[TheClimate.Vote] September 10, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Thu Sep 10 09:51:18 EDT 2020

/*September 10, 2020*/

[CBS news - pre-roll ads]
*Wildfires and weather extremes: It's not coincidence, it's climate change*
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-extreme-weather-wildfires-snow-jet-stream/

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*AirNow Smoke and Fire Map *
https://fire.airnow.gov/?lat=47.7167616&lng=-122.3262208&zoom=10

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*Day, not night from San Francisco*
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/us/pictures-photos-california-fires.html

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[impressive overflight]
*Almeda Fire: A plane flies over a house in Talent, Oregon and drops 
fire retardant*
A plane drops fly retardant over a neighborhood in Talent during the 
Alameda fire
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/videos/news/2020/09/09/almeda-fire-oregon-jackson-county-fire-retardant-plane-flyover-talent-house/5757035002/ 

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*Southern Oregon wildfire updates: Almeda fire threatens 'lives and 
structures' in Ashland, Medford*
https://www.redding.com/story/news/2020/09/09/oregon-wildfires-map-update-almeda-fire-ashland-medford-evacuation/5759539002/
https://www.redding.com/picture-gallery/news/2020/09/09/reader-photos-smoke-north-state/5764413002/

[from the NYTimes newsletter]
*The 'straightforward' link between climate and California's fires*
By John Schwartz
California is on fire. Almost 2.5 million acres of land have burned 
there so far this year -- nearly 20 times what had burned at this time 
last year -- and the wildfire season is far from over.

That means many scientists in the state aren't just studying their 
field; many of them are living it.

When I got in touch with Nina S. Oakley on Tuesday for an article about 
the connections between climate change and California's wildfires, she 
was in her car, driving toward the ocean.

Dr. Oakley, a research scientist at the Center for Western Weather and 
Water Extremes at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was driving 
with her husband, Benjamin Hatchett, a climatologist, away from their 
home in Santa Rosa, Calif., where choking smoke from wildfires and power 
failures had made it impossible to work.

For these climate scientists, and, increasingly, for all of us, their 
discipline is anything but academic. The links between climate change 
and some extreme weather phenomena can be hard to distinguish from 
natural weather variability without extensive attribution analysis, but 
the links between wildfires and a warming planet, especially in 
California are "straightforward," said Park Williams, a bioclimatologist 
at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "Warmer 
temperatures dry the fuels, and all you need from there is a spark."

The effects of global warming on wildfires are varied. Want to learn 
more about how people live in fire-prone areas and protect themselves? 
How about the increasing problems for people who need to insure their 
homes areas where fires are likely, or the growing support among 
Americans for tough limits on building in fire and flood zones? In 
California's fields where farm laborers are suffering under the burdens 
of punishing heat and rising levels of wildfire smoke, as well as the 
coronavirus pandemic. And as the wildfire season continues, California 
is dealing with depleted ranks of inmate firefighters.

This year's fire season in California is far from over, and you could 
say the same for the state's fire crisis. Dr. Williams published a paper 
last year that pointed to the drying effects of human-induced warming in 
much of the West. It concluded that the effects on wildfire activity 
"over the next few decades will likely be larger than the observed 
influence thus far."

That, counterintuitively, gave me chills.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/09/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-california-wildfires.html

[who will become climate refugees]
*Climate crisis could displace 1.2bn people by 2050, report warns*
Countries unable to withstand ecological threats among world's least 
peaceful, analysis finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/09/climate-crisis-could-displace-12bn-people-by-2050-report-warns
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[IEP]
*The Institute for Economics & Peace aims to create a paradigm shift in 
the way the world thinks about peace.*
MEASURING AND COMMUNICATING THE
ECONOMIC VALUE OF PEACE
https://www.economicsandpeace.org/

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[Sept 29, 2020]
*Launch of the Ecological Threat Register*
This September, the The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) will be 
releasing a brand new, timely research product that will show both 
exposure to risk, and the ability of nations and their resilience - as 
measured by Positive Peace - to deal with major impacts. The Ecological 
Threat Register (ETR) Report will highlight the global hotspots that are 
exposed to higher risk of ecological events, and measure ecological 
threats that countries are projected to face between now and 2050.
http://visionofhumanity.org/events/launch-of-the-ecological-threat-register/
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-ecological-threat-register-launch-tickets-116959279353
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g9-hC-hlec&feature=youtu.be

[positive future]
*Soybeans flourish in thawing permafrost*
Moscow, Russia
In the vast plains that blanket much of northern Russia a 
once-unthinkable business is taking hold - soybean farming. It's the 
result of years of increasing global temperatures, which are thawing the 
permafrost and turning the land into fertile soil...
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Russian farmers have embraced the opportunity to grow soybeans. The 
oilseed is processed into animal feed and demand has been strong amid a 
boom for livestock production. Russia still relies on imports of about 1 
million metric tons of soybeans so domestic harvest is expected to 
continue to grow...
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"I was a pessimist about the prospects of growing soybeans in central 
Russia, but now I see I was wrong," said Dmitry Rylko, director general 
at the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies, a consultancy in 
Moscow. "I underestimated the scale of climate change. I underestimated 
the potential of plant breeding."
https://www.agupdate.com/agriview/news/crop/soybeans-flourish-in-thawing-permafrost/article_bd53eacd-dbd0-5e7e-ba80-69a6961fea54.html

[electric car races]
*Lewis Hamilton to enter his own team in new Extreme E all-electric 
racing series*
British driver keen to highlight 'critical environmental issues'
The new series will aim to raise awareness of climate crisis
Giles Richards
Tue 8 Sep 2020
Lewis Hamilton has announced he is to make his first foray into running 
his own racing team, with an entry into the new Extreme E series next 
year. Hamilton's team, named X44, will compete in the inaugural series 
of the all-electric off-road SUV championship set to begin in 2021.

Hamilton has been vocal in his support of environmental causes in the 
past and believes the series will work positively to promote further 
awareness of the climate crisis. The team is named after the Formula One 
world champion's Mercedes car number and as with all of the series' 
entrants, will feature two drivers, both as yet unnamed, one male and 
one female.

"It's an exciting new project and it will be fun to have a different 
role from being the team driver," said Hamilton. "What is most appealing 
though, is that the Extreme E championship will be not only raising 
awareness of some of the most critical environmental issues facing our 
planet, but also doing something about it through working with local 
charitable organisations to leave behind no trace and a long-lasting 
legacy of change."

This is Hamilton's first major step away from driving and will provoke 
further speculation on what course his career might take when he chooses 
to retire from competing. The British driver is pursuing his seventh F1 
world championship title this season, and is expected to sign a new 
contract with Mercedes to continue racing in F1 shortly.

The Extreme E championship was created by Alejandro Agag, the founder of 
the all-electric Formula E series. The new championship will consist of 
five meetings, each racing in locations that are considered to be under 
threat or already damaged by climate change. The provisional season is 
scheduled to start in Senegal in January before visiting Saudi Arabia, 
Nepal, Greenland and Brazil.

Racing will take place across country over two laps of a 16km course 
with each driver taking on one lap in what will be called an "X Prix". 
The races will not be open to the public to minimise the environmental 
impact but will be broadcast online. Britain's Jamie Chadwick, who won 
the first W Series in 2019, is already signed up to take part in the 
series. Also involved are multiple world rally champion Sebastian Ogier, 
two-times DTM champion Timo Scheider, Formula E champion Lucas di 
Grassi, Le Mans winner Andre Lotterer and former IndyCar racer Katherine 
Legge.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/08/lewis-hamilton-to-enter-his-own-team-in-new-extreme-e-all-electric-racing-series

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*EXTREME E*
We bring electric racing to some of the most remote corners of the 
planet to highlight the climate change challenges faced by different 
ecosystems, whilst showcasing the performance of all-electric SUVs in 
extreme conditions.
https://www.extreme-e.com/

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - September 10, 2015 *
The New York Times reports on severe wildfires in California...
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Dr. Jain warned the situation was likely to grow worse. Medical studies 
have shown that asthma hospitalizations reach their peak in September, 
and the fire season will not be over by then.

"What we have now makes the good-air days bad and bad-air days worse," 
he said. "It jacks up the air to a whole 'nother level. What the fire 
and particles do is like sunburn in their lungs, putting the smoke right 
down in their lungs. We see a whole bunch of people get exacerbated and 
getting hospitalized, no matter what we do."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/us/fires-in-west-leave-residents-gasping-on-the-soot-left-behind.html 

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