neelima.bsky.social
Covering climate crisis in the Himalaya & South Asia.
Journalist / Photographer / Documentary Filmmaker
đź“ŤNepal/India
Words/images/film in Guardian, Deutsche Welle, BBC, Al Jazeera, SCMP etc. Portfolio at https://neelima.contently.com
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Silos. Economists are the narrowest academics out there.
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Read here about the lecture he attended in 2004 - yes, that late! – that finally convinced him about the danger of human-caused global warming
www.carbonbrief.org/the-2004-lec...
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The richest 10% of people worldwide contributed to about two-thirds of global warming since 1990, and the top 1% alone about one-fifth. If the entire world had emitted like the bottom 50%, there would have been minimal warming since 1990. Lot more in there (check out this figure) 👇
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Doing both shouldn’t be that difficult. Looks the infrastructure isn’t setup that way, making it expensive for them.
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I’m not sure how it works but in India rooftop PVs store power in batteries and the rest is sent to grid. It’s quite common here.
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Surprising. Adding batteries to the installation should not cost too much on top of the whole setup. Maybe Europe will adopt that practice after these blackouts.
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It doesn’t seem like that’s the reasoning behind their recommendation.
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Exactly! One scientist I spoke to previously said upto 50-60% of aerosol composition over India was SO2. I’m surprised by this report now saying sulfate emissions are fine.
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I do not see it as a difficult choice between more warming and clean air. To me it is clear that instances like these point to needing much stronger emission reductions globally to compensate for aerosol unmasking.
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exactly why greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced so people in India do not fry to death or die of pollution
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One recent Lancet study found air pollution has been killing nearly 1.5 million per year in India, so I would agree to what these experts said. Heat related deaths are nowhere near to this at the moment. hsph.harvard.edu/environmenta...
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Unpaywalled version here- archive.ph/mG8Wt
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Right, even with that I thought GWP100 was the standard but seems not.