#Emissions

Robert McNees

mcnees

The nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, who was probably the first person to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1876.Credit:

Seb Abecasis | Not the BBC

sebabecasis

META-TAKE: To centralise or to de-centralise.I thought for a long time we were in a battle between nationalism and globalism.I no longer see things this way. To centralise or to

Cllr Jon Burke

jonburkeUK

1/ O.k, so after the #ClimateDebate you'll be hearing a lot about ambitious proposals for #treeplanting as means of sucking - sequestrating - carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to help

grist

grist

1/ “They're killing people by doing this.”In 2008, a sugarcane fire in Palm Beach County, FL, left six elementary school students hospitalized. Two weeks later the school board renewed a

Climate Justice UBC (UBCc350)

cjubc

: It’s been a year since UBC declared a Climate Emergency and promised bold action to match the scale of the crisis. But will they commit? With two weeks before

Jannik Giesekam

jannikgiesekam

I've had several recent exchanges with local authorities who're interested in tackling embodied carbon in buildings but struggling to keep up with all the docs out there. So here's my

Ben See

ClimateBen

Scientsts: global warming of 3.2C is* hard to survive* hard to prevent* likely by 2090* possible by 2070* plausible by 2050* just one of many existential threats that mean a

Steve Forden

mammuthus

Important new paper using real world measurements of temperature impacts on crop productivity to assess future crop yields under global warming. They find significant yield reductions even if we meet

Doncaster Council

MyDoncaster

We have a little thread for you that starts off cute, then gets VERY SERIOUS in the middle, and then ends up cute again. It's a real rollercoaster of emotions

Kitten, The Uber

t3hub3rk1tten

I realize it's not much comfort, but if you're seeing the pictures of lit up Texas skylines at night and thinking "all the power is going to heating up empty

Charlie Loyd

vruba

Heavy summer smoke in California is a return to pre–fire-suppression normal. “Prehistoric fire area and emissions from California’s forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grassland”: https://nature.berkeley.edu/stephenslab/wp-content/u

Jolisa Gracewood

nzdodo

NIMBYs (whether they accept the title or not) cherish strong ideas of the value of back yards: how they feel, who needs them, etc.So imagine if you could pool some

Kate Mackenzie

kmac

I'm frequently asked how to know whether banks/investors are serious with their "Paris alignment" and "net zero 2050" commitments. I wrote about it way back in late Oct. Yes, some

Dr. Sarah E. Myhre

SarahEMyhre

Here is a bit of a on extreme weather and climate change, with the goal of clearing up confusion. Extreme weather are events that stand out from normal patterns of

Greens for HS2

Greens4HS2

We know many very committed Greens are involved in these protests against #HS2, concerned about the loss of habitat and woodland - we respect their dedication. But they’re protesting about

Kees van der Leun

Sustainable2050

German electricity 2020 (public grid):- Renewables at 50.5% (over 50% for the first time)- Wind power produced more electricity than brown coal and hardcoal togetherhttps://www.energy-charts.info/downloads/Stromerzeugung_2020_1.pdf German e

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