Main Topic: Will California’s Big Drought Reprieve Be Its Last for Decades to Come? via @borenbears
On the Extreme Temperature Diary- THU 5/02/2024
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+new #climate , record temp + #weather links
Prof Michael E. Mann Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈 Prof. Peter Strachan

New paper quantifies huge India onshore wind potential at different heights up to 200 m, accounting for exclusions at 10-m resolution AND quantifies co-located solar potential

Enough wind to power India for all purposes 2x in 2050

Congrats Anna-Katharina von Krauland, PhD

cell.com/cell-reports-s…

The 'surprising reasons' why olive oil has got so expensive, according to the Daily Mail

A surprising story in three parts, but not, perhaps, for the reasons Mail thinks…

1 OMG it costs more than wine!
2 Srsly prices nearly doubled
3 'what is going on? Climate change…'

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As USA fails to back production cuts in Global Plastics Treaty negotiations, aligning with Russia & China,

'Delegates expressed concerns about the increased presence of fossil fuel lobbyists, who outnumbered the representatives of the EU delegations'

ft.com/content/a13578…

California crosses 10 GW battery storage threshold: California is adding massive amounts of battery energy storage, and the project pipeline shows no sign of slowing down. Batteries are playing an… dlvr.it/T6GTr4 #EnergyStorage #GridsIntegration #UtilityScaleStorage

Delighted to join Oxford Martin School University of Oxford to work with climate researchers and advise on the University’s climate and environment strategy as it seeks to engage further with the private sector and abroad

Black carbon is a pressing issue world leaders can no longer afford to ignore.

Check out this informative article from Project Drawdown's Yusuf Jameel to understand the urgency of reducing black carbon and its far-reaching impacts:

bit.ly/4bjeMKd

An aging marine biologist inspects a giant old coral that’s fighting for its life due to anthropogenic heating.

Surrounding it are stands of recently dead and dying staghorn corals, for as far as the eye can see.

This is what mass-mortality looks like. theguardian.com/environment/20…

Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) is found in drinking water & rain, thought to damage fertility, child development

It is essentially impossible to remove

China had a 17-fold increase of TFA in surface waters in a decade, USA a sixfold increase in 23 years

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Today is a good day to share myth 16 from my electric vehicle mythbusting compendium:

Despite 'rumours and anecdotes' to the contrary, most EV batteries last the lifetime of the car, meaning they never need replacing

carbonbrief.org/factcheck-21-m…

Battery recycling shatters the myth of electric-vehicle waste

EV battery recycling is already profitable and capable of recovering more than 95% of the key minerals

theprogressplaybook.com/2024/04/30/bat…

Another new record yesterday (Tue Apr. 30)

Batteries provided 4.83% of California's electricity output in the 24-h average (prev record 4.62%), which means they provided ~10% of all nighttime electricity, shifting it from the excess daytime #WindWaterSolar generation.

Disneyland Paris has installed a 36.1 MW solar carport.

The facility, which covers 20 hectares of parking space, will sell all of the electricity, with no self-consumption.

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Solar PV is growing exponentially at the fastest rate of any energy source in history.

BUT we should stop comparing it to other energy technologies using WATT. (So the picture below from Renew Economy is doing it wrong!)

We should compare in WATT-HOUR!
reneweconomy.com.au/solar-is-now-b…

The UK’s 2% target for new woodland over 10 years is woefully inadequate.
We need far more ambition.
Costa Rica did it 👇

UK Energy Secretary puts herself at odds wth actual business organisations CBI, Energy UK, Federation of Small Businesses who all advocate for opportunities of climate action

Sure, if done badly it's a problem but only risk here is from govt incompetence
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…

At this Contra Costa County meeting

sunflower-alliance.org/hot-debate-on-…

I said a CCS project is a waste b/c a fossil gas elec plant proposed for capture might not be here in 4-7 y since CA should be 100% #WindWaterSolar by then

Today: 45th of 53 days & 16th in a row WWS>100% (for 9 h); peak: 134.5%

Renewables cover 56% of Germany’s electricity needs in first quarter of 2024

theprogressplaybook.com/2024/04/29/ren…

This is incredible

reneweconomy.com.au/solar-is-now-b…

Main Topic: Increasingly Up to 70% of U.S. Population Favor Steps to Reduce Climate Change
Extreme Temperature Diary- TUE 4/30/2024
guyonclimate.com/2024/04/30/ext…
+new #climate , record temp + #weather links
Prof Michael E. Mann Prof. Katharine Hayhoe Brian McHugh 🌏🏳️‍🌈
Prof. Peter Strachan Zack Labe Jeff Berardelli