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

Thu Sep 23 07:40:53 EDT 2021

/*September 23, 2021*/

/[on YouTube video -  humor about climate change.  There are a few good 
jokes]/
*Late Night Hosts Unite for Climate Change*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IraJ50jczgA

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/[Climate Week Stephen Colbert]
/*Aging Politicians And Meat Eaters Stand In The Way Of America's 
Climate Progress*
Sep 22, 2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Can eight late night shows combine forces to end the climate crisis in 
one night? Probably not. But it's worth a shot! Join Stephen Colbert as 
he takes a look at the big problems facing our planet, and some ways to 
fix them, in this special #ClimateNight monologue. #Colbert #Comedy 
#Monologue

Subscribe To "The Late Show" Channel: http://bit.ly/ColbertYouTube
Watch full episodes of "The Late Show": http://bit.ly/1Puei40
Like "The Late Show" on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1df139Y
Follow "The Late Show" on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1dMzZzG
Follow "The Late Show" on Instagram: http://bit.ly/29wfREj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcFlDnxiBiM/
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/[Another comic with some funny Vid]/
*Jimmy Kimmel & Fellow Late Night Shows Team Up for a Climate Change 
Intervention*
Sep 22, 2021
Jimmy Kimmel Live
We teamed up with all the other late night shows to address climate 
change and the apocalypse that will follow if we continue to do nothing 
about it. Jimmy talks about all the shortages that could happen as a 
result of climate change, it becoming a partisan issue, many prominent 
Republicans continuing to deny there is problem, the Biden 
Administration being on track to approve more oil and gas leases than 
any year of the Trump Administration, energy company ConocoPhillips’ 
contract to drill oil on the tundra in Northern Alaska, misinformation 
about individual “carbon footprints,” and we invited some real climate 
scientists back to the show with a new message and warning. Our greatest 
chance at doing even part of what needs to be done right now is to tell 
our reps to PASS the “Build Back Better” plan. Call this number: (202) 
224-3121 #ClimateNight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBoYb6RhcL4/
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/[Bee Video Comics night - amusing YouTube lecture]/
*Climate Change’s Dirty Little Secret: Sewage*
Fundraiser
Sept 22. 2021
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
If you thought climate change was sh*tty, just wait until you hear about 
this extremely pressing climate change issue that no one’s talking 
about! That’s right, we need to discuss our nation’s sewage system.

Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c 
on TBS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5aAbfxcP5M

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/[Seth Meyers]/
*Aging Politicians And Meat Eaters Stand In The Way Of America's Climate 
Progress*
Sep 22, 2021
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Can eight late night shows combine forces to end the climate crisis in 
one night? Probably not. But it's worth a shot! Join Stephen Colbert as 
he takes a look at the big problems facing our planet, and some ways to 
fix them, in this special #ClimateNight monologue. #Colbert #Comedy 
#Monologue

Subscribe To "The Late Show" Channel: http://bit.ly/ColbertYouTube
Watch full episodes of "The Late Show": http://bit.ly/1Puei40
Like "The Late Show" on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1df139Y
Follow "The Late Show" on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1dMzZzG
Follow "The Late Show" on Instagram: http://bit.ly/29wfREj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcFlDnxiBiM

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/[More humor on YouTube]/
*Sen. Bernie Sanders Takes on Fossil Fuel Lobby in Fight Over Climate 
Change: A Closer Look*
Fundraiser
Sep 22, 2021
Late Night with Seth Meyers
4.21M subscribers
Seth takes a closer look at progressives in Congress pushing forward 
with a transformative $3.5 trillion spending plan that would invest 
heavily in climate infrastructure amid historic wildfires, droughts and 
flooding.

Late Night with Seth Meyers is supporting God’s Love We Deliver to help 
those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. God’s Love We Deliver is a 
New York City-based organization that for over 30 years has provided 
personalized meals and nutrition counseling, free of charge, to those 
living with severe illnesses. With the help of 17,000 volunteers, God’s 
Love We Deliver provides over 2 million free meals each year to 
thousands of New York’s most vulnerable. Click the button on the 
above/below to donate or visit www.glwd.org.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKRAj96jG8Y

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/[funny Bee]/
*Greg Gutfeld Wasn't Invited To #ClimateNight*
Fundraiser
Sep 22, 2021
*Full Frontal with Samantha Bee*
Sorry you weren’t invited to the party Greg! Your comparisons are 
confusing but enjoy #ClimateNight from all of us to you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywKlk4Eg9c0

/[XR activisim launches a symbolic image of this era 
https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/img_4294-2048x1536.jpg 
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*Climate Activists Dumped a House in the Tidal Basin*
It's not clear whether they plan to retrieve it. One person was arrested.
BY JANE RECKER   | PHOTO BY EVY MAGES   | SEPT 22, 2021
As the sun glowed through the columns of the Jefferson Memorial around 
7:15 AM Wednesday, a man in a racing wetsuit began to churn the murky 
waters of the Tidal Basin with his kicks as he pushed a model of a 
sunken row house further into the basin. Constructed out of wood and 
floating on pontoons, the hollow house was a warning from climate 
activists with Extinction Rebellion DC of what the city might face 
should unchecked climate change continue to contribute to rising sea 
levels...
https://www.washigtonian.com/2021/09/22/climate-activists-dumped-a-house-in-the-tidal-basin/

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/[Washington DC chapter pulled it off]/
*Extinction Rebellion DC*
This is an emergency.
Life on Earth is in crisis. Our climate is changing faster than 
scientists predicted and the stakes are high. Biodiversity loss. Crop 
failure. Social and ecological collapse. Mass extinction. We are running 
out of time, and our governments have failed to act. Extinction 
Rebellion was formed to fix this.
https://www.xrdc.org/

/[Activism support audio discussion]/
*Mental Health, Eco-Despair, & Revolutionary Optimism*
Jul 22, 2021
In this second installment of our ongoing series "Dialectics and 
Psychedelics", Joshua Kahn Russell joins Breht to discuss anxiety and 
depression, how trauma shapes left movements and organizations, what 
constitutes a truly healthy left organization, the impact of climate 
change on our mental health, eco-anxiety, eco-grief, and eco-depression, 
as well as some reasons to be cautiously optimistic (and maybe even 
downright hopeful) about the coming decades.

Check out the First Installment of this series with Joshua here: 
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joshua-kahn
80 Year Trajectory mentioned in Intro: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eVdksZHqpo&ab_channel=CoolWorlds

www.WidlfireProject.org
  Instagram: @JoshuaKahnRussell
Twitter: @JoshKahnRussell
Outro Music: "That Funny Feeling" by Bo Burnham
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/joshua

/[CO2 levels are highest ever ]/
*California’s Wildfires Had an Invisible Impact: High Carbon Dioxide 
Emissions*
 From June to August, the blazes emitted far more planet-warming carbon 
dioxide than in any other summer in nearly two decades, satellite data 
shows.
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Overall, fires in the Western United States released 130 million tons of 
CO2 this summer, according to the agency’s estimates. This included 
about 17 million tons in Oregon, more than 10 times the amount released 
last year. The Bootleg fire, which burned more than 400,000 acres in 
July and August, was one of the largest in Oregon history. The Dixie 
fire in Northern California is that state’s largest.

Broiling summer temperatures across much of the West, coupled with 
severe drought, combined to make the fires grow rapidly, sometimes 
consuming tens of thousands of acres in a matter of hours.

“The ground is drier, vegetation is drier,” said Mark Parrington, a 
senior scientist and wildfire expert at the Copernicus Atmosphere 
Monitoring Service. “Add drought on top of that, and that accelerates 
the scale of the fire.”..
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/climate/wildfire-emissions-climate-change.html

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/[Trusted site for CO2 levels]/
*Our Planet's CO2 Home Page*
Atmospheric CO2  August 2021
414.47 parts per million (ppm)
Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii (NOAA GML)
Preliminary data released September 7, 2021
https://www.co2.earth/

/[Lots of print, little action, maybe we missed the signs]/
*A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is on the Rise, Scientists Say*
Toxic microbial blooms thrived during the Great Dying, the most severe 
extinction in Earth's history, and they are proliferating again due to 
human activity.
Becky Ferreira -- September 21, 2021
If you live near a freshwater river or lake, odds are good that you have 
seen warning signs about harmful algal and bacterial blooms posted on 
its shores. Alarmingly, a new study reports that these blooms may be 
early indicators of an ongoing ecological disaster, caused by humans, 
that eerily parallels the worst extinction event in Earth’s history.

Some 251 million years ago, the end-Permian event (EPE), popularly known 
as the “Great Dying,” wiped out nearly 90 percent of species on Earth, 
making it the most severe loss of life in our planet’s history...
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Ominous parallels of that upheaval are now showing up on Earth, 
according to a team led by Chris Mays, a postdoctoral researcher and 
palaeobotanist at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm. 
The researchers found that toxic algal and bacterial blooms during the 
Great Dying are similar to a recent microbial proliferation in modern 
lakes and rivers—a trend that has been linked to human activities such 
as greenhouse gas emissions (especially carbon dioxide), deforestation, 
and soil loss.

“We are not there yet,” Mays said in an email, referring to the 
conditions of the EPE. “There was probably a six-fold increase in carbon 
dioxide during the EPE, but today carbon dioxide levels haven't yet 
doubled since pre-industrial times.” ...
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The repeated correlation of these blooms with mass extinction events is 
“a disconcerting signal for future environmental change,” report the 
researchers in a study published on Friday in the journal Nature 
Communications. Indeed, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest we are 
currently in the midst of yet another mass extinction event, caused by 
humans. ..
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvzqg5/a-warning-sign-of-a-mass-extinction-event-is-on-the-rise-scientists-say

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/[Check the source]/
*Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following 
the end-Permian extinction*
Abstract
Harmful algal and bacterial blooms linked to deforestation, soil loss 
and global warming are increasingly frequent in lakes and rivers. We 
demonstrate that climate changes and deforestation can drive recurrent 
microbial blooms, inhibiting the recovery of freshwater ecosystems for 
hundreds of millennia. From the stratigraphic successions of the Sydney 
Basin, Australia, our fossil, sedimentary and geochemical data reveal 
bloom events following forest ecosystem collapse during the most severe 
mass extinction in Earth’s history, the end-Permian event (EPE; c. 
252.2 Ma). Microbial communities proliferated in lowland fresh and 
brackish waterbodies, with algal concentrations typical of modern 
blooms. These initiated before any trace of post-extinction recovery 
vegetation but recurred episodically for >100 kyrs. During the following 
3 Myrs, algae and bacteria thrived within short-lived, 
poorly-oxygenated, and likely toxic lakes and rivers. Comparisons to 
global deep-time records indicate that microbial blooms are persistent 
freshwater ecological stressors during warming-driven extinction events.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25711-3

/[in this fast talking video, Hank has all the answers - pretty good]/
*How We Fix the Climate*
Aug 13, 2021
vlogbrothers
We should act as if this is an emergency, because it is. But part of 
that is understanding the tools and strategies countries are using to 
decarbonize and stabilize the climate. This is work that's already being 
done. We have already decoupled economic growth from the emission of 
greenhouse gasses which, frankly, was unthinkable just a couple decades 
ago.

We need to be thinking and talking about this stuff, and one really 
important piece of that is understanding this stuff so we can talk about 
it and advocate for it. And, good news, it's all actually pretty 
fascinating!!

This Video I Made on Hankschannel (especially for US citizens)
https://youtu.be/uhHR7alzXiY

/[VOX video -- you know the answer to this... green trees, green money ]/
*How America's hottest city is trying to cool down*
Sep 20, 2021
Vox
Can trees help save Phoenix from extreme heat?
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: 
http://goo.gl/0bsAjO

It’s time to stop looking at trees as a form of “beautification.” They 
are, instead, a living form of infrastructure, providing a variety of 
services that include stormwater management, air filtering, carbon 
sequestration, and, most importantly for a city like Phoenix, Arizona, 
they cool the environment around them.

Trees can lower neighborhood temperatures in three ways:
1) Their shade prevents solar radiation from hitting paved surfaces like 
concrete and asphalt, which absorb energy and rerelease it into the air 
as heat.
2) Their leaves pull heat from the immediate area in order to 
evapotranspirate water that’s drawn from the soil.
And, 3) If you’re standing under one, a tree protects your body directly 
from the sun’s rays. If you’ve ever made a summer visit to a dry, hot 
city like Phoenix, you’ll know how important shade is for making any 
outdoor experiences tolerable.

As Phoenix deals with a rising frequency of extreme heat waves — which 
aren’t only deadly, but also cause worrisome spikes in energy demand — 
the city is looking to trees as part of its heat mitigation strategy. 
Phoenix isn’t devoid of trees, but they’re distributed unevenly across 
the city. A quick glance at a satellite image of the metro area reveals 
substantial green splotches in the north and east and brown ones in the 
south and west, where many lower-income neighborhoods are located.

So Phoenix recently pledged to reach “tree equity” by 2030, under an 
agreement with American Forests, a national tree organization. I visited 
Phoenix recently to take a look at the current state of the city’s urban 
forest. In this video, we use drone imagery and thermal cameras to 
understand how the urban design of the city contributes to extreme heat, 
and what it can do to cool down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ6fSHr5TJg

/[Oh by the way...there is a global problem]/
*Record number of environmental activists murdered*
By Claire Marshall
BBC Environment & Rural Affairs Correspondent
13 September
A record number of activists working to protect the environment and land 
rights were murdered last year, according to a report by a campaign group.

227 people were killed around the world in 2020, the highest number 
recorded for a second consecutive year, the report from Global Witness said.

Almost a third of the murders were reportedly linked to resource 
exploitation - logging, mining, large-scale agribusiness, hydroelectric 
dams and other infrastructure.

The report called the victims "environmental defenders" killed for 
protecting natural resources that need to be preserved, including 
forests, water supplies and oceans.

Since the Paris Agreement on climate change was signed in 2015, the 
organisation says on average four activists have been killed each week.

It said this "shocking figure" was likely to be an underestimate because 
of growing restrictions on journalists and other civic freedoms.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58508001

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/[my personal rant from long ago]/
*Suborning Murder, Encouraging Mass Suicide*
By Richard Pauli on July 9, 2009
/Suborn  - To induce (a person) to commit an unlawful or evil act./

Hey EnergyTomorrow, API and the entire fossil fuel industry - we have to 
speak out.   You suborn murder by heavily promoting carbon fuel usage.  
You actively encourage species suicide.

You have known for decades that CO2 causes global warming.  And you know 
that fossil fuels are the major human source of CO2 greenhouse gasses 
that cause catastrophic heating.

You hide it from consumers, you deny the science and you secretly fund 
skeptics, and now you seek political support for your carbon fueled 
campaign of mass suicide.

Science pretty much knows now that we are a doomed species.   It will be 
a tough life for all our grandchildren, and we cannot expect many humans 
after that.

And you continue lying when you could have been educating and 
researching and deploying non-polluting energy.   Now your momentum 
traps us all.

Your most evil act is to discount the danger and continue promoting 
ignorance and doubt.   You have pushed the world into total adoption of 
carbon based fuels, and like big tobacco you covered up science and 
distracted your market, and now you are groveling for political support 
to keep your industry going through the chaos ahead.

More than any other industrial segment, yours - oil, gas, coal, all the 
CO2 carbon fuels - are the most directly responsible for the end of our 
species.  You continue to worsen the struggle and cause an early death 
for our progeny.

It is no comfort that your grandchildren are just as doomed as mine.   
Eventually we will all be dying for your sins.   But now we know, and we 
will neither forgive nor forget this mass murder for money.

Richard Pauli   July 4th 2009
http://www.noenergytomorrow.org/2009/07/suborning-murder-encouraging-mass-suicide.html

/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming September  23, 1976*

September 23, 1976: President Gerald Ford and Democratic challenger 
Jimmy Carter discuss energy policy in the first of three presidential 
debates; both men express support for "cleaner" coal.

(29:35--36:57)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAqIKybNO38

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