#fuels
Extreme #Heat Is Here to Stay
source: https://www.wired.com/story/gadget-lab-podcast-609/
And I fear that that is distracting from the real #problem here, which is just the burning of #fossil #fuels. It's these planetary criminal companies that are destroying our #civilization.
#economy #globalization #energy #oil #future #climate #weather #temperature #co2 #emissions #earth #news #humanity
Is it ok, that #fossil #fuels are 30 times more subsidized than #renewables?
watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr_KyGYTGN8
No #painting was harmed during the #protest.
#environment #future #energy #humanity #fuel #earth #climate #crisis #co2 #emissions
Switching from #fossil #fuels to #renewable #energy could save the world as much as $12tn by 2050, an Oxford University study says.
The report said it was wrong and pessimistic to claim that moving quickly towards cleaner energy sources was expensive.
That is $13 trillion out of the pockets of energy companies. That is the main reason they are pushing #Nuclear and #Hydrogen solutions.
#Economy #Environment
#Carbon #Removal Isn’t the #Solution to #Climate #Change
source: https://newrepublic.com/article/165996/carbon-removal-cdr-ipcc-climate-change
"But part of the reason we are about to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius is that these scenarios have acted as self-fulfilling prophesies. The scenarios have created the whole idea of carbon removal to show policymakers how we could continue to use #fossil #fuels and, supposedly, still hit our climate targets by 'reversing' global heating with massive amounts of CDR #technology. Instead of modeling how to stop using #coal, #oil, and #gas in time to halt warming directly, they have told policymakers 'we need CDR,' offering maps that have led us right to the levels of #warming we will see in the coming decades."
...
"The models aren’t pricing in the risk that CDR might fail. Nor do they price the risks of the way that building and deploying planetary-scale CDR might compete with other industries or constrain energy supplies. They don’t consider the possibility that global heating might lead to fire or flood destroying bioenergy crops, making CDR itself more expensive and difficult. The integrated assessment models also assume that the economy is and will remain at full capacity, frictionless, and cost-optimized. And they take for granted the economy will continue to grow exponentially despite global #heating, because they estimate climate damages will cost only a few percentage points on the margins. And so they imagine that everyone will be richer later this century, which allows them to find that removing carbon dioxide later will be relatively cheaper than phasing out fossil fuels now."
#co2 #emissions #news #politics #economy #crisis #environment #pollution #future #world #earth #fail #problem
Air pollution is slashing years off the lives of billions, report finds
“ #Air #pollution is the greatest #external #threat to #human #health on the #planet, and that is not widely recognised, or not recognised with the force and vigour that one might expect."
#environment #energy #climate #crisis #coal #burning #fossil #fuels #greenhouse #gas #emissions #wildfires #dirty-air #life #aqli #report
Renewables now half the price of fossil fuels across Europe, says report
Generating electricity from renewable sources in Europe is now half the price of fossil fuels as polluting power production on the continent fails to recover from the pandemic and renewables grow, according to a new report by the Ember energy thinktank.
https://www.pv-tech.org/renewables-now-half-the-price-of-fossil-fuels-across-europe-says-report/
#fossil, #ember, #union, #renewables, #news, #fuels, #european, #demand, #energy
