[✔️] April 28, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Wed Apr 28 11:10:57 EDT 2021
/*April 28, 2021*/
[The Arctic - text & video explanations]
*The ‘heat bombs’ destroying Arctic sea ice*
Apr 23, 2021
Scripps Oceanography
Pockets of warm water from the Pacific Ocean are entering the Arctic
Ocean, accelerating the melt of sea ice. An international team of
researchers led by Scripps Oceanography made unprecedented measurements
of the physical and biological changes this incursion has brought about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-IpzUyfBRI
[information battlegrounds -- mis-using social media]
*Climate FUD Campaigns Change Tactics As More Accept Climate Science*
Michael E. Mann and other scientists say climate deniers have stopped
attacking global warming but have started challenging green policies in
new ways...
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Mann has published a new book this year entitled The New Climate War:
The Fight to Take Back Our Planet. In it, he argues,“It just isn’t
credible to deny climate change or the impacts it’s having. People see
it with their own two eyes. So there’s a shift in tactics. Now it’s
softer forms of denial, and efforts to diminish the impacts of climate
change.”..
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In March, Sumit Sharma, senior researcher in tech competition for
Consumer Reports, said, “We’re at a tipping point. Different agencies
and legislators are coming at it from different angles, but they’re
converging on the idea that these platforms have too much market power
and reducing that dominance would result in more innovation and a better
online experience for consumers.”
Is America about to see a spate of activity designed to break up these
powerful monopolies the way Teddy Roosevelt and this Trust Busters did a
century ago? Perhaps. There seems to be an appetite for such action on
both sides of the aisle in Congress. Whether that is good policy or not,
it would likely rein in some of the creative ways climate deniers have
for recasting their message to spread more fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
There are few who would not welcome such a change in the social media world.
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/04/27/climate-fud-campaigns-change-tactics-as-more-accept-climate-science/
[Where's the Money?]
*Biden's unlikely new ally on climate change: Corporate America*
Now corporate lobbyists need Republicans in Washington to deliver on policy.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/27/bidens-climate-change-corporate-america-484784
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[Where's the Beef?]
*Biden’s climate change plan may not nix cheeseburgers, but science says
beef should be on the chopping block*
A GOP social media frenzy about Biden banning beef has no meat to it,
but beef plays significant role in greenhouse gas emissions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/04/26/biden-climate-beef-ban/
[anytime is sad]
*More people die in winter than summer, but climate change may see this
reverse*
April 26, 2021
Climate change not only poses enormous dangers to the planet, but also
harms human health. In our study published today, we show some of the
first evidence climate change has had observable impacts on Australians’
health between 1968 and 2018.
We found long-term heating is associated with changed seasonal balance
of deaths in Australia, with relatively more deaths in summer months and
relatively fewer deaths in winter months over recent decades.
Our findings can be explained by the gradual global warming associated
with climate change. Over the 51 years of our study, annual average
temperatures increased by more than 1°C in Australia. The last decade
(2011 to 2020) was the hottest in the country’s recorded history.
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Hot and cold weather can have a variety of direct and indirect effects
on our health. Winter death rates generally exceed those in summer
months because infectious diseases, like influenza, tend to circulate
more in winter. Meanwhile, heat stress can exacerbate chronic health
conditions including heart disease and kidney disease, particularly for
older adults.
But the gap between cold-related deaths and heat-related deaths appears
to be narrowing. And when we compared deaths in the hottest summers with
the coldest winters, we found particularly warm years increase the
likelihood of seasonal mortality ratios approaching 1 to 1 (meaning
equal deaths in summer and winter).
With summers expected to become hotter, we believe this is an early
indication of the effects of climate change in the future.
*Our research is unique*
Globally, our study is one of very few that directly shows the health
impacts of climate change. Most other studies examine the effects of
past weather or climate conditions on health and extrapolate these into
the future based on projected climate change scenarios, with associated
uncertainties. For example, demographic characteristics of the
population are likely to change over time.
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Our findings support these worrying predictions. If warming trends
continue, it’s almost certain summer deaths will increase, and come to
dominate the burden of temperature-related deaths in Australia.
We found the speed of change in the ratio of summer to winter deaths was
fastest in the hottest years within each decade. This strengthens our
conclusion we’re observing an effect of long-term climate change...
https://theconversation.com/more-people-die-in-winter-than-summer-but-climate-change-may-see-this-reverse-159135
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[Source matter]
*Increased ratio of summer to winter deaths due to climate warming in
Australia, 1968–2018*
Ivan C. Hanigan Keith B.G. Dear Alistair Woodward
First published: 26 April 2021 https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.13107.
*Abstract*
Objective: To determine if global warming has changed the balance of
summer and winter deaths in Australia.
*Methods:* Counts of summer and winter cause‐specific deaths of subjects
aged 55 and over for the years 1968–2018 were entered into a Poisson
time‐series regression. Analysis was stratified by states and
territories of Australia, by sex, age and cause of death (respiratory,
cardiovascular, and renal diseases). The warmest and coldest subsets of
seasons were compared.
*Results: *Warming over 51 years was associated with a long‐term
increase in the ratio of summer to winter mortality from 0.73 in the
summer of 1969 to 0.83 in the summer of 2018. The increase occurred
faster in years that were warmer than average.
*Conclusions:* Mortality in the warmest and coldest times of the year is
converging as annual average temperatures rise.
*Implications for public health:* If climate change continues, deaths in
the hottest months will come to dominate the burden of mortality in
Australia.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1753-6405.13107
https://Theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/27/california-nestle-water-san-bernardino-forest-drought
[Wildfires in Russia make a smoke curtain]
*Wildfire infernos in Western Siberia as drivers in Novosibirsk region
report zero visibility*
By The Siberian Times reporter 26 April 2021
Omsk region emergency services said number of wildfires is seven to ten
times above the ‘norm’...
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Omsk region reported ‘record high’ number of wildfires and cases of dry
crass burning, that turn into wildfires this spring, with one day last
week counting nearly a thousand of new cases a day...
https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/wildfire-infernos-in-western-siberia-as-drivers-in-novosibirsk-region-report-zero-visibility-on-roads/
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[dramatic colors in the VIDEO]
*Siberian BBQ*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudAobGvLtA
[Ooops]
*Global greenhouse gas 2021 rebound. Is there any chance of staying
under 1.5 degrees Celsius?*
Apr 25, 2021
Just Have a Think
Global greenhouse emissions dropped by 7% in 2020, for reasons that we
all understand only too well. Our new enforced way of life led many to
suggest we had discovered the template for a green recovery and more
sustainable way of living. So as we approach the half way mark in
2021...how's that all going??
"The IEA’s Executive Director Fatih Birol discussed the report
in a recent interview with the Guardian newspaper. He said
“This is shocking and very disturbing. On the one hand,
governments today are saying climate change is their priority.
But on the other hand, we are seeing the second biggest
emissions rise in history. It is really disappointing.”
Birol compared the current surge of emissions to the period just
after the 2009 financial crisis, when emissions rose by more
than six percent as countries tried to stimulate their economies
through cheap fossil fuel energy.
“It seems we are back on course to repeat the same mistakes,” he
warned. “I am more disappointed this time than in 2010.”
So, the metaphorical green green grass of home is still some way
further off than last year’s brief respite might have led us all
to believe. All of which means the decisions and agreements made
by our world leaders in Glasgow this November will determine
whether we really are committed to keeping atmospheric
temperatures below two degrees Celsius and as close as possible
to one point five degrees, or whether we’ll set ourselves on a
course to sail straight past those dangerous limits into a
warming world with consequences that our species has never had
to face at any time in its entire existence."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me_cwc7hHUI
[Koch, kough, cough, cack, hack...blurb for a new book]
*The Secret History of Koch Industries*
Aug 12, 2019
History in Five
Author Christopher Leonard talks with us about his new book "Kochland:
The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America,"
Unknown to most, Koch Industries and the Koch Industries companies touch
nearly every aspect of modern life. Chris Leonard tells us how he used
the Koch bothers companies to reveal the even bigger story of modern
corporate America. The challenge though was the private nature and
culture of secrecy that exists in Koch Industries. To unearth the facts
that make “Kochland” so eye-opening, Christopher Leonard made many trips
to Wichita, Kansas, home of the Koch Industries headquarters to
interview sources, not to mention dozens of other Koch Industries
locations he visited to find the scope and shape of the full company.
Just as Andrew Ross Sorkin told the story of Wall Street excess through
"Too Big to Fail," Christopher Leonard’s “Kochland” uses the
extraordinary account of how one of the biggest private companies in the
world grew to be that big to tell the story of modern corporate America.
Discover all the details today: https://www.simonandschuster.com/book...
https://youtu.be/Yr71tG-u4rs
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[Book out]
*Christopher Leonard's New Book Puts an Ever-Expanding 'Kochland' on the
Map*
Sharon Kellyon - Aug 16, 2019
Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch
Industries and Corporate Power in America, begins, appropriately enough,
with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activity by the
company, standing in a field with a pair of binoculars, trying to catch
a glimpse of the daily operations of a company that prizes secrecy.
Koch Industries was under investigation for theft of oil from the Osage
and other Indigenous nations. Walking into the company’s office building
involved passing through security checkpoints, Leonard explains, so
numerous that one investigator later told Leonard that it “reminded him
of traveling to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.”
Through exhaustive reporting and extraordinary interviews with past and
current company executives, including some turned whistleblower,
Kochland offers readers a view far larger than can be seen through
binocular lenses, walking readers past those layers of security
checkpoints and into the inner workings of an institution that has for
decades tirelessly built itself into practically all American lives,
while largely evading accountability or transparency.
While Charles and David Koch’s political operations have been the
subject of powerful investigative reporting by the New Yorker‘s Jane
Mayer, author of the landmark book Dark Money, and numerous others,
Leonard probes into the business that not only funds the Koch political
machine, but also represents the clearest embodiment of the Kochs’
market fundamentalist political philosophy in action.
The Invisible Elephant in the Room
In 1961, when Charles Koch joined his father Fred — a founder of the
John Birch Society who had, as Mayer reported, previously helped Hitler
and Stalin build out their oil refineries, Koch Industries, was
generating $3.5 million in profit a year, Leonard writes.
By the end of the Obama administration, company had grown enough to
leave Charles and David Koch with personal fortunes of $81 billion
(contrasted against Bill Gates’ $81 billion). Koch Industries says its
workforce now numbers 130,000 people worldwide, roughly half of those in
the U.S., and that it operates today in 60 countries.
As much as it is mammoth — its “annual revenues are larger than that of
Facebook, Goldman Sachs, and U.S. Steel combined,” Leonard told NPR — if
Koch Industries is the elephant in the room, it has sought to master the
art of being a virtually invisible one...
https://www.desmogblog.com/2019/08/16/christopher-leonard-book-review-kochland-koch-industries/
[Politicians want to fix global warming]
*Full Documentary: Race To Save the Planet*
Aug 1, 2020
Dave Malkoff
Produced in 2019, several candidates in the 2020 U.S. Presidental race
talk about climate change and the environmental impact domestic policy
can have on the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW4q0a2lfm8
[Top climate scientists according to Reuters - no. 105 The Cassandra]
*Her prophecy of an Australian inferno was correct. Bad news for the
coal-loving government.*
The Cassandra - Julie Arblaster
Soon after this top scientist warned that conditions were ripe for
wildfires, Australia went up in flames. Such warnings can go ignored in
the country, where the government has downplayed human-caused climate
change. Arblaster's career shows the challenges posed by the
politicization of science policy.
“It's usually a time of celebration at the end of the school year. But
the nightly news this year has been shocking in comparison and puts in
stark contrast to our government’s lack of leadership on climate
change.” - JULIE ARBLASTER ON THE TERRIBLE WILDFIRES OF 2019-2020
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/climate-change-scientists-arblaster/
[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - April 28, 2010 *
April 28, 2010: The New York Times reports on the "epistemic closure"
phenomenon on the right (also known as "the dumbing down of the American
conservative movement"); the piece makes note of recent right-wing
attacks on National Review writer Jim Manzi after he pointed out flaws
in the climate-change section of talk-radio host Mark Levin's 2009 book
"Liberty and Tyranny."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/28/books/28conserv.html?_r=0
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