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Live differently–it’s your choice!
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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. 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) Summary: Why are fossil fuels stuck at eighty per cent of global energy despite impressive rollouts of wind and solar energy and increased efficiencies? This investigation documents that the reason is the accelerating …
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You are invited to a scheduled CACOR Live Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Charles Hall Topic: Our Energy Future: Can sustainables prevail? What scares me! Time: December 04, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81756807914?pwd=CwD6DoLCWbhovgidTOxbKySHcJm0NQ.1 Meeting ID: 817 5680 7914 Passcode: 618846 Summary: PBS has produced a fine, six sessions, series on the future of energy in …
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Chaos There is not peace among the stars, only carnage among the harsh laughter of thirsty gods. - Thousand sons, computer video game I’m in a big of mood – pain does that. Somehow, just by sitting and doing my regular exercises I managed to pinch my sciatic nerve. I know this is a common injury, but it is …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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Professor Emeritus Guy R. McPherson continues discussing deep time with Niall Shephard. In this episode, we discuss emissions from China and the inability of renewables to keep pace. Nov 27, 2024 National suicide hotline is 988. You are not alone. We appreciate you liking, sharing, subscribing, and joining as a Member of this channel. Join this channel to get access …
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Categories: Articles, Videos, What are you doing
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Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumours of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. William Cowper, poet (1731-1800)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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By Farai Mutsaka And Mogomotsi Magome with AP Published on 18/09/2024 In Zimbabwe, the elephants will be taken from an area where the population has become unsustainable. Zimbabwe and Namibia have announced plans to slaughter hundreds of wild elephants and other animals to feed hunger-stricken residents amid severe drought conditions in the southern African countries. Zimbabwe said on Monday it would allow …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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IPCC AR5 WG3 (technical) Summary for Policymakers. AR = Assessment Report WG = Working Group The Working Group III contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) assesses literature on the scientific, technological, environmental, economic and social aspects of mitigation of climate change. It builds upon the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), the Special …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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Three Important New Factors in the Energy System. 1998 Series 1 Number 26 Page 15 John Walsh, energy consultant, wrote this seven-page analysis of our fossil-fuel-based energy system in light of the information available to him at the time (1998). He began with three statements: “The first half of the next century will be the critical period for dealing with …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Proceedings, CACOR Writers
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Gartner, Inc. forecasts that by 2027, Fortune 500 companies will redirect $500 billion from energy operating expenses to microgrid investments to address energy risks and increased demand. Microgrids are seen as a viable solution for companies to gain better control over their energy supply and costs, offering benefits such as resilience, renewable energy integration, and reduced carbon footprints.
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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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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Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food. Researchers in South China recently found tire-derived chemicals in most human urine samples We urgently need to …
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Gordon Kubanek 5:50 AM (2 hours ago) to me, cacor-discussion@googlegroups With "friends" like this who needs ...... A Chinese commercial ship accused of sabotaging underwater telecommunications lines in the Baltic Sea has been surrounded by NATO warships for more than a week, according to reports. Investigators are probing whether the captain acted at the behest of Russian intelligence when he released the …
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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning view of the N79 nebula, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit:Space.com| imagery courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: The Ethereal by Ave Air / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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Microgrids are not just for emergencies. “A lot of times when I see microgrid investments it is (only) when an event occurs. Please don’t wait. There is a value proposition in day-to-day normal conditions,” Bindewald during the MGK conference keynote in Baltimore last April. “You shouldn’t wait to have an event and then react because that is a disservice to the …
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The University of Leuven in Belgium has worked on the Solhyd project, which is an exceptionally innovative idea for the solar panels to directly produce hydrogen from the sun and moisture in the air. This approach to hydrogen production has attracted the interest of the public and investors, thus placing Solhyd at a vantage point for becoming a game changer …
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Why Germany is betting on Canadian clean energy tech. By Sergio Vargas & Heather Yourex-West Global News Posted November 21, 2024 At first glance, the drilling site about an hour south of Munich might seem like a traditional oil operation. Two towering rigs, reminiscent of those seen in Canada’s oil industry, soaring over the Bavarian countryside. They have a different …
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The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action. Executive Summary Despite the initial hope inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world is now dangerously close to breaching its target of limiting global multiyear mean heating to 1·5 °C. Annual mean surface temperature reached a record high of 1·45 °C …
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COP29 draft deal on verge of collapse as small island nations walk out. Stuti Mishra and Tara Cobham Sat, November 23, 2024 at 11:13 a.m. MST The latest Cop29 draft deal on climate finance is thought to have been firmly rejected by developing countries as negotiators walked out of UN talks on the verge of collapse. Negotiators from rich and poor nations were huddled in one room on …
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The planet is warming at a record pace. So why are many companies retreating from their climate targets? Volvo, Shell, Air New Zealand among companies that have abandoned previous environmental pledges. In what is becoming something of a trend, a number of companies are abandoning their carbon emissions targets—in a year scientists have determined is likely to end up being …
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The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle. On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as melting permafrost ice leaves little behind. By Leyland Cecco, on Herschel Island–Qikiqtaruk Thu 21 Nov 2024 07.00 GMT Last summer, the western Arctic was uncomfortably hot. Smoke from …
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