Extremely busy hurricane season 2020 now taps into the Greek alphabet
https://www.severe-weather.eu/tropical-weather/greek-alphabet-atlantic-hurricanes-mk/

There are still several months left until the official end of hurricane season 2020, but there has already been twice the average number of storms. With 23 storms under the belt, the traditional hurricane names are used. We are moving into the Greek alphabet. Alpha and Beta formed on Friday, but more is on the way!

What makes this season being so extreme and record-breaking, is the fact that storms with the same letters are developing weeks earlier than normally expected. And even much earlier than previously set records.

Such satellite image of numerous active storms is almost typical for 2020. While there was very active Tropical Atlantic not enough, even the Mediterranean produced a tropical storm – Medicane Ianos!

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the temperatures are around 1-2 degrees Celsius warmer than the long-term average (1981-2010) across the Western Atlantic, Caribbean, and also in part of the Gulf. Seas are particularly warm along the US East Coast, even up to 3 °C warmer.

Reditel chemicky ministrem zivotniho prostredi. Vetsi zmrd nez vsichni jeho predchudci dohromady.

"Ohledně možného roku takzvaného „konce uhlí“ nechtěl příliš spekulovat. „Já se domnívám, že to může být někdy do roku 2032,“ řekl Brabec. Klimatické organizace a hnutí přitom požadovaly konec do roku 2030. „My to nevidíme jako realistické, protože by to tu celé krachlo,“
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"Odklad konce skládkování Brabec hájí
V diskusi se věnovali také odpadu. Konec skládkování se zřejmě posune o šest let na rok 2030."
Konec uhlí do roku 2030 není podle Brabce technicky možný. Celé by to tady krachlo, upozornil — ČT24 — Česká televize
https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/...ku-mohl-nastat-do-roku-2032-rekl-brabec-novy-unijni-plan-na-snizeni

The Netherlands must reduce carbon emissions by the end of the year, but can this be done? | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/...must-reduce-carbon-emissions-by-the-end-of-the-year-but-can-this-be-done

soud Holandsku nařídil snížit do konce 2020 emise o 25 % oproti 1990.

článek v ekonomistu o Citizen assemblies, ale za paywallem či mailwallem

Some assembly required - Citizens’ assemblies are increasingly popular | International | The Economist
https://www.economist.com/international/2020/09/19/citizens-assemblies-are-increasingly-popular

'Shocking': wilderness the size of Mexico lost worldwide in just 13 years, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
https://amp.theguardian.com/...erness-the-size-of-mexico-lost-worldwide-in-just-13-years-study-finds

https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30418-8

Wilderness across the planet is disappearing on a huge scale, according to a new study that found human activities had converted an area the size of Mexico from virtually intact natural landscapes to heavily modified ones in just 13 years.

The loss of 1.9m square kilometres (735,000 sq miles) of intact ecosystems would have “profound implications” for the planet’s biodiversity, the study’s authors said.

Using mostly satellite imagery, 17 scientists across six countries examined the human footprint across the globe and how it had changed between 2000 and 2013.

Almost 20% of the earth’s surface had deteriorated, the study found, while human pressure had eased on only six per cent of the planet.

Russia, Canada, Brazil, and Australia held the largest intact areas, together responsible for 60% of the world’s most untouched places.

Some 1.1m sq km (425,000 sq miles) of wilderness identified from imagery in 2000 had some human impact 13 years later.

Tropical savannahs and grasslands lost the most area to human pressure, the study, published in the journal One Earth, found.

Energy Flow Trends in Big History | SpringerLink
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-33730-8_9
https://www.academia.edu/.../62374223/2020_Big_History_Singularity20200315-18964-5xj2s5.pdf#page=195

Energy flow is a major necessary component driving evolution of living system (along with information processes, organization, and entropy management). Energy flow is defined as the rate of energy use, after thermal heat losses are considered, i.e., free-energy power. Chaisson identified the energy flow density as a major determinant of complexity. Energy (such as food) is used to restore order among living systems (cell, animal, person, and civilization) overcoming the natural tendency to decay and diffuse. New energy mechanisms have been identified through the evolution of life, humans, and civilizations. The rate of energy innovation events is the same hyperbolic trend (with a singularity) that is seen in formation of new organizations. Here, we also investigate estimates of the energy flowing through evolving systems from early hydrothermal vents to the current global situation. It is found that the energy flow increases a bit faster than the population (or mass) in the system. For example, human bodies (such as early humans) use about 100 W of energy flow, whereas the global average is now roughly 3000 W per person with wide disparity (e.g., 10000 W/capita in the USA and 1000 W/capita in India).

2019 On the Circular Bioeconomy and Decoupling: Implications for Sustainable Growth
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800918317178

This paper explores the existing confusion around the conceptual definitions and interpretations of the term circular bioeconomy. The co-existence of diametrically opposite interpretations of the concept indicates lack of a serious discussion of its theoretical foundations. Two narratives on circular bioeconomy are explored in depth: (i) the new economic paradigm based on technological progress (the economics of technological promises) that seeks perpetual economic growth; (ii) an entropic (thermodynamic) narrative that reflects on the limits on economic growth imposed by nature. The latter narrative makes a distinction between primary, secondary and tertiary resource flows and helps to identify what can and cannot be re-circulated within the metabolic pattern of social-ecological systems. Adopting the biophysical view, it becomes clear that the industrial revolution represented a linearization of material and energy flows with the goal to overcome the low pace and density of biological transformations. The required level of productivity of production factors in contemporary developed economies (flows per hour of labor and per hectare of land use) is orders of magnitude larger than the pace and density of supply and sink capacity of natural processes. Relying on nature to ‘close the loop’ will simply slow down the economic process.

2019 Terraforming Earth: Climate and Recursivity
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/761285

Terraforming began as a fantasy about making other planets earthlike, then returned to earth as a frame for what humans have done, are doing, or will do to the planet. Toward a reading of the phrase “terraforming earth” that would prove fruitful for criticism and theory, I analyze it into three forms of recursivity: formal, historical, and ecological. The three-loop analytic illuminates examples from science fiction and contemporary culture: H.G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds, Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Green Mars, and Elon Musk’s desire to terraform Mars. The political theory of Sylvia Wynter offers a way of conceptualizing terraforming in terms of the difference between those who do and do not have access to optimal, immunized ecosystems and those who do and do not have agency over the earth system. I draw conclusions about terraforming’s scale-specificity and political implications, especially for understanding subject-formation in the Anthropocene.

2017 Biosphere, Noosphere, and the Anthropocene: Earth's Perilous Prospects in a Cosmic Context
https://www.academia.edu/...phere_and_the_Anthropocene_Earths_Perilous_Prospects_in_a_Cosmic_Context

Visions of a high-tech 'good' Anthropocene as well as ambitious world-making projects like Biosphere 2 have roots in a quasi-religious form of cosmism and attendant notions of the noosphere: a planetary sphere of mind. Cosmic perspectives often celebrate and naturalize an image of humans as participants in and ultimately directors of planetary and cosmic processes. This brand of cosmism encourages fantasies of eeing our 'used' planet in search of our presumed interstellar destiny, and it encourages a disregard of earthly, ecological, and even bodily limits. I argue that the turn to planetary and cosmic perspectives is the wrong move for those who care about the future of the Earth and more-than-human life.

TUHO: standardni dopoledni cviceni v maximalizaci uhlikovy a materialovy stopy pouzivanim googlu .) zacal jsem u toho jestli sociologie pojednava kardashev scale (jak je na tom nejakej prekryv antorpologie/sociologie/astrofyziky a energetickyho/termodynamickyho chapani civilizace) a odtamtud uz jsem projel jen nekolik related vetvi spriznenejch clanku a knih pres g. scholar

TADEAS: Sakra solidni serka zajimavyho cteni. To abych si vzal dovolenou. Kdes k tomu prisel? Si zabil nejakyho bosse?