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Fiddlers Ferry coal-fired power station has been a landmark in the Cheshire region of north-west England since 1971. An attempt was made to k-mark the buildings, as a reminder of Britain’s industrial heritage.
The application was refused by Historic England, but now it’s gone.
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Christina Nordh
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The doomsday clock on January 24 when we came ten seconds closer to the stroke of twelve. Photo: AP
The doomsday clock is a symbolic way of telling how many minutes to midnight are left before the earth becomes uninhabitable and humanity perishes.
– When the clock strikes midnight, it means that there has been some kind of nuclear weapons exchange or catastrophic climate change that has lent humanity. We don’t want reality to get there and we won’t know when we do, Rachel Bronson, CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which annually updates the clock based on apocalyptic threats from climate crises, weapons of mass destruction and geopolitical tensions, told The Mirror.
The doomsday clock has been standing at 90 seconds at midnight since January 24 this year when it was changed from 100 seconds, but 2023 has brought several wars, natural disasters and political battles among others – a stark warning for next year.
The symbolic watch was originally created in 1947, in part by scientists and engineers involved in the Manhattan Project, the one that created the world’s first atomic bomb. In 1947, the hands of the clock stood at seven minutes to midnight.
Farthest from midnight was the Doomsday Clock in 1991 when the Cold War officially ended between the US and Russia. Then the hands read 17 minutes to midnight.
This year, the climate conference COP28 is held in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Photo: GETTY IMAGES
When the UN warns that the world is on the way to catastrophic warming of at least 2.5 degrees, doomsday feels close.
Shortly thereafter, I hear about a factory in Sweden that will manufacture ship fuel from captured carbon dioxide, and the mood turns upward.
Following the climate issue is a constant roller coaster between hope and despair.
Read Wolfgang Hansson’s column on the climate and COP28.
Christina Nordh
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Earth’s levels of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels have risen to record levels, according to a new report from the Global Carbon Project research team.
According to the new report, emissions have increased to 36.8 billion tons in 2023, an increase of 1.1 percent from last year.
It is true that emissions are decreasing in parts of Europe and the USA, but overall emissions are increasing. According to the researchers, it is now urgent to cut down on the use of fossil fuels, right now the rate of reduction is far too slow to prevent dangerous climate change.
Emissions from land-based changes, such as deforestation, are predicted to drop slightly but are too high and do not offset the new plantings that are made.
The researchers behind the report expect that the total emissions, both fossil and land-based, will land at 40.9 Show more
The Sleipner platform in the North Sea has been storing carbon dioxide deep under the seabed since 1996. Stock image. Photo: Marit Hommedal
Capturing the carbon dioxide before it leaves the chimney is described as crucial in climate change. But the hyped CCS technology faces several challenges.
1. The credibility
Many international CCS facilities are also used to be able to extract more oil and gas, by pumping carbon dioxide back into the ground. Critics believe that the oil giants can thus use capture as an excuse to continue with the extraction.
2. The transport
Many of the CCS plants in use pump the carbon dioxide into the ground in the same place where it is produced. But in the Swedish projects, the carbon dioxide must be transported away.
3. Final storage
Final storage on Swedish soil is far away, probably only at the end of the 2030s, according to SGU.
Transports across national borders are regulated in the London Protocol, and more
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The climate has been changing for 5 billion years and it will continue to change no matter what we do! The ice age has melted and there was no human impact, so tag down
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I tested this argument on a geologist this summer when I wrote about the rapid melting of the glaciers in the Alps and his answer was that they have a pretty good idea of how the melting and building up of ice masses have looked throughout the different ice ages. In several cases millions of years back. But what distinguishes the melting of the ice now, compared to before, is how fast it is going. That speed has not been seen before through the measurements of various ice sheets and glaciers.
When you travel in other countries, I feel that you deal with the need to reduce food waste by having to pay for your food based on what it weighs, for example at buffets. I never see that in Sweden. Have you written anything about reduced food waste and this measure?
Mikael
I wonder if you can provide some facts about the water level rise. I doubt that is correct as it will take several hundred years before it is really felt. It is not erosion or that sand has been mined in the area. I’m not a climate change skeptic, because the climate has always changed, but good if we can get some facts. The country rises most in Sweden, and we know that, so we are on the safe side.
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Peter
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Hello! According to the geologists I spoke to, there is no longer any land uplift in the southern and central regions of Sweden. The Authority for Community Protection and Preparedness has made technical calculations for what the rise in sea levels could mean for coastal cities in the future. You can find it here.
As long as politicians and money rule our world, it’s over.
We have to back off and live more in the countryside and get the opportunity to do that too. Industry, politics, power, money ?? Which person is worth more than 1 million kroner in salary?
Today they are grabbing billions, sick world.
GG
Is it possible to follow Klimat-live as a “subject”?
Nicholas
Thanks for reading! We are looking into it and trying to resolve this!
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The Skåne coast is identified as a national risk area for flooding and erosion – Löderup’s beach is particularly vulnerable.
– Climate change means that we have to abandon the view of what the coasts look like today, says Per Danielsson at the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute.
Kristianstad is Sweden’s lowest situated city.
New and higher dikes are now being built.
– We are doing this to protect the city against high tides and future sea level rises, says Karl Erik Svensson, project manager for the dike construction.