Almost 40 percent of the crops across the state of Iowa have been severely hit by a violent, hurricane-force derecho on Monday, Aug 10th. About 2 million customers were without power. The path of derecho across the Midwest was nearly 770 miles (1200 km) long and lasted around 14 hours across several states. Several fatalities were also reported by falling trees.

Destructive hurricane-force derecho hit Midwest, US - Iowa damage size of nearly 70% of Ireland
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/derecho-midwest-united-states-mk

TUHO: anebo muzes prejit na regenerativni produkci obilovin [ TADEAS @ Klimaticka zmena // OK, doomer ] a pak neklesa vynos timhle brutalnim zpusobem, protoze svete div se, funkcni ekosystem si dusik poskytuje sam.

pak je tu do budoucna varianta vyrabet amoniak v reverznich palivovejch clancich:

Ammonia—a renewable fuel made from sun, air, and water—could power the globe without carbon | Science | AAAS
https://www.sciencemag.org/...renewable-fuel-made-sun-air-and-water-could-power-globe-without-carbon

az pak poresime levnej/renewable vodik https://phys.org/news/2020-07-harvesting-hydrogen-nanogardens.amp muzem jit cestou syntetickejch bilkovin (single cell protein) a vyprdnout se na degradaci ekosystemu .) TADEAS TADEAS

České zelené švejkování | Hospodářské noviny (iHNed.cz)
https://ekonom.cz/c1-66801610-ceske-zelene-svejkovani

TUHO: Rozjet vyrobu dusicnanu amonneho prakticky ze vzduchu (viz. zde: [ PETER_PAN @ 3. světová válka aneb kam náš svět směřuje? Status: 2020 ] ) je otazka jednotek mesicu - kdyz to bude problem narodni/potravinove bezpecnosti.

Dusik i kyslik si navic muzeme generovat nejen frakcni destilaci, ale i membranovou separaci (skalovatelne od jednotek litru za minutu az po tisice).

Amoniak se v evrope pokud vim stale vyrabi.

Oxidace amoniaku musi jit rozjet v nejakem "valecnem" rezimu v jednotkach mesicu. Jak mas oxid dusičitý, tak ten s peroxidem vodiku da kyselinu dusicnou. Ta se neutralizuje dalsim molarnim ekvivalentem amoniaku a je pak ochladit a krystalizovat. Pak se do toho prida vapenec/dolomit a je hotovo. Bez reziduji, necistot, tezkych kovu a toho vseho co bylo v hnojivejch v 70. letech za komancu.

Lehce sice ot, ale myslim, ze stejne stoji za precteni ...


Potravinová produkce podle něj může být ohrožena i u nás: „Zhruba 60 procent výnosu u obilovin je dáno minerálním hnojením, zvláště dusíkem. Když toto hnojení přerušíte, máte o 60 procent výnosu méně. Takže jen přerušení dodávky hnojiv se rovná hladomor ze dne na den.“
„A to se může velmi snadno stát. Když dojde k promoření nějakého velkého provozu v továrně, tak vznikne nedostatek hnojiv. Spousta továren je v Číně, takže jsme na ní závislí. Proto by Evropská unie měl přehodnotit politiku přesouvání výrob do Číny,“ nabádá Hejcman.

Stačí, když továrny přestanou dodávat hnojiva, a máme v Česku hladomor ze dne na den, varuje expert | Plus
https://plus.rozhlas.cz/...varny-prestanou-dodavat-hnojiva-a-mame-v-cesku-hladomor-ze-dne-na-8269305

The Climate & Ecological Emergency Bill | Extinction Rebellion UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPhAwYV0vM4

TADEAS:

Arctic ice loss is worrying, but the giant stirring in the South could be even worse
https://theconversation.com/...rrying-but-the-giant-stirring-in-the-south-could-be-even-worse-119822

Almost all (around 93%) of the extra heat human activities have caused to accumulate on Earth since the Industrial Revolution lies within the ocean. And a large majority of this has been taken into the depths of the Southern Ocean. It is thought that this effect could delay the start of significant warming over much of Antarctica for a century or more.

However, the Antarctic ice sheet has a weak underbelly. In some places the ice sheet sits on ground that is below sea level. This puts the ice sheet in direct contact with warm ocean waters that are very effective at melting ice and destabilising the ice sheet.

Scientists have long been worried about the potential weakness of ice in West Antarctica because of its deep interface with the ocean. This concern was flagged in the first report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) way back in 1990, although it was also thought that substantial ice loss from Antarctica wouldn’t be seen this century. Since 1992 satellites have been monitoring the status of the Antarctic ice sheet and we now know that not only is ice loss already underway, it is also vanishing at an accelerating rate.

The latest estimates indicate that 25% of the West Antarctic ice sheet is now unstable, and that Antarctic ice loss has increased five-fold over the past 25 years. These are remarkable numbers, bearing in mind that more than 4 metres of global sea-level rise are locked up in the West Antarctic alone.

TADEAS:

Climate scientists: the Arctic is currently experiencing an abrupt climate change event and summer sea ice looks set to vanish by 2035. Most of us fully expect global warming of 2.5 - 4.5°C.

Media: we could still avoid warming of 1.5°C by 2100. Arctic sea ice? Never heard of it.

https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1283078208615780353?s=19

Dead Zones: Industrial Agriculture versus Ocean Life
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2020/08/12/dead-zones-industrial-agriculture-versus-ocean-life/

The dead zone in the Baltic Sea is larger and in many ways more destructive than the one in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2007, the nine nations that surround the sea adopted an Action Plan “to achieve a Baltic Sea in good environmental status by 2021,” including elimination of eutrophication. They agreed: “By 2010 to halt the degradation of threatened and/or declining marine biotopes/habitats in the Baltic Sea, and by 2021 to ensure that threatened and/or declining marine biotopes/habitats in the Baltic Sea have largely recovered.”[18]

In 2018, with only three years left to achieve those ambitious goals, a scorecard published by WWF found that “all nine Baltic Sea countries have failed to make good progress,” and that “eutrophication status of most parts of the Baltic Sea remains poor and even deteriorating in some sub-basins.” The overall results were “bleak and unsatisfactory.”[19]

In WWF’s view, “the Baltic Sea environment remains in a critical state due to lack of efficient delivery of measures and management.” But what their study actually reveals is unwillingness to challenge an agricultural system that, as sociologist Philip McMichael puts it, “is ultimately about combining commodified inputs (seeds, fertilizer, antibiotics, privately-owned genetic materials, pesticides and so on) with land or water or factory farms to produce outputs as ingredients of processed commodities to fuel labor or machinery, without regard for social or ecological consequence.”[20]

Unless fundamental changes are made to the agro-industrial system that rules today, coastal dead zones will continue to grow and multiply