GND Plus is a five-point plan that gives shape to an essential, additional dimension to all existing Green New Deal discussions and plans - that of not just green prosperity, but peaceful green prosperity.
av Arash Gelichkan 24 jan 2020
"Ett förnybart energisystem förutsätter planering, kollektivt samarbete och framförallt gemensamt ägande."
"Vi lever inte i människans tidsålder, antropocen, utan det är kapitalismen som formar världen idag."
By By Barry Saxifrage in Opinion | National Observer, July 31st 2019,
Global fossil burning keeps rising relentlessly as the world sprints away from climate safety. Here are ten charts from the latest data to show you what's happening and who's doing it.
A small footnote here: since 1990 -- stop a second to take this in -- humanity has burned approximately half of all the fossil fuels it’s ever consumed. As my father used to say to me, “Put that in your pipe and smoke it.” And by the way, in the age of Donald Trump, U.S. carbon emissions are once again surging (as they are globally as well).
... Fight with the truth Skewed and partial e-mails do not disprove anthropogenic climate change. Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studi...
Reducing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions is one of the greatest challenges of this century. How are emissions changing over time? How are they distributed across the world? Which countries are doing well and poorly in decarbonization? See global and country-level data on CO₂ emissions.
All quantities are presented in units of gigatonnes of carbon (GtC, 10[upphöjt]15 gC), which is the same as petagrams of carbon (PgC; Table 1). Units of gigatonnes of CO2 (or billion tonnes of CO2) used in policy are equal to 3.664 multiplied by the value in units of GtC.
by Nafeez Ahmed Oct 24 2019
The report says a combination of global starvation, war, disease, drought, and a fragile power grid could have cascading, devastating effects.
The report, titled Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army, was launched by the U.S. Army War College in partnership with NASA in May at the Wilson Center in Washington DC. The report was commissioned by Gen. Milley during his previous role as the Army’s Chief of Staff. It was made publicly available in August via the Center for Climate and Security, but didn't get a lot of attention at the time.
Bizarrely for a report styling itself around the promotion of environmental stewardship in the Army, the report identifies the Arctic as a critical strategic location for future US military involvement: to maximize fossil fuel consumption.
Jan Öberg 25.9.19: "...entire systems approaching existential breakdown – and not because of foreign adversaries but because of their own morally corrupt actions and policies – or system fatique: systems so worn out and tired (of itself, too) that the don’t have the energy needed for re-vitalization.
Article in the Intercept 15 Sept, 2019, features Rabindranath Tagore and Neta Craword's (Boston university) study "Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War"
Neta C. Crawford1 Boston University
The company is attracting attention by talking up a favorite cause célèbre for companies and utilities: resilience in the face of climate change.
What stands in the way of Bloom's progress? The most obvious obstacle is the company's current reliance on natural gas as a fuel source. Not only are its installations dependent on the availability of distribution infrastructure, but Bloom also likely will be called upon more often to discuss how it handles methane, a super pollutant associated with natural gas and biogas that is a more potent contributor to global warming than carbon dioxide.
by Brian Cloughley March 22, 2019: “I never asked once what the new NATO headquarters cost. I refuse to do that, but it is beautiful” — President Trump. According to NATO, the cost of its new building in Brussels was 1.1 billion Euros (1.23 billon dollars). 2019 is a year of interesting commemorations, among them the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary
October 2010: The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.
Olli Tammilehdon arvostelu kirjasta James Hoggan & Richard Littlemore: Climate Cover-up, The Crusade to Deny Global Warming. Greystone Books, Vancouver 2009, 250 s.
By M.V.Ramana, the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC, 7 Nov, 2018. Ottawa is pushing a new smaller, modular nuclear plant (SMR) that could only pay off if mass produced.
Michael Mann, TRNN 10.10.18 "So yeah, you know, there are no arguments that can be made that it would be great if we were to see maybe more action when it comes to policies on natural gas and pipelines. But you know, first we have to tackle this problem one piece at a time. And Jerry Brown has taken on a huge challenge in putting forward policies that have the potential to make the largest dent in this problem, putting a price on carbon so we level the energy playing field so renewable energy can compete compete fairly against fossil fuel energy in the marketplace. And if we do that, we know that we’re going to further accelerate this transition that is already underway away from the continued burning of these dirty fossil fuels towards a clean renewable energy future."
Ledare. Andreas Gustavsson. Etc 9.10.2018. "Varför inte investera tungt direkt? Rensa energi från fossila bränslen, bygga transportleder med minimala utsläpp, organisera ett mindre destruktivt jordbruk. Allt det där är rätt, tycker William Nordhaus. Men hans strategi utgår från att vi har mer välutvecklade finansiella muskler imorgon jämfört med vad vi har idag, så bättre att skjuta tills imorgon. Inte allt, men mycket. Det är hans nödutgång. Eftersom att ekonomiska resurser är begränsade kan de inte uteslutande användas för kommande generationers räkning. Dessutom kommer våra barn och barnbarn att ha andra förutsättningar. Ja, han tänker sig givetvis fortsatt tillväxt. The Economist sammanfattar:
”Eftersom framtida generationer sannolikt kommer att bli mycket rikare än vi är, är det inte mer meningsfullt för oss att offra vårt välbefinnande för dem än att förvänta sig att bönder från 1800-talet skulle gå utan välling så att vi kan köpa fler datorer.”
William Nordhaus räknar baklänges. Tre procent i diskonteringsränta, så mycket ska vi idag betala för framtiden. Som vore kalkylen ens möjlig. Det här är ett extraordinärt tossigt sätt att hantera klimatkrisen. Eller inte hantera."