"How a little-discussed revision of climate science could help avert doom"
This revised science means that if humanity slashes emissions to zero, global temperatures will stop rising almost immediately. To be clear, this is not a get-out-of-jail-free card. Global temperatures also will not fall if emissions go to zero, so the planet's ice will keep melting and sea levels will keep rising.Feb 23, 2022
We can reduce global temperatures faster than we once thought — if we act now
washingtonpost.com
Senate parliamentarian gives OK for climate, tax, health bill to proceed
The Senate parliamentarian has given the green light to a $740 billion budget reconciliation bill that will reform the tax code, tackle climate change and lower drug prices, putting the Senate on track to begin voting on the bill Saturday afternoon. thehill.com/…
U.N. climate report: We have a 'rapidly closing window of opportunity' to act, but it's not hopeless.
Why there’s still a rational case for climate optimism
thehill.com/
rising climate doomism isn’t the answer, either. Even if EPA authority to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions is limited, there is still plenty we can do to reverse the current climate trajectory. “We have the basic technologies now already deployed, to get where we need to in the next eight years to meet the goal of a 45 percent reduction [in emissions],” U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry said at the World Economic Forum in Davos in May. thehill.com/…
Don’t panic: Reasons for hope despite a grim UN climate report
As a conservation scientist, Will Turner is used to fielding technical questions about climate change.
Living Without Air-Conditioning? Here’s How to Stay Cooler at Home.
Adjust your ceiling fans to rotate counterclockwise, run major appliances at night and consider planting trees to shade your home, multiple governments suggest. www.nytimes.com/...
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A new study finds that reduced fossil fuel burning due to lockdowns in American and Asian cities caused a global drop in ozone pollution
Positive climate stories:
Climate change targets achievable by keeping global emissions to COVID levels, scientists say
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Many Scientists Now Say Global Warming Could Stop Relatively Quickly After Emissions Go to Zero
That’s one of several recent conclusions about climate change that came more sharply into focus
insideclimatenews
Climate change through human population control
guardian.ng/
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Clean energy package would be biggest legislative climate investment in US historyamp.cnn.com/…
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NYTIMES
Climate Bill ‘Transformative’ for Auto and Energy Industries
The Senate’s proposal aims to accelerate electric car sales and promote domestic battery manufacturing at China’s expense. www.google.com/...
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A garage-sized reactor could provide limitless energy with magnet-free technology
Could it be the answer to our fossil fuel addiction interesting
How to Combat Climate Depression
by Bill McKibben
Read more: google.com/…
Plus: Wapo archive
Links:www.archdaily.com/
(From Meteor Blades):
"There is a place between being a doomer and being a pollyanna, and we should strive to be neither. It pains me to see people doom-scrolling and urging other people to join them in despair. To accept that no matter what we do we’re screwed. That civilization is doomed. That Homo sapiens is doomed. That the planet itself is doomed. Pains me because none of this is inevitable. Scientists aren’t saying it is. What they are saying is that if we don’t take immediate, profound, transformative action, then we’re doomed. Quite a different perspective.
I believe the youth climate movement and their allies are on the verge of adding a new intensity to their actions in order to spur serious, immediate climate action. The optimistic part of me thinks they will succeed at this. Of course, anyone can speculate, and nobody can with certainty predict the outcome of this struggle.
But while there is no doubt that our climate situation offers plenty of reasons for being depressed, the last thing anyone should be doing right now—no matter depressed they may be—is spreading a gospel of cynicism and despair by saying or implying that climate activism is a waste of time because we’re unavoidably going down the shitter. True enough, getting our leaders—political and otherwise—to launch serious climate action could turn out to be undoable. We just don’t know. It’s also possible that no matter what we do we’re already past the point of no return. We just don’t know.
What we do know is that if we surrender to despair and don’t act and don’t work to get others to act, doom is all but guaranteed"dailykos.com/
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The power to save the planet is inside us all – how to get past despair to powerful action on climate changetheconversation.com
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Protest UK
‘What else can we do?’: trespassers demand right to roam minister’s 12,000-acre estate
Campaigners visit Berkshire estate belonging to Richard Benyon, minister 'in charge of access to nature'
Other Environment News:
"Why Permanent Daylight-Saving Time Is Bad for Your Health"Sleep Scientists Say
Our internal clocks are connected to the sun, which aligns more closely with standard time
www.wsj.com/...
www.bloomberg.com/…
www.washingtonpost.com/...
Pt 1: www.dailykos.com/…
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Wilderness hiking
What’s the Deal with People Blasting Their Speakers in the Backcountry?
In national parks and designated wilderness areas, amplified music is usually illegal, but remoteness renders the laws nearly impossible to enforce.
www.outsideonline.com/...
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EARTHWORMS’ BENIGN image as aerators, drainers and fertilisers of field and garden belies a darker secret. They are actually fierce competitors with other invertebrates, voraciously consuming rotting plant matter and tiny organisms such as protists, nematodes, bacteria and fungi, all of which might otherwise sustain a wide variety of soil dwellers.
amp.economist.com
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Invasive insects could kill 1.4M urban trees over the next 30 years, study says
“This paper shows that unless we plant a variety of tree species in our cities, urban trees are seriously at risk from invasive pests.”
thehill.com
About 20% of greenhouse gases
in the US come from homes amp.cnn.com/…
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Nature.org:
"The average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons, one of the highest rates in the world. Globally, the average carbon footprint is closer to 4 tons."
About 20% of greenhouse gases
in the US come from homes amp.cnn.com/…
HELP SAVE THE PLANET AND OURSELVES:
Turn out the lights when
not in use/use less
- Turn down the heat or AC
- vent out at night if cooler
- Avoid creating nighttime light pollution
- Don’t waste water
- Avoid burning wood (or other things), as wood fires are both pollutant and carcinogenic
- Don't use pesticides
- Limit your use of cars and planes (if possible)
- Don't use gas powered vehicles
- Take out grass and put in a garden or pond (or xeriscape )
- Mow, blow, and whack with electric or by hand
- Plant for the animals (bees, birds etc)
- Plant trees
- Don't micro manage yards, go wilder
- Try to use solar
- Take a bus, trolley or train
- Encourage your city/town to use electric buses
- Use energy efficient products or products that work on clean fuels
- Reduce dependence on non-biodegradable items
- Walk, bike or carpool
- Reuse items- give to Goodwill or Craig's list rather than dumping
- Cut down or cease eating meat
- Use reusable carry bags for grocerie; second choice, paper bags; not plastic
- Compost
- Save the bees
- Be informed
- Write your representative, sign petitions
- Elect pro-environment candidates and demand action
- Support the Green New Deal
- Get involved
- March
- Blog about the environment
- Control population
| Charting his own course
James Lovelock changed the way human beings look at the Earth