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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>May 13, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[universal blame]<br>
<b>Climate Change Is Making Big Problems Bigger</b><br>
New data compiled by the E.P.A. shows how global warming is making
life harder for Americans in myriad ways that threaten their health,
safety and homes.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/climate/climate-change-epa.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/12/climate/climate-change-epa.html</a><br>
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[let the sun shine - video positivism]<br>
<b>A solar solution for Sub Saharan Schools.</b><br>
May 12, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Kerosene lamps are still widely used in many parts of the world, not
least by kids trying to study during the evenings in Sub-Saharan
Africa. This week we meet Namene Solar, who are working hard to
provide solutions that will help students to do their work in a
safe, healthy environment.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7CDHXzjvJo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7CDHXzjvJo</a><br>
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<b>How carbon offsetting with solar lights cuts emissions, reduces
poverty and saves lives</b><br>
Namene Solar’s innovative carbon offsetting solar project is the
first of its kind in Zambia. Our lights cut carbon emissions, reduce
poverty and have truly life-changing impacts.<br>
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In rural Zambia, 90% of people live below the extreme poverty line,
on less than $1.25 a day. This means they also live in energy
poverty, without access to electricity.<br>
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They rely on dangerous, expensive fossil-fuel based lighting such as
kerosene lamps. These lamps emit carbon dioxide and can cause fatal
fires.<br>
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Our solar lights replace these outdated, toxic lamps with clean,
renewable solar light at the push of a button.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://namenesolar.com/stories/how-carbon-offsetting-with-solar-lights-cuts-emissions-reduces-poverty-and-saves-lives/">https://namenesolar.com/stories/how-carbon-offsetting-with-solar-lights-cuts-emissions-reduces-poverty-and-saves-lives/</a><br>
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[famous methane scientist interviewed - be sure to use captions]<br>
<b>Sources of Arctic Methane | Igor Semiletov | Unseen footage of
methane plumes from 2020 voyage | pt1</b><br>
May 12, 2021<br>
Nick Breeze<br>
The whole series will also be published on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateseries.com">https://climateseries.com</a>
and <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://genn.cc">https://genn.cc</a><br>
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This is part 1 in series of three posts on methane releases from the
East Siberian Arctic Shelf recorded in 2021.<br>
<br>
This is the first in a miniseries discussing the ongoing work in the
Russian Arctic talking to Dr Igor Semiletov, one of the lead
scientists who has been studying the region for over twenty years. <br>
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Old deep thermogenic pool<br>
In assessing whether the potential for increased climate warming is
a significant risk, scientists look at the size of the carbon pool
and also the origin of the methane. <br>
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In many cases where methane is produced from biogenic sources, such
as animals and plants, it is created by microbes and although has
the same global warming potential, it is created very slowly and is
often broken down to CO2 before it reaches the atmosphere. <br>
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The other source is thermogenic methane that occurs due to the decay
of organic matter at high pressure and temperature. For these
conditions to occur, the sediments where they are found are older
and deeper.<br>
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In terms of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf, many scientists have
believed that the methane emissions are from biogenic sources. This
means they would be slower to form and overall a lesser risk to the
global climate.<br>
<br>
This article has been created using extracts from recent interviews
with Dr Semiletov. In part 2 I speak to Professor Orjan Gustafsson
from the Department of Environmental Science at Stockholm
University. <br>
<br>
Orjan has been visiting the East Siberian Shelf for many years
working alongside an international group of scientists including the
Russians. He discusses how research into the escaping methane and
thawing permafrost in the East Siberian Arctic Shelf should be
greatly expanded considering the magnitude and changing stability of
the carbon pool. He also suggests that this research could have
enormous ramifications for how carbon budgets that inform policy,
are calculated.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGgcUSJbAqE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGgcUSJbAqE</a> [turn on captions]<br>
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[DW is a German public broadcast service]<br>
<b>Electric batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen fuel: Carmakers look for
energy solutions | DW News</b><br>
May 12, 2021<br>
DW News<br>
No car manufacturer can avoid electromobility. After long start-up
difficulties, everyone has made this a priority. In order to achieve
the climate protection goals (see the occasion today) and not least
because China, the important car sales market, is demanding more
electrical outlets. Batteries are needed for e-cars. However, their
production is currently still dominated by Asian companies that do
not necessarily build cars. In view of the rapidly growing e-fleets,
some car manufacturers want to take this into their own hands<br>
At the same time the demand for green hydrogen will skyrocket in the
next few years. This requires a lot of green electricity, for
example from wind turbines. But the expansion of onshore wind farms
is only progressing slowly. And at the same time, functional wind
turbines are even being demolished. <br>
Where will the electricity come from to switch to green hydrogen?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNdDtjoPmmE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNdDtjoPmmE</a><br>
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[valid but difficult approach to the problem - censorship of
stupidity]<br>
<b>Advert ban tries to wean the Dutch off fossil fuels</b><br>
May 6th, 2021, by Alex Kirby<br>
How do you wean the Dutch off fossil fuels? Well, you could always
start by banning advertisements that promote them.<br>
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LONDON, 6 May, 2021 − Three days ago Amsterdam, capital of the
Netherlands, “Venice of the North” (and destination of many
travellers who appreciate a little something extra with their
coffee), took a serious step into the future. It sought to wean the
Dutch off fossil fuels by banning many advertisements for the
pollutants.<br>
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The ban isn’t total − yet. But this prohibition of what are
described as “fossil fuel products”, including air travel as well as
fossil-fuelled cars, means the adverts will no longer be seen in
Amsterdam’s subway stations.<br>
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The city says it’s the first in the world determined to keep fossil
fuel advertising off its streets. Never before has a city decided to
ban advertising solely on the basis of climate change, it insists.<br>
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The agreement about advertisements in its metro stations is the
municipality’s first step towards making advertising everywhere in
Amsterdam fossil-free. The Dutch capital is still investigating a
wider ban on advertising, and on marketing festivals by fossil fuel
companies such as ExxonMobil and Shell (or, to give it its original
name, Royal Dutch Shell).<br>
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“We don’t have any time to waste. Adverts that portray fossil fuels
as normal worsen climate disruption”<br>
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Ban Fossil Advertising (Reclame Fossielvrij) is a Dutch citizens’
group working for a nationwide ban on advertising by the fossil fuel
industry and on adverts for polluting transport. Its co-ordinator,
Femke Sleegers, said: “The decision to ban fossil fuel advertising
from subway stations comes at a crucial moment in the fight against
climate change.<br>
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“We don’t have any time to waste in working towards the Paris
climate goals. Adverts that portray fossil fuels as normal worsen
climate disruption and have no place in a city − or a country − that
has complied with Paris.”<br>
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The decision by Amsterdam’s city council to start banning fossil
fuel adverts followed pressure by Ban Fossil Advertising and 51
other local groups. The city’s public transport company, GVB, had
already decided to sharpen up its advertising policy in order to
keep greenwashing advertisements (when polluters falsely present
themselves as environmentally responsible) out of its vehicles,
after a call by Extinction Rebellion Amsterdam.<br>
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Ban Fossil Advertising is working for a nationwide law to cover the
fossil fuel industry, modelled on the Dutch advertising ban on the
tobacco industry, which is regarded by campaigners as an
indispensable step in the fight against smoking. It is seen not only
as a step which changed social norms, but as one that removed
temptation. Today’s campaigners say an identical approach is needed
towards fossil fuels.<br>
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<b>Global pressure</b><br>
Three more cities in the Netherlands − The Hague, Utrecht and
Nijmegen − say they are open to a ban on fossil fuel ads. Similar
moves are under way in a number of other countries in Europe, North
America and Australia, some at national level and some in individual
cities, with media backing in several cases.<br>
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A Canadian group, for example, the Citizens’ Initiative for a fossil
fuel advertisement-free Canada, urges Parliament “to demand
accountability from the fossil industry and legislate a ‘tobacco
law’ for oil, gas and petrochemical companies; a ‘fossil law’”.<br>
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This would ban adverts for Big Oil, air travel and cars with fossil
fuel engines, with fossil fuel money used for marketing redirected
into “an unbranded fund that helps the transition.” A similar
initiative is under way in France.<br>
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In the US, the city of New York is suing three major oil companies
and the top industry trade group, arguing that the companies are
misrepresenting themselves by selling fuels as “cleaner” and
advertising themselves as leaders in fighting climate change.<br>
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In the UK the Badvertising campaign is seeking to stop adverts from
fuelling the climate emergency, and the environmental lawyers
ClientEarth are urging policymakers to ban all fossil fuel company
ads unless they come with tobacco-style health warnings about the
risks of global heating to people and the planet. − Climate News
Network<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatenewsnetwork.net/advert-ban-tries-to-wean-the-dutch-off-fossil-fuels/">https://climatenewsnetwork.net/advert-ban-tries-to-wean-the-dutch-off-fossil-fuels/</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming May
13, 2011 </b></font><br>
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In an editorial, the Washington Post declares, "Climate change
denial becomes harder to justify."<br>
<blockquote>Climate-change deniers, in other words, are willfully
ignorant, lost in wishful thinking, cynical or some combination of
the three. And their recalcitrance is dangerous, the report makes
clear, because the longer the nation waits to respond to climate
change, the more catastrophic the planetary damage is likely to be
— and the more drastic the needed response.<br>
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That response, the panel concluded, ought to include not only a
strong policy to begin reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also
a plan to begin adapting to climate change, some amount of which
is already inevitable; more research into climate science and
alternative energies; and active engagement in international
efforts to control climate change. Given the global nature of the
problem, the report says, U.S. action can’t be sufficient, but
“strong U.S. emission efforts will enhance our ability to
influence other countries to do the same.”<br>
<br>
What happens when Congress asks a question and gets an answer it
doesn’t like? The response from Texas Rep. Joe Barton, senior
Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, provides a
clue. “I see nothing substantive in this report that adds to the
knowledge base necessary to make an informed decision about what
steps — if any — should be taken to address climate change,” Mr.
Barton told the New York Times.<br>
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He’s right, of course — there is essentially nothing new, and
that’s the point. Every candidate for political office in the next
cycle, including for president, should be asked whether they
disagree with the scientific consensus of America’s premier
scientific advisory group, as reflected in this report; and if so,
on what basis they disagree; and if not, what they propose to do
about the rising seas, spreading deserts and intensifying storms
that, absent a change in policy, loom on America’s horizon.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-denial-becomes-harder-to-justify/2011/05/13/AF44QQ4G_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/climate-change-denial-becomes-harder-to-justify/2011/05/13/AF44QQ4G_story.html</a><br>
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