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port released this week by bloomberg new energy finance bnef bnef analyzed pricing data from almost 7 000 power projects in 46 countries that span 20 energy technologies including coal gas nuclear battery storage solar photovoltaics pv and wind they report that electricity prices for onshore wind solar pv and offshore wind have fallen by 49 percent 84 percent and 56 percent respectively since 2010 costs for lithium ion battery storage have dropped 76 percent since 2012 and plunged 35 percent in the past year alone these price drops have been global game changers new analysis of solar and wind should put the natural gas industry on notice solar pv and onshore wind have won the race to be the cheapest sources of bulk or primary power generation in most countries explained a bnef energy analyst but as bnef reports batteries plus solar and wind are starting to compete in many markets and without subsidy with natural gas plants used for dispatchable power that can be delivered on demand when the grid needs it rather than only when the sun shines or wind blows the investment bank credit suisse emphasized the same trend in a report released last december utility scale solar plus storage is already cheaper than gas peaker plants they reported at the time historically relatively inefficient natural gas plants have been used to provide peak power for instance during summer heat waves when everyone turns on the air conditioning and electricity demand soars but those peaking power plants often run only tens of hours a year which means you are paying for a power plant that sits idle more than 90 percent of the time solar power however already provides most of its electricity during peak times which are daytime and summertime so as batteries and solar power have plunged in price the two working in tandem have increasingly become the preferred option for dispatchable peak power in places like california where solar power has made significant market penetration peak demand has actually shifted from midday to early evening when the sun is setting solar with batteries that can store power for up to four hours can now also cover that new peak moreover as bloomberg reported on tuesday solar plus storage has other advantages over gas peakers it can provide other services when the battery isn t being used for peak power such as smoothing out ebbs and flows of power on grids another economic factor working in favor of renewables is that natural gas prices are very volatile whereas the prices of both batteries and solar power are projected to keep declining sharply finally renewables plus storage will become increasingly competitive with natural gas in more applications as an increasing number of countries embrace a price on carbon pollution that reflects its full harm to human health and a livable climate republican opponents of clean energy often say fossil fuels are irreplaceable because renewable power doesn t work all the time just last week president donald trump mocked wind power saying let s put up some windmills when the wind doesn t blow just turn off the television darling please he mocked solar power as well falsely claiming it s not strong enough and it s very very expensive trump is blind to the clean energy revolution showing how desperately the country needs a president who actually understands both the science of climate change and the business of clean energy the question is not whether renewables will surpass natural gas but whether governments will help ensure that they do so fast enough to avoid climate catastrophe read on thinkprogress org renewable energy coal natural gas a3828fd843cb amp posted in climate change on april 6 2019 by john 1 comment hothouse earth here we come xr blog auspol climateelection stopadani join climatestrike extinctionrebellion demand system change not climatechange leichhardtvotes elidafaith by bill mcguire more evidence has come to light to support the thesis that we are on a warming trajectory that will leave our planet unrecognisable from the one upon which human civilisation developed and thrived scientists congregated this week at imperial college london for a royal meteorological society meeting which focused on the earth s climate during the pliocene era around three million years ago the last time the earth had 400ppm of atmospheric co 2 this is the last time that carbon dioxide levels were above 400ppm parts per million they are currently 412ppm up from around 280ppm during pre industrial times and climbing at two or three ppm a year the papers presented at the meeting transport us to a world that is similar to our own in the sense that carbon dioxide levels are comparable but there the similarity ends during the pliocene global average temperatures were 3 c 4 c higher than they are today a seemingly small difference but big enough to drive changes that make pliocene earth dramatically different from that of the 21st century evidence from plant fossils found in antarctica show that during this part of the pliocene beech trees and maybe conifers grew on the continent which had a drastically reduced ice cover surrounded by scrubby tundra summertime temperatures were around 5 c compared with minus 15 c 20 c today at the other end of the world greenland was completely ice free the vanished ice at both poles translates into global sea levels that are around 20m higher than they are today so forget the widely touted idea that we can keep the global average temperature rise below 1 5 c or 2 c it is now clear that the atmospheric carbon levels we have already are compatible in the longer term with temperatures 3 c 4 c higher than they are now the climate system is relatively slow to respond to change so it will take some time for temperatures to catch up with greenhouse gas levels but catch up they will almost certainly by the end of the century in other words whatever actions we take to reduce emissions we cannot avoid a hothouse planet scenario that will see our society torn apart by a combination of extreme heat wild weather and catastrophically rising sea levels and remember there is still no sign of rising greenhouse levels being brought under control given current inaction carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere could quite feasibly top 500ppm and keep going dragging global temperatures ever higher i hope to god that it never happens but it is worth keeping in mind that burning most fossil fuel reserves is projected to lead ultimately to a global average temperature rise of a staggering 16 c this would bring the mean temperature of our world to a furnace like 30 c this would likely to all intents and purposes be an extinction level event as far as the human race is concerned some might say quite justifiably in view of our appallingly bad stewardship of the planet good riddance too bill mcguire is professor emeritus of geophysical climate hazards at ucl and author of waking the giant how a changing climate triggers earthquakes tsunamis and volcanic eruptions he was a contributor to the ipcc 2012 report on climate change extreme events and disasters read on xrblog org 2019 04 05 hothouse earth here we come posted in climate change on april 6 2019 by john leave a comment parliament must back labor s climate policy if party wins power mark butler says the guardian auspol leichhardtvotes stopadani coralnotcoal climatestrike extinctionrebellion climateelection shadow climate change minister reiterates opposition to adani mine saying no case for opening up new thermal coal mine by katharine murphy mark butler the shadow climate change minister mark butler has issued a stark warning before the coming election campaign declaring the australian parliament must end the stalemate and back labor s climate policy in the event of a bill shorten victory or politicians will betray the next generation in an interview with guardian australia s political podcast butler says labor s commitment to reduce emissions by 45 on 2005 levels by 2030 is a rock solid commitment not an aspiration or something that would be nice to achieve and he says voters are more agitated now about climate action than he has ever seen during his time as an mp butler says the morrison government is lining up to deploy tired old scare campaigns about carbon taxes in the coming campaign with scott morrison this week characterising the measures this week as a borat tax but what i see as i get around the country after a very angry summer the hottest summer we have ever had is australians are sick of it read on www theguardian com australia news 2019 apr 06 parliament must back labors climate policy if party wins power mark butler says posted in climate change on april 6 2019 by john leave a comment why the guardian is putting global co2 levels in the weather forecast the guardian auspol should be on all weather reports stopadani climatestrike scinate climatechange climateelection as co2 levels climb the carbon count is a daily reminder we must tackle climate change now by damian carrington the mauna loa weather observatory in hawaii the guardian will publish the mauna loa carbon count every day photograph courtesy of noaa the simplest measure of how the mass burning of fossil fuels is disrupting the stable climate in which human civilisation developed is the number of carbon dioxide molecules in the atmosphere today the co2 level is the highest it has been for several million years back then temperatures were 3 4c hotter sea level was 15 20 metres higher and trees grew at the south pole worse billions of tonnes of carbon pollution continues to pour into the air every year and at a rate 10 times faster than for 66m years at the dawn of the industrial revolution co2 was at 280 parts per million ppm in the atmosphere by 1958 when the first measurements were made at mauna loa in hawaii it had reached 315ppm it raced past 350ppm in 1986 and 400ppm in 2013 the guardian will now publish the mauna loa carbon count the global benchmark on the weather page of the paper every day when i read the letter from guardian reader daniel scharf encouraging us to include information on climate change in our weather forecasts we thought it was a fantastic idea said the guardian s editor in chief katharine viner levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have risen so dramatically and including a measure of that in our daily weather report is symbolic of what human activity is doing to our climate people need reminding that the climate crisis is no longer a future problem we need to tackle it now and every day matters while weather changes daily climate changes over years and decades so alongside the daily carbon count we will publish the level in previous years for comparison as well as the pre industrial baseline of 280ppm and the level seen as manageable in the long term of 350ppm year on year comparisons are important because each year there is a natural rise and fall of co2 levels rather like the planet breathing trees and plants absorb carbon and release oxygen as they grow lowering atmospheric co2 as most plants are in the northern hemisphere co2 reaches its lowest level each year at the end of the growing season in october then it begins to rise as dying plants decay reaching a peak in may or june while the co2 level is an important and symbolic measure of the global warming caused by humanity it is a simple one the increases in temperature the world experiences and the heatwaves storms and droughts that strike also depend on how fast emissions rise or fall and how long they remain at high levels the 350ppm level was proposed in 2008 by nasa s prof james hansen as a suitable target read on www theguardian com environment 2019 apr 05 why the guardian is putting global co2 levels in the weather forecast posted in climate change on april 6 2019 by john leave a comment labor warns government not to make adani coalmine decisions before election the guardian stopadani leichhardtvotes coralnotcoal help savethereef climatestrike extinctionrebellion government forced to play down split amid reports of queensland mps pressuring coalition over key approvals for carmichael coalmine matt canavan lnp minister for coal ignores scientists on risk to great barrier reef labor has warned the government against making any major decisions on the adani coalmine before the election while scott morrison and his environment minister melissa price face internal pressure from some queensland mps to take action while playing down reports of a split government mps from queensland including james mcgrath and matt canavan have kept up pressure inside morrison s office and the party room for key approvals for the carmichael coalmine including the ground water plan to be signed off on as soon as possible but labor s environment spokesman tony burke cautioned the government from rushing through any approvals before the coming election there are very strict rules about how a decision like this should be made he said it is important that it not be rushed or made under political pressure it s concerning that another minister minister canavan is trying to put pressure on the environment minister environment groups have also warned against any rash moves regarding the mine it is outrageous that the coalition is considering pushing through critical groundwater approvals for adani s mine on the eve of an election christian slattery of the australian conservation foundation said in a statement read on www theguardian com environment 2019 apr 05 labor warns government not to make adani coalmine decisions before election posted in climate change on april 6 2019 by john leave a comment frydenberg hands out great barrier reef death sentence auspol qldpol climateelection stopadani climateemergency climatestrike extinctionrebellion thedrum qanda frydenberg hands out great barrier reef death sentence australia s great barrier reef has been sacrificed on the altar of thermal coal exports said oliver yates independent candidate for kooyong former environment minister and now treasurer josh frydenberg has been part of a government that s seen emissions rise every year and was the minister responsible for giving millions of dollars to a fossil fuel backed reef group without a competitive tender australia s governments have determined that thermal coal exports which are the leading cause of global warming will decimate the great barrier reef reports have shown that the great barrier reef is struggling to recover from successive years of bleaching caused by global warming and warming oceans both major political parties who understand the threats to the reef from coal pollution continue to back the adani coal mine and triggering the destruction of the great barrier reef however it is the liberal party who have championed the mining and burning of thermal coal and shown callous disregard for the protection of one of australia s most valuable environmental assets the 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