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CelloMomOnCars

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Climate-friendly cars that fit the planet and the budget - and the cello
Plus climate news

http://www.cellomomcars.com/

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CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"The seventh edition of the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) covers conditions during 2023.

Overall, the frequency and severity of extreme events is increasing. Estimates indicate #EconomicLosses from weather- and #climate-related events in #Europe reached €13.4 billion in 2023. Millions of people were affected, and at least 151 lives were lost in due to flooding, storms, and wildfires."

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/news/news/observer-esotc-2023-europe-experienced-extraordinary-year-extremes-record-breaking

CelloMomOnCars,
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Less snow, smaller glaciers, more extreme heat, more heat deaths, widespread flooding and also wildfires.

But also:
"In 2023, a record proportion of actual electricity generation in Europe was from renewable sources, at 43%, compared to 36% in 2022."

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/news/news/observer-esotc-2023-europe-experienced-extraordinary-year-extremes-record-breaking

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"Over the last 12 months, human-caused #ClimateChange added an average of 26 days of #ExtremeHeat (on average, across all places in the world) than there would have been without a warmed planet.

This report also demonstrates the crucial role of tracking and reporting on impacts in extreme heat assessment, and offers actionable solutions to #HeatRisk."

https://www.climatecentral.org/report/climate-change-and-the-escalation-of-global-extreme-heat

CelloMomOnCars, to Hydrogen
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"The current plan puts roughly 15 of MACH2’s 25 projects in southeast . These include facilities that will produce using steam reformation, nuclear energy, and renewable energy sources such as solar.

Spotlight PA interviews with a dozen stakeholders and a review of feedback from public meetings overwhelmingly show concern, rather than enthusiasm."

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/05/pennsylvania-biden-administration-hydrogen-hubs-community-benefits-public-input/

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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" The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Monday continued hearings in Brazil for a requested advisory opinion on countries' obligations related to the #FossilFuel-driven #climate emergency. "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-change-and-human-rights

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"Caribbean leader blasts 'empty' climate promises at small islands summit

Browne called for more financing, a on oil companies, an end to and a faster transition to renewable energy sources. He urged rich nations to honor a pledge to send $100 billion a year to poorer countries to help reduce emissions and mitigate extreme weather."

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/caribbean-leader-blasts-empty-climate-promises-small-islands-summit-2024-05-27/

CelloMomOnCars, (edited )
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"UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday it is "obscene" that small island states, which are on the front line of climate change, should pay for the fossil fuel industry's greed and competition between major economies."

[Edit to include correct link]
https://tribune.net.ph/2024/05/27/un-chief-says-obscene-that-small-islands-pay-climate-consequences
#SIDS

CelloMomOnCars, to HashtagGames
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What time is it
-- four thirty
It's not late, No, No!
It's time to chase this ping-pong ball

#SongsOnCatsPlaylist
#HashTagGames

CelloMomOnCars, to HashtagGames
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Talkin' 'bout my veneration

#SongsOnCatsPlaylist
#HashTagGames

CelloMomOnCars, to worldwithoutus
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"On May 20th, 2024, an #iceberg measuring 380 square kilometers (~147 mi2) broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in #Antarctica.

The ongoing loss of Antarctic ice is one of the clearest indications of rising global temperatures and a dire warning."

https://www.sciencealert.com/gigantic-iceberg-in-antarctica-tears-loose-in-major-calving-event
#A83

CelloMomOnCars, to southafrica
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"#SouthAfrica’s three major parties fail to adequately address the climate crisis in their #election manifestos

The manifestos of the ANC, DA and EFF abjectly fail to grasp the seriousness of the #climate emergency."

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2024-05-26-south-africas-three-major-parties-fail-to-adequately-address-the-climate-crisis-in-their-election-manifestos/

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"The #cement industry alone accounts for nearly eight percent of human-caused CO2 #emissions.

The Cambridge researchers approached the problem by looking at an industry that was already well established—steel recycling, which uses electric-powered furnaces to produce the alloy.

Instead of waste being produced, the end result was recycled cement ready for use in #concrete, bypassing the emissions-heavy process of superheating limestone in kilns."

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-scientists-emission-cement.html

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" An electric arc furnace needs a "flux" material, usually lime, to purify the steel. At the end of the process, the used flux is discarded as a waste material. So for the Cambridge method, the lime flux was swapped out for the recycled #cement paste. And sure enough, not only was it able to purify the steel just fine, but if the leftover slag is cooled quickly in air, it becomes new Portland cement. "

https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/05/25/2052243/proposed-zero-carbon-cement-solution-called-absolute-miracle

kateiacy, to climate

I am grateful for our comfortable basement and for the good weather warnings these days. I can't believe that some new houses are being built here without basements. I read yesterday that Iowa has already had 83 tornadoes this spring, and it isn't even tornado season yet. Insurance companies are pulling out of Iowa because storm damage losses are so great. #ClimateChange
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/05/23/iowa-insurance-commission-looks-add-more-options-insurance-companies-pull-out-iowa/

CelloMomOnCars,
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@kateiacy

In other places, more prone to flooding than to tornadoes, a basement is a liability.

With climate change, we need to build according to the local conditions. Really can't use the same cookie cutter all across the nation any more.

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"Searing #heatwaves could be a common theme this summer in parts of the United States and might make it one of the hottest on record, according to an updated outlook released Thursday by The Weather Company and Atmospheric G2.

The West Coast, from California to southwest Washington, might be the exception. "

https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2024-05-15-summer-forecast-temperatures-united-states

CelloMomOnCars,
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"More than a million customers in are without power Tuesday as powerful delivered another round of violent weather to the state still reeling from an almost unrelenting parade of destructive and deadly storms in recent weeks."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/weather/texas-southern-plains-storm-forecast-tuesday/index.html

CelloMomOnCars,
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Over the Memorial Day weekend:

"A corridor of devastation running from north of Dallas to the north-west corner of Arkansas, recorded the highest concentration of death and destruction.

Harold Brooks, a senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, said a persistent pattern of warm, moist air is to blame for the string of tornadoes over the past two months."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/27/storms-destruction-across-central-us

CelloMomOnCars,
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"#Phoenix’s population is booming, making it the second-fastest growing U.S. city from 2021 to 2022. That’s also when heat deaths started to surge, after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a pandemic-era eviction moratorium, pushing more people onto the streets.

Now, heat is the second-biggest killer of #homeless people in the county, behind drug overdoses."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/americas-hottest-city-phoenix-00158243

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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Biden administration puts $830M to helping protect #infrastructure from #climate-fueled #ExtremeWeather

"Most of the funding, $621 million, will go toward 36 projects aimed at bolstering the resilience of existing infrastructure through things like improving draining, moving roadways, and lifting up bridges.

An additional $119 million will go toward protecting, strengthening, or removing at-risk coastal infrastructure like highways."

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4587007-biden-administration-puts-830m-to-helping-protect-infrastructure-from-climate-fueled-extreme-weather/
#WhatBidenDid

CelloMomOnCars, (edited )
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Why the we all need to tell our friends about what #WhatBidenDid to protect the climate:

  1. Federal climate action is popular.
  2. It get more popular once you explain it.
  3. People hate Trump’s positions on the issue.

Also this summer is expected to bring searing heat and mean hurricanes: Stay safe, AND use them as opportunities to talk about climate change.

https://cleantechnica.com/2024/05/25/bill-mckibben-thinks-climate-change-is-the-key-to-a-biden-win-in-november/

[Edit:] Scroll up and down this thread to see #WhatBidenDid for climate

CelloMomOnCars,
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"The boom in clean energy projects is astounding. Since the passage of the IRA in 2022, incentives provided by the law helped drive $332 billion in new investments in #CleanEnergy and transportation technologies. Almost all of that was private investments, as opposed to government spending, spurred on by an estimated $48 billion in federal tax credits.

While much of the #IRA is working as intended, the American public is largely unaware of the story."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/climate/the-biden-clean-energy-boom.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uE0.QKiF.B6G6SkWeQlzQ
#WhatBidenDid

CelloMomOnCars, to food
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, 2023 edition

"The lost more than 90% of this year’s crop after a February heat wave followed by two late-spring frosts.

and agricultural groups said they can’t remember a more devastated crop.

Peach prices climb"


https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/georgia-peach-shortage/index.html

CelloMomOnCars,
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"Global warming is bringing on a succession of negative effects on a range of marine creatures across , such as the relocated habitats of fish and fluctuations in catches.

Concerns are growing that the summer expected this year as well may further exacerbate the situation.
The total seafood catch in Japan has been on a continuous decline."

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15244124

CelloMomOnCars,
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"#Morocco’s harvest of three main grains, soft #wheat, #durum, and #barley, dropped 43% to 3.12 million tons in 2024, due to a severe #drought that slashes cultivated areas."

https://northafricapost.com/77635-drought-ditches-moroccos-cereals-harvest-by-43-in-2024.html

#ClimateInflation

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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The will make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like a walk in the park. With ice cream.

" Rising seas, bigger , and other increasing hazards have created a dangerous instability in the U.S. financial system. "

That, on top of developers building in flood plains and wildfire-prone places, and the US government providing the .


https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/04/bubble-trouble-climate-change-is-creating-a-huge-and-growing-u-s-real-estate-bubble/

CelloMomOnCars,
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"Even as insurers withdraw from -vulnerable regions, they continue to invest in and insure ― the very industry at the heart of the climate crisis. This omission points to a larger, uncomfortable truth about the insurance sector’s complicity in the crisis of our time, leading us to an uninsurable future."

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/2024/05/23/insurance-hypocrisy-climate-change-warnings-fossil-fuels-backing/73806987007/

CelloMomOnCars,
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"Iowa’s Insurance Commissioner said he’s concerned about the number of insurance companies that have left the state because of severe weather and the increasing costs to repair the damage."

https://www.kcrg.com/2024/05/23/iowa-insurance-commission-looks-add-more-options-insurance-companies-pull-out-iowa/

An entire article about the climate-fueled insurance crisis, and not a word about #ClimateChange, just "extreme weather".

CelloMomOnCars,
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@SeumanOtwal

That explains it.
They don't need to be part of that Sinclair network to ignore climate change, then.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@justafrog

But insurers are still covering risks for, and investing in, fossil fuel companies, even as they are walking away from home owners.

And if you look at the language in this piece, it's all about "extreme weather", not about climate.

CelloMomOnCars,
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@justafrog

It doesn't make sense for them to insure / invest in an industry that makes their payouts to homeowners much higher.
Honestly they're shooting themselves in the foot in the long term - maybe they're just looking for the next quarterly results, but I suspect their actuaries (if they're worth their salt) are starting to get louder in their warnings.

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