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The Media Ignores the Good News On Climate Change
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The Media Ignores the Good News On Climate Change
By Rmuse on Thu, Oct 27th, 2016 at 10:36 am
To avoid climate-ending global temperature rise, it is critical for the
world to transition off fossil fuels and embrace renewable, clean energy
sources.
Politicususa
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/27/
media-good-news-climate-change.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/haonuor
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Over the past few months, there has been a dearth of good news, and if
there did happen to be anything good to report it was overshadowed by the
national clown show that is a typical American election. Where there has
not been one iota of good news is on climate change. Even dismissing the
horrible flooding, wildfires, droughts, sea level rise, melting ice caps,
hurricanes and worldwide food shortages, there have only been dire reports
on the level of CO2 permeating the atmosphere and the subsequent yearly
record-setting rise in global temperatures.
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This week, while most Americans were living, breathing and bleeding over
Donald Trump and the tortuously-long presidential campaign, the
International Energy Agency offered up some good news; for the climate,
the Earths population, and even for America.
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The good news for the planet came in the form of an announcement on
Tuesday by the International Energy Agency (IEA) that stated according to
new data, for the first time Renewable energy sources have passed coal as
the largest new source of electricity in the world.
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It may not seem like such fantastic news, but climate scientists the world
over have warned that if human beings are going to avoid that
climate-ending 2-degree C rise in global temperatures, it is critical for
the world to transition off of carbon-producing fossil fuels and embrace
renewable, clean energy generating sources. This is particularly true for
getting off dirty coal-fired electrical generation plants that are
responsible for a quarter of Americas C02 emissions. Carbon dioxide
emissions are one of the main culprits contributing to climate change
driven by global warming.
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The IEA report revealed that solar and wind account for nearly two-thirds
of current renewable energy growth and interestingly those increases are
occurring in, and coming from, developing and industrialized nations
alike. For a developing nation, it makes perfect sense to embrace cheaper
renewable energy as opposed to any fossil fuel-generated power sources
whether they are dirty coal-fired plants or not-quite-as-dirty natural
gas-burning generating plants.
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The IEA also revised its earlier projections for renewable energys
continued expansion and growth and significantly increased the amount of
green energy it expects to come on line over the next five years.
Renewable energy includes so-called green sources such as biomass, biogas,
eligible biomass and small hydroelectric sources, according to the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Both terms, renewable and green
energy, include solar and wind generating sources and depending on the
context they can be interchangeable.
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In addition to pro-renewable policies (such as the Paris climate agreement
and to a lesser extent the America-China deal to roll back coal-generated
emissions, there has been a significant price decline that is helping
drive the growth in renewables; particularly in solar. And, the IEA
projected that the worldwide costs for solar-generated power will continue
declining by an additional 25 percent over the next five years. Onshore
wind generated electricity costs will drop by at least another 15 percent
during that same five-year period.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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David Dillard
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