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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day
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    Australian methane emissions massively underestimated - report - BBC News
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61727940

    The IEA has estimated Australian coal mines emitted 1.8 million tonnes of methane in 2021, double the latest officially reported figures, the report said.

    "At the current level, methane leaking from coal mines will put Australia's modest 2030 climate targets well out of reach."
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    As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’ - The New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/climate/salt-lake-city-climate-disaster.html
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    MEPs vote to end sale of petrol and diesel car by 2035 in EU | European Union | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/08/meps-reject-key-eu-climate-proposal-watered-down-european-emissions-trading-system
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    Konference Výzkum, vývoj a inovace pro řešení klimatické změny v ČR (23. 6. 2022, Lichtenštejnský palác v Praze) | Výzkum a vývoj v ČR
    https://www.vyzkum.cz/FrontAktualita.aspx?aktualita=972835

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    20220607-230853
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    After extensive research, I can now reveal how net zero will stabilise temperatures to below 1.5°C.

    20220607-230734
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    RADIQAL: supr, dik :)
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    The problem of global energy inequity, explained by American refrigerators - Vox
    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23106061/energy-inequity-world-electricity-american-refrigerators

    Many of the world’s poorest countries don’t have the energy they need to thrive and survive in a warming world. The world needs to prioritize how to get much higher levels of energy to these countries.

    Energy access is a foundational component of development, yet many people across Africa and Asia don’t have the energy they need to thrive — and even survive — in a warming world. To Americans, living in 110°F heat without air conditioning is almost unthinkable, but for billions of people around the world, cooling is an unaffordable luxury due to poverty and the lack of access to reliable electricity.

    Energy poverty pervades all areas of life and makes people reliant on suboptimal sources of power, like burning coal or biomass. It’s a major cause of health issues. Indoor air pollution leads to an estimated 3.8 million premature deaths each year.

    Even in areas where there isn’t as much risk of illness and death from heat, someone without reliable energy access won’t have regular lighting to study at night, won’t have a smartphone to gain access to new farming techniques and markets, won’t be able to prevent food spoilage at home.

    There are of course climate and carbon trade-offs involved in expanding energy access, but as renewable energy becomes more widespread and affordable, it’s becoming increasingly possible to balance growth with sustainability.
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    Poland has announced that, due to interest from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine, it will double the size of its planned new floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Gdańsk.

    Poland doubles size of planned gas terminal due to Ukrainian, Czech and Slovak interest | Notes From Poland
    https://notesfrompoland.com/2022/06/06/poland-to-double-planned-size-of-gas-terminal-due-to-ukrainian-czech-and-slovak-interest/
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    BBC Sounds - The Climate Tipping Points - Available Episodes
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m00180cc

    Justin Rowlatt, to future generations: “I’m so sorry”. And noting that future generations may well have good records of who did what, and so who is to praise, and who,to blame.
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    SHEFIK: Takový nedostatek vody jsme tu neměli už pět milionů let
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    climate hauntologies: notes on reading carbon removal through Mark Fisher | by Holly Jean | Medium
    https://medium.com/@hollyjeanbuck/climate-hauntologies-notes-on-reading-carbon-removal-through-mark-fisher-61c4988fe57

    Capitalist realism, writes Mark Fisher, is “the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible to even imagine a coherent alternative to it.”

    Climate change intersects with this.

    On one hand, there are emergent forms of climate realism / climate doomerism — that it’s unrealistic to think we will mount a response to climate change, or that we can’t imagine a response.

    On the other hand, we may see fossil realism emerging: that it’s unrealistic to think we can imagine an alternative to fossil fuels. That they are so embedded in our infrastructure, imbricated in the pattern of how all things modern grow, in our financial system and institutions, that they can’t be removed, or something like that.

    So far, though, the environmental movement has done a pretty good job of making a coherent imaginary about renewable energy. They have fought hard to make this an imaginable, tangible thing to strive towards — to a point.

    The problem is that we will soon be up against various limitations of what wind / water / solar can do — social limitations, land use conflicts, critical minerals, etc. To keep warming below 1.5°, and probably 2°C, we need wind/water/solar and a bunch of ands — and nuclear, and carbon capture, and what the Swedish government refers to as “supplementary measures”, aka carbon removal. We will need all the ands even though some of them do not fit into what mainstream environmentalists view as the good life.

    Varieties of realism about carbon removal abound as well. You may hear technoeconomic realism: Carbon removal isn’t realistic, it’s not mature technology, it will never be built at scale, it costs too much, it’s magical thinking. You may hear (from the same people) a sort of entrenched interests realism: If carbon removal does happen, it’s only by fossil fuel interests, they own it and will control it.

    Both of these may be true. What I want to point out here is the inconsistency of these forms of realism, because they are not applied to the challenge of full decarbonization, technically nor politically. Wind/water/solar, on the other hand, must be viewed as fully realistic.

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    Mark Fisher described how the latest form of capitalism involves a turn from belief to aesthetics and from engagement to spectatorship, leaving us, as Fisher described, the “consumer-spectator, trudging through the ruins and the relics.”

    Yet another explanation for the failure of contemporary environmentalism to be new and widely moving is the wider exhaustion identified by Fisher: new cultural ideas are not really being generated, and environmental imaginaries are just one more instance. Fisher attributes some of this in high-rent cities and more — “Neoliberal capitalism has gradually but systematically deprived artists of the resources necessary to produce the new-middle-class.”

    “We remain trapped in the 20th century. The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations.”

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    That which has not yet happened, but which is already acting: doomerism. The climate apocalypse is unfolding unevenly, and for some people, regions, and ecosystems it is already here; yet a complete climate breakdown is still in the future.

    Why does it have such purchase on contemporary imaginations?

    “Environmental catastrophe provides what a political unconscious totally colonized by neoliberalism cannot: an image of life after capitalism,” writes Fisher. Perhaps that is part of its appeal.

    Fisher compares capitalist realism to “the deflationary perspective of a depressive who believes that any positive state, any hope, is a dangerous illusion.”

    Climate Twitter is rife with this mood. Obviously, climate change is a sharp danger, but it’s clear to an observer that something more is going on here than reacting to a danger, something religious in nature which is seeps into and shapes daily interaction

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    We have seen a decade of rising authoritarianism and the disappointing failures of the promises of globalization (much of which was predictable, in left critiques of globalization).

    But we have not integrated these disappointments, facts, events, and trends into climate strategy.

    Thinking about climate seems to proceed along local lines; when the global enters, it’s in the context of solidarity, of echoing calls for climate justice and climate finance from developing nations. It’s like we expect the same strategies that failed in these other places in the 2010s to also deliver climate action. We need a new way of thinking about this. Otherwise, we’re left with fossil realism and climate realism.
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    #doomed #food_crisis #water_wars

    Francie, čtvrtá největší světová obilnice, bojuje s katastrofálním suchem. „Pršelo tu naposledy v lednu“
    https://denikn.cz/895217/francie-ctvrta-nejvetsi-svetova-obilnice-bojuje-s-katastrofalnim-suchem-prselo-tu-naposledy-v-lednu/

    Jestli hned nezačnu zalévat, přijdu o polovinu úrody,“ nepochybuje Robin Lachaux ze Sully-sur-Loire v Loiretu ve střední Francii, kde letos pršelo o polovinu méně než obvykle. „Mám zalévat obilí teď? Nebo si vodu šetřit na kukuřici v srpnu?“ láme si hlavu kvůli šedesátiprocentnímu limitu na spotřebu vody zavedenému v jeho regionu.

    Má obavy, že malá úroda ho donutí nakupovat krmivo pro devadesát krav, tři sta koz a osm tisíc kuřat na mezinárodním trhu. Ceny zemědělských surovin mezitím – v souvislosti s ruskou válkou proti Ukrajině a čtyřnásobným nárůstem cen energií za poslední dva roky – prudce stouply.

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    Francouzská zemědělská komora (APCA) odhaduje ztráty zemědělců v souvislosti s letošním suchem na průměrně 20–30 procent.

    „Do konce léta zasáhne sucho všechny regiony,“ potvrzuje ministerstvo zemědělství. Prognózy Météo France předpovídají o polovinu (na jihu dokonce o 70 procent) sušší léto než obvykle.

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    Ve Francii padá rekord za rekordem: Loňský prosinec byl nejteplejší od roku 1947.

    Od ledna byly každý měsíc naměřeny nejvyšší teploty daného období.

    Letošní jaro je třetí nejsušší období od roku 1960 s vysokými teplotami, které přetrvávají více než 40 dnů v řadě.

    Květen – nejteplejší a nejsušší od začátku měření – odpovídal letos spíše červenci (průměrně o 10 °C více než v letech 1980–2010).

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    Takový nedostatek vody jsme tu neměli už pětadvacet let,“ shrnuje to Christiane Lambertová z Národní federace zemědělských odborových svazů (FNSEA).

    „Začíná válka o vodu,“ soudí hydroložka Emma Hazizaová.
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    Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach New High | Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/atmospheric-carbon-dioxide-levels-reach-new-high

    CO2 levels are now comparable to an ancient climate event known as the Pliocene Climatic Optimum, between 4.1 and 4.5 million years ago, when they were close to, or above 400 ppm. During that time, sea levels were between five and 25 meters (16 and 82 feet) higher than today, high enough to drown many of the world’s largest cities. Temperatures then averaged 14 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit) higher than in pre-industrial times, and studies indicate that large forests occupied today’s Arctic tundra.
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    kfc adaptuje

    KFC Australia forced to swap lettuce for cabbage - BBC News
    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61714989

    The firm told customers it is using a mixture of lettuce and cabbage after floods destroyed lettuce crops.
    It comes as shoppers in Australia have been hit with soaring prices for some fresh fruits and vegetables.
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    Finland sets world's most ambitious climate target in law
    https://www.climatechangenews.com/2022/05/31/finland-sets-worlds-most-ambitious-climate-target-in-law/

    The target was set based on analysis by a group of independent economists from the Finnish climate change panel. They worked out what Finland’s fair share was of the 420 GT of carbon dioxide that the world can emit and still have a two-thirds chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C.

    The panel based this fair share on Finland’s share of the global population, its ability to pay to reduce emissions and its historic responsiblity for causing climate change. It is believed to be the first target to have been set in this way.

    Finland’s environment minister Emma Kari told Climate Home it was “very important” that the target was set with researchers and people from the climate science community. She added: “High income countries have to take a progressive and active role when it comes to tackling climate change

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    Whether Finland meets its climate targets will largely depend on its forests, which cover three-quarters of its land area. Last week, Statistics Finland released figures which showed that these forests had, for the first time, released more greenhouse gases than they absorbed.

    Emissions from deforestation have been rising over the last decade, cancelling out emissions reductions from energy as the country moves away from fossil fuels. This was due to trees being cut down faster and planted slower, Statistics Finland found.

    Finnish logging companies turn its trees into pulp and paper and sell them to be burned for energy, which is often controversially advertised as climate-friendly and renewable

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    Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sped up Finland’s energy transition, Kari added, as the government pushed ahead with wind power and making buildings more energy efficient and less reliant on fossil fuel heating.
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    Portents Of The Unthinkable | Countercurrents
    https://countercurrents.org/2022/06/portents-of-the-unthinkable/

    If the history of the 21st century is ever written it would be reported that, while large parts of the planet were becoming uninhabitable, the extreme rate and scale of global warming, migration of climate zones (>100 km per decade), extent of polar ice melt, sea level rise, ocean warming, acidification and methane release from permafrost threatened to develop into one of the extreme mass extinction events in the geological history of Earth.

    As concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases exceeded 500 ppm CO2-equivalents (Figure 1a), rising at a rate an order of magnitude faster than in earlier geological hyper-thermal events, was rising higher than 4oC above pre-industrial temperatures (Figure 1b), threatening to exceed the rise rates of the great mass extinctions.

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    But in the core of human conscience is its mythological nature, a mindset springing from the mastery of fire where, for longer than one million years, members of Homo erectus, perched at campfire, watching the flickering flames, developed insights, imagination, a fear of death leading to dreams of omniscience and omnipotence, aspiring for eternal life.

    In the Neolithic the fear of death has driven humans to construct pyramids in order to enshrine immortality, undertake human sacrifice and ultimately fight nature to appease the gods, becoming the most barbarous species ever existed. As expressed by Albert Einstein: “The splitting of the atom has changed everything bar man’s way of thinking and thus we drift into unparalleled catastrophes”
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    kdo to tu fandil modularnim reaktorum?

    "Results reveal that water-, molten salt–, and sodium-cooled SMR designs will increase the volume of nuclear waste in need of management and disposal by factors of 2 to 30."

    https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2111833119
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    A Ač: Neuveriteľný rast metánu pokračuje. Rozdiel medzi februárom 2021 a 2022 činil 20,2 ppb. Za posledných 12 mesiacov pribudlo metánu v atmosfére viac, ako kedykoľvek v histórii.

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