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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>October 14, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ very hopeful, a classic process revived - audio and text ]</i><br>
<b>'Water batteries' could store solar and wind power for when it's
needed</b><br>
October 14, 2022<br>
Heard on Morning Edition<br>
DAN CHARLES<br>
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It's a way to store the electricity. When the sun goes down and
solar power disappears, operators would open a valve and the force
of 8 million tons of water, falling back downhill through those same
pipes, would drive turbines capable of generating 500 megawatts of
electricity for up to eight hours. That's enough to power 130,000
typical homes.<br>
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<b>Pumped hydro has a history</b><br>
The technology that San Diego is proposing, called pumped hydro
energy storage, is already operating at more than 40 sites in the
United States. Some of the largest ones, which can generate more
than 1000 MW for up to eight hours, were built during the 1970s and
1980s to store electricity that nuclear power plants generated
during the night. But few new plants have been built over the past
30 years in the U.S. China has continued to build such plants.<br>
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Pumped hydro facilities, he says, don't have to be as massive as
those of the past century, and they don't need to disturb
free-flowing streams and rivers. Many proposals are for
"closed-loop" systems that use the same water over and over, moving
it back and forth between two big ponds, one higher than the other,
like sand in an hourglass.<br>
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Three of the proposed projects in the U.S. that appear closest to
breaking ground, in Montana, Oregon, and southern California, all
would operate as closed loops.<br>
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Kelly Catlett, director of hydropower reform at American Rivers, an
environmental advocacy organization which has highlighted the
environmental harm caused by dams, says that "there are good pumped
storage projects, and there are not-so-good pumped storage
projects."<br>
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Her group won't support projects that build new dams on streams and
rivers, disrupting sensitive aquatic ecosystems. But San Diego's
plan, she says, "looks like something that we could potentially
support" because it uses an existing reservoir and doesn't disturb
any flowing streams. Also, she says, "I'm unaware of any opposition
by indigenous nations, which is another really important factor, as
they have borne a lot of the impacts of hydropower development over
the decades."<br>
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<i>[ Young Becki continues to build her climate specialty video
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<b>New Zealand plans to tax cow farts, US opens first cobalt mine |
The Climate Recap</b><br>
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<p><i>[ the land of the ancients, jumps to the forefront for 5 hours
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<b>Greece runs on 100% renewables for the first time on record</b><br>
Michelle Lewis<br>
Oct. 12th 2022<br>
Greece was powered entirely by renewables for the first time ever
last week, according to the country’s independent power
transmission operator (IPTO).<br>
On Monday, IPTO said that renewables accounted for 100% of power
generation in Greece for at least five hours, reaching a record
high of 3,106 megawatt hours at 0800 GMT:<br>
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<blockquote>For the first time in the history of the Greek
electricity system, the demand was covered 100% from renewable
energy sources.<br>
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With the interconnections implemented by IPTO on land and sea, new
electrical capacity is created for even greater [renewable energy
sources] penetration that will make our energy mix even greener in
the coming years.<br>
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Reuters notes:<br>
<blockquote>Greece aims to attract about 30 billion of euros in
European funds and private investments to upgrade its electricity
grid and more than double its green energy capacity to account for
at least 70% of its energy mix by 2030.<br>
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It plans to have 25 gigawatt of installed renewable energy
capacity from about 10 gigawatt now but analysts say Athens might
reach that target sooner.<br>
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In April, Electrek reported that Greece inaugurated a 204 MW solar
farm in Kozani, in the country’s Western Macedonia region, which has
long been Greece’s largest coal-producing region. Kozani is the
largest solar farm with bifacial panels in Europe and the largest
utility-scale solar farm in southeastern Europe.<br>
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<i>[ research from the Sierra Club - my local power company earns a
'C' grade]</i><br>
<b>The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges</b><br>
Utilities are trying to greenwash their dirty plans.<br>
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It’s time to hold them accountable.<br>
The next decade is critical to averting the worst impacts of the
climate crisis and transforming our economy to run entirely on clean
energy.<br>
<br>
Studies show that unless utilities retire all their coal plants by
2030, abandon all plans to build gas plants, and aggressively build
out renewable energy resources, we risk destabilizing our livable
climate. Despite this pressing deadline, utilities are either not
moving fast enough toward these goals, or not moving at all.<br>
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Dozens of utilities may have pledged to become “carbon neutral” by
2050, but research conducted by the Sierra Club in its inaugural
Dirty Truth Report showed that nearly all utilities in the United
States lack the plans needed to move toward clean energy in the time
frame needed to avoid the worst of the climate crisis. In an update
to that report a year and a half later, Sierra Club found that most
utilities have continued to drag their feet, making little progress
in the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.<br>
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Protesters in front of a building with classical architecture, a
picture of the planet on a flag, and a person holding a sign that
says "It's Time to Act"<br>
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Report: The Dirty Truth About Utility Climate Pledges<br>
What utilities do, or don’t do, between now and 2030 will either
seal our fate or deliver us from future climate catastrophe. What is
your utility doing?<br>
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Is Your Utility Company Meeting Its Goals?<br>
Use the tool below to learn more about your utility company’s pledge
and how they’re doing...<br>
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[ The October report from Sierra Club ]<br>
<b>THE DIRTY TRUTH</b><br>
About Utility Climate Pledges<br>
VERSION 2 October 2022<br>
<b>KEY FINDINGS:</b><br>
<blockquote>• While electric utilities have pledged to reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions, they have made little progress<br>
since our first report and still fall far short of what is needed
to protect people and the planet.<br>
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• We assigned a score to each utility based on its plans to retire
coal, build new clean energy, and not build<br>
new gas plants. The aggregate score for all companies studied this
year was 21 out of 100 — or a D — up just<br>
4 points from the previous study.<br>
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• For parent companies with a climate pledge, the aggregate score
in our analysis was 23 out of 100, only<br>
2 points higher than the overall aggregate score. This suggests
that most utilities’ corporate pledges are not<br>
translating into action.<br>
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• The companies studied account for 69 percent of remaining coal
generation in the US. They have committed<br>
to retire just 28 percent of their coal generation by 2030.<br>
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• About half of the operating companies included in this study, 37
companies, are planning to build new gas<br>
plants, totaling nearly 38 GW through 2030. These utilities have
actually increased their plans for new gas<br>
plants since our last report. This accounts for over half of the
total planned gas in the US through 2030.<br>
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• The companies in this study plan to add 308 million megawatt
hours (MWh) of new wind and solar energy<br>
to the grid between 2022 and 2030. This is equivalent to only 24
percent of their current coal and gas<br>
generation and is wholly inadequate for a swift transition to a
clean grid.<br>
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• Of the 77 operating companies studied, 27 received worse scores
(35 percent); 43 improved their scores<br>
(56 percent); and 7 made no progress (9 percent).<br>
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<b>A CLEAN ELECTRIC SECTOR REMAINS CRITICAL</b><br>
KEY FACTS:<br>
<blockquote>• Rapidly cleaning up the electricity sector is key to
achieving national climate goals.<br>
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• To put us on a pathway consistent with a 1.5°C future and avoid
the worst effects of climate change, by 2030<br>
US utilities need to phase out coal and slash emissions by at
least 80 percent from 2005 levels.<br>
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• We can transition to clean energy. Multiple pathways exist to
cost-effectively achieve 100 percent zerocarbon electricity by
2035.<br>
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• A rapid transition to clean energy has the potential to have the
greatest positive impact on vulnerable and<br>
marginalized communities bearing the brunt of the monetary,
health, and environmental costs of our reliance<br>
on fossil fuels<br>
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[ NASA does some science ] <br>
Oct 12, 2022<br>
<b>NASA Dust Detective Delivers First Maps From Space for Climate
Science</b><br>
NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT)
mission aboard the International Space Station has produced its
first mineral maps, providing detailed images that show the
composition of the surface in regions of northwest Nevada and Libya
in the Sahara Desert.<br>
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Windy desert areas such as these are the sources of fine dust
particles that, when lifted by wind into the atmosphere, can heat or
cool the surrounding air. But scientists haven’t been able to assess
whether mineral dust in the atmosphere has overall heating or
cooling effects at local, regional, and global scales. EMIT’s
measurements will help them to advance computer models and improve
our understanding of dust’s impacts on climate. <br>
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EMIT scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern
California and the U.S. Geological Survey created the maps to test
the accuracy of the instrument’s measurements, a crucial first step
in preparing for full science operations.<br>
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Installed on the space station in July, EMIT is the first of a new
class of high-fidelity imaging spectrometers that collect data from
space and produce better-quality data at greater volumes than
previous instruments.<br>
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“Decades ago, when I was in graduate school, it took 10 minutes to
collect a single spectrum from a geological sample in the
laboratory. EMIT’s imaging spectrometer measures 300,000 spectra per
second, with superior quality,” said Robert Green, EMIT’s principal
investigator and senior research scientist at JPL.<br>
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“The data we’re getting from EMIT will give us more insight into the
heating and cooling of Earth, and the role mineral dust plays in
that cycle. It’s promising to see the amount of data we’re getting
from the mission in such a short time,” said Kate Calvin, NASA’s
chief scientist and senior climate advisor. “EMIT is one of seven
Earth science instruments on the International Space Station giving
us more information about how our planet is affected by climate
change.”<br>
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EMIT analyzes light reflected from Earth, measuring it at hundreds
of wavelengths, from the visible to the infrared range of the
spectrum. Different materials reflect light in different
wavelengths. Scientists use these patterns, called spectral
fingerprints, to identify surface minerals and pinpoint their
locations.<br>
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Mineral spectra in northwest Nevada<br>
NASA’s EMIT mission recently gathered mineral spectra in northwest
Nevada that match what the agency’s AVIRIS instrument found in 2018,
helping to confirm EMIT’s accuracy. Both instruments found areas
dominated by kaolinite, a reflective clay mineral whose particles
can cool the air when airborne.<br>
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The Nevada map focuses on a mountainous area about 130 miles (209
kilometers) northeast of Lake Tahoe, revealing locations dominated
by kaolinite, a light-colored mineral whose particles scatter light
upward and cool the air as they move through the atmosphere. The map
and spectral fingerprint closely match those collected from aircraft
in 2018 by the Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer
(AVIRIS), data that was verified at the time by geologists.
Researchers are using this and other comparisons to confirm the
accuracy of EMIT’s measurements.<br>
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The other mineral map shows substantial amounts of kaolinite as well
as two iron oxides, hematite and goethite, in a sparsely populated
section of the Sahara about 500 miles (800 kilometers) south of
Tripoli. Darker-colored dust particles from iron-oxide-rich areas
strongly absorb energy from the Sun and heat the atmosphere,
potentially affecting the climate.<br>
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Currently there is little or no information on the composition of
dust originating in parts of the Sahara. In fact, researchers have
detailed mineral information of only about 5,000 soil samples from
around the world, requiring that they make inferences about the
composition of dust.<br>
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EMIT will gather billions of new spectroscopic measurements across
six continents, closing this gap in knowledge and advancing climate
science. “With this exceptional performance, we are on track to
comprehensively map the minerals of Earth’s arid regions – about 25%
of the Earth’s land surface – in less than a year and achieve our
climate science objectives,” Green said.<br>
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EMIT’s data also will be freely available for a wide range of
investigations, including, for example, the search for strategically
important minerals such as lithium and rare-earth elements. What’s
more, the instrument’s technology is laying the groundwork for the
future Surface Biology and Geology (SBG) satellite mission, which is
part of NASA’s Earth System Observatory, a set of missions aimed at
addressing climate change.<br>
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EMIT traces its roots to imaging spectrometer technology that NASA’s
Airborne Imaging Spectrometer (AIS) first demonstrated in 1982.
Designed to identify minerals on Earth’s surface from a low-altitude
research aircraft, the instrument delivered surprising results
almost immediately. During early test flights near Cuprite, Nevada,
AIS detected the unique spectral signature of buddingtonite, a
mineral not seen on any previous geological maps of the area.<br>
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Paving the way for future spectrometers when it was introduced in
1986, AVIRIS – the airborne instrument that succeeded AIS – has
studied geology, plant function, and alpine snowmelt, among other
natural phenomena. It has also mapped chemical pollution at
Superfund sites and studied oil spills, including the massive
Deepwater Horizon leak in 2010. And it flew over the World Trade
Center site in Manhattan following the Sept. 11 attacks, locating
uncontrolled fires and mapping debris composition in the wreckage.<br>
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Over the years, as optics, detector arrays, and computing
capabilities have progressed, imaging spectrometers capable of
resolving smaller targets and subtler differences have flown with
missions across the solar system.<br>
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A JPL-built imaging spectrometer on the Indian Space Research
Organization’s Chandrayaan-1 probe measured signs of water on the
Moon in 2009. NASA’s Europa Clipper, which launches in 2024, will
rely on an imaging spectrometer to help scientists assess if the icy
Jovian moon has conditions that could support life.<br>
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Highly advanced JPL-developed spectrometers will be part of NASA’s
forthcoming Lunar Trailblazer – which will determine the form,
abundance, and distribution of water on the Moon and the nature of
the lunar water cycle – and on satellites to be launched by the
nonprofit Carbon Mapper, aimed at spotting greenhouse gas
point-sources from space.<br>
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“The technology took directions that I would never have imagined,”
said Gregg Vane, the JPL researcher whose graduate studies in
geology helped inspire the idea for the original imaging
spectrometer. “Now with EMIT, we’re using it to look back at our own
planet from space for important climate research.”<br>
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EMIT was selected from the Earth Venture Instrument-4 solicitation
under the Earth Science Division of NASA Science Mission Directorate
and was developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is
managed for the agency by Caltech in Pasadena, California. It
launched aboard a SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft from NASA’s
Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 14, 2022. The instrument’s
data will be delivered to the NASA Land Processes Distributed Active
Archive Center (DAAC) for use by other researchers and the public.<br>
To learn more about the mission, visit: <a
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</i><i>[ time to act super-smart Also called Global Warming ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change threatens supercomputers</b><br>
Increasingly intense heat waves, wildfires, and droughts are forcing
costly adaptations<br>
11 OCT 2022<br>
PMBYJACKLIN KWAN<br>
In 2018, during a savage drought, the California wildfire known as
the Camp Fire burned 620 square kilometers of land, reducing several
towns nearly to ashes and killing at least 85 people. The disaster
also had a ripple effect far from the flames, at a supercomputer
facility operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
230 kilometers away. The National Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center (NERSC) typically relies on outside air to help
cool its hot electronics. But smoke and soot from the fire forced
engineers to cool recirculated air, driving up humidity levels.<br>
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“That’s when we discovered, ‘Wow, this is a real event,’” says Norm
Bourassa, an energy performance engineer at NERSC, which serves
about 3000 users a year in fields from cosmology to advanced
materials. Hot and dry weather took a toll again a year later.
California utilities cut NERSC’s power for fear that winds near LBNL
might blow trees into power lines, sparking new fires. Although
NERSC has backup generators, many machines were shut down for days,
Bourassa says.<br>
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Managers at high-performance computing (HPC) facilities are waking
up to the costly effects of climate change and the wildfires and
storms it is intensifying. With their heavy demands for cooling and
massive appetite for energy, HPC centers—which include both
supercomputers and data centers—are vulnerable, says Natalie Bates,
chair of an HPC energy efficiency working group set up by Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). “Weather extremes are making
the design and location of supercomputers far more difficult.”<br>
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Climate change can bring not only heat, but also increased humidity,
reducing the efficiency of the evaporative coolers many HPC centers
rely on. Humidity can also threaten the computers themselves, as
NERSC discovered during a second fire. As interior air was
recirculated, condensation inside server racks led to a blowout in
one cabinet, Bourassa says. For its next supercomputer, set to open
in 2026, NERSC is planning to install power-hungry chiller units,
similar to air conditioners, that would both cool and dehumidify
outside air.<br>
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The cost of such adaptations is motivating some HPC centers to
migrate to cooler and drier climates, places like Canada and
Finland, says Nicolas Dubé, chief technologist for Hewlett Packard
Enterprise’s HPC division. “We can’t build in some locations going
forward, it just doesn’t make sense,” he says. “We need to move
north.”<br>
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But some HPC facilities find themselves stuck. The supercomputers at
LLNL are used to simulate the explosions of nuclear weapons. The
cost of relocating specialized personnel could be prohibitive, and
LLNL’s California site is a highly secure facility, says Chief
Engineer Anna-Maria Bailey. Instead, LLNL is studying the
possibility of moving its computers underground. “Humidity and
temperature control would be a lot easier,” she says, “like a wine
cave.”<br>
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Running from climate change can be futile, however. In 2012, the
National Center for Atmospheric Research opened a supercomputer site
in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to take advantage of its cool, dry air.
However, climate change has led to longer and wetter thunderstorm
seasons there, hampering evaporative cooling. In response, the
Wyoming center added a backup chiller. “Now you have to build your
infrastructure to meet the worst possible conditions, and that’s
expensive,” Bates says.<br>
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Climate change is also threatening the lifeblood of these HPC
facilities: electricity. HPC centers consume up to 100 megawatts of
power, as much as a medium-size town. Meanwhile, hotter temperatures
can increase power demands by other users. During California’s heat
wave this summer, when air-conditioning use surged, LLNL’s utility
told the facility to prepare for power cuts of 2 to 8 megawatts.
Although the cuts did not happen, it was the first time the
laboratory was asked to prepare for non-voluntary cuts, Bailey says.<br>
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Many HPC facilities are heavy users of water, too, which is piped
around components to carry away heat—and which will grow scarcer in
the western United States as droughts persist or worsen. A decade
ago, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico invested in water
treatment facilities so its supercomputers could use reclaimed
wastewater rather than more precious municipal water, says Jason
Hick, an LANL program manager.<br>
<br>
Although droughts and rising temperatures may be the biggest
threats, a RIKEN HPC facility in Kobe, Japan, must contend with
power outages because of storms, which are expected to get more
intense with global warming. A high-voltage substation was flooded
in 2018, cutting RIKEN’s power for more than 45 hours. Similarly, a
lightning strike this year on a power line knocked the facility out
for about 15 hours. The center’s 200 projects span fields such as
materials science and nuclear fusion, says Fumiyoshi Shoji, who
directs operations and computer technologies. “If our system were
unavailable, these research projects would stall,” he says.<br>
<br>
Bates says future supercomputers will need to be constructed in ways
that will allow them to cut performance—and the need for cooling and
power—during bouts of bad weather. “We’re still building race cars,
but we’re building them with a throttle.”<br>
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doi: 10.1126/science.adf2869<br>
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<i>[ Gaining an understanding of our condition - video ]</i><br>
<b>Overshoot in a Nutshell: Understanding Our Predicament (31 min)</b><br>
49,493 views Nov 15, 2021 This is part two of a two-part primer on
the nature, inevitability, and speed of biospheric and
civilizational collapse. Part one, "Collapse In a Nutshell" can be
found here: <br>
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nearly impossible to truly understand (i.e., to get your head and
heart around) our current local and global-scale challenges without
this understanding. To join with others (in the "post-doom, no
gloom" community) to share best practices and strategies for how to
cope and adapt to this knowledge, see here: <a
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[ Tri-State region discussion - video on ramifications of June
ruling ]<br>
<b>SUPREME COURT LIMITS EPA POWER TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE</b><br>
Clip: 10/12/2022 <br>
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In a 6-3 ruling in June, on the final day of its previous term, the
Supreme Court greatly limited the Environmental Protection Agency’s
power to address climate change. Joining us to discuss the impact of
the court’s decision are Lisa Garcia, Regional Administrator for EPA
Region 2, and Eddie Bautista, Executive Director of the NYC
Environmental Justice Alliance.<br>
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Aired: 10/12/22<br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at how we ignored warnings]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 14, 2013</b></i></font> <br>
October 14, 2013: In an editorial, the Baltimore Sun declares:<br>
<blockquote>"The latest analysis produced by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), compiled by hundreds of scientists
and dozens of authors from around the globe, shows that climate
change is real, it's largely caused by man, and it's the greatest
environmental threat we face.<br>
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"That's not alarmism, it's reality. Of course, know-nothing
deniers will be as dismissive of the IPCC findings as they've been
of similar reports in the past. That the IPCC is under the
auspices of the United Nations will be used to stir up
nationalistic suspicions. That climate change policy is highly
inconvenient for the fossil fuel industries will cause the big
coal and oil companies to continue their disinformation campaigns.<br>
<br>
"None of which changes the reality that climate change poses a
serious threat, and as the evidence mounts, it's actually become
easier to distinguish these basic changes in the ecosystem from
the normal ups and downs of weather. No one super storm or drought
or tornado is traceable to global warming, of course, but the data
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greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."<br>
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