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Things are Starting to Heat Up - Part XII 23

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That is the purpose of international agreements such as the Montreal Accord. It allows them to bypass our checks and balances while going straight for our checks.

The joke is on us, too. They're banning HFC refrigerants while mandating heat pumps. We're boned.

To double down, the next generation of refrigerants is flammable!
 
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more scare tactics...

"Capping global temperature rise at two degrees Celsius over baseline is no longer seen as enough to avoid a catastrophic rise in sea levels that would decimate the earth’s coastlines and displace hundreds of millions of people, climate scientists warn.

A report released Thursday by the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, compiled by more than 60 scientists and policy experts, is sounding the alarm on new modelling data that indicates the 2015 Paris Agreement is woefully out-of-date.

The consortium is urging world leaders to take stock of new research ahead of the United Nations’ COP28 climate conference later this month. According to the report, the only road forward is ensuring that global temperatures do not rise over 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, much lower than the two degree maximum set at the Paris Climate Accords."


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What the heck is a cryosphere and why would you take an organization that uses that label seriously?
 
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The headline: "Earth facing dire sea level rise — up to 20m — even if climate goals met"

No need to bother I guess...

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

The problem with sloppy work is that the supply FAR EXCEEDS the demand
 
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from wiki The cryosphere is an all-encompassing term for the portions of Earth's surface where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground. Thus, there is a wide overlap with the hydrosphere.

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Odd that they would prefer an icy world over a watery world. We see much less biodiversity in regions covered with ice.
 
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Proposed high speed rail in Florida... The rest of the world is looking at 300-400 kph (200-300 mph). Electric trains may be the future of long distance travel.

"Florida's new high-speed rail linking Miami and Orlando could be blueprint for future travel in U.S.
cbs-mornings

As Thanksgiving approaches, millions of Americans are gearing up for holiday travel. AAA projects that over 55 million people will travel more than 50 miles, which would make this Thanksgiving the third-busiest on record.

This year, a significant development in travel options comes from Florida, where a new rail line connects Miami and Orlando. The service — the only privately owned, multi-city railroad in the U.S. — was launched less than two months ago, and is already profitable and seeing a rise in ridership.

Brightline, which offers the new service, first launched in 2018 with service between Miami and West Palm Beach. Its trains, which can reach speeds of 125 miles per hour, have seen a 116% increase in ridership this year. The company anticipates accommodating approximately 4.3 million passengers annually between South Florida and Orlando by 2025."




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Dik, possibly you missed the "Murder Train" thread concerning the Brightline

LOL

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Nope... but if rail traffic is to ever become significant, it will have to be a lot faster than 125mph... I suspect.

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We have a lot of electrified rail in Queensland. Pulling coal trains, powered by coal powered power plants. Quite good synergy.
 
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Ocean temperatures continue to increase...

"Global ocean temperatures are increasing, and sea levels are rising. According to the OSR 7, marine heatwaves—prolonged warm water events—have become more frequent and intense in the last 40 years, while marine cold spells—prolonged cold-water events—have become less frequent. The OSR 7 also reports a record-low reduction in ocean heat exchange in the Greenland–Scotland Ridge around 2018. These changes in ocean heat transport and exchange can adversely impact the ocean currents which drive climate and weather around the world. Additional information provided in the OSR 7 summary notes that Antarctic sea ice extent was the lowest on record for June 2023, showing a loss of nearly 2.20 million km2 of sea ice in comparison to the long-term average for that month (1981 to 2010), an area more than seven times the size of Poland."


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The other one currently making me laugh is glacier melting revealing 7000 year old artefacts. We are just coming out of the Little Ice Age, it isn't surprising. We've yet to find the coal mines from 12000 years ago that were keeping the Earth warm then.

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Changes in precipitation...

"Snowfall is declining globally as temperatures warm because of human-caused climate change, a new analysis and maps from a NOAA climate scientist show.

But less snow falling from the sky isn’t as innocuous as just having to shovel less; it threatens to reinforce warming, and disrupt food and water for billions of people.

Climate scientists say the future of snowfall is pretty clear: A warmer world driven by human pollution means precipitation is more likely to fall as rain than snow, all else being equal."


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Yes, when we go back to the Holocene Optimum there will be less snow. But one wonders why the Holocene Optimum was warmer than today if CO2 is the thermostat.

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It gets political in Canada, too...

"Alberta Premier Danielle Smith will be using the province’s Sovereignty Act to challenge Ottawa’s requirement to achieve a net-zero electricity grid by 2035.

Smith confirmed the plan on 630 CHED’s and QR Calgary’s Your Province Your Premier on Saturday.

During the radio show, Smith said the province tried to work collaboratively with the federal government to make the province’s electricity grid net zero by 2050. However, Ottawa’s target of 2035 is “unachievable” and will make electricity unaffordable for Albertans, she said."


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Concrete in Canada...

"It should come as no surprise that the cement industry is a major contributor to CO2 emissions around the globe. The Cement Association of Canada (CAC) states that the sector is the third-largest industrial energy consumer and the second-largest industrial CO2 emitter, representing approximately seven per cent of the world’s CO2 emissions. The fact that concrete is the second- most consumed commodity around the world, trailing only behind water, amplifies its impact.

To assist the cement industry in its effort to reduce CO2 emissions, in 2022 the CAC, with assistance from Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, launched the Roadmap to Net-Zero Carbon Concrete by 2050. The roadmap “commits the sector to achieving reductions of 15 million tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cumulatively by 2030, followed by ongoing reductions of over 4 million tonnes annually from the production of cement and concrete in Canada.”

The CAC expects these GHG reductions to come from a combination of initiatives, including the elimination of the use of coal and petroleum coke, increased use of lower-carbon and alternative fuels, use of alternative and blended cements, improving thermal efficiency, carbon capture investment, the use of clean energy, and advocating for updated codes, standards, specifications and procurement policies.

“Concrete Zero in Canada includes a wide array of different technologies that we can apply today, which, in many cases, are bolt-on technologies that can be implemented right now, with proven effectiveness. In other instances, they’re almost ready for prime time. They’re just in the final stages of demonstration and optimization. And in other cases, it’s really a lot of early-stage research that is in place,” says Robert Cumming, head of sustainability and public affairs for Lafarge Canada (East)."


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