Let’s give the Cop27 delegates another chance to look out at the sky over the Sinai desert, maybe in a thirsty evening break in the negotiations.
They will notice only skught differences from the night before.
I thought of showing them the view eastward, over the Red Sea, but the morning scene at present is comparatively barren. And these important people deserve to rise with the Sun; they have been up most of the night, hammering out iron agreements to leave oil, gas, and coal in the ground.
Home planet department
November 10 is a Global Day of Solidarity with Egypt’s political prisoners – declared by twelve organizations: Amnesty International; Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression; Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; Committee for Justice; Egyptian Front for Human Rights; Egyptian Human Rights Forum; Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights; EgyptWide for Human Rights; El Nadeem Center against Violence and Torture; International Service for Human Rights; The Freedom Initiative; Sinai Foundation for Human Rights
This is part of their statement:
“As Egypt hosts #COP27, we will wear white to signal our refusal to participate in greenwashing rights abuses. #FreeThemAll
“We recognize the urgency in identifying solutions to climate change, particularly for those most vulnerable, including in Egypt and on the African continent. Yet, we insist that the goals of COP 27 cannot be achieved without the full participation of civil society, and we refuse to participate in the greenwashing of Egypt’s human rights abuses.”
16th in importance
This time, the vital article in the newspaper moved from 29th to 16th place. Tuvalu, one of the island nations close to being drowned by the rising ocean, has become the first nation to call for a global fossil-fuel non-proliferation treaty.
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I predict that nuclear, wind, and solar energy will soon replace the need for coal and oil.
A patient of mine painted his south facing door black. Heat is trapped between the door and the storm door. He then installed a fan in the door to blow the heated air into his house. The intra door air is 100 degrees so he uses less natural gas for heat.
Bicycle freeways would also decrease oil usage ( and obesity).
They’ll be able to see Canopus from Sharm El Sheikh.
Follow up:
No–I do not at present own a car as I stated above, but I live in New York City. One can get by without a car if one STAYS in the city. Deep Sky Observing is an activity next to impossible to carry in in a city. Transporting large SCTs, or large Newtonians, whether equatorially mounted, or on Dobsonian mounts id rather difficult to accomplish without a car–which is why I have been (Mostly) an armchair astronomer. Which is why I NEVER judge why someone else owns a car or even a large SUV—they might be astronomers—or have large families etc. We need to improve—not ban problematical technologies. That includes fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. Tuvalu’s proposal is unrealistic, it is such proposals that cause vast sections of the public to tune out climate initiatives.