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𝐎𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐜 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬   A sudden algal invasion in Olympic waters can disrupt events, jeopardize outcomes, and lead to significant unpredicted costs. Such a situation can make headlines, trigger public outrage, and necessitate emergency measures like deploying soldiers to address the crisis. All of this places organizers, officials, and competitors under intense pressure. This is not just a hypothetical scenario - it has happened before. 👉 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐥𝐠𝐚𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐥𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬: https://lnkd.in/ekegaYY2 👈 From Beijing to Rio, these unforeseen challenges have highlighted the critical need for proactive #watermanagement and #algaecontrol to protect the integrity of major events. LG Sonic’s solutions provide real-time monitoring to predict and manage algae growth before it becomes a problem. #Olympics2024

#Rosneft subsidiary RN-Vankor shares this recent photo highlighting the arrival of the 'polar night' on the Taymyr Peninsula in the East Siberian Arctic, along with the first days of the calendar winter. It describes the 'polar night' as "a unique natural phenomenon that lasts 45 days. For northerners, this is a time of severe frosts, long twilight and bright northern lights". RN-Vankor is leading the development of #Rosneft's East Siberian Arctic mega-project #VostokOil.

Keep an eye on the largest NW volcano Mt. Rainer 🌋 . The region was decimated by Covid19 and not prepared. Today the area lacks many levels of emergency communication infrastructure when the catastrophic event happens. What about power, water, food, transportation? How will civilians can communicate with first responders when the cell phone networks go down? https://lnkd.in/daeYV9U6

Please watch and pay heed to Stefan Rahmstorf. Humanity is screwing around with anoxia of ocean life, a methane blob caused by rapid release of CH4 coming from off gassing from death and decay of ocean life, exacerbated by melting methane hydrates in the ocean. Then, when CH4 off gassing from permafrost, is combined with human extraction of 4 + trillion cubic meters methane and 3+ trillion cubic meters of ethane that is burned and cracked into propane and plastics each year… you’ve already got a global warming problem, and this is going to be a huge problem for our species. Can we be honest? The global methane pledge to reduce methane emissions by 2030 is a horrible failure of leadership and the intellectual capacity of humanity to understand the consequences of its actions. What do we need to stay below 1.5°C?: In April 2021, EDF issued a report that said in summary: min 30% of 2021 CH4 emissions must be reduced by 2030, 50% CH4 emissions reduction is required by 2030 for 1.5°C, 80% of O&G methane emissions can be reduced at a marginal cost, and O&G industry must be 50% of global CH4 reduction requirement of scope 1,2 & 3. But, -5% or 2°C is OK? No way. Late June of 2021 IEA WEO said: A 75% cut in methane from fossil fuel operations by 2030 is needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C. The IEA's Net Zero Emissions by 2050 (NZE) Scenario limits the global average surface temperature rise to 1.5°C with no or low overshoot while achieving universal access to modern energy by 2030. Scope 1,2 only. Not enough Followed by COP26 in Glasgow, where countries pledged to reduce CH4 emissions 30%. In November 2021 UNFCCC said: methane accounts for 17% of global GHG emissions. Then Russia invaded Ukraine and now the NOCs/IOCs and corrupt politicians want 700 bcm of LNG, massive increases of pipeline gas and methane emissions to shutter CO2 emissions from coal use. HEAR YEE, HEAR YEE: methane emissions (CH4) convert into carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in the atmosphere after 12-13 years. NOTE TO EPA and UNFCCC: there’s no such thing as CH4 GWP = 25xGWP of CO2 over 100 years. CH4 GWP is always 85xGWP of CO2 over 20 years and that’s just the way it is. Now, when you add melting methane hydrates to methane off gassing from all the ocean species that died from anoxia (or lack of soluble oxygen). Add methane off gassing from melting permafrost, methane from agriculture, human solid waste and humans increasing their extraction of fossil fuel gases to combust and expand the already rapidly growing mole fractions emissions of methane in the atmosphere….and then, Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve got a big problem. Methane blob releases of 15-30 trillion cubic meters all at once have occurred in the past. Whenever this happens, atmospheric temperatures rise above 4°C-5°C, and greater than 50% of all avian and terrestrial species are asphyxiated into extinction. Have a nice day! Ilissa Ocko

Please check out a recent film launched, Climate Extremes, freely available on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/ggeEy5r6 Importantly, it does a good job of distilling complex topics from the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC) to other key #tippingpoints, as explained in many scientific papers pushed out by groups like PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Future Earth, Earth Commission @ the Global Commons Alliance, Planetary Guardians and others. The film is not a light documentary, but rather takes the concepts of #planetaryboundaries, which is all too often getting stuck in good academic papers, and explains the threats to a #safeandjust future in laymen's terms so hopefully our leaders in business, politics and investment can understand and act. Good science must be communicated and tied to a robust action agenda to get cities, corporates, citizens, investors to act on nature & climate, whilst ensuring accountability, as these groups are doing: GCA Accountability Accelerator, Business for Nature, Science Based Targets Network (SBTN), Systems Change Lab, Planetary Health Check and Earth HQ, Capitals Coalition, As You Sow, Ceres, Inc., ClientEarth, IFRS Foundation, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), World Benchmarking Alliance, WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development and so many more... Please distribute further: Johan Rockström, Jean Oelwang, Jane Madgwick Erin Billman Natasha Milan Matic, Ph.D. Eva Zabey Tim Kelly Naoko Ishii Akanksha Khatri Dominic Waughray Heather Grady Dan Cao Aileen Lee Grace Eddy Margarita Astralaga, Gerbrand Haverkamp Mark Gough Wendy Broadgate

Substantial Oil reserves (10 x the North Sea total) have been identified in the area of the Antarctic which is designated as the British Antarctic zone. The area is already contentious because China and Chile want it as well and Russia has been sniffing around - and was in fact the nation that identified the oil is there! But all nations have agreed to not exploit Antarctica for its resources! I wonder how long that agreement will last and whether the UK will get squeezed out of its designated territory in the frozen south. Better hurry up with the renewables so that this all becomes academic. #oil #Streetwise

This is the most insightful presentation I have come across in recent times; demonstrating risk in relation to climate change, and what that means in simple, real terms. Crucial research, thank you Stefan Rahmstorf #climatechange #AMOC

Third Russian oil tanker goes down in Black Sea in a week due to storm fueled high seas, causing yet another major ecological disaster. As the author notes these were river tankers not sea going vessels, yet Russia's shipping shortage is forcing Russia to take unacceptable risk to sell its illegal oil.

From growing geopolitical tension to cash-strapped wind farms, it has been an eventful year in the Arctic region. Energy and defence were among the biggest themes, and that’s reflected in our most-read stories of 2024. You can see the top five here: https://lnkd.in/g_QzfzSJ Arctic Circle Rob Bauer, Admiral RNLN Erlingur Gudleifsson Jeanette Vitasp, CFA #arctictoday #arctic #arcticregion #windpower #windfarms #cleanenergy #energy #geopolitics #politics #defense #nato #sweden #denmark #finland #iceland #greenland #usa #norway #faroeislands #canada #russia #uk Below: Wind turbines in the Markbygden Ett wind farm. Photo: Lennart Håkansson

According to Newsweek and Visegrad24 , China has admitted for the first time that Hong Kong-flagged container ship Newnew Polar Bear is responsible for the damage inflicted to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline in October 2023. Windward data shows it was sailing at approximately 10 knots , hasn't anchored near the area and that the seas were quite stormy (7-8 meter waves). An anchor dropping from a vessel and getting dragged is quite a rare event, and can be either an accident where the crew doesn't even notice, or something less of an accident... In any case , it shows how important it is to be vigilant around the world's underwater infra. Our gas, our internet and many more things are relying on it. How much attention, technology or effort is being deployed? from my experience in many countries it's not even clear who's even supposed to monitor and take care of it. The world should make sure we look at the next event, not just the last one. Link to the original Newsweek article: https://lnkd.in/gvvGbEnj. #maritimesecurity #underwatercables