[✔️] November 26, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*November 26, 2021*/

/[ wind danger forces power line shutdown ]/
*Thousands Without Power on Thanksgiving Due to Wildfire Dangers*
In North Hollywood, a tree crashed down on two parked vehicles as strong 
winds whipped Southern California
Tens of thousands of Southern California electrical customers had their 
power cut on Thanksgiving and more than 156,000 others faced the same 
prospect as utility companies sought to prevent wildfires as Santa Ana 
winds developed.
Southern California Edison said it turned off power to more than 63,000 
customers as a precautionary measure. As of 11 a.m. those customers 
included:

    Riverside County: 20,322 customers
    Los Angeles County: 15,556 customers
    Ventura County: 14,987 customers
    San Bernardino County: 8,843 customers
    Orange County: 4,127 customers

More customers from Riverside to Kern counties could also have their 
power cut off.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/santa-ana-winds-to-raise-southern-california-fire-danger/2766871/

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/[local news video reports]/
*h fire danger leads to safety power shutoffs in Southern California*
Nov 25, 2021
ABC News
As strong Santa Ana winds whip through the area, power companies carried 
out electricity shutoffs as a last resort attempt to prevent downed 
power lines from sparking more wildfires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScFcLe-V1vo



/[ opinions of following the money NYTimes ]/
*Bankers Took Over the Climate Change Summit. That’s Bad For Democracy.*
Nov. 25, 2021
The big annual United Nations forum for debate on climate change ended 
this month in Glasgow in a way that left many attendees bewildered. 
Money men have taken the thing over...
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A banker, too, is someone to whom you have yielded a part of your 
dreaming self. You have handed him control of your savings. And fighting 
climate change requires predicting the future — or at least making 
reasonable assumptions about it. That is just what you trust your 
investment adviser to do, at least with that narrow part of your future 
that is measured by the Dow Jones industrial average. What is more, if 
rewiring the world is really our goal, then it will take resources of 
the sort that only the financial system controls. “There’s no budget of 
any country that can do what we need to do,” said John Kerry, the Biden 
administration’s climate envoy, at an early meeting of Glasgow Financial 
Alliance in April.

But that is the problem. Governments lack the money to do these things 
because they lack the legitimacy. The money that Mr. Kerry proposes 
using for a climate-rescue program has not been levied in taxes for that 
purpose. It is people’s personal property, their private investments, 
their life savings. People might be willing to surrender it for the 
noble purpose of saving the planet, but in a democracy the government 
must first ask their permission. Until they assent, it is not the 
government’s money.

In most cases, it is not the banks’ money either. Mr. Carney, for one, 
seems to have lost sight of that. “We have all the money needed,” he 
said at the summit. No. Bankers “have” the money in the sense of holding 
it, but not in the sense of being free to do what they will with it. A 
banker merely stands at one of the choke points through which other 
people’s money passes. In most cases he is permitted to stand there only 
so long as he is selfless. He is a “fiduciary.” He is bound by law and 
custom to protect only the interest of the people whose money he is 
holding. He cannot wield that money in his own interest — whether 
financial or ideological.

Bankers have always chafed at these traditions. Certain investment 
consultants in the alliance forthrightly declare that shilly-shallying 
while the world overheats is itself a violation of fiduciary 
responsibilities. The Biden administration shares this view. Earlier 
this fall, the Labor Department drafted a rules change in the Employee 
Retirement Income Security Act that would require fiduciaries to 
consider “environmental, social and governance” factors as well as the 
interest of the depositor.

Banks have a hard time ignoring traditional fiduciary rules as long as 
they have competitors who obey them — because, in theory at least, 
depositors will flock to other banks that are focused more 
single-mindedly on returns. A project such as the Glasgow Financial 
Alliance therefore comes with the expectation of government protection, 
protection from competition. At the April meeting of the alliance, the 
Morgan Stanley managing director Thomas Nides said, “This is a time for 
financial institutions not to compete but to work together.” Deciding 
whether this is a good idea depends on whether you believe financial 
institutions, acting in concert, are more likely to promote 
decarbonization or protect their own prerogatives.

At Glasgow a few self-nominated representatives from a very rich 
industry laid claim to a special role in shaping the human future. In 
doing so, they opened a rift. Climate activists were skeptical, noting 
that many alliance members continue to be involved in financing oil 
extraction. The bankers of the alliance, on the other hand, seem to 
believe society is ready to follow their lead. Voters, not bankers, 
should be the judge of that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/25/opinion/cop26-gfanz-climate-change.html



/[ 6 min Classic Peter Sinclair/Yale video briefing fundamentals 2013 ] /
*Permafrost: The Tipping Time Bomb*
Feb 28, 2013
YaleClimateConnections
One of the most feared of climate change "feedbacks" is the potential 
release of greenhouse gases by melting arctic permafrost soils.  New 
research indicates a critical threshold of that feedback effect could be 
closer than we once thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g



/[  Science lesson - modern explorations  - also fundamentals ]/
*Introduction to the permafrost climate feedback*
ben abbott  - Feb 6, 2020
This is a short lecture on how climate change is affecting Arctic and 
Boreal Ecosystems, and how the response of those ecosystems is starting 
to influence the global climate system.

Multiple permafrost experts talk about the magnitude and timing of the 
permafrost climate feedback: 
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/01/methane-time-bomb-isnt-actually-a-bomb/

Footage of permafrost degradation and interviews with multiple experts: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g&t=0s
Time lapse video of permafrost degradation at Horn Lake: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVKsZhrsAec&t=0s

Excellent, vetted information on permafrost, sea ice, and other polar 
questions: https://searcharcticscience.org/arctic-answers/
Webinar on subsea permafrost by Sara Sayedi: 
https://searcharcticscience.org/arctic-answers/
//https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6y9e5CVOfE

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/[  advanced briefing panel on Permafrost - John Holdren ]/
*Science Session: Thawing Arctic Permafrost--Regional and Global Impacts*
May 11, 2020
National Academy of Sciences
Temperatures across the Arctic are increasing two to four times faster 
than the global average. The dramatic consequences that are already 
apparent include reduction of sea-ice cover, accelerating loss of land 
ice from glaciers and the Greenland Ice Sheet, proliferating wildfires, 
and—the topic of this panel—ongoing heating and thawing of the 
permafrost that underlies most of the land area of the Arctic and 
sub-Arctic regions across the globe. Permafrost thaw is a direct threat 
to buildings, roads, and pipelines, and it can greatly accelerate 
erosion along rivers and coastlines with severe consequences for 
communities located there. But an impact with much wider consequences is 
the release of carbon dioxide and methane by the decomposition of 
previously frozen organic matter, affecting the rate of growth of global 
warming and all of its impacts everywhere. (There is estimated to be 
something like 2.5 times as much carbon in the as in the entire global 
atmosphere; the key question is how fast it will come out.) The 
panelists, leading Arctic experts all, explain the complex science of 
thawing permafrost and elucidate the implications both regionally and 
globally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nGECF2qSO4



/[ Oxfam asks for action ]/
*We want action on climate change, not empty promises | Oxfam GB*
Nov 26, 2021
Oxfam GB
The COP26 is over, but the fight for climate justice goes on. We want 
action on climate change, not just hot air. We want more funding for 
communities on the front lines of the crisis, not empty promises. We 
want a greener, fairer future, not just blah blah blah. Join us and take 
action:
https://actions.oxfam.org/great-britain/cop26-mp-action/email-representative/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPAxBh7GWl0



[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming November  26, 2006*

November 26, 2006: In an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," Gov. 
Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) notes that fellow Republican Sen. James 
Inhofe of Oklahoma is someone who has his "thinking in the Stone Age" on 
climate.
"Gov. Schwarzenegger talks about why it's important that the United 
States act on global warming and why the states have had to do so in the 
absence of leadership by the federal government."
http://youtu.be/gcZ7DWMeyQA


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