[TheClimate.Vote] December 20, 2019 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Fri Dec 20 09:31:50 EST 2019

December 20, 2019

[Day after yesterday]
*Australia records its hottest day ever - one day after previous record*
Average maximum reaches temperature of 41.9C or 107.4F on Wednesday - a 
full degree above previous mark set the day before
Australia recorded its hottest day on record on Wednesday, with an 
average maximum temperature of 41.9C (107.4F), beating the previous 
record by 1C that had been set only 24 hours earlier.

Tuesday 16 December recorded an average of 40.9C across the continent, 
beating the previous record of 40.3C set on 7 January 2013. But it held 
the record for just 24 hours.

Wednesday was even hotter across the country, with the highest maximum 
temperature reached in Birdsville, Queensland, which hit 47.7C (117.8).
On Wednesday the lowest maximum was 19C at Low Head, Tasmania. On 
Thursday, Nullarbor in South Australia set the record for the hottest 
December day on record, recording 49.9C (121.8F)...
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Dr Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climate scientist at the University of 
New South Wales specialising in extreme events, said climate change had 
given the natural drivers of Australia's record -breaking heat "extra 
sting."

She said without the extra CO2 in the atmosphere "it would still have 
been warm", but, she added: "I doubt very much we would have seen a 
record on Tuesday and then another one on Wednesday. And we are still at 
the beginning of the summer with a long way to go."

On Thursday, she was driving through thick smoke haze in north-west 
Sydney with her family.

She said: "It is frightening and a little frustrating, but this is what 
climate scientists have been saying for decades.

"I'm bordering on saying 'I told you so' but I don't think anyone really 
wants to hear that."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/19/419c-australia-records-hottest-ever-day-one-day-after-previous-record
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[major weather system of Australia]
*Understanding the Indian Ocean Dipole*
Jul 4, 2016
Bureau of Meteorology
Improve your understanding of one of Australia's key climate drivers, 
the Indian Ocean Dipole, with our 'Understanding the Indian Ocean 
Dipole' video.

This video explains what the Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is; the three 
phases of the IOD--positive, neutral and negative; and its influence on 
Australia's rainfall. For more information visit: www.bom.gov.au/climate/iod
https://youtu.be/J6hOVatamYs
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[Weather systems of Australia]
*Understanding the Southern Annular Mode (SAM)*
Jun 11, 2019
Bureau of Meteorology
Improve your understanding of one of Australia's key climate drivers, 
the Southern Annular Mode (SAM). To find out more visit: 
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/sam.
https://youtu.be/KrhWsXCB3u8

[Moscow - Radio Free Europe]
*Putin Defends Trump, Talks Global Warming, Olympic Ban At Annual Press 
Conference*
December 19, 2019...
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On Global Warming
Earlier, Putin said Russia is warming more than twice as fast as the 
global average. He said that global warming could threaten Russian 
Arctic cities and towns built on permafrost, adding that Russia was 
abiding by the Paris agreement intended to slow down global warming. At 
the same time, he noted that factors behind global climate change have 
remained unknown and hard to predict.
https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-to-hold-annual-year-end-marathon-news-conference/30332788.html

[New Republic opinion]
*Climate Change Is the Ultimate "OK, Boomer" Issue*
The genesis of a generational conflict
By RACHEL RIEDERER
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A subtler and perhaps more frustrating pattern is when older people 
respond to youth activism by calling them inspiring, marveling at their 
combination of gravity and youth, but not doing what they say. When 
Greta Thunberg, now the poster child for serious youth climate action, 
visited the U.S. this fall, speaking at the United Nations and leading 
the Global Climate Strike, she was celebrated. Everywhere she went, 
someone older than her declared themselves "inspired." (Myself 
included.) But as she herself emphasized, she wasn't honored by this 
response--she was frustrated. In her now famous speech to the U.N. on 
that trip, delivered in the state of indignant incandescence singular to 
teenage girls, she stared down a room full of the most powerful leaders 
in the world: "You come to us young people for hope," she said. "How 
dare you!" That afternoon, she joined 15 other children in petitioning 
the U.N.'s Commission on the Rights of the Child, demanding that member 
states take immediate action on climate change and saying that their 
continued failure to respond to the climate crisis is a violation of 
children's human rights.

This is, of course, at the crux of the generational divide on climate 
change: The younger you are, the more the crisis will change the 
parameters of your whole life; the older you are, the more likely you 
are to have profited from the carbon-intensive economy that has brought 
us to the tipping point. And although "OK, Boomer" seems to have been 
born as a response to a sort of general elder out-of-touch-ness, it's a 
particularly apt response to leaders who are well-meaning but inactive 
on the climate crisis.
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Meditation teachers often urge their students to cultivate a state of 
openness and eagerness called "beginner's mind." The Zen teacher Shunryu 
Suzuki described the value of this mind-set by saying that "in the 
beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there 
are few." The lack of expertise that Feinstein latched onto in her young 
critics may not be a weakness but instead the very thing that makes 
their ideas so powerful. The ideas that solve the climate crisis will 
have to be new ones--the things we already know got us to where we are.
https://newrepublic.com/article/155905/climate-change-ultimate-ok-boomer-issue

[listen to the music]
*2019 was the year climate change charted*
How musicians from Billie Eilish to Lana Del Rey are grappling with 
climate change
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But it has since become clear that this was the year that the changing 
climate began changing music, with many major recording artists 
streaming their interpretations of the eco-apocalypse. It was, at times, 
extremely corny. In April, YouTube rapper Lil Dicky released "Earth," a 
star-studded and totally unlistenable call to action. In July, The 1975 
made an eponymous "song" that's just a Greta Thunberg speech set to a 
tinkling piano. More often, though, musicians have found their own 
unique way to give voice to the experience of living at the end of days 
-- to living, in other words, in 2019.

Eilish is arguably the most famous and outspoken artist on the climate 
crisis so far. In September, Darkroom / Interscope Records released the 
music video for "All the Good Girls Go to Hell." For a haunting three 
minutes, Eilish dons the perspective -- and wings -- of a fallen angel 
who lands in the goopy darkness of a La Brea-like tar pit. As the 
creature stalks the seared streets of Los Angeles, Eilish whispers her 
refrain, "Hills burn in California / my turn to ignore ya / don't say I 
didn't warn ya."...
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This may have been the year that climate change had a musical moment all 
its own, but the message has been emanating from our speakers for 
decades: What is "All Star" if not a reminder of just how long we've 
known about climate change? As Smash Mouth sang in 1999, "The ice we 
skate is getting pretty thin / The water's getting warm so you might as 
well swim / My world's on fire, how about yours? / That's the way I like 
it and I never get bored."

As musicians develop new ways to address the climate crisis, listeners 
won't get bored, either. And maybe, at Eilish's behest, some will 
continue to take their climate anthems to the streets.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21028133/climate-change-music-2019-charts-billie-eilish-lana-del-rey-playlist

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[Spotify Music Playlist - Anthem collection for Global Warming]
*2019's Climate Change Anthems*
Musicians have found their own unique way to give voice to the 
experience of living at the end of days
13 SONGS
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QflkOc9Qxflm8paulzCXR
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Greta
https://open.spotify.com/track/5jd6XPyXSY4jQVG3SlXP1b

[Research report delivered by email]
*Welcome to the Winter 2019 edition of the Copernicus Atmosphere 
Monitoring Service Newsletter*
https://mailchi.mp/00572d877bf8/ecmwf-copernicus-atmosphere-monitoring-service-newsletter-issue-4009593?e=c01182440a
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[one of many reports]
*New high-quality CAMS maps of carbon dioxide surface fluxes obtained 
from satellite observations*

    see map of Total column of carbon dioxide [ppmv] for Thursday 28
    November 2019. (Credit: Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service,
    ECMWF)
    https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/inline-images/CO2_total_column_forecast28November.png

Thanks to the increasing quality of the processing of satellite 
observations from OCO-2, and improved numerical models of atmospheric 
transport, CAMS is now able to use satellite data to map CO2 sources and 
sinks to a quality that matches those obtained with ground-based 
measurements, but with wider global coverage.
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The CO2 data are now available publicly on the CAMS server 
https://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/data/cams-ghg-inversions/
https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/new-high-quality-cams-maps-carbon-dioxide-surface-fluxes-obtained-satellite-observations

[A classic, well-done explanation]
*12 Cognitive Biases Explained - How to Think Better and More Logically 
Removing Bias*
Dec 30, 2016
Practical Psychology
We are going to be explaining 12 cognitive biases in this video and 
presenting them in a format that you can easily understand to help you 
make better decision in your life. Cognitive biases are flaws in logical 
thinking that clear the path to bad decisions, so learning about these 
ideas can reduce errors in your thought process, leading to a more 
successful life. These biases are very closely related to logical 
fallacies, which may help you win an argument or present information 
better.

Ismonoff: https://www.youtube.com/user/ismonofftv

    1)Anchoring Bias
    2)Availability Heuristic bias
    3)Bandwagon Bias
    4)Choice Supportive Bias
    5)Confirmation Bias
    6)Ostrich Bias
    7)Outcome Bias
    8)Overconfidence
    9)Placebo bias
    10)Survivorship Bias
    11)Selective Perception Bias
    12)Blind Spot Bias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEwGBIr_RIw

[Job listings for climate change]
*Climate Change Job Vacancies Update*
A weekly compilation of job announcements recently posted to the Climate
Change Job Vacancies listing from our IISD Community subscribers
Latest Climate Change Job Vacancies - 17 December 2019
https://community.iisd.org/climate-change-job-vacancies-update/2019-12-17

*
****This Day in Climate History - December 20, 1983 - from D.R. Tucker*
PBS airs "Climate Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect," a "NOVA" special on 
global warming featuring Tennessee Rep. Al Gore.
http://youtu.be/T8JlBkOe6HU
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/24/movies/earth-s-climatic-crisis-examined-by-nova.html 

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