[✔️] January 23, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Sun Jan 23 10:19:21 EST 2022

/*January 23, 2022*/

/[ California Wildfire moving ]/
*Wildfire north of Big Sur prompts evacuations*
Bill Gabbert  January 22, 2022
The fire named “Colorado” has burned more than 1,000 acres near Highway 
1 near the California coast

A wind-driven wildfire that broke out Friday afternoon north of Big Sur, 
California has prompted evacuations. The fire just east of the Pacific 
Coast Highway has forced residents to leave their homes and officials to 
close a portion of the iconic highway.

The blaze started near Palo Colorado Canyon Road which led firefighters 
who usually name a fire after a local landmark, to call it the “Colorado 
Fire.” (A name which will likely result in confusion.)*...*
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/01/22/wildfire-north-of-big-sur-prompts-evacuations/

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/[  NYTimes ]/
*Wildfire in Big Sur Forces Residents to Evacuate*
A late-season blaze that started on Friday grew to 1,500 acres in the 
scenic region of California.
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The fire was “stubbornly active overnight,” according to the National 
Weather Service, as intense, gusty winds of up to 50 miles per hour blew 
the flames erratically along the area’s steep canyons. By Saturday 
morning, the fire — known as the Colorado fire — grew to 1,500 acres 
after starting a little after 5 p.m. on Friday in the Palo Colorado 
Canyon area. Just one structure had burned by Saturday. The cause of the 
fire, which on Saturday afternoon was 5 percent contained, is under 
investigation...
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With mellower winds Saturday, Mr. Nuñez said he was hopeful that crews 
would be able to get the fire under control. But the area is not 
expecting rain until the end of February, so the conditions will remain 
ripe for fire, he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/22/us/colorado-fire-big-sur-california.html

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[ Check Cal Fire for incident data ]
*A summary of all 2022 incidents, including those managed by CAL FIRE 
and other partner agencies.*
https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/2022/

/[ from DeSmogBlog ]/
*Over 450 Climate Scientists Say Advertising Industry Must End 
‘Complicity’ in Climate Crisis*
For years, top advertising and PR firms have profited by helping the 
fossil fuel industry spread misinformation, set up front groups, promote 
false solutions, and obstruct climate action. Climate scientists are 
demanding PR firms part ways with climate deniers
By Nick Cunninghamon -- Jan 21, 2022...
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Exxon is facing a barrage of other lawsuits across the US. A number 
accuse the company and other fossil fuel firms of breaching consumer 
protection laws by propagating misinformation about climate science.

Oreskes said Exxon went further than most other oil companies in seeking 
to hide the evidence of its own scientists collected about global 
heating and in running a disinformation campaign.

“They’re pushing their freedom of speech as an issue because more than 
any other company, it’s been proven by people like me and others that 
they have a track record of promoting half truths, misrepresentations 
and in some cases outright lies in the public sphere,” she said.

“This is so well documented that unless they can come up with some 
strategy to defend it, they’re in potentially pretty serious trouble.”
https://www.desmog.com/2022/01/21/450-climate-scientists-advertising-climate-crisis/

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/[  Is nothing being done?   Or are our action ineffective?   ]/
*Climate change denial on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok is ‘as 
bad as ever’*
Jessica Guynn
USA TODAY - - Jan 21, 2022
The climate is changing, but misinformation about it on the major social 
media platforms is not.

Climate change falsehoods, hoaxes and conspiracy theories are still 
prevalent on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube despite pledges to 
crack down, a new report says.

Social media posts and videos denying climate change, disputing its 
causes, or underplaying its effects not only can still be found on these 
platforms, they are often missing warning labels or links to credible 
information, according to Advance Democracy, a research organization 
that studies misinformation.

Climate scientists say they’re frustrated by the lack of progress in 
stemming the tide of climate change misinformation. For years, they’ve 
urged social media companies to identify, flag and take down the 
misinformation and the accounts that spread it...
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Last May, Advance Democracy found hundreds of thousands of posts on 
Twitter denying climate change. A week later, Twitter added a new 
climate topic to direct users to credible information on climate change...
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The climate is changing, but misinformation about it on the major social 
media platforms is not.

Climate change falsehoods, hoaxes and conspiracy theories are still 
prevalent on Twitter, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube despite pledges to 
crack down, a new report says.

Social media posts and videos denying climate change, disputing its 
causes, or underplaying its effects not only can still be found on these 
platforms, they are often missing warning labels or links to credible 
information, according to Advance Democracy, a research organization 
that studies misinformation.
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*YouTube 'information panels' missing from videos*
According to YouTube guidelines, when a viewer searches or watches 
videos “prone to misinformation,” an informational panel should appear 
with background information from independent third-party sources. 
YouTube also prohibits ads that promote climate change misinformation.
/[ warning disinformation denialist channel 
https://www.youtube.com/c/CDN_ClimateDN ]/
Advance Democracy says no information panels popped up on video searches 
for 10 key phrases associated with climate change denial but did turn up 
an ad from Amazon linking to books that deny the existence of climate 
change.

YouTube says it surfaces videos from authoritative sources in search 
results and puts informational panels under videos...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/01/21/climate-change-misinformation-facebook-youtube-twitter/6594691001/

/[ Bloomberg and other news sources  $ ] /
*China’s Fake Snow Frenzy for Beijing Olympics Strains Water Supplies*
Beijing “underestimated the amount of water that would be needed for 
snowmaking,” noted an IOC evaluation report published in 2015, and has 
“overestimated the ability to recapture water used for snowmaking.”
Water isn’t the only environmental concern. Making snow at such a large 
scale is an energy-intensive process that can at times spew tons of 
planet-warming gases. This appears to be a low risk, however, since all 
the snow canons used for the Games are powered by nearby wind farms, 
according to Jia Maoting, the head of Aoti Construction Development 
Ltd., which built some of venues.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-01-22/beijing-winter-olympics-first-to-rely-on-artificial-snow

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/[ Yes, NPR finds a university study to wakes up from decades asleep - 
audio and text  ]/
*Could the world become too warm to hold Winter Olympics?*
January 21, 2022
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/21/1074872876/could-the-world-become-too-warm-to-hold-winter-olympics

/[   Scientific American opinion ] /
*To Fully Mitigate Climate Change, We Need to Curb Methane Emissions*
The Build Back Better legislation, now in the Senate, would include 
programs to reduce methane output
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-fully-mitigate-climate-change-we-need-to-curb-methane-emissions/

/[  inevitable consequences   ]
/*Seawall damage a sign of things to come amid sea level rise and 
climate change, experts warn*
By Simon Little & Kamil Karamali  Global News
January 9, 2022

The extensive storm damage to parts of Vancouver and West Vancouver’s 
waterfront on Friday may be a sign of things to come amid climate change 
and rising sea levels, experts warn.

Parts of the Stanley Park and Ambleside Park seawalls were left looking 
like they’d been hit by an earthquake after strong winds helped produce 
a storm surge at the same time as a seasonal king tide.
SFU earth sciences professor, John Clague, said the combination of those 
two factors was exacerbated by sea level rise, and that similar damaging 
storms are expected to increase in frequency in the years to come.

“It’s a double whammy because you’ve got sea level higher, but you’ve 
also got the cyclic king tides stacked on top of that, which means that 
the types of event we saw on Friday are going to become more common and 
they’re going to be more damaging,” he said.

According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the global sea 
level has already risen by between 16 and 21 centimetres since 1900 — 
and the rate is increasing. About seven centimetres of that rise accrued 
in the last 29 years.
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In West Vancouver, where much of Ambleside Park was underwater during 
the storm, the Ferry Building Gallery escaped unscathed, after being 
raised during ongoing restoration work specifically to protect it from 
sea level rise.

Legacy sea-side infrastructure like Vancouver’s seawall, however, could 
pose a bigger challenge in the years to come, and Clague said even with 
major upgrades we may need to be expect them to be routinely damaged.

“I don’t think we can abandon them, but we need to look at how we can 
better protect them,” he said.

“(They) may be a thing of the past — it’s a terrible thought, I hate to 
say it.”
https://globalnews.ca/news/8499411/seawall-damage-a-sign-of-things-to-come-amid-sea-level-rise-and-climate-change-experts-warn/

/[ pretty simple, says KGW News is sponsored by a gas powered vehicle 
brand   ] /
*'There's nothing here': Oregon's southernmost glacier has completely 
melted*
Anders Carlson, president of the Oregon Glaciers Institute, said Lathrop 
Glacier likely disappeared sometime in the last decade...
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https://www.kgw.com/article/tech/science/climate-change/theres-nothing-here-oregons-southernmost-glacier-has-completely-melted/283-5da2a0c3-47c8-4d2e-9988-50fc5e84e31e

[The news archive - looking back]
*On this day in the history of global warming January  23, 2007*
January 23, 2007:
After six years, President George W. Bush finally addresses global 
climate change in his State of the Union address.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqoM1AgE9ig

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