Daily News 09/04

Daily News 09/04

Global Warming Emergency Requires Emergency Global Action! To End Global Warming, the Polluters, that have Caused and Profited From Global Warming, Must be Taxed 100, for the Harm They have Done to Earth! Such a tax could be used to produce to build safe energy (wind, solar, thorium power, etc.) to end burning of fossil fuel! Right now, the alternative technology exists to build alternatives in less than 5 years!

But to complete the solution of the problem. wes must eliminate capitalism and the profit system, the cause of the global environmental crisis. Global warming is a symptom of this crisis, Capitalism the cauce!

As global demand for energy increases and access to fossil fuels decreases, we face a crisis. Nuclear power offers ecologically sound energy, but it is costly to produce and maintain. In the wake of the tragedy at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear energy seems less safe in the eyes of the public, and, as a result, some nations are veering away from nuclear energy. Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are a next-generation nuclear energy option that offer all of the benefits of traditional uranium-based nuclear energy with several key advantages.

Thorium Reactors: Solving the Global Energy Crisis

Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century

One of the greatest challenges we currently face is meeting the energy demand of our global community. We have relied on fossil fuels for energy in the past, but these fuels produce greenhouse gases that are destructive to the environment, and our supply of fossil fuels is rapidly depleting. Some ecologically conscientious energy sources have been developed: we now harvest the energies of the sun, wind, and ocean. But these solutions are not efficient enough to effectively meet our energy consumption, and cannot scale energy production with changing grid demands.

The grid demands less energy late at night when most people are asleep but uses more energy in the evening when people are home from work. Windmills, however, cannot produce energy without wind, and solar panels cannot produce energy during the night. They are, consequently, only circumstantial energy sources.

Currently, nuclear power is an energy solution that is carbon neutral and can produce energy to meet grid demand. However, it is expensive and difficult to deploy with absolute safety, as the world recently saw at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors, however, offer safer nuclear technology, and promise cheap, efficient, carbon-neutral energy [1]. Thorium is a fairly sustainable source: the supply of thorium is estimated to be able to power the planet for another thousand years. The events at Fukushima illustrate the key safety advantages of a liquid fluoride thorium reactor, primarily being that it is not explosive nor can it melt down. This article looks at the technology behind LFTRs, the advantages of LFTRs over traditional nuclear reactors, and lastly what occurred at Fukushima Daiichi and why a LFTR could have prevented such a tragedy.

On Thursday. the UN’s weather agency said the event in the Pacific was continuing to strengthen and would probably persist until early 2027, warning it had the “potential to deliver a massive blow to communities and economies across the world”. — BoM forecasts strongest El Niño on record as research points to ‘alarming’ climate change influence

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Video: Top Economist URGENT Warning: Americans Aren’t Prepared for What’s Coming The next financial crash is brewing, driven by production failures rather than just banking errors. Understand the risks. Most analysts focus on banking bubbles, but the real danger lies in the physical economy. Rising costs for necessities and disruptions to global logistics are creating a systemic fragility that traditional models fail to capture. We examine how external events like the Iran-USA war and climate patterns create a supply chain bottleneck that threatens modern stability. When we look at the broader global economy, the interaction between debt and material production becomes critical. As reserves run thin, the ability to service existing financial obligations weakens. This analysis explains how these physical constraints force an economic collapse that could reshape the financial landscape far differently than 2008.

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Global heating will hit at least 1.8C, UN warns, and there are ‘no good outcomes’ But scientists say the world could get back to 1.5C through deep, rapid emissions cuts and removing carbon from the atmosphere

Climate catastrophe risks pushing humanity towards collapse Without urgent systemic change, escalating climate breakdown risks pushing humanity beyond the point of no return, writes Dr Klaus Moegling.

UNEP Climate Overshoot Report ‘Risks Being Call to Apathy, Not to Arms’ UNEP’s report on climate overshoot comes up short of properly analysing the solutions, with little mention of a fossil fuel phase-out. … ‘However, although UNEP does a good job of describing the hole we’ve dug ourselves into, it does a poor job of showing us that there is a way out, and ultimately the report’s neglect of some fundamentally important mitigation analysis risks turning it into a call to apathy rather than a call to arms.’ Climate Analytics finds the UNEP report:

makes just a single passing reference to the need for a fossil fuel phase-out, and not a single mention of the process set in train at last year’s UN climate summit (COP30) by more than 50 countries to pursue a transition away from fossil fuels (TAFF)
sidelines analyses showing that many sectors of the economy can reach ‘real zero’ emissions by mid-century, and that if governments act with the highest possible ambition on cutting emissions now, they can halt global warming by mid-century and bring it back well below 1.5°C by the end of the century
refrains from reminding governments of their responsibility to deliver on commitments they have made in multiple international fora, notably the UN climate convention negotiations and Paris Agreement.

Accelerating and ‘essentially irreversible’ sea-level rise requires renewed climate focus CEO Bill Hare joins UN Press conference releasing a report on sea-level rise. 2026 Sea-level rise around the world is accelerating due to humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions, and the rise to-date is ‘essentially irreversible’ on human timescales. But a swift and timely switch away from fossil fuel use can constrain the rate of sea-level rise, moderating threats to the estimated 1.2 billion people at risk of flooding and other impacts. These are among the conclusions of a special report on sea-level rise commissioned by United Nations Secretary-General, published in Palau on Monday 31st August and presented during the UNSG’s daily media briefing at UN headquarters by an expert panel including Climate Analytics’ CEO Bill Hare.“Because of serial failures to reduce fossil fuel use by the world’s richest and biggest emitting countries, all coastal countries, and the small island developing states in particular, face a future of steadily rising climate impacts which in most cases they have done little to cause,” said Mr Hare…. During the panel event, Mr Hare presented evidence showing that:

the annual rate of sea-level rise has more than doubled in recent decades, accelerating from 2.1mm per year in 1992 to 4.5mm per year in 2024 – and projections indicate this will surpass 10mm per year by the end of the century
greenhouse gas emissions have made extreme sea level events four times more common since 1900
most atolls are likely to become uninhabitable by mid-century, as sea-level rise exacerbates flooding from waves
stabilising global warming at 1.5°C would not be enough to prevent sea-level rise of several metres from Antarctic ice melt, meaning that governments should aim to reduce global warming well below 1.5°C before the end of the century.

The NASA Article in My Previous Daily News Email was Also Publshed in 2024: NASA: Is it too late to prevent climate change? 2024 Humans have caused major climate changes to happen already, and we have set in motion more changes still. However, if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases today, the rise in global temperatures would begin to flatten within a few years. Temperatures would then plateau but remain well-elevated for many, many centuries. There is a time lag between what we do and when we feel it, but that lag is less than a decade. While the effects of human activities on Earth’s climate to date are irreversible on the timescale of humans alive today, every little bit of avoided future temperature increases results in less warming that would otherwise persist for essentially forever. The benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions occur on the same timescale as the political decisions that lead to those reductions. Without major action to reduce emissions, global temperature is on track to rise by 2.5°C to 4.5°C (4.5°F to 8°F) by 2100, according to the latest estimates. But it may not be too late to avoid or limit some of the worst effects of climate change. Responding to climate change will involve a two-tier approach:

UN warns of ‘irreversible damage’, even if global warming peaks at 1.5C Global temperatures are set to rise by 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and will lead to possibly permanent effects even if the damage is reversed, according to a new UN climate study. The UN environment programme’s report, published on Wednesday (2 September), highlights the damages of a temperature overshoot even in the best-case scenario of a 1.5°C peak and later decline.