“COP27 Approves Last-Ditch Deal for Historic Climate Damage Fund”
COP27 Approves Last-Ditch Deal for Historic Climate Damage Fund – Bloomberg
The COP27 climate talks in Egypt, which came close to collapse in the closing stretches, ended with an early-hours deal to create a fund to pay poorer countries for the harm caused by climate change.
“New Zealand Proposes Taxing Cow Burps, Angering Farmers”
New Zealand Proposes Taxing Cow Burps, Angering Farmers – Bloomberg
New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.
“Chipmaking’s Next Big Thing Guzzles as Much Power as Entire Countries”
“Smaller and more energy-efficient semiconductors increasingly require so much electricity that Asia is going to have a tough time quitting fossil fuels.”
Energy-Efficient Computer Chips Need Lots of Power to Make – Bloomberg
The machines needed to make the world’s most advanced semiconductors are miracles of modern engineering. Known as extreme ultraviolet lithography systems, or EUVs, they bathe silicon wafers with waves of light invisible to the human eye, burning patterns into materials on the wafer’s surface that need to be exact within a few nanometers. To create the specialized light, EUVs vaporize molten tin with lasers, then use mirrors to focus the radiance into thinner wavelengths. Only one company in the world— ASML Holding NV of the Netherlands—makes the bus-size devices, which cost more than $150 million and consist of 100,000 separate components.
“The US Crosses the Electric-Car Tipping Point for Mass Adoption”
US Electric Car Sales Reach Key Milestone – Bloomberg
The US is the latest country to pass what’s become a critical EV tipping point: 5% of new car sales powered only by electricity. This threshold signals the start of mass EV adoption, the period when technological preferences rapidly flip, according to the analysis.
“Amazon near tipping point of shifting from rainforest to savannah, study suggests”
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/07/americas/amazon-tipping-point-climate-scn/
The Amazon rainforest may be nearing a critical tipping point that could see the biologically rich and diverse ecosystem transformed into a grassy savannah.
“With fewer animals to spread seeds, plants could have trouble adapting to climate change”
Picture a mature, broad-branched tree like an oak, maple or fig. How does it reproduce so that its offspring don’t grow up in its shadow, fighting for light?
“‘The Fuse Has Been Blown,’ and the Doomsday Glacier Is Coming for Us All”
Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica Could Collapse Soon: New Research – Rolling Stone
New data suggests a massive collapse of the ice shelf in as little as five years. “We are dealing with an event that no human has ever witnessed,” says one scientist. “We have no analog for this”
“Morningstar ESG Chief Asks Herself: What Do Those Trillions Do?”
Morningstar ESG Chief Asks Herself: What Do Those Trillions Do? – Bloomberg
Hortense Bioy, the global head of sustainability research at Morningstar Inc., says she’s struck by the persistent lack of clarity around investing strategies marketed as ways to protect the planet.
“Nippon Paper and Stora Enso want to turn trees into batteries”
Japan’s Nippon Paper and Finland’s Stora Enso want to use trees to revolutionize the battery industry. Research into a replacement for lithium-ion and rare-metal batteries is underway globally. With the explosive popularity of electric cars, the industry could see safer, tree-powered batteries in EVs by 2040.
“Earth is getting a black box to record humanity’s ‘every step toward catastrophe'”
An indestructible “black box” is set to be built upon a granite plain on the west coast of Tasmania, Australia in early 2022. Its mission: Record “every step we take” towards climate catastrophe, providing a record for future civilizations to understand what caused our demise, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
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