SHEFIK: Pořád nerozumím, jak by mohl řešení zařídit trh, dokud mají na regulace tak zásadní vliv lobisti. Teoreticky by to mohlo fungovat, ale byla by nutná revoluce v tom, jak funguje naše demokracie. Biden má sice zajímavý plán, ale nedokáže ho prosadit přes odpor zákonodárců placených průmyslem.
‘All Rhetoric and No Action’: Oil Giants Spent $1 Billion on Climate Lobbying and Ads Since Paris Pact, Says Report | DeSmog
https://www.desmogblog.com/...evron-bp-total-shell-billion-climate-lobbying-advertising-influencemap

Tady je ukázka, jak průmyslová lobby ovlivňuje rozhodování měst:
Revealed: how the gas industry is waging war against climate action | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/20/gas-industry-waging-war-against-climate-action

The documents show the multibillion-dollar gas industry has built crucial local coalitions and hired high-powered operatives to torpedo cities’ anti-gas policies – sometimes assisted by money those same cities have paid into gas trade associations.

APGA has been fighting electrification since at least 2013 when it established a taskforce to “counter the regulatory and legislative threats to the direct use of natural gas”, according to an internal presentation obtained with a public records request by the center.

This year, APGA is spending at least $127,000 on anti-electrification initiatives and $200,000 for media monitoring, engagement with reporters, letters to the editor, op-eds and social media efforts. It is also launching a $300,000 “gas genius” campaign to bolster public opinion of gas on social media. APGA declined to comment on its specific efforts.

APGA is funded with public money from the cities whose municipal gas utilities it represents.

So, ironically, the industry fight against electrification is often being paid for in part by progressive cities.

One-Third of Plant and Animal Species Could be Gone in 50 Years | University of Arizona News
https://news.arizona.edu/story/onethird-plant-and-animal-species-could-be-gone-50-years

The study identified maximum annual temperatures — the hottest daily highs in summer — as the key variable that best explains whether a population will go extinct. Surprisingly, the researchers found that average yearly temperatures showed smaller changes at sites with local extinction, even though average temperatures are widely used as a proxy for overall climate change.

"This means that using changes in mean annual temperatures to predict extinction from climate change might be positively misleading," Wiens said.

Previous studies have focused on dispersal — or migration to cooler habitats — as a means for species to "escape" from warming climates. However, the authors of the current study found that most species will not be able to disperse quickly enough to avoid extinction, based on their past rates of movement. Instead, they found that many species were able to tolerate some increases in maximum temperatures, but only up to a point. They found that about 50% of the species had local extinctions if maximum temperatures increased by more than 0.5 degrees Celsius, and 95% if temperatures increase by more than 2.9 degrees Celsius.

"In a way, it's a 'choose your own adventure,'" Wiens said. "If we stick to the Paris Agreement to combat climate change, we may lose fewer than two out of every 10 plant and animal species on Earth by 2070. But if humans cause larger temperature increases, we could lose more than a third or even half of all animal and plant species, based on our results."

Climate change—particularly intense heat—is advancing so rapidly that it poses physical as well as credit risks to America’s aging nuclear fleet, a new report from Moody’s Investors Service finds.

“Our plants are fairly hardened to severe weather,” said David Kamran, a projects and infrastructure analyst at Moody’s and the lead author of the report. “But climate change is moving quickly.”


https://www.bloomberg.com/...2020-08-19/climate-change-threatens-nuclear-power-due-to-global-warming

vyoada to, ze nemecko nechce jen dovazet

What Contains 3 Times More Energy Than Gasoline, But Produces Zero CO2?
https://www.forbes.com/...what-contains-3-times-more-energy-than-gasoline-but-produces-zero-co2/amp/

Last month, the EU set out a renewable hydrogen strategy, sketching a roadmap for how the world’s largest trading bloc intends to develop hydrogen production and usage through 2050. Also last month, the German government announced it would invest €9 billion ($10.7 billion) in its own national hydrogen strategy.

KEB: dneska už je běžně dostupný vermikomposter, který můžeš v klidu umístit do bytu, jsou tuším i dotační programy pro města na komunitní kompostování. Jinak v popelnicích se udává někde okolo 30%,ze je biosložka, někde i 40%. Čím víc lidí třídí plasty, papir a kov, tím poměr narůstá. Tohle je podle mě naprosto zásadní bod jak udělat naši civilizaci udržitelnou, vracet organickou hmotu na pole, nebo ji využívat při údržbě zeleně ve městech, místo kupovaným směsím s rašelinou.
Vesnice je na tom o něco sice lépe, ale taky to není ještě ono. Měli sme problémy, že tchyně dávala psovi zkazenou polívku a pod. a to fakt taky nechceš. No slepice toho sice sežerou dost, ale to už ani na vesnicích není nijak běžné. Jestli je u nás má každý desátý, dvacátý dům. A zvířata nejsou odpaďák.
Navíc ani klasické hnojistě není úplně ideální způsob jak s tím nakládat, většinou to smrdí(emise metanu) a spíše hnije než kompostuje. A hodit na hromadu kupu trávy není kompostování

Dnes jsou to přesně dva roky od první studentské stávky za klima. Ohlédneme-li se zpět, vidíme, že se toho stalo dost. Miliony lidí se vydaly do ulic a připojily se k desítky let trvajícímu boji za klima a environmentální spravedlnost. Přesto za poslední dva roky svět vyprodukoval více než 80 gigatun emisí CO2. Byli jsme svědky neustálých přírodních katastrof probíhajících všude po světě: lesních požárů, vln veder, záplav, hurikánů, bouří, tání permafrostu a zániku ledovců a rozpadu celých ekosystémů. Mnoho životů a domácností bylo zničeno. A to je teprve začátek. Budoucnost máme stále ve svých rukou, ale čas nám rychle protéká mezi prsty. Stále můžeme zabránit nejhorším důsledkům klimatické krize, ale abychom toho dosáhli, musíme se jí postavit a změnit náš způsob života. A to je nepříjemná pravda, které neunikneme.

Po dvou letech studentských stávek svět stále popírá existenci klimatické krize – A2larm
https://a2larm.cz/...o-dvou-letech-studentskych-stavek-svet-stale-popira-existenci-klimaticke-krize/

The rate at which humanity is consuming the Earth’s resources declined sharply this year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to researchers.
Consequently, Earth Overshoot Day, the point at which human consumption exceeds the amount nature can regenerate in a year, has moved back by over three weeks from 29 July in 2019 to 22 August this year.

Human consumption of the Earth's resources declined in 2020 | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/...020/aug/21/human-consumption-of-the-earths-resources-declined-in-2020

TUHO: v brazilii uz tohle bezelo

Scientists Can't Agree on Whether Genetically Modified-Mosquito Experiment Went Horribly Wrong | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-create-hybrids.html

But now, a group of researchers not involved with Oxitec is raising questions as to whether this method went as planned. This method has successfully reduced native mosquito populations in Brazil by up to 85%, the researchers wrote.

...

"The claim was that genes from the release strain would not get into the general population because offspring would die," senior author Jeffrey Powell, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University, said in a statement. "That obviously was not what happened."

However, there is no known health risk to humans that might come from these hybrids, he said. "But it is the unanticipated outcome that is concerning," Powell added.