Global Warming/Climate Change Super Thread

[Brad Sallows]

It's a joke. But if policies crimp home energy use, it's what I expect to happen: people will burn wood.

 

[SeaKingTacco]

It's a joke. But if policies crimp home energy use, it's what I expect to happen: people will burn wood.

I know. I get your humour, Brad. No need to explain…

 

[YZT580]

It's a joke. But if policies crimp home energy use, it's what I expect to happen: people will burn wood.

that is what happened in GB. People are burning anything they can find

 

[Good2Golf]

It's a joke. But if policies crimp home energy use, it's what I expect to happen: people will burn wood.

I’ll use my lessons learned from AFG: tires…after all, they’re just repackaged dinosaurs…circle of life and all that…

 

[QV]

Great news!

Great Barrier Reef is bursting back to life with record coral cover: study

Experts caution that the regrowth was made up largely of a fast-growing but weak variety known as Acropora that often grows in 'boom and bust' cycles

nationalpost.com

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is bursting back to life in a remarkable comeback after being damaged by warming waters, an investigation has revealed...

Yet scientists revealed yesterday that the northern and central parts of the reef now have the highest amount of coral cover since monitoring began 36 years ago. The reason for the reef’s sudden recovery is not known, but it suggests the ecosystem has much greater resilience and ability to recover than previously understood...

 

[daftandbarmy]

Meanwhile, in California....

Californians Told Not to Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban​

Californians Told Not To Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban


Californians may need to take measures to conserve energy, including by avoiding charging electric vehicles, to prevent strain to the state's power grid over the Labor Day weekend, officials said—a week after state regulators voted on a plan to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars.
The new policy, approved by the California Air Resources Board, will require all new cars sold in California to be free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 as part of an effort to fight climate change.

But with a heat wave forecast for the coming days, California's grid operator on Tuesday warned that the excessive heat would stress the energy grid and conservation may be needed over the holiday weekend to avert power outages.

Californians Told Not to Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban

The California Air Resources Board recently approved a rule to require all new cars sold in California to be free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

www.newsweek.com

 

[kev994]

Pakistan floods create massive 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images show

Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan's record flooding show how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a 100 kilometer-wide inland lake.

amp.cnn.com

 

[YZT580]

Great news!

Great Barrier Reef is bursting back to life with record coral cover: study

Experts caution that the regrowth was made up largely of a fast-growing but weak variety known as Acropora that often grows in 'boom and bust' cycles

nationalpost.com

Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is bursting back to life in a remarkable comeback after being damaged by warming waters, an investigation has revealed...

Yet scientists revealed yesterday that the northern and central parts of the reef now have the highest amount of coral cover since monitoring began 36 years ago. The reason for the reef’s sudden recovery is not known, but it suggests the ecosystem has much greater resilience and ability to recover than previously understood...

Gee, do you think that maybe there is enough resiliency built into our climate that it can tolerate warm periods and maybe even ice ages without killing off all life? Maybe we can even adapt to a 2 degree increase in average temperature and still thrive? The coral did, the ice is still in the Arctic, and the polar bears have never been healthier. From what I see, all we have succeeded in doing is make more people poor, force Africans to continue to use charcoal as a prime cooking fuel, slaughtered countless birds with are twirling abattoirs and caused more severe forest fires by not controlling the undergrowth.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Californians Told Not To Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban

Top. Men.

 

[Kirkhill]

The reason for the population explosion is simple. Fewer infants die horrible deaths from famine, filthy water, malaria and other wasting sicknesses and diseases.

Let's bring back the good old days. 5 year olds with cataracts, rickets and distended bellies dealing with tapeworms and dysentery.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Meanwhile, in California....

Californians Told Not to Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban​

Californians Told Not To Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban


Californians may need to take measures to conserve energy, including by avoiding charging electric vehicles, to prevent strain to the state's power grid over the Labor Day weekend, officials said—a week after state regulators voted on a plan to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars.
The new policy, approved by the California Air Resources Board, will require all new cars sold in California to be free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 as part of an effort to fight climate change.

But with a heat wave forecast for the coming days, California's grid operator on Tuesday warned that the excessive heat would stress the energy grid and conservation may be needed over the holiday weekend to avert power outages.

Californians Told Not to Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban

The California Air Resources Board recently approved a rule to require all new cars sold in California to be free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

www.newsweek.com

On the bright side, California will not be able to dictate the ICE car industry for the rest of North America.

 

[kev994]

Meanwhile, in California....

Californians Told Not to Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban​

Californians Told Not To Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban


Californians may need to take measures to conserve energy, including by avoiding charging electric vehicles, to prevent strain to the state's power grid over the Labor Day weekend, officials said—a week after state regulators voted on a plan to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars.
The new policy, approved by the California Air Resources Board, will require all new cars sold in California to be free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 as part of an effort to fight climate change.

But with a heat wave forecast for the coming days, California's grid operator on Tuesday warned that the excessive heat would stress the energy grid and conservation may be needed over the holiday weekend to avert power outages.

Californians Told Not to Charge Electric Cars Days After Gas Car Sales Ban

The California Air Resources Board recently approved a rule to require all new cars sold in California to be free of greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

www.newsweek.com

They're asking people not to charge during peak hours, 4-9 p.m. Which most sane people wouldn't be doing anyway since they have time-of-use billing there and it costs way more then. EVs have timers that are easily set to account for this.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Bottom line is they're asking people not to charge to avoid blackouts, which means the supply is too limited.

 

[kev994]

Bottom line is they're asking people not to charge to avoid blackouts, which means the supply is too limited.

If only there were a way to generate power when it’s sunny and demand is high…
On an unrelated note, check out this problem solver, he’s using the power from his EV, that he charged during off-peak hours, to do surgery.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1565437347403022343

 

[daftandbarmy]

Meanwhile, at Tesla:

 

[kev994]

Meanwhile, at Tesla:

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They don’t make a van, this is a poor argument, I’m not even sure what you’re trying to argue.

 

[Brad Sallows]

If only there were a way to generate power when it’s sunny and demand is high…

There is. If only some of the aspirational hand-waving people do resulted in completed projects capable of meeting future demand before the future is the present.

 

[Kirkhill]

Human life expectancy has doubled over the past century, from 36 years in 1920 to more than 72 years today.

Climate gains are ‘inconvenient truth’ — it’s not all bad news about the environment

Climate change fear is causing life-changing anxiety. You might be hearing nothing but bad news, but that doesn’t mean that you’re hearing the full story.

nypost.com

So life expectancy has doubled since 1928.

If only the old continued to die off at that same rate they used to then the population would be at least half of what it is now and be more sustainable.

We would only have 4 billion people competing for resources. Not 8.

But not only are there more older people, because they survived they had more kids, If the old didn't survive and they hadn't had kids then would could be living in the sustainable paradise of the 1920s.

A curse on Sir Alexander Fleming, a pox on him. Fie, I say.

Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS[1] (6 August 1881 – 11 March 1955) was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mould Penicillium rubens is described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease."[3][4]

 

[Brad Sallows]

Substantial gains in life expectancy are almost always due to substantial decreases in infant and child mortality.

As people become prosperous, and provided they have access to means of birth control, they tend to have fewer children.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

If you want to save the planet, make sure you educate young women. There are enough studies that show education reduces the birth rate, reduces, infant mortality, and improves the economic situation.