[✔️] September 13, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*September 13, 2021*/

/[Video from the data moved by the IPCC report]
/*The IPCC's New "CODE RED" Climate Report*
Aug 20, 2021
Second Thought
https://youtu.be/TPoQC6D7jbE

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/[scientific, political, philosophical discussions ]/
*CODE RED, IPCC Climate Report*
Sep 9, 2021
Facing Future
The 2021 Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change, #IPCC, report marks 
an alarming turning point, but its summary message for policy makers 
misses the reality that stabilizing at 1.5-2°C over pre- industrial 
levels will fail to preserve a livable environment.

Already, at under 1.2°C, extreme weather and climate tipping points have 
been reached.  The  #CarbonSinks that supported a carbon budget are 
already stressed to the limit.  The Amazon, once a major sink, is now a 
net emitter of greenhouse gases, due to rainforest destruction for 
animal and industrial agriculture and wildfires. The Arctic is melting 
fast, releasing methane from peat bogs, tundra, and from under the 
disappearing ice, whose ability to reflect heat, is also essential.

Even as industrial and fossil fuel interests control political and 
financial agendas, food security may be the decisive threat that makes 
policy-makers listen.  As people become increasingly aware of the 
devastation around them, surveys show that a large percentage of the 
world’s population is now in support of the major changes that are 
necessary to survive the existential threat of climate change.

Code Red is the highest level of alert, but we are almost out of time to 
heed it and to reduce human-produced emissions sufficiently to slow down 
the rising concentration of greenhouse gases, and to preserve the 
Earth’s essential carbon sinks.  Peter Carter, Brian Wright, and Mark 
Anderson reveal that the IPCC report needs to send a clearer and even 
more urgent message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrivG4h7B8M


[ NPR text report ]
*Climate Change Is Making Natural Disasters Worse — Along With Our 
Mental Health*
September 11, 2021
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/11/1035241392/climate-change-disasters-mental-health-anxiety-eco-grief



/[video opinion on paper waste]/
*Could papermill landfill waste pave our highways?*
Sep 12, 2021
Just Have a Think
Modern paper and pulp mills produce a surprisingly large amount of 
waste. Most of it is incinerated to produce energy, but at least fifteen 
percent is simply tossed into landfill, with all the environmental 
hazards that this causes. So a great deal of research and development 
has been taking place over the years to find ways of using this waste 
product for something a bit more climate friendly and productive. One of 
the most promising results has been a cement replacement that can be 
used in road building and construction. That'll reduce CO2 emissions 
from cement making and keep nasty toxins out of the ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPcHhWxm8u4

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/[trailer for the Documentary on the Paradise fires]/
*Bring Your Own Brigade | Official Trailer*
Jul 23, 2021
CBS News
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Lucy Walker’s documentary captures the horror 
and heroism of the deadliest week of wildfires in California history and 
explores the causes and solutions of a global crisis that is quite 
literally burning our world to the ground. Bring Your Own Brigade is in 
theaters August 6 and streaming on CBSN and Paramount+ on August 20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEUiJVR9syE


[2 min summary of a longer talk - from last year]
*Is It Too Late to Solve the Climate Crisis? | John Doerr | Google 
Zeitgeist*
Sep 27, 2020
Google Zeitgeist
John Doerr answers the daunting question on whether he thinks we as a 
society can drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

*Watch the full talk: https://youtu.be/9I0_ScZ7MWs*

Google Zeitgeist is a collection of talks by people who are changing the 
world. Hear entrepreneurs, CEOs, storytellers, scientists, and dreamers 
share their visions of how we can shape tomorrow.

John Doerr is an engineer, acclaimed venture capitalist, and the 
chairman of Kleiner Perkins. For more than 39 years, John has served 
entrepreneurs with ingenuity and optimism, bringing ideas worth 
spreading to disruptive leaders and teams. John was an original investor 
and board member at Google and Amazon, helping to create over 600,000 
jobs and the world's second and third most valuable companies. He's 
passionate about helping entrepreneurs reimagine the future, from health 
care transformation to machine learning. Outside of Kleiner Perkins, 
John works with social entrepreneurs for change in public education, the 
climate crisis, and global poverty. John serves on the board of the 
Obama Center and ONE.org.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3rWxYIqZog



/[Radio Ecoshock - paying attention to the oceans]/
*3 Hidden Ocean Tipping Points - Christoph Heinze on Radio Ecoshock*
Mar 2, 2021
Alex Smith
3 OTHER crisis developing unseen below the seas - scientist Christoph 
Heinze From Bergen Norway warns.  His new paper in the Proceedings of 
the National Academy is ominously titled: “The quiet crossing of ocean 
tipping points”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5fLjQGV3YY


/[ Time to think about that] /
*‘We Didn’t Have a Plan’: Disabled People Struggle to Evacuate From 
Wildfires*
In Northern California, a region troubled by fire, many people with 
disabilities live in rural areas that lack the resources to support them 
during disasters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/12/us/wildfires-disabled-people-evacuation.html/
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/[  Drought over decades is really a significant change in climate ]/
*NASA Drought Research: Glimpsing The Future*
Posted by EarthSky Voices
September 12, 2021
NASA said on September 8, 2021, that – according to NOAA – seasonal 
summer rains have done little to offset drought conditions gripping the 
western United States. California and Nevada both saw record July heat 
and moderate-to-exceptional drought. New NASA research now shows how 
drought in the region is expected to change in the future. The study 
found that the western U.S. is headed for prolonged drought conditions. 
That’s the case, according to this study, whether greenhouse gas 
emissions continue to climb or are aggressively reined in.
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But the study also showed that the severity of acute, extreme drought 
events – and the overall severity of prolonged drought conditions – 
could be reduced with emissions-curbing efforts, as compared with a 
high-emissions future. This is important information for decision-makers 
considering two tools to reduce climate impacts: adaptation and 
mitigation. NASA said the new work will:

… provide stakeholders with crucial information for decision-making.
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The scientists who conducted the new study wanted to understand the 
vulnerability and tendency towards drought in the U.S. Southwest, and 
the factors contributing to it. So the team selected the severe 
single-year drought of 2002 and the extended drought of 2000 to 2020 as 
examples of acute and prolonged droughts, respectively. Then they looked 
at how common these acute and prolonged droughts were. They looked not 
only during the period of instrumental records, but also using 
reconstructed drought conditions stretching back more than 1,000 years. 
And they looked at state-of-the-art supercomputer simulations of the 
future...
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Understanding that increased drought can be expected under high and low 
emission scenarios alike has implications for adaptation strategies like 
rationing water usage and changing agricultural practices.

At the same time, the study’s finding that greenhouse emissions 
reductions still matter for extreme drought underscores the value of 
mitigation. Ko Barrett, senior advisor for climate in NOAA’s Office of 
Research and vice-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change’s Sixth Assessment Report, said:

The ongoing southwestern drought highlights the profound effects dry 
conditions have on people and the economy. The study clearly highlights 
the impact that greenhouse gas mitigation could have on the occurrence 
and severity of Southwestern drought. It is not too late to act and 
blunt impacts like severe Southwestern drought periods and short-term 
drought events...

Marvel agreed. She added:
There’s going to be a new normal regardless. There’s going to have to be 
some adaptation to a drier regional climate. But the degree of that 
adaptation – how often these droughts happen, what happens to the 
drought risk – that’s basically under our control.
https://earthsky.org/earth/nasa-drought-research-shows-climate-awareness-value/



[Sure, I'll bite]
*Is The US Becoming A Dystopia?*
Aug 13, 2021
Second Thought
We all love a good dystopian movie, but at what point do we have to 
start considering real life dystopian? In this episode, we're taking a 
look at some troubling trends in the US, and by extension the rest of 
the world.  https://youtu.be/AmXQ3nQBE4U
https://youtu.be/AmXQ3nQBE4U



/[a three year old video - https://youtu.be/uzCxFPzdO0Y - the beginning 
thinking of transformational adaptation and deep adaptation]/
*Shed A Light: Rupert Read – This civilisation is finished: so what is 
to be done?*
Nov 9, 2018
Churchill College, University of Cambridge
Rupert Read, Environmental Philosopher and Chair of Green House Think Tank.

The Paris Agreement explicitly commits us to use non-existent, utterly 
reckless, unaffordable and ineffective 'Negative Emissions Technologies' 
which will almost certainly fail to be realised. Barring a multifaceted 
miracle, within a generation, we will be facing an exponentially rising 
tide of climate disasters that will bring this civilization down. We, 
therefore, need to engage with climate realism. This means an epic 
struggle to mitigate and adapt, an epic struggle to take on the 
climate-criminals and, notably, to start planning seriously for 
civilizational collapse.

Dr Rupert Read is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of East 
Anglia. Rupert is a specialist in Wittgenstein, environmental 
philosophy, critiques of Rawlsian liberalism, and philosophy of film. 
His research in environmental ethics and economics has included 
publications on problems of ‘natural capital’ valuations of nature, as 
well as pioneering work on the Precautionary Principle. Recently, his 
work was cited by the Supreme Court of the Philippines in their landmark 
decision to ban the cultivation of GM aubergine. Rupert is also chair of 
the UK-based post-growth think tank, Green House, and is a former Green 
Party of England & Wales councillor, spokesperson, European 
parliamentary candidate and national parliamentary candidate. He stood 
as the Green Party MP-candidate for Cambridge in 2015.
https://youtu.be/uzCxFPzdO0Y



/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming September  13, 2015*
September 13, 2015:
The Los Angeles Times reports on the fossil fuel industry's role in 
sabotaging a bill to reduce petroleum consumption in California.
http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-sac-brown-legislature-20150913-story.html

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