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Delivering Shipment Zero, a vision for net zero carbon shipments • Amazon corporate blog
Actually? 50% isn't ambitious enough. 100% would be ambitious. 50% isn't one thing or the other.
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4 hours ago by charlesarthur
<p>Amazon has a long-term goal to power our global infrastructure using 100% renewable energy, and we are making solid progress. With improvements in electric vehicles, aviation bio fuels, reusable packaging, and renewable energy, for the first time we can now see a path to net zero carbon delivery of shipments to customers, and we are setting an ambitious goal for ourselves to reach 50% of all Amazon shipments with net zero carbon by 2030. We are calling this project "Shipment Zero” – it won’t be easy to achieve this goal, but it’s worth being focused and stubborn on this vision and we’re committed to seeing it through…
…To track our progress on this journey and as part of an overall commitment to sharing our sustainability goals, we plan to share Amazon’s company-wide carbon footprint, along with related goals and programs, later this year. </p>
Actually? 50% isn't ambitious enough. 100% would be ambitious. 50% isn't one thing or the other.
4 hours ago by charlesarthur
The CO2 Derangement Syndrome – a historical overview | Watts Up With That?
11 hours ago by astrogirl
A very large majority of establishment academic climate scientists have succumbed to a virulent infectious disease – the CO2 Derangement Syndrome. Those afflicted by this syndrome present with a spectrum of symptoms .The first is an almost total inability to recognize the most obvious Millennial and 60 year emergent patterns which are trivially obvious in solar activity and global temperature data.
This causes the natural climate cycle variability to appear frightening and emotionally overwhelming. Critical thinking capacity is badly degraded. The delusionary world inhabited by the eco-left establishment activist elite is epitomized by Harvard’s Naomi Oreskes science-based fiction, “The Collapse of Western-Civilization: A View from the Future”
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This causes the natural climate cycle variability to appear frightening and emotionally overwhelming. Critical thinking capacity is badly degraded. The delusionary world inhabited by the eco-left establishment activist elite is epitomized by Harvard’s Naomi Oreskes science-based fiction, “The Collapse of Western-Civilization: A View from the Future”
11 hours ago by astrogirl
Tourism is four times worse for the climate than we thought | New Scientist
11 hours ago by spencertree
To help stop global warming, cancel that round-the-world holiday. Tourism has expanded so rapidly that it now accounts for 8 per cent of the greenhouse gases we belch into the air. That is up to four times previous estimates.
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11 hours ago by spencertree
A Scientist Who Resisted Trump Administration Censorship of Climate Report Just Lost Her Job
13 hours ago by joeybaker
“I wouldn’t do anything different, but Jesus, this is stressful.”
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13 hours ago by joeybaker
Opinion | Time to Panic - The New York Times
15 hours ago by rjkroege
The age of climate panic is here. Last summer, a heat wave baked the entire Northern Hemisphere, killing dozens from Quebec to Japan.
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15 hours ago by rjkroege
Britain needs a day of reckoning. Brexit will provide it | Nesrine Malik | Opinion | The Guardian
15 hours ago by petej
It has laid bare our political class, squirming pathetically and uselessly under the micro-scrutiny of Brexit. To paraphrase Jeff Bezos, Brexit rolled over the log and we saw what crawled out. The cavalier incompetence of David Davis, the dissimulating of Boris Johnson, the utter pointlessness of Michael Gove, the existence of Jacob Rees-Mogg and the dishonest and regressive elitism he represents. We have seen ministers entrusted with the future of the country learn on the job, and then flee the scene – revealing Westminster in general, and the Tories in particular, as a Ponzi scheme, a confidence trick. We now realise that the business of serious politics in this country rewards those whose only skill is keeping up the appearance of having a skill.
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15 hours ago by petej
School pupils call for radical climate action in UK-wide strike | Environment | The Guardian
2 days ago by cc2050
School strike - this is great to see. The future is worth fighting for! #climatechange #ClimateStrike
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2 days ago by cc2050
Ride out Climate Change in This $5.5 Million Self-Sustaining Yacht
3 days ago by josephaleo
The yacht has a rainwater-harvesting system, a 2,300-square-foot roof covered in solar panels, and would be as “stable as a home on land” if pummeled with Category 4 winds.
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3 days ago by josephaleo
Our destiny is in the hands of Rees-Mogg’s unfinished robot sidekick
3 days ago by owenblacker
Given the need to find alternative arrangements for describing Steve Baker, let’s look at technological solutions. It’s as if someone had half an idea to build a fun, geeky robot sidekick for Jacob Rees-Mogg, then became so bored or repulsed by the task that they gave up before they’d fitted him with a cool metallic exoskeleton. Somehow, the unfinished unit picked itself off the workshop floor and found its way to parliament. By rights, Steve Baker is just the innards of something that – had it been completed – you might find in the background of a Mos Espa docking-bay scene in The Phantom Menace. Instead, he’s one of the fanatics holding our national destiny in his partially assembled hands.
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3 days ago by owenblacker
Science insurgents plot a climate model driven by artificial intelligence | Science | AAAS
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3 days ago by javierruiz
an academic consortium led by Schneider and backed by prominent technology philanthropists, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, will launch an ambitious project to create a new climate model. Taking advantage of breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), satellite imaging, and high-resolution simulation, that as-yet-unnamed model—the Earth Machine is one candidate—aims to change how climate models render small-scale phenomena such as sea ...
3 days ago by javierruiz
California High Speed Rail Canceled
3 days ago by UltraNurd
Too many stakeholders made the route bad.
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3 days ago by UltraNurd