Silicon Valley's most endangered wildflower, the metaphor leafed clover
Speaking on behalf of the performance artists formerly known as Zuck, Chuck Monteazucar, the new CEO of Facebook spinoff General Atemics, said he hoped to rebrand COP26 Glasgow by imploding an atemic bomb over the green zone.
Unlike snart bombs, long ago banned on Facebook, Atemic Implosives channel the negative energy of social networks into an intellectual vacuum that collapses violently when canceled.
Chuck announced the new Party Of Congresses brand will kick off with Halloween Metaclimate Crisis afterparty at ground zero, which, for Health and Safety reasons, will be open only to Artificially Accredited Metajournalists and Stress Management Dog avatars, like Chuck:
Monteazucar unveils Meta's new blue Failed Pretzel logo
The move follows Facebook's Congressional hearing success , where General Atemics execs waved Xtinction Insurrection placards, and lip synched AI generated replies to questions provided by Chatbots to Artificial Journalist focus groups, a protocol K-Street observers say General Secretary Guterres andJohn Podesta may soon adopt as a Best Practice.At today's Capitol Hill hearing on fossil fuel PR horror stories, cancelled NPR Metajournalism Avatar Michael Oreskes asked Representative Bush of Missouri about social media critics:
"without objection, let the Congressional Record reveal those fascist Facebook racist turncoats as the two-faced Janussaries that they are.
Madame Chairman, I yield the remainder of my time to this video of Representative Porter pouring rice on the contaminated ground to symbolize how oil profit inflation since 1619 triggers thousands of fatal asthma attacks every day by releasing radioactive oil refinery water into segregated public schoolyards, and thus threatens the re-election of this honorable Congress."
What theology can tell science about climate change
uttered these words of power to resurrect a crowd of denialists reduced to post-prandial torpor by a Caesar's Palace Baccanal Buffet:
“CO2 is the elixir of life. The world needs more of it not less. And fossil fuel companies should stop apologizing for it and embracing trends of emissions reductions. It never ceases to amaze me that fossil fuel companies, and industries that use fossil fuels, boast of reducing CO2 emissions...
You should be boasting all the benefits […] that the world gets not just from all that energy that you produce but also from a mere byproduct your activities, a byproduct you give to all the world without charging
“The campaign to fight global warming by reducing fossil fuel use is […] a campaign to retain the primitive energy system and its accompanying low incomes and high rates of disease and premature death. It is in fact a campaign of anti-humanism.”
The noted Dominionist theogogue and former professor of logic warned that reduced fossil fuel consumption risked acceptance of John Locke's materialistic philosophy of mind, under which, he opined
"Once again, Heartland’s latest climate and energy conference will be THE EVENTto attend for those who want to meet the best scientists and experts from around the worldwho are brave enough to publicly tell the truth about theCLIMATE DELUSION
The spatial and temporal variability of the summer (July–August) climate beach-based tourism aptitude along the Atlantic coast of SW Europe from 1973 to 2017 and its links with the atmospheric circulation has been analyzed, combining an empirical index and a circulation pattern approach.
Three different coastal sectors were defined from a PCA analysis: Galicia-N of Portugal, the Gulf of Biscay, and the western coast of France and the English Channel. Each region experienced a contrasted evolution due to geographical factors such as latitude, orography and exposure to the prevailing circulation patterns. No significant increase in aptitude was found because the background warming has not been balanced by trends in cloudiness or precipitation. Several possible causes are discussed, from local to large-scale, such as the recent evolution of the summer NAO pattern impacting the northernmost region.
Research on Applied Climatology has focused on two main lines: one envisages the atmosphere as a risk system capable of endangering the natural environment and human activities, while for the other, the atmosphere is a natural resource for human development [1]. Tourism Climatology is included within the latter.
Tourism has become one of the most important economic activities in many countries and has been under continuous expansion over the past several decades, playing a relevant role in promoting the development of national economies [2]. Although there are multiple factors explaining the diversity of touristic activities, it is no less true that weather and climate resources play a relevant role on specific typologies.
Climate is undoubtedly the most important resource for most 3S (sand, sea, and sun) destinations. It directly drives the main intra- and interregional travel flows (mostly from temperate to subtropical and tropical regions), significantly influencing the number of visits [3]. Moreover, climate also regulates other natural assets, such as beach environments, land- and seascapes or regional biodiversity, supplementary natural resources which are additional attraction factors that improve the visitor’s satisfaction levels.
Last week, the Nobel physics prize was (half) awarded to Suki Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann for their work on climate prediction and the detection and attribution of climate change.
Manabe is such a pioneer that other climate scientists called his 1967 paper with the late Richard Wetherald “the most influential climate paper ever,” said NASA chief climate modeler Gavin Schmidt.
Manabe’s Princeton colleague Tom Delworth called Manabe “the Michael Jordan of climate.”
Highly efficient devices called HEPA filters (right) successfully remove coronavirus particles from the air.Credit: Getty
Research at a hospital swamped by people with COVID-19 has confirmed that portable air filters effectively remove SARS-CoV-2 particles from the air — the first such evidence in a real-world setting1. The results suggest that air filters could be used to reduce the risk of patients and medical staff contracting SARS-CoV-2 in hospitals, the study’s authors say.
" it’s not just Europe. This energy crunch could pinch ceramics, steel, aluminum, glass and cement suppliers in China, the story added, while it presents households in Brazil with eye-popping power bills because low river water flows have slashed hydropower output. And pandemic-related supply chain problems for coal are making the problem worse.
But how did the bad-news side of this story emerge so fast?
Blame Covid-19. First, the pandemic erupted and signaled to every major economy that we were headed for a deep recession. This sent prices of all kinds of commodities, including oil and gas, into downward spirals.
This, in turn, led banks to choke off investment in new natural gas capacity and crude wells after seven years of already declining investments in these hydrocarbons because of lousy returns.But the economy snapped back — thanks to government stimulus programs — far faster than anticipated. And so, too, did demand for energy. But this industry does not ramp up quickly. So, there was not enough natural gas, let alone renewables, to fill in the gap.
America has enough oil and natural gas to meet its own needs for now, but its ability to export liquefied natural gas to help others is limited, especially when every utility in Europe and Asia is trying to meet newly minted environmental, social and governance standards for clean energy and therefore is desperate to import natural gas.
When every country jumps in at once, the price goes crazy. Or the lights go out.
Don’t get me wrong. I am as green as ever. But I’m not a nice green. I am a mean green. Achieving the scale of clean energy that we need requires not only wind, solar and hydro, but also a carbon tax in every major industrial economy, nuclear power and natural gas as a bridge. If you oppose all those, you’re not serious about what scientists tell us needs to be done right now — put in place enough non-carbon-emitting fuels to manage the destructive aspects of climate change that have become unavoidable, so we can avoid those that would be unmanageable.
Sadly, in an overreaction to the Fukushima nuclear accident, Germany decided in 2011 to phase out all of its nuclear power by 2022 — nuclear power stations that in the year 2000 generated 29.5 percent of Germany’s power generation mix. All of that has to be replaced by wind, solar, hydro and natural gas, and there is just not enough now.
As Bill Gates points out in his smart book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” the only way to reach our climate targets is to shift production of all the big heavy industries, like steel, cement and automobiles, as well as how we heat our homes and power our cars, to electricity generated from clean energy. Safe and affordable nuclear power has to be part of our mix because, Gates argues, “it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that’s available 24 hours a day.”
An overview of the CONAES study is presented a long with reviews of several major energy supply resources and technologies, including the global uranium resource, the North Sea oil field, U.S. coal production, photochemical conversion of solar energy, and the interfacing of solar wind systems with electric grids. Topics related to energy economics and econometrics include three assessments of energy supply-demand models and projections, and a discussion of issues in the design of utility rate structures. Energy end-use is represented by a review of possible impacts of telecommunications on energy consumption. International policy-related reviews cover energy situation of Canada and the question of international assurance of nuclear fuel supply
Publication:
Palo Alto, Calif., Annual Reviews, Inc., 1979. 567 p (For individual items see A80-11827 to A80-11832)
Ann. Rev. Energy. 1979. 4:1-70
UNITED STATES ENERGY ALTERNATIVES TO 2010 AND BEYOND:
The Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems Study [CONAES ]
University of California, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720
INTRODUCTION
This paper reviews the results of a study performed by the US National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in response to a request from the US Energy Research and Development Administration in 1975 for a com prehensive analysis of the nation's energy future, with special consideration of the role of nuclear power. ..
the parent Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems (CONAES), (1), four assessment panels, and some two dozen subcommittees, involving, in total, over 250 persons. The Committee and study groups were selected from a broadly based representation in order to bring to bear a wide range of expertise and viewpoints on the major US energy issues.
Central to the study's charter was assessment of current and future options for the nation's energy supply system.
Non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) such as ethane and propane are significant atmospheric pollutants... Here we compare in situ hydrocarbon measurements, performed around the Arabian Peninsula, with global model simulations that include current emission inventories (EDGAR) and state-of-the-art atmospheric circulation and chemistry mechanisms (EMAC model). While measurements of high mixing ratios over the Arabian Gulf are adequately simulated, strong underprediction by the model was found over the northern Red Sea.
By examining the individual sources in the model and by utilizing air mass back-trajectory investigations and Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) analysis, we deduce that Red Sea Deep Water (RSDW) is an unexpected, potent source of atmospheric NMHCs. This overlooked underwater source is comparable with total anthropogenic emissions from entire Middle Eastern countries, and significantly impacts the regional atmospheric chemistry.
