"Forecasters predict record number of hurricanes" by @nickrobertson.bsky.socialthehill.com/policy/energ...
Weather forecasters at the University of Pennsylvania predicted a record hurricane season for 2024 on Thursday, a “hyperactive” season that could threaten the Gulf Coast. The Penn forecast predicts…
Lunch seminar on Nov 29, 12 o'clock – Svante Bodin, former Head of the Climate Change Division at the Ministry of the Environment (1989-1996), will talk about the IPCC and climate negotiations. The Zoom link is: us02web.zoom.us/j/6639856178 Welcome!
One of the most powerful conclusions in the IEA’s “Oil and Gas Industry Net Zero Transitions” report should help to put to rest any misconceptions about the use of direct air capture as a way to maintain business as usual:
Well worth reading about Sultan Al Jaber, chief of UAE national oil company Adnoc, who will preside COP28. "It’s the consumer who contributes to increasing CO2 emissions, not the producer.”
Smart, insightful piece by Fiona Harvey. Really worth reading
When Cop28 starts next month, Sultan Al Jaber will be front and centre. He is the United Arab Emirates’ choice to head up the climate talks – and he also happens to be head of the national oil com...
Third option (the miraculous): World leaders accept science, set aside special interests, stop extracting fossil carbon and start incentives and a new paradigm that support a thriving and resilient nature.
First practical option: Pray science is wrong. Second practical option: Pray for an enlightened species from a distant galax to arrive to earth and solve our problems.
Faced with the overwhelming problems of climate change and extinction of species we have three options: two practical and one miraculous.
Here is the recording of the RD webinar with Iain Pitcairn youtu.be/Ar3J5cWzmVE