Country on track reach 1,200GW of installed wind and solar capacity by end of 2024 – six years ahead of Beijing’s target
The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined, a report has found.
Research published on Thursday by Global Energy Monitor (GEM), an NGO, found that China has 180 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale solar power under construction and 15GW of wind power. That brings the total of wind and solar power under construction to 339GW, well ahead of the 40GW under construction in the US.
The researchers only looked at solar farms with a capacity of 20MW or more, which feed directly into the grid. That means that the total volume of solar power in China could be much higher, as small scale solar farms account for about 40% of China’s solar capacity.
Sitting here, sipping my coffee...thinking, as I often do, about the future.
I live in Michigan. When climate change was something "experts could be lying about" I started noticing the changes.
I spend alot of time in nature. With animals and native plants.
I am an amateur forager, science nerd. In photography, my favorite subject was mushrooms.
I noticed...that my winters began getting snow later, first. I live in the north-north. Where it is traditionally colder for longer and my warm seasons are shorter (zone 3 and 4).
Winter wouldn't decide to be here til late December.
When it used to come October 31st.
Which was it's own eerie kind of spooky.
Subtle. Slow rearranging of your known reality.
Then, the tornados that I don't usually see in my state hit in early december. Not even two hours away from my house.
My mighty lake, which shields me from the worst storms from Canada and absorbs any that make it this far inland...suddenly feels like a smaller shield. Lake affect doesn't just drop boat loads of snow, that's something alot of people don't know. Sometimes, the difference in temperature creates a dip that attracts storms coming towards it. Like a vacuum. I've watched it happen hundreds of times.
A storm predicted to hit my town will pass right over it and dissipate over the lake.
Then my autumns began to come later as well, as if playing catch up with the winter. Wait for meeeee....
My summers began creeping into the fall, getting longer. I suddenly had more of a fighting change with my vegetable garden which was always a challenge with the work grind life.
All of this felt very welcome. The cold weather has always had an element of challenge to it. Me and my boots climbing over three and four feet snow banks, living on a hill, trying to dig us out and not slide all the way to the bottom of my driveway. Trying often in vain to start seedlings early inside the house in crazy looking arrangements, with pots and grow lights everywhere, really needing a dehumidifier to fight pests and mold because I live near a swamp.
Then my springs seemingly disappeared.
I would go winter to summer. In a kind of wild whiplash. There was no gradual change. It either was or was not. Michigan's notoriously unpredictable winter...became glaringly predictable for a couple years.
Then, these last two winters. I saw almost no snow.
My daffodils came up in february. The bears came out, in a kind of confusion, in February. My trees didn't bloom because they woke up too early. It's like all of nature knew something had changed but not everyone was equipped to deal with it. My bug populations BOOMED. Suddenly I had spiders everywhere.
I saw less mosquitoes. And less rain, living somewhere where I always have plenty of water.
My swamp wasn't wet.
The questionable became undeniable.
I bought portable emergency solar panels. I got an electric bike.
I tried to set up a sustainable food situation, stuff that will grow in this kind of bizarro weather without my attention. To some measure of success but also equal failure. Because try as I might, financially to survive the grind tries to keep me in it. Pulling on my sleeves, beckoning me away from my life.
a HURRICANE just hit Tennessee.
That's a hop skip and a jump from me.
Dozens of deaths reported in six states as Helene's high winds and heavy rains batter American Southeast
What the hell is this.
Lost winters like 2024 may soon be the norm. That threatens so much of what makes Michigan unique, from ice fishing and snowmobiling to cros
This winter is supposed to be what all our winters look like, going forward. Muddy, cold, and wet.
Dreading those Christmas displays in stores? Missing the spooky season? Well, dive back into those Halloween thrills & chills with Karen Romano Young via our latest Antarctic Log https://blogs.agu.org/sciencecommunication/2021/11/05/antarcticlog-happy-halloween/
Sibéria - Causaram grande impacto as imagens do incêndio florestal na república de Sakha (Yakutsy), a região mais fria do mundo.
Sibéria – Causaram grande impacto as imagens do incêndio florestal na república de Sakha (Yakutsy), a região mais fria do mundo.
“Cidade de Yakutsk trocou o gelo congelante pela fumaça sufocante das queimadas na Sibéria.”
Quando a cidade mais fria do mundo sofre com uma onda de calor e arde em chamas, o pensamento que me vem é que o clima está entrando em colapso e algo precisa ser feito para salvar o planeta. (Labouré Lima)
3 more planes -2 Be-200 amphibious + Il-76 -sent to Yakutia by Russian Ministry of Emergencies.…
