[✔️] December 28, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*December 28, 2021*/

/[ weathers derived from a destabilizing climate  ]/
*Snow blasts California and freezes Pacific Northwest*
Severe weather sweeping parts of the U.S. has brought frigid 
temperatures to the Pacific Northwest, heavy snow to mountains in 
Northern California and Nevada, and unseasonable warmth to Texas and the 
Southeast
By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press - - December 27, 2021
The National Weather Service said Seattle’s low Sunday was 20 degrees F 
(-6.7 C), breaking a mark set in 1948. Bellingham was 9 degrees F (-12. 
8C), three degrees colder than the previous record set in 1971.

State officials in Oregon have declared an emergency. In Multnomah 
County – home to Portland — about a half dozen weather shelters were 
open. Seattle city leaders also opened at least six severe weather 
shelters starting Saturday through at least Wednesday.

In West Seattle, Keith Hughes of the American Legion Hall Post 160, said 
his warming center can welcome about a dozen people — its capacity 
limited by lack of volunteer staff.

“Volunteers, this is a problem for myself as well as everyone else in 
town, it’s really hard to get with COVID going on,” he said.

Winter weather led to canceled flights in Seattle, Minneapolis, Salt 
Lake City and elsewhere...
- -
Temperatures in western Washington and Oregon aren’t forecast to rise 
above freezing until at least Thursday, and possibly not until the 
weekend, forecasters said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/snow-blasts-california-freezes-pacific-northwest-81958014



/[ this is the one to watch https://youtu.be/pSWOQS1twOU]//
//[  a 24 min video summary of the climate science and our political 
situation - for a new year]/
*Climate Change 2021: Denial and Consequences*
Dec 27, 2021
The Climate Pod
After decades of denial and delay tactics by the fossil fuel industry, 
in 2021, America was largely unprepared for multiple climate-fueled 
extreme weather disasters. Wildfires. Heatwaves. Hurricanes. Droughts. 
Floods. Tornadoes.

How did a warming planet impact these weather events? Why haven't 
America's leaders done more to combat the climate crisis? What are 
fossil fuel companies still doing to delay action?

We answer all of those questions and more in Part One of The Climate 
Pod's 2021 Year in Review: Denial and Consequences, featuring clips from 
interviews we've conducted with guests like Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Dr. Ed 
Hawkins, Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Jane Goodall, Dr. Andrew Dessler, David 
Wallace-Wells, Dr. Maria Neira, Dr. Peter Hotez, Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Ben 
Franta, Kathy Baughman-McLeod, Alex Steffen, Scott Kelly, Jeff 
Berardelli, Dr. Park Williams, and Tim Jackson.

The Climate Pod is a weekly conversation on the latest climate issues 
with the journalists, activists, academics, and artists at the center of 
the story.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/climatepod
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/climatepod/
Subscribe to The Climate Pod and make sure you listen to Part Two next week!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWOQS1twOU
- -
*Dr Jane Goodall said:*
     Hope is all about actions -- as far as I'm concerned ..
     You know, it's like we're in a very dark tunnel right now.
     We really are and right at the end of that tunnel
     is a little star of light.  that's hope.

     But to get there we've got to climb over, crawl under,
     work our way around -- all these obstacles.
     And if we don't act now because time's running out --
     then it may well be too late.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWOQS1twOU



/[ Greta speaks - Washington Post listens ]/
*Greta Thunberg on the State of the Climate Movement*
.... and the roots of her power as an activist
Interview by KK Ottesen - DECEMBER 27, 2021
Student and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 18, burst improbably onto 
the world stage in late 2018 when what began as a one-person school 
strike outside the Swedish parliament ended up galvanizing a global 
climate movement to demand immediate action to prevent environmental 
catastrophe.

Thunberg’s school strike spread in Sweden and around the world, 
inspiring a youth-led global climate strike movement, Fridays for 
Future, which urged cuts in carbon emissions. Her speeches at major 
political gatherings, including the World Economic Forum, the British 
Parliament, the U.S. Congress and, most recently, the United Nations 
climate summit known as COP26, have castigated leaders for failing 
future generations with their “fairy tales of eternal economic growth.” 
Or, as she said in one speech, “How dare you! You have stolen my dreams 
and my childhood with your empty words.”

Thunberg credits her Asperger’s syndrome, which is considered part of 
the autism spectrum, for her truth-telling and focus as a climate 
activist. She lives in Stockholm...
- -
Are you inspired by any of the world leaders, by President Biden?
If you call him a leader — I mean, it’s strange that people think of Joe 
Biden as a leader for the climate when you see what his administration 
is doing. The U.S. is actually expanding fossil fuel infrastructure. Why 
is the U.S. doing that? It should not fall on us activists and teenagers 
who just want to go to school to raise this awareness and to inform 
people that we are actually facing an emergency...
- -
As somebody who had been living in social isolation before speaking out, 
how did you handle both the positive adulation and the sometimes very 
personal negative criticism, even from world leaders, on Twitter and 
other places?
I don’t know. I didn’t think too much about it. I just thought: I’m 
doing what is right, and as long as I’m doing what’s right, what I think 
is right, it doesn’t matter what others think. But of course it was a 
huge shift from never talking to anyone whatsoever — in those days, I 
only spoke to my parents and my teacher and my sister. So to then be 
speaking, more or less, to the whole world, it was a very big shift. I 
don’t think anyone in the world could have expected anything like that, 
no matter who you are or what you do. It just blew up completely in a 
way that is very hard to understand if you haven’t experienced it 
yourself. But I think just the fact that I was so different before made 
it easier to stay grounded and not to listen too much to what other 
people were saying, both positively and negatively.
Can you get to the place in your mind where you say, Okay, it’s 30 years 
hence, and we were successful? What does that look like? And then what 
do you get to focus on in your life?
I have no idea. I try not to think about that too much. I try to rather 
do as much as I can in the now and change the future instead of 
overthinking the future. Hopefully we will take care of this, however 
that would look. But no matter what happens, if we continue to ignore 
it, the consequences are going to be much, much worse.

What do you do when you need a break?
I take occasional breaks. Like, this is my life all day, every day, but 
that doesn’t mean I cannot focus on other things. I can focus on several 
things. For example, school. Although now we’re actually talking about 
the climate. So I can’t get away there, either!

So does the teacher just turn it over to you: “Greta …”?
[Laughs.] We’re in climate role play. We’re going to represent different 
countries, and then we’re going to reenact a climate conference, make 
speeches and be delegates, try to come up with a resolution. And I’m 
going to be Saudi Arabia.

Perfect.
I’m going to block everything. Yeah, I’m going to make sure that they 
don’t come up with a resolution.

After the experience of the last few years, its roller-coaster up and 
down, do you find yourself more or less hopeful than when you first sat 
out in front of the Swedish parliament with your [“SKOLSTREJK FOR 
KLIMATET”] sign?
I don’t know. In one sense, we’re in a much worse place than we were 
then because the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher and the 
global emissions are still rising at almost record speed. And we have 
wasted several years of blah, blah, blah.

But then, on another note, we have seen what people can do when we 
actually come together. And I’ve met so many people who give me very 
much hope and just the possibility that we can actually change things. 
That we can treat a crisis like a crisis. So I think I’m more hopeful now.

What can we learn from the pandemic about what can be accomplished when 
people do, in fact, treat a crisis like a crisis?
I think many people have realized how important science is. Because we 
saw how, when we really wanted to find a vaccine, we could do that in, 
like, no time. Which just shows that, if we actually focus on something, 
if we actually want something, we can accomplish almost anything.

Right now, what’s holding us back is that we lack that political will. 
We don’t prioritize the climate today. Our goal is not to lower 
emissions. Our goal is to find solutions that allow us to continue life 
[as it is] today. And, of course, you can ask, “Can’t we have both?” But 
the uncomfortable truth is that we have left it too late for that. Or 
the world leaders have left it too late for that. We need to 
fundamentally change our societies now. If we would have started 30 
years ago, it would have been much smoother. But now it’s a different 
situation.

But also, it has just shown how fast social norms can change. And I 
think that can be something that we can learn from it. If I would have 
gone up to someone and shaken hands with them during the worst part of 
the pandemic, that would have been totally unacceptable. But just before 
the pandemic, everyone did that. It changed, basically overnight, 
people’s mindsets. And that just shows the possibilities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/12/27/greta-thunberg-state-climate-movement-roots-her-power-an-activist/



/[  34 min  video from World Economic Forum - discussion ] /
*Stakeholder Capitalism*
Robin Pomeroy, Digital Editor, World Economic Forum
Stakeholder Capitalism is a series of videos and podcasts that looks at 
how economies can be transformed to serve people and the planet.
In this episode, we ask if a healthy planet can co-exist with the 
economic growth required to raise living standards, especially in 
developing countries.
The episode features insights from climate activist Risalat Khan, Lord 
Nicholas Stern from the London School of Economics and Mariana Mazzucato 
from University College London.
27 Dec 2021 - -
Robin Pomeroy - Digital Editor, World Economic Forum
Since the first industrial revolution, economic development has been 
powered by fossil fuels. But for decades we have known that the 
greenhouse gases from these fuels are building up in the atmosphere, 
causing climate change.

The latest UN climate science report says there is no longer any doubt. 
To prevent climate catastrophe, we need to switch away from fossil fuels 
fast.

But what about those parts of the world that, while sharing the perils 
of climate change, have not enjoyed the increased wealth or living 
standards that come with economic development?...
- -
Natalie Pierce: ... we've been exploring how we can pursue economic 
growth without harming the planet for future generations. Peter, what 
did you hear in today's episode that you think presents a better way 
forward?
Peter Vanham: Well, first of all, we heard from Risalat about how not to 
do it. He joined us, talking about his country, Bangladesh, which is 
clearly on the road to economic development. And you would expect they 
would follow the template that has been set before them by all other 
industrialised nations, which is to built factories, to build energy 
plants and therefore also continue to or start to emit more CO2 and 
other greenhouse gas emissions. But he said, I don't want that - if this 
is the price we have to pay for economic development, I don't I don't 
like that option. And so that's the first thing I think we have to 
remember is that that way forward is not one we can continue to follow.

Natalie Pierce: Lord Nicholas Stern agreed with Risalat. But he said 
climate action is possible. We can revert this crisis. It's not going to 
be easy, but we do have options. What were the options that stood out to 
you?

Peter Vanham: What was very surprising, I think, - and he's been looking 
at this issue for decades - he said the solutions are there and many of 
them come from the last two to three years - technological solutions to 
make sure you can decouple economic development from CO2 emissions. And 
I think that's very striking to note that this option is now there. It 
wasn't there before. It is now here, but it's very recent.

Natalie Pierce: He also highlighted, though, that industrialised nations 
need to have a disproportionate impact on finding solutions and scaling 
those solutions around the world. What did you think about what he said 
around international responses and working together across countries to 
find solutions and scale them?

Peter Vanham: Well, it makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? Because if you 
look at how much greenhouse gases we have historically emitted, which is 
the right way to look at it, of course, because they remain in the 
atmosphere for a very long time, it's only right that those countries 
that have admitted the most over the life ordered the lifetime, let's 
say, would bear the biggest burden. So that implies that if the edge is 
there, if new technological solutions are there, that those countries 
would implement them first straight away and would also try to help in 
implementing them elsewhere as well as soon as possible. And I think 
that brings us to what Mariana said at the end - that change has to 
happen now.

Natalie Pierce: I think Mariana was one of the most inspiring guests 
we've had on the show so far. And when she says we need a moonshot 
approach to solving the climate crisis, it's now it's not in decades in 
the future, it's this decade. And she also said all stakeholders, 
government, society, business, they all have a role to play in 
challenging the climate crisis, taking climate action, but also 
rethinking capitalism. And what a powerful message to end on.
- -
That brings us to the end of this episode. The next episode will focus 
on the role of technology and our ever growing dependence on it. And 
we'll particularly ask the question: Is Big Tech too big?...
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/stakeholder-capitalism-profit-planet-nicholas-stern-risalat-khan/



/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming December  28, 2007*

    December 28, 2007: In a Washington Post op-ed, Bill McKibben,
    citing a recent speech by NASA scientist James Hansen, states that
    the worldwide CO2 level must remain below 350 parts per million to
    avoid catastrophic global warming. Further, McKibben writes: "Hansen
    [has] called for an immediate ban on new coal-fired power plants
    that don't capture carbon, the phaseout of old coal-fired
    generators, and a tax on carbon high enough to make sure that we
    leave tar sands and oil shale in the ground. To use the medical
    analogy, we're not talking statins to drop your cholesterol; we're
    talking huge changes in every aspect of your daily life."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701942.html


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