Climate crisis

This thread needs a bump

Wonder how they could improve this? Maybe Insulate Britain?

Source https://twitter.com/Sustainable2050/status/1480204626414784513 - Includes discussion on is the discrepancy houses vs apartments/ building standards/ not correcting for wind etc.

Quite enjoyed this thread and the article on how the transition to net zero might be dirty
https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky/status/1480163005606539268

But Ed is now stuck in an argument with Michael Mann who says Ed's thread is denialism
https://twitter.com/MichaelEMann/status/1480228004659924992

Crazy number, apparently 40% of all shipping by tonnage is moving fossil fuels around, so if we can move to renewables it could be a double win
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-happiest-number-ive-heard-in

More than 400 weather stations around the world beat their all-time highest temperature records in 2021, according to a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/07/heat-records-broken-all-around-the-world-in-2021-says-climatologist

Of course with the forecast rise in fuel bills due to the increase in wholesale gas prices it makes a lot of sense.
Insulate Britain have received such negative media coverage for sitting in the road that it’s probably unthinkable for this government to even mention it now.

This is one of the main arguments left out of the ‘getting a used car is better for the environment than a new EV’ discussion.

Drilling, refining & shipping fuel requires an insane amount of Co2

Also, note that the BBC are amazingly quiet on climate change news.
They update virtually every other page daily, or in some cases up to three times an hour. The thing that threatens life on earth gets updated every few days with trivia.

The oil that those vessels burn is also much dirtier than anything else we use to create power. Heavy fuel oil is so thick it needs to be preheated to flow. The emissions are many times worse (from the big crude engines that power those ships) than anything we use domestically. If it wasn’t for the ships using it, it would be a waste product after refining that the oil companies would have to dispose of.
Now it’s being cut with plastic waste that we’ve put in recycling bins but which can’t be recycled. Few people recycle the correct plastic and it ruins the contents of your bin if there’s any of the wrong plastic in there. It’s effectively incinerated at sea to provide power. When they spill it it sets and becomes toxic plastic stuck to reefs.
Much as I despise electric vehicles for not solving all the problems they do at least address some of that.
We just need to stop driving needlessly!

But but Insulate Britain....

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/breaking-heavy-traffic-go-slow-22691970

BBC are amazingly quiet on

Don’t take it the wrong way, but folks put way too much faith in the official state broadcaster/media arm.

Empty flights to secure landing spots . Madness.

Please sign and share:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/605749

https://twitter.com/FlightFreeUK/status/1482028827685662720

Done.

Done

done, and shocked/not shocked

Ta all.

Signed

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jan/23/uks-biggest-private-pension-fund-to-shift-5bn-away-from-polluters

Seems kinda affordable...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/25/transformation-global-economy-net-zero-mckinsey

Reaching net zero climate emissions by 2050 will require a “fundamental transformation of the global economy”, according to a report by McKinsey, one of the world’s most influential consulting firms.

It estimates that $9.2tn will need to be invested every year for decades to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5C and end the climate emergency. The sum is a 40% increase on current investment levels and equivalent to half of global corporate profits.

....

the report says, the rewards would far exceed the avoidance of climate impacts alone

In the first two days of January, the average Briton was already responsible for more carbon dioxide emissions than someone from the Democratic Republic of the Congo would produce in an entire year, according to analysis by the Center for Global Development (CGD).

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jan/28/west-accused-of-climate-hypocrisy-as-emissions-dwarf-those-of-poor-countries

Following on from the above post, BBC piece on why Climate change is inherently racist

The rich nations of the global North have colonised the atmospheric commons for their own enrichment, with devastating consequences for the rest of the world and for all of life on Earth

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220125-why-climate-change-is-inherently-racist

Nice graphic - you just make it?

No, its from this article
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(20)30196-0/fulltext

Oh cool. Didn't see it in the BBC piece.

Was listening to radio 4 in the car yesterday and it transpires that the UK is getting less windy due to climate change, that will drop wind power by 30% by 2050. Something to do with wind power is the cube of velocity.

What is the data source and methodology for this?

Edit - seen the Lancet link and the data. Putting it together on a historic basis seems to ignore the fact that a lot of climate change will come from future projected emissions.

I don’t really understand the rationale for this analysis, as what is needed is a common global approach to solutions, rather than an argument over blame that some nations will inevitably use to try and stall on the changes needed now.