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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 28, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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[ activists assemble in Milan ]<br>
<b>Activist Greta Thunberg not very optimistic about Italy climate
talks</b><br>
Reuters Sept 28, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/activist-greta-thunberg-not-very-optimistic-about-italy-climate-talks-2021-09-28/">https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/activist-greta-thunberg-not-very-optimistic-about-italy-climate-talks-2021-09-28/</a>
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[ Reuters report from Milan]<br>
<b>'30 years of blah blah blah': Thunberg questions Italy climate
talks</b><br>
By Stephen Jewkes and Giulio Piovaccari<br>
-- Youth activists to meet policymakers at Milan meetings<br>
-- Gathering to prepare ground for United Nations summit<br>
-- Major polluters yet to produce new emission-cutting plans<br>
Meetings come as global energy prices soar<br>
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.<br>
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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<br>
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"Thirty years of blah, blah, blah," Thunberg told the opening
session of a Youth4Climate event on Tuesday.<br>
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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.<br>
"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.<br>
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"There is no planet B ... Change is not only possible but necessary,
but not if we go on like we have until today."...<br>
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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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protests-proposals-activists-face-climate-talks-test-2021-09-28/">https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protests-proposals-activists-face-climate-talks-test-2021-09-28/</a><br>
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[However everything must adhere to physical realities]<br>
<b>Climate change is not about data and reason, it is about money
and powerđ</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/steviedubyu/status/1442237110178574341">https://twitter.com/steviedubyu/status/1442237110178574341</a><br>
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[McKibben says]<br>
<b>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</b><br>
@billmckibben for the original quote)<br>
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Steve Westlake @steviedubyu<br>
PhD researcher at Cardiff Uni exploring how/if leading by example
promotes pro-environmental behaviour. Hypothesis: Nudge is not
enough. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tinyurl.com/y5mcwwrm">http://tinyurl.com/y5mcwwrm</a><br>
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<i>[finally ] </i> <br>
<b>NASA launches climate change-tracking Landsat 9 satellite</b><br>
ByPaul Brinkmann<br>
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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,"...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/09/27/NASA-Landsat-launch-Vandenberg/3241632496506/">https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2021/09/27/NASA-Landsat-launch-Vandenberg/3241632496506/</a><br>
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<i>[Dave Roberts knows what's best ]</i><br>
<b>Taking an Uber or Lyft just makes everything worse</b><br>
The only real answer, as always, is fewer cars.<br>
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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. Thatâs true of big cities, but itâs also true of
small towns. If everyone has their own vehicle, thereâs going to be
traffic congestion or sprawl or both.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.)<br>
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Electrifying vehicles will help on climate change, especially as the
grid gets cleaner, but itâs 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.<br>
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The only solution to the problem of cars is fewer cars. That should
be the goal of policy â 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.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/taking-an-uber-or-lyft-just-makes?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDE2OTE4NDMsIl8iOiJyNzJObSIsImlhdCI6MTYzMjc3NDc2MCwiZXhwIjoxNjMyNzc4MzYwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.n11qHXMtnbaTWt2ayCm5YXtEAGIO0uO-QYPrccQNAQw&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play">https://www.volts.wtf/p/taking-an-uber-or-lyft-just-makes?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDE2OTE4NDMsIl8iOiJyNzJObSIsImlhdCI6MTYzMjc3NDc2MCwiZXhwIjoxNjMyNzc4MzYwLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.n11qHXMtnbaTWt2ayCm5YXtEAGIO0uO-QYPrccQNAQw&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#play</a><br>
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<i>[ Information wood as construction material ] <br>
</i><b>Wooden wind turbines. Are they really a sustainable
alternative?</b><br>
Sep 26, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
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?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsznA1ug1w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsznA1ug1w</a><br>
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<i><i>["Clean" Hydrogen is deeply twisted up with fossil fuels ] </i></i><br>
<b>Why the âSwiss Army knifeâ of climate solutions is so
controversial</b><br>
Clean hydrogen could replace fossil fuels for almost everything. But
should it?<br>
Emily Pontecorvo - Sept 27, 2021<br>
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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 âSwiss Army knifeâ 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 itâs burned...<br>
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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 âpolitically unpalatable solution.â By his analysis,
since low-carbon hydrogen is so expensive, it would either mean
handing enormous subsidies to utilities or raising customersâ 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...<br>
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âWe are really eager to make sure that the vague promise that
hydrogen might be available as a decarbonization technology in the
future doesnât derail the urgent investments that we need today,â
said Gersen.<br>
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These kinds of trade-offs are difficult to suss out. Thereâs no
guarantee that the $2 billion or so the U.S. might spend on a
residential heating âclean hydrogen hubâ would otherwise go to
electrification or any other climate solution. Or that itâs possible
to get a bill passed in Washington, D.C. right now that doesnât
involve throwing some bones to the fossil fuel industry. <br>
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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 â in terms of lives lost, communities displaced,
damages from natural disasters â than a breakthrough solution to cut
emissions in 2030.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/energy/why-the-swiss-army-knife-of-climate-solutions-is-so-controversial/">https://grist.org/energy/why-the-swiss-army-knife-of-climate-solutions-is-so-controversial/</a><br>
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<i><i><i>[A classic talk on climate psychology from the great Renee
Lertzman ] </i></i></i><br>
<b>How to Turn Anxiety into Action</b><br>
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.<br>
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This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was
featured by our editors on the home page.<br>
"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. "<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ted.com/talks/renee_lertzman_how_to_turn_climate_anxiety_into_action?language=en#t-469059">https://www.ted.com/talks/renee_lertzman_how_to_turn_climate_anxiety_into_action?language=en#t-469059</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
September 28, 2010</b></font><br>
November 28, 2010: In a New York Times article, Veerabhadran<br>
Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and David G.<br>
Victor of the University of California, San Diego discuss the need
to<br>
make progress on climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28victor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28victor.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</a><br>
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