Note – there’s much fuss about storage, mostly about new batteries, but hundreds of millions of people are much more concerned about storage of essential water for drinking, sanitation, irrigation and basic survival. Climate change is delivering ever more brief bursts of extremes, whether it’s floods or drought, at most inconvenient times. Looks like both China and India are particularly at risk, needing all of us to reduce emissions – drastically.
Black carbon – soot particles that absorb sunlight, spread by fossil fuel combustion – are thought to accelerate thinning of glaciers of Himalaya and Tibet. Scientists have just identified the source of this Asian carbon…The smears that warm the ice in the Himalayas come from India, they say. And two thirds of the black cloud that settles on the frozen rivers of Tibet is from China…Since billions of people in the region depend on the steady flow of glacial meltwater down the Indus, the Ganges, the Tsangpo-Brahmaputra, the Mekong, the Yangtze and many other rivers through the summer growing season, the implications are ominous.
Samples from glaciers at what scientists call the Third Pole – the Himalaya-Hindu Kush mountains and the Tibetan Plateau represent the greatest mass of ice on Earth beyond the Arctic and Antarctic …They also collected aerosols – particles of black carbon drifting across the region – at seven stations along the Mustang and Langtang valleys in the massif.
Then they used a technique called dual-carbon isotope fingerprinting to identify a chemical signature to distinguish whether the soot came from burning vegetation or fossil fuels, and where the samples came from.Two-thirds of the soot from the Tibetan plateau, they report, came from fossil fuel combustion in China
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“Climate change poses an urgent and severe threat to our national security, and Democrats believe it would be a grave mistake for the United States to wait for another nation to take the lead in combating the global climate emergency. According to the military, climate change is a threat multiplier that is already contributing to new conflicts over resources, catastrophic natural disasters, and the degradation of vital ecosystems across the globe. While Donald Trump says that climate change is a “hoax” created by and for the Chinese, Democrats recognize the catastrophic consequences facing our country, our planet, and civilization.…We are committed to a national mobilization, and to leading a global effort to mobilize nations to address this threat on a scale not seen since World War II. In the first 100 days of the next administration, the President will convene a summit of the world’s best engineers, climate scientists, policy experts, activists, and indigenous communities to chart a course to solve the climate crisis.
When Keeling first began taking measurements, atmospheric carbon dioxide measured at about 310 parts per million, meaning that carbon dioxide made up about .03 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere. That was already a marked increase from preindustrial levels, when atmospheric carbon dioxide measured about 
Australia’s biggest renewables-based energy storage project could be up and running in a few years, and will be unique in the world – a pumped hydro plant exploiting the sheer vertical drop an old open pit gold mine and the biggest storage installation connected to a solar plant.
French energy giant EDF, which already operates Hinkley Point B,British PM May has hails “new era UK nuclear power” after it ended years of uncertainty to give final approval to the £18 Billion ($A31.7B) Hinkley Point C plant in Somerset.
This interview provides much better insight than other coverage in print media today – Scientists have created the longest continuous reconstruction of the Earth’s surface climate stretching back two million years…analysis predicts current greenhouse gas levels could commit the planet to extreme rises of temperature over the long term…research, published overnight in journal Nature, suggests warming 3 to 7 degC already ‘locked in’ over coming millennia. The paper is called Evolution of global temperature over the past two million years and was conducted by Stanford University researchers in the US.
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