The Climate Crisis Post 0

This is the zeroth edition of the weekly climate crisis post where I collect important research, news, myth busting, recommendations, calls and hopefully some good news too.

Climate news

The Rosebank field leads to demonstrations against Equinor all over the world (I was there) and lawsuits https://www.transitmag.no/2023/09/27/britiske-myndigheter-godkjenner-equinors-rosebank-felt-klimaaktivister-varsler-soksmal/

Norway is being sued for lack of climate action in several cases before the European Court of Human Rights. https://www.transitmag.no/2023/09/27/norge-pa-anklagbenken-historisk-stor-klimasak-opp-for-den-europeiske-mensnerettsdomstolen/ This is in addition to a separate lawsuit against Norwegian oil developments and the new climate lawsuit: https://www.greenpeace.org/norway/klimaendringer/klimasoksmal/nytt-klimasoksmal-2023-dette-ma-du-vite/

Equinor opens for fracking in Argentina. This is so harmful to health and destructive to nature that it is banned in Europe. https://www.harvestmagazine.no/artikkel/equinor-ma-stanse-farlig-fracking-i-argentina

Seabed mining will be disastrous for life at sea and, for example, the EU has made a moratorium. Environmental organizations believe Støre must step down as head of the UN’s ocean panel https://www.transitmag.no/2023/10/02/miljoorganisations-krever-at-store-gar-av-som-leder-av-fns-havpanel/

Research news

WWA has linked the catastrophic flood in Libya to the climate crisis with its model: https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/interplay-of-climate-change-exacerbated-rainfall-exposure-and-vulnerability-led-to-widespread-impacts-in-the-mediterranean-region/

Explanatory article here: https://www.transitmag.no/2023/09/29/slik-kobles-flomkatastrofen-i-libya-til-klimaendringene/

About the 6th mass extinction: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1704949114

The tipping points that can be triggered already under 2 degrees of warming and the associated domino effect: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abn7950

About how up to a third of humanity will no longer be able to survive where they are for the next 50 years if we continue Business as usual. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1910114117

Greater risk of food crisis in this decade: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac22c1

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38906-7

Boreal forests have now become net sources of carbon emissions: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade0805 https://theconversation.com/extreme-wildfires-are-turning-the-worlds-largest-forest-ecosystem-from-carbon-sink-into-net-emitter-201019

6 out of 9 of the planet’s endurance limits have now been passed: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries.html

Myth busting

This collection is very good: https://www.greenpeace.org/norway/fakta/energi/norsk-olje-er-miljofndring-og-ni-andre-oljemyter/

Furthermore, CCS has not been able to deliver anything scalable despite huge investments and may never be able to scale. This has been a scam ever since the 1950s: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/54079/great-carbon-capture-scam/

Blue hydrogen is worse than coal due to hydrogen leaks: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ese3.956

Many analyzes show that stopping oil exploration and instead investing in clean energy will be both more profitable and better for development and poverty reduction than continuing the investments. Norwegian oil is not the greenest and the interesting parameter is anyway the total amount of fossil fuel burned. Here are some of them: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S254243512200410X?via%3Dihub

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/14693062.2020.1763900

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62892013

Good news and solutions

We can make all the proteins and animal products we need, are used to and like directly from plants with new technology: https://www.rebootfood.org/

Vegan cats that eat alternative proteins are healthier, a study shows: https://forskning.no/dyreverden-mat-naturvitenskap/veganer-katter-har-best-helse-ifolge-ny-studie/2248214

Two new countries have signed the FFNPT: https://fossilfueltreaty.org/antigua-timor

The IEA confirms that no new investments in fossil energy are needed if we are to reach 1.5, but they are admittedly based on old IPCC models that make a number of assumptions about CCS and negative emissions that are not credible and too optimistic: https://www.iea.org/reports/net-zero-roadmap-a-global-pathway-to-keep-the-15-0c-goal-in-reach/executive-summary

EU produces more renewable electricity than ever and less than : <https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/08/wind-and-solar-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-the-eu-as- energy-transition-hits-hyperdrive>

Climate activist asks Greenpeace to stop being against nuclear power in DearGreenpeace campaign from Replanet. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/29/young-climate-activist-tells-greenpeace-to-drop-old-fashioned-anti-nuclear

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