Seems like people should do more traveling virtually, especially now with the surge in the pandemic. https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2020/nov/17/people-cause-global-aviation-emissions-study-covid-19
Archive for the ‘Environment’ Category:
2020-11-11 Spain To Ban New Extraction, Subsidies, Close Coal Plants
Spain will close most of the coal fired power plants within a year. Plans to stop fossil fuel subsidies and ban new extraction. https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/11/climate-heroes-the-countries-pioneering-a-green-future This is what all countries including the US should be doing.
2020-11-04 The Life And Death Of A Rose Bush
It’s the morning after the elections and there are still a lot of races too close to call. Newsmedia are milking the event for as much as they can, but you can’t hurry up the system. Remember that the real (electoral) votes don’t come until December. Years ago I watched an episode on PBS about
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Generate Hydrogen With A Solar Concentrator = Parabolic Mirror + Other Hydrogen Articles
This needs an expensive catalyser. But the solar energy is free and it generates about a kilogram of hydrogen a day, which can power a car for 150 km. We need green hydrogen to power the whole world and leave the fossil fuels in the ground. Now! https://youtu.be/uj-xFUnN96k ************************** The European Commission plans on having
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2020-10-19 What’s Causing Climate Change In 10 Charts
Quote from end of Vox article >> In the end, the conversation about responsibility leads where all climate conversations lead: The only hope of avoiding catastrophic damage is most every country decarbonizing as rapidly as they are capable, regardless of their histories and rivalries. Electricity must be rapidly decarbonized to get rid of coal; heating
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2020-10-15 Irrigate With Moisture From Air
I’ve seen so many locations in Southern California that are pretty much barren mostly because the country is lacking water. The cost of water in So. Cal. is high because there are so many people that the water they need has to be imported from hundreds of miles away — as far as Northern California.
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2020-10-14 $5 Trillion Asset Owners Commit to 29% Reduction in GHGs
This is very good news. The $5 trillion asset owners are committing to divest of 29% of greenhouse gas polluters. The pressure is on corporations that don’t make changes to reduce their carbon footprint. https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/13/top-asset-managers-commit-to-big-carbon-emissions-cuts
2020-10-13 Climate Change Lawsuits, Legal Actions
Ooh, this article is finally showing that the ones who are suffering are getting really serious. Those corporations who deny climate change are going to have to answer to the courts. We should hope and pray that the courts handle these types of cases as expeditiously as possible, because to delay would be extremely harmful
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2020-10-13 Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, Acid Rain, Etc.
What do we have to do to wake people up? This is a good article about actions we, the whole world, took decades ago to stop acid rain, ozone depletion, etc. We have to take action again with climate change! NOW!! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/12/climate-crisis-campaigns-pledge-real-change A quote from this article: >> But a changing political discourse in many
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2020-10-12 #StopHateForProfit & Facebook
From my message to moline I joined the #StopHateForProfit boycott on July 1, and last week I found that it hasn’t done anything to persuade FB to stop the hate for profit. But I found that Congress is seriously considering investigating the internet giants including FB for antitrust and being monopolies. I think Amazon and
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