365 Days of Climate Awareness 346 – AR6 Vol 3, Chap 3: Mitigation Pathways...
Extrapolating countries’ current mitigation pathways leads to global warming of 2.4-3.5°C/4.3-6.3°F by 2100. Under this scenario, annual GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions go from 52-60 GtCO2eq-yr-1...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 347 – AR6 Vol. 3, Chap. 4: Near- and Mid-Term...
The first global stocktake of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement was delayed, due to COVID, from 2021 to 2023, so it will not be until next year when we have any kind of...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 348 – Net Zero
Net zero is the concept of balancing inputs of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere with their removal, resulting in no net gain, and therefore, no radiative forcing—no planetary heat gain. The terms...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 349 – Demand, Services and Social Aspects of...
Changing the demand side—reducing consumption—should theoretically be the easiest method to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, this is called into some question given the IPCC estimate that...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 350 – AR6 Vol. 3, Chap. 6: Energy
In order to meet the Paris Agreement target of 1.5°C/2.7°F temperature rise over 1750 levels, global output of CO2 from the energy industry will need to decline 35-51% relative to the present, and all...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 351 – AR6 Vol. 3 Chap 7: Agriculture, Forestry,...
These three designations: agriculture, forestry, and other land uses (AFOLU): refer to managed ecosystems, and they have the potential to significantly lower global warming. Focusing strictly on...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 352 – AR6, Vol. 3, Chap. 8: Urban Systems and...
Cities have typically been the result of growing wealth in a society. Now they represent opportunities to decarbonize at scale, and just as importantly, ahead of anticipated rapid 21st century growth...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 353 – AR6 Vol. 3, Chap. 9: Buildings
In 2019 buildings accounted for 12 GtCO2eq, or 21% of the world total for greenhouse gases (GHGs), 31% of CO2 emissions alone. Of this, 57% was due to offsite generation of heat and electricity, 24%...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 354 – AR6 Vol. 3, Chap. 10: Transportation
Mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will require a thorough overhaul of our transportation systems, since they depend heavily on burning petroleum-based fuels (especially gasoline, diesel, jet...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 355: AR6 Vol. 3, Chap. 11: Industry
Since 2000, by all metrics, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to industry have risen more quickly than from any other sector, accounting for 14.1 GtCO2eq (gigatons of CO2 equivalent) in 2019, 24% of...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 356 – AR6 Vol 3, Chap. 13: National and...
Long-term, significant cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions cannot be achieved without governmental policy at the national, regional and even local levels, together. National policy is essential for...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 357 – International Cooperation
International cooperation on environmental issues has led to demonstrable results on the global scale. One of the best examples, and directly relevant to the issue of climate change, is the handling in...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 358 – Innovation and Technology Development and...
Technological development and innovation can be double-edged swords, depending on their application. The drive for more efficient and low- to no-carbon energy sources has provided undeniable progress...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 359 – Cryptocurrency and global warming
Cryptocurrency is a digital form of money based in an encrypted (coded) data string stored across a distributed network of many computers. The distributed data string, or distributed ledger, is known...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 360 – The Exxon Climate Fraud
On June 6, 1978—more than 44 years ago—an internal report entitled “The Greenhouse Effect” was delivered to the vice president the Exxon Research and Engineering Company. The report itself was the...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 361 – Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs)
A life cycle assessment (LCA) is a systematic look at the environmental impacts of a product, installation, service or process. It focuses on energy and materials, both as input and output. Industries...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 362 – Life Cycle Assessment of Electric Vehicles
There are dozens, if not hundreds, of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) for electric vehicles (EVs—let’s hear it for acronyms!), and to be honest, I can’t claim to be any kind of expert in them, or in the...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 363 – Life Cycle Assessment of a Wind Farm
Life cycle assessments (LCAs) for wind farms are like those for electric vehicles (EVs): there are many available (not as many as for the EVs, to be sure), so it would take some time to become familiar...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 364 – US Department of Defense Climate Change...
The Department of Defense (DoD) is charged with protecting US interests around the world. Part of that mission, as emphasized in several directives within the past decade-plus, is adapting to the...
View Article365 Days of Climate Awareness 365 – Natural Resource Economics
Economics is the study of the creation, transfer, and destruction of wealth. Natural resource economics (NRE) is a sub-discipline of this focusing on the interaction between human economic systems and...
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