OMG! China is expected to install 1200 GW of solar and wind by 2026! To give you an idea of how huge an amount that is, the total electric generation for the United States is about 1200 GW! That is an enormous amount! Quote from article: << China is expected to install 1,200 GW of
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Should we try to do geoengineering? https://biznewspost.com/health/could-crushed-rocks-absorb-enough-carbon-to-curb-global-warming/
Quote: << The physical hazards posed by climate change have manifest humanitarian impacts. For example, in scenario-based analysis for Race to Resilience, a campaign led by the UN High-Level Climate Champions, McKinsey found that in a 2.0°C world, roughly a billion more people would be exposed to climate hazards than in a 1.5°C world. In
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This shows the shocking amount of land used for cattle.
On the Olympic Peninsula in Washington Rising ocean waters threaten tribal lands 3 min video. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/rising-ocean-waters-threaten-tribal-lands/
Eagles are being protected by a camera system with artificial intelligence called Identi-Flight that spots birds such as eagles and shuts down the wind turbine until the bird has flown away. Eagles and other animals are threatened by bites from black flies called buffalo gnats. High rainfall causes the flies to hatch early. The huge
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This 6 min. YouTube video talks about using sunlight to change CO2 into green fuel. I still think it’s not doing anything to reduce the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere. https://youtu.be/l5_vrdA4uCg
These NASA web pages explain the carbon cycle. The document is at least 10 years old and the references are even older, but not a lot has changed. https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/CarbonCycle/page1.php
Ourworldindata.org quote: << There is also a highly unequal distribution of land use between livestock and crops for human consumption. If we combine pastures used for grazing with land used to grow crops for animal feed, livestock accounts for 77% of global farming land. While livestock takes up most of the world’s agricultural land it
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Zaelke said, “Cutting methane is the single biggest and fastest way to slow warming in the next 2 decades.” https://amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/17/us-and-eu-pledge-30-cut-in-methane-emissions-to-limit-global-heating
