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December 28, 2024

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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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CACOR Live | Danu Poyner | Shaping the Future with Curiosity and Care: What It Means to Be a Grokkist | 2025-Jan-08 15:00 EST

CACOR Live | Danu Poyner | Shaping the Future with Curiosity and Care: What It Means to Be a Grokkist | 2025-Jan-08 15:00 EST

You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Shaping the Future with Curiosity and Care: What It Means to Be a Grokkist Time: Jan 8, 2025 15:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) – Danu is in Auckland, NZ Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87675344942?pwd=k0zOhhUXRybOs4MAU5Afk9h2rYcULF.1 Meeting ID: 876 7534 4942 Passcode: 151784 Presentation Summary In a world defined by complexity and uncertainty, …

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Doubts and confidence

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence. Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head. -Theodore …

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Doubts and confidence

Businesses and Local Governments: It’s Never Been a Better Time to Electrify Your Vehicle Fleet

African American man stands next to an electric delivery van by an EV charging station.
Recent analysis by RMI highlights that electric vehicles (EVs) are now more cost-effective than gas-powered vehicles for fleet operations. With declining battery costs and federal incentives, electrification is a financially viable option for both private and government-owned fleets. The analysis shows that EVs can achieve a 9% lower total cost of ownership compared to fossil fuel vehicles, even when charging infrastructure costs are considered. Additionally, switching to EVs significantly reduces emissions and pollution.

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Atlantic Council: Hurricanes could upend US oil and gas exports and global energy markets. Here’s what to know.

New Atlanticist August 26, 2024 By Joseph Webster, Reid I’Anson, and Anya Herzberg Texas and Louisiana are the crux of US oil and gas production but face severe, growing risks from hurricanes. With world liquefied natural gas (LNG) and crude products markets facing persistent, systemic risks from severe hurricanes in the US Gulf Coast, policymakers and industry actors need to …

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Atlantic Council: Hurricanes could upend US oil and gas exports and global energy markets. Here’s what to know.

The Danger is Unnoticed

The Danger is Unnoticed
The failure today, to bring the potential reality and implications of peak oil, indeed peak everything, into scientific discourse and teaching is a grave threat to Industrial society. The concept of the possibility of a huge, multifaceted failure of some substantial part of industrial civilisation is so completely outside the understanding of our leaders that we are almost totally unprepared …

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American Public Health Association (APHA) pot: Reflecting on a Year of Public Health and Climate Change

NEW: Reflecting on a Year of Public Health and Climate Change Follow   Gregory D. Stevens   Posted December 20, 2024 Reflecting on a Year of Public Health and Climate Change by The Editors It's been a rocky year for public health and climate change. We began 2024 with the news that 2023 had been, by far, the hottest year on …

Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups

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American Public Health Association (APHA) pot: Reflecting on a Year of Public Health and Climate Change

The Depletion Paradox

The Depletion Paradox
The great drama of American shale production may now be nearing its final act. For years, we have anticipated that the relentless growth in shale output would crest by late 2024 or early 2025, catching many off-guard. In hindsight, even this expectation might have erred on the side of caution. Quietly and without much fanfare, both shale oil and shale …

Categories: Articles, Climate

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Canada's Defence Spending

Canada's Defence Spending The following is a Letter of the Editor of the Globe and Mail newspaper from early 2024 by Dr. John Hollins, long-standing CACOR member. RE: NATO Secretary-General says Canada must inform alliance when it will raise defence spending Wednsesday, February 21, A3 Canada does indeed need to set a date by which it will fulfill its pledge …

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How well are we doing?

How well are we doing?
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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Breaking News

Breaking barriers in smart metering with Wi-Fi HaLow

In conclusion, no one technology will be the only solution for the needs of smart grid. Wi-Fi HaLow, with its sub-GHz operation, longer range, lower power consumption and ability to handle thousands of devices per access point (say 8,000) can complete LAN/WAN infrastructures. It provides the coverage and penetration needed for both rural and urban areas without the limitations of …

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2024 was a fantastic year for energy storage 2

Unique in that typically, people have to pay a premium to increase reliability — like when a family shells out for a home backup generator, or when society collectively pays for power plants to sit around doing nothing most of the year just in case supply gets tight for a few extreme hours. In Texas and California, though, the new storage doesn’t sit around …

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2024: A Christmas carol updated - Scrooge on steroids: going back to Social Darwinism

Revisiting and updating a Christmas Carol story from Charles Dickens. The author, Nicole Morgan, provide an insight personal story about the current silly and strange times we are experiencing. We celebrate Christmas every year, we do this year too. However, never as this year, we are all called to pay attention to what is happening around us: climate change, wars, …

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Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016

A mere 57 oil, gas, coal and cement producers are directly linked to 80% of the world’s global fossil CO2 emissions since the 2016 Paris climate agreement, a study has shown. This powerful cohort of state-controlled corporations and shareholder-owned multinationals are the leading drivers of the climate crisis, according to the Carbon Majors Database, which is compiled by world-renowned researchers. Although …

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2024 was a fantastic year for energy storage

Energy storage used to be the cute companion nipping at the heels of solar and wind. Now it’s increasingly a main attraction, reshaping both the power grid and the automotive industry, and 2024 was easily the sector’s biggest year yet. The oft-cited constraints on batteries — manufacturing bottlenecks, mineral scarcity, fire risk — simply didn’t hinder battery deployments this year. Instead, excess manufacturing capacity …

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Canadian Wildfires Are Polluting The Earth Faster Than Most Countries by Kim Fedyk

In 2023, Canadian wildfires produced more emissions than all but three of them. Only India, China, and the U.S. polluted the air more. To me, this is mind-blowing. But perhaps it shouldn’t be. Living in Canada, I have seen the impact of the growing wildfire season first hand. I’ve witness the choking haze in the summer. I’ve smelt the wood-burning …

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Boiling Point: Let’s get real about climate change and affordable energy

He isn’t the only politician talking about affordability and clean energy as if they’re in conflict. As Sacramento Democrats gear up for a legislative session focused on cost-of-living issues — including gasoline and electricity prices — Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) has vowed that California “will continue to lead on climate, but not on the backs of poor and working …

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Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb

Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb—despite what you've heard on Facebook. Our managed forest land hasn't been a net carbon sink since 2001. CBC 12 Feb 2019 You might have heard that Canada's forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2—more than we produce—so we don't have to worry about our greenhouse …

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Earth's lands are drying and getting saltier.

Earth's lands are drying and getting saltier. Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for billions. As Earth grows warmer, its ground is becoming drier and saltier, with profound consequences for the planet’s 8 billion inhabitants—nearly a third of whom already live in places where water is increasingly …

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Colombia on the brink of oil decline due to Petro's policies.

Colombia on the brink of oil decline due to Petro's policies. Colombia is facing the reduction of its hydrocarbon production without being able to meet its energy needs in the short and medium term with the renewable energies of which President Gustavo Petro wants to be the champion.  The decision already in place not to grant any more …

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