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Stay Informed
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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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The complete list of the CACOR Zoom series from
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presentation #1 on 2020-04-15 to the spring of 2023
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To CACOR Members:
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"A CACOR group focused on GHG reduction techniques integrated into a plan to survive an extinction event." If any CACOR member wishes to join this group, contact Richard van der Jagt or Art Hunter.
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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: Jack Gibbons Topic: Moving Ontario to a Zero-carbon Electricity Grid and Lower Energy Bills by 2030. | 2022-11-02 Time: Nov 2, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The presentation will provide a critique of Premier Doug Ford’s plans to ramp up the use of fossil gas for electricity generation and home heating. It will outline how Ontario …
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You are invited to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Presenter: David Harries Topic: Human security: Its past, its present and a more relevant future Time: Nov 9, 2022 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86289781581?pwd=ZTFUb1BYY25WWkc4a1QrcW9MVWVOUT09 Meeting ID: 862 8978 1581 Passcode: 522367 Summary: Human Security has had a checkered history since its formal announcement in the 1994 UNDP HDR. I suggest …
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The San Diego Water Authority wants to light up the city even when the Sun goes down. The plan is to use San Vincent Reservoir to store solar power energy in what is known as water batteries to optimize the city’s potential for renewable energy. California cities experience warm days in surplus, which tends to provide abundant renewable resources. The recommended …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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YOU ARE NOT HELPLESS! Learning from the “Crusoe of Lonesome Lake” who saved the Trumpeter Swans from Extinction I feel helpless. Overwhelmingly so. Recently quite often. Why is that? Today my internet is down. Yesterday I was unsuccessful in helping a student understand basic algebra. The day before I went teach in a community centre with a chalkboard 1.5 x …
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Categories: Articles, What are you doing
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His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. Lois McMaster Bujold, American writer (b. 2 Nov 1949)
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Categories: Articles, Quotes
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(Editorial comment) This linked page describes McKinsey & Company's 2022 Report on achieving Net-Zero by 2050 based on transition Scenarios developed by NGFS.net (Network for Greening Financial Systems, a consortium of national and central banks which came out of G20 Green Study Group approximately 22016). There is a link to download a searchable PDF of McKinsey's Executive Summary. There is …
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Categories: Articles, CACOR Groups
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Extreme weather is impacting millions of people around the world with increasing frequency. Over the past decade, power outages are up roughly 78% in the U.S. over the previous decade and the vast majority of major power outages were due to weather-related causes, according to Climate Central, a climate research news organization. It’s devasting to see the impact of climate …
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Categories: Articles, Solutions
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Translated and republished from the SNAP Québec website. Read the original blog (in French). ON DECEMBER 5-17, 2022, MONTREAL WILL HOST THE 15TH CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, BETTER KNOWN AS COP15. LET’S REVIEW A FEW ESSENTIAL CONCEPTS TO FULLY UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING ABOUT COP15 AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR THE PROTECTION OF NATURE. What is a COP? The term COP …
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Categories: Articles, Trending
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N (Fred) Nemeth was a response to Buss Nixon’s Questions article in the December 1994 issue. The author felt we always need more questions—otherwise there is no quest for answers. He answered 33 questions, but felt it necessary to offer suggestions for action as well. There thought there was a lot going on in the world at the time and …
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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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Rich countries must sign a “historic pact” with the poor on the climate, or “we will be doomed”, the UN secretary-general, António Guterres, has warned, as a deepening gulf between the developed and developing world has put climate talks on the brink. The stark warning comes as world leaders start to gather for the UN Cop27 climate summit, which opens on …
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Only 3 minutes long of well stated threats of climate change from a German (or European) perspective.
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A 3.5 minute video on climate change from the German viewpoint. Well worth your time investment.
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Resilience is about staying operational for our homes, communities, businesses, and institutions. And it requires preparation. The challenge is to predict what we need our electrical infrastructure to withstand. Today, microgrids are progressively being used for business continuity in the face of extreme weather. In these applications, it is important that the microgrid equipment is installed to perform reliably and …
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Lithium ion batteries have been the mainstay of the energy storage market for decades. But with utility scale energy storage projected to skyrocket to 2.5 terawatts by 2040, grid operators are frantically looking for cheaper, more reliable and more environmentally friendly alternatives. Now an 'old' energy storage technology has been revitalised and revolutionised for the 21st century. And as usual, …
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The world's biggest operational rocket provided an extra treat on Nov. 1, the morning after Halloween, with the first Falcon Heavy launch since 2019 blasting off under a still spooky blanket of fog from Florida's Cape Canaveral. Less than 10 minutes after liftoff, the rocket's side boosters returned for a successful, near simultaneous landing not far from the launch pad. …
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Opinion of Claude Buettner Published 2022-08-26 The great news is that since 2017 the 114 central bank members of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) have been developing scenarios to help financial, government and corporate institutions prepare for the urgent transition to a Net-zero greenhouse gas world. Their work began as a hand-off from earlier work of the …
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“Pretty much everything around us comes from dying stars,” Ashall said in a media statement. “We’re made of stardust. Being able to study that fact—what we’re made out of—in detail, and to understand where the elements around us come from, is truly amazing.” Stars produce heavy elements through the process of stellar nucleosynthesis. As stars burn, die, and explode, thermonuclear …
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However, climate-mediated disasters are only one of the myriad health hazards from fossil fuels and industrialization. Pollution and environmental degradation from the same sources that cause climate instability compound harms. Although isolated exposure to air pollution or extreme heat can be lethal, mortality due to the combination is 3 times greater than the sum of the individual effects (3). As …
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A well-balanced critical review of climate change.
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