[✔️] July 11, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*July 11, 2021*/

[Easy to build a custom smoke report]
*Forecast for vertically integrated wildfire smoke*
https://hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov/smoke/#


[sections of the draft report read aloud in video]
*Devastating climate future from leaked IPCC report*
Jul 9, 2021
Peter Carter
The completed parts ongoing 6th IPCC assessment were leaked to the 
French media. This is a compilation from all the media reports of it. A 
globally disastrous degraded world is now unavoidable and coming soon 
with 1.5C at 2030. Multiple impacts to food production will cause crop 
declines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WafnqhmJDPg

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[opinion on the IPCC report]
*Greta Thunberg Gets Brutally Honest About Climate Leak*
Jun 27, 2021
The Damage Report
Greta Thunberg is brutally honest about the IPCC leak. John Iadarola and 
Dan Evans break it down on The Damage Report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP8kXESywwU



[Worker protection]
*Washington state is latest to pass heat rules for workers*
Associated Press --  July 9th 2021
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington state on Friday became the second state 
in the Pacific Northwest in as many days to announce emergency rules 
that provide farmworkers and others who work outdoors more protection 
from hot weather in the wake of an extreme heat wave that is believed to 
have killed hundreds of people.

The announcement comes a day after Oregon approved what advocates call 
the nation's most protective emergency heat rules for workers and as 
temperatures are spiking again this week in parts of the U.S. West, 
though not as severely as the end of June. The heat is making it 
difficult to fight wildfires in parts of a region struggling with a 
historic drought tied to climate change.

"The heat experienced in our state this year has reached catastrophic 
levels," Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said. "The physical risk to 
individuals is significant, in particular those whose occupations have 
them outdoors all day."

Washington's new rules take effect Tuesday and update existing mandates 
that are in place from May through September, when the state's 
multibillion-dollar agricultural industry relies on tens of thousands of 
farmworkers to tend and harvest crops such as apples, cherries, hops and 
asparagus...
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At 80 F (27 C) or above, employers must provide sufficient shade and an 
adequate supply of drinking water.

Agricultural-rich California adopted the nation's first rules requiring 
shade and water for farmworkers in 2005 following 10 heat-related deaths 
— four of them farmworkers — in a two-month period.

The regulations have since been beefed up, requiring employers to 
provide shade when temperatures rise above 80 F (27 C) and 15-minute 
breaks in the shade each hour when temperatures rise higher. Employers 
also must provide cool drinking water in easily accessible locations, 
toilets and hand-washing facilities. When it's hot, many work in the 
middle of the night.
https://komonews.com/news/local/washington-state-is-latest-to-pass-heat-rules-for-workers



[Good question]
*In California’s interior, there’s no escape from the desperate heat: 
‘Why are we even here?’*
Maanvi Singh - - 10 Jul 2021
In Cantua, a small town deep within California’s farming heartland, the 
heat had always been a part of life. “We can do nothing against it,” 
said Julia Mendoza, who’s lived in this town for 27 years. But lately, 
she says, the searing temperatures are almost unlivable.

By midday on Thursday, the first day of a protracted, extreme heatwave 
in California’s Central Valley, the country roads were sizzling with 
heat. A young volunteer with a local environmental justice non-profit 
who had come to check in on the neighborhood collapsed on the sidewalk, 
her face bright red and damp. Construction crews working nearby quickly 
swept her into an air-conditioned car and handed her a cold bottle of water.

“¡Mira, el calor!” gasped Mendoza as she rushed over from her front 
porch. Arcelia Luna, her friend and neighbor shook her head as she 
poured a bottle of refrigerated water over the head and body of the 
two-year-old boy she was watching...

Much of California is suffering through record-breaking temperatures, 
just two weeks after a deadly heat dome blistered the Pacific 
north-west. Across the west, 28 million Americans will have endured 
triple-digit heat this week. While coastal regions, including the Bay 
Area, will have been spared by cool marine air, California’s Central 
Valley – the state’s sprawling, agricultural innards – will have broiled.

The National Weather Service issued an “excessive heat warning” for the 
Central Valley from Thursday through Monday. And by mid-morning on 
Thursday, asphalt- and concrete-paved Fresno began shimmering with heat. 
There was no breeze to rustle the rows and rows of almond and pistachio 
trees that radiated for miles and miles out of the city. The occasional 
irrigation canal melded into the heat mirage that radiated off the 
country roads.

Global heating is driving stronger, longer heatwaves in the region, said 
Jose Pablo Ortiz Partida, a climate scientist for the Union of Concerned 
Scientists, a non-profit advocacy group...

Researchers have been warning of such extreme heatwaves for decades, he 
said, but the barrage of heat surges that California and the western US 
have been alarming, he said. Temperature records are being broken 
earlier than expected or predicted...

“We are breaking temperature records this summer. And are going to keep 
breaking temperature records, as long as we keep burning fossil fuels,” 
said Ortiz, who lives in the valley. “It’s infuriating, it’s tiring and 
it’s emotionally draining to see.”

The vicious cycle of the climate crisis has merged with a vicious cycle 
of inequity in the region. Racial disparities in access to shade and air 
conditioning are increasingly becoming dangerous, even deadly.

Here, changing weather patterns have wrought not only periods of extreme 
heat, but also an extended drought – two phenomena that feed into each 
other. The heat has caused water reserves to evaporate too quickly, 
drying out the reservoirs that feed the region’s $50bn agricultural 
industry. With scarcely any moisture left in the ground, the desiccated 
landscape heats up like a hot plate, amplifying the scorching ambient 
temperatures.

On hot weeks like this one, Mendoza and a group of other women who live 
in the area gather on her front porch, seated in a circle on folding 
chairs under a nylon tent. The group has been campaigning to build an 
air-conditioned community center or a small park with trees where people 
can go to stay cool during what have become increasingly frequent bouts 
of extreme heat.

In Cantua Creek, and throughout the valley, the over-pumping of 
groundwater has led to a concentrating of nitrates from pesticides, 
fertilizer and dairy waste runoff from farms and naturally occurring 
arsenic. Mendoza and her neighbors aren’t able to drink the water from 
their taps, so trucks lug jugs of potable water to them each day. “We 
don’t want anything big, you know,” Mendoza said. “Just somewhere to 
stay cool. And clean water.

“On days like this,” she added, “I just want to be able to shower in 
tranquility.”

Hotter, drier conditions also mean harder, and less work for the 
region’s hundreds of thousands of farm workers. This week, Jesús Zúñiga 
has been up at 3am, to get to the fields by 5am. “I pick tomatoes – 
which is one of the toughest jobs out here,” he said, showing off the 
thick calluses that have developed on his hands. For hours each day, the 
harsh valley sun bears down on his back as he hunches over the tomato 
vines. Once he’s collected 50 pounds of fruit, he sprints down the neat, 
irrigated rows, to dump buckets full of the fruit on to trucks. His 
harvest ends up in grocery stores as well as fast food restaurant chains.

On several days this week, temperatures reached dangerous highs by 10am. 
“So on these hot days we’re only able to work five or six hours, before 
we’d start to get sick,” he said. “But then, we only get paid for five 
or six hours.” At $14 an hour that isn’t enough to pay his rent and 
soaring electricity bills, or to support his family of five...

“By the end of the shift we are wet. Everything is wet with sweat. 
Sometimes my head starts to hurt, and I get dizzy,” he said. “That is 
when I start to have doubts, so many doubts: why are we even here?”

Farm workers die of heat at roughly 20 times the national rate, 
according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But as the 
climate crisis triggers longer, hotter heatwaves, the risks for 
agricultural workers will rise, said Michelle Tigchelaar, a researcher 
at Stanford University. Based on climate models projecting a global 
temperature increase of 2F (1C) by 2050, Tigchelaar discovered that 
agricultural workers who currently labor through an average of 21 
dangerously hot days a year will see that number nearly double over the 
next few decades.

In some parts of the Central Valley, the heat index through most of the 
summer will surpass what even healthy, young and well-hydrated workers 
could safely handle, according to the study, published last year. “These 
are the hidden costs of keeping our supermarkets and shops 
well-stocked,” she said.

In Fresno, the wide sidewalks were eerily empty by late afternoon. The 
500,000 people who live here had all retreated to air-conditioned homes, 
malls or public libraries. At the Community Regional medical center in 
downtown Fresno, Dr René Ramirez said he’d already seen a few patients 
coping with severe sunburns, heat exhaustion and other heat-related 
illnesses in the emergency department that day. Many of his patients 
don’t have insurance, and many suffer from underlying health issues 
including heart disease, high blood pressure and, in a region with some 
of the worst air pollution in the country, asthma. All of those 
conditions make it harder for people to cope with extreme heat, even 
those who are acclimatized to high temperatures.

“From my perspective, everybody should be entitled to access cooling, 
whether that’s at home or at community centers,” he said “I think that 
is something that’s an inherent right.”

Nora Madden, 65, who has been living in her car or staying at motels for 
the past year, said her usual strategy to survive heatwaves is to buy a 
bag of ice from the dollar store in the morning, stow it in her icebox 
and chew the cubes throughout the day.

But on Thursday afternoon it had become too hot to sit in her car, so 
she headed over to a community cooling center downtown. The city opens 
these centers when temperatures are forecasted to reach 105F (41C), or 
higher. “But what about when it’s 103F, or 100F?” Madden said. The 
stark, unshaded rows of concrete that make up some of Fresno’s poorest 
neighborhoods are unforgiving heat islands. “Do we have to die at 103?” 
she said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/10/california-central-valley-extreme-heat-race


[June interview hour video]
*Noam Chomsky | 2021 | Oxford | Interview*
Jul 5, 2021
Investing Rationally
2021 | Noam Chomsky at The University of Oxford.
from:
Noam Chomsky on global challenges (June 10, 2021): 
https://youtu.be/XZthEbT2DBw
Noam Chomsky biographical interview (June 4, 2021): 
https://youtu.be/VVm1PdEQlFM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpQ2zi6gd_w



[Climate Psychologist in video book talk]
*Sally Weintrobe | Climate Breakdown Shakedown - Climate Grief | 
Extinction Rebellion UK*
Jul 10, 2021
Extinction Rebellion
Sally Weintrobe speaks to XR Greenwich on the topic of Climate Grief.

“Most of us have been living in a bubble of disavowal about global 
heating”, Sally Weintrobe writes. “We were aware it was happening, but 
we minimized its impacts. What might people be feeling as they emerge 
from the climate bubble?”

No-one is better qualified to discuss these questions than Sally, a 
founder member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and chair of the 
International Psychoanalytic Association's Climate Committee, whose new 
book, Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal 
Exceptionalism and the Culture of Uncare, has just been published.

https://www.sallyweintrobe.com/noahs-...

"Climate Breakdown Shakedown" is an ongoing series of talks from guest 
experts on a variety of topics relating to the climate and ecological 
emergency.

For more please visit: https://xrb.link/u8my4r9bj2 for previous sessions 
or https://xrgreenwich.com/climate-break... for upcoming talks.

Help XR mobilise and donate: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/donate/

Extinction Rebellion UK: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/
International: https://rebellion.global/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExtinctionR
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XRebellionUK/

1. Tell The Truth
2. Act Now
3. Beyond Politics

World Map of Extinction Rebellion Groups: 
https://rebellion.global/branches/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Htf30nQMaQY


[disinformation warfare]
*Fox News’ planned 24-hour weather channel has climate experts worried*
Climate crisis researchers worry about the channel’s reach to perpetuate 
misinformation and advance political goals
Adam Gabbatt -  10 Jul 2021

Fox News Media, the company that owns the reactionary, climate 
crisis-skeptical Fox News, is launching a weather channel this year – a 
development that has climate crisis experts worried.

Fox Weather, a 24-hour channel devoted to all things meteorological, 
promises “cutting-edge display technology”, according to a press 
release, with “forecasting experts surrounding every major weather event”.

But it is Fox News’ output, and the potential for Fox Weather to adopt a 
similar tone to its sister channel, that has onlookers concerned. Hosts 
on Fox News have spent years rubbishing or undermining the idea of 
manmade climate breakdown, and the fact that two Fox News-linked 
executives are behind the weather channel launch doesn’t bode well.

“Fox News has access to and is highly trusted by a wide range of 
conservative Americans – which is precisely the audience that least well 
understands the serious threats that climate change poses to the safety, 
security and health of all Americans,” said Edward Maibach, director of 
George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change Communication.

“If Fox chooses to use its access and credibility to inform viewers 
about the realities of climate change and its impacts on the weather, it 
could be a game changer. Conversely, if it opts to perpetuate 
misinformation to advance political goals, it will be a huge disservice 
to all Americans – conservative, liberal and moderate,” Maibach said.

Last year, Tucker Carlson rubbished the idea that forest fires on the 
west coast were a result of climate crisis – serious climate scientists, 
however, agree that the fires are very much linked to the breakdown – 
and suggested environmental hazards were a liberal conspiracy.

Carlson’s colleague Laura Ingraham has insisted, contrary to experts’ 
findings, that the planet is in a “natural” cycle of warming, and 
suggested that environmental activists like Greta Thunberg had been 
“brainwashed”, while Sean Hannity said the left’s “obsession” with the 
climate was a “political tool”.

“The danger of [Fox News Media] running a weather channel is that if 
they pervert news about the weather anything like how they’ve perverted 
news about climate change and energy politics, millions of Americans 
will be further misled about this crisis,” said Geoffrey Supran, 
research fellow at Harvard University’s department of the history of 
science.

“It’s been shown that the most important predictors of public support 
for climate action are understanding that this crisis is real, 
human-caused, serious and solvable,” Supran said.

“If, as I and I’m sure others fear, [Fox News Media’s] weather channel 
downplays the links between global warming and extreme weather, it will 
only solidify their viewers’ existing biases against climate action.”

The tenor of Fox News hosts’ commentary matches with data from Public 
Citizen, a non-profit thinktank. In 2019, Public Citizen found that in 
the first half of the year Fox News devoted 247 segments to climate 
crisis. Of those, “212 (86%) were dismissive of the climate crisis, cast 
warming and its consequences in doubt or employed fearmongering when 
discussing climate solutions”, Public Citizen reported.

“Fox News has been a powerful engine of climate misinformation for years 
– so powerful, in fact, that its influence has been named the ‘Fox News 
Effect’,” Maibach said.

“One of our studies, for example, showed that before Fox News began its 
attack on the Green New Deal, most conservatives supported its core 
policy proposals. Six months later – after Fox had relentlessly attacked 
it and its sponsors – support for those proposals dropped to near zero 
among frequent Fox viewers.”

Fox Weather has already poached meteorologists from around the country, 
according to the New York Times, including the Weather Channel’s “senior 
weather product architect” Shane Brown. The channel, based in New York 
City, will be advertiser-funded, and stream 24 hours a day.

Sharri Berg, formerly the executive vice-president of news operations 
for the Fox News channel, will oversee Fox Weather, along with Suzanne 
Scott, CEO of Fox News Media. In announcing the channel last year, Berg 
said “weather is a vital component to news”.

“Combining our trusted reporters and expert meteorologists from Fox News 
and [Fox Television stations] nationwide, the Fox Weather products will 
be built to serve our audiences in a customized fashion,” Berg said.

In a statement, a Fox Weather spokesperson said:

“With a dedicated team of leading meteorologists and experts stationed 
across the country, Fox Weather will provide in-depth reporting 
surrounding all weather conditions and we are excited to showcase to 
viewers what a full-service comprehensive weather platform can deliver 
beginning this fall.”

If Fox Weather does not interfere with the weather information its new 
staff is putting out, then Maibach said there is hope – for the weather 
channel at least.

“I don’t expect that Fox News will change its ways or its views about 
climate change anytime soon, but Fox Weather has the opportunity to get 
the facts right. Let’s hope it chooses to,” Maibach said.

Viewers will have to wait and see what approach Fox Weather takes, but 
in the meantime, there is serious concern given the damage the American 
right has already done to efforts to mitigate the climate crisis.

“We’ve already seen the ways in which 40 years of disinformation in the 
United States has stifled both climate action and the narrative around 
climate,” said Lily Gardner, a community organizer with the Sunrise 
Movement, a youth-led organization which aims to stop climate crisis.

“Nancy Pelosi [the Democratic House speaker] and Newt Gingrich [a 
Republican former House speaker] went from releasing an ad together in 
2007 that indicated that they were interested in working on climate 
policy, to climate becoming a deeply partisan issue in which the facts 
are debated as opposed to the solutions.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/jul/10/fox-news-weather-channel-climate-crisis



[Opinion Manipulation watch]
[If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the 
newspaper, you're mis-informed.
Mark Twain]
*If You Don't Trust The Media: WATCH THIS!!!*
Jul 10, 2021
Russell Brand
The United States ranks last among 46 countries when it comes to public 
trust in the media. Is this surprising when, as Glenn Greenwald 
revealed, a court recently ruled during a defamation case that “Rachel 
Maddow's viewers know she offers exaggeration and opinion, not facts”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLa5zAsj6V0


[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming July 11, 1990*

The Los Angeles Times observes that President George H. W. Bush seems to 
have dissociative identity disorder when it comes to climate:

    "The tension is often explained as a dispute between Bush's
    strong-willed chief of staff, John H. Sununu, who is deeply
    suspicious of environmentalists, and his Environmental Protection
    Agency chief, William K. Reilly.

    "That explanation, however, is an inaccurate characterization,
    Administration officials say. Although Reilly has advocated a
    stronger environmental policy, he has neither the clout nor the
    access to Bush to challenge Sununu, the officials say. In fact,
    Reilly has been conspicuous by his absence from the economic summit,
    virtually the only senior Administration official with an interest
    in the summit issues whom Bush left in Washington.

    "Instead, the disputes within the Administration reflect Bush's own
    ambivalence about the issues. Throughout his Administration, he has
    been pulled in opposite directions on the environment, tugged
    between his desire to placate environmentally-conscious voters on
    the one side and his instinct to protect business people from
    government regulation on the other."

*The Times also notes:*
"Bush's top aides are unanimous in believing that the scientific 
evidence is shaky on all aspects of global warming--the problem's 
dimensions, its potential effects and its causes."
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-224_1_global-warming-issue


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