[✔️] May 31, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Mon May 31 12:46:58 EDT 2021
/*May 31, 2021*/
[Associated Press]
*Study blames climate change for 37% of global heat deaths*
By SETH BORENSTEIN - May 31, 2021
More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are due
directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate
the human cost of climate change.
But scientists say that’s only a sliver of climate’s overall toll — even
more people die from other extreme weather amplified by global warming
such as storms, flooding and drought — and the heat death numbers will
grow exponentially with rising temperatures.
Dozens of researchers who looked at heat deaths in 732 cities around the
globe from 1991 to 2018 calculated that 37% were caused by higher
temperatures from human-caused warming, according to a study Monday in
the journal Nature Climate Change...
https://apnews.com/article/climate-climate-change-science-environment-and-nature-f0b4baded0e335035fdb1ba8c8f65e53
[video [though by 2035? Are you crazy?]]
*Geothermal Energy meets Master Planned Communities : A blueprint for
the future?*
May 30, 2021
Just Have a Think
Geothermal Energy has the potential to accelerate our move towards a
more sustainable energy future. The technology is most effective when
used at scale. Now a major housing development in Austin, Texas is
installing five miles of geothermal pipework to serve a Master Planned
Community that will comprise 7500 homes and 30,000 residents. And the
best thing is - all the infrastructure is already in place before the
housing developer lays a single foundation. Could this be a blueprint
for the great suburban build out?
Video Transcripts available at our website
http://www.justhaveathink.com
https://youtu.be/F07RNxIAm9Q
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[land sales]
Whisper Valley
*MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME IN THE FUTURE*
The community of tomorrow is here today at Whisper Valley. Nestled along
the thriving SH 130 corridor, you will find the model for the future of
sustainable living. Whisper Valley is committed to groundbreaking energy
efficiency enabled by leading-edge technology. At the same time, the
extensive amenities here offer you and your family a healthier, more
idyllic lifestyle.
https://whispervalleyaustin.com/
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*EcoSmart Solutions*
https://ecosmartsolution.com/
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*What is the HERS Index*
The Home Energy Rating System (HERS) Index is the industry standard by
which a home’s energy efficiency is measured. It’s also the nationally
recognized system for inspecting and calculating a home’s energy
performance.
https://www.hersindex.com/hers-index/what-is-the-hers-index/
[Nicely produced video presentation]
*Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2021-03-23: Andrew Shepherd*
Apr 26, 2021
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2021-03-23
Speaker: Andrew Shepherd,
Title: CryoSat – a decade of polar altimetry
*Abstract: *CryoSat-2 is ESA's first satellite mission dedicated to
measuring changes in the cryosphere and its observations have
transformed our capacity to study the polar regions. Thanks to
CryoSat-2, we now have an altogether new appreciation of how Earth’s
ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, glaciers, and polar oceans are
evolving. As global temperatures have risen, so too have rates of
snowfall, ice melting, and sea level rise, and each of these changes
impacts upon the neighbouring land, marine, and atmospheric
environments. CryoSat-2 measurements are now central to our
awareness and understanding of Arctic and Antarctic environmental
change; a case in point is the marine ice sheet instability that is
underway in West Antarctica, widely understood to be among the
greatest contemporary imbalances in the climate system, whose
evolution has been charted in satellite altimeter data since its
onset. In this presentation I will introduce the CryoSat-2 mission
concept, describe the technical advances that have improved our
capability to monitor land ice, sea ice, and the polar oceans, and
review a series of flagship studies that have allowed both
long-standing and unanticipated scientific problems in cryospheric
research to be solved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XkGF9dpwRs
[Sand and dust]
*Buried Alive In Mongolia's Worst Sandstorms In A Decade*
May 30, 2021
KHALIUN BAYARTSOGT
EMILY FENG
ULAANBATAR, Mongolia – This March, as Mongolian herder Batsaikhan Enkhee
tended to his sheep, the sky suddenly darkened. The wind picked up,
filling his shoes and shirt with coarse, heavy sand. A massive sandstorm
had engulfed the Mongolian grasslands.
"It was dark like the night," Batsaikhanm, 53, told NPR. "I thought I
would die."
The herder huddled with his sheep as airborne dirt blocked out the sun.
His brother found him the next day, buried in the sand, and dug him out.
He survived, but 200 of his sheep died in the storm, about one-fifth of
his herd.
Sheep weren't the only casualty. Nine Mongolian herders perished on the
steppes in what has been the worst sandstorm season in both Mongolia and
China in a decade.
The cloud of sand then blew its way over the course of the next day into
Beijing, more than 600 miles away. There, the sky suddenly turned a
garish yellow. The air quickly filled with plumes of coarse grit,
basting cars and balconies a dusty brown.
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The result has been catastrophic in Chinese and Mongolian regions
bordering the Gobi. In northern China, tourists found themselves trapped
by pelting wind. Air pollution levels skyrocketed to more than 20 times
the healthy limit. Southern Mongolia was hit particularly hard;
successive sandstorms have killed an estimated 1.6 million livestock,
which many herders depend on for income.
"Even the rescue teams could not even go forward because it was so dark
during the [March] storm," says Jargalsaikhan Sonomdash, the governor of
the southern Mongolian county of Airag, where 3,600 animals died after
they were buried by sand drifts.
Mongolian climate experts say an unusually dry year for precipitation
created huge amounts of loose sand. "Almost no snow fell last winter,
and some provinces had no rain last summer," says Dulamsuren Daskhuu, a
senior researcher at Mongolia's Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring
Research Institute, a ministry.
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"Many of us found our animals that were killed in the steppe because
they were stuck in sand and only their ears or head were left poking
out," Mydagmaa remembers. The survivors had been blinded by the scouring
sand.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/05/30/1000530563/buried-alive-in-mongolias-worst-sandstorms-in-a-decade
[Really pandering to our fears]
*Risk of brain-eating amoeba, flesh-eating bacteria may increase due to
climate change: Experts*
Infections are rare, but pathogens and bacteria thrive in warmer waters.
The sweltering summer heat may send swimmers diving head-first into the
nearest body of water, but climate change may contribute to
life-threatening risks for swimmers as waterborne pathogens thrive and
multiply faster in increasingly warming waters, experts said.
Scientists are becoming increasingly concerned about the possibility for
dangerous pathogens, such as Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba,
and Vibrio vulnificus, a flesh-eating bacteria, said Dr. Sandra Gompf,
an infectious disease specialist and professor of medicine at the
University of South Florida...
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The amoeba enters the brain through a forceful push of water high into
the naval cavity, Gompf said, adding that it is important to plug one's
nose -- or avoid putting your head underwater all together -- when
swimming in freshwater 76 degrees Fahrenheit or warmer. Ingesting
Naegleria fowleri is not harmful.
The pathogen can linger in any body of freshwater, including lakes,
ponds, rivers, underchlorinated water parks and municipal water, which
is why it's imperative to boil water -- or use distilled water -- when
using a neti pot.
Vibrio vulnificus tends to cause diarrheal illness in most people, but
some can experience severe bloodstream infection or gangrene, Gompf
said. People with underlying conditions such as diabetes, liver disease
or poor immunity are more likely to become infected with Vibrio vulnificus.
"With the continuing climate change, this is not something that's just
going to go away," Sutton said. "It is likely that as temperatures
increase, water will become more of a hospitable environment to harbor
organisms, not just like this, but other bacteria and pathogens that can
harm young kids who are just trying to have fun in a lake in the summer."
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/risk-brain-eating-amoeba-flesh-eating-bacteria-increase/story?id=77918655
[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming May 31, 2006 *
-- On MSNBC's "Countdown," fill-in host Brian Unger discusses the
all-out effort by the fossil-fuel industry and the American conservative
movement to attack Al Gore in the wake of the release of "An
Inconvenient Truth."
http://mediamatters.org/video/2006/05/31/msnbcs-countdown-documented-the-swift-boating-o/135841
-- Wall Street Journal columnist Holman W. Jenkins Jr. launches a
completely incoherent attack on "An Inconvenient Truth."
http://web.archive.org/web/20060602165558/http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/hjenkins/?id=110008450
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