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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">1. BoxPower delivers a complete solar power kit in a shipping container, with a microgrid sufficient for four homes. Intended for emergency uses, it includes a fossil fuel generator for backup. I suppose that could be replaced
by a grid connection in non-emergency use. Thanks to Cherrill Heaton for the story.
</span><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/90431566/this-single-shipping-container-can-start-powering-a-small-grid-in-less-than-a-day"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.fastcompany.com/90431566/this-single-shipping-container-can-start-powering-a-small-grid-in-less-than-a-day</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">2. The risk of passing a tipping point and the time we have left to avoid it determine whether we are in an emergency. We are in an emergency—rather, we are in several. Once we no longer have the time left to avoid a tipping point,
“we have lost control.” This summary of pending catastrophes from Nature is a calm presentation of a serious set of pickles. Suggested for you by Ed Brock.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">3. The Guardian’s commentary on the Nature essay above clarifies some of its points. We may have already passed the tipping point for a cascade of planetary changes which would leave the earth a hothouse.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/27/climate-emergency-world-may-have-crossed-tipping-points">
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/27/climate-emergency-world-may-have-crossed-tipping-points</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">4. PhysOrg interviews the Nature article’s authors. "A decade ago we identified a suite of potential tipping points in the Earth system, now we see evidence that over half of them have been activated," said lead author Professor
Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">"The growing threat of rapid, irreversible changes means it is no longer responsible to wait and see. The situation is urgent and we need an emergency response."</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Co-author Johan Rockström, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said: "It is not only human pressures on Earth that continue rising to unprecedented levels.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">"It is also that as science advances, we must admit that we have underestimated the risks of unleashing irreversible changes, where the planet self-amplifies global warming.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">"This is what we now start seeing, already at 1°C global warming.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">"Scientifically, this provides strong evidence for declaring a state of planetary emergency, to unleash world action that accelerates the path towards a world that can continue evolving on a stable planet."
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-11-climate-scientists.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter">https://phys.org/news/2019-11-climate-scientists.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">5. Professionals give us some advice on dealing with climate anxiety. One tip is to take some action. Debbie Chang carries chopsticks in her purse to avoid single-use plastic utensils.
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2019-11-climate-anxiety-churns-psychological-storm.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">6. The Parliament of the European Union has declared a climate emergency. Among other measures, it calls for the EU to commit to reducing emissions 55% by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality as soon as possible.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20191121IPR67110/the-european-parliament-declares-climate-emergency">https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20191121IPR67110/the-european-parliament-declares-climate-emergency</a></span></p>
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