[✔️] April 30, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*April 30, 2021*/

[wave the flag]
*Hawaii to become the first state to declare climate emergency*
The archipelago joins jurisdictions from 34 countries in declaring a 
climate emergency.
The Hawaii state legislature will pass a resolution Thursday to declare 
a climate emergency.
It establishes a partnership between environmental organizations and the 
state government.
More than 1,900 jurisdictions across the world have taken similar steps.
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“Every day we wait to take action is another day lost. The climate 
crisis is a clear and present threat for both current and future 
generations,” said Dyson Chee, the advocacy director for the Hawaii 
Youth Climate Coalition, a member organization of the Hawaii Climate & 
Environmental Coalition. “This is why we are thankful for the passage of 
SCR44, and the recognition by the Hawaii State Legislature that climate 
change is an emergency that needs to be dealt with accordingly.”

With the passage of the resolution, Hawaii commits to “statewide action 
that is rooted in equity, self-determination, culture, tradition, and 
the belief that people locally and around the world have the right to 
clean, healthy, and adequate air, water, land, food, education, and 
shelter.”

These major infrastructural changes will be a joint project with the 
Hawaii Climate & Environmental Coalition and state legislature working 
in tandem...
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/550916-hawaii-to-become-the-first-state-to-declare


[Only in the Summertime]
*Too hot to handle? Experts weigh in on if Phoenix could become 
uninhabitable due to climate change*
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Selover says she doesn’t believe the Valley will become uninhabitable. 
Instead, she says we will find a way to deal with the heat.

Sublette says that Phoenix will not look like a scene from Mad Max in 50 
years, however, he says we could see days where it is just too hot and 
dangerous to be outside for any length of time. However, he says we will 
likely see failures of our infrastructure before we even get to that point.

Sublette says there is still time to slow the trend. “We need to find a 
way to stop putting in carbon dioxide into the atmosphere so that we 
don’t induce further warming 20, 30, 40 years hence, so unquestionably 
there are things we can do now.”...
https://www.abc15.com/weather/impact-earth/too-hot-to-handle-experts-weigh-in-on-if-phoenix-could-become-uninhabitable-due-to-climate-change



[Our daughters and sons should go for it - if they want]
*A climate scientist explains why it’s still okay to have kids*
Some say you shouldn’t have children in the era of climate change. Don’t 
buy it.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22399882/climate-change-kids-children-overpopulation



[Here is a political solution]
*German Court Orders Revisions To Climate Law, Citing 'Major Burdens' On 
Youth*
April 29, 20214 - RACHEL TREISMAN

Germany's highest court has sided with young activists in a landmark 
climate case, ruling on Thursday that some aspects of the country's 
climate protection legislation are unconstitutional because they place 
too much of a burden for reducing greenhouse gas emissions on younger 
generations.

The Constitutional Court is giving the government until the end of next 
year to set clearer targets for reducing greenhouse emissions starting 
in 2031, calling the current provisions "incompatible with fundamental 
rights" because they lack specificity and "irreversibly offload major 
emission reduction burdens" onto the next decade and beyond.
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At issue is Germany's 2019 Climate Change Act, which requires the 
country to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 55% — relative to 1990 
levels — by 2030. It sets upper limits for emissions in various sectors 
in that period but does not provide specific targets in line with its 
longer-term goal of reaching greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050.

The plaintiffs filed four complaints arguing, in part, that by not 
setting specific-enough targets for the following years, the act 
violated their fundamental right to a humane future. The court agreed.

"The statutory provisions on adjusting the reduction pathway for 
greenhouse gas emissions from 2031 onwards are not sufficient to ensure 
that the necessary transition to climate neutrality is achieved in 
time," it said.

The court did, however, reject some of the plaintiffs' other arguments, 
saying for example it could not prove that the government had violated 
its constitutional duty to protect them from the risks of climate change.

The judges also addressed the balance of freedoms and burdens in the 
country's effort to fight climate change. At some point in the future, 
they said, "even serious losses of freedom may be deemed proportionate 
and justified under constitutional law in order to prevent climate change."

"One generation must not be allowed to consume large portions of the CO2 
budget while bearing a relatively minor share of the reduction effort if 
this would involve leaving subsequent generations with a drastic 
reduction burden and expose their lives to comprehensive losses of 
freedom," they wrote.

Germany's government has until the end of December 2022 to enact 
legislation specifying clearer reduction targets for the period after 2030.

Supreme Court Considers Baltimore Suit Against Oil Companies Over 
Climate Change
SCIENCE
Supreme Court Considers Baltimore Suit Against Oil Companies Over 
Climate Change
Officials reacted swiftly to the decision Thursday. Peter Altmaier, the 
minister for energy and economic affairs, described it as "big and 
significant," according to The Guardian, while Annalena Baerbock — the 
Green party's candidate for chancellor — called it historic.

Olaf Scholz, the finance minister, said he would begin work immediately 
on the amendments, in partnership with the environment ministry. And 
Svenja Schulze, the minister for the environment, wrote in a series of 
tweets that she will present new climate proposals this summer...
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/29/992073429/german-court-orders-revisions-to-climate-law-citing-major-burdens-on-youth



[nearly 2 hour video -- describes social fracturing]
*Intersection of Climate Change, Gender & Migration: April 2021 Monthly 
Meeting*
Apr 23, 2021
NGO CSW/NY
The climate crisis has been established as one of the root causes of 
migration. Women and girls are most vulnerable during migration because 
of the structural inequalities that keep them at risk of violence and 
oppression. Globally, the refugee crisis is catastrophic, with female 
migrants comprising somewhat less than half (135 million or 48.1 per 
cent) of the global international migrant stock (UN DESA, 2020). The 
Migration Policy Institute states that “Climate can be seen as the 
envelope in which all economic activities take place, and these changes 
could spell significant disruptions for modern society, both in low- and 
high-income settings.” Effects of climate change can be felt in the 
short-term through natural calamities, and long-term through gradual 
environmental degradation. The negative effects are evidenced in many 
areas, including agriculture and food security; water resources; human 
health; human settlements, energy, transport and industry. Clearly the 
climate crisis is a major contributor to multiple factors that are 
identified as drivers of migration.

At the April meeting we will explore the intersections of climate change 
and gender as a driver for migration and hear from recognized experts 
who will share their research on the plight of women on the move, 
particularly as it relates to climate induced migration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjkCe4Z0Y5c



[60 bucks, may be a great book - available May 3 rd in the US]
*After Us The Deluge: The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels 
Paperback – April 30, 2021*
• The disastrous consequences of rising sea levels in six regions around 
the world are captured in photographs that are both beautiful and disturbing
• With contributions from experts such as Marjan Minnesma (Netherlands), 
Jeff Goodell (USA), Dorthe Dahl-Jenssen (Greenland, Arctic), Henk Ovink 
and others
In After Us The Deluge, Dutch photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, 
co-founder of the photo agency NOOR Images, shows the consequences of 
rising sea levels for mankind. He traveled to six different regions in 
the world (Greenland, US, Bangladesh, the Netherlands, UK, and the 
Pacific) and captured the effects of global warming. The resulting photo 
essay is thought-provoking, illuminating, and aesthetically impactful. 
Each chapter includes a contribution from a local expert that addresses 
the specific problems in their region.
https://www.amazon.com/After-Us-Deluge-Consequences-Rising/dp/9401473595/ref=sr_1_1



[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - April 30, 2001 *

  April 30, 2001: Speaking in Toronto at an annual meeting of the 
Associated Press, Vice President Dick Cheney asserts, "Conservation may 
be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a 
sound, comprehensive energy policy."

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-05-01-cheney-usat.htm


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