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The Energy Department announced Friday it is awarding up to $1.2 billion to two projects to directly remove carbon dioxide from the air in what officials are calling the largest investment in “engineered carbon removal” in history.
“If we deploy this at scale, this technology can help us make serious headway toward our net zero emissions goals while we are still focused on deploying more clean energy at the same time,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said in a press conference call.
Project Cypress will be built in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. South Texas DAC is planned for Kleberg County, Texas. Each claims it will capture up to one million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year initially. A representative of the Texas project said it will scale up to remove 30 million metric tons per year once fully operational.
https://apnews.com/article/climate-carbon-direct-air-capture-energy-37
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Explosive growth in solar power means most EU countries will hit their 2030 renewable energy targets ahead of time. Some 23 countries are slated to reach their solar installation targets by 2027.
The bloc added 41 gigawatts of new solar capacity in 2022 — a 40 percent increase on 2021. That's expected to rise to over 50 GW this year.
Last year, China installed 107 GW of solar output — roughly equivalent to the entire historical installed capacity of the U.S. — and is likely to add around double that in 2023.
In 2022, solar deployment meant the world saved 230 million tons of CO2 emissions, the IEA found.
https://www.politico.eu/article/solar-power-global-emissions-climate-c
risis-eu-blindsided-by-spectacular-solar-rollout/
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Originally posted by second:Quote:There is a company in California called eFUELCO. What a catchy name! https://efuelco.com/
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Huh? There's plenty of CO2 in the atmosphere. It's increased over the past significantly over the past 100 years. Enough to go around.
AFA eFuel... well, the limiting factor on production is the #of suitable sites. It needs to be reliably windy but close to roads and, ultimately, ocean-going tankers.
Porsche plans to make just enough to fuel it's current IC engines on the road. Porsche only. No plans to scale up.
The company sales pitch:
Renewable Diesel Delivered to Your Fleet
Save time. Save money. Eliminate risk.
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This is eFuel's pitch, directly from their website:
Quote:Standard diesel. RENEWABLE diesel is one of their options, but not their only offering.
eFuel eliminates the need for your drivers to fuel your vehicles. This saves you time, money and eliminates fueling risks. We deliver diesel fuel and DEF directly to your fleet, generator and equipment at a cost lower than conventional fueling options.
And "renewable" is not eFuel. Renewable diesel is made from used vegetable oil, like fryer oil, cleaned up and methoxylated. I know because I had to analyze it.
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Electric cars face ‘punitive’ fees, new restrictions in many states
A growing number of conservative states are imposing new taxes on drivers using electric vehicle charging stations and trying to limit EV sales. Why? Here is why:
“We’re moving so fast to electric vehicles, we’re just making the problems worse,” said state Rep. Jim Gooch (R), the longtime chair of Kentucky’s House energy committee. Those problems are multiplying, he added, as public officials look to electrify government fleets — especially transit systems and school districts.
“I certainly don’t want to put my kids on a school bus that’s electric. I just don’t want to do it,” Gooch said. “And I’ll fight in any way I can to make sure that that’s not something Kentucky’s doing.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/17/punitive-texas-other-states-r
oadblocks-ev-transition-00110125
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NASA: July Was Hottest Month on Record, But 2024 Looks Even Hotter
https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-july-was-hottest-month-on-record-but
-2024-looks-even-hotter
Canada's mega-fires: 13.7 million hectares of forest have burned, twice as much as the 1989 record
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/08/17/canada-s-me
ga-fires-13-7-million-hectares-of-forest-have-burned-twice-as-much-as-the-1989-record_6096785_8.html
Large wildfire ravages forest in northern Greece as 8 villages are evacuated
https://infotel.ca/newsitem/eu-greece-wildfires/cp1036140928
“Uncharted Territory” – Exceptionally Low Antarctic Sea Ice Observed by NASA
https://scitechdaily.com/uncharted-territory-exceptionally-low-antarct
ic-sea-ice-observed-by-nasa/
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
1:15 PM · Nov 6, 2012
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/265895292191248385
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?
6:23 PM · Nov 21, 2018
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1065400254151954432
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I WON THE ELECTION!
Nov 15, 2020
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1328200072987893762
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.
9:44 AM · Jan 8, 2021
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347569870578266115
Where the Republican Candidates Stand on Climate Change
Donald J. Trump, Former President
His actions as president may have caused irreversible damage to the global climate.
Donald J. Trump has mocked climate science and championed the production of the fossil fuels chiefly responsible for warming the planet.
While in the White House, he rolled back more than 100 environmental regulations, mostly aimed at reducing planet-warming emissions and protecting clean air and water. He also appointed cabinet members who were openly dismissive of the threat of climate change, including Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and he withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, under which almost every country had committed to try to limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
President Biden rejoined the Paris Agreement and undid many of Mr. Trump’s policies, but the damage may not be fully reversible. A report in 2022 from researchers at Yale and Columbia found that the United States’ environmental performance had plummeted in relation to other countries as a result of the Trump administration’s actions.
Mr. Trump has given no indication that his approach would be different in a second term, and a campaign spokesman did not respond when asked whether it would. He has repeatedly minimized the severity of climate change, including claiming falsely that sea levels are projected to rise only ? of an inch over 200 to 300 years. But according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sea levels are rising by that amount every year.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/18/us/politics/republican-
candidates-2024-climate.html
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A simplistic view of a warning earth means that the tropical zones will expand towards each pole. What that might mean is that as the equatorial belt" expands both north and south, the "Mediterranean belt", defined by cooler weather winters and hot dry summers, may also shift towards the poles, meaning that places normally associated with abundant rainfall like the Pacific Northwest, might dry out.
In addition to the jet streams moving towards the poles, they'll probably have bigger north-south loops in them, and also stagnate over areas longer than they used to. So instead of storms being reliably driven from (roughly) west to east in an appx 7-10 day cycles, they might stay resident for two or three weeks.
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Islands are going up in flames. Sardinia and Cyprus in the Mediterranean are now scorching messes and Hawaii’s Maui only recently became a first-class nightmare in which some residents had to plunge into the ocean to escape the flames. And if southern Europe, seemingly in an almost endless heatwave, continues to burn, northern Europe has been experiencing startlingly torrential rains and flooding.
Meanwhile, it’s not just Phoenix, Arizona, with those 31 straight days of 110 degrees Fahrenheit (or above), or even Chile, which recently passed 100 degrees Fahrenheit in what’s still known as… yes!… “winter” there. Temperatures have, in fact, been breaking records in an extreme fashion across the planet. It is, or should be, daunting, and yet, according to the latest polls, barely half of Americans (and only 23% of Republicans) consider the climate emergency a major threat and the leadership of one of our two parties — you know just which one I mean — is still into climate denialism (or simply the promotion of fossil-fuel use) in a remarkable fashion.
Were they to win power again in 2024, you could, I suspect, essentially kiss this planet goodbye. Unfortunately, as TomDispatch regular Michael Klare suggests today, you just might be able to do that no matter what happens in our politics.
Collapse 2.0
What a 2005 Bestseller Tells Us About Climate Change and Human Survival
By Michael Klare
Pueblo Bonito, a six-story structure in Chaco Canyon, contained up to 600 rooms, making it the largest building in North America until the first skyscrapers rose in New York some 800 years later. Mayan civilization is believed to have supported a population of more than 10 million people at its peak between 250 and 900 A.D., while the Norse Greenlanders established a distinctively European society around 1000 A.D. in the middle of a frozen wasteland. Still, in the end, each collapsed utterly and their inhabitants either died of starvation, slaughtered each other, or migrated elsewhere, leaving nothing but ruins behind.
The question today is: Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland?
As Diamond argues, each of those civilizations arose in a period of relatively benign climate conditions, when temperatures were moderate and food and water supplies adequate. In each case, however, the climate shifted wrenchingly, bringing persistent drought or, in Greenland’s case, much colder temperatures. Although no contemporary written records remain to tell us how the ruling elites responded, the archaeological evidence suggests that they persisted in their traditional ways until disintegration became unavoidable.
More at https://tomdispatch.com/collapse-2-0/
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The G20 nations poured record levels of public money into fossil fuels last year despite having promised to reduce it:
The amount of public money flowing into coal, oil and gas in 20 of the world's biggest economies reached a record $1.4tn in 2022, according to the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) thinktank, even though world leaders agreed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies at the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow two years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/23/g20-poured-more-th
an-1tn-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-despite-cop26-pledges-report
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And who is the G20, again?
Argentina
Australia*
Brazil
Canada*
China
France*
Germany*
India
Indonesia
Italy*
Japan*
Mexico
South Korea*
Russia
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Turkey
United Kingdom*
United States*
European Union*
*These are supposedly "our guys"... led by western-allied liberals, including Biden*, who presumably take climate change very seriously. The European nations (over-represented as both individual nations and as the "EU"), Australia, Canada, and the USA, have prioritized warmaking in eastern Europe and profit from China over global climate change.
Maybe ONE of the reasons why so many people doubt the seriousness of global climate change is bc they see our governments are pretty hypocritical about it. Clearly, when it comes to world-straddling hegemony, profit and finance, LGBTQ+, and manipulating elections, things like global climate shift and infrastructural re-development are very far down on the list because nothing real is DONE about it. Certainly not anything that would cost the elites any of their wealth or power. It's just used as an excuse to 'screw the people', all the way.
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