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CACOR's weekly newsletter
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Welcome to Stay Informed, CACOR's weekly newsletter. It contains all the latest updates to the CACOR Website. Signup and previous weekly newsletters are available here.
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There is a new section on the Home Page "Hoffman Hall of Honour" Where CACOR shall honour those that make noteworthy contributions to the CACOR Mission. Robert Hoffman is the first.
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The complete list of the CACOR Zoom series from
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presentation # 115 on 2022-09-21
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Speaker: Dr. Rosalind Warner Topic: Post Anthropocene. Time: Jul 6, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Covid-19 disrupted the world and people's lives in previously unimaginable ways. It seems likely that future disasters, whether natural or human-made, will be even more disruptive and challenging. Some experts argue that human societies have now departed from the comfortable conditions of …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Speaker: Dr. Madeline Weld Topic: Green Growth: the Mantra of Our Cognitive Dissonance. Time: Jul 13, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83573188601?pwd=Y2d2ZCtJQkoxdzhKV2xxVnI5ajFxZz09 Meeting ID: 835 7318 8601 Passcode: 038119 Summary: The Canadian government lays out plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement green energy policies, …
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Biodiversity In Crisis: One Species Is Dying Out Every 10 Minutes Biodiversity faces its biggest threat. Can humans offer salvation instead of a death sentence? BY AMY BUXTON 5TH JULY 2022 Photo: Frogs are threatened worldwide The planet is facing its sixth mass extinction, the first in 65 million years. And biodiversity is in peril. This is the startling discovery of …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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Can Natural Disasters can be GOOD for Society? Lessons from the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake What do 2022 Canada and 1755 Lisbon have in common? I believe that they are/were both sitting on the brink of disaster and do/did not know it. I just finished reading ‘The Last Day’ by Nicholas Shrady, an exploration of the impacts that the destruction of …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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By Antony Funnell When scientist Alan Baker made a cut in the side of an exotic plant in the Philippines jungle, the sap that bled out had a jade-green glow. The shrub was a newly discovered species, soon to be known as Phyllanthus Balgooyi, one of a rare variety of plants that naturally suck high amounts of metallic elements from the …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Living things need carbon dioxide to grow and we, humans, are constantly breathing it out. It can't really be a pollutant...can it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfq72W3RP_o
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Reflections on last weekend’s storm from Principal Economist Dave Sawyer. Last Saturday, widespread storm mayhem blasted through Ontario and pummelled Quebec. Shortly after the five minutes of weather fury ended, I made my way from the west end of Ottawa to the east end and then far south. Over my 50 kilometre drive I saw trees and power lines down …
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Categories: Articles, Climate
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In wartime, the provinces were forced to concede their jurisdiction over provincial resources to the central government. Cast in the twinkling of a pen from a free enterprise system regulated by ten jealously competing sovereignties to a centrally directed economy regulated by the government’s perception of the needs of the war. Robert Bothwell and , biographers, C.D. Howe, World War II Minister of …
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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Dr. N. Gass described some major risks for the period 1994-99. He used computer modelling to examine the Balkans, which were rife with problems at the time. The war in Croatia had just ended, that in Bosnia was still underway, and conflict followed in Kosovo. Link to | Crisis Potentials of Geopolitical Regions
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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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Scientist reveal a large, all-season ozone hole in the lower stratosphere over the tropics comparable in depth to that of the well-known springtime Antarctic hole, but roughly seven times greater in area. The observed data agree well with the cosmic-ray-driven electron reaction (CRE) model and strongly indicate the identical physical mechanism working for both Antarctic and tropical ozone holes. Qing-Bin …
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THE COMPUTER MODELING made it plain: If people continued to over extract finite resources, pollute on a massive scale, and balloon the human population in an unsustainable way, civilization could collapse within a century. It sounds like that modeling could have been done last week, what with climate change, water shortages, and microplastics corrupting every corner of the Earth. But in fact it dropped in the …
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So, what exactly is a carbon footprint? According to Mike Berners-Lee, a professor at Lancaster University in the UK and author of The Carbon Footprint of Everything, it is “the sum total of all the greenhouse gas emissions that had to take place in order for a product to be produced or for an activity to take place.”
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A video on air pollution as a global health problem killing up to 7 million people a year. Note that the pollutants discussed do not include greenhouse gases (specifically CO2) as 'air pollutants', as many scientists erroneously call them.
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Sustainability concerns should receive increased attention in trade deals and, if necessary, be enforced through sanctions, according to a new approach presented by the EU Commission on Wednesday (22 June). While modern EU trade agreements already include “Trade and Sustainable Development” (TSD) chapters, they usually lack an enforcement mechanism. Now, the EU Commission wants to extend the state-to-state dispute settlement …
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Just Have A Think Perovskite structures have the potential to revolutionise the solar PV industry, but they are notorious for breaking down very rapidly in real-world use. Now a research team from Princeton University has developed a process for overcoming that problem, making perovskite a real competitor to existing silicon PV technology.
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Tesla has launched a new virtual power plant in partnership with PG&E in California that will pay Powerwalls owners to help stabilize the electric grid and end brownouts in California. A virtual power plant (VPP) consists of distributed energy storage systems, like Tesla Powerwalls, used in concert to provide grid services and avoid the use of polluting and expensive peaker …
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The astronomer, science communicator, thinker, writer, and teacher Carl Sagan (1934–1996) had an influence as a scientist that is almost unimaginable today. Together with his many scientific contributions (including his analyses of the origins of life, his discovery of the temperature of Venus and its connection to the greenhouse effect, and his work on nuclear winter), Sagan played a leading …
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The American firm Arcimoto has several three-wheeled EVs, as does the Canadian firm Can-Am. These are being designed for fun and/or function. They are quite unlike to infamous tuk-tuks (auto-rickshaws) in India. Sleek and nonpolluting, and not cheap. Link to | Arcimoto's Recent Entry into the EV Market Link to | Can-Am Introducing EV Motorized Cycles
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