from Bill McKibben’s substack post “Big Oil is addicted, but it’s killing the rest of us”
Yesterday afternoon, the British medical journal The Lancet published a vast and remarkable assessment of the health impacts of climate change.
Global temperatures will increase between 2.1 and 2.9C by the end of the century even if all climate promises are kept, according to a UN report.
Minerva Lithium has produced Nano Mosaic, a coordinated polymer framework that looks a bit like black gravel and extracts lithium from brine in just three days.
Despite a high-profile promise to boost ambitions at last year’s U.N. climate summit, nations have shaved just 1 percent off their projected greenhouse gas emissions for 2030, a new United Nations report found — leaving Earth on track to blow past a safe temperature threshold by almost a full degree.
Investment in renewable energy will need to hit $1.3 trillion a year by 2030 for the world to be on track to limit global temperatures set out in the Paris climate accord.
That’s the latest assessment from the International Energy Agency, which revised up the figure from $1 trillion in a previous forecast.
from Fast Company Because they sit on the edge of roofs, they pair well with solar panels. If a building also has batteries to store the energy, it could be totally self-sufficient. BY ADELE PETERS…
from The Guardian With 22 days hitting 110F or higher, suspected heat deaths in the Arizona capital topped 450 by Nina Lakhani | 8 Oct 2022 Extreme heat contributed to as many as 450 deaths…
Credit Suisse published a research note about America’s new climate law, The Inflation Reduction Act, the bank argued, is even more important than has been recognized so far: The IRA will “will have a profound effect across industries in the next decade and beyond” and could ultimately shape the direction of the American economy,
from NYTimes By Raymond Zhong Oct. 5, 2022 Human-caused global warming has made severe droughts like the ones this summer in Europe, North America and China at least 20 times as likely to occur…
Here is a very informative, 5-minute YouTube video explaining how water from the Colorado River is used and some smart, politically viable ways to conserve it.
Liberals calling for changes to NEPA? Be it outright repeal or, as here, reforms to 1) give clean energy equal regulatory footing; 2) add limits to judicial review; 3) designate “energy security corridors” and 4) collect data on environmental reviews.
I was pleased to see the following positioning paper from CCL, guiding our efforts for both this Fall, the election and preparing for the new Congress. Guidance on the future of the Energy Innovation and…
