The big money is starting to get wary of fossil fuels:
https://www.fitchratings.com/research/s ... 15-02-2021
"International policy commitments to limit climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, a rapid decline in the cost of renewable energy and social change will lead to a marked decline in the demand for coal, oil and then gas over the coming decades. This will render some of these natural resource and production infrastructure as ‘stranded assets’ that will never be fully utilised."
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Felipesed1
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So back to the Stone Age then!
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China’s Carbon Neutral Opportunity: Economic Growth Driven By Ambitious Climate Action
"But new research shows the growing economic advantages of stronger climate policies could be a principal reason China chooses to increase its climate ambition. As clean energy becomes ever cheaper, the world’s top greenhouse gas emitter can export the very technologies it develops to decarbonize at home, driving innovation and improving the competitiveness of domestic companies in international clean energy markets. A recent study accounting for this macroeconomic dynamic found faster power sector decarbonization could increase China’s economic growth up to 15% by 2030."
https://www.hellenicshippingnews.com/ch ... te-action/
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Mangrove forests: How 40 million Australian trees died of thirst
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-62489574 (Video)
In 2015, about 10% of Australia's vast mangrove forests in the Gulf of Carpentaria mysteriously died.
Scientists have now figured out the cause - and warn the forests may struggle to recover in a changing climate.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-62489574 (Video)
In 2015, about 10% of Australia's vast mangrove forests in the Gulf of Carpentaria mysteriously died.
Scientists have now figured out the cause - and warn the forests may struggle to recover in a changing climate.
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To be expected. I don't blame them at all.
Germany's Russian gas crisis sparks coal rush
https://www.rfi.fr/en/business-and-tech ... -coal-rush
Berlin (AFP) – "A rush like this in the summertime, it's unheard of -- everybody wants coal," says Frithjof Engelke, a supplier of the briquettes which have become a hot commodity in the German capital.
A looming shortage of Russian gas in the wake of the Ukraine war has reignited enthusiasm for this method of heating private homes despite its sooty residue and heavy carbon footprint.
Engelke, 46, head of the century-old Berlin business Hans Engelke Energie, says it's brought a bonanza for his family business: "My holidays will have to wait."
He and his team are frenziedly taking orders, organising deliveries by truck -- now booked out until October, and getting supplies ready for those who come directly to pick up coal from his warehouse.
On a hot summer's day, he weighs and bags loose coal amid the dust and din of his filling machine, then arranges the bags on pallets, awaiting customers.
In Berlin, 5-6,000 homes still heat with coal -- only a fraction of the city's 1.9 million homes, say municipal authorities.
Engelke's customers are often elderly people, sometimes entirely dependent on coal and living in old dwellings that have never been renovated.
Others are lovers of the "cosy" heat emanating from often ornate old ceramic stoves.
But this year, new customers have arrived "en masse", says Engelke, whose medium-sized company has also diversified into wood pellets and fuel oil.
"Those who heat with gas but who still have a stove at home now all want to have coal," he said, citing a phenomenon seen throughout Germany as winter approaches.
'Better than being cold'
Jean Blum is one of the new converts.
The 55-year-old man with tousled hair and a bushy white beard loads 25-kilogram (55-pound) bags filled with precious black briquettes in his trailer.
"I'm buying coal for the first time in years," he tells AFP.
Since his home is equipped with gas heating, he sometimes lights his stove, but only with wood.
With the jump in gas prices, which will be exacerbated this autumn when operators will be able to pass on the increase in energy levies to the consumer, Blum wants to make sure he has a safety net.
"Even if it's bad for your health, it's still better than being cold," he says.
Although coal prices have soared 30 percent this season, it remains cheaper than wood, whose price has more than doubled.
"I worry when I wonder if there will be enough gas for everyone," he adds, noting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already partially closed the gas tap on Germany after Western nations imposed new sanctions on Moscow.
'Renaissance'
The black fuel is experiencing a comeback on several fronts in Europe's top economy.
The German government had already resolved to increase the use of coal-fuelled power plants to satisfy the enormous appetites of several industries.
However Berlin insists it will keep its pledge to phase out the heavily polluting energy source by 2030 and rules out a "renaissance of fossil fuels, in particular coal," as Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently vowed.
However with new private customers coming out of the woodwork, production has a hard time keeping up, and many small coal merchants in the capital are running out of supplies.
"We produce at full capacity during the summer, with three shifts, seven days a week," Thoralf Schirmer, spokesman for LEAG, a mining site in the Lusatia basin, told AFP.
The company supplies DIY stores and fuel sellers with coal briquettes.
Production has jumped 40 percent since January, he said, but demand is strong everywhere and the situation is expected to remain tense at least until this winter.
Adding to the pressure is the fact that the other factory supplying the market in Germany, based in the Rhine valley, will cease production at the end of the year, reducing supply.
"I dread the winter a bit," Engelke, the coal seller, admits.
Currently, people are relatively relaxed when they learn that they will have to wait at least two months before getting deliveries, he says.
"Things will be radically different when it starts to get cold outside."
Germany's Russian gas crisis sparks coal rush
https://www.rfi.fr/en/business-and-tech ... -coal-rush
Berlin (AFP) – "A rush like this in the summertime, it's unheard of -- everybody wants coal," says Frithjof Engelke, a supplier of the briquettes which have become a hot commodity in the German capital.
A looming shortage of Russian gas in the wake of the Ukraine war has reignited enthusiasm for this method of heating private homes despite its sooty residue and heavy carbon footprint.
Engelke, 46, head of the century-old Berlin business Hans Engelke Energie, says it's brought a bonanza for his family business: "My holidays will have to wait."
He and his team are frenziedly taking orders, organising deliveries by truck -- now booked out until October, and getting supplies ready for those who come directly to pick up coal from his warehouse.
On a hot summer's day, he weighs and bags loose coal amid the dust and din of his filling machine, then arranges the bags on pallets, awaiting customers.
In Berlin, 5-6,000 homes still heat with coal -- only a fraction of the city's 1.9 million homes, say municipal authorities.
Engelke's customers are often elderly people, sometimes entirely dependent on coal and living in old dwellings that have never been renovated.
Others are lovers of the "cosy" heat emanating from often ornate old ceramic stoves.
But this year, new customers have arrived "en masse", says Engelke, whose medium-sized company has also diversified into wood pellets and fuel oil.
"Those who heat with gas but who still have a stove at home now all want to have coal," he said, citing a phenomenon seen throughout Germany as winter approaches.
'Better than being cold'
Jean Blum is one of the new converts.
The 55-year-old man with tousled hair and a bushy white beard loads 25-kilogram (55-pound) bags filled with precious black briquettes in his trailer.
"I'm buying coal for the first time in years," he tells AFP.
Since his home is equipped with gas heating, he sometimes lights his stove, but only with wood.
With the jump in gas prices, which will be exacerbated this autumn when operators will be able to pass on the increase in energy levies to the consumer, Blum wants to make sure he has a safety net.
"Even if it's bad for your health, it's still better than being cold," he says.
Although coal prices have soared 30 percent this season, it remains cheaper than wood, whose price has more than doubled.
"I worry when I wonder if there will be enough gas for everyone," he adds, noting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already partially closed the gas tap on Germany after Western nations imposed new sanctions on Moscow.
'Renaissance'
The black fuel is experiencing a comeback on several fronts in Europe's top economy.
The German government had already resolved to increase the use of coal-fuelled power plants to satisfy the enormous appetites of several industries.
However Berlin insists it will keep its pledge to phase out the heavily polluting energy source by 2030 and rules out a "renaissance of fossil fuels, in particular coal," as Chancellor Olaf Scholz recently vowed.
However with new private customers coming out of the woodwork, production has a hard time keeping up, and many small coal merchants in the capital are running out of supplies.
"We produce at full capacity during the summer, with three shifts, seven days a week," Thoralf Schirmer, spokesman for LEAG, a mining site in the Lusatia basin, told AFP.
The company supplies DIY stores and fuel sellers with coal briquettes.
Production has jumped 40 percent since January, he said, but demand is strong everywhere and the situation is expected to remain tense at least until this winter.
Adding to the pressure is the fact that the other factory supplying the market in Germany, based in the Rhine valley, will cease production at the end of the year, reducing supply.
"I dread the winter a bit," Engelke, the coal seller, admits.
Currently, people are relatively relaxed when they learn that they will have to wait at least two months before getting deliveries, he says.
"Things will be radically different when it starts to get cold outside."
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China is having to shut down manufacturing because of drought conditions bought on by climate change:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chin ... -rcna43457
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/chin ... -rcna43457
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More accurate story might be: China limiting electric use to customers due to excessive demand on the inadequate grid to the over populated areas during the hot season. Hydro power output limited due to the low water levels because the over population using more water than ever was available.
Decades of over population has strained the inadequate infrastructure during hot season.
Global Warming ... I don't think so.
Decades of over population has strained the inadequate infrastructure during hot season.
Global Warming ... I don't think so.
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"Even if it's bad for your health, it's still better than being cold," he says.
Bad health is better than no health at all.
Bad health is better than no health at all.
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Low water levels are being caused by extreme heat and a lack of rain.KhunLA wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:45 am More accurate story might be: China limiting electric use to customers due to excessive demand on the inadequate grid to the over populated areas during the hot season. Hydro power output limited due to the low water levels because the over population using more water than ever was available.
Decades of over population has strained the inadequate infrastructure during hot season.
Global Warming ... I don't think so.
Europe suffered its worst drought in 500 years in 2018 and 2022 is heading for beating that record, that's climate change.
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It seems that the question is; is climate change due to man-made global warming, or is it part of a cycle and possibly aggravated by man-made use of fossil fuels?STEVE G wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:47 pmLow water levels are being caused by extreme heat and a lack of rain.KhunLA wrote: ↑Thu Aug 18, 2022 7:45 am More accurate story might be: China limiting electric use to customers due to excessive demand on the inadequate grid to the over populated areas during the hot season. Hydro power output limited due to the low water levels because the over population using more water than ever was available.
Decades of over population has strained the inadequate infrastructure during hot season.
Global Warming ... I don't think so.
Europe suffered its worst drought in 500 years in 2018 and 2022 is heading for beating that record, that's climate change.
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The real question is what is more important, the future of the planet or the profits of fossil fuel companies?
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Wasn’t sure where to put this so move if appropriate
An interesting and complex article regarding weather patterns following major volcanic activity earlier in 2022.
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-we ... luence-fa/
An interesting and complex article regarding weather patterns following major volcanic activity earlier in 2022.
https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-we ... luence-fa/
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I read about that elsewhere a few weeks ago concerning the Tonga eruption, which really got limited Press IMO. Two or three similar events and we may be in a mini ice age for a few years.
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May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil know`s you`re dead!
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