"According to the U.S. Geological Survey, if just 2% of estimated global underground #hydrogen reserves could be tapped, it would be thousands of times more than the projected 2050 demand for low-carbon hydrogen in a net-zero world."
February is looking like being the hottest in human history... and as we realise that we have already passed the 1.5C threshold #netzero was intended to stop us reaching, we may be about to find out in 2024 that we have (actually) reached the tipping point expected by #climate scientists for some time.
Every week has brought new & worsening news about the #climatecrisis; anyone thinking #greenpolitics can continue to be downplayed really has not being paying attention!
Did you know that the amount of grid-tied batteries on the U.S. electricity grid is expected to almost double this year?
What can we do to help make these stories on the climate progress we're making get more attention? We know from the way the right side of the aisle succeeds at selling their stories is repeating them over and over and over. I think that we need to talk up climate solutions more.
The Earth is currently out of thermal equilibrium, meaning more energy from the sun is being trapped by the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere than is escaping back to space. Over 90% of this extra heat is going into warming the oceans. However, as the oceans continue to warm, they will take up less heat from the atmosphere and global average surface temperatures will rise further.
#Labour MPs are warning they face a growing challenge from a well-funded slate of independent candidates opposed to Keir Starmer’s position on the Israel-Gaza war, amid an increasingly coordinated campaign in the build-up to the next election.
Mapping Sydney’s Microclimates to Combat Impacts of Rising Heat
200 bespoke temperature gauges have been strategically positioned across #Sydney to accurately measure local heat island effects and help prepare the community for hotter summers.
The City of Sydney has set a goal to be net zero by 2035. It aims to increase tree canopy cover to 27%, and green cover to 40% by 2050.
“Sydney is one of the most liveable cities in the world but we need to prepare now for our future climate so we can all adapt and thrive.”
#ClimateDiary Thursday, 1st February 2024. #Labour announce they will drop their flagship £28 billion annual green Investment pledge (reducing it by about two thirds).
It feels like the backlash against climate and #NetZero policies is gaining momentum everywhere. I hope I am wrong (and know good stuff is happening too - eg Biden halting LNG projects was pretty major), but that’s what it feels like.
Ahh those Net Zero pledges are looking more than threadbare. And it is not even for energy security. Just a means of rewarding Tories and their donors.
Even though recent figures have shown that new filed are not contributing to #energy security as claimed (around 80% of the oil is exported), we'll still hear that tired lie trotted out.
Rather the #Tories are in the pockets of the fossil fuel lobby & aren't even trying to hide in the twilight of this administration.
The IEA forecasts that #nuclear#energy production will reach a new historic high in 2025, partly through new reactors in China & India coming on line & partly due French reactors returning to generation.
If you think #nuclearpower is an important part of reaching #netzero then this looks to be pretty good news...
If you, on the other hand, think we are storing up contamination problems for future generations, perhaps not so much.
What it does show is the success of the nuclear lobby.
WaPo finally posted a modest critique of meat industry greenwashing.
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Under another new California law, companies also must disclose the emissions created throughout their supply chains, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is working on a similar requirement.
It all has big food companies rushing to show progress in cutting emissions, particularly after so many of them promised to zero out their net release of greenhouse gases — known as going “carbon neutral” — by 2050 or earlier, in alignment with the Paris agreement on global warming. In the backdrop is a contentious debate over how those companies should calculate their carbon footprints.
The fight has shifted to an obscure independent organization called the GHG Protocol, a group made up of corporations, scientists and environmental groups that writes accounting rules for greenhouse gas emissions that will guide what climate claims companies can make under new state laws.
Among the companies involved in determining when and how farming and harvesting methods can be used to erase the emissions impact of products like hamburgers and dairy are McDonald’s, Nestlé and the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, to which meat giants Tyson Foods and Cargill belong.
The deliberations of the GHG Protocol, which is managed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, are kept confidential. But discord spilled into public in the fall, following its publication of draft guidelines for farm and forestry emissions. Dozens of environmental groups and academics say the rules as proposed would allow companies to declare climate-unfriendly products such as lumber, paper, beef and milk carbon neutral — or even carbon negative — by making modest land use adjustments that don’t truly mitigate the emissions of those products.
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There's certainly going to be more and more tension due to these corporations trying to find better greenwashing, better methods of faking data, more sophisticated bullshit.