[TheClimate.Vote] January 22, 2019 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Tue Jan 22 09:36:23 EST 2019

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*Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps*
Climate State
Published on Jan 21, 2019
Polar Vortex: How the Jet Stream and Climate Change Bring on Cold Snaps
Temperatures are rising much faster in the Arctic than the global 
average ("Arctic Amplification").
Broward County declares cold weather emergency
Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are 
suffering from  tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold. 
Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn't be bad to have a little of that 
good old fashioned Global Warming right now!
Climate Denial Crock of the Week "It's cold. So there's no Climate 
Change" (2009)
If There's Climate Change, Why am I Freezing? (2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEwEr9Sfy6M

[a very difficult video - an academic philosopher on the issue of global 
warming future - worth hearing]
*Shed A Light: Rupert Read – This civilisation is finished: so what is 
to be done?*
Churchill College, University of Cambridge
Published on Nov 9, 2018
Rupert Read, Environmental Philosopher and Chair of Green House Think Tank.

The Paris Agreement explicitly commits us to use non-existent, utterly 
reckless, unaffordable and ineffective 'Negative Emissions Technologies' 
which will almost certainly fail to be realised. Barring a multifaceted 
miracle, within a generation, we will be facing an exponentially rising 
tide of climate disasters that will bring this civilization down. We, 
therefore, need to engage with climate realism. This means an epic 
struggle to mitigate and adapt, an epic struggle to take on the 
climate-criminals and, notably, to start planning seriously for 
civilizational collapse.

Dr Rupert Read is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East 
Anglia. Rupert is a specialist in Wittgenstein, environmental 
philosophy, critiques of Rawlsian liberalism, and philosophy of film. 
His research in environmental ethics and economics has included 
publications on problems of 'natural capital' valuations of nature, as 
well as pioneering work on the Precautionary Principle. Recently, his 
work was cited by the Supreme Court of the Philippines in their landmark 
decision to ban the cultivation of GM aubergine. Rupert is also chair of 
the UK-based post-growth think tank, Green House, and is a former Green 
Party of England & Wales councillor, spokesperson, European 
parliamentary candidate and national parliamentary candidate. He stood 
as the Green Party MP-candidate for Cambridge in 2015.

    About the series
    Shed A Light is a series of talks that seek to present alternative
    framings of future human-nature interactions and the pragmatic
    solution pathways that we could take to get there.

By recognising the interlinkages between struggles for ecological, 
social and economic justice in addition to the desperate need for 
immediate societal transformation, Shed A Light aims to engage everyone 
with the green agenda and prompt broad-based discussions on 
sustainability issues.
https://youtu.be/uzCxFPzdO0Y

[wise, interesting discussions]
*Writing the Rules on Climate Change*
The Agenda with Steve Paikin
Published on Jan 9, 2019
Catherine Abreu, executive director of the Climate Action Network, joins 
Steve Paikin to discuss climate change in the wake of the COP24 meetings 
in Katowice, Poland. As governments around the world are backing away 
from the climate commitments made as part of the 2015 Paris Agreement, 
is limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees an achievable target?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m-jtc6lDD0

[22 seconds video light banter]
*Hotpocalypse Channel Trailer*
Hotpocalypse
Published on Jan 21, 2019
Climate scientist Josh Willis and comedian Andy Cobb discuss the reasons 
we're all going to die.
We livestream every Friday to the Facebook page "Being Liberal" and post 
the episodes here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzr07wPkmMs
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[video - rare climate humor: 5 reasons we are all gonna die...wait is 
that funny?]
*The 10 Year Climate Challenge - Hotpocalypse - Episode 2*
Hotpocalypse
Published on Jan 20, 2019
Climate scientist Josh Willis and comedian Andy Cobb discuss the 10 year 
climate change challenge, the melting of Antarctica, and this week's top 
5 reasons we're all going to die.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI50024GwWk

[lessons not learned will be repeated]
*Davos 'elite' still pretending we have time to fix the climate crisis *
Our changing climate is one of the key challenges of our time. If we 
weren't clear on that already, on Wednesday the World Economic Forum 
released its annual survey of experts and decision-makers to verify it.

 From water crisis, to extreme weather events, to failures in climate 
change mitigation and adaptation, four of the top five most impactful 
Global Risks in this year's report are related to climate. We are in a 
climate emergency.

You'd therefore expect this clear existential threat to humanity to be 
at the very centre of the agenda of the World Economic Forum's gathering 
held in Davos this week. Surely the powerful are competing over who can 
best address this threat to humanity? Which of the brightest minds can 
identify the most effective solutions the fastest?

But instead the agenda only addresses climate change as one issue of 
many. The Davos 'elite' are still pretending we have time to fix the 
climate crisis. We don't. We have already entered into a new phase of 
climate change, one in which the impacts are coming faster and more 
intensively and we have to act immediately to avoid an even more 
catastrophic disaster.

Already in 2019 we've witnessed the worst storm in 30 years rip through 
coastal areas of Thailand. The Solomon Islands in the Pacific has been 
slammed by unrelenting rain, with 22,000 people estimated to have lost 
food crops or their homes. In the Alps, just east of Davos, extreme snow 
events are an ongoing emergency right now, related to warmer and wetter air.

These events should surprise no-one. At the opening of COP24, the UN 
Secretary General Guterres reminded the world that climate change is 
already “a matter of life and death” for many people, nations and 
countries of the world. Climate change is real - and it is here now.
https://www.euronews.com/2019/01/21/davos-elite-still-pretending-we-have-time-to-fix-the-climate-crisis-view

[look to the future]
*EIA: Wind and solar will be fastest growing sources of electricity in 
2019 and 2020*
JANUARY 21, 2019 JOHN WEAVER
The EIA projects that wind and solar will grow 10-17% over the next two 
years, despite contraction in U.S. electricity demand & generation.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/01/21/wind-and-solar-still-fast-growing-electricity-sources-in-contracting-markets-of-2019-2020/

*This Day in Climate History - January 22, 1970 - from D.R. Tucker*
January 22, 1970: In his State of the Union address, President Nixon 
declares:

    "The great question of the seventies is, shall we surrender to our
    surroundings, or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to
    make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our
    land, and to our water?
    "Restoring nature to its natural state is a cause beyond party and
    beyond factions. It has become a common cause of all the people of
    this country. It is a cause of particular concern to young
    Americans, because they more than we will reap the grim consequences
    of our failure to act on programs which are needed now if we are to
    prevent disaster later.
    "Clean air, clean water, open spaces—these should once again be the
    birthright of every American. If we act now, they can be.
    "We still think of air as free. But clean air is not free, and
    neither is clean water. The price tag on pollution control is high.
    Through our years of past carelessness we incurred a debt to nature,
    and now that debt is being called...
    "The automobile is our worst polluter of the air. Adequate control
    requires further advances in engine design and fuel composition. We
    shall intensify our research, set increasingly strict standards, and
    strengthen enforcement procedures—and we shall do it now.
    "We can no longer afford to consider air and water common property,
    free to be abused by anyone without regard to the consequences.
    Instead, we should begin now to treat them as scarce resources,
    which we are no more free to contaminate than we are free to throw
    garbage into our neighbor's yard."

http://youtu.be/5LpspwT0ZwA

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