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The International Energy Agency warned that while renewable energy use is surging, fossil fuel production worldwide remains "far too high" to prevent catastrophic warming.
"We can't solve the climate crisis by adding renewable energy on top of new fossil fuels—we need to rapidly replace and phase out all fossil fuels, including gas," said Trout. "There is a massive and deadly gap between current policies, which still lead to higher oil and gas use in 2030 than today, and the rapid declines in fossil fuels required to stave off runaway climate disaster.
the development of woody energy. But President Joe Biden should not be supporting woody biomass when it makes no sense economically, environmentally, and socially. According to studies by Dominion Energy, Dominion’s least expensive biomass plant was more than double the energy efficiency cost of electricity from utility-scale solar and onshoreTo be sure, trees bring environmental benefits. Trees are the lungs of the Earth, and trees’ absorption of carbon is an effective nature-based carbon solution. They help to protect wildlife and cool the Earth, but they are not energy resources. Chopping trees increases.
Using the United Kingdom's national supercomputer, scientists ran simulations on ocean-driven melting of ice shelves in the Amundsen Sea. They simulated a historical scenario of the 20th century and four future scenarios: two involving medium and high emissions and two using the goals of the Paris agreement, which aims to keep global temperature rise this century below 2°C, with a more ambitious target of 1.5°C, relative to preindustrial levels.
The collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is one of nine global climate "tipping points" scientists identified in 2009. The passing of these environmental red lines would be catastrophic for life on Earth.in 2022 we may already have passed the point of no return for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet at just 1.1°C of warming above preindustrial levels.
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