[TheClimate.Vote] April 12, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Mon Apr 12 11:18:01 EDT 2021

/*April 12, 2021*/

[Great replacement for combustion energy from heat and cold]
*Stirling Heat Engine to Stirling Heat Pump : How is it done?*
Apr 11, 2021
Just Have a Think
Stirling engines have been around since the nineteenth century. They are 
an elegantly simple way of generating power using temperature 
differentials, but nobody ever found a way to make them efficient enough 
for wide scale use. Now a UK company has developed a heat pump system 
based on the principles of the Stirling Engine, but with some ingenious 
adaptations, using no HFC refrigeration gases and with a 30% saving in 
energy costs compared to existing systems.
Fluid Mechanics Website https://www.fluidmechanics.co.uk/about-us/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1fiABe4x08

["Hope dies, Action begins", love and rage in videos with older folks]
*Mayer Hillman in conversation with XR Activists | Extinction Rebellion UK*
April 2021
Extinction Rebellion
Mayer Hillman in conversation with Extinction Rebellion activists Clare 
Farrell, La Pethick, Becky Plenderleith and Jill Lewis. Recorded in 
February 2021

Our guest Mayer Hillman was engaged in social science research at Policy 
Studies Institute from 1970, latterly as Senior Fellow Emeritus. Most 
recently, he has been attached to the University of Westminster ‑ in 
total, a period of over 50 years. Previous to that, he was, for 13 
years, a British architect and town planner.  He is a father and a 
grandfather.
https://mayerhillman.com/

La Pethick is a grandmother and an arrestee from the south east coast 
She has five beloved grandchildren and believes she has a biological 
imperative to do all in her power to protect them and, therefore, all 
future generations from the effects of climate change, now and to come. 
She thinks we all need to be courageous in action, determined of mind 
and have love in our hearts.

Jill Lewis is a grandmother from the south west who, as a member of the 
Ground Elders, helped secure Waterloo bridge in 2019.

Bex Plenderleith is a mum of 3. Pre-children, she had few morals and 
worked as an advertising copywriter before giving that up to write jokes 
and silly books. Post-children, Bex raised lots of money as a community 
fund-raiser. After April 2019 and Waterloo Bridge, Bex had an avalanche 
of morals and now works full-time for Extinction Rebellion. Bex used to 
be very quiet. Not any more.

Clare Farrell is not a parent and has no parents... is a co-founder of 
XR, which is a bit like having a massive chaotic family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suKWvayuJeI

[Scholarly discussion of the Middle East future- video]
*Climate Change and Global Warming Related to the Middle East*
Apr 9, 2021
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

Wael Al-Delaimy is Professor of Public Health and Associate Director of 
the Institute for Public Health at the University of California San 
Diego and the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Society for 
Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World. He is also the 
current Chair of the Eastern Mediterranean Chapter of the International 
Society for Environmental Epidemiology. A native of Iraq where he 
finished his medical degree and a graduate diploma in community 
medicine, he obtained his PhD in Epidemiology from New Zealand, finished 
post-doc training at Harvard School of Public Health, was a scientist 
with the International Agency for Research on Cancer, before becoming a 
faculty at the University of California San Diego. His recent research 
focus has been on climate change health impacts, and global mental 
health. His book that he edited with colleagues, titled Health of 
People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility was published May 2020 
by Springer Nature and reached a record milestone of more than 230,000 
downloads.

His talk will focus on climate change health impacts in the Middle East 
and North Africa (MENA) Region, which was the title of a chapter in the 
above book. The climate change impacts are going to be felt in the MENA 
region most severely and most early compared to other regions. Yet there 
is limited data, research, policies, and preparation by the population 
of the region and their governments. The talk will highlight the risks 
and the need for regional cooperation to develop adaptation and 
mitigation initiatives to lessen the impact on an already volatile 
region in the middle of ongoing conflicts.

A collaboration between the Center for Middle East Studies and the 
Climate Solutions Lab.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6zlsJ-J_BI

[Alternative media coverage of a big oil spill]
*Second Largest Oil Spill in US History Gets No Coverage*
Apr 7, 2021
Redacted Tonight
Naomi Karavani reports on the second largest oil spill in US history. 
The North Carolina oil spill went undetected until 2 teens stumbled upon 
it by accident. The company responsible for the spill already had a 
terrible safety record and managed to keep the story fairly quiet 
despite the scale of the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoBk9HjzEkE

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[Jan news]
*Monday numbers: NC hit by the biggest gasoline spill in the U.S. this 
century*
By Lisa Sorg - 1/25/2021
When Colonial Pipeline initially estimated it had spilled 63,000 gallons 
of gasoline from a ruptured pipeline in Huntersville last August, that 
sounded like a lot, about twice the amount in a backyard swimming pool. 
Now, five months after the disaster, town residents’ fears have come 
true: At 1.2 million gallons, the accident was the largest individual 
gasoline spill in U.S. history since at least 2000. To illustrate how 
many gallons escaped from the pipeline, the “Giant Peach” water tower in 
Gaffney, S.C., holds 1 million gallons of water.

This was not Colonial’s first spill in North Carolina, according to 
federal pipeline accident data. In fact, it was the company’s 32nd 
reported spill in the past 20 years. (There have been no fatalities or 
injuries attributed to these accidents.) The other major gasoline 
pipeline company in North Carolina is Plantation; it had one large spill 
in 2003, which accounts for most of its total in this centur
http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/2021/01/25/record-gasoline-spill-in-huntersville-was-colonial-pipelines-32nd-accident-in-n-c-since-2000/
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http://www.ncpolicywatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/NPMS_Pipelines_Map.jpg

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - April 12, 2013 *

April 12, 2013: Joe Romm of Climate Progress and Kevin Trenberth of the 
National Center for Atmospheric Research point out the flaws in a NOAA 
study regarding recent droughts in the United States.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/12/1859541/yes-climate-change-is-worsening-us-drought-noaa-report-needlessly-confuses-the-issue/

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