Any doubts about Climate Change?

**S Landreth** · 15-11-2021, 05:17 AM

Glasgow climate summit impact on coal:

*cancellation of 90 new coal power projects
*phase out 370 existing plants that didn't have a close-by date before
*95% of world's coal plants now covered by carbon neutrality targets - that require closing essentially all of them

Key findings:

370 more coal plants (290 GW) given a close-by date. After the pledges presented in the run-up to and at the Glasgow Summit, 750 coal-fired power plants —equivalent to 550 gigawatts (GW)— around the world have a phase-out date, while another 1600 plants (1420 GW) are covered by carbon neutrality targets but stop short of a phase-out decisions. This is up from 380 plants (260 GW) with a phase-out date before the 2020–21 ambition-raising process that culminated in Glasgow.

Only 170 plants (89 GW) are not covered by either type of commitment — 5% of the operating fleet today. This is down from 2,100 plants (1,800 GW) before the Glasgow process.

90 new coal power projects (88 GW) are likely to be cancelled due to “no new coal” and no new fossil fuel financing pledges — this is two-thirds of all planned coal plants outside of China.

Another 130 new projects (165 GW), most importantly in China and Indonesia, are called into question as there is no room for them to operate under the country’s new zero-carbon targets.

Not all coal phase-out decisions are aligned with the Paris Agreement goals. Only 250 existing coal power plants (180 GW) are scheduled to close by 2030 in the OECD and 130 plants (100 GW) outside the OECD have a closure date by 2050.

With Germany’s expected 2030 phase-out decision and assuming the United States’ 2035 Clean Power Plan will mean a coal phase out by 2030, the number of coal power plants with a Paris-aligned phase-out date would increase to 510 (460 GW).

Powering Down Coal — COP26’s Impact on the Global Coal Power Fleet: https://energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-...ct-on-coal.pdf

**Bonecollector** · 15-11-2021, 05:26 AM

Eating less meat would definitely make a difference.

**S Landreth** · 15-11-2021, 05:34 AM

^it would

Meat industry groups pledge to meet Paris Agreement emissions targets by 2030

Members of the North American Meat Institute, which represents about 95 percent of the country’s meat producers, have committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with international climate targets by 2030, the association announced on Tuesday.

To support its members in matching targets set in the 2015 Paris Agreement — in which countries agreed to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) — the Meat Institute said it will help companies establish individual emissions reduction goals. Those targets will be approved by the Science Based Targets Initiative, a partnership among the Carbon Disclosure Project, the United Nations Global Compact, the World Resources Institute and the World Wide Fund for Nature, which guides businesses in slashing emissions.

“Our comprehensive sustainability framework will drive momentum and generate technical support for meat packers and processors of all sizes to establish independently approved science-based targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” Meat Institute President and CEO Julie Anna Potts said in a statement.

The Meat Institute came under fire about a year ago, following a ProPublica investigation potentially linking email communications from the association to a controversial executive order issued by former President Trump, who allowed meatpacking plants to remain open during the early stages of the pandemic.

At the time the executive order was issued in April 2020 the Meat Institute said that Trump’s decision would help “avert hardship” for producers and keep families fed, while prioritizing worker safety, The Hill reported.

Provisions to feed American families and protect meatpacking workers are both part of the Meat Institute’s new emissions reductions goals, launched alongside a broader sustainability framework that adheres to the Protein PACT for the People, Animals and Climate of Tomorrow. The Protein PACT is a partnership of 12 leading U.S. agricultural groups that have pledged to take measurable action on global development, a news release from the association said.

To ensure that 100 percent of Meat Institute members meet Paris Agreement targets, the association said it will begin collecting data to establish transparent baselines and verify progress companies make toward establishing goals for animal care, food safety labor, human rights, health and wellness.

In 2022, companies representing 90 percent of meat produced by Meat Institute members will report data in the association’s sustainability framework, with all members doing so by 2030, the news release said.

**tomcat** · 15-11-2021, 07:36 AM

Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ Shifts Focus to Hold Off Desert

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (CARLEY PETESCH) November 13, 2021, 2:21 PM GMT+7

Women walk under filao trees planted to slow coastal erosion along the Atlantic Ocean in Lompoul village near Kebemer, Senegal, on Nov. 5. Photographer: Leo Correa/AP Photo

Kebemer, Senegal (AP) -- The idea was striking in its ambition: African countries aimed to plant trees in a nearly 5,000-mile line spanning the entire continent, creating a natural barrier to hold back the Sahara Desert as climate change swept the sands south.

The project called the Great Green Wall began in 2007 with a vision for the trees to extend like a belt across the vast Sahel region, from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east, by 2030. But as temperatures rose and rainfall diminished, millions of the planted trees died.

Efforts to rein in the desert continue in Senegal on a smaller scale. On the western end of the planned wall, Ibrahima Fall walks under the cool shade of dozens of lime trees, watering them with a hose as yellow chicks scurry around his feet. Just beyond the green orchard and a village is a desolate, arid landscape.
The citrus crop provides a haven from the heat and sand that surround it. Outside the low village walls, winds whip sand into the air, inviting desertification, a process that wrings the life out of fertile soil and changes it into desert, often because of drought or deforestation.

Only 4% of the Great Green Wall's original goal has been met, and an estimated $43 billion would be needed to achieve the rest. With prospects for completing the barrier on time dim, organizers have shifted their focus from planting a wall of trees to trying a mosaic of smaller, more durable projects to stop desertification, including community-based efforts designed to improve lives and help the most vulnerable agriculture.

“The project that doesn’t involve the community is doomed to failure,” says Diegane Ndiaye, who is part of a group known as SOS Sahel, which has helped with planting programs in Senegal and other countries across the Sahel, a broad geographic zone between the Sahara in the north and the more temperate African savanna to the south.

The programs focus on restoring the environment and reviving economic activity in Sahel villages, Ndiaye said.
With the loss of rainfall and the advance of the desert, “this strip of the Sahel is a very vulnerable area to climate change," he said. “So we should have projects that are likely to rebuild the environment ... fix the dunes and also help protect the vegetable-growing area.”

On Senegal's Atlantic Coast, filao trees stretch in a band from Dakar up to the northern city of St. Louis, forming a curtain that protects the beginning of Green Wall region, which also grows more than 80% of Senegal’s vegetables. The sky-reaching branches tame the winds tearing in from the ocean.

This reforestation project started in the 1970s, but many trees were cut down for wood, and work to replant them has been more recent. More trees are also planted in front of dunes near the water in an effort to protect the dunes and keep them from moving.

“We have had a lot of reforestation programs that today have not yielded much because it is often done with great fanfare” and not with good planning, Ndiaye said.
Fall, the 75-year-old chief of his village, planted the citrus orchard in 2016, putting the trees near a water source on his land. His is one of 800 small orchards in six communes of a town called Kebemer.

“We once planted peanuts and that wasn’t enough,” he said in the local Wolof language. “This orchard brings income that allows me to take care of my family.” He said he can produce 20 to 40 kilos of limes per week during peak season.

Enriched by the trees, the soil has also grown tomatoes and onions.

The village has used profits from the orchard to replace straw homes with cement brick structures and to buy more sheep, goats and chickens. It also added a solar panel to help pump water from a communal well, sparing villagers from having to pay more for water in the desert.
African Development Bank President Akinwumi A. Adesina spoke about the importance of stopping desertification in the Sahel during the United Nations' COP26 global climate conference. He announced a commitment from the bank to mobilize $6.5 billion toward the Great Green Wall by 2025.

The newest projects in Senegal are circular gardens known in the Wolof language as “tolou keur.” They feature a variety of trees that are planted strategically so that the larger ones protect the more vulnerable.

The gardens' curving rows hold moringa, sage, papaya and mango trees that are resistant to dry climates. They are planted so their roots grow inward to improve water retention in the plot.

Senegal has 20 total circular gardens, each one adapted to the soil, culture and needs of individual communities so they can grow much of what they need. Early indications are that they are thriving in the Great Green Wall region. Solar energy helps provide electricity for irrigation.
Jonathan Pershing, deputy special envoy for climate at the U.S. State Department, visited Senegal as part of an Africa trip last month, saying the U.S. wants to partner with African nations to fight climate change.

“The desert is encroaching. You see it really moving south,” Pershing said.
In terms of the Great Green Wall project, he said, “I don’t think that very many people thought it was going to go very far,” including himself. But there are indications of progress, as seen in the community projects.

“It has a global benefit, and people are prepared to make those kinds of long-term investments through their children and their families, which I think is a hallmark of what we need to do in other climate arenas.”

**harrybarracuda** · 15-11-2021, 03:50 PM

They should come and get the shit that grows in my garden. It survives throughout the (50C) summer and the leaves are really thick, because as soon as there is a sniff of water it sucks it up and stores it. Has a plastic-like surface that keeps the water in.

**S Landreth** · 16-11-2021, 05:40 AM

NOAA – October 2021 was the 4^th warmest October recorded (2015, 2018, and 2019 were warmer).

January – October 2021 is the 6^th warmest recorded.

National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

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In other news……….

UN experts arrive in Japan ahead of planned release of Fukushima plant water

A team of experts from the United Nations (UN) arrived in Japan on Monday ahead of a planned release of treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, the Associated Press reported.

Japanese officials said that six members from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will meet with them at the nuclear plant to discuss technical details about the release.

The six-member team includes members from South Korea, France, and Russia, according to the AP.

Japan’s government had requested assistance from the IAEA to ensure the discharge meets international safety standards.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings announced in April that it will gradually start to release treated radioactive water by the spring of 2023, allowing the removal of hundreds of storage tanks to facilitate the plant’s decommissioning.

Local fishermen and residents, along with neighboring countries including China and South Korea, have all opposed the planned release, the AP reported.

9 Years after the Nuclear Disaster

**russellsimpson** · 16-11-2021, 08:34 AM

It seems like perhaps some areas on the planet will be more affected by climate change than others and I do believe I am in one of those. We had an entire town not far south of here burn to the ground in 50 degree heat this summer. Presently the entire region is flooding and a town 45 minutes south had to be entirely evacuated today. I spent most of the summer not being able to see across the street. All of this does something to one's mind. It's all just very different now. Oh yes, throw in the pandemic and wearing masks for close to two years.

**taxexile** · 16-11-2021, 09:52 PM

some sense at last to counter the endless bleatings of the panic stricken doomsday merchants..... and thats you landreth.

The radical green movement exposes the worst aspects of modern society

A hyperbolic, moralising narrative is crushing democracy and making a solution harder

the modern environmental movement is built on a doom-laden, apocalyptic vision of the future. a resentment of the past. a fetishisation of youth. and an anti-democratic contempt for anyone who dares to question the favoured projects of the political, cultural and scientific elites. none of this is coincidence, or particularly special to the green agenda.

pessimism has become our default position. whether it is climate change, covid-19, racism, or many of the other challenges we face, the public conversation has become absurdly hyperbolic. From “one minute to midnight” to “we are living in a racism pandemic”, these extreme narratives reveal more about our own sense of existential angst than they do the real scale of these problems.

climate change has now been designated a “climate emergency”, language which helps to justify the view that we must take urgent, drastic action to reduce our carbon emissions, with renewable energy sources, wind and solar, positioned as the only responsible solution.

of course, we all know that this is an imperfect answer. many of the sources are intermittent; when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, they are not producing energy. When it comes to storage, the process involved in mining lithium hardly deserves to be called renewable, carbon neutral or cheap.

technological developments may resolve these challenges in time, but to suggest they are the only possible solution just isn’t true. however, in the face of an all-consuming “emergency”, anything other than total capitulation is seen as immoral. technologies such as fracking for gas are simply beyond the pale, for they fail to conform to the absolutist standards the emergency demands.

The eco elite won't admit it, but it's time we learned to live with climate change.

Global agreements to limit warming have failed. Our best answer now is to invest in adaptation

ANDREW LILICO

16 November 2021 • 11:22am
Andrew Lilico

Cop26 was not a complete failure, but it has repeated a pattern of the past 30 years. Many countries’ politicians make warm noises about climate change at international shindigs, and as countries get richer they naturally tend to take more care of the environment, but when it comes to doing as much as might be required to actually prevent the Earth from warming, only the Western Europeans, amongst the major countries, do even close to enough.

Market and taste-driven technological changes are delivering more in the way of carbon abatement than many of the gloomier climate predictions of the past expected, and there are some game-changing further possibilities coming over the horizon, such as driverless cars (hugely increasing the energy efficiency of independent travel) and lab-grown meat (freeing up vast acreages of grazing lands for reforestation).

But the reality is that, for all the warm words of politicians, there simply isn’t the will, at the global level, to do enough to prevent the Earth from warming materially more than the target of “1.5 degrees centigrade”, relative to the pre-industrial era, set by Western leaders.

Let us be clear what that 1.5 degrees target really means. The Earth is already 1.19 degrees centigrade warmer than the pre-industrial temperature, and warming at around 0.18 degrees per decade. So sticking to a 1.5 degrees rise would mean very little material change from the temperature we are at now.

It was said at the Cop summit that to achieve that target there would need to be commitments to phase out coal. “Phase out” is something of a misnomer here, as it might give the impression that coal use is currently at a low level, internationally, and it is just a matter of winding down the residual. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Coal use has plateaued for over a decade at a very high level and Chinese use in 2021 will be at an all-time high. Coal use in advanced economies has fallen (though not by nearly as much as it might have done had green activists not impeded a fuller-blooded transition to nuclear power). But that has not come close to offsetting rises in China and the rest of the world.

The debacle over the change in the wording of the Cop commitment from “phasing out” coal to merely “phasing down” illustrates the perennial problem with these climate conferences, and with climate action more generally, that international coordination on the scale that would be required to prevent climate change has not proven feasible.

Grand speeches are made. The UK exceeds its promises. The EU does a lot. The US administration enters into undertakings it knows Congress will never accept, purely for the purposes of bashing its political opponents at home. And the politicians of other countries either refuse to take part or cynically smile and nod knowing that once they go home nothing of substance will happen.

Don’t get me wrong, here. I don’t particularly regret this myself. Virtually every serious economic analysis ever done on global warming policy demonstrates that adapting to climate change is a vastly superior approach to attempting to prevent it. But the point I want to emphasize is that it doesn’t matter whether you agree with me or not. The reality is that climate change mitigation efforts are not going to come close to being sufficient to prevent the climate from changing.

Some countries accept that the climate will change and have fairly clear strategies in response. China’s strategy is to grow as rapidly as possible so that when serious climate change comes (which it will) China will be richer, and richer countries and households will be more resilient to climate change and more able to adapt.

In the UK we need to ponder how we respond to that reality. Our strategy appears to be to assume that other countries will eventually embrace mitigation, at a “net zero” type level or something close, and when they do so Britain will be seen as a thought leader and also have a head-start as an incubator of the relevant technologies and methods.

This would not be an obviously daft strategy (setting aside the general objection to mitigation efforts I mentioned above) if the world were indeed going eventually to go green. But at present that seems very unlikely. And a strategy of “mitigation in one country” risks leaving us poorer without any material benefit in terms of reducing global climate change. If we are poorer than we might otherwise have been, we shall be less able to adapt.

Significant climate change is coming, whether you like it or not and whether preventing it is still possible or not. There simply isn’t the global consensus that would be required to act enough to prevent it. When that change comes, it will mean we need to devote considerable resources to adapting to the new world we will find ourselves in.

This adaptation should include practical solutions, such as upgraded flood defences, which, unfortunately for the politicians, isn’t as shiny as some of the more far-fledged climate technologies that we are told to look forward to.

Now is the time to ask whether the resources we are currently devoting to an increasingly obviously futile attempt to prevent climate change would be better re-purposed to helping us to adapt when it happens.

**S Landreth** · 16-11-2021, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by taxexile

and thats you landreth.

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Nice thing about this thread besides raising awareness to Climate Change is that it draws the mentally incompetent out of the woodwork.

still hurt?

**taxexile** · 17-11-2021, 12:45 AM

hurt? oh please. dont be so pompous and arrogant.
the aggressive, anti-democratic and deeply unpleasant intolerance shown by you eco sycophants, who are normally so touchingly woke about 'feelings' and rights, has to be one of the greatest hypocrisies of our times.

and an anti-democratic contempt for anyone who dares to question the favoured projects of the political, cultural and scientific elites.

so landsworth, show us another of your meaningless charts and graphs and carry on regarding anyone with a different point of view to your "its a climate crisis, we're all going to die, where's my hair shirt, the end is nigh" obsession to be "mentally incompetent", because after all, you must be right.

**S Landreth** · 17-11-2021, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by taxexile

so landsworth, show us another of your meaningless charts.......

I have a question and a meaningful chart below, but first…….

I see you have noted the author (Andrew Lilico) in your second article above, who is not a scientist or has a science degree. But he does have a business degree/arts degree.

What I don’t see is the author in your first article. Is there a reason why?

Does the author (https://i.ibb.co/s3DJrK6/inaya-folarin-iman.jpg) have a science degree? Or is it a very young writer (25 years old who has had 13 jobs) which has an arts degree in a language?

By the way, was the Telegraph’s science editor Zoe Strimpel (is a British journalist, academic historian, author, and commentator on gender and relationships. She is a columnist for The Sunday Telegraph where she writes a weekly column, commenting on gender, feminism, dating, relationships and identity politics.) busy this past weekend?

Don’t you think it would be a better to base your beliefs on facts (reality) from climate scientists than right-wing nuts/publications when referencing anything related to Climate Change?

Question: Do you actually pay to read The Telegraph?

About that chart………

COP26: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Glasgow

By the way the article above was written by Simon Evans, Josh Gabbatiss, Robert McSweeney, Aruna Chandrasekhar, Ayesha Tandon, Giuliana Viglione, Zeke Hausfather, Xiaoying You, Joe Goodman and Sylvia Hayes.

All have science degrees except for Xiaoying You

**OhOh** · 17-11-2021, 01:24 PM

Seemingly Insignificant News.

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Reminiscence of the Future... : Seemingly Insignificant News.

A topic from a site which generally discusses naval warfare.

This is regarding global warming, specifically Arctic Ice "shrinkage".

Two ice coverage, by ice thickness, images:

The 2013 image:

Any doubts about Climate Change?-old-ice-2013-jpg

The 2021 image, from the new satellite:

Any doubts about Climate Change?-old-ice-2021-jpg

The second 2021 image indicates, contrary to most expectations, the coverage has expanded.

THE LORD, improved satellite ..... ?

A link to the Reuters report on the new satellite:

Russia launches satellite to monitor climate in Arctic - CNN

**S Landreth** · 17-11-2021, 01:55 PM

^Si Vis Pacem, Para Vinum © Andrei Martyanov's Blog

Martyanov's Blog vs Science

Zack Labe - #Arctic sea ice volume was about 72% below 1979 levels and 57% below the 1979-2020 average in October 2021 + More graphics: Arctic Sea Ice Volume/Thickness Data simulated from PIOMAS.: https://twitter.com/ZLabe/status/1460710947371188226

Gavin Schmidt - I did a thing.: https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/s...03816695435279

What Climate Change Looks Like From Space

science wins again

**OhOh** · 17-11-2021, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Martyanov's Blog vs Science

Data/images from:

Federal Service on Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Environment and its main Arctic and Antarctica Scientific Research Institute in St. Petersburg

I suspect the scientist consider themselves as scientists and utilise the available scientific data using science.

State Research Center "Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute" - leader of Russian Polar science

Ivan Frolov, Alexander Danilov, Viktor Dmitriev and Tatiyana Gerasimova

"State Scientific Center of the Russian Federation the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute - AARI (institute building) belongs to the Russian Federal Service on hydrometeorology and environmental protection. AARI is the oldest and the largest Russian research institution in the field of comprehensive studies of the Polar Regions.

The history of the Institute begins since 1920, when the Northern Research and Trade Expedition was organized. In 1925 the Northern Research and Trade Expedition was reorganized into the Institute for Northern Studies. Since 1930 the Institute was named as the Arctic Research Institute. In 1958 according to the Resolution of the Government the organization and coordination of national Antarctic exploration were laid on the Institute and it has become the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).

Further changes brought the AARI in 1963 under the Main Administration of the Hydrometeorological Service (now the Federal Service of Russia for Hydrometeorology and Monitoring of the Environment). In 1994 the AARI has obtained the status of State Research Center of Russia."

http://www.aari.ru/main.php?lg=1&id=54

One international organisation around since 1920 v two twitter accounts.

**S Landreth** · 17-11-2021, 03:10 PM

Originally Posted by OhOh

One Russian organisation around since 1920 vs two climate scientists

Science will win every time.

**OhOh** · 17-11-2021, 04:15 PM

No NASA 15m, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly 2021 data collection?

Russia launches satellite to monitor climate in Arctic

Story by Reuters

February 28, 2021

"Russia launched its space satellite Arktika-M on Sunday on a mission to monitor the climate and environment in the Arctic amid a push by the Kremlin to expand the country's activities in the region.

At the right orbit, the satellite will be able to monitor and take images every 15-30 minutes of the Arctic, which can't be continuously observed by satellites that orbit above the Earth's equator, Roscosmos said.

The satellite will also be able to retransmit distress signals from ships, aircraft or people in remote areas as part of the international Cospas-Sarsat satellite-based search and rescue programme, Roscosmos said."

Russia launches satellite to monitor climate in Arctic - CNN

**S Landreth** · 17-11-2021, 05:05 PM

NASA Landsat Overview

Landsat 9 is the latest satellite in the Landsat series—it will continue Landsat’s irreplaceable record of Earth’s land surface upon its September 2021 launch. To reduce the build time and a risk of a gap in observations, Landsat 9 largely replicates its predecessor Landsat 8.

Landsat 9 carries two science instruments

Both instruments have sensors with moderate spatial resolution—15 m (49 ft), 30 m (98 ft), and 100 m (328 ft) depending on spectral band—and the ability to detect a higher range in intensity than Landsat 8 (14-bit radiometric resolution vs. Landsat 8's 12-bit radiometric resolution). Landsat 9 will be placed in an orbit that it is eight days out of phase with Landsat 8 to increase temporal coverage of observations.

Snow Cover

Originally Posted by OhOh

Russia launches satellite to monitor climate in Arctic - CNN

Originally Posted by OhOh

Russia launches satellite to monitor climate in Arctic - CNN

**harrybarracuda** · 18-11-2021, 05:31 PM

Yes but the Russian satellite will come with Photoshop preinstalled.

**OhOh** · 19-11-2021, 01:14 PM

China delivers another tick in its book of successes, to decrease its carbon footprint.

World's 2nd largest hydropower station in SW China expands for greater output

By Global Times Published: Nov 19, 2021 11:08 AM

Any doubts about Climate Change?-744762b6-4e2b-4884-96cc-9635e0da505d-jpeg

"The world's second largest hydropower station on Jinsha River, unit 4 of the Baihetan Hydropower Station, connected to the grid on Friday morning, marking that the mainstream of the Yangtze River has become the world's largest clean energy corridor.

It is the sixth million-kilowatt unit of the Baihetan Hydropower Station located on the Jinsha River at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan Province in Southwest China that has been put into operation for power generation, and it is also the 100th hydro-generator unit built and put into operation by the Three Gorges Group on the mainstream of the Yangtze River.

The news comes after the first batch of units was put into operation for power generation at Baihetan Hydropower Station, which is invested, developed and managed by the Three Gorges Group, on June 28.
The million-kilowatt unit currently has the world's largest single-unit capacity for hydropower stations, with extremely high requirements for design, manufacturing, installation and commissioning accuracy. It is known as "Mount Qomolangma" or Mount Everest in Western terms of the world's hydropower industry.

Baihetan Hydropower Station, the world's largest hydropower station under construction and the second largest in terms of installed capacity, is a major project for the country to implement the strategy of power transmission from western China to the east.

The station, as a new national name card of China's hydropower after the Three Gorges Project, is also of great significance for the country to achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutrality.

The power station installed a total of 16 nationally produced hydro-turbine generators with a single unit capacity of 1 million kilowatts. All units are expected to be put into operation by July 2022.

By then, the station is expected to produce an average annual power generation of 62.4 billion kWh, saving 19.68 million tons of standard coal each year, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 51.6 million tons."

World's 2nd largest hydropower station in SW China expands for greater output - Global Times

**S Landreth** · 19-11-2021, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by OhOh

Thursday, November 11, 2021

The 2021 image, from the new satellite:

Russia launches satellite to monitor climate in Arctic - CNN

Do the Russians have anything in natural earth colors?

Originally Posted by S Landreth

NASA, USGS Release First Landsat 9 Images

Gavin Schmidt (a climatologist, climate modeler and Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York) - I did a thing.: https://twitter.com/ClimateOfGavin/s...03816695435279

What Climate Change Looks Like From Space

Times up. Science won,………..Hoe Hoe lost

**OhOh** · 20-11-2021, 10:42 AM

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Times up. Science won

One international organisation around since 1920 v two, "here today, gone tomorrow", social media accounts

**S Landreth** · 20-11-2021, 11:40 AM

Health Benefits of Reducing Emissions to Mitigate Climate Change | NASA

Reducing Emissions to Mitigate Climate Change Could Yield Dramatic Health Benefits by 2030

New research shows that improved air quality caused by reducing emissions from burning fossil fuels and other sources could improve human health and prevent economic losses. That's according to projections by scientists at NASA, Duke University and Columbia University.

When burned, fossil fuels emit carbon dioxide that contributes to global warming. The World Health Organization projects that heat exposure caused by increased temperatures will be the largest health impact of climate change. Simultaneously, burning fossil fuels emit air pollutants, such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides linked to premature death and respiratory illnesses, including asthma. One of these pollutants, nitrogen dioxide, in turn produces ozone pollution harmful for human health.

“Emission reductions help us in the long term to avoid disastrous climate change,” said Duke University climate scientist Drew Shindell, who led the research. “But the benefits that we can quantify for health, agriculture, wellbeing, medical expenses, labor and the economy are overwhelmingly driven by clean air in the near term.”

Globally, the research shows reducing emissions over the next 50 years to meet the goal of the Paris Agreement to keep global warming under 2°C through the end of the century could prevent about 4.5 million premature deaths, 1.4 million hospitalizations and emergency room visits, 300 million lost workdays, 1.7 million incidences of dementia, and 440 million tons of crop losses nationwide. Roughly two-thirds of those benefits would be realized even if only the United States reduced emissions.

“What we found was that there was a real difference across time, that you have to spend a lot of money now to deal with climate change and transition your economy to renewable energy, and your cars to electric vehicles, electrify all appliances, all of these kinds of things,” Shindell said. “That saves you money in the long run, but in the near term, it doesn't really give you benefits from reduced climate change that outweigh the cost, because climate is slow, it just doesn't respond that quickly." The effects of improved air quality, however, occur at a faster pace.

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/46/e2104061118

**S Landreth** · 26-11-2021, 08:50 AM

Study: Arctic Ocean started warming much earlier than previously thought

The Arctic Ocean has warmed by about 2 degrees Celsius since 1900 and started getting hotter much earlier than researchers previously thought, a new study found.

Driving the news: The research, published Wednesday in Science Advances, shows that the Arctic Ocean began warming early last century as warmer and saltier waters flowed in from the Atlantic — a process known as "Atlantification."

Details: Researchers looked at marine sediment from the Fram Strait, which is where the Atlantic meets the Arctic.

They reconstructed 800 years of data of how the Atlantic water has flowed into the arctic and found the temperature and salinity, the saltiness of ocean water, remained fairly constant until suddenly starting to increase in the early 20th century, CNN reported.

The big picture: The data about Arctic warming has implications for global sea-level rise as well as the models researchers have been using to predict climate change.

What they're saying: “The rate of warming in the Arctic is more than double the global average, due to feedback mechanisms,” said co-lead author Dr. Francesco Muschitiello from Cambridge’s Department of Geography.

“Based on satellite measurements, we know that the Arctic Ocean has been steadily warming, in particular over the past 20 years, but we wanted to place the recent warming into a longer context."

Study

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Melting Arctic sea ice linked to ‘worsening fire hazards’ in western US

The study, published in Nature Communications, finds that low Arctic sea ice levels during July to October have knock-on impacts in the atmosphere that push the jet stream northwards. This tends to bring hotter and drier conditions in the western US over the following autumn, resulting in more frequent and intense fires in the region, the authors find.

They add that this mechanism may strengthen over the coming decades as the Arctic melts further, making the western US “even more susceptible to destructive fire hazards”.

Meanwhile, a separate study published in Nature Climate Change finds that extreme wildfire activity has increased globally over 1979-2020 – mainly driven by decreasing humidity and increasing temperatures.

As the climate warms and fire weather becomes “more extreme”, there may be “more catastrophic fires” stretching across larger regions, the authors warn.

The plot (above) shows that hotter years are linked to higher potential fire intensity, fire spread and dryness, and that fire conditions have been progressively worsening in recent decades. The authors find that over the studied period, FWI95, ISI95 and VID95 have increased by 14%, 12% and 12%, respectively.: https://www.carbonbrief.org/melting-...ampaign=buffer

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Germany’s new ruling coalition aims to phase out coal in nine years

The environment was one of the main topics of the September general election in Germany. The Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats reached a coalition deal and said they would “ideally” stop the use of coal in Europe’s largest economy by 2030, compared to the official 2038 deadline.

Current Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to replace Angela Merkel as the head of government in Germany. His Social Democratic Party (SPD) has reached a coalition agreement with Alliance 90/The Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FPD) based on a plan to accelerate the energy transition and reverse environmental damage.

Moreover, the document reveals the three parties aim to switch from Germany’s decades-long social market economy concept to “a socio-environmental market economy.” The overarching goal is to steer the country to a path consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

One of the most radical moves of the new ruling coalition was to promise to push forward the coal phaseout in Europe’s largest economy from the official 2038 deadline to “ideally” 2030. The parties said they would change the relevant law by the end of next year instead of in 2026, when the revision is due.: https://balkangreenenergynews.com/ge...in-nine-years/

**harrybarracuda** · 30-11-2021, 12:47 AM

Wind power became the largest source of electricity generation for the first time in the country's history with a 22.6% share on Nov. 28, according to the Turkish Electricity Transmission Corporation (TEIAŞ) on Monday.Wind power plants generated 178,964 megawatt-hours (MWh) out of a total of 791,794 MWh of daily electricity output.
Turkey's installed wind power capacity reached 10,585 megawatts (MW), making it the second-largest renewable capacity after hydropower.
Natural gas power plants followed with a 22% share of electricity generation on Sunday, with imported coal power plants ranking third with a 17.8% share.
Most recently on Nov. 11, electricity production from wind power hit a daily record, generating 20.1% of total power.

Wind becomes largest source of electricity for 1st time in Turkey | Daily Sabah

**S Landreth** · 05-12-2021, 04:41 AM

JMA – October 2021 was the 3^rd warmest October recorded.

Five Warmest Years (Anomalies)

1st. 2015 (+0.38°C), 2nd. 2019 (+0.35°C), 3rd. 2021 (+0.30°C), 4th. 2018 (+0.24°C), 5th. 2020 (+0.22°C)

気象庁 Japan Meteorological Agency

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