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    "Aimed at accelerating the transition to carbon neutral shipping, Maersk announces today its goal to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. To achieve this goal, carbon neutral vessels must be commercially viable by 2030, and an acceleration in new innovations and adaption of new technology is required.

    Climate is one of the most important issues in the world, and carrying around 80% of global trade, the shipping industry is vital to finding solutions. By now, Maersk´s relative CO2 emissions have been reduced by 46% (baseline 2007), approx. 9% more than the industry average."
    Maersk sets net zero co2 emission target by 2050 https://www.maersk.com/en/news/2018/12/04/maersk-sets-net-zero-co2-emission-target-by-2050

    Part of the strategy ios to equip its tankers with Flettner Rotors to use windpower.
    "The Maersk Pelican has been fitted with the sails, Finnish firm Norsepower Oy said in a statement Thursday.

    Measuring 30 meters in height and five meters in diameter, the rotor sails were installed on the product tanker in Rotterdam, Norsepower added. They will provide the vessel with "auxiliary wind propulsion" and are expected to cut fuel consumption and associated emissions by 7 to 10 percent "on typical global shipping routes."
    In 2012, international shipping was responsible for an estimated 796 million tons of CO2 emissions — around 2.2 percent of total global CO2 emissions that year, according to the International Maritime Organization. "
    Maersk Tankers has installed two huge rotor sails on one of its vessels https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/31/maersk-tankers-installs-two-huge-rotor-sails-on-one-of-its-vessels.html



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    I can't read that because
    Anywhere it's reposted in full?
     
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    Time to end ‘debate’ on climate change

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    Time to end ‘debate’ on climate change | Letters https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/20/time-to-end-debate-on-climate-change

    Deniers don't actually do any research, they just re-interpret what real scientists have actually done.
    In fairness, they should post 97 scientific conclusions of where the facts lead, which is catastrophic climate change, and then 3 opinions of the corporate shills which deny the facts for profit.

    "Post-truth" is actually a word in dictionaries now. Democracy doesn't mean we get to vote on the facts and it doesn't mean “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge”. (Isaac Asimov)
     
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    If you eat one fast food burger a day, your annual greenhouse gas emissions are the equivalent of driving a regular petrol car 7,196 miles (11,581km) or heating the average UK home for 447 days.

    Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint?
    Climate change food calculator: What's your diet's carbon footprint? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714

    ( I got a burger at Burger King yesterday. They were all hectic and I hear over the din from somewhere behind the counter, "She's should go home, she already threw up once." You don't want to hear that coming from the cooks, it kind of wrecks the ambience.)
     
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    Two ways:

    Delete nytimes.com cookies (or all cookies if you wish) from your browser.

    Use a different browser -- Chrome, Firefox, I.E., Safari etc., or a different computer.
     
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    Japan 'to leave whaling commission to resume hunting'


    Japan 'to resume commercial whale hunt' https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46629341
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    It's probably much less ruinous than our culture of eating cows/cheeseburgers.

    (Useful info: Have you ever wondered how many hamburgers come from one cow? Online Magazine Today I Found Out reports that with an average cow, which yields about 200 kilograms (or 440 pounds) of usable meat, you could make 4,500 hamburgers at McDonald’s.) (that's 1760 1/4 pounders)
     
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    Elon Musk @elonmusk


    We know we’ll run out of dead dinosaurs to mine for fuel & have to use sustainable energy eventually, so why not go renewable now & avoid increasing risk of climate catastrophe? Betting that science is wrong & oil companies are right is the dumbest experiment in history by far …
     
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    It Took On the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Now It’s in Pieces. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/world/americas/great-pacific-garbage-patch-cleanup.html?action=click&module=Discovery&pgty


    It Took On the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Now It’s in Pieces.

    A test of the ocean-cleaning boom last year in Alameda, Calif. The group that created it said material fatigue and “local stress concentration” might have caused a fracture in the multimillion-dollar structure.
     

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