Dana Neumann am 24.12.2019 auf FutureZone.de:
Der Klimawandel macht uns dumm – Studie zeigt Erschreckendes
Der Klimawandel könnte uns mehr schaden, als wir vielleicht ahnen. Forscher glauben, dass uns eine „Verdummung“ der Menschheit bevorsteht.
Wenn es nicht so traurig wäre, müsste man laut lachen. Die arme Frau Neumann. CO2 macht dumm. Also bitte nicht das Ausatmen vergessen.
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Was kann man machen, wenn man berühmt ist, als Klimaretter öffentlich auftritt und trotzdem Privatjet fliegen möchte? Gar kein Problem, einfach weiterfliegen, denn man kann ja den CO2-Ausstoß einfach mit Geld kompensieren. Merke: Die von berühmten Leuten geforderten Einschränkungen zur Abwendung der Klimakatastrophe gelten vor allem für die Normalbevölkerung, nicht für die jetsettenden Klimaretter. Nachzulesen bei Bloomberg via WUWT.
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Welche Familien haben einen größeren CO2-Fußabdruck? Fleischesser oder alkoholtrinkende, restaurantliebende Süßmäuler? Letzteres, sagt die Uni Sheffield. Pressemitteilung vom 20.12.2019:
High-carbon footprint households identified by sweets and restaurant meals – not higher meat consumption
Families with higher carbon footprints are likely to consume more confectionary, alcohol and restaurant food, according to a new study published in One Earth.
–Families with high-carbon footprints consume two to three times more sweets and alcohol than those with low footprints
–Study by experts in Sheffield and Kyoto, Japan, found meat consumption explained less than 10 per cent of difference in carbon footprints
–Researchers recommend carbon taxes on sweets and alcohol
Families with higher carbon footprints are likely to consume more confectionary, alcohol and restaurant food, according to a new study published in One Earth.
Considering the spectrum of traditional to urban lifestyles across Japan, researchers at the University of Sheffield and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan, analysed the carbon footprints of the diets of 60,000 households across Japan’s 47 regions. Using a life-cycle approach which details food supply chains around the country, they found that meat consumption was relatively constant per household – but carbon footprints were not.
The study shows that meat consumption could explain less than 10 per cent of the difference seen in carbon footprints between Japanese families. Instead, households with higher carbon footprints tended to consume more food from restaurants, as well as more vegetables and fish. However, it was the level of consumption of sweets and alcohol – two to three times higher than families with low carbon footprints – that really stood out.
All countries are facing challenges in how to shift diets to be healthier and more sustainable. This evidence from Japan demonstrates that research can help us to identify what to focus on. The same patterns of dietary change in terms of sugar, alcohol and dining out need to be considered in the UK, Australia, the US and Europe.
Dr Christian Reynolds, Institute of Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield:
“All countries are facing challenges in how to shift diets to be healthier and more sustainable. This evidence from Japan demonstrates that research can help us to identify what to focus on. The same patterns of dietary change in terms of sugar, alcohol and dining out need to be considered in the UK, Australia, the US and Europe.”
Meat has earned a reputation as an environmentally damaging food, with beef production emitting 20 times more greenhouse gases than bean production for the same amount of protein.
However, the researchers caution against a one-size-fits-all policy after finding that the consumption of sweets, alcohol and restaurant food adds to families’ footprints in a larger capacity than other items. Eating out was found to contribute on average 770 kg of greenhouse gases per year for those households with a higher footprint, whereas meat contributed just 280kg.
Associate Professor Keiichiro Kanemoto of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan – who led the research – said: „If we think of a carbon tax, it might be wiser to target sweets and alcohol if we want a progressive system.
“If we are serious about reducing our carbon footprints, then our diets must change. Our findings suggest that high carbon footprints are not only a problem for a small number of meat lovers in Japan. It might be better to target less nutritious foods that are excessively consumed in some populations.”
Kanemoto does, however, recommend eating less meat to reduce a household’s environmental impact. “Meat is a high carbon footprint food. Replacing red meat consumption with white meat and vegetables will lower a family’s carbon footprint,” he said.
Japan’s population is one of the oldest in the world, a trend that many industrial countries are following. This suggests that successful policies for dietary change and energy efficiency in Japan could act as models for many countries in the coming decades. The Japanese also have a relatively healthy diet, which is frequently attributed to them having the world’s longest lifespan by country.
Dr Christian Reynolds from the Institute of Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield, one of the study’s co-authors, said: “Due to wealth, culture, and farming practices, different regions in a country consume food differently. Japan alone has some prefectures with more than 10 million people and others with fewer than one million. These regional and income differences in food consumption are also found in the UK, Europe, Australia and the US.
“All countries are facing challenges in how to shift diets to be healthier and more sustainable. This evidence from Japan demonstrates that research can help us to identify what to focus on. The same patterns of dietary change in terms of sugar, alcohol and dining out need to be considered in the UK, Australia, the US and Europe.”
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Josef Joffe im November 2019 im commentarymagazine.com (kostenpflichtig):
The Religion of Climatism
A new faith emerges
Greta Thunberg, the teenager from Stockholm, is the prophet of a new religion sweeping the West. Call it Climatism. Like any religion worthy of the name, it comes with its own catechism (what to believe) and eschatology (how the world will end). Thunberg’s bible is the latest report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which gives us 12 years to save civilization as we know it.
We have prayed to the false gods of fossil-fired growth, runs Thunberg’s indictment. Guilty are the adults who have “lied to us” and given us “false hope.” But her children’s crusade—no-school “Fridays for Future”—will show the path to redemption.
Weiterlesen auf commentarymagazine.com
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Mit Klimaprognosen ist das so eine Sache. Hier eine Zusammenstellung fehlgegangener Alarmprognosen des letzten Jahrzehnts:
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Robert S. Pindyck im Juni 2020 (pdf des Gesamtpapers hier):
What We Know and Don’t Know about Climate Change, and Implications for Policy
There is a lot we know about climate change, but there is also a lot we don’t know. Even if we knew how much CO2 will be emitted over the coming decades, we wouldn’t know how much temperatures will rise as a result. And even if we could predict the extent of warming that will occur, we can say very little about its impact. I explain that we face considerable uncertainty over climate change and its impact, why there is so much uncertainty, and why we will continue to face uncertainty in the near future. I also explain the policy implications of climate change uncertainty. First, the uncertainty (particularly over the possibility of a catastrophic climate outcome) creates insurance value, which pushes us to earlier and stronger actions to reduce CO2 emissions. Second, uncertainty interacts with two kinds of irreversibilities. First, CO2 remains in the atmosphere for centuries, making the environmental damage from CO2 emissions irreversible, pushing us to earlier and stronger actions. Second, reducing CO2 emissions requires sunk costs, i.e., irreversible expenditures, which pushes us away from earlier actions. Both irreversibilities are inherent in climate policy, but the net effect is ambiguous.
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WELT am 12.6.2020:
Spinnenart nach Greta Thunberg benannt
Ein Forscher hat sich dafür entschieden, fünf neu entdeckte Spinnenarten nach Greta Thunberg zu benennen.
Ehrung oder eine versteckte Botschaft?