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<i>[ Battery from wood... yes, see the 10 min video ]</i><br>
<b>Revolutionary new sustainable battery technology!</b><br>
7,667 views Oct 23, 2022 Lithium-ion batteries do a fantastic job
in all sorts of applications today, but they contain materials that
can be problematic from an environmental point of view. Now a
research team in Sweden has perfected an energy storage device in
which the electrons are produced by a previously unwanted waste wood
material from the paper milling industry. Safe, abundant and
environmentally friendly. Could we be solving several problems at
once here?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZMbCjpkZ0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WZMbCjpkZ0</a><br>
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<i>[ here's the company - Ligna Energy - hurry -- improve and
deploy ]</i><br>
LIGNA Energy <br>
Ligna Energy was founded in 2017, as a result of a decade of
research at Linköping University. The team is dedicated to
innovative materials for organic materials and development of
solutions utilizing materials from nature. The team has also had a
strong interaction with applications in the printed electronics area
through the collaboration with RISE and the printed electronics
arena in Norrköping.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lignaenergy.se/#solution">https://lignaenergy.se/#solution</a><br>
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[for years Paul Beckwith has been finding and explaining important
research papers ]<br>
<b>AMOC Slowdown causing Rapid Warming of Subsurface North Atlantic
causing Rapid Loss of Greenland Ice</b><br>
Oct 21, 2022 Please donate to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://PaulBeckwith.net">http://PaulBeckwith.net</a> to support my
research and videos on the cutting edge science of abrupt climate
system change.<br>
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New research shows that Greenland Ice is yet again more unstable and
precarious than we thought previously.<br>
<br>
We know a lot about Heinrich Events in the Paleorecords, whereby
huge numbers of icebergs calve of Greenland and the LIS (Laurentide
Ice Sheet, which covers lots of northern North America in times of
glaciation, also off European Glaciers). These glaciers move across
the North Atlantic, and as they melt they drop lots of previously
embedded rock called IRD (Ice Rafted Debris) to the ocean floor
where if accumulates in ocean sediment layers. Heinrich Events have
occurred in at least 5 of the previous glaciation cycles. What we
don’t know is exactly what triggers these events.<br>
<br>
A brand new peer reviewed paper shows that the following sequence
occurs, contrary to what we previously thought:<br>
<br>
1) AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) slows down and
eventually shuts off<br>
<br>
2) The subsurface (150 meters depth) ocean water in the North
Atlantic warms greatly, from a nominal 7 C by as much as 8 to 12
degrees C.<br>
<br>
3) This warm subsurface water undercuts the ice shelves and glaciers
in the Arctic, of course the glaciers that sit on bedrock that is
below sea level.<br>
<br>
4) Rapid calving of the coastal ice shelves and glaciers occurs,
creating huge numbers of large icebergs that drift away from the
coastlines and move across the North Atlantic.<br>
<br>
5) As these icebergs melt out they freshen and cool the ocean water
in the North Atlantic. They also drop large amounts of lithic rock
(known as Ice Rafted Debris, or IRD) that has been scraped off the
continents by the glaciers, and embedded within the icebergs until
they melt, and then dropped onto the ocean floor to accumulate in
the sediment layers.<br>
<br>
By taking cores of the marine sediments, we can determine when these
events occurred.<br>
<br>
How is this relevant to our present day abrupt climate system
change?<br>
<br>
We know that the AMOC has been slowing down, and is approaching a
shutoff point. Also, the oceans are rapidly warming across the
globe. As the AMOC slows, we can expect a large warming of the North
Atlantic subsurface water (at about 150 meter depth) by perhaps 8 to
12 degrees C. When this happens then we must expect greatly
accelerated Greenland ice melt, with greatly accelerated global sea
level rise.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HuohA9_hXg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HuohA9_hXg</a><br>
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[ This is a pretty big deal ]<br>
<b>Most diseases worsened by climate change, new research reveals.
Here’s what we can do about it </b><br>
By Charlotte Elton • Updated: 10/20/2022<br>
The climate crisis will worsen most diseases, experts have warned -
and could catalyse the next deadly pandemic.<br>
<br>
Nobody likes getting sick.<br>
<br>
But as the planet heats up, the majority of diseases - from mild
viruses to deadly plagues - will become more common.<br>
<br>
According to a 2022 study, over half (58 per cent) of known
infectious diseases are aggravated by climate change.<br>
<br>
The research - drawn from a review of more than 77,000 existing
papers - paints a “terrifying” picture of the next few decades,
warns lead author Camilo Mora.<br>
“We are not going to go extinct, I don’t think. Instead, this is
going to make our lives miserable,” he says.<br>
<br>
“The disease crisis is like a meteorite hurtling towards us. Indeed,
the meteorite is here.<br>
“We cannot ignore it.”<br>
<br>
From long-dormant pathogens unleashed by defrosting tundra, to
millions of extra virus-carrying mosquitos, the risks will be
severe.<br>
<br>
So how is disease going to change in coming decades - and what can
we do about it?<br>
<b>Seven ways climate change is going to impact diseases</b><br>
<b>7. Animals and humans forced closer together</b><br>
<blockquote>Habitat degradation and climate change is forcing
animals and humans closer together, increasing the risk of viruses
‘jumping’ between species.<br>
<br>
Floods, fires and droughts push wildlife to seek resources
elsewhere. Meanwhile, humans are encroaching on nature ever
further, including by logging forests for pastureland and
construction.<br>
<br>
This dynamic leads to deadly emerging diseases, explains Professor
Daniel Brooks, a professor emeritus of Evolutionary Biology at the
University of Toronto.<br>
<br>
In his 2019 book ‘The Stockholm Paradigm’, Brooks and colleagues
explain how pathogens can easily colonise new hosts.<br>
<br>
“Climate change alters the conditions of life for species, and
when those changes exceed a species ‘comfort zone’, members of the
species move away, seeking more livable conditions,” he says.<br>
<br>
“By catalysing movement in general, climate change thus sets the
stage for hosts to come into contact with pathogens to which they
are susceptible but which they had never been exposed to before.”<br>
<br>
The pathogens don’t even have to mutate, he says - new hosts often
already have the traits required for a ‘jump’.<br>
<br>
“In the case of SARS-CoV-2, for example, the virus has a very
specialised requirement for hosts with a cell surface antigen
called ACE2,” Brooks explains.<br>
<br>
“The original bat host for SARS-CoV-2 has ACE2 and lives a very
isolated life - it is nocturnal and lives in caves, where it does
not even interact with other bats.<br>
<br>
“Change the conditions, however (bring the bats into contact with
other species in a live animal market, for example) and the fact
that virtually all species of mammals have ACE2 means the risk
space for emerging infectious diseases skyrockets.”<br>
</blockquote>
<b>6. ‘Pandora’s box’ pathogens in defrosting tundra</b><br>
<blockquote>Global warming is melting ice caps and permafrost,
exposing pathogens that have been frozen underground for thousands
of years.<br>
<br>
In 2016, a 12-year-old Russian boy died after being infected with
anthrax. The disease had stemmed from an infected reindeer corpse
that had been defrosted from deep in the Siberian tundra.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>5. Flooding spreads waterborne diseases (and wastewater
overflows)</b><br>
<blockquote>Climate change increases the frequency and severity of
flooding.<br>
<br>
Floodwater often contains sewage, and eating or drinking anything
contaminated by floodwater can cause diarrheal diseases like E.
coli and Salmonella. Cholera, typhoid, and leptospirosis also
thrive after floods.<br>
<br>
Once floodwaters recede, the remaining stagnant water becomes a
breeding ground for mosquitos carrying diseases like malaria and
dengue fever.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>4. Warm weather increases mosquitos and ticks</b><br>
<blockquote>According to a 2019 study in the journal PLOS Neglected
Tropical Diseases, disease-carrying mosquitoes will reach 500
million more people by 2050 than they do today.<br>
<br>
This is because warm weather will increase the number of places
these deadly disease vectors can breed.<br>
<br>
Ticks also thrive in warmer weather. In the US, incidences of
tick-borne Lyme disease - a bacterial illness that can lead to
serious joint and nervous system complications - has more than
doubled in the past 30 years.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>3. Ocean warming leads to deadly algae blooms</b><br>
<blockquote>Toxic algal blooms - the bright blue-green organisms you
might see floating in bodies of water - can kill all of the fish
in a lake. They can also seriously harm or kill humans.<br>
<br>
The blooms thrive as sewage and chemical run-off spews into water
courses. Rising temperatures also stimulate these growths.<br>
<br>
So do rising sea levels, as shallow and stable coastal water
bodies create the perfect environment for blooms.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>2. Heatwaves breed ‘heat-resistant’ viruses</b><br>
<blockquote>When mammals get sick, one of our best defence
mechanisms is a fever.<br>
<br>
A fever heats your body up, stimulating immune response. But as
the weather becomes warmer, viruses will undergo a process of
natural selection.<br>
<br>
“For example, look at a bat fighting with a pathogen like a virus.
When there is a heatwave, the bat is stressed, and is more likely
to get sick,” Mora says.<br>
<br>
But those that survive will be hosting, brewing, heat-resistant
viruses.<br>
<br>
“The pathogens will be getting stronger.”<br>
This survival of the fittest will breed heat-resistant viruses
that are better able to evade human defences.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>1. Human immune systems under stress</b><br>
<blockquote>Extreme weather events put massive amounts of stress on
the human body - for example, your body has to work hard to keep
you cool during a heatwave.<br>
<br>
But as climate change bites, billions will live in more difficult
conditions.<br>
<br>
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR), around 21.5 million people have been forcibly displaced
by weather-related events since 2008.<br>
<br>
The Institute for Economics and Peace - a London based think tank
- estimates that around 1.2 billion people could be displaced by
climate change over the next 30 years.<br>
<br>
Refugee camps, for example, can be hives for disease outbreaks.<br>
<br>
Climate change will make us all more vulnerable, warns Professor
Joacim Rocklöv, a Humboldt Professor at the University of
Heidelberg.<br>
<br>
“It also affects the vulnerability of populations through systemic
compounding impacts. This can lead to worsened impacts of already
existing disease, for example through mechanisms of food and water
scarcity.”<br>
</blockquote>
<b>What can we do about climate change-induced health risks?</b><br>
Faced with these multiple emerging health risks, what should we do?
Prevention is far better than crisis response, warns Dr Brooks.<br>
<br>
The example of metabolic diseases proves this, he says.<br>
<br>
“‘Change your diet, don’t smoke, drink less, get exercise’ is
cheaper and more effective than cardiac bypass surgery, even though
it is not as heroic,” he says.<br>
<br>
“We need to apply the same rationale to EID [emerging infectious
diseases].”<br>
<br>
Brooks calls on governments to follow the DAMA protocol - document,
assess, monitor and act.<br>
<br>
For example, a coronavirus resembling SARS-CoV-2 was discovered in
China in 2005. If governments had monitored the likelihood of the
strain causing disease in humans, and regulated wet markets, the
pandemic may have been avoided.<br>
<br>
The other crucial action is to strike at the source and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions, says Dr Mora.<br>
<br>
“The solution is not adaptation. There is no adapting to this, there
are just way too many diseases,” he says.<br>
<br>
“How will future generations look at us, if we leave them a
miserable world? We must refuse that.”<br>
<br>
This requires rapid decarbonisation and investment in renewable
energies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/10/20/most-diseases-worsened-by-climate-change-new-research-reveals-heres-what-we-can-do-about-i">https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/10/20/most-diseases-worsened-by-climate-change-new-research-reveals-heres-what-we-can-do-about-i</a><br>
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<i>[ the meaning crisis - followup - 12 min video]</i><br>
<b>Falling in Love with Reality</b><br>
Oct 23, 2022 Climate corruption journalist, Rachel Donald, on the
Planet: Critical episode with John Vervaeke, Making Sense of the
Meaning Crisis: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/qilGa6Al5BY">https://youtu.be/qilGa6Al5BY</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfRbcOGZG1Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfRbcOGZG1Q</a><br>
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<i>[ Oh you know you will watch this 15 min video ]</i><br>
<b>How the World’s Wealthiest People Travel</b><br>
1,066,465 views Oct 19, 2022 <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNcYxHJPLE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBNcYxHJPLE</a>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 24, 2014</b></i></font> <br>
InsideClimate News reports on NPR's abandonment of climate-change
coverage.<br>
<blockquote>NPR has gutted its staff dedicated to covering
environmental and climate issues. Given the nation’s and world’s
renewed focus on the threat posed by unrestricted carbon
pollution, this baffling move is already receiving widespread
criticism from scientists and media watchers. It is “a sad
commentary on the current state of our media,” as one top
climatologist told me.<br>
<br>
Katherine Bagley broke the story for InsideClimate News. She
reports that earlier in 2014, NPR “had three full-time reporters
and one editor dedicated” to cover environmental and climate
issues within NPR’s science desk. Now, shockingly, “One remains —
and he is covering it only part-time.”<br>
<br>
NPR’s climate coverage has been fairly stagnant for years, as this
graph shows (click to enlarge):<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141222222136im_/http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BrulleNPR-638x303.jpg">https://web.archive.org/web/20141222222136im_/http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BrulleNPR-638x303.jpg</a>
<br>
<br>
Climate communications expert Dr. Robert J. Brulle of Drexel
University is the source of that graph. He also emailed me a
comment on NPR’s move:<br>
<br>
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 that led to the founding of
NPR had as one of its goals that public broadcasting would serve
as a “source of alternative telecommunications services” that
would serve to “address national concerns.” This latest
announcement illustrates how NPR has lost its way. The level of
coverage of climate change by NPR has not served to increase
public knowledge of climate change any more than any other
commercial news outlet. Its coverage has returned to the levels
seen around 2006. Reducing the environmental staff will further
decrease its coverage of climate change. I would have thought NPR
would take a proactive stance toward the coverage of climate
change, given its charter to address issues of national concern.
Sadly, it seems that instead of being part of the solution, NPR
has now become part of the problem.<br>
<br>
An InsideClimate News analysis of NPR pieces tagged “environment,”
found that the number “has declined since January … dropping from
the low 60s to mid-40s every month.”<br>
<br>
Journalists and scientists quickly criticized NPR’s move. The LA
Times energy and environment reporter in Washington, D.C., Neela
Banerjee, almost immediately tweeted out:<br>
<br>
@NPR dismantles its great environment desk because that worked so
well for @NYTimes a year ago: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://t.co/xwtApHigHr">http://t.co/xwtApHigHr</a>
#climate #science<br>
<br>
— Neela Banerjee (@neelaeast) October 24, 2014<br>
<br>
Last year, climate coverage at the New York Times dropped
following its closure of its own environmental desk. But the Times
recently reversed course and expanded its team.<br>
<br>
In an email to ClimateProgress, Bagley wrote “With the impacts of
climate change becoming more salient, this seems like the wrong
time for a news outlet to be reducing the resources or manpower it
dedicates to covering this issue.” She hopes NPR ultimately ends
up where the Times did: “It closed its desk, but after much
criticism and data showing that its coverage declined, the paper
made environment and climate a key priority again by assigning a
number of new reporters to the beat.”<br>
<br>
Michael Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science
Center and one of the country’s top climatologists, told
ClimateProgress, “This is a sad commentary on the current state of
our media and, in particular, environmental reporting. Climate
change is perhaps the greatest challenge we face as a
civilization. Yet NPR apparently feels that it only deserves a
fraction of one reporter.”<br>
<br>
How does NPR explain the shift?<br>
<br>
The move to shift reporters off the environment beat was driven by
an interest to cover other fields more in depth, said Anne
Gudenkauf, senior supervising editor of NPR’s science desk….<br>
<br>
Gudenkauf also said she doesn’t “feel like [the environment]
necessarily requires dedicated reporters” because so many other
staffers cover the subject, along with their other beats.<br>
<br>
Personally, I don’t know anyone in the media business who shares
that view. Indeed, one of the reasons that Climate Progress
greatly expanded its team of reporters dedicated to covering
climate change last year is precisely because major MSM outlets
like the Times were slashing coverage.<br>
<br>
Yet, ironically, at the same time that the New York Times has
figured out it made a mistake cutting dedicated climate reporters,
NPR has made the exact same mistake.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20141024/npr-reduces-its-environment-team-one-reporter">http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20141024/npr-reduces-its-environment-team-one-reporter</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141222222136/http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/24/3584246/npr-guts-climate-team/">https://web.archive.org/web/20141222222136/http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/24/3584246/npr-guts-climate-team/</a><br>
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