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Burning Forests for Biomass is a Really Bad Idea

Tax the Carbon

Tilting toward windmills

The Battle for the Climate

Is the AMOC Running Amok?

The Energy Charter Treaty is locking us into Fossil Fuels

The Ice of Texas

Beauty and the Atom
The Other Problem with Oil

France: Less Nuclear - More Coal

Corner to Front of the Class on Climate?

Does France Need Windmills?

The climate will miss you, Fessenheim

How can the world’s nuclear watchdog help protect us from COVID-19?

Dramatic Pollution Reduction in China!

A Baseless Decision and a Sad Day

Methane: Sniffing out the Leaks

Energiewende is a loser
Do Carbon Offset Trading Schemes Work? 
 

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We welcome Emergency Reactor,  a new green campaign for evidence-based environmentalism. Founded by Zion Lights. Read her article, The Sad Truth About Traditional Environmentalism.

G7 and Climate

The Group of 7 powerful industrialised nations meeting in Cornwall, UK, on 11-13 June, vowed to cut their greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 and to protect 30% of global land and marine areas for nature by that date.

They failed to set a firm  date to end the burning of coal, but did agree to halt international funding for coal projects lacking CCS (carbon capture and store) technology. They agreed to stop funding new coal generation in developing countries.

Rich nations had previously (in 2009) pledged to provide $100bn a year to developing nations for climate assistance but delivery has fallen short of the goal.

References:
G7 Nations Take Aggressive Climate Action but Hold Back on Coal

Our Response to Climate Change Is Missing Something Big

G7 leaders face make-or-break moment in climate crisis

G7 summit: How significant are group's climate pledges?

G7 to agree tough measures on burning coal to tackle climate change

Climate crisis: rich countries falling short on vow to help poorer ones

More needed: G7 nations agree to boost climate finance
 

CO2 levels in the atmosphere
 
Weekly averages, 30 May 2021: 419.55 ppm
This time last year: 417.46 ppm
10 years ago: 394.43 ppm
Pre-industrial base: 280
Safe level: 350

At the dawn of the industrial revolution, CO2 was at 280 parts per million (ppm) in the atmosphere. By 1958, when the first measurements were made at Mauna Loa in Hawaii, it had reached 315ppm. It raced past 350ppm in 1986 and 400ppm in 2013.

Scientists have warned for more than a decade that concentrations of more than 450ppm risk triggering extreme weather events and temperature rises as high as 2C, beyond which the effects of global heating are likely to become catastrophic and irreversible.

Source: The Guardian

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