[✔️] April 9, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
👀 Richard Pauli
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Sat Apr 9 09:44:50 EDT 2022
/*April 9, 2022*/
/[ exponential rise --////hurricanes //"250 times stronger"
//meteorologist in a brief, 2 min video ] /
*Jeff Berardelli on 2022 Hurricane Season*
Apr 8, 2022
greenmanbucket
Interviewed Jeff Berardelli, Chief Meteorologist of WFLA Tampa, (where
they know a thing or two about hurricanes) for an upcoming Yale Climate
Connections vid. Here's what he told me on the onset of 2022's hurricane
season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIRluyzf5B0
/[ LA Times Opinion ] /
*Editorial: There’s little time left to save Earth from climate
catastrophe. Here’s what U.S. politicians can do now*
BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD
APRIL 8, 2022
The latest United Nations climate report couldn’t be clearer: We are at
a planetary crossroads.
If we don’t act now to go beyond current pledges and cut fossil fuel
emissions in half by 2030, it will be impossible to keep the heating of
the Earth below a crucial 2.7-degree Fahrenheit limit and avoid
increasingly severe devastation and suffering. We can still avert
catastrophe, but there is only a narrow window left to end the era of
fossil fuels.
In the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, scientists from
across the globe spell out, in cautious yet exacting language, that what
is blocking the replacement of dangerous fossil fuels with clean
renewable energy is not technology, but politics.
“One factor limiting the ambition of climate policy has been the ability
of incumbent industries to shape government action on climate change”
and lobby more effectively than those who would gain from carbon-cutting
policies, the report says.
Politicians, and the self-interested fossil fuel companies they serve,
are the reason we are spiraling toward calamity. Wealthy countries like
the United States, whose dumping of pollution into the atmosphere has
done the most to cause the climate crisis, have a responsibility to take
the lead, and our elected leaders need to overcome resistance from dirty
industries.
There are steps President Biden and Congress can and should take
immediately to spur the adoption of renewable energy, like wind and
solar, electric vehicles, water heaters, heat pumps and battery storage,
while taking on the oil, gas and coal industries whose products are
fueling wildfires, storms, heat waves, drought, global instability and war.
Without any action from Congress, Biden can use his authority under the
Defense Production Act to quickly ramp up the manufacturing and
deployment of clean energy technology, including efficient electric heat
pumps, which are air-conditioning like appliances that both heat and
cool homes and will immediately reduce fossil fuel consumption by
replacing models that burn climate-polluting natural gas.
Biden has already invoked the cold war-era law to encourage domestic
production of critical minerals like lithium, nickel and cobalt that are
used in electric vehicle batteries, and before that, to respond to the
COVID-19 pandemic. And he banned imports of Russian oil and gas by
executive order. The invasion of Ukraine has only underscored the global
security imperative of ending our reliance on fossil fuels. If war and
disease are reasons enough to warrant such action, the climate crisis is
an even greater one.
Using defense powers to boost U.S. production of heat pumps at low cost
has reportedly been studied by the White House. The idea has been
gathering support among environmental groups and Democratic lawmakers as
a way to respond to climate change and help Europe reduce reliance on
Russian gas, similar to the “Lend-Lease” program that the U.S. used to
help allies during World War II.
If Biden won’t act on his own, Congress should push him.
A bill introduced Wednesday by U.S. Reps. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Jason Crow
(D-Colo.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) would do that, using the
Defense Production Act to increase domestic production of renewable
energy technology. The Energy Security and Independence Act would
“invest $100 billion in reinvigorating the domestic clean energy
industrial base,” provide $30 billion to help weatherize and insulate
6.4 million homes and “$10 billion to procure and install millions of
heat pumps, significantly reducing consumption of imported fossil
fuels,” according to a summary from Bush’s office.
But lawmakers need to do more. They must find a way to pass key climate
provisions from Biden’s all-but-dead Build Back Better Act, including
renewable energy incentives for wind and solar and electric vehicle tax
credits that would accelerate these zero-emission technologies. They can
also get behind the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax, a bill introduced last
month by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and California Rep. Ro Khanna
(D-Fremont) that seeks to deter the petroleum industry from profiteering
as gas prices surge by returning some of its revenues to consumers in
quarterly rebates.
This kind of climate action may seem unlikely or even laughably
ambitious, given the dysfunction in Congress, its failure to respond to
decades of escalating warnings from scientists and the stranglehold of
polluting industries. But if there ever were a time to press hard and go
big to save our planet, it is now.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-04-08/us-climate-action-end-fossil-fuels
/[ Simple explanation of the recent reports Video ] /
*How do we solve climate change? What the latest IPCC report tells us.*
Apr 6, 2022
Dr Gilbz
The final instalment of the IPCC’s sixth assessment report (AR6) came
out in April 2022. It follows two previous parts, which covered climate
science and climate impacts. This part is the most important bit: what
we can do to tackle climate change.
You can check out the two videos I did on the first two reports here:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awmx9922Kac
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p9hezlWQCI&
The TL;DR is that the first part of AR6 showed that climate change is
happening here and now, and faster than we thought, highlighting that
the climate crisis is, in the words of the UN’s secretary general, “code
red for humanity”. The second part was arguably even more concerning,
noting that the impacts of climate change are far-reaching and worse
than we ever expected, meaning the “window of opportunity” to take
action is “rapidly narrowing”.
********
You can find the full IPCC working group 3 climate mitigation report
here: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-asse...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGH9zvvMEo
/[ pretty dense science talk by AGU in Zoom with grad students - video ]/
*Soil carbon saturation: do soils have a carbon storage limit, and if
so, what controls it?*
Mar 28, 2022
AGU
Keen public interest in soil carbon sequestration will test the
scientific community’s ability to deliver effective soil management
practices and durable scientific concepts. In this webinar series we
will hear diverse perspectives on key questions that inform how to go
about sequestering soil carbon in working lands.
In our second webinar of 2022, “Carbon saturation,” Dr. Katerina
Georgiou and Ph.D. candidate Maura Slocum will address the question of
whether soils have a finite capacity to store organic carbon. and
discuss the factors that determine soil carbon storage capacity.
This series is sponsored by the International Soil Carbon Network in
partnership with the Midwest, Northeast, and Northwest USDA Climate
Hubs, the American Geophysical Union, and the tri-societies–the American
Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science
Society of America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noEcc_Nf204
/[//video - although aimed at professionals -- there are no secrets here
-- mostly basic concepts, presented in calm voices, worth viewing --
//to prepare clinical counselors for the growing mental heath crisis
driven by climate chaos ]/
*Intro to Climate Psychology for Psychotherapists*
Climate Psychology Alliance NA
Recording of a workshop-style introduction to climate psychology for
psychotherapists by climate-aware mental health practitioners Wendy
Greenspun, PhD, and Elizabeth Allured, PsyD
https://youtu.be/ZTWEW_8LahU
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/[ more content, deeper considerations by two climate-aware therapists ]/
*Wendy Greenspun, PhD, answers: What is a climate-aware therapist?*
Climate Psychology Alliance NA
Wendy Greenspun, PhD, answers: What is a climate-aware therapist?
In conversation with Elizabeth Allured, PsyD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb6f0J5-YUs
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/[ Finding a Climate-Aware Therapist ]/
*Climate-Aware Therapist Directory*
What is a climate-aware therapist?
*Who we are:* Climate-aware therapists are professionally-trained
psychotherapists who recognize that the climate crisis is both a global
threat to all life on Earth and a deeply personal threat to the mental
and physical well-being—the sense of safety, meaning, and purpose—of
each individual, family, and community on the planet.
*Our shared goal:* To use our unique psychotherapeutic skills to meet
the multiple, mounting mental health crises arising out of the
increasing instability of our planetary system.
*A climate-aware therapist:*
*Values* that the professional training of the allied mental-health
therapy and counseling communities are needed in this fight.
*Commits *to delivering the highest-quality mental health services
to all clientele—which can include addressing cognitive, affective,
personal, societal, and existential repercussions of the climate crisis.
*Responds *to clientele in a humane and compassionate manner.
*Acknowledges* the complicated nature of the human response to
climate crisis, without presuming the presence or absence of
climate-related distress.
*Understands* how our relationships to nature and living systems,
and our interaction with climate science and climate media can be
useful tools for integrating and resolving psychological conflicts
and stressors.
Therapists listed in this directory have attested to being a licensed
therapist in good standing with their state/provincial and
professional-licensing bodies; They pledge to deliver professional
mental health services that are consistent with the established
scientific consensus on the climate crisis. /[ Read their disclaimer ]/
Climate-Aware Therapist Directory -
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1gN-ntpxINp16tccoEIdEeZp14Om2PSP5&hl=en_US&usp=sharing
https://www.climatepsychology.us/climate-therapists
/[ Classic from 2021 ] /
*Why Capitalism is Killing Us (And The Planet)*
May 7, 2021
Our Changing Climate
Why does Capitalism cause climate change?
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at why
capitalism is killing us (and the planet) by causing climate change.
Specifically, I look at how capitalism's multinationals like ExxonMobil
and BP are responsible for increased emissions and ultimately the
climate crisis we are living through today. Capitalism's
growth-at-all-costs paradigm runs counter to the material realities of
the Earth we live on. In addition to causing climate change, capitalists
have found insidious ways to profit off of and engrain free market,
neoliberal ideas into the global economy in the wake of climate
change-fueled disasters. This is called disaster capitalism and will
only get worse as the climate crisis causes more and more chaos. Flying
in the face of this capitalist destruction are countless revolutionary
movements and ideas that are working to dismantle the profit and growth
economy and lift up the people instead. Eco-socialism moving into
communism, degrowth, buen vivir, and food sovereignty are just a few
philosophical tactics that are being championed by the masses as a means
of countering the destructive tendencies of capitalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxP2TzYcNw
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/[Check out Second Thought's video on why capitalism can't handle
climate change]/
*Why Capitalism Can't Handle Climate Change*
May 7, 2021
Second Thought
Climate change is shaping up to be the single most destructive and
expensive challenge humanity has ever faced. In this episode, we'll
explore why capitalism is incapable of solving the problems it creates,
and what we should expect in the coming decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H787Dj4oMWU
/[ time to notice a book //-- The Nutmeg's Curse argues that the
dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old
geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism.]/
*Book Review | 'The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables For A Planet In Crisis' By
Amitav Ghosh*
Amitav Ghosh connects the origins of our current climate crisis to
Western colonialism's ruthless exploitation of human life and the
natural world in this ambitious read.
Ashutosh Kumar Thakur - - 7 NOV 2021
Amitav Ghosh's latest book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back
to the discovery of the New World and the maritime passage to the Indian
Ocean. It is a remarkable mix of history, essay, testimonies and
polemics. The Nutmeg's Curse argues that today's climate change dynamics
are based on a centuries-old geopolitical system built by Western
colonialism. The now-ubiquitous spice ‘nutmeg’ is at the centre of
Ghosh's narrative.
The nutmeg's history is one of conquest and exploitation, both of human
life and of the natural environment. The narrative of the nutmeg becomes
a fable for our environmental catastrophe in Ghosh's hands, revealing
how earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil
fuels have always been entangled with human history. Our predicament, he
argues, is the outcome of a mechanical view of the world, in which
nature is viewed as a resource for humans to exploit for their own
interests, and not as a living force with agency and meaning...
Author Amitav Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that
connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see
around us today, writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and
Black Lives Matter protests...
He also interweaves discussions on everything from climate change and
the migrant crisis to the animist spirituality of indigenous communities
around the world. The Nutmeg's Curse offers a sharp critique of Western
society, and reveals the profoundly remarkable ways in which human
history is shaped by non-human forces.
We also realise that book The Nutmeg's Curse reimagines modernity as a
centuries-long campaign of omnicide against the spirits of the earth,
rivers, trees, and even the humble nutmeg, while also making a
passionate case for the critical importance of vitalist philosophy and
non-human narrative. Climate change is considered in the West to be a
technical problem that can be solved with clean technology. However, it
is seen as a geopolitical and inequitable concern in the rest of the
globe. Climate change geopolitics are never mentioned in meetings like
the COP, which are focused on technocratic and technological solutions.
That is, after all, the central idea.
Before the 18th century, every single nutmeg in the world originated
around a group of small volcanic islands east of Java, known as the
Banda Islands. As the nutmeg made its way across the known world, they
became immensely valuable - in 16th century Europe, just a handful could
buy a house. It was not long before European traders became conquerors,
and the indigenous Bandanese communities - and the islands themselves -
would pay a high price for access to this precious commodity. Yet the
bloody fate of the Banda Islands forewarns of a threat to our present day.
Ghosh claims in his book that the nutmeg's traumatic journey from its
original islands reveals a wider colonial mindset that justifies the
exploitation of human life and the natural environment, which continues
to lead geopolitics today.
According to Ghosh, the Banda islands were the only site on Earth where
nutmeg was farmed prior to the 16th century. The Dutch then invaded the
island in order to safeguard its production, killing thousands in the
process...
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Amitav Ghosh's The Nutmeg's Curse exposes the reader to a sprawling tale
of capitalism and climate change told with excellent historical and
cultural context.
When the nutmeg was discovered by the rest of the globe, European
traders quickly conquered the islands, causing indigenous tribes on the
Banda islands to pay exorbitant rates for the product. In his book,
Ghosh argues that the nutmeg's voyage from its native Banda islands
reveals a prevalent colonial attitude of exploitation of human life and
the environment that persists today.
Amitav Ghosh has struck has deepened our understanding of the climate
catastrophe once again. He disproves the concept of modernity, moves the
blame away from capitalism, and takes you on an odyssey across space and
time. The aim was to establish a monopoly on these spices, and the Dutch
carried it to the next level. In the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries,
European colonists were totally responsible for the exploitation of the
Earth's resources. The curses of these resources are destroying
countries. Ghosh had earlier addressed climate change in his 2016 book
The Great Derangement...
- -
To fully comprehend the world-devouring logic that drives ecological
collapse, Ghosh urges readers to confront war, colonialism and genocide.
Although it is widely acknowledged that the climate issue is
multifaceted, American cultural discussions about it are mostly focused
on its scientific, technological and economic aspects.
Ghosh never fails to show us the mirror, whether it's the glorified
traditions of omnicide, the moral vindication sought through religion
throughout history, the morbid individualism imbibed as a virtue, the
irresistible vanity of racial, classist, and casteist hierarchies, or
the human audacity to claim victory over Nature. Ghosh has written a
remarkable, visionary appeal to new forms of human life in the
‘Anthropocene’, with wide historical perspective and astonishing
insight. This is a timely and compelling work.
Author Amitav Ghosh was born in the city of Calcutta in 1956. He spent
his childhood in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India. He studied at the
universities of Delhi and Oxford, and in 1986, he wrote The Circle of
Reason, the first of his eight books. Sea of Poppies, the first book in
his Ibis trilogy, was a Man Booker Prize finalist. In 2018, he was
awarded the prestigious Jnanpith Award. The Circle of Reason, The Shadow
Lines, In An Antique Land, Dancing in Cambodia, The Calcutta Chromosome,
The Glass Palace, Incendiary Circumstances, and The Hungry Tide are only
a few of his works. Gun Island and Junglenama, are his most recent works.
Book: The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/entertainment-news-book-review-the-nutmegs-curse-parables-for-a-planet-in-crisis-by-amitav-ghosh/400080
/[The news archive - looking back]/
*April 9, 2007*
April 9, 2007: Environmental activist Laurie David and singer Sheryl
Crow begin a brief tour of colleges and universities across the United
States to raise awareness about climate change. Later in the month, the
Washington Post reports on the David/Crow tour.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/19/AR2007041900650.html
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