I'm not sure many folks realize just how persistent the warming from CO2 is.
Here is a set of 1000-year climate model runs (using FaIR) simulating one year of CO2 emissions (40 gigatons in 2020); a millennia later the world has not cooled back down!
Don’t go chasing waterfalls: slippery rocks, currents and daredevil jumpers make Australia’s waterways surprisingly deadly https://t.co/DLQhbbfSlo via @ConversationEDU
Incredible stat:
A single container ship of solar panels can provide as much electricity as more than 50 large LNG tankers of gas – or 100 large coal ships
There's many more insights in IEA Energy Technology Perspectives 2024 – here's a selection 🧵
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‘We will not allow others to determine our fate’: Pacific nations dial up pressure on Australia’s fossil fuel exports
New one for @ConversationEDU on CHOGM in Apia and calls for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
https://t.co/zw85IQN6Fx via @ConversationEDU
(About 40% of all food that is produced, is wasted).
"Whey is useful, as it still has about half the nutrients of milk. But whey remains one of the largest sources of food loss and waste in Australia’s large dairy sector."
https://t.co/Agwz8Vhq9s
Land clearing has begun, in what is said to be the world's largest deforestation effort, as Indonesia seeks to establish a 2 million hectare sugarcane plantation in the Papua region.
“Has the government asked Papuans whether they want to plant sugarcane?” asked Faisal Basri (RIP).
https://t.co/0DvhrHHXsu
Excited to see our research into #SensoryConservation on African elephants out today in Functioanl Ecology. Using the smell of plants elephants naturally avoid, we can gently nudge these giants away from areas we don't want them to be. https://t.co/qgkMi5IycT
@Sydney_Science
We have been measuring the amount of microplastics in the sediments in Moreton Bay - led by @ElvisOkoffo. A clear link between local population growth and plastic production and consumption increasing since 2000s. https://t.co/JAJPwfedWb
A genuinely historic day for Britain and the world. The crucible of the Industrial Revolution halting the use of coal power once and for all, and proving it is possible for an advanced economy to end its reliance on coal inside a decade or so. https://t.co/Zw4Sju8zTh
What I have been working on lately is this public report, Unlocking Investment to Triple Renewables, which is about how we're doing on progress to decarbonizing human civilization.
https://t.co/E5pwwIcGPw
The distributed solar story in Pakistan is nuts!!
It's now the third largest importer of solar in the world and basically all of it isn't a part of the utility system.
All of this is in response to the central planners that run the national grid making decisions that ended up jacking up rates via bad debt.
There's so much distributed solar being installed that the utility system is seeing a meaningful decline in demand. It went down 9% over the past year. They're worried about a death spiral.
Despite the national grid being concerned, provinces are leaning in. Punjab and Sindh provinces are going as far as to give away solar panels to people who can't afford grid electricity.
https://t.co/krHL9cmbJM
It’s time for @tanya_plibersek to deliver on @AustralianLabor’s 2022 rhetoric. The environment cannot afford further delay nor timid, incremental policy change.
https://t.co/YAhNeXGzsE
‘Pirate birds’ force other seabirds to regurgitate fish meals. Their thieving ways could spread lethal avian flu https://t.co/8wrJirUgjE via @ConversationEDU
“Atmospheric concentrations are now growing faster than at any other time since global record-keeping began about 40 years ago.” https://t.co/TgvIdnWRtt