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Archive for April 27, 2019
Extremely Positive News
Apr 27th
Extremely Positive News
Ecuador Amazon tribe win first victory against oil companies
AFP•April 27, 2019
https://news.yahoo.com/ecuador-amazon-tribe-win-first-victory-against-oil-023457554.html
Why Protesters Should be Wary
Apr 27th
Why Protesters Should be Wary of ’12 Years to Climate Breakdown’ Rhetoric
By Myles Allen, originally published by The Conversation
April 23, 2019
“So please stop saying something globally bad is going to happen in 2030. Bad stuff is already happening and every half a degree of warming matters, but the IPCC does not draw a “planetary boundary” at 1.5°C beyond which lie climate dragons.”
Get angry, but for the right reasons
“What about the other interpretation of the IPCC’s 12 years: that we have 12 years to act? What our report said was, in scenarios with a one-in-two to two-in-three chance of keeping global warming below 1.5°C, emissions are reduced to around half their present level by 2030. That doesn’t mean we have 12 years to act: it means we have to act now, and even if we do, success is not guaranteed.”
“Climate change is not so much an emergency as a festering injustice. Your ancestors did not end slavery by declaring an emergency and dreaming up artificial boundaries on “tolerable” slave numbers. They called it out for what it was: a spectacularly profitable industry, the basis of much prosperity at the time, founded on a fundamental injustice. It’s time to do the same on climate change.”
Alarming Rate of Forest Loss
Apr 27th
Alarming Rate of Forest Loss Threatens a Crucial Climate Solution
“The global loss of tree cover has continued even as more corporations and countries make commitments to preserve tropical forests.”
BY GEORGINA GUSTIN APR 25, 2019
“The world’s forests continue to disappear at an alarming rate, threatening a resource that scientists say is a crucial “natural solution” for controlling climate change on an urgently short timescale.
Last year, the planet saw its fourth-highest level of tropical tree loss since the early 2000s—about 30 million acres, according to a new analysis published Thursday.
Those losses have continued even as more corporations and countries made commitments to preserve forests, and as scientists emphasized that maintaining forests must be a global priority—as crucial to staving off the worst risks of climate change as cutting fossil fuel use.”
Tata Power to Focus on Clean Energy
Apr 27th
Tata Power to focus on clean energy
Apr 23, 2019
“Private power producer Tata Power will lead the nation’s renewable energy transition with gradual withdrawal from building new coal fired power plants, a report said.”