[✔️] June 9, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
👀 Richard Pauli
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Wed Jun 9 09:47:04 EDT 2021
/*June9 , 2021*/
[try to stand up wind]
*‘Incredibly scary’: Arizona wildfires scorch more than 138,000 acres*
Nearly 1,000 firefighters battle the Telegraph and Mescal fires, which
have been fueled by gusty winds and high temperatures..
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“Fire danger levels are definitely above normal. Right now, most of the
state of Arizona is in extreme to exceptional drought,” Marvin Percha, a
meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix, told AZ
Central. “All it takes now is some dusty winds and hot temperatures, and
that is a recipe for extreme fire danger levels.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/08/arizona-wildfires-latest-telegraph-mescal
[deploy the future]
THE CENTER FOR CLIMATE & SECURITY
*EXPLORING THE SECURITY RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE*
RELEASE: International Military Council Issues “World Climate and
Security Report 2021” Warning of Catastrophic Climate Risks and Urging
Significant Greenhouse Gas Reductions
June 7, 2021 — Today the Expert Group of the International Military
Council on Climate and Security (IMCCS) released its second annual
World Climate and Security Report, which warns of the compound
security threats posed by the convergence of climate change with
other global risks, such as COVID-19. The report reveals that the
increasing pace and intensity of climate hazards will strain
military and security services around the world as they are called
on to respond to climate-driven crises, while also facing direct
climate threats to their own infrastructure and readiness. The
authors also call on security institutions around the globe to act
as “leading voices urging significantly reduced greenhouse gas
emissions, given recent warnings about the catastrophic security
implications of climate change under plausible climate scenarios.”
https://climateandsecurity.org/
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[YouTube video statement]
*A Growing Crisis: The Launch of the World Climate and Security Report 2021*
Jun 7, 2021
Council on Strategic Risks (CSR)
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The report release featured senior climate security experts from NATO,
the United States, the UK, and Europe, including NATO Assistant
Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges David van Weel,
former Deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemoeller, Lt. Gen.
Richard Nugee, UK Ministry of Defence, and Luxembourg Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Defence Francois Bausch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeVdiZxI3Fk&
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[final report text]
International Military Council on Climate and Security
*The World Climate and Security Report 2021*
RELEASE: International Military Council Issues “World Climate and
Security Report 2021” Warning of Catastrophic Climate Risks and Urging
Significant Greenhouse Gas Reductions
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Michel Rademaker, Senior Member of the Executive Committee of the IMCCS:
“The WCSR 2021 provides a first-of-its-kind Climate Security Risk
Methodology enabling users to assess their country on several
climate hazard related security risks as a starter for Coping &
Adaptive Capacity Enhancement and Exposure & Susceptibility
Reduction. This approach enables a much needed analytical basis for
effective interventions and actions.”
Francesco Femia, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor of the IMCCS, stated:
“As this report makes abundantly clear, nearly all segments of
society, including militaries all over the world, are concerned
about the potentially catastrophic risks of a changing climate. Now
is the time to act in a way that’s commensurate with those risks.
That means major, unprecedented, globally-coordinated action to both
rapidly reduce the scale and scope of climate change by dramatically
reducing emissions, and to rapidly adapt to its effects. The risks
are already here, and we can see greater risks on the horizon. We
therefore have a Responsibility to Prepare and Prevent.”
Kate Guy, Deputy Director of the IMCCS stated:
“As seen throughout the report, climate change is no longer a
‘future’ risk that will strike decades from now. Warming
temperatures and climate impacts are already actively shaping the
security landscape for all countries, and the WCSR offers new tools
for forecasting current and future climate threats. We urgently need
security actors worldwide to digest this research, and to plan their
strategies and operations accordingly to ensure safe livelihoods for
all.”...
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https://imccs.org/the-world-climate-and-security-report-2021/
[video display of government at work - with video conference. Pretty
good, pretty frustrating, very interesting]
*Bill Nye Testifies Before the House on the Climate Crisis | LIVE*
June 8, 2021
NowThis News
BILL NYE TESTIFIES ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS: Scientist and educator Bill
Nye appears before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on
Emergency, Response, and Recovery for a hearing on the growing threats
of the climate crisis...
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He is joined by other energy, environmental, and emergency preparedness
leaders to discuss how the U.S. must take further action to further
combat the crisis. A new report from the EPA said that effects of the
climate crisis are increasing exponentially across the U.S., with
surface temperatures rising at an accelerated rate. Increased ocean
temperatures are also expected to cause greater storms this hurricane
season, which the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has
already issued warnings about.
For more climate crisis updates, subscribe to NowThis News.
https://youtu.be/Uk5gmOe2jX0?t=372
[anti-government maneuver]
*Amid mega-drought, rightwing militia stokes water rebellion in US west*
Demonstrations have sparked fears of a confrontation between law
enforcement and rightwing anti-government activists
Fears of a confrontation between law enforcement and rightwing militia
supporters over the control of water in the drought-stricken American
west have been sparked by protests at Klamath Falls in Oregon.
Protesters affiliated with rightwing anti-government activist Ammon
Bundy’s People’s Rights Network are threatening to break a deadlock over
water management in the area by unilaterally opening the headgates of a
reservoir.
The protest has reawakened memories not only of recent standoffs with
federal agencies – including the one led by Bundy in eastern Oregon in
2016 – but a longer history of anti-government agitation in southern
Oregon and northern California, stretching back to 2000 and beyond.
The area is a hotbed of militia and anti-government activity and also
hit by the mega-drought that has struck the American west and caused
turmoil in the agricultural community as conflicts over water become
more intense. Among the current protesters at Klamath Falls are
individuals who have themselves been involved in similar actions over
two decades, including an illegal release of water at the same reservoir
in 2001.
In May, the federal Bureau of Reclamation announced that there would be
no further release of water from the reserves in the Klamath Basin for
irrigators downstream, who rely on the Klamath Project water
infrastructure along the Oregon-California border.
Later in the month, two Oregon irrigators, Grant Knoll and Dan Neilsen,
began occupying a piece of land adjacent to the headgates of the main
canal which pipes water to downstream farmers and Native American tribal
groups, like the Yurok, who depend on the water “flushing” the river for
the benefit of salmon hatchlings.
Knoll and Nielsen, along with members of the People’s Rights Network,
which has engaged in militant anti-mask protests in neighboring Idaho,
began staffing a tent on the property which they dubbed a “water crisis
info center”...
They also told a number of media outlets that they were prepared to
restore the flow of water, even at the price of a confrontation with the
federal government, with Knoll telling Jefferson Public Radio last
Monday: “We’re going to turn on the water and have a standoff.”
Also on the property is a large metal bucket, daubed with
anti-government slogans, which is a memento of a 2001 confrontation at
the same spot. That July, 100 farmers, including Knoll and Nielsen, used
an 8in-wide irrigation line to bypass the headgate, sending water down
the canal. That year, the action by the farmers was followed by other
protest actions, such as an American flag-bedecked horse charge, similar
to the one that took place on the Bundy ranch during that family’s
standoff with federal authorities in 2014.
The confrontation was only defused after appeals were made to the
farmers in the wake of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11.
Then as now, the reduced flows were partly with environmental issues in
mind.
This year, amid the severe drought, the measure is being taken in
accordance with the Endangered Species Act, to ensure the survival of
two species of suckerfish whose last remaining habitats are in the
reservoirs.
In order to keep enough water in the system to ensure their survival,
water must be denied to those who rely on it downstream, including both
farmers and tribes who depend on fishing.
Endangered Coho Salmon will likely suffer from the lack of water, along
with migrating birds later in the season whose refuges have dried up.
But previous court decisions have determined that the interests of those
upstream should take precedence, including the Klamath Tribes, for whom
the suckerfish have a spiritual significance.
While the protesters claim to represent the interests of farmers, they
have been disavowed by agricultural leaders, including Ben DuVal,
president of the Klamath Water Users Association, who told the
Sacramento Bee that the protesters were “idiots who have no business
being here”, who were using the crisis as “a soapbox to push their agenda”.
Whether or not DuVal speaks for the majority of farmers, there is no
sign that the so far small protest is catching on like 2001’s
anti-government surge, which saw protest crowds in the thousands in the
lead up to the breaching of the headgates.
And while the protesters’ placards promise “Ammon Bundy coming soon”,
their leader has so far not made the trip to the Klamath camp from
neighboring Idaho, where he recently filed to run for governor.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/08/klamath-falls-oregon-protests-ammon-bundy
[video summary from top climate scientist]
*Climate and Cities - Stefan Rahmstorf*
May 20, 2021
pikff1
Keynote lecture for the German-Brazilian Dialogue: Cities and Climate,
São Paulo, 17 May 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN1kailHxyg
[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming June 9, 2008*
Deputy EPA administrator Jason Burnett resigns; he later claims that he
did so after repeated interference from the White House on issues
related to carbon pollution.
https://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Ex-EPA-aide-tells-of-White-House-censorship-3205205.php
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-07-09/news/36799342_1_climate-change-epa-deputy-associate-administrator-congressional-testimony
http://youtu.be/IPjyauzrrv0
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