[✔️] May 11, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Tue May 11 09:06:14 EDT 2021

/*May 11, 2021*/

[Associated Press]
*California declares drought emergency across vast swath of state*
Majority of counties now under emergency declaration as California faces 
extensive dry spell and dwindling water supply
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The declaration, expanded by Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday, now 
includes 41 of 58 counties, covering 30% of California’s nearly 40 
million people. The US drought monitor shows most of the state and the 
American west is in extensive drought just a few years after California 
emerged from a punishing multiyear dry spell.

Officials fear an extraordinary dry spring presages a wildfire season 
like last year, when flames burned a record 6,562 sq mi(16,996 sq km).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/10/california-declares-drought-emergency-across-vast-swath-of-state

["Allez on y va"] - [Come let's go]
*Thousands march in France demanding real action on climate change*
The nationwide protests come after the lower house of parliament this 
week approved a climate bill aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions 
that environment activists say doesn’t go far or fast enough.
“As it stands, the (proposed) law is a climatic and social failure,” 
said a group of climate campaigners, “Ensemble pour le climat” 
(“Together for climate”).
Greenpeace France denounced “the government’s refusal to take action for 
climate.”...
https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210509-thousands-to-march-in-france-demanding-real-action-on-climate-change

[view the data]
*Warming is clearly visible in new US ‘climate normal’ datasets*
May 7, 2021
https://theconversation.com/warming-is-clearly-visible-in-new-us-climate-normal-datasets-159684
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[here is the report]
*NOAA Delivers New U.S. Climate Normals*
Decadal update from NCEI gives forecasters and public latest averages 
for 1991–2020
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/noaa-delivers-new-us-climate-normals

[The emotions of uncovering climate grief]
MAY 10, 2021
*Good Grief In A Time Of Unraveling*
LaUra had a great time sitting down with Carolyn Baker to chat about the 
importance of grief in times of The Great Unraveling.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/good-grief-in-of-51102122

[DeSmogBlog is one of the best information sources]
*DeSmog Wins Best Specialist News Site*
DeSmog’s reporting recognised at The Drum Online Media Awards 2021.
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The prize is recognition for all of the DeSmog team’s hard work over the 
past 12 months, bringing you groundbreaking investigations on the 
crossover between climate science denial and COVID denial, pesticide 
companies’ greenwash, and transport groups’ lobbying against clean air 
regulation, as well as for investigating over more than a year a 
radioactive fracking waste disposal site in Texas, obtaining exclusive 
documents alleging ExxonMobil’s overvaluation of its assets, and 
unpacking the legacy of white supremacy in the fossil fuel industry...
https://www.desmog.com/2021/05/10/desmog-wins-best-specialist-news-site/

[AP]
*New White House panel aims to separate science, politics*
By SETH BORENSTEIN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to the turn the page on the Trump years, the 
Biden White House is launching an effort to unearth past problems with 
the politicization of science within government and to tighten 
scientific integrity rules for the future.
A new 46-person federal scientific integrity task force with members 
from more than two dozen government agencies will meet for the first 
time on Friday. Its mission is to look back through 2009 for areas where 
partisanship interfered with what were supposed to be decisions based on 
evidence and research and to come up with ways to keep politics out of 
government science in the future...
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-climate-change-science-government-and-politics-bad9d7a8eb726a842187ca156ad8b799

["We have met the entrée, and he is us." movie- Soylent Green]
*Climate change, chaos, and cannibalism*
Forty eight years ago, a sci-fi thriller predicted a future with all 
three—in the year 2022.
In the 70s an often-forgotten film predicted climate change, chaos, and 
cannibalism in America's not-so-distant future.

Well, we're underachieving on the cannibalism, but if you count the 
coronavirus as "chaos," we're doing fine on the other two.

Soylent Green, starring Charlton Heston, premiered nationwide on May 9, 
1973, to mixed reviews. In a year when The Exorcist and The Sting lapped 
the field, its box office take did not make the top 25 films.

Set in a hungry, desperate New York City beset by pollution, 
overpopulation, and a climate where the temperature stays above a humid 
90° F, life is so awful that euthanasia is not only legal, it's often 
welcomed.

The year of this future hellscape? 2022...
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The movie may have sounded ominous warnings about climate change on 
filthy Manhattan streets, but it also depicted young women as 
"furniture" at the disposal of the rich.

Clean air and water, overconsumption, resource exhaustion and other 21st 
century themes abound in this clumsy, dated film.

Oh, and did Mr. Heston ever figure out the secret to Soylent Green's 
high-protein success? To paraphrase the 20th Century swamp philosopher 
Pogo, "We have met the entrée, and he is us."

Yes, as Heston shrieks at movie's end, "Soylent Green is people!"

Or, as modern-day talkshow guests are so fond of saying, "Thanks for 
having me."...
https://www.ehn.org/climate-change-chaos-and-cannibalism-2652916331.html

[Paid video content, but not paid to me]
*The Water Crisis | National Geographic*
May 5, 2021
National Geographic
Actor, Adrian Grenier, and National Geographic Explorer, Shannon Switzer
Swanson, explore the growing problem of water scarcity in the US. Are we
running out of water? Shannon heads to the Colorado River to uncover
solutions for the problems facing the region, while Adrian challenges
himself to reduce his water use at home by an ambitious thirty percent. Will
he succeed? Paid Content for Finish.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VyfN30XzDM

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming  May 11, 2014 *
The New York Times reports:

"In the New Mexico of the 1950s, the two brothers grew up steeped in the 
beauty of the landscape, the economics of energy and the power of 
science. They skied, fly-fished, explored on the family’s 50,000-acre 
sheep ranch, watched oil towns go boom and bust, and talked of the 
nuclear weapons up the road at Los Alamos.

"Today the work of Robert and William Nordhaus is profoundly shaping how 
the United States and other nations take on global warming.

"Bill Nordhaus, 72, a Yale economist who is seen as a leading contender 
for a Nobel Prize, came up with the idea of a carbon tax and effectively 
invented the economics of climate change. Bob, 77, a prominent 
Washington energy lawyer, wrote an obscure provision in the Clean Air 
Act of 1970 that is now the legal basis for a landmark climate change 
regulation, to be unveiled by the White House next month, that could 
close hundreds of coal-fired power plants and define President Obama’s 
environmental legacy."

http://nyti.ms/1jM33Gv
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/us/brothers-work-different-angles-in-taking-on-climate-change.html

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