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For example, under the agreement, China will be able to increase these emissions by a staggering number of years -- 13. They can do whatever they want for 13 years. Not us. India makes its participation contingent on receiving billions and billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid from developed countries. There are many other examples. But the bottom line is that the Paris Accord is very unfair, at the highest level, to the United States.
China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020. Think of it: India can double their coal production. We’re supposed to get rid of ours. Even Europe is allowed to continue construction of coal plants.
In fact, 14 days of carbon emissions from China alone would wipe out the gains from America -- and this is an incredible statistic -- would totally wipe out the gains from America’s expected reductions in the year 2030
New Delhi (AP) -- India is now two and a half times more likely to experience a deadly heat wave than a half century ago, and all it took was an increase in the average temperature of just 0.5 degrees Celsius (less than 1 degree Fahrenheit), a new study shows.
For the last two weeks much of Asia has been gripped by a heat wave, with a record high of 53.5 degrees C (128.3 degrees F) set in the southwest Pakistani city of Turbat on May 28 — the world's hottest-ever temperature recorded for the month of May. Temperatures in the Indian capital of New Delhi have soared beyond 44 degrees C (111 degrees F).
The study also found that the number of heat wave days increased by 25 percent across most of India. Areas in the south and west experienced 50 percent more heat wave events, or periods of extreme heat lasting more than three or four days, in 1985-2009 compared with the previous 25-year period.
"The general public may think that a 1 or 2 degree temperature rise is not that significant, but our results show that even small changes can result in more heat waves and more death," said Amir AghaKouchak, another climatologist at UC Irvine and a co-author of the report.
Scientists have warned for years that climate change will make heat waves more intense, more frequent and longer lasting.
The vast majority of India's 1.25 billion people are poor and have few options as temperatures hit sweltering levels, drying forests and riverbeds and wiping out farm animals. They are unlikely to have air conditioners — up to 25 percent still have no access to electricity.
Most in India rely on agriculture for their livelihoods, and climate change is likely to hurt their crops
Most Indian cities and states are not prepared to handle more heat, even if they understand the devastation it can wreak. In 2010, some 1,200 people died in a heat wave in the western city of Ahmedabad
After more than 2,500 were killed in heat-ravaged areas across India in 2015
They accounted for India's fast-rising population and income levels in the analysis, to make sure neither affected the results. In the case of income, they found an even stronger correlation between heat waves and deaths among those who are poor.
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This report doesn't really talk about the dire consequences to the plants at high temperatures - upon which the people (as crops and shade) and animals depend.
In 2015, the average annual electricity consumption for a U.S. residential utility customer was 10,812 kilowatthours (kWh), an average of 901 kWh per month. Louisiana had the highest annual electricity consumption at 15,435 kWh per residential customer, and Hawaii had the lowest at 6,166 kWh per residential customer. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=97&t=3
Above News is everywhere here in India but since Ahmedabad is mentioned in it, would like to add my 2 cents here.
As I myself is living in this city of Ahmadabad. I am here since 1993 and at that time during the summers Heat was same as today but bit less scorching, Rains were less to very less.
In 2001, massive Earthquake Struck this part of India and everything is changed after that. All of sudden rains are more and regular. Dwarka region was know to have just 3 inches of rain in 3 years before that now get regular and good rainfalls.
I don't know much abt wht happened after earthquake or is this due to heating planet but change are for good in last 15 years.
Now coming to rent(s) on India & China regarding we can pollute this much but u can't.
here is Ground Reality:
1. india almost stop constructing/pushing for major power plants projects. Tata have coal fired plant in my State of Gujarat and it is available for sell @ Re.1. yes u heard it right and it still not finding any takers. India is almost self sufficient in electricity.
2. China : China is not increasing their coal power plants numbers as well. on Name of CPEC, they are dumping them in Pakistan @ 17% interest on loans and it is easy money.
These articles are more like for local consumption to sell Trump Govt. Plans/view and i wish best of luck with him to US of A.
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B&H Wind started construction of its wind farm last month near the intersection of Bon Homme, Hutchinson and Charles Mix counties, Hornstra said. The project is expected to be completed later this year, he added.
B&H recently sold 39 megawatts of electricity to NorthWestern Energy, adding to the original power purchase agreement of 41 megawatts previously signed by the two parties.
However, Hornstra added that the wind farm’s price compares favorably with the cost of other types of energy. “We can compete very well with coal,” he said.
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“At the start, we organized tours and learned from others,” he said. “At Pipestone, we saw a turbine on the playground, which the school owns. You don’t normally expect to see a turbine there. But it’s paying all of the heating bills and cooling bills for the school, the cost of the turbine, financing – and there is over $20,000 left at the end of the year.”
B&H organizers also toured an operation very close to home – the Elkhorn Ridge Wind Farm near Bloomfield, Neb., in neighboring Knox County, Neb. The operation consists of 27 turbines, with each turbine 410 feet from base to blade tip. Elkhorn Ridge holds the capacity for producing 81 megawatts, enough electricity to serve approximately 25,000 homes.
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source: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2014/01/29/wind-farm-promises-to-give-area-a-lift/
Prices for the car start at RMB 93,900, or about $14,000, before incentives.
The E100, which is Baojun's first electric car, is powered by a single 39-horsepower electric motor and has a top speed of 62 miles an hour. The E100 can drive about 96 miles on a fully charged battery, according to GM (GM).
The E100 offers some amenities, such as an entertainment system with a 7-inch screen and built-in WiFi. All versions of the car will have parking sensors and pedestrian alert systems among other safety features.
China is the largest automotive market in the world, and its government is making a big push for electric cars. Already, China accounts for 40% of all electric cars sold worldwide, according to the International Energy Agency.
The E100 costs $5,300 after national and local electric vehicle incentives, according to GM.
More than 5,000 people have already registered to buy the first 200 vehicles, according to GM. Another 500 vehicles will be made available this week, and buyers will be chosen on a first-come-first-served basis, a GM spokerson said. Sales will initially be limited to the Guanxi region of southern China.
Most of this thread has been on the environment and that is my passion.
I hate thinking of war and conflict etc and usually avoid TV and print news. Some news trickles in via finviz.com/news
Sadly I have been reading of North Korea.
I think if Kim Jong fires missiles at Gaum the USA will retaliate. I would hope the USA would do it with focused strikes just at the missile locations and artillery batteries with conventional weapons. I hope the USA doesn't raise a great nuclear cloud of radioactive particles by using conventional nuclear weapons. It would be such a mesh.
I hope everybody is praying. Maybe God can save us from ourselves.
Since environmental issues are my day job routine, I think I see what is behind the scenes. And I started to not like the business cases and scams about "green" stuff...
There are many profiteers in all lines of business, manufactured food, drugs, vent cleaning, car repairs, internet trading companies, GMO producers, the oil industry, nuclear fuel, the list is endless. I very much dislike those who green-wash and false label in environmental industry because of the dire need in the planet for healing.
However, there are those who are honestly working for the good of the planet and the health of people and animals. This thread is more focused on trying to catch those doing good.If you have knowledge of those doing a particularly fine job of doing good and helping please feel free to post them.
(For those on the side of evil and the bad please use another thread. It is hard enough my trying to stay positive in a world of negativity. "Any person can see dirt in the gutter not all can see the beauty in the stars". )
