ban-GLITTER-particles-polluting-oceans.html
https://www.glitternisti.com/ecoglitter
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CO2 is the best-known greenhouse gas but it’s not the only one. Scientists are trying to better understand the sources and sinks of methane
Trees and doodlebugs emit methane – the question is, how?
https://horizon-magazine.eu/article/trees-and-doodlebugs-emit-methane-question-how.html?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=Methane-sinks
Trees and insects may play a significant role in the emission of methane – a potent greenhouse gas – and improving our understanding of exactly how this happens could help in targeting more effective ways to fight global warming.
Because methane has more than 80 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide over 20 years, the emissions from trees – and any changes in these due to global warming – may have significant implications for Earth’s climate.
‘It seems that boreal tree canopies emit methane in the daytime, not in the night time, and that the methane emissions follow photosynthetic activity and radiation (sunlight),’ Dr Pihlatie said.
While global methane emission levels are much lower than for carbon dioxide, they have been increasing steadily in recent years, with figures from November 2019 showing a marked rise.
There are no definitive explanations yet of why this is the case, but some research has pointed to the dramatic increase in fracking for shale gas as a prime suspect for increases over the last decade.
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In an interview with the Daily Mail, American singer Meat Loaf turned his attention to Greta Thunberg—saying “She has been brainwashed into thinking that there is climate change and there isn’t.”
Angry Reactions To Greta Thunberg’s Activism Speak Volumes
http://on.forbes.com/61801wWia