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@pmagn

Jul 31

Who are these experts planning projects ignoring #RapidGlobalWarming #bizarre
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

What might not have been immediately obvious in the coverage of the government’s decision was that the Planning Inspectorate, tasked with assessing such projects, had recommended that permission be refused.

@edfenergy

The problem, the examiners explained, was fairly simple: @edfenergy couldn’t say exactly where it would obtain one of the main substances needed to make a nuclear power station work, that substance being water.🫣

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@pmagn

Jul 30

‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: total climate meltdown cannot be stopped

Blistering heatwaves are just the start. We must accept how bad things are b4 we can head off global catastrophe, according to a leading UK scientist #Extinction Rebellion #bcpoli
web.archive.org/web/2022073021…

"5 unexpected threats posed by the pumping of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere" 👉🏽Make that 6.. OVERLAPPING pandemics
#monkeypox #covid

“This is a call to arms,” he says. “So if you feel the need to glue yourself to a motorway or blockade an oil refinery, do it. Drive an electric car or, even better, use public transport, walk or cycle. Switch to a green energy tariff; eat less meat."

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@pmagn

Jul 29

Tyre dust: the ‘stealth pollutant’ that’s becoming a huge threat to ocean life

Plastic in the depths: Scientists spent decades on the trail of a mystery toxin killing #Salmon en masse. Mystery of the mass deaths seemed to occur after heavy rains #pnw #yvr
theguardian.com/environment/20…

first real breakthrough happened when they tested actual runoff collected from a nearby road and exposed test salmon to it. The fish died within hours

@environmentca

Tested this product @environmentca🤔
..carefully shaved tiny fragments of tyre & soaked them in water. “When we tested the tyres it killed all the fish".. culprit a toxic chemical 6PPD-quinone, product of the preservative 6PPD, added to tyres to stop them breaking down #Plastic

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@pmagn

Jul 28

Climate crisis ‘insufficient’ to halt oil and gas exploration, says New Zealand government

Despite declaring a climate emergency, govt is in court defending decision to issue fossil fuel prospecting permits in Taranaki #NewZealand #jacindaardern

theguardian.com/world/2022/jul…

@jacindaardern

We're effed. Not even social democratic govts can resist fossil fuels were going to hell .@jacindaardern #NewZealand

https://twitter.com/pmagn/status/1552653657157423110?t=h9DnC34PCrP3YE4BkVfddA&s=19

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@pmagn

Apr 9

Hydrogen '2x as powerful a greenhouse gas as thought before': UK govt study

Global Warming potential (GWP) of #hydrogen is between 6 & 16, 11 the ave — GWP of CO2 is 1. Previous 2001 study put GWP of hydrogen at 5.8
rechargenews.com/energy-transit…

“Any leakage of H2 will result in an indirect global warming, offsetting greenhouse gas emission reductions made as a result of a switch from fossil fuel to H2,”

"much smaller molecule than #methane.. much more easily leak from existing #naturalgas pipelines if used to carry H2"

report does not take into account GWP of PRODUCING hydrogen, only impact of H2 released into atmosphere

electrolysis production of H2 wld result in 9.2% leakage frm “venting & purging”, but this wld fall to 0.52% “with full recombination from purging & crossover venting”.

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