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Climate-friendly cars that fit the planet and the budget - and the cello
Plus climate news

http://www.cellomomcars.com/

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Dengue fever, once confined to the tropics, now threatens the U.S.

" is a viral fever caused by four different viruses and spread through mosquito bites. It’s common in many tropical regions across the globe, but has begun to appear in more temperate climates. One 2019 study predicted an additional 2 billion people will be at risk for dengue fever by 2080."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/dengue-fever-climate-change-mosquitos-tropical-disease-rcna149366

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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The urgent need for port climate resilience

"The study found port-specific risk of $7.5bn and an
additional $63.1bn of trade at risk annually.

The impact of short- or long-term port closures due to climate impacts is not limited to the shipping and logistics; the effect ripples along supply chains for key industries."

https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/ports/urgent-need-port-climate-resilience

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"The health benefits of tackling , such as cleaner air and more access to green spaces, were key drivers in city officials' decisions to continue with climate plans despite funding shortfalls caused by the COVID-19 crisis.

In general, decision-makers for Global South have higher ambition in climate action and promoted more green recovery efforts despite facing greater funding shortfalls than cities in Europe and North America.

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-health-global-city-climate-action.html

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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Climate court cases that could set precedents around the world

"Courts around the world are hearing an ever-growing number of with some of the largest cases in history being decided in 2024 and 2025.
Here are the key cases to watch."

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/climate-court-cases-that-could-set-new-precedents-around-world-2024-05-21/

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"Climate-focused venture capital firm Clean Energy Ventures said Wednesday it raised $305 million for its second fund.

The fund was oversubscribed amid investor appetite for emissions-reducing technologies."

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/clean-energy-ventures-raises-305-million-to-back-early-stage-climate-startups/3449090/

New valves are opening in the

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"Threats menacing are evolving rapidly: in the past we saw degradation from wood exploitation, deforestation for agriculture and shrimp farming, and indirect imparts from dam construction altering freshwater and sediment fluxes. Today, mangroves face additional challenges due to , including sea-level rise and an increased frequency and severity of cyclonic storms."

https://www.iucn.org/resources/conservation-tool/iucn-red-list-ecosystems/red-list-mangrove-ecosystems

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On the other hand:
This "prominent tropical plant species had made its way to Georgia’s coast. "

https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/environment/2024/05/29/climate-change-helps-mangroves-migrate-from-florida-to-georgia/73882863007/

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"The era of fossil fuels’ dominance is coming to an end.

For every dollar that goes to , an average of $3 needs to be invested in low-carbon energy over the remainder of the decade – up from parity today. A fully decarbonized global energy system by 2050 could come with a $215 trillion price tag – not an insignificant amount, but only 19% more than in an economics-driven transition, where the Paris Agreement goals are missed and global warming reaches 2.6C."

https://about.bnef.com/new-energy-outlook/

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"The seventh edition of the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) covers conditions during 2023.

Overall, the frequency and severity of extreme events is increasing. Estimates indicate from weather- and -related events in reached €13.4 billion in 2023. Millions of people were affected, and at least 151 lives were lost in due to flooding, storms, and wildfires."

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/news/news/observer-esotc-2023-europe-experienced-extraordinary-year-extremes-record-breaking

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Less snow, smaller glaciers, more extreme heat, more heat deaths, widespread flooding and also wildfires.

But also:
"In 2023, a record proportion of actual electricity generation in Europe was from renewable sources, at 43%, compared to 36% in 2022."

https://www.copernicus.eu/en/news/news/observer-esotc-2023-europe-experienced-extraordinary-year-extremes-record-breaking

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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"Over the last 12 months, human-caused added an average of 26 days of (on average, across all places in the world) than there would have been without a warmed planet.

This report also demonstrates the crucial role of tracking and reporting on impacts in extreme heat assessment, and offers actionable solutions to ."

https://www.climatecentral.org/report/climate-change-and-the-escalation-of-global-extreme-heat

CelloMomOnCars, to Hydrogen
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"The current plan puts roughly 15 of MACH2’s 25 projects in southeast . These include facilities that will produce using steam reformation, nuclear energy, and renewable energy sources such as solar.

Spotlight PA interviews with a dozen stakeholders and a review of feedback from public meetings overwhelmingly show concern, rather than enthusiasm."

https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/05/pennsylvania-biden-administration-hydrogen-hubs-community-benefits-public-input/

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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" The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Monday continued hearings in Brazil for a requested advisory opinion on countries' obligations related to the -driven emergency. "

https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-change-and-human-rights

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"Searing #heatwaves could be a common theme this summer in parts of the United States and might make it one of the hottest on record, according to an updated outlook released Thursday by The Weather Company and Atmospheric G2.

The West Coast, from California to southwest Washington, might be the exception. "

https://weather.com/forecast/national/news/2024-05-15-summer-forecast-temperatures-united-states

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"More than a million customers in #Texas are without power Tuesday as powerful #storms delivered another round of violent weather to the state still reeling from an almost unrelenting parade of destructive and deadly storms in recent weeks."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/weather/texas-southern-plains-storm-forecast-tuesday/index.html

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Over the Memorial Day weekend:

"A corridor of devastation running from north of Dallas to the north-west corner of Arkansas, recorded the highest concentration of death and destruction.

Harold Brooks, a senior scientist at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, said a persistent pattern of warm, moist air is to blame for the string of tornadoes over the past two months."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/27/storms-destruction-across-central-us

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"#Phoenix’s population is booming, making it the second-fastest growing U.S. city from 2021 to 2022. That’s also when heat deaths started to surge, after the U.S. Supreme Court ended a pandemic-era eviction moratorium, pushing more people onto the streets.

Now, heat is the second-biggest killer of #homeless people in the county, behind drug overdoses."

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/americas-hottest-city-phoenix-00158243

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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Biden administration puts $830M to helping protect from -fueled

"Most of the funding, $621 million, will go toward 36 projects aimed at bolstering the resilience of existing infrastructure through things like improving draining, moving roadways, and lifting up bridges.

An additional $119 million will go toward protecting, strengthening, or removing at-risk coastal infrastructure like highways."

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4587007-biden-administration-puts-830m-to-helping-protect-infrastructure-from-climate-fueled-extreme-weather/

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White House announces actions to modernize America’s , paving the way for clean energy and fewer outages

"The new initiative between the feds and 21 states aims to make faster fixes and improvements to the grid, committing to build a bigger and more modern grid as part of a larger effort to reduce power outages and increase electrical transmission capacity – a massive hurdle to getting more on the grid."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/climate/energy-grid-modernization-biden/index.html

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"Replacing existing power lines with cables made from state-of-the-art materials could roughly double the capacity of the in many parts of the country, making room for much more wind and solar power.

This technique, known as “advanced ,” is widely used in other countries. But many U.S. utilities have been slow to embrace it because of their unfamiliarity with the technology as well as regulatory and bureaucratic hurdles, researchers found."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/climate/electric-grid-more-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE0.-bA9.LqnWbcgXMMuB&smid=url-share

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How a simple fix could double the size of the U.S.

"Carbon-fiber wires don’t sag as much in the heat. That means that they can take up to double the amount of power as the old lines.

It could also cost half as much as building an entirely new line and avoid the headaches of trying to get every state, city and even landowner along the route to agree to a new project."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/05/28/reconductoring-us-electricity-grid-renewables/

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"Congress hasn’t been able to agree on a bill to increase electrical transmission.

In lieu of action from Congress, the Biden administration has [worked] with states and private companies in an effort to upgrade 100,000 miles of existing so they’ll be able to carry more power using so-called – swapping high-voltage lines, which carry more electrical capacity, onto already existing towers. "

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/28/climate/energy-grid-modernization-biden/index.html

CelloMomOnCars, to food
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#ClimateInflation, 2023 #Food edition

"The #PeachState lost more than 90% of this year’s crop after a February heat wave followed by two late-spring frosts.

#Farmers and agricultural groups said they can’t remember a more devastated #peach crop.

Peach prices climb"

#Georgia
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/georgia-peach-shortage/index.html

CelloMomOnCars,
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"’s harvest of three main grains, soft , , and , dropped 43% to 3.12 million tons in 2024, due to a severe that slashes cultivated areas."

https://northafricapost.com/77635-drought-ditches-moroccos-cereals-harvest-by-43-in-2024.html

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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The will make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like a walk in the park. With ice cream.

" Rising seas, bigger , and other increasing hazards have created a dangerous instability in the U.S. financial system. "

That, on top of developers building in flood plains and wildfire-prone places, and the US government providing the .


https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/04/bubble-trouble-climate-change-is-creating-a-huge-and-growing-u-s-real-estate-bubble/

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"Even as insurers withdraw from -vulnerable regions, they continue to invest in and insure ― the very industry at the heart of the climate crisis. This omission points to a larger, uncomfortable truth about the insurance sector’s complicity in the crisis of our time, leading us to an uninsurable future."

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/2024/05/23/insurance-hypocrisy-climate-change-warnings-fossil-fuels-backing/73806987007/

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"Iowa’s Insurance Commissioner said he’s concerned about the number of insurance companies that have left the state because of severe weather and the increasing costs to repair the damage."

https://www.kcrg.com/2024/05/23/iowa-insurance-commission-looks-add-more-options-insurance-companies-pull-out-iowa/

An entire article about the climate-fueled insurance crisis, and not a word about , just "extreme weather".

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@SeumanOtwal

That explains it.
They don't need to be part of that Sinclair network to ignore climate change, then.

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@justafrog

But insurers are still covering risks for, and investing in, fossil fuel companies, even as they are walking away from home owners.

And if you look at the language in this piece, it's all about "extreme weather", not about climate.

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@justafrog

It doesn't make sense for them to insure / invest in an industry that makes their payouts to homeowners much higher.
Honestly they're shooting themselves in the foot in the long term - maybe they're just looking for the next quarterly results, but I suspect their actuaries (if they're worth their salt) are starting to get louder in their warnings.

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