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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day
    TUHO
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    When Sam Kern started working at Google four years ago, she believed she could drive change as an insider. If she could just "get the ear" of the right executives, Kern thought, she could convince them to move the company in a new direction on climate and sustainability.
    But over time, Kern said she realized, powerful moneyed interests made that impossible.
    Kern, a user experience engineer, described company leaders as "putting up a wall between the business interests and human interests," even as they seemed to recognize the severity of the climate crisis, which made conversations with them feel emotionally disconnected.
    ...
    Kern left Google in May and joined the radical climate activist group Extinction Rebellion, which earlier this month launched a digital campaign, bigtechlovesbigoil.com, targeting tech majors Google, Microsoft and Amazon for providing oil and gas companies with cloud computing services, custom artificial intelligence and machine learning tools.

    Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace Campaign for a Breakup Between Big Tech and Big Oil | InsideClimate News
    https://insideclimatenews.org/...020/extinction-rebellion-greenpeace-google-microsoft-apple-tech-oil
    TUHO
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    Varoufakis o EU covid recovery planu

    So, why is it that, although I endorse the idea of mutualised debt as a necessary condition for European unity, I believe that the EU’s latest decision is another step in the direction of Europe’s disintegration? For three reasons.

    First, the recovery fund is a distraction from the elephant in the room: massive austerity. According to the International Monetary Fund, the eurozone’s total 2020 income will fall by 10%, causing an average budget deficit of more than 11%, with weaker countries such as Italy and Greece facing a much larger drop.

    That would not be catastrophic per se, if it were not for the determination of Berlin and other governments to push member states to balance their books by 2021 (as witnessed by the 11 June Eurogroup communique). Even if the nascent recovery brings down, for example, Italy’s budget deficit to, say, 9%, to balance its books Rome must impose a cruel level of austerity equal to a new 9% of GDP in cuts and taxes. Similarly with Greece. Given that even Germany will have to practise austerity to balance its budget, the whole continent will be treated to an intensification of the doom loop between austerity and recession.

    Second, the recovery fund is (macroeconomically) puny. For it to defend the union, it should pack a fiscal boost comparable in magnitude to the austerity tsunami down the line. It does not. Take Italy and Greece again, countries that must face down immense austerity. How much of this shock can the recovery fund monies help absorb? Not a lot, is the answer.

    To arrive at a precise answer, we must first ignore the new loans on offer from the recovery fund (since new debt has never helped the insolvent) and concentrate exclusively on net grants. Italy has been allocated around €80bn and Greece €23bn. However, every member state must take on part of the new €750bn EU debt. Italy, for example, is liable for just under 13% of this debt while poorer Greece is liable for 1.4%. Once we subtract these new debts, Italy’s and Greece’s net grants come to just over €30bn and €12bn respectively – or 0.6% and 2% of GDP on an annual basis between 2021 and 2023. Compared to the prospect of austerity equivalent to 9% of GDP, which will be required to balance their budgets, these are puny sums.

    Third, the political conditions under which the funds will flow are a Eurosceptic’s dream. When a recession hits the UK, the government’s budget deficit rises automatically as benefits flow disproportionately towards the most affected regions. The beauty of such a proper fiscal union is that no politician can decide which region gets which transfer. Imagine the sheer awfulness if parliament had to debate how much would be transferred to Cumbria, to Norfolk or to north Wales from Surrey, Sussex and west London. Britain would be wrecked by divisions that make Brexit look like an amicable affair. And yet this divisiveness has been baked into the EU recovery fund, complete with country allocations drawn up even before we know the effects of the recession on each region. It is almost as if the whole thing were designed by a cunning Eurosceptic.

    The EU coronavirus fund will take Europe another step towards disintegration | Yanis Varoufakis | World news | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/...commentisfree/2020/jul/24/eu-coronavirus-fund-europe-recovery-package
    PER2
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    yep yep, we are heading in the right direction

    Over the past few weeks there have been many reports of localized air quality improvements as the world has locked down to combat the coronavirus pandemic. However, no one should think that the climate crisis is therefore over—far from it.
    Record global carbon dioxide concentrations despite COVID-19 crisis
    https://www.unenvironment.org/...record-global-carbon-dioxide-concentrations-despite-covid-19-crisis


    Researchers studying one of the most important and vexing topics in climate science — how sensitive the Earth’s climate is to a doubling of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — found that warming is extremely unlikely to be on the low end of estimates.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/...gXR6Gzpv5mcRoAwJVEM1IEjii8ArKzhsGfZ5s41uWNhk&utm_source=reddit.com
    TUHO
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    Diky tani Arktidy muze RUsko dodavat do Ciny ropu severni cestou. Zacaly minuly tyden. Hura!

    Last week saw Russia’s Gazprom Neft, the country’s third biggest oil company by output and the oil arm of state gas giant Gazprom, ship its first cargo of oil produced in the Arctic to China via the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This shipment East adds to its existing Western exports via the NSR to Europe. According to Gazprom Neft, it took 47 days to deliver a full cargo of 144,000 tonnes of sweet, light Novy Port oil from the Yamal peninsula developments to the Chinese port of Yantai on the Bohai Sea, from Russia's north-western city of Murmansk. “Successful experience in the sale of Arctic oil in the European market and an in-depth insight of Asia-Pacific markets allow Gazprom Neft to offer Novy Port oil with a unique year-round logistics scheme to Asian partners,” said Gazprom Neft’s deputy director general for logistics, processing and sales, Anatoly Cherner, last week.

    Russia Delivers First Arctic Oil To Key Ally China | OilPrice.com
    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Russia-Delivers-First-Arctic-Oil-To-Key-Ally-China.html
    TUHO
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    Vizualizace zdroju metanu v atmosfere z dilny NASA

    Sources of Methane
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpLbd2fe3h4


    SVS: Sources of Methane
    https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4799
    TUHO
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    Record China flooding impacts PPE supply chain to US - CNN
    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/19/weather/china-flood-ppe-supply-chain/index.html
    SHEFIK
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    SHEFIK: pardon, jsou tam dalsi cisla odkazem, ktera vyvraci tezi clanku, ze se opakuje situace z roku 2008

    G20 - Energy Policy Tracker
    https://www.energypolicytracker.org/region/g20/

    ze se po covidu zavre veskera fosilni infrastruktura, prestanem topit a jezdit autem ze dne na den, doufam autori clanku neocekavali.

    to, ze rust nemuze byt zeleny je dojem, zakladajici se na neznalosti fungovani ekonomiky. uz jsem tu drive nekolikrat vysvetloval
    SHEFIK
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    TUHO: skoda ze se teziste teze clanku zaklada na jednom odkazu na financial times, kterej je jeste za paywallem.

    dle poctu vetrnych, solarnich, ccs a energy storage projektu, jejich odhadovany vyse investic, pribyvajicich renewable projektu, poctu clanku v mediich atd, nezavisle na vladach sveta si dovolim tvrdit, ze ten clanek je silne zavadejici

    cisla nedodam, nemam na to cas. zato autori clanku by mohli cisla nasdilet, kdyz si takovyhle tvrzeni dovoli publikovat
    TUHO
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    V US v oblastech ohrozenych aktivni hurikanovou sezonou prudce roste nakazenych koronavirem

    Hurricane-prone states are experiencing some of the nation’s sharpest increases in COVID-19 infections, raising fears that a major storm will have deadly consequences if people in its path refuse to evacuate to avoid contagion.
    The number of infections nationwide has more than doubled since the start of hurricane season on June 1, passing 3.8 million yesterday.
    The increase has been especially dramatic in Southeastern states on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, federal data shows, leaving hospitals strained and people potentially wary of finding shelter during a hurricane or staying with friends or relatives.
    A surge in COVID-19 cases also could complicate hurricane recovery by prompting the Federal Emergency Management Agency to avoid sending disaster relief workers into pandemic hot spots.


    Coronavirus Rages on Coasts as Hurricane Fears Rise - Scientific American
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coronavirus-rages-on-coasts-as-hurricane-fears-rise/
    TUHO
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    Milan Lapin
    Klimatická zmena
    V roku 2020 bola priemerná teplota povrchu oceánov zatiaľ rekordne teplá v 5 mesiacoch zo šiestich na severnej pologuli, len v Januári bola 2. najvyššia (po Januári 2016). Neprekvapuje teda, že za 1. polrok 2020 je priemerná teplota povrchu oceánov na severnej pologuli výrazne najvyššia od roku 1850 (keď začali systematické merania). Na južnej pologuli je situácia trochu odlišná, ako vidíme z priloženého grafu. Je celkom zrejmé, že priemerná teplota povrchu oceánov je ovplyvnená javmi ElNiňo a LaNiňa (tu je to reprezentované 3-mesačnými priemermi Oceánického Niňo Indexu - ONI). Od roku 2003 ale sledujeme výrazný ročný chod odchýlok priemernej teploty oceánov na severnej pologuli a od roku 2016 menej výrazný aj na južnej pologuli, čo je neklamný dôkaz vplyvu globálnej klimatickej zmeny na teplotné pomery polárnych oblastí.

    TUHO
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    Zack Labe
    Global climate variability (bumps) and long-term forced warming (trend) since the 'pre-industrial' era - running means are computed through June 2020.

    + Graph: http://columbia.edu/~mhs119/Temperature/
    + Data:
    @NASAGISS
    GISTEMPv4 (https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/)

    TUHO
    TUHO --- ---
    Tak jako po krizi v roce 2008, i tentokrát rétorika o „zelené“ obnově hospodářství maskuje oživování fosilního byznysu a rozšiřování jeho moci. Je stále zjevnější, že záchrana planety se neobejde bez zásadnějších změn v ekonomickém systému.

    https://denikreferendum.cz/...elenou-transformaci-zakryva-spinavou-realitu-potreba-jsou-hlubsi-zmeny
    YMLADRIS
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    Guest post: Why low-end ‘climate sensitivity’ can now be ruled out
    https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-why-low-end-climate-sensitivity-can-now-be-ruled-out/amp

    nerikame tak ani tak, na naše slova dojde, asi 2060 cca 3 stupně. tyvole.
    XCHAOS
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    KEB
    KEB --- ---
    Můžeme použít stromy k pohlcení CO2? - Vědecké kladivo
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0Lw6eZs4


    Tady je to jako nosit dřevo do lesa ale i tak to sem dám
    TUHO
    TUHO --- ---
    The first active leak of methane from the sea floor in Antarctica has been revealed by scientists.
    The researchers also found microbes that normally consume the potent greenhouse gas before it reaches the atmosphere had only arrived in small numbers after five years, allowing the gas to escape.
    Vast quantities of methane are thought to be stored under the sea floor around Antarctica. The gas could start to leak as the climate crisis warms the oceans, a prospect the researchers said was “incredibly concerning”.
    The reason for the emergence of the new seep remains a mystery, but it is probably not global heating, as the Ross Sea where it was found has yet to warm significantly. The research also has significance for climate models, which currently do not account for a delay in the microbial consumption of escaping methane.

    First active leak of sea-bed methane discovered in Antarctica | Greenhouse gas emissions | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/.../jul/22/first-active-leak-of-sea-bed-methane-discovered-in-antarctica
    DZODZO
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    mam trochu obavy s tymi carbon neutral suppliers z azie, ale tak 10 rokov je dlha doba, to sa moze este vselico zmenit

    https://twitter.com/tim_cook/status/1285550582200061952
    KEB
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    LINKOS: táta popisoval, že u Žulové nebo někde u ní byla dlouhá alej starých líp podél silnice. Všechny šly dolů, podle pařezů vypadaly v dobré formě a vrcholem kryplismu v tomhle státě bylo, že asi 200m od silnice byla boží muka a u ní dvě lípy, ty šli k zemi taky a plynule se pokračovalo.

    Zajímavý článek o povaze české je tohle a mluví tam i o biouhlí.

    Co lidé v parcích nechtějí? Keře a záchody, říká krajinářská architekta Jana Pyšková - Ekolist.cz
    https://ekolist.cz/...ide-v-parcich-nechteji-kere-a-zachody-rika-krajinarska-architekta-jana-pyskova
    SCHWEPZ
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    60% of fish species could be unable to survive in current areas by 2100 – study | Fish | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/02/fish-species-survival-climate-warming-study
    LINKOS
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    KEB: my měli něco podobného podél trati, pak přišli dráhy a všechno šlo pryč. Docela by mě zajímalo jestli je možné to obnovit.
    Kliknutím sem můžete změnit nastavení reklam