Steve Dawe

It’s now *cheaper* to buy and install solar panels and batteries in Africa replacing all the electricity from a coal power plant, than it is to buy coal for an existing coal power plant .

Just by not wasting money on the coal and buying solar PVs.

Only idiots would buy the coal.

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

Oh:
- The US sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad through July.
- China exported $120 billion in green technology over the same period.
By @akshatrathi.bsky.social
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Wow. How is that for a measurement of economic decline.

Oops. The accumulating evidence of factors suggesting decline towards collapse of AMOC bears a family resemblance to the speedier scenario offered in to the film THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. AMOC collapse at any point in the future would be catastrophic with geographically far reaching effects.

Delay is denial, whatever the words used may be.

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law “I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

Greta--always a hero, and always eager to get the focus where it belongs
www.teenvogue.com/story/greta-...

It's really great that places with melting permafrost get extra heat. Or it wd b if we were terra forming an ice world?

New satellite imagery from @planet.com this morning shows water overflowing the Tala Hydroelectric Power Station in Bhutan. Hard to tell from this, but appears the dam hasn't failed at this point. Unclear what the brown stuff is in the lake upstream. Logs or sediment upstream landslides perhaps? 🧪⚒️

🚨Renewables have now overtaken coal in the share of electricity generation globally.

Despite the noise, renewables keep rising now generating more electricity than coal.

@iea.org halved its US outlook, but raised India’s by 10%, putting it on track as the No. 2 growth market after China. MENA up 23%, driven by Saudi wind and solar.

Are Carbon Offsets Fixable? This article provides a systematic review of the literature on carbon offsets. A growing number of studies have found that the most widely used offset programs continue to greatly overestimate their p...

You can't fix offsets, because they're not really broken

They are designed from the ground up as a way for polluters to falsify climate action, and for disgustingly rich bankers to divert funds away from frontline communities

As long as fossil fuels exist, offsets will exist

Good paper! -->>>

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

Precisely. What's the difference between an offset and an alibi? Can't hear any convincing answers out there...

Prof Jan Rosenow: Primary Energy Fallacy is the idea that all primary #energy from #FossilFuels must be replaced with equivalent #RenewableEnergy BUT not so - as conversion losses don't need to be replaced. More than 2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat.

EPR de Flamanville : EDF anticipe une puissance bridée jusqu'en 2031 EPR de Flamanville : EDF anticipe une puissance bridée jusqu'en 2031

Not so efficient ...
'#EDF EPR #nuclear limited power output until 2031.'
The reason: 'Reduced efficiency of the Normandy reactor, leading to a curtailment of its electricity production.'
www.latribune.fr/article/entr...

Cumulative number of countries with “climate change framework laws”, as defined by the Climate Change Laws of the World database. When countries have updated laws or introduced additional framework legislation, duplicates have been removed. Source: Climate Change Laws of the World.

NEW – Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org

Read here: buff.ly/c1tdbmJ

Curbing emissions from aviation and shipping is full of failings. There are so many that a lack of political will in Govts and a lack of real commitment from the industries involved seem the likely 'coalition' at work.

This is really good. Nothing about the CCA has obliged the Government to go down the centrally planning route the Conservatives now decry. Moreover, the Conservatives were in office for all but two of the first 17 years of the CCA. /1

New high-res climate models show Europe may face fewer severe hailstorms by 2100, but southern regions could see more of the largest, most damaging hail: tyndall.ac.uk/news/climate...

Factcheck: What the Climate Change Act does – and does not – mean for the UK - Carbon Brief The UK’s Climate Change Act is a landmark piece of legislation that guides the nation’s response to global warming and has proved highly influential around the world.

Kemi Badenoch has been saying a lot of stuff that isn't true recently.

We've taken a look through some of the things she and her Conservative colleagues have been saying as they pledge to “repeal” the Climate Change Act.

➡️ www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

Conventional economics so often appears marooned from social, environmental and species needs. We need mixed, sustainable economies in which private and public sector goals are sculpted to make living in the next few centuries possible.

Carbon offsets as failure. Tick that option off then.

If only. I would settle for better integration of human rights and the environment into how other States deal with these regimes. Attrition of forces intent on marginalizing life on Earth needs urgency.

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Turning to the sun: Solar rise in Central Europe | Ember

Hungary is the surprise leader in terms of proportion of electricity coming from solar PV. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
See also Which 'country' is leading the world in solar PV and battery power - and why’ - California would be tops if it were a country! davidtoke.substack.com/p/who-is-lea...

Eliminating contrails from flying could be incredibly cheap Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?

Eliminating CO2 emissions from flying is going to be expensive.
Aviation also contributes to global warming through “contrails”.
Getting rid of those so cheap that it’s difficult to understand why we don’t just go ahead and fix it.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/eliminatin...

Global solar and wind power surges despite US green cuts under Trump Renewable energy held back in world’s biggest economy while growing in India, the Middle East and Africa

Global #solar and #wind power surges despite US green cuts under #Trump
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Marginal Gains: how wind is pushing gas out of the power market and… Growth in British renewables cutting electricity prices by up to a quarter.

Marginal Gains: #wind pushing #gas out of UK power market and cutting costs.
eciu.net/analysis/rep...