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Ce livre dresse un bilan scientifique et technique complet des moteurs #diesel (et autres moteurs thermiques) : impacts toxiques sur la santé publique et l'#environnement, mais aussi les solutions de #dépollution et les alternatives.
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Holding Olympics in July will be 'nearly impossible' over extreme heat, report warns.
For this year's Olympics in Paris, French forecaster Météo France has already predicted warmer than normal conditions for July and August. Athletes and scientists now say a summer Olympics could eventually be "impossible". #ClimateChange
Have you ever thought about how dinosaurs lived on a warm, swampy Earth and how we live on one that’s cold enough to keep pretty much the entirety of Greenland and Antarctica buried under kilometers-thick sheets of solid ice and wondered, hmm, how did we get from there to here? The short answer is that it took 50 million years of declining atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and dropping temperatures, not to mention building an ice sheet or two. For the longer story of the last 50 million years of climate change, including some of the reasons why, catch this episode of our podcast with Dr De La Rocha! You’ll hear about plate tectonics and continental drift, silicate weathering, carbonate sedimentation, and the spectacular effects the growth of Earth’s ice sheets have had on Earth’s climate. There are also lessons here for where anthropogenic global warming is going and whether or not its effects have permanently disrupted the climate system. Fun fact: the total amount of climate change between 50 million years ago and now dwarfs what we’re driving by burning fossil fuels, and yet, what we’re doing is more terrifying, in that it’s unfolding millions of times faster.
!!Nerd alert!! If you're interested in the primary scientific literature on the subject, these four papers are a great place to start:
-Dutkiewicz et al (2019) Sequestration and subduction of deep-sea carbonate in the global ocean since the Early Cretaceous. Geology 47:91-94.
-Müller et al (2022) Evolution of Earth’s plate tectonic conveyor belt. Nature 605:629–639.
-Rae et al (2021) Atmospheric CO2 over the last 66 million years from marine archives. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 49:609-641.
-Westerfeld et al (2020) An astronomically dated record of Earth’s climate and its predictability over the last 66 million years. Science 369: 1383–1387.
The IRA was passed in August 2022, with specific rules about how states should award residential heat pump rebates.
Minnesota Dept. of Commerce was still asking for RFPs for somebody to "run the program" for it 17 months later.
Now there are "listening sessions" through fall 2024 (so I guess targeting 2025 construction sseason?)
We took a home loan out in 2023; selected a contractor; picked a heat-pump and HVAC design; even signed a contract and a deposit to the supplier. We are just waiting for !@#$ program to launch. You've had all the info for almost 2 years now.
Even if you don't give a damn about the climate, you're going to miss an election cycle before awarding a single dollar. That is squandered political capital at best, and could even risk the entire program, at worst.
Today, there are around 1.31 billion personal vehicles (cars, trucks, and SUVs) in the world. Of those, only about 2% are hybrid or electric. The other 98% are ICE vehicles burning gasoline/petrol.
By 2050, it’s estimated we’ll have about 2.21 billion vehicles in the world. That’s a HUGE number, almost 70% greater than today.
But how many of those will be electric? Instead of only 2%, it’s expected they will increase to around 31% of the total.
That sounds great! More EVs is a good thing, right?
Well, if 31% are EVs in 2050, that means the other 69% will still be ICE vehicles burning gas/petrol. So the number of cars and trucks and SUVs burning fossil fuels will go UP from 1.28 billion now to about 1.52 billion by 2050.
That’s… not so good.
We don’t need more cars, more traffic, more congestion, more pollution, more road damage, and more CO2 emissions.
Don't forget to leave out fresh, clean potable water for your #bird and #pollinator friends during #heatwaves. They get thirsty too! I use smooth stones and marbles in my #BeeWatering station, to keep them from drowning.
Singapore’s public broadcaster investigating different social classes negotiate a heat wave. A few measures to provide relief to the urban poor in their housing. What strikes me about the latter’s situation is the payback for smallest of resources offered to them. But for access, their lives could be transformed and it would be intimately related to economy.
Some libraries are already opening #OpenSeeds collections, where you can “lend” seeds to grow vegetables and flowers that are not F1-hybrids (genetically crippled seeds that you can’t propagate)with the expectation to return dried seeds after the harvest. With #ClimateChange and more decentralisation this could become really important. As an #OpenSource Evangelist I like!
One of the things I find so amazing about how Earth's lifeforms evolved is that plants take in CO2 and release O2 as by-product. Whereas animals need O2 and CO2 is what they exhale.
There are many other cycles to a healthy biosphere, but this really basic one in respiration is frankly deserving of the original meaning of "awesome".
Messing these beautiful systems up for a few uppity primates to accrue power, status & $ is dysorderly.
The true cost and 'benefit' of the Maldives' artificial islands
The Maldivian government says controversial land reclamation projects are necessary to fight rising sea levels and land scarcity. Experts say tourism is trumping the environment.
California looks to seize profits from Big Oil in climate change lawsuit, accusing them of "deceiving the public for decades" on #ClimateChangehttps://buff.ly/4b0oAbB via FT
A student asked me “If I really wanted to do something about climate change & all this injustice do you think I should just try to become a billionaire so I’d have real power? Or should I be a judge so I can make the big decisions? or president? Who has the most power? who can fix it?”
me: Listen if I knew the answer to all that I would tell you. I think it matters what you are good at? What you think you can do well.
student: whatever it is I need to do well I will learn it.
I selected "something else", by which I meant "A Good Role Model", which could be one of the above, just as some of the above could be overlapping categories.
But what matters most is modeling good behavior with as many eyes on you as possible. Sticking to principles and showing that you can make a difference, even if small, which is scalable with enough others joining you.
Yes, theoretically, President, SC, or Billionaire allow foe that, but so does a journalist, a teacher, a Senator or Representative, a business leader, an activist.
It has the benefit of being more achievable, which is part of why it is the best answer (IMO), as more people can follow your example. The impact of any single individual, any, will never match collective action of those with good will.