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posted by on Saturday June 03 2017, @06:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the balance-shifting dept.

The Guardian reports:

The European Union has rejected Donald Trump's offer to renegotiate the Paris climate agreement and pledged instead to bypass Washington to work with US business leaders and state governors to implement the historic accord's commitments.

Less than 24 hours after the US president announced his decision to withdraw from the 2015 agreement and strike a new, less ambitious deal with the rest of the world, Brussels declared its outright refusal to engage in such talks.

EU officials will instead cut out the White House to deal directly with the US states and major corporations, many of whom have already pledged to live by the terms forged in Paris.

China vows to partner with the EU on clean energy.

But Beijing and Brussels have been preparing to announce their intention to accelerate joint efforts to reduce global carbon emissions.

According to a statement being prepared before an EU-China summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday, the new alliance will say they are determined to "lead the energy transition" toward a low-carbon economy.

The EU's climate commissioner, Miguel Arias CaƱete, told the Guardian: "The EU and China are joining forces to forge ahead on the implementation of the Paris agreement and accelerate the global transition to clean energy."

Let's not wait for the guy with the awkward handshake anymore.

That's the gist of documents, seen by the Financial Times*, about the upcoming EU-China summit this Friday in Brussels.

Cooperation on the deployment of electric cars, energy efficiency labelling, and scientific research into green innovation. Further increasing the share of renewable energy, by boosting interconnected power networks. Setting up a scheme for emissions trading in China, with an eye of coupling that scheme to the pioneering EU version. Money to fund developing countries' climate plans.

"The increasing impacts of climate change require a decisive response", the joint statement reads,"Tackling climate change and reforming our energy systems are significant drivers of job creation, investment opportunities and economic growth."

* EU and China strengthen climate ties to counter US retreat. Financial Times, Wednesday May 31, 2017. [Paywalled]


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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:03AM (4 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:03AM (#519763) Homepage Journal

    I'm completely convinced that the savings will be significant. The most-effective way to implement it would be to refactor commonly used libraries like glibc.

    glibc's qsort() routine was written in the early nineties. It is single-threaded. Even if no power is saved you'd get a significant speed improvement if you used multiple cores for a parallel sort.

    In general, CPUs have lots of cores but it is uncommon for developers to use them effectively. The one case where they help is on servers, that can handle a single-threaded transaction on just one CPU. But for user interface software, where the user only cares about the frontmost application, it is uncommon to use more than one core.

    Yeah, multithreaded coding is difficult but then so is singing on the street. Deal.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:16AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @07:16AM (#519765)

    https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/16/it_electricity_use_worse_than_you_thought/ [theregister.co.uk]

    Even if you cut IT energy use in half IT would not affect the climate much.

    Also if all of the cores are running, the machine is probably using more power. So your idea does not improve the current situation for consumer computing, where the machines are idling most of the time, and your idea means nothing for datacenters or supercomputers which are already parallel.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @08:26AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @08:26AM (#519773)

    We already have rockstar automation AIs that refactor our code for us. We call them optimizing compilers.