Climate Change

[Jaybar]

I would really like to see some more tax credits/incentives towards on-site geothermal for new construction. Great heat transfer possibilities that reduce the energy consumption for conditioning equipment, especially for larger buildings.

[Byrthnoth]

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/04/22/...s-pledged.html

Our allies (and Brazil) made fairly substantial commitments. India and Russia made mouth noises and China didn't.

I don't understand what got to Bolsanaro. Perhaps he is pivoting left to try and compete with Lula and actually remain in power. Beyond that everything is as expected.

Nice that we have a president who isn't a dingus again.

[Outlaw]

COVID-19 hasn't slowed global warming: Earth's carbon dioxide levels highest in over 3 million years, NOAA says

At that time, sea levels were as much as 78 feet higher, the average temperature was 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than in pre-industrial times, Greenland was mostly green, and Antarctica had trees.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rs/7130141002/

So yeah.. we're pretty much screwed.

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...limate-change/

President Biden this week will pledge to slash U.S. greenhouse gas emissions at least in half by the end of the decade, according to two people briefed on the plan, as part of an aggressive push to combat climate change at home and persuade other major economies around the world to follow suit.

[archibaldcrane]

https://twitter.com/NYTpatrick/statu...099970048?s=19

Indian Point nuclear power plant was closed permanently for no good reason last week, and as always happens was immediately replaced by natural gas.

[Athas]

I was given to understand the original license has expired. Isn't an a very old design at this point?

And I mean, it's had more then a few incidents.

[archibaldcrane]

Licenses are renewed all the time. The failure to do so in this case was political, not safety or economic related.

And the natural gas that will replace it will have 1000x the health impacts on people that Indian Point had.

[Athas]

Leaking radioactive materials into ground water doesn't sound political.

[archibaldcrane]

Tritium leaks of absolutely negligible amounts are meaningless to human health or safety even if you aren't comparing them to the damage from a gas plant.

But you should!

[Salodin]

Leaking radioactive materials into ground water doesn't sound political.

Sounds less dangerous than the pollution from the natural gas tho

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[Roranora]

we order those 200 reactors from Korea yet?

[archibaldcrane]

we order those 200 reactors from Korea yet?

No ; ;

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...-climate-hfcs/

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed a rule Monday to slash the use and production of a class of powerful greenhouse gases used widely in refrigeration and air conditioning in the next decade and a half. The proposal marks the first time President Biden’s administration has used the power of the federal government to mandate a cut in climate pollution.


Unlike many of the administration’s other climate initiatives, there’s broad bipartisan support for curbing hydrofluorocarbons, pollutants thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide at warming the planet. Congress agreed at the end of last year to slash the super-pollutants by 85 percent by 2036 as part of a broader omnibus bill.


A global phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons, also known as HFCs, is projected to avert up to 0.5 degree Celsius (0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming by the end of the century.

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...-wind-farm-us/

The Biden administration on Tuesday approved the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, a project that envisions building 62 turbines off Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and creating enough electricity to power 400,000 homes.


Vineyard Wind is the first of several massive offshore wind-farm proposals that could put more than 3,000 wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to North Carolina. The Biden administration has committed to processing the other 13 projects under federal review by 2025 in an attempt to meet the administration’s ambitious goal of producing 30,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind by 2030, powering some 10 million homes.

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...ory-epa-warns/

For years, President Donald Trump and his deputies played down the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and delayed the release of an Environmental Protection Agency report detailing climate-related damage. But on Wednesday, the EPA released a detailed and disturbing account of the startling changes that Earth’s warming had on parts of the United States during Trump’s presidency.

The destruction of year-round permafrost in Alaska, loss of winter ice on the Great Lakes and spike in summer heat waves in U.S. cities all signal that climate change is intensifying, the EPA said in its report. The assessment, which languished under the Trump administration for three years, marks the first time the agency has said such changes are being driven at least in part by human-caused global warming.

[Cail]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clima...record-levels/

Economies worldwide nearly ground to a halt over the 15 months of the coronavirus pandemic, leading to a startling drop in global greenhouse gas emissions.


But the idle airplanes, boarded-up stores and quiet highways barely made a dent in the steady accumulation of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday had reached the highest levels since accurate measurements began 63 years ago.

[Jaybar]

Well no shit, infrastructure is still a high CO2 demand compared to transportation. People didn't just stop living in their conditioned homes, and office buildings were still pumping their buildings full of electricity as if it was fully used.

(Not attacking you, Cail. Thanks for the articles!)

[Zealot]

The owners of the Keystone XL pipeline have canceled the project.

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[kuronosan]

Good.

[Sirious]

I'm not really sure why I'm surprised coming from the same set of idiots inquiring about injecting bleach but I thought this shit was a joke when I heard it.

“I understand from what’s been testified to, the Forest Service and the [Bureau of Land Management], you want very much to work on the issue of climate change. I was informed by the past director of NASA that they’ve found the moon’s orbit is changing slightly and so is the Earth’s orbit around the sun. We know there’s been significant solar flare activity, and so — is there anything that the National Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management can do to change the course of the moon’s orbit, or the Earth’s orbit around the sun?” Gohmert inquired. “Obviously that would have profound effects on our climate.”