"France will require all parking lots with spaces for at least 80 vehicles – both existing and new – to be covered by solar panels." That would add 10 nuclear reactors worth of solar.
How much solar power would be generated if such a law passed in the US?
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- Time for a thread about people leaving their jobs to fight climate change. If you have a related story to share, please do so in replies. 🧵
- CNBC has dismantled its climate desk and will no longer have staff dedicated to covering climate change.Personal news, as they say: A layoff, heartbreak, and finding my truth wandering through the streets of Istanbul: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…… Please reach out. Thanks.
- 2020: Microsoft sets goal to be carbon negative by end of the decade. 2023: Microsoft's emissions are 30% higher than in 2020. Main cause? The relentless push to meet AI demand, which requires carbon-intensive steel, cement, chips. Story with @dinabass: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- It's almost like the scientists were right theguardian.com/environment/20…
- I did not see this coming. "Saudi Aramco is being investigated by the United Nations for possible human rights violations tied to fossil-fuel induced climate change."
- Whoever thinks global warming capped at 1.5C or 2C is "saving" the planet hasn't really thought about what the word actually means.
- Sober up, energy transition nerds. “Consider what’s happening in Norway, where 65% of all vehicles sold in 2021 were electric and yet oil demand has fallen less than 10% since 2013.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
- “Over four years, we’ve found Cola-Cola to be the world’s top plastic polluter in our annual brand audits. It’s astounding that a company so tied to the fossil fuel industry is allowed to sponsor such a vital climate meeting.”
- LOL at all the publications falling for Exxon's net-zero goal, which covers only Scope 1 and 2 emissions and thus leaves out more than 80% of their total emissions. No Big Oil company's net zero plan is based on accepted science unless it also include Scope 3 emissions.
- "The first foreign firefighters to reach Quebec amid Canada’s worst wildfire season on record said that some of the blazes were 100 times bigger than any they had ever seen."
- Lula's election promises on climate include: - Updating Brazil's "insufficient" climate targets climatechangenews.com/2022/10/07/lul… - Appointing a climate envoy bloomberg.com/news/articles/… - Coalition with Indonesia and Congo to take united approach on rainforests arabnews.com/node/2160026
- This is amazing. If there is a deal, we could see 90 million tons of CO2 eq emissions cut annually. Or about 2x the capacity of all carbon-capture plants in the world. Scoop by @jendlouhyhc@aaronaclark1
- "Energy transitions are slow." Yeah, right. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
