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How You Can Stop Climate Change
DisclosureSeries 3
Reporter Kevin Keane investigates what Scots really think about the change to the climate
Watched. EVs make people feel good. Didn't say anything about how pandemic shows we don't have to drive every day. Heat pumps good and with EST interest free loans more people can afford. Enjoying our secondary glazing via that.
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UK criticised for ignoring Paris climate goals in infrastructure decisions
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Floating wind farms are a roaring success. In deeper seas/oceans, you can catch more wind.
10MW machines are being installed, with designs for 15 and 20MW in the pipeline
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Poll here for BBC prog
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-56500739
Experts told Disclosure that Scotland would see more wildfires, droughts and impacts from rising sea levels.But our survey suggests most people are unaware of the changes that are coming.
Only 16% expected more wildfires, despite Scotland already seeing a dramatic rise in these.
Even fewer, just 13%, thought increasing droughts would be a problem, despite more than 100,000 private water supplies being at risk.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service says it has seen a 30% rise in wildfires since 2010 and believes a similar rise is likely in the next decade.
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LARGE swathes of Scotland could be submerged underwater in less than 30 years, according to a climate change study. Glasgow Airport, the Old Course at St Andrews and the Kelpies in Falkirk are among the key sites that could be flooded, if research by Climate Central is correct.
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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19183447.areas-scotland-underwater-2050/?ref=ar
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Boris Johnson must urgently take control of the UK’s presidency of vital UN climate talks, amid a shower of green policy setbacks and growing concern over the lack of a coherent all-government climate strategy, senior international figures have said.
The Cop26 climate summit is viewed as one of the last chances to put the world on track to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement, of holding global heating well below 2C, and preferably no more than 1.5C, above pre-industrial levels. There are just over six months left before the crunch talks are scheduled to begin in Glasgow in November.
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But will he?
Even Stevens at the bookies...
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Boris Johnson’s government is “too cosy” with vested interests in business to take strong action on the climate crisis, the author of a report on “the polluting elite”, has warned.
Peter Newell, a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex, said: “We are never going to have change while these actors are so close to government. The government is not willing to take on these interests as it has close ties to big industries, including fossil fuels. There is a definite reluctance to take them on.”
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Transport is by far the largest emitting sector, responsible for over a third of UK carbon emissions, but recent announcements have been inconsistent. Banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030 is a genuinely “world-leading” climate policy, but the spring budget froze fuel duty for the 11th year in a row. The plan to cut air passenger duty for domestic flights contrasts sharply with France’s proposed ban on flights for journeys that could easily be taken by rail. The UK’s long-awaited Transport Decarbonisation Plan is due imminently – and this will need to be a credible roadmap to a zero-carbon transport system, one that also helps to tackle the air-pollution crisis that plagues our towns and cities.“
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Let's not make this a self-fulfilling prophecy:
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Optimistic -
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Solar and wind could easily meet all of humanity’s energy needs, but can we switch over before climate disaster strikes?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000v7pj
(Or over optimistic?)
Bottom line - need to do more, faster.
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“Equally, as climate change develops and policymakers make choices about how much bigger a tidal barrier we need or where to build flood defences, your home won’t flood and you’ll think you were lucky, but you won’t be lucky, other people will have planned for you, to say, well actually, we know how big a tidal surge could get because it’s been well modelled, we understand the flood risk from more intense surface rainfall and therefore we’ve prepared in advance, so a lot of that is actually the downsides you won’t see as well as the upsides you will see.”
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“It’s vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive politically correct green act of ‘bunny hugging’ or however you want to put it,” the prime minister told the possibly slightly puzzled leaders. “Nothing wrong with ‘bunny hugging’ but you know what I’m driving at.”
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Talbot Rice Gallery is now collecting contributions from Scotland. The project is organized around The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – an international treaty on climate change. Items collected in Scotland will contribute to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland archive. Contributions will be displayed at Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh as part of the exhibition The Normal, which will open 18 May 2021.
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The Nature study on Tuesday found that unchecked, China’s bitcoin mines will generate 130.5m metric tons of carbon emissions by 2024 – close to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of Italy or oil-rich Saudi Arabia.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/07/china-bitcoin-mining-climate-targets-nature-study
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