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Catastrophic floods could hit Europe far more often, study finds
Slow-moving storms such as recent deluge in Germany could become 14 times more frequent by 2100
Catastrophic floods such as those that struck Europe recently could become much more frequent as a result of global heating, researchers say.
High-resolution computer models suggest that slow-moving storms could become 14 times more common over land by the end of the century in a worst-case scenario. The slower a storm moves, the more rain it dumps on a small area and the greater the risk of serious flooding.
Continue reading...Japan pitches massive increase in renewables use at the cost of LNG, coal
'Die of cold or die of stress?': Social housing is frequently colder than global health guidelines
NSW kills “zombie” gas licences, but brings Narrabri back from the dead
NSW tries to please all – and fails – with plan to cancel out unused gas exploration licences while re-approving those in areas set to see an explosion of new gas projects.
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'Squiggly wiggly' fossils rise from a Jurassic sea
How floating wind microgrids are powering oil and gas rigs
Odfjell Oceanwind is renting out its WindGrid technology – mobile offshore wind units of 11MW each that serve microgrids powering oil and gas rigs.
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Restoring our lives to normality after Covid is not the solution, it’s the problem | Jeff Sparrow
As Australians have been preoccupied by coronavirus, a wider environmental calamity has unfurled. The emergency isn’t over, it’s only just beginning
Build back better. In the early days of Covid-19, that slogan rang out everywhere: a pledge to harness disruption for positive change.
For a time, everything felt possible. There are no atheists in foxholes and, we discovered, no free marketeers in a pandemic, as even the most conservative governments pledged to spend on a scale previously unimaginable.
Continue reading...Men cause more climate emissions than women, study finds
Both spend similar amounts of money but men use cars much more, Swedish analysis shows
Men’s spending on goods causes 16% more climate-heating emissions than women’s, despite the sum of money being very similar, a study has found.
The biggest difference was men’s spending on petrol and diesel for their cars. The gender differences in emissions have been little studied, the researchers said, and should be recognised in action to beat the climate crisis.
Continue reading...Britain’s rivers are suffocating to death | George Monbiot
Water that should be crystal clear has become a green-brown slop of microscopic algae because of industrial farm waste
There’s more below the surface than we thought – something even worse than the water companies’ disgusting habit of filling our rivers with raw sewage. After a deep dive into the data, the team that made Rivercide last week discovered that while sewage now dominates our perceptions of river pollution, it’s not their major cause of death.
On the border between Wales and England, we found a great river dying before our eyes. The Wye is covered by every possible conservation law, but in just a few years it has spiralled towards complete ecological collapse. The vast beds of water crowfoot, the long fluttering weed whose white and yellow flowers once bedecked the surface of the river, and which – like mangroves around tropical seas – provide the nurseries in which young fish and other animals grow and adults hide and breed, have almost vanished in recent years. Our own mapping suggests a loss of between 90% and 97%.
Continue reading...WA joins Zero Carbon Certification Scheme for hydrogen
The McGowan Government has become a founding member of the Smart Energy Council's Zero Carbon Certification Scheme to boost the State's fledgling renewable hydrogen industry.
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Australia lifted fossil fuel subsidies more than any G20 nation, says BNEF
Australia had biggest increase in fossil fuel support of any G20 nation over last five years, at nearly $300 per person in 2019.
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Plans unveiled for biggest battery storage system in Victoria
A two-hour battery storage systems on the Mornington Peninsula will be the biggest in the state if built on schedule by the end of 2022.
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CP Daily: Tuesday July 20, 2021
Climate Action Reserve proposes forecast carbon credit methodology for forest fuel treatments
Disheartened by existing voluntary carbon offerings, market veterans launch ‘fair and transparent’ offset service
If you see something, say something: why scientists need your help to spot blue whales off Australia’s east coast
Gas generation slumps in first half of 2021, as wind and solar continue to shine
Gas generation declined again in first half of 2021, including in NSW where renewables now supply 17 times more electricity.
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Green hydrogen could get free allocation in EU carbon market reform -official
Coalition believes it has numbers to stop Great Barrier Reef being listed as ‘in danger’
Exclusive: Diplomatic email suggests whirlwind lobbying trip by Sussan Ley has won over at least nine of 21 members on World Heritage Committee
Australia’s global lobbying offensive to keep the Great Barrier Reef off the world heritage “in danger” list has secured support from at least nine of the 21-member committee that will make the decision, according to a diplomatic email seen by Guardian Australia.
Australia’s Paris-based ambassador to Unesco, Megan Anderson, said in the email she believed the government had won enough support to delay the decision on the “in danger” listing until at least 2023.
Continue reading...‘Airpocalypse’ hits Siberian city as heatwave sparks forest fires
Monitoring suggests toxic smoke in Yakutsk is one of world’s worst ever air pollution events
A heatwave in one of the world’s coldest regions has sparked forest fires and threatened the Siberian city of Yakutsk with an “airpocalypse” of thick toxic smoke, atmospheric monitoring services have reported.
High levels of particulate matter and possibly also chemicals including ozone, benzene and hydrogen cyanide are thought likely to make this one of the world’s worst ever air pollution events.
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