[✔️] April 11, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Mon Apr 11 08:03:50 EDT 2022

/*April 11, 2022*/

/[ discussing top-notch techno solutions - "ambitious goal" ]/
*The Solar PV panel that provides electricity AND heat for your home!*
Apr 10, 2022
Just Have a Think
Solar photovoltaic panels provide electricity for homes, businesses and 
utility scale grid providers. Ironically though, the hotter they get in 
direct sunshine, the less effective they are at producing power. So, 
what if we could harvest the heat, remove it from the panel, and do 
something useful with it? 'Killing two birds with one stone', if you 
like. Well...it looks like we've just worked out how to do exactly that.

Link to Rosie's video
https://youtu.be/-dJixtZdkU0

Link to Sunovate Website
https://www.sunovate.com.au/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0BHlSZg5M

/[ The Guardian asks a simple question ] /
*Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis – will the 
world listen?*
Simon Lewis -- Apr 6, 2022
The new IPCC report offers not only hope, but practical solutions. 
Governments that have signed off on it ...
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Despite the the complexities of climate science, our course is 
terrifyingly simple to see: we are currently on track for catastrophic 
3C heating. In a world where half of the its population is highly 
vulnerable to the climate crisis, that spells disaster. Extreme 
heatwaves, floods and droughts far outside the normal tolerances of 
cities and towns will destroy lives and livelihoods globally. The 
knock-on effects of crop failures, migration and economic disruption 
could then overload political institutions and our abilities to respond 
to unfolding events.

If that feels depressing, there is cause for hope. Governments own this 
report. They have endorsed it, and they have signed it off. Their 
citizens can now hold them to account for the failures it details...
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This report is essentially a manifesto for ending the fossil fuel age. 
It will help the growing mass of people fighting against the fossil fuel 
industry on many fronts – but especially those taking official channels, 
such as MPs lobbying government not to open new oil fields, lawyers and 
citizens taking countries or companies to court, or those justifying 
direct action to stop high-carbon infrastructure being built. The 
licence for climate action has never been stronger...
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For those who have been working for a better climate, the full 
3,000-page report contains an astonishingly frank assessment of the 
organised efforts used to thwart climate action, noting: “opposition to 
climate action by carbon-connected industries is broad-based, highly 
organized, and matched with extensive lobbying”. It may seem ironic that 
this doesn’t make it into the much more widely read summary, but it is 
perhaps not surprising. The intertwined relationship between fossil 
fuels and governments goes deep: last week, for example, we learned that 
the former UK boss of BP is to be appointed by the government to 
champion the UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy.

Each year that passes adds further reasons to stop using fossil fuels. 
Last year, it became clear that gas prices would rise sharply, affecting 
millions. This year, we can add that fossil fuels fund the Russian 
military and its atrocities. Add these to ending urban air pollution and 
avoiding hundreds of millions of people suffering heatwaves, drought and 
floods. And the price? Investing a few per cent of GDP and some new 
legislation.

Climate change can feel complex, but the IPCC has worked hard to make it 
simple for us. A path still exists to halve emissions by 2030 and get to 
net zero by 2050, which will probably meet the 1.5C goal. It is a 
hopeful message. The task now is to make it real.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/scientists-climate-crisis-ipcc-report

[ check this website - see the fires and smoke nearby - a few areas in 
the South ]
*Fire and Smoke Mapv2.0*
https://fire.airnow.gov/

/[ talking with an XR demonstrator video  ]/
*WHY ARE FOSSIL FUELS SO BAD? | Clive Lewis MP*
Apr 9, 2022
Extinction Rebellion UK
Clive Anthony Lewis is a British Labour politician who has been the 
Member of Parliament for Norwich South since winning the seat at the 
2015 general election. Lewis was a candidate for Leader of the Labour 
Party in the 2020 leadership election.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVP5o2WCkR8

/[  Sarcastic video -- Australia has some complex, twisted process for 
business pollution interacting with the environment  ] /
*Honest Government Ad | Carbon Credits & Offsets*
Apr 10, 2022
thejuicemedia
The Australien Government has made an ad about its carbon-credits 
scheme, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
Today Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the date of the next 
election - May 21st. So I guess this might be the final installment in 
our Climate Shitfuckery series for this government. But carbon credits 
and offsets are going to be a crucial issue beyond the election - indeed 
for the decade to come. Not just for this government, but also for the 
one that will (hopefully) replace it. Which is why it's important that 
we understand what it's all about. And it's why I've dedicated this HGA 
to this topic on the eve of the election. Of course, whichever way the 
election goes, climate shitfuckery will continue - if not here, 
certainly in other world governments - so fear not, we'll continue 
making these detailed HGAs about climate and energy policy into the 
future. Thank you for the awesome response you've shown to our climate 
series - it has made all the hard work worthwhile.
Giordano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCRDseUEEsg

/[  XR is moving media tactics into live video - demonstrating message 
delivery sophistication - interviewing demonstrators -- one psychiatrist 
says " Climate Anxiety is normal, I want politicians to get anxious"] /
*[Extinction Rebellion protest - live video from Hyde Park 
https://youtu.be/TEdY92rIDT4]*
LIVE: Day 2 of the April Rebellion: We will not be bystanders
Extinction Rebellion UK
Thousands of people are gathering in London today for the second day in 
our latest wave of non-violent civil disobedience against the UK 
Government for its breathtaking inaction on climate change. The 
Rebellion will run from Saturday 9th-Sunday 17th April: expect peaceful 
disruption, noise, colour, love and rage.  We don’t want to be here. Our 
present is grave: war in Europe, a cost of living crisis and the 
remnants of a cruel pandemic. But our future under climate will be even 
worse. The latest IPCC report estimates that we’ll reach the crucial 
1.5C so-called ‘safe limit’ of heating within a decade, and the UN 
Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, has stated that any further ‘delay 
means death’. The world is at a tipping point: we can transition away 
from fossil fuels, towards a just society, or dig in our heels, 
prioritise profit and drive a race to extinction. Our Government knows 
this - yet it’s spent £14 billion financing fuel fuels since the 2015 
Paris Agreement. In ignoring the advice of the International Energy 
Agency, that all new fossil fuel projects should have been halted by 
2021 - last year - it is failing current and future generations.  From 
trades unions, to professional bodies, to grass-roots communities, 
people throughout society are waking up to the human suffering and 
environmental injustice caused by our addiction to fossil fuels. We say, 
'not in our names': will not be bystanders. Our civil disobedience is 
rooted in love and care for all: join us!  Don’t just look up, step up – 
and then sit down and claim your place in history.

     1. Tell The Truth
     2. Act Now
     3. Beyond Politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdY92rIDT4
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYThdLKE6TDwBJh-qDC6ICA

/[  Singly young information activist ] /
*Wind and solar are now 10% of the global energy supply | Climate Recap*
Apr 10, 2022
Beckisphere Climate Corner
This week we look at climate news from March 16-31. Let me know which 
news headline you found the most interesting in the comment section below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5cUU2ZcJg

/[  oh, you mean a WAR criminal ...]/
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
*How Do We Deal With a Superpower Led by a War Criminal?*
April 10, 2022
By Thomas L. Friedman -- Opinion Columnist
It is hard to believe, but now impossible to deny, that the broad 
framework that kept much of the world stable and prospering since the 
end of the Cold War has been seriously fractured by Vladimir Putin’s 
invasion of Ukraine. In ways we hadn’t fully appreciated, a lot of that 
framework rested on the West’s ability to coexist with Putin as he 
played “bad boy,” testing the limits of the world order but never 
breaching them at scale.

But with Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, his indiscriminate 
crushing of its cities and mass killings of Ukrainian civilians, he went 
from “bad boy” to “war criminal.” And when the leader of Russia — a 
country that spans 11 time zones, with vast oil, gas and mineral 
resources and more nuclear warheads than anyone else — is a war criminal 
and must be henceforth treated as a pariah, the world as we’ve known it 
is profoundly changed. Nothing can work the same.

How does the world have an effective U.N. with a country led by a war 
criminal on the Security Council, who can veto every resolution? How 
does the world have any effective global initiative to combat climate 
change and not be able to collaborate with the biggest landmass country 
on the planet? How does the U.S. work closely with Russia on the Iran 
nuclear deal when we have no trust with, and barely communicate with, 
Moscow? How do we isolate and try to weaken a country so big and so 
powerful, knowing that it could be more dangerous if it disintegrates 
than if it’s strong? How do we feed and fuel the world at reasonable 
prices when a sanctioned Russia is one of the world’s biggest exporters 
of oil, wheat and fertilizer?

The answer is that we don’t know. Which is another way of saying that we 
are entering a period of geopolitical and geoeconomic uncertainty the 
likes of which we have not known since 1989 — and possibly 1939.

And it promises only to get worse before it gets better, because Putin 
is now like a cornered animal. He not only got so much wrong in his 
Ukraine invasion; he produced the opposite of so much he was aiming to 
achieve, making him desperate for any war achievement, at any price, 
that can obscure this fact.

Putin said he had to go into Ukraine to push NATO away from Russia, and 
his war has not only reinvigorated what was a stagnating Western 
military alliance, it has also guaranteed NATO’s solidarity and weapons 
modernization for as long as Putin is in power — and probably another 
generation after that.

Putin said he had to go into Ukraine to remove the Nazi clique ruling in 
Kyiv and bring both the Ukrainian people and their territory back into 
the arms of Mother Russia, where they naturally belonged and, in his 
imagination, longed to be. Instead, his invasion has made Ukrainians — 
even some formerly pro-Russia Ukrainians — bitter enemies of Russia for 
at least a generation and supercharged Ukraine’s desire to be 
independent of Russia and embedded in the European Union.

Putin thought that with a blitzkrieg takeover of Ukraine he would earn 
the proper respect from the West for Russia’s military prowess — ending 
the insults that Russia, with an economy smaller than the state of 
Texas’, was just “a gas station with nukes.” Instead, his army has been 
exposed as incompetent and barbaric and needing to enlist mercenaries 
from Syria and Chechnya just to hold its ground.

Having gotten so much wrong, and having launched this war on his own 
initiative, Putin has to be desperate to show that he produced something 
— at least uncontested control of eastern Ukraine, from the Donbas 
region, south to Odesa on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast and connecting with 
Crimea. And he surely wants it by May 9, for Moscow’s giant annual 
Victory Day parade, marking Russia’s victory over the Nazis in World War 
II — the day when the Russian military recalls its greatest glory.

So, it appears that Putin is gearing up for a two-pronged strategy. 
First, he’s regrouping his ravaged forces and concentrating them on 
fully seizing and holding this smaller military prize. Second, he’s 
doubling down on systematic cruelty — the continued pummeling of 
Ukrainian towns with rockets and artillery to keep creating as many 
casualties and refugees and as much economic ruin as he can. He clearly 
hopes that the former will fracture the Ukrainian Army, at least in the 
east, and the latter will fracture NATO, as its member states get 
overwhelmed by so many refugees and pressure Kyiv to give Putin whatever 
he wants to get him to stop.

Ukraine and NATO, therefore, need an effective counterstrategy.

It should have three pillars. The first is to support the Ukrainians 
with diplomacy if they want to negotiate with Putin — it’s their call — 
but also to support them with the best weaponry and training if they 
want to drive the Russian Army off every inch of their territory. The 
second is to broadcast daily and loudly — in every way we can — that the 
world is at war “with Putin” and “not with the Russian people” — just 
the opposite of what Putin is telling them. And the third is for us to 
double down on ending our addiction to oil, Putin’s main source of income.

The hope is that the three together would set in motion forces inside 
Russia that topple Putin from power.

Yes, that is a high-risk-high-reward proposition. Putin’s downfall could 
lead to someone worse at the helm in the Kremlin. It could also lead to 
prolonged chaos and disintegration.

But if it leads to someone better, someone with just minimal decency and 
an ambition to rebuild Russia’s dignity and spheres of influence based 
on a new generation of Tchaikovskys, Rachmaninoffs, Sakharovs, 
Dostoyevskys and Sergey Brins — not yacht-owning oligarchs, cyberhackers 
and polonium-armed assassins — the whole world gets better. So many 
possibilities for healthy collaborations would be resurrected or forged.

Only the Russian people have the right and ability to change their 
leader. But it will not be easy because Putin, an ex-K.G.B. officer — 
surrounded by many other former intelligence officers who are beholden 
to him — is nearly impossible to dislodge.

But here is one possible scenario: The Russian Army is a prideful 
institution, and if it continues to suffer catastrophic defeats in 
Ukraine, I can imagine a situation where either Putin wants to 
decapitate his army’s leadership — to make them the scapegoats for his 
failure in Ukraine — or the army, knowing this is coming, tries to oust 
Putin first. There never has been any love lost between the Russian 
military and the K.G.B./S.V.R./F.S.B. security types surrounding Putin.

In sum, having the Russian people produce a better leader is a necessary 
condition for the world to produce a new, more resilient global order to 
replace the post-Cold War order, which Putin has now shattered. What is 
also necessary, though, is that America be a model of democracy and 
sustainability that others want to emulate.

When Ukrainians are making the ultimate sacrifice to hold onto every 
inch and ounce of their newly won freedom, is it too much to ask that 
Americans make the smallest sacrifices and compromises to hold on to our 
precious democratic inheritance?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html

/[The news archive - looking back]/
*April 11, 1987 & 2020*

*April 11, 1987: Reporting on Tennessee Sen. Al Gore's decision to run 
for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Los Angeles Times notes:*
"Along with evoking the Kennedyesque image of vigor, Gore also sought to 
revive the spirit of youthful idealism associated with the New Frontier. 
He laid out a broad list of national objectives, from combatting AIDS 
and Alzheimer's disease to curbing the 'greenhouse effect'--the threat 
to the Earth's atmosphere from the burning of oil, gas and coal."
http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-11/news/mn-639_1_albert-gore

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*April 11, 2010: In the New York Times Magazine, Paul Krugman observes:*
"If you listen to climate scientists — and despite the relentless 
campaign to discredit their work, you should — it is long past time to 
do something about emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse 
gases. If we continue with business as usual, they say, we are facing a 
rise in global temperatures that will be little short of apocalyptic. 
And to avoid that apocalypse, we have to wean our economy from the use 
of fossil fuels, coal above all.

"But is it possible to make drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions 
without destroying our economy?

"Like the debate over climate change itself, the debate over climate 
economics looks very different from the inside than it often does in 
popular media. The casual reader might have the impression that there 
are real doubts about whether emissions can be reduced without 
inflicting severe damage on the economy. In fact, once you filter out 
the noise generated by special-interest groups, you discover that there 
is widespread agreement among environmental economists that a 
market-based program to deal with the threat of climate change — one 
that limits carbon emissions by putting a price on them — can achieve 
large results at modest, though not trivial, cost."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

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