Climate

Sltldr: "They're just throwing away money, planting trees in the desert for them to die."

The Great Green Wall is a top down, big government intervention that has little to no local buy-in and isn't sustainable without continued big government funding.

Not surprisingly, the funding has mostly dried up, and so has the land.

Washington will likely reach a high of 94F (34C) on the National Mall on Wednesday, while New York’s Central Park is set to reach 87F, the National Weather Service said. The heat will extend across much of the Mid-Atlantic and southeast with at least 165 daily records expected to be threatened or broken next week.

Emphasis mine.

Many blue states are rethinking ambitious strategies to cut emissions as they struggle with rising electricity costs and new hurdles for renewable energy.

The big problem is that rising electricity costs are caused by fossil fuel prices going up, and can be avoided with large-scale wind and solar deployment. The US federal government is working to make that hard; state governments don't need to go along, even if some politicians are trying to use it as an excuse to avoid deploying renewables.

Microsoft made 90% of all carbon removal purchases worldwide last year, according to data from the third-party industry monitor CDR.fyi. The company is generally cited as making somewhere between 79% to 90% of all historic carbon removal purchases.

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Deforestation to produce biofuels means that you don't actually get the claimed emissions reduction

With global warming making people increasingly dependent on air conditioning, power failures from hurricanes followed by heat waves are creating increasingly hazardous risks to health.

The paper is here

Blamed in part on climate change, the threat of water ponding in your yard or your basement is growing, a Sun-Times/WBEZ investigation has found, putting health, homes at risk.

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the changes would help U.S. “energy dominance.” Environmentalists said they threaten drinking water.

A lot of activists tried to make this the first big piece of fossil fuels infrastructure that we said No to, in part because it had clear political power to stop it with single-person accountability to the President for being able to reject it.

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Even in Germany, there are now regularly more deaths from heat waves than traffic deaths (and air pollution is another big killer whose effects are multiplied by heat waves)

Analysis of six extreme heatwaves found that when temperature and humidity were accounted for, all were potentially deadly for older people

The paper is here

A conference near the White House drew hundreds of people who reject the scientific consensus on climate change. The mood was triumphant.

Proponents of renewable power will control the Phoenix area utility’s policymaking for the first time after they won an unusually contentious race that drew attention from national groups.