Fruit and veg ‘will run out’ unless Britain charters planes to fly in farm workers from eastern Europe | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/...ss-britain-charters-planes-to-fly-in-farm-workers-from-eastern-europe

Because of the tightening of labour, we had already lost a percentage of farms,” Maurel said. “This will finish others off. You won’t have fruit and veg in shops. Asparagus and beans start in a couple of weeks, cucumbers early April, tomatoes are all year round; in May it’s soft fruits – strawberries, raspberries; lettuces have been in the ground since December.”

Nick Marston, the chairman of British Summer Fruits, which represents soft fruit growers, acknowledged that his industry was “entering an unprecedented time”.

Last year, 98% of fruit pickers – now classed as “key workers” – came from outside the UK, the vast majority from Bulgaria and Romania.

nie je to moc ale aspon cosi

COVID-19 impact on Asian emissions: Insight from space observations | Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling (ACOM)
https://www2.acom.ucar.edu/news/covid-19-impact-asian-emissions-insight-space-observations

El sector nuclear afronta un escenario inédito de cierres si se prolonga la crisis
https://www.lainformacion.com/empresas/sector-nuclear-escenario-inedito-cierres/6554396/

The power companies that own the Almaraz (Cáceres) and Ascó (Tarragona) nuclear power plants - Iberdrola, Endesa and Naturgy - have had to delay the planned refueling tasks because they require a lot of movement of personnel and the transfer of technicians. The delay, if it extends beyond the scheduled dates - April 14 in Almaraz and April 28 in Ascó - will force the power of the facilities to be reduced. But if the crisis were to continue even further, it would also affect the planned inspections, which opens a scenario of possible reactor blackout. Never seen before.

Basalts Turn Carbon into Stone for Permanent Storage
Scientists have shown that mineral carbonation can permanently capture and store carbon quickly enough and safely enough to rise to the challenge of climate change.

Basalts Turn Carbon into Stone for Permanent Storage - Eos
https://eos.org/articles/basalts-turn-carbon-into-stone-for-permanent-storage

Under extreme heat and drought, trees hardly benefit from an increased CO2 level -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200326124149.htm

Their roots have difficulties reaching the water. To reduce evaporation losses, trees close the stomata of their leaves, as a result of which they take up less CO2 from the air.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200326144353.htm

If circulation of deep waters in the Atlantic stops or slows due to climate change, it could cause cooling in northern North America and Europe - a scenario that has occurred during past cold glacial periods. Now, a new study suggests that short-term disruptions of deep ocean circulation occurred during warm interglacial periods in the last 450,000 years, and may happen again.

Coronavirus and climate change: The pandemic is a fire drill for our planet's future
Climate change will mean one emergency after another, year after year, as heat waves, floods, fire and storms blow cascades of failures through our systems.

https://www.nbcnews.com/...e-pandemic-fire-drill-our-planet-s-future-ncna1169991?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Electric car emissions myth 'busted' - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/...51977625?fbclid=IwAR38R0rm2gclKUACMFh_WjxUDrgcYJMY_8jS1ypIPlB_OAwd2-yRr9uAabU

The researchers say average “lifetime“ emissions from electric cars are up to 70% lower than petrol cars in countries like Sweden and France (where most electricity comes from renewables and nuclear), and around 30% lower in the UK.

nevim kam jinam, tak aspon tady to muze nekoho zajimat. mezinarodni partnership vyznamnejch korporaci na battery recycling plant:

Charged EVs | Fortum, BASF and Nornickel to partner on battery recycling
https://chargedevs.com/newswire/fortum-basf-and-nornickel-to-partner-on-battery-recycling/

Btw Steve Keen zverejnil radu placenyho obsahu z Patreonu zadax... Je tam hodne o ekonomii, jak financovat Green New Deal etc.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/ten-debunking-to-35319065

TADEAS, YMLADRIS:

Micah White with XRTV | 26 March 2020 | Extinction Rebellion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCn1-0_teHg

Oil Price Crash Opens A Window Of Opportunity For Renewables | OilPrice.com
https://oilprice.com/...Energy/Oil-Price-Crash-Opens-A-Window-Of-Opportunity-For-Renewables.amp.html


Average returns for wind and solar are typically in the 5-10 percent range. Oil and gas project returns, at $60 oil, are 20 percent on average

At $35 oil, however, the average IRR for oil and gas projects slumps to the renewables return range—5 to 10 percent, according to Wood Mackenzie

The low oil prices will severely constrain cash flows for Big Oil, which switched back to survival mode just four years after the previous oil price collapse

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Following this month’s price crash, Big Oil’s immediate thoughts will be to preserve dividend payments with negative cash flows at $30 oil. So they are slashing CAPEX and deferring investments in basically every part of their portfolios.

“All discretionary spend will be under review – that includes additional budget allocated for carbon mitigation,” WoodMac’s Kretzschmar said.

According to Wood Mackenzie’s corporate analysis team, the oil majors Exxon, Chevron, Eni, Shell, BP, Total, and Equinor have an average corporate cash flow break-even price of $53 a barrel for 2020. If Big Oil aims to achieve cash flow neutrality at $35 Brent Crude this year, it would need to slash total spending by 41 percent compared to 2019, according to WoodMac’s analysts.

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The coronavirus pandemic is disrupting all supply chains right now, including renewable energy targets and deadlines for capacity installation. But the second oil price collapse in just five years is a point for the camp of analysts and experts who argue that lower but more stable returns from renewables is the way to go in the energy transition.

Experts at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center say that the COVID-19-induced global downturn and potentially low-for-longer oil prices could hamper the energy transition in the short term as governments will be focused on protecting their economies and consumers from the recession/depression.

But the pressure for decarbonization will not go away once all this chaos is over – it could even intensify calls for ditching fossil fuels in an increasingly volatile and politically-charged global oil market. This would be an opportunity for increased investment in renewables.

Coronavirus augurs the inevitable collapse of a global economy in ‘overshoot’ | Al Arabiya English
https://english.alarabiya.net/...gurs-the-inevitable-collapse-of-a-global-economy-in-overshoot-.html

The coronavirus, in itself, is a minor perturbation, but the system is poised for collapse and the pandemic could trigger it. We already saw how the world’s economy is fragile: it nearly collapsed in 2008 under the relatively small perturbation of the crash of the US subprime mortgage market. At that time, it was possible to contain the damage but, today, the fragility of the system has not improved and the coronavirus pandemic may be a stronger perturbation. The collapse of entire sectors of the economy, such as the tourism industry (more than 10 percent of the world’s gross product), is already under way. It may be impossible to stop collapse from spreading to other sectors.

So, what exactly is it going to happen to us? Are we destined to leave an era of unprecedented prosperity to one defined by poverty? Will the coming crisis turn out to be so bad that it pushes us back to the Middle Ages?

It is true that all major epidemics in history have seen a robust rebound after the collapse. Consider that, in mid-14th century, the Black Death killed perhaps 40 percent of the population of Europe but, a century later, Europeans were discovering America and starting their attempt to conquer the world. It may be that the Black Death was instrumental in this rebound: the temporary reduction of the European population freed up the resources necessary for a new leap forward.

Could we see a similar rebound of our society in the future? Why not? After all, the coronavirus could be doing us a favor by forcing us to abandon the fossil fuels we use today. The current low market prices are the result of a contraction in demand and could be the straw that breaks the back of the oil industry. That will leave space for new and more efficient technologies. Today, solar and wind energy has become so cheap that it is possible to think of a society fully based on renewable energy. It won’t be easy, but recent studies show that it can be done.



That doesn’t mean that we can avoid a collapse in the near term. The transition to a new energy infrastructure will require enormous investments, which will likely be absent during the period of economic contraction we expect for the near future. But, in the long run, the transition is unavoidable and there is hope for a rebound toward a new economy based on clean and renewable energy, no more plagued by the threats of depletion and climate change

How did we allow the spread of the Caronavirus happen? Why were governments and health services so unprepared? In this week’s Debunking Economics podcast entrepreneur and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer joins Phil Dobbie and Steve Keen to look at the inevitability of this crisis. Nick says it’s all down to the preoccupation with small government. How do we solve it? Massive government spending and the creation of new money. That's happening. What have we learnt? Steve hopes it’ll enable us to focus on the bigger issue, what we’re doing to the planet.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-did-we-get-35300507