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The White House on Tuesday will announce steps to modernize a major roadblock to the clean energy transformation: America’s aging electrical infrastructure.
The new initiative between the feds and 21 states aims to make faster fixes and improvements to the grid, committing to build a bigger and more modern grid as part of a larger effort to reduce power outages and increase electrical transmission capacity – a massive hurdle to getting more clean energy on the grid and reducing the planet-warming pollution causing the climate crisis.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/climate/energy-grid-modernization-biden
/index.html
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Wait.
Wasn't $7 billion just spent on improving EV charging?
Just in general, if we'll be facing hotter and more extreme weather, we SHOULD be upgrading our grid, making it easier to shuttle electricity from one region to another, more efficient (less line losses) and safer, more resilient to storms and able to isolate outages quickly.
Starting with EV charging stations ... and spending about a billion dollars on each location ... seems bass akwards. But I'll bet SOMEBODY made a metric crap ton of money!
So, when is DC gonna get off their various hobby- horses and pork- barrel "solutions" to global climate change, and get serious about this?
Or are they gonna keep spending hundreds of billions on wars of choice?
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Delhi records record high temperature of nearly 50C
A heatwave sweeping India with temps of over 120 degrees Fahrenheit has resulted in lower voter turnouts for its ongoing election
https://www.rt.com/india/598377-delhi-records-record-high-temperature/
And it's not even full summer yet.
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Are electric cars better for the environment than fuel-powered cars? Here's the verdict from Australia
By Jo Lauder | Mon 27 May 2024 at 10:06pm
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-27/comparing-electric-cars-and-pet
rol-cars/103746132
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Quote:How much has the USA spent on nukes and delivery vehicles and preparation for all-out war, without any achievements since Aug 6, 1945 – Aug 9, 1945? About $34 trillion (adjusted for inflation and including the time cost of money) which is approximately the size of the National Debt. This year's "defense" budget plus the Veterans Administration budget ($369.3 billion) will be over $1 trillion.
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Or are they gonna keep spending hundreds of billions on wars of choice?
https://www.google.com/search?q=How+much+has+the+USA+spent+on+nukes
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Bill Gates has recently been under fire following an interview in which he said that planting trees won’t save us from climate change. Is he right? Is this just another quote taken out of context? What does the science say? Let’s have a look.
The global tree restoration potential
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aax0848
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During a year of extremes, carbon dioxide levels surge faster than ever
The two-year increase in Keeling Curve peak is the largest on record
June 6, 2024
Carbon dioxide is accumulating in the atmosphere faster than ever — accelerating on a steep rise to levels far above any experienced during human existence, scientists from NOAA and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego announced today.
“Not only is CO2 now at the highest level in millions of years, it is also rising faster than ever,” said Keeling. “Each year achieves a higher maximum due to fossil-fuel burning, which releases pollution in the form of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Fossil fuel pollution just keeps building up, much like trash in a landfill.”
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/during-year-of-extremes-carbon-dioxi
de-levels-surge-faster-than-ever
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After 30 years, chlorofluorocarbon ban finally starts working
By Kevin Drum | June 11, 2024 – 2:32 pm
https://jabberwocking.com/after-30-years-chlorofluorocarbon-ban-finall
y-starts-working/
Here's a remarkable image:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-024-02038-7
In 1987 we signed the Montreal Protocol to ban CFCs, which were producing a hole in the ozone layer. In 1992 the ban was extended to HCFCs. Both of these are powerful greenhouse gases that trap sunlight and contribute to global warming. The amount of warming they cause is called "radiative forcing."
It took until 2021, a third of a century later, to start reducing the radiative forcing of HCFCs in the atmosphere. That's a combination of how long it took to actually get rid of HCFCs and how long it took for existing HCFCs to start breaking down.
A third of a century. And carbon dioxide, the primary cause of global warming, takes much longer to break down than HCFCs. This is why addressing climate change is so urgent. Even if we banned carbon emissions tomorrow, the earth would continue to warm for decades. And we're not anywhere close to banning carbon emissions.
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A Wild Plan to Avert Catastrophic Sea-Level Rise
The collapse of Antarctica’s ice sheets would be disastrous. A group of scientists has an idea to save them.
By Ross Andersen | June 12, 2024
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/07/nasa-nisar-missio
n-glaciers-sea-ice-thwaites/678522/
Many polar science projects are held together by duct tape and the grit of people like Truffer, who spend long months in the field away from their families. But ice preservation on Antarctica wouldn’t be an ordinary science project. If a consortium of governments became convinced that Thwaites glacier could be saved, and that trillions of dollars of flooding damage could be avoided, they might treat the project more like a military mobilization or mass vaccine deployment. By those standards, the many billions of dollars you might need—especially if the glacier had to be drilled and pumped continually, across many years—really isn’t that much money. Truffer remains skeptical of Tulaczyk’s project, but he said it would be much more imaginable if it were backed by those kinds of resources.
That’s really conceivable only in an asteroid-headed-for-Earth scenario where glaciologists are in total agreement that the loss of Thwaites is imminent. Funding, in that case, would be the easy part. Getting permission from Russia, China, and dozens of other parties to the Antarctic Treaty would likely be harder. Building an international consensus, manufacturing the equipment, and setting it up on Antarctica could take decades. Testing will certainly take decades.
In the meantime, the world’s ice will continue to dissolve. Even if we were to halt emissions immediately and entirely, we could still lose major glaciers at both poles within a century. We can see them fragmenting now, in real time. On my last night in Ilulissat, I went back to the fjord on a small icebreaker. As we moved through the pewter water, the thin sea ice beneath us fractured into every imaginable polygon. From the hills above, the icebergs had all seemed still and sculptural. Up close, it was easier to see that they were in flux. Meltwater glittered along their edges, and they were all drifting ever so subtly. One by one, they would soon head out to sea. If we want to keep our ice sheets and shores where they are, Tulaczyk’s idea may help. Maybe it will work all by itself, or in combination with other ice-control schemes. Or maybe all of these ideas are destined to fail. Either way, we should find out.
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Slawek Tulaczyk is a Professor of Earth Science at the University of California Santa Cruz. He focuses his research on ice sheets and glaciers as dynamic features interacting with geologic, hydrologic, and climatic processes on different timescales. To understand Thwaites Glacier's potential future contribution to sea level rise, he investigates the physical controls on ice flow velocity and constructs quantitative models of ice flow dynamics, including underlying geology. Tulaczyk explores geologic controls on glacier movement through sedimentological and geochemical analysis of subglacial sediment samples from West Antarctica. He uses multiple data sources—remote sensing, borehole experiments, subglacial sediment samples—to constrain the physics of the subglacial environment and its role in controlling ice flow velocities.
https://thwaitesglacier.org/people/slawek-tulaczyk
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Considering that the biochar is made from biological materials, there's no contribution to the surface CO2 load. I wonder if one can use biological materials to heat up the waste to such a high temperature, or if one needs to use fossil fuels for that.
It appears, though, that overall the creation and use of biochar has a net negative effect on surface CO2. "Worldwide use of biochar could cut CO2 levels by 8 parts per million within 50 years, according to NASA scientist James Hansen."
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?tid=37599
Which is why I find thinning mile-wide firebreaks thru high fuel-load forests, and turning the trash vegetation into biochar so attractive: you solve three problems at the same time
Reduce catastrophic mega-fires
Convert the carbon to long-term storage (unlike mulching and composting)
Improve soil fertility
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I wonder if you could apply this technique to sandy, carbon- poor soils in arid areas. These soils can't retain moisture and nutrients, leading to a vicious cycle of non- vegetated areas drying out, maintaining desert conditions.
Also, there have been studies of using biochar in reforestation projects.
Altho nations, institutions, and corporations earn carbon credits based on how many trees they plant, "tree planting" is more of a scam, and not worth the carbon credits they "earn", because
98% of seedlings, or more, die.
The energy spent growing and trucking seedlings is wasted
However, if you plant seedlings with black carbon, the black carbon immediately calculates as net carbon absorbed, and because the seedlings have a higher chance of survival after five years the reforestation project by itself starts absorbing carbon dioxide.
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SECOND, did you even READ the article???
Or did you just spam the board with headlines, again?
Please describe for us how to save the Thwaites Ice Field.
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