[TheClimate.Vote] March 26, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Fri Mar 26 11:26:25 EDT 2021

/*March 26, 2021*/

[The Guardian- noteworthy book]
*Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert review – the path to catastrophe*
Ben Ehrenreich - Fri 26 Mar 2021
A damning survey, drawing on skilful and subtle reporting, that tracks 
the spiralling absurdity of human attempts to control nature with 
technology...

Kolbert’s most recent book evokes another disquieting sensation, a novel 
breed of vertigo. In Under a White Sky, she tracks the spiralling 
absurdity of human attempts to control nature with technology. Grand, 
Promethean interventions of the sort of which modernity’s boosters were 
once so proud – a river’s flow reversed to carry waste to a more 
convenient location, an aquifer tapped to grow alfalfa in the desert, 
coal and oil extracted from great depths and burned to move machines – 
spawn unforeseen disasters. Ever grander interventions ensue, which 
bring fresh calamities, which require still cleverer interventions. By 
the end of the book, as the zany twists into the full-on apocalyptic, 
you are left reeling, with little hope to spare...
Little wonder then that when Kolbert asks what alternative there is to 
this vortex of disaster, she, like her subjects, can imagine only 
additional technological fixes. The possibility of social change has 
been excluded from the start.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/26/under-a-white-sky-by-elizabeth-kolbert-review-the-path-to-catastrophe

[good idea]
*Free online tactical training for firefighters*
Bill Gabbert - March 22, 2021
https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/03/22/free-online-tactical-training-for-firefighters/

[heavy-lift academic webinar - moisture surface measurement variability 
and dry condition]
*Sonia Seneviratne: Effects of land hydrology on atmospheric processes 
and climate change*
Nov 20, 2014
usaskgiws
November 19, 2014 - Dr. Sonia Seneviratne, ETH Zurich:
"Effects of land hydrology on atmospheric processes and climate change"
Land hydrology is tightly coupled to the atmosphere through two-way 
feedbacks (Seneviratne et al. 2010). In particular, soil moisture 
availability constrains plant transpiration and photosynthesis in 
several regions of the world, with consequent impacts on the water, 
energy and biogeochemical cycles. Moreover it is a storage component for 
precipitation and radiation anomalies, inducing persistence in the 
climate system. This presentation will provide an overview of these main 
interactions between land hydrology and climate, in particular in the 
context of climate change.
The Global Institute for Water Security (GIWS) and the School of 
Environment and Sustainability are proud to present the Distinguished 
Lecture Series, a weekly seminar series featuring top water experts from 
around the world. For more information go to 
https://water.usask.ca/lecture-series/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMjchti6LdM

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[more information]
*2021 Women + Water lecture series *
About
The Women and Water Lecture Series, hosted by the Global Institute for 
Water Security, Global Water Futures - Young Professionals and Global 
Water Futures, will occur monthly from January to April. The series will 
showcase research, support young professionals and provide a space for 
dialogue and networking. Additionally, the series will explore 
water-related challenges, roles of women in water, gendered 
water-related impacts, women researchers in water, and challenges and 
opportunities facing female water researchers.
https://gwf.usask.ca/events-meetings/upcoming-events/women-and-water.php#About

["no one is too small to make a difference"]
*Greta Thunberg Deadpan-Trolls Critics With Response To Shrinking 
Penises Report*
“Greta Thunberg, best sniper on the net,” one person responded on 
Twitter to the teen climate activist’s post.
Greta Thunberg showed once again that she’s a master of throwing subtle 
shade with her response to a scientific report linking pollution to the 
shrinking of human penises.

“See you all at the next climate strike,” the Swedish teenage climate 
activist wrote, quote-tweeting a news story covering the findings on 
Thursday:
The 18-year-old campaigner is frequently attacked by 
climate-change-denying men ― including ex-U.S. President Donald Trump 
and his followers ― and it was this demographic that Thunberg’s 
supporters interpreted as the target of her ding.

“This will get the men on board! Finally, something they care about!” 
responded one person on Twitter.

Added another: “Greta Thunberg, best sniper on the net.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/greta-thunberg-science-report_n_605dc69ec5b66d30c743a656

[Reading comments is to engage]
*Scientist reacts to YouTube climate change comments*
Mar 13, 2020
Simon Clark
As a scientist who makes videos about climate change on YouTube, you get 
some very... interesting YouTube comments. In this video I react to some 
of them and try to clear up some climate misconceptions!
Scientist reacts in this video to YouTube climate change comments, a 
funny journey into the hive mind of the internet.
Check out my website! https://www.simonoxfphys.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb84nmXNBqg

[Scientist learning how to communicate with story telling]
*Webinar: Identifying and crafting narrative themes*
Mar 23, 2021
AGU
Stories are more than tales shared around a bonfire. They are an 
integral part of our everyday communication. And in every story, there's 
an underlying narrative theme (or themes).

In part two of our three-part Sharing Science webinar miniseries on what 
makes a story (part one here), learn how to build on the basic structure 
of a story to identify the best narrative theme(s) for your science, 
which will make your stories compelling and memorable.

Learn more at www.agu.org/sharingscience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq6l4JNexE8 starts about 14 mins in.

[sarcastic rant from the information battlefield - YouTube]
*David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything*
Mar 12, 2021
The Gravel Institute
America: the greatest, richest, freest country in the world – or is it? 
David Cross, of Mr. Show, Arrested Development, and The Dark Divide, 
joins us to discuss why Americans, despite living in the wealthiest 
country in the history of the world, have a much worse standard of 
living than people who live in poorer countries. The "American Dream" 
isn't just dying: it's dead and buried. Cross tells us why.
https://youtu.be/aNghg1Y-WIc

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - March 26, 2006 *

March 26, 2006: TIME Magazine releases its April 3, 2006 cover-dated 
issue, with the cover story: "Be Worried. Be Very Worried."

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20060403,00.html

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html

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