Climate notes for July 28th 2023

I noted this week that a prominent forecourt in Ireland celebrated it's birthday. And celebrated by offering discounts to customers. Except on EV charging. These forecourts will be wiped out by the ones that are innovating their user experiences around EVs. Circle K is doing well here, thanks to the huge adoption of EVs in Norway.

I won't belabour this point, but a lot of the tabs below are not good news. The world is on fire, people are dying, and there's about two-dozen billionaires who own more than 50% of earth's wealth. We need to flatten the curve, bridge the wealth gap and even out so the species survives.

Tabs

• Excessive burns cases rise dramatically
• Scientists Have Developed the Whitest White Paint Ever Made—So Reflective It Can Cool Surfaces
• Sailing cargo ships as a means to reduce emissions
• Greece faces longest heatwave on record
• The path to a greener future. Practical tips here.
• Sea level rise pits Qatar beaches among top 20 to shrink most by 2100. The irony of petro-states whinging about climate change ruining their natural beauty.
• Greta Thunberg found guilty of failing to obey police at climate protest
• Stripy wind turbines could reduce seabird fatalities, say avian vision experts
• Antarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planet. This means the bad problem is orders-of-magnitude worse than we thought.
• Three choices for a more strategic Europe
• National heat stress warning issued ...in Singapore. A country I've spent good times in warning citizens of heat is terrifying.
• The Pacific slope of Peru is greening, but it's not good news
• Gulf stream could collapse as early a 2025. That should remove the "what about China" arguments, so.
• Rising temperatures ‘likely to be beneficial’ for Britain, says Lord Frost. Our collective tolerance for idiots like this is as bad as the climate crisis itself.
• Urban heat spots