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The reason is that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity acts like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun's heat and raising temperatures

The reason is that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity acts like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun's heat and raising temperatures

The reason is that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity acts like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun's heat and raising temperatures

The reason is that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity acts like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun's heat and raising temperatures

The reason is that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity acts like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun's heat and raising temperatures

The reason is that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity acts like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun's heat and raising temperatures

The reason is that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity acts like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun's heat and raising temperatures

The reason is that the increase in greenhouse gas emissions as a result of human activity acts like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sun's heat and raising temperatures

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"Examination of 420,000 years old ice cores shows a close relation between temperature increase and CO2-concentration increase. During the industrial era a new energy component appears, Anthropogenic Heat Flux, and a part of that energy will accumulate in Earth climate system and become an essential part of global warming;" One could suppose that this idea, expressed in this simplicity, would be common sense! However, it is, neither more nor less than the abstract of the article "Anthropogenic Heat Flux Will Affect Global Warming" by Mats Lindgren, from the KTH "Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm", published in "Atmospheric and Climate Sciences, Vol .11 No.3, July 2021"

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Article Anthropogenic Heat Flux Will Affect Global Warming

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture/26

On Climate Models: From General Circulation Models (GCMs) and Earth System Models (ESMs). General Circulation Models (GCMs)which are the core of weather forecasting Models appeared in the 1960s with the pioneer's work of Manabe (2021 Nobel Prize in Physics). A fundamental point is that is difficult to speak about GCMs and even less of Climate Models without a minimum review starting from Atmosphere Dynamics Models genesis in the 1960s to the actual Earth System Models (ESMs) that participated in the last "CMIP6". These represent the State-of-art of universal knowledge about Climate and its modeling. The results published in 2021 covers 80 ESMs from as many research teams throughout the world. Nowadays, Climate Science and Modelling have attained an international critic-mass never reached in any other domain.

ESMs include a number of components that try to describe the evolution of intercoupled phenomena that govern Climate Phenomena. To understand how this works, one has to know about the progress achieved and still-opened questions related to Climate Models. Mathematically the resolution of the dynamic and the transport equations of physical quantities on more or less important scales provide accurate predetermination in a relatively short time. This is what meteorologists do to deliver us every day their newsletter. This is what the same meteorologists are trying to do with scientists from all sides to build climate models in the long term, sure inaccurate today, exactly as was the 1960s weather model of Manabe, Nobel Prize in Physics 2021, the pioneer of general circulation modeling. The very first general circulation models were based on atmosphere-only physical models (Manabe et al., 1965, Nobel Prize in Physics, 2021), which were quickly improved to take into account the hydrologic cycle and its role in the general circulation of the atmosphere (Smagorinsky et al. 1965). From there, climate modeling has made considerable progress by gradually integrating the many positive or negative feedback processes that occur at different scales between the different components of the system: ocean circulation (Manabe and Bryan, 1969), land hydrological processes (Sellers et al., 1986), sea ice dynamics (Meehl and Washington, 1995), and aerosols (Takemura et al., 2000), biophysical and biogeochemical processes (Cox et al., 2000). Models with these latter components are often called Earth System Models (ESMs) and more recent such models include land and ocean carbon cycle, atmospheric chemistry, dynamic vegetation, and other biogeochemical cycles (Watanabe et al., 2011, Collins et al., 2011). It should be noted that as a whole and for the same reasons, the horns of ESMs, which are based on physical formulations similar to those employed in general circulation models applied in meteorology, have not evolved much, except for the increase in the resolution of the calculations made possible thanks to the increase in the computing capacity or their capacity to assimilate increasingly abundant and precise data; in particular global satellite data, which complements and connects measurements on the ground or at low altitude.

Manabe, S., Smagorinsky, J., & Strickler, R. F. (1965). Simulated climatology of a general circulation model with a hydrologic cycle. Monthly Weather Review, 93(12), 769-798.

Smagorinsky, S. Manabe, and J. L. Holloway, “Numericd Results From a Nine-Level General Circulation Model of the Atmosphere,” Monthly Weather Review, vol. 93, No. 12, Dec. 1965, pp. 727-768.

Manabe, S., & Bryan, K. (1969). Climate calculations with a combined ocean-atmosphere model. J. Atmos. Sci, 26(4), 786-789.

Sellers, P. J., Mintz, Y. C. S. Y., Sud, Y. E. A., & Dalcher, A. (1986). A simple biosphere model (SiB) for use within general circulation models. Journal of the atmospheric sciences, 43(6), 505-531.

Meehl, G. A., & Washington, W. M. (1995). Cloud albedo feedback and the super greenhouse effect in a global coupled GCM. Climate dynamics, 11(7), 399-411.

Takemura, T., Okamoto, H., Maruyama, Y., Numaguti, A., Higurashi, A., & Nakajima, T. (2000). Global three‐dimensional simulation of aerosol optical thickness distribution of various origins. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 105(D14), 17853-17873.

Cox, P. M., Betts, R. A., Jones, C. D., Spall, S. A., & Totterdell, I. J. (2000). Acceleration of global warming due to carbon-cycle feedbacks in a coupled climate model. Nature, 408(6809), 184-187.

Watanabe, S., Hajima, T., Sudo, K., Nagashima, T., Takemura, T., Okajima, H., ... & Kawamiya, M. (2011). MIROC-ESM 2010: Model description and basic results of CMIP5-20c3m experiments. Geoscientific Model Development, 4(4), 845-872.

Collins, W. J., Bellouin, N., Doutriaux-Boucher, M., Gedney, N., Halloran, P., Hinton, T., ... & Woodward, S. (2011). Development and evaluation of an Earth-System model–HadGEM2. Geoscientific Model Development, 4(4), 1051-1075.

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Besbes, M., & Chahed, J. (2023). Predictability of water resources with global climate models. Case of Northern Tunisia. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 355(S1), 1-22. Available on:Article Predictability of water resources with global climate models...

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. According to the paper by Woodcock (2022) in Entropy [1], fracking for shale gas extraction could modify the structure of the lithosphere so that it could have an impact on this heat flux from the earth's core. This is all the more plausible than the effect of fracturing on seismology is definitively well-established and documented and the correlation between seismic activity and Recent Global Warming is scientifically proven. According to the energy budget analyzed by Woodcock [1], fracking would enhance heat transfer from the Earth's core via the lithosphere contributing to Global Warming. Note that fracking is not the sole effect of modifying the temperature of the surface earth and the resulting modification of the radiative budget. Woodcock considers also the energetic balance within the carbon cycle, including the combustion of fossil hydrocarbons and all photosynthesis. The energy budgets analyzed by Woodcock seem to indicate that the associated budget of CO2 or Vapor in the atmosphere, if increased vis-à-vis a reference state, should be accompanied by a relative cooling effect.

Quite surprisingly, Woodcock results, compared with the data, succeeded in explaining the temperature anomalies observed in different regions of the planet, not only by reference to fracking but also by other considerations; among them the different elements of the natural and anthropic carbon cycle

[1] Woodcock, L. V. (2022). Global Warming by Geothermal Heat from Fracking: Energy Industry’s Enthalpy Footprints. Entropy, 24(9), 1316.

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"GCM-hydrologic model coupling is not extensively used in the literature, considering that the bias induced by large dimensions of GCMs meshes is likely to introduce unacceptable uncertainties at the catchment areas scale. However, the downscaling alternative to GCMs usually comes with bias correction, the implementation of which is long and not devoid of uncertainty". Extract from: "Besbes, M., & Chahed, J. (2023). Predictability of water resources with global climate models. Case of Northern Tunisia. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 355(S1), 1-22. Available on:

Article Predictability of water resources with global climate models...

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_and_Climate_Models_Progress_and_Limits/12

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On trade Agreements and Decarbonization. Interesting Chapter published in the wake of The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) held in Glasgow (31 Oct–12 Nov 2021) and by the yardstick of the ongoing COP27. According to António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, the results of the conference, the "Glasgow Climate Pact" and the approved texts constitute a compromise and "reflect the interests, the situations, the contradictions and the degree of political will in the world today". today. They mark important milestones, but the collective political will has not been sufficient to overcome some deep contradictions. The chapter by Leal-Arcas et al. (2022) returns in a relevant way on these questions, the implications of which are planetary.

Leal-Arcas, R., Faktaufon, M., Kasak-Gliboff, H., Li, C., Guantai, L., & Smajic, E. (2022). Mega-Regional Trade Agreements and Decarbonization. In International Trade and Sustainability (pp. 65-113). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Energy_Renewable_Energy_and_Levelized_Cost_Of_Energy_LCOE_Paradoxes/8

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture/34

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The paper [1] by Besbes et al.,2023, "Predictability of water resources with global climate models. Case of Northern Tunisia" analyzes the long-term effects of climate change using the predictions from CMIP6 on Northern Tunisia’s water resources, including blue and green water. The region represents the essential source of surface water, which gives it the qualifier “water tower” of Tunisia. It is also the cereal region of the country, mainly cultivated in rain-fed: it is its “attic”. Based on hydrological modeling, the analysis aims at determining the foreseeable climate-change effect on the overall water resources of the northern region of Tunisia.

[1] Besbes, M., & Chahed, J. (2023). Predictability of water resources with global climate models. Case of Northern Tunisia. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 355(S1), 1-22. Available on:

Article Predictability of water resources with global climate models...

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_Water_Resources

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_and_Climate_Models_Progress_and_Limits

"...The costs of reducing carbon emissions ...pose several challenges. One ... is that some politically appealing programs, ... appear low-cost—but are not. A second challenge is the reverse, where highly visible programs are perceived as high-cost, but are not... A third challenge is that the static costs provide at best an incomplete picture of the true costs of a particular action..." Excerpt from the conclusion of the paper (396 Citations):

Gillingham, K., & Stock, J. H. (2018). The cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 32(4), 53-72.

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https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257%2Fjep.32.4.53

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Energy_Renewable_Energy_and_Levelized_Cost_Of_Energy_LCOE_Paradoxes

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

On the genesis of the Global Anthropogenic effect idea. Hereafter an Excellent text extracted from the paper by Wallenhorst, N., & Wulf, C. (released 9 days ago) "Human Beings: Bridging Nature and Culture" "...In 1778 the French naturalist, Count Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon published an article in Des époques de la nature, saying that the whole face of the Earth today “bears the imprint of the power of man”. In particular, this makes humanity capable of changing the climate by impacting their environment – “Man can change the influences of the climate in which he lives, and finally set the temperature at the point that suits him” (Buffon, 1778, 237). A few centuries earlier, in July 1494, Christopher Columbus already sensed the capacity of humanity to affect the climate based on the management of deforestation - he is pleased that humans are able to control the climate. After that, between 1830 and 1833, the British geologist Charles Lyell defined the contemporary epoch in Principles of Geology as the “human epoch”; 20 years later the English geologist and philosopher William Whewell wrote that “the Human Epoch of the earth’s history is different from all the preceding Epochs” (1853, 88). In 1854, the Welsh geologist and theologian Thomas Jenkyn was the first person to identify a geological epoch marked by humanity (1854) which he defines as “the human epoch”. Two years later the English intellectual William Adams described his geological epoch based on his intuition of there being traces of human activity in sediments: “The Modern or Human epoch is illustrated by alluvial deposits, which are the effects of atmospheric and other more powerful causes: these still continue in operation, embedding remains of man and inorganic matter.” (1856, 247) About a dozen years later, in 1865, the Irish Reverend Samuel Haughton published his Manual of Geology, in which he defined the Anthropozoic epoch as the “epoch in which we live” (138). From the 1880 edition of his manual, Federau (2016, 64) picks up on one of the consequences that Haughton draws from this geological power: “Humans should be at the ‘head of the system of life’, because of their spiritual nature and their power to progress indefinitely [578–579]”. In 1863 the American geologist James Dwight Dana also published a Manual of Geology in which he referred to “The Age of Mind and the Era of Man” (130). Then the Italian geologist and priest Antonio Stoppani also described his contemporary period in the same way (1873), using the expression “Anthropozoic Era” (1873, vol. 2, 732). Next, the Russian geologist Aleksei Pavlov (1854–1929) towards the end of his life (the late 1920s), used the expression “Anthropocene” or “Anthropozoic Era” when speaking of his epoch, as mentioned by Vernadsky or Shantser (1973, 140)."

The paper is available on:

https://recherche.uco.fr/sites/default/files/fichiersbibliographiques/fichier-203-8648-3617-.pdf

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture/36

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One of the factors affecting climate is solar activity, the effect of which on earth arrives with a significant lag time that makes it possible to improve court-medium-terms adaptation measures. Ongoing research is making huge progress in this field. This paper [1] concentrates on the solar influence on European precipitation, which a large body of published case studies has documented. The study is focused on the period 1901–2015 for which the monthly precipitation series of 39 European countries are compared.

The paper's findings are fascinating: central Europe encountered a negative correlation between solar activity and rainfall, probably because short time lags of a few years are negligible on timescales beyond the 11 years solar Schwabe cycle. Flood frequency typically increases during times of low solar activity associated with negative NAO conditions and more frequent blocking. The Alps form the southern limit of the Central European solar-driven rainfall region because solar/rain relationships in the southern Alps appear to flip. Amazing!

[1] Ludger Laurenz, Horst-Joachim Lüdecke, Sebastian Lüning, Influence of solar activity changes on European rainfall, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 185, 2019, Pages 29-42

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364682618305273

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_and_Climate_Models_Progress_and_Limits

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

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The paper by Taylor, R., Scanlon, B., Döll, P. et al., 2013 (Around 2k Citations) "Groundwater and climate change. Nature Clim Change 3, 322–329 (2013)" reviews "recent research assessing the impacts of climate on groundwater through natural and human-induced processes as well as through groundwater-driven feedbacks on the climate system. Furthermore, we examine the possible opportunities and challenges of using and sustaining groundwater resources in climate adaptation strategies, and highlight the lack of groundwater observations, which, at present, limits our understanding of the dynamic relationship between groundwater and climate"

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Besbes, M., & Chahed, J. (2023). Predictability of water resources with global climate models. Case of Northern Tunisia. Comptes Rendus. Géoscience, 355(S1), 1-22. Available on:

Article Predictability of water resources with global climate models...

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On Earth Energy Budget. The energy transfers within the earth interfaces, analyzed by Woodcock, indicate that the associated budget of CO2 or Vapor in the atmosphere if increased vis-à-vis a reference state, should be accompanied by a relative cooling effect. IMHO, these results are incomplete, not because they are discordant with what is admitted as "consensus", but because these come under the "two-by-two separate parameters analysis" fundamentally unsuitable to tackle all nonlinear interactions involved in Climate determinants.

However and quite surprisingly, Woodcock's results, compared with the data, succeeded in explaining the temperature anomalies observed in different regions of the planet, not only by reference to fracking but also by other considerations; among them the various elements of the natural and anthropic carbon cycle

[1] Woodcock, L. V. (2022). Global Warming by Geothermal Heat from Fracking: Energy Industry’s Enthalpy Footprints. Entropy, 24(9), 1316.

Available on:

https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/24/9/1316/pdf?version=1663637486

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In September 2013, the Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) presented a valuable study on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the production of shale gas in the UK. This very interesting report (see attached) examines local GHG emissions associated with shale gas exploration and production and presents comparisons between the emissions associated with the use of shale gas, conventional gas, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), and coal.

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/On_the_perspective_of_large-scale_exploitation_of_shale_and_tight_gas

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The research [1] by Wang et al. 2022, "Three Gorges Dam: friend or foe of riverine greenhouse gases?" puts into insight some prejudices about large Hydraulic infrastructure. The related findings should imply further deepening of the scientific community knowledge. "These findings suggest that ‘large-dam effects’ are far beyond our previous understanding spatiotemporally, which highlights the fundamental importance of whole-system budgeting of GHGs under the profound impacts of huge dams". The question remains what comprehensive environmental impacts of such huge changes in hydrologic systems on all the components of the earth system as well as on associated modification of population activities (agriculture, industries, production...). Then what would be the impacts of these changes on the different budgets of GHE, water cycle, and other exchanges at the interfaces of the earth system?

[1] Ni, J., Wang, H., Ma, T., Huang, R., Ciais, P., Li, Z., ... & Borthwick, A. G. (2022). Three Gorges Dam: friend or foe of riverine greenhouse gases?. National Science Review, 9(6), nwac013.

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_Water_Resources

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Water_Footprint_Water_Colors_Blue_Water_Green_Water_Grey_Water_Virtual_Water

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Cop28. The Guardian, Dec 13, 2023, by Fiona Harveyin, After 30 years of waiting, Cop28 deal addresses the elephant in the room. He was personally vilified, but Sultan Al Jaber has managed what no other Cop presidency has ever done. Dubai. "As temperatures broke records around the world this summer, António Guterres, the UN secretary general, warned in September: “Humanity has opened the gates of hell.” On Wednesday, he hailed delegates at the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai, as two weeks of fraught talks ended. “For the first time, the outcome recognises the need to transition away from fossil fuels,” he said. “The era of fossil fuels must end, and it must end with justice and equity.”

More than 190 nations accepted a text on Wednesday morning that calls on the world to “transition away” from fossil fuels. But is this a historic deal that will spell the eventual end of gas, oil and coal? Or will it be one more step on the road to hell? In the world of climate talks, these two are not mutually exclusive. The text that was gavelled on Wednesday morning, known as the “global stocktake”, enjoins countries for the first time to embark on a de facto phase-out of fossil fuels. But it cannot require them to do so and it contains “a litany of loopholes”, according to the small island states that are most vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis, that will hamper the world from cutting greenhouse gas emissions drastically enough to limit global heating to 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels.

The Cop28 president, Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates host of the conference, hailed the adoption of the key text on Wednesday morning, and called it the “UAE consensus”. A consensus, but not quite unanimity: Samoa spoke for small island states at the final meeting to say they would not block the deal, but warned that the world was still far off track from the 1.5C limit, and this outcome was not enough to correct that course.

As they and other developing countries pointed out, there are plenty of problems with this deal. Poor nations still need hundreds of billions more in finance, to help them make the transition away from coal, oil and gas. Developed countries and oil producers will not be forced to move as fast as climate science urges..."

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/13/cop28-deal-significant-progress-tackle-climate-crisis

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Energy_Renewable_Energy_and_Levelized_Cost_Of_Energy_LCOE_Paradoxes

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

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أ. د . محمد شاكر رشيد صالح الشيخلي الدكتورة حيزومة شاكر رشيد Jumaa Hussein Ali Hardan الدكتور علي عبود خضير What's the point in posting Good Question. Recall that we are on a Scientific Discussion Thread.

Hughes, D. M. (2017). Energy without conscience: oil, climate change, and complicity. Duke University Press. Available on: https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/45673/3/625276.pdf

Presentation: 'In Energy without Conscience' David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue. He examines the forces that render the use of fossil fuels ordinary and therefore exempt from ethical evaluation. Hughes centers his analysis on Trinidad and Tobago, which is the world's oldest petro-state, having drilled the first continuously producing oil well in 1866. Marrying historical research with interviews with Trinidadian petroleum scientists, policymakers, technicians, and managers, he draws parallels between Trinidad's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century slave labor energy economy and its contemporary oil industry. Hughes shows how both forms of energy rely upon a complicity that absolves producers and consumers from acknowledging the immoral nature of each. He passionately argues that like slavery, producing oil is a moral choice and that oil is at its most dangerous when it is accepted as an ordinary part of everyday life.

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_Conscience

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Energy_Renewable_Energy_and_Levelized_Cost_Of_Energy_LCOE_Paradoxes

https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_energy_pattern_and_the_perspective_of_large-scale_exploitation_of_shale_gas_What_alternative_solutions

Iceland volcano erupts on Reykjanes peninsula (BBC, 4 hours ago). Volcanic eruptions, always Fascinating in Beauty and Majesty, remind us in a spectacular way of essential factors in the heat balance of the globe: the transfers at the Visible Lithosphere-Atmosphere Interface in the form of Seismic and Volcanic Activities and the transfers at the Lithosphere-Hydrosphere interface, Invisible because they occur at the bottom of the oceans. Unlike the GHE, the effects of these activities on Climate Change are not well analyzed, at least in Climate Models, including those used in IPCC projections.

Illustration Source: ICELANDIC MET OFFICE:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67756413

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_and_Climate_Models_Progress_and_LimitsArticle Predictability of water resources with global climate models...

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BNN Breaking, Dec. 26, 2023, France Reports a 4.6% Decrease in Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 2023. "Greenhouse gas emissions in France continue their downward trend, with a reported 4.6% decrease for the first nine months of 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to Citepa’s announcement on Tuesday, December 26. The industrial sector, energy production sector, and the building sector have been the main driving forces behind this reduction, with a 9.3%, 9.4%, and 7.5% decrease respectively. The transport sector, albeit contributing to the decline, has done so on a lesser scale with a 1.8% decrease. France has been on a consistent path of reducing emissions, with a 4.3% decrease in the first half of 2023, following a 2.7% decrease for the entire year of 2022. The goal is to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 from the 1990 levels, aligning with European commitments..."

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https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/climate-environment/france-reports-a-4-6-decrease-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-2023/

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_Water_Resources

In the Same Vein. Important Increase of GHE from Air Transport and Decline in CO2 Absorption by Forests. BNN Breaking, Dec. 26, 2023, "...air transport emissions have seen an increase, with domestic flights rising by 21% and international flights by 27% over the first nine months of the year. The agriculture sector's emissions have been decreasing due to a reduction in cattle herds, although precise pre-estimates have not been made. Forests, crucial for net emission reductions, have experienced a weakening in their ability to absorb CO2, partially due to the degradation of the state of French forests. As France continues on its path to meet the 2030 goal, these findings serve as a reminder of the importance of ongoing efforts in every sector to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."

Read on:

https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/climate-environment/france-reports-a-4-6-decrease-in-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-2023/

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Climate_Change_Water_Resources

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

Several publications indicate that Coal exploitation and Trade is a sector with substantial opportunity for corruption, especially as it expands into new International Markets. The paper by Setyawati D., 2022, "Injustice and environmental harm in extractive industries and solar energy policies in Indonesia. International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy. 11(1): 14-27" is, as such, instructive. One may read there: "...the persistent enthusiasm for coal energy and the ambitious deployment of renewable energy may have led to injustices in the energy system , short-sighted corrupt practices, and environmental harm...". The author arrives at a more general conclusion: he demonstrates "how the marginalization of rural communities and production of environmental harm has been perpetuated by powerful figures, reinforced since colonialism, and escalated by the demands of the Global North..."

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https://20.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/journals/IntJlCrimJustSocDem/2022/3.html

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Energy_Renewable_Energy_and_Levelized_Cost_Of_Energy_LCOE_Paradoxes

An interesting paper by Johnson, Carol. "Variants of Populism." ANU Press, 2023. "Definitions of populism remain highly contested; however, ‘us’ versus ‘them’ arguments are a regular trope in populism. For example, populism commonly mobilises the people against claimed powerful, corrupt elites.. Conclusion : ..Labor’s electorally cautious climate change policies could make it harder to counter Teals’ and Greens’ campaigns mobilising the people against political elites accused of selling out to big business carbon emitters. Populism, in its various forms, seems likely to continue to play a role in Australian electionsPopulism, in its various forms, seems likely to continue to play a role in Australian elections."

Available on: https://hekyll.services.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/139321/2/hdl_139321.pdf

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https://www.researchgate.net/post/Science_and_history_serving_political_and_ideological_totalitarianism

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In these festive days, I would like to mention this 30 year old Paper, "Joy A. Palmer (1993) From Santa Claus to sustainability: emerging understanding of concepts and issues in environmental science, International Journal of Science Education, 15:5 , 487-495", in which the author discusses the nature and development of children's early knowledge and awareness of environmental issues. as strange as it may seem, we learn that "pre‐school children may well have a strong base of accurate scientific knowledge upon which early years environmental teaching may build." Happy Holidays For All

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

The study by Li et al. [1] (released 10 days ago) "Energy transition paradox: Solar and wind growth can hinder decarbonization" is based on a climate-hydrology-economics-energy model to analyze the long-run impacts of policy-driven renewables on the electricity price and finally on the carbon emissions of future energy. A remarkable finding of the research is to show that without intervention, the lower electricity price could result in a 42 % reduction in hydropower investments by 2050. With increased intermittent renewables and decreased investments in hydropower, the energy system is expected to deploy more backup fossil-fuel options, which could increase carbon emissions by 45 %. Therefore, deploying more renewable energy would depress the investments in hydropower plants and further hinder decarbonization unexpectedly, suggesting a possible paradox in the energy transition. This possible paradox calls for a new, and robust policy to ensure the benefits of decarbonization are realized regardless of potential changes electricity prices.

[1] Li, X., Liu, P., Feng, M., Jordaan, S. M., Cheng, L., Ming, B., ... & Liu, W. (2024). Energy transition paradox: Solar and wind growth can hinder decarbonization. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 192, 114220.

See :

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S136403212301078X

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Adaptation_and_Resilience_to_Climate_Change_Temporal_Paradox_versus_Chronology_Protection_Conjecture

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Energy_Renewable_Energy_and_Levelized_Cost_Of_Energy_LCOE_Paradoxes

Happy New Year

".. While most existing works evaluate methane emissions released by well fracking, completion and operation, the greenhouse footprint of unproductive shale gas wells has received little scrutiny. A large fraction of these emissions from abandoned shale gas wells are due to the diffusive transport of methane trapped in nanoporous shale matrix, which is poorly understood.." Excerpt from the paper:

Yang, Y., Liu, S., & Ma, H. (2023). Impact of unrecovered shale gas reserve on methane emissions from abandoned shale gas wells. Science of The Total Environment, 169750. (Released 2 days ago)

Illustration from the Paper

See Also:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_energy_pattern_and_the_perspective_of_large-scale_exploitation_of_shale_gas_What_alternative_solutions

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