[✔️] August 12, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

Fri Aug 12 05:54:02 EDT 2022

/*August 12, 2022*/

/[ video attracts our attention - Google offers 150,000 firenado videos ]/
*'Firenado' sparked by hot winds and wildfires burns in California – video*
https://youtu.be/ncA3C7dJfVE
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Smoke and flames swirled in a tornado-like pattern as hot winds met a 
wildfire in southern California.
The fire near Quail Lake in Gorman closed portions of Route 138 
northwest of Los Angeles.
The LA county fire department tweeted that crews were making good 
progress on the fire and that no structures were threatened
Death toll rises to four in California’s biggest wildfire this year
Source: ABC7 Los Angeles | @FIRIS | Twitter
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2022/aug/11/firenado-sparked-by-hot-winds-and-wildfires-burns-in-california-video
https://youtu.be/ncA3C7dJfVE

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/[ Heat waves fan flames ]/
*Wildfires Rip Through France, Again, Weeks After Last Heat Wave*
In the southwest, a blaze that started in July has reignited because of 
the heat and the dry air, scorching an additional 26 square miles of 
bushes and forest.
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“It’s a real slap in the face,” said Mr. Allione, of the firefighter 
federation. “Experts were telling us that these kind of events would 
occur between 2030 and 2050,” he said. “Today, it’s 2022. Almost a 
decade earlier.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/world/europe/france-wildfires-heat-wave.html
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/[ like driving faster than the posted speed limit? ]/
*Arctic Warming Is Happening Faster Than Described, Analysis Shows*
The warming at the top of the globe, a sign of climate change, is 
happening much faster than previously described compared with the global 
average, scientists said Thursday.
By Henry Fountain
Aug. 11, 2022
The rapid warming of the Arctic, a definitive sign of climate change, is 
occurring even faster than previously described, researchers in Finland 
said Thursday.

Over the past four decades the region has been heating up four times 
faster than the global average, not the two to three times that has 
commonly been reported. And some parts of the region, notably the 
Barents Sea north of Norway and Russia, are warming up to seven times 
faster, they said.

One result of rapid Arctic warming is faster melting of the Greenland 
ice sheet, which adds to sea-level rise. But the impacts extend far 
beyond the Arctic, reaching down to influence weather like extreme 
rainfall and heat waves in North America and elsewhere. By altering the 
temperature difference between the North Pole and the Equator, the 
warming Arctic appears to have affected storm tracks and wind speed in 
North America...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/11/climate/arctic-global-warming.html

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/[ printed nature journal Communications Earth and Environment, ]/
Published: 11 August 2022
*The Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than the globe since 1979*
Mika Rantanen, Alexey Yu. Karpechko, Antti Lipponen, Kalle Nordling, 
Otto Hyvärinen, Kimmo Ruosteenoja, Timo Vihma & Ari Laaksonen
Communications Earth & Environment volume 3, Article number: 168
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00498-3/figures/1
*Abstract*

    In recent decades, the warming in the Arctic has been much faster
    than in the rest of the world, a phenomenon known as Arctic
    amplification. Numerous studies report that the Arctic is warming
    either twice, more than twice, or even three times as fast as the
    globe on average. Here we show, by using several observational
    datasets which cover the Arctic region, that during the last 43
    years the Arctic has been warming nearly four times faster than the
    globe, which is a higher ratio than generally reported in
    literature. We compared the observed Arctic amplification ratio with
    the ratio simulated by state-of-the-art climate models, and found
    that the observed four-fold warming ratio over 1979–2021 is an
    extremely rare occasion in the climate model simulations. The
    observed and simulated amplification ratios are more consistent with
    each other if calculated over a longer period; however the
    comparison is obscured by observational uncertainties before 1979.
    Our results indicate that the recent four-fold Arctic warming ratio
    is either an extremely unlikely event, or the climate models
    systematically tend to underestimate the amplification.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-022-00498-3

/[ I once lived on Sleeping Giant Drive - now the world lives beside the 
sleeping giant ]/
*Antarctica’s ‘sleeping giant’ risks melting, threatens spike in sea levels*
By Rachel Pannett
August 10, 2022
Scientists say the window for protecting the world’s largest ice sheet 
from significantly shrinking is narrowing, with troubling new 
predictions that it has the potential to unleash sea level rises of up 
to 16½ feet over the long term if greenhouse gas emissions targets 
aren’t met.
Australian scientists are embarking on a campaign over the next few 
years to deepen their understanding of the Denham glacier region, a 
12-mile-wide stream of ice that flows over the deepest undersea canyon 
in the East Antarctica Ice Sheet. Scientists have previously warned that 
the canyon could provide a potential pathway for the ocean to infiltrate 
deep into Antarctica’s center.

“We understand the Moon better than East Antarctica. So, we don’t yet 
fully understand the climate risks that will emerge from this area,” 
said Matt King, co-author of the latest study and an expert in sea level 
and ice sheet change at the University of Tasmania.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/10/east-antarctic-ice-sheet-melting-climate-change/ 

/[ I would prefer the term 'global warming', but it still applies ]/
*Climate change’s impact intensifies as U.S. prepares to take action*
As U.S. prepares to pass landmark bill, the planet isn’t waiting around
By Chris Mooney, Brady Dennis and Sarah Kaplan
August 11, 2022
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Over the past 40 years, as the world’s largest historical emitter of 
greenhouses gases repeatedly failed to take significant action on the 
climate, the region surrounding Svalbard has warmed at least four times 
as fast as the global average, according to significant research 
published Thursday.

The study suggests that warming in the Arctic is happening at a much 
faster rate than many scientists had expected. And while U.S. lawmakers 
this summer hashed out the details of a massive bill to speed their 
nation’s shift toward cleaner energy — the culmination of months of 
deliberations — the new findings were just the latest visceral reminder 
that the planet’s changing climate isn’t waiting around for human action.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/11/climate-changes-impact-intensifies-us-is-poised-pass-major-bill/ 

/[ Gleick is a highly respected climate scientist ]/
Tweet
Peter Gleick 🇺🇸
@PeterGleick
*Climate change continues to accelerate/worsen:*
The Arctic is warming 4x faster than expected.
The Antarctic is losing ice faster than expected.
The drought hitting Europe is the worst in 500 yrs.
Extreme floods/droughts are hitting the US.
Data sources in image description below.
https://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/1557823383441514496

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Pinned Tweet
Peter Gleick 🇺🇸
@PeterGleick
Mar 13, 2020
There's a reason every disaster movie starts with the government 
ignoring a scientist.
When you degrade, ignore, and dismiss the warnings of science you 
threaten all of us.
https://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/1238576767759253504/photo/1

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https://twitter.com/JMarkDodds/status/1475966601044373509/photo/1

/[  learning about Hydrogen colors -- color is only a name of how it was 
made ] /
*What is hydrogen energy? And what's the difference between blue and 
green hydrogen? | News glossary*
Jul 18, 2022  Hydrogen could possibly be the next big thing in energy 
but do you know what it actually is? And why have the discussions around 
a colourless gas involved so many colours?

In this episode of News glossary, Matilda Boseley gives us a rundown of 
what hydrogen energy is and what the difference between all the colours 
are. And before you ask, yes, there really is pink hydrogen and 
turquoise hydrogen. Pink hydrogen is generated through electrolysis 
powered by nuclear energy, and turquoise hydrogen is made using a 
process called methane pyrolysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inm5lwFEGZ4

/[ Dave Roberts interview with a future-maker]/
*Volts podcast: how to get urban improvements done quickly*
A chat with transportation planner Warren Logan.
AUG 10
When it comes to reducing transportation emissions, two main ideas 
compete for mindshare in the climate space. First is switching out 
internal combustion engine vehicles for electric vehicles. Second is 
improving the built environment to make walking, biking, and public 
transit easier, to reduce the amount of miles traveled in cars and 
trucks altogether.

The conventional wisdom is that the former is faster. There are a few 
key policy levers that can be pulled to get massive numbers of EVs on 
the roads, whereas urban improvements proceed one at a time, each facing 
its own bespoke set of challenges.

But there are people out there at the city level working to increase the 
speed of those improvements. One of them is Warren Logan, currently a 
partner at Lighthouse Public Affairs, but before that, policy director 
of mobility in the Oakland, California, mayor's office, a senior 
transportation planner for San Francisco, and an intern in the 
transportation office at Berkeley, California.

In his time working on transportation projects, Logan has given a lot of 
thought to, and done a lot of work on, improving city processes to make 
safety and walkability improvements faster and less capital-intensive. 
He wants cities to free themselves up to make fast, cheap changes that 
can have big impacts without an enormous investment of time and money.

As listeners will have noticed, I have been somewhat obsessed lately 
with urban design and transportation issues. I hope you will indulge me 
in another conversation about the nature of resistance to urban 
improvements, the kinds of changes that can be made quickly to 
dramatically improve safety, and the larger need to avoid over-reliance 
on EVs...
https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-how-to-get-urban-improvements?utm_source=podcast-email&utm_medium=email#details

/[ How do we engineer the future?  thoughtful audio interview about the 
year 2121 ]/
*Transition Engineering: A Sustainable Future is Possible | Susan Krumdieck*
Aug 4, 2022  Susan Krumdieck is a mechanical engineer, Professor of 
Engineering at Heriot Watt University, Chair of the university’s Energy 
Transition, and author of Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable 
Future.

Susan joins me to discuss how a sustainable future is possible by 
starting with engineering principles. Rather than focusing on politics 
and economics, which can only react in the short-term, engineering 
provides long-term vision, planning and design which will reimagine a 
sustainable world—and drag politics and economics into the future.

Discover Transition Engineering: 
https://www.transitionengineering.org/about_us
Buy Susan's book: 
https://www.routledge.com/Transition-Engineering-Building-a-Sustainable-Future/Krumdieck/p/book/9780367341268

She explains the inefficiencies of fossil-fuel economies, how renewable 
economies will automatically contract (hello, degrowth), and how 
sustainable engineering can provide a better quality of life for every 
being on the planet. We also have a lovely conversation on the 
importance of narrative: start with scientific principles, but sell them 
as a story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE1qnwsoyrE

/[ What if we heard and what if we acted ?  ]/
*Enviro. Media Assoc.*
@green4EMA
Carl Sagan testified before Congress in 1985 on climate change. Can you 
imagine if they had listened to him?
https://twitter.com/green4EMA/status/1557107099578023937

/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*August 12, 2004*/
August 12, 2004: Discussing a BusinessWeek story about the business 
community's growing worries about global warming, the Washington 
Monthly's Kevin Drum observes:

"Like national healthcare, I suspect that global warming will really get 
taken seriously only when the business community finally demands it. 
What BusinessWeek documents is only the first whispers of those demands, 
but the endgame is already in sight."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_08/004498.php

http://web.archive.org/web/20131216021452/http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2004-08-15/global-warming 

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