[✔️] November 27, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

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/*November 27, 2021*//
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/[ very recent science from top cryptologist Jason Box - 5 min video 
]/*record high ice discharge returns to Greenland’s largest glacier*
Oct 17, 2021
Jason Box
while more detail to the recent acceleration of this glacier is 
forthcoming, we do see a pattern of glacier acceleration as the climate 
warms. The glacier front retreat is probably more influenced by what’s 
happening in the fjord waters, i.e., a warm incusion of water can be the 
culprit. Nevertheless, surface melting leads to 3x higher changes in 
all-Greenland mass balance than the changes we see from tidewater glaciers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tQSqbENMK8&t=5s

/[ already popular battery storage - 12 min video ]/
*This Is Not a Crane, It's an Insane New Gravity Battery*
Nov 26, 2021
Anton Petrov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCawtiU4o1o

/[ Disinformation warning--- my favorite vlogger -- video 10 min ]/
*Study: How Conservative Think Tanks are Destroying the Planet*
Nov 26, 2021
Rebecca Watson
Links + transcript available at https://www.patreon.com/posts/
ABOUT: Rebecca Watson is the founder of the Skepchick Network, a 
collection of sites focused on science and critical thinking. She has 
written for outlets such as Slate, Popular Science, and the Committee 
for Skeptical Inquiry. She's also the host of Quiz-o-tron, a rowdy, live 
quiz show that pits scientists against comedians. Asteroid 153289 
Rebeccawatson is named after her (her real name being 153289).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy2tOJQf25g

/[   language battleground report  - acknowledging without respecting  ] /
*Don’t call it climate change. Red states prepare for ‘extreme weather’*
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants half a billion dollars to protect his 
state from the ravages of “extreme weather events.” Texas Gov. Greg 
Abbott devoted $1.6 billion toward preparing communities for 
increasingly devastating hurricanes.

But they still won’t say if they believe in climate change.
Even if conservative politicians can’t stomach the words, they're 
spending money to combat the fallout hammering their states and cities. 
Bracing for global warming is the rare climate issue that appeals to 
both Republicans and Democrats, and 34 states have done some sort of 
climate-adaptation planning, according to Georgetown University's state 
policy tracker.
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DeSantis, a Republican aligned with former President Donald Trump, this 
week proposed a $500 million infusion of state funding to help local 
governments plan for sea-level rise and increased flood risk.

His "Resilient Florida" program has proven popular with local 
politicians of all stripes. Palm Beach County is using the money for a 
climate vulnerability assessment. Jacksonville, where the city council 
is more than two-thirds Republican, is seeking support for four 
projects, including $25 million for a new stormwater pumping station "to 
counter the effect of flooding and sea level rise."...
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Democrats in deep-blue states often make explicit the connection to 
climate change. Gov. Gavin Newsom chose Sequoia National Park, where 
wildfires still raged, as the backdrop to sign a budget bill dedicating 
$3.7 billion to climate resiliency. "We're burning up as a state. ... 
We're the tip of the spear in terms of the consequences of our neglect 
to decarbonize," he said last week...
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But conservative Republicans still refuse to explicitly connect global 
warming with what’s happening at home. Abbott consulted with a climate 
change-denying meteorologist ahead of the February snowstorms that 
forced rolling blackouts for some 5 million residents.

DeSantis dodged questions about humanity's contribution to climate 
change in 2019 while unveiling an executive order that established a 
resiliency office to address climate impacts. "To me, I'm not as 
concerned about what is the sole cause," he said. "If you have water in 
the streets, you have to find a way to combat that."

DeSantis did not mention global warming this week when he said his 
proposed funding would "make us more able to handle some extreme weather 
events."

Yet one of his appointees — Shawn Hamilton, secretary of the state 
Department of Environmental Protection — couldn’t help but note the 
money would help communities deal with the "impacts of climate change."

The political conversation in some Florida circles has evolved “to a 
point where we talk about sea level rise and then even climate change,” 
said Jim Murley, chief resilience officer for Miami-Dade County. “There 
was a period where they did not, but they have sort of grown out of 
that."...
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But it's hard to measure whether dollars spent to fortify communities 
against the effects of global warming are well spent, as success is 
often defined by avoided losses and damages. A FEMA-funded study 
estimates adaptation measures generally save between $4 and $11 per 
dollar spent, with the best bang for the buck going to upgraded building 
codes and the lowest going to shoring up existing buildings and 
infrastructure. But assessing the effectiveness of specific projects is 
trickier.

"It is difficult to measure something that isn’t there," said Kathryn 
Conlon, co-director of the Climate Adaptation Research Center at the 
University of California, Davis...
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The growing costs of natural disasters, however, are unmistakable. 
Extreme weather events over the past 5 years have cost the U.S. at least 
$690 billion, according to the National Oceanic Atmospheric 
Administration, more than double the previous 5 years. That's due partly 
to population growth in vulnerable areas and more assets being put at 
risk, and partly to the increased frequency of extreme weather...
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"It might mean that somebody is not going to be able to live where they 
currently live," said Mathew Sanders, manager of the Pew Charitable 
Trust's program for flood-prepared communities.

In California, "having an extreme drought and extreme wildfires and 
breaking heat records all at the same time is really forcing the issue," 
said Rachel Ehlers, a fiscal and policy analyst with California's 
Legislative Analyst's Office, who noted at least 10 bills in this year's 
legislative session dealing with sea-level rise.

But the state’s latest draft adaptation strategy needs clearer goals, 
she said. "Until then, it's just random acts of restoration, really, and 
we don't have a sense of where we want to go and how successful we'll be 
in getting there."

Carlucci, the Jacksonville Republican, says he also wants the city to 
reduce its carbon footprint — and that he tries to convert 
climate-change skeptics by referring them to the "parts of the Bible 
that talk about what happens in the last days."

"If you don't think it's manmade, then go to the book of Revelation and 
take a read. It'll tell you about climate change in the last days," he 
said he tells them. "That pretty much closes the discussion, so we can 
move on and talk about what really matters. And that's making 
Jacksonville a more resilient city."

This story was reported and written by POLITICO reporters Debra Kahn, 
Bruce Ritchie and Ry Rivard and E&E News reporter Mike Lee.
https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/11/23/adapting-to-climate-is-a-winning-issue-for-politicians-even-in-red-states-1394620

/[  Book discussion, pre-COP scientific pontifications.-- //Australian 
//Steve E. Koonin, -- theoretical physicist and policymaker on the 
future of energy and the politics of climate change.  John Anderson 
interviewer  ] /
*The Politics of Climate Change | Steve E. Koonin*
Oct 21, 2021
John Anderson
As world leaders, including PM Scott Morrison, prepare to attend the 
2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, there is 
mounting pressure for governments to apply a net zero energy policy by 2050.

In this interview, John talks with Steve E. Koonin, a theoretical 
physicist and policymaker, about the future of energy and the politics 
of climate change. Steve reflects on how the politicisation of climate 
science has led to a lack of transparency regarding climate statistics.

 From 2009 to 2011, Steve served as the Under Secretary for Science, 
Department of Energy in the Obama Administration. Steve now works as 
director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York 
University and as a professor in the Department of Civil and Urban 
Engineering at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering.

Steve is also the author of two books. His recently published book, 
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It 
Matters, was a Wall Street Journal Bestseller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_g3DuNnDT8

/[  distribute the blame, ]/
//*Who Has The Most Historical Responsibility for Climate Change?*
By Nadja Popovich and Brad PlumerNov. 12, 2021

One of the biggest fights at the United Nations climate summit in 
Glasgow is whether — and how — the world’s wealthiest nations, which are 
disproportionately responsible for global warming to date, should 
compensate poorer nations for the damages caused by rising temperatures...
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Wealthy countries have historically resisted calls for a specific 
funding mechanism for loss and damage, fearing that it could open the 
door to a flood of liability claims. Only the government of Scotland has 
been willing to offer specific dollar amounts, pledging $2.7 million 
this week for victims of climate disasters.

At the same time, some of the world’s biggest developing economies are 
beginning to catch up on emissions. China, home to 18 percent of the 
world’s population, is responsible for nearly 14 percent of all the 
planet-warming greenhouse gases released from fossil fuels and industry 
since 1850. But today it is the world’s largest emitter by far, 
accounting for roughly 31 percent of humanity’s carbon dioxide from 
energy and industry this year...
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China has endorsed vulnerable nations’ call for loss and damage 
financing at the climate summit in Glasgow, but so far China has not 
been pressured to contribute to such a fund. (So far, finance 
discussions at global climate talks have focused on the responsibility 
of developed countries, which the U.N. calls “Annex II” nations.)

Historical responsibility isn’t the only way to look at issues of 
justice and fairness. Another key metric is emissions per person. So, 
for instance, India as a whole produced about 7 percent of the world’s 
carbon dioxide emissions this year, roughly the same as the European 
Union and about half of the United States. But India has far more people 
than both regions combined, and is much poorer, with hundreds of 
millions of people lacking reliable access to electricity. As a result, 
its emissions per person are far lower today...
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At the climate summit, the United States and the European Union have 
argued that the world will never be able to minimize the damage from 
global warming unless swiftly industrializing nations like India do more 
to slash their emissions. But India, which recently announced a pledge 
to reach “net zero” emissions by 2070, says it needs much more financial 
help to shift from coal to cleaner energy, citing both its lower per 
capita emissions and smaller share of historical emissions.

How these disputes over money get resolved is a major step in 
determining whether negotiators from nearly 200 countries can strike a 
new global deal in Glasgow to limit the risks of future global warming.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/11/12/climate/cop26-emissions-compensation.html

/[  advanced climate modeling  53 min video ]/
*Climate change 4 - impact projection*
Nov 9, 2020
HortiBonn
This video was produced for the module ‘*Tree phenology analysis with 
R’, which is offered to MSc students in agricultural programs at the 
University of Bonn in Germany. *The materials are also accessible to 
anyone not taking this class. The module revolves around functions of 
the ‘chillR’ package for R, with the ambition that students of this 
course will be able to conduct analyses of climate change impacts on 
deciduous trees during their dormancy season.

This specific video is one of four contributions on climate change. This 
is video 4, which presents modeling approaches we can use to derive the 
responses of agricultural (and other) systems to projected future climates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8HF4E7rkM

/[ Super engineered, innovative pipeline built under the North Sea - 
demonstrates extreme carbon fuel investment ]/
*How They Built [2008] The World's Longest Underwater Pipeline | 
Megastructures | Spark*
Jun 12, 2021
Spark
By two thousand and eight, Norway will be connected to the United 
Kingdom via a 1200 km super pipeline—the longest subsea pipeline in the 
world.  But this connection is only a part of an enormous plan to tap 
into Norway’s second largest gas deposit, capable of providing 20% of 
the UK’s gas needs for decades to come. Located 3 km below the ocean’s 
surface, and 120 km offshore, the deposit is beyond the reach of humans 
and all of the construction has to be completed by robots working 
against strong underwater currents, sub-zero temperatures and extreme 
wind and wave conditions.  When tapped, the gas will be transported to 
one of the largest automated gas processing plants to prepare it for 
shipment to the U.K.   Each phase will put ingenuity and engineering to 
the ultimate test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-LbbNP58nk

/[The news archive - looking back at Obama]/
*On this day in the history of global warming November 27, 2014*
November 27, 2014:
The New York Times reports:

    "President Obama could leave office with the most aggressive,
    far-reaching environmental legacy of any occupant of the White
    House. Yet it is very possible that not a single major environmental
    law will have passed during his two terms in Washington.

    "Instead, Mr. Obama has turned to the vast reach of the Clean Air
    Act of 1970, which some legal experts call the most powerful
    environmental law in the world. Faced with a Congress that has shut
    down his attempts to push through an environmental agenda, Mr. Obama
    is using the authority of the act passed at the birth of the
    environmental movement to issue a series of landmark regulations on
    air pollution, from soot to smog, to mercury and planet-warming
    carbon dioxide."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/us/without-passing-a-single-law-obama-crafts-bold-enviornmental-policy.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

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