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2020 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #29
Posted on 18 July 2020 by John Hartz
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Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists
Letter also signed by Greta Thunberg urges EU leaders to act immediately on global heating
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Greta Thunberg and some of the world’s leading climate scientists have written to EU leaders demanding they act immediately to avoid the worst impacts of the unfolding climate and ecological emergency.
The letter, which is being sent before a European council meeting starting on Friday, says the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that most leaders are able to act swiftly and decisively, but the same urgency had been missing in politicians’ response to the climate crisis.
“It is now clearer than ever that the climate crisis has never once been treated as a crisis, neither from the politicians, media, business nor finance. And the longer we keep pretending that we are on a reliable path to lower emissions and that the actions required to avoid a climate disaster are available within today’s system … the more precious time we will lose,” it says.
Greta Thunberg calls for immediate action on 'existential crisis' of climate emergency – video
Click here to access the entire article as originally posted on The Guardian website.
Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists by Matthew Taylor, Environment, Guardian, July 16, 2020
Articles Linked to on Facebook
Sun, July 12, 2020
- How public attitudes towards ‘CO2 removal’ differ in the UK and US, Guest Post by Emily Cox, Carbon Brief, July 7, 2020
- Nature doesn’t trust us any more’: Arctic heatwave stokes permafrost thaw by Alister Doyle, Climate Home News, July 7, 2020
- Investigation: The Problem with Big Oil’s ‘Forest Fever’ by Phoebe Cooke, DeSmog UK, July 6, 2020
- Global warming edges closer to Paris Agreement 1.5C limit, Guest Post by Richard Betts, Carbon Brief, July 9, 2019
Mon, July 13, 2020
- Gas curse: Mozambique’s multi-billion dollar gamble on LNG by Leigh Elston & Megan Darby, Climate Home News, July 10, 2020
- From Covid-19 to climate: what's next after the global oil and gas industry crash? by Adam Morton, Environment, Guardian, July 11, 2020
- Six Months on a Planet in Crisis: Greta Thunberg's Travel Diary from the U.S. to Davos by Greta Thunberg, Ideas, Time Magazine, July 10, 2020
- 2020 Is Our Last, Best Chance to Save the Planet by Justin Worland, World, Time Magazine, July 10, 2020
Tue, July 14, 2020
- COVID-19 has thrown our planet a lifeline when it comes to climate change by Mark Lynas, World Economic Forum (WEF), July 13, 2020
- Article by Michael Shellenberger mixes accurate and inaccurate claims in support of a misleading and overly simplistic argumentation about climate change, Edited by Nikki Forrester, Article Reviews, Climate Feedback, July 6. 2020
- Hearing the under-sea whispers of a warming climate by Kristen Pope, Article, Yale Climate Connections, July 13, 2020
- Excessive heat is scorching the South and Southwest, where coronavirus cases are surging by Matthew Cappucci & Andrew Freedman, Capital Weather Gang, Washington Post Aug 13, 2020
- G.A.O.: Trump Boosts Deregulation by Undervaluing Cost of Climate Change by Lisa Friedman, Climate , New York Times, July 14, 2020
Wed, July 15, 2020
- On baseball's 'first pitch' and climate's long road ahead by Bud Ward, Commentary, Yale Climate Connections, July 7, 2020
- Explainer: How climate change is affecting wildfires around the world by Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief, July 14, 2020
- Under Fire: What Dr. Fauci Can Learn from Climate Scientists About Responding to Personal Attacks by Marianne Lavelle, InsideClimate News, July 14, 2020
- The Only Solution to Climate Change by Harry Pardoe, Climate Conscious, Medium, July 12, 2020
Thu, July 16, 2020
- June 2020: Earth's third-warmest June on record by Jeff Masters, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, July 13, 2020
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #28, 2020 by Doug Bostrom, Skeptical Science, July 15, 2020
- Sea Level 101, Part Two: All Sea Level is ‘Local' by Alan Buis, Ask NASA Climate Blog, Global Climate Change, July 14, 2020
- Coastal flooding in US will continue to increase as seas rise, report says by Doyle Rice, Nation, USA Today, July 14, 2020
- Siberia’s 2020 heatwave made ‘600 times more likely’ by climate change by Daisy Dunne, Carbon Brief, July 16, 2020
Fri, July 17, 2020
- Biden’s $2 Trillion Climate Plan Promotes Union Jobs, Electric Cars and Carbon-Free Power by Marianne Lavelle, James Bruggers, Ilana Cohen, Judy Fahys & Dan Gearino, InsideClimate News, July 16, 2020
- Scientists concerned by ‘record high’ global methane emissions by Robert McSweeney, Carbon Brief, July 14, 2020
- Wildfires off to slow start in much of the West, but trouble expected starting in mid-July by Jeff Masters, PhD, Eye on the Storm, Yale Climate Connections, July 17, 2020
- A conundrum: our continued presence on Facebook by BaerbelW & Doug Bostrom, Skeptical Science, July 17, 2020
- Pandemic shows climate has never been treated as crisis, say scientists by Matthew Taylor, Environment, Guardian, July 16, 2020
Sat, July 18, 2020
- An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet by Benjamin Z Houlton, The Conversation US, July 16, 2020
- Climate change: Summers could become 'too hot for humans' by David Shukman, Science & Environment, BBC News, July 16, 2020
- Oil and Gas Companies Announce a New CO2 Emissions Target by Carlos Anchondo, E&E News, Scientific American, July 17, 2020
- What Does Net Zero Emissions Mean for Big Oil? Not What You’d Think by Nicholas Kusnetz, InsideClimate News, July 16, 2020
I found this story about Greta and her fathers travel diary to be quite informative and interesting. I came across her travel story by accident and wondered why mainstream media hasn't reproduced it somewhere (maybe it has? ). I think this would wake up any fence sitters about many things, including the wonderful Miss Thunbergs motivations.
The mention of the United Nations Production Gap Report in the final chapter,( I believe an update for 2020 is due.) was an insight to the two faced nature of the fossil fuel industry..
https://time.com/5863684/greta-thunberg-diary-climate-crisis/
Forest plantations with pyrolysis can be a great contributor to solving our Carbon dioxide emission problem
You build the wood into laminated beams, ply wood and so forth for the construction of multi story buildings and pyrolize the waste. This results in multi levels of benefit.
1/ The wooden buildings represent a sequestering of Carbon in a long lasting form (and these buildings are natuarally earthquake resistant)
2/ The alkanes produced by the pyrolysis displaces some of the oil we have to extract from the ground
3/ The charcoal produced is beneficial for agricultural lands and sequesters more carbon - long term.
4/ Wooden buildings displace Concrete which is also a source of C pollution.
5/ Tne new trees we plant take up carbon at a rapid rate due to the vigorous growth of young trees.
Not the whole solution but one more string for our bow.
Thanks William, I think this link here,
https://anaerobic-digestion.com/what-is-pyrolysis-pros-and-cons/
gave me some of the information about what pyrolysis means..