Climate Change

[steviewevie]

Balance of power: why Loch Ness hydro storage schemes are stirring up trouble | Hydropower | The Guardian

[Skip997]

Just how evil are we prepared to get 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87121e0j4yo?fbclid=IwY2xjawJPUdBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ_aXKy1Nusq8Z4K4S8I3ZLvMO-P6ci1_7xYGOYyrNqT_P9bhVYwOUbLVg_aem_KnXqjRgWGfUsPV4xIyU20g

[kaosmark2]

3 hours ago, Skip997 said:

Just how evil are we prepared to get 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c87121e0j4yo?fbclid=IwY2xjawJPUdBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZ_aXKy1Nusq8Z4K4S8I3ZLvMO-P6ci1_7xYGOYyrNqT_P9bhVYwOUbLVg_aem_KnXqjRgWGfUsPV4xIyU20g

WTF that's batshit.

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

From National Grid: Live

[Skip997]

Told you

[steviewevie]

46 minutes ago, Skip997 said:

Told you

Capitalism will destroy the climate first.

[Skip997]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

Capitalism will destroy the climate first.

Yeah 

[steviewevie]

At least this killing of global trade and growth and wealth will be good for the climate.

[charlierc]

11 hours ago, steviewevie said:

At least this killing of global trade and growth and wealth will be good for the climate.

Feel like I heard somewhere that carbon emissions rose during 2020 despite the collapse of international air travel. So if you're looking for a silver lining, seek it elsewhere.

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, charlierc said:

Feel like I heard somewhere that carbon emissions rose during 2020 despite the collapse of international air travel. So if you're looking for a silver lining, seek it elsewhere.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions

[steviewevie]

Hopefully Trump will take us back to pre 20th century when everything was great.

[charlierc]

22 hours ago, steviewevie said:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276629/global-co2-emissions

Perhaps I had incorrect data. Although it didn't exactly fall by that much.

 

I've pondered for a while if the Internet is a real carbon-intensive thing that we might have to rethink to make it more carbon friendly, and that was even before all this carbon-heavy AI bollocks.

[steviewevie]

10 minutes ago, charlierc said:

Perhaps I had incorrect data. Although it didn't exactly fall by that much.

 

I've pondered for a while if the Internet is a real carbon-intensive thing that we might have to rethink to make it more carbon friendly, and that was even before all this carbon-heavy AI bollocks.

What we need is a global depression so no one can afford anything.

[steviewevie]

US against plan for levy on carbon emissions from ships, leak suggests | Shipping industry | The Guardian

[stuie]

Stop screwing around with windmills and dig more coal 🤯😂

 

 

[Skip997]

Just for Trump and anyone else that needs to know (making no presumptions). 
 

A device that turns a mill stone to grind grain is called a windmill.

 

A device that drives a turbine to produce electricity is called a wind turbine. 
 

 

[steviewevie]

Will global climate action be a casualty of Trump’s tariffs? | Climate crisis | The Guardian

[steviewevie]

Not really climate change, but air pollution...but this is the change over last few decades in Paris from anti-car policies...

[kaosmark2]

57 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

Not really climate change, but air pollution...but this is the change over last few decades in Paris from anti-car policies...

But what will the rich people do? Y'know, the ones who don't want to live in the city centre with all the filthy commoners, but want to drive in for restaurants and events.

[steviewevie]

21 minutes ago, kaosmark2 said:

But what will the rich people do? Y'know, the ones who don't want to live in the city centre with all the filthy commoners, but want to drive in for restaurants and events.

tbf it isn't just rich people who complain here.

[kaosmark2]

4 hours ago, steviewevie said:

tbf it isn't just rich people who complain here.

I love city centre restrictions on vehicles me. Therefore everyone who doesn't is wrong.

[SPW]

Having worked a bit on London's air quality/green agenda, the attitude and resistance towards green policies can be a bit depressing with it used as a lazy political football which in turn fuels resistance among many. The culture/attitude underpinning the Paris approach has been impressive from what I've seen. 

 

The other thing evident across much of 'industry' is that during a sustained period of austerity here there is constant pressure on costs and efficiencies. Typically that follows a hierarchy of safety and meeting at least minimum levels of 'acceptable' service provision before green investment gets a look in so schemes get deferred / chopped (despite often also having positive financial benefits also over the long-term).  Privatised utilities and public services has compounded that with added drain of dividends etc. rather than reinvestment in infrastructure.

[steviewevie]

Could taking carbon out of the sea cool down the planet? - BBC News

[steviewevie]

Was it the courts, the cops, or The Sun who killed Just Stop Oil?