Global Student Strike for Climate Change

[RUPERTKBD]

12 minutes ago, UnkNuk said:

Why would the traditional energy sector oppose such extraction?  Seems to me that such a technology could be the saving grace for oil and gas.  If the harmful byproducts of oil and gas could be removed and used profitably there wouldn't be so much opposition to oil and gas.

 

Yes? No?

It's things like Solar and Wind they have a problem with. Anything that cuts into the bottom line....

[RUPERTKBD]

Nothing to see here folks.....just the Chinese hoax, coupled with a bunch of Climate scientists (but only 50%, not 97%) trying to maintain their funding:

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/technology/carbon-dioxide-levels-reach-highest-recorded-levels-in-human-history/ar-BBXioIf?li=AAggNb9

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Greenhouse gas concentrations continued to rise in 2018, with carbon dioxide levels hitting an all-time high of 407.8 parts per million (ppm), according to a report released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on Monday. The grim assessment comes just days before the UN Climate Change conference begins on Dec. 2, highlighting the increasing levels of three greenhouse gases contributing to global heating as a result of human activities.

The last time the Earth had comparable concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was approximately 3 million years ago, when the temperature was approximately 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer and sea levels were up to 20 meters (65 feet) higher.

"There is no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline, in greenhouse gases concentration in the atmosphere despite all the commitments under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change," said Petteri Taalas, secretary-general of the WMO, in a press release.

The report details concentrations of three greenhouse gases known to greatly contribute to global heating: Carbon dioxide (CO2), methane and nitrous oxide. These gases can remain in the atmosphere for long periods of time, trapping heat. The higher the concentration, the more heat they can trap. Of the measured gases, CO2 contributes the most to heating and is also absorbed by the oceans, lowering their acidity and wreaking havoc on marine life.

Data is obtained by a suite of over 100 monitoring stations around the globe. The stations are able to assess the minute changes in gas concentrations at any given location and this information is used to work out a global average. The average has been rising at a rate much faster than previous natural increases, driven by fossil fuel combustion, agriculture activities and industrial sources. Notably, it will continue to rise.

"I can tell you they're going to go up next year and the following one and then the next decade and the following decade," says Pep Canadell, climate scientist with Australia's CSIRO and executive director of the Global Carbon Project. "It's not until you bring those emissions to zero, that you can begin to inspire stabilization in the atmosphere."

The Global Carbon Project is expected to release its yearly "carbon budget" report on Dec. 4, revealing where CO2 is being generated and how limiting emissions can stabilize concentrations in the atmosphere. "The budget is truly like your household finance budget," says Canadell. "[It measures] how much carbon we put into the atmosphere, how much carbon accumulates in the atmosphere and how much carbon gets pulled out of the atmosphere through the oceans and land."

The Project also measures atmospheric CO2 and provides its own measure for the current year. The rise in carbon dioxide concentration will continue, as Canadell notes, unless emissions are drastically reduced.

That poses a huge threat for all life on Earth. The climate crisis is already having negative effects on human health, threatening species with extinction and sending temperatures soaring. On Nov. 5, over 11,000 scientists declared a climate emergency. 

 

Did I miss anyone? Oh yeah, the Green Energy folks who are financing and pushing this false narrative, in order to promote their agenda.....

 

....because big Oil and Coal would never do that.....

[Heretic]

This is what needs to happen to "save the planet". Protesting pipelines and listening to a child complain about her future doesn't solve anything. Monoculture forestry and agriculture practices have caused more damage to the planet and contributed to far more green house gases than burning fossil fuels will ever do. For over 10,000 years we have been doing it wrong - whereas burning fossil fuels has been going on for a couple of hundred years? Regenerative farming and forestry is a solution.
 

 

If young people really want to do something - I hope they choose to actually research and learn what is really going on.

 

There are a bunch of videos on this - please research yourself if you actually want to care.

Here's another from Ecosia:
 

 

[canuckster19]

On 11/19/2019 at 11:20 PM, UnkNuk said:

If they can actually pull this off they'll probably make a lot more billions!  

 

Which isn't a bad thing.  If people can actually make money by converting to green energy the transition will take care of itself.

 

That's why I'm hoping some one can invent a profitable large scale method of extracting greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.  

Yeah, it’s called the forest and lumber industry.

[canuckster19]

On 11/19/2019 at 7:49 PM, RUPERTKBD said:

I wasn't sure if this was the place for the following story, or the Wexit thread, but for those who criticize CC activists for not walking the walk, here's some action from one of the big guns:

 

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/19/business/heliogen-solar-energy-bill-gates/index.html

 

Nice to see a multi-billionaire that's interested in more than just making himself and his "friends" more billions.... (or in Bone Spurs' case, millions)

 

I hope this is true and not one of those fly by night cure for cancer things one can read about on a weekly basis. This would definitely be the game changer we’re looking for.

 

I wonder if it would be powerful enough to generate the steam needed to turn a turbine on a nuclear power plant scale.

 

[RUPERTKBD]

3 hours ago, canuckster19 said:

I hope this is true and not one of those fly by night cure for cancer things one can read about on a weekly basis. This would definitely be the game changer we’re looking for.

 

I wonder if it would be powerful enough to generate the steam needed to turn a turbine on a nuclear power plant scale.

 

I agree. It seems like we're shown glimpses of these types of tech all the time, yet they never seem to come to fruition. It's all about getting over that "cost effective" hump and unfortunately, it seems as though billionaires who truly want to make the leap, rather than making more billions are probably going to have to be the ones to get us there. It doesn't seem as though there's enough of a will on the part of world leaders, or if there is a will, they get too much backlash from their populace to ever make it a reality.

 

Here's hoping.

[inane]

1 hour ago, RUPERTKBD said:

I agree. It seems like we're shown glimpses of these types of tech all the time, yet they never seem to come to fruition. It's all about getting over that "cost effective" hump and unfortunately, it seems as though billionaires who truly want to make the leap, rather than making more billions are probably going to have to be the ones to get us there. It doesn't seem as though there's enough of a will on the part of world leaders, or if there is a will, they get too much backlash from their populace to ever make it a reality.

 

Here's hoping.

These things don't happen over night short of a war footing type of shift which governments are considering... It's gonna be slow and expensive until we really need it when it'll be faster and more expensive. 

 

 

[189lb enforcers?]

17 minutes ago, inane said:

These things don't happen over night short of a war footing type of shift which governments are considering... It's gonna be slow and expensive until we really need it when it'll be faster and more expensive. 

 

 

Hey bud, are from or currently living in Australia? 

 

If so, what can you tell me about the cost of household power and how it may have changed in price? 

[inane]

1 minute ago, 189lb enforcers? said:

Hey bud, are from or currently living in Australia? 

 

If so, what can you tell me about the cost of household power and how it may have changed in price? 

No?

[189lb enforcers?]

3 minutes ago, inane said:

No?

Ahh, confused you with someone else I guess. 

[Heretic]

How dare we slow down climate change!

 

Have we slowed down the result of our climate crisis? Australian research finds improvements

BY KURTIS DOERING AND NIKITHA MARTINS

Posted Dec 9, 2019 11:27 am PST

 

Last Updated Dec 9, 2019 at 11:29 am PST

 

This image from video provided by NASA shows the likely 2019 minimum extent of ice in the Arctic Sea on Sept. 18, 2019, compared with the average minimum from 1981-2010. Canadian research is part of a massive global project that has found billions of people are at risk as climate change damages natural systems around the world. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Trent Schindler/NASA via AP

 

SUMMARY

Researchers from an Australian university say we've made steps towards slowing down the climate crisis

The study, based on the 1987 Montreal Protocol, has projected a global temperature for 2050 has decreased

 

SYDNEY, Aus. (NEWS 1130) – It’s not often we hear an environmental success story.

Some researchers out of the University of New South Wales have crunched the numbers and determined that because of the 1987 Montreal Protocol, the projected global temperature for 2050 is at least one degree cooler than it otherwise would have been.

“The benefits of the Montreal Protocol are set to become even greater over future decades, with substantial warming avoided by the middle of this century despite the cooling effects of ozone depletion,” the research reads.

The Montreal Protocol is a landmark agreement that placed new restrictions on a class of ozone-destroying greenhouse gases.

 

Australian university researchers determine have observed and simulated temperature change on Earth. They say the change air temperature has averaged between 1951–1980 and 1998–2017.

 

One degree may sound small, but based on research from ‘nature,’ it’s huge if you consider that a rise of just two degrees has a list of devastating consequences.

“Warming of 3 °C–4 °C is set to be avoided over most regions of the Arctic by mid-century. This represents more than a 30% reduction in the warming that would otherwise have occurred at this time under a business as usual scenario.”

A vast majority of scientists agree that without significant changes, the world will get significantly warmer.

 

 

https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/12/09/climate-crisis-australian-research-improvements/

[langlands]

4 hours ago, Heretic said:

How dare we slow down climate change!

 

Have we slowed down the result of our climate crisis? Australian research finds improvements

BY KURTIS DOERING AND NIKITHA MARTINS

Posted Dec 9, 2019 11:27 am PST

 

Last Updated Dec 9, 2019 at 11:29 am PST

 

This image from video provided by NASA shows the likely 2019 minimum extent of ice in the Arctic Sea on Sept. 18, 2019, compared with the average minimum from 1981-2010. Canadian research is part of a massive global project that has found billions of people are at risk as climate change damages natural systems around the world. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Trent Schindler/NASA via AP

 

SUMMARY

Researchers from an Australian university say we've made steps towards slowing down the climate crisis

The study, based on the 1987 Montreal Protocol, has projected a global temperature for 2050 has decreased

 

SYDNEY, Aus. (NEWS 1130) – It’s not often we hear an environmental success story.

Some researchers out of the University of New South Wales have crunched the numbers and determined that because of the 1987 Montreal Protocol, the projected global temperature for 2050 is at least one degree cooler than it otherwise would have been.

“The benefits of the Montreal Protocol are set to become even greater over future decades, with substantial warming avoided by the middle of this century despite the cooling effects of ozone depletion,” the research reads.

The Montreal Protocol is a landmark agreement that placed new restrictions on a class of ozone-destroying greenhouse gases.

 

Australian university researchers determine have observed and simulated temperature change on Earth. They say the change air temperature has averaged between 1951–1980 and 1998–2017.

 

One degree may sound small, but based on research from ‘nature,’ it’s huge if you consider that a rise of just two degrees has a list of devastating consequences.

“Warming of 3 °C–4 °C is set to be avoided over most regions of the Arctic by mid-century. This represents more than a 30% reduction in the warming that would otherwise have occurred at this time under a business as usual scenario.”

A vast majority of scientists agree that without significant changes, the world will get significantly warmer.

 

 

https://www.citynews1130.com/2019/12/09/climate-crisis-australian-research-improvements/

The earth has cooled three straight years now. We've done nothing but burn more oil.

[189lb enforcers?]

Arctic sea ice facts and science seems to be an interesting side story. 

 

 

[EP Phone Home]

I’m just going to leave this here... I see plenty of double standards in this cringing clip. Laughing all the way to

the bank.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1204157505871503360

 

[RUPERTKBD]

The effects of ACC are far reaching and one of the things we don't talk about much is the effect it can/will have on the global supply of drinking water. Of note in this article is the mention of a water supply system pretty close to home for most of us....

 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/water-supply-at-risk-for-nearly-two-billion-people-around-the-world-study/ar-BBY0CQH?li=AAggNb9

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Water supply at risk for nearly two billion people around the world: study

Frozen “water towers” relied upon by close to two billion people are at risk due to factors such as climate change and population growth, according to a newly-published study.

Drafted by 32 academics — including Michele Koppes, a professor from the University of British Columbia — the study underscores the importance of what it calls “the world’s water towers” and the need to protect them.

Global News spoke with Koppes to find out more about the study — published in the science journal Nature — and how its findings relate to Canada.

What are water towers?

Water towers are essentially storage containers on earth and they’re also called watersheds, according to Koppes. 

She compares water towers to storage tanks that sit atop buildings. In this case, those buildings are mountains around the world.

“Some of the precipitation will fall as snow or form into ice in glaciers,” Koppes said. “Those act as storage tanks.”

These water towers essentially store fresh water, letting it go downstream through rivers to people who then use the water in low-lying areas. 

Koppes calls them a “critical piece of the global water supply,” including in Canada.

What did the study do?

The study looked at 78 mountain ranges around the world that contain fresh water stored as snow or ice.

“For each tower, we assess its vulnerability related to water stress, governance, hydropolitical tension and future climatic and socio-economic changes,” the paper said. 

Koppes said this is the first time such an analysis has taken place.

It examined the impacts of climate change on the supply of that fresh water. It also looked at the demands for that water. 

“We came up with which are the most vulnerable watersheds or water towers for each continent, and then compared them,” Koppes said.

So what did the study find?

The study found that the most significant water towers are among the most vulnerable, and that climate change and socio-economic factors will “affect them profoundly.”

The most vulnerable river system is the Indus River in Asia, which consists of large swathes of the Himalayas and covers parts of India and Pakistan as well as Afghanistan and China. 

It also ranked the water systems that are most relied upon for each continent.

In North America, the most relied-upon system is the Fraser River basin, followed by the Columbia River basin. 

What does this mean for Canada?

Koppes points out that Canada also has vulnerable river systems, including ones out west and the Arctic river basins. 

“We have the Columbia River, which is Canada and the U.S.,” she said, "the Fraser River system, which is B.C. and Alberta, and the Saskatchewan Nelson, which is Alberta, Manitoba [and] Saskatchewan.” 

The transboundary Columbia River serves 9 million people on both sides of the border, she said, while the Fraser and Saskatchewan river basins serve approximately three million people each. 

Each of these has a different level of vulnerability, she said. So the impact depends on which water tower a person relies on, and where they reside along the water tower — the mountains, near the glaciers, snow and water source, or in the lowlands at the mouth of the river.

“The way it plays out is, all the glaciers and the snow packs are shrinking,” Koppes said. When the glaciers first shrink, she said, they’re “actually melting faster” — which means people might get more water at first.

“Over time, the tank is being drawn down and the glaciers continue to shrink, and so you’re going to get less water overall over a couple decades,” she said. 

Melting glaciers also increase the risks of flooding and landslides, Koppes said. 

What is next?

People need to think about how they will adjust to a world with vulnerable water towers, Koppes said.

“We need to be having the conversation in the policy realm and in the governance realm on how we are going to adapt to these changes,” she said.

Everyone is vulnerable, with some more than others, Koppes added. 

“This is one of the big cascading effects” of climate change, she said.  

 

 

[UnkNuk]

                                                                                              

[189lb enforcers?]

Unbelievable.

Should be on the cover of a Puppets mag instead. 

[inane]

31 minutes ago, 189lb enforcers? said:

Unbelievable.

Should be on the cover of a Puppets mag instead. 

[infinitecarnage]

On 12/12/2019 at 9:02 AM, UnkNuk said:

                                                                                              

hong kong protestors: are we joke to you?

[Heretic]

On 12/11/2019 at 11:02 PM, UnkNuk said: