[✔️] September 28, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Tue Sep 28 08:20:24 EDT 2021

/*September 28, 2021*/

[ activists assemble in Milan ]
*Activist Greta Thunberg not very optimistic about Italy climate talks*
Reuters Sept 28, 2021
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/activist-greta-thunberg-not-very-optimistic-about-italy-climate-talks-2021-09-28/ 

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[ Reuters report from Milan]
*'30 years of blah blah blah': Thunberg questions Italy climate talks*
By Stephen Jewkes and Giulio Piovaccari
-- Youth activists to meet policymakers at Milan meetings
-- Gathering to prepare ground for United Nations summit
-- Major polluters yet to produce new emission-cutting plans
Meetings come as global energy prices soar
MILAN, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Greta Thunberg and fellow youth campaigners 
struck a sceptical tone for this week's climate talks in Italy, saying 
much has been promised but little done to tackle global warming in 
almost three decades since the landmark Earth Summit.

Fears that climate change is worsening grew after a U.N. report in 
August warned the situation was dangerously close to spiralling out of 
control, with the world certain to face further disruptions for 
generations to come. read more

"Thirty years of blah, blah, blah," Thunberg told the opening session of 
a Youth4Climate event on Tuesday.

Thousands of young activists have converged on Milan this week with some 
400, from about 190 countries, due to engage with policymakers to hammer 
out proposals for possible solutions.
"So-called leaders have cherry picked young people to meetings like this 
to pretend they are listening to us, but they are not listening," 
Thunberg said.

"There is no planet B ... Change is not only possible but necessary, but 
not if we go on like we have until today."...
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Climate activists are demanding policymakers match rhetoric with action 
and stump up the billions of dollars needed to wean the world off fossil 
fuels to cleaner energy during a year that has seen record-breaking 
heatwaves, floods and fires.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protests-proposals-activists-face-climate-talks-test-2021-09-28/

[However everything must adhere to physical realities]
*Climate change is not about data and reason, it is about money and power👀*
https://twitter.com/steviedubyu/status/1442237110178574341
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[McKibben says]
*Personal carbon emissions have a direct relationship with money and 
power, although this is mostly absent from climate discourse and 
proposed solutions, eg. for demand reduction*
@billmckibben  for the original quote)
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Steve Westlake @steviedubyu
PhD researcher at Cardiff Uni exploring how/if leading by example 
promotes pro-environmental behaviour. Hypothesis: Nudge is not enough. 
http://tinyurl.com/y5mcwwrm

/[finally ] /
*NASA launches climate change-tracking Landsat 9 satellite*
ByPaul Brinkmann
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The new Landsat satellite will join sister satellite Landsat 8 in orbit 
"to continue collecting images from across the planet to monitor 
essential resources, including crops, irrigation water and forests,"...
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https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/09/27/NASA-Landsat-launch-Vandenberg/3241632496506/

/[Dave Roberts knows what's best ]/
*Taking an Uber or Lyft just makes everything worse*
The only real answer, as always, is fewer cars.
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You can not have thousands of people living close together, each with 
their own two-ton vehicle, without congestion, sprawl, noise, crashes, 
air pollution, climate change, and all the rest of the horrors cars 
bring. That’s true of big cities, but it’s also true of small towns. If 
everyone has their own vehicle, there’s going to be traffic congestion 
or sprawl or both.

The only way to tackle all of these externalities at once is to get 
people out of cars. Out of their own cars, out of the Ubers.

That means prioritizing multimodal transportation in infrastructure and 
spending decisions. Creating protected walking and biking corridors that 
connect across town. Reclaiming lanes and whole streets from cars and 
turning them over to transit or simply to neighborhood walking and 
gathering. Upzoning and increasing density, especially around transit 
stops. Subsidizing electric bikes. (Basically, doing what Barcelona and 
Paris are doing.)

Electrifying vehicles will help on climate change, especially as the 
grid gets cleaner, but it’s not a solution to cars. Fancy new kinds of 
cars, even if they fly or go through tunnels or run on unicorn farts, 
are not a solution. Apps are not a solution.

The only solution to the problem of cars is fewer cars. That should be 
the goal of policy — not just transportation policy, but land-use policy 
and urban policy and economic policy and climate policy. For those who 
care about the public good, Uber and Lyft are a distraction.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/taking-an-uber-or-lyft-just-makes?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDE2OTE4NDMsIl8iOiJyNzJObSIsImlhdCI6MTYzMjc3NDc2MCwiZXhwIjoxNjMyNzc4MzYwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.n11qHXMtnbaTWt2ayCm5YXtEAGIO0uO-QYPrccQNAQw&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play

/[ Information wood as construction material ]
/*Wooden wind turbines. Are they really a sustainable alternative?*
Sep 26, 2021
Just Have a Think
Wooden windmills are surely a relic from our pre industrial history 
aren't they? Well, that was certainly true until recently. Now though, a 
Swedish company has harnessed the inherent qualities of timber to 
produce a turbine tower that is not only lighter than its steel 
equivalent, but also stronger and more environmentally friendly too. 
Could this be the least likely technological revolution so far?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsznA1ug1w

//["Clean" Hydrogen is deeply twisted up with fossil fuels ] //
*Why the ‘Swiss Army knife’ of climate solutions is so controversial*
Clean hydrogen could replace fossil fuels for almost everything. But 
should it?
Emily Pontecorvo - Sept 27, 2021

As countries around the world firm up their commitments to cut carbon 
emissions, many are turning to an emerging solution with an uncertain 
future: hydrogen gas. This lesser-known fuel has been called the “Swiss 
Army knife” of climate solutions. It has the potential to replace fossil 
fuels in industrial processes, transportation, buildings, and power 
plants, and does not emit any greenhouse gases when it’s burned...
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Perhaps the most controversial potential use for hydrogen is re-making 
our pipeline system to deliver it into homes and buildings. Flis called 
the idea of burning 100 percent hydrogen in buildings a “politically 
unpalatable solution.” By his analysis, since low-carbon hydrogen is so 
expensive, it would either mean handing enormous subsidies to utilities 
or raising customers’ rates by at least five times. Flis also estimates 
that in Europe, installing an electric heat pump would save a customer 
about $23,000 to $35,000 over the next 25 years compared to installing a 
hydrogen boiler...
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“We are really eager to make sure that the vague promise that hydrogen 
might be available as a decarbonization technology in the future doesn’t 
derail the urgent investments that we need today,” said Gersen.

These kinds of trade-offs are difficult to suss out. There’s no 
guarantee that the $2 billion or so the U.S. might spend on a 
residential heating “clean hydrogen hub” would otherwise go to 
electrification or any other climate solution. Or that it’s possible to 
get a bill passed in Washington, D.C. right now that doesn’t involve 
throwing some bones to the fossil fuel industry.

But storms, droughts, wildfires, and other impacts of climate change are 
already intensifying. Carbon is accumulating in the atmosphere, and the 
emissions we can avoid today and over the next 10 years may be worth a 
lot more — in terms of lives lost, communities displaced, damages from 
natural disasters — than a breakthrough solution to cut emissions in 2030.
https://grist.org/energy/why-the-swiss-army-knife-of-climate-solutions-is-so-controversial/
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///[A classic talk on climate psychology from the great Renee Lertzman ] ///
*How to Turn Anxiety into Action*
It's normal to feel anxious or overwhelmed by climate change, says 
psychologist Renée Lertzman. Can we turn those feelings into something 
productive? In an affirming talk, Lertzman discusses the emotional 
effects of climate change and offers insights on how psychology can help 
us discover both the creativity and resilience needed to act on 
environmental issues.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured 
by our editors on the home page.
"so ... Let's take a deep breath. Have compassion for ourselves and one 
another in this moment, time in history, so we collectively process 
these painful truths, these difficult realities. Let's do this together. 
The world is ready for us to do this. And we can do this. "

https://www.ted.com/talks/renee_lertzman_how_to_turn_climate_anxiety_into_action?language=en#t-469059

[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming September 28, 2010*
November 28, 2010: In a New York Times article, Veerabhadran
Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and David G.
Victor of the University of California, San Diego discuss the need to
make progress on climate change.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28victor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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