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"All five members of Beyond Politics; Roger Hallam, Blyth Brentnall, Diana Warner, Ferhat Ulusu and Anglican priest Steven Nunn were remanded in custody in London today until a plea hearing on the 22/9/20 and a crown court hearing on the 25/2/21. Charges are to conspiracy to commit public nuisance and criminal damage as well as breaking bail conditions."

All the charged party members and many others will commence an indefinite Hunger Strike starting today against the injustice of their imprisonment.

This is the first time in UK history that five political prisoners have been held on remand in prison.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157738062002400&set=a.501877932399&type=3&theater

This month, NOAA ratcheted up its total hurricane season forecast to between 19 and 25 named storms including seven to 11 hurricanes. The agency has never predicted that many named storms before — a fitting tribute to a season that can’t seem to stop breaking records.

The 2020 hurricane season is tearing through the alphabet at ‘LMNOP’ speed | Grist
https://grist.org/climate/the-2020-hurricane-season-is-tearing-through-the-alphabet-at-lmnop-speed/

TUHO: To je bídák ten Bakala :-[

Časopis Respekt vydal podnětný a kvalitně zpracovaný speciál věnovaný otázce klimatické krize. Ve všech nabízených příbězích však absentují její hlavní viníci, fosilní korporace a ekonomická moc ovládající politiku.

https://denikreferendum.cz/clanek/31569-v-klimatickem-pribehu-respektu-chybi-hlavni-zaporaci

Dr. Genevieve Guenther @DoctorVive
Complicating the "fear doesn't work" narrative of climate communication, a new study finds that "worry about global warming was the strongest predictor of climate policy support."

YMLADRIS: "They concluded, in a report released in August 1990, that the menace was real and that coal, gas and oil would be the principal causes of global heating. Unless controls were imposed on their consumption, temperature rises of 0.3C a decade would be occurring in the 21st century, bringing havoc in their wake." Od roku 2000 to podle grafu vypada na ~0.25C per decade. Takze docela dobry odhad. (alespon pokud se bavime o Global surface temperature, nevim presne na ktery typ mereni se ten jejich odhad vztahoval)

tento týden před 30 lety vyšla první zpráva ipcc. předpovídali oteplování o 0.3 za dekádu, to se nepotvrdilo - bylo to míň. od té doby vydávají upřesnění co pár let

The Observer view on the climate catastrophe facing Earth | Climate change | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/...2020/aug/23/the-observer-view-on-the-climate-catastrophe-facing-earth

The City of Sydney — the central business district of Sydney and its surrounding inner city suburbs — will now be powered using 100% renewable energy, a switch forecast to save half a million dollars and 200,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere over the next 10 years.
Two solar farms and one wind farm located across regional New South Wales will exclusively power all City-owned properties, including 115 buildings, 75 parks, 23,000 streetlights, various sport facilities and depots. The historic deal marks the most substantial green energy agreement by any council across Australia.

The City of Sydney Now Runs on 100% Renewable Energy
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/the-city-of-sydney-100-percent-renewable/

Odejít od uhlí jde, v Británii ho nespalujeme už čtyři a půl měsíce, říká diplomat | Hospodářské noviny (iHNed.cz)
https://archiv.ihned.cz/c1-66805980-odejit-od-uhli-jde-v-britanii-ho-nespalujeme-uz-4-5-mesice

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has updated the timeline on which he sees batteries enabling electric aircraft coming to maket. He now sees it happening in "3 to 4 years."
Several years ago, Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, said that he had a design for electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft – though he never elaborated on plans to bring the aircraft to production.
In order for his design to work, Musk said that the energy density of batteries needs to improve.
At the time, he mentioned a threshold of around 400 Wh/kg while Tesla’s batteries were achieving around 260 Wh/kg.
Now a year later, Tesla’s CEO is slightly accelerating the timeframe to “probably 3 to 4 years” away (via Twitter):
“400 Wh/kg *with* high cycle life, produced in volume (not just a lab) is not far. Probably 3 to 4 years.”

Tesla's Elon Musk says that batteries enabling electric aircraft are coming in '3 to 4 years' - Electrek
https://electrek.co/2020/08/25/tesla-elon-musk-batteries-enabling-electric-aircraft-coming/

Tady celej dokument o Roger Hallamovi, jedny z hlavnich postav Extinction Rebellion. Zdarma ke shlednuti do 27. srpna

THE TROUBLEMAKER (XR SCREENING)
https://vimeo.com/443364512

Agroforestry is essentially a forest-mimicking agriculture that involves growing trees, shrubs and vegetables in tight assemblages. It is an ancient technology created by indigenous peoples and popularized in recent decades by newer landowners. Although it’s difficult to pin down how much of the world’s agricultural land contains tree cover, figures range from 100 million hectares to as much as 1 billion hectares, which lock up an estimated .75 gigatons of carbon per year. By comparison, there were 32.5 gigatons of global carbon emissions in 2017.

In terms of cost, agroforestry is likely much cheaper than Carbon Engineering’s invention, not to mention that it will likely take much more carbon-emitting energy to operate their machines on the global scale that they envision. Project Drawdown, a carbon solution tracking initiative, estimates a cost of $26.8 billion to implement agroforestry on an additional 19 million hectares globally — sequestering 9.3 billion gigatons of carbon and providing an estimated profit of $710 billion for farmers and investors by 2050. Institutions with “climate-smart” agriculture support programs like the World Bank and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization could supply some of the needed funding and channel it through the training and extension programs of nonprofits like the World Agroforestry Centre. Private investors seeking carbon credits can likely provide significant capital as well.

A low-tech method for combating climate change - NOEMA
https://www.noemamag.com/a-low-tech-method-for-combating-climate-change/

The German auto market is nearly back to normal, down just 5% in July, but the local plugin electric vehicle market is far beyond that — it’s red hot right now. Plugin vehicles (fully electric vehicles as well as plugin hybrids) scored an amazing 36,000 registrations in July, which not only a new record, but is 85% above the last record, made last March.

11% EV Market Share In Germany! Let The Disruption Begin!
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/08/23/11-ev-market-share-in-germany-let-the-disruption-begin/

world has successively blown past various emissions reductions targets over the past generation, climate and energy modelers have had to rely more and more on 'negative emissions' to achieve their goals (in models). While negative emissions are not a substitute for near-term mitigation, they offer some flexibility if emissions overshoot targets. For a time, the main negative-emissions technology used in climate models was bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, or BECCS. But real-world deployment of BECCS would require vast amounts of land — an area up to to five times the size of India — which would compete with other land uses and threaten ecosystems. Natural carbon sequestration, including large-scale reforestation, is a more promising option, but it would only replace the carbon released when those forests were first cut down — it won't be enough to substantially reduce future warming.

Building Bridges to Negative Emissions | The Breakthrough Institute
https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/negative-emissions