Global Climate Change Science News

[macdoc]

Ummm Sean this thread is for climate science news not denier tripe.

https://rationalwiki.org › wiki › Heartland_Institute
Aug 2, 2023 — The Heartland Institute is a militant, libertarian, conservative "think tank" based in Chicago and founded by Joseph L. Bast, a former janitor and drop out ...

[Sean Hayden]

The original link I posted was even worse, some kind of Trumpian.

—yet more problematic stuff, or how the Internet hasn’t lived up to the hype?

[Brian Peacock]

...this thread is for climate science news not denier tripe...

We actually talk about all things climate related here now.

[JimC]

I do think it's important that we hear about the denier's crap, although it seems more and more like a final desperate refusal to see...

[macdoc]

I don't think expanding their miasma of falsehood spreading is ever useful. If you haven't "heard" about the spew by now.......

[macdoc]

ugh...

'Something's changed': Summer 2023 is screaming climate change, scientists say

Floods, drought, fires, smoke and warm waters lapping three coasts

Bob Weber · The Canadian Press · Posted: Aug 05, 2023 6:51 PM EDT | Last Updated: August 6

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ ... -1.6929271

[aufbahrung]

Haven't seen nothing yet. Planet is facing Custer's last stand regarding habitable climate whilst humans squabble with nukes. Aliens pass by with a nine parsec wide do not enter fence placed around our star system.

https://www.space.com/venus-runaway-gre ... -next.html

[macdoc]

a win

Big oil uncovered
‘Game-changer’: judge rules in favor of young activists in US climate trial
Sixteen young plaintiffs had alleged the Montana state government had violated their right to a healthy environment

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... udge-order

[Brian Peacock]

I do think it's important that we hear about the denier's crap, although it seems more and more like a final desperate refusal to see...

Corporate Greenwashing is now endemic in the UK. The govt is branding climate and environmental activists as terrorists and have virtually removed the right to protest. They've also doubled down on subsidising fossil and granted 100+ new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences, which won't bring anything forth for 20 years - so we'll have to endure the farce of the UK bringing new hydrocarbon sources on-stream within 5-10 years of meeting global net zero targets by 2050. The Tory govt line is now, "Oil and gas are a vital and necessary component of any transition to a more renewable energy sector." The billionaire press are whipping up a storm about plans for urban low emission zones from local and municiple councils being a left-wing plot to confiscate our cars even though it was a Tory manifesto commitment at the last general election - because improved respiratory health for city dwellers is apparently bad for business as well as anti-freedom - and the current opposition hopefuls have weathervaned a u-turn on their environmental policies to align with the prevailing gusts of right-wing hot air.

In all this, nobody is explicitly denying climate change or global heating, but then again, denialism can take many forms.

[Brian Peacock]

...The [UK] govt is branding climate and environmental activists as terrorists and have virtually removed the right to protest. ...

UK judges are banning defendants in climate-related protest cases from mentioning their motivation.

Forty people, including an Olympic gold medallist and a former police officer, are calling on the solicitor general to charge them with contempt of court if he prosecutes a social worker for holding up a placard outside a climate trial.

The solicitor general is weighing up whether to charge Trudi Warner, 68, with contempt of court for a protest outside a crown court that was hearing a trial relating to direct action by climate protesters. She held up a placard stating: “Jurors: you have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to your conscience.”

Warner made the protest in March after a judge restricted defendants in a string of trials from mentioning the climate crisis, insulation or any motivation for their direct action. ...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... prosecuted

Fossil Fascism, coming to a courtroom near you soon.

[Brian Peacock]

Long lines of traffic have clogged the only road out of the Canadian city of Yellowknife, after authorities ordered the first ever evacuation of a capital in the face of an advancing wildfire.

More than 20,000 residents – the entire population – have been given until noon on Friday to leave their homes, as water bombers flew throughout the night and authorities warned that the fire could reach the city by the weekend...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... evacuation

A wildfire that broke out in a national park on the Spanish island of Tenerife has spread to 1,800 hectares, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of five villages and cut off access to the forest surrounding the Mount Teide volcano...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/galle ... n-pictures

Dozens of longstanding temperature records tumbled across Australia during a warm July.

Across the country maximum temperatures were overall about 1.2°C above the long-term averages in July and all capital cities except Canberra were warmer than average, Bureau of Meteorology data shows.

Many weather stations in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart clocked their highest July temperatures on record, including some dating back more than 140 years. Across the country it was the ninth warmest July for average temperatures, measured across day and night.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/databl ... -australia

[Joe]

Long lines of traffic have clogged the only road out of the Canadian city of Yellowknife, after authorities ordered the first ever evacuation of a capital in the face of an advancing wildfire.

More than 20,000 residents – the entire population – have been given until noon on Friday to leave their homes, as water bombers flew throughout the night and authorities warned that the fire could reach the city by the weekend...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... evacuation

A wildfire that broke out in a national park on the Spanish island of Tenerife has spread to 1,800 hectares, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of five villages and cut off access to the forest surrounding the Mount Teide volcano...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/galle ... n-pictures

Dozens of longstanding temperature records tumbled across Australia during a warm July.

Across the country maximum temperatures were overall about 1.2°C above the long-term averages in July and all capital cities except Canberra were warmer than average, Bureau of Meteorology data shows.

Many weather stations in Sydney, Melbourne and Hobart clocked their highest July temperatures on record, including some dating back more than 140 years. Across the country it was the ninth warmest July for average temperatures, measured across day and night.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/databl ... -australia

I hope our friend from Yellowknife is doing okay. It's a bad time when a wildfire comes to town.

[macdoc]

Yeah we drove into Yellowknife a few years back through a fairly active firezone.....closest I've been.

Wealthiest town in Canada

[macdoc]

Editors' notes
Research shows zinc-air batteries could be the future of powering electric vehicles

Zinc-air batteries have emerged as a better alternative to lithium in a recent Edith Cowan University (ECU) study into the advancement of sustainable battery systems.

ECU's Dr. Muhammad Rizwan Azhar led the project which discovered lithium-ion batteries, although a popular choice for electric vehicles around the world, face limitations related to cost, finite resources, and safety concerns. The work is published in the journal EcoMat.

"Rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) are becoming more appealing because of their low cost, environmental friendliness, high theoretical energy density, and inherent safety," Dr. Muhammad Rizwan Azhar said.

"With the emergence of next-generation long-range vehicles and electric aircraft in the market, there is an increasing need for safer, more cost-effective, and high-performance battery systems that can surpass the capabilities of lithium-ion batteries."
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https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-zin ... ctric.html

[Joe]

Yeah we drove into Yellowknife a few years back through a fairly active firezone.....closest I've been.

Wealthiest town in Canada

That's close!

I was a couple of miles away from the one that hit my town, but I had a clear view of it coming down from the mountains. When it hit the first houses, things got apocaliptic, with ash and embers raining from the sky and people evacuating during rush hour. The air quality was so bad, we stayed indoors and the bilding I worked in had to be decontaminated.