tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41378306129734555842024-03-14T12:00:22.985+07:00Cempaka Eco GreenNews, Subjects Related to Climate Change and Sustainable DevelopmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-88431394464135532672023-01-25T03:23:00.002+07:002023-01-25T03:23:13.015+07:00EU eyes more help for shrinking bee populations<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/now/eu-eyes-more-help-shrinking-140559895.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAB2mK8CFBjyteUMvxUTKQZsmWGfg5j-TVNxNdFCYvkAcHzECefO8gsHHA4thE-IKuq_xJprGvW1WdNItUybfmq5aN3DumgrQuW_Bq8xvv-Rb6lvXhnHRiIDUDftyLXiQS4s_cJhvU1RYI73Y4n5nHh1flstAk2HDTedtZ_Mabo7b" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, January 24, 2023</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFrJhFZB3Pi714qgcOOtx9qpZ171XTqUZlJ_7G6_FQywDkB5_EG8zdli-wpTKaiO4QkSLGlYh2t7sGj_QQClq_c1s0aP_mBSr_-v0PS2CWRWxFfaXS90ynZ5TgtdJDRI7aUm22foxWYyE_KETV4Wjiihb_yb-bjEIiGdcZJkwCRpNN1Cfi2Yr88Vpz/s768/331e683210001769ca3d32d6aa09c532.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="768" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFrJhFZB3Pi714qgcOOtx9qpZ171XTqUZlJ_7G6_FQywDkB5_EG8zdli-wpTKaiO4QkSLGlYh2t7sGj_QQClq_c1s0aP_mBSr_-v0PS2CWRWxFfaXS90ynZ5TgtdJDRI7aUm22foxWYyE_KETV4Wjiihb_yb-bjEIiGdcZJkwCRpNN1Cfi2Yr88Vpz/w400-h266/331e683210001769ca3d32d6aa09c532.webp" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The EU on Tuesday announced proposals to try to
reverse an "alarming decline" in the number of bees -- and other
insects that pollinate the bloc's crops -- including by rewarding organic
farming.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The European Commission said a review of a 2018 EU
Pollinators Initiative showed there were gaps, and "significant
challenges" needed to be addressed with revised measures.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The proposal calls for promoting farming -- organic or
otherwise -- that protects pollinating insects, cutting back on pesticides,
better monitoring of pollinator populations, and better conservation of
habitats including in urban areas.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At stake is much of the European Union's agricultural
output.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The commission estimates that pollinators -- mostly
bees, but also hoverflies, moths, and some beetles and other insects --
contribute around five billion euros ($5.5 billion) a year to the bloc's food
production.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Yet intensive farming practices, pesticides,
pollution, changed land-use, other introduced species and climate change have
all taken a serious toll on their populations.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Pollinating insects have declined dramatically
in diversity and abundance in the last decades, with many of them being threatened
with extinction," the commission said in a statement.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Its proposal, made to the European Parliament and the
27 EU member states, looks to reverse pollinator decline by the end of this
decade.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It focuses on wild populations of bees and other
pollinators as the EU has other tools aimed at supporting honeybee farms.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It also is designed to work alongside the EU's farm
subsidy scheme, called the Common Agricultural Policy, by rewarding farmers who
implement sustainable methods.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The EU's environment commissioner, Virginijus
Sinkevicius, said that "in the case of pollinators, these small insects
will define the future of nature and long-term food security".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">He said he hoped the EU's steps towards saving them
"can inspire similar action in the entire world".<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-37709715234844254672023-01-13T04:07:00.001+07:002023-01-13T04:09:19.442+07:00 Europe's largest rare earths deposit discovered in Sweden<p><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/europes-largest-rare-earths-deposit-140100079.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Daniel ARONSSOHN, January
12, 2023</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAaoEBRYqadbvzIg3IgLEPyw_urr0OyMRL1TRR2p0vty2eE0ejnOJbc8rAfUu3U5cGQjZwQMjkxWFmCUCRmVm1uYYvQ3s7DuZMEwNvIaXUuMuUfGROhXIfDjwMJIiUao_rN-bVoC44Li9NT4BBDj3k1lQyRi4GK3wUf0I6gJjWMEjD9sBF_xMFQtsE/s705/e6a77600273e543f5618396caa49b238.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAaoEBRYqadbvzIg3IgLEPyw_urr0OyMRL1TRR2p0vty2eE0ejnOJbc8rAfUu3U5cGQjZwQMjkxWFmCUCRmVm1uYYvQ3s7DuZMEwNvIaXUuMuUfGROhXIfDjwMJIiUao_rN-bVoC44Li9NT4BBDj3k1lQyRi4GK3wUf0I6gJjWMEjD9sBF_xMFQtsE/w400-h266/e6a77600273e543f5618396caa49b238.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Europe's largest known deposit of rare
earth elements, essential for the manufacturing of electric vehicles, has been
discovered in Sweden's far north, boosting Europe's hopes of cutting its
dependence on China.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Swedish mining group LKAB said Thursday
the newly-explored deposit, found right next to its iron ore mine, contained
more than one million tonnes of rare earth oxides.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"This is the largest known deposit
of rare earth elements in our part of the world, and it could become a
significant building block for producing the critical raw materials that are
absolutely crucial to enable the green transition," LKAB's chief executive
Jan Mostrom said in a statement.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"We face a supply problem. Without
mines, there can be no electric vehicles," Mostrom added.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While the find is believed to be the
biggest in Europe, it remains small on a global scale, representing less than
one percent of the 120 million tonnes estimated worldwide by the US Geological
Survey.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 2021, the European Commission said
that 98 percent of the rare earths used in the EU were imported from China,
prompting Brussels to urge member states to develop their own extraction
capacities.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">LKAB's find was presented as a
delegation from the European Commission visited Sweden, which took over the rotating
EU presidency at the start of the year.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"Today, the EU is way too dependent
on other countries for these materials," Swedish Energy Minister Ebba
Busch told a press conference, pointing specifically to Russia and China.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"This must change. We must take
responsibility for the raw material supply needed for the (green)
transition," she added.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"><b>Trade not enough</b></span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The European Union has agreed to phase
out new CO2-emitting vehicles by 2035, effectively banning combustion engine
cars, meaning the need for rare earth materials will only increase.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the short term, Busch said the EU
needed to "diversify" its trade.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"But in the long run, we cannot
rely on trade agreements only," she said.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mostrom said the full extent of the
deposit had yet to be established.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">"We are continuing to conduct
exploration to see how big this is," Mostrom told AFP, adding that LKAB
was also still in the process of figuring out how the new deposit could be
mined.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Mostrom said it was difficult to
accurately gauge the impact of the discovery on reducing Europe's dependence on
Chinese imports.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But he said he was confident "it
will have a huge impact."</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Asked during a press conference when the
deposit could actually be mined and deliver raw materials to the market,
Mostrom said it would largely depend on how quickly permits could be secured.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But based on experience, it would likely
be "10 to 15 years", he said.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">According to LKAB, the rare earth
elements found in the Per Geijer deposit occurred "in what is mainly an
iron ore deposit and which may therefore be produced as by-products,"
creating new opportunities for potentially "competitive mining."</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">From magnets to lenses</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Rare earth minerals with names like
neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium are crucial to the manufacture of
magnets used in industries of the future, like wind turbines and electric cars.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">They are also present in consumer goods
such as smartphones, computer screens and telescopic lenses.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Others have more traditional uses, like
cerium for glass polishing and lanthanum for car catalysts or optical lenses.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sweden is one of the EU's biggest mining
countries.</span><span face="Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #212529;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="color: #212529; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;">More than 90 percent of the EU's iron
ore production comes from the Scandinavian country, which also has the bloc's
largest lead and zinc production, the second largest silver production, and
among the highest gold and copper production, according to the Geological
Survey of Sweden.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-30677455616837645512022-08-05T02:54:00.005+07:002022-08-05T02:54:40.855+07:00Great Barrier Reef sees fragile coral comeback<p> <span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/great-barrier-reef-sees-fragile-054926017.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Andrew BEATTY, August 4, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhihVEgJeDEChdnkSwQb7GXoJepkkB0lQ6PVULUIRLvwyu9FuEeOSdLykjY6vd_nIyT58ogxiqcU3QiawITnY8wZwk5C6k6NWw9CbWKESsroL-hBr8dzRxcJbXAuY2bY6JiZ2nbqqh0_3ZTjLd-rRX7BXwB9q0eMZoqHSsFo8JrUwILdh9YKaCR2pQjeg/s705/a08b36ff1843f2a06f9294e00fc5ad6d.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhihVEgJeDEChdnkSwQb7GXoJepkkB0lQ6PVULUIRLvwyu9FuEeOSdLykjY6vd_nIyT58ogxiqcU3QiawITnY8wZwk5C6k6NWw9CbWKESsroL-hBr8dzRxcJbXAuY2bY6JiZ2nbqqh0_3ZTjLd-rRX7BXwB9q0eMZoqHSsFo8JrUwILdh9YKaCR2pQjeg/w400-h266/a08b36ff1843f2a06f9294e00fc5ad6d.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Parts of Australia's beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades, a government report said Thursday, suggesting the aquatic wonder could survive given the chance.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Portions of the vast UNESCO heritage site showed a marked increase in coral cover in the last year, reaching levels not seen in 36 years of monitoring, the Australian Institute of Marine Science said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Scientists surveying 87 sites said northern and central parts of the reef had bounced back from damage more quickly than some had expected, thanks mainly to fast-growing Acropora -- a branching coral that supports thousands of marine species.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"These latest results demonstrate the reef can still recover in periods free of intense disturbances," said the Australian Institute of Marine Science's CEO Paul Hardisty.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But far from declaring victory, Hardisty warned the gains could easily be reversed by cyclones, new bleaching events or crown-of-thorns outbreaks.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He pointed to a reversal in fortunes for the southern portion of the reef, which a year ago had appeared to be on the mend, but was now in decline again.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This shows how vulnerable the reef is to the continued acute and severe disturbances that are occurring more often, and are longer-lasting," he said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Coral coverage has increased by 36 percent across sites monitored in the northern part of the reef, up from 27 percent in 2021.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But the picture was less encouraging as the scientists moved south, with a smaller increase in cover in the reef's central belt and a marked decrease in coral cover in the south.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The spread of coral-killing crown-of-thorns starfish has also taken a toll.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Only fierce lobbying by the Australian government stopped the reef from being labelled "in danger" by UNESCO -- a potentially devastating blow to the country's multi-billion-dollar tourism industry.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Many fear that the speeding rate of damage could cause the reef to be destroyed entirely.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Marine scientist Terry Hughes said it was "good news" that coral was regrowing, but warned the species driving the recovery were very vulnerable to ocean heating.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">He added that replacing large, old, slow-growing corals that had defined the reef was likely "no longer possible. Instead we're seeing partial reassembly of fast-growing, weedy corals before the next disturbance."</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJOm5wZdSAAH421rmJY1K3vgEeiya5NqrvJaHcrGoBBZc14WzZPHlzi19AJYCuQZtQiCFZTUyEz_dPWwaCILJ4Ac9gx64_CODvIOUMLnDWCFBwEmEadIwrJYhM1GaoGRUDPxNngta_PqPLb_78u7YcFo8BqCXPoVq63_HjHqs-xc_p18Z0p1bv1mR2A/s705/596fbde625e2355f6dc92bed070f1288.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="529" data-original-width="705" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJOm5wZdSAAH421rmJY1K3vgEeiya5NqrvJaHcrGoBBZc14WzZPHlzi19AJYCuQZtQiCFZTUyEz_dPWwaCILJ4Ac9gx64_CODvIOUMLnDWCFBwEmEadIwrJYhM1GaoGRUDPxNngta_PqPLb_78u7YcFo8BqCXPoVq63_HjHqs-xc_p18Z0p1bv1mR2A/w400-h300/596fbde625e2355f6dc92bed070f1288.webp" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Zoe Richards a researcher at the Coral Conservation and Research Group at Curtin University also cautioned against over-optimism.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This recovery trend is driven by a handful of Acropora species which often grow in a boom-and-bust pattern," she said. "This means that the next thermal stress event could easily decimate these coral communities once again."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"We are already finding evidence that each mass bleaching event leads to local extinctions of rarer species, so the short-term success of a handful of fast-growing coral species masks the full story about the largely hidden losses of biodiversity."</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Related Article:</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/download_Boulder_11.html" target="_blank">“2011 and Beyond” - What you are seeing, and why - Jan 16, 2010 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll)</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b></b></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></b></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">(<a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel11_boulder.html" target="_blank">Text version</a>)</span></i></span></b></span></span></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">"....</span><b>The Prediction: The Renewal of the Life Cycle</b></span><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">When you change the temperature strata of the oceans of the earth, things start to change, for the life cycle of the food in the ocean depends upon that which is the smallest. The plankton of the planet survive in certain temperatures, and that's changing. Throw away what you think you know about how it's all supposed to work, and instead think "renewal" or "how did it begin." This will serve you to understand what is happening now. This cycle is built to replenish the ocean with life and not always by sustaining the kind that was there.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Let us just talk about the ocean for a moment. We won't even get to what's happening in the air and what mammals might experience. Let's just speak of the ocean. Have you heard about the salmon? What has your science warned you against? <b>You're overfishing! The sea is dying. The coral is dying. The reefs are going away. You're not seeing the food chain that used to be there. You've overfished everything. Fishing quotas have been set up to help this. Oh, all those little people in the red room - they don't know about the purple. Red people only know about the red paradigm</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Did you hear about the salmon recently? There's too many of them! In the very place where quotas are in place so you won't overfish, they're jumping in the boats! Against all odds and any projections from environmentalists or biologists, they're overrunning the oceans in Alaska - way too many fish.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">What does that tell you? Is it possible that Gaia takes care of itself? That's what it tells you! Perhaps this alignment is going to keep humanity fed. Did anybody think of this? What if Gaia is in alliance with you? What if the increase in consciousness that raised your DNA vibration has alerted Gaia to change the weather cycle and get ready to feed humanity? Are you looking at the ocean where the oil spill occurred? It's recovering in a way that was not predicted. What's happening?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><b>The life cycle itself is being altered by the temperature change of the ocean and much of what you have believed is the paradigm of life in the sea is slowly changing. A new system of life is appearing, as it has before, and is upon you in your lifetime. It will compliment what you know and expose you to a new concept: Gaia regularly refreshes the life cycle on Earth.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">Within this process, there will be the extinction of certain plants and animals, birds and fish. My advice to you, especially to those environmentalists, is to understand the cycle of life so that you may relax with what nature has always done. It puts life on the planet to serve the planet for a time. When certain life no longer serves the planet in the ways it used to, it takes it away. The extinction of life, especially through weather change, is normal for Gaia. It is honored, appropriate and normal, even if you don't think so. Don't try to save all the disappearing animals, fish and birds! Some are supposed to go away. And, dear ones, don't assign all this activity to something you did to cause it!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span lang="EN-US">The red people are stressing. The purple is here, and they are trying to figure out what they did wrong. They don't know they are in the Rainbow Room. They think they are in the RED ROOM. This is what the Rainbow Room does; it changes colors. So as the room does what it has always done, the red people are sitting there in fear trying to figure out what it is that they did that possibly could have caused the purple to appear.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><br /></span><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">The Rainbow Room is beautiful. The color purple is significant. Going from red to purple has metaphysical significance within this parable, but I'll let you figure it out. For those who are into colors, there's a reason why I gave those two. The earth is becoming more sacred than it's ever been before. Gaia is with you in this. It's cooperating in ways you never thought it could, in the way biologists said it would not. You think you're killing it? Instead, it's giving birth to an altered ecological system.</span><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #f22300;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><b><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> ...."</span></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></b></span></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></b></b></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-46179353838064562192022-05-18T03:11:00.003+07:002022-05-18T03:11:44.591+07:00From 2026 hybrid heat pumps should be the norm, says minister<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/05/from-2026-hybrid-heat-pumps-should-be-the-norm-says-minister/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, May 17, 2022</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5Ie55Ft5iznzTRmGVnFoVrv082lP9wvkQ9BTn0PwqLc-LA5sESoS3GohoCBhJ5WIew2-C2-pvW7c6-8Tm3fg-1UZ_FI4xNITgyVzLivl2CeZGtnm0CZa0XgBTV1-IaiKDqkv9HV6-G_tfsiyloJ223laDhQ2Bwr8XgwapshwQwVWUSaTKg4lComy/s500/radiators-central-heating-winter-warm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy5Ie55Ft5iznzTRmGVnFoVrv082lP9wvkQ9BTn0PwqLc-LA5sESoS3GohoCBhJ5WIew2-C2-pvW7c6-8Tm3fg-1UZ_FI4xNITgyVzLivl2CeZGtnm0CZa0XgBTV1-IaiKDqkv9HV6-G_tfsiyloJ223laDhQ2Bwr8XgwapshwQwVWUSaTKg4lComy/w400-h300/radiators-central-heating-winter-warm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Hybrid heat pumps should become the standard
replacement for gas-fired central heating systems from 2026, <a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/05/17/hybride-warmtepomp-de-nieuwe-standaard-vanaf-2026" target="_blank">housing ministerHugo de Jonge</a> said on Tuesday. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The minister said the deadline was intended to
give suppliers, installation companies and property owners clarity about the
new situation because ‘the need to become more energy efficient is high and the
speed [at which this is being done] must be increased’. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Households could also
opt to switch to the municipal heating network if their local council has set
one up, or install a fully electric heat pump if they have the right kind of
insulation. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There will ‘of course’ be an exception for property which is not
suitable for heat pumps or district heating schemes, De Jonge said in his
briefing to MPs. Steps are also being taken to boost both the number of
engineers and the production of heat pumps in the Netherlands.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Heating system
suppliers have warned in the past there is a shortage of skilled workers to
install the new systems. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Air </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A hybrid heat pump is a combination of a heat
pump, which stores warm air or water, and a central heating boiler and their
use leads to an average 60% saving on natural gas consumption, the ministry
says. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In well-insulated homes, it may also be possible to switch directly to a
fully electric heat pump, which uses no natural gas at all. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The government is
setting aside €150 million a year in subsidies to help home owners pay for the
change, and low income households will also be able to borrow the money at a
zero interest rate from special fund. The maximum subsidy available will be up
to 30% of the cost.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Targets </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Dutch government has pledged to ensure all
homes in the country are gas free in 2050, aiming for 2,000 in the first two
years and building up to 1.5 million homes by 2030. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dutch home owners
association <a href="https://www.eigenhuis.nl/energie/maatregelen/duurzaam-verwarmen/warmtepomp/prijs-en-rendement#/" target="_blank">Vereningen Eigen Huis</a> says the cost of installing a hybrid heat
pump is currently up to around €6000 but could be as much as €20,000 for a
fully electric pump. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Insulation </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The VEH, which supports the switch, said three
things will be crucial in ensuring the success of the project.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">‘It must be
affordable, there must be enough capacity in terms of people and equipment, and
house owners must be given the right advice about what sort of system to
install,’ a <a href="https://nos.nl/artikel/2429171-warmtepompen-in-2026-realisatie-afhankelijk-van-kosten-en-genoeg-personeel" target="_blank">spokesman told broadcaster NOS</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In addition, the property must be
properly insulated and that means insulated roofs, floors and walls and at
least double glazing, the spokesman said. Those costs will come on top of the
cost of the new heating system. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Telegraaf points out that the equipment
also takes up more space than a traditional boiler and has an outside element
which can cause noise issues for neighbours. Properties also may need to add in
extra or larger radiators. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Sector lobby group Techniek Nederland estimates two
million of the eight million homes in the Netherlands are currently suitable
for hybrid systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-86954473919093769962022-04-24T03:32:00.005+07:002022-04-24T03:32:57.437+07:00Dutch stop subsidising heat generation by burning wood chips<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/04/dutch-stop-subsidising-heat-generation-by-burning-wood-chips/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, April 23, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcB9pIo7eq_fhZU2HYjJzPsavQMTjK6pVxs9f7JTB3pKS0JtAIK_05p34s81DnKTAQwtad5lp9L3llZHtnUNEqCnZPb8ZiA5fHArCFHk-B5AN5oGj3zLjQFCVrguI0YQhIYQ7LKWCMb8-LRyXs4mTN2S5hkAxM-VTxUz2Dhody5lXQmZceveb-DcPZA/s425/wood-shavings-biomass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="425" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNcB9pIo7eq_fhZU2HYjJzPsavQMTjK6pVxs9f7JTB3pKS0JtAIK_05p34s81DnKTAQwtad5lp9L3llZHtnUNEqCnZPb8ZiA5fHArCFHk-B5AN5oGj3zLjQFCVrguI0YQhIYQ7LKWCMb8-LRyXs4mTN2S5hkAxM-VTxUz2Dhody5lXQmZceveb-DcPZA/w400-h266/wood-shavings-biomass.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Ministers have agreed to immediately <a href="https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/04/22/onmiddellijke-subsidiestop-voor-laagwaardige-warmte-uit-biogrondstoffen" target="_blank">stop giving subsidies for the use of biomass</a>, or wood chips, to generate heat for city heating schemes and greenhouses, the economic affairs ministry has confirmed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Dutch biomass plants, which are supposed to help comply with EU climate goals, have been given billions of euros in subsidies in the last few years. They have, however, become deeply controversial because of longer-term damage to the environment. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">‘Organic raw materials play an important role in achieving a climate-neutral and circular economy,’ climate minister Rob Jetten said in a statement. ‘They are also crucial in becoming less dependent on fossil fuels… at the same time, the government is aware of the concerns.’ </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The government, he said, would approve the use of sustainable bio-based raw materials where they make the greatest contribution to sustainability and where alternatives are limited. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">This includes bioconcrete, paint based on bio-based raw, green gas as a replacement for natural gas, or as a fuel for heavy road transport, aviation and maritime shipping. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><b>Pollution </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">In July 2020, the Dutch government’s senior advisory body SER recommended that subsidies for the use of biomass in power stations be <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/07/ser-signals-end-for-biomass-subsidies-calls-for-speedy-phasing-out/" target="_blank">phased out quickly</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">However, the Dutch environmental assessment agency PBL says the use of biomass may be unavoidable if the Netherlands is to meet the EU targets. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Without using biomass, the Netherlands will have to install wind turbines and solar panels more quickly than it is currently doing, and other difficult choices will have to be made, the PBL said. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The use of biomass, such as wood chips, as a fuel generated an extra 19 megatons in carbon dioxide emissions in 2020, according to calculations by national statistics <a href="https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/nieuws/2021/48/co2-uitstoot-door-biomassa-neemt-toe" target="_blank">agency CBS</a>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The Netherlands has also been under fire for importing wood chips from the US and the Baltic states to burn in power plants.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-3952771325762488282022-04-12T03:11:00.001+07:002022-04-12T03:12:22.038+07:00Green energy usage topped oil and gas for the first time last week<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/04/green-energy-usage-topped-oil-and-gas-for-the-first-time-last-week/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, April 11, 2022</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvxUaNkFYud6QKP7EdFkxEfoQq69Udyvk-IZCitE7EykYfiLNsbgciu_DvYaGVxXW5dwQL-1ljcJlqydILMu6Ix2_Ga_luI1rrinYFP-yM8q0dXOqdra5QrHw6_Ne67-XVAbBeXZmr2_5_yHpCtD1V6Qf786RdL9aARY6DzfwBitKG4H0ohyEEchBl/s560/IMG_8716-560x420.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="560" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvxUaNkFYud6QKP7EdFkxEfoQq69Udyvk-IZCitE7EykYfiLNsbgciu_DvYaGVxXW5dwQL-1ljcJlqydILMu6Ix2_Ga_luI1rrinYFP-yM8q0dXOqdra5QrHw6_Ne67-XVAbBeXZmr2_5_yHpCtD1V6Qf786RdL9aARY6DzfwBitKG4H0ohyEEchBl/w400-h300/IMG_8716-560x420.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Photo: DutchNews.nl</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">More than half the energy used in the Netherlands last
week came from renewable sources for the first time, according to website
<a href="http://Energieopwek.nl">Energieopwek.nl</a>, an alliance between gas company Gasunie and national grid
groups Tennet and Netbeheer Nederland. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Almost 54% of the energy used last week
was officially classed as green although 10% of the total was generated by
biomass, which campaign groups do not always consider to be sustainable. Solar
power accounted for 11% and wind energy 31%. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Although the number of wind
turbines and solar panels in the Netherlands has expanded considerably, last
week’s windy, yet sunny, weather also had a major role in the record-breaking
week. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">The use of <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2021/12/burning-biomass-in-power-plants-pushes-up-carbon-dioxide-emissions-16/" target="_blank">biomass, or organic material</a>, is controversial because the
Netherlands imports large quantities of wood chips from abroad to burn in power
stations.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-89274678380989689042021-11-18T04:21:00.004+07:002021-11-18T04:21:48.996+07:00EU plans to ban food imports from deforested areas<p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/eu-plans-ban-food-imports-123549217.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, November 17, 2021</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aTDVxCJrQos/YZVyHAYRuTI/AAAAAAACU2M/QEIxN0gINcUKJEFqnMh4lX1Oq-cb9dGVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s705/5c09fc5c2d5e8932e2360ad56c7f582b.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="705" height="271" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aTDVxCJrQos/YZVyHAYRuTI/AAAAAAACU2M/QEIxN0gINcUKJEFqnMh4lX1Oq-cb9dGVgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h271/5c09fc5c2d5e8932e2360ad56c7f582b.webp" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Deforestation in regions like the Amazon has Europeans worried (AFP/<br />CARL DE SOUZA)</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The EU plans to bar food and wood imports from
deforested areas, according to a proposal unveiled Wednesday aimed at using its
trade power to drive sustainability.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The draft law, which Brussels wants to turn into
binding rules for all 27 European Union nations, would require companies show
their soy, beef, palm oil, cocoa, coffee and wood products are certified
"deforestation-free".</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It follows an international pledge made at the COP26
summit last week to end deforestation by 2030.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This proposal is a truly ground-breaking
one," the EU commissioner for climate action policy, Virginijus
Sinkevicius, told a media conference.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"It targets not just illegal deforestation but
also deforestation driven by agricultural expansion," he said.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Under the EU plan, two criteria would have to be met:
that the commodities are produced in accordance with the origin country's laws;
and that they were not produced on land deforested or degraded since the
beginning of 2021.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Imports from higher-risk countries would be subject to
tighter checks.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The European Commission did not say when it hoped to
have the new legislation adopted.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The rules could impact countries such as Brazil, where
European disquiet at razing of the Amazon rainforest by cattle farmers is
holding up implementation of an EU-Mercosur trade deal.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Clearing of the Amazon hit a new record last month,
according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Research.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The environmental protection group WWF says the huge
EU market is responsible for 16 percent of global deforestation linked to international
trade.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It and other NGOs welcome the EU plan as a first step,
but say it does not go far enough. Greenpeace says it does not address
deforestation from other commodities such as rubber and maize, or from pig and
poultry farming.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Waste and soil</b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Other sustainability proposals presented alongside the
anti-deforestation rules were on waste management and improving the health of
soils.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"These initiatives show that the European Union
is serious about the green transition and just keeps moving forward with
it," said the Commission vice president in charge of overseeing the EU's
Green Deal, Frans Timmermans.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">On waste, the Commission wants to see "circular
economy" principles attached to the way it sends abroad its millions of
tonnes of discarded metals, cardboard, plastic, textiles and other detritus.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Waste exports to non-OECD countries would be
restricted and allowed only if those destinations agree and were able to handle
them sustainably. Currently the two top destinations for EU waste in that
category are Turkey and India.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shipments to OECD countries would be monitored and
suspended if grave environmental problems arose. Those destinations include
Britain, Switzerland and Norway.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The soil strategy aims for a mix of voluntary and
mandatory measures to increase soil carbon in farmland and fight
desertification, to get soil ecosystems healthy by 2050.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-26912576023039200842021-10-13T03:03:00.006+07:002021-10-13T03:11:44.483+07:00“Coming Discoveries” – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.kryon.com/CHAN2021/k_channel21_Discoveries.html" target="_blank">Kryon.com</a>, August 25, 2021</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Live Kryon Channelling. Healing Wednesday livestream</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ys2zwVR9pwc/YWXfXFxM9KI/AAAAAAACUz0/DoTjCFYRhkAXNBItaFfjnT07OOG3fxZIACLcBGAsYHQ/s183/Lee%2BCarroll%2B150.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="150" height="183" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ys2zwVR9pwc/YWXfXFxM9KI/AAAAAAACUz0/DoTjCFYRhkAXNBItaFfjnT07OOG3fxZIACLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Lee%2BCarroll%2B150.jpg" width="150" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Lee Carroll</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is the fourth channel of the month regarding
change. The past three weeks, we’ve discussed several attributes of change that
are beginning to happen on this planet. The changes are mostly consciousness,
and we have given you some examples which show that many of these were
expected, and they coordinate with the messages of the indigenous. They revolve
around the cycle of our time, the precession of the equinox, and the 2012
shift.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So, here you sit in a time of expected change, and the
first thing that happens is COVID. You have to ask, <i>“Is it related?”</i> And we’ve
given the answer now many times. Indeed (it is related)! More than related, it
is the catalyst to what follows next. This virus has almost stopped the normal
operational attributes of this planet, and I told you that this is like
stopping a large factory so that it can retool.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">We have discussed the metaphor of a factory that
cannot stop. After some time, it starts to be dysfunctional, and those
operating it start a process of greed and lack of integrity. It becomes so bad
that it becomes badly inefficient, yet, nobody can stop it. It’s too big.
However, COVID stopped it! This gives a space, does it not? It’s a space that
no one expected, given in order to see the inefficiencies of the factory (the
systems of Earth). It’s a time to retool and clearly see the dark things that
have grown in the dark corners where you never were able to look before. It’s a
chance to see more light than ever and identify those who are keeping you from
seeing it.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dear ones, that’s just the beginning of what we
discussed. We’ve given you some messages of change in the past and said, “watch
for this,” or “look for that.” These things are coming. There are some things
coming that would surprise you, that are truly sensational and filled with
great things, and when I tell you about some of these things, you may ask, <i>“How
soon, Kryon, how soon?”</i> Every single one of these things that I’m going to give
you now actually already exists. They already exist in some form or are being
developed. Let me be clear: Some of these things lay on humanity, waiting for
the aha experience. <i>“Kryon, what are you talking about?”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Inventions are Given when They are Needed</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Let me go back and revisit some messages you may have
heard before: Major inventions that have changed the culture of this planet
often seem to happen all at once, all over the globe, almost like they were
delivered to consciousness all at once from somewhere else.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Seldom do you have just one individual with an idea
that then changes the planet. That may be the story they tell you in history,
but these profound inventions and discoveries usually happen simultaneously,
and the first individual to manifest it is the one who gets the credit.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Electricity:</b> Some of the inventions that manifest
themselves on the planet seem odd in their timing. You might look back and ask,
<i>“Why did it take so long? How is this possible?”</i> If you start looking at the
facts, the discovery of electricity is one. How long has this energy been
obvious to mankind in so many ways? Whether it’s static (electricity), like the
sparks you make when you move your feet on certain substances, or whether it’s
lightning in the sky … why did it take until only a couple of hundred years ago
for it really to be looked at, or the question asked: “I wonder if this is
energy we could use?” As to who actually invented it, you knew it was Michael
Faraday, right (or did you get another story)? And – that it wasn’t actually
electricity – but rather, electromagnetic induction (magnetics)?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Flight is another one.</b> The Chinese have been flying
kites and have known about wind currents for 3,000 years. Why weren’t there men
in the sky, using kites and updrafts with the profound understanding that
humanity already had of these things? What took so long? Even today, you see
those who leap off mountain tops without powered flight – with a kite strapped
to them. Where was that? It should have been intuitive and should have occurred
a thousand years ago. You had watched the birds, you flew kites, yet, for
thousands of years, nobody did it. Does this make sense? It took until the
Wright brothers gave it to you using powered engines. That wasn’t that long
ago, dear ones, and they only beat the French with their famous first flight by
two weeks! Do you see what I’m saying? This invention was “delivered to the
Field” when it was ready – and all over the Earth at the same time.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Inventions that change the Earth profoundly in this
way happen when it’s time. You may disagree. You may say, <i>“Oh, we can think of
these things any time we want.”</i> This is not true or many inventions that were
completely “there and ready and intuitive” would have happened even sooner than
they did.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are some things coming that are already here,
dear ones, in certain ways. They are already in the Field, waiting to be
plucked out. I want to tell you about them. Some have heard this before.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>The Best Coming Inventions Will Not Be High Technology</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Don’t be surprised if the most advanced discoveries
that you’re going to make, which are going to change this planet profoundly,
have nothing to do with artificial intelligence or massive amounts of
computing. You might say, it’s “back to basics” because some of the best
inventions will be using patterns and basic physics that were always there, but
which you just haven’t thought of yet.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“Kryon, what are you talking about?”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">THE END OF BATTERIES – AND THE GRID</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Let me talk about the magnetic energy wheel. It might
be two, or even three wheels, but there is a simple pattern, an array of
magnets that, when placed correctly, can keep a wheel spinning – forever.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Using the simple push/pull energy of small or large magnets
together in a specific array, you can keep this wheel going forever. You’re
aware, are you not, that natural magnets are very powerful, and they push and
they pull with a great deal of force, with no rest or refresh time, and no side
effects, and no fuel. This is a huge secret! Why have you not seen this before?
Put them together in an array where they will push and pull against each other
and spin whatever size wheel you wish – until the end of time! All you have to
do is oil the bearings occasionally. Have you thought of that? Dear ones,
listen: If you can make something spin, you can connect it to an electric
generator. Electricity, in any quantity, forever!</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I want you to think of what this means. Imagine: No
batteries. <i>“Kryon, what are you talking about. You’ve got to have batteries.”</i>
Dear ones, that statement is soooo yesterday! Imagine your favorite device. A
phone, perhaps? What if, instead of a battery, it had a tiny, miniature,
spinning magnetic motor that powered the device in real-time – forever! Not
only are there no batteries in the future, but no charging anything. Every
electronic thing you have has its own tiny, spinning generator built-in.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><i>“Kryon, how big can this wheel be?” </i>Well, let’s think:
Everything I have said can be enlarged. So, instead of a battery in an electric
car, there is a larger spinning electric engine underneath, always supplying
electricity to what we will now call <i>super capacitance</i> (something we have only
briefly discussed). You will always have enough electricity to go for hundreds
and hundreds and hundreds of miles without ever stopping. And even while you
sleep, electricity is still being generated to the “super cap.” It never stops.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><i>“Kryon, I still don’t understand how all this is going
to change the entire planet.”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dear ones, I’m talking about individual power for
every single building that exists on the planet – without being connected to
any grid. NO WIRES AND NO OUTSIDE SOURCE. No weather pattern will ever shut
down a city again or cause those to die because they can’t get electricity –
because it’s right outside in a little spinning motor that never stops and
always is running, to power whatever is needed. Magnetics is the answer. It’s
free, instant, and mobile electricity for all.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Every continent on this planet could have as much
electricity as they wanted or needed to instantly power villages, hospitals,
communications, teaching through the internet, and more. The internet would
work, no matter what. Can you imagine when everybody could talk to everybody? Cultures
and continents would start healing themselves and would finally start to be
educated.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">All of this can happen from one undiscovered pattern –
a magnetic array. Putting those magnets together so they will push and pull in
a way that they will spin forever, can be customizable to any size –
miniaturized or massive. They can power ships and cars – and they go forever.
There is no resource that is easier and safer to use to power this planet than
magnetics. No natural resources are burned, no pollution, and entirely safe.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Kryon – This Can’t Work</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><i>“Kryon: If I had this invention, there are forces out
there who would never let it be developed. I would be afraid to have it! The
power companies of the planet will buy it and pocket it because they want to sell
what they’ve got. They will never let this happen.”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Let’s stop for a moment. Dear ones, this is not your
father’s world. What have I told you about change for the past 30 years? DO NOT
POSTULATE THE FUTURE ON WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST. The shift is changing
the consciousness of the planet.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Right now, the power companies all over your land are
in trouble. Fossil fuel is in trouble, if you haven’t noticed. Nuclear power,
the former Holy Grail of power, has shown itself clearly to be exceptionally
dangerous! Every one of the accepted mass power generation systems is failing.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I will tell you that the power companies of this land
(USA), even if they are using steam or wind or sunlight, are all anxious for
this invention! It’s simple, efficient, no huge investment needed, and (ready?)
THEY will then be the ones to manufacture and sell the units, improving them
and finding more and more uses to free all of you from any kind of power grid.
So I’m telling you, it’s a new world, and those in the “power business” will be
the first to want to use this.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>The Highest and Most Powerful Force of Humanity</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Let me give you my favorite one: There are things that
this body of yours does, which has only to do with consciousness, nothing else.
In the last twenty years, there has been a revelation of proof. <b>Consciousness
is energy. It can alter physics.</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This realization was not always thought to be the
case. In the past, consciousness was something esoteric, not well definable,
and it didn’t belong in physics. Now it does. There is now a slow awareness
that consciousness absolutely must be considered energy.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Think: If consciousness is energy, then, like all
other physical energies, there must be rules or axioms. It becomes predictive
science. When you start to figure that out and you understand what those are,
you will have some profound answers to some of the greatest mysteries of
health: The energy of consciousness is the reason for the placebo effect!
Someone takes a sugar-coated pill, and they are told that the pill is going to
create a cure – and then it does! What is the process? How is that possible?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Someone takes a homeopathic tincture, a chemistry that
is too small to create a chemical reaction. Yet, it cures! What is happening?
How does that work? The answer is the energy and the physics of consciousness
combined with something called mirror neurons: What the body sees and expects,
it often creates by itself. Perhaps, you see someone else eating a meal and you
salivate. That’s consciousness over chemistry, dear ones.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Have you ever wondered if mirror neurons could play a
powerful and larger part in a coming system of healing? What if you could
convince your body that it was healing? Mirror neurons can’t tell the
difference between what you believe or what is happening chemically. Therefore,
consciousness instructs the body to heal itself, and it does! Now you
understand how spontaneous remission may work. When you convince the body that
a healing is occurring, it believes it so completely that it heals itself. This
will be a new healing process. It will be the best of any that ever existed –
using the energy of consciousness in new, measurable, scientific ways.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">No artificial intelligence – no super hi-tech
advancements</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Instead, this becomes the revelation of what you as
Humans have always had. Powerful!</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I want you to ponder these changes because they are in
the Field. Do you think when science discovered that <b>consciousness is energy</b>,
they just left that alone? No. They wanted to find out more about what it is.
The first thing they realized is that they are dealing with a multidimensional
energy. Indeed, science may not think immediately about the self-healing
potentials that exist, but eventually, they will</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">How long will it take? That’s up to you. How many of
you believe these things? For the belief itself, you might say, is a
transmitter of reality, because when you believe something, you can make it
happen.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Changes are coming to this planet, dear ones, and I
have told you this. We continue to tell you about the ones that will enhance
humanity, and there will come a time when the last thing you will ever want to
do to each other is to kill one another. There is precedent for this in other
places that I have talked about, so I have seen it. I have seen it.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I am Kryon, in love with humanity.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And so it is</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">KRYON</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-54049631208092530482021-05-27T02:38:00.004+07:002021-05-27T02:43:38.897+07:00ExxonMobil, Chevron investors vote for more action on climate change<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/exxonmobil-faces-major-investor-battle-162500425.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, John BIERS, May 26, 2021</span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Inwlm4Aa3ik/YK6jNEzTyXI/AAAAAAACTm0/R1A4bzFHvGAKl0FyHDfLM9I6jK0HXfVxACLcBGAsYHQ/s705/d3e2d11f2a99bbab427e1815cd6e68c2.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Inwlm4Aa3ik/YK6jNEzTyXI/AAAAAAACTm0/R1A4bzFHvGAKl0FyHDfLM9I6jK0HXfVxACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/d3e2d11f2a99bbab427e1815cd6e68c2.webp" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Shareholders of ExxonMobil will decide whether to replace up to four board <br />members with supporters of renewable energy investment</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Shareholders at ExxonMobil elected Wednesday at least
two board members who pledged more aggressive action on climate change, while
Chevron investors directed the oil giant to deepen emission cuts.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The dual meetings involving the two biggest US oil
giants showed clear evidence of how addressing climate change has moved from
the environmental world into the investor mainstream.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">At ExxonMobil, two board nominees from activist group
Engine No. 1 won enough votes to secure board seats. Shareholders also backed a
proposal requiring a report on the oil giant's lobbying activities on climate
change.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">At Chevron, a majority of investors backed an activist
proposal calling on the company to reduce "scope 3" emissions
associated with company operations.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Earlier Wednesday, a Dutch court ordered oil giant
Shell to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by a net of 45 percent by the end
of 2030 following a challenge launched by environmental group Friends of the
Earth.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Engine No. 1's Gregory Goff and Kaisa Hietala secured
enough votes to join ExxonMobil's board, along with Chief Executive Darren
Woods and several other incumbent directors who were reelected, said ExxonMobil
corporate secretary Stephen Littleton.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Littleton said the vote was too close to call on
whether the other two Engine No. 1 candidates would join the board instead of
incumbent directors and that a final outcome may not be known "for some
period of time."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">After the results were announced, Woods congratulated
the Engine No. 1 candidates and pledged to work with them to meet shareholder
expectations. The company had launched a lobbying offensive to re-elect its
incumbent board, arguing it was taking meaningful action to address climate
change.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"We've heard from shareholders about their desire
to catalyze further progress at ExxonMobil and we are well prepared to
deliver," Woods said after the vote.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">'Change is coming'</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ExxonMobil had announced a series of steps on climate
change since Engine No. 1 launched its campaign in late 2020, making
Wednesday's election contest unpredictable.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Engine No. 1's Charlie Penner expressed uncertainty
about the vote during remarks at the outset of the meeting.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"No matter what the outcome of this vote, change
is coming," said Penner, who noted ExxonMobil's promises made since the
insurgent campaign launched late last year that it "cannot easily walk
away from."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The oil company in January established a new "low
carbon solutions" business to commercialize carbon capture technology;
announced two new board members in March; and earlier this week pledged to
appoint two more board members in the next 12 months, one with energy industry
experience and one with climate experience.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ExxonMobil has battled annual meeting fights on
climate change for decades, usually prevailing on shareholder resolutions.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But oil majors are under intensifying pressure to
develop more aggressive policies on climate change and embrace renewable
energy.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">European rivals such as BP, Royal Dutch Shell and
Total have undertaken renewable investments and pledged to attain net-zero
carbon emissions by 2050.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The International Energy Agency earlier this month
said all future fossil fuel projects should be scrapped if the world is to
reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and stand any chance of limiting
warming to 1.5C.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The report goes well beyond existing policies adopted
by the United States and other governments. The Biden administration, for
example, has endorsed renewable energy investment, but has not supported an
immediate phase-out of new fossil fuel investment.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Both ExxonMobil and Chevron have announced new
environmental initiatives in recent months, while insisting on the need for
continued investment in oil and gas development.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Woods called the recent IEA analysis a
"helpful" contribution, saying reducing emissions is a "complex
problem and a challenging one" that will require new technology and
government policies.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shares of ExxonMobil rose 0.7 percent to $58.65 in
afternoon trading, while Chevron was flat to $103.85.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Related Article:</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b><a href="https://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.com/2021/05/shell-ordered-to-slash-co2-emissions.html" target="_blank">Shell ordered to slash CO2 emissions more quickly in landmark court case</a></b></span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-88338422503235408232021-05-27T02:16:00.002+07:002021-05-27T02:17:50.234+07:00Shell ordered to cut emissions in landmark Dutch climate case<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/dutch-court-rule-shell-climate-013943889.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Danny KEMP, May 26, 2021</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VPRjg9iJXIQ/YK6dGIscfsI/AAAAAAACTmc/WxAhlDgE-rs7H-FFM_gnjwVWrx-f2vuZQCLcBGAsYHQ/s705/2b3288f9cd090a1126f809f06004da1c.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="469" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VPRjg9iJXIQ/YK6dGIscfsI/AAAAAAACTmc/WxAhlDgE-rs7H-FFM_gnjwVWrx-f2vuZQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/2b3288f9cd090a1126f809f06004da1c.webp" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Environmentalists celebrate after The Hague court announced the landmark ruling</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">A Dutch court ordered oil giant Shell on Wednesday to
slash its greenhouse gas emissions in a landmark victory for climate activists
with implications for energy firms worldwide.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shell must reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent
by 2030 as it is contributing to the "dire" effects of climate
change, the district court in The Hague ruled.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Campaigners hailed the "historic" verdict as
the first time that a company had been made to align its policy with the 2015
Paris climate accords.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dubbed "the People versus Shell", the case
was backed by seven environmental groups and more than 17,000 Dutch citizens.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Judge Larisa Alwin said in the verdict that
Anglo-Dutch multinational Shell has an "enormous CO2 emission for which it
is responsible".<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Shell "is contributing to the dire consequences
of climate change for the population" and must implement the decision
"at once".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shell said it "fully expects to appeal today's
disappointing court decision".</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Urgent action is needed on climate change which
is why we have accelerated our efforts to become a net-zero emissions energy
company by 2050, in step with society," a Shell spokesman said in a
statement.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">With energy firms around the world facing growing
pressure over climate change, Shell set new targets in February to reduce its
net carbon footprint compared to a 2016 baseline by 20 percent by 2030, 45
percent by 2035 and 100 percent by 2050.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4UyQ4y8UPsg/YK6dsB2fq6I/AAAAAAACTmk/hRJGv5mArxIM9Qe6y873Mk3XLwXEMx8mwCLcBGAsYHQ/s705/b711652089c196c4eba4ad330dad79ce.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="705" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4UyQ4y8UPsg/YK6dsB2fq6I/AAAAAAACTmk/hRJGv5mArxIM9Qe6y873Mk3XLwXEMx8mwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/b711652089c196c4eba4ad330dad79ce.webp" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Shell must reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030, the Dutch court ruled</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">'Historical day'</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dozens of campaigners hugged, clapped and shouted
"climate justice" outside the court as the verdict was announced, an
AFP reporter said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In a show of solidarity, a group of around 50 Dutch
cyclists had also cycled from the north of the Netherlands to mark the
judgment.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This is a historical day," said Donald
Pols, director of the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth, which originally
brought the case.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"It's the first time in history that the judge
has decided that a large polluter, Royal Dutch Shell, should stop causing
dangerous climate change," Pols told AFP outside the court.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"This will have an enormous impact, not only on
Shell itself, but on major polluters throughout the Netherlands and
globally."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The 2015 Paris accords committed all nations to cut
carbon emissions to limit warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above
pre-industrial levels and encouraged them to go down to 1.5 degrees.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Greenpeace Netherlands interim chief Andy Palmen said
it was a "historic victory for the climate and everyone facing the
consequences of the climate crisis."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Shell cannot continue to violate human rights
and put profit over people and the planet... We can hold multinational
corporations worldwide accountable for the climate crisis," he said in a
statement.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The case is one of a series around the world in which
citizens and campaigners frustrated with inaction on climate change have hauled
governments and big polluters before the courts.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2i53iz9AiQk/YK6eJ3Or4QI/AAAAAAACTms/z4wRLNxFd-QlZGfARO8nbXY3aaaEFu6ogCLcBGAsYHQ/s705/e9305edbe468e47eaf290766f3a5ca0a.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="468" data-original-width="705" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2i53iz9AiQk/YK6eJ3Or4QI/AAAAAAACTms/z4wRLNxFd-QlZGfARO8nbXY3aaaEFu6ogCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h265/e9305edbe468e47eaf290766f3a5ca0a.webp" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;">The judge acknowledged that Shell had 'already
tightened up its goals' but said <br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">its climate policy was not 'concrete'</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">'Full of reservations'</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Dozens of climate marchers handed in the lawsuit to
Shell's headquarters in the Netherlands in The Hague in April 2019 in what
organisers said was the first case of its kind.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shell had argued that it is making serious efforts to
cut gas emissions, but that there is no legal basis for the case and that
governments are responsible for meeting Paris targets.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It said it was investing billions of dollars in
low-carbon energy such as electric vehicle charging, hydrogen, renewables and
biofuels.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The judge acknowledged that Shell had "already
tightened up its goals" but said its climate policy was "not concrete
and is full of reservations."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Shell's emissions were "greater than those of
many countries" and the resulting climate change effects pose
"serious risks to human rights, such as the right to life and an undisturbed
family life," the judge said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">She ordered Shell to make the emissions cut based on
its 2019 levels.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Campaigners have repeated the success of a case
brought by the green group Urgenda in which the Dutch Supreme Court in 2019
ordered the state to slash emissions by at least 25 percent of 1990 levels by
the end of 2020.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Netherlands, particularly vulnerable to climate
change as a third of the country is below sea level, has pledged to reduce CO2
emissions by 49 percent by 2030.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It is sixth biggest emitter of greenhouse gases per
capita in the EU, according to the bloc's figures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><b><span>Related Article:</span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.com/2018/10/appeal-court-upholds-urgenda-ruling.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: arial;">Appeal court upholds Urgenda ruling – government must cut CO2 by 25%</span></a></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><a href="https://cempaka-belanda.blogspot.com/2015/09/dutch-government-to-appeal-court-ruling.html" target="_blank">Dutch government to appeal court ruling on emissions cuts</a></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="http://cempaka-green.blogspot.nl/2015/06/dutch-government-ordered-to-cut-carbon.html" target="_blank">Dutch government ordered to cut carbon emissions in landmark ruling</a><br /><br /></b></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hHUJU0M-5JY/VYr29qCiPdI/AAAAAAABv2k/sSKSlMYtqGM/s1600/be8eee9f-8135-48dd-949a-0e2dd5af3192-1020x612.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hHUJU0M-5JY/VYr29qCiPdI/AAAAAAABv2k/sSKSlMYtqGM/s400/be8eee9f-8135-48dd-949a-0e2dd5af3192-1020x612.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Urgenda supporters celebrate at the Hague after court ruling requiring Dutch </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">government to slash emissions. Photograph: Chantal Bekker/Urgenda</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-84206033775490698472021-04-29T03:04:00.004+07:002021-04-29T03:31:36.683+07:00“A Plea to Scientists” – (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll)<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="http:https://www.kryon.com/CHAN2020/k_channel20_plea.html//Kryon.com" target="_blank"><b>Kryon.com</b></a>, October 11, 2020</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>This live channelling was streamed live for the
Lemurian Starseed Gathering</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><i></i></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lvpyqi6KgxY/YImyn3QE5zI/AAAAAAACTjs/cf8epv5JSSECpJkt5LYBGBqO42Em3U4qgCLcBGAsYHQ/s183/Lee%2BCarroll%2B150.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="150" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lvpyqi6KgxY/YImyn3QE5zI/AAAAAAACTjs/cf8epv5JSSECpJkt5LYBGBqO42Em3U4qgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/Lee%2BCarroll%2B150.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Lee Carroll</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><i>To help the reader, this channelling has been
revisited [by Lee and Kryon] to provide even clearer understanding. Sometime
information is even added or condensed. Often what happens live has implied
energy within it, which carries a kind of communication that the printed page
does not. So enjoy this enhanced message which was streamed live for.</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Questions have always been asked, <i>“When you channel,
is the entity being channelled [Kryon] aware enough to know where you are? Does
Spirit know what’s going on, or does channelling represent some kind of a
disconnect, like somehow you bring in the entity from the other side of the
veil and it is in a kind of a bubble of sacred reality and doesn’t know what
you are experiencing?”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This entire question comes from misinformation and a
perception of how God [Creative Source] sees you. The beautiful, magnificent
truth is this: Known by God you are, in a way that you can’t truly imagine.
<i>Known by God</i> means that all the things you are going through are felt and known.
And the beauty of this is that it’s not just the difficulties, dear ones.
Spirit is not here just to help you through difficulties. Spirit is here to
celebrate all life experiences with you, and I want you to know that! When it’s
time to laugh, do you realize just how healing and comforting that is? Don’t
you feel the smiling creative energy of mother/father God with you when you
laugh? When you are celebrating something specifically wonderful for you or for
others, and you’re in that space where you’re relaxing and having a wonderful
time … we are there.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Spirit is right next to you, 24/7. Spirit loves you
and, in those times when you’re needing help, that’s when the outstretched hand
of Spirit will be there. If you choose to take it, that’s the free will that we
speak of all the time. There are so many who have been trained out of this
reality! They would believe they have to figuratively climb stairs or go to a
certain place or say certain words or behave in a certain way so the Creator
will pay attention or listen to them or grant a wish. That idea is completely
and totally man-made, dear ones. It comes from your own hierarchical structure
of how you might speak to your own royalty or Human leadership … as in how many
officials you’d have to go through in order to talk to the boss. That’s not the
way it is with Spirit. There is no hierarchy, only love. That Creative Source,
which created the Universe and the heavens and all that you see, knows your
name – knows your name.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">CHANGES ARE COMING</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Something is happening on this planet that will change
the way you think. We have said this before. We have told you there will be the
opening of enhanced knowledge, and part of that opening would be the revelation
of the validity of multidimensional energies being part of everyday science.
You might even call it The <i>Multidimensional Effect.</i> I want to discuss this very
thing, and more.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Humanity thinks a certain way, and often, it does so
for protection. It’s an unconscious perception of being protected from false things
and relates to social survival. It comes from a long-term consistency of things
being a certain way on the planet and, therefore, accurate and correct. So far
so good.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are many hidden biases, however, even among
those who say they are unbiased, and it happens because of actual, unconscious
training that a Human receives from birth. It happens because those you respect
and love taught you certain things and showed you how things work in your
culture. This would include what you learn from your family while growing up,
then school, your church, and what you learn from peer relationships.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">However, over time and revelation, if you find proof
that some of those things are very different from what you learned, there is
often a confusion of logic and even dysfunction. Whereas many now see the
reality of a revealed truth, they do not wish to participate in it. Instead,
they want to stay with what they were told, even if it has proven to be false
or incomplete. To do otherwise would almost be a betrayal of those who did
their best to teach them this truth. So, there are many hidden biases in many
areas, especially that of science.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">THE BALANCED PHYSICIST</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I’d like to introduce you to the balanced physicist.
Those who come out of high physics know right from the beginning that there is
so much more to reality than what the planet knows. There is much that is not
revealed yet. There is an acknowledgment that science doesn’t yet know
everything, and they see profound experiments that have results that they don’t
fully understand. From the beginning, even in the teaching of physics, they see
classic examples of things that don’t work the way they should in 3D. The
double-slot experiment of light is a good example. This is a very simple and
old experiment showing that light can be in two places at once. It also asks a
question about particles vs. waves and the mystery of when the change from one
to another occurs.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is something students of physics learn in their
first courses. It opens a door in their teaching that comes from their
teachers: <i>“We don’t know everything, so whatever we teach you is only what we
believe we know today.”</i> A good, balanced physicist will always acknowledge that
there is a great deal that humanity doesn’t yet know. These scientists are very
interested in the things they observe but cannot explain. So, in that, there is
full acknowledgment that there is much to learn about how things work.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Now, most of you will say that this is a very good
thing, especially for a high science like physics. However, even with this
great attitude toward the unknown, there is a bias: <i>“Don’t mess with the
current laws of physics.”</i> In other words, these laws of physics are golden.
They work and have been proven time and time again. Among such scenarios are
the laws of Newton and Kepler. These gravitational rules from these sources
have worked for decades in some of the most highly developed science on the planet,
such as space exploration. Those formulas have allowed humanity to leave this
planet with probes, land on other planets, and even land on asteroids! That is
the absolute validation of Newton and Kepler, and that the formulas are proven,
in stone, and they never change … and they work.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">THE CHALLENGE</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Here comes a scientist with news: <i>“I’ve got evidence
of a new law that would be very different from what Newton said.”</i> What do you
think would be the reaction from science? Would it be? <i>“Wow, tell me more!”</i> No.
Instead, what they might do … and what they did, is to slam the door hard, and
say <i>“What we know, works well, so don’t bother us with anything else.”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">This is the exact scenario that happened in the 1970s
with Astronomer <b>Vera Rubin</b>. Her discovery was called “a problem” because her
ten-year galactic measurement findings did not follow the known laws of gravity
as described by Newton and Kepler. So, rather than enhance those established
laws, scientists said there obviously had to be more gravity that affected
them. So, they invented “Dark Matter” to make things fit. The thought that
perhaps they should alter those sacred laws did not occur to them. Later, <b>Rubin</b>
objected and didn’t accept dark matter at all. She believed she had discovered
a new theory of “gravitational attraction at large distances.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">So, in one area, they are saying, <i>“Tell me more
because we don’t have the answers,”</i> and in another area, they are saying,
<i>“Don’t touch what we have learned.”</i> This is classic and is common. What you’re
taught in school, physicist, doctor, is then what you cognize for life as “The
way of it” and nothing can change it.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">ADVICE TO SCIENTISTS</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">My advice to any man or woman of science is this: The
laws that you’ve learned, the things that you know, consider them as the primer
science of your reality. When certain other things are revealed that seem to
change these ideas, understand that they do not negate what you’ve learned.
Rather, they enhance it and make the laws bigger and more complete. New
findings will make current understandings more profound and more elegant than
they were.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">In Rubin’s case, what if the laws of Newton and Kepler
were just the basic ones? What if they are simply the default? What if these
basic laws change with dimensional awareness? What if, as you study the
Universe, you find out there is something you can do that can actually alter
these laws? Would you then object as you do now? Physicist, would you alter
mass if you could, thereby changing the laws around it that you learned? Most
of you would say, <i>“Of course we wouldn’t object. It’s science. BUT.. you can’t
alter mass.”</i> Really? Who told you that? What is mass itself was simply a
default, and was alterable?</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">There are discoveries to be made that will take what
is known now from Newton and Kepler and bring it to the next step using
multidimensional energies. This would result in keeping what you’ve learned,
but then enhancing it to relate to a larger reality than you knew existed. You
might think this would be very exciting to science, but the unconscious biases
keep an entire planet of physicists from straying away from what they learned.
That is what we speak of in these moments with you now.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">WHAT YOU SEE IS NOT COMPLETE</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Thirty-one years ago, when I started channelling
through the man in the chair before you, I presented something that has been my
mantra to you ever since: <b>You live in an energy that you feel is real, but it
is not. It is a fraction of what is actually there.</b></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><b> </b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">“Reality” for me is defined as: <i>The state of things
that actually exist in a complete form. That includes all the dimensions that
exist, including attributes of those dimensions that you don’t see or know
about yet. It includes all the unseen but sensed attributes of everything
around you. It includes all the dimensions that make up the whole of all
matter, everywhere.</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Your world is in color, but you currently are seeing
it in black and white.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">I gave you a statement some time ago that received a
lot of “pushback” [criticism] from many people. I said, <i>“The rocks are alive.
Elementals live within them, in Gaia itself, in the grid system, too.
Everything has an actual consciousness that knows you, and you call it Mother
Nature. The rocks are alive.”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Many were disappointed in this statement, since I
didn’t follow their reality. <i>“Well, now you’ve gone too far, Kryon. The rocks
are not alive. Obviously, we’ve tested them and there’s nothing there.”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Do you see the bias? Of course they are not alive if
you test them with a technology that can only reveal 4D attributes. That’s all
you have; that’s all you know. Can you test multiple shades of color with a
black and white test kit? Actually, you do <i>all the time! Then you proudly
announce the results of your black and white tests and you say, “No, it cannot
be this or that because of current scientific evidence.”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Imagine: A scientist from the 1950s comes to your town
today, testing the area for TV broadcast transmissions. He will proudly
announce: <i>“There are no transmissions for TV in your area, and only a few for
radio. The air is clear of almost all transmissions.”</i> Meanwhile, he missed all
the cellular, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, drone, satellite, and GPS location signals,
etc. He also didn’t know that, in your culture, TV no longer is transmitted the
same way as before. Are you getting the picture? (no pun intended)</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Your reality check is biased, and you’re testing color
with a black and white kit and you don’t even know it. You cannot see what you
haven’t discovered yet. So when it starts to happen, what do you do? This is
the crux of the new debates in science.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">THE TEST OF YOUR BIAS IS HERE</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Your mainstream science is going to know soon that
there are things beyond what they expected. Here is an example of how biased
humanity is: As recently as two hundred years ago, things that would show
themselves as being multidimensional were labeled as witchcraft. So, back then,
you found a reality that didn’t line up with your beliefs, and you made it
evil. That is still with you, by the way. I won’t say much more about that, but
it is part of what is coming: The more that enhanced, divine energy starts to
show itself; the more fear will be developed by those who have no idea what the
love of God looks like. The masters of old did amazing things. But if anyone
today does any of those things, it is branded as evil and is discounted as real
science. Dear ones, get ready to actually see proof of your own magnificence.
What a world you live in!</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">THE CHEMISTRY REVELATION</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Years ago, doctors and researchers started to look at
DNA differently. You know, physics and biology haven’t really been something
that your planet studies together. They are seen as separate disciplines. In
colleges, today, you see the buildings where you study the protocols, and they
are separate. The earth sciences are separated from physics, separated from
biology, etc.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">However, there is change occurring: Even in some of
the descriptions of what people study, we get a hint as to what their protocols
have become: There is starting to be an alliance between physics and medicine.
Have you heard of a quantum biologist? That is now a field of study ... and
that’s the big one. Biology has a multidimensional component. Years ago, over
thirty years ago, that was shown.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Light is seen as being multidimensional, and that is
why it can be in two places at once. Some experiments with light and DNA begin
to reveal that the DNA molecule reacts to light differently from other matter.
Some have postulated that anything that is overtly multidimensional (such as
light) will then be attracted to anything else multidimensional ... enter the
Quantum Biology study. Dear ones, DNA has a multidimensional component!</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">How many medical experts today, and those who would
teach it, would give you this information? How many professors and doctors
would say, <i>“Tell me more, because this is what we have been waiting for.”?
</i>Medicine, to this day, defaults to black and white. As complicated and pristine
you may think your biology is, it’s simply the default.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">LOOK! Allopathic medicine is born: “Push here with
this chemistry and something reacts! So, in order to cure disease, let’s invent
a chemical that pushes body chemistry the way we want.” Unfortunately, the
“push” is often not isolated to the disease, and side effects are always an
issue. It’s not a good system, but it’s the main one, until now.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">If you start to understand the multidimensionality
concept of your biology, you realize that certain energies can also affect
disease, Innate and the overall body intelligence. In the last twenty years,
new studies also have revealed that consciousness must be considered “energy.”
Therefore, consciousness may be a healing modality… a big one.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">How long has homeopathy been with you? Homeopathy, in
general, has been dismissed by the American Medical Association as something
that “doesn’t work.” [JAMA – October 2009] The report says it can’t work. (Here
we go again!) <i>Basically, the report says that tests have shown that a tincture
in a homeopathic remedy has too few parts per million to create any chemical
reaction. </i>Therefore, your entire medical industry has debunked it. Yet, oddly
enough, for hundreds of years, and all through European history, it has worked!
How can that be? It works because it carries an energetic signal from the
remedy directly to the multidimensional portions of your biology. Your DNA sees
it, even your blood. But it has no chemical reaction. The tests are trying to
evaluate color with a black and white test.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The innate process of your body is a multidimensional
process that can be muscle-tested and will react with the energy of consciousness.
All of these things are starting to be slowly seen and used and proven and
tested. But there’s more.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">What if, in that multidimensionality of your DNA,
there are <i>patterns of energ</i>y that tell a story? This is where multidimensional
science departs completely from anything linear. It’s not simply another
chemical component of DNA. It’s not simply another part that’s linear. Instead,
it’s expansive; it tells stories; it has patterns; it holds secrets and truths.
All multidimensionality is this way, in that it is like the surface of the
ocean with a gentle wind. It all has patterns based on what is affecting it.
This is very hard to explain, since you haven’t seen it yet. It’s like a
template. It tells a story and sets a mold, more than just of the cell. It
might tell a story of your lineage and of your magnificence or even of your
creation! These are the things that will begin to be seen in the New Lemuria
[the up-coming energy of Earth], and you’re going to start seeing it in
medicine.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">A FINAL WORD</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The medical doctor who you’re about to meet [referring
to Dr. John Ryan in the conference] is a practicing physician in a busy
hospital in a busy city. He has these very multidimensional revelations we have
spoken of. He knows that the DNA carries libraries of stories for every Human
Being. If you ask him, <i>“Doctor, what has happened to all your training, which
says none of this is true?”</i> He will say: <i>“My training is valid. However, what I
have discovered goes beyond it and enhances it. My esoteric discoveries do not
void what I’ve learned. They magnify it.”</i></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><i> </i></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">These are some of the things I am telling you to look
for.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Men and women of science, may I say this to you? “Be
open for things you don’t expect. There is more here than you know. Do not hold
on to what you have been taught in the past as the ultimate and absolute truth
of everything forever. For what you have been trained for will not be erased or
voided or seen to be bad. Instead, all that you know will be seen simply as the
elementary building blocks of so much more! Be open to ‘the rest of the story.’
If you are, you’ll find yourself right in the middle of a new and more complete
science … and that’s the beauty of the New Lemuria.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">And so it is.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">KRYON</span></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Related Article:<br /></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b><b style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://cempaka-green.blogspot.com/2016/12/vera-rubin-pioneering-astronomer-dies.html" target="_blank">Vera Rubin, pioneering astronomer, dies at 88</a></b></b></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-78418998446468540712020-10-20T02:12:00.002+07:002020-10-20T02:12:41.375+07:00Dutch to phase out subsidies for wood-fired power stations <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/10/dutch-to-phase-out-subsidies-for-wood-fired-power" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, October 19, 2020 </span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o0ptQAcxKSE/X43kYdYa8NI/AAAAAAACTMs/ylJESDwySKo4Vebo_o5XhBaf8SyWGLvaACLcBGAsYHQ/s500/biomass-waiting-to-be-burned.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="334" data-original-width="500" height="268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o0ptQAcxKSE/X43kYdYa8NI/AAAAAAACTMs/ylJESDwySKo4Vebo_o5XhBaf8SyWGLvaACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h268/biomass-waiting-to-be-burned.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Depositphotos.com</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The government is
planning to phase out the use of subsidies for power stations which are powered
by biomass, or which generate heat for city heating schemes. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Biomass is
predominantly made up of wood chips and vegetable and fruit waste, but has come
under fire as a source of fuel because of both <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/10/biomass-fired-electricity-plants-are-more-polluting-than-coal-report/" target="_blank">high levels of carbon emissions</a>
and the over-use of wood, some of which is <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/10/green-energy-dutch-government-subsidises-shipping-wood-from-us-to-burn-in-power-plants/" target="_blank">imported from the US</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The agreement
decision to phase out the use of subsidies was taken at Friday’s cabinet
meeting because there are, ministers agree, enough greener alternatives for
generating both electricity and heat. This would be on condition the
alternatives are both achievable and affordable, economic affairs minister Eric
Wiebes has told MPs in a briefing. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The government will decide when subsidies
should be phased out by the end of the year and has asked the environmental
assessment agency PBL for its recommendations. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The PBL had said in January that
the use of biomass may be unavoidable if the Netherlands is to meet the EU
targets on energy neutrality.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Without
using biomass, the Netherlands will have to install wind turbines and solar panels
more quickly than it is currently doing, and other difficult choices will have
to be made, the PBL said. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In total, 628 biomass installations in the
Netherlands will get some €11.4bn in subsidies over the next few years, the AD
reported earlier. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><b>Vattenfall </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">In June, Swedish state-owned energy company
Vattenfall said it had decided to postpone plans to build the Netherlands’
biggest biomass fired power station because of the ongoing discussion about how
green biomass actually is. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The plant was to be built in Diemen on the outskirts
of Amsterdam, but both locals and the town council have major doubts about the
project. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The first step in finalising the decision involves the Dutch
government giving clarity about its plans and the role of biomass in reaching
climate change targets, the company said. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The government’s advisory body SER
has also recommended that subsidies for biomass power be <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/07/ser-signals-end-for-biomass-subsidies-calls-for-speedy-phasing-out/" target="_blank">phased out</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Despite
the subsidy decision, the government ‘remains convinced that the use of biomass
is necessary in the transition to a climate neutral and circular economy by
2030 and 2050.’</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-3581109072782756582020-10-20T01:45:00.006+07:002020-10-20T01:45:50.734+07:00Unilever's makeover: 'Woke-washing' or the real thing<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/10/19/unilevers-makeover-woke-washing-or-the-real-thing.h" target="_blank">J</a><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/10/19/unilevers-makeover-woke-washing-or-the-real-thing.h" target="_blank">akarta Post – AFP</a>, Sara Magniette, The Hague,
Netherlands, October 19, 2020</span></span></p><p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UULWPS7smuo/X43dwPbOHtI/AAAAAAACTMU/QPW9euDemJsOLzXmYLese7Aq-E5QKTEuwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/2020_10_19_106074_1603093387._large.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="1024" height="264" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UULWPS7smuo/X43dwPbOHtI/AAAAAAACTMU/QPW9euDemJsOLzXmYLese7Aq-E5QKTEuwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h264/2020_10_19_106074_1603093387._large.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="text-align: left;">A picture taken on June 5, 2015 shows the logo of Unilever at the <br />headquarters in Rotterdam. (AFP/John Thys)</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: arial;">U<span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-US">nilever, the maker of brands ranging from Ben &
Jerry's ice cream to Dove soap, is trying to win over customers with a socially
responsible makeover, but activists say that some of it is just cosmetic.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The Anglo-Dutch consumer giant has introduced a series
of initiatives aimed at making it, in its own words, the world's most sustainable
company, while also taking a position on issues such as racism.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">The firm, which releases third quarter results this
week, has recently promised to halve its use of plastic by 2025, eliminate the
use of fossil fuels in cleaning products by 2030, and achieve carbon neutrality
by 2039.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">But the multinational behind Marmite yeast spread,
Lipton tea and Knorr soups is "still a big polluter", says Meike
Rijksen, campaigner for plastic at Greenpeace Netherlands.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"We recognize that Unilever is doing more than
most companies, but it is by far not enough," she told AFP.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Unilever remains the fourth biggest producer of
plastics polluting the planet, behind Coca-Cola, Nestle and Pepsico, according
to a report in 2019 by Break Free from Plastics, a global coalition of NGOs.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Greenpeace urged the firm to invest in renewable
materials across its activities and to eliminate single-use plastics.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Read also: <a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/09/02/unilever-to-drop-fossil-fuels-from-cleaning-products-by-2030.html" target="_blank">Unilever to drop fossil fuels from cleaning
products by 2030</a></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2020/09/02/unilever-to-drop-fossil-fuels-from-cleaning-products-by-2030.html" target="_blank"> </a></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">'Take action'</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Unilever has argued that "responsible"
corporate behavior is good business, since it will attract young, more
environmentally-conscious customers.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"We make sure that our brands take action on the
issues that consumers care about," Marlous den Bieman, media relations
manager for Unilever Benelux, told AFP.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Chief executive Alan Jope has himself said that
"woke-washing is beginning to infect our industry", warning against
companies promising action on social and environmental causes without following
through.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Unilever was one of the first major firms to joint a
boycott on advertising on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in the US until the
end of 2020 due to the "polarized election period" there.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">That same month Unilever said its Indian and
Bangladeshi arms would rename their locally marketed "Fair &
Lovely" skin-lightening cream in the face of the global "Black Lives
Matter" protests.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Meanwhile the group has also been adding some more
"green" to its stable of 400 brands.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">It has recently bought the eco-friendly US detergent
maker The Laundress and the Dutch "vegetarian butcher" De
Vegetarische Slager.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Climate action is mainstreaming, and companies
prioritizing it today can gain a competitive advantage," said Steven Tebbe
of CDP, a London-based organization which runs a platform for companies and
cities to share environmental information.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><b>Read also: <a href="https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2020/06/25/unilever-rivals-mull-changes-amid-global-backlash-against-skin-lightening-products.html" target="_blank">Unilever, rivals mull changes amid globalbacklash against skin-lightening products</a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">'Broken system'</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Not only consumers, but also investors and big
corporate buyers are increasingly expecting companies to be transparent and
take more urgent responsibility for their environmental impacts," Tebbe
told AFP.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Unilever has also announced a zero-deforestation
policy and a "responsible" method of choosing suppliers for meat,
palm oil and soya, three products notorious for contributing to the problem.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Their commitment to environmental disclosure and
ambitious emissions target shows that climate action is deeply integrated into
their overall strategy," Tebbe said.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">Greenpeace, however, feared that Unilever was
effectively "greenwashing" its image.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">"Their whole business model is still based on
environmental destruction. In the meantime, they are being praised
internationally for their action on sustainability -- that is worrying,"
said Meike Rijksen.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">As one of the world's biggest producers of food and
consumer goods, Unilever had to set a genuine example in bringing about a
"fundamental change in the broken system."</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"They can and they should take this
responsibility," added Rijksen.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-19179208780607068152020-09-14T02:22:00.003+07:002020-09-14T02:22:59.957+07:00Dutch will press ahead with controversial carbon tax for industry: FD <span style="background-color: white; color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/09/dutch-will-press-ahead-with-controversial-carbon-tax-for-industry-fd/" target="_blank">DutchNews</a>, September 12, 2020 </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The cabinet is pressing ahead with plans to introduce a carbon tax on industry, and the measure is included in the 2021 budget which will be presented to MPs on Tuesday, the <a href="https://fd.nl/economie-politiek/1357026/kabinet-komt-toch-nog-zeer-spoedig-met-de-omstreden-co-heffing-voor-de-industrie" target="_blank">Financieele Dagblad</a> reported on Saturday. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Officials had <a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/04/dutch-to-delay-carbon-tax-for-industry-because-of-coronavirus-fd/" target="_blank">suggested earlier</a> that the tax would be delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic and the reluctance to saddle industry with an extra tax. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">However, junior tax minister Hans Vijlbrief told European finance ministers in Berlin on Saturday that the Netherlands would be pressing ahead with the measure and that he hoped other EU countries might make the same move, the FD said. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This, he said, would prevent Dutch companies moving their more polluting activities to other EU countries to avoid the tax. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The carbon tax is one of the most sensitive parts of the government’s plans to help realise the Paris climate targets and companies such as Tata Steel, Yara and Dow Chemical have already said the measure will damage their competitiveness. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Aviation </b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Vijlbrief also told EU ministers that the Netherlands is still planning to bring in a t<a href="https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2020/03/dutch-to-press-ahead-with-e7-tax-levy-on-all-airline-tickets/" target="_blank">ax on flying in 2021</a>, the paper said. However, he said, he would look again at the date of January 1, given the impact of coronavirus on the aviation industry. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">‘On the other hand, what is a good moment?’ he said. ‘This is a form of transport which is not taxed in any way whatsoever.’ </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark and Bulgaria have already said they supported the Dutch call for an EU tax on flying. 8</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-24674870981963391622020-08-27T03:20:00.000+07:002020-08-27T03:20:08.484+07:00World's biggest rooftop greenhouse opens in Montreal<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/worlds-biggest-rooftop-greenhouse-opens-014025121.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>,
Sebastien St-Jean, August 26, 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Lufa Farms just opened what it says is the world's largest commercial rooftop <br />greenhouse, seen in this aerial photo in Montreal</span></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Building on
a new hanging garden trend, a greenhouse atop a Montreal warehouse growing
eggplants and tomatoes to meet demand for locally sourced foods has set a
record as the largest in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not an
obvious choice of location to cultivate organic vegetables -- in the heart of
Canada's second-largest city -- but Lufa Farms on Wednesday inaugurates the
facility that spans 160,000 square feet (15,000 square meters), or about the
size of three football fields. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The
company's mission is to grow food where people live and in a sustainable
way," spokesman Thibault Sorret told AFP, as he showed off its first
harvest of giant eggplants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is the
fourth rooftop greenhouse the company has erected in the city. The first, built
in 2011 at a cost of more than Can$2 million (US$1.5 million), broke new
ground.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since then,
competitors picked up and ran with the novel idea, including American Gotham
Greens, which constructed eight greenhouses on roofs in New York, Chicago and
Denver, and French Urban Nature, which is planning one in Paris in 2022.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A local
Montreal supermarket has also offered since 2017 an assortment of vegetables
grown on its roof, which was "greened" in order to cut greenhouse gas
emissions linked to climate change.</span></span><br />
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are viewed at Lufa Farms, a company that just opened what it says</span></span></div>
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world's largest commercial rooftop greenhouse in Montreal<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Mohamed Hage and his wife Lauren Rathmell, an American from neighboring
Vermont, founded Lufa Farms in 2009 with the ambition of "reinventing the
food system."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At Lufa, about
100 varieties of vegetables and herbs are grown year-round in hydroponic
containers lined with coconut coir and fed liquid nutrients, including lettuce,
cucumbers, zucchini, bok choy, celery and sprouts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bumblebees
pollinate the plants, while wasps and ladybugs keep aphids in check, without
the need for pesticides.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Enough
vegetables are harvested each week to feed 20,000 families, with baskets
tailored for each at a base price of Can$30.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
company's "online market" also sells goods produced by local partner
farms including "bread, pasta, rice, etcetera," Sorret said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the
ground floor of the new greenhouse, a huge distribution center brings together
nearly 2,000 grocery products for offer to "Lufavores," including
restaurants.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Catherine Bonin tells AFP she loves the freshness of the produce but laments
that some items are always out of stock. "I can never get peppers,"
she says.</span></span><br />
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doubled during pandemic</b></span></span></div>
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are now able to feed almost two percent of Montreal with our greenhouses and
our partner farms," said Sorret.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The
advantage of being on a roof is that you recover a lot of energy from the
bottom of the building," allowing considerable savings in heating, an
asset during the harsh Quebec winter, he explains. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We
also put to use spaces that were until now completely unused," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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automated, the new greenhouse also has a water system that collects and reuses
rainwater, resulting in savings of "up to 90 percent" compared to a
traditional farm.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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"more than doubled" its sales during the new coronavirus pandemic, a
jump attributable "to contactless delivery from our online site,"
says Sorret.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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since 2016, the private company now employs 500 people, around 200 more than
before the pandemic, according to him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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currently working on the electrification of its fleet of delivery trucks and is
in the process of exporting its model "to different cities around the
world," starting with Canada and the United States, Sorret said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a little crazy," he recalls, is that none of the founders "had grown
a tomato in their life" before opening the business.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-30308928843985107342020-08-19T03:50:00.002+07:002020-08-27T03:21:55.943+07:00High-tech farmers sow seeds of revolution in Dubai desert<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/high-tech-farmers-sow-seeds-015431609.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Shatha Yaish, August 18, 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Al-Badia market garden farm produces an array of vegetable crops in multi-storey format, <br />carefully controlling light and irrigation as well as recycling 90 percent of the water it uses</span></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An ultra-modern vertical farm in the middle of the
desert stands as a testament to Dubai's determination to spark a "green
revolution" to overcome its dependence on food imports.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Al-Badia market garden farm produces an array of
vegetable crops in multi-storey format, carefully controlling light and
irrigation as well as recycling 90 percent of the water it uses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It's a green revolution in the middle of the
desert," the farm's director Basel Jammal tells AFP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Each plant is given the amount of light,
humidity, heat and water it needs. It's as if it were a guest in a five-star
hotel," he says.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted global supply
chains, has refocused attention on food security in the United Arab Emirates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The UAE is rich in oil and ingenuity, but has little
arable land and endures dry, baking summers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That was not an issue decades ago when the area was
sparsely inhabited by Bedouins.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The UAE's need to address its over-reliance on imports
has inspired other </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">strategies, including stockpiling and high-tech agriculture<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the wealth generated by oil discoveries since the
1970s sent expatriates flocking to the UAE. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dubai now has more than 3.3 million inhabitants of 200
nationalities, relies largely on expensive desalinated water, and its food needs
have grown and diversified.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>'Choices for the future'</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dubai, like the other six emirates that make up the
UAE, is heavily dependent on imports, which make up 90 percent of its food
needs according to official statistics. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Produce arrives from all over the world by air and at
Dubai's state-of-the-art port, stocking supermarkets with a range that compares
favourably to those of any Western capital.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But in a region where geopolitical tensions with
nearby Iran frequently threaten to boil over, long-term food security and
self-sufficiency are key goals.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More than a decade ago, the UAE began buying or
leasing agricultural land abroad, mainly in east Africa, to lock in supply even
in times of crisis.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Abdellatif al-Banna is an independent farmer joining
the innovation drive, </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">growing pineapples in greenhouses using hydroponics and
selling his production </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">via an internet platform</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Problems on the ground including political instability
led it to look towards Australia and Eastern Europe.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the need to address its over-reliance on imports
has inspired other strategies including stockpiling and high-tech agriculture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jammal says his model farm where everything is
controlled by computers, is a "choice for the future".</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We no longer want to depend on imports. We want
to produce locally, all year round, without worrying about climate change,
rainfall or drought," he says.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like Al-Badia, a number of farms are springing up in
Dubai and less-developed areas like Al-Ain and the mountainous emirate of Ras
al-Khaimah. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Abdellatif al-Banna is another independent farmer
joining the innovation drive, growing pineapples in greenhouses using
hydroponics -- without soil -- and selling his production via an internet
platform.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Not far from Dubai's coastline and glitzy skyscrapers,
several farms raise cows </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">in air-conditioned sheds that help provide the local
market with dairy products<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At his farm in Al-Awir, Banna also experiments with
growing fruits, vegetables and even wheat in the cooler months -- producing
enough grain for his family in what he hopes is a prototype. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Elsewhere, not far from Dubai's coastline and glitzy
skyscrapers, several farms raise cows in air-conditioned sheds that help
provide the local market with dairy products.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And in vast tanks overseen by a control room that
duplicates Norway's sunrises and sunsets, salmon are being farmed in tanks,
despite searing heat outside.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Free of shortages</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Such farms are often private ventures but are actively
encouraged by Emirati authorities, said Omar Bouchehab, who chairs Dubai's Food
Security Committee. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Authorities have launched a plan to raise domestic
agricultural production by 15 percent by 2021 and boost the use of agricultural
technologies, he said.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, while many
developed cities saw shelves stripped of pasta, tinned goods and toilet rolls,
Dubai did not experience any shortages in fresh produce or staples.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks to airborne cargo services via giant carrier
Emirates, which repurposed passenger seats to boost capacity, Dubai was even
able to ensure the re-export of various food products to its neighbours. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the Fresh Market, a large wholesale enterprise,
workers busily transported and stored tonnes of imported fresh food. Executive
director Redha al-Mansouri was upbeat about the emirate's food security.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Dubai has an adequate infrastructure and a stock
capable of meeting the needs of the United Arab Emirates, and even the needs of
neighbouring countries," he said.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-80253338236078608962020-08-18T03:16:00.000+07:002020-08-18T03:16:01.446+07:00Scorching temperature in US's Death Valley could be global high<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/scorching-temperature-uss-death-valley-135311620.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Ivan Couronne, August 17, 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A new scorching temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees Celsius) <br />recorded in California's Death Valley could be the highest ever recorded, US officials say</span></span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54.4 degrees
Celsius) recorded in California's Death Valley on Sunday by the US National
Weather Service could be the hottest ever measured with modern instruments,
officials say.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The reading was registered at 3:41 pm at the Furnace
Creek Visitor Center in the Death Valley national park by an automated
observation system -- an electronic thermometer encased inside a box in the
shade.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 1913, a weather station half an hour's walk away
recorded what officially remains the world record of 134 degrees Fahrenheit
(56.7 degrees Celsius). But its validity has been disputed because a
superheated sandstorm at the time may have skewed the reading.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The next highest temperature was set in July 1931 in
Kebili, Tunisia, at 131 degrees Fahrenheit (55.0 degrees Celsisus) -- but
again, the accuracy of older instruments has been questioned by some weather
historians.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In 2016 and 2017, weather stations in Mitribah, Kuwait
and Turbat, Pakistan recorded temperatures of 129.2 degrees Fahrenheit (54
degrees Celsius). After evaluation by the World Meteorological Organization
both were downgraded by a few fractions of a degree.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization
said Monday it would start the process to verify the new US reading.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This observed high temperature is considered
preliminary and not yet official," said the US National Weather Service.</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The sensor that recorded a temperature of 130 degrees
Fahrenheit </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(54.4 degrees Celsius) on August 16, 2020 in Death Valley National
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Heating up</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dan Berc, an official at the Las Vegas NWS office
responsible for the site, told AFP that the sensor would be brought in for
evaluation. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The investigation would take "at least a couple
of months," he said, adding: "Growing up as a kid, I thought 130 degrees
Fahrenheit was a really cool record."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Validation isn't a formality, and long-held records
have been thrown out after modern evaluation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For decades, the heat record was officially the 136.4
degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius) recorded in 1922 in El Azizia, now
modern Libya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But a WMO panel that investigated it in detail between
2010 and 2012 stripped it of the title after finding multiple troubling aspects
including a potential problem with the thermometers and an inexperienced
observer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The southwestern United States is currently enduring
an intense heat wave, which scientists say are becoming more frequent and
dangerous because of human-driven climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Worldwide, the five hottest years in history have
occurred in the last five years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nations committed to
limit temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6
Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, mainly through sweeping emissions
cuts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a series of tipping points that would cause irreversible planetary heating by
the end of the century, making vast swaths of the planet inhospitable for human
and animal life.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-17584731353693496442020-08-14T03:16:00.003+07:002020-08-14T03:16:38.145+07:00Wind and solar power at record high in 2020, coal dips: analysis<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://sg.news.yahoo.com/wind-solar-power-record-high-001136537.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, Patrick GALEY, 13 August 2020</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Despite a near-record drop in power demand due to the pandemic, renewables' <br />share of the electricity mix was up 14 percent compared to the same period last year</span></span></td></tr>
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electricity in the first half of 2020 as the world's coal plant fleet ran at
less than half its capacity, analysis published Thursday showed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Despite a near-record drop in power demand due to the
pandemic, renewables accounted for 1,129 terawatt-hours in January-June,
compared with 992 in the first six months of 2019, according to a report by the
Ember energy think tank.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Overall, the percentage of power drawn from wind and
solar has more than doubled from 4.6 percent in 2015 -- the year of the
landmark Paris deal on climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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polluting fossil fuel -- fell 8.3 percent in the first half of 2020, the
analysis showed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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share of the global coal fleet slightly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"From 2015 it's an incredible amount of growth
(in solar and wind), but even at 10 percent it's not completely
transformational," Dave Jones, senior electricity analyst at Ember, told
AFP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"When we ask is it enough what we are really
talking about is, how fast are emissions falling? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Thirty percent of fossil fuel emissions globally
are just from coal power plants, so coal fired power generation needs to
collapse quickly in order to limit climate change," said Jones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The analysis showed that many major economies --
including China, the United States, India, Japan, Brazil and Turkey -- now
generate at least 10 percent of their electricity through wind and solar. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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particular praise, deriving 21 and 33 percent of their power from renewables,
respectively.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Under the Paris Agreement, nations committed to limit
temperature rises to "well below" two degrees Celsius (3.6 Farenheit)
above pre-industrial levels, mainly through sweeping emissions cuts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The accord also aims for a safer cap of 1.5C of
warming. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To reach this, the United Nations says emissions must
fall 7.6 percent annually this decade. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jones said that while 30 percent of coal's decline
this year could be attributed to increased wind and solar generation, the rest
was likely due to the economic slowdown caused by COVID-19. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"A large part of this is obviously due to the
pandemic rather than long term trends and -- let's be honest -- it's not fast
enough if your target is 1.5 C," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A study published last week in Nature Climate Change
found that absent a rapid switch away from fossil fuels, the unprecedented fall
in emissions due to COVID-19 would do virtually nothing to slow climate change.
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says
that coal use needs to fall 13 percent every year this decade to keep the 1.5-C
goal in play. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">China, the world's leading polluter, reduced its coal
production just two percent so far this year despite its economic slowdown
caused by the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Where is China's plan to collapse that coal
generation by 2030?" said Jones. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-65523619838216326742020-07-31T03:10:00.000+07:002020-07-31T03:10:11.802+07:00Wild bee decline threatens major US crops: study<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20200729-wild-bee-decline-threatens-major-us-crops-study" target="_blank">France24 – AFP</a>, 29 July 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Paris (AFP) - Wild bees are worth some $1.5 billion to
key fruit and vegetable crops in North America, according to new research that
warned declines in these pollinators threatens the productivity of economically
important agriculture.</span><br />
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Department of Agriculture, comes as evidence of steep drops in insect
populations worldwide prompts fears of dire consequences for crop pollination
and natural food chains.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Researchers from several US and Canadian universities
looked at seven major fruit, vegetable and nut crops that are dependent on
pollination -- by wild bees and managed honeybees, which are often transported
around farms as hired crop pollinators.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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most economically valuable pollinators in the US, the study found wild bees
play a much greater role than has been previously acknowledged, "even in
agriculturally intensive regions".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Our findings show that pollinator declines could
translate directly into decreased yields or production for most of the crops
studied, and that wild species contribute substantially to pollination of most
study crops in major crop-producing regions," the authors said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Researchers collected data from 131 farms in the US
and parts of Canada on the prevalence of different types of bees, the amount of
pollen distributed per flower visit and crop yield.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This allowed them to estimate that the nationwide
annual production value of wild pollinators to the crops studied was over $1.5
billion, compared with $6.4 billion for honeybees -- a figure dominated by
their $4.2 billion value to almond production.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Researchers found that in six crops -- pumpkin, apple,
sweet cherry, tart cherry, blueberry and watermelon -- wild bee species
deposited on average more pollen per flower visit than honeybees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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where there were often no sign of any wild bees at all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Royal Society B, found that five out of the seven crops showed evidence that a
lack of pollinators was limiting production.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They concluded that agricultural firms would see
little benefit in investing in pesticides and fertilisers without tackling wild
pollinator declines.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Insects are the world's top pollinators -- 75 percent
of 115 top global food crops depend on animal pollination, including cocoa,
coffee, almonds and cherries, according to the UN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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that nearly half of all insect species worldwide are in decline and a third
could disappear altogether by century's end.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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extinct somewhere in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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habitat loss and pesticide use.</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-30429721953270463012020-07-22T03:35:00.001+07:002020-07-22T03:35:40.453+07:00New corporate initiatives aim for carbon neutrality<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/corporate-initiatives-aim-carbon-neutrality-154417447.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>, July 21, 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">New York (AFP) - Nine global corporations unveiled an
initiative Tuesday to step up efforts to move to a "net zero" carbon
emissions society, while Apple announced its own plan to be carbon neutral by
2030.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A new coalition including US-based Microsoft,
Germany's Mercedes-Benz AG, France's Danone and Anglo-Dutch Unilever aims to
"develop and deliver research, guidance, and implementable roadmaps to
enable all businesses to achieve net zero emissions," according to a
statement by the group.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Over the past decade, many businesses have
committed to net zero targets. It is now time to accelerate the actions needed
to achieve this essential goal," said Aron Cramer, president of the
nonprofit consultancy BSR, which will serve as the secretariat for the
initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We are now in a decisive decade, in which we
must urgently decarbonize the economy, if we are to stave off the worst impacts
of climate change."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Danish shipping giant Maersk, Brazilian personal care firm Natura & Co,
US-based Starbucks and Nike, India-based tech firm Wipro and the nonprofit
Environmental Defense Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The gap between where we are on climate change
and where we need to be continues to widen," said Fred Krupp, president of
Environmental Defense Fund.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"This new initiative holds tremendous potential
for closing these gaps. Especially if other businesses follow in the
coalition's footsteps."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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would become carbon neutral by 2030 for all its operations including
manufacturing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The California tech giant, which is already carbon
neutral for its corporate operations, said the move would mean no climate
impact for all its devices sold.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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plans to reduce emissions by 75 percent by 2030 while developing
"innovative carbon removal solutions" for the remaining 25 percent of
its comprehensive footprint.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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savannas in Kenya and a mangrove ecosystem in Colombia to remove or store
carbon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Businesses have a profound opportunity to help
build a more sustainable future, one born of our common concern for the planet
we share," said Apple chief executive Tim Cook.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Climate action can be the foundation for a new
era of innovative potential, job creation, and durable economic growth."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apple said it has commitments from over 70 suppliers
to use 100 percent renewable energy for Apple production.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As part of the effort, Apple will also establish an
"accelerator" fund to invest in minority-owned businesses to
contribute to the initiative, as part of its $100 million commitment to promote
racial equity and justice.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Guterres urged governments to make climate-friendlier action a condition for <br />bailing out airlines and others (AFP Photo/KARIM SAHIB)</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paris (AFP)
- United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday urged world leaders to
favour clean energy solutions as they pour money into their economies to save
them from a coronavirus-induced meltdown.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Governments
should exit coal, stop subsidising other fossil fuels, and pressure polluting
industries to clean up their act in exchange for bailing them out, the UN
Secretary-General told an International Energy Agency conference by video link.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Today
I would like to urge all leaders to choose the clean energy route for three
vital reasons -- health, science and economics," Guterres said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Bailout
support to sectors such as industry, aviation and shipping should be
conditioned on alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement," he said,
referring to the 2015 treaty that commits signatories to capping global warming
at 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"We
need to stop wasting money on fossil fuel subsidies and place a price on
carbon," Guterres said, adding that "coal has no place in COVID-19
recovery plans".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He also
called on investors "to demand that companies reveal transition plans to
reach net zero emissions" and said that renewables offered "three
times more jobs than the fossil fuel industry".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Governments
across the world have pledged unprecedented sums to support their economies to
cope with the fallout from COVID-19, with many politicians and NGOs calling for
green policies to become an integral part of the spending plans.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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European Parliament, for example, has urged EU governments to put "the
green deal at the core" of their proposed 750-billion-euro recovery plan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Germany,
where the government has agreed to rescue flagship airline Lufthansa, the
environment minister said that climate-friendlier policies by the airline would
be part of the deal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In
neighbouring Austria, the government made "necessary measures in terms of
climate protection" a condition for bailing out Austrian Airlines.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">".... </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">A mini ice age is coming</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Kryon, isn't that doom for the planet?"</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Many have seen the artist's rendering of major earth cities under ice and all of the other things that go very well with science fiction movies. That's simply a painting of someone's doom scenario, not reality based in the history of the cycle. If you want to know what a mini ice age is like, just flash back in history and study what took place in about <a href="http://cempaka-green.blogspot.nl/2012/01/volcanic-origin-for-little-ice-age.html" target="_blank">1650</a>. That was a mini ice age. Due to the change in the Gulf Stream (the ocean), the river Thames froze in London. Dear ones, it was cold, but it did not doom the planet. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That's a mini ice age</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's what you're facing, and I'll say it again. If you live in a cold climate, heed this advice: It's going to get colder. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Get off the grid! Within the next 15 years, find a way of producing electricity independently or in smaller groups. This can be done neighborhood-wide or separately in homes. You're going to need this, dear ones, because the grid as it exists right now all over the world is not prepared for this coming cold, and the grid will fail.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> That's not doom and gloom, that's just practical, commonly known information. Your electricity infrastructure is delicate, too delicate. Prepare for a cold spell that may last for a couple of decades. That's all it is. Technology is racing forward to allow this. Don't let your politics get in the way of your survival. ..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"... This is controversial. The planet can't just "change the water". It does it instead with a "reboot of life in the ocean" using the </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">water cycle</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. Watch for evidence of this as it occurs, and then remember this channel. This weather cycle is to refresh the life in the ocean so that everyone on the planet will have needed food from the ocean. Gaia does this by itself, has </span><a href="http://cempaka-green.blogspot.nl/2012/01/volcanic-origin-for-little-ice-age.html" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">done it before</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and it does it for a reason - so it will not stagnate.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Dear ones, indeed, you have put compromising things into the air and the water, but it has not caused this cycle. We have said for a very long time, <span style="color: red;">stop killing the environment!</span> The reason? It's going to kill you, not Gaia. Gaia is spectacularly resilient and will survive anything you do. However, it is you who may not survive if you continue polluting. All this is starting to change with your awareness, and you're starting to see this and move with it. But Humans are not causing the current weather shift. This will be known eventually.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What is happening has happened before, and it's almost like a <i>reboot</i> for the oceans and it carries a lot of dichotomous events. You're going to see reports of a <i>dying ocean</i>, but at the same time you're going to see unusual reports of too many fish and other sea life in places that were supposed to have a decline. You're going to see the life cycle of the ocean itself start to change and reboot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chief player in this renewal is a place you would not expect: Antarctica. I want you to watch for magic in Antarctica. It has always been the core of the refreshing of microbes and other kinds of life in your oceans and it's especially active during these mini ice ages. The process will cause currents under the sea to be filled with new life, delivering it to both hemispheres almost like an under-sea conveyor belt. ..."</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><a href="https://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/download_Dallas_12.html" target="_blank">"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Caroll)</a> - </b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Subjects: <a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel11_sacramento.html" target="_blank">(Old) Souls</a>, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Midpoint on 21-12-2012</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">1</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">2</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - Humans will change react to drama,</span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> 3</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - Civilizations/Population on Earth, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">4</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">- Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind),</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">5</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">6</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> - News/Media/TV to change, </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">7</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">8</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> – Wars will be over on Earth</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, Global Unity, … etc.) </span><i color="#222222" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">- <a href="http://www.kryon.com/k_channel12_Dallas.html" target="_blank">(Text version)</a></i></div>
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The natural resources of the planet are finite and will not support the continuation of what you've been doing. We've been saying this for a decade.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Watch for increased science and increased funding for alternate ways of creating electricity </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>(finally)</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Watch for the very companies who have the most to lose being the ones who fund it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It is the beginning of a full realization that a change of thinking is at hand.</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can take things from Gaia that are energy, instead of physical resources. We speak yet; <span style="color: #cc0000;">again</span> about <span style="color: #3333ff;">geothermal</span>, about <span style="color: #3366ff;">tidal</span>, about <span style="color: #3333ff;">wind</span>.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Again</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, we plead with you not to over-engineer this. For one of the things that Human Beings do in a technological age is to over-engineer simple things. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at nuclear - the most over-engineered and expensive steam engine in existence!</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your current ideas of capturing energy from tidal and wave motion don't have to be technical marvels. Think paddle wheel on a pier with waves, which will create energy in both directions [waves coming and going] tied to a generator that can power dozens of neighborhoods, not full cities. Think simple and decentralize the idea of utilities.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The same goes for wind and geothermal. Think of utilities for groups of homes in a cluster. You won't have a grid failure if there is no grid. This is the way of the future, and you'll be more inclined to have it sooner than later if you do this, and it won't cost as much…</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've told you that one of the greatest natural resources of the planet, which is going to shift and change and be mysterious to you, is fresh water. It's going to be the next <i>gold</i>, dear ones. So, we have also given you some hints and examples and again we plead: Even before the potentials of running out of it, learn how to desalinate water in real time without heat. It's there, it's doable, and some already have it in the lab. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This will create inexpensive fresh water for the planet. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The weather you have today, and all the alarming attributes of it, is a scenario of what </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was scheduled to happen on Earth anyway</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. I review again that the weather changes you are seeing prophesied by myself, 21 years ago, are not a surprise. <b>The changes are not caused by the pollutants you put in the air. You call it global warming and that's a nice phrase, and perhaps that will get you to put less pollutants in the air – </b></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a very good thing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. But what you are seeing in the weather shift today was not caused by Humans putting things into the air. It would have happened anyway in about 300 years."</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US">"Science sees that at about 1650. As mentioned, they are so slow there is no remembrance that a Human has of them except in past writings and in the rings of the trees. <b>The time span of the changes is so great that environmental record keeping does not exist in the form that it does today. But you can still look at the rings of the trees and at the striations of the rocks and can generally figure out that a few hundred years ago, you had a mini-ice age. </b></span><b>Now you're going to have another one." </b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-49204621384889927382020-07-07T03:34:00.002+07:002020-07-07T03:42:27.506+07:00Big Oil confronts possibility of terminal demand decline<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/big-oil-confronts-possibility-terminal-demand-decline-033948222.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>,
Julien MIVIELLE,</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">July 5, 2020</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Although
crude prices have rebounded from coronavirus crisis lows, oil execs and experts
are starting to ask if the industry has crossed the Rubicon of peak demand.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The plunge
in the price of crude oil during the first wave of coronavirus lockdowns --
futures prices briefly turned negative -- was due to the drop in global demand
as planes were parked on tarmacs and cars in garages.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast that average daily oil demand will
drop by eight million barrels per day this year, a decline of around eight
percent from last year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the
agency expects an unprecedented rebound of 5.7 million barrels per day next
year, it still forecasts overall demand will be lower than in 2019 owing to
ongoing uncertainty in the airline sector.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some are
questioning whether demand will ever get back to 2019 levels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I
don't think we know how this is going to play out. I certainly don't
know," BP's new chief executive Bernard Looney said in May.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
COVID-19 pandemic was in full swing then with most planes grounded and
white-collar workers giving up the commute to work from home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Could
it be peak oil? Possibly. I would not write that off," Looney told the
Financial Times.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The concept
of peak oil has long generated speculation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mostly, it
has been focused on peak production, with experts forecasting that prices would
reach astronomical levels as recoverable oil in the ground runs out.</span></span><br />
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recent months, the concept of peak demand has come into vogue, with the
coronavirus landing an uppercut into fuel demand for the transportation sector
followed by a knock-out punch from the transition to cleaner fuels.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Michael
Bradshaw, professor at Warwick Business School, said environmental groups are
already lobbying to prevent the Paris agreements becoming another casualty of
the pandemic, stressing the need for a Green New Deal for the recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"If
they are successful, demand for oil might never return to the peak we saw prior
to COVID-19," he said in comments to journalists.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The
transport sector may never fully recover, Bradshaw posited.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"After
the pandemic, we might have a different attitude to international air travel or
physically going into work," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fiction'</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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experts say we haven't reached the tipping point yet, and might not for a
while.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Many
people have said, including some CEOs of some major companies, with the
lifestyle changes now to teleworking and others we may well see oil demand has
peaked, and oil demand will go down," IEA executive director Fatih Birol
said recently.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"I
don't agree with that. Teleconferencing alone will not help us to reach our
energy and climate goals, they can only make a small dent," Firol added
while unveiling a recent IEA report.</span></span><br />
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at consulting and auditing firm E&Y dismissed as "science
fiction" the idea that a definitive drop in oil demand could suddenly
emerge.</span></div>
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a slow recovery in demand even if the coronavirus leaves the global economy
weakened.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That
weakness would also likely slow adoption of greener fuels.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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will take time for fossil fuels, which today still account for some 80 percent
of primary global consumption to face real competition" from rival energy
sources, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the oil industry could face financing challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Tucker, an analyst at Oil Change International, says the industry is now under
pressure from investors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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"a pretty big wave of restrictions on coal and some restrictions on oil
and gas, the risks to oil and gas investment right now feel a lot more
salient," she said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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industry is already writing down the value of assets to face up to the new
market reality of lower demand and prices.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Shell said this past week that it will take a $22 billion charge as it
re-evaluates the value of its business in light of the coronavirus.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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rival BP reduced the worth of its assets by $17.5 billion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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process has further to run, and we expect further large impairments to occur
across the sector," said Angus Rodger of specialist energy consultancy
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">".... </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">A mini ice age is coming</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><i style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">"Kryon, isn't that doom for the planet?"</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Many have seen the artist's rendering of major earth cities under ice and all of the other things that go very well with science fiction movies. That's simply a painting of someone's doom scenario, not reality based in the history of the cycle. If you want to know what a mini ice age is like, just flash back in history and study what took place in about <a href="http://cempaka-green.blogspot.nl/2012/01/volcanic-origin-for-little-ice-age.html" target="_blank">1650</a>. That was a mini ice age. Due to the change in the Gulf Stream (the ocean), the river Thames froze in London. Dear ones, it was cold, but it did not doom the planet. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">That's a mini ice age</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's what you're facing, and I'll say it again. If you live in a cold climate, heed this advice: It's going to get colder. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Get off the grid! Within the next 15 years, find a way of producing electricity independently or in smaller groups. This can be done neighborhood-wide or separately in homes. You're going to need this, dear ones, because the grid as it exists right now all over the world is not prepared for this coming cold, and the grid will fail.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> That's not doom and gloom, that's just practical, commonly known information. Your electricity infrastructure is delicate, too delicate. Prepare for a cold spell that may last for a couple of decades. That's all it is. Technology is racing forward to allow this. Don't let your politics get in the way of your survival. ..."</span><br />
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<b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The natural resources of the planet are finite and will not support the continuation of what you've been doing. We've been saying this for a decade.</b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Watch for increased science and increased funding for alternate ways of creating electricity </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>(finally)</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Watch for the very companies who have the most to lose being the ones who fund it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> It is the beginning of a full realization that a change of thinking is at hand.</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can take things from Gaia that are energy, instead of physical resources. We speak yet; <span style="color: #cc0000;">again</span> about <span style="color: #3333ff;">geothermal</span>, about <span style="color: #3366ff;">tidal</span>, about <span style="color: #3333ff;">wind</span>.</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Again</b></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, we plead with you not to over-engineer this. For one of the things that Human Beings do in a technological age is to over-engineer simple things. </span><b style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at nuclear - the most over-engineered and expensive steam engine in existence!</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your current ideas of capturing energy from tidal and wave motion don't have to be technical marvels. Think paddle wheel on a pier with waves, which will create energy in both directions [waves coming and going] tied to a generator that can power dozens of neighborhoods, not full cities. Think simple and decentralize the idea of utilities.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The same goes for wind and geothermal. Think of utilities for groups of homes in a cluster. You won't have a grid failure if there is no grid. This is the way of the future, and you'll be more inclined to have it sooner than later if you do this, and it won't cost as much…</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We've told you that one of the greatest natural resources of the planet, which is going to shift and change and be mysterious to you, is fresh water. It's going to be the next <i>gold</i>, dear ones. So, we have also given you some hints and examples and again we plead: Even before the potentials of running out of it, learn how to desalinate water in real time without heat. It's there, it's doable, and some already have it in the lab. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This will create inexpensive fresh water for the planet. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"The weather you have today, and all the alarming attributes of it, is a scenario of what </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">was scheduled to happen on Earth anyway</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. I review again that the weather changes you are seeing prophesied by myself, 21 years ago, are not a surprise. <b>The changes are not caused by the pollutants you put in the air. You call it global warming and that's a nice phrase, and perhaps that will get you to put less pollutants in the air – </b></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a very good thing</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. But what you are seeing in the weather shift today was not caused by Humans putting things into the air. It would have happened anyway in about 300 years."</span></b></div>
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outlining how the world can phase out the most polluting fuel while powering an
economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, a group of experts said coal
had reached a financial "tipping point" making it uncompetitive in
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faster transition from coal to clean energy is within our grasp, and we show
how to engineer that transition in ways that will save money for electricity
customers around the world while aiding a just transition for workers and
communities," said Paul Bodnar, managing director of the Rocky Mountain
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degrees Celsius (3.6 Farenheit) above pre-industrial temperatures through
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analysis found that 81 percent of the European Union's coal fleet was already
uncompetitive today -- meaning that without state support the plants would
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power is quickly facing economic obsolescence, independent of carbon pricing
and air pollution policies," said Matt Gray, managing director and co-head
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consumers and taxpayers money, but could also play a major role in the upcoming
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137830612973455584.post-46063250009248522432020-06-30T02:09:00.000+07:002020-06-30T02:09:22.085+07:00South Pole warming three times faster than rest of Earth: study<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/south-pole-warming-three-times-faster-rest-earth-150156003.html" target="_blank">Yahoo – AFP</a>,
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- The South Pole has warmed three times faster than the rest of the planet in
the last 30 years due to warmer tropical ocean temperatures, new research
showed Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Antarctica's
temperature varies widely according to season and region, and for years it had
been thought that the South Pole had stayed cool even as the continent heated
up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Researchers
in New Zealand, Britain and the United States analysed 60 years of weather
station data and used computer modelling to show what was causing the
accelerated warming.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They found
that warmer ocean temperatures in the western Pacific had over the decades
lowered atmospheric pressure over the Weddell Sea in the southern Atlantic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This in
turn had increased the flow of warm air directly over the South Pole -- warming
it by more than 1.83C (about 3.3F) since 1989.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Authors of
the research said the natural warming trend was likely boosted by manmade
greenhouse gas emissions and could be masking the heating effect of carbon
pollution over the South Pole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"While
temperatures were known to be warming across West Antarctica and the Antarctic
Peninsula during the 20th century, the South Pole was cooling," said Kyle
Clem, a researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, and lead study author.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"It
was suspected that this part of Antarctica... might be immune to/isolated from
warming. We found this is not the case any more," he told AFP.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The data
showed that the South Pole -- the most remote spot on Earth -- was now warming
at a rate of around 0.6C (1.1F) a decade, compared with around 0.2C (1.4F) for
the rest of the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The authors
of the study, published in the Nature Climate Change journal, attributed the
change to a phenomenon known as the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The IPO
cycle lasts roughly 15-30 years, and alternates between a "positive"
state -- in which the tropical Pacific is hotter and the northern Pacific is
colder than average -- and a "negative" state where the temperature
anomaly is reversed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The IPO
flipped to a negative cycle at the start of the century, driving greater
convection and more pressure extremes at high latitudes, leading to a strong
flow of warmer air right over the South Pole.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Clem said
that the 1.83C (3.3F) level of warming exceeded 99.99 percent of all modelled
30-year warming trends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the warming was just within the natural variability of climate models, it was
highly likely human activity had contributed," he said.</span></span><br />
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decided to postpone plans to build the Netherlands’ biggest biomass fired power
station because of the ongoing discussion about how green biomass actually is. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The plant is to be built in Diemen on the outskirts of Amsterdam, but both
locals and the town council have major doubts about the project. Biomass is
predominantly made up of wood chips and vegetable and fruit waste. </span><br />
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miss the nuance in the debate,’ Vattenfall Netherlands CEO Martijn Hagens said
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reaching climate change targets, he said. ‘We expect to take a final decision
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both in the Netherlands and in the US. Some experts also claim wood is more
polluting than coal, which the Dutch government is keen to phase out. </span><br />
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