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Australian Wildfires

Lisa Miles
Moving some posts re the Australian wildfires to a separate topic Luciano Bacco‍ 

Luciano Bacco:


Climate Crisis. The reason Australia is red. Australian wildfires have cloaked the country in a demonic red glow. As the new decade begins underneath a blood-red sky, the need for solutions is even more pressing. 
https://www.inverse.com/article/62058-why-do-wildfires-turn-the-sky-red?link_uid=9&utm_campaign=inverse-daily-2020-01-03&utm_medium=inverse&utm_source=newsletter 


And:
https://interestingengineering.com/a-magpie-in-australia-mimics-emergency-responder-sirens-because-things-are-that-bad?_source=newsletter&_campaign=a0bglamBn02qr&_uid=YQdJzWvdOG&_h=c5182a5a087e2b004ca4aca7c1e307f54e8a1507&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mailing&utm_campaign=Newsletter-04-01-2020

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/australian-bushfires-new-south-wales-koalas-sydney-a4322071.html#spark_wn=1



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    Simon Barker:




    Everything is "too difficult" for someone who doesn't want to do it.  I don't believe that carbon neutral by 2030 is realistically possible.  2050 should be. 2100 is too late, and is basically saying "don't bother doing anything until I'm long dead".




     




    This is Greenpeace's take on the current plans for China:
    https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-plants-2030-climate/

    None of the scenarios are going to get you to 'Carbon Neutral' by 2050 unless you can manage a lot of offsetting even though China is the current leader in installing wind, solar and nuclear capacity. We do need to start working now but without sensible planning the situation will get worse. Unless you only build renewables with renewable energy (bootstrap principle) emissions will increase during the building phase rather than decrease. This is an older article but the principle of 'Energy Cannibalism' still holds true:
    https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-05-11/how-sustainable-is-pv-solar-power/


    The UK government including ex environment minister Gove obviously believe what they are preaching:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51303304
    Off to the battery factory with them.


    Best regards


    Roger


     

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    Simon Barker:




    Everything is "too difficult" for someone who doesn't want to do it.  I don't believe that carbon neutral by 2030 is realistically possible.  2050 should be. 2100 is too late, and is basically saying "don't bother doing anything until I'm long dead".




     




    This is Greenpeace's take on the current plans for China:
    https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2019/03/28/china-new-coal-plants-2030-climate/

    None of the scenarios are going to get you to 'Carbon Neutral' by 2050 unless you can manage a lot of offsetting even though China is the current leader in installing wind, solar and nuclear capacity. We do need to start working now but without sensible planning the situation will get worse. Unless you only build renewables with renewable energy (bootstrap principle) emissions will increase during the building phase rather than decrease. This is an older article but the principle of 'Energy Cannibalism' still holds true:
    https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-05-11/how-sustainable-is-pv-solar-power/


    The UK government including ex environment minister Gove obviously believe what they are preaching:
    https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51303304
    Off to the battery factory with them.


    Best regards


    Roger


     

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