How the Climate Spent its Summer | Energy vs Climate Episode 21

a) Causing heat domes and heat deaths.
b) Underscoring a bleak IPCC report.
c) Being a political football in a nasty Canadian federal election.
d) All of the above and more...

On the first episode of Energy vs Climate Season Three David, Sara and Ed are back after a summer of hell and highwater to unpack what moved the dial on climate and energy while EvC was on hiatus. They also look at this week's climate and energy news and preview what's to come on this season of Energy vs Climate from geopolitics, to energy storage, health impacts, a just transition, and more.

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EPISODE NOTES
@1:12 Sustainable Energy Development Masters Program at the University of Calgaryhttps://grad.ucalgary.ca/future-students/explore-programs/sustainable-energy-development-msc-course

@3:30 Energy within Environmental Constraints - Harvard Massive Online Open Course
https://www.edx.org/course/energy-within-environmental-constraints

@6:37 Executives from Exxon, Shell, BP and others are being called to testify in Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/climate/exxon-oil-disinformation-house-probe.html?utm_source=Energy+News+Network+daily+email+digests&utm_campaign=40ff599fe5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_11_11_46_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_724b1f01f5-40ff599fe5-89296084

@7:39 Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway 
https://www.merchantsofdoubt.org/

@7:45 Drilled Podcast
https://drillednews.com/podcast-2/

@12:58 Harvard University pledges to divest from fossil fuels 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/10/harvard-university-divest-endowment-fossil-fuels 
David on Divestment: The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Can Succeed Where Politics Failed
https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/news/fossil-fuel-divestment-movement-can-succeed-where-politics-failed

@17:41 Cost of financing for coalCoal financing costs surge as investors opt for renewable energyhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/19/coal-financing-costs-surge-as-investors-opt-for-renewable-energy

@20:55 Chinese PV Industry Brief: Work begins on 3.3 GW solar-CSP project linked to 500 MW of storage, in Qinghai https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/09/17/chinese-pv-industry-brief-work-begins-on-3-3-gw-solar-csp-project-linked-to-500-mw-of-storage-in-qinghai/ 

China pledges to stop building new coal energy plants abroadhttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-58647481

@27:13 Heat Impacts
The Globe and Mail: Extreme, deadly heat in Canada is going to come back, and worse. Will we be ready?https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-extreme-deadly-heat-in-canada-is-going-to-come-back-and-worse-will-we/

Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas (David is a co-author)https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/abffa3/pdf#:~:text=Hotter%20temperature%20can%20reduce%20labor,of%20both%20exposure%20and%20vulnerability.&text=Temperature%20projections%20for%202040%E2%80%9350,decile%20relative%20to%20the%20poorest

Relationship between season of birth, temperature exposure, and later life wellbeing
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/51/13447

@35:25 2021 IPCC Report
https://www.ipcc.ch/assessment-report/ar6/

@35:30 The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: Promise and Peril in an Age of Climate Crisis by Arno Kopecky

@39:42 US EV sales data
https://www.atlasevhub.com/weekly_digest/what-say-you-july-sales-data/

Norway bans gas car sales in 2025, but trends point towards 100% EV sales as early as April
https://electrek.co/2021/09/23/norway-bans-gas-cars-in-2025-but-trends-point-toward-100-ev-sales-as-early-as-april/

Daimler stops developing internal combustion engines to focus on electric cars
https://electrek.co/2019/09/19/daimler-stops-developing-internal-combustion-engines-to-focus-on-electric-cars/

@50:49 Germany’s energy consumption and power mix in charts https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-consumption-and-power-mix-charts

@53:16 Liberal’s Clean Electricity Standard and Federal/Provincial jurisdiction
Lost in Transmission: A Constitutional Approach to Ending Canada’s Energy Infrastructure Poverty - Kristen van de Biezenbos
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3915720

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