tingilinde

a comment on coal

 

kelsey johnson on light pollution

copenhagen moves towards a low carbon future

They're taking steps - possibly not enough, but more than almost anyone else. (via The Washington Post)

 

 

1962 from the company that became exxon

 

a tip of the hat to Greg

 

 

railroads and climate denial

Coal and a few other things.

 

monitoring methane leaks

Methane is a power greenhouse gas.  Natural gas leaks are a major source of spills to the atmosphere and it's expensive as well are bad for the climate.  New monitoring tools may help.

 

 

california fires could have been worse

The fire season (so far) has been bad, but could have been much worse.  Susie Cagle writing in The Guardian.

Adaptation to changing climates is going to be expensive and political worldwide.

 

 

why toyota took trump's side

They aren't leader any more and their statement doesn't ring true..  from Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at Berkeley.

 

 

 

mirroring the us - european right wing politics and global warming

Guess what?  Rightwing types in Europe reject calls for action to deal with climate change. Sadly unsurprising. 

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Right-wing populist parties now on the rise across Europe are elevating opposition to climate action into a new culture war issue, American style. Some, like the Alternative for Germany, or AfD — which holds the third-largest number of seats in the Bundestag and is better known for its strident anti-immigrant views and antipathy toward Muslims — overtly reject climate science. Others say they accept it, but dismiss calls for action as overblown hysteria, arguing that carbon-cutting measures are unnecessary, unaffordable, or pointless in the face of a problem so vast.

Either way, climate is increasingly becoming a potent new political hot button as other nationalist issues — most notably Europe’s refugee crisis — have receded somewhat this year. The assault on climate policy fits neatly into the populists’ favored people-versus-the-elites messaging framework. And by disrupting consensus on the need to act, their pot-stirring threatens to weaken the ambitions of a continent that historically has sought to be a global climate leader, just as it seeks to hash out its emissions reduction and renewable energy goals for the coming decades.

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suvs and global warming

They're bad.  They're also linked to the dramatic rise in pedestrian deaths in the US.

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Growing demand for SUVs was the second largest contributor to the increase in global CO2 emissions from 2010 to 2018, an analysis has found. In that period, SUVs doubled their global market share from 17 percent to 39 percent and their annual emissions rose to more than 700 megatons of CO2, more than the yearly total emissions of the UK and the Netherlands combined.

No energy sector except power drove a larger increase in carbon emissions, putting SUVs ahead of heavy industry (including iron, steel, cement and aluminum), aviation, and shipping. “We were quite surprised by this result ourselves,” said Laura Cozzi, the chief energy modeler of the International Energy Agency, which produced the report.

The recent dramatic shift towards heavier SUVs has offset both efficiency improvements in smaller cars and carbon savings from electric vehicles. As the global fleet of SUVs has grown, emissions from the vehicles have increased more than four-fold in eight years. If SUV drivers were a nation, they would rank seventh in the world for carbon emissions.

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