[✔️] June 13, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*June 13, 2021*/

[Drought risk display]
*How Severe Is the Western Drought? See For Yourself.*
By Nadja Popovich
June 11, 2021
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/2021/06/04/western-drought/9aad9a9d25b9810344e012a1ec88c583c93be99b/droughtMonitorMultiplesWest-Artboard-l.jpg

An intense drought is gripping the American West. Extreme conditions are 
more widespread than at any point in at least 20 years, according to the 
U.S. Drought Monitor, the government’s official drought-tracking service.

And the hottest months of summer are still to come.
Early June Drought Conditions in the West
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/06/11/climate/california-western-drought-map.html



[Gee. seven super leaders]
*G7 leaders commit to boost climate finance contributions*
What would you like to learn more about?

G7 leaders in their joint communique reaffirmed the collective developed 
countries goal to jointly mobilise $100 billion a year from public and 
private sources, through to 2025.
The Group of Seven nations have agreed to increase their climate finance 
contributions and meet an overdue spending pledge of $100 billion a year 
to help poorer countries, calling on other developed countries to join 
the effort.

In a copy of a joint communique following a weekend meeting of the 
world's seven largest advanced economies, the G7 said: "We reaffirm the 
collective developed countries goal to jointly mobilise $100 
billion/year from public and private sources, through to 2025, in the 
context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on 
implementation."

"Towards this end, we commit to each increase and improve our overall 
international public climate finance contributions for this period and 
call on other developed countries to join and enhance their 
contributions to this effort."
https://www.trtworld.com/life/g7-leaders-commit-to-boost-climate-finance-contributions-47482




[Not very smart]
*Study faults California for building homes in wildfire areas*
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/study-faults-california-building-homes-wildfire-areas-2021-06-10/


[yuk...video of Sea Snot ]
*Turkey scrambles to stop slimy 'sea snot' in coastal waters | DW News*
Jun 6, 2021
DW News
Turkey is struggling to stop the spread of a slimy substance 
accumulating in its seas. The outbreak of the naturally-occurring 
mucus-like matter is the biggest on record. And if left untreated, 
experts warn the sludge could soon coat large parts of Turkey's coastal 
waters.
Thick, oozing, soupy slime is covering the coast of the Sea of Marmara 
near Istanbul.
Biologists call it marine mucilage - others dub it 'sea snot.'
It's source, organisms feeding on human waste in the warming water, is 
equally icky.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to clean up the gunk.
Officials have been ordered to inspect waste water facilities to find 
sources of pollution.
The substance extends deep below the surface, suffocating sea life.
For fisherman, the filth is fouling their boats, and killing their catch.
It's not the first time the sludge has appeared, but this year's 
outbreak is unprecedented.
Turkish opposition politicians want tougher penalties on pollution, and 
climate change mitigation measures.
Biologists say humans must cease flushing their waste into the sea, if 
they want to stop the snot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOn1vLBUFKY



[important observations]
*Satellite Observations Show Marine Clouds Amplify Global Warming*
A new analysis of satellite cloud observations finds that global warming 
causes low-level clouds over the oceans to decrease, leading to further 
warming. The work, led by researchers at Lawrence Livermore National 
Laboratory (LLNL), in collaboration with colleagues from Scripps 
Institution of Oceanography and the NASA Langley Research Center, 
appears online in Nature Climate Change.
https://scitechdaily.com/satellite-observations-show-marine-clouds-amplify-global-warming/
- -
Reference: “Observational constraints on low cloud feedback reduce 
uncertainty of climate sensitivity” by Timothy A. Myers, Ryan C. Scott, 
Mark D. Zelinka, Stephen A. Klein, Joel R. Norris and Peter M. Caldwell, 
13 May 2021, Nature Climate Change.
DOI: 10.1038/s41558-021-01039-0



[RMA seems to be a big local meeting in Wesport, CT]
June 12, 2021
*On My Watch – David Pogue tells the RMA how to prepare for climate change*
Greenwich Sentinel
By Anne Semmes

David Pogue talks plain talk about that complex story of climate change. 
Pogue, who lives in Westport, has a voice for science, often hosting PBS 
Nova science specials and explaining away on Ted Talks. He now has a 
user-friendly book, “How to Prepare for Climate Change – A Practical 
Guide to Surviving the Chaos,” that was a riveting topic at a recent RMA 
talk.

His ability to simplify those key words of climate change, the 
greenhouse effect, began with a photo of two dogs in a car. “If we want 
to reach people, we should call it the dog-in-the- car- effect…how you 
come back to your car in the summer it’s like boiling inside. Same exact 
thing – trapped infrared energy reflected from the sun. In the climate 
analog – we are the dog.”

He then shared a graph that starkly showed the dramatic rise in the 
levels of C02. “And if we zoom in on the last 150 years, we’ll see that 
it really began about the time we began burning coal and oil with the 
Industrial Revolution.”
He has another term for global warming more inclusive, global weirding. 
“It’s heat waves,” his list begins, freak snowstorms, flooding, water 
shortages. historic rains, droughts. “We had the most hurricanes last 
season…Nature is a network of interconnected systems – you can’t turn 
one knob without affecting a bunch of other things.”

Addressing last year he said, “We were coping with COVID crisis, but the 
climate crisis did not slow down…2020 was tied for the hottest year ever 
reported on the planet. We also achieved the hottest temperature ever 
measured on the planet…over 130 degrees in Death Valley. We also had the 
most wildfires burning – the most areas in a season…five million acres 
burned, which is equal to the entire area of Connecticut, Delaware and 
Rhode Island. And another terrible wildfire season is coming up out west.”

So, just how many climate change deniers are out there he posed? 
According to an annual study by Yale Program on Climate Change 
Communication, there are 29 percent of Americans believing climate 
change is just a natural cycle. “That’s actually the lowest number it’s 
ever been in these surveys. Just as a point of comparison, remember that 
20 percent of us believe that aliens walk among us.”

But Pogue quickly moved off to his “Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos.”

So, how is that changing climate affecting us? “There’s an epidemic in 
this country of what’s called eco-despair or climate anxiety…After 
Hurricane Katrina, one in five residents are still suffering from 
PTSD…Since 2016 rates of depression are up 33 percent.” How to deal with 
this despair? Pogue’s’ “whole book is about taking action to sleep 
better at night.”

Like choosing wisely where one lives. “Forty million Americans move 
every year, especially in the pandemic. The basic guideline is you want 
to be inland far enough from the sea level rising and flooding.” Check 
out the “cool” website called, “Surging Seas” – 
https://sealevel.climatecentral.org/ “You plug in any address, and it’ll 
show you the water levels over time as the sea levels rise…Coastal 
Connecticut is not as bad as Miami. I would not be buying real estate in 
Miami…already they’re getting sunny day flooding 100 days a year, when 
it hasn’t been raining, when there hasn’t been a hurricane. And that 
happens because of the tides.”

“You want to be north far enough to escape the heat waves, as well as 
the mosquitoes and ticks that we’ve got here, and you want to be west 
enough to avoid the hurricanes, and you want to be east far enough to 
avoid the wildfires. And you need fresh water – the entire western half 
of the country is in more or less perpetual drought.”

Pogue picks 14 cities “basically above the 42nd parallel. The Great 
Lakes area, baby, that’s where it’s at – no hurricanes and wildfires, 
plenty of drinking water, no sea level rise. All those great old rust 
belt cities are expected to have this huge resurgence. Places with a lot 
of culture, art museums, symphonies, zoos, and hospitals, very important 
in the climate crisis era. Another option is Burlington, Vermont. It 
feels like a seaside town because it’s on Lake Champlain, a lake 500 
miles long, no sea level rise, low obesity, highly educated, the lowest 
crime rate in the country, really big on cheese and maple syrup and ice 
cream. Ben and Jerry’s is nearby.”

How to invest in climate change? “When you invest in a clean energy 
focused company, you are helping to solve the problem. You’re making 
money at the same time. It turns out that 38 states, and growing now, 
have renewable energy mandates. They must get 50 percent of their power 
from renewable energy by 2030. Who stands to benefit from those laws? 
The utility companies, because they will be the people that the states 
are buying electricity from. So, companies like NextEra and Xcel Energy 
are good investments.”

And, with General Motors intending to phase out of gas cars in 14 years, 
Pogue shared, “It’s the companies that mine lithium that will be sitting 
pretty.”

Pogue instructed all RMA attendees to download the app, “Emergency,” 
pronto. “It’s free. It’s from the American Red Cross, and it’s really 
cool – you put in your address, or your children’s addresses, 
grandchildren’s addresses. If any disaster starts heading yours or their 
way it will come to life and start beeping and get your attention. even 
when the cell network is down, like where’s the nearest shelter, basic 
first aid, how to survive a flood or hurricane.
“Most experts also agreed that you should set up a go-bag. This is a 
backpack that you keep in the front closet with enough stuff in it, so 
that you can survive out of the house for a couple of days. So, snacks, 
first aid gear, flashlight…grab ID and cash, and any medicines. When 
another hurricane Sandy comes along and you’re told to evacuate, you 
don’t want to be at the end of the line of cars stuck in traffic trying 
to escape.”

But if you can’t, don’t forget your water heater. “There’s 40 or 80 
gallons of clean fresh drinking water already within the walls of your 
own home. So, what you do is you shut off the intake at the top, and 
then you can pour out water from the bottom spigot, let it cool off, and 
you’ve got clean drinking water.”

And gear up against those ticks! “It turns out that the changing climate 
is not unpopular with everybody. Ticks love it. Tick territory is 
growing because the winters are not killing them…or killing off the 
deer.” Lyme Disease is increasing. “And the thing is you don’t always 
know that you’ve got Lyme disease.” So those 30,000 reported cases in 
the 1990’s could now be 300,000 cases a year. Stock up on DEET, use 
antibiotics quickly if you come down with Lyme – “you can cure it for 
good. When you get back from a walk, take off your clothes and throw 
them in the dryer – it kills whatever is on them.” To remove a tick, 
“Just take some tweezers, grab it by the head, pop it right out.’ And 
encircle your house/patio with nine feet of lawn. “Nine feet to them is 
like Death Valley, they can’t cross it.”

The last chapter of Pogue’s book is called, “Where to Find Hope.” It 
includes, “Look at the young people today…These people are going to 
replace us, and they feel very strongly about decarbonizing. I think 
it’ll take eight years or so, but I do believe we’ll get to a world that 
doesn’t burn coal, oil and gas anymore.”
https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2021/06/12/on-my-watch-david-pogue-tells-the-rma-how-to-prepare-for-climate-change/



[Congress may want to know this is possible but totally implausible]
*How to Move The Planet Earth To Save It From The Sun*
Jun 11, 2021
Scott Manley

On the timescale of hundreds of millions of years the sun is increasing 
in luminosity, and may one day render the Earth uninhabitable. Is it 
possible to envisage a way to move the entire planet further from the 
Sun to prevent this fate?

    David Brin: Let's Lift The Earth
    http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2014/11/lets-lift-earth.html.

    The Wandering Earth
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wandering_Earth..

    Astronomical engineering: a strategy for modifying planetary orbits
    https://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0102126.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5StYppuJ_lg


[2 year old documentary]
*Fleeing climate change — the real environmental disaster | DW Documentary*
May 1, 2019
DW Documentary
How many millions of people will be forced to leave their homes by 2050? 
This documentary looks at the so-called hotspots of climate change in 
the Sahel zone, Indonesia and the Russian Tundra.

Lake Chad in the Sahel zone has already shrunk by 90 percent since the 
1960s due to the increasing heat. About 40 million people will be forced 
to migrate to places where there is enough rainfall. Migration has 
always existed as a strategy to adapt to a changing environment. But the 
number of those forced to migrate solely because of climate change has 
increased dramatically since the 1990s. It is a double injustice: after 
becoming rich at the expense of the rest of the world, the 
industrialized countries are now polluting the atmosphere with their 
emissions and bringing a second misfortune to the inhabitants of the 
poorer regions. One of them is Mohammed Ibrahim: as Lake Chad got hotter 
and drier, he decided to go where the temperatures were less extreme and 
there was still a little water, trekking with his wife, children and 70 
camels from Niger to Chad and then further south. The journey lasted 
several years and many members of his herd died of thirst. Now he and 
his family are living in a refugee camp: they only have seven camels 
left. Mohammed is one of many who have left their homelands in the Sahel 
- not because of conflict and crises, but because of the high 
temperatures. He's a real climate refugee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4Uv9_7KJE



[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming June 13, 1993*

The Baltimore Sun reports on the well-financed effort by libertarian 
activists and fossil-fuel industry lobbyists to stop the BTU tax.

    *Industry lobby, largely unanswered by White House, poured water on
    Btu tax*
    June 13, 1993|By Karen Hosler | Karen Hosler, Washington Bureau
    WASHINGTON -- Day after day, radio ads in the Louisiana bayous
    warned Cajuns of a Washington plot to tax them every time they
    turned on the air conditioners, televisions or even took "a cold one
    out of the fridge."

    In South Dakota, thousands of fliers were distributed that
    threatened higher prices on all goods from food to fertilizer and a
    loss of 600,000 American jobs if President Clinton's Btu tax on
    energy was enacted. The fliers included postage-paid protest notes
    to be sent to the state's U.S. senators.

    Anti-Btu rallies were held in Bismarck, N.D., Billings, Mont.,
    Phoenix, Ariz., and Omaha, Neb. Local television stations in as many
    as a dozen states were saturated with advertisements; phone banks
    targeted calls to a select list of opinion makers; glossy brochures
    full of industry-paid studies on the dire effects of the tax were
    sent to local journalists who got follow-up calls from public
    relations agencies offering interviews.

    These efforts were part of a sophisticated industry-financed
    campaign that went largely unanswered by the White House and
    succeeded last week in scaring both Mr. Clinton and the Senate away
    from the centerpiece of his deficit-reduction program -- a
    broad-based tax on the heat content of fuel as measured in tTC
    British thermal units. As a result, the Senate Finance Committee is
    struggling to craft an alternative energy tax -- one that is likely
    to come under the same kind of organized attack as the Btu.

    'Astroturf'

    "Astroturf," is what critics like Oklahoma Rep. Mike Synar called
    the $2 million state-of-the art lobby effort designed to look like a
    grass-roots uprising against the Btu tax. The campaign was largely
    the work of two groups, a powerful coalition of energy producers,
    manufacturers and agriculture and another Republican-led consumer
    group founded by an oil company executive.

    "It was very effective," said Sen. Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat
    who was one of those targeted by the lobbying. "I think we
    overreacted. There's always going to be some group that is
    vociferously opposed to a tax. Our job is to see through the fog and
    the guff. We abandoned the Btu too quickly."

    The anti-Btu campaign started almost as soon President Clinton
    unveiled the tax in February as a way to raise $72 billion over five
    years, encourage energy conservation and promote the use of
    cleaner-burning fuels.

    The administration touted it as a fairer levy than a gasoline tax,
    hitting everyone a little bit. The working poor would be spared any
    impact because of an offsetting income tax credit for families
    earning less than $30,000, the White House promised.

    But opponents argued that the tax would raise the cost of
    practically everything while costing thousands of jobs in
    energy-related industries, manufacturing and agriculture. And they
    quickly dominated the debate.

    There were newspaper ads, anti-Btu buttons, and radio ads.

    Many people weren't sure what the Btu tax was even after they were
    exposed to a negative barrage about its impact, much of it based on
    statistics from industry-financed studies that are disputed by the
    Clinton administration.

    But there is no doubt of the effectiveness of the campaign or the
    likelihood that it might work just as well in combating whatever tax
    the Senate comes up with as an alternative.

    Already, airlines, trucking companies and railroads are gearing up
    to attack a proposed transportation fuels tax. Meanwhile, the huge
    American Association of Retired Persons is activating its 34 million
    members to fight potentially deeper cuts in Medicare, the health
    care program for the elderly, to make up for the money lost by
    killing the Btu tax.

    Turnaround by Boren

    In Oklahoma, a prime section of the oil patch that was the top
    target of the anti-Btu crowd, Sen. David G. Boren started out as an
    enthusiastic admirer of Mr. Clinton's "bold plan" for deficit
    reduction. But after an intense pounding by lobbyists, he became a
    die-hard Btu opponent and was probably most responsible for the
    administration's decision to abandon the tax last week.

    By then, at least three other Democratic members of the Senate
    Finance Committee, whose states were also targeted by the lobbying
    campaign, were insisting on major changes in the legislation as a
    price for their support.

    Convinced it had little chance of salvaging the tax in the Senate,
    the administration threw in the towel Tuesday less than two weeks
    after the proposal had passed the House.

    House Speaker Thomas S. Foley argues almost daily that what Mr.
    Clinton is trying to do in cutting spending and raising taxes by a
    total of $500 billion over five years is extremely difficult, a
    tougher task than any president in memory has tackled.

    Yet spokesmen for the American Petroleum Institute, the National
    Association of Manufacturers, the Farm Bureau and others who were
    involved in the anti-Btu lobbying campaign said they were
    inadvertently aided by a White House that started strong but just
    didn't follow through.

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax 


https://web.archive.org/web/20181122205615/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1993-06-13/news/1993164025_1_btu-tax-energy-tax-gasoline-tax




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