8 Tasty Snacks Made of Upcycled Food That Can Make the Most Out of Food Waste
By Devorah Lev-Tov of Self |
Food waste is a huge problem worldwide, which is one reason why snacks made of upcycled food are becoming more and more popular.
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, about one-third of the food produced in the world each year never makes it into someone’s mouth. That means billions of produce, grains, meat, dairy, and seafood go to waste because it either never leaves the farm, is lost or spoiled during distribution, or is thrown away by stores, restaurants, hotels, schools and us, from our own homes.
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Washington Examiner, Josh Siegel and Abby Smith reported: “This morning, the EPA unveiled a proposal to begin limiting potent greenhouse gas coolants known as hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs. It’s a significant step to curb climate change, as phasing down HFCs could help avoid roughly 0.5 degrees Celsius of warming.”
The claim that a phaseout of HFCs would reduce future warming by 0.5 C is the conventional wisdom, and like many such assertions accepted among Beltway types, it is based upon dubious foundations and assumptions.
For perspective, note that the entire Paris Agreement, if implemented immediately and enforced strictly, would reduce global temperatures by 0.17 C by 2100, as predicted by the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate model under assumptions that exaggerate the effects of reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The temperature effect of a 50% emission
Emissions cuts could halve the impact of melting ice on oceans
By Henry Fountain New York Times,Updated May 5, 2021, 5:23 p.m.
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Scientists Wednesday reported another reason the world should sharply rein in global warming: Doing so would likely cut in half the current projected amount of sea level rise from the melting of ice this century.
In a study that averaged results of hundreds of computer simulations from research teams around the world, the scientists said that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce sea level rise from melting glaciers and the vast Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets from about 10 inches to about 5 by 2100.
Emissions Cuts Could Drop the Impact of Melting Ice on Oceans by Half
A new study said that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius could reduce sea level rise from melting ice sheets from about 10 inches to about five by 2100.
The melting Longyearbreen glacier during a heat wave on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard last summer.Credit.Sean Gallup/Getty Images
May 5, 2021Updated 12:25 p.m. ET
Scientists on Wednesday reported another reason the world should sharply rein in global warming: doing so would likely cut in half the current projected amount of sea level rise from the melting of ice this century.
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Physicist Steven Koonin, a former BP chief scientist and Obama administration energy official, seeks to downplay climate change risk in his new book, “Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What it Doesn’t and Why it Matters.”
His critics say he often draws general conclusions from specific slices of data or uncertainties (sometimes signaled by key words or phrases.) As a result, they say, his statements are frequently misleading, and often leave the reader with the incorrect impression climate scientists are hiding the truth.
“Identifying, quantifying, and reducing uncertainties in models and observations is an integral part of climate science,” said atmospheric scientist Benjamin Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. “The climate science community discusses uncertainties in an open and transparent way, and has done so for decades. It is simply untrue that Prof. Koonin is confronting climate scientists with unpleasant facts they h