Rent free.
Rent free.
Buy at least the politicians will make their money.
China currently has 323 gigawatts of solar and 338 gigawatts of windImpressive renewables muscle-flexing from China, adding 108GW of solar this year
That’s China adding in just 1 year:
- 90% of the USA’s total solar capacity
- 50% of Germany’s
- 7 times Spain’s
- 10 times France’s
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-installations
The more coal they burn, the hotter it gets, the more solar power they produce. Genius.
Those comparisons are useless as well, renewables as a proportion of their entire production is all that matters.
Global warming equals more sunlight?Originally Posted by Spikey M
Apparently China has committed to planting 70 billion trees by the end of the decade. Now that struck me as a lot. I know there are a lot of them, and maybe it's just getting each and every one of them to plant 50 trees or something, but my back of a fag packet calculations tell me that's coming in at something like 20 million trees a day until 2030, or 240 per second. I dunno. Seems unlikely.
Given how much we cut them down and how much space we don't have for them these days I was pretty staggered when looking at tree stats per country.
COP continues to be a joke.
They've built hospitals within a week. Mass tree planting should be a piece of piss. As Yev's said, it means nothing if you can't outpace the rate we cut them down.
lol at poorer countries asking for 'climate reparations' like the West hasn't also stopped them eating each other and dying of mouth ulcers and sleeping sickness. That said, it seems sensible to pay the likes of Brazil and Indonesia not to cut their rainforests down. Pakistan can fucking whistle though. It deserves flooding.
Seems risky for the third-worlders. Surely any money would come with strings attached. Mainly not developing their fossil fuel industries, which will just keep them shit poor and depending on even more handouts.
Not if we spread the Green Jobs fairly.
Lol, just read the quantities being pledged. Running the event must have cost more than that.
It fundamentally doesn't work as an idea and these people are taking the absolute piss as a result. 27 of these complete time wasting events. 27 and they come up with that.
Nah, I am sure that the 2.5 million Euros that Belgium will give Mozambique over five years will really make a difference.
The best use of this sort of thing would be to pay poorer countries to prevent their citizens from migrating to the developed world and adopting our carbon-intensive lifestyles. Every African kept out of Europe is one less gas boiler, one less steak night, one less uninsured car with bald tyres... Practical solutions to practical problems.
We could also create a panel of environmentalists to determine the carrying capacity of each 1st world country and then ship the surplus citizens to Africa. With a stipend for their troubles, of course. Might seem unorthodox, but anything less would be COLLECTIVE SUICIDE.
But Sincere is from Haiti?
That sounds a lot like colonisation to me mate.
Sea surface temps.
North Atlantic.
Antarctica.
El Nińo peak next summer.
Saw that last one being low and thought "that's not so bad then" but then realised that's sea ice extent and not sea surface temperature.
Quick, someone think of a tax.
Another play by big ice trying to make us pay more by melting.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160
It's hard to not fall into the it's all a rort/nobody really wants to do anything about it/talk talk talk fatalistic view of this all when you read shit like:
The Drax Power Station, near Selby in North Yorkshire, is a converted coal plant which burns wood pellets. In 2023, it produced about 5% of the UK's electricity. The site has become a key part of the government's drive to meet its climate targets.
Its owner, Drax, receives money from energy bill payers because the electricity produced from burning pellets is classified as renewable and treated as emission-free.
In fact, the power station emits about 12 million tonnes of carbon a year, but under international rules the UK doesn't have to count these emissions.
They're cutting down ancient/primary forest for the pellets as well.
I suspect this is more likely the tip of the iceberg, rather than some advanced misinformation campaign by the wokerati in BBC Towers. Maybe 12 tonnes of emissions isn't that much, I don't know.
Is China still building 8 coal power stations a month? Lolol. Nothing we do in this country makes the blindest bit of difference. Just don't fill your kettle to the top lad. Job done.
Giggles is probably right - not necessarily in saying that it CC isn't happening, but in saying that it's just a money grab. We're to stop using petrol, because they're horribly poluting and electric cars are green, but they're only green because we charge them using power sourced from burning forests which is also... erm... green.
Just chuck it on the Everything Is Shit pile and stop worrying about it.
The solution is developing affordable renewable/non-carbon emitting energy that the whole World can use. Anything else is just frigging round the edges and will have almost no impact.
The solution is to stop worrying about it and just deal with the consequences as they (very slowly) come. Things like electric cars and renewable energy plants will become mainstream when/if they are cost effective.
In the meantime, I think we still should be aggressively planting trees (providing you're not in a country that catches fire in summer). I just love the whole green and pleasant land aesthetic.
Oilseed rape is the best countryside aesthetic. Trees are good, but half the year the best ones are barren and look properly grim. Mud, grey skies, bare brown trees. And was Jersusalem . . .
We should convert Australia into a big solar panel
At best, that powers some of Australia some of the time.
Yeah but no spiders.
Is adding a load of solar panels to a country with so many dangerous cold-blooded animals a good idea? We don't need to supercharge the cunts.
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