SHEFIK:
The Senate on Sunday afternoon passed Democrats' sweeping health care, tax and climate bill
The final, party-line vote was 51-50

The nearly $370 billion clean energy and climate package is the largest climate investment in US history, and the biggest victory for the environmental movement since the landmark Clean Air Act. It also comes at a critical time; this summer has seen punishing heat waves and deadly floods across the country, which scientists say are both linked to a warming planet.
The bill also contains many tax incentives meant to bring down the cost of electricity with more renewables, and spur more American consumers to switch to electricity to power their homes and vehicles.


je to pekne gesto, ale je to malo a pozde :) kazdopadne lepsi nez dratem do oka

Zejtra jde do senatu. Neni to sice predvolebne avizovany trilion, ale pry uz ma oporu i u drovejsich odpurcu

Here's how the big US climate bill could turbocharge solar and wind
https://electrek.co/2022/08/05/us-climate-solar-and-wind/

The Act would nearly double investment in wind power and solar PV to $321 billion in 2030, versus $177 billion under current policy.

Further, according to REPEAT, it could spur record-setting US wind and solar growth, with annual additions increasing from 15 gigawatts (GW) of wind and 10 GW of utility-scale solar PV in 2020 to an average of 39 GW per year of wind additions in 2025-26 – more than two times the 2020 pace – and 49 GW per year of solar – more than five times the 2020 pace – with solar growth rates increasing thereafter.

Further, REPEAT reports that the IRA would lower annual US energy expenditures by at least 4% in 2030, a savings of nearly $50 billion dollars per year for households, businesses, and industry. That translates into hundreds of dollars in annual energy cost savings for US households.

Tax credits, rebates, and federal investments in the IRA would shift costs from energy bills to the progressive federal tax base. For example, it provides a long-term extension for the US solar investment tax credit at 30% and $30 billion in production tax credits for clean energy and battery storage manufacturing.

As for its impact on fossil fuels, the report notes:

These savings do not include the additional downward pressure the Act will put on prices for oil and natural gas by driving lower consumption of these commodities, which will further reduce US energy costs.

New Mexico Mammoth Bones from 37,000 years ago “Upend” Clovis Theory | Ancient Origins
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/new-mexico-mammoth-bones-0017087

team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Texas have uncovered compelling evidence to prove human beings settled in North America much earlier than had once been believed. That evidence comes from the excavated bones of a mother mammoth and her calf that were apparently killed and butchered by indigenous Americans living in the lands of modern-day New Mexico approximately 37,000 years ago.

The scientists extracted collagen from some of the bones, for the purposes of radiocarbon dating. These tests proved the mammoth mother and calf had lived somewhere between 36,250 and 38,900 years ago, putting them right in the middle of the Upper Paleolithic period . This extremely old date represents an enormous departure from traditional ideas about when the Americas might have been settled by the ancestors of the Native Americans.

Some of the evidence of human alteration of the bones was obvious to the naked eye. But a lot of the most revealing data was collected through CT scans taken at the University of Texas High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility. These precise examinations revealed microscopic fracture networks in the bones that were fully consistent with toolmaking and butchering activities, and not explainable by any natural force.

Frontiers | Human Occupation of the North American Colorado Plateau ∼37,000 Years Ago
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2022.903795/full

Low Rhine water level to hit output at two German coal plants | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/low-rhine-water-level-hit-output-staudinger-5-coal-plant-2022-08-04/

Germany last month agreed to reactivate its coal-fired power plants or extend their lifespans in response to its worst energy crisis in generations, triggered by dwindling supplies of Russian gas. read more

But shallow river levels following a hot, dry summer mean that barges taking coal feed stock to generating plants can only sail with partial loads. Similar conditions caused a fall in output at power stations and hit profitability at chemical manufacturing plants in 2018.

HRAFNAIN: zdroje sa tu riesili pred nejakou dobou v diskusi, to je dovod mojej poznamky, pretoze som si na to spomenul, ozaj sa mi to nechce hladat znova, aby som dokazal pointu, ak ti to vadi, tak mozes napisat, ze si vymyslam a klamem, nebude mi to vadit, mozno je to len moj selektivny alzheimer, ale zjavne si to pamataju aj ostatni

teraz tu mam jeden trochu offtopic link, ale iba na ilustraciu ako budu ludske tela reagovat na vysoku teplotu spojenu s vysokou vlhkostou, majstrovstva sveta v saunovani sa zrusit daju, ale globalne saunovanie len tak lusknutim prstov stopnut nepojde

Tragický konec. Před 12 lety se konalo poslední mistrovství světa v saunování - Novinky.cz
https://www.novinky.cz/muzi/clanek/tragicky-konec-pred-12-lety-se-konalo-posledni-mistrovstvi-sveta-v-saunovani-40404156

HRAFNAIN: co sem pletu arkticke oblasti? no jestli on tam nebude ten permafrost hele, jestli tady chces trolit, tak ti preju pekny den, mozna si bez radsi zabehat

ohledne chlapce (kdyz uz mas zlamany prsty a neumis asi pouzit google)
Anthrax outbreak triggered by climate change kills boy in Arctic Circle | Russia | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/01/anthrax-outbreak-climate-change-arctic-circle-russia

PER2: hmm, kromě ESA to říká i Baba Vanga, tak nevím :-)

I've redone my methane graph because I no longer have faith in the half-life of methane being constant.

More simply, here is the graph of the annualized ppb change in methane. This graph illustrates the dramatic acceleration in methane over the last 3 years. Incredible. https://t.co/L1vmXTDNjc