[✔️] October 20, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*October 20, 2021*/

/[ 2 minute YouTube video... Greta Rick Rolling the Internet - beginning 
to shine like a star ]/
*Greta Thunberg Dance Off | Fridays for Future | Never Gonna Give You Up 
-Singing Climate Live 2021❤️*
Oct 16, 2021
DadinSweden
Greta Thunberg sings from the heart! For the climate and for you ❤️ The 
climate crisis is Real! From the live event in Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪 
tonight. 🎤💃 The crowd go crazy 😃 Join the Fight for the Climate right 
Now: https://fridaysforfuture.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI81yqgRWGc



/[ YouTube 15 minute video ]/
*Climate Change Survival: How New Orleans Planned for the Next Big 
Hurricane | Amanpour and Company*
Oct 18, 2021
Amanpour and Company
Ramsey Green is New Orleans' chief resilience officer, tasked with 
creating sustainable solutions to climate-related threats facing the 
city. Green speaks with Walter Isaacson about lessons learned after 
Hurricane Katrina in redefining the way cities respond to extreme 
weather. The interview is part of The WNET Group’s second annual virtual 
conversation series American Cities Rebuilding, devoted to the 
reimagining and redeveloping of our cities in a post-pandemic world.
Originally aired on October 18, 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRuYe_hxWI


/[ video explanation of IPCC 6th Assessment ]/
*GISS Lunch Seminar, 2021-09-15: Alex Ruane*
Sep 21, 2021
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GISS Lunch Seminar, 2021-09-15
Speaker: Alexander Ruane (NASA/GISS)
Topic: Assessing regional changes in multiple climatic impact-drivers to 
inform regional adaptation and risk management -- IPCC AR6 WGI Chapter 12

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest 
Working Group I Report on August 9th, 2021, providing an assessment of 
Physical Climate Science with inputs from 100s of international 
scientists and an open review process that incorporated more than 14000 
review comments. In this talk I will summarize the main findings of the 
report relating to regional climate information that informs impact and 
risk planning, drawing largely from WGI Chapter 12 (for which I served 
as Coordinating Lead Author). A key element of this report is the 
introduction of a Climatic Impact-Driver (CID) framework that helps 
focus planning on climatic changes connected to responses in society and 
ecosystems, helping stakeholders identify which indices and thresholds 
are important and then evaluating changes across time, space, and 
scenario. Chapter 12 develops an inventory of 33 climatic 
impact-drivers, identifies important CIDs and related indices for each 
sector (e.g., agriculture, water resources, cities, ecosystems, health), 
assesses CID changes for a comprehensive set of 51 land regions, and 
evaluates the general response of each CID to global warming levels. The 
process of CID assessment is built around multiple lines of evidence 
connecting physical understanding, observed trends, attribution of human 
influence on changes, and projections for the future. Together, this 
information responds to the United Nations Framework Convention on 
Climate Change (UNFCCC) policymakers’ requests for more 
actionable climate information to inform adaptation, mitigation and risk 
planning. This focus on impact- and risk-relevant regional changes in 
mean and extreme conditions also sheds light on model uncertainty across 
CMIP6 (which includes GISS Model-E simulations) and downscaling efforts 
like CORDEX-CORE and ISIMIP.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqQxWYbviU


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//[ video discussion ]/
*Extreme Weather and the Climate Crisis with Dr. Jennifer Francis*
Mar 3, 2021
Woodwell Climate Research Center
Meteorologist Chris Gloninger of NBC10 Boston interviewed Woodwell 
Climate's Dr. Jennifer Francis on how climate change is impacting 
extreme weather trends around the globe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odm0RcMQ2IQ



/[methane is the worst]/
*An Empire of Dying Wells**
**Old oil and gas sites are a climate menace. Meet the company that owns 
more of America’s decaying wells than any other.**
*By Zachary R. Mider and Rachel Adams-Heard
October 12, 2021
Outside of hunting season, few people visit the Tri-Valley Wildlife Area 
in the rolling hills of southeast Ohio. When a couple of Bloomberg Green 
reporters showed up on a muggy June morning, the only sounds were 
birdsongs and the whirring of our infrared camera. We set out on foot 
and soon spotted the first of several rusty natural gas wells scattered 
across a broad meadow. Their storage tanks, half-covered with vines and 
brush, looked like the forgotten monuments of some lost civilization.

 From Bloomberg Green Issue Five.
There are hundreds of thousands of such decrepit oil and gas wells 
across the U.S., and for a long time few people paid them much mind. 
That changed over the past decade as scientists discovered the 
surprisingly large role they play in the climate crisis. Old wells tend 
to leak, and raw natural gas consists mostly of methane, which has far 
more planet-warming power than carbon dioxide. That morning in Ohio we 
pointed our camera at busted pipes, rusted joints, and broken valves, 
and we saw the otherwise invisible greenhouse gas jetting out. A sour 
smell lingered in the air...
- -
Researchers around the world are racing to reexamine the world’s energy 
supply chain, finding where gas is leaking and showing what can be done 
about it. Scientists are training infrared cameras on methane emissions 
in Texas oil fields, using satellites to spot them in Turkmenistan, and 
driving sensor-laden vehicles around city streets in the Netherlands. 
One problem area they’ve identified: old wells that produce little or no 
salable gas.

Only about 3% of gas needs to escape on its journey from wellhead to 
power plant to make it worse for the planet than coal. If a well is 
producing next to nothing, even a small leak can put it over that 
threshold. “Marginal wells are emitting a very large proportion of the 
natural gas that they produce,” says Amy Townsend-Small, an associate 
professor of environmental science at the University of Cincinnati. 
“Some marginal wells are emitting more natural gas than they produce.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/diversified-energy-natural-gas-wells-methane-leaks-2021/



/[ An important question  - YouTube] /
*Beyond 1.5 Series | Tipping points: Is there a point of no return?*
Oct 12, 2021
Woodwell Climate Research Center

Arctic permafrost and tropical forests are two of the most powerful 
natural drivers of our climate system, and both are approaching the 
point of tipping from carbon sinks to carbon sources–with potentially 
catastrophic consequences. At the same time, the ice sheets of Greenland 
and Antarctica are nearing points of no return, beyond which they may be 
committed to complete melting that would cause massive sea-level rise. 
Continuing to emit greenhouse gases without knowing where these tipping 
points lie is like driving toward a cliff in the fog. This gripping 
event will explore what we know–and need to know–to avoid going over the 
cliff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k9oW2rnBpQ



/[ Potholer is a YouTube lecturer pondering information science ]/
*Do you get it now? Why scientific reality doesn't care about your politics*
Oct 20, 2021
potholer54
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/[  fiction influences better than fact  ]
/*We Need More Radical Climate Fiction*
BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE
Literature has seen an uptick in "cli-fi," fiction about possible 
climate dystopias and utopias. But too much of that 
climate-change-related fiction lacks any kind of radical political 
imagination.
10.17.2021
It will take imagination and vision for humans to survive the climate 
crisis — a willingness to believe in things that seem impossible. Most 
climate-focused art emphasizes the urgency of the crisis, which is 
needed, but it’s more compelling to see artists imagining our survival, 
even how we might thrive. To that end, early this year, Grist magazine 
announced a climate fiction contest, Imagine 2200, and published the 
winning stories as an online collection last month. Most of the stories 
that were selected are compelling, intimate, and surprisingly hopeful, 
and they’re often brilliantly specific in imagining yet-unrealized 
technology and innovation, as well as human societies that are more 
harmonious with nature. They are, however, light on the political 
backstory of how these better worlds emerged and what kinds of economic 
and social arrangements sustain them.

In literary terms, the sensibility of Imagine 2200 can be traced to 
several artistic movements. “Futurism” originated as an 
early-twentieth-century Italian visual art movement preoccupied — and 
excited — by technology, and the term has referred ever since to 
creative efforts to imagine the future. One of the most dynamic of these 
has been Afrofuturism (which imagines, often playfully, a sci-fi-themed 
future infused by black culture and centering black people).

These imaginings haven’t always been leftist: though their aesthetic was 
cool, many of the Italian futurists later became fascists. (Some of the 
Russian futurists welcomed the Bolshevik Revolution as a step away from 
the aristocratic and peasant traditions they deplored, but for the most 
part, the Soviet Communist leadership did not welcome the movement, and 
Russian futurism fizzled out in the 1920s.)

When futurism has emerged from the Left, it has often been dystopian. (I 
was born in 1969, and I grew up consuming the environmental propaganda 
of Ranger Rick magazine, which at that time included apocalyptic 
treeless renderings of the distant year 2000.) With Imagine 2200, Grist 
wanted to highlight a different tendency — most fully realized in 
solarpunk, which celebrates rebellion against the fossil fuel industry — 
imagining green futures, generally along DIY lines, usually in the wake 
of a climate apocalypse.

The mission of the contest, then, was to get beyond the dystopian and 
imagine worlds in which humans have found — or are finding — solutions 
to the climate crisis.

One of the more powerful stories fails this test miserably. Mike 
McClelland’s “The Secrets of the Last Greenland Shark” is told from the 
point of view of Earth’s last human, although it has a surprisingly 
uplifting ending (which I won’t spoil). But most of the stories are more 
hopeful than that, showing a better world, often alluding to a traumatic 
time in which many people died and species were lost, after which human 
societies made major changes.

My favorites among these stories take pleasure in the futurist 
imaginary. In Renan Bernardo’s “When it’s Time to Harvest,” an elderly 
couple in Rio de Janeiro, saving their community from starvation after 
massive crop failure, run a farm that they’ve invented elaborate 
technology in order to operate: much of the labor is performed by bees. 
While the husband is ready to retire, convinced the technology they’ve 
devised will allow the farm to run by itself, the wife can’t let go — 
she fears that, without them, the farm will fail and the community will 
starve. But it’s also clear that she loves the work of inventing and 
can’t stop trying new things.

Within the genre, the woman — or even young girl — scientist who loves 
and dedicates herself to life-giving innovation is perhaps becoming a 
cliché, but it’s a delightful one nevertheless. One of the most 
deliciously imagined futures powered by such protagonists is Rich 
Larson’s “Tidings,” a series of vignettes offering glimpses of life 
around the world. A Nigerian girl in 2038 breeds a creature that will 
eat the plastic out of the ocean. A nine-year-old First Nations girl in 
the Arctic Circle figures out how to use technology to communicate with 
a moose; she and her parent are surprised and amused when the animal, 
annoyed and in the middle of rutting season, curses at them. A young 
woman in Thailand in 2132, accompanied by 308 friends through VR 
technology, blissfully swims with dolphins, recalling the era of 
gas-guzzling and plastic as a long-ago mythic time.

Most of these stories bring a vivid level of descriptive detail to the 
project of envisioning a world in which humans are far more aligned with 
nature, but they’re vague when it comes to what the new arrangements 
look like economically and socially, as well as on the political 
processes that brought these new worlds about. In Abigail Larkin’s “A 
Séance in the Anthropocene,” a Cherokee student seeks to interview the 
people who lived during the time of fossil fuels and finds a man who 
worked for a coal company. She wants to understand how he could have 
done that, as a moral question, knowing the damage it was doing to the 
planet, but both the student protagonist and the author seem less 
curious about how the fossil fuel titans themselves were ultimately 
deposed from power. It’s not clear whether it took violence, whether 
elites saw the error of their ways, or whether fossil fuel and other 
destructive interests were defeated through some peaceful democratic 
process. In Savitri Horrigan’s “The Case of the Turned Tide,” capitalism 
still exists, albeit in a far greener form, but most of the stories are 
less clear on that point.

Questions of class struggle are mostly elided in Imagine 2200, but there 
are several exceptions. In Lindsey Brodeck’s “Afterglow,” the rich are 
fleeing a ruined planet for a new one, and a woman must decide whether 
to join them (and her girlfriend) or to stay and join the hippies 
attempting to revive and rewild the Earth. The exodus of the ruling 
class offers hope, but those who remain seem like passive beneficiaries 
of their departure, at best a band of DIY weirdos engaged in a noble 
salvage effort. In Horrigan’s story, a Balinese mother-daughter pair of 
detectives face a dilemma when they find themselves with a complicated 
client: an environmentally friendly company whose plans haven’t 
adequately considered the island communities.

One of the few Imagine 2200 stories that spells out some kind of 
alternative economic organization is Tehnuka Ilanko’s “El, the 
Plastotrophs, and Me,” describing a world where, because of climate 
crisis, some humans have begun pioneering a system of cooperatives in 
which sustainability is carefully practiced. The co-ops face many 
practical problems. Only a certain number of babies can be born into 
each community at a time, for example, a rule that might have some 
environmental arguments in its favor, but that inevitably creates 
personal conflicts and tensions. Ilanko does a beautiful job of helping 
us to imagine how humans, full of doubts and questions, would navigate a 
world that required more collective action and collective planning even 
in such intimate aspects of our lives, showing that these new systems 
would still have problems, and that we would still be human within them, 
full of petty resentments and big desires.

For the most part, though, the stories eschew political economy, leaving 
us wondering how this more harmonious relationship with nature came 
about and how it is sustained. The contest was sponsored by the liberal 
Natural Resources Defense Council, which in turn gets money from the 
Ford Foundation and billionaires like Tom Steyer, so maybe that’s part 
of the problem. It would be interesting to see what kinds of stories a 
socialist climate fiction contest would produce.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/climate-fiction-imagine-2200-grist-review-futurism/
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/[ save these free links to the book] /
*Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement *
-- 
https://literariness.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Literariness.org-Amitav-Ghosh-The-Great-Derangement_-Climate-Change-and-the-Unthinkable-2016-Penguin-Books.pdf
-- 
https://democracyanddialogues.dodd.uconn.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2930/2021/03/The-Great-Derangement-Excerpts-for-Encounters.pdf
-- 
https://complit.utoronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/COL1000H_Jagoe_Ghosh-Stories-.pdf



/[Chomsky on Oct 12, 2021 - hour long video]/
*Noam Chomsky - Tipping Points: Environmental & Political (interviewed 
by David Barsamian)*
Oct 12, 2021
Alternative Radio
Tipping points are in the air. And with good reason. A planetary 
emergency looms in the not-too-distant future. This isn’t alarmist talk 
but the best judgment of our leading scientists. The prestigious 
International Union for Conservation of Nature has just issued its 
starkest warning to date: “Humanity has reached a tipping point. Our 
window of opportunity to respond is narrowing quickly.” Imagine if we 
had paid attention to Lyndon Johnson’s science advisory committee in 
1965 when it noted in their report entitled Restoring the Quality of Our 
Environment, that “Pollutants have altered on a global scale the carbon 
dioxide content of the air and the lead concentrations in ocean waters 
and human populations.” That was 56 years ago. Today, Noam Chomsky 
warns, “The world is hurtling toward disaster.” And we have a segment of 
the political class that is in denial.

Alternative Radio provides information, analyses and views that are 
frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Visit our website for 
hundreds of audio programs at http://www.alternativeradio.org.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_HfDtXKB5c


/[ The news archive - "excavated from the ruins of a destroyed 
civilization ]/
*On this day in the history of global warming October  20, 2012*
October 20, 2012: On MSNBC's "Up," Chris Hayes condemns President Obama, 
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and CNN's Candy Crowley for 
remaining silent on climate in the most recent presidential debate.
http://youtu.be/BUBbLbMbvfc

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