[✔️] October 25, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*October 25, 2021*/

/[ one then another ]/
*A Bomb Cyclone Has Merged With an 'Atmospheric River' to Batter California*
The term "bomb cyclone" refers to the rapid intensification process – 
"bombogenesis" – that forms it. Such storms occur when pressure in the 
central region of the storm descend by at least 24 millibars (an 
atmospheric pressure measurement) in 24 hours, according to the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

The bomb cyclone has merged with a Category 5 "atmospheric river" – 
giant flowing trains of moist air in the sky.

Atmospheric rivers, like hurricanes and tornadoes, are rated based on 
their potential for damage; a Category 5 is the strongest, or "most 
hazardous," bringing the chance for gusty winds, flooding, debris flow 
and mudslides, according to the California Department of Water Resources.

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Sacramento issued numerous 
warnings on Sunday (Oct. 24) concerning extreme rainfall, flooding and 
debris flows. In some regions, rainfall may reach into the double digits 
in inches.
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-bomb-cyclone-had-merged-with-an-atmospheric-river-to-batter-california



/[ climate changes happening ]/
*Longer, more frequent outages afflict the U.S. power grid as states 
fail to prepare for climate change*
State officials are reluctant to ask ratepayers to foot the bill for 
investments experts say are needed to fortify the grid against 
increasingly severe weather
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Across the nation, severe weather fueled by climate change is pushing 
aging electrical systems past their limits, often with deadly results. 
Last year, the average American home endured more than eight hours 
without power, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration — 
more than double the outage time five years ago.
This year alone, a wave of abnormally severe winter storms caused a 
disastrous power failure in Texas, leaving millions of homes in the 
dark, sometimes for days, and at least 200 dead. Power outages caused by 
Hurricane Ida contributed to at least 14 deaths in Louisiana, as some of 
the poorest parts of the state suffered through weeks of 90-degree heat 
without air conditioning.
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As storms grow fiercer and more frequent, environmental groups are 
pushing states to completely reimagine the electrical grid, 
incorporating more batteries, renewable energy sources and localized 
systems known as “microgrids,” which they say could reduce the incidence 
of wide-scale outages. Utility companies have proposed their own 
storm-proofing measures, including burying power lines underground...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/24/climate-change-power-outages/



/[ another positive innovation - video description ]/
*Carbon Free Steel becomes a reality at Volvo and Mercedes Benz.*
Oct 24, 2021
Just Have a Think
Steelmaking is currently extremely carbon intensive, accounting for 
about 7% of total global greenhouse gas emissions. As we continue to use 
ever more steel for new infrastructure around the world, the task of 
decarbonising the industry is growing ever more urgent. Hydrogen can now 
perform that task and Volvo has just taken delivery of the first 
consignment of carbon-free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZdX5Hhk9r0



/[ Home power for less than $3K, easy do-it-yourself solar power, from a 
smart, trusted young man ]/
*Beginner And Budget Friendly DIY Solar Power System! Anyone can build 
this!*
Oct 24, 2021
DIY Solar Power with Will Prowse
   [ See the site for the links to products. ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adFGmOlDM-Y



/[ activism now --  45 min.  - hint -- manually boost your video 
resolution ]/
*Day 10 - Julia Steinberger: Struggle for survival: The importance of 
climate activism from the ...*
Oct 5, 2021
Institut des sciences cognitives - UQAM
ISC 2021 Summer School – Cognitive Challenges of Climate Change 
(https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites...)
Day 10
Talk by Julia Steinberger: Struggle for survival: The importance of 
climate activism from the perspectives of political economy and science 
communication
MC: Stevan Harnad, Professor of Psychology (cognitive sciences) at UQAM 
and at McGill and Professor Emeritus at the University of Southampton.

    Abstract:
    Climate activism is crucial for any sustained progress on climate
    action. I will discuss this from two systemic perspectives in social
    science: political economy and science communication. I will explore
    what the terms "fossil capitalism" and "captured state" mean in
    reality and for activism, in particular through the lens of the
    political economy of dependence on cars. I will build on this
    systemic understanding to draw lessons for the role, potential and
    necessity of social organizing and activism.

References:
Pirgmaier, E. and J.K. Steinberger (2019) Roots, Riots, and Radical 
Change—A Road Less Travelled for Ecological 
Economics. Sustainability 11(7). 
Mattioli, M., D. Roberts, J.K. Steinberger and A. Brown (2020) The 
political economy of car dependence: a systems of provision 
approach. Energy Research and Social Science.
Steinberger, J. K. (2019) A Postmortem for Survival: on science, failure 
and action on climate change. Medium.com .

Bio:
Julia Steinberger is a Professor of Ecological Economics at the 
University of Lausanne. From 2011 to 2020, she was an associate 
professor in ecological economics at the University of Leeds. Before she 
was a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna 
(SEC), where she investigated sustainable cities and the links between 
material use and economic performance, held postdoctoral positions at 
the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich, and obtained her PhD from the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research examines the 
connections between resource use (energy and materials, greenhouse gas 
emissions) and societal performance (economic activity and human wellbeing).

She received a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research 
project 'Living Well Within Limits' investigating how universal human 
well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries. She was the 
Lead Author in working group 3 for the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change (IPCC)6th Assessment Report, contributing to the report's 
discussion of climate change mitigation pathways.
https://youtu.be/2973tOyZ-TA



*[ pdf file - chart of activism ]*
*So you're ready to take action against climate change...*
https://grandgather.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/copy-of-so-youre-ready-to-take-action-against-climate-change1.pdf



*[ Hearing for a second time, this seems most sensible. Calmly spoken 
radical statement - YouTube video]*
*How We End Climate Imperialism*
Oct 22, 2021
Our Changing Climate
This is how we end climate imperialism through climate debt.

In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at how 
we end climate imperialism through climate debt. With COP 26 on our 
doorstep, it's more important than ever to talk about climate debt and 
climate imperialism. Climate debt is a concept developed to reveal the 
unequal relationship between Global North (the imperial core) and the 
Global South (the imperial periphery) caused by centuries of 
imperialism, colonialism, and climate change. Climate debt demands 
countries in the imperial core pay reparations for the damage they've 
done to people, atmosphere and planet. For countless COPs countries in 
the imperial periphery have pushed for repayment of climate debts, but 
have been rebuffed over and over. In part, this is why The World 
People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth 
took place in Cochabamba in 2010. Indeed, the People's Agreement that 
came out of the Cochabamba People's Conference highlights climate debt 
as an essential tool in the fight to mitigate and adapt to the climate 
crisis.

    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Intro
    1:08 - What Is Climate Debt?
    4:12 - Who Is Responsible?
    7:15 - How to Repay a Climate Debt
    9:39 - Support OCC on Patreon
    10:31 - Outro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shQEaJNvsoE



/[ important advice - text posting from NPR  ]/
*Anxiety from climate change isn't going away. Here's how you can manage it*
October 23, 2021
JULIA SIMON - CLARE MARIE SCHNEIDER
Tens of thousands of Americans are already experiencing the climate 
crisis. They've lost their homes, their pets and their loved ones.

But even if you haven't yet experienced profound harm, you may still be 
feeling the stress of the crisis. Maybe you don't have AC and had to 
move in with a friend during the last heatwave. Maybe you check the air 
quality every day because of wildfire smoke. Or maybe you were driving 
through the last big rainstorm and were worried you would get swept away 
with your car.

Phoenix Smith is an ecotherapist who works with anxiety related to 
climate change. They say that climate change emotions can feel like 
grieving.
"It can be denial at first, and then you may have some fear and anger 
and then sadness," they say.

These feelings also manifest physically.

"When you're in the fight-or-flight mode, you're grinding your teeth," 
Smith says. "You're holding your body tight."

This is climate anxiety — all the ways the climate crisis affects how we 
think and feel.

These feelings aren't going away, but here are five ways to recognize 
them, sit with them and use them. We'll give you tools to build up 
resilience and deal with these feelings through the coming decades.
Let yourself feel the feelings — all of them
Smith lives in California, and they've witnessed the state's 
decades-long drought, made worse by climate change. "It's not like, 'Oh, 
when things get back to normal.' There's no 'normal' to get back to," 
says Smith.
Smith says when you really sit with that degree of loss, you may feel 
fear or despair. Those feelings are a normal response to this crisis, 
they say, and you can't just inject optimism and brush aside your 
negative feelings.

"We are all going to be uncomfortable," Smith says. "So I'm not going to 
tell you. 'Do this! do that!' No, we all are going to have to learn and 
find tools to learn to sit with the discomfort."

So first just let yourself feel all the feelings. They are complex and 
intense, but only by recognizing them can you begin to address them.
Find a way to reset and calm your central nervous system
Britt Wray is the author of Gen Dread, a newsletter about staying sane 
and finding purpose in the climate crisis. She says climate change opens 
up a world of uncertainty, and our brains don't like that.

"What often happens with climate emotions is that they can push us out 
of what's called our window of tolerance," Wray says.

The window of tolerance is the "nice zone."
Wray says this is the place where "life feels like smooth sailing. We 
can be our best selves. We can judge the future and make decisions in 
the present."
But the uncertainty of the climate crisis throws us out of that window, 
and we can find ourselves unmoored. So Wray says it helps to find tools 
to engage with the present.

"Mindfulness practices, as well as meditation, can be very effective for 
just grounding oneself in the present moment, bringing you back to 
baseline when you might otherwise be spiraling," Wray says.

Breathing exercises also help get your nervous system in order, says 
Smith. So does getting outside — even if it's just going out on your 
porch — or going to the park or on a hike.

Smith says being in nature "has the impact of calming your central 
nervous system so you can find a way to kind of reset."
Find someone to talk to, and we don't just mean a therapist
Maybe you can reset on your own, but you may need to talk to someone.

If you can find a therapist, look out for something called climate-aware 
therapy. Wray says these therapists won't tell you that feeling despair 
about the climate crisis means you're engaging in catastrophic thinking.
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"Instead, they validate it as a normal, reasonable, and totally 
understandable stress response to what is an unfolding existential threat."

But if you are part of the majority of Americans who don't have access 
to professional therapists, reach out to your friends, family or 
neighbors. You may find that these feelings are much more common in your 
circle than you previously realized.

It's important to recognize, though, that for some of the people in your 
life, it may be too tough for them to talk about the climate crisis.

"What will often happen is that you provoke their anxiety by talking 
about it truthfully, face on," says Wray. If their response is to 
dismiss you, "that definitely leaves people feeling more alienated and 
isolated."
That's why Wray suggests going online to find communities of other folks 
experiencing climate emotions. She suggests online climate cafes.

"[These are] places that you can just hop onto virtually and for an 
evening, talk openly, vulnerably and say, 'You know, I'm feeling this 
way. I'm dealing with a lot of despair. I don't really know what to do. 
How about you?'"

She says engaging with these online communities can be a way to build 
solidarity and to think of creative ideas to tackle these climate 
feelings together.

*Channel your feelings to connect with others*
One of the feelings that may come up with the climate crisis is numbness.

"Eco anxiety can often lead people towards paralysis," says Wray. "The 
sense that the hopelessness is so immense that they start concluding 
that there's nothing to be done."

You don't have to disavow these more hopeless emotions, but Wray says 
you can tap into other more energizing feelings too. "Other forms of 
emotion that can be really motivating, like anger at the injustice, rage 
at the fact that we're in the situation."
There have been major institutional failures that have caused climate 
change. If that makes you furious, Wray says you can use that rage as a 
starting point to taking action.

"It's something that a lot of leaders in the climate space rely on as an 
activating emotion," she says.

Smith says connecting with others may look like getting involved in 
politics related to climate change legislation or activism around 
environmental justice.

Maybe that means helping people in your community who are dealing with 
high food prices or unaffordable housing. She suggests signing up for a 
mutual aid network to do things like deliver groceries to those in need.

Building connections can also involve thinking about the past. In her 
ecotherapy workshops, Smith says she started asking people about family 
practices related to nature. People would remember things like their 
grandmother growing a certain plant or a family camping trip.

Remembering and recreating family traditions, especially around nature, 
can be a healing way to deal with fear around the climate crisis, Smith 
says.

"Creating family rituals, remembering your ancestors and bringing that 
in is a very healing and generative way to deal with the fear around all 
the changes [that] are happening," she says.

You may end up thinking about mortality, and that's not necessarily a 
bad thing
"It's really hard to talk about the climate crisis without it becoming a 
conversation about death," Wray says with a chuckle.

"I live in a canyon, in a mountain. There's drought everywhere," she 
says. "I'm very aware that there could be fires at any time."

Wray says she probably won't live in this canyon forever, but she 
appreciates being there now and embracing the quality of the moment.
"The beauty of those mountain lions and bobcats on the street, there's 
little migrating newts and all these cool things. But who knows how long 
that's going to be around for? I'm not particularly sure," says Wray.

She says she's adopted that mortality-aware perspective for all of life, 
and she thinks there's something healthy in that.

Smith says that thinking about climate change brings up questions, like 
"Is this the life that you want to live, and this is the life you want 
to pass on to your children?"

These are big questions, she admits. But they're the most important 
ones, Smith says, and the answers are worth pursuing.

"You're not going to find it in a training or in a sound bite or on the 
interweb," Smith says, "That's within you."
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/23/1047753592/anxiety-from-climate-change-isnt-going-away-heres-how-you-can-manage-it

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/[ 23 minute audio, text and transcript ]/
*How To Talk To Kids About Climate Change*
Life Kit
October 24, 2019
https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510338/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/npr/lifekit/2019/10/20191031_lifekit_life_kit_climate_change__-_final_updated_trax-33dc6ac4-4ae7-4e0a-a6d1-659d4fece669.mp3?d=1384&size=22098672&e=772266241&t=podcast&p=510338&awEpisodeId=772266241&awCollectionId=510338&sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/772266241
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/22/772266241/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-climate-change



/[ DW documentary on Science Disinformation ]/
//*Fact vs. fake - why don’t we trust science any more? | DW Documentary*
Oct 22, 2021
DW Documentary
Asbestos, climate change, 5G, coronavirus - the public is caught in a 
battle for the truth. Science is being manipulated and undermined to 
sway opinion and create doubt. What are the mechanisms behind it all?

Never has scientific knowledge seemed so vast, detailed and widely 
shared. And yet it appears to be increasingly challenged.

It’s no longer surprising to see private corporations put strategies in 
place to confuse public debate and paralyze political decision-making. 
Why did it take decades to classify tobacco as harmful? Why do people 
still deny human involvement in climate change? Overwhelmed by an excess 
of information, how can we, as citizens, sort out fact from fiction?

One by one, this film dismantles the machinations that aim to turn 
science against itself.
With the help of declassified archives and testimonies from experts, 
lobbyists and politicians, this investigation plunges us into the 
science of doubt. Along with a team of experts, including philosophers, 
economists, cognitive scientists, politicians, and scholars, we explore 
concrete examples of how doubt can be sown, and try to understand the 
process.
#documentary #science #conspiracies #freedocumentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frCIYEyURV0

/
//[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming October 25, 2014*
October 25, 2014: The New York Times reports:

    "While politicians are increasingly willing to include environmental
    messages in their campaigns, many at the national level still steer
    clear of the politically charged topic of climate change. But in
    communities across the country where the effects are lapping at the
    doorsteps of residents, pragmatism often trumps politics, and
    candidates as well as elected officials across the political
    spectrum are embracing the issue.

    "Some local Republican officials in Florida and elsewhere say they
    can no longer follow the lead of state and national party leaders
    like Senator Marco Rubio and Gov. Rick Scott, who have publicly
    questioned whether human activity has had an effect on climate
    change. (Though both have recently taken a more vague 'I’m not a
    scientist' stance.) The Center for American Progress Action Fund, a
    left-leaning advocacy group in Washington, tracks the statements of
    American political figures on climate change and reports that more
    than 58 percent of Republicans in Congress have denied a link
    between human activity and global warming.

    "But in the Florida Keys, George Neugent, a Republican county
    commissioner, said that while people might disagree about what to do
    about climate change, the effects of flooding and hurricanes were
    less ambiguous. 'Clearly rising tides are going to affect us,' he said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/25/science/pragmatism-on-climate-change-trumps-politics-at-local-level-across-us.html

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