Without celebrating the climate progress that we've made we send a signal to young people that we've not been trying to address the problem and that's a problem.

Already, the rollout of clean generation, led by solar and wind, has helped to slow the growth in fossil fuels by almost two-thirds in the last 10 years. As a result, half the world’s economies are already at least five years past a peak in electricity generation from fossil fuels.

#ClimateHope #Solar #Wind
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/05/turning-point-in-energy-history-as-solar-wind-start-pushing-fossil-fuels-off-the-grid/

‘Turning point in energy history’ as solar, wind start pushing fossil fuels off the grid

Fossil fuel growth has stalled while wind and solar are growing.

^{Mitchell Beer (Yale Climate Connections)}

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#Microclimates #Permaculture

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...streets and plants a bit of grass in between the stones. The surface cools down considerably. Then, there is the ancient technology of building wind-cooled houses in the #MiddleEast that I talked about last year. 2)
If "everyone" were able to cool down their...

2) So-called #Windcatcher|s in zhe #IrNuan oasis City of #Yazd with its #Badgirs (#wind towers):

https://youtu.be/AiiGznaH0mE

How This Desert City Stays Cool With An Ancient Air Conditioning System

This is a Bâdgir an ancient air conditioner invented around the eighth century AD.Despite using no electricity, it has a cooling system that kept houses at a...

^YouTube

Can wind and solar solve climate change? Foreign Policy magazine reviews a new book that "unwittingly makes the case that they can’t."

Here's their review of Brett Christophers’s "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet."

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Why Wind and Solar Won't Solve Climate Change

A new book unwittingly makes the case that they can’t.

^{Ted Nordhaus (Foreign Policy)}