[✔️] August 20, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Fri Aug 20 11:11:33 EDT 2021

/*August 20, 2021*/

[not fast enough OPINION GUEST ESSAY ]
*This Is the World Being Left to Us by Adults*
Aug. 19, 2021
By Greta Thunberg, Adriana Calderón, Farzana Faruk Jhumu and Eric Njuguna
The authors are youth climate activists from Sweden, Mexico, Bangladesh 
and Kenya, working with the international youth-led Fridays For Future 
movement.

Last week, some of the world’s leading climate change scientists 
confirmed that humans are making irreversible changes to our planet and 
extreme weather will only become more severe. This news is a “code red 
for humanity,” said the United Nations secretary general.

It is — but young people like us have been sounding this alarm for 
years. You just haven’t listened.

On Aug. 20, 2018, one child staged a lone protest outside the Swedish 
Parliament, expecting to stay for three weeks. Tomorrow we will mark 
three years since Greta Thunberg’s strike. Even earlier, brave young 
people from around the world spoke out about the climate crisis in their 
communities. And today, millions of children and young people have 
united in a movement with one voice, demanding that decision makers do 
the work necessary to save our planet from the unprecedented heat waves, 
massive floods and vast wildfires we are increasingly witnessing. Our 
protest will not end until the inaction does.

For children and young people, climate change is the single greatest 
threat to our futures. We are the ones who will have to clean up the 
mess you adults have made, and we are the ones who are more likely to 
suffer now. Children are more vulnerable than adults to the dangerous 
weather events, diseases and other harms caused by climate change, which 
is why a new analysis released Friday by UNICEF is so important.

The Children’s Climate Risk Index provides the first comprehensive view 
of where and how this crisis affects children. It ranks countries based 
on children’s exposure to climate and environmental shocks, as well as 
their underlying vulnerability to those shocks.

It finds that virtually every child on the planet is exposed to at least 
one climate or environmental hazard right now. A staggering 850 million, 
about a third of all the world’s children, are exposed to four or more 
climate or environmental hazards, including heat waves, cyclones, air 
pollution, flooding or water scarcity. A billion children, nearly half 
the children in the world, live in “extremely high risk” countries, the 
UNICEF researchers report.

This is the world being left to us. But there is still time to change 
our climate future. Around the world, our movement of young activists 
continues to grow.

In Bangladesh, Tahsin Uddin, 23, saw the impacts of climate change in 
his village and other coastal areas and was moved to action. He is 
passionate about climate education and has created a network of young 
journalists and educators to spread awareness, all while organizing 
cleanups of waterways teeming with plastic waste pollution.

In the Philippines, Mitzi Jonelle Tan, 23, has had to complete her 
homework by candlelight as typhoons raged outside and wiped out her 
community’s electricity. She told us there were times she was afraid of 
drowning in her own bedroom as water flooded in. Now she is leading 
youth in her country to respond to the aftermath of those typhoons and 
other hazards through sharing food, water, clothes and support with the 
most affected communities.

In Zimbabwe, Nkosi Nyathi, 18, is worried about a potential food crisis 
if weather patterns continue. Heat waves made school a challenging 
experience for him and his peers. Now he speaks to leaders from around 
the world to demand the inclusion of young people in decisions that 
affect their future.

The fundamental goal of the adults in any society is to protect their 
young and do everything they can to leave a better world than the one 
they inherited. The current generation of adults, and those that came 
before, are failing at a global scale.

The Children’s Climate Risk Index reveals a disturbing global inequity 
when it comes to the worst effects of climate change. Thirty-three 
countries, including the Central African Republic, Chad, Nigeria and 
Guinea, are considered extremely high-risk for children, but those 
countries collectively emit just 9 percent of global carbon dioxide 
emissions. The 10 countries with the highest emissions, including China, 
the United States, Russia and Japan, collectively account for nearly 70 
percent of global emissions. And children in those higher-emitting 
states face lower risks: Only one of these countries, India, is ranked 
as extremely high-risk in the UNICEF report.

Many higher-risk countries are poorer nations from the global south, and 
it’s there that people will be most impacted, despite contributing the 
least to the problem. We will not allow industrialized countries to duck 
responsibility for the suffering of children in other parts of the 
world. Governments, industry and the rest of the international community 
must work together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as 195 nations 
committed to do in the Paris Climate Agreement of 2015.

We have less than 100 days until the U.N. Climate Change Conference, 
also known as COP26, in Glasgow. The world’s climate scientists have 
made it clear that the time is now — we must act urgently to avoid the 
worst possible consequences. The world’s young people stand with the 
scientists and will continue to sound the alarm.

We are in a crisis of crises. A pollution crisis. A climate crisis. A 
children’s rights crisis. We will not allow the world to look away.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/opinion/climate-un-report-greta-thunberg.html

[a terrific video everyone should see 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMLFMsIVis]
*How We Fix the Climate*
Aug 13, 2021
vlogbrothers
We should act as if this is an emergency, because it is. But part of 
that is understanding the tools and strategies countries are using to 
decarbonize and stabilize the climate. This is work that's already being 
done. We have already decoupled economic growth from the emission of 
greenhouse gasses which, frankly, was unthinkable just a couple decades 
ago.

We need to be thinking and talking about this stuff, and one really 
important piece of that is understanding this stuff so we can talk about 
it and advocate for it. And, good news, it's all actually pretty 
fascinating!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcMLFMsIVis

[Video discussion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2FHfVNX6w]
*We need a new UN Security Council For Climate Change*
Aug 19, 2021
Nick Breeze
View more at https://genn.cc or support/join via https://patreon.com/genncc
This edited clip includes two excerpts from 2 consecutive interviews 
looking at the need for cross border multilateral bodies to take 
decisions in the interests of global citizens addressing the climate 
crisis. This is part of the Shaping The Future podcast series.

Sir David King was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK government for 
many years and now chairs both the Centre for Climate Repair in 
Cambridge and the Climate Crisis Advisory Group.
Dr Chad Briggs advises many organisations including the EU, US Defence 
and NATO on the intersection between global security and climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2FHfVNX6w

[Deep Sarcasm from Stephen Colbert - video brief]
*Come Visit The Colorado River*
Aug 18, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjFztBeAJDg

[ IPCC report summarized in a 7 minute video 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0lCBjMgvg]
*The latest IPCC report explained in 7.5 minutes*
Aug 9, 2021
zentouro

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released their latest 
assessment report on the physical science basis of climate change. If 
the last few reports are any indication, we're hopefully going to see a 
groundswell of climate action -- here are my highlights of the report 
and a bit about how you can use its information to fight the climate 
crisis.

Read the Summary for Policymakers: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM
Read the IPCC’s FAQ: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#FAQ

The IPCC Interactive Atlas: https://interactive-atlas.ipcc.ch/

If you're feeling overwhelmed by the content of this report, or just 
looking for tools to combat climate dread, despair or eco-anxiety, here 
are the places I turn for guidance:

watch ClimateAdams's explainer that has an important section on AMOC 
https://youtu.be/b-IPsCWVIRA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0lCBjMgvg

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[A young man deliver another video explanation 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzpG7di07E4 ]
*Good news and bad news from the IPCC report*
Aug 13, 2021
Simon Clark
Climate change will define the 21st century. Learn more about the 
subject with CuriosityStream: https://www.curiositystream.com/Simon...

The latest report from the IPCC makes for grim reading, but I think 
hidden in the pages there are also some pieces of good news. I talk 
about both in this video.

Professor Mat Collins: https://twitter.com/mat_collins
Check out my website! https://www.simonoxfphys.com/
In this video I talk about the latest report from the Intergovernmental 
Panel on Climate Change or IPCC, the IPCC WG1 AR6. I interview a 
professor of climate change at the University of Exeter, Mat Collins, 
and talk through some of the findings of the IPCC report. These include 
the impact of ENSO on crop yields, drought, heatwaves, extreme weather, 
and other factors. Basically stop putting carbon into the atmosphere, 
it's that simple guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzpG7di07E4

[father of the tipping point]
*Climate Thinkers: John Schellnhuber*
Jul 14, 2021
Svenska Dagbladet SvD
Have we passed the climate change tipping points?

The Gulf stream, the Amazon, the Greenland ice sheet – are they all 
close to a point of no return? And if so, what does that mean for the 
Earth? John Schellnhuber is the world-renowned researcher behind the 
concept of "tipping points" in the climate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--9sJsU7oaE

--

[One of the great interviews]
*John Schellnhuber: NonLinear Responses to save civilisation*
Dec 16, 2018
Nick Breeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ1uCMFyYQY

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[Lecture from 2019]
*Professor John Schellnhuber - A Climate Odyssey CCLS 2019*
Feb 25, 2019
Cambridge Climate Lecture Series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jvgi6vXKzYk

[Follow the money]
*"Oil companies bought legislation," WARNS Katie Porter*
Aug 14, 2021
The Hill
In a social media video, Congresswoman Katie Porter accused the oil and 
gas companies of buying legislation that works for them through lobbying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF9nMEB3ptk

[Rookie journalist talks of the disinformation battlegrounds]
*Does the media accurately cover climate change?*
Aug 18, 2021
Beckisphere
This week, we looked at the news from August 12 to 17th. Let's keep the 
conversation going in the comments section.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JZZxzZDsDc

[2 year old classic video Scientific and goofy, or interesting, or both]
*Where to move for the climate apocalypse (w/ climate scientist Josh 
Willis) • Hotpocalypse • #1*
Jan 12, 2019
Hotpocalypse
Where are some good places to live when climate change accelerates even 
further? Rising sea levels will dramatically alter our coastlines. 
Climate scientist Josh Willis and comedian Andy Cobb discuss how the 
climate apocalypse will effect some major cities, including Marina Del 
Rey, Seattle, Chicago, and Atlanta.

Want to know how sea level rise will effect your city? You can view how 
the surging seas will effect your area here: 
http://sealevel.climatecentral.org/

This was originally livestreamed to the Facebook page "Being Liberal" on 
1/11/19. In this upload, we swapped out a segment that had an audio 
issue during the livestream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QloHSXk_zaQ

[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming August 20, 2013*
August 20, 2013:

Al Jazeera America debuts, featuring a critically-acclaimed discussion 
of climate change featuring climate scientists Heidi Cullen and Michael 
Mann.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/21/what-al-jazeera-america-didnt-say-about-climate/195510

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