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As temperatures rise, extreme weather displaces record numbers of people May 24, 2021 9:56 AM CDT By Ajit Niranjan
A man pulls his son in a cooler with his wife as they wade through their flooded street to reach an open convenience store in Bonita Springs, Florida | David Goldman/AP
Storms, floods, wildfires and droughts drove more than 30 million people from their homes last year, as rising temperatures wrought extra chaos on the climate, according to a report published Thursday by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC).
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Climate change in Uttarakhand will increasingly force people to abandon farming at high altitudes and move to the plains over the next 30 years. A new study on the state in the middle of the Himalayan range by the Germany-based Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi has forecast the worst impacts will be in higher elevations. This may accelerate the trend of people migrating and leaving land fallow.
Uttarakhand, which covers an area bigger than Costa Rica, may be 1.6 degrees Celsius-1.9 degrees Celsius warmer by 2050. Its residents are already experiencing the impacts of climate change, such as changing temperatures, upward-moving snowlines, receding glaciers, erratic rainfall, reduction of snow in winter, changed cropping seasons, shifting cultivation zones for certain crops, and drying up of perennial streams, as pointed out in the state government’s action plan on climate change.
VW s Herbert Diess Says To Ditch Hydrogen Cars, Focus On BEVs
May 20, 2021 at 9:00am ET ++ They are inefficient and more harmful to the environment.
There are two main solutions to make cars zero-emission - use of batteries orf hydrogen fuel cells to supply electricity to electric motors.
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InsideEVs, we were always backing batteries and are very skeptical about hydrogen, mainly because up to around three times lower energy efficiency. But this is not the only flaw with hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCV). The other main obstacles are cost of cars and hydrogen fuel and lack of hydrogen refueling infrastructure (it s expensive too). All those things have been an issue for at least the last 10-15 years.
VW's Herbert Diess said fuel cell advocates should look at a study recommending that electric battery-based vehicles should be the focus of a green mobility strategy.