July 5, 20196 yr comment_403667 so called "Free" market can't deal with this. Common Dreams 'We Are in a Climate Emergency, America': Anchorage Hits 90 Degrees for First Time in Recorded History "The Anchorage International Airport has just reached 89 degrees. The all-time record high temperature for Anchorage has officially been broken," the Anchorage National Weather Service announced in a tweet late Thursday (Photo: Shutterstock) With Alaska in the midst of an unprecedented heat wave that experts say is driven by the climate crisis, Anchorage—the state's largest city—reached an all-time high temperature of 90 degrees on Thursday. "At 5 pm [Thursday] afternoon, Anchorage International Airport officially hit 90 degrees for the first time on record," the Anchorage National Weather Service announced in a tweet early Friday. "Free Market" \ Quote At various times, OPEC members have displayed apparent anti-competitive cartel behavior through the organization's agreements about oil production and price levels. In fact, economists often cite OPEC as a textbook example of a cartel that cooperates to reduce market competition, as in this definition from OECD's Glossary of Industrial Organisation Economics and Competition Law: "apparent" 😂 Expecting these people do do anything is absurd. Edited July 5, 20196 yr by Mark F
July 5, 20196 yr comment_403716 https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/alberta-to-hold-2-5-million-public-inquiry-into-funding-for-oil-and-gas-foes-1.4495264
July 5, 20196 yr comment_403717 Just now, FrostyWinnipeg said: https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/alberta-to-hold-2-5-million-public-inquiry-into-funding-for-oil-and-gas-foes-1.4495264 Our own banana republic right here at home.
July 5, 20196 yr comment_403747 https://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/coal-baron-chris-cline-killed-in-bahamas-helicopter-crash
July 5, 20196 yr comment_403766 1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/coal-baron-chris-cline-killed-in-bahamas-helicopter-crash "Forbes listed Cline number 1,281 on its billionaires list with an estimated net worth of $1.8 billion" 1,280 people with more billions than him. 1.8 billion is chicken feed these days in that class.
July 10, 20195 yr comment_405779 https://www.space.com/satellites-spot-largest-seaweed-bloom-on-earth.html
July 10, 20195 yr comment_405781 2 minutes ago, FrostyWinnipeg said: https://www.space.com/satellites-spot-largest-seaweed-bloom-on-earth.html Please don't be Lake Winnipeg... please don't be Lake Winnipeg.... *click* Yes! Ew, gross.
July 10, 20195 yr comment_405868 Quote Last year Adidas sold a million pairs of shoes made out of plastic collected from beaches or fished out of the ocean. The plastic shoe line was produced in collaboration with the environmental group Parley for the Oceans. It was so popular, Adidas has announced it will soon produce all of its shoes from only recycled plastic. https://returntonow.net/2019/07/03/adidas-pledges-to-makes-all-shoes-from-only-recycled-plastic-by-2024/ Edited July 10, 20195 yr by Mark F
July 11, 20195 yr comment_406020 Quote According to the recently published 2019 United States Energy Employment Report (USEER 2019), coal provides one of the lowest number of energy jobs in the power industry. When it comes to grid-related energy jobs, solar is the clear winner, providing more employment than coal, natural gas, and oil put together. Here’s the breakdown: Solar jobs: 242,343 Natural gas jobs: 112,685 Coal jobs: 86,202 All fossil fuel jobs together: 211,469 Fun fact: if you include part-time solar workers, USEER says there were another 92,649 people working in the solar industry, bringing the total solar energy jobs to 334,992 in 2018! https://www.freeingenergy.com/there-are-more-us-jobs-in-solar-than-all-fossil-fuels-put-together/ Pay attention Alberta please.
July 11, 20195 yr Author comment_406094 2 hours ago, Mark F said: https://www.freeingenergy.com/there-are-more-us-jobs-in-solar-than-all-fossil-fuels-put-together/ Pay attention Alberta please. That is pretty great numbers and is a very encouraging paradigm shift. It would be interesting to see the salaries and how each compare.
July 11, 20195 yr comment_406104 34 minutes ago, wanna-b-fanboy said: That is pretty great numbers and is a very encouraging paradigm shift. It would be interesting to see the salaries and how each compare. Don't know, I did read that the starting salary for wind turbine tech is around twenty us dollars an hour. and the job totals quoted did not include wind..... 2017, 100,000 people working in wind energy. Edited July 11, 20195 yr by Mark F
July 17, 20195 yr comment_408105 Quote Costs from all commercially available renewable power generation technologies declined in 2018. The global weighted-average cost of electricity declined 26% year-on-year for concentrated solar power (CSP), followed by bioenergy (-14%), solar photovoltaic (PV) and onshore wind (both -13%), hydropower (-12%), geothermal and offshore wind (both -1%), the report finds. Continuing cost declines, meanwhile, underline renewable power as a low-cost climate and decarbonisation solution. Within IRENA’s global database, over three-quarters of the onshore wind and four-fifths of the utility-scale solar PV project capacity due to be commissioned in 2020 should provide lower-priced electricity than the cheapest new coal-fired, oil or natural gas option, the report notes. The report draws on IRENA’s cost database of around 17 000 renewable power generation projects and 9 000 auction and power purchase agreements for renewable power. https://www.irena.org/publications/2019/May/Renewable-power-generation-costs-in-2018 Remarkable cost declines. ........(General electric just closed a brand new gas fired plant) Edited July 17, 20195 yr by Mark F
July 17, 20195 yr comment_408135 On Sunday, July 14, Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert in Nunavut hit a record temperature of 21.0°C breaking the previous all-time record of 20.0°C that was set back on July 8, 1956. This is the highest temperature ever recorded north of 80°N! Did you know that it was warmer in Alert, NU on Sunday than it was in Victoria, BC, which “only” reached a high of 20.6°C! Numerous other northern communities have also shattered temperature records in the last few days including Iqaluit, NU, where the mercury climbed to 23.5°C on July 9th – setting a new record high temperature for this day. This unprecedented heatwave continued into Monday, July 15th and Tuesday, July 16th, but will end on Wednesday July 17th.
July 17, 20195 yr comment_408149 Quote According to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, last month was the hottest June ever recorded on earth. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7255897/Climber-discovers-LAKE-11-000ft-Alps-formed-melted-snow.html
July 17, 20195 yr Author comment_408238 2 hours ago, Mark F said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7255897/Climber-discovers-LAKE-11-000ft-Alps-formed-melted-snow.html That is scary. And sad. Waiting now for some poster to debunk that picture with another picture from earlier, inadvertently with more evidence of climate change.
July 17, 20195 yr comment_408249 4 hours ago, Mark F said: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7255897/Climber-discovers-LAKE-11-000ft-Alps-formed-melted-snow.html My neighbours are from Switzerland, they say skiing in the Alps has has changed drastically over the last 10 years, less runs and the ones they have are getting shorter every year.
July 17, 20195 yr comment_408254 To be fair in the picture below melt water is to be expected from the sun striking that rock face and it looks like recent erosion would have contributed to the formation of that puddle. Still at that altitude the lake should remain frozen.
July 17, 20195 yr comment_408283 Quote in the first half of 2019, Scotland generated enough energy from wind power to supply its homes twice over. Specifically, turbines generated 9.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity between January and June, enough to supply power to 4.47 million homes – not bad for a country that has around 2.6 million homes to its name. https://www.sciencealert.com/scotland-s-wind-turbines-are-now-generating-double-what-its-residents-need Edited July 17, 20195 yr by Mark F
July 18, 20195 yr comment_408374 https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/three-of-the-great-lakes-are-at-their-highest-water-levels-on-record-1.4512962
July 20, 20195 yr comment_409418 this is extra disturbing Quote Vast stretches of Earth’s northern latitudes are on fire right now. Hot weather has engulfed a huge portion of the Arctic, from Alaska to Greenland to Siberia. That’s helped create conditions ripe for wildfires, including some truly massive ones burning in remote parts of the region that are being seen by satellites. https://earther.gizmodo.com/satellite-images-show-vast-swaths-of-the-arctic-on-fire-1836500468 Scientists place plaque at site of first Icelandic glacier now gone: Quote The plaque will be installed on August 18 near Ok’s former stomping grounds in western Iceland. The plaque contains a melancholy message for future generations: Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and know what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. Edited July 20, 20195 yr by Mark F
July 23, 20195 yr comment_410395 On 2019-07-20 at 1:46 PM, Mark F said: Scientists place plaque at site of first Icelandic glacier now gone: https://www.livescience.com/65996-iceland-ok-glacier-memorial-plaque.html
July 23, 20195 yr comment_410404 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/team-trump-sells-200000-worth-of-plastic-straws-mocks-liberals-in-the-process-2019-07-22
July 23, 20195 yr comment_410431 Quote The chief executive of the world’s largest mining company has endorsed drastic action to combat global warming, which he calls “indisputable”, and an emerging crisis. Mackenzie endorsed carbon pricing but said it was not enough to combat the looming threat of mass extinctions and major sea rises. He announced BHP was spending $US400m ($A570m) to create a climate investment program to reduce emissions from its own operations as well as those generated from its resources. Mackenzie said that “like most scientists” he believes that global warming will tend to the upper end of forecasts, while conceding there was a chance it would not. But he said prudent risk management meant BHP was planning to protect against the downside. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jul/23/bhp-boss-announces-us400m-plan-to-combat-indisputable-climate-crisis Good CEO. goal is the best interest of the company, not the biggest bonus for himself. Edited July 23, 20195 yr by Mark F
July 23, 20195 yr Author comment_410465 1 hour ago, FrostyWinnipeg said: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/team-trump-sells-200000-worth-of-plastic-straws-mocks-liberals-in-the-process-2019-07-22 First- wow what an ******* thing to do- par for the course. Second, what stupid ******* idiot would spend $1.50 per straw? trump's base would...
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