Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part XII 23

[dik]

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[dik]

EU climate rule about to hit U.S. businesses

"The U.S. has struggled to require companies to disclose how much their operations pollute the atmosphere. But a new European regulation is making many of them do it, writes Avery Ellfeldt.

Starting as soon as January, major U.S. companies that raise money on European stock exchanges will start compiling information on their carbon emissions, climate risks and strategies to counter the damage.

By 2025, when a more expansive European Union rule takes effect, an estimated 3,000 U.S. businesses will be required to provide such disclosures. The rules will cover any U.S.-based business that has an EU branch with more than 250 employees, more than $42 million in local revenue or a balance sheet larger than $21 million."

https://www.politico.com/newsletter...ate-rule-about-to-hit-u-s-businesses-00121979

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[BridgeSmith]

I wonder if that EU climate rule will discourage US businesses from conducting business in Europe...

 

[hokie66]

Of course it will. But the main alternative is China, and that won't help with emissions.

 

[dik]

Using changes in vegetation to map climate change.

"Over the last twenty years, Europe has been hit with a series of record-breaking heatwaves and droughts. The summers of 2003 and 2010 were especially bad, with 2010 breaking a five-hundred-year European temperature record. Then, just eight years later in 2018, this record was broken again. And as if that were not enough, the summer of 2023 was the hottest in modern times.

Though the longer-term effects of this year’s extreme heat and drought will not be fully understood for some time, the 2018 episode, on the other hand, has had time to settle, and we have started to witness some of the fallout. Crop yields were strongly affected, leading to increased prices and financial difficulties for farmers. The lack of precipitation in combination with extreme heat had negative consequences for river ecosystems and water availability, with some areas forced to impose water-use restrictions and reductions in inland shipping activities. Forest fires were also rampant that year, destroying large swathes of land in Sweden, Greece, and Portugal and causing loss of life, property, and natural habitats. Many wetlands dried up, and plant flowering patterns were significantly altered, affecting the timing of plant reproduction and availability for pollinators, thus significantlyimpacting sensitive fauna and flora populations.

Continental-scale droughts and heatwaves are so extensive in scope that it can be very difficult to understand the full extent of their impact. These “once-in-500-year” events are now happening multiple times per decade, a trend which is only expected to worsen in the coming decade. Because of this, researchers, policymakers, farmers, concerned citizens, as well as dozens of other stakeholder parties are desperate to understand and address this problem head on. "

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/news/n...sponse-clms-vegetation-phenology-productivity

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[TugboatEng]

The climate change cult is dooming themselves.. Noah's Ark is likely based on a true story of climate change. Noah saw the change and relocated his farm while the cultists perished.

https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/noahs-not-so-big-flood/

 

[BridgeSmith]

I've heard a number theories about the Great Flood, but that one's new to me, Tug. The one I find most compelling is that the firmament of the Earth written about in Genesis was a layer of ice in the upper atmosphere, which made the entire Earth a temperate climate. When it collapsed, that was the first time it rained, and it caused the Great Flood, the first rainbow, and caused the polar regions to freeze almost instantaneously (thus the mammoth found with frozen the flowers it was eating still in its mouth). I guess you can call that climate change. Outside of the Bible's explanation of God speaking to Noah, it's hard to imagine how he saw it coming in either scenario 120 years in advance.

 

[dik]

How ‘risk tipping points’ threaten humanity’s ability to cope with climate crisis

"Humanity is moving dangerously close to irreversible tipping points that would drastically damage our ability to cope with disasters, UN researchers have warned, including the withdrawal of home insurance from flood-hit areas and the drying up of the groundwater that is vital for ensuring food supplies.

These “risk tipping points” also include the loss of the mountain glaciers that are essential for water supplies in many parts of the world and accumulating space debris knocking out satellites that provide early warnings of extreme weather.

A new report from the UN University (UNU) in Germany has set out a series of risk tipping points that are approaching, but said having foresight of these meant that it remained possible to take action to prevent them. Tipping points are triggered by small increases in their driving force but rapidly lead to large impacts."

https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/how...ity-to-cope-with-climate-crisis/#post-heading

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[dik]

Something to expect in future with warming oceans... Otis teaches a terrifying lesson in rapid hurricane intensification.

"Hurricane Otis struck very near Acapulco, Mexico, on Tuesday night as a monster 165 mile-per-hour category 5 cyclone. On Monday night, about 24-hours before landfall, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) was predicting it would do so as 70 mile-per-hour tropical storm.

With the energy content (and destructive potential) of the wind increasing with the cube of the windspeed, that means that Otis reached Mexico with 13 times more destructive potential than what had been expected! Even when the hurricane warning was issued at 4 a.m. local time on Tuesday, the hurricane center was still forecasting just an ordinary category 1 hurricane to reach Mexico’s Pacific coast. For a region of Mexico that had never experienced anything stronger than a category 1, getting hit by a cat-5 with little to no warning has led to severe consequences."

https://thebulletin.org/2023/10/oti...rapid-hurricane-intensification/#post-heading

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[TugboatEng]

Otis was a very small hurricane...

 

[dik]

Yup... but the point is that the increase in intensity was very rapid... and maybe a sign of more to come.

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[TugboatEng]

Think of a tornado. More compact means more intense. As I said, it was a small storm. Maybe the experts should have known.

 

[CWB1]

So we're supposed to trust the future storm predictions of "experts" whose recent storm predictions were wrong? I'd rather trust a tuna sandwich bought at a gas station.

 

[TugboatEng]

I miss the days when gas station sandwiches came with mustard and mayonnaise. Another loss due to climate change I guess. Every time I bite into my dry sandwich I will be reminded of drought and climate change.

 

[dik]

Montreal latest city to ban gas to new buildings

"Following moves by other large cities in North America, including Vancouver and New York, Montreal is adopting regulations which will prohibit devices responsible for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to heating for new small buildings, and which will require that new large buildings are decarbonized."

https://www.hpacmag.com/heating-plu...01302916&title=Montreal to ban gas appliances

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[SnTMan]

And not one realistic plan to provide the needed, reliable electricity. What's it gonna take?

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand

 

[dik]

Canada has pretty reliable hydro, for most of the country... carbon friendly 'juice'.

"According to the International Hydropower Association, Canada is the fourth largest producer of hydroelectricity in the world in 2021 after the United States, Brazil, and China.[1] In 2019, Canada produced 632.2 TWh of electricity with 60% of energy coming from Hydroelectric and Tidal Energy Sources).[2]

Some provinces and territories, such as British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec and Yukon produce over 90% of their electricity from Hydro. "
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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[GregLocock]

My local township is contemplating a microgrid. The problem is that 80% of homes use LPG bottles for heating, hot water, and cooking. The geniuses in state government are very keen for gas to go away. Getting rid of gas and switching to heat pumps and EVs will double the required electricity from the microgrid.





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[hokie66]

Canada is topographically gifted, so they can get power from flowing water. Most of us are not so fortunate. But we have other resources, which must be relied upon.

 

[dik]

We'll see what next year brings...

"Two major reports published this week paint an alarming picture of this unprecedented heat: Humanity has just lived through the hottest 12-month period in at least 125,000 years, according to one, while the other declared that 2023 is “virtually certain” to be the hottest year in recorded history, after five consecutive months of record-obliterating temperatures.

“We have become all too used to climate records falling like dominoes in recent years,” David Reay, executive director of the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute at the University of Edinburgh, told CNN. “But 2023 is a whole different ball game in terms of the massive margin by which these records have been broken.”"

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/09/climate/global-warming-hottest-year-history-climate-intl/index.html

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So strange to see the singularity approaching while the entire planet is rapidly turning into a hellscape. -John Coates

-Dik

 

[TugboatEng]

David Reay, executive director of the Edinburgh Climate Change Institute at the University of Edinburgh

This guy's career depends on negative news. Take everything he says with a giant grain of salt.