[✔️] October 23, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Sat Oct 23 09:13:50 EDT 2021

/*October 23, 2021*/

/[Variety report - a media battleground]/
*Fox News Launches Streaming Weather Service for Climate-Change Cycle*
- -

    Fox is betting it can become a go-to resource for weather
    aficionados. One feature on the new app lets users keep tabs on how
    weather conditions are shaping up at coming events, like a
    daughter’s wedding, a trip to the Bahamas or a college reunion.
    Users will be able to tap 3-D radar to examine weather patterns and
    get alerts that inform them about 42 different weather elements that
    might harm people or property.  Other services make users go to a
    website or behind a paywall for a 14-day forecast, Berg says. Fox
    Weather makes the next two weeks of weather projections available to
    all.

    At the heart of the venture is the very personal connection
    consumers develop with their weather providers. Herrera, who will
    serve as an anchor during Fox Weather’s live-streamed programming,
    remembers times when he’d cancel a planned shopping trip to avoid
    people after he missed a forecast and the rain he said would arrive
    didn’t, or showed up hours later. “It’s important to own it. ‘I said
    this was going to happen. It didn’t. Let me tell you why it
    didn’t,’” he says. In a time of great change for the media industry,
    a different type of forecaster will have to examine whether Fox
    Weather can prevail amid shifting patterns.

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/fox-weather-fox-news-streaming-wars-climate-change-1235094167/

/[simple cartoon]/
*Countries profiting from carbon heavy industries blocking action on 
climate change*
https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/shocking-news-1-1536x1536.png

    Image description
    This cartoon depicts a news reader, dressed is a suit and tie,
    sitting at a desk with a graphic behind them reading “COP26”. Above
    them is a speech bubble that reads “Shocking new leaks show
    countries profiting from carbon heavy industries are still blocking
    action on climate change”. Below that another speech bubble reads,
    “In other news, bear defecates in densely forested area”.

https://www.thecanary.co/cartoons/2021/10/21/countries-profiting-from-carbon-heavy-industries-blocking-action-on-climate-change/

[Following the money]
*Climate change: Why Australia refuses to give up coal*
By Frances Mao
BBC News, Sydney
In a world racing to reduce pollution, Australia is a stark 
outlier...Australia has 99 operating coal mines...
- -
And instead of phasing out coal - the worst fossil fuel - it's committed 
to digging for more.

So it's no surprise that Australia is being viewed as a "bad guy" going 
into the COP26 global climate talks in Glasgow, analysts say...
- -
Instead it's provided extra support to coal. This includes:

    -- Approving new mines and extensions: There are over 80 proposed
    projects including plant upgrades
    --Tax subsidies: About A$10bn went to fossil fuel companies last
    year alone
    -- 'Clean coal' investments: Schemes..

Australia argues coal will continue to generate national wealth for 
decades to come.

It talks up demand in Asia, particularly from industrialising economies.

China and India alone account for 64% of global coal consumption. Demand 
in Indonesia and Vietnam has also surged.

But analysts say there's no long-term market as countries race to meet 
emissions goals.
- -
Advocates say coal workers could instead mine for the rare minerals 
needed for batteries and magnets that will power renewable energy grids.
- -
It has also withdrawn from the UN's Green Climate Fund, and tried to 
change one local fund's mandate so taxpayer money could go to coal 
projects instead.

"The rest of the world is accelerating past coal," says the Climate 
Council, a group of scientists.

"Australia can either choose to reap the opportunities of this 
transition, or be left poorer and less secure."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57925798

[ video review of the IPCC report ]
*Why you NEED to read the 2021 IPCC report on climate change*
Sep 6, 2021
Saving Green
The IPCC or Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently published 
the 6th report on the physical science of climate change, or Assessment 
Report 6 (AR6).   Why should we care?  How does the IPCC conduct its 
research?  Can we trust this report?   How scared should we really be?
Let's find out...

    TIMELINE:
    0:00 start/intro
    1:08 What is the IPCC?
    4:03 What are assessment cycles?
    5:31 What's included in the report?
    6:22 What's new from previous reports?
    8:31 What is calibrated language?
    12:05 What's the bottom line?
    14:16 What's the next step?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9otG3FICWLk

/[ word ] /
*‘Climate crisis’ has made it into the Oxford English Dictionary*
The eco-lexicon got a major update just in time for the Glasgow summit.
- -
In a special update this month, the Oxford English Dictionary reviewed 
the scope of this “rapidly changing area of vocabulary” encompassing 
words and phrases like eco-anxiety, net-zero, and climate strikes. The 
dictionary’s editors updated old entries and added new ones ahead of the 
U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland next week, where world leaders 
will meet to hash out their climate pledges. Among the new entrants: 
global heating, food insecurity, and climate crisis.

The update reflects the urgency and the often complicated emotions that 
people feel when confronted by rising seas, worsening floods, and hotter 
temperatures. The editors picked eco-anxiety — “apprehension about 
current and future harm to the environment” — to make its dictionary 
debut, a signal of climate change’s psychological toll. According to 
Google Trends, search interest for climate anxiety has gone up 565 
percent over the past year.

Even the name for climate change itself has undergone some adjustment as 
people have begun to use more intense language to describe what they see 
happening. The phrase climate crisis, which appeared in the dictionary 
for the first time this month, became 20 times more popular from 2018 to 
2020, and climate emergency increased 76 times, the OED found. The 
phrase greenhouse effect, popular back in the ’90s, has dropped by the 
wayside; the once-common global warming has also gradually fallen out of 
favor...
- -
In what might cause a chemistry class flashback for some, the OED 
decided that CO2 — aka carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas heating 
up the planet — merited its own entry, since people have started to 
throw it around in the same casual way they talk about H2O.
https://grist.org/language/climate-crisis-made-it-into-the-oxford-english-dictionary/

[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming October 23, 2007*

Dr. Julie Gerberding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
addresses a US Senate committee regarding the health risks of climate 
change. Her testimony was extensively edited by the Bush White House to 
dramatically downplay the severity of the risks.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/10/23/17139/gerberding-global-warming/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/24cnd-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/08/174078/burnett-cheney-boiling/
http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp

/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ 

/Archive of Daily Global Warming News 
<https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/2017-October/date.html> 
/
https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote

/To receive daily mailings - click to Subscribe 
<mailto:subscribe at theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request> 
to news digest./

- Privacy and Security:*This mailing is text-only.  It does not carry 
images or attachments which may originate from remote servers.  A 
text-only message can provide greater privacy to the receiver and 
sender. This is a hobby production curated by Richard Pauli
By regulation, the .VOTE top-level domain cannot be used for commercial 
purposes. Messages have no tracking software.
To subscribe, email: contact at theclimate.vote 
<mailto:contact at theclimate.vote> with subject subscribe, To Unsubscribe, 
subject: unsubscribe
Also you may subscribe/unsubscribe at 
https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote
Links and headlines assembled and curated by Richard Pauli for 
http://TheClimate.Vote <http://TheClimate.Vote/> delivering succinct 
information for citizens and responsible governments of all levels. List 
membership is confidential and records are scrupulously restricted to 
this mailing list.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/attachments/20211023/809420d1/attachment.htm>