Climate Change

[Matts]

I'm interested in the energy balances of this. These huge fans will heat the air from which the carbon dioxide is removed. Bringing geothermal energy to the surface also seems like a release of heat. Building these plants seems like a big carbon and heat release. I wonder if the time, money and effort are better spent planting trees.
On the other hand, we need to start somewhere before we can perfect any new technology.

 

[OVERBORED]

I agree......but on a much, much smaller scale!

 

[jpd]

We were told climate change would make these regular occurences..

U.S. hasn't seen an EF5 tornado in 11 years, longest gap in history - UPI.com

Eleven years after a tornado devastated Moore, Okla., it remains the most recent tornado to be rated EF5, the strongest possible rating. The 11-year gap is the longest since official U.S. records began in 1950.

www.upi.com

 

[wader]

Multiple states under tornado watch as severe weather continues

Millions of people in states from the Great Plains to the Midwest were under the threat of tornadoes Tuesday afternoon, including Iowa where several twisters touched down near Des Moines. The National Weather Service issued tornado watches for parts of Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Missouri...

www.yahoo.com

 

[Chinacat]

Dont think it matters what you call it
This looks bad to me

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/weather/iowa-tornado-damage-storm-forecast-wednesday/index.html

 

[wader]

Extreme heat hits Texas and Florida early in the season

Heat and humidity descended on parts of Texas, the Gulf Coast and South Florida this week — a bout of early-season extreme heat before summer even begins.

www.yahoo.com

“But it’s only mid-May!” he wrote. “To anyone who was hoping 2023 was a freak anomaly: nope.”

 

[OVERBORED]

Hurry, hurry!

Build more windmills!

Buy more electric cars!

That is a great plan that will reverse the damage done by the industrial revolution....... meanwhile they are laughing in China and India at the absurdity of the US thinking they can do this on their own.

 

[jpd]

Although America has abundant deposits of many of the critical minerals that go into our vehicles, electronics and buildings, these materials are mostly mined abroad in poorer nations where labor is cheap (or worse, workers are enslaved) and environmental laws are more permissive, rarely enforced or easily sidestepped with bribes.

The decline of domestic mining means that Americans are outsourcing the environmental and social costs of our inexpensive consumer goods to lower-income nations. More than 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, sometimes called the blood diamond of electric vehicle batteries, comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where child labor and sexual violence are rampant in mines. About half of the world’s nickel, another key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, comes from mines in Indonesia, some of which have destroyed almost 200,000 acres of rainforest amid allegations of operating illegally on Indigenous land. In the Gobi Desert of Mongolia, where I’ve studied the environmental impacts of mining, I met fluorite miners who lamented the destruction of their landscapes and the poisoning of their groundwater.

Opinion | We Can Buy Sustainable Food. Why Can’t We Buy Sustainable Batteries?

The ethical thing to do is to bring mining back to America.

www.nytimes.com