[✔️] January 15, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*January 15, 2022*/

/[  Record set above 50°C  ] /
*Australia ties Southern Hemisphere's all-time heat record of 123°F; 
epic heat cooks Argentina*
The Southern Hemisphere heat record was 62 years old; the heat wave in 
Argentina is a threat to a key world grain-producing breadbasket.
by JEFF MASTERS -- JAN 14, 2022
It’s the peak of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and this week 
historic heat waves have hit both Australia and South America.
On Thursday, January 13, one of the most iconic world weather records 
was tied when a ferocious heat wave in Western Australia sent the 
mercury soaring to 50.7 degrees Celsius (123.3°F) in the coastal city of 
Onslow...
https://i0.wp.com/yaleclimateconnections.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0122_aussie-heatwave.png?w=680&ssl=1 
...
https://twitter.com/BOM_WA/status/1481547395225772035/photo/1
If the current drought in Argentina turns out to be as bad as the 
drought of 2017-2018, and two other major global breadbaskets are hit by 
exceptional 1-in-50-year droughts this summer, we could see dangerously 
high global food prices capable of causing a global emergency.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/01/australia-ties-southern-hemispheres-all-time-heat-record-of-123f-epic-heat-cooks-argentina/



/[  A sane, current and careful explanation from NASA  - brief video 8 
mins] /
*Temperature Record 101: How We Know What We Know about Climate Change*
Jan 13, 2022
NASA Goddard
1.01M subscribers
2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record, stretching 
more than a century.
But, what is a temperature record?

GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in millions of 
observations from instruments on weather stations, ships and ocean 
buoys, and Antarctic research stations, to determine how much warmer or 
cooler Earth is on average from year to year. Stretching back to 1880, 
NASA’s record shows a clear warming trend.

However, individual weather events and La Niña — a pattern of cooler 
waters in the Pacific that was responsible for slightly cooling 2021’s 
average temperature — can affect individual years. Because the record is 
global, not every place on Earth experienced the sixth warmest year on 
record. Some places had record-high temperatures, and we saw record 
droughts, floods and fires around the globe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLU8v8fAw7s



/[   a college level course using simple language and drawings videos ] /
*Arctic Amplification Pt. 1 - Why is the Arctic Ice Cap Melting?**
**Arctic Amplification Pt. 2 - How Our Planet is Impacted by Arctic 
Warming**
**Arctic Amplification Pt. 3 - How Arctic Climate Change Impacts Us*
The Half Drawn Man
Find out how Arctic Amplification and Arctic Climate Change impact us as 
humans living predominantly South of the Arctic Circle. Here we talk 
about sea level rise and the effect of a slowing down Atlantic 
Meridional Overturning Circulation, permafrost thaw, jet stream 
meandering, North Atlantic Oscillation trends and polar vortex and polar 
night jet disruptions.
part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSs2I4HMndY
part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSaIWzzxfo
Part 3 https://youtu.be/NSdOBogwTnE



/[  critics of COP26 politics in video 22 mins ]/
#DemocracyNow
*How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency: George Monbiot, 
Scientist Kevin Anderson on COP26*
Nov 11, 2021
Democracy Now!

The United States and China made a surprise announcement on Wednesday at 
the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow on a joint pledge to reduce methane 
emissions and slow deforestation. The United States is the largest 
historical emitter of carbon emissions, while China has been the largest 
emitter in recent years. As negotiations continue, we speak with British 
journalist George Monbiot and British climate scientist Kevin Anderson 
about how world leaders and even some climate scientists are downplaying 
the climate emergency. “Everything we’ve been hearing here and at the 
previous 25 summits is basically distraction,” says Monbiot, adding that 
global leaders could “fix” the worst impacts of the climate crisis “in 
no time at all if they wanted to.” Both guests highlight the role of 
extreme wealth in fueling the climate crisis, with Anderson noting it’s 
unfair to penalize nations like China, whose rising emissions correlate 
to the production of goods transported to wealthier countries. “Equity 
has to be a key part of our responses,” says Anderson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYbgZNE4Y0g



/[ Telling it like it is.   Wired and smart.  Video]/
*CO2Budget Day 1 - Kevin Anderson Keynote*
Jun 2, 2021
Klimatriksdagen
Kevin Anderson, professor in Climate and Energy transitions at the 
University of Manchester gives his keynote on CO2budgets and how the 
language of net-zero goals downplays the scale of mitigation efforts.
Followed up by a Q&A at the end, moderated by Isabel Baudish, 
Coordinator at Climate Change Leadership, Uppsala University.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzDWVjstN7s



/[ He's still alive ! - video ]/
*Al Gore on his hopes for the planet: "Job number one is to stop using 
the sky as an open sewer"*
JANUARY 13, 2022 / 1:03 PM / CBS NEWS
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, which are helping warm the planet, 
increased by 6.2% last year as the economy rebounded after pandemic 
lockdowns—fueled by a rise in coal-generated power and pollution from 
trucking.

Former Vice President Al Gore has been warning about the climate 
emergency for decades.

He's been living on his 400-acre Tennessee farm since the pandemic 
began. Most people would not consider Gore to be a farmer.

  "I don't think so and truth to tell, I don't have many calluses on my 
hands either," Gore joked with CBS News' senior national and 
environmental correspondent Ben Tracy.

His team handles most of the farm work, tending to the sheep and raising 
the animals that help fertilize the land where they are growing 
everything from carrots and beets to a variety of greens.

They are sent to local markets, but this land outside Nashville is also 
Gore's climate change laboratory.

He is collecting a soil sample as he experiments with what is known as 
regenerative farming, which Gore said will "cut back on the plowing."

"There are better ways to plant," he said.

There is three times more carbon stored in the topsoil of the earth than 
all the trees and plants combined. By plowing less and making that soil 
more fertile, scientists believe that farmers could help trap massive 
amounts of additional planet-warming carbon emissions in the ground.

"Job number one is to stop using the sky as an open sewer for all this 
man-made global warming pollution," Gore said. "That's what's making the 
weather crazy and dangerous—leading to all of the consequences that are 
on the TV news almost every night now."

Gore says Mother Nature is now making the most effective argument for 
climate action, and he is encouraged by the rapid growth of solar and 
wind power and people buying electric vehicles in record numbers.

But the planet is still rapidly warming as we continue to pump 
near-record amounts of pollution into the sky, leading scientists to 
declare a code red for humanity.

"A realist will tell you 'Look, we've done some damage, some of it 
regrettably is not recoverable.' But we go from where we are. You want 
to avoid tipping people into despair because some people go from denial 
to despair without pausing at the intermediate step of actually doing 
something about it," Gore said.

After attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, 
Scotland, he said 2022 is the year world leaders need to stop talking 
and actually start cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.

"Some of the pledges are still weak and we need to measure what they're 
doing and we need to keep an eye on them," Gore said.

He is a major investor in a new tech platform called Climate TRACE. It 
uses satellites, sensors and artificial intelligence to track greenhouse 
gas emissions around the globe, from specific power plants and factories 
to individual cargo ships and even forests which release all of their 
stored carbon when they burn.

Gore believes this will be an important tool to hold countries 
accountable for their pollution.

He has been sounding the climate alarm for more than four decades — 
first as a young congressman and then 15 years ago, with his film "An 
Inconvenient Truth."

It earned him an Oscar, a Nobel Peace Prize, and plenty of scorn from 
climate change deniers.

Despite all his accolades, Gore said he has not succeeded in getting the 
message across.

"This crisis is still getting worse faster than we're deploying the 
solutions. There is a remaining question about whether we can solve it 
in time," he said.

He said he's still optimistic, mainly because of young people all over 
the world now demanding change—including Greta Thunberg.

She and her fellow climate activists accuse world leaders of not doing 
enough and this former politician does not want them to tone down their 
criticism.

"The more they march, the more noise they can make, the more demands 
they insist upon, the faster progress we'll make. I'm a firm believer in 
that," said Gore.

He still believes the climate crisis that humans created is one that can 
be solved.

"The direction of travel is clear and I do believe that we will get 
there," said Gore.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-gore-climate-change/

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/[ great idea to find data, bookmark the link, download the PDF ]/
*Climate Trace *
We harness satellite imagery and other forms of remote sensing, 
artificial intelligence, and collective data science expertise to track 
human-caused GHG emissions as they happen.

Climate TRACE’s emissions inventory is the world’s first comprehensive 
accounting of GHG emissions based primarily on direct, independent 
observation. Our innovative, open, and accessible approach relies on 
advances in technology to fill critical knowledge gaps for all countries 
that rely on the patchwork system of self-reporting that serves as the 
basis for most existing emissions inventories.
Climate TRACE is a global coalition created to make meaningful climate 
action faster and easier by independently tracking greenhouse gas (GHG) 
emissions with unprecedented detail and speed.
https://www.climatetrace.org/about



/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming January  15, 2009*

January 15, 2013: Think Progress reports: "Virginia’s legislature 
commissioned a study to determine the impacts of climate change on the 
state’s shores. After Tea Party complaints, lawmakers [removed] the 
words 'climate change' and “sea level rise” from the title.

"This week, Virginia released its analysis, under the title 'Recurrent 
Flooding Study for Tidewater Virginia.' The report discusses the threat 
of flooding and rising sea levels to coastal Virginia, but gives less 
notice to the causes of climate change."
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1448711/virginia-waters-down-report-on-impacts-of-climate-change-after-tea-party-complaints/ 





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