Electric vehicle drivers at risk by charging from home mains supply | Technology | The Guardian

An inadequate public charging infrastructure for electric vehicles in the UK is forcing drivers to take risks by opting for highly dangerous alternatives at home, an electrical safety charity has warned.

Three-quarters of those who resort to charging from their home mains supply using a domestic extension lead even admit to risky “daisy-chaining” – using multiple extension leads plugged into one another – to reach their car, according to a survey by Electrical Safety First.

It is urging the government to expand the national network of public charging points as its findings reveal the growth rate of licensed plug-in vehicles is outstripping the number of charging points available.

 

Source: Electric vehicle drivers at risk by charging from home mains supply | Technology | The Guardian

The Climate Clock: Counting down to 1.5℃ : The Conversation

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5℃ has opened a window to limit global warming to 1.5℃ above pre-industrial levels, but carbon dioxide emissions are projected to increase in 2018 for the second year in a row. If this trend continues, emissions will drive global temperatures to 1.5℃ in less than 16 years.

The Climate Clock we created shows how quickly we are approaching 1.5℃ of global warming, given current emissions trends. Here, we present our third annual update of the clock in light of the most recent scientific data, released on Dec. 5, 2018.

 

Source: The Climate Clock: Counting down to 1.5℃ : The Conversation

Global warming is making Antarctica green again, and it’s stunning | MNN – Mother Nature Network

When you think of Antarctica, you probably imagine a frigid, windswept, icy, inhospitable domain; the whitest, most barren canvas on Earth. That’s pretty much the way the Southern continent has been for at least the last 3 million years, since the last time atmospheric carbon dioxide levels approached their current levels. But times, they are a-changing.

The effects of global warming are beginning to radically alter the Antarctic landscape in some surprising ways. Scientists say it’s like looking back in time, to an epoch when this bleached terrain was actually green. Mossy mats are rapidly spreading across the thawed, exposed soils at unprecedented rates, transforming the land from a place of desolation, to a place of viridescence.

Source: Global warming is making Antarctica green again, and it’s stunning | MNN – Mother Nature Network

 

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Trump seeking quickest way to quit Paris climate agreement, says report | US news | The Guardian

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Source: Trump seeking quickest way to quit Paris climate agreement, says report | US news | The Guardian

Scientists nearly double sea level rise projections for 2100, because of Antarctica – The Washington Post

If carbon dioxide emissions continue unabated, expanding oceans and massive ice melt would threaten global coastal communities, according to new projections.

Source: Scientists nearly double sea level rise projections for 2100, because of Antarctica – The Washington Post

These Tiny Bubbles May Save the Planet

Original post from  Bloomberg Business

‘…………..In episode 4 of The Spark, carbon-absorbing nanobubbles could be the key to cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.

bySam Grobart

There are two ways to cut down on our greenhouse-gas emissions: Reduce the amount we make or limit how much of what we make actually gets into the atmosphere.

 It’s the second solution that researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory want to tackle with cute caviar-sized bubbles that can absorb carbon dioxide.

Photographer: Alan Jeffries/Bloomberg

 

The polymer bubbles are filled with the entirely pedestrian ingredient of baking soda, long known to absorb carbon dioxide, but it’s the bubbles themselves that are the breakthrough. They’re permeable, which means that CO₂ gets trapped and absorbed by the baking soda solution inside them. In theory, you could affix the bubbles to the inside of a power plant smokestack and trap the CO₂ before it is released into the atmosphere.

Photographer: Alan Jeffries/Bloomberg

 

They’re also reusable. The CO₂ can be released again by heating the bubbles in a sealed container. The released CO₂ can be kept in tanks or safely pumped back underground while the bubbles can go back into the smokestack and start their world-saving job all over again.

Bloomberg’s profile of Lawrence Livermore’s carbon-capturing technology is the latest installment of The Spark, which looks at innovators finding solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems.  ………….’