EVs & hybrids are good for #climate. Ford's EV & hybrid sales are up, which is a good sign that many Americans care about mitigating the #climatecrisis.
✈️Turbulence is up ~15%, air travel is more dangerous bc of #climatechange. Are pilots being trained to avoid sudden turbulence? Should some flights be delayed or cancelled for air safety?
TSP Sec Buttigieg: "An increase in flight turbulence is one of the effects of CC that are already upon us in terms of our transp. -the deadly turbulence on a recent Singapore Air flight is "very rare," but... can happen & sometimes it can happen unexpectedly."
Another day, another✈️turbulence incident, likely caused by #climatechange:
Turbulence hits Qatar Airways flight to Dublin, injuring 12 people. The flight hit by turbulence while en route from Doha to Dublin on Sun, officials said.
The flight QR107, which landed in Dublin just before 1 p.m. local time, experienced turbulence while airborne over Turkey, Dublin Airport officials said in a statement. The aircraft was met by emergency personnel.
Americans are largely in the dark about the catastrophic effects of #ClimateChange bc it's not being regularly reported. Many Brazilians are in a dire situation while they grieve lost loved ones, homes...
The university harbors 1000s of people and is the largest camp for the displaced amid a growing humanitarian crisis in the state of 10M inhabitants. >580K ppl: displaced, with almost 70K -depend on shelters & 2.3M affected by the torrential rain & floods.
The world's biggest renewables & storage project, in northern Australia, will have 12 GW of wind, 12 GW of solar, and 32 GWh of storage. It will supply both Singapore & Australia. The project will likely be rolled out in two stages – with the first sized at 12 GW of wind & solar and 16 GWh of battery storage.
Will the #Tech IDU prioritize mitigating #climatechange & improving tech for users, or will they only work on hyping #A1, #crypto, ...?
CC is the apparent reason for increased air turbulence...
Passengers on board the Singapore Airlines flight that encountered severe turbulence in the skies over Asia suffered traumatic harm ranging from spinal cord to skull & brain injuries. Medics are still treating a wide-range of injuries, including some severe ones-.
"Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say. Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth & securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing-."
MSM isn't sounding the alarm about the dangerous consequences of #climatechange. The "truth is so obscure in these times, we cannot know it', bc the #BigOil lobby is powerful & well funded.
The Asian/SE Asian heat wave is now being called the
"most extreme climate event in history." It's still spring but hundreds of Ms of people across South & SE Asia have already faced scorching hot temps -setting records & even claiming lives💔-expected to get much worse.
ICYMI, the WaPo is warning readers about the #climatecrisis.
"One of the most rapid sea level surges on Earth is besieging the American South, forcing a reckoning for coastal communities across 8 states. At over a dozen tide gauges spanning from TX to NC, sea levels are at least 6 inches higher than they were in 2010. Scientists are documenting a barrage of impacts -ones that'll confront an even larger swath of US coastal comms. in the coming decades."
#AQI in the US is⬇️, 2 in 5 breathe unhealthy air:
>131M ppl: exposed to harmful ozone & particle (PM 2.5) pollution -reps an 11.7M⬆️from the previous yr.
Exposure to these pollutants can raise the risk of lung & heart disease, asthma attacks...
Since 1970 -combined emissions of 6 widespread air pollutants incl. PM 2.5 dropped by 78%. In recent years, #pollution from wildfire smoke has reversed the improvements to air quality stemming from fed protections.
Blocking the industrial road would be an enormous victory for opponents who have argued for years that it would threaten #wildlife as well as #Alaska Native tribes that rely on hunting & fishing.
…The move comes as the #Biden admin tries to find a balance between 2 different & sometimes opposing goals.
🚨MSM: noticing the #ClimateCrisis bc of coral bleaching:
1st Fiji, then the FL Keys, AU’s Great Barrier Reef, & now: the Indian Ocean. In the past year, anomalous ocean temps. have left a trail of devastation for the world’s corals, bleaching entire reefs & threatening widespread coral mortality & now, scientists with the NOAA & ICRI say the world is currently experiencing its 4th global bleaching event, 2nd in the last decade.
"This drop in battery cost to below $60/kWh in 2024 will allow the wholesale transition of the world to 100% #WindWaterSolar at low cost faster than predicted."
-MJ Jacobson
"World's largest EV battery maker says prices in 2024 will drop 50% to $56/kWh
This is gargantuan - and will accelerate EV cars, trucks, trains, ships, planes and BESS."
-A Razzouk
When huge amounts of solar power rush onto the grid, batteries tend to follow. Now, TX is building more grid batteries than CA.
Developers are expected to complete 6.4 GWs of new grid battery capacity in TX this year, >2X the 5.6 GWs of battery capacity it ended 2023 with -as much battery capacity as the entire US built last year -a record year for the energy storage IDU -outpaces the 5.2 GWs set to come online in CA-.
By 2054, parts of CA, could experience as many as 3 months of poor air quality in a bad year. Areas of WA & OR could see up to a month of it acc to -new analysis from First Street *nonprofit that assesses climate risks. Their air quality model forecasts the number of bad air days—days with a level of >100 on the AQI that communities will experience this year & the future -could have a significant impact on PH.
Neue Studie zum Kipppunkt der Atlantikströmung. „Das Risiko ist inakzeptabel hoch.“ @rahmstorf
Das ist genau der Punkt, worauf jede politische Partei ihr Wahlprogramm checken und ausrichten müsste. Auch weil Wähler genau das erwarten, weil sie statt „Krimi“ oder „Schmonzette“ um 20:15 informiert wurden. #ActOnClimate
Feds ignored #climatechange, conservationists tell appeals court. Conservationist groups asked the US Dept of the Interior to consider emerging climate science & the severe potential of climate change in updating its mgt plan in 2016 for the Glen Canyon Dam *water level at 3,564 ft. Experts say the dam will lose hydropower if the water level drops below 3,490 ft.
"This is the kind of nonsense argument you get from polluters when it’s free to pollute. With a real price on carbon emissions (per Econ 101), they’d be investing in pollution-reduction technologies. But why, when it’s free to pollute?" -Sen Whitehouse
Exxon's chief exec said that his company’s growing carbon capture and storage business faces challenges in both technology & cost.