[GWSG] NYC GND; active loops; action's benefits; natural plan; bettering nukes; EV guide; improving coverage

Tue Apr 23 08:49:02 EDT 2019

1. Cutting electricity use is easier for cities than cutting emissions from buildings, which generally account for about 40% of emissions. New York City has just approved a package of ten measures, including what they claim as the world’s largest cut in building emissions. The measures are expected to generate almost 30,000 jobs.  https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18042019/new-york-city-climate-solutions-buildings-energy-efficiency-jobs-low-income-greenhouse-gases?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=421af59ce8-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-421af59ce8-326454481
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New York City Sets Ambitious Climate Rules for Its Biggest Emitters: Buildings | InsideClimate News<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18042019/new-york-city-climate-solutions-buildings-energy-efficiency-jobs-low-income-greenhouse-gases?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=421af59ce8-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-421af59ce8-326454481>
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The city found ways to cushion costs for low-income residents while creating jobs and cutting emissions as a 'downpayment on the future.' New York City set an ambitious new standard for combating ...

One feature of the ten-part program to lower the City’s emissions by almost 40% by 2030 is to eliminate the City’s purchase of processed meats and cut the purchase of beef by 50%. https://www.livekindly.co/new-york-city-cut-meat-consumption-by-50/
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New York City Is Going to Cut Meat Consumption By 50% | LIVEKINDLY<https://www.livekindly.co/new-york-city-cut-meat-consumption-by-50/>
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today a plan to slash greenhouse gases by phasing out the purchase of processed meat and reducing beef purchases by 50 percent.. The actions are part of the city’s own “Green New Deal” to attack the issue of global warming from all fronts in order to reduce emissions. The plan, laid out in “OneNYC 2050,” will ensure that NYC adheres to the ...

2. Feedback loops, often ignored in early projections of global warming, are already in progress and adding to the heat. There is some good news—melting permafrost, it was feared, would lead to rapid and unstoppable warming. Instead, it is making control more difficult, not impossible. Some bad news: Harold Wanless warns that feedback loops appear to be leading to the great pulses of meltwater which in the past have caused rapid and major rises in sea level—ten meters within a century. https://www.yahoo.com/news/its-already-begun-feedback-loops-will-make-climate-change-even-worse-scientists-say-090000011.html
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'It's already begun': Feedback loops will make climate change even worse, scientists say - yahoo.com<https://www.yahoo.com/news/its-already-begun-feedback-loops-will-make-climate-change-even-worse-scientists-say-090000011.html>
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When the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its dire report in October warning of humanity’s fast-approaching reckoning with global warming, one factor ...

The melting of the Arctic permafrost is calculated to have a $70 trillion impact by the century’s end if we miss the Paris goals, to increase global inequality, and to add 5% to warming. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/melting-permafrost-in-arctic-will-have-70tn-climate-impact-study
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Melting permafrost in Arctic will have $70tn climate impact – study | Environment | The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/23/melting-permafrost-in-arctic-will-have-70tn-climate-impact-study>
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The release of methane and carbon dioxide from thawing permafrost will accelerate global warming and add up to $70tn (£54tn) to the world’s climate bill, according to the most advanced study ...

3. Life after we have taken the necessary actions to cope with global warming promises to be an improvement on the present. “Every single proposed solution will simultaneously improve life and decrease carbon emissions,” said Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of climate science at Stanford University. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/04/22/heres-what-world-look-like-once-we-solve-climate-change/3400271002/
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What will life be like after we've solved climate change? Better than today or worse? Mud huts and gruel or the flying cars and the Jetsons?

4. A Global Deal for Nature gives us a path to protecting biodiversity and storing carbon through rewilding and afforestation. The article links to the detailed plan in Science Advances. https://theconversation.com/to-solve-climate-change-and-biodiversity-loss-we-need-a-global-deal-for-nature-115557?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2022%202019%20-%201290812013&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2022%202019%20-%201290812013+CID_3d230ac4f0b1251da7db66b5e350b5c5&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=To%20solve%20climate%20change%20and%20biodiversity%20loss%20we%20need%20a%20Global%20Deal%20for%20Nature
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To solve climate change and biodiversity loss, we need a Global Deal for Nature - theconversation.com<https://theconversation.com/to-solve-climate-change-and-biodiversity-loss-we-need-a-global-deal-for-nature-115557?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2022%202019%20-%201290812013&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20April%2022%202019%20-%201290812013+CID_3d230ac4f0b1251da7db66b5e350b5c5&utm_source=campaign_monitor_us&utm_term=To%20solve%20climate%20change%20and%20biodiversity%20loss%20we%20need%20a%20Global%20Deal%20for%20Nature>
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A new study lays out a road map for protecting and restoring 50% of Earth's surface, targeted to preserve biodiversity and maximize natural removal of carbon from the atmosphere.

5. New nuclear plants of current commercial design are unlikely ever to be a good choice. However, the existing plants could be used much more effectively. https://climatecrocks.com/2019/04/22/possible-relief-for-nuclear/
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Possible Relief for Nuclear?<https://climatecrocks.com/2019/04/22/possible-relief-for-nuclear/>
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Applied Energy: Highlights- Nuclear power plants are subject to different operational constraints than other power plants.- We provide a mathematical representation of these distinct constrain…

6. The Sierra Club’s 2019 EV Guide makes recommendations based on your requirements and lists incentives available locally. https://content.sierraclub.org/evguide/blog/2019/04/our-2019-electric-vehicle-guide-here
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7. The Guardian, the Nation, and the Columbia Journalism Review are embarking on a study of how to improve climate coverage in the media and have some preliminary suggestions. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/22/why-is-the-us-news-media-so-bad-at-covering-climate-change
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Why is the US news media so bad at covering climate change? | Environment | The Guardian<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/22/why-is-the-us-news-media-so-bad-at-covering-climate-change>
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This article is excerpted from a piece published by Columbia Journalism Review and the Nation. The Guardian is partnering with CJR and the Nation on a 30 April conference aimed at reframing the ...

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