Renewables and the environment.

[GeezerGamer]

Posting now, reading later.

NASA-Led Study Provides New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers - NASA

The novel approach to estimating river water storage and discharge also identifies regions marked by ‘fingerprints’ of intense water use.

www.nasa.gov

 

[GeezerGamer]

Sigh

https://edition.cnn.com/england-uk-sewage-poop-beach/index.html

 

[GeezerGamer]

In my time on this planet a natural wonder is destroyed, shame!

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/04/australia/australia-great-barrier-reef-wildfires-climate-intl-hnk-dst/index.html

 

[GeezerGamer]

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/08/climate/clean-energy-milestone-ember/index.html

 

[GeezerGamer]

‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair

Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandoned

www.theguardian.com

 

[GeezerGamer]

Fossil fuel folks might say it's okay to still to burn with these capture devices sucking carbon....I say bullocks!

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/08/climate/direct-air-capture-plant-iceland-climate-intl/index.html

 

[LaughingCrow]

Deforestation can raise local temperatures by up to 4.5°C – and heat untouched areas 6km away ​

Deforestation releases approximately 5.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year – back into the atmosphere. This accounts for nearly 10% of the global emissions from 2009-2016.

https://theconversation.com/defores...-4-5-and-heat-untouched-areas-6km-away-163584

 

[GeezerGamer]

Deforestation can raise local temperatures by up to 4.5°C – and heat untouched areas 6km away ​

Deforestation releases approximately 5.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide per year – back into the atmosphere. This accounts for nearly 10% of the global emissions from 2009-2016.

https://theconversation.com/defores...-4-5-and-heat-untouched-areas-6km-away-163584

Just a thought occurs to me from years ago that Atlanta for example creates it's own thunderstorms overnight! It acts as a heat sink during the day and that trapped heat will create an evening T banger or two?! Trees cool, people and cities heat.....!

 

[ZZLEE]

Look up Leaf of Life on YT they have allot of good stuff.

 

[GeezerGamer]

How are you B.C. folks doing?

Rivers recede as B.C. faces prospect of 'unfamiliar territory' for drought

Parts of British Columbia will likely enter "unfamiliar territory" with drought if they see another hot, dry summer, says the head of the province's River Forecast Centre.

bc.ctvnews.ca