Climate Letter #683

India’s monsoon season is running about one week late.  The front edge of these rains moves along a line that proceeds slowly from the southeast to northwest, as clearly detailed in this link, updated daily by the India Meteorological Department.  Great suffering has been reported in provinces, like Gujarat, which the rains have not yet reached.

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Farther north, on the Tibetan plateau, steadily rising temperatures have caused 95% of glaciers to recede, springs to dry up, and general deterioration of living conditions.
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Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is suffering from both drought and saltwater intrusion, affecting one million persons.
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An amazing new technology for capturing CO2 from power plants has been announced.  It’s amazing because of the exceptionally valuable and useful byproduct that is claimed to result, an abundance of carbon nanotubes, once the process has been scaled up successfully.  At today’s prices the byproduct would already be worth much more than the electricity produced by the plant, plus having the longer-range ability to deeply penetrate many basic markets for steel and aluminum.  The inventors do their research at George Washington University.
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Important progress has also been made toward improving the efficiency of thermoelectric materials.  “By doping a thermoelectric material with minute amounts of sulfur, a team of researchers has found a new path to large improvements in the efficiency of materials for solid-state heating and cooling and waste energy recapture.”  Advanced applications should make a real difference in several large sources of energy demand.  The inventors include several well-recognized experts in this field of science.
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-approach-efficient-thermoelectric-nanomaterials.html?
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A presentation by Kevin Anderson, mostly about the challenges involved in meeting the carbon budget following the Paris agreement.  This takes 50 minutes, packed full of information you would rather not hear.  Kevin’s ability to explain hard truths about human activity, and where it is lacking, is unequaled.
Carl

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