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Climate Change, 'Greenhouse' effects and Politics: Continued DENIAL (#6)
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Another decade is over, A new decade is begun, So what have we done...? Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity' wrote: Human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways, a major UN scientific report has said. Climate change: Five things we have learned from the IPCC report wrote: Climate change is widespread, rapid and intensifying - and it's down to us COP26: Minister says summit must be a turning point wrote: ... today's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) "makes appalling reading". Climate change: Make coal history says PM after climate warning wrote: Coal needs to be consigned to history to limit global warming, says PM Boris Johnson, describing a UN report on climate change as "sobering"... Why China's climate policy matters to us all wrote: China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change... What is climate change? A really simple guide wrote: ... Human activities have increased carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, driving up temperatures. Extreme weather and melting polar ice are among the possible effects... Mauna Loa carbon dioxide forecast for 2021 wrote: Carbon dioxide will continue to build up in the atmosphere in 2021 due to ongoing emissions from fossil fuel burning, land use change and cement production. This year's annual rise is predicted to be smaller than most recent years, due to a temporary strengthening of the land carbon sink associated with the current La Niña conditions. Nevertheless, atmospheric CO2 will reach levels 50% higher than pre-industrial concentrations, this year... This follows on from our previous thread in our long running series... How long do we need?! Too long...? All on our only one planet... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
For an immediate example: Weather warning as thunderstorms cause severe flooding wrote: Heavy showers and thunderstorms are causing severe flooding and travel disruption across Scotland... We do seem to be getting very much more of that, almost each month recently as opposed to what was more of a rarity... More heat, more atmospheric moisture, leading to a bigger deluge... [Edit] See: Extreme weather: How it is connected to climate change? [/Edit] All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/09/opinions/climate-crisis-ipcc-report-john-sutter/index.html For decades, fossil-fuel companies and politicians have pushed a false narrative that if we change our habits -- drive electric cars, fly less, cut beef from our diets -- that they won't need to make wholesale changes to the economy. Individual actions matter in that they can reduce emissions, and they do connect each of us to a massive global crisis. All of that's good. But, alone, it is nowhere near enough to battle the climate crisis on the scale that's required. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
That hydrogen, if it is extracted from natural gas is a very dirty green fuel. How green is blue hydrogen? Abstract |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Thanks for that. As always, can we overcome the fiendishly lucrative corruption that surrounds the 'game' of fossil fuels?... Meanwhile, our planet is Damned ever further towards the fires of Hell and Damnation... All on our only one planet... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Yet another ongoing example: Images show decline of California's 'life source' Highly graphic. Deny that?! All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Deny this?... Europe’s July floods: So rare and extreme, they’re hard to study wrote: One river basin might have seen a 1-in-15,000-year event... All on our only one planet... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
Is Earth a Water World? Wat 70%. It Rains. And Water seeks a Level. There is No 'Extreme or Exceptional' when it Comes to Rain. Disappear HuWoManKind and All Existing Human Structures and it Will Continue to Rain. Lightly and Heavy and In-Between. And Something Not Human will be durin' da BACKSTROKE BABY!!!!! Yep Oh Yeah - DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDNied!!!!! May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Try explaining that to those people who suffered their homes being washed away in those areas? Try explaining that away to those in New Orleans now? (Hurricane Ida... The hurricane that didn't subside upon landfall...!) Try explaining away the recent anomalous first rainfall in Greenland! (That region should always be at below freezing...) And our climate vital Gulf Stream becomes ever more strangled and stifled for dire consequences... Explain that?... All in our only one world of denial... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
MOMMY: He is MAKING ME Read His Posts Thoughts and Prayers. GOoD Thoughts and GOoD Prayers. HATERWORLD Vs THOUGHTs and PRAYERs World. It Is a BATTLE ROYALE. Nobody LOVEs Me. Everybody HATEs Me. Why Don't I Go Eat Worms. Tasty Treats are Wormy Meat. Yes Send message Joined: 16 Jun 02 Posts: 6895 Credit: 6,588,977 RAC: 0 |
It Has Been Explained. Earth is a WATER World. Been Raining fO Billions of Years. In All dA Ways it Rains Now and Ways it Rained then. Lightly and DOWN POURs Lasting for Days Weeks Months. HuWomanKind LIves and Puts Structures in dA Way of WATER Seeking Its Level. Water HAS to GO where It Needs to Go - To Level This Has Been Known fo Quite Awhile. LIVE and BUILD Structures and NOT ACCOUNT For This and SUFFER CONSEQUENCEs. Or Build KNOWING What Water Will Do and Your LIVEs and STRUCTUREs Will Be SAVED HuWomanKind Complaining and DYING 'bout Their WRONG Actions. CRY ME A RIVER. Or BRAIN UP BABY!!!!! Yep May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24911 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
E5 or E10 - That is the question The answer is: Those with incompatible vehicles will have to use E5 super unleaded instead, which the RAC says can cost 12p a litre more than standard unleaded.Musthava profit speaks. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36765 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
E5 or E10 - That is the questionE10 has been widely available down under since the 1990's (we never had E5 here) and vehicles sold here from 1988 that don't require premium grade fuel are quite safe with E10 which my old '95 girl has been drinking for over 20yrs. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
'Efficiency' or costs?... It certainly ain't anything to do with the proportion of CO2 pollution produced: UK fires up coal power plant as gas prices soar wrote: ... Warm, still autumn weather has meant wind farms have not generated as much power as normal, while soaring prices have made it too costly to rely on gas. There is good practical sense and good economic sense to keep some existing coal power alive and available as 'emergency reserve' capacity. However... We need to rejig the Markets to go truly clean.
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
As has been the same story repeated over how many years? To limit warming to 1.5°C, huge amounts of fossil fuels need to go unused wrote: Nearly 60 percent of oil, 90 percent of coal should stay in the ground... And each year, those numbers get more extreme and urgent. Can good sense, and political will, overcome the planet destroying greed of the dirty old fossils industry? All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36765 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Meanwhile here down under our denialist federal government has been involved in more environmental chicanery. Morrison Government pushed for removal of Paris Agreement targets in UK free trade deal. SloMo and his bunch of environmental terrorists just won't learn to do the right thing. :-( |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
For some very sobering reading, for an ancient belch of CO2 dumped into our atmosphere: Mass extinction likely caused by lethal temperatures due to volcanic CO2 venting wrote: The Permian extinction, also called Permian-Triassic extinction or end-Permian extinction is the most severe biodiversity loss in Earth's history. According to Britannica, this extinction was characterized by the elimination of over 95 percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial species. This time around, we don't have the volcanic activity. Instead, we have the mighty pollution of human industry and human farming... All on our only one planet... Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
YES! The Australian Government can undo their political short term blind greed and greatly benefit ALL of Australia and the world... This is how: Yes, it is entirely possible for Australia to phase out thermal coal within a decade wrote: ... if the world doesn't boost climate action urgently, Australia can expect more frequent and severe climate disasters such as droughts, heatwaves, fires and floods. Way to go! All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Yet another leader has recognized the ever increasing costs of continued human industrialized climate pollution: On thin ice: Near North Pole, a warning on climate change wrote: A massive icebreaker cuts its way through the frozen waters of the Arctic Ocean, clearing a path to the North Pole... Here's hoping other leaders take positive action before ever worsening disasters take over our world... All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
From a reckless pollution scandalous disaster that still poisons the Gulf of Mexico: Continued and ongoing: Tissue abnormalities found in oysters years after Deepwater Horizon oil spill ... resulting in the world's worst oil spill in history with more than 4 million barrels of oil released into the Gulf of Mexico. Though the short-term impact of the oil spill on local wildlife was widely researched among scientists and discussed in the media, there has been relatively little research on the long-term effects of the disaster... All on our only one planet, Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
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