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Biden Cancels Offshore Drilling in Alaska and Gulf of Mexico
The administration won't move forward with the three leases in the Cook Inlet and the Gulf because of "lack of industry interest" and legal difficulties.
gizmodo.com
Oil and Gas M&A is Undermining the Energy Transition. It’s time to act.
Oil and gas companies sell assets for a variety of business reasons, many of which are unrelated to net zero strategy. Regardless of the motivation, asset transfers can have significant climate consequences depending on the characteristics of buyers and sellers.
business.edf.org
EU plans ‘massive’ increase in green energy to help end reliance on Russia
European Commission says extra €210bn needed over next five years to pay for phasing out of Russian fossil fuels
www.theguardian.com
Trees aren’t a climate change cure-all – 2 new studies on the life and death of trees in a warming world show why
More carbon dioxide in the air doesn’t necessarily mean more growth for trees, and the increasing risk of wildfires and drought has major consequences, as an interactive map shows.
theconversation.com
The Annihilation of Florida: An Overlooked National Tragedy ❧ Current Affairs
<p>An accelerating race to destroy Florida’s wilderness shows what we value and previews our collective future during the climate crisis.</p>
www.currentaffairs.org
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Hi Articalys
I started this thread to avoid the doomposting that ends up happening in all other climate change threads on ERA. We still have some negative news in this thread but overall it's not as bad, afterall not everything is going well...
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This seems doable and would help tremendously.
I already replaced a lot of red meat I consume with protein or veggie meals. There are more and more options to replace meat or mix with meat, so If you don't want to cut it completely, then you can at least reduce the amount you eat.
www.nature.com
I already replaced a lot of red meat I consume with protein or veggie meals. There are more and more options to replace meat or mix with meat, so If you don't want to cut it completely, then you can at least reduce the amount you eat.
Eating one-fifth less beef could halve deforestation
Model suggests that switching to microbial ‘meat’ can cut carbon emissions.
www.nature.com
Did I ever give any indication I was saying to or to not post anything in particular? Don't try and put words in my mouth, I was just commenting on the trending direction of the posts here (which lines up with how news is going in the real world) and that this is generally turning into more of a climate change discussion thread rather than specifically somewhere to post "good news only", which is fine.
I'm fatalistic and agree that we're all screwed anyway, so I don't really care what you're posting. Mostly just wanted to let the OP know if they wanted to offer any counterarguments.
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I think I sounded overly aggressive. I think Articalys has a point and I've largely just been spamming the thread with negative news for however long at this point. I think the thread was started from a point of activism, so it should just be that. Even if news spam is fine, it should be activism related and not just the negative news of the hour.
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California breaks record by achieving 100% renewable energy for the first time - Earth Day
As Earth Month drew to a close, the state of California was recently able to produce virtually all of their energy needs from renewable sources for the first time.
www.earthday.org
This seems doable and would help tremendously.
I already replaced a lot of red meat I consume with protein or veggie meals. There are more and more options to replace meat or mix with meat, so If you don't want to cut it completely, then you can at least reduce the amount you eat.
Eating one-fifth less beef could halve deforestation
Model suggests that switching to microbial ‘meat’ can cut carbon emissions.
Same here. While I find it hard to let go of meat, so far I've taken beef out of my daily intake. I only reserve it for eating out.
Fantastic news! What's important is that we continue sharing the positive news.
The goal isn't to deny the shit happening right now, but instead not dwell on it 100% of the time. We can do this by sharing and reposting good stuff like this.
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Plastic waste across Australia's beaches and coastlines has declined by a third over the past six years as a result of a wide range of local initiatives to reduce litter, according to research by Australia's science agency.
China has reduced air pollution nearly as much in seven years as the US did in three decades, helping to bring down average global smog levels in the process. The amount of harmful particulates in the air in China fell 40% from 2013 to 2020, according to the University of Chicago's Energy Policy Institute, which would add about two years to average life expectancy if sustained.
Last year, local governments across the U.S. announced a combined 207 megawatts of energy from 21 landfill solar projects, according to recent figures from the World Resources Institute and RMI, an organization that advances clean energy projects. That's a 10-fold increase in energy capacity compared with recent years, and it includes the three largest projects in the country to date.
I don't have any big news to share, but we just got an electric mower today and I'm kind of in love with it.
Out of curiosity, which one did you get? We moved away from a gas mower a few years back but the manual mowers aren't all that great.
It's the HART 40-Volt Cordless 18-inch Push Mower
Got it for $218 plus tax at Wal-Mart. Used it for my front lawn today, and I'm impressed with it so far.
Nice. How long have Electric Lawnmowers been a thing?
With other appliances such as vacuums, you'd assume it would've existed for a while.
With other appliances such as vacuums, you'd assume it would've existed for a while.
First time you switch it on and go "wait is this fuckin thing even on-oh!" is pretty magical, isn't it?
My dad has had one for 3 decades or so... so they aren't exactly new...
I guess Don means one with internal batteries lol. Not sure how long those have been around but they seem to be pretty popular now. My family has only ever owned 'electric' ones but I assume like FiiX means, they are plug-in ones.
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Good job!
All the appliances I use outside are electric, but not my mower... I thought about it and it's probably better to keep my old one for now since it doesn't use a lot of gas and is still working fine... I don't cut my lawn very often.
Don't forget to keep a part of it uncut for flowers and insects :)
Yeah, its usually best to wait until your gas appliance/vehicle breaks down before going out and buying electric.
In other good news:
China to ban new heavy industrial projects in key zones
China showing how economic policy is done.
Would be even better if they fined(for billions) or kicked out any foreign businesses who rely on oil and coal too much.
It still doesn't dismiss their nationalism and other foreign policy bullshit.
China to ban new heavy industrial projects in key zones
China showing how economic policy is done.
Would be even better if they fined(for billions) or kicked out any foreign businesses who rely on oil and coal too much.
It still doesn't dismiss their nationalism and other foreign policy bullshit.
One of the best things I've ever done. Even ignoring the environmental and financial benefits they're just so much better to use than the old petrol ones, fucking hell I hated those things.
I don't think geoengineering is generally a great long term solution, but for some actual answers:
Controversial Spewed Iron Experiment Succeeds as Carbon Sink
Dumping iron into the ocean stimulates blooms of diatoms that pull down carbon dioxide in the atmosphere--but only under the right conditions
There have studies on this in the past (e.g. 1, 2, 3) and one of the main issues seem to be that the co2 remains high enough in the water table that it doesn't really matter. From the above article:
The combination of areas that this would actually work in (i.e. low iron areas of the ocean) that are also sufficiently deep might not end up being that effective.
In the context of iron fertilisation as a geoengineering tool for atmospheric CO2 removal, SAGE has clearly demonstrated that a significant proportion of the low iron ocean may not produce a phytoplankton bloom in response to iron addition.
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A Lagrangian particle-tracking approach is employed to analyze water mass trajectories over a 100 year simulation. By the end of the experiment, for a sequestration depth of 1000 m, 66% of the carbon had been reexposed to the atmosphere, taking an average of 37.8 years.
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Fertilization using iron can increase the uptake of CO2 across the sea surface. But most of this uptake is transient; long-term sequestration is difficult to assess.
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Global Offshore Wind Pipeline Doubles in a Year
The global pipeline of offshore wind projects which are operational, under construction, consented, or being planned has almost doubled over the past twelve months, from 429 GW in 2021 to 846 GW today, new research published by RenewableUK shows.
Europe has a pipeline of 350 GW (with 26 GW fully operational) and the pipeline in countries outside Europe stands at 496 GW, RenewableUK's latest EnergyPulse market intelligence data report shows.
According to the report, China has the biggest offshore wind project pipeline at 98 GW, the UK is in second place at 91 GW (up from 55 GW a year ago), the US is third with 80 GW and Germany is fourth with 57 GW.
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www.offshorewind.biz
The global pipeline of offshore wind projects which are operational, under construction, consented, or being planned has almost doubled over the past twelve months, from 429 GW in 2021 to 846 GW today, new research published by RenewableUK shows.
Europe has a pipeline of 350 GW (with 26 GW fully operational) and the pipeline in countries outside Europe stands at 496 GW, RenewableUK's latest EnergyPulse market intelligence data report shows.
According to the report, China has the biggest offshore wind project pipeline at 98 GW, the UK is in second place at 91 GW (up from 55 GW a year ago), the US is third with 80 GW and Germany is fourth with 57 GW.
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Global Offshore Wind Pipeline Doubles in a Year
The global pipeline of offshore wind projects which are operational, under construction, consented, or being planned has almost doubled over the past twelve months, from 429 GW in 2021 to 846 GW today, new research published by RenewableUK shows.
www.offshorewind.biz
Global Offshore Wind Pipeline Doubles in a Year
The global pipeline of offshore wind projects which are operational, under construction, consented, or being planned has almost doubled over the past twelve months, from 429 GW in 2021 to 846 GW today, new research published by RenewableUK shows.
Europe has a pipeline of 350 GW (with 26 GW fully operational) and the pipeline in countries outside Europe stands at 496 GW, RenewableUK's latest EnergyPulse market intelligence data report shows.
According to the report, China has the biggest offshore wind project pipeline at 98 GW, the UK is in second place at 91 GW (up from 55 GW a year ago), the US is third with 80 GW and Germany is fourth with 57 GW.
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More:
Global Offshore Wind Pipeline Doubles in a Year
The global pipeline of offshore wind projects which are operational, under construction, consented, or being planned has almost doubled over the past twelve months, from 429 GW in 2021 to 846 GW today, new research published by RenewableUK shows.
Niccccceee
Also found this PC Gamer article
Cloud gaming will save you money but won't save the planet
At this point, we need to push tech companies even harder to use alternate energy sources in their data centers.
36 Countries Are Gaining More Trees than They’re Losing
Satellite data shows that that 130.9 million hectares of land — an area larger than Peru — gained tree cover globally between 2000 and 2020, but loss still greatly exceeds growth.
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Amazon: e-cargo bikes to replace thousands of van deliveries in London
Online retailer opening ‘micromobility’ hub in Hackney as part of efforts to cut carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
Super cool. We need them here yesterday.
On another note, Gotta push more tech companies into adding solar to their power-hungry facilities, especially for huge server farms.
On another note, Gotta push more tech companies into adding solar to their power-hungry facilities, especially for huge server farms.
Daily monitoring reveals global CO2 emission patterns - Nature Geoscience
Monitoring of the daily global CO2 emissions in 2020 reveals the spatial–temporal pattern of the drop in emissions due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The daily CO2 emission changes also reveal different patterns of human activities and fossil CO2 emissions across countries, sectors and...
www.nature.com
Decrease in CO2 emissions during pandemic shutdown shows it is possible to reach Paris Agreement goals
An international team of researchers has found that the sudden drop in CO2 emissions during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates that it is possible to reduce emissions enough to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius global temperature increase goal. In their paper published in the...
Hopefully the world figures out a way to decouple emissions from the economy sooner rather than later, since it's obvious that economic growth will continue to have priority.
View: https://twitter.com/TSearchinger/status/1544757472707084288?s=20&t=_S4ERSLQ9XXOGJM_01OgWg
Can someone explain this to me like i'm a 5 year old?
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There are agricultural techniques that prevent carbon from going out of the soil and into the air, but there are also additives (like biochar) you can add to the soil that capture more carbon. Probably not a silver bullet, but could still help.
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