[✔️] November 22, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

👀 Richard Pauli richard at theclimate.vote
Mon Nov 22 09:21:49 EST 2021 

/*November 22, 2021*/

/[  We have a meme! = "blah, blah, blah"  -- good analysis in this 18 
min video] /
*BLAH, BLAH, BLAH? Is that all our leaders provided at COP26?*
Nov 21, 2021
Just Have a Think
The COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow was billed as our last chance 
to limit global warming this century to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius 
above pre-industrial levels. Our leaders tell us it was a success, but 
hundreds of thousands of climate activists outside the event did not 
seem to share that optimism. A quick scratch at the surface of the 
announced policies suggests their cynicism may be well founded.
Video Transcripts available at our website - http://www.justhaveathink.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvwToK19Aw



/[ video of damage - more coming in days ]/
*Global National: Nov. 21, 2021 | More rainfall on the way for 
flood-ravaged BC*
Nov 21, 2021
Global News
More bad news for British Columbia as that province is set to see more 
heavy rain this week even as crews scramble to repair the damage from 
last week’s rainfall. By the end of today more than 500 Canadian Forces 
personnel will be on the ground assisting with evacuations, rescuing 
livestock and helping to protect critical infrastructure. And that help 
is desperately needed in the city of Abbotsford which is now racing to 
build up dikes ahead of that severe weather expected in the coming days. 
Mike Armstrong is in Abbotsford.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4xN187Cpk

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[ went around, comes around ]
*Vancouver Is Marooned by Flooding and Besieged Again by Climate Change*
After a summer of deadly heat and uncontrolled wildfires, British 
Columbia was hit by record rainfalls that forced the evacuation of towns 
and destroyed highways and rail lines.
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Much of the fertile farmland near Abbotsford was created 100 years ago 
by draining the Sumas Lake, a process that forced Indigenous people onto 
other land. While pumps and levees held back some of the water, the 
storm last week allowed the lake to reassert itself after a century...
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While the water has started to recede in most flood zones, it is unclear 
when evacuees will return home or abandoned cars will be returned to 
their owners. And more danger may be ahead for British Columbia. 
Forecasts predict another batch of heavy rain this week.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/canada-flooding-climate-change.html

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[ from Wikipedia]
*Sumas Lake*
The lake used to support sturgeon, trout, salmon, grizzly bears and 
geese, and its wetland habitat was a destination for migrating birds and 
a breeding ground for both fish and waterfowl. Flocks of white-fronted 
goose as well as whistling swan and Hutchins geese also used the lake. 
Its partially sandy banks also provided for sturgeon spawning grounds. 
The lake supplied food to the Sumas Band, and their life ways were 
intimately connected to it.[3][4][5][6] In the late 1800s, the lake drew 
the attention of various naturalists within the growing European 
population engaged in the work of cataloging the flora and fauna that 
they encountered where they settled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumas_Lake#/media/File:Sumas_lake_panorama.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumas_Lake#Draining_the_Lake

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[ only if they want the changes ... ]
*Could the B.C floods be a tipping point for dealing with climate change?*
Nov 21, 2021
CBC News Network host John Northcott speaks with Courtney Skye from the 
Yellowhead Institute and Saman Tabasinejad from Progress Toronto about 
how you combat government intransigence when it comes to climate change, 
and the need for leaders with vision.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1976399939896



/[ the smooth sea level rise of about 1/4 per year, maybe giving way to 
more episodic pulse-water events ]/
*Warming Events Could Destabilize The Antarctic Ice Sheet Soon. Very Soon*
DAVID NIELD20 NOVEMBER 2021
Here's another reminder of the precarious position that the world's 
climate and ecosystems are in: a new study estimates that global warming 
could push the Antarctic ice sheet past a tipping point in as little as 
10 years.
In other words, the point of no return in terms of ice sheet loss is 
arriving earlier than previously thought, and we may well already be in 
the midst of it. That could have serious consequences when it comes to 
sea level rise globally, and the local habitats that animals in 
Antarctica rely on.

To get a better idea of what's happening right now, the researchers went 
back into the past, looking at the continent's history over the last 
20,000 years – back to the last ice age – through ice cores extracted 
from the sea floor.

"Our study reveals that during times in the past when the ice sheet 
retreated, the periods of rapid mass loss 'switched on' very abruptly, 
within only a decade or two," says paleoclimatologist Zoë Thomas, from 
the University of New South Wales in Australia.

"Interestingly, after the ice sheet continued to retreat for several 
hundred years, it 'switched off' again, also only taking a couple of 
decades."

As icebergs break off Antarctica, they float down a major channel known 
as Iceberg Alley. Debris released from these icebergs accumulates on the 
seafloor, giving researchers a record of history some 3.5 kilometers 
(2.2 miles) under the water.
https://www.sciencealert.com/warming-events-could-destabilize-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-in-just-10-years

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Published: 18 November 2021
*Decadal-scale onset and termination of Antarctic ice-mass loss during 
the last deglaciation*
Michael E. Weber, Nicholas R. Golledge, Chris J. Fogwill, Chris S. M. 
Turney & Zoë A. Thomas
Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 6683 (2021) Cite this 
article

    Abstract
    Emerging ice-sheet modeling suggests once initiated, retreat of the
    Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) can continue for centuries. Unfortunately,
    the short observational record cannot resolve the tipping points,
    rate of change, and timescale of responses. Iceberg-rafted debris
    data from Iceberg Alley identify eight retreat phases after the Last
    Glacial Maximum that each destabilized the AIS within a decade,
    contributing to global sea-level rise for centuries to a millennium,
    which subsequently re-stabilized equally rapidly. This dynamic
    response of the AIS is supported by (i) a West Antarctic blue ice
    record of ice-elevation drawdown >600 m during three such retreat
    events related to globally recognized deglacial meltwater pulses,
    (ii) step-wise retreat up to 400 km across the Ross Sea shelf, (iii)
    independent ice sheet modeling, and (iv) tipping point analysis. Our
    findings are consistent with a growing body of evidence suggesting
    the recent acceleration of AIS mass loss may mark the beginning of a
    prolonged period of ice sheet retreat and substantial global sea
    level rise.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27053-6



/[ classic article ]/
*How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate change*
Three ways fossil fuel companies try to trick the public.
By Jariel Arvin at jarielarvin  Feb 1, 2021,
https://www.vox.com/22260311/oil-gas-fossil-fuel-companies-climate-change


/[ Misinformation battleground ] /
*Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might be 
just as scary*
‘Sure, you want good things for the children of the world. But 
ultimately you will put your children first.’
The wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration is 
a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in Europe 
and the US
Oliver Milman  @olliemilman - Sun 21 Nov 2021
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This wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant immigration 
is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe movements in 
Europe and the US and is now spilling into the discourse of mainstream 
politics. Whatever his intent, Johnson was following a current of 
rightwing thought that has shifted from outright dismissal of climate 
change to using its impacts to fortify ideological, and often racist, 
battle lines. Representatives of this line of thought around the world 
are, in many cases, echoing eco-fascist ideas that themselves are rooted 
in an earlier age of blood-and-soil nationalism.
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The number of people uprooted around the world will balloon further, to 
as many as 1.2 billion by 2050 by some estimates, and while most will 
move within their own countries, many millions are expected to seek 
refuge across borders. This mass upending of lives is set to cause 
internal and external conflicts that the Pentagon, among others, has 
warned will escalate into violence...
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Experts are clear that the main instigators of the climate crisis are 
wealthy people in wealthy countries. The richest 1% of the world’s 
population were responsible for the emission of more than twice as much 
carbon dioxide as the poorer half of the world from 1990 to 2015, 
research has found, with people in the US causing the highest level of 
per capita emissions in the world. Adding new arrivals to high-emitting 
countries doesn’t radically ramp up these emissions at the same rate: a 
study by Utah State University found that immigrants are typically 
“using less energy, driving less, and generating less waste” than 
native-born Americans.

‘Protect our people’
Still, the idea of personal sacrifice is hard for many to swallow. While 
there is strengthening acceptance of climate science among the public, 
and a restlessness that governments have done so little to constrain 
global heating, support for climate polices plummets when it comes to 
measures that involve the taxing of gasoline or other impositions. 
According to a research paper co-authored by Fieschi, this has led to a 
situation where “detractors are taking up the language of freedom 
fighters”...
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“The big players aren’t invested in changing any of the definitions 
around refugees – in fact the US and UK are making it even more 
difficult to claim asylum,” said Turner. “I think what you’re going to 
see is internally displaced people increasing and the burden, as it 
already is, falling on neighbors in the global south.”

Ultimately, the extent of the suffering caused by global heating, and 
the increasingly severe responses required to deal with that, will help 
determine the reactionary response. While greater numbers of people will 
call for climate action, any restrictions imposed by governments will 
provide a sense of vindication to rightwingers warning of overreaching 
elites.

“My sense is that we won’t do enough to avoid others bearing the brunt 
of this,” Fieschi said. “Solidarity has its limits, after all. Sure, you 
want good things for the children of the world. But ultimately you will 
put your children first.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/21/climate-denial-far-right-immigration 




/[  a cartoon instructional 6 min video ] /
*Could climate change make us sick?*
Aug 4, 2021
SciToons
For decades, scientists have been predicting that climate change will 
escalate the transmission of diseases such as malaria, yellow fever, and 
encephalitis. These hypotheses are grounded in the understanding that 
major vectors for infectious diseases, like mosquitoes and ticks, 
experience population increases in warmer weather. Over the past several 
decades, our planet has undoubtedly warmed, but the trend in infectious 
disease transmission has not been as clear. So, what drives the 
transmission of infectious diseases? And what does climate change have 
to do with it? Watch SciToons’ new video ”Could climate change make us 
sick?”  to learn more!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9maouuyQiA



[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming November 22, 2009*
November 22, 2009:
CNN reports on the disproportionate toll climate change takes on women.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/

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