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World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2022-11-17 at 1:06 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Russian missile kills two people in NATO member Poland, US intelligence official says
it was a Ukrainian SAM that failed to intercept and flew north, and article 4 is just a consultation -
2022-11-17 at 1:13 PM UTCJevons paradox
Jevons paradox (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; sometimes Jevons effect) occurs when technological progress or government policy increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the falling cost of use increases its demand, negating reductions in resource use.[1] The Jevons' effect is perhaps the most widely known paradox in environmental economics.[2] However, governments and environmentalists[needs update] generally assume that efficiency gains will lower resource consumption, ignoring the possibility of the effect arising.[3]
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2022-11-17 at 1:57 PM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe Jevons paradox
The answer is for government to keep their long noses out of commerce. -
2022-11-17 at 1:58 PM UTC
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2022-11-17 at 11:53 PM UTCUK faces biggest fall in living standards on record
"It's gone from being able to save a few hundred every month to, can I save £50 a month?" he told the BBC.
"If nothing changes this is going to get worse until either we crumble, or something changes."
"If I want to buy a house, it's going to be impossible. They need to cut down on house prices, it's affecting all of us - especially working class people." -
2022-11-18 at 12:48 PM UTCThey only eve interview the poor folk who work dead end jobs.
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2022-11-19 at 12:47 AM UTCCOP27 deemed a failure by industry experts, with little progress made towards any meaningful emissions cuts required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
On the last day of COP27, industry experts have lamented its failure to drive any meaningful change to meet emissions goals and avoid near-certainty of catastrophic climate disaster by the end of the century:
"Nothing has been implemented, and it has thus failed to achieve what it set out to do. While everyone knows the 1.5-degree target is off the table, it is not openly discussed in official sessions," said Stephanie Hirmer, a senior researcher at the University of Oxford’s energy and power group.
"Rich countries have stonewalled, delayed and distracted … trying to kick the can down the road with more demands for assessments, reports and dialogues," said Teresa Anderson, the global lead for climate justice for ActionAid International, an NGO focused on women’s rights, poverty and climate equity.
"It’s an economic COP. It’s nothing more. This is the fourth COP that I’ve attended that is the same thing at the end, with developed countries organizing this COP to make their own money. They are not coming up with a solution. They are asking us not to use our oil, not to use our gas. So what are they giving us," said Astrid Martins Kabengele, representing the Democratic Republic of Congo.
"This COP has been marred with the promotion of false solutions. One of the draft documents circulating on what was planned to be the last day of the conference even stripped out language that acknowledges core human rights, such as the right to a healthy environment. This is, of course, the end result of a COP with a wild imbalance of power," said Sébastien Duyck, a senior attorney with the Center for International Environmental Law.
"The criteria and benchmarks for these net-zero commitments have varying levels of rigor and loopholes wide enough to drive a diesel truck through," said U.N. Secretary General António Guterres.
"27 years of obstructionism, delay, and greenwashing. If COP were a football rivalry, it would be amongst the most lopsided; fossil fuel interests: 27, humankind: 0. Today, developed countries do all that they can to avoid their promise [the 1992 U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change where rich countries agreed to pay for all forms of mitigation and adaptation to climate change]. The multilateral system is based on trust and every year developed countries are eroding that trust. Unfortunately, we have seen little change here in Sharm el-Sheikh. Let’s tell it like it is. Using bogus net-zero pledges to cover up massive fossil fuel expansion is reprehensible. It is rank deception. This toxic cover-up could push our world over the climate cliff. The sham must end," said Brian O’Callaghan, lead researcher with Oxford University’s economic recovery project. -
2022-11-19 at 1:13 AM UTCNot many people buying their lies and schemes anymore. Just a bunch of losers, clinging to their rapidly disappearing credibility.
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2022-11-19 at 2:16 AM UTC
Originally posted by Obbe COP27 deemed a failure by industry experts, with little progress made towards any meaningful emissions cuts required to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
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2022-11-19 at 2:22 AM UTCThe New World Order and their army of mindless idiots are attacking Australia's food supply now. Empty shelves everywhere.
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2022-11-19 at 2:31 AM UTCmake me
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