[✔️] April 24, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*April 24, 2022*/

/[  Long term forecasts released ]
/**Summer forecast 2022* First look at Summer reveals a scorching season 
is developing for the United States and Europe, as the La Nina still 
persists*/
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The Summer season of 2022 will be under the continued influence of the 
La Nina, as the jet stream pattern over North America and the Pacific 
Ocean shows. The Summer forecast from major weather models captures this 
jet stream pattern, revealing a very hot and dry summer developing for 
parts of the United States and Europe.

When trying to understand any weather season and the long-range 
forecasts, we must realize that there are many global drivers that can 
shape it. Global weather is a very complex system, with many large-scale 
and small-scale factors./..
/https://www.severe-weather.eu/long-range-2/summer-forecast-2022-united-states-europe-hot-dry-early-look-fa//
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/[ June, July and August --  Hotter summer, dryer summer  See the maps. ]/
*NOAA Climate Prediction Center  Three-Month Outlooks*/
/Climate Outlooks
OFFICIAL Forecasts
Jun-Jul-Aug 2022/
/https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/long_range/seasonal.php?lead=2/
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/[  How'bout an "All Propaganda" channel? ]/
*Twitter bans climate change propaganda ads as deniers target platforms*
The social media company says ads can’t contradict “scientific 
consensus” on the environmental crisis
By Naomi Nix - April 22, 2022
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“We believe that climate denialism shouldn’t be monetized on Twitter, 
and that misrepresentative ads shouldn’t detract from important 
conversations about the climate crisis,” the company said in a blog 
post. “We recognize that misleading information about climate change can 
undermine efforts to protect the planet.”...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/22/twitter-bans-climate-change-denial-ads/

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/[ California's saga of exhilarating progress ]/
*California grid set record of 97% renewable power on April 3*
By Kelsey Misbrener | April 20, 2022/
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In another sign of progress toward a carbon-free power grid, the 
California Independent System Operator (ISO) set a new record on April 
3, when 97.6% of electricity on the grid came from clean, renewable 
energy. The peak, which occurred briefly at 3:39 p.m., broke the 
previous record of 96.4% set on March 27, 2022.

Before that, the grid’s record for clean power was 94.5%, set on April 
21, 2021. The new milestone comes as the ISO integrates growing amounts 
of renewable energy onto the grid in support of the state’s clean energy 
goals...
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With California committed to a carbon-free power system by 2045, more 
solar and wind are expected, along with dramatic growth in storage 
capacity on the system. Another 600 MW of solar and 200 MW of wind are 
projected to be added to the grid by June 1 of this year. The system 
currently has more than 2,700 MW of storage, most of it in lithium-ion 
batteries, and that number is projected to grow to about 4,000 MW by June 1.

Storage has been critical to reliability during the transition to 
renewable energy, as it charges using solar and wind output during the 
middle of the day, and re-injects it back onto the grid on hot summer 
evenings when solar production has ended and demand remains high.
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2022/04/california-grid-set-record-with-97-percent-renewable-power-april-3//
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/[ The NYTimes - pretty good questions //for various reporters //- 
answers have been around for years. ] /
*You Asked, We Answered: Some Burning Climate Questions*
Reporters from the Climate Desk gathered reader questions and are here 
to help explain some frequent puzzlers.
April 22, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2022/04/22/climate/climate-change-causes-effects



/[  information trends ] /
*Google searches for climate refugee up 809% in past week *
Worldwide-Saturday, April 16, 2022 -- Friday, April 22, 2022
Explore search interest in climate refugee
[interest by region = Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, United States, 
Hong Kong]
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&q=climate%20refugee


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///[ Grist has tales from the land of Permafrost ]/
*Don’t Look Down*
As permafrost thaws, the ground beneath Alaska is collapsing.
Lois Parshley - April 20, 2022
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In 2018, the state recognized a new hazard: usteq, a word from the 
Alaska Native Yup’ik language that describes the catastrophic land 
collapse stemming from thawing permafrost, and the erosion and flooding 
it entails. As sea ice disappears, the coast has been battered by 
intensifying storm surges, speeding the breakdown of permafrost under 
the shore. Riverbanks are corroding from thaw, changing everything from 
the chemistry of the groundwater to its distribution and movement. 
Permafrost, Henry said, “is linked to everything — our homes, water 
sources, food sources, vegetation.”..
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Research attempting to settle these questions generally falls into one 
of two camps. There’s top-down, like Liljedahl’s work with the 
Permafrost Discovery Gateway, which uses high-resolution satellite 
imagery to record thaw slumps and surface water changes. Machine 
learning and supercomputers have helped Liljedahl closely map visible 
ice wedges, creating a more comprehensive view of the Arctic, but can 
only infer what’s under the surface through identifying types of soil or 
vegetation.

The second approach is bottom-up: Romanovsky’s boreholes, for instance, 
deliver very detailed measurements from specific places, but researchers 
have to extrapolate to draw larger conclusions. Yet all permafrost is 
not equal. Take a type of permafrost called yedoma: frozen, silty muck 
from the Pleistocene era that releases 10 times more greenhouse gases 
than other types of thawing ice. Additionally, research indicates 
yedoma-rich regions may be warming the most quickly. So knowing how much 
yedoma there is, and where, is critical...
https://grist.org/science/alaska-permafrost-thawing-ice-climate-change/



/[ PBS video part 1  ] /
*The Power of Big Oil Part One: Denial (full documentary) | FRONTLINE*
Apr 19, 2022
FRONTLINE PBS | Official
Watch part one of “The Power of Big Oil,” a three-episode FRONTLINE 
docuseries investigating the fossil fuel industry’s history of casting 
doubt and delaying action on climate change.

This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local 
PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate.

Go inside the decades-long failure to confront the threat and increasing 
impacts of climate change in “The Power of Big Oil.” This deeply 
researched docuseries reveals what scientists, corporations and 
politicians have known about human-caused climate change for decades, 
and the missed opportunities to mitigate the problem.

Parts two and three of “The Power of Big Oil” premiere April 26 and May 
3 on PBS and online: https://to.pbs.org/3rByEEe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAAbcNl4Lb8


/[ Post-doom Pastor --  interesting to hear ]/
*Best of Environmental Coffeehouse- Michael Dowd- Post Doom*
April 22, 2022
Environmental Coffeehouse
"Rev. Dowd considers his three-part “Post-doom (Collapse & Adaptation) 
Primer” video series (also here) and related live presentations to be 
the most accurate, up-to-date representations of his work. Prior to 
breaking through his own denial regarding abrupt climate change, in 
2012, his message largely centered around (A) the epic of evolution, (B) 
a meaningful, scientific view of death, and (C) the practical benefits 
of evolutionary psychology and brain science."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8vsK-BwqGs



/[The news archive - looking back]/
*April 24, 2007*

PBS airs "Hot Politics," a "Frontline" special about the extensive 
efforts of the fossil fuel lobby to frustrate efforts to combat carbon 
pollution.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/
http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2007/04/26/hot-politicspbs-frontline-program-and-extended-interviews-online/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/interviews/

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