CLIMATE CHANGE RESOURCES

HOW THE U.S. CAN REACH 50% GHG REDUCTION BY 2030 (electricity must be cleaned up)

• 9/2021 Blueprint 2030 Climate Strategy, "America Is All In" https://www.americaisallin.com/

RECENT 2023-2023 ARTICLES (400+) in 59 categories on Building Electrification and Heat Pumps

NJ ENERGY RESOURCES: MASTER PLAN and other resources:

SHORT VIDEOS ON CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE

• episode 1.7 Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
    (14 min)
• episode 2.6 CDR: Carbon Capture and Storage , Part II: 
    (14 min)
• episode 2.7 Carbon Dioxide Removal: Mineralization

RECENT CLIMATE DISASTERS

• Ida’s Climate-Driven Deaths at 65, Including 25 in N.J.
• IPCC Reports on Growing Climate Change Disasters
• NOAA : Health Levels Are Worst Ever Due to CC
• Climate Change Fueled IDA HURRICANE
  

UNITED NATIONS & IPCC REPORTS:

• 8/9/2021 IPCC REPORT AR6 6th assessment Physical Science Basis report ; Working Group summary ; also read various easy-to-read summaries: and NASA's interactive tool showing sea level projections, issued with IPCC AR6 6th assessment
• 10/8/2018 UN IPCC report (global; 12 years to reduce 50%); National Climate Assessment report (Nov, 2018; US-specific); 2018 Arctic Report Card, NOAA, Dec, 2018; Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, May, 2019; IPCC (UN "Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate", Sept 25,2019; Oceans and Ice Risks overview Oct 11,2019; The Lancet Health Report (Health Effects); Global Carbon Budget 2018 (12/5/2018)- NYTimes review;

Mandate for 50% GHG reduction by 2030, and netzero by 2050, based upon: U.S. commitment to Paris Agreement; 5/18/2021 report by IEA; 0/18/2018 IPCC report

EASY TO READ EXPLANATIONS

• 9/8/2021 A thoughtful explanation of how we are doing at mitigation versus adapting
• 8/9/2021 NYTimes "The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof" https://nyti.ms/3txH1iY
• 8/4/2021 Yale Climate Connections, "1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius of additional global warming: Does it make a difference? - It ends up that just a half degree C - less than 1 degree F - leads to far more serious impacts"
• 8/2021 Environment Policy Guide by League of Conservation Voters Education Fund 142 page- review by NJ Spotlight
• The CARBON CYCLE explains it all!
• What is ENERGY?
• March, 2021 "The Atlantic", "The Terrifying Warning Lurking in the Earth’s Ancient Rock Record"

FOSSIL FUELS and CLIMATE DENIAL 20 minute documentary (Jan, 2021)

POLITICS and ENERGY

• U.S. Plan: Clean Energy Future
• Easy-to-read NYTimes primer "The Election and Climate Change"
• 20 Questions to Ask Your Candidate About Climate crisis and environment

FERC RAISES RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY PRICES ON PJM GRID

• FERC order to rise prices of renewables over PJM
• PJM Capacity market artificially raises electric prices
• 2020-10-27 op-ed: how NJ might leave the PJM grid (because offshore NJ Wind would suffer)

Massachusetts programs to eliminate ALL GHG emissions from ALL residential buildings!

Good references: https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog and https://nesea.org/webinar-recordings 

"Exponential Roadmap": 36 solutions to halve emissions by 2030; revised Jan, 2020. Based upon "Drawdown",...

ADAPTATION

7/20/2021 McKinsey report: 15 ways cities can adapt to Climate Risk, from C40 cities around the world:

June, 2020 "Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America" (this work by 9 members of the House of Representatives Select Committee was started in 2019).
9/24/2020 Press Release "Clean Energy Jobs and Innovation Act" (H.R. 4447) was passed by the House

"What is Climate Change - A Really Simple Guide"

Fundamentals https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ ;

"EnROADS simulator" learn by doing to find most effective GHG reductions; watch 3 min training ; further explanation

Subscribe for alerts about free Webinars from "Security and Sustainability Forum"

http://theyearsproject.com; Jan Dash http://climate.trunity.org/; Phil Blackwood "Updates" ; NASA’s Climate Evidence Page; NOAA’s Climate Page ; Citizens’ Climate Lobby ; Climate Reality Project ; "How Renewables Work - A Practical Guide to Solar, Wind, and Geothermal"; HHMI earthviewer

The Economist, 9/22/2019: "Past,Present,Future of Climate Change"
Status https://climateactiontracker.org/ of each country toward Paris Agreement

Goldman Sachs, 9/2019, "Taking the Heat" (34 pages)- relies on the IPCC (cited above) which has "the most comprehesive source of research on climate change" and discusses impacts of a massive move of cities to build resiliency.

Sierra Club "Energy Resources Policy" ;
"Science on Saturday" NJ Climate lectures 3/2/2019 and 2/2/2019 at Princeton Fusion Lab https://goo.gl/322EBZ ;

2019 climate reports: first group of 12 ; 2nd group of 12

EXCELLENT NYTIMES OpEd, 10/23/2017 "How to Keep the Lights On After a Hurricane

• Electric utilities need to configure residential solar systems to allow solar to be used in the event the grid goes down
• This is the principle behind "microgrids"