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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / If the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn’t terrify you, then you don’t fully understand it
    TUHO
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    Biochar is a charcoal that is used to improve land rather than as a fuel. Biochar is produced from biomass, usually through the process of pyrolysis. Due to the molecular structure and strength of the chemical bonds, the carbon in biochar is in a stable form and not readily mineralized to CO2 (as is the fate of most of the carbon in biomass). Because the carbon in biochar derives (via photosynthesis) from atmospheric CO2, biochar has the potential to be a net negative carbon technology/carbon dioxide removal option. Biochar is not a single homogeneous material. Its composition and properties (including longevity) differ according to feedstock (source biomass), pyrolysis (production) conditions, and its intended application. This variety and heterogeneity have so far eluded an agreed methodology for calculating biochar’s carbon abatement.

    Meta-analyses increasingly summarize the effects of biochar in pot and field trials. These results illuminate that biochar may have important agronomic benefits in poorer acidic tropical and subtropical soils, with one study indicating an average 25% yield increase across all trials. In temperate soils the impact is modest to trivial and the same study found no significant impact on crop yield arising from biochar amendment. There is much complexity in matching biochar to suitable soil-crop applications and this challenge has defied development of simple heuristics to enable implementation. Biochar has great potential as a carbon management technology and as a soil amendment. The lack of technically rigorous methodologies for measuring recalcitrant carbon limits development of the technology according to this specific purpo


    Biochar: An Emerging Carbon Abatement and Soil Management Strategy | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
    https://oxfordre.com/environmentalscience/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199389414.001.0001/acrefore-9780199389414-e-550
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    Estimates of global vulnerability to sea-level rise and coastal flooding just tripled. What happened? A calculation error on the part of the satellite technology most commonly relied upon to measure land surface levels. In areas where actual high-quality elevation data are too expensive to obtain or not available, satellites estimate average land elevations by averaging detected land surfaces. However, scientists just discovered that this also has measured and included rooftops in its averages, resulting in overestimation of land elevations.1

    The finding begs reflection on our rising dependence on automated technology for safety and risk estimates. Anticipatory planning is difficult when technologies lead us to misrecognize our vulnerabilities. Artificial intelligence (AI) is now being used to correct the errors in land surface estimates. We can hope—but not be overly trusting—that the corrected estimates prove more reliable.

    The new finding has implications for energy policies as well: The majority of people living on implicated land are in developing countries across Asia. In Asia, as globally, populations concentrate in coastal areas, and this is therefore also where most nuclear reactors (and toxic waste sites) are located.2 We could be looking at many disasters as water increasingly creeps—and with more frequency and intensity will surge—above its current confines, driven by climate change.


    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2020.1690379
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    sorry zat apetu

    We’re going to have a ‘severe heat wave’ in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with temperatures soaring 7-9 degrees Celsius above normal. It’s 41 C this afternoon so it means it will reach 50 C

    Unprecedented heatwave ‘may kill thousands’ in India, Pakistan - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
    https://www.dawn.com/news/1688365
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    PER2:
    humanity is just failed experiment obviously


    India is planning to reopen more than 100 coal mines previously considered financially unsustainable, as a heatwave-driven power crisis forces the world's third-biggest greenhouse gas emitter to double down on the fuel after months of low consumption.

    'Bad boys' are back: India doubles down on coal as heatwave worsens power crisis | Reuters
    https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-looking-boost-coal-output-by-up-100-mln-tonnes-reopen-closed-mines-2022-05-06/?mc_cid=54a9bb5c5f&mc_eid=6e1ef70459
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    rikal nekdo vlna veder? :D potrebujem vic uhli, abysme mohli pustit vic klimosek

    India is boosting coal production to record highs in an effort to overcome a fuel shortage that has strained power supply, leading to blackouts during a searing heatwave on the subcontinent
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    indigenous oyster reef management

    Precolonial First Nations oyster fisheries sustained millennia of intense harvests, study shows | Environment | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/precolonial-first-nations-oyster-fisheries-sustained-millennia-of-intense-harvests-study-shows
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    Milan Lapin ·
    Druhý mesiac za sebou zaznamenali v Observatóriu NOAA na hore Mauna Loa (3400 m n.m.) malé medziročné zvýšenie koncentrácie CO2 (len o 1,18 ppm v porovnaní s Aprílom 2021). Je to síce iba meranie v jednej lokalite na Zemi, no má dosť veľkú váhu, pretože je to najkvalitnejší rad meraní. Príčin môže byť viac: lokálna anomália, väčší záchyt CO2 oceánom kvôli dlhému obdobiu LaNiňa (studená voda absorbuje z atmosféry viac CO2 ako teplá), recesia ekonomiky a tým nižšia emisia... Počkajme si na vyhodnotenie merania z ostatných observatórií na Zemi, prípadne na údaje z ďalších mesiacov.

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    SHEFIK: tohle je úplně strašně nejdůležitější součást celé evropské strategie a Green new dealu, podle mě....

    Protože jak to dneska celý funguje? Banky "tisknou" (=půjčují de-facto "nekryté", resp. kryté jen spekulativní hodnotou pozemku a novostavby) peníze developerům, kteří je následně lejou do betonu (doslova za to lejou beton), na to jsou navázané cementárny, v rozvojových zemích dokonce i písková mafie, apod. O uhlíkové stopě cementu a tím i betonu se tedy nemusíme vůbec bavit.

    Do toho dřev, kde růst zalesnění by byl super - ale je třeba garantovat, že to dřevo skončí jako konstrukční materiál a ne jako palivo.

    Tedy dřevěné mrakodrapy by byl úplně super nej-nej řešení pro ekonomiku i klima: protože ekonomika v podstatě potřebuje úvěry a potřebuje, aby úvěry byly kryté něčím s trvalou hodnotou a ten beton byl jakýmsi symbolem té trvalé hodnoty (jenže to byla trvalost za cenu destrukce všeho kolem) - a proto kdo se chtěl dostat k penězům, musel zkrátka postavit nějaký dům s co největší spekulativní (tedy to dlouho znamenalo i trvalou) hodnotou - ale současně klima potřebuje, abychom skladovali dřevo, a to ideálně v rozsahu všeho spáleného fosilního paliva (tedy obrovské množství dřeva). No a mrakodrapy konstrukčně samozřejmě spotřebují víc materiálu, než nízkopodlažní domy - takže dřevěné mrakodrapy jsou v podstatě ideální forma skladování dřeva (která navíc předstírá nějakou přidanou užitou hodnotu, ale o to tam nejde - jde vlastně jen o to co nejdýl oddálit moment, kdy ten mrakdrap někdo zbourá a dřevo spálí :-) jestli to fakt bude mít užitnou hodnotu, je vlastně už šumák...)
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    #sustainability

    Příroda místo betonu. Švýcaři postaví nejvyšší dřevěný mrakodrap na světě - iDNES.cz
    https://www.idnes.cz/ekonomika/zahranicni/svycarsko-drevostavba-dreveny-mrakodrap.A220422_100217_eko-zahranicni_akp
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    #food_crisis #redemption #local_food

    Aneb vsecko jde kdyz je draz

    Nákupy ve slevách, místo exotiky mrkev. Školní jídelny se potýkají s dražším jídlem, ceny zvýší v září
    https://denikn.cz/872438/nakupy-ve-slevach-misto-exotiky-mrkev-skolni-jidelny-se-potykaji-s-drazsim-jidlem-ceny-zvysi-v-zari/

    Dražší exotické ovoce nahradila levnější zelenina od českých dodavatelů.
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    #carbon #seabed

    There Are Mountains of Sugar Hidden in The Ocean, And We've Only Just Found Out
    https://www.sciencealert.com/there-are-mountains-of-sugar-buried-in-the-ocean-and-we-re-only-just-learning-about-it

    Scientists have discovered that seagrass meadows on the ocean floor can store huge amounts of the sweet stuff underneath their waving fronds – and there are major implications for carbon storage and climate change.

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    Worldwide, seagrasses could be sitting on up to 1.3 million tons of sucrose, the research team says. To put it another way, that's enough for about 32 billion cans of Coca-Cola, so we're talking about a substantial find of hidden sugar.

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    Seagrasses are some of the planet's most important sinks for blue carbon (carbon captured by the world's ocean and coastal ecosystems): an area of seagrass can suck up twice as much carbon as a forest of the same size on land, and 35 times as fast too.
    When it comes to calculating carbon capture loss from the seagrass meadows – among the most threatened habitats on the planet due to human activity and decreasing water quality – scientists can now factor in the sucrose deposits as well as the seagrass itself
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    XCHAOS: imho je to vsecko soucasti nejakeho socio-kulturniho vyvoje. Za rok proste budeme zase dal
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    SHEFIK: sci-fi autor Charles Stross před 20 (?) lety v Accelerandu tuhle fázi vývoje předpověděl. (I když pravda, poněkud přízemně očekával rozebírání počítačů, ne praček.....)

    Je to jako dost šílené, dělat z něčeho šrot, ještě než se to prodá. Současně to jasně ukazuje, jaká pitomost byla udělat na elektronice závislé úplně jakýkoliv domácí spotřebič... i když zrovna pračky bývaly "programovatelné" vždy....
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    Sucho z let 2015 až 2019 se vrací. A my kácíme a těžíme, lesy přestávají půdu chladit - Aktuálně.cz
    https://nazory.aktualne.cz/komentare/sucho-z-let-2015-2019-se-vraci-a-my-kacime-a-tezime/r~928406dacac711ec8a24ac1f6b220ee8/?
    TUHO
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    O problematice novy generace modelu, ktery naznacujou, ze by klimaticka senzitivita ke zdvojnasobeni co2 mohla byt vyrazne vyssi... autori se domnivaj, ze je to spis chyba v modelech


    The latest “CMIP6” generation of climate models includes a subset of “hot models” that point towards much greater warming than expected.
    These models have high climate sensitivity, a measure of how much the planet warms in response to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations.
    Yet multiple lines of evidence based on observations and our understanding of planetary physics suggest we can confidently narrow the range of climate sensitivity and, crucially, give less weight to high-end estimates.
    The recent sixth assessment report (AR6) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reconciled these findings with the idea of “assessed global warming” – warming projections that combine model results with observational constraints.
    While giving a more realistic picture of future warming, this approach has created a problem for scientists wishing to study climate impacts and adaptation, particularly at local or regional scales, based on daily or monthly extremes, or on non-temperature variables such as rainfall.
    In a new comment in Nature, we propose a set of simple approaches to this problem so that studies on climate impacts and adaptation can avoid giving too much weight to “hot models”.

    Guest post: How climate scientists should handle ‘hot models’ - Carbon Brief
    https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-climate-scientists-should-handle-hot-models
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    TUHO: kam se muzu podivat, abych videl zduvodneny to "second to"? aneb nuclear war, second only to climate change
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    A tohle by se koneckoncu taky mohlo libit .]

    Second Only to Nuclear War: Science and the Making of Existential Threat in Global Climate Governance

    https://static1.squarespace.com/static/530b51b6e4b0ce720625fb66/t/5c2d2e4a352f534b797ff250/1546464844214/Allan_2017_Second-to-nuclear-war.pdf
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    TUHO: A koukam, ze uz mu vyslo neco i v Nature

    From carbon pricing to green industrial policy, economic ideas have shaped climate policy. Drawing on a new dataset of policy reports, we show how economic ideas influenced climate policy advice by major international organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank, from 1990 to 2017. In the 1990s, the neoclassical notion of weak complementarity between environmental protection and growth dominated debates on sustainable development. In the mid-2000s, economic thought on the environment diversified, as the idea of strong complementarity between environmental protection and growth emerged in the green growth discourse. Adaptations of Schumpeterian and Keynesian economics identified investment in energy innovation and infrastructure as drivers of growth. We thus identify a major transformation from a neoclassical paradigm to a diversified policy discourse, suggesting that climate policy has entered a postparadigmatic period. The diversification of ideas broadened policy advice from market-based policy to green industrial policy, including deployment subsidies and regulation.

    The evolution of ideas in global climate policy | Nature Climate Change
    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0739-7
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