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London (dpa) - The past winter was by far the warmest ever recorded in Europe, according to EU climate researchers.

Between December 2019 and February 2020,temperatures were 3.4 degrees Celsius above average temperatures between 1981 and 2010, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3) said on Wednesday in London.

Temperatures were 1.4 degrees warmer than the warmest winter so far, in 2015-16.

Northern and Eastern Europe were particularly affected by the higher temperatures. The same trend affected Siberia and Central Asia.

This cannot solely be attributed to global warming, C3S Director Carlo Buentempo said in a statement. "Seasonal temperatures, especially outside the tropics vary significantly from year to year."

"Whilst this was a truly extreme event in its own right, it is likely that these sorts of events have been made more extreme by the global warming trend,” he said.

The seasons are defined differently in meteorology and astronomy. The meteorological winter is over when February comes to an end, while the calendar winter ends on March 20, the equinox, when days and nights are of equal length.

The C3S service publishes monthly reports on changes observed in global surface air temperature, sea ice cover and hydrological variables, using data from measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.

Personal archives of prominent Dutch climate denier Frits Böttcher (founder of Club of Rome) who died in 2008) reveal that he received €500K from Shell and others during the 1990s to question human responsibility for global warming.https://t.co/oJ8SSi0YMr pic.twitter.com/SmAs9MqF5y

— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) March 8, 2020

https://www.yapfiles.ru/files/2358196/aea8c13733e5a3c4b100f7dcbf98d472.mp4?token=MDIzNTgxOTYtMTU4NTg1MDQwOA

Podsjetilo me na onu sliku brda bizonskih lobanja.

Село Маго, Николајевски рејон. Јебали слику своју, сво су дрво сљуштили, унаказиће цело то село.
То ће требати деценије да се обнови и израсте поново, ако уопште израсте, поготово тамо на Крајњем Северу где дрвеће спорије расте.

József Csuhay wrote:https://www.yapfiles.ru/files/2358196/aea8c13733e5a3c4b100f7dcbf98d472.mp4?token=MDIzNTgxOTYtMTU4NTg1MDQwOA

Podsjetilo me na onu sliku brda bizonskih lobanja.

E ovi su se spremili za zimu.

Kakva doktorska disertacija jebotebob.

http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/01/17/the-manufacturing-of-greta-thunberg-for-consent-the-political-economy-of-the-non-profit-industrial-complex/





The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent series has been written in two volumes.


[Volume I: ACT I • ACT II • ACT III • ACT IV • ACT V • ACT VI] [Addenda: I] [Book form]

[Volume II: An Object Lesson In Spectacle • ACT I • ACT II • ACT III • ACT IV • ACT V • ACT VI] [ACTS VII & VIII forthcoming]

• A 100 Trillion Dollar Storytelling Campaign [A Short Story] [Oct 2 2019]

• The Global Climate Strikes: No, this was not co-optation. This was and is PR. A brief timeline [Oct 6 2019]

Volume I:
ACT I: The Political Economy of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex [https://bit.ly/2XkVrTR]
ACT II: The Inconvenient Truth Behind Youth Co-optation [https://bit.ly/2VibAYp]
ACT III: The Most Inconvenient Truth: “Capitalism is in Danger of Falling Apart” [https://bit.ly/2tBHp2B]
ACT IV: The House is On Fire! & the 100 Trillion Dollar Rescue [https://bit.ly/2TZyUKd]
ACT V: The Green New Deal is the Trojan Horse for the Financialization of Nature [https://bit.ly/2TZyOlP]
ACT VI: A Decade of Social Manipulation for the Corporate Capture of Nature [Crescendo] [https://bit.ly/2U7YBbx]
Addenda I: The Branding of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — By Any Means Necessary [https://bit.ly/2kpDDIv]
Volume I in book form: https://amzn.to/2kV6Jj9

Volume II:
An Object Lesson In Spectacle [An introduction to Volume II] [https://bit.ly/2kKLAZc]
ACT I: A Design to Win — A Multi-Billion Dollar Investment [https://bit.ly/2mjmYXF]
ACT II: Controlling the Narrative [https://bit.ly/2msdlpP]
ACT III: To Plunder What Little Remains: It’s Going To Be Tremendous [https://bit.ly/2m61flO]
ACT IV: They Mean Business [https://bit.ly/2mkPZSP]
ACT V: The Behavioural Change Project “To Change Everything” [https://bit.ly/2mr3pwL]
ACT VI: Natural Climate Manipulations [https://bit.ly/2MjT1zZ]
[ACT VII forthcoming]
 
 
[Cory Morningstar is an independent investigative journalist, writer and environmental activist, focusing on global ecological collapse and political analysis of the non-profit industrial complex. She resides in Canada. Her recent writings can be found on Wrong Kind of Green, The Art of Annihilation and Counterpunch. Her writing has also been published by Bolivia Rising and Cambio, the official newspaper of the Plurinational State of Bolivia. You can support her independent journalism via Patreon.]
 
Volume I:


In ACT I, I disclosed that Greta Thunberg, the current child prodigy and face of the youth movement to combat climate change, served as special youth advisor and trustee to the foundation established by “We Don’t Have Time”, a burgeoning mainstream tech start-up. I then explored the ambitions behind the tech company We Don’t Have Time.

In ACT II, I illustrate how today’s youth are the sacrificial lambs for the ruling elite. Also in this act I introduce the board members of and advisors to We Don’t Have Time. I explore the leadership in the nascent We Don’t Have Time and the partnerships between the well-established corporate environmental entities: Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, 350.org, Avaaz, Global Utmaning (Global Challenge), the World Bank, and the World Economic Forum (WEF).

In ACT III, I deconstruct how Al Gore and the planet’s most powerful capitalists are behind today’s manufactured youth movements and why. I explore the We Don’t Have Time/Thunberg connections to Our Revolution, the Sanders Institute, This Is Zero Hour, the Sunrise Movement and the Green New Deal. I also touch upon Thunberg’s famous family. In particular, Thunberg’s celebrity mother, Malena Ernman (WWF Environmental Hero of the Year 2017) and her August 2018 book launch. I then explore the generous media attention afforded to Thunberg in both May and April of 2018 by SvD, one of Sweden’s largest newspapers.

In ACT IV, I examine the current campaign, now unfolding, in “leading the public into emergency mode”. More importantly, I summarize who and what this mode is to serve.

In ACT V, I take a closer look at the Green New Deal. I explore Data for Progress and the targeting of female youth as a key “femographic”. I connect the primary architect and authors of the “Green New Deal” data to the World Resources Institute. From there, I walk you through the interlocking Business & Sustainable Development Commission, the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and the New Climate Economy – a project of the World Resources Institute. I disclose the common thread between these groups and the assignment of money to nature, represented by the Natural Capital Coalition and the non-profit industrial complex as an entity. Finally, I reveal how this has culminated in the implementation of payments for ecosystem services (the financialization and privatization of nature, global in scale) which is “expected to be adopted during the fifteenth meeting in Beijing in 2020.”

In the final act, ACT VI [Crescendo], I wrap up the series by divulging that the very foundations which have financed the climate “movement” over the past decade are the same foundations now partnered with the Climate Finance Partnership looking to unlock 100 trillion dollars from pension funds. I reveal the identities of individuals and groups at the helm of this interlocking matrix, controlling both the medium and the message. I take a step back in time to briefly demonstrate the ten years of strategic social engineering that have brought us to this very precipice. I look at the relationship between WWF, Stockholm Institute and World Resources Institute as key instruments in the creation of the financialization of nature. I also take a look at the first public campaigns for the financialization of nature (“natural capital”) that are slowly being brought into the public realm by WWF. I reflect upon how mainstream NGOs are attempting to safeguard their influence and further manipulate the populace by going underground through Extinction Rebellion groups being organized in the US and across the world.

With the smoke now cleared, the weak and essentially non-existent demands reminiscent of the 2009 TckTckTck “demands” can now be fully understood.

Some of these topics, in addition to others, will be released and discussed in further detail as addenda built on the large volume of research. This includes stepping through the looking glass, with an exploration of what the real “Green New Deal” under the Fourth Industrial Revolution will look like. Also forthcoming is a look at the power of celebrity – and how it has become a key tool for both capital and conformity.

Satellite images reveal huge amounts of methane leaking from U.S. oil fields

BY JEFF BERARDELLI

APRIL 25, 2020 / 1:01 PM / CBS NEWS


Oil and gas operations in the Permian Basin, the largest oil-producing area in the United States, are spewing more than twice the amount of methane emissions into the atmosphere than previously thought — enough wasted energy to power 7 million households in Texas for a year. That's the result of a new study by researchers at Harvard University and the Environmental Defense Fund. 

The Permian Basin stretches across a 250-mile by 250-mile area of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, and accounts for over a third of the crude oil and 10% of the natural gas in the U.S.

The study, published this week in the journal Science Advances, also found that the rate of leakage of methane gas makes up 3.7% of all the gas extracted in the basin, which is about 60% higher than the national average leakage rate. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, and since the Permian Basin is so large, this excess waste is a significant contribution to our already warming climate.


"These are the highest emissions ever measured from a major U.S. oil and gas basin," said study co-author Dr. Steven Hamburg, chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). 



ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND
To map the methane emissions, the team employed a space-borne sensor on a European Space Agency satellite called the Tropospheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) from May 2018 to March 2019. 

Since 2005, the rapid increase in oil and natural gas production in the United States has been driven primarily by hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking) and horizontal drilling. 


Methane plume in California detected by a NASA satellite.NASA

While some see the leaked methane gas as a big waste of natural resources, others are focused on the danger posed by methane. Methane is an extremely powerful heat-trapping greenhouse gas, much more potent than its more well-known counterpart, carbon dioxide (CO2).

There is 225 times less methane in the atmosphere than there is CO2, but because of its powerful heat-trapping qualities, methane is contributing about 25% of the current rate of global warming.

Since the Industrial Revolution, global methane concentrations have doubled due mostly to human activities like livestock farming, decay from landfills, and from burning fossil fuels. 

"I am very concerned about increasing methane emissions," said Dr. Robert Howarth, a biogeochemist and expert on methane from Cornell University, who was not involved with the study. "Methane is 120 times more powerful than CO2 as a greenhouse gas, compared mass-to-mass for the time both gases are in the atmosphere," he explains.

According to Hamburg, the methane gas escaping the Permian Basin is so excessive that it has tripled the typical heating impact it would have otherwise had through burning the gas. Evidence of this massive leakage undercuts the case made by proponents of natural gas who tout its cleaner-burning qualities over that of its normally dirtier-burning cousin, coal.

"The most up-to-date thinking is that for comparing coal and natural gas to generate electricity, gas is worse than coal if the methane emission rate is greater than 2.7%," said Howarth. However, this research found the Permian Basin's emission rate is higher than that — 3.7% of the gross gas extracted. Therefore, the leakage in the Permian Basin is so high it makes gas and oil emissions more intensive than even coal.


The Permian Basin, stretching across West Texas and southeast New Mexico, provides more than a third of U.S. crude oil.ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND

"After staying level for the first decade of the 21st century, methane emissions have been rising quickly over the past decade," said Howarth, "My research indicates that shale gas development in the U.S. is responsible for at least one-third of the total increase in these emissions globally."

The Harvard/EDF paper attributes the high methane leakage rate to extensive venting and flaring, resulting from insufficient infrastructure to process and transport natural gas.

On the other hand, the paper concludes, the higher-than-average leakage rate in the Permian Basin implies an opportunity to reduce methane emissions through better design, more effective management, regulation and infrastructure development.

But over the past few years, regulations on fossil fuels have gone in the opposite direction. "Trump's EPA has proposed to substantially weaken or even eliminate regulations, adopted during the Obama administration, to control methane emissions from oil and gas facilities," said Romany Webb, a senior fellow at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.


ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND

Webb says the Texas Railroad Commission — the state's oil and gas regulator — has its own rules controlling venting and flaring. Venting and flaring is permitted up to 10 days after completion of well drilling; after that operators can apply for an exemption from the commission. "Recently, the number of exemptions granted by the commission has increased dramatically, leading to concerns that it is simply acting as a rubber stamp," said Webb.

"To detect emissions takes sophisticated approaches and highly trained personnel," Howarth said. "To date, the best any government has done is to come up with regulations that rely on industry self-reporting. I find that rather useless." 

If the world has any hope of meeting the target for reducing emissions outlined in the Paris climate agreement, reducing CO2 cannot accomplish this alone — the climate responds far more quickly to methane, explains Howarth. To keep the level of warming below the international goal of 2 degrees Celsius and prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change, controlling methane leakage is essential. Without it, humanity is bound to fall short. 

Jeff Berardelli
Jeff Berardelli is CBS News Meteorologist and Climate Specialist. Follow him on Twitter @WeatherProf.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/methane-permian-basin-oil-gas-climate-change/

što si to metnio?

Швабе користе фрижидер 6 месеци годишње, остало време држе храну у неком креденцу који је склепао њен муж Паскал.

Размишљали су да ли уопште да праве децу, јер не знају у каквом свету ће та деца живети и да ли има смисла правити децу.

Уз све то, живе без аутомобила и користе јавни превоз и имају двоје деце. Успели су да смање неку потрошњу испод 5, али не могу испод 1 (није ми најјасније која је то метрика коју покушавају да смање). Ваљда количину угљеника који производе.

Сад слушам негде од 10 минуте, Американка каже да је све то што су они лично урадили смешно у односу на индустријску производњу током епидемије вируса корона. Сва та њихова лична жртвовања су минимална у односу на количину угљеника која емитује индустрија.
Сад каже да све то што се намеће као лична одговорност и добро, грађанско и ”зелено” понашање је дошло из кухиње великих корпорација које покушавају да замажу очи и скину одговорност са себе.

Јанош Винету wrote:
Сад каже да све то што се намеће као лична одговорност и добро, грађанско и ”зелено” понашање је дошло из кухиње великих корпорација које покушавају да замажу очи и скину одговорност са себе.

Добро јутро, Колумбо, рекао бих им.

ne vidim zašto se te dve stvari isključuju

Не искључују се, али никако не волим што се цела прича о екологији последњих деценија увек некако своди на то шта грађани треба да не раде или да раде, са вечитим сенкама малтусерства (тј најбоље би било да нестану ако нису довољно богати), а шта корпорације, војске, државе и ини крупни чиниоци треба да раде... е, тај део приче се некако губи у позадини, нестаје са сцене, нема текста за ту улогу.

To je sukob između termina antropocen i kapitalocen. Prvi implicira glavnu ulogu čovekakao takvog u tekućoj eri, pre svega na promenu klime, pa se može otklizati u to da se misli da neka sirotinja zagađuje isto koliko i tajkun, da sirotinja mora da "snosi odgovornost"; drugi označava način organizacije ekonomije kao glavnu determinantu ere i koji krivi za loš trend, i tu je odgovornost prosto drugačije raspodeljena.

ja se izvinjavam na anti-intelektualizmu al meni je antropocensko kukanje kako treba da se konstruise globalni subjekt potpuno ista stvar kao preorganizovanje ekonomije. kada bi postao prvo mogao bi da uradis drugo ili alternativno kada bismo leverageovali moc u nasu korist da mozemo da preorganizujemo ekonomiju postali bi subjekt. a svi znamo da bilo koja dalja rasprava sta tu prethodn cemu i dal delovanje konstituise subjekta i sl. vodi pravo u lingivisticko-psihoanaliticki pakao

Правила ризика:

Другачије се вреднује ризик. Људи психолошки другачије то поимају и то велике корпорације обилато користе.
Уместо да се регулишу термоелектране које деценијама трују околину, то се пребације на индивидуални ниво: Немојте се кретати напољу у данима када је ваздух загађен.
Онда то постаје лични проблем особе са којом он треба да се избори лично, у најбољу руку локални, месни проблем, уместо међудржавни друштвени проблем који се решава правном акцијом у државном парламенту уз препоруке Европске уније.

inace tangentijalno vezano za ovu temu - meni je omiljena pokazna vezba na temu tragikomedije individualizacije odgovornosti onaj javni performans dvoje nemackih hipika koji su za vreme prvog sirizinog mandata - na vrhuncu grckog-nemackog debt standoff-a - dosli u grcku da otplate svoj deo ratnih reparacija po njihovoj racunici.

znaci iz najispravnijeg osecanja odgovornosti i u svojoj najboljoj volji da naprave nesto kako treba, ljudi apsolvirase sopstvenu vladu i nemacko drustvo bilo kakve primisli kolektivne odgovornosti time sto su delegirali sve na individualni nivo. mislim super, ko priznaje pola mu se prasta. longest running joke.

ja tako gledam na urbanističke performere kao što su Filip Vukša i slični. država nije uradila svoj deo posla? neka ja ću, samo da platim državi za neobavljeni posao pa uzimam stvari u svoje ruke.

meni je to besmisleno

Није бесмислено, тако функционише најмоћнија светска држава - США.

Ако хоћеш нешто да поправиш, мораш да даш своје паре и своје време. Сви скупљају неке паре и неке потписе за ово или оно, снимају неке документарце, пропагандишу, штампају летке, па чак и поправљају од својих пара оно што би држава или локална самоуправа требала сама да ради.

То ти је део све део демократије, плутократије, интереса богатих, средње класе и сиромашних. Тако је систем био замишљен и изведен, али у међувремену неке су се ствари промениле. Дошло је до консензуса богатих, они су политички победили у США, али и у СССРу.
Сад живимо неки други свет.

Јанош Винету wrote:Није бесмислено, тако функционише најмоћнија светска држава - США.

Ако хоћеш нешто да поправиш, мораш да даш своје паре и своје време. Сви скупљају неке паре и неке потписе за ово или оно, снимају неке документарце, пропагандишу, штампају летке, па чак и поправљају од својих пара оно што би држава или локална самоуправа требала сама да ради.

Ајде ти што поправљају, од тога и буде неке вајде. Него што организују испољавања (ака манифестације), маратоне и којешта чији је једини циљ да подигну свест о некој ствари. Која буде заборављена док се људи врате кућама.

Fwiw

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/opinion/coronavirus-meat-vegetarianism.html#click=https://t.co/DVWbGqwu23

...
An astonishing six out of 10 counties that the White House itself identified as coronavirus hot spots are home to the very slaughterhouses the president ordered open.

In Sioux Falls, S.D., the Smithfield pork plant, which produces some 5 percent of the country’s pork, is one of the largest hot spots in the nation. A Tyson plant in Perry, Iowa, had 730 cases of the coronavirus — nearly 60 percent of its employees. At another Tyson plant, in Waterloo, Iowa, there were 1,031 reported cases among about 2,800 workers.

Sick workers mean plant shutdowns, which has led to a backlog of animals. Some farmers are injecting pregnant sows to cause abortions. Others are forced to euthanize their animals, often by gassing or shooting them. It’s gotten bad enough that Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has asked the Trump administration to provide mental health resources to hog farmers.

Despite this grisly reality — and the widely reported effects of the factory-farm industry on America’s lands, communities, animals and human health long before this pandemic hit — only around half of Americans say they are trying to reduce their meat consumption. Meat is embedded in our culture and personal histories in ways that matter too much, from the Thanksgiving turkey to the ballpark hot dog. Meat comes with uniquely wonderful smells and tastes, with satisfactions that can almost feel like home itself. And what, if not the feeling of home, is essential?
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Значи није решење у томе да месари раде у иоле нормалнијим условима, него да не раде уопште.

Spremnik goriva elektrane blizu sibirskog grada Noriljska urušio se prošli petak, nakon čega se više od 20 tisuća tona nafte izlilo u rijeku,