[GWSG] Relocating in Fiji; US Climate Assessment; new US offshore wind; complications of wind; emission cheats; ignore the cows

[Tilley, Al]

1. Fiji, with a million people on over 300 islands, is the first nation to have a comprehensive relocation plan. The Standard Relocation Procedures for Planned Relocations intends to move or replace not only physical structures but the communities they serve. Early efforts were made in consultation with only a few male community leaders. The result was homes without kitchens. Now all aspects of the community are involved in planning. Another lesson learned is to develop existing communities at the same time that you are developing new ones so that friction is avoided.  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/08/how-to-move-a-country-fiji-radical-plan-escape-rising-seas-climate-crisis

2. The US National Climate Assessment was last issued in 2018. A draft for comments of the 2023 report has been published. The WA Post organizes it under six heads: the inequality of the effects, the threat to water supplies, the damages to homes and property, the coming forced immigration and displacement, the public health threat, the damage to nonhuman life, and the opportunities which remain to us. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/11/07/cop27-climate-change-report-us/


3. The assessment report was to have been issued every four years. The Trump administration succeeded in delaying but not in halting it. The NY Times account of the 1,695 page draft supplements the WA Post’s story. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/climate/national-climate-assessment.html?smid=em-share

4. The Biden administration has set a goal of 30 gigawatts of new offshore wind power by 2030, enough to power 10 million homes. In 2021 wind accounted for 9% of US electricity capacity with about 132 gigawatts, mostly in onshore production. Norway’s Equinor and BP are developing a new 9 gigawatt offshore wind project in New York. https://climatecrocks.com/2022/11/08/financial-times-us-offshore-wind-takes-off/
For an analysis of 2021 US electricity sources: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us-generation-capacity-and-sales.php  And, of course, Wikipedia on wind power specifically.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_States

5. The development of offshore wind means solving a complex of problems and dealing with user conflicts and danger to wildlife among other road hazards. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-road-to-30-gigawatts-key-actions-to-scale-an-offshore-wind-industry-in-the-united-states/

6. Greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas production sites is three times higher than their producers claim. We need to act based on what we can measure, not what the corporations claim. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/09/oil-and-gas-greenhouse-emissions-three-times-higher-than-producers-claim

7. The two greatest sources of our climate problems are fossil fuels and livestock, yet we have been irresolute on both. Livestock production has hardly been mentioned in final agreements at any of the 26 climate summits so far. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/09/leaders-cop27-livestock-farming-carbon-budget-governments

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