[✔️] April 13, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest.

Tue Apr 13 10:46:25 EDT 2021

/*April 13, 2021*/

[text - multiple intelligence agencies look to 2040]
*Climate change is a major threat to stability, spy agencies say*
Andrew Freedman - Apr 9, 2021

Climate change will lead to a less secure, more crisis-prone world that 
will strain global institutions, according to a major national security 
assessment released Thursday.
*
**Driving the news:* The “Global Trends Report,” produced every four 
years by the National Intelligence Council, spotlights climate change 
among the main structural forces shaping the next two decades.

The big picture: Global warming, along with disease outbreaks, financial 
crises and other forces, will test the “resilience and adaptability” of 
the international system. There are reasons to believe that many systems 
large and small may fail under the increased stress.

*What they're saying:* “Climate change will increasingly exacerbate 
risks to human and national security and force states to make hard 
choices and tradeoffs,” the report states.
“The burdens will be unevenly distributed, heightening competition, 
contributing to instability, straining military readiness, and 
encouraging political movements.”
Notably, the report also states that the increasing impacts of climate 
change may lead to increased demand for geoengineering of the climate. 
Such schemes, just on the drawing board now, might involve artificially 
counteracting global warming by spraying tiny particles high into the 
atmosphere to reflect sunlight, for example.
Context: While national security experts have referred to climate change 
as a threat-multiplier for years, it's noteworthy this report shows 
climate change playing such a prominent role in shaping the world order 
through 2040.
*
**Quick take*: This is not your typical grim climate report projecting 
disaster in the year 2100, i.e. the distant future.

Instead, the climate change we will see through midcentury is already 
baked into the climate system, thanks to how the oceans absorb and 
redistribute heat.
Studies show that even if emissions are sharply reduced now we are still 
in for additional amounts of warming through mid-century, which will 
lead to more extreme weather events, sea level rise, and other effects.
What is up to us, however, is how we prepare for and respond to such 
challenges.

We can strengthen democratic institutions or instead become a more 
fragmented global community with competing power centers, the report shows.
*Between the lines: *Other “structural forces” affecting the globe 
include technological and economic trends, which, along with climate 
change, are likely to determine the winners and losers around the world.

Climate change is already affecting developing nations more severely 
than it is the industrialized world, and that trend is only going to 
intensify, the report concludes.
*Reality check: *One lesson of the COVID-19 pandemic is that while we 
plan for major threats, they still contain many surprises. Previous 
editions of this report had considered pandemics, but they did not 
accurately capture the complexities and far-reaching impacts of COVID-19.

It’s discomforting to think we may not be fully understanding or 
planning for how far-reaching climate change’s reverberations may be 
felt, but that's likely the case.
*The bottom line: *Buckle your seatbelt, we're in for a bumpy ride.
https://www.axios.com/climate-change-national-security-intelligence-report-22a18eaa-f307-4d07-a149-6c565dd7337f.html

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[Read it yourself.   Not sure why  2040 is considered "deep future"?]
*Global Trends 2040*
*Publication of the National Intelligence Council*
March 21, 2021
https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalTrends_2040.pdf

[Technology saves the future! - video]
*Watch robots build houses at incredible speed. 3D printing meets AI.*
Apr 3, 2021
Pindex

3D printed houses are rising around the world. They're cheaper, smarter, 
better for the environment and promise to help tackle homelessness.

Here's the video about robots, introduced at the end: 
https://youtu.be/SiZZkrEyw5Q

Help us make more videos like this (and enjoy exclusive content):
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEH4pMnpgps

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - April 13, 2012 *

April 13, 2012: In the Spokane, Washington Spokesman-Review, "Democracy 
Now" host Amy Goodman observes: "The Pentagon knows it. The world’s 
largest insurers know it. Now, governments may be overthrown because of 
it. It is climate change, and it is real. According to the U.S. National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, last month was the hottest March 
on record for the United States since 1895, when records were first 
kept, with average temperatures of 8.6 degrees above average. More than 
15,000 March high-temperature records were broken nationally. Drought, 
wildfires, tornadoes and other extreme weather events are already 
plaguing the country."

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/apr/13/climate-change-a-hot-issue/

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