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Climate Crisis
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Myles Allen on understanding climate change
The Life Scientific The physicist behind net zero. Prof“
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fgcn
“deeply solvable problem”
Listen from 30 minutes -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000fgcn
Bottom line -
Up to fossil fuel industry to solve problems “taking care of its waste”
“20-30 years to net zero is doable”
He says ‘industry wants to do it, just needs steer’.
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Children in biggest carbon-emitting nations are healthiest, while those with tiny environmental footprints suffer twofold from poor health and living at the sharp end of the climate crisis
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Will this have a positive climate impact? Very little, at least in the short term when people are likely to switch to dry wood or manufactured smokeless fuels. Looking further ahead, the extra cost of that fuel might encourage more house owners to consider making their homes more energy efficient, which would be help to reduce emissions. UK buildings have one of the worst records in Europe when it comes to retaining heat.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/21/coal-wet-wood-how-uk-restrictions-work
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Eustice said the government had spent £2.5bn on flood defences, some of which were “soft defences” upstream but much of which were hard defences in urban areas. “But we do recognise there is more to do, because climate change is here to stay – we are seeing more of this extreme weather.”
He said more than £4bn would be spent over the next five years, and a “big part of our focus is going to be nature-based solutions upstream”. These could include planting more trees and using natural floodplains and dams to protect lowland areas, he added.
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I wonder what Monbiot has to say about farmers complaining about flooding. Those causing and those being affected aren't necessarily the same but he does seem to have farmers firmly on the blame side of the equation for causing increased runoff.
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Good question.
Of course part of the problem is farmers following MinAg rules/incentives for decades - eg hedge removal.
Some farmers have done VERY well out of this, others less so.
Are all Range Rovers and horse boxes business expenses?
Has the Gov said anything about how the EU CAP will be replaced?
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The key to reaching 30,000 hectares a year will be forestry funds via the new system of financial support for farmers after Brexit. This is still being devised by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs but could fund farmers to shift to some forestry.
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Lessons must be learned from the closure of Scotland's last coal-fired power station if cutting emissions is to be fair, a report suggests.
The Just Transition Commission said that when Longannet closed in 2016 a government "task force" was set up to help secure jobs for its workers.
However, it said little consideration was given to the impact on the nearby village of Kincardine in Fife.
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Time for Scottish Govt to revisit the dualling of remote rural roads:
Road schemes may face Heathrow-style court action
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Climate denial is taking new forms, some experts say, moving from an outright rejection of science to covert attacks on green policies and spending on efforts to cut carbon. The EU’s green deal has prompted frantic lobbying in Brussels by powerful fossil fuel interests.
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“Progress is being made on reducing coal generation, but nothing like with the urgency needed to limit climate change,” the report said.
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Climate change: UK 'can't go climate neutral before 2050'
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But the authors offer some optimism too. They calculate that the UK can cut emissions fast enough to be climate neutral by 2050 – but only if ministers act much more quickly.
They say the government urgently needs to invest in three key technologies: carbon capture and storage with bioenergy crops; hydrogen for a wide variety of uses; and advanced nuclear power.
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However, the report warns that the public do not appear ready for substantial lifestyle changes.
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Climate emergency: global action is ‘way off track’ says UN head
Deadly heatwaves, floods and rising hunger far greater threat to world than coronavirus, scientists say
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From the BBC:
British Airways Chief Executive Alex Cruz said the airline industry was facing "a crisis of global proportions like no other" because of the coronavirus pandemic.
BA, he added, was suspending routes and parking planes in a way it has never had to do before.
Completely oblivious then to the crisis of global proportions like no other that the industry has itself created?
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Musselburgh must wait till 2024 for flood defences
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Councillors heard that the threat to Musselburgh had gone from being mainly from the River Esk, which flows through it, to being more from the surrounding coastal boundary because of climate change.
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https://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/18304948.musselburgh-must-wait-till-2024-flood-defences/
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Climate change: Will planting millions of trees really save the planet?
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Climate change: The rich are to blame, international study finds
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The gulf is greatest in transport, where the top tenth gobble 187 times more fuel than the poorest tenth, the research says.
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