[✔️] July 28, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
👀 Richard Pauli
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Wed Jul 28 12:16:57 EDT 2021
/*July 28, 2021*/
[news-climate change]
*Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’*
Researchers say ‘overexploitation of the Earth’ has seen many of its
‘vital signs’ deteriorate to record levels.
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The researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have
signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said
in an article published in the journal BioScience on Wednesday that
governments had consistently failed to address “the overexploitation of
the Earth”, which they described as the root cause of the crisis...
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For the study, scientists relied on “vital signs” to measure the health
of the planet, including deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions,
glacier thickness and sea-ice extent and deforestation. Out of 31 signs,
they found that 18 hit record highs or lows...
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/thousands-of-scientists-declare-worldwide-climate-emergency
[NYTimes]
*Why was Pacific Northwest heat off the charts? Recent research offers
clues.*
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/united-states-heat-wave.html
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[source material]
*Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes*
E. M. Fischer, S. Sippel & R. Knutti
Nature Climate Change (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
[video discussion]
*Extreme Weather Events*
Jul 14, 2021
ClimateEmergency Forum
Join Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez as they discuss
the challenges we face as a result of the increasing frequency,
severity, and duration of Extreme Weather Events, abbreviated EWEs.
This video was recorded on April 16th, 2021, and was first published on
this channel on July 14th, 2021.
Items discussed include the following:
- Given the land and oceans continue to warm, EWEs will increase in
frequency, severity, and duration.
- The toll EWEs are placing on our infrastructure and food supply.
- Both Hurricane Harvey and Katrina are discussed.
- The inevitable need for people to migrate inland from coastal cities
as a result of Sea Level Rise (SLR) and EWEs.
- The reasons for the increase in EWEs is discussed.
- The EWEs we are seeing today can no longer be considered ‘natural.’
- The fact that according to the UN, EWEs have doubled in frequency over
the last 20 years
- The fact that we can no longer count on the relatively stable climate
of greater than 50 years ago, ‘The Holocene’, and that we have moved to
a new age, ‘The Anthropocene’, where the climate will be much less stable
- The need for more aggressive activist movements to spur government
action such as Extinction Rebellion.
- The impact of EWEs on crop yields
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZMh9v6EP4
[Check for climate calamities]
*Is your state at risk? *
FIND OUT IF YOUR STATE IS AT RISK
Across the country, many of us are experiencing climate changes —
summers are hotter, storms are hitting harder, wildfires are burning
longer, and extreme weather is increasing. When these events strike,
they have a profound and detrimental impact on our economy and our daily
lives.
States at Risk is a project aimed at showing how Americans in all 50
states are experiencing the impacts of climate change. Our work focuses
on five threats — extreme heat, drought, wildfires, coastal flooding and
inland flooding — and the states most affected by these threats.
In 2015 States at Risk evaluated how prepared each of the 50 states are
for their current and future climate threats in its Preparedness Report
Card.
https://statesatrisk.org/
[let's call it the overburden]
*What’s the true cost of shipping all your junk across the ocean?*
Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on polluting
cargo ships.
The largest retail company in the United States, Walmart, was also the
biggest polluter of the bunch. In 2019, Walmart imported enough goods to
equal 893,000 shipping containers, resulting in some 3.7 million metric
tons of carbon dioxide emissions...
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After Walmart, the next top polluter in the report was Ashley Furniture,
which imported 270,000 containers and generated over 2.2 million metric
tons of CO2. Next up was Target, with some 600,000 containers and over 2
million metric tons of CO2. Researchers could only track some 123,000
container imports for Amazon, a company whose 2019 revenues topped $280
billion. Those imports were responsible for more than 390,000 metric
tons of emissions.
Representatives from Walmart and Amazon didn’t comment directly on the
study but provided information on their companies’ efforts to curb
emissions from their supply chains. In response to a request for
comment, a Target spokesperson said the company is committed to
“reducing our shipping carbon footprint,” as it works toward becoming a
“net zero enterprise” in its operations and supply chain by 2040.
A spokesperson from IKEA, which came in seventh place for CO2 output,
said addressing emissions from cargo ships is “a significant topic” for
the Swedish furniture giant. Ocean shipping accounts for about 40
percent of IKEA’s total carbon emissions from transportation. The
spokesperson said the company is working to reduce its carbon footprint
from every shipment by 70 percent on average by 2030. To that end, IKEA
participated in a 2019 pilot project to test biofuels in an ocean-going
container ship.
Researchers who worked on the retail-focused report said it took them
months to scour and analyze data. And it’s taken years to develop the
statistical models and build the database that underpin the recent
findings.
https://grist.org/climate/the-true-cost-of-shipping-junk-across-ocean-walmart-target/
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[here is the report]
*Shady Ships: Retail Giants Pollute Communities and Climate with
Fossil-Fueled Ocean Shipping*
Date: July 20, 2021
Just fifteen companies are responsible for emitting millions of tons of
pollution from importing their goods into the United States on
fossil-fueled ships. Our report Shady Ships: Retail Giants Pollute
Communities and Climate with Fossil-Fueled Ocean Shipping is the first
study to quantify the environmental and public health impacts from some
of the biggest American retailers’ reliance on overseas manufacturing
and fossil-fueled, transoceanic shipping.
full report at
https://www.pacificenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SIZ_Shady-Ships-Report.pdf
*Conclusions*
Retail giants are polluting communities and climate through their
fossil-fueled
maritime shipping at an enormous scale. If retail companies are to
continue relying
on fossil-fueled shipping to import their products, they must take
responsibility for
the pollution they generate on the voyage.
Without including maritime shipping emissions in their corporate
responsibility or
climate reporting, these retail companies are not living up to the
spirit of their climate
commitments or their duty to the customers they serve.
https://www.pacificenvironment.org/reports/shady-ships/
[BTW Redbull is #12 on the list. ]
https://shipitzero.org/
[hopeful innovation]
*Disruptive iron-air grid-scale battery is 10% the cost of lithium*
https://newatlas.com/energy/form-energy-iron-air-battery-bezos/
[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming July 28, 2012*
Physicist Richard Muller, long known for accusing climate scientists of
data manipulation, writes an opinion piece for the New York Times
acknowledging that he cannot disprove the monumental evidence pointing
to human activity as the main driver of climate change. Days later, in
an interview with Betsy Rosenberg, Muller continues to smear acclaimed
climate scientist Michael E. Mann.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9453
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