Overlapping disasters (nema URL, z newsletteru NY times)

If you’re looking for something to read during this summer of coronavirus and you tend toward the macabre, here’s a suggestion: Sign up for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s daily operations briefing, released via email around 9:30 Eastern time most mornings, and count the number of ongoing disasters.


Wednesday morning’s edition included Hurricane Isaias, which had just plowed up the East Coast, knocking out power for millions of households across a dozen states; wildfires in California and Nevada; the risk of “severe thunderstorms” in the Central Plains; parts of Texas still waiting for damage assessments from Hurricane Hanna last weekend; and, of course, Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, which has killed 155,204 Americans, according to the agency’s latest count.

As Henry Fountain and I wrote this week, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/climate/hurricane-isaias-apple-fire-climate.html this is what living with climate change will look like: Not just an epic, Katrina- or Sandy-scale catastrophe every few years (though probably that, too), but a relentless grind of overlapping disasters, major and minor. The number of disasters that FEMA is handling is about twice what it was three years ago, before Hurricane Harvey struck Texas, and that doesn’t include its pandemic response. Disaster preparation and recovery have blurred into a single frenzied motion, never ending but also never quite succeeding.

In a letter published to his blog, Bill Gates is once again sounding the alarm for emergency preparedness: "As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse," Gates said. "If you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time."

Bill Gates says climate change 'could be worse' than COVID - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/...-gates-coronavirus-warning-climate-change-worse-than-covid-2020-8

YMLADRIS: Lol, pry si to za dne precetlo sto tisic lidi. Slusnej zasek.

Alarm
„Pokud člověk věnuje pozornost zjištěním klimatické vědy, odkrývá se mu mezi řádky technického jazyka obraz zkázy, která jako by ani nebyla z tohoto světa. Je to bizarní, absurdní, nepředstavitelné a neuvěřitelné a vlastně se to do relativního pohodlí naší přítomnosti vůbec nehodí." Text Martina Vrby si od včerejšího dne přečetlo přes sto tisíc lidí. Přečetli jste si jej už také?

Měli bychom se začít bavit o civilizačním kolapsu – A2larm
https://a2larm.cz/2020/08/meli-bychom-se-zacit-bavit-o-civilizacnim-kolapsu/

Denmark Passes Green Law That Could Make Climate Inaction Illegal
https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/...k-passes-green-law-that-could-make-climate-inaction-illegal-europe/

web neznam bylo ve feedu

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Danish lawmakers have passed a landmark climate agreement that ensures the country will cut its carbon emissions by 70% from 1990 levels over the next decade. The deal was supported across party lines in a move the Danish Climate Ministry described as proof that “climate action and economic reconstruction go hand in hand” as the country rebuilds from the coronavirus pandemic. 

Je noc, v nose štípe dým a okolní tmu ozařuje oranžové světlo hořícího lesa. Požárníci se s provizorním vybavením už poněkolikáté vypravili do akce. Snaží se uhasit jeden z desítek tisíc ohňů, které zachvátily Amazonii a přilehlou Chiquitanii. Požáry za sebou za loňský rok zanechaly tisíce kilometrů spálené země. Proč vznikly, v čem byly jiné než dřívější ohně a na co se máme připravit do budoucna?

Reportér Voxpootu Martin Trabalík se vydal natáčet na hranici Amazonie, kde spolu s požárníky strávil několik měsíců.

Amazonie v plamenech. Reportáž přímo z epicentra požárů.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-7_wgfTfe8&feature=emb_title

BP just announced it will halt oil and gas exploration in new countries, slash oil and gas production by 40%, and invest $5 billion a year in low-carbon energy.

BP is dumping a ton of oil … from its energy portfolio | Grist
https://grist.org/...y/bp-is-dumping-a-ton-of-oil-from-its-energy-portfolio-net-zero-40-percent-cut/

PAD: ja vzdycky nerad kazim iluze, ale cela zelena energie je vpodstate jeden velkej ucetni trik :) a firmy to ani neskryvaji

viz napr. definice zde: http://www.zelenaenergie.cz/cs/o-zelene-energii/otazky-a-odpovedi.html#2

"Tento problém řešíme obchodním způsobem" ... :)

nebo tady: https://www.cez.cz/cs/elektrina/zelena-elektrina

vpodste jedine, k cemu se preprodejci zavazuji, ze penize, co vyberou, jdou vsechny bud znovu na nakup zelene elektriny, nebo do zelenych investicnich energetickych projektu. kdyz budu hodne zlej, je to takovy dobrovolny prispevek cezu na novou solarni elektrarnu. kdyz budu hodnej, nektery maly zeleny elektrarny/podnikatele to taky podpori

Sucho, nedostatek potravin, znečištění, Češi nevidí budoucnost planety růžově. V průzkumu agentury Behavio více než dvě třetiny dotázaných uvádí, že bude hůře než nyní. Mezi důvody pak nejčastěji řadí ty, které jsou spojené se životním prostředím. I proto, že lidé už pociťují následky ekologických změn.

http://www.irozhlas.cz/...-domov/sucho-klima-zivotni-prostredi-behavio-cvvm-salamisti_2008050702_jab

China poised to power huge growth in global offshore wind energy | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/...g/05/china-poised-to-power-huge-growth-in-global-offshore-wind-energy

Global Wind Report 2019 | Global Wind Energy Council
https://gwec.net/global-wind-report-2019/

The world’s offshore windfarm capacity could grow eightfold by the end of the decade powered by a clean energy surge led by China, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC). ... by the end of the decade China is expected to host more than a fifth of the world’s offshore wind turbines, equating to 52GW, while the UK tally climbs to 40.3GW.

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Ben Backwell, the chief executive at GWEC, said offshore wind was “truly going global” as governments around the world “recognise the role that the technology can play in kickstarting post-Covid economic recovery”.

The report found that the offshore wind industry could create 900,000 jobs globally over the next decade, or even more if policymakers use post-pandemic economic stimulus packages to accelerate the sector’s growth.

As well as a green economic recovery, the report found that every 1GW of offshore wind helped to avoid 3.5m tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere and contributing to the climate crisis.

The offshore market has grown on average by almost a quarter every year since 2013, led by a flurry of new projects in European waters, which hold 75% of the world’s offshore wind farms.

However, the rate of growth is expected to accelerate in the next 10 years because of a growing appetite for clean energy in countries in the Asia-Pacific region, according to GWEC.

“Over the coming decade we will see emerging offshore wind markets like Japan, Korea and Vietnam move to full deployment, and see the first offshore turbines installed in a number of new countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa,” Backwell added.

Neco o tom, jak funguji klimaticke modely

A Short Introduction to Climate Models - CMIP & CMIP6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdRiYPJLt4o