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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day
    TADEAS
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    Life after ethanol: are we prepared?
    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2853700898292464&id=2201724063490154

    Dr. Mike Bredeson
    Agroecologist- Ecdysis Foundation

    Most Midwestern farms depend on ethanol. Yet, many signs point toward a near future of fading ethanol demand. What will this mean for farm families and rural communities across the corn belt?
    It is time to take a close look at the future of the ethanol industry. If the situation is not addressed and solutions aren’t developed farmers could find themselves in a very dangerous farm crisis spurred by oversupply. Let’s start the conversation right now.

    How much corn we grow and what it is used for.

    In 2020, American farmers produced a staggering amount of corn – 14.2 billion bushels. If we threw every kernel into one pile it would tower over 4000 feet – a literal mountain of corn!

    What is all this grain used for? A small amount becomes food for humans. Quite a lot of corn is fed to cattle, chickens, and other livestock. However, the greatest portion (40%) of corn that we grow is fermented into ethanol, mixed with gasoline, and burned in cars.
    To help visualize the current importance of ethanol production to the American farmer let’s imagine all corn used for this purpose (36.8 million acres) planted in one field. The size of this field would be larger than the entire state of Iowa.

    How the corn ethanol industry became so large.

    The ethanol boom beginning in the mid-2000s stimulated a rural economy based on burning corn in vehicles. Rapid growth of the ethanol industry was a result of the push for US energy independence. At the time, war in the Middle East threatened global oil supplies.

    The Renewable Fuel Standards Act, and The Energy Independence and Security Act put into place by the G.W. Bush administration early in the Iraqi war paved the way for ethanol production as an alternative to fossil fuels. These new rules required oil refineries to purchase an increasing amount of ethanol every year between 2008 and 2022 to mix into gasoline. Corn farmers suddenly had a guaranteed market with predictable increases in the immediate future. As expected, corn and ethanol production increased rapidly to meet demand fixed by the US government.

    Factors pointing toward reduced ethanol demand.

    Until 2013 ethanol production kept pace with what was mandated in the fuel standards acts. However, since 2014 ethanol demand has fallen short and oil refineries have purchased far less than what was mandated.

    The Renewable Fuel Standards Act is set to expire in 2022, leaving the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set annual refinery purchases of ethanol on a year-by-year basis. As demand has already undercut production goals set by the US government it is unlikely that the EPA will mandate oil refineries to purchase more ethanol. What is more, concerns over how corn production affects soil, air, and water quality casts further doubt on an ethanol-favorable standard set by the EPA.

    What is likely a greater threat to the future of ethanol is an unprecedented acceptance of electric vehicles. Many of the world’s largest car companies have electric models available and some, such as General Motors, have vowed to eliminate gasoline engine vehicles from their lineup by 2035, less than 15 years from now. By the same year, Californians will be unable to purchase new cars with gas engines.

    Vehicle companies are betting on a transformational shift in the automotive industry and the US government is backing this shift whole-heartedly. In the recently proposed infrastructure plan by the Biden administration more money is slated to be spent on electric vehicle infrastructure than on road and bridge repairs. As painful as it may be to recognize for corn producers, electric vehicles are the future of commuter transportation, and the shift is happening rapidly.

    Can new crops and new markets make up the difference?

    As ethanol demand fades and corn supply increases there will be a natural price correction where the cost of a bushel of corn falls. In response, one might recommend farmers simply switch to growing something different. However, we need to remember that corn for ethanol is grown on 36.8 million acres. What commodities are poised to make up for the massive difference?

    New industries, such as industrial hemp will undoubtedly replace corn on some acreage, but new commodities are slow to develop and normally supply a relatively small, niche market. A crop replacement will need to be used so widely that it rivals the historic every day use for ethanol (10% of gasoline use in nearly every car across America).

    Perhaps other food crops such as soybeans, wheat or oats will make up the Iowa-sized land area as we shift away from corn for ethanol. This scenario is unlikely for two reasons- 1) demand for existing commodities is already being met by farmers, and 2) substantial increases in their production would result in devaluation.

    We need solutions, soon.

    To prevent what could be a significant farm crisis from affecting our economy plans must be drawn to counter ethanol’s future. One suggestion is to replace cropland used for ethanol production with perennial grasslands for managed grazing or wildlife habitat. There are several reasons why this is an affordable, viable solution that is good for farmers.

    The federal government pays a mighty cost (more than $8 billion, annually) to help farmers afford crop insurance, protecting farms in case disaster strikes. In the current model, only about half of the government’s investment goes to helping farmers pay an insurance premium. The other half supports overhead costs of insurance providers. Eliminating the need to support crop insurance on 36.8 million acres frees up a substantial amount of money to be reallocated directly to farmers at a competitive rental price for converting annual cropland to perennial grasslands.

    As ethanol demand fades, producing commodities on fewer acres will prevent an oversupply, preserving and likely increasing the value of corn and other farm-grown goods. Environmental benefits of such a plan are too numerous to mention but include groundwater purification and recharge, carbon storage in soils, wildlife habitat, etc. These are all services freely provided by the environment, saving tax dollars in the long-term.

    The ethanol industry won’t disappear overnight, but with all signs pointing to a substantial reduction in ethanol demand we need to be proactive in developing plans to exit an agricultural industry dependent on ethanol and enter an agricultural age that will support farming communities. A plan to help landowners introduce grasslands might save the American farmer from facing a difficult future.
    TUHO
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    Meltwater pulse 1A refers to a period of rapid sea level increase after the last deglaciation. New research suggests that it was powered by melting ice from North America and Scandinavia, not Antarctica.
    “We hope that our study will help climate modelers and paleoscientists piece together the impact of this event, with clear parallels for understanding the impact of increasing melt from the Greenland Ice Sheet today,” said Pippa Whitehouse.

    An Ancient Meltwater Pulse Raised Sea Levels by 18 Meters - Eos
    https://fal.cn/3fOmU
    DZODZO
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    povodne som na clanok klikol kvoli nazvu, myslel som, ze bez elektriny znamena ostrov s nejakou elektrarnou, ale vyklul sa z toho klasicky problem s pripojkou

    Pavla a Petr žijí v krásném domě v Pobeskydí. Celý ho postavili bez vlastní elektřiny - Novinky.cz
    https://www.novinky.cz/bydleni/tipy-a-trendy/clanek/pavla-a-petr-ziji-v-krasnem-dome-v-pobeskydi-cely-ho-postavili-bez-elektriny-40362137

    naopak co ma zaujalo, ze im tam tecie voda z pole a chcu to riesit odvodom do potoka, uzitocnejsie by mi prislo, keby nejako upravili pas medzi polom a domami, aby sa tam voda vsakovala a udrzovala v prirode, ale su to panelakove deti, na elektrine protopi 40k rocne, tak asi nerozmyslaju takto daleko :)
    TADEAS
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    Dle ranního vysílání ČRo (až bude k dispozici záznam, dám sem link) studie zahrnuje i data z ČR, resp. Prahy, Brna a Ostravy - podíleli se na ní i výzkumníci z Ústavu fyziky atmosféry AV ČR:

    "...v roce 2015 kvůli horku zemřelo necelých 1000 lidí v České republice. Ta studie nám říká, že třeba 20 % z toho tisíce bylo navíc, kvůli klimatické změně."

    Z abstraktu studie:

    "Across all study countries, we find that 37.0% (range 20.5–76.3%) of warm-season heat-related deaths can be attributed to anthropogenic climate change and that increased mortality is evident on every continent."

    The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change | Nature Climate Change
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01058-x
    TADEAS
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    Changing Paradigms | Regenerative Agriculture: a Solution to our Global Crisis? | Full Documentary
    https://youtu.be/V6m-XlPnqxI


    Changing Paradigms” explores the power of regenerative agriculture in improving the natural environment, human health, and reliable profit in sheep farming. We, as humans, have an innate attraction to the natural world. But, the way we currently interact with the environment is unsustainable and causing a disconnect with nature. We have one generation, our generation, to take action and change the paradigm.

    Charles Massy (author of “Call of the Reed Warbler”) and Norm Smith both take a sustainable, systems thinking approach to sheep farming. They have moved away from industrial practices of land clearing and using chemical fertilisers and pesticides. Now they work with nature rather than against it, in turn, reviving the once over-grazed land. The power of regenerative agriculture is even greater than improving the profitability and resilience of family farms, the implications on planetary and human health are tremendously positive
    TADEAS
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    For Nature | Will we connect the dots in time?
    https://fornature.earth/

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    Kim Hill
    https://www.facebook.com/groups/Soil4Climate/permalink/3009317012673366/

    This short film, calling for a global transition to a plant-based food system and narrated by Greta Thunberg, is produced by Mercy for Animals, a lobby group for the synthetic meat industry.

    Synthetic meat is made by using a DNA coding sequence from soybeans or peas to create a substance that looks and tastes like real meat.

    The farming methods for producing synthetic meat involve using large amount of synthetic pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, which cause far more harm to animals, soil, waterways, climate and human health than raising pastured animals.

    Transitioning to a plant-based food system based around synthetic meat will put the entire global food supply in the hands of a few multi-national biotech companies (producers of chemicals and genetically modified crops) and destroy local economies, traditional cultures, and livelihoods of farmers.

    Billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson all invest in synthetic meat companies, and advocate for the transition to plant-based synthetic foods.

    Animal welfare organisations such as PETA and Animals Australia advertise these synthetic meat products on their websites.

    Mercy for Animals “works to eliminate the worst animal abuse and grow market share of plant- and cell-based foods.”

    Mercy for Animals states: “Cell-based meat, which is animal meat grown by farming cells rather than by rearing and slaughtering animals, is fast-approaching the market and will transform the meat industry... Meat industry giants Tyson and Cargill have both invested in cell-based meat technology, while Maple Leaf Foods has acquired plant-based food companies Lightlife and Field Roast.”

    Animal Liberation activism is being captured by industry and manipulated into advertising toxic products that do not in any way benefit animals, the environment, or our health.
    TADEAS
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    SHEFIK: ufo to the rescue!
    SHEFIK
    SHEFIK --- ---
    #doomed

    Satellites may have been underestimating the planet's warming for decades | Live Science
    https://www.livescience.com/satellites-underestimated-global-warming.html

    Basic physics equations govern the relationship between temperature and moisture in the air, but many measurements of temperature and moisture used in climate models diverge from this relationship, the new study finds.

    That means either satellite measurements of the troposphere have underestimated its temperature or overestimated its moisture, study leader Ben Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, said in a statement.

    ...

    In other words, the measurements that show the least warming might also be the least reliable.
    PER2
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    SHEFIK: to je kampaň!
    TADEAS
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    Allan Savory on running Livestock together with Wildlife
    https://youtube.com/watch?v=5nPr_SuKUHw&feature=share
    TADEAS
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    Zrodila se největší kra světa. Je devětkrát větší než Praha | Nedd.cz
    https://nedd.tiscali.cz/zrodila-se-nejvetsi-kra-sveta-je-devetkrat-vetsi-nez-praha-511355
    KEB
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    Biomasakr: Jak dopadne závod mezi BMW na řepkovou bionaftu a elektrickou Teslou? - Ekolist.cz
    https://ekolist.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/zpravy/biomasakr-jak-dopadne-zavod-mezi-bmw-na-repkovou-bionaftu-a-elektrickou-teslou
    TUHO
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    Podcast
    Uhlí není jen fosilní palivo, s jehož používáním se teď svět konečně snaží přestat. Jeho těžba a využití mají řadu ekonomických i společenských souvislostí, jejichž pochopení nám může usnadnit zelenou transformaci. První díl nového podcastu Příběh uhlí se proto věnuje moderním dějinám suroviny, která proměnila společnost, nastartovala průmyslovou revoluci a přispěla k prosperitě, ale vyžádala si i značnou cenu v podobě environmentální destrukce a poškození lidského zdraví. Vystupují archeolog Václav Matoušek, historik Jiří Šlajsna a starosta Horního Jiřetína Vladimír Buřt, podcastem provází Ondřej Šebestík

    Příběh uhlí 1: Dějiny uhlí v Česku | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Kancelář v Praze - Česká republika, Slovensko, Maďarsko
    https://cz.boell.org/cs/2021/05/30/pribeh-uhli-1-dejiny-uhli-v-cesku
    JINDRICH
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    THE_DARKNESS
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    Zveme Vás na diskusní webinář na téma Chráníme půdu dostatečně? aneb Půda jako Popelka v úterý 1. června 2021 od 16:00 do 18:00 hodin.
    Webinář bude proběhne v Zoomu na adrese http://stuz2106.jdem.cz/
    Zachování úrodnosti půdy bylo v minulosti podmínkou existence celých civilizací. Po dvou letech od našeho posledního semináře k problematice ochrany půdy se budeme chtít dozvědět, zda přece jen nepokročil vývoj i v této u nás a bohužel i v Evropě upozaďované záležitosti. Rádi bychom vyslechli informace o možnos-tech právní a institucionální ochrany půdy i o procesech probíhajících v půdě, které by bylo potřebné podpořit a naopak které by zasluhovaly potlačit. Jaká je situace s půdní biotou? Co všechno je třeba uskutečnit, aby byl zastaven pokles či dokonce posílena úrodnost našich půd? Tyto a další otázky se můžete dozvě-dět na tomto semináři ať již od panelistů, anebo v rámci následné diskuse.
    V panelu vystoupí:
    prof. JUDr. Milan Damohorský, DrSc., vedoucí Katedry práva životního prostředí, Právnická fakulta UK
    ing. Vladimír Dolejský, Ph.D., náměstek ministra životního prostředí,
    Prof. RNDr. Jakub Hruška, CSc., Česká geologická služba a Ústav vý-zkumu globální změny AV ČR
    Doc. RNDr. Ladislav Miko, Ph.D., vedoucí Zastoupení Evropské komise v SR, bývalý ministr životního prostředí ČR
    Daniel Pitek, soukromý zemědělec a lesník, místopředseda Asociace soukromých zemědělců Litoměřice, laureát Ceny Josefa Vavrouška
    Ing. Jaroslav Záhora, CSc., Agronomická fakulta Mendelovy univerzity v Brně

    Webinář bude moderovat Jiří Dlouhý, předseda STUŽ
    Připojení Zoom: http://stuz2106.jdem.cz/
    Stream YouTube: https://youtu.be/oaEs--UMXo4
    TADEAS
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    Our Planet, Our Future An Urgent Call for Action
    https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2021/04/nobel-prize-laureates-and-other-experts-issue-urgent-call-for-action-after-our-planet-our-future-summit

    This statement was inspired by the discussions at the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit, issued by the Steering Committee and co-signed by Nobel Laureates and experts.
    TADEAS
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    Sustain Ability. The Potsdam Dialogues - Science for a Safe Tomorrow. - Podcast
    https://sustain-ability-potsdam-dialogues.podigee.io/
    TADEAS
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    ‘Black Wednesday’ for big oil as courtrooms and boardrooms turn on industry | Fossil fuels | The Guardian
    https://theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/29/black-wednesday-for-big-oil-as-courtrooms-and-boardrooms-turn-on-industry
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