[✔️] July 27, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*July 27, 2021*/

[get ready]
*‘Record-shattering’ heat becoming much more likely, says climate study*
More heatwaves even worse than those seen recently in north-west of 
America forecast in research
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The study also showed that record-shattering events could come in sharp 
bursts, rather than gradually becoming more frequent. “That is really 
concerning,” Fischer said: “Planning for heatwaves that get 0.1C more 
intense every two or three years would still be very worrying, but it 
would be much easier to prepare for.”

Prof Michael Mann, at Pennsylvania State University in the US and not 
part of the new research, said: “This study underscores something that 
has been apparent in the record weather extremes we’ve seen this summer: 
dangerous climate change is here, and it’s now simply a matter of how 
dangerous we are willing to let it get.” Mann’s own research published 
in May showed a possible doubling of heat stress in the US by 2100....
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“The good news is that we can prevent the worst case shown in this 
study,” she said. If emissions start falling immediately and rapidly, 
the study showed, the risk of record-shattering extremes is cut by about 
80%. “With Cop26 looming, we must hope that policymakers use evidence 
like this to show the need for global emissions reductions,” Thompson said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/26/record-shattering-heat-becoming-much-more-likely-says-climate-study

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[published in Nature Climate Change]
*Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes*
E. M. Fischer, S. Sippel & R. Knutti
Nature Climate Change  July 26, 2021
*Abstract*

    Recent climate extremes have broken long-standing records by large
    margins. Such extremes unprecedented in the observational period
    often have substantial impacts due to a tendency to adapt to the
    highest intensities, and no higher, experienced during a lifetime.
    Here, we show models project not only more intense extremes but also
    events that break previous records by much larger margins. These
    record-shattering extremes, nearly impossible in the absence of
    warming, are likely to occur in the coming decades. We demonstrate
    that their probability of occurrence depends on warming rate, rather
    than global warming level, and is thus pathway-dependent. In
    high-emission scenarios, week-long heat extremes that break records
    by three or more standard deviations are two to seven times more
    probable in 2021–2050 and three to 21 times more probable in
    2051–2080, compared to the last three decades. In 2051–2080, such
    events are estimated to occur about every 6–37 years somewhere in
    the northern midlatitudes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01092-9



[small world after all]
*Numerous Massachusetts fire departments answer calls about smell of 
smoke from western wildfires*
https://www.wcvb.com/article/numerous-massachusetts-fire-departments-answer-calls-about-smell-of-smoke-from-western-wildfires/37134362#



[Great news!]
*Action on climate change can provide a shot in the arm for the global 
economy, economist says*
MON, JUL 26 2021
Jonathan Keane
Ramping up investment in policies and technologies to tackle climate 
change could play a significant role in the global economy’s recovery 
from the coronavirus pandemic.

In a recent note, Charles Dumas, chief economist at U.K.-based 
investment research firm TS Lombard, said that action on climate change 
is often criticized as moving too slowly. However, with governments 
increasing spending to aid their post-Covid economies, they may start 
catching up.

A key tenet of this is the ever-decreasing cost of electricity per 
megawatt hour, according to figures from TS Lombard, with costs of 
solar, offshore and onshore wind dropping over the last 10 years, while 
gas and coal have remained largely the same.

“Effectively by 2030 the cost of renewable electricity is going to be 
half that of coal and gas sourced electricity,” Dumas told CNBC.

These trends will bring many of the various pledges to reach net zero 
more closely in sight...
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“Governments aren’t making the connections enough and traditionally 
treasuries and particularly the ministries of transport are still 
dominated by road building lobbies and people who like to build highways 
and increase transport rather than people who want to invest in 
sustainable alternatives.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/26/action-on-climate-change-can-boost-global-economy-economist-says.html



[I'm dubious, they will likely keep trying]
*As China Boomed, It Didn’t Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It Must.*
China’s breathtaking economic growth created cities ill-equipped to face 
extreme weather. Last week’s dramatic floods showed that much will have 
to change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/world/asia/china-climate-change.html
*
*


[another disinformation battleground]*
**As Jeff Bezos stresses climate change, Amazon promotes books saying 
it’s fake*
BY BRIAN CONTRERAS
JULY 26, 2021
Soon after Jeff Bezos returned from the edge of space, the 
billionaire-turned-astronaut delivered a warning to everyone he’d 
briefly left behind on Earth.

“We live on this beautiful planet,” Amazon.com Inc.’s founder — and, 
until recently, chief executive — said Tuesday. “When you get up there 
and you see it, you see how tiny it is and how fragile it is.”

“We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it 
into space,” he added, “and keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet 
that it is.”

It’s a familiar sentiment from the world’s richest man, who’s made 
environmentalism a central part of his public image. At an Amazon summit 
last year, he said people who deny the reality of human-caused climate 
change are “not being reasonable.”

Yet on the e-commerce platform he built, a very different message is 
being sold — and getting boosted by the company’s own algorithms.

New research from the nonprofit investigative group Advance Democracy 
has revealed that Amazon.com’s main search function — the “Sort by: 
Featured” display option, which is the default way Amazon filters its 
enormous catalog of products when customers go looking for something — 
gives prominent real estate to books that downplay or outright deny the 
reality of climate change.

Advance Democracy found that 20% of the top 60 search results for 
“climate change” returned products containing “misinformation about 
climate change,” including three of the first four sponsored results in 
the main product list.

The nonprofit also found advertisements for climate-denialist books on 
the product pages of more scientifically sound climate texts. For 
instance, the “products related to this item” list underneath Bill 
Gates’ “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster” included a sponsored link to 
“Exploding the Myths of Climate Change: A Denier’s Viewpoint.” Under 
Mike Berners-Lee’s “There Is No Planet B” was an ad for “Climate 
Miracle: There is no climate crisis, Nature controls climate.”
The Times independently confirmed that climate denialist books appear 
among the top Amazon results for generic searches such as “climate,” 
“climate change” and “global warming,” as well as on the product pages 
of mainstream climatological texts.

Advance Democracy said it conducted its research while using a virtual 
private network and not logged into an Amazon account, in an attempt to 
ensure that the algorithm’s recommendations wouldn’t be customized based 
on who was doing the research. Amazon says it displays sponsored 
products based on their relevance to a user’s search.

Advance Democracy’s findings show “that climate change misinformation is 
prevalent, and even being promoted, on e-commerce sites,” Daniel Jones, 
the organization’s president, told The Times in a written statement. 
“Just this week, Amazon released a press release ‘encouraging more 
companies to take action on climate change,’ while at the same time the 
platform is profiting [from] and promoting climate change denialism on 
its platform.”

Jones — a former Senate staffer who rose to national prominence for his 
investigation of the CIA’s use of torture during the war on terror, as 
portrayed by Adam Driver in the 2019 film “The Report” — added that “the 
fact that if you search ‘climate’ … climate misinformation immediately 
comes up is outrageous.”...
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Amazon and Bezos both have a mixed history when it comes to 
environmentalism.

In February 2020, Bezos committed to spending $10 billion on the fight 
against climate change; he has since set 2030 as the deadline for 
dispensing all of that money...
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“Algorithms are killing the climate,” said Jamie Henn, the director of 
the climate advocacy groups Fossil Free Media and Clean Creatives.

“The impact that Amazon has on society isn’t just in its factories and 
trucks driving around our neighborhoods,” Henn added. “It’s in the way 
that it shapes or warps the way people see the world.”

For Amazon users, that could mean seeing a version of the world at odds 
with what climate scientists — and Jeff Bezos himself — agree is 
actually happening.
https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2021-07-26/jeff-bezos-climate-change-amazon-promotes-hoax



[NPR learns from top climate scientist]
*How Climate Change Is Responsible For More Extreme Weather Events 
Worldwide*
July 25, 2021
Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST:
     (6 min read or hear the audio 
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2021/07/20210725_wesun_climate_scientist_on_extreme_heat.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1165&d=384&p=10&story=1020342829&dl=1&sc=siteplayer&siteplayer=true&size=6150732&dl=1 
)
Now, there is no reasonable question that climate change is fueling 
these events and others around the globe, but there are questions about 
the details - why, even though the big picture is clear, the local 
effects of a warming planet are occasionally surprising. Michael Mann is 
a distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State 
University, and the author of "The New Climate War: The Fight To Take 
Back Our Planet." We turn to him now because, you know, he's got a 
pretty good track record on climate predictions.

MICHAEL MANN: Well, it's a bit frustrating. As a climate scientist, the 
last thing you want to see is your predictions come true. And 
unfortunately, you know, despite the fact that decades ago we warned 
that if we continue to add carbon pollution to the atmosphere through 
the burning of fossil fuels that we would see not just an overall 
warming of the planet, the melting of ice and sea level rise, but more 
extreme weather events. And now the signal of climate change in the 
weather has emerged from the noise. What that means is that we can 
actually see climate change in the individual extreme weather events 
that are playing out right now across the northern hemisphere this 
summer. This is climate change.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Is this a tipping point? Because what we used to hear 
about climate change is that these things will be happening 20 years in 
the future, 30 years in the future if we don't take the actions 
necessary. But what I'm reading from a lot of scientists is that this 
has accelerated in a way that is surprising.

MANN: The warming of the planet is pretty much proceeding as predicted. 
What's happening, though, is that some of the impacts are playing out 
faster than we expected. And it has to do with the fact that our models 
are imperfect. What we're seeing is that some of the impacts were 
underestimated because our models, for example, didn't have all of the 
critical processes involved in the collapse of ice sheets, which is so 
important to sea level rise.

Another area is extreme weather events. Now, the models capture some of 
the basic physics here that's relevant. You warm up the planet, of 
course, you're going to get more frequent and intense heat waves. You 
also have the potential for larger flooding events because the warm 
atmosphere can hold more moisture. But at the same time, that extra heat 
can dry out the ground and you get worse droughts.

But there's something else that's playing out with the events we've seen 
this summer, and that has to do with the behavior of the jet stream, the 
way the jet stream is slowing down and sort of getting stuck in place. 
And so you have these big weather systems that just lie over the same 
locations day after day - you know, on the West Coast, baking the soil, 
the heat. Back east, we've had a lot of rainfall because we've been 
stuck under sort of a low pressure center. And that is something that 
the models didn't really pick up on. They didn't predict that we would 
see this extra effect.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Who should be held responsible for the events that we're 
seeing today? I mean, you've gotten a lot of backlash for your research 
and outspoken criticism of corporations who contribute to high carbon 
emissions.

MANN: Well, you know, let's take ExxonMobil. Back in the early 1980's, 
their own scientists, in an internal document that wasn't released to 
the public, actually referred to the consequences of business as usual, 
fossil fuel burning as catastrophic. This isn't Al Gore. This isn't the 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This isn't me and my fellow 
climate scientists. This is ExxonMobil, the world's largest publicly 
traded fossil fuel company. And rather than coming forward with what 
their own scientists had found and engaging in a necessary conversation 
about how to avert these risks, they doubled down. They ended up getting 
rid of that research division, and they spent tens of millions of 
dollars in a massive disinformation campaign.

And so make no mistake about it; the fossil fuel industry bears much of 
the blame here. But there's enough blame to go around - politicians who 
have refused to rein in the fossil fuel industry, bad actors who have 
funded climate change denialism. It's what I call the inactivists, this 
community of entities, individuals and groups that have been waging a 
war against efforts to contend with the greatest challenge we face as a 
civilization - the climate crisis.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: I mean, and now we're seeing pushback about spending on 
climate change. Despite all the evidence, this is still politically toxic.

MANN: Yeah. We'll have to see what happens with this infrastructure bill 
that's being discussed. There are some really important climate measures 
in that bill. For example, a clean energy standard that would require 
utilities to produce up to 80% of their electricity from clean sources 
by 2030. And so there's some good stuff in that legislation. What 
remains to be seen will be, you know, if it survives.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: If things do not get better, what can we expect next?

MANN: There are two paths. One is a path of destruction. The other road 
is one where we do what's necessary, where we reduce carbon emissions by 
a factor two within the next decade, where the countries of the world 
come together. But that window is closing. We need to act now if we are 
to go down that far better path.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Should we be watching for anything specific, like jet 
stream changes or any other indicators that could tell us which path 
we're headed on?

MANN: All eyes right now are on the behavior of the great ice sheets - 
the Antarctic ice sheet, the Greenland ice sheet. As goes those ice 
sheets, goes sea level rise. And in a worst-case scenario, we're looking 
at meters of sea level rise over a timeframe as short as half a century. 
The major cities, the coastal cities of the world will all be 
threatened. Tens to hundreds of millions of people could be displaced. 
So we have to make sure that we do everything we can to prevent that 
from happening. And that means we've got to reduce those carbon 
emissions dramatically.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: Michael Mann is the distinguished professor of 
atmospheric science at Penn State University. Thank you very much.

MANN: Thank you. It was a pleasure.
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/25/1020342829/how-climate-change-is-responsible-for-more-extreme-weather-events-worldwide



[recognizing risk]
*First-of-its-kind insurance report confronts climate risk*
http://blogs.edf.org/growingreturns/2021/07/23/insurance-report-climate-risk/



[NYTimes -- China calls it their Fifty-Cent Army]
*Disinformation for Hire, a Shadow Industry, Is Quietly Booming*
Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of 
clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.
By Max Fisher - - July 25, 2021
In May, several French and German social media influencers received a 
strange proposal.

A London-based public relations agency wanted to pay them to promote 
messages on behalf of a client. A polished three-page document detailed 
what to say and on which platforms to say it.

But it asked the influencers to push not beauty products or vacation 
packages, as is typical, but falsehoods tarring Pfizer-BioNTech’s 
Covid-19 vaccine. Stranger still, the agency, Fazze, claimed a London 
address where there is no evidence any such company exists.

Some recipients posted screenshots of the offer. Exposed, Fazze scrubbed 
its social media accounts. That same week, Brazilian and Indian 
influencers posted videos echoing Fazze’s script to hundreds of 
thousands of viewers.

The scheme appears to be part of a secretive industry that security 
analysts and American officials say is exploding in scale: 
disinformation for hire...

Private firms, straddling traditional marketing and the shadow world of 
geopolitical influence operations, are selling services once conducted 
principally by intelligence agencies.

They sow discord, meddle in elections, seed false narratives and push 
viral conspiracies, mostly on social media. And they offer clients 
something precious: deniability.

“Disinfo-for-hire actors being employed by government or 
government-adjacent actors is growing and serious,” said Graham Brookie, 
director of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, 
calling it “a boom industry.”

Similar campaigns have been recently found promoting India’s ruling 
party, Egyptian foreign policy aims and political figures in Bolivia and 
Venezuela.

Mr. Brookie’s organization tracked one operating amid a mayoral race in 
Serra, a small city in Brazil. An ideologically promiscuous Ukrainian 
firm boosted several competing political parties...
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A wave of anti-American posts in Iraq, seemingly organic, were tracked 
to a public relations company that was separately accused of faking 
anti-government sentiment in Israel.

Most trace to back-alley firms whose legitimate services resemble those 
of a bottom-rate marketer or email spammer...
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For-hire disinformation, though only sometimes effective, is growing 
more sophisticated as practitioners iterate and learn. Experts say it is 
becoming more common in every part of the world, outpacing operations 
conducted directly by governments.

The result is an accelerating rise in polarizing conspiracies, phony 
citizen groups and fabricated public sentiment, deteriorating our shared 
reality beyond even the depths of recent years.

The trend emerged after the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, experts 
say. Cambridge, a political consulting firm linked to members of Donald 
J. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was found to have harvested data 
on millions of Facebook users.

The controversy drew attention to methods common among social media 
marketers. Cambridge used its data to target hyper-specific audiences 
with tailored messages. It tested what resonated by tracking likes and 
shares.

The episode taught a generation of consultants and opportunists that 
there was big money in social media marketing for political causes, all 
disguised as organic activity.

Some newcomers eventually reached the same conclusion as Russian 
operatives had in 2016: Disinformation performs especially well on 
social platforms.

At the same time, backlash to Russia’s influence-peddling appeared to 
have left governments wary of being caught — while also demonstrating 
the power of such operations.

“There is, unfortunately, a huge market demand for disinformation,” Mr. 
Brookie said, “and a lot of places across the ecosystem that are more 
than willing to fill that demand.”

Commercial firms conducted for-hire disinformation in at least 48 
countries last year — nearly double from the year before, according to 
an Oxford University study. The researchers identified 65 companies 
offering such services.

Last summer, Facebook removed a network of Bolivian citizen groups and 
journalistic fact-checking organizations. It said the pages, which had 
promoted falsehoods supporting the country’s right-wing government, were 
fake.

Stanford University researchers traced the content to CLS Strategies, a 
Washington-based communications firm that had registered as a consultant 
with the Bolivian government. The firm had done similar work in 
Venezuela and Mexico.

A spokesman referred to the company’s statement last year saying its 
regional chief had been placed on leave but disputed Facebook’s 
accusation that the work qualified as foreign interference.
*
**Eroding Reality*
New technology enables nearly anyone to get involved. Programs batch 
generate fake accounts with hard-to-trace profile photos. Instant 
metrics help to hone effective messaging. So does access to users’ 
personal data, which is easily purchased in bulk.

The campaigns are rarely as sophisticated as those by government hackers 
or specialized firms like the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency.

But they appear to be cheap. In countries that mandate campaign finance 
transparency, firms report billing tens of thousands of dollars for 
campaigns that also include traditional consulting services.

The layer of deniability frees governments to sow disinformation more 
aggressively, at home and abroad, than might otherwise be worth the 
risk. Some contractors, when caught, have claimed they acted without 
their client’s knowledge or only to win future business.

Platforms have stepped up efforts to root out coordinated 
disinformation. Analysts especially credit Facebook, which publishes 
detailed reports on campaigns it disrupts.

Still, some argue that social media companies also play a role in 
worsening the threat. Engagement-boosting algorithms and design 
elements, research finds, often privilege divisive and conspiratorial 
content.

Political norms have also shifted. A generation of populist leaders, 
like Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, has risen in part through 
social media manipulation. Once in office, many institutionalize those 
methods as tools of governance and foreign relations.

In India, dozens of government-run Twitter accounts have shared posts 
from India Vs Disinformation, a website and set of social media feeds 
that purport to fact-check news stories on India.

India Vs Disinformation is, in reality, the product of a Canadian 
communications firm called Press Monitor.

Nearly all the posts seek to discredit or muddy reports unfavorable to 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government, including on the country’s 
severe Covid-19 toll. An associated site promotes pro-Modi narratives 
under the guise of news articles.

A Digital Forensic Research Lab report investigating the network called 
it “an important case study” in the rise of “disinformation campaigns in 
democracies.”

A representative of Press Monitor, who would identify himself only as 
Abhay, called the report completely false.

He specified only that it incorrectly identified his firm as 
Canada-based. Asked why the company lists a Toronto address, a Canadian 
tax registration and identifies as “part of Toronto’s thriving tech 
ecosystem,” or why he had been reached on a Toronto phone number, he 
said that he had business in many countries. He did not respond to an 
email asking for clarification.

A LinkedIn profile for Abhay Aggarwal identifies him as the 
Toronto-based chief executive of Press Monitor and says that the 
company’s services are used by the Indian government.
*
**‘Spamouflage’*
A set of pro-Beijing operations hint at the field’s capacity for rapid 
evolution.

Since 2019, Graphika, a digital research firm, has tracked a network it 
nicknamed “Spamouflage” for its early reliance on spamming social 
platforms with content echoing Beijing’s line on geopolitical issues. 
Most posts received little or no engagement.

In recent months, however, the network has developed hundreds of 
accounts with elaborate personas. Each has its own profile and posting 
history that can seem authentic. They appeared to come from many 
different countries and walks of life.

Graphika traced the accounts back to a Bangladeshi content farm that 
created them in bulk and probably sold them to a third party.

The network pushes strident criticism of Hong Kong democracy activists 
and American foreign policy. By coordinating without seeming to, it 
created an appearance of organic shifts in public opinion — and often 
won attention.

The accounts were amplified by a major media network in Panama, 
prominent politicians in Pakistan and Chile, Chinese-language YouTube 
pages, the left-wing British commentator George Galloway and a number of 
Chinese diplomatic accounts.

A separate pro-Beijing network, uncovered by a Taiwanese investigative 
outlet called The Reporter, operated hundreds of Chinese-language 
websites and social media accounts.

Disguised as news sites and citizen groups, they promoted Taiwanese 
reunification with mainland China and denigrated Hong Kong’s protesters. 
The report found links between the pages and a Malaysia-based start-up 
that offered web users Singapore dollars to promote the content.

But governments may find that outsourcing such shadowy work also carries 
risks, Mr. Brookie said. For one, the firms are harder to control and 
might veer into undesired messages or tactics...

For another, firms organized around deceit may be just as likely to turn 
those energies toward their clients, bloating budgets and billing for 
work that never gets done.

“The bottom line is that grifters are going to grift online,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/25/world/europe/disinformation-social-media.html

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[Here is the most trusted database of Misinformers]
*Climate Disinformation Database*
Welcome to DeSmog’s Climate Disinformation Database, where you can 
browse our extensive research on the individuals and organizations that 
have helped to delay and distract the public and our elected leaders 
from taking needed action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight 
global warming.
https://www.desmog.com/climate-disinformation-database/

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[Another trusted database of known deceivers]
*SourceWatch*
The Center for Media and Democracy publishes SourceWatch to track 
corporations.
We provide well-documented information about corporate public relations 
(PR) campaigns, including corporate front groups, people who "front" 
corporate campaigns, and PR operations.

Please visit SourceWatch's sister websites EXPOSEDbyCMD, to find our 
investigations and original documents we release, PRWatch, to read our 
original reporting, and ALECexposed, to see our award-winning 
investigation of a corporate front group where corporate lobbyists 
actually vote as equals with elected legislators on "model" legislation 
to change our rights.
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SourceWatch




[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming July 27, 2006*
Climate scientist Michael Mann testifies before the House Committee on 
Energy and Commerce regarding his scientific research--and the 
transparently partisan efforts by climate-change deniers to undermine it.

http://youtu.be/8e2GlooAPkM
http://www.c-span.org/video/?193612-1/Methodo


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