[✔️] December 13, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Tue Dec 13 05:57:17 EST 2022
/*December 13, 2022*/
/[ top opinion of this day ] /
Professor Mark Maslin
@ProfMarkMaslin
*Setting climate deadlines could be counterproductive**
*@RobbieMallett and my letter in @Nature
today - was written at #COP27 but has only just come out.
So we must be clear about the urgency of #climatechange action but not
keep setting deadlines we miss
https://twitter.com/ProfMarkMaslin/status/1602616321153404928
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/[ in the Journal nature ]/
*Setting climate deadlines could be counterproductive*
Robbie Mallett & Mark Maslin
13 December 2022
According to the Global Carbon Budget 2022 published last month,
emissions from fossil fuels and industry have continued to rise since
2021 and have now hit record levels (P. Friedlingstein et al. Earth
Syst. Sci. Data 14, 4811–4900; 2022). The study makes clear that urgent
cuts in carbon emissions are required if we are to limit the global
temperature increase to 1.5 °C, the target of the 2015 Paris climate
agreement.
The year 2020 was once identified as a turning point for cutting carbon
emissions, beyond which the goal of realizing the 1.5 °C limit would be
“almost unattainable” (see C. Figueres et al. Nature 546, 593–595;
2017). The deadline passed without being met.
The upside of such deadlines is that they encourage decision makers to
act urgently. But missing them puts climate communicators in a difficult
position. The 1.5 °C limit remains attainable and it warrants our
advocacy. At November’s United Nations COP27 climate summit, many felt
pressured to set a new and more pressing deadline, but this could
diminish the field’s credibility in the eyes of the public.
Making the case for the 1.5 °C limit will get harder if scientists seem
to contradict previous expert messaging on deadlines.
Nature 612, 404 (2022)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04405-w
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04405-w
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Timestamps-
00:00 Intro
00:19 Renewable electricity projections
02:11 US battery storage projections
02:53 UK coal mines
05:20 Portugal air pollution
06:37 Rue break!
06:55 EU tackles deforestation
09:59 Fuel contamination in Alberta
11:59 Kansas Keystone oil spill
13:54 LA bans new oil wells
15:05 LA and SD ban polystyrene
16:00 Personal ad
16:42 Vanguard back-tracks
19:24 Aussie activist imprisoned
21:02 Queensland Indigenous rangers
22:06 Closing notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ1GmoNK8w8
/[ Positive change ]/
*The world just got serious about dealing with climate damage*
By Taylor Dimsdale | December 12, 2022
If you had polled a random sample of climate experts and insiders ahead
of COP27 on which issue was most likely to bring the negotiations
crashing down, most would have given the same answer: the plan to raise
money to address climate impacts in developing countries, otherwise
known as loss and damage.
Instead, it was the crowning achievement in Sharm el-Sheikh.
After more than two weeks of fraught meetings and late nights, countries
reached an agreement to establish a new fund designed to help developing
countries cover the cost of climate impacts, like extreme weather
events, sea level rise, and desertification. Less surprising but also
important was the agreement to set up a new institution, called the
Santiago Network, which will provide technical assistance to vulnerable
countries. Several factors came to bear on COP27’s big success story..
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First, loss and damage received newfound attention in the past two years
as impacts around the world have become more frequent and more severe.
Put plainly, the suffering of frontline communities and countries has
become impossible to ignore. See any number of recent examples, from
massive flooding in Nigeria, to a record-breaking spring heatwave in
Pakistan, followed by devastating summer floods that displaced 33
million people and left one third of the country underwater.
In the run up to the summit, there was a flurry of behind-the-scenes
diplomacy between a small group of developed and developing countries.
Developed countries, which had been unified in their opposition to any
discussion on loss and damage, started to break ranks. Before the
conference, Denmark followed Scotland and Wallonia, a region in Belgium,
in announcing they would earmark some development assistance for loss
and damage. The United States and European Union softened their
positions and allowed it to be included on the formal agenda for the
first time at the start of the summit.
Once things kicked off in Sharm el-Sheikh, it quickly became clear that
loss and damage would indeed be the decisive issue in the negotiations.
Developing countries decided that the measure of success was the
establishment of a new fund and demonstrated a remarkable degree of
unity in their messaging. Several developed countries including Austria,
Germany, and Ireland announced pledges for loss and damage finance. New
Zealand was among the first to indicate that they were open to a new fund...
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In the final hours, the United States and European Union blinked.
Whereas in Glasgow it had been the developing countries accepting what
they viewed as a disappointing outcome in order to keep the show on the
road, in Egypt it was developed countries that ultimately relented on
loss and damage finance, despite not getting much in return on their
wish list, the top item of which was securing new mitigation pledges to
increase the chances of meeting the 1.5-degree Celsius temperature
target. While the world is off track for keeping temperature rise below
that threshold, scientists say the worst-case scenarios can still be
avoided. The best-case right now would be 1.8 degrees Celsius, with
something like 2.6 degrees Celsius far more likely. In either case,
impacts will get worse before they get better. And it will be difficult
to maintain international cooperation, trade and security in a world of
relentless storms, droughts, and floods. Vulnerable countries are
already facing debt distress due in part to paying so much to recover
from disasters, not to mention rising food and water insecurity.
The agreement on a fund was a sign of political goodwill. But even when
the fund is operational, the resources that individual countries can
contribute will pale in comparison to the cost of climate impacts in
developing countries. That’s why there was something equally important
baked into the decision texts in Egypt: a serious discussion about how
to reform the global financial architecture in a way that dramatically
expands the pool of resources and finance for addressing climate change...
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Multilateral and international financial institutions like the World
Bank and International Monetary Fund have been asked to consider how
they could fast-track and scale up finance for loss and damage, and the
cover decision calls for multilateral development bank reform to make
them “fit for adequately addressing the global climate emergency.”
International financial institutions are to report back at the spring
meetings in April 2023.
This breakthrough was the result of a few factors, including lobbying
from the United States to better deploy multilateral development banks,
as well as the Bridgetown Initiative, a set of proposals put forward by
Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados and supported by President Macron
of France that would, among other things, significantly increase the
amount of finance available for climate action and provide debt relief
to vulnerable countries facing climate disasters. The agreement in Sharm
el-Sheikh was closer to the end of the beginning of efforts to address
climate risk than to the beginning of the end. The hard work now begins,
and many questions remain to be answered. A Transitional Committee, made
up of 24 country representatives, has been tasked with figuring out the
details, including where the money will come from, who will pay it, and
who will receive it. The committee will report back with recommendations
in a year, at COP28 in Dubai. In the context of climate negotiations,
that’s the blink of an eye.
What is clear however is that for the first time a serious, global
discussion has been launched on how to establish a new international
framework on climate resilience. The level of mitigation needed to
ensure a safe climate won’t be possible without better climate risk
management. Now, there’s a fighting chance...
https://thebulletin.org/2022/12/the-world-just-got-serious-about-dealing-with-climate-damage/
/[ radical speech mixes with climate destabilization - so revise
thinking - a YouTube rant 34 mins ]/
*Inflation, Europe's energy crisis, and the Fed with Richard Wolff | The
Chris Hedges Report*
The Real News Network
177,671 views Premiered Dec 2, 2022
Read the transcript of this interview:
https://therealnews.com/richard-wolff-the-feds-response-to-inflation-is-another-upward-transfer-of-wealth
The Federal Reserve has responded to runaway inflation by hiking up
interest rates at the same time that Americans are drowning in historic
levels of personal debt. With interest rates up, prices will only rise
faster than wages, hitting the vast majority of people with stagnant or
declining wages in real terms. The result is yet another upward transfer
of wealth to the minority of capitalists responsible for the crisis in
the first place. Economist Richard Wolff joins The Chris Hedges Report
to discuss the origins of the inflation crisis, the Fed's response, and
what this all means for working people.
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program
in International Affairs at the New School. He is the host of the weekly
program Economic Update, and the author of several books, including his
most recent title, The Sickness in the System: When Capitalism Fails To
Save Us From Pandemics or Itself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43uC1mfHKc
/[ from the Dept of Cute and Clever - and NPR - text and audio ]/
*Gingerbread houses brace for climate change at Boston architecture
exhibition*
December 12, 2022
Barbara Moran
What happens when you give heaps of sugar to a bunch of architects (and
a few civilians) and ask them to solve climate change? You get the
Boston Society for Architecture's annual gingerbread competition, and a
lot of whimsical creations — from a gingerbread brownstone perched on
Toblerone pylons, to a frosted duck boat rescuing Boston landmarks from
rising seas.
"We have everything from silly and creative ones, such as the duck boat
over there with the city landmarks kind of toppling off it, to more
realistic ones," said Maia Erslev, gallery manager at the Boston Society
for Architecture (BSA), who's running the show. "There's been lots of
creativity there."
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Erslev came up with the theme of "climate-ready Boston" — or "climate
ginger-ready Boston," as they like to say — for this year's competition.
It's a topic on everyone's mind, Erslev said, and it aligns with the
BSA's work.
"The BSA has been particularly focused in the last few years around
climate and equity as the two big systemic problems that architects need
to face," said Andrea Love, director of building science at the
Boston-based architecture firm Payette, and president of the BSA.
"There are a lot of strategies, particularly around resiliency and
climate change, that buildings have — whether they're gingerbreads or
actual buildings — to deal with those challenges. And so I think the
structures are highlighting the strategies that we have."
The gingerbread structures hit all the climate-ready talking points —
bike-friendly roads, green roofs and living shorelines. There are lots
of berms holding back rising seas of blue frosting; a park with marsh
grass made of shredded wheat; and a dizzying array of solar panels, made
from chocolate, pretzels and cookies.
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One multi-family, solar-paneled gingerbread house has a wall cut away so
you can see the holiday scene inside: "A happy family celebrating
Hanukkah on one floor and Christmas on another," said Erslev. "I love
that touch."
The duck boat is probably the most creative entry, if the least
scalable. As the entry explains, the sculpture represents a giant
version of a duck boat, built to salvage Boston’s most prized landmarks,
like the Prudential Center and the State House, as the waters rise.
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That's a lot to ask of a duck boat, and, unfortunately, the Custom House
tower has tumbled into the sugary sea. The pretzel rod supporting the
building cracked; crumbling, perhaps, beneath the existential weight of
the climate crisis.
Or maybe it just needed a second pretzel.
But even if pretzel rebar and chocolate solar panels aren’t the answer
to climate change — at least not the whole answer — the exhibit shows
off a lot of hopeful adaptations. And it offers a refreshing take on on
a weighty subject.
"Climate change is often a scary topic for many people," said Erslev.
"But I think that this theme, the way that the submitters took it and
flipped it on its head, has turned it into more of a hopeful and playful
interpretation."
The 16 gingerbread structures are on display in the atrium of the BSA's
office on Congress Street — and you can vote online for your favorite —
through noon on December 20.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/12/gingerbread-climate-change-boston-society-architecture-bsa
/[The news archive - looking back at promising promises ]/
/*December 13, 2007*/
December 13, 2007: At a Democratic presidential debate in Iowa, Illinois
Senator Barack Obama declares that the need to address human-caused
climate change "is a moral imperative. I've got a 9-year-old daughter
and a 6-year-old daughter. And I want to make sure that the planet is as
beautiful for them as it was for me.
"Now, what that means is, there are going to be some increases
initially, in electricity prices, for example, if we have a
cap-and-trade system.
"Over time, technology will adapt because investors and people who are
looking to make money will see that they can make money through green
technologies...but, in order for this to happen, we've got to be
courageous enough to not just talk about it in front of the Sierra Club,
or organizations that are already sympathetic to us...part of what the
next president has to do is not just tell the American people what they
want to hear; has to tell them what they need to hear."
http://youtu.be/bMVlhPIH_04
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