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elliecohen Jun 8, 2023

NEW STUDY: 🌎GHGs at all-time high

We must move up net-zero to ~2035 or make more emissions cuts by 2030.

#California must do more sooner.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/global-greenhouse-gas-emissions-at-all-time-high-study-finds

Global greenhouse gas emissions at all-time high, study finds

Scientists say world is burning through ‘carbon budget’ that can be emitted while staying below 1.5C

The Guardian

elliecohen Jun 7, 2023

“This is an absolute scandal. An oil & gas co. found its way to the core of the organisation in charge of coordinating the phasing out of oil & gas. It is like having a tobacco multinational overseeing the internal work of WHO.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/07/uae-oil-firm-cop28-climate-summit-emails-sultan-al-jaber-adnoc?CMP=share_btn_link

‘Absolute scandal’: UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit emails

Exclusive: UN conference president Sultan Al Jaber is also head of oil firm, which was consulted on how to respond to a media inquiry

The Guardian

elliecohen May 6, 2023

https://grist.org/energy/a-california-bill-could-help-make-evs-a-blackout-solution/

A California bill could help make EVs a blackout solution

California might require every electric vehicle sold in the state to be capable of powering your home — and the grid - through a process called bidirectional charging.

Grist

elliecohen May 6, 2023

As we face more power outages "wouldn’t it be great if instead of polluting #fossilfuel peaker plants in frontline communities, we used #EVs?” said Kurt Johnson
at The Climate Center.

Even small #EV
batteries can run your house for days! #SB233

https://grist.org/energy/a-california-bill-could-help-make-evs-a-blackout-solution/

A California bill could help make EVs a blackout solution

California might require every electric vehicle sold in the state to be capable of powering your home — and the grid - through a process called bidirectional charging.

Grist

elliecohen Apr 25, 2023

With more catastrophic extremes & outages, batteries in #EVs can power our homes and grid.

Siva Gunda, CA Energy Commission, called bidirectional charging a “silver bullet” for cleaning up the grid during extreme heat events.

#YesOnSB233 (Senator Nancy Skinner)

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elliecohen Apr 17, 2023

“#EVs are energy storage on wheels. Why waste that battery, given how few miles most use in any given day?” said #California State Senator Nancy Skinner
whose bill #SB233 was a major focus at this week’s CA Climate Policy Summit. “But we need to make it as easy as possible.”

https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/17/how-your-car-can-power-your-home/

elliecohen Mar 31, 2023

Very bad news and another sign that the #ClimateCrisis is rapidly worsening.

CAgovernor GavinNewsom #caleg : we must do much more, much sooner.

Deep-water flows which drive Southern Ocean currents could decline by 40% by 2050.

https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/

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elliecohen Mar 30, 2023

Climate change is worse than we thought... Latest example: Southern Ocean current slowdown with major global impacts.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05762-w

Abyssal ocean overturning slowdown and warming driven by Antarctic meltwater - Nature

Simulations show that projected increases in Antarctic meltwater will slow down the abyssal ocean overturning circulation over the coming decades and lead to warming and ageing of the ocean abyss.

Nature

elliecohen Mar 28, 2023

#Fossilfuel corps price-gouge & use massive profits to destroy our #climate. That’s to end in #California- thx
@CAgovernor Gavin Newsom for standing up to #BigOil.

Time now to halt new drilling permits & launch a managed transition away from polluting fuels for good.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-fines-high-gas-prices/

California lawmakers approve nation's first penalty for gas price gouging

The Democratic-led state Legislature voted to give regulators the power to punish oil companies profiting from the type of high gas prices suffered by Californians last summer.

CBS News

elliecohen Mar 25, 2023

UN Sec General Guterres re #IPCC2023:

Major economies (eg #California!) must “cease all licensing or funding of new oil & gas, shift subsidies to a just energy transition, & establish a global phase-down of existing oil & gas production.”

#ClimateAction

https://press.un.org/en/2023/sgsm21730.doc.htm

Secretary-General Calls on States to Tackle Climate Change ‘Time Bomb’ through New Solidarity Pact, Acceleration Agenda, at Launch of Intergovernmental Panel Report | UN Press