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One of the most delightful aspects of gardening is going out to the vegetable garden very early in the morning and finding bumblebees still asleep in the squash blossoms. ❤️🐝❤️🐝
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
‘"This is one of the only instances I've ever heard of where you can have cost-negative carbon sequestration," says ecologist Timothy Treuer from Princeton University.’
Major tech companies are producing far more carbon emissions than they suggest in their sustainability reports.
They’re lobbying hard to rewrite the rules on how emissions are calculated to show net zero on paper, but not in practice.
https://www.ft.com/content/2d6fc319-2165-42fb-8de1-0edf1d765be3
"the Plutonian year that started on July 4, 1776 will end this year on June 12, 2024"
1. Pluto has long-ass years!
2. The entirety of US history occurred during a single year on Pluto
https://kottke.org/24/02/all-of-us-history-has-taken-place-in-one-plutonian-year
#Space #History
Our Observation of the Week is this trio of Orange-spined Drone Flies (Eristalis nemorum, Eristale interrompue in French), seen in France by @nicolashelitas! Nicolas Helitas tells me he was raised by his grandparents in the southwest of France. His father, who lived near Paris, would spend a lot of time fishing when on holiday and took Nicolas with him. “I think the hours I spent quietly on the bank of ponds gave me the love of being in nature,” he says, which led him to study biology. I made an herbarium, and I started to look more closely at plants - especially orchids. Those plants are often rare, so I started to take photos instead of collecting them. Then I looked at the butterflies which were visiting the plants, then dragonflies after that, while a passion for photography started to grow in me. Now my main interests are still botany and entomology, but I'm potentially interested in everything in nature! I currently have more than 200k images on my hard drive. Even if lots o...
Interesting. The more you know about #climate change the less anxious you are, because you also know about the options for tackling it. Educating the public works.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-023-03518-z
This study tests the hypotheses that overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge are inversely related to climate change anxiety, such that people who know more (less) about the environment in general, and about climate in particular, are less (more) anxious about climate change. Time lagged data were collected from N = 2,066 individuals in Germany. Results showed that, even after controlling for demographic characteristics, personality characteristics, and environmental attitudes, overall environmental knowledge and climate-specific knowledge were negatively related to climate change anxiety (both B = -.09, p < .001).
Mountain Hare.
From a rather blustery workshop today, here in the Scottish Highlands.
We were able to approach two hares which were both relaxed with us being there.
This one spent quite some time grooming, which was lovely to observe.
Major tech companies are producing far more carbon emissions than they suggest in their sustainability reports.
They’re lobbying hard to rewrite the rules on how emissions are calculated to show net zero on paper, but not in practice.
https://www.ft.com/content/2d6fc319-2165-42fb-8de1-0edf1d765be3
Hi Paris,
Obeying the letter of the law but not the spirit springs to mind here!
I believe that you will likely be interested in a petition for radical reform of the UN 🇺🇳, whose efforts when faced with climate change and other challenges/crises of this century have, unfortunately, been ineffective.
If indeed you are, here it is:
https://www.change.org/ReformTheUnitedNations
Regards
Paul
The tech industry is funded by the fossil fuel industry and its financiers.
Profligate wasteful energy usage to keep the globe hooked on oil.
https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/5/1/23702451/silicon-valley-saudi-money-khashoggi
https://observer.com/2024/07/saudi-arabia-sovereign-wealth-fund-pif-silicon-valley/
https://www.thenation.com/podcast/society/twsu-061324-ntiku/
https://circuit.news/2024/03/05/saudi-arabia-attracts-10-billion-to-build-centers/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/middle-east-ai-tech-companies-saudi-arabia-uae/
@parismarx
Meja, All 'bout the money
https://youtu.be/YcXMhwF4EtQ
It sucks a lot that it's increasing fast, but to put it in perspective, per capita CO2 equivalent emissions (eg. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita ) indicate that they're not the main offenders; "western lifestyle" should be rethought for much more energy efficiency. Everytime you (generic you) go to fill your car gas tank you're about to emit 200 kg of CO2. Doing it once a week is already 10 tons per year.
@cJ @parismarx #OurWorldInData is deeply compromised.
Spot-checked against CO2e emissions from https://www.energyinst.org/statistical-review and it looks similar. So even if it's compromised in some ways, it had a pretty map.
The Energy Institute is, as of 2023, the home of the Statistical Review of World Energy, published previously for more than 70 years by bp. The Statistical Review analyses data on world energy markets from the prior year. It has been providing timely, comprehensive and objective data to the energy community since 1952.
@cJ @parismarx thank you for the cross-reference!
How do you get 200kg of CO² from 30kg of fuel?
I rounded numbers and oversimplified, assumed a gas tank of 50L and considered the ratio of CO2-proper emission per L (eg. https://www.econology.info/Emissions-co2-liter-fuel-gasoline-or-diesel-gpl/ ); at 2.3 kg CO2 per L of gas giving ~100 kg, and guestimated the impact of the additives burning and side reactions producing eg. NOx to another 100 kg equivalent.
But spending a few more minutes on this and I see that 200 CO2e/tank is clearly underestimated: for N2O there are ~20 g/kg of gasoline emitted (https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/nox-emission-combustion-fuels-d_1086.html ; https://www.icbe.com/emissions/calculate.asp ; https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/climate-change/pricing-pollution-how-it-will-work/output-based-pricing-system/federal-greenhouse-gas-offset-system/emission-factors-reference-values.html) which has a CO2e factor of ~300, so 20g/L * 50 L * 300 = another 300 kg, just for N2O.
@cJ https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle#burning
How can burning one gallon of gasoline produce 8,887 grams (approximately 20 pounds) of tailpipe carbon, when one gallon of gasoline weighs only about six pounds?
Most of the weight of the CO2 doesn't come from the gasoline itself, but the oxygen in the air. When gasoline burns, the carbon and hydrogen separate. The hydrogen combines with oxygen to form water (H2O), and carbon combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide (CO2).
Ow, I'm sorry, I hadn't realized what your question was about, I thought you were questioning the approximation I came up with 😅.
@cJ thank you! No need to apologise! The site you linked to looked rather spammy, so I didn't spend long on it. I'd guessed that the burning of the fuel in air caused the CO² output greater than the weight of the fuel burned. Reading up on something else, I came across this layman's explanation. The EPA seems like a reliable source for now. I didn't get beyond that to your approximation!
I shared this here as much for my own benefit as anyone else's. I'd never considered a given quantity of fossil fuel could produce a multiple of that quantity in CO². It's horrifying.
Thx, that was really bothering me too
@parismarx @lisamelton Between the completely different scales (which @2ndNatureDev fixed in their post, thx!) and the fact that these are companies with completely different products, it looks more like a “gotcha” article than real reporting. Lumping them all into “tech companies” is disingenuous.
I’m not saying carbon emissions are OK, they’re not. But this article isn’t helping.
@parismarx They are lobbying to be able to use the same approach that normal consumers use, when they have an ecological-tarif for electricity.
Where do the consumers think their electrons come from when they live right next to a coal power plant but still can opt for a green electricity tarif?
Their growing consumption of energy is part of the reason we are not transforming faster. As is the case with the existence of all other energy intensive production processes.
So?
Does the red line assume they have no preference for buying renewables?
Is it based on actual supply contracts?
What a great idea. Let's just change the definition of HOT too. That'll fix climate change.
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