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Janetren
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Climate, renewables, batteries, EVs No FB, Google, Amazon, or Airbnb. Take action, ditch gmail, outlook. Home is solar/electric, gas disconnected. Banner is Layla - woman with baby whale by sculptor Russell Sheridan, #Bluesky above blue ocean (my photo).
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Climate Science made simple, 169 yrs ago, by a woman.

“In an 1856 issue of TAJS, Eunice Foote made an eerily prophetic observation: What happened inside the CO2 jar could also happen to our planet. “An atmosphere of that gas, would give to our earth a high temperature.”

C Thompson, 2019, in JSTOR
How 19th Century Scientists Predicted Global Warming - JSTOR Daily
Today’s headlines make climate change seem like a recent discovery. But Eunice Newton Foote and others have been piecing it together for centuries.
daily.jstor.org
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Bill Gates hasn’t made sense on Climate since he teamed up with Bjorn Lomberg in 2009. This is just a restating of Bjorn’s book from this year about how we have a finite amount of money and we shouldn’t use it for climate. What they get wrong is that climate solutions are now fully profitable.
Bill Gates has a new memo out calling for a “strategic pivot” on climate change, downplaying “doomsday” talk to focus on filling enormous post-USAID budget gaps in global health and vaccine funding. I got an early glimpse of his thinking last week:
7 New Takes From Bill Gates on Climate ‘Doomsday’ Talk and Global Health
“I mean, God bless the Europeans for caring about climate.”
heatmap.news
And much easier to read !!
It’s on my list of things to do but it’s going to be painful to read, so I got a short summary to motivate me !!
I’ll read it eventually but using duck ai here’s my summary version
I’ll read it eventually but using duck ai here’s my summary version
I’d like to see the share portfolios of the people pushing this.
Or the family trusts with fossil fuel companies included.
What would we see?
It is an inability to read the room.

By going with the loudest and most violently opposed, the electorate will annihilate them at the next election.

The science of global warming is indisputable, Matt Canavan and Ross Cadell, their supporters and enablers are barking mad.
I’d like to see share portfolios of the people, and family members, who are pushing this.
Or the family trusts with fossil fuel companies included.
What would we find?
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Australians voted for stronger climate action, not weaker environment laws.

Australia Institute research shows that Australia is currently expanding gas and coal, with 94 new fossil fuel projects under development.

Sign our petition calling on Minister Watt to stop new gas and coal!

#auspol
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
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Our world is at its hottest in around
125,000 years.

CO2 levels their highest in MILLIONS of years.

We’re looking at tipping points, 4C & a billion deaths this century.

It’s not unreasonable to demand politicians work flat out tackling this, instead of serving the corporations profiting from it.
More is needed but…

“In 2024, Asia overall became the biggest contributor of renewable power capacity addition. The region increased its total renewables capacity by 413 gigawatts (GW) to reach 2,374 GW – 53.4 per cent of global installed capacity”
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In just six months, China added 256 gigawatts (GW) of new #solar capacity — more than the entire solar infrastructure ever built by the United States. That’s enough clean energy to power over 40 million homes, marking the fastest renewable expansion in human history.
We have all considered that… but we may also have to consider the possibility that Nigeria has oil and rare earth minerals the trump admin want to get hold of.
Or could it be that Nigeria has oil and critical minerals that the trump government wants to access?
It is now the policy of the United States government to invade any country on earth under the pretext of protecting Christians (but no other ethnic group).

It is the policy of the United States to “cherish” Christians (but members of no other faith).
Actually it looks more like this pic not the bay hotel
Whitby, and is that building now
The Robin Hood Hotel ?
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Trump’s recent obsession with Venezuela is increasingly looking like a shake down for oil & rare earth minerals.

It has little to do with drug boats.

The tech bros have him in a tizzy over rare earth minerals needed for next gen tech.

It’s why he wanted Greenland.

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Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
Same shot from maps today.
Looking toward the Bread Shed
Aren’t those houses now the car park to Sugden Sports Centre?
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Articles on grid problems with solar and wind increasingly fall into two categories:

1) Those that prophesy doom, talk about inertia, and ignore or misunderstand batteries and inverters.

2) Those that show you get a more resilient system with solar, wind, batteries, and grid forming inverters.
Re: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202... 🎁🔗 we already have the technology to modify inverter settings dynamically to help stabilize grid voltage, provide synthetic inertia, etc. It's being used *now* in South Australia. See @TransitionShow Ep. 251 for all the details: xenetwork.org/ets/episodes...
Europe’s Solar Boom Is Pushing Power Grids to The Limit
Solar is set to become the largest green energy source globally, the question now for Europe is whether it can revamp its grid fast enough to prevent another dramatic blackout.
www.bloomberg.com
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AEMO is testing battery inverters to see if they can maintain grid stability without synchronous generation.

Small-scale tests have shown results, but this is the first time a large grid will be tested.
Australia’s shift from fossil fuels to renewables, with a stable and secure grid… also saves $$
AEMO to conduct “world first” trials of running a big isolated grid with no synchronous generation, with battery inverters taking centre stage.
reneweconomy.com.au