[✔️] August 9, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
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Tue Aug 9 08:03:22 EDT 2022
/*August 9, 2022*/
[ European heat wave ]
*Latest on Intense Heatwave Starting Tomorrow! 7th August 2022*
Aug 7, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyWyFGGgHn8
/[ Death Valley National Park ]/
*Incredible flooding in Death Valley California! In 111 years, it was
the second-rainiest day.*
Aug 6, 2022 Death Valley California: A near-record downpour on Friday
over one of the hottest, driest places on Earth caused flash flooding.
Death Valley National Park in California had to be temporarily closed
due to the stranding of up to 1,000 people. In their 111-year history of
recording rain, it was the second-rainiest day.
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/[ great innovation tool that anyone can use -- answers the attribution
question "Is this climate change?" ]/
*Climate Shift Index (CSI): A new tool to detect climate fingerprints on
your local weather.*
23 views Aug 8, 2022 Is it climate change or just the weather? That
question can now be answered with the release of a brand-new resource
from Climate Central called the Climate Shift Index, or CSI. With this
free, new tool we can see just how much global warming may be affecting
our local weather on any given day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEL7VYUvWY
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/[ too hot? Too wet? why? - here is the Climate Shift Index ]/
*Introducing the Climate Shift Index*
KEY CONCEPTS
- - Today, Climate Central launches the *Climate Shift Index*—a new tool
that shows the local influence of climate change, every day.
- - Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels indicate how much climate change
has altered the frequency of daily temperatures at a particular location.
- - Starting today, Climate Central will be updating the Climate Shift
Index daily with interactive maps and 3-day CSI forecasts available for
locations across the continental U.S.
- - Climate Shift Index levels, maps, and forecasts can now be used in
real-time to help the public understand that climate change is not just
about long-term trends—it’s already part of our daily lives.
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https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/introducing-the-climate-shift-index
/[ first step in a major journey ] /
*Senate Passes Climate and Tax Bill After Marathon Debate*
Despite all Republicans being opposed, the vote was a major victory for
President Biden and Democrats. The bill now goes to the House, where it
is expected to pass by the end of the week.
Updated Aug. 8, 2022,
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/08/07/us/climate-tax-deal-vote
/[ they did not really act -- they just started to act ]/
*Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate*
The Senate bill avoided the political pitfalls of past legislative
attempts by offering only incentives to cut climate pollution, not taxes.
By Coral Davenport and Lisa Friedman
Aug. 7, 2022
WASHINGTON — In 1969, President Richard Nixon’s adviser Daniel Patrick
Moynihan wrote a memo describing a startling future. The increase of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere caused by burning oil, gas and coal,
Mr. Moynihan wrote, would dangerously heat the planet, melt the glaciers
and cause the seas to rise. “Goodbye New York,” Mr. Moynihan wrote.
“Goodbye Washington, for that matter.”
Fifty-three years later, Congress is on the cusp of finally responding
to what Mr. Moynihan termed “the carbon dioxide problem.”
On Sunday, Senate Democrats muscled through a $370 billion bill designed
to move the country away from fossil fuels and toward solar, wind and
other renewable energy. If the House passes the legislation later this
week as expected, it will be the nation’s first major climate law,
coming as scientists warn that nations have only a few remaining years
to make deep enough cuts in carbon dioxide to avoid planetary catastrophe.
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In interviews, Mr. Gore and other veterans of the nation’s failed
attempts at climate legislation pointed to several reasons that a
climate bill is about to become law at last — passing the Senate by a
razor-thin majority of 51 to 50, with the tie breaking vote of Vice
President Kamala Harris.
All said that the incontrovertible evidence that climate change has
already arrived— in the form of frighteningly extreme wildfires,
drought, storms and floods afflicting every corner of the United States
— has helped build political support. Increasingly, the sheer volume of
real-time data has overwhelmed the well-financed, multidecade strategy
of oil, gas and coal companies to sow doubt about the severity of
climate change...
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William Nordhaus, who first conceived of the carbon tax as a young
economist at Yale University in the 1970s, wrote in an email, “Carbon
taxes have proven a toxic mix with politics, although the toxicity
varies across countries. Subsidies, by contrast, are catnip to the
elected.”...
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A few years after Mr. Moynihan’s memo to the Nixon White House, Mr.
Nordhaus proposed an elegant solution: governments should put a tax, fee
or some other price on carbon pollution.
He would later receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for
showing that “the most efficient remedy for problems caused by
greenhouse gases is a global scheme of universally imposed carbon taxes.”
By 1988, climate change had started making headlines. James E. Hansen of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration told a Senate
committee that human-caused global warming had already begun. The next
year, Dr. Hansen testified before a Senate subcommittee chaired by Mr.
Gore, who sensed momentum was building to pass a law to stop the planet
from warming any further.
As vice president in 1993, Mr. Gore helped promote a measure that would
accomplish the same thing as a carbon tax.
But after the bill passed the House, Republicans attacked it as an
“energy tax” and the Senate never took it up. The following year,
Republicans promised to lower taxes and reform government and won
control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1952.
“It was kind of crazy, because Clinton and Gore made the House vote for
the thing even though it was suicide,” said Paul Bledsoe, who was a
Senate staffer at the time and later worked in the Clinton
administration. “That set back climate politics for more than a decade.
It was politically devastating.”...
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Mr. Whitehouse recently gave his 285th Senate floor speech on the
climate crisis, speaking in front of the same worn green sign
proclaiming “Time to Wake Up” that has served as a backdrop to his
soliloquies for a decade. Despite finally witnessing the passage of
major climate legislation, he has no plans to stop. “We’re still not on
a pathway to safety,” he said.
Mr. Nordhaus agreed. “A journey does begin with a single step,” he said.
“But if this is the last step, then we are in for a fiery future.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/climate/senate-climate-law.html
/[The news archive - looking back at old videos - thanks YouTube for a
dozen years ago ]/
/*August 9, 2010 */
August 9, 2010: NASA scientist Jay Zwally appears on MSNBC's "Countdown
with Keith Olbermann" to discuss Greenland's ice melt and the political
dysfunction that has prevented legislative action on climate change in
the US.
http://youtu.be/5vmupjRkgmU
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