[✔️] June 21, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
👀 Richard Pauli
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Mon Jun 21 10:57:31 EDT 2021
/*June 21, 2021*/
[The elephant gains attention]
*Top financial regulators and Biden to focus on climate change at White
House meeting – live*
Biden to host Janet Yellen, FDIC chair Jelena McWilliams and others
‘Financial risk of climate change’ to be discussed in meeting
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jun/21/joe-biden-climate-change-coronavirus-covid-us-politics-live
[Newsweek]
*Bernie Sanders Knocks Lack of Climate Change Provisions in Bipartisan
Infrastructure Proposal*
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-knocks-lack-climate-change-provisions-bipartisan-infrastructure-proposal-1602349
[the Guardian]
*UN blasts world leaders for failing to seal £72bn-a-year deal on climate*
Financial aid ‘critical’ to help developing countries limit fossil fuels
– and make Cop26 a success, says UN
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/un-blasts-world-leaders-for-failing-to-seal-72bn-a-year-deal-on-climate
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[opinion]
*Climate change: what G7 leaders could have said – but didn’t*
June 15, 2021..
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But more interesting than these pledges and non-pledges were the things
that weren’t mentioned at all. One of the greatest unmentionables at
climate summit after climate summit is just how badly we keep track of
contributions to global warming.
It’s the elephant in the room at any gathering where the leaders of rich
countries discuss climate change: historical responsibility. Everyone
knows that G7 nations have contributed disproportionately to the global
warming that has already happened. But exactly how much more?...
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If you search online for which country has caused most global warming,
you find a list of how much countries emit each year. Delve deeper, and
the next thing you find is how much they have reduced their emissions
since 1990. This flatters mature economies, whose emissions are
declining. But for carbon dioxide – the effects of which last almost
indefinitely (and to an only slightly lesser degree, nitrous oxide, a
byproduct of fertiliser production and use) – it’s accumulated emissions
over time that determine a country’s contribution to global warming, not
emissions in any given year...
https://images.theconversation.com/files/406449/original/file-20210615-3862-hjwvvv.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=532&fit=crop&dpr=2
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*Landing the plane with one eye shut*
In the Paris Agreement, the world set itself a very ambitious goal. The
headline goal is not about emissions, but to limit the rise in global
average temperature to “well below 2°C”, pursuing efforts to limit
warming to 1.5°C if possible.
That’s a good thing. By and large, the effects of climate change depend
on how much we warm the planet overall, not warming by any given date,
or the rate of emissions and warming at any given time, and certainly
not planetary energy imbalance summed over an arbitrary time horizon.
But right now, it is impossible to take stock of progress towards this
temperature goal because countries, in their plans for 2030 and beyond,
only report aggregate emissions using this rather odd accounting system
that doesn’t reflect the effect of these emissions on global temperature.
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This isn’t just about outing the guilty rich. Acknowledging what is
causing warming should focus minds on what it will take to stop it. And
if we add up the G7’s planned contributions to future warming – never
mind the contributions from China, India and the rest – it will soon
become clear that we don’t just need to stop causing global warming as
soon as possible, but we also need to be able to reverse it by taking
carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere and storing it, safely and
permanently, somewhere else. Which is another topic they prefer to avoid
at climate summits.
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-what-g7-leaders-could-have-said-but-didnt-162703
[a superb summary and overview]
*Introduction to Ecological Economics with Professor Julia Steinberger*
May 10, 2021
Rethinking Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WHtvPUan9w
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[great video summary from economist Dr, Dan O'Neill]
*What Is Ecological Economics?*
May 25, 2021
Dan O'Neill
What is ecological economics, and how does it differ from mainstream (or
neoclassical) economics? Ecological economics began in part as an
attempt to bring together ecology and economics – to bridge the gap
between a natural and social science. Today it a transdisciplinary field
that covers topics from degrowth to the Doughnut of social and planetary
boundaries. In this short lecture, I discuss the history, fundamental
vision, and modern focus of ecological economics.
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUF7s4Bp_ok*
more at : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwrP2XlhjT1iUESMGHgLxQ/videos
[Big stock market power moves]
*Why has Andy Karsner frightened the mighty ExxonMobil?*
The oil giant spent millions of dollars to keep Karsner, a Republican
who favors renewable energy, off the company’s board of directors. It
failed.
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The installation of Karsner as one of ExxonMobil’s 12 board members
shows how much has changed among Republicans involved in the energy
business, a group that is looking for ways to deal with climate change,
not dally over whether it really exists. And the proxy fight shows how
shareholders and investors no longer judge ExxonMobil by the size of its
oil and gas reserves, but rather by looking at the company’s plans for
decarbonizing its operations and thinking about how to make a transition
to a very different kind of enterprise.
That demands a very different kind of director or employee...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/19/exxon-board-karsner-engine1/
[USA Today text and video]
*West's drought has no end in sight: 'If we do nothing, it’s going to be
really bad'*
- -About 40% of the country is currently experiencing drought
conditions, according to U.S. Drought Monitor.
- - Doing nothing to reduce water usage could lead to an unimaginable
future for the West: “If we do nothing, it’s going to be really bad.”
- -Agriculture, which uses about 90% of ground and surface water in many
western states, is likely to be the first to be impacted by shortages.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/19/us-drought-water-restrictions-west-california-utah-nevada/7719608002/
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[CNN say$ watch out for next year]
*The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly*
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/19/politics/what-matters-climate-change-western-drought/index.html
[Moscow Times]
*Russian Climate Strike Protester Announces Parliamentary Run*
Russian youth climate protester Arshak Makichyan will run for a seat in
the lower-house State Duma in this September’s high-stakes parliamentary
elections, he announced Saturday.
Makichyan, 26, rose to prominence over the past two years by staging
weekly solo pickets on central Moscow’s Pushkin Square that called for
greater action against climate change. Inspired by Swedish climate
activist Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement, he and other
young Russians coordinated climate strike activities across the country.
“The time has come to move on,” Makichyan said in a video posted to
social media announcing his campaign for the Duma.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/19/russian-climate-strike-protester-announces-parliamentary-run-a74269
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[related news]
*Northernmost wildfire at 72° N discovered from space*
There is an abnormally high number of wildfires in Siberia to be June,
and parts of the northern regions are recording temperatures more than
+15°C higher than normal.
By Thomas Nilsen - June 20, 2021
It is the EU Commission Directorate-General for Defence Industry and
Space (DG DEFIS) that on June 20 published a satellite image of a
wildfire in the border areas between the Taimyr Peninsula (Krasnoyarsk
Krai) and the Sakha Republic in northern Siberia.
Flames are spreading over a large area on the tundra southwest of the
Lena River delta.
This will be the third year in a row when Russia’s Arctic region suffers
from huge blazes. However, the wildfire now discovered by the European
Union’s Earth observation program with the help of Sentinel satellites
is exceptionally further north than seen in the previous two years.
“At Lat 72.0 N Long 179.9, this is, to date, the northernmost wildfire
detected in the Polar Circle by the Sentinel satellites in 2021,”
according to a tweet from the agency.
In comparison, Europe’s North Cape on the northern coast of the island
of Magerøya in Northern Norway is at 71.10° North.
Dry summers and high temperatures are the main reason for the increasing
number of wildfire blaze across Siberia and Russia’s Far East.
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/06/northernmost-wildfire-72deg-n-discovered-space
[Beginning hubris of geoengineering ]
*Autonomous Spray Ship Deployment to Cool Planet via Marine Cloud
Brightening: Part 1 of 4*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4rVwR0wY-0*
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**On the Enormous Potential of Sea-Water Spraying to Brighten Clouds to
Cool the Planet: Part 2 of 4*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYYk8lR_Go
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Paul Beckwith - Jun 19, 2021
I was recently in a great video discussion with Peter Wadhams and
Stephen Salter, hosted by Metta Spencer, to hash out the cloud
brightening technique as conceptualized by Emeritus Professor Stephen
Salter in the Engineering and Design Department at the University of
Edinburgh over the last couple of decades.
Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) has the potential to cool the planet in a
highly controllable fashion. Essentially, sea water is pumped to high
pressure through nozzles where it generates water jets that then break
apart (via Rayleigh instability) to form tiny water droplets. The nozzle
size, number of nozzles, water pressure, etc… are engineered to produce
water droplets of 800 nm size (0.8 micron) so that when the water
evaporates we are left with 200 nm salt crystals. These salt crystals
are then transported within the turbulent boundary layer above the
surface of the ocean up to heights about 1 km to 1.5 km where they act
as cloud condensation nuclei, ensuring that the clouds that do form are
of extremely high albedo (reflectivity) and thus can reflect enough
incoming sunlight to cool the surface of the Earth.
The spray nozzles are transported around the oceans of the planet by
hydrofoil ships powered by the wind using so-called Flettner Rotors. The
ships are sailed to specific areas of the ocean at specific times of the
year to brighten the clouds in specific regions to get the desired
regional cooling, for example to reduce Atlantic Basin hurricane
strength, protect coral reefs, cool the Arctic enough to restore Arctic
Sea Ice, and!or modify monsoons or redistribute rainfall to reduce
droughts or torrential rainfalls.
This technology has enormous potential to cool the planet enough to buy
us time to slash fossil fuel emissions and deploy carbon removal
technologies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4rVwR0wY-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYYk8lR_Go
[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming June 21, 2010*
In the New Republic, Brad Plumer writes that if the Senate can't pass
cap-and-trade, the EPA should move ahead with regulating carbon
emissions. He further observes:
"In the long term, though, we'd really need a price on carbon to
transform the country's energy sector and give people incentive to
develop new clean-energy technologies—having the EPA just flatly
tell polluters that they have to adopt this or that specific
pollution-cutting gizmo isn't very good for innovation. But hey,
maybe a few years from now we'll have a Congress that's ready to
address this problem. Odder things have happened."
http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats
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