The New Climate War by Michael E. Mann | PublicAffairs
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/michael-e-mann/the-new-climate-war/9781549157004/

A renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet.

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In The New Climate War, Mann argues that all is not lost. He draws the battle lines between the people and the polluters-fossil fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petrostates. And he outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real change, including:

- a common-sense, attainable approach to carbon pricing- and a revision of the well-intentioned but flawed currently proposed version of the Green New Deal;
- allowing renewable energy to compete fairly against fossil fuels
- debunking the false narratives and arguments that have worked their way into the climate debate and driven a wedge between even those who support climate change solutions
- combatting climate doomism and despair-mongering

With immensely powerful vested interests aligned in defense of the fossil fuel status quo, the societal tipping point won’t happen without the active participation of citizens everywhere aiding in the collective push forward. This book will reach, inform, and enable citizens everywhere to join this battle for our planet.

pro tadease ;)
Why this retired farmer plants trees | Regenerative Agriculture in Spain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhhRoKSJszw

PETER_PAN: no veru ked som dnes kupoval na vianoce 4 klobasy a kusok udeneho a predo mnou pani nakupila do velkej tasky asi 10 druhov masovych vyrobkov v celkovej cene 2500 korun tak som rozmyslal, ze ci nakupuje pre nejaky detsky tabor :) to budu ti isti ludia co potom bedakaju, ze nemaju peniaze... no nemaju, lebo za tyzden prezeru tolko co my za mesiac :D

S UK, Nemeckem a ted Spanelskem to vypada ze 40%+ se da dosahnout bez baterii. Takze nase OZE maji kam levne rust

http://ieefa.org/...ewable-energy-has-provided-43-6-of-spains-electricity-year-to-date-grid-operator

Spain produced 43.6% of its electricity with renewables energy technologies in the year to December 11

By the December cut-off date, Spanish plants generated 109,269 GWh of renewable power, up by 11.6% year-on-year, owing mostly to favourable weather conditions and an increase in the total installed renewable energy capacity.

This year, the country added 2,706 MW of new wind and solar capacity and disconnected 3,486 MW of polluting power plants, mainly coal-burning units. Today, Spain’s total installed generation capacity stands at 109,674 MW, with renewables accounting for 53% of the total.

The overall electricity production levels decreased by 4% to 250,387 GWh, while emissions stemming from power generation fell by 27.3% compared to 2019. With a 21.7% share in the total generation, wind farms were the country’s biggest producers of renewable power this year and the second biggest after nuclear energy. Solar photovoltaic (PV) plants managed to raise their output by 65.9% on the year and reach a share of 6.1%.

Norway becomes the first country to ban deforestation | Times of India Travel
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...becomes-the-first-country-to-ban-deforestation/as73696460.cms

TADEAS: To je dovcela přísný...

2020 The failure of Integrated Assessment Models as a response to ‘climate emergency’ and ecological breakdown: the Emperor has no clothes
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2020.1853958

In this brief commentary we provide some parallel points to complement Steve Keen’s paper in the recent Globalization’s special forum on ‘Economics and Climate Emergency’. Keen’s critique of climate and economy Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) is wide-ranging, but there is still scope to bring to the fore the general issues that help to make sense of the critique. Accordingly, we set out six key inadequacies of IAMs and argue towards the need for a different approach that is more realistic regarding the limits to growth.


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New paper by @salviasefi about lack of feedbacks between Earth & Human Systems in Integrated Assessment Models.

It is connected to the work of @ProfSteveKeen & papers by my colleagues and myself, e.g., https://t.co/DU2asvLf3T.

This new paper summarizes some of the key inadequacies of Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs):

1. The rational expectations assumption.

2. Lack of real complexity.

3. ‘Integrated’ does not mean what you think it means.

4. The use of a ‘representative agent’ in the economic model.

5. The economic agent as consumer: discounts that shouldn’t count.

6. The economic agent as producer: the damage done by damage functions.

Explicit modeling of the Human System variables and dynamical mechanisms is crucial for producing realistic projections of the climate and environmental systems. These projections inform major regional and international policies.

Without a realistic representation of bidirectional feedbacks in Integrated Assessment Models, we might miss important signals that determine the fate of our planet and our species.

We need a new paradigm of models for @IPCC_CH and National Climate Assessment reports.

Your daily reminder of Limits to Growth:

“China’s coastal waters have been fished to the point of destruction. Studies suggest only 15 per cent of the region’s pre-1980s fish population survives. And yet, some 300,000 coastal fishing vessels continue to chase them down.”

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Beijing’s monster fishing fleet has stripped its own waters bare and now they’re headed for Australia. https://t.co/rMoR1T3qau via @newscomauHQ

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Construction begins on world’s first 100,000-tonne intelligent fish farming vessel in Qingdao - Global Times
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1210431.shtml

Nevim kolik by se tak na te uhlikove dani mohlo vybrat ale v prvni rade by mohli jit penize do zdravotnictvi, kde se ty nasledky znecisteni projevuji nejdriv