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used by the wealthy and its effects will fall on the poor just 100 companies are responsible for 70 per cent of all carbon emissions globally the wealthiest 10 per cent are responsible for 50 per cent of all lifestyle consumption emissions in the uk the top 10 per cent is responsible for nearly 25 per cent of lifestyle consumption emissions with the bottom 50 per cent responsible for just five and it is the poorest parts of the world that will be most ravaged by the effects of climate change low lying states like bangladesh are incredibly vulnerable to flooding as sea levels rise africa s sahel region home to nearly 200 million people will become desertified as temperatures increase as brutally demonstrated by cyclone idai the poorest states are also those least able to protect their citizens from extreme weather events and if climate change is a class issue then decarbonisation should be a class project the only way to halt climate change is to challenge the logic of capitalism itself that the value of everything land knowledge and even human life is determined by how much money it can make for the wealthy some argue that such a mission is impossible averting the apocalyptic scenario laid out in the recent ipcc report requires reducing global emissions by 45 per cent by 2030 an incredibly ambitious target others are slightly more optimistic pointing out that the world is currently experiencing something of a solar revolution costs have fallen by a factor of ten over the last decade and solar power generation is increasing at a remarkable rate of 30 40 per cent per year both the optimists and the pessimists have a point we do have the technology to prevent our planet from decaying into an uninhabitable hothouse earth but as long as corporations banks and even governments continue to profit from fossil fuels decarbonisation will remain a distant dream saturday s protesters understand this point all too well in targeting major financial institutions like barclays they were attempting to strike at the heart of modern financialised capitalism without access to financial markets most fossil fuel firms would struggle to survive but given the scale of the challenge we must be far more ambitious dealing with the existential threat humanity is facing requires the kind of radical state intervention that no liberal government would consider and no international institution would allow it requires a global green new deal citizens must pressure their political leaders into implementing a just transition towards a zero carbon economy this would mean a huge increase in state spending in the area of 30 per cent of gdp per year to decarbonise energy and transport infrastructure and boost investment in green technologies the costs of such a project should be imposed on the wealthy this will require tax reform constraints on capital mobility and the replacement of private financial institutions with green democratic publicly owned alternatives providing for green growth over the long term would also require increasing public and collective ownership over the most important economic assets pension funds must be reformed and democratised so their members can put pressure on private corporations to take climate change seriously the state should also start to act as an activist investor using the funds from quantitative easing to buy up corporate bonds and pressuring companies to reduce their emissions and some industries will need to be nationalised outright to deliver the levels of investment required to make the green new deal a success the green new deal must be global states must work together to achieve these goals but they will have to do so outside of existing international institutions the kind of state intervention required to tackle climate change democratic public ownership over most of the economy dramatic increases in state spending and the controls on capital mobility required to achieve this are not merely frowned upon by the world bank and the imf they are actively prohibited such a mass mobilisation of society s resources would be unprecedented during peacetime and it has to be undertaken alongside a fundamental reorganisation of the international system were the planet not facing an existential catastrophe this vision would seem utterly utopian but the reality is that there is no alternative read on www newstatesman com politics economy 2019 04 only way halt climate change challenge logic capitalism posted in climate change on april 6 2019 by john 3 comments renewables have won the race against coal and are starting to beat natural gas thinkprogress auspol stopadani leichhardtvotes for a clean energy future coralnotcoal elidafaith renewables have won the race against coal and are starting to beat natural gas thinkprogress by joe romm giant wind turbines are powered by strong winds in front of solar panels on march 27 2013 in palm springs california credit kevork djansezian getty images the rapidly dropping cost of renewable energy has upended energy economics in recent years with new solar and wind plants now significantly cheaper than coal power but new research shows another major change is afoot the cost of batteries has been declining so unexpectedly rapidly that renewables plus battery storage are now cheaper than even natural gas plants in many applications according to a report 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 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