Great idea! photovoltaic covers for irrigation canals

William P. Hall on February 26, 2022

Good for agriculture: Save scarce water from evaporation to pay for installing solar panel covers, supply energy, and generate profits

by Dan Gearino, 24/02/2022 in Inside Clean Energy
In Parched California, a Project Aims to Save Water and Produce Renewable Energy: Plan calls for building solar canopies over canals, and may be the first project of its kind in the United States [but not elsewhere]

Featured image: A conceptual rendering of solar canopies covering part of Turlock Irrigation District’s 110-foot-wide main canal, near Turlock, California. Credit: Turlock Irrigation District. From the article

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White House fights climate denial and delayed action

William P. Hall on February 26, 2022

Past denial & blocking of climate action is hurting society. How do we respond to accelerate effective action to deal with the emergency?

Maxine Joeslow, 24/02/2022 in The Washington Post Climate & Environment
White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay: Leading climate scientists will meet with officials in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

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Antarctic sea ice reaches NB4 low extent this summer

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

Southern sea ice coverage fell below 2 million km² for first time since satellite records began in 1979, exposing more ocean to solar heating

For details see NSIDC.org

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Gov’t gives fossil fuel free pass for excess emissions

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

A fifth of Australia’s fossil fuel facilities emit more more GHGs than approved – with no penalties/costs applied for excess emissions

by Adam Morton, 24/02/2022 in The Guardian
A fifth of Australia’s fossil fuel facilities emit more greenhouse gas than originally estimated, report says: Australian Conservation Foundation says blowouts show government’s safeguard mechanism is ‘failing’ to control industrial emissions.

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Global warming intensifies droughts and floods

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

Global warming is shifting ocean evaporation towards poles, robbing rain from already drought stricken areas to dump it on already wet areas

by Taimoor Sohail & Jan Zika, 24/02/2022 in The Conversation
Climate change is warping our fresh water cycle – and much faster than we thought: Fresh water cycles from ocean to air to clouds to rivers and back to the oceans. This constant shuttling can give us the illusion of certainty. Fresh water will always come from the tap. Won’t it? — Unfortunately, that’s not guaranteed. Climate change is shifting where the water cycle deposits water on land, with drier areas becoming drier still, and wet areas becoming even wetter.

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Look out! More and worse wildfires are coming for us

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

UN’s “Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires” warns positive feedbacks will accelerate warming and impacts

by Bob Berwyn, 23/02/2022 in Inside Climate News
Global Wildfire Activity to Surge in Coming Years: A new U.N. report says communities need to prepare for the growing threat by refocusing on prevention, rather than just reacting to fires as they happen.

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Read this! putting the climate emergency in context

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

This 50th Anniversary interview with a “Limits to Growth” author puts the work in context and shows more to do than just stopping warming

by Richard Heinberg & Dennis Meadows, 22/02/2022 in Resilience.org
Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth: Only rarely does a book truly change the world. In the nineteenth century, such a book was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. For the twentieth century, it was The Limits to Growth. Not only did this best-selling 1972 publication help spur the environmental movement, but it showed that the underlying dynamics of the modern industrial world are unsustainable on the timescale of a couple of human lifetimes.

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Facebook still spreading fake climate news & denial

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

Analysis shows that about half the posts from long established and well-known fake news publishers were posted with no warnings from Facebook

by Elizabeth Culliford, 24/02/2022 in Reuters Technology
Facebook did not label posts from top climate change deniers, report says: Facebook did not add labels to half of posts pushing content from top climate change deniers, according to an analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate

  • See also: The Toxic Ten: How 10 fringe publishers fuel 69% of digital climate change denial

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Easy ways to lower your carbon emissions footprint

William P. Hall on February 25, 2022

The article is from America and it lists several ways you can lower your carbon emissions — but no subsidy in Oz for replacing your gas guzzler!

by Washington Post Staff, 22/02/2022 in the Washington Post Climate Solutions
10 steps you can take to lower your carbon footprint: Small changes alone won’t stop climate change, but your actions are still worthwhile.

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Coral reef ecosystems on the way to being cooked

William P. Hall on February 24, 2022

The accelerating heat content of the world’s oceans will soon be forcing coral reef ecosystems towards their collapse into mass extinction

Click here for a detailed explanation of the graph…

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