[✔️] January 14 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Fri Jan 14 10:34:33 EST 2022

/*January 14, 2022*/

/[  other than it is highly trusted  ] /
*The essential thing to know about NASA and NOAA's global warming news*
"It is crystal clear that temperatures are going up, and they're going 
up quickly."
By Mark Kaufman  on Jan 13, 2022

With current carbon-cutting commitments from global nations, the world 
is on track to warm by some 2.7 C (nearly 5 F), which would have 
extreme, disastrous environmental consequences. Already, the 
consequences of warming are serious. For example:

Extreme fires: Increased temperatures and dryness parch vegetation and 
allow wildfires to burn more rapidly, significantly contributing to 
unnatural infernos and extreme urban firestorms. ("It takes just a 
little bit of warming to lead to a lot more burning.")

Severe deluges: A warmer climate allows the atmosphere to hold more 
water.  This boosts the odds for more severe and record-breaking deluges.

Destabilized ice sheets: Warmer ocean waters have destabilized the 
Florida-sized Thwaites Glacier. It's receding back; if it collapses it 
can ultimately raise sea levels in the coming centuries by many feet.

Ocean heating: The ocean absorbs over 90 percent of the heat humanity 
traps on Earth. That's a nearly unfathomable number. This portends 
continued sea level rise, great disruptions to animal life, and beyond. 
Ocean heat hit a record high in 2021.

More vector-borne disease: As the climate warms, creatures that infect 
us with pathogens (vectors like mosquitoes and ticks) spread. ..

    Prof. Katharine Hayhoe  @KHayhoe
    In the 1980s, there was one billion-dollar event every four months,
    on average. Now, there's one every ~3 weeks. Why? Three reasons:
    increasing exposure, increasing vulnerability, and the big one,
    increasing severity and/or frequency of weather extremes fueled by a
    warming world.
    https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1480603932091113481

The impacts of climate change will only grow until nations drop carbon 
emissions to around zero. But with each passing year, efforts to limit 
warming to some 2 C (3.6 F) above 19th-century levels grow more 
daunting. The big solutions, however, like the vast expansion of 
powerful ocean wind farms and electric vehicle adoption, are well-known.

"The more you delay, the harder it is," said Green.
https://mashable.com/article/global-temperature-heat-record-nasa-noaa

/[ Real scientists who have seen the movie -  9 min YouTube video]/
*Scientists and Experts React to Don't Look Up | Netflix*
Jan 8, 2022
Netflix Film Club
People would listen if a comet were on a collision course towards Earth, 
right? Dr. James Marshall Shepherd, Renee DiResta, & Dr. Britt Wray 
break down the struggles scientists face brought to life by Leonardo 
DiCaprio (Dr. Randall Mindy) & Jennifer Lawrence (Kate Dibiasky) in 
Don't Look Up.

Don't Look Up Film has partnered with Count Us In Social to bring 
together the steps we can take towards a safer planet. Head to 
https://www.count-us-in.com/DontLookUp
Follow our Experts:
Renee DiResta - https://www.twitter.com/noUpside/
Dr. Shepherd -  https://www.twitter.com/DrShepherd2013/ 
https://www.instagram.com/marsh4fsu
Dr. Britt Wray - https://twitter.com/brittwray 
https://www.instagram.com/gen_dread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9y3-hJpeXU

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/[  Quick briefing ]/
*John Abraham PhD: Enormous Heat Being Stored in Oceans*
Jan 13, 2022
John Abraham is a researcher at the University of St Thomas in Minnesota.
He is a co-author of a new paper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf2IvfNyINY

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/[source material]/
*Another Record: Ocean Warming Continues through 2021 despite La Niña 
Conditions*
January 2022Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
DOI:10.1007/s00376-022-1461-3
Authors:
Lijing Cheng - Institute of Atmospheric Physics
John Patrick Abraham - University of St. Thomas
Kevin E. Trenberth
Abstract
The increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from 
human activities traps heat within the climate system and increases 
ocean heat content (OHC). Here, we provide the first analysis of recent 
OHC changes through 2021 from two international groups. The world ocean, 
in 2021, was the hottest ever recorded by humans, and the 2021 annual 
OHC value is even higher than last year’s record value by 14 ± 11 ZJ (1 
zetta J = 1021 J) using the IAP/CAS dataset and by 16 ± 10 ZJ using 
NCEI/NOAA dataset. The long-term ocean warming is larger in the Atlantic 
and Southern Oceans than in other regions and is mainly attributed, via 
climate model simulations, to an increase in anthropogenic greenhouse 
gas concentrations. The year-to-year variation of OHC is primarily tied 
to the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). In the seven maritime 
domains of the Indian, Tropical Atlantic, North Atlantic, Northwest 
Pacific, North Pacific, Southern oceans, and the Mediterranean Sea, 
robust warming is observed but with distinct inter-annual to decadal 
variability. Four out of seven domains showed record-high heat content 
in 2021. The anomalous global and regional ocean warming established in 
this study should be incorporated into climate risk assessments, 
adaptation, and mitigation.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357741435_Another_Record_Ocean_Warming_Continues_through_2021_despite_La_Nina_Conditions

/[  Not at all surprising ] /
*Inaction on global warming amounts to racism – let me tell you why*
Elise Yarde
Because the global south is bearing the brunt of climate breakdown, it’s 
people of colour who are suffering most
Thu 13 Jan 2022..
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The countries that make up the global north are responsible for 92% of 
excess global emissions, but it’s the people in the global south who are 
suffering from the climate crisis right now. Our governments have 
allowed this to happen, in part, because the crisis has affected black 
and brown people first. That the safety and livelihoods of these people 
are not a priority is a reflection of the racist attitudes built into 
our political and economic systems. And it’s not just in the global 
south: in the UK, black and brown kids are most likely to live in 
deprived areas where pollution is at dangerous levels. Children like 
nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah, who contracted severe asthma and died 
in 2013 due to shocking levels of air pollution in Lewisham, south-east 
London, where she lived.
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Racism sustains the world’s brutally unfair hierarchy of comfort and 
suffering. Until the UK and other states and citizens in global north 
treat all human life as equal, we will keep heading towards the 
darkness. So this is not only about recycling or using less plastic or 
driving less. If we can’t even talk about racism and the part it has 
played in climate breakdown, then how do we get better? How do we break 
down the systems that got us here? How do we heal the damage done to 
people and the planet? Anti-racism means acting as if the lives of black 
and brown people on the frontlines of the climate crisis really matter. 
Inaction is simply not an option.

Elise Yarde is a climate justice activist from London
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/13/inaction-global-warming-racism-climate-breakdown-people-of-colour 

/[  This headline could have been from 1998 - [were editors at the Hill 
even born then?] ] /
*New study finds Americans increasingly alarmed about climate crisis*
“Climate change public engagement efforts must start with the 
fundamental recognition that people are different and have different 
psychological, cultural, and political reasons for acting - or not 
acting - to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
By Joseph Guzman | Jan. 13, 2022

Story at a glance

    -- The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication organized
    Americans into six distinct groups based on attitudes on climate change.
    -- The groups include: the “Alarmed,” the “Concerned,” the
    “Cautious,” the “Disengaged,” the “Doubtful” and the “Dismissive.”
    -- Over the last five years, the number of participants that fall
    under the Alarmed segment nearly doubled in size.

The groups include: the “Alarmed,” the “Concerned,” the “Cautious,” the 
“Disengaged,” the “Doubtful” and the “Dismissive.”

Americans who fall under the Alarmed category are convinced global 
warming is occurring, human-caused, an urgent threat and are strongly in 
favor of climate policies to find solutions.

America is changing faster than ever! Add Changing America to your 
Facebook or Twitter feed to stay on top of the news.

The Concerned includes those who believe global warming is human-caused 
and a serious threat, and they also support climate policies, however, 
they believe the impacts are further away in time and thus are less 
likely to take immediate action. The Cautious are less sure about if 
global warming is occurring, if it’s human-caused and how serious its 
impacts are, while the Disengaged know little about the issue. The 
Doubtful don’t believe it’s occurring or just think it’s a natural cycle 
and the Dismissive believe human-caused global warming is not happening 
and oppose climate change policies.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/589607-new-study-finds-americans-increasingly-alarmed-about-climate

/[ Professor, professing - no charts, no graphs, and not one math 
formula -- excellent 24 mins//Climate Pod video//  ] /
*The 'Doomsday Glacier's' Disastrous Potential (Featuring Dr. Richard 
Alley)*
Jan 6, 2022
The Climate Pod
#ThwaitesGlacier #DoomsdayGlacier #ClimateChange #SealevelRise

This week, we spoke with Dr. Richard Alley, a glaciologist and member of 
the International Thwaites Glacier Collaborative, about why this 
particular glacier - dubbed the 'Doomsday Glacier by Jeff Goodell - 
could raise sea levels beyond catastrophic levels and cause so much 
damage to coastal communities around the world. We also discuss how soon 
and how likely that might actually happen, and the latest findings that 
his group recently published.

Dr. Richard Alley is the Evan Pugh University Professor of Geosciences 
at Penn State, where he focuses on glaciology, ice sheet stability, and 
understanding how Earth’s climate has changed by examining ice cores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfgLNuuudvA

/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming January 14, 2009*
January 14, 2009: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann denounces Senator James 
Inhofe (R-OK) for his rhetorical assault on former EPA Administrator 
Carol Browner:

    "But our winner, climate change denier Senator James Inhofe of
    Oklahoma, desperate to capsize the incoming energy and climate
    adviser, Carol Browner, branding her a secret socialist. Sounds like
    a Christmas thing, secret socialist.  And saying, 'There is another
    organization that a lot of people don‘t realize.  It‘s called the
    Center for American Progress.  This report that came out, this is
    the group that is trying for the Fairness Doctrine, trying to, I
    think, dramatically upend the First Amendment.  She, Carol Browner,
    was a member of that group.'

    "As he fulminated, Senator Inhofe even held up a copy of a Center
    for American Progress report called 'The Structural Imbalance of
    Political Talk Radio.'  There's only one problem: in that report,
    the Center for American Progress specifically concludes, quote,
    'There is no need to return to the fairness doctrine.  Increasing
    ownership diversity will lead to more diverse programming.'

    "So Senator, thanks for pointing out that Carol Browner belongs to a
    group that specifically opposes reinstating the Fairness Doctrine
    you‘re so scared of.  Senator James 'Maybe next time I‘ll remember
    to read the damn thing first' Inhofe, today‘s worst person in the
    world!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0tbsps_KOA#t=73

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