[✔️] April 22, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Richard Pauli Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Fri Apr 22 09:04:29 EDT 2022 

/*April 22, 2022*/

//[ weather forecasts for wildfire risk  ]/
/*Extremely critical fire weather expected Friday in portions of New 
Mexico and Colorado*
“Friday’s expected weather could rival the most powerful fire events of 
the past decade,” said a NWS meteorologis...
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Three existing fires in northern New Mexico east and northeast of Santa 
Fe could be vulnerable to extreme conditions, the Cooks Peak Fire, Calf 
Canyon Fire, and the Hermits Peak Fire. Friday’s forecast for the Cooks 
Peak Fire, which was very active Thursday, calls for southwest winds of 
40 mph gusting to 57 mph with 9 percent relative humidity. It will also 
be very windy on Saturday.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/04/21/extremely-critical-fire-weather-expected-friday-in-portions-of-new-mexico-and-colorado/ 


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/[ See the map //-- bookmark the link - stay calm, notice increased 
danger risk//]/
*Storm Prediction Center has issued a Fire Weather Outlook  - *
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/
https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fire_wx/fwdy1.html

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/[  weather/climate anxiety is NOT an aberrancy - rather a normal 
reaction to a global emergency - text and audio presentation 48 min ]/
*Climate crisis: How to cope with eco-anxiety*
Authors Natalie Muller, Neil King - April 1, 2022
Does worrying about climate change keep you up at night? Growing numbers 
of people are struggling with eco-anxiety, or distress about the state 
of the planet. If you're one of them, these expert tips might help.
Shrinking ice caps, disappearing biodiversity, fiercer bushfires, heat 
waves and flash floods. The effects of climate change are difficult to 
ignore.

These disasters not only cause immense physical destruction. A growing 
body of evidence shows they're also taking a toll on our mental health.

*Do you have climate anxiety? * [play audio link in article "On the 
Green Fence "  ]
Researchers say eco-anxiety is rising, especially among members of 
younger generations who report feeling distressed and overwhelmed by the 
state of the environment.

In a major study of young people aged 16 to 25 published in The Lancet 
last year, 75% said the "future is frightening" and more than half said 
"humanity is doomed."

Of the 10,000 respondents across 10 countries, 45% said their feelings 
about climate change negatively affected their ability to function in 
daily life.

Eco-anxiety, or climate anxiety, covers a range of responses to climate 
change, from fear about the future, to shame and guilt over consumption, 
to anger and grief over what has and will be lost.

So if you find yourself grappling with these feelings, what should you do?

*Recognize that difficult emotions are normal*
In the Lancet study, more than 50% of young people reported feeling sad, 
anxious, angry, powerless, helpless and guilty about climate change.

Liz Marks, co-lead author of the study and a senior lecturer in 
psychology at the UK's University of Bath, said a first step in dealing 
with these emotions is to acknowledge that they are a natural and 
healthy response to an existential threat.

"When talking about eco-anxiety, it's important not to pathologize it," 
she said. "It isn't something we need to cure or get rid of. It's much 
more about how we can live with it so it doesn't overwhelm us."...
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If you're feeling overwhelmed by the climate crisis, it can help to seek 
out communities in real life or on social media and share your thoughts 
with like-minded people, said climate coaching psychologist Megan 
Kennedy-Woodard...
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If you're feeling overwhelmed by the climate crisis, it can help to seek 
out communities in real life or on social media and share your thoughts 
with like-minded people, said climate coaching psychologist Megan 
Kennedy-Woodard...
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Liz Marks says it's important to prioritize your well-being and take a 
break from media that causes distress.

"This isn't about pushing it away completely," she said. "You might want 
to remain informed, but perhaps it's about reducing the frequency and 
amount of time you spend reading about the climate crisis and trying to 
choose reliable information sources that aren't going to cause a huge 
spike in anxiety."

She stressed that while mindfulness is no cure for climate change, it 
can help relieve stress, along with regular exercise and activities that 
allow you to feel calm and connected to others.

Clinical psychologist Patrick Kennedy-Williams, the other co-director of 
Climate Psychologists, agreed that self-care is vital. "We're all in 
this for the long run and we have to be able to get satisfaction and 
enjoyment from our lives despite this crisis ... It's OK to enjoy yourself."

If the anxiety gets to a point where it affects your life, work and 
relationships on a daily basis, however, it's advisable to seek 
professional help, he added...
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"It's the uncertainty that drives a lot of fear and anxiety in kids," he 
said. "So if they if they feel like they can play their part … it's 
incredibly relieving of anxiety."

It can also help to emphasize positive, solution-based climate news 
rather than only negative developments.

"Look at how we all took action to begin closing the hole in the ozone 
layer, banning CFCs and so on. There are wonderful examples," he added.

All three psychologists stress that while it is important to be hopeful 
and build optimism, it's not up to individuals to solve the crisis — a 
burden that can stoke guilt and anxiety in itself.

"This isn't the problem of the individual. We are all part of a system. 
It's the wider systems that have created this," said Kennedy-Woodard...
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-crisis-how-to-cope-with-eco-anxiety/a-60796191

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/[  Washington Post offers some advice along with news content delivered ] /
*How to manage your climate anxiety*
If climate change feels scary and overwhelming to you, you’re not alone. 
With so much on the line, it’s normal to want to tune out when it comes 
to news about our warming planet. Here are some tips for managing those 
feelings.

*Take care of yourself:* Need immediate stress relief? Try one of these 
surprising science-based strategies. Need help with general climate 
anxiety? Here are some tips for coping and how a climate journalist 
manages her climate grief.

    Need a quick stress-reliever? Try one of these surprising
    science-based strategies.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/stress-relief-strategies-scientific-reduce/2021/09/07/f1cf2234-0c2a-11ec-aea1-42a8138f132a_story.html

    Here’s what you can do to cope with your anxiety about climate change
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/climate-change-anxiety-dread-cope/2021/07/14/471eb264-e4d4-11eb-b722-89ea0dde7771_story.html

    Climate grief got you down? Here’s how I approach it as a journalist.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/03/06/climate-grief-got-you-down-heres-how-i-approach-it-journalist/

*Make sustainable changes: *Individual actions alone won’t stop climate 
change — but they can restore to you a sense of agency because you 
change what you can control. One place to start is going greener in your 
kitchen or planning a more climate-friendly vacation.

*Track progress: *There’s still time for positive systemic change. We’re 
keeping track of what the Biden administration is doing to fight climate 
change, as well as tracking related policies and solutions being 
proposed in the United States and abroad. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/climate-environment/biden-climate-environment-actions
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/04/20/climate-change-around-the-world/



/[ stayed calm, carried-on,  moved to safety ]/
*Tunnel Fire in Northern Arizona grows to 20,000+ acres*
Bill Gabbert - April 21, 2022
"All Sunset Crater Volcano and Wupatki staff are accounted for and safe. 
We were also able to successfully evacuate all culturally important 
items from the visitor center. For those who worried, the Kabotie 
painting, corn rock, Qa’na Katsina doll, and other items are safe."
https://www.coconino.az.gov/2894/Tunnel-Fire
To see all articles on Wildfire Today about the Tunnel Fire, including 
the most recent --
https://wildfiretoday.com/tag/tunnel-fire/



/[ Should we?  No, but will we?  Most certainly we will, yes. But is it 
dangerous and stupid?   Oh yes, you bet ]/
*Climate change technology: is shading the earth too risky? | The Economist*
Apr 21, 2022
The Economist
If the world is getting too hot, why not give it some shade? Solar 
geoengineering could halt global warming, but there are risks to this 
controversial technology.

00:00 - Is solar geoengineering worth the risks?
00:41 - On the frontline of climate change
01:40 - What is solar geoengineering?
02:05 - Why the Saami Council stopped a research project
03:33 - Why we need more research
05:05 - The risk of global political tension
06:12 - The risk of termination shock
07:07 - What is marine cloud brightening?
09:04 - The risk of unequal effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFMMssyRsWo


/[  where can one move to ? ] /
*Americans are fleeing climate change — here’s where they can go*
PUBLISHED APR 21 2022

    Asheville, North Carolina
    Buffalo, New York
    Burlington, Vermont
    Detroit, Michigan
    Duluth, Minnesota
    Madison, Wisconsin
    Milwaukee, Wisconsin
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Rochester, New York

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/climate-change-encourages-homeowners-to-reconsider-legacy-cities.html


/[ Anchorage Daily News ]/
*Curious Alaska: What is climate change doing to the haul road?*/
/By Michelle Theriault Boots
Published: April 16, 2022
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Question: How is the Haul Road being impacted by climate change? What 
happened to that “tidal wave” of melted permafrost that was rolling 
towards the Dalton Hwy a few years ago?

The Dalton Highway is 414 miles of engineering marvel and trouble. And 
climate change is only making things more complicated./
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//The highway runs from Livengood, north of Fairbanks, to Deadhorse, on 
the edge of the Arctic Ocean, linking the North Slope with the rest of 
Alaska’s limited road system. It’s as long as the trip from Washington 
D.C. to Boston, but with hardly a human settlement along the way.

The main user constituency is the hundreds of trucks hauling materials 
to the oil fields that rumble up and down the pavement-and-gravel 
everyday, making the highway a vital economic link for Alaska.

The Dalton Highway slices through an Arctic region that’s experiencing 
some of the most dramatic effects of warming anywhere on the earth. That 
translates to new and pressing challenges for keeping the road open and 
viable, said Jeff Currey, the northern region materials engineer with 
the State of Alaska’s Department of Transportation and Public Facilities.

“Not all of it is problematic, but a lot of it is,” Currey said...
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The highway faces three major categories of threats linked to a warming 
climate, Currey said: It’s “kind of the poster child” for difficulties 
related to the loss of permafrost. It is at risk of being hammered by 
floods of increasing frequency and intensity. And perhaps most 
cinematically, ominous frozen debris lobes – large, slow-moving 
underground landslides of rock, dirt and tree -- loom over it. At least 
one spot has already been rerouted to avoid being crushed.

The Department of Transportation spells out the problem on its website: 
“The warming Arctic climate has increased our maintenance challenges,” 
the Department of Transportation says.

The Dalton Highway region is clearly changing, as is the whole of Arctic 
Alaska, said Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the International 
Arctic Research Center Alaska at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

“The entire Dalton Highway is getting warmer and it’s getting wetter,” 
he said.

*Permafrost*
First, there’s the chronic problem of melting permafrost, according to 
Currey. When permafrost thaws, the road on top of it collapses, creating 
sinkholes and heaves.

“If it sank down uniformly, that would not be so bad,” he said.

But it sinks in divots, creating a surface that ranges between potholes 
to undriveable. That’s always been an issue for maintaining roads 
through permafrost. But the area’s underlying ground is changing fast, 
and permafrost in some areas is nearly guaranteed to decline or even 
disappear in areas along the highway in the future.

“The long term trend is pretty clear: Over the next half-century there’s 
no doubt that more and more of the area south of the (Brooks Range) will 
have continued degrading permafrost and in some areas, the loss of 
permafrost,” said Thoman.

In some places south of the Brooks Range “you look at it wrong and it 
starts thawing,” Currey said.

Part of the solution might be using more flexible road surfaces in the 
future, so that fixing sunken spots is less labor intensive. For now, it 
just means more maintenance workers and money are necessary to stay on 
top of the problem, Currey said.

*Flooding*
The second big problem is flooding, especially on the shallow, braided 
Sagavanirktok River, which parallels the final 100 miles of the highway.

In 2015, an unusual flooding event on the river caused the highway to 
shut down twice during the spring and early summer. The road was closed 
for 28 days total between the two incidents, grinding truck deliveries 
to the North Slope oil fields to a halt. The state spent $17 million on 
immediate emergency repairs, which included raising a section of the 
road by 8-10 feet to hedge against future flooding events.

The DOT has now spent $70 million in state and federal funds to raise 
the highway over the new flood levels, according to Inside Climate News.

The Sagavanirktok River will likely flood more in the future because of 
increased precipitation driven by warming, Thoman said.

*Frozen debris lobes*
The next big issue has its own acronym: frozen debris lobes, also known 
as FDL. Frozen debris lobes are like a landslide in slow motion, huge 
chunks of rock, soil, ice and trees that slowly slump down slopes.

Dozens of frozen debris lobes have been located at various points along 
the Dalton. One, known as Frozen Debris Lobe A, was on a course to 
overtake a section of the highway.

They were confronted with a movie-like choice: Stop the FDL. Or move the 
highway. In 2018, the state opted to reroute the highway, shifting the 
road 400 feet to the west at the cost of about $2 million.

That bought some time, maybe 13-15 years according to Currey.

“That number is fuzzy — some years it moves faster than others. It moves 
more in warmer years than cooler years.”

Frozen Debris Lobe A is still moving: As of today, a UAF monitoring site 
estimates it’s less than a meter away from the old highway site, and 
109.7 meters from new, rerouted Dalton Highway.

“We recognize that if the old road doesn’t stop it, at some point it’s 
coming for the road,” Currey said.

The Dalton Highway is a useful tool to measure changes in climate, both 
because the road provides easier access to scientists monitoring efforts 
and because the structure itself is a barometer for the warming, Thoman 
said. It’ll become even more valuable in the coming decades.

“It provides a window we wouldn’t otherwise have had.”
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2022/04/16/curious-alaska-what-is-climate-change-doing-to-the-haul-road/



/[  opinion for optimism ]/
*Climate change will transform how we live, but these tech and policy 
experts see reason for optimism*
Published: April 18, 2022
It’s easy to feel pessimistic when scientists around the world are 
warning that climate change has advanced so far, it’s now inevitable 
that societies will either transform themselves or be transformed. But 
as two of the authors of a recent international climate report, we also 
see reason for optimism.

The latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
discuss changes ahead, but they also describe how existing solutions can 
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help people adjust to impacts of 
climate change that can’t be avoided.

The problem is that these solutions aren’t being deployed fast enough. 
In addition to push-back from industries, people’s fear of change has 
helped maintain the status quo.

To slow climate change and adapt to the damage already underway, the 
world will have to shift how it generates and uses energy, transports 
people and goods, designs buildings and grows food. That starts with 
embracing innovation and change.

*Fear of change can lead to worsening change*
 From the industrial revolution to the rise of social media, societies 
have undergone fundamental changes in how people live and understand 
their place in the world.

Some transformations are widely regarded as bad, including many of those 
connected to climate change. For example, about half the world’s coral 
reef ecosystems have died because of increasing heat and acidity in the 
oceans. Island nations like Kiribati and coastal communities, including 
in Louisiana and Alaska, are losing land into rising seas...
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Other transformations have had both good and bad effects. The industrial 
revolution vastly raised standards of living for many people, but it 
spawned inequality, social disruption and environmental destruction.

People often resist transformation because their fear of losing what 
they have is more powerful than knowing they might gain something 
better. Wanting to retain things as they are – known as status quo bias 
– explains all sorts of individual decisions, from sticking with 
incumbent politicians to not enrolling in retirement or health plans 
even when the alternatives may be rationally better.

This effect may be even more pronounced for larger changes. In the past, 
delaying inevitable change has led to transformations that are 
unnecessarily harsh, such as the collapse of some 13th-century 
civilizations in what is now the U.S. Southwest. As more people 
experience the harms of climate change firsthand, they may begin to 
realize that transformation is inevitable and embrace new solutions.

*A mix of good and bad*
The IPCC reports make clear that the future inevitably involves more and 
larger climate-related transformations. The question is what the mix of 
good and bad will be in those transformations.

If countries allow greenhouse gas emissions to continue at a high rate 
and communities adapt only incrementally to the resulting climate 
change, the transformations will be mostly forced and mostly bad.

For example, a riverside town might raise its levees as spring flooding 
worsens. At some point, as the scale of flooding increases, such 
adaptation hits its limits. The levees necessary to hold back the water 
may become too expensive or so intrusive that they undermine any benefit 
of living near the river. The community may wither away...
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The riverside community could also take a more deliberate and 
anticipatory approach to transformation. It might shift to higher 
ground, turn its riverfront into parkland while developing affordable 
housing for people who are displaced by the project, and collaborate 
with upstream communities to expand landscapes that capture floodwaters. 
Simultaneously, the community can shift to renewable energy and 
electrified transportation to help slow global warming.
*
**Optimism resides in deliberate action*
The IPCC reports include numerous examples that can help steer such 
positive transformation.

For example, renewable energy is now generally less expensive than 
fossil fuels, so a shift to clean energy can often save money. 
Communities can also be redesigned to better survive natural hazards 
through steps such as maintaining natural wildfire breaks and building 
homes to be less susceptible to burning.

Charts showing falling costs and rising adoption of clean energy.
Costs are falling for key forms of renewable energy and electric vehicle 
batteries. IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
Land use and the design of infrastructure, such as roads and bridges, 
can be based on forward-looking climate information. Insurance pricing 
and corporate climate risk disclosures can help the public recognize 
hazards in the products they buy and companies they support as investors.

No one group can enact these changes alone. Everyone must be involved, 
including governments that can mandate and incentivize changes, 
businesses that often control decisions about greenhouse gas emissions, 
and citizens who can turn up the pressure on both.

*Transformation is inevitable*
Efforts to both adapt to and mitigate climate change have advanced 
substantially in the last five years, but not fast enough to prevent the 
transformations already underway.

Doing more to disrupt the status quo with proven solutions can help 
smooth these transformations and create a better future in the process.
https://theconversation.com/climate-change-will-transform-how-we-live-but-these-tech-and-policy-experts-see-reason-for-optimism-180961


/[ The news archive - looking back - a difficult video to display ]/
*April, 22, 1970 *
April 22, 1970: "NBC Nightly News" anchor Frank Blair, covering the 
events of the first Earth Day, cites global warming as a concern./[ 
video not found ]/

http://www.nbcnews.com/video/icue/29901277

https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/film?phrase=Frank%20Blair%20Earth%20Day&brand=nna,nnba&license=rf,rr&offlinecontent=include

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Blair_(journalist)

https://www.televisual.com/news/getty-images-to-license-nbc-news-75-year-archive/

https://garrowayatlarge.com/index.php/category/frank-blair/

https://www.televisual.com/news/getty-images-to-license-nbc-news-75-year-archive/


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