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Climate Crisis
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Experts have warned that the UK faces an increased risk from more extreme and unpredictable weather owing to the climate emergency. Major floods had been expected every 15 to 20 years in the last century but in the past decade this has shortened to every two to five years.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/24/england-vital-flood-defences-almost-useless
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White House new climate experts refer to "climate crisis" in clean break from Trump era
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Even if Biden has flaws and unlikely to be particularly progressive, he is at least sane.
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The world is being put at “extreme risk” by the failure of economics to take account of the rapid depletion of the natural world and needs to find new measures of success to avoid a catastrophic breakdown, a landmark review has concluded.
Prosperity was coming at a “devastating cost” to the ecosystems that provide humanity with food, water and clean air, said Prof Sir Partha Dasgupta, the Cambridge University economist who conducted the review. Radical global changes to production, consumption, finance and education were urgently needed, he said.
The 600-page review was commissioned by the UK Treasury, the first time a national finance ministry has authorised a full assessment of the economic importance of nature. A similar Treasury-sponsored review in 2006 by Nicholas Stern is credited with transforming economic understanding of the climate crisis.
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What are the alternatives to coal for the steel industry?
Steel-making is a problem area for climate change, but firms are developing technologies like electric arc furnaces - which melt down recycled steel - and hydrogen, which can be used to make steel for cars.
Supporters of the mine say coal will definitely be needed for steel after the climate committee's 2035 deadline.
But the European steel industry, Eurofer, told me clean steel technologies might be available by then - so long as governments support research and development, and block unfair competition from dirty steel imports.
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Where is all this steel going?
Manufacture of cars? Bridges & road infrastructure for cars? Out of town retail park sheds for cars?
Cruise liner ships for people who like cars, but don’t want to take it holiday?
Some office blocks, maybe. (Are these even still needed?)
Some ferries, that could be useful maybe.
Just ban cars already, and be done with it!
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"Just ban cars already, and be done with it!"
"But, but.....the economy!" comes the reply from the driving dependent narcissists.
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Fifty-one billion and zero - the two numbers Bill Gates says you need to know about climate.
Solving climate change would be "the most amazing thing humanity has ever done", says the billionaire founder of Microsoft.By comparison, ending the pandemic is "very, very easy", he claims.
Mr Gates's new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, is a guide to tackling global warming.Don't underestimate the scale of the challenge, he told me when we spoke last week.
"We've never made a transition like we're talking about doing in the next 30 years. There is no precedent for this."Fifty-one billion is how many tonnes of greenhouse gases the world typically adds to the atmosphere each year.
Net zero is where we need to get to.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56042029
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Bill Gates sets out his far-reaching plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Read by William Hope.
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Hope for the future??
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The New Climate War describes how outright denial of the physical evidence of human-caused climate change simply is no longer credible. It describes in explicit detail how forces of denial and delay – fossil fuel companies, right-wing partisans, media and talking heads, and oil-funded governments – continue to profit from our dependence on fossil fuels. It explores how they have shifted to new tactics, using "an array of powerful Ds: disinformation, deceit, divisiveness, deflection, delay, despair-mongering, and doomism."
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https://www.ecowatch.com/amp/michael-mann-climate-science-book-2650129967
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Call for rethink over A96 dualling plans between Huntly and Aberdeen
Mr Macdonald - who has written to Transport Minister Michael Matheson - believes the current road should be dualled, but said this is not what is being offered. He told BBC Scotland News: "What's actually coming forward is a series of plans all of which are about building new roads, in many cases running in parallel with the existing road. So people are asking why on earth a commitment to upgrade infrastructure has actually transformed into new road building."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-56083121
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#ClimateCrisis - decarbonising transport
The 2050 net-zero *goal* is less important than what we do *now* - because emissions accumulate in the atmostphere
... a crucial point, often misunderstood/forgotten
Thanks #TonyMeehan of @atkinsglobal
HERE-> https://www.transportxtra.com/publications/local-transport-today/news/68044/travel-behaviours-are-the-key-to-enginee?etid=2994933&artid=68044“
https://twitter.com/spokeslothian/status/1362023599540994049
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Humanity is waging a “senseless and suicidal” war on nature that is causing human suffering and enormous economic losses while accelerating the destruction of life on Earth, the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has said.
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In his ruling on Friday Mr Justice Mann granted an injunction to HS2 against the five remaining climate activists in the tunnel. Four others have already left voluntarily. He declined, however, to grant HS2 a possession order at the moment, saying he had doubts about the issue.
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Scotland could be a much more pleasant and low-carbon place - Dr Richard Dixon
The biggest sector of climate emissions in Scotland is transport and within this cars are responsible for 40 per cent of the country’s total transport emissions.
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Watson said decisions to stop carbon emissions were needed immediately: “We need action now. A lot of governments have said, ‘We’ll be zero carbon by 2050’. That’s wonderful [but] it’s 30 years away. The key message on climate is we need to have a 50% reduction of emissions by 2030. We’ve got to focus on short-term actions, not [just] long-term targets and goals.”
Other leading scientists have criticised the mine. Prof James Hansen, who has been called the “godfather of climate change”, told Johnson his “actions and decisions now will either establish or undermine your claim to climate leadership”. Prof Sir David King, a former chief scientific adviser to the UK government, said the mine “is a big mistake”.
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The Scottish Government's transport agency's route manager Neil MacFarlane recently told community leaders in the area that 2020 saw 20,000 tonnes fall onto the infamous A83 at the Rest and be Thankful – double what has fallen in nearly two decades.
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Boris Johnson is to tell other world leaders that the climate emergency is “driving insecurity” as he uses the first UN security council session chaired by a British prime minister in nearly 30 years to set the scene for the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow.
The prime minister will chair a virtual session of the security council which will also be addressed by David Attenborough, who will warn leaders that without urgent and coherent action the pace of change could become unstoppable.
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