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Fucking hypocrits

Post by macdoc » Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:17 pm

Rupert Murdoch Has Known We’ve Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show

Murdoch’s News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:04 pm

Are we surprised?


Joe Manchin, America’s climate decider-in-chief, is a coal baron
The pivotal Democratic senator owns millions of dollars in coal stocks. Shouldn’t he recuse himself from US climate talks?

Joe Manchin has never been this famous. People around the world now know that the West Virginia Democrat is the essential 50th vote in the US Senate that president Joe Biden needs to pass his agenda into law. That includes Biden’s climate agenda. Which doesn’t bode well for defusing the climate emergency, given Manchin’s longstanding opposition to ambitious climate action.

It turns out that the Senator wielding this awesome power – America’s climate decider-in-chief, one might call him – has a massive climate conflict of interest. Joe Manchin, investigative journalism has revealed, is a modern-day coal baron.

Financial records detailed by reporter Alex Kotch for the Center for Media and Democracy and published in the Guardian show that Manchin makes roughly half a million dollars a year in dividends from millions of dollars of coal company stock he owns. The stock is held in Enersystems, Inc, a company Manchin started in 1988 and later gave to his son, Joseph, to run.

Coal has been the primary driver of global warming since coal began fueling the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain 250 years ago. Today, the science is clear: coal must be phased out, starting immediately and around the world, to keep the 1.5C target within reach.
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Post by Tero » Tue Oct 05, 2021 11:04 am

Libruls get Nobel!
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded for Study of Humanity’s Role in Changing Climate
The work of Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi “demonstrate that our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation,” the committee said.

Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and Giorgio Parisi of Sapienza University of Rome were awarded the prize in Physics in Stockholm on Tuesday.
Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and Giorgio Parisi of Sapienza University of Rome were awarded the prize in Physics in Stockholm on Tuesday.Credit...Jonathan Nackstrand/Agence
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded on Tuesday to three scientists whose work “laid the foundation of our knowledge of the Earth’s climate and how humanity influences it.”

The winners were Syukuro Manabe of Princeton University, Klaus Hasselmann of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany, and Giorgio Parisi of the Sapienza University of Rome.

The work of all three is essential to understanding how the Earth’s climate is changing and how human behavior is influencing those changes.

“The discoveries being recognized this year demonstrate that our knowledge about the climate rests on a solid scientific foundation, based on a rigorous analysis of observations,” said Thors Hans Hansson, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics.

Complex systems, such as the climate, are often defined by their disorder. This year’s winners helped bring understanding to the seeming chaos, by describing those systems and predicting their long-term behavior.

Dr. Manabe demonstrated how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to increased temperatures on the surface of the Earth.

“In the 1960s, he led the development of physical models of the Earth’s climate and was the first person to explore the interaction between radiation balance and the vertical transport of air masses,” the committee said. “His work laid the foundation for the development of current climate models.”

Dr. Hasselmann, a decade later, created a model that links weather and climate, “answering the question of why climate models can be reliable despite weather being changeable and chaotic,” the Nobel committee said in its statement.

Dr. Parisi’s discoveries were described as “among the most important contributions to the theory of complex systems.”

He is credited with the discovery of the interplay of disorder and fluctuations in physical systems from atomic to planetary scales.

“They make it possible to understand and describe many different and apparently entirely random materials and phenomena, not only in physics but also in other, very different areas, such as mathematics, biology, neuroscience and machine learning,” the committee said.

Who are the winners?
Dr. Hasselmann is a German physicist and oceanographer who greatly advanced public understanding of climate change through the creation of a model that links climate and chaotic weather systems. Born in 1931 in Hamburg, he received his Ph.D. 1957 from University of Göttingen, Germany. He is a professor at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. He also founded what is now known as the Global Climate Forum.

Dr. Manabe is a senior meteorologist and climatologist at Princeton University whose research has laid the foundation for current climate models by showing how increased levels of carbon dioxide lead to higher temperatures on the surface of the Earth. Born in 1931 in Shingu, Japan, he earned his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of Tokyo.

Dr. Parisi is an Italian theoretical physicist who was born in 1948 in Rome and whose research has focused on quantum field theory, statistical mechanics and complex systems. He received his Ph.D. from the Sapienza University of Rome in Italy, in 1970. In 1980, he was responsible for discovering hidden patterns in disordered complex materials. He is a professor at the Sapienza University of Rome.

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Post by JimC » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:12 pm

Evil Marxist scientists! :lay:
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Post by macdoc » Thu Oct 07, 2021 6:55 pm

getting to monsoon level rain ...

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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sat Oct 09, 2021 4:37 pm

When you light up that cosy wood fire just think about this:

‘Eco’ wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows
Only ecodesign stoves can be legally sold from 2022 – but experts say the standard is shockingly weak

New wood burning stoves billed as more environmentally friendly still emit 750 times more tiny particle pollution than a modern HGV truck, a report has shown.

Only stoves that meet the ecodesign standard can be legally sold from the start of 2022 in the UK and EU, but experts said the regulation was shockingly weak.

The report used data on the emissions produced by stoves in perfect laboratory conditions and the pollution could be even higher in everyday use, the researchers said, with older stoves being much worse.

Tiny particle pollution – called PM2.5 – is especially harmful to health as it can pass through the lungs into the bloodstream and then be carried around the body and lodge in organs. At least 40 ,000 early deaths a year are attributed to wood burning in Europe.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon Oct 11, 2021 7:31 am

Letter from CEOs to Heads of State

Global businesses call for governments to deliver a meaningful and actionable Global Biodiversity Framework.
11 October 2021


Dear Heads of State,

The race has started to reverse nature loss and build a nature-positive, net-zero and equitable world. Nature is at a tipping point and time is against us.

We must recognize nature loss for the crisis that it is. We must understand that while it is critical for tackling climate change, nature represents more than simply a climate solution. The UN Biodiversity COP15 is our last and best chance of turning the tide of biodiversity loss. The draft Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework lacks the ambition and specificity required to drive the urgent action needed.

Because there will be no business on a dead planet, more than 1000 companies, representing USD 4.7 trillion in annual revenue and employing over 11 million people, have signed the ‘Nature is Everyone’s Business’ Call to Action urging governments to adopt policies now to reverse nature loss by 2030.

As business leaders, we recognize our responsibility to reject a “business as usual” mindset and to transform our business models in order to operate within planetary boundaries. By doing so we’ll collectively build healthy societies, resilient economies and thriving businesses.

We are taking decisive action to reverse nature loss by 2030. We are committed to ensure that our business strategies, goals and targets are compliant with a nature-positive world, including by:

assessing our material impacts and dependencies on nature in our operations and value chains, to publicly disclose them and report on progress made,

setting science-based targets for nature when the methodologies are available, and

investing in high-quality nature-based solutions, that benefit people’s livelihoods, local and indigenous communities, health, ecosystems and biodiversity as well as tackling climate change.

We acknowledge that this is not enough. We all need to speed up and scale up action. Now we are asking you to adopt a Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework that is meaningful and actionable by everyone.

We call on your governments to:

Commit to reverse nature loss by 2030: We need the 1.5 degree climate pledge equivalent for nature. The proposed mission in the Framework is too vague. It is not yet a clear finish line that will drive urgent action by all of us. The mission must provide this clear finish line: reversing nature loss by 2030.

Adopt ambitious and actionable targets that would become the clear rules for all actors. If you want businesses to urgently accelerate action and innovate, invest and transform their business models then your governments must commit to:

embed the value of nature in decision-making and disclosure,

eliminate and redirect all harmful subsidies,

align all financial flows towards a nature-positive world, and

ensure production and consumption footprints are within ecological thresholds.

We stand ready to work together with policymakers in all the countries where we operate to work towards a nature-positive world and contribute to the implementation of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework when it is adopted.

The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement marked the starting blocks to net-zero emissions. Let’s make the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework the starting blocks to a nature-positive world by 2030. So everyone – including business – will participate in the most important race of our generation; to deliver an equitable, nature-positive, net-zero world.

Nature is everyone’s business.

Alan Pullinger, CEO, FirstRand Group

Helena Helmersson, CEO, H&M Group

Jan Jenisch, CEO, Holcim

Kavinder Singh, Managing Director and CEO, Mahindra Holiday & Resorts

Roberto Marques, Executive Chairman and CEO, Natura &Co

Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Managing Board, Rabobank

Shinta Kamdani, CEO, Sintesa Group

Walter Schalka, CEO, Suzano

Alan Jope, CEO, Unilever

Thierry Delaporte, CEO and Managing Director, Wipro

Svein Tore Holsether, President and CEO, Yara International

Paul Polman, Business leader and campaigner

https://www.businessfornature.org/open-letter-cop15
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Post by macdoc » Mon Oct 11, 2021 3:51 pm

some help
Google prohibits ads that promote or make money from climate change denial

Ban applies to claims that climate change is a hoax, content that denies human activity contributes

The Associated Press · Posted: Oct 08, 2021 11:15 AM ET | Last Updated: October 9

A woman walks below a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, Calif. On Thursday, the company announced it will restrict digital ads that promote false climate change claims, hoping to stop those making such claims from profiting from them and limit the spread of misinformation on its platform. (Jeff Chiu/The Associated Press)
Google is cracking down on digital ads that promote the idea that climate change is a hoax or make money from that kind of content, hoping to limit revenue for climate change deniers and stop the spread of misinformation on its platforms.

The company said in a blog post on Thursday, Oct. 7 that the new policy will also apply to YouTube, which last week announced a sweeping crackdown of vaccine misinformation.
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Post by Woodbutcher » Wed Oct 13, 2021 12:15 pm

Still no night frost in Thunder Bay. This is the recorded latest it's ever been.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Wed Oct 13, 2021 1:18 pm

In Friesland they have had night frost already.
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Post by macdoc » Sat Oct 16, 2021 4:22 am

Earth is already becoming unlivable. Will governments act to stop this disaster from getting worse?


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Post by macdoc » Sat Oct 16, 2021 2:04 pm

paper is behind a paywall...forgive the venue but a very interesting approach
A cheap and efficient way to directly convert industrial CO₂ offgas into oxygen and solid carbon
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:26 pm

We have to convince the third world to cut Co2 when a so called first world country cant do it:

Coal-state Democrat set to scupper Biden clean energy plans
White House forced to rewrite domestic bill as it makes late bid to secure backing for international deal

President Joe Biden is likely to abandon a clean energy programme that was the centrepiece of his efforts to tackle greenhouse gas emissions at home, US media reported, because of opposition from a swing-vote Democratic senator from a state with a historically large coal industry.

Funding to replace coal- and gas-fired plants with wind, solar and nuclear generation was part of a massive budget bill that Biden is struggling to get through Congress.

The New York Times reported that White House staff members are now rewriting the legislation without the $150bn clean energy provision, on the expectation that they will not be able to pass the original version because of staunch opposition from the West Virginia senator Joe Manchin.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Sat Oct 16, 2021 10:31 pm

Of course the UK is no better:

Boris Johnson’s climate credibility at stake in run-up to Cop26 summit
Campaigners fear net zero strategy is being hamstrung by Rishi Sunak, who refuses to provide adequate funding

Boris Johnson faces a significant test of his leadership before the Cop26 climate summit as the chancellor and business secretary are at war over the imminent plan for reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions.

The government is poised to publish its long-awaited net zero strategy on Monday, setting out how the UK will meet its targets to cut CO2 emissions by 78% by 2035 and reach net zero by 2050. This will also include the heat and buildings strategy for insulating draughty homes and phasing out gas boilers, along with a massive expansion of offshore wind, and building electric vehicle charging networks.

But green campaigners are concerned that the strategies, put forward by Kwasi Kwarteng are being hamstrung by opposition from Rishi Sunak, who is refusing to provide adequate funding.

Failure to put forward a viable and well-funded blueprint for reaching net zero would destroy the UK’s credibility at a crucial time, campaigners have said, just weeks before the UN Cop26 climate talks, which begin in Glasgow at the end of this month.

Ed Matthew, campaign director at green thinktank E3G, said: “To achieve an ambitious outcome at Cop26, the government has to lead by example. If they don’t have their own house in order on how to reach net zero, how are they going to persuade the rest of the world to get on track? The whole diplomatic strategy is absolutely dependent on having a credible plan in place in the UK.”
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Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Oct 17, 2021 6:40 am

The end game of Capitalism is planetary death.
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