He’s doing things which are almost entirely demand-side and incentive-oriented. Getting to where we need to be means including extraction cuts and penalties for burning, but we don’t have the votes for those in Congress yet.
It’s more about the interaction of warmer temperatures, wildfire, and subsequent debris flow into water supply:
The periods of heavy rain that followed the fires assisted vegetation recovery but also triggered soil erosion and landslips, the report says. There was an “increased likelihood of compounding effects of extreme rainfall following significant fire seasons due to climate change”, the report concluded.
“Climate change is predicted to drive more frequent and extreme natural disasters in coming years.
“This will threaten the resilience or capacity of the catchment to maintain essential ecosystem services such as the provision of adequate, good quality source water.”
Down-vote etiquette is well-neigh unenforceable. You can encourage people to do the right thing, but aside from catching brigading, you’re going to have a really hard time doing anything with it.
Anything encouraging people to use end-to-end encrypted communications needs to give examples, as many people really don’t know what that means.
DOE commits $450M to install rooftop solar for highest-need Puerto Ricans (grist.org)
Why did the Maui fire spread so fast? Drought, nonnative species and climate change among possible reasons (www.cnn.com)
What’s killing Florida’s coral reefs — and why you should care (wapo.st)
The Caribbean is also projected to see coral-damaging temperatures in the coming weeks, according to a new NOAA forecast
The UAE hired a firm to ‘counteract’ critics before the COP28 climate talks (wapo.st)
Climate Education That Builds Hope and Agency, Not Fear (eos.org)
First Scorched, Then Soaked: Weather Whiplash Confounds Farmers (www.nytimes.com)
Opinion | On Dates, I Now Look for Climate Compatibility (www.nytimes.com)
Biden says ‘practically speaking’ he’s already declared a climate emergency (www.washingtonpost.com)
Sydney’s drinking water quality under threat from climate crisis, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
Australian Liberals and Greens team up to back inquiry into axed Antarctic climate science projects (www.theguardian.com)
Climate politics has entered a new phase (www.ft.com)
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New England's largest energy utility, Eversource, leaves the American Gas Association to focus on ‘decarbonization’ (www.wbur.org)
At least 13 projects vie for $1.2B in carbon removal (www.eenews.net)
Curbing Contrails: A Climate Solution in the Skies (www.nytimes.com)
Latin American Countries Aim to Curb Amazon Deforestation (www.wsj.com)
Brazil’s president hosts regional leaders as rainforest risks losing ability to help offset climate change
One Person Stopped California’s Divestment From Fossil Fuels — Again (capitalandmain.com)
2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record (wapo.st)
Climate Is Now a US Culture War Issue (www.nytimes.com)
SLRPNK community discussion - August 2023
So there are a few topics that came up lately that I think would be nice to discuss with members of this community....