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German coal plant closes after just six years, to produce green hydrogen from wind
A 1600MW coal generator closes for good after just six years, and will now be repurposed to produce green hydrogen from wind energy.
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NSW offers grants to secure 3GW of pumped hydro to replace coal
NSW offers grants to help secure 3GW of pumped hydro projects in time for next wave of coal fired power station closures.
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Will your grandchildren have the chance to visit Australia’s sacred trees? Only if our sick indifference to Aboriginal heritage is cured
The Guardian view on the heat dome: burning through the models | Editorial
Politicians must respond to the latest warnings that climate science has underestimated risks
Last week’s shockingly high temperatures in the northwestern US and Canada were – and are – very frightening. Heat and the fires it caused killed hundreds of people, and are estimated to have killed a billion sea creatures. Daily temperature records were smashed by more than 5C (9F) in some places. In Lytton, British Columbia, the heat reached 49.6C (121F). The wildfires that consumed the town produced their own thunderstorms, alongside thousands of lightning strikes.
An initial study shows human activity made this heat dome – in which a ridge of high pressure acts as a lid preventing warm air from escaping – at least 150 times more likely. The World Weather Attribution Group of scientists, who use computer climate models to assess global heating trends and extreme weather, have warned that last week exceeded even their worst-case scenarios. While it has long been recognised that the climate system has thresholds or tipping points beyond which humans stand to lose control of what happens, scientists did not hide their alarm that an usually cool part of the Pacific northwest had been turned into a furnace. One climatologist said the prospect opened up by the heat dome “blows my mind”.
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EU fines VW and BMW £750m for colluding with Daimler on fumes
Commission imposes €875m fine for breaching antitrust rules by delaying cleaner emissions technology
The EU has fined Volkswagen and BMW €875m (£750m) after finding that the German carmakers colluded with another rival, the Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler, to delay emissions-cleaning technology.
The European Commission said that the carmakers had “breached EU antitrust rules by colluding on technical development in the area of nitrogen oxide cleaning”.
Continue reading...Lytton’s mayor: ‘Where many buildings stood is now simply charred earth’
What has not been melted, incinerated or damaged beyond repair has been compromised to the point of being unsafe
- We are republishing in its entirety the open letter written by the mayor of Lytton after the village was destroyed by wildfire
On June 29, the small village of Lytton, in Canada, became one of hottest places on Earth. Temperatures reached an astounding 49.6 °C (121.3 °F). The next day, a wild fire destroyed most of the town. In this open letter, the Mayor of Lytton describes the situation on the ground.
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Canada is facing extreme weather. And Trudeau’s love of fossil fuel will only make it worse | Tzeporah Berman
In Canada, almost every policy to help wean us off fossil fuel has been watered down by oil and gas lobbyists
After recording the country’s highest ever temperatures of 49.6C, the town of Lytton in British Columbia, Canada, burst into flames. Residents had minutes to flee a “wall of fire” with nothing but the clothing on their backs. Like people in many other places in the world struggling with heatwaves, fires, droughts and strange extreme storms, BC residents now know what it feels like to live in a changing climate on an increasingly inhospitable planet.
It’s the helplessness you feel as a mother when your son is throwing up from heat exhaustion. It’s the fear you feel when your asthmatic niece struggles to breathe because of the dense smoke from wildfires. It’s the panic you feel when you know that your oldest son is out in northern British Columbia tree planting and that there are now 180 wildfires raging across the province, caused by unprecedented “fire weather” – 710,000 lightning strikes in a 24-hour period.
Continue reading...Cruise ships are back. And it’s a catastrophe for the environment | Kim Heacox
Cruise ships kill whales, leak gray water, and are largely exempt from US taxation. When they violate the law, they pay the equivalent of a parking ticket
Decades ago, when I worked as a ranger in Alaska’s Glacier Bay national park, each cruise ship that entered the bay carried hundreds of passengers. Today, they carry thousands. They don’t look like ships any more. They look like the boxes the ships came in, huge floating milk cartons – ponderous and white.
But once they get moving, they’re a force. One that occasionally strikes whales.
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