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“we’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway…” – Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall … any moves to curtail the expanding amounts of energy consumed in developing … ever more advanced AI models are...

El Huracán Milton se dirige hacia un feroz impacto nocturno en la costa oeste de Florida » Yale Climate Connections

El Huracán Milton está acelerando hacia la costa oeste de Florida, con un posible impacto entre la zona de la Bahía de Tampa...

It was my godmother and Winter that taught me – Climate Generation

Snot ran down my nose, and my ears burned – exhaling a wisp of steam into gray, still air. As I whipped through...

Australian coal, oil and gas companies are making climate change worse

Australia is the world’s third largest fossil fuel exporter, after only Russia and the US. Though often ignored in political discussions, these exports...

Q&A:英国如何成为首个淘汰煤电的G7国家 – Carbon Brief

英国最后一座燃煤发电厂——诺丁汉郡的索尔河畔拉特克利夫火电厂(Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station)——于10月关闭,标志着英国142年燃煤发电时代的终结。 英国逐步淘汰煤电在国际上意义重大。它是首个实现这一里程碑的主要经济体,也是首个G7成员国。1882年,英国在伦敦霍尔本高架桥(Holborn Viaduct)上建成了世界上第一座燃煤发电厂。 上微信关注《碳简报》 Carbon Brief的分析显示,从1882年到索尔河畔拉特克利夫火电厂关闭,英国的燃煤电厂共燃烧了46亿吨煤炭,排放了104亿吨二氧化碳(CO2),这比大多数国家从所有来源产生的CO2都多。 英国对煤电的逐步淘汰,将有助于推动煤炭总需求达到17世纪以来的最低水平。 逐步淘汰建立在四个关键要素之上:替代电源的可用性、结束新煤炭产能建设、定价外部因素,以及明确和长期的政府政策。 随着英国致力于到2030年实现电力行业的完全脱碳,其在努力为气候行动建立另一个成功范例方面,既面临挑战,又面临机遇。 英国何时开始使用煤电? 长期以来,英国的资源禀赋就包括丰富的煤炭,但几个世纪以来煤炭的使用量一直很少。煤炭用于发电的时间要晚得多。 最早的蒸汽机从1700年左右开始使用。它通过燃煤将水从矿井中抽出,以便开采更深的煤矿。 这些蒸汽机的效率非常低,但詹姆斯·瓦特(James Watt)和乔治·史蒂文森(George Stevenson)等发明家对蒸汽机进行了改进,使煤的使用更加经济,也更广泛。 如下图所示,经历了上述过程,英国的煤炭使用量开始激增,为工业革命、大英帝国以及全球CO2排放量的激增提供了动力。 格拉斯哥大学(University...

Hurricane Milton Historic, Not Unprecedented – Watts Up With That?

Press Release from The Heartland Institute It is wrong to blame human activity and ‘climate change’ for strength of hurricane Storm of similar size and...

How closed landfills can become solar powerhouses » Yale Climate Connections

For decades, the site of an old municipal landfill in Fort Edward, New York, sat empty. Now it’s covered with solar panels. Colston: “And...

Osprey Wilds Achieves 100% Solar Clean Energy Goal – Climate Generation

Anything worth achieving is hard. It requires dedication, focus, and perseverance. And sometimes a little luck. Osprey Wilds’ clean energy focus began 20...

Guest post: Heat stress thresholds are not designed for vulnerable groups

As global temperatures rise, vast swathes of...

Energy Giant Puts Goal to Drastically Cut Oil, Gas Production on Ice – Watts Up With That?

From THE DAILY CALLER Owen KlinskyContributor European energy company BP has abandoned its pledge to cut oil and gas production by 2030 as the firm...

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