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The road ahead is uncertain, not smooth or straight, and has limited visibility.
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. The latest website updates, announcements and upcoming events. Please share our Stay Informed link on your personal networks. That's also the place to catch up on previous newsletters if you missed them.
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Archived Articles Revisited:
This is your weekly personal list of three random articles extracted from our website archives. These links are unique to you and are more than one year old. The intention is to deliver a sense of what was considered a priority on that date compared with today's latest articles and presentations. You are encouraged to share these links with your social media and other networks.
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Speaker: Dr. Ruth Waldick Topic: Is ‘going local’ the solution? Navigating climate adaptation in small, rural communities Time: Nov 20, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The literature is increasingly advocating for “bottom-up” and “community-led” climate adaptation. Yet, detailed analysis and evidence of this is sparse. This presentation takes a look at some of the realities of ‘local …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Raymond Murphy Topic: What is Undermining Climate Change Mitigation? How Fossil-fuelled Practices Challenge Low-carbon Transitions Time: Nov 27, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89161785194?pwd=RmxEZy84MHUyYnNlK1NndklJc1VWUT09 Meeting ID: 891 6178 5194 Passcode: 954739 Summary: Why are fossil fuels stuck at eighty per cent of global energy despite …
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Overview The stated purpose of international climate negotiations is to avoid “dangerous” climate change or, more formally, to prevent “dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. But if conditions existing today are already sufficient to push more climate system elements past their tipping points and create “catastrophic” breakdown without any further emissions, what then is our purpose and what do …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Anyone who believes in infinite growth on a finite planet is either mad or an economist. David Attenborough, writer, broadcaster, and naturalist Humankind needs to urgently switch from climate change to system change.
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Virtual power plants (VPPs) are gaining traction, highlighting various state initiatives aimed at fostering their growth.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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The LIAM F1 UWT is a new home-integrated wind turbine that offers a quiet and efficient alternative to traditional silicon PV solar panels for residential energy generation. It aims to complement solar technology and potentially challenge its leading position in the renewable energy sector.
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Mutual Aid: The security and longevity of a species. the counter-intuitive! During my recent visit to southern India, two aspects of feral life fascinated and impressed me deeply. One being the extreme severity and struggle for existence, because of human agency and or Nature’s fury. Insects, birds, animals, and aquatic creatures spread over natural and urban expanses face enormous destruction of …
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COP BAKU -Will it Make a Difference? Baku talks heat up: New climate finance deal, urban challenges in COP29 spotlight UN Climate Change/Habib Samadov In the ‘Green Room’ at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, models of green cities and other climate solutions-based exhibits are on display. Facebook Twitter Print Email 20 November 2024 Climate and Environment As intense round-the-clock COP29 climate talks enter their final …
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Environmental Aspirations in an Unsettled Time: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Club of Rome, and Canadian Environmental Politics in the 1970s. This post is based on the author’s recently published article: Christopher Orr, “Environmental Aspirations in an Unsettled Time: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Club of Rome, and Canadian Environmental Politics in the 1970s,” Canadian Journal of History, 57, 2 (August 2022): 246-279. …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Key indicators of how humans are changing the Earth: Sea level, species, carbon dioxide, sea ice, population, daily temperature extremes, annual climate change performance by country, air pollution, temperature records, climate change indicators, top ten emitters, historic emissions, electric vehicles.
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A plan for human survival (Julian Cribb). Julian Cribb Among the world’s many pressing needs, the most urgent of all is a plan for human survival, and Australia should be the country to lead its creation. At present no country or international body has one. What we currently have is a chaotic road to avoidable disaster, driven by ten vast, …
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We are all Joe Biden (and Malthus was not a Reptilian). Ugo Bardi This post was inspired by Joe Biden's disastrous performance at the recent presidential debate. It generated much sneering at poor Biden, showing, among many other things, how cruel our society can be—too much, really (*), but what impressed me most was how far from reality both debaters …
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The term “off-grid” conjures a cabin in the woods, not sophisticated urban buildings. But that’s beginning to change, and the latest example is an apartment building in Ann Arbor, Michigan. What’s most interesting is why the developers of this 225-unit structure chose to forego an electric grid connection. It turns out that onsite energy will be cheaper, cleaner and more reliable than …
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Queensland clean energy experts are working on a crowning battery achievement Down Under, according to a press release from developer CleanCo, a state-owned enterprise. The project in Australia features a sodium-sulfur power pack that can store renewable energy for up to six hours. If built, the storage facility would be housed on the site of a former coal-fired power plant, signaling the commitment of …
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In recent years, Texas has experienced lethal grid outages in both the summer (Hurricane Beryl) and winter (Winter Storm Uri). Families sat helpless for days without electricity as calls to 911 surged, hospitals were overwhelmed and a significant number of people died without the heat or air conditioning they rely on. Texas has become the epicenter of grid unreliability. This …
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Environmental Commissioner: Time Is Expiring on Canada's Federal Emissions Reduction Commitments. Report 7 of the Office of the Commissioner of Sustainable Development (CESD) on the Canadian Net-Zero Emission Accountability Act. At a Glance Implementation of measures in the 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan remains insufficient to meet Canada’s target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% to 45% below 2005 levels …
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The gods look on aghast, as human calamity unfolds… Julian Cribb From atop Mount Olympus, Zeus peers in perplexity through fumes of fire, dust and vehicle exhaust, toxic chemicals, roiling tempests and raging floods, idly wondering what those darned mortals are up to now… First his eye is drawn to ancient Media, part of old Persia (now known under its …
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Watch this for a few minutes, then consider that Thwaites Glacier is the widest glacier in the world and its calving front is 650-750 m thick--that's six times the thickness of this glacier (300-400 ft, ~100-150 m). This rare footage has gone on record as the largest glacier calving event ever captured on film, by the 2016 Guiness Book of …
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Two Greenpeace Canada activists who were part of a larger group were arrested Thursday morning for mischief and intimidation as they took part in a protest in the driveway of the residence of Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. The group installed a replica oil pumpjack at the Stornoway, Ottawa driveway where Poilievre and his family reside, blocking vehicle traffic from …
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What a Trump presidency might mean for the planet Trump’s planned changes could increase the likelihood of a global economic downturn, war, worsening overheating, food crisis, pandemics, failed states, mass violence and humanitarian disasters Dr. Trevor Hancock 12 November 2024 699 words Thanks to tens of millions of Americans who just voted to turn the American Dream into the American …
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