Understanding Energy Use: The Challenge of Substituting Electrification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FO6MT419dHc
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Deadly Flooding in Central and Eastern Europe Wreaks Havoc From Austria to Romania
Downpours from low-pressure system Storm Boris led to some of the most serious flooding in almost three decades across Central and Eastern Europe.
Austria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic have all been experiencing extreme rainfall. A state of emergency has been declared by the Polish government, reported CNN.
According to Polish news agency PAP, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has secured $260 million in emergency funding for the country’s hardest hit regions.
The electricity and hot water were cut off for thousands in the Czech Republic when authorities closed heating plants due to the floods. Near the country’s border with Poland, 280,000 residents in Ostrava were left with no hot water, CNN Prima said.
#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #GlobalHeating #Europe #Floods #WeDontHaveTime #ClimateCatastrophe
Wasn't expecting this to happen because of global warming
I remember having a discussion with a geologist professor back in Sweden in early 90s when she was saying that the consequences of global warming are not known at the moment and everything we know is based of the models they have created which can be very different than what nature will "chose" as the soil gets hotter and changes things into uncharted territories.
I'm sure she wasn't even expecting such problems caused so early in the process of the global heating we are just starting to see.
But hey, look, Russia is coming for you and Israel needs your support and China wants to take the world. Forget about global warming and climate change. Those are not money making problems for the elites.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeGVGg8u/
#NewYork #News #HeatWave #GlobalHeating #ClinateCatastrophe #TomorrowIsTooLate
Scott Duncan @ScottDuncanWX · May 11, 2024
Mexico just observed its hottest day in May.
A brutal 51.1°C (124.7°F). This is less than 1°C from the all-time national record for any month.
Sadly this heatwave is far from over...
Graphic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GNR2khJWMAAulrH.png
#GlobalHeating #ClmateEmergency #ClimateCatastrophe #Environment #TomorrowIsTooLate
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN AFRICA
Hundreds of records North to South
TMIN 36.4 Yelimane MALI
47 CHAD
46.3 ALGERIA
MADNESS IN NAMIBIA/ZAMBIA
Records beaten by >5C >1000m asl
36.4 Ondagwa
35.2 Katima Mulilo
34.9 Rundu min 20.6
34.8 Omaruru
34.5 Gobabis min 21.6
34.7 Mongu
34.6 Sesheke
GHANA also keeps breaking records no stop since January.
Today hottest day in history in May at:
41.5 Tamale
40.4 Yendi
Insane 46.3 in ALGERIA in the beginning of May also unprecedented
It will get worse, with 47/48C in North Africa and 35/38C in this Southern Africa late autumn
#GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency ##ClimateChange #TomorrowIsTooLate #Africa #Heatwave
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT FROM TEXAS TO ARGENTINA
BOLIVIA MAX RECORDS
37.9 San Matias
36.8 Robore
RECORD HOT NIGHTS MINIMUMS
28 Puerto Casado PARAGUAY
25.5 Santa Cruz BOLIVIA
28.6 San Andres COLOMBIA
26.6 Piarco TRINIDAD TOBAGO
27.7 Carravelle MARTINIQUE
27.9 Vigie ST LUCIA
#GlobalHeating #ClimateEmergency ##ClimateChange #TomorrowIsTooLate
#World’s top #ClimateScientists expect #GlobalHeating to blast past 1.5C target | #ClimateCrisis | The Guardian
Savage heatwave conditions across vast swathes of Asia over the last week. That’s in late April.
#GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe #TomorrowIsTooLate #ClimateChange #Environment
#GlobalHeating likely to hit world #food supply before 1.5C, says #UN expert | #Desertification | The Guardian
Climate action is the best way to defeat Putin
According to the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), the quickest way to reduce our dependence on Russian gas is not by ramping up drilling of North Sea gas fields, but by rolling out electric heat-pumps and home insulation.
Heat-pumps provide heating for homes and water for much cheaper than gas boilers, by using electricity.
The ECIU’s conservative analysis shows that the 4% of gas demand Britain gets from Russia could be wiped out in just five years by installing heat-pumps and proper insulation in 6.5 million homes. Heat-pumps are now already cheaper to operate than gas boilers – so they would not only get rid of gas dependence, but make heating homes far cheaper.
https://bylinetimes.com/2022/09/09/how-is-energy-transformation-key-to-defeating-vladimir-putin/
#Putin #Ukraine #Russia #war #UK #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #HeatPumps #insulation #GlobalHeating #FossilFuels
City tells New Yorkers: don’t panic about ‘splooting’ squirrels | New York | The Guardian
It’s baking hot in New York, which can only mean one thing for the city’s small mammal population: it’s splooting season.
#science #environment #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #heatwave #animals #sploot
James Lovelock: Influential green thinker dies aged 103 | BBC News
British scientist James Lovelock, who devoted his life to the global green movement, has died on his 103rd birthday, his family has said.
#science #environment #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #Gaia #JamesLovelock
All-in-one solar tower produces jet fuel from CO2, water and sunlight | New Atlas
Taking carbon dioxide, water and sunlight as its only inputs, this solar thermal tower in Spain produces carbon-neutral, sustainable versions of diesel and jet fuel. Built and tested by researchers at ETH Zurich, it's a promising clean fuel project.
#science #environment #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #transport
Dutch climate scientists say the world is FOBAR
Dutch scientists say the global heating is already above the agreed two degrees and us expected to reach at least three degrees.
This temperature increase will lead to catastrophic events that threaten life on earth as we know it.
Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
Water scarcity is a major problem for much of the world’s population, but with the right equipment drinking water can be wrung out of thin air. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have now demonstrated a low-cost gel film that can pull many liters of water per day out of even very dry air.
The gel is made up of two main ingredients that are cheap and common – cellulose, which comes from the cell walls of plants, and konjac gum, a widely used food additive. Those two components work together to make a gel film that can absorb water from the air and then release it on demand, without requiring much energy.
#science #environment #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #water
https://newatlas.com/materials/drinking-water-harvester-air-gel-film/
