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   Eben a hillbilly can figure most governmunts isn doin nuff.   
   Which is why day kip gittin sued by da kids.   
      
      
   Global emissions cuts must be `10 times higher' for world to meet climate goals   
   Daisy Dunne, The Independent via Carbon Brief   
      
   The world needs to cut greenhouse gas emissions far faster to meet the   
   goals of the Paris Agreement, according to widely covered new research   
   in Nature Climate Change. According to the Independent, the research   
   found that global emissions fell by around 2.6bn tonnes in 2020, as a   
   result of the coronavirus pandemic, but that cuts of 1-2bn tonnes   
   would need to be sustained every year to meet warming limits. In the   
   words of the Guardian, this means: "Carbon dioxide emissions must fall   
   by the equivalent of a global lockdown roughly every 2 years for the   
   next decade for the world to keep within safe limits." The Daily   
   Telegraph has a similar take. According to Reuters, the scientists   
   behind the research "warn[ed of [a] rebound" in global emissions   
   following last year's drop "unless efforts to phase out fossil fuel   
   are intensified". The Times reports the findings with a focus on the   
   UK's emissions cuts relative to other countries, reporting: "Britain   
   is second best in the world". Press Association via the Shropshire   
   Star, the Los Angeles Times,Bloomberg and MailOnline also cover the   
   research. Reflecting on similar findings of a rebound in CO2,   
   published by the International Energy Agency on Tue, BusinessGreen   
   editor James Murray has an article saying hopes that global emissions   
   might have peaked in 2019 have been left looking "wildly optimistic".   
      
      
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   ERCOT CEO Bill Magness will be replaced in aftermath of TX power outages   
   The TX Tribune, 04 Mar 2021 03:27Z   
   Bill Magness is the latest official to depart following the winter storm   
   catastrophe.   
      
   Then and now: A 'megadrought' in California   
   BBC News, 04 Mar 2021 01:25Z   
   See how extreme weather has affected an crucial reservoir in California.   
      
   Energy Secretary Ready To Unleash $40 Billion In Green Energy Funds   
   OilPrice.com1, 04 Mar 2021 09:25Z   
   President Biden's new Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is ready to let   
   loose $40 bn in Dept of Energy loans.   
      
   Construction set to start on Australia's first lithium-ion battery   
   manufacturing plant   
   ABC Newcastle, 04 Mar 2021 06:41Z   
   Prime Minister Scott Morrison tours the site of what will soon be   
   Australia's first advanced manufacturing facility of lithium-ion batteries.   
      
   Thai sailors rescue abandoned cats from a burning, sinking ship   
   ABC News, 04 Mar 2021 07:40Z   
   Thai navy sailors brave choppy waters to perform a dramatic rescue after   
   discovering 4 cats abandoned on a sinking ship that caught fire off a   
   paradise island.   
      
   Australia's share of extinct animals rises as list of the lost updated   
   Sydney Morning Herald, 03 Mar 2021   
   Twelve more mammals, some of which disappeared more than 70 years ago,   
   have been added to Australia's official extinction ...   
   [Australia now has officially lost 100 species since 1788.  This is 10x   
   more than the 2nd-place].   
      
   NSW tenants will have 6 months to pay off rental arrears   
   ABC New England, 04 Mar 2021 01:42Z   
   Amid warnings of a looming wave of rental stress, the NSW govt   
   confirms tenants in arrears will not have to pay them down straight away   
   when an evictions moratorium expires at the end of March.   
      
   Concerns passengers onboard Qatar flight to Brisbane contracted COVID-19 via   
   'superspreader'   
   ABC News, 04 Mar 2021 04:40Z   
   Queensland's Chief Health Officer says she holds concerns for 6 people who   
   travelled on a Qatar Airways flight who may have contracted COVID-19 from a   
   "superspreader" with 3 travellers now confirmed to have the Russian variant.   
      
   Fake COVID-19 vaccine distribution networks uncovered in China, South Africa   
   ABC News, 04 Mar 2021 05:19Z   
   Police in China and South Africa seize 1000s of fake doses of COVID-19   
   jabs, global police organisation Interpol says, warning this represented   
   only the "tip of the iceberg" in vaccine-related crime.   
      
   More than 250,000 Utahns are now fully vaccinated   
   Salt Lake Tribune, 04 Mar 2021 02:20Z   
   Utah's latest coronavirus data released from the state Dept of   
   Health.   
      
   Wave Power Could Be Energy's Next Big Leap   
   Bloomberg Quicktake, 03 Mar 2021 22:18Z   
   Brazil is facing a spike in Covid-19 deaths and an overwhelmed health care   
   system. A more contagious variant of the virus may be part of the problem.   
      
   Why Blood Type May Matter for COVID Infection   
   WebMD, 03 Mar 2021 20:53Z   
   A new study provides further evidence that people with certain blood types   
   may be more likely to contract COVID-19.   
      
   Scientists find source of dangerous, high energy solar particles that could   
   threaten Earth   
   The Independent, 03 Mar 2021 19:53Z   
   Scientists have found the exact source of dangerous rays that are fired from   
   the Sun and threaten activities on the Earth.   
      
   One of the largest ecosystems on Earth lives beneath the seafloor and eats   
   radiation byproducts   
   ZME Science, 03 Mar 2021 17:51Z   
   Researchers at the University of Rhode Island's (URI) Graduate School of   
   Oceanography report that a whole ecosystem of microbes below the sea dines   
   not on ...   
      
   President Joe Biden slams governors for lifting mask mandates, calls it   
   'Neanderthal thinking'   
   CNBC, 04 Mar 2021 00:13Z   
   TX Gov. Greg Abbott and Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, both Republicans,   
   announced Tue they would allow businesses to reopen at 100% capacity ...   
      
   Dutch Covid test centre hit by suspected bomb attack   
   The Guardian, 03 Mar 2021 11:42Z   
   Police have said they are working on the assumption that an explosion that   
   damaged a Dutch coronavirus test centre early on Wed was a deliberate ...   
      
   Myanmar: 18 People Killed During Anti-Government Protests   
   NPR, 03 Mar 2021 16:42Z   
   A crackdown on anti-junta protests in Myanmar showed no signs of letting up,   
   a day after after Southeast Asian foreign ministers issued a tepid call to   
   end to the ...   
   [Other reports say at least 33 killed].   
      
   House Oversight Committee reissues subpoena for Trump financial records   
   CNBC, 03 Mar 2021 16:41Z   
   Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., argues it remains vital for   
   Congress to see Trump's finances and other records in order to craft   
   legislative reforms.   
      
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