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I looks to me that they also find it very difficult to look other people in the eye. Have you observed that in the young humans you parent?I have never observed this, but we live in an area where most parents only provided a lumited screen time at least to kids under 10 years old, and this was a great help for our parental work.
You were right about one thing though. The cow manure part is the worst, and it is bullshit.This is a little bit out of topic, but I had the opportunity to visit a methanisation system with electricity generator close to my home and was very impressed. I believe that if you can chose without political pressure how you feed the system, you get clean renewable energy. Circuits are very short and pressure is very low, so leaks have a very low probability. The gas has to be compressed before going into the generator.
Gerontocrat, your graphs has gotten me thinking. What if the open water in the peripheral seas is contributing to larger heat losses, resulting in faster refreeze of the CAB? Widespread ice cover in the past may have kept more heat bottled up beneath the ice.We have a value wirh 7 digits for the sea ice extent, but the daily change has only 5 digits, so change is only around 1% of absolut value. I am not sure that it means anything. To be considered in the extent, there must be around 15% of ice, so a fast freezing could just be a wide area that freezed a little bit more, just enough to be considered. You could also have an increase of the extent with a loss of area or a reduction of extent with a gain of area, depending if there is compaction or dispersion of the sea ice.
Right now Wind and solar are Not it. How, exactly, do we expect to charge all these new EV when our renewables are not delivering.?Reducing consumption is the only way. Nuclear also can't solve our problems because it only provides baseload, risks and radioactive thrash. Smaller cars is the first step.
Also, none of them are big in China (unlike VW, BMW and Mercedes) - Fiat's JV in China is not doing that well. PSA is also in a much better place with EV products than FCA.
I recommend people to study the history of philosophy to understand the step by step proces which lead to this modern, materialistic age we live in. It doesn't matter if it's any of the three political materialistic philosophies that we adhere to, fascism, marxism or liberalism, they are all materialistic and thus it was inevitable that adopting any of them would eventually lead to the destruction and annihilation of our habitat. Some might be slower than others in this destructive proces, but alas, the most materialistic ideology won(liberalism) because it could generate the most material and thus defeat the other two ideologies(fascism/marxism) in this struggle to be the dominant political philosophy of this modern age.
The whole of modernity is the problem. There is unfortunately no solution other than mass culllling of population, which is not going to happen.
The Guardian reports on a major study into oil and gas companies' CO2 emissions since 1965.Well, if Chevron extracts the oil, and Facebook or Nike use it, who is the problem?
35percent emitted by 20 companies and their products.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/09/revealed-20-firms-third-carbon-emissions
And they knew about climate damage by CO2 from c. 1960-1965.
Still trying to understand how the *warmest* August on record, according to awesome +70N 925hPa temps chart produced by Zack Labe, led to such a poor loss of ice extent. No convincing explanation so far. We don’t know an iota of what’s going on apart from the inexorable warming.I am convinced that we had normal melting conditions in 2019. That we only reached the second position because we started very low and because there was a lot of compaction at the end. The Greenland today page of nsidc https://nsidc.org/greenland-today/ also shows an average year. That's something I worry about. What would happen if 2012 conditions would happen again?
The USA EIA updated its energy data - up to June 2019.
Here is a graph that shows monthly energy consumption from 2010 - when wind+solar started to get consumed in measurable quantities..
You can see coal reducing as well.
I'm worried that it might only support greenBAU, excepted if people would really start to reduce their consumption, but I don't feel that many people get the point.QuoteGreta a climate debate tipping point?I have never seen so many articles on climate change and associated topics, as I see now. She has certainly tipped the scales. Will it help? I certainly hope so, though the old and greedy people's inertia is very strong.
^^Honestly, I would say that it is one of many concepts that have been defined to make greenBAU marketing possible. Anyway, there are many companies producing trendy products that are far from fair trade and ecological.
What does climate neutrality mean?
Well, even if climate neutrality is difficult to achieve, you still have many other possibility. Organic cotton exists, fairphones also. A boycott of selected product would create a huge pressure. A friend of mine who was on the streets yesterday is flying next week to Portugal.The problem I see in the XR actions (maybe I'm wrong), is that for a non violent campaign, the boycott strategy seems missing. I believe it is the only way to change companies is to buy only climate neutral products.
Maybe there are no substitute products that are climate neutral?
There were many enough opportunities to just do it and deal with the details thereafter, but it did not happen and that only makes sense if they purposefully drive the Brexit-Vehicle against a wall.I can't believe that May's only objective was to send the Brexit-vehicle in the wall. If this was the case, I guess she would have organized a 2nd referendum. I believe that she wanted to be in history books. Now we just have chaos.
You know the people who really impress me? The adults who take off work and sacrifice eight hours wages for this cause, even more than the ones who are kids who get permission slips from their parents.Well, I have enough overtime to get from time to time a free afternoon without having to go on the holidays account.
The venerable travel agency Thomas Cooks Tours went under this morning leaving ~300K tourists stranded around the world.Well, these days you also have many airplane companies going bankrupt. I guess it's only the beginning. 2 in France, maybe one in Germany...
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-cook-airlines-british-tour-operator-stops-trading-cancels-bookings-no-funding-2019-09-22/
British tourists are covered by an insurance plan assuring that they will be returned to their homes, but these are only about 1/2 of the total number.
Brexit uncertainty is being blamed, heat waves that have kept tourists home have been blamed, no one has mentioned Piss Poor Management yet.
Terry
I believe that the study is not fair for woodburning. Most emissions come from sauna stove and open fire places. Looking at that study, my conclusion would be that investments in efficient systems is urgent. There was also a Goddard Institute study making the difference between black carbon (fossil fuels) and brown carbon (when burning biomas). Brown carbon was found to be less climate heating. I don't have the reference here but will try to find it.According to this Finnish study, log burning is not good for the climate. Pellet burning is far better. The best method of home heating is heat pumps powered by zero carbon electricity. Trouble is, heat pumps only work well in well insulated houses.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421519304161
Thanks Simon, I've got a friend using the pellet system, he can probably summarize more of that. On this house it isn't an option. What could work is the ground heat pump, but the lowest floors should be ripped off for installation and the owners of those parts aren't going to approve. I guess some of them would rather let the house rot than to lose rent.
