[TheClimate.Vote] June 18, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Thu Jun 18 06:13:16 EDT 2020

/*June 18, 2020*/

[revised science timing]
*World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert*
International Energy Agency chief warns of need to prevent post-lockdown 
surge in emissions
The world has only six months in which to change the course of the 
climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas 
emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate catastrophe, 
one of the world's foremost energy experts has warned.

"This year is the last time we have, if we are not to see a carbon 
rebound," said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International 
Energy Agency...
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert

[Heatwave]
*Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia*
Unusually high temperatures in region linked to wildfires, oil spill and 
moth swarms...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/17/climate-crisis-alarm-at-record-breaking-heatwave-in-siberia

[Survey Says!]
*Massive Survey Reveals The Places Where People Care Most About Climate 
Change*
SIMGE ANDı & JAMES PAINTER, THE CONVERSATION17 JUNE 2020
New survey results from 40 countries shows that climate change matters 
to most people. In the vast majority of countries, fewer than 3 percent 
said climate change was not serious at all.

We carried out this research as part of the University of Oxford's 
Reuters Institute annual Digital News Reports. More than 80,000 people 
were surveyed online in January and February of this year.

Almost seven in ten think climate change is "a very, or extremely 
serious, problem", but the results show notable country differences. 
Lack of concern is far higher in the US (12 percent) as well as in 
Sweden (9 percent), Greta Thunberg's home country...
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So it looks like concern for climate change may be rising globally. 
There is certainly strong evidence that it is increasing in some 
countries. In the US, in November 2019 two in three Americans (66 
percent) said they were at least "somewhat worried" about global 
warming, an increase of 10 percentage points over the past ﬁve years...
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Across all countries, people say they pay most attention to climate news 
on television (35 percent). Online news sites of major news 
organisations are the second most popular news source (15 percent), 
followed by specialised outlets covering climate issues (13 percent), 
then alternative sources such as social media and blogs (9 percent)...
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Respondents from both sides of the political spectrum criticise the 
media for either being too doom-laden, or not bold enough, in their 
coverage of climate change. That said, our survey shows that almost half 
of our respondents (47 percent) think that news media generally do a 
good job of informing them about climate change, and 19 percent think 
that they do a bad job...
https://www.sciencealert.com/how-much-do-people-around-the-world-care-about-climate-change

[discussions]
*Climate Ethics Session 3 with Henry Shue*
June 17, 2020
Oxford Climate Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDAzuYSzk4
Join us for the third session in this series with Professor Henry Shue 
on "Are There Second Chances in Climate Change? Carbon Dioxide Removal 
and Intergenerational Risk Transfer"

This University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy series brings together 
some of the world's leading experts in climate ethics -- John Broome, 
Megan Blomfield, Henry Shue and Simon Caney -- to showcase the latest 
and cutting edge work in the area.

Abstract: Almost all the policies toward climate change that are 
currently under consideration in order to enable the earth to reach 2100 
with an increase in average global temperature of no more than 2C depend 
to some extent on carbon dioxide removal [CDR], because it is already 
impossible today to restrict cumulative CO2 emissions to a quantity that 
will not force temperature to go higher at least temporarily, which 
scientists call an emissions 'overshoot'. The complementary good news is 
that CO2 can be extracted from the atmosphere, as is done by trees and 
other plant life engaged in photosynthesis. Several technologies for 
anthropogenic CDR are now in some stage of development. Does this mean 
that what appear to be dates-of-last-opportunity for climate action are 
not in fact last chances to prevent climate change from leading to 
disastrous outcomes? That the answer is no is the thesis of this talk.

I will highlight two of the reasons. First, CDR mobilized now to 
supplement ambitious emissions reductions now could be valuable, 
depending on whether it required too much land, water, or other scarce 
resources. But relaxed emissions reductions now, seemingly invited by 
hopes of CDR in later decades, would amount to coercive transfers of 
costs and risks from present generations to future generations. This is 
worse than an ordinary situation of 'moral hazard'. Second, even 
reversible emissions 'overshoots' can force irreversible changes to the 
planet, such as sea-level rises from ice sheets driven past critical 
melting points that would continue for centuries after cumulative 
emissions were lowered by CDR. Dreams of CDR ought not to be allowed to 
motivate reductions of emissions at anything less than the most 
ambitious rate possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDAzuYSzk4

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - June 18, 2005 *

Investigative journalist Brad Friedman interviews White House 
whistleblower Rick Piltz regarding the Bush Administration's assault on 
science.

http://www.bradshow.com/Archives/BradShow_061805_Hour1_24k.mp3
http://www.bradshow.com/Archives/BradShow_061805_Hour4_24k.mp3

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