[✔️] January 3, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Mon Jan 3 10:42:18 EST 2022

/*January 3, 2022*/

/[  NYT Just open you eyes -- text and audio reading ] /
*This Isn’t the California I Married*
The honeymoon’s over for its residents now that wildfires are almost 
constant. Has living in this natural wonderland lost its magic?
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We can’t fix California’s wildfire problem with a big idea. We can only 
settle into the trans-apocalypse and work for the best future, the 
best present. That starts with acknowledging that our political 
structures have failed us and keep failing us every day. The powerful 
have failed the vulnerable. The old have failed the young. The global 
north has failed the global south. We have failed one another.

It’s a real, grown-up, look-mortality-in-the-eye moment we face. In 
Tahoe, after coming down from the cliffs at Emerald Bay, I took a walk 
in the woods with two forest ecologists. They moved to South Lake just 
before the pandemic began, knowing all the risks. But they love it here. 
They want to love their lives. For work, they climb and study giant 
sequoias to see the toll our world is having on them. First, they load a 
compound bow, then shoot an arrow trailing a fishing line over a tree 
branch. Next, haul a rope, ascend the trunk and survey a tree’s giant 
limbs for bark-beetle scars. When giant sequoias have enough water, they 
expel the beetles with sap. When they don’t, the majestic trees die from 
the top down.

This summer, in Kings Canyon, as the wildfires approached, firefighters 
wrapped giant sequoias in aluminum foil. This included General Sherman — 
2,200 years old and the largest single tree on Earth. This act was 
meager, and it was devotional. It’s what we’ve got now. The good news 
is, some of the moves we need to make are easier, more straightforward 
and more under our control than we imagined, if we’d just allow 
ourselves to get them done. The bad news is that there is just going to 
be loss. We’re not used to thinking about the world that way. We’re not 
used to paying for our mistakes.

There is beauty in the sequoia scars, bleeding out sap. And there’s 
beauty in the sequoias when they have none.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/magazine/california-widfires.html

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/[  AP news for property developers ]/
*Climate change, new construction mean more ruinous fires*
By MARTHA BELLISLE
The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was 
rare, experts say, but similar events will be more common in the coming 
years as climate change warms the planet — sucking the moisture out of 
plants — suburbs grow in fire-prone areas and people continue to spark 
destructive blazes.

“These fires are different from most of the fires we’ve been seeing 
across the West, in the sense that they’re grass fires and they’re 
occurring in the winter,” said Jonathan Overpeck, a professor in the 
School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. 
“Ultimately, things are going to continue to get worse unless we stop 
climate change.”

Flames swept over drought-stricken grassy fields and neighborhoods 
northwest of Denver on Thursday with alarming speed, propelled by guests 
up to 105 mph (169 kph). Tens of thousands were ordered to flee with 
little notice...
“I came out of Whole Foods, which is about a half mile from ground zero, 
and felt like I had to jump in my car and make a dash for my life as the 
smoke and wind and nearby flames were engulfing the area,” Susie Pringle 
of Lafayette said in an email. “It was scary!”...
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Unless people stop climate change by cutting back on fossil fuels, 
wildfires will threaten communities, Overpeck said.

“There’s little doubt in my mind that the conditions conducive to really 
bad wildfire, whether it’s grass or forest, are only going to get 
worse,” he said.

As more people move to areas where wildfires occur, the threat goes up.

“We’re building towns and cities and infrastructure and so it’s just a 
matter of time before we have whole towns burning down like we had in 
California and events like this in Colorado.”
https://apnews.com/article/climate-wildfires-science-environment-environment-and-nature-8d111d6f6dfa9bfa78a2fe9659802826

/[ discussions about the fear of chaos, the fear of unknowing -  1 hour 
video  ] /
*Cultural collapse and transformation in the face of climate chaos - 
with Malika Virah-Sawmy*
Sep 8, 2021
Jem Bendell
Dr Malika Virah-Sawmy has moved between mainstream climate adaptation, 
and facilitation work to help practitioners and policymakers make 
decisions - not only from an automatic or deliberative place of 
cognition but also from a place of meta awareness, that can hold climate 
anxiety and uncertainty on the other.

Malika started her career as a conservation biologist coordinating 
conservation programmes for the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) in 
Madagascar and other Indian Ocean islands. She now works increasingly on 
inclusive business in the agriculture and ecosystem protection sector. 
In particular, she works on production systems reliant on natural 
resources, climate adaptation for agriculture, and market transformation 
in commodities that support ecosystem protection and inclusion of 
smallholder farmers.  Malika holds a PhD from the University of Oxford 
on addressing mining – conservation conflicts. She is a Lecturer at 
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and on the Holding Group of the Deep 
Adaptation Forum.

Malika shares reflections on the deep adaptation blog:
https://www.deepadaptation.info/why-make-time-to-feel-when-there-is-a-world-to-save/

The Q&A was hosted by Katie Carr, a facilitator of deep adaptation 
processes:
https://guidance.deepadaptation.info/guide/katie-carr/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPPQmHuzEv0

/[  This is a classic meeting of minds from 2002 --   Global warming  is 
a global problem requiring a global solution. Failure means we get 
global chaos ] /
*Climate Week NYC Webinar: Arctic Permafrost Thaw: Science & Policy*
Oct 2, 2020
Woodwell Climate Research Center
Presented by Woodwell Climate Research Center's Dr. Sue Natali, Dr. John 
P. Holdren of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Department of 
Earth & Planetary Sciences , Union of Concerned Scientist's Senior 
Fellow Joel Clement, US Arctic Research Commission's Chair Fran Ulmer, 
and Woodwell Climate Research Assistant Darcy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PEBm0uZb8U

/[   from Democracy Now - elderly wise man video rant   ]/
//*Noam Chomsky on Rising Fascism in U.S., Class Warfare & the Climate 
Emergency*
Dec 30, 2021
Democracy Now!
Noam Chomsky warns the Republican Party is "marching" the world to 
destruction by ignoring the climate emergency while embracing 
proto-fascism at home. Chomsky talks about the January 6 insurrection, 
how neoliberalism is a form of class warfare and how President Biden's 
climate plans fall short of what is needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2QFrIflX00

/[   New media -- why a comic book may be very effective preparation ]/
This is The End: Pop Culture & Collapse
Society & Culture
*Using Comics to Prepare Kids & Teens for Wildfires (and Other Hazards)*
2021-12-21
We interview Dr. Althea Rizzo, Geological Hazards Program Coordinator, 
of the Oregon Office of Emergency Management (OEM), about WITHOUT 
WARNING! WILDFIRE, a comic book produced in partnership between OEM and 
Dark Horse Comics with the objective to help kids and teens get informed 
about, and prepared for, wildfires (and other hazards).

WITHOUT WARNING! WILDFIRE is available for free at Dark Horse Digital, 
the website for the Oregon Office of Emergency Management, and on iOS 
and Android apps. It’s also available on Kindle, Comixology, Google Play 
and Apple Books.

The first two comics in the series, Without Warning! Earthquake  and 
Without Warning! Tsunami are available online from the same sources as 
well.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/popmythology
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/popmythology

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[ free digital copy of the comic ]
*Without Warning! Wildfire Safety*
https://digital.darkhorse.com/search/?index=all&q=wildfire

/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming January 3, 2011*
January 3, 2011: Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly notes that
Republican presidential candidates who now try to deny the existence
of human-caused climate change will have to figure out a way to
rewrite history:

    "Yes, in Republican circles in 2011, those who don't reject the
    scientific consensus on the climate crisis will be rejected out of
    hand. Those who've been even somewhat reasonable on the issue in
    recent years should expect to grovel shamelessly -- a trait that's
    always attractive in presidential candidates.

    "The number of likely GOP candidates who've actually said out loud
    that the planet is warming and that human activity is responsible is,
    oddly enough, larger than the number of consistent climate deniers.
    Sarah Palin has said pollution contributes to global warming and
    'we've got to do something about it.' Romney has said he believes the
    planet is warming and at least used to support cap-and-trade. Huckabee
    and Pawlenty have backed cap-and-trade -- which was, originally, a
    Republican idea, by the way -- in recent years. Even Newt Gingrich
    used to demand 'action to address climate change,' and participated
    briefly with Al Gore's Repower America campaign.

    "This wasn't a problem up until very recently. John McCain's 2008
    presidential platform not only acknowledged climate change, it
    included a call for a cap-and-trade plan -- and he won the nomination
    fairly easily. As recently as 2006, rank-and-file Republican voters,
    by and large, believed what the mainstream believed when it came to
    climate science: global warming is real, it's a problem, and it
    requires attention.

    "But that was before the GOP fell off the right-wing cliff."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_01/027356.php
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