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António Guterres
@antonioguterres
The latest @IPCC_CH report is a litany of broken climate promises.
Some government & business leaders are saying one thing, but doing another.
They are lying.
It is time to stop burning our planet.
http://in pcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/
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https://twitter.com/antonioguterres/status/1510999950737522688
04/04/2022, 4:17 pm
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The new report is also admirably clear on how far governments are from meeting their commitments signed under the Paris agreement in 2015 and reaffirmed in Glasgow late last year. For all the UK government’s talk of “keeping 1.5 alive” in Glasgow, current climate policies and pledges will not limit global heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, or keep it “well below” 2C, the dual Paris targets.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/scientists-climate-crisis-ipcc-report
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“Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truly dangerous radicals are the countries that are increasing the production of fossil fuels.” – United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres
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There is no learning involved in “learning to live with”. It tends to mean an inability to adapt to new realities, and in some cases looks like a total retreat into abstraction. In 2020, the US conservative commentator Ben Shapiro claimed that 10 feet of sea level rise wouldn’t be a problem, because people could just “sell their homes and move”. Sell them to mermaids, presumably. A few days ago, a senior executive at the Institute of Economic Affairs suggested that instead of preventing climate breakdown, we could simply “build sea walls”. It is not just denial we’re up against. It’s a belief in magic.
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SUVs are a climate disaster: Because SUVs are bigger and heavier than other cars, they are more polluting and use more fuel. This makes them a disaster for our climate. International Energy Agency researchers were shocked in 2019 to find that SUVs are the second-largest cause of the global rise in carbon dioxide emissions over the past decade - more than shipping, aviation, heavy industry and even trucks.
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Just heard they struck New Town SUVs last night?
BBC radio Scotland
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Observe any road popular with commuters and the view is quite depressing – car after car with a single occupant in vehicles designed for four or in the case of SUVs, even more.
According to David Latimer, CEO of Magnomatics, an increasingly popular mobility option is micromobility, which provides a solution not only to inner city travel, but also to the dreadful air quality in many cities. “E-bikes and e-scooters are fast, affordable, and sustainable, and to really push adoption of micromobility, I see no barrier to banning cars from city centres. To prevent pedestrians from feeling at risk from high-speed e-vehicles, roads should be made available for micromobility.”
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Hamish Trench, the commission’s chief executive, said these trends could make it “significantly harder” for local communities, cooperatives and social enterprises to buy land, stifling efforts to promote rural economic diversity.
That greatly increased the case for new public interest tests to be introduced on large land sales, and for rules to prevent private land sales excluding local communities, he added.
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A comprehensive thread describing the intense amount of climate action that's taken place this week:
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A recent study by scientists at the University of Sussex and Denmark’s Aarhus University has found that if windfarms were established on the available and appropriate land, they could meet 140% of the UK and Ireland’s energy demand.
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But is this about “energy’ or just electricity?
If the later, clearly important but demonstrates the problems of confusion.
Scientists have said that the contrast between policy in England and Scotland, which has devolved and less strict regulation of onshore windfarms, is made clear when travelling between the two countries.Dr David Toke, from the University of Aberdeen, said: “As you go from England to Scotland by road or rail you will notice a definite increase in the use of land close to transport corridors for windfarms. The rules effectively banning windfarms in England are unique to planning in the UK. They are a testament to the government’s political inability to mobilise this very cheap and clean source of renewable energy to reduce our energy bills.”
it's said that energy produced in Scotland has the highest transmission rates of any country in Europe. Customers in South of England can get mainland EU power for a lot less. This anamoly is maybe a price worth paying though to preserve rural England from what the majority of voters there consider an eyesore?
The cross border interconnect in the UK is making a small fortune for owners of National Grid plc. It's a huge group with Dutch interests with interconnect to England. Also owns Western Power in USA.
"But is this about “energy’ or just electricity?"
I always thought 'energy', thought there were drivers to move people off gas (via temporary hydrogen) all together over time (may be wrong, hence clarification handy).
"very cheap and clean source of renewable energy to reduce our energy bills."
Except prices are tied to markets, so cheap production just means more proffits and less passed on to customer.
Until decoupled from market 'we' will see no benefit.
Clean electricity will take over from gas eventually. My brother-in-law runs a clean energy company and is currently swamped with orders.
Biggest challenge is probably heat pumps which can be expensive and there can also be some issues regarding building suitability. However they are a lot cheaper to run than gas boilers and the industry is working on the problems.
We do need to up production of clean energy stuff in the UK though as a lot of the batteries are made in China!
I'm currently waiting on the outcome of the Niddrie St experiments in Glasgow before getting on my neighbours' case about a refit of our block.
Even there, heatpumps for all were deemed impractical. I really don't think decarbonisation of tenement stock is practical without a heat network. Purely householder-driven modifications will be a tough sell (particularly given the invasive work required at Niddrie St).
Despite this aspiration, my current energy bill isn't exactly massive - mean using recent-ish figures is around 5kWh of gas/day and about 3.3kWh of electricity. These figures are perturbed by lockdowns meaning more showering etc at home. I'm about average for electricity (I have a lot of computer equipment) but well under for gas usage.
It never really gets colder than about 16. Think I used my boiler twice for heating last winter (it was a warm winter to be sure).
This poses as satire, but comes across more as deadpan realism.
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