[✔️] April 3, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Sun Apr 3 09:49:47 EDT 2022

/*April 3, 2022*/

/[ unsurprising headlines ]/
*Dire warning on climate change ‘is being ignored’ amid war and economic 
turmoil*
The third segment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
report is being overshadowed, just like the previous one
Fiona Harvey -- Sun 3 Apr 2022
Scientists fear that their last-ditch climate warnings are going 
unheeded amid international turmoil caused by the war in Ukraine, and 
soaring energy prices.

The third segment of the landmark scientific report from the 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which could be the last 
comprehensive assessment of climate science to be published while there 
is still time to avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown – will be 
published on Monday, warning that the world is not shifting quickly 
enough to a low-carbon economy.

But the previous instalment of the vast report – known as working group 
2 of the IPCC – was published a month ago, just as Russia invaded 
Ukraine, and received only muted attention, despite warning of 
catastrophic and irreversible upheavals that can only narrowly be 
avoided by urgent action now. Scientists told the Observer that Monday’s 
fresh scientific warning must spur governments to belated action.

‘They said they’d mutilate and kill me,’ says kidnapped Ukrainian journalist
Deborah Brosnan, adjunct professor of biology at Virginia Tech 
University in the US and a scientific consultant, told the Observer: 
“That [working group 2] report was widely anticipated, but completely 
ignored. Eclipsed mostly by the war in Ukraine, and domestic issues such 
as inflation, most major media have barely reported let alone analysed 
the findings.”...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/03/dire-warning-on-climate-change-is-being-ignored-amid-war-and-economic-turmoil

/[ Carnegie Endowment discussions video ]/
*The Middle East's Climate Change Wake-Up*
Feb 17, 2022
Carnegie Endowment
In the Middle East, climate change poses an unchecked threat as it 
sharpens socio-economic inequalities and further jeopardizes the plight 
of vulnerable communities already challenged by poor governance, water 
shortages, and conflict-induced displacement. While some Middle East 
governments have been proactive in the transition to renewable energy, 
there is still much more they can and should do to adapt to the 
far-reaching effects of climate change through better governance and 
inclusion.
Join a panel of distinguished scholars for a wide-ranging discussion on 
the cascading impacts of climate change in the Middle East and how 
governments and citizens can prepare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GHyZGziSM

/[  Hidden Brain radio show  - 54 min audio]
/*You Don’t Need a Crystal Ball*
When disaster strikes — from the explosion of a space shuttle to the 
spread of a deadly virus — we want to know whether we could have avoided 
catastrophe. Did anyone speak up with concerns about the situation? And 
if so, why didn’t someone listen? This week, we revisit a favorite 
episode about the psychology of warnings, and how we can all become 
better at predicting the future.
https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/you-dont-need-a-crystal-ball/

/[ common morality - and  crucial to success ]/
*Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the Paris 
Climate Accord, a New Study Finds*
Tribal lands studied sequester far more carbon than non-Indigenous 
regions. Yet Indigenous’ rights are often ignored and the forests the 
tribes protect are exploited or lost.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01042022/indigenous-land-rights-paris-agreement/ 

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/[ stronger language ]/
*Reaching the Paris Agreement without protecting Indigenous lands is 
“impossible”, says report*

    - - A new report by the Forest Declaration Assessment says that
    fulfilling the Paris Agreement won’t be possible without
    acknowledging and supporting the crucial role of Indigenous peoples
    and other local communities’ (IPLCs) in protecting lands.

    - - About 90% of IPLC lands are carbon sinks, say the report
    authors, Climate Focus and the World Resources Institute (WRI),
    which analyzed the IPLC lands in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.

    - - Each hectare of IPLC land sequesters an average of 30 metric
    tons of carbon every year, about twice as much as lands outside IPLC
    protection. This equates to about 30% of the four nation’s Paris
    Agreement targets.

    - - Countries should facilitate the titling of all IPLC lands,
    ensure consent to development projects, commit to protecting
    environmental defenders and make sure IPLCs are included in U.N.
    targets, says the report.

“How is it possible that governments, after having so much evidence 
based on Western modern science, still don’t understand the relevance 
[of Indigenous communities]?” said Guadalupe Yesenia Hernández Márquez, 
a Zapotec Indigenous leader from Oaxaca in Mexico who was part of the 
Indigenous people’s caucus at the U.N. biodiversity negotiations.

“We are requesting a role in the post-2020 [global biodiversity 
framework] because we have shown that we are needed,” said Márquez. “We 
want to continue conserving [biodiversity] as our lives depend directly 
on nature – something sacred to us.”
https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/reaching-the-paris-agreement-without-protecting-indigenous-lands-is-impossible-says-report/

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/[ here is the briefing paper report from Forest Declaration Assessment  ]/
*Sink or swim: How Indigenous and community lands can make or break 
nationally determined **contributions*
March 2022
This paper examines the role of Indigenous peoples and
local communities’ (IPLC) lands as carbon sinks and
how they may impact national climate commitments
in four countries – Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.
These countries are responsible for 5.1 percent of global
greenhouse gas emissions and store about 28 percent
of the carbon located in IPLC lands. Together, they are
home to over 300 Indigenous groups whose lands are
currently threatened by over-development, mining, and
agri-business. For each of the four countries, we
examined past and existing nationally determined
contributions and related documents, conducted a
geospatial analysis to examine carbon sequestration
and emissions on IPLC lands, and assessed the extent
to which IPLCs lands are protected by national laws
and policies. This analysis was used to develop a set of
actionable recommendations for governments in the
four countries, many of which are also relevant to
governments in other forest countries with significant
IPLC populations.
https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sink-or-swim-IPLC-lands-and-NDCs.pdf

/[  a reminder from Scientific American ] /
*Double Disaster: Wildfires Followed by Extreme Rainfall Are More Likely 
with Climate Change*
These events can cause devastating landslides and flash floods
- -
Their work, published on Friday in Science Advances, found that by the 
end of this century most wildfires in in large parts of the West would 
be followed by several extreme rain events within five years. This would 
carry major risks of landslides and flash floods...
And these risks are not confined to decades in the future: the study 
showed the odds of this type of compound event occurring have already 
risen across the West. “We’re starting to see these types of things 
happen with our own eyes,” Stevenson says.

Climate scientists combine historical data with computer models to look 
for trends in how the severity and frequency of extreme weather events 
have already changed and how they will continue to do so in the future. 
These efforts have already made it clear that wildfires in the western 
U.S. will likely become more intense and burn larger areas and that 
heavy downpours are likely to get more frequent and intense...
- -
The day after the Marshall Fire ignited, a major snowstorm fell—which 
helped extinguish the flames. But in a warmer future, that snow may have 
fallen as rain, potentially compounding the devastation. “We’re not 
going to prevent” such events, Stevenson says, so “we need to be prepared.”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/double-disaster-wildfires-followed-by-extreme-rainfall-are-more-likely-with-climate-change/

/[  What do birds know that humans fail to grasp?   text and audio 
reading ]/
*Birds are laying their eggs a month earlier than normal*
Did your backyard nest produce little songbirds a bit earlier this year?

You’re not alone. It turns out birds are laying their eggs earlier than 
before — and eggshell evidence points the finger at our changing climate.

A new analysis published in the Journal of Animal Ecology shows that the 
average egg-laying dates have moved up by nearly a month for 72 species 
of birds in the Upper Midwest region.

The bodies of these shorebirds are actually shrinking, and global 
warming is the cause

A 120-year-old collection of eggshells held by Chicago’s Field Museum 
helped hatch an investigation by a national group of researchers. The 
museum houses hundreds of the shells, most of which were collected 
before the 1920s, along with data about the types of birds and when the 
eggs were laid. The scientists also used records of bird nesting 
observations taken in the Chicago area between 1880 and 1920 and about 
1990 to 2015.

A bird egg collection at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. 
(John Bates/Field Museum)
Over time, the researchers found, the average egg-laying date moved up 
for a variety of species in Chicago. Overall, the birds’ lay dates 
advanced by an average of 25.1 days, with less shift for resident 
species and a wider shift for short- and long-distance migrants.

The animals studied aren’t just early birds: They are sensitive to 
climactic shifts. The researchers found that small changes in 
temperature — approximated using carbon-dioxide data from over the years 
— affected birds’ laying patterns.

*Birds’ winter habits are shifting as climate, land use change*

Climate change has shifted seasonal rhythms of animals and plants, which 
affects everything from bird food to bird habitats and can place birds 
in competition with one another for insects and other food sources. The 
earlier and warmer springs that accompany human-caused climate change 
can effectively strand birds that are born earlier than their 
traditional food sources.

The study points not just to the urgency of human-caused climate change 
but also the value of historic observations to modern scientists.

Combining archival data with modern observations, the researchers write, 
“will provide the ability to track, understand and perhaps even predict 
responses to present and future human-driven environmental change.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/04/02/birds-eggs-climate-change/

/[ noticing the mighty Sahuaro Cactus ]/
*Saguaro, Free of the Earth*
by Boyce Upholt
March 31, 2022
The O’odham peoples of the Sonoran Desert have long revered the saguaro 
cactus as a being with personhood—a belief that is congruous with the 
recent rights-of-nature movement. As legal protections for the cactus 
come up against the push to build a wall through Organ Pipe Cactus 
National Park, Boyce Upholt travels to the US-Mexico border, where a 
coalition of Indigenous voices are speaking on behalf of the rooted 
beings of the desert.
- -
IN 1982, A MAN named David Grundman shot a twenty-seven-foot-tall 
saguaro cactus. His reason remains unarticulated in the Arizona Republic 
article that recounts the crime, but we know that Grundman managed to 
get off two blasts from his sixteen-gauge shotgun before the cactus 
enacted its revenge: twenty-three feet of its central column—thousands 
of pounds of cactus flesh—fell atop his body. According to witnesses, he 
had only gotten halfway through the word “timber!” Grundman was dead 
before authorities arrived on the scene, though he lives on now as the 
subject of a sardonic country ballad: “Saguaro / A menace to the west,” 
as the chorus goes...
- -
Desert life offers a reminder that we humans, too, need aid. Even the 
Border Patrol has found that we ignore nature at our peril, as Mona 
Polacca points out. Last year, a particularly strong monsoon ripped 
through many gates in the wall, taking a first step towards the 
dismantling that the Healing the Border coalition seeks. “We didn’t do 
any of that work,” Polacca said. “The laws of nature did.” The monsoons 
will only grow worse as the climate changes. So too will floods and 
wildfires, droughts and heatwaves. This Earth is looking increasingly 
precarious. To grant the saguaro its freedom need not be an act of 
selflessness, then. How we fare in the coming years seems to 
increasingly depend on how willing we are to collaborate—with one 
another, and with the world’s many other beings. Now, then, may be the 
time to bring our own laws in line with nature’s.
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/saguaro-free-of-the-earth/

/[/ /Walter Cronkite//-- the most trusted person in mass media, quotes 
and video from the late Paul Tsongas - video]/
*April, 3, 1980*
*"The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" *reports on the role coal 
plays in fueling global warming.
http://climatecrocks.com/2013/01/23/1980-cronkite-on-climate/

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