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“At this stage we are hopeful the road can reopen around the middle to end of November.”
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The low-carbon energy transition will need less mining than fossil fuels, even when adjusted for waste rock
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https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/energy-transition-materials
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Rishi Sunak confirms controversial new North Sea oil and gas licensing
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An eight-mile wall of flames. Nearly 200,000 acres burned in 24 hours. Sixteen deaths.
In any other modern decade, the events that unfolded in and around Berry Creek, California, in 2020 would have stood apart for their sheer devastation.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/california-wildfire-berry-creek-climate-crisis
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Ha ha. Good luck with getting the military to pay damages. Good to see it quantified though...
Maybe we should all take a step back and ask what the military is really there for?
Hint: protecting consumerism, capitalism, the fossil fuel and tech industries and their associated colonialistic tendencies for resource extraction
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Some climate campaigners remain sceptical about hydrogen as a key part of net zero – there are various grades including grey and blue hydrogen that still require fossil fuels – splitting natural gas into hydrogen and carbon. The green variety currently costs more to produce.
The UK Government, while supportive of the hydrogen industry, has ruled out regulation to allow fossil fuel boilers to use hydrogen as an alternative fuel for heating our homes.
But the Scottish Government is ramping up its diplomatic strategy to essentially sell the nation’s “immense potential” in fuelling mainland Europe with the clean fuel of the future.
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Panorama tonight at 8 then iPlayer
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Why are we Still Searching for Fossil Fuels?
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COP28’s overall strategy for fighting climate change, Dr Amin explains, is to “take an ‘all of the above’ approach [and] leverage every tool available,” rather than focusing narrowly on any single solution to global warming. And fast-tracking the energy transition is only one pillar of COP28’s action agenda, which also includes fixing climate finance, focusing on people, lives and livelihoods, and underpinning everything with full inclusivity. It is a strategy that requires the energy sector to deliver, and places a new level of expectation upon it.
“For years, the energy industry has been without a seat at the climate change table,” Dr Al Jaber told CEOs at the Majlis. “But you can’t just ask for it. You need to earn it.”
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The concentration of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, is now 50% higher than before the start of the Industrial Revolution.
The Earth has not experienced similar levels of CO2 for 3-5 million years, when the global temperature was 2-3C warmer and sea level was 10-20 metres higher than today, the WMO said.
What bit of STOP BURNING STUFF do people not get?
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The new environment secretary, Steve Barclay, received a donation from a major funder of a climate sceptic thinktank just weeks before taking up his role, the Guardian can reveal.
Barclay accepted £3,000 from Michael Hintze on 20 October, and is being asked by campaigners to reveal whether he has been lobbied on climate issues by those who seek to deny the extent of climate breakdown.
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Making a noticeable dent could take some time. The facility can absorb a maximum of 1,000 metric tons of CO2 per year – just a fraction of the annual emissions from a gas-fired power plant. The company hopes to remove 1bn tons of carbon dioxide by 2035, though Samala admits scaling up will be a challenge: to reach the company’s goals in the next 12 years, they’ll have to increase their capacity three times each year.
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/19/carbon-dioxide-direct-air-capture
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Jeremy Hunt has been warned that combating the climate emergency will require higher taxes on wealth and big corporate polluters at the autumn statement rather than a package of giveaways for the rich.
In the run-up to the chancellor’s speech to the Commons on Wednesday, a group of 19 leading charities and campaigners – including Greenpeace, Christian Aid and Patriotic Millionaires UK – said billions of pounds could be raised to help finance decarbonisation.
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Don't think that Direct Air Capture is ever scalable - "the atmosphere is very big and direct air capture is very little"
I'm also willing to bet that its lifecycle emissions will be positive, i.e. it will emit more CO2 than it pulls from the atmosphere.
When you take into account the emissions from mining the limestone, firing the kiln up to 900degC, driving the fans, pumping the CO2 back into concrete (or worse using it to extract more fossils), transporting the limestone, concrete and CO2, this just does not make sense.
Concrete manufacture itself is known to be a huge emitter (~8% of global emissions ?).
Even if the kiln and fans were fired from 100% renewable energy, that is still displacing renewable energy from being used directly in homes and businesses, likely to be replaced by fossil generation.
This is just tech-bro junk for the sake of tech-bro junk. Utter madness. Someone make it stop
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