Climate Letter #763

A timely warning about the prospect of worsening storms along the East coast of the US.  This was issued by a professor at Rutgers shortly before Hurricane Matthew appeared.  As the climate warms tropical storms in the Atlantic will last longer and move farther to the north, while generating more rain and wind speed.

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The new realities of the energy transformation, from the World Energy Council.  This is a pretty accurate overview of seven important matters that demand big changes is the way we recognize and manage challenges, with little room for error.  A sense of deepened “world view” is unavoidable.  What about the 1.1 billion people who still have no access to modern energy?  How do you ensure necessary cooperative governance among 200 separate sovereign nations, not to mention all the ancient divisions based on race or religion?  “A successful energy transformation calls for worldwide political and economic collaboration at an unprecedented scale.”
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The importance of changing today’s refrigeration gases.  A treaty process that would do this is well underway, with some hesitation due to cost concerns.  Gases now in use have a powerful greenhouse effect that could add up to 0.5C to global warming by 2100 if nothing is done.
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A new system for energy storage that employs molten silicon.  It appears to have a number of advantages over molten salt, but is still in an early development stage.  (A more complete explanation of this potentially exciting but unusual process would be helpful.)
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A modified map of supercontinent Pangaea before it started to break up some 175 million years ago.  This singular land mass was the home of several major climate catastrophes that created massive extinctions of plants and animals.  The main problem back then was caused by CO2 and other gases released by vast flooding of volcanic magma.
For more on the subject, I recommend this recent book by Paul Wignall:
Carl

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