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AndrewHenry

@AndrewHenry@mastodon.energy

Canadian. Local paper occasionally publishes pieces I write about climate, energy, and Passive House. Also interested in disability issues, for reasons. Nordic skier who played Rugby. Happiest out skiing on a sunny and cold mid-February day.

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AndrewHenry, to random
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The mayor of Delta, B.C., says it's unacceptable that residents suffered headaches and nausea due to a natural gas leak that blanketed his city with the smell of rotten eggs Tuesday, and very little information was forthcoming from FortisBC, the company responsible.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/delta-bc-smell-rotten-eggs-fortisbc-natural-gas-leak-1.7085940

lloydalter, to random
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I have long been a fan of Hannah Ritchie of Our World in Data, and I was eager to read her new book, "Not the End of the World." Sometimes, I think she is a bit too sunny and borderline Panglossian, but in times like these, we can use a little optimism. My review: https://lloydalter.substack.com/p/sorry-doomers-hannah-ritchie-says

AndrewHenry,
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@lloydalter

The sunny happy climate VIPs seem more and more inclined to apply a binary to those paying attention to climate. If you aren’t in agreement with them you are a doomer.

With 81% of Canada’s agricultural land in drought one should be greatly concerned.

https://agriculture.canada.ca/en/agricultural-production/weather/canadian-drought-monitor/current-drought-conditions

AndrewHenry, to random
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I tree planted a few decades ago north of Lake Superior. Nothing more depressing then a Boreal clear cut.

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But a new study using nearly half a century of data from the provinces of Ontario and Quebec — two of the country’s main commercial logging regions — reveals that harvesting trees has inflicted severe damage on the boreal forest that will be difficult to reverse.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/world/canada/canada-boreal-forest-logging.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE0.tozV.eMNxYhPfpI-N&smid=url-share

AndrewHenry, to random
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The report from the University of Oxford finds that net-zero pathways that are heavily dependent on carbon capture and storage will cost at least $1 trillion more per year than scenarios involving renewables. It explains that oil and gas-producing countries pushing for carbon capture technology as a substitute for immediate emissions cuts are grossly underestimating the costs of carbon capture and storage.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4374061-the-environment-and-economy-cant-afford-trillion-dollar-carbon-capture/

AndrewHenry, to Quebec
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At this point, they’ll do anything to make it look better on paper. So if you remove “codes” from thousands of kids across the province, all of a sudden it’s not 30 or 40 per cent of our students that have learning disabilities but maybe 20 or 25. At least, on paper.

“Of course, that’s just an accounting trick from an accountant premier. Some of the kids who need us may go away on paper but they’ll still be there every day in our schools.”

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https://therover.ca/christmas-on-the-picket-line/

AndrewHenry, to TeslaMotors
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Something that can't happen with an EV.

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Quarrie said a 25-year-old man was transported to hospital and later pronounced dead. The six others were determined to be suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and taken to a local hospital for treatment.

The individuals were residents of the same household and officers determined the cause to be a vehicle that was left running in the garage, Quarrie said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/car-left-running-in-kitchener-home-one-dead-six-others-hospital-1.7064212

AndrewHenry, to random
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Brookfield portrays itself as a climate-friendly investor, but with over 215 fossil fuel assets emitting nearly 159 million metric tons of CO2e annually, their actions paint a different picture.

Private equity giant Brookfield Corporation’s vast fossil fuel investments undermine its stated commitment to tackle climate change.

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https://peclimaterisks.org/brookfield-emissions/

AndrewHenry, to random
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A third of the U.S. corn harvest goes to ethanol production already!

https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10339

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Now, the nation’s airlines want to power their planes with corn, too.
Their ambitious goals would likely require nearly doubling ethanol production

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Shared link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/30/climate/airlines-jet-fuel-ethanol-corn.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU0.OWXr.tO-ykZ4FNPD2&smid=url-share

AndrewHenry, to random
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Entire local economies have been built around the assumption that the water will never run out.

Now it is starting to run out, not only in Kansas but across much of the country. From Maryland to Hawaii groundwater levels are falling, often the result of overpumping and underregulation, made worse by climate change. As the planet warms, demand for water is increasing. increased evaporation means that less water is refilling the aquifers, accelerating their decline.

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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/24/climate/groundwater-levels.html

AndrewHenry, to Ottawa
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Via @jeffgilchrist

Wastewater levels in remain higher than the peak of the first Omicron BA.1 wave and hospitalization for COVID-19 continues to increase

https://gilchrist.great-site.net/jeff/COVID-19/Ottawa.html?i=1#NewCasesHospitalizedDeaths

AndrewHenry, to random
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Brazil farmers forced to replace soy with cotton as dry weather takes toll

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Alexandre Schenkel, head of national cotton lobby Abrapa, reveled last week some farmers would consider planting a single crop if soy became "inviable," a tendency gaining momentum.

"There are farmers here destroying areas with soybeans because the stand is very low," "They are preparing the soil for planting cotton or even corn," he said citing his neighbors' drought stricken-soy.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/brazil-farmers-forced-to-replace-soy-with-cotton-as-dry-weather-takes-toll/ar-AA1k8cVG#:~:text=SAO%20PAULO%2C%20Nov%2017%20%28Reuters%29%20-%20Extremely%20dry,and%20another%20after%20soy%20is%20reaped%20from%20fields.

AndrewHenry, to random
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Probably

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"It was the biggest house on the block and it was this beautiful, beautiful house and it was huge," said Johnson-Sequeira.

But now, "there's not even a wall standing."

Johnson-Sequeira and others said that once they stepped outside, they didn't see any flames or smoke coming from the lot — only a pile of rubble.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/reports-of-explosion-in-riverdale-neighbourhood-in-whitehorse-1.7027603

AndrewHenry, to random
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Among the vendors behind these surveillance cameras is a company that has been accused of aiding what the US has categorized as a genocide: Hikvision. Based in Hangzhou, China, the company is one of the world’s largest makers of video surveillance equipment. it has been blacklisted by the US and identified by the UK as a security threat for being complicit in China’s repression of the Uyghur ethnic minority.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/11/west-bank-palestinians-surveillance-cameras-hikvision

LeftistLawyer, to mastodon
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    AndrewHenry,
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    @LeftistLawyer

    Mastodon is a little easier to get into when you already kinda understand how and why it works, so yeah, folks with an IT background are keener to adopt.

    AndrewHenry, to random
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    "We're in really dire circumstances. It's perhaps not an overstatement to say that, you know, these salmon are literally facing the verge of extinction if something doesn't turn around pretty quick here."

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-river-chinook-fall-chum-2023-season-1.7018446

    AndrewHenry, to random
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    Burning more carbon because we failed to stop burning carbon.

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    Widespread drought across the Lake Winnipeg watershed has forced Manitoba Hydro to operate its Brandon generating station months before the depths of winter, when the natural gas-fired plant is usually put into service as a last resort.

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-hydro-drought-1.7017960

    AndrewHenry, to random
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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/bruce-goat-beaver-lake-cree-nation-1.7018095

    AndrewHenry, to random
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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/photographer-handcuffed-near-chateau-frontenac-1.7018543

    chad, to edmonton
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    Hey Mom, I'm in the paper!

    "To get downtown, I can ride my bike faster than it would be to get in my car and drive – and that’s a success story." - me :MeetMe_Chuck:​

    Edmonton’s roadway renewal program looks beyond the automobile | The Globe and Mail

    https://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/calgary-and-edmonton/article-edmontons-roadway-renewal-program-looks-beyond-the-automobile/

    AndrewHenry,
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    @chad He looks grumpy!

    AndrewHenry,
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    @chad

    My uncle moved into town, Stratford, Ontario, after my Aunt passed.

    He’s not a grumpy guy but he definitely depended on his mini-van to get around. He bought an electric bike out of curiousity and found it to be a pleasant way to get around town. I think he is on his third electric bike now.

    Maybe there is hope for “the grumpy guy”

    AndrewHenry,
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    @eyrea @chad

    My uncle is a very social person who has a regular group of buddies that are probably contemplating getting e-bikes themselves. : )

    maleve, to random
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    Another contractor in the house yesterday, this time to install a chimney liner.

    Very chatty, seems he is a firefighter moonlighting in contracting.

    Said he had Covid 3 times and the flu twice and that Covid was fine but the flu, quote “nearly killed him”.

    He’s not the first person who has said something similar to me. Another friend at work said Covid was totally fine, but the flu crushed him (his kid was in hospital for a couple days for Kawasaki’s not long after their “fine” covid infections)

    How many papers out there detail the damage Covid does to the immune system.

    I even found it interesting that the story linked below says the following so matter of factly:

    “Although COVID-19 amplifies the impacts of other diseases (such as pneumonia and influenza), this study focuses on deaths that were directly caused by COVID-19”

    https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2023-01-31-covid-19-leading-cause-death-children-and-young-people-us

    AndrewHenry,
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    @maleve Covid finally got me this week, and the whole family.

    I am dreading the unexpected, and difficult to attribute.

    mbonsma, to random
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    I have never felt more respected or validated in my life than when I drove this onto the elementary school playground this morning

    AndrewHenry,
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    @mbonsma

    Is that real steam? Inspired.

    AndrewHenry, to random
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    “Some rivers are already at very low, historic minimum levels; it will probably take time to return to normal values,” said Ana Paula Cunha, a researcher at the Natural Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters in São José dos Campos, Brazil. “The longer the drought lasts, the more intense the cascading impacts.”

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    https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/south-america-was-already-burnt-by-a-hot-winter-now-comes-summer-1.1988236

    AndrewHenry, to random
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    According to her story, 16 of the governor’s hog farms had recorded nitrate levels five times higher than is considered safe to drink. Ingesting high levels of nitrate can have detrimental health effects for infants and there is some evidence to suggest it causes cancer, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/us/jim-pillen-nebraska-reporter-china.html

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