Climate Catastrophe

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Misleading headline, but good that they are making the effort.
Considering they produce 1/3 of worldwide carbon emmisions, it’s only right that they’re making more efforts to improve

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It’s a daft way to compare renewables anyway as it doesn’t take account of the size, resource or populations of the countries.

If you look in Europe, the leading nation is Albania which is all renewable electricity: I think completely hydro, which is great if you can do it.

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There are other statistics in the article which show the picture:

“Electricity generation from coal and gas dropped by 5% in China in July, year on year”

If they can achieve an annual reduction of 5%, it would be globally beneficial.

“Last month, solar and wind capacity outstripped China’s coal-fired electricity capacity. By 2026, solar power alone will surpass coal as China’s primary energy source”

This is also good news for the environment worldwide.

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It’s a good way to show scale though?

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Something to bear in mind for our overseas members who consume BBC content.

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It’s sad that they’re not just selling their reputation like this, but so cheaply.

Holy crap…Canadian forest fires in 2023 emitted more on their own than all but 3 countries; China, India, and the USA

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07878-z

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If you chop down all the trees then you wont get any more forest fires and you’ll have addressed your carbon emission issue and reduced smoke pollution.

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you may well laugh, but i bet you someone will come up with an aparatus that replicates the trees role to play in the ecosystem (on only about 2 of 300 metrics) and us Humans will go to town carte blanche on nature…

its only because we need it for something that we havent decimated nature completely…

imagine if we didnt need it for anything tangible and chopping down trees solved ‘the cost of living crisis’ for the next four year cycle…

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https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1828741351791595876?t=0JHmBnFkyZMFSuSDa1QVFg&s=03

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The typhoon currently crawling across Japan has been “supercharged by climate change” according to some prof. from Imperial College London. "Without phasing out fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change, typhoons will bring even greater devastation to Japan”, he said.

Apparently, the maximum wind speeds of this typhoon are estimated to be 7.5% more intense due to climate change. And another Prof., this one from Kyoto University, states that global warming has caused typhoons to “unleash more rain”.

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Sensationalist headlines?
28 degrees is not exactly a heatwave or a “scorcher” is it?



1906, when global warming started taking effect

1906 British Isles heatwave - Wikipedia.

Tell me you don’t understand climatology without telling me you don’t understand climatology.

I didnt write the article.

Tell me you’re not a smug patronising twat without telling me you’re not a smug patronising twat.

You’re the one who posted it here acting like it’s perfectly normal weather.