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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>April 11, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ discussing top-notch techno solutions - "ambitious goal" ]</i><br>
<b>The Solar PV panel that provides electricity AND heat for your
home!</b><br>
Apr 10, 2022<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
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.<br>
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Link to Rosie's video<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/-dJixtZdkU0">https://youtu.be/-dJixtZdkU0</a><br>
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Link to Sunovate Website<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sunovate.com.au/">https://www.sunovate.com.au/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0BHlSZg5M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0BHlSZg5M</a><br>
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<i>[ The Guardian asks a simple question ] </i><br>
<b>Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis –
will the world listen?</b><br>
Simon Lewis -- Apr 6, 2022<br>
The new IPCC report offers not only hope, but practical solutions.
Governments that have signed off on it ...<br>
- -<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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...<br>
- -<br>
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...<br>
- -<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/scientists-climate-crisis-ipcc-report">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/scientists-climate-crisis-ipcc-report</a><br>
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[ check this website - see the fires and smoke nearby - a few areas
in the South ]<br>
<b>Fire and Smoke Mapv2.0</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fire.airnow.gov/">https://fire.airnow.gov/</a><br>
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<i>[ talking with an XR demonstrator video ]</i><br>
<b>WHY ARE FOSSIL FUELS SO BAD? | Clive Lewis MP</b><br>
Apr 9, 2022<br>
Extinction Rebellion UK<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVP5o2WCkR8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVP5o2WCkR8</a><br>
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<i>[ Sarcastic video -- Australia has some complex, twisted process
for business pollution interacting with the environment ] </i><br>
<b>Honest Government Ad | Carbon Credits & Offsets</b><br>
Apr 10, 2022<br>
thejuicemedia<br>
The Australien Government has made an ad about its carbon-credits
scheme, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.<br>
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. <br>
Giordano<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCRDseUEEsg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCRDseUEEsg</a><br>
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<i>[ 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"] </i><br>
<b>[Extinction Rebellion protest - live video from Hyde Park
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/TEdY92rIDT4">https://youtu.be/TEdY92rIDT4</a>]</b><br>
LIVE: Day 2 of the April Rebellion: We will not be bystanders<br>
Extinction Rebellion UK<br>
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.<br>
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1. Tell The Truth<br>
2. Act Now<br>
3. Beyond Politics<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdY92rIDT4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEdY92rIDT4</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYThdLKE6TDwBJh-qDC6ICA">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYThdLKE6TDwBJh-qDC6ICA</a><br>
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<p><i>[ Singly young information activist ] </i><br>
<b>Wind and solar are now 10% of the global energy supply |
Climate Recap</b><br>
Apr 10, 2022<br>
Beckisphere Climate Corner<br>
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.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5cUU2ZcJg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf5cUU2ZcJg</a><br>
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<p><i>[ oh, you mean a WAR criminal ...]</i><br>
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN<br>
<b>How Do We Deal With a Superpower Led by a War Criminal?</b><br>
April 10, 2022<br>
By Thomas L. Friedman -- Opinion Columnist<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Ukraine and NATO, therefore, need an effective counterstrategy.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
The hope is that the three together would set in motion forces
inside Russia that topple Putin from power.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/10/opinion/putin-russia-ukraine.html</a></p>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>April 11, 1987 & 2020</b></font><br>
<br>
<b>April 11, 1987: Reporting on Tennessee Sen. Al Gore's decision to
run for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Los Angeles
Times notes:</b><br>
"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."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-11/news/mn-639_1_albert-gore">http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-11/news/mn-639_1_albert-gore</a><br>
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<b>April 11, 2010: In the New York Times Magazine, Paul Krugman
observes:</b><br>
"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.<br>
<br>
"But is it possible to make drastic cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions
without destroying our economy?<br>
<br>
"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."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/magazine/11Economy-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&</a><br>
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