Unprecedented €2.2bn drought response plan approved in Spain | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/11/spain-approves-unprecedented-drought-recovery-plan

Španělsko má za sebou abnormální jaro. Duben byl nebývale horký a i když se v květnu situace mírně zlepšila, zemi trápí sucho. Vláda promptně schválila bezprecedentní balíček opatření.

Španělsko vysychá, tak zlé to ještě nebylo. Úřady radí sprchovat se do pěti minut - Seznam Zprávy
https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/zahranicni-spanelsko-vysycha-tak-zle-to-jeste-nebylo-urady-radi-sprchovat-se-do-peti-minut-231920#dop_ab_variant=957011&dop_source_zone_name=hpfeed.sznhp.box&;utm_source=www.seznam.cz&utm_medium=sekce-z-internetu

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/02/europe/spain-drought-catalonia-heat-wave-climate-intl/index.html

take to ked normalne pocasie je namet na clanok do novin :)))

Zdá se vám, že je nějak chladněji? Tak ne, teploty jsou v normálu - Novinky
https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/pocasi-zda-se-vam-ze-je-nejak-chladneji-tak-ne-teploty-jsou-v-normalu-40434849

"IT'S THE ECONOMY, STUPID"
(Bill Clinton, 42. prezident USA)

PDF STUDIE: https://web-assets.bcg.com/2c/3b/d04d4daa410bbe6cbf872947d2d0/ceska-cesta-k-uhlikove-neutralite.pdf

Česko bude muset do transformace na bezuhlíkovou ekonomiku do roku 2050 investovat 3,2 bilionu korun, uvádí studie poradenské firmy Boston Consulting Group a Aspen Institute. S investicemi je podle nich potřeba začít hned a musí se zaměřit na podporu technologií, které lze vyvážet do zahraničí. Jedině tak si ČR v konkurenci evropských států udrží silnou pozici, uvedli autoři studie.

Dosažení uhlíkové neutrality do roku 2050, ke kterému se zavázaly členské státy EU, povede podle studie v Evropě k výraznému přerozdělení bohatství.
"ČR má šanci stát v tomto procesu na straně vítězů a být v řadě odvětví evropským technologickým lídrem, ať už jde o výrobu modulárních jaderných reaktorů nebo výrobu zeleného vodíku," uvedl řídící partner Boston Consulting Group Tomáš Wiedermann.

"Pokud firmy nyní nezačnou výrazně investovat do změny svých výrobních technologií, za několik let ztratí svoji konkurenceschopnost. Ať už z toho důvodu, že budou muset platit vysoké částky za emisní povolenky, nebo proto, že například čeští subdodavatelé vypadnou z dodavatelských řetězců nadnárodních firem," upozornil Wiedermann. Bez dobře cílených investic může být podle něj ohrožena až desetina českého HDP.

Česká cesta k uhlíkové neutralitě
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2023/ceska-cesta-k-uhlikove-neutralite
Další rána pro státní kasu. Povinný přechod na uhlíkovou neutralitu má stát biliony - Aktuálně.cz
https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/ekonomika/dalsi-rana-pro-statni-kasu-povinny-prechod-na-uhlikovou/r~c93b42860b5a11eeba5b0cc47ab5f122/?

achjo

1/3 Návrh #lexOZEII ještě studujeme, ale na první pohled se zdá, že byrokratickou zátěží komunitní energetiku v Česku značně zkomplikuje. @JozefSikela nechal za zavřenými dveřmi připravit potenciálně nefunkční, složitý návrh. Ten je navíc úplně jiný, než projednaly resorty.

2/3 O to je ale důležitější, že bude zákon konečně projednán na vládě a v #PSP, kde je šance předložit pozměňovací návrhy, které podpoří funkční komunitní energetiku. Pozitivní na návrhu je, že neobsahuje avizované územní omezení na 1 ORP.

3/3 Bez zásadních oprav by to však bylo málo platné. Více budeme komentovat zítra ráno.

https://twitter.com/uken_cz/status/1669049871666405392?s=46

Currently, most durable carbon removals, like direct air capture, are sold out or very nearly so.¹ Many durable carbon credits on the market today are pre-selling future vintages that will not be delivered for several years.² This means that although the carbon removed will be stored for 1,000+ years, it won’t actually be removed from the atmosphere until a future date. Less-durable carbon removal, like soil carbon and forestry, is available now, and in greater quantities. But, as it stands, on their own, neither option satisfies the net-zero requirements that so many purchasers would like to qualify for.

The more durable carbon removals lack immediacy and could only be used to qualify for emissions that happen after the carbon is actually removed, while the less-durable options don’t store carbon dioxide long enough to compensate for fossil fuel emissions, which linger in the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years.³ To solve this issue Nori is proposing a ‘blended tonne’ that brings together the strengths of both —immediacy and durability — to offer a net-zero solution. By combining immediately available soil carbon credits with future available durable carbon removals, Nori is creating a product that sequesters carbon today while meeting the permanency requirements of net-zero standards.

By pairing each highly durable carbon removal asset with a less durable one that is immediately available and has an overlapping timeline, purchasers may credibly claim to be taking net-zero-qualifying climate action now while they fund and await the delivery of their high-durability carbon removal.⁴



The Carbon Removal Blended Tonne Whitepaper
https://nori.com/blog/carbon-removal-blended-tonne-whitepaper

UK or not UK?



Prem.Sikka
https://twitter.com/premnsikka/status/1668728811670716423

Lords voted 154-68 to let Tory govt change the Public Order Act through the back door, Unprecedented.

Our freedoms to protest gone; police have carte blanche, no accountability.




Just Stop Oil
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1668898464502018050

You probably have no idea, because the media didn't cover it, but last night we lost our final defence against new, fascist, anti-protest laws.

Tens of thousands of people
petitioned Labour to vote to block laws in the House of Lords that had already voted down — but that the government snuck back in.

Instead of acting as an effective opposition, Labour abstained.

Those laws now make protest illegal if police deem it causes anything other than "minor inconvenience".

A crowd outside the gates of a fracking site. A picket line. A demonstration outside the parish council. Any protest march.

These will all now be illegal, should police decide they are more than minorly inconvenient.

Ask yourself, what protest has ever fitted neatly into a working day? This government, with Labours help, has banned all protests aside from the ones they can ignore. Because that's what they intend to do: ignore the people.

A country without the right to protest is sliding from democracy to dictatorship.

XCHAOS: každý ledovec k moři dopluje, některý dříve a některý ještě dříve

trosku offtopic, ale tohle je bozi
do budoucich polopousti super :)
Land was barren. He dug 10-acre underground village & orchard
https://youtu.be/mUKRPoQKynk

Efforts to assess risks to the financial system associated with climate change are growing. These commonly combine the use of integrated assessment models to obtain possible changes in global mean temperature (GMT) and then use coupled climate models to map those changes onto finer spatial scales to estimate changes in other variables. Other methods use data mined from 'ensembles of opportunity' such as the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Several challenges with current approaches have been identified. Here, we focus on demonstrating the issues inherent in applying global 'top-down' climate scenarios to explore financial risks at geographical scales of relevance to financial institutions (e.g. city-scale). We use data mined from the CMIP to determine the degree to which estimates of GMT can be used to estimate changes in the annual extremes of temperature and rainfall, two compound events (heatwaves and drought, and extreme rain and strong winds), and whether the emission scenario provides insights into the change in the 20, 50 and 100 year return values for temperature and rainfall. We show that GMT provides little insight on how acute risks likely material to the financial sector ('material extremes') will change at a city-scale. We conclude that 'top-down' approaches are likely to be flawed when applied at a granular scale, and that there are risks in employing the approaches used by, for example, the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System. Most fundamental, uncertainty associated with projections of future climate extremes must be propagated through to estimating risk. We strongly encourage a review of existing top-down approaches before they develop into de facto standards and note that existing approaches that use a 'bottom-up' strategy (e.g. catastrophe modelling and storylines) are more likely to enable a robust assessment of material risk.

Acute climate risks in the financial system: examining the utility of climate model projections - IOPscience
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2752-5295/ac856f/meta

XCHAOS: a co ta india, to je spatna karma za tazbu uhlia? :)

‘It was a set-up, we were fooled’: the coal mine that ate an Indian village | Coal | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/india-adani-coal-mine-kete-hasdeo-arand-forest-displaced-villages

M England
https://twitter.com/ProfMattEngland/status/1641096876429803521?s=19

Out today in @nature our new paper showing how meltwater increases around Antarctica are set to dramatically slowdown the Antarctic overturning circulation, with a potential collapse this century. A🧵on how this work came about and what we found.

Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05762-w