Air pollution deaths at WW2 scales are happening now

In NY Mag, a climate journalist David Wallace-Wells wrote about a study of the difference between 1.5 degrees of warming and two degrees. He cited a Nature climate change paper – Quantified, localized health benefits of accelerated carbon dioxide emissions reductions 150 million more people would die from air pollution alone in a two-degree-warmer world …

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Point of no return for climate action is point when Geoengineering will start

Cumulative CO2 emissions from 2015 onwards may not exceed 424 billion tons of carbon and that the point of no return (PNR) is 2035 for the policy scenario where the share of renewable and nuclear energy rises by 2% per year. If the risk tolerance is 67% chance of exceeding the-2 degree increase. If renewables …

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Johan Rockström predicts climate doom again but is not advocating nuclear or ocean solutions

Johan Rockström made big predictions of 9 environmental systems that would each reach tipping points and doom humanity. Now Johan Rockström has co-written a paper that predicts climate doom caused by an environmental global warming chain reaction. The claim is that big changes are needed within 10-20 years or the world will pass tipping points. …

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Synthesized meat can be any meat so get ready for lab-grown Foie Gras

Bill Gates and Richard Branson have invested in lab-grown meat companies. Beef production is very inefficient. It takes more than 38 pounds of feed and 1799 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef. Lab-grown meat requires 100 times less land and 5.5 times less water than traditional meat. Foie gras currently costs $50 …

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Lab Grown Meat will be served in restaurants by the end of 2018 and it will be healthier

Lab-grown meat products will be offered in a number of restaurants in the United States and Asia, starting with chicken nuggets, sausage and foie gras. There will be factory produced meat on store shelves by 2021. Initially a lab-grown burger will sell for about $11. CDC reports that each year, 48 million people get sick …

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Major climate model corrections needed to correct water loss from leaves

Errors in how scientists account for water loss from leaves may be skewing estimates of how much energy plants make through photosynthesis and cause errors in the models of how individual leaves function and even of the global climate. The errors are particularly pronounced when a plant’s water supply is limited — a condition of …

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Paris agreement’s tiny slowing of Global CO2 emissions growth mean we reach the same result 30-180 days later in the 2030s

In May 2017, the world atmosphere has been measured at 409.25 ppm CO2. There have been some measurements in Hawaii of 411 ppm. The levels rose from 407.42 ppm in April 2016. For the odds to be greater than 66 per cent probability of less than 2 degrees of warming, the CO2-e concentrations should be …

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“Glassy carbon” electrodes transmit more robust signals to restore motion in people with damaged spinal cords

When people suffer spinal cord injuries and lose mobility in their limbs, it’s a neural signal processing problem. The brain can still send clear electrical impulses and the limbs can still receive them, but the signal gets lost in the damaged spinal cord. The Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE)–a collaboration of San Diego State …

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Climate scientists know we cannot prevent 2 degree global change without geoengineering

In 2008 some climate scientiss said that the world had 100 months to enact drastic anti-global warming policies to avoid the environment warming by two degrees celsius compared to pre-industrial times. The 100 months have passed and only modest policies have been enacted and it seems likely that some of the policies will be reverse …

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Debating the Paris climate agreement is it $5 trillion to 2030 or $100-200 trillion by 2100 or is it both

Bjorn Lomborg is president and founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. The election of Donald Trump and Republican majorities in both houses have terrified environmentalists and climate campaigners, who have declared that the next four years will be a “disaster.” Even ardent supporters acknowledge that the Paris …

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