[✔️] July 6, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*July 6, 2022*/

/[  Why is that?  It must be medications or money?  ] /
*What, me worry? Survey shows US less concerned about climate change 
than most of the world*
Dinah Voyles Pulver
USA TODAY
While two-thirds of U.S. residents in a new international survey said 
they were worried about climate change, the nation stood out for being 
among those least concerned about the warming world.

In the survey of more than 100 countries released last week, some 67.6% 
of respondents in the United States said they were either “very worried 
or somewhat worried” about climate change.

Among the 24 western hemisphere countries included in the survey, only 
Haiti at 67.3% had fewer respondents worried about climate change.

By comparison, 95% of the people surveyed in Mexico and 93% in Chile and 
Portugal reported they were at least somewhat worried. Only Jordan (48%) 
and Yemen (31%) showed fewer than half of respondents were concerned.

The survey was conducted on Facebook by its owner, Meta, and the Yale 
Program on Climate Change Communication...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2022/07/05/facebook-survey-climate-change-less-worry-us-than-most-world/7765687001/



/[ flooding in Austrailia, Europe and Mexico - One video from Ciudad 
Guzman, Mexico ]/
*People don't know where to escape! Flooding sweeps away cars in Ciudad 
Guzmán, Mexico*
Jul 5, 2022  Natural disaster 5 July 2022. People don't know where to 
escape! Flooding sweeps away cars in Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico

After a daytime storm in Ciudad Guzmán, residents reported various 
damage. In the historic center, one of the trees, located on the side of 
Federico del Toro Street, fell. At the same time, several streets were 
flooded.

For example, Leon Vicario Street experienced flooding and an increase in 
dragging vehicles. Residents report that the water rose to the sidewalk, 
but did not enter the houses.

At the Benito Juarez municipal flea market, part of the tin roof is 
reported to have fallen. In addition, the Constitution market is 
flooding again.

Naturals hazards in 2021 have become more frequent. We do not know what 
awaits us in 2021. How global warming and climate change will affect our 
Earth. Watch the most current news about natural disasters on our channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHBWD6TUyDQ

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/[ YouTube video channel  shows news events ]/
*Vulnerability*
The channel lists such natural disasters as:
1) Geological emergencies: Earthquake, Volcanic eruption, Mud, 
Landslide, Landslide, Avalanche;
2) Hydrological emergencies: Flood, Tsunami, Limnological disaster, 
Flood, Flood;
3) Fires: Forest fire, Peat fire;
4) Meteorological emergencies: Tornado, Cyclone, Blizzard, Hail, 
Drought, Tornado, Hail, Hurricane, Tsunami, Storm, Thunderstorm, Tempest.
#CiudadGuzmán #Mexico #rain #weather #news #Hurricane #Typhoon #Flood 
#Naturaldisasters #jalisco

On the channel, everything you need to know about:
chave weather, fobos storm, natural disasters compilation, painful 
earth, live storm media,lsm, climate change, global warming,
https://www.youtube.com/c/VulnerabilityVaucherie



/[  hey it's summertime ]/
*A lethal tick-borne disease is spreading in the US, driven by climate 
change*
Experts say it's not time to freak out — yet.
https://grist.org/health/a-lethal-tick-borne-disease-is-spreading-in-the-us-driven-by-climate-change/


/[  computer games no longer an escape from fire reality ]/
*To bring attention to climate change, Ubisoft will burn down virtual 
forests*
By Evan Lahti  - -  July 5, 2022

Sorry to interrupt your playground, Riders Republicans, but the world is 
on fire.
Later this year, Riders Republic players will log into their extreme 
sports sandbox and be greeted not by idyllic California cliffs and 
trails, but by grim orange skies choked by smoke. They'll find that a 
gas mask has been put on their character. And they won't be able to 
access certain map areas deemed "unbreathable" as a result of local 
wildfires.

In an effort to bring awareness to the issue, Riders Republic will be 
touched by climate change in a special event later this year that will 
happen without warning. That plan is outlined by Ubisoft gameplay 
director Boris Maniora, and is estimated to launch sometime at the end 
of 2022 or early in 2023.

The event concept was one of several pitched by studios as part of a 
Green Game Jam by the Playing for the Planet Alliance, a UN-sponsored 
coalition of game developers. Humble, Microsoft, Sega, Sony Interactive, 
Unity, and Bandai Namco are among the companies participating, all of 
which commit to inserting "green nudges into games" and reducing their 
corporate carbon footprint...
..
Released on October 28, 2021, Riders Republic mushes together seven 
American national parks into a contiguous map, including Bryce Canyon, 
Yosemite Valley, Zion, and Grand Teton. The event description mostly 
mentions Sequoia National Park, where "players will have to join forces 
to prevent Sequoias from burning down," according to Maniora's pitch for 
the event. Cooperation will be key, Ubisoft says:
https://www.pcgamer.com/to-bring-attention-to-climate-change-ubisoft-will-burn-down-virtual-forests/

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[Classic photo of golfing during a wildfire 2017 ]
*Those are golfers at Beacon Rock Golf Course in Washington with a 
wildfire blazing about a mile away on the Oregon side of the Columbia 
river.*
https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/09/golf-northwest-wildfires-photos-are-real-beacon-rock-washington-oregon
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*These terrifying pictures of people golfing while a hill goes up in 
flames behind them are real*
Sep 7, 2017  Photos showing Washington golfers finishing up a round 
while a hillside behind them burns aren’t faked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmZmMFcGhU



/[  many industrial emissions cause atmospheric heating   ] /
*If only the problem was just carbon dioxide*
A new study is the first to assess the impacts of curbing only CO2 
emissions—versus cutting other pollutants causing nearly half of all warming
By Prachi Patel
May 26, 2022
Slashing carbon dioxide emissions will not be enough to keep warming 
below the temperature threshold that will keep the planet habitable and 
avoid the worst climate change effects, according to a new study.

Efforts to combat rising temperatures have focused on carbon dioxide, 
but other pollutants such as methane are responsible for nearly half of 
all climate warming. In the new paper published in Proceedings of the 
National Academy of Sciences, the researchers say that targeting all 
those pollutants will be necessary not only to limit warming in the next 
25 years, but also to keep temperatures from rising above 2 °C by the 
end of the century.

Carbon dioxide, mostly emitted from the burning of fossil fuels, is 
mainly responsible for heating up the planet since the start of the 
industrial era. It can persist in the atmosphere for centuries, trapping 
heat. Most international government efforts for climate mitigation 
revolve around decarbonizing economies by phasing out fossil fuels and 
cutting carbon emissions.

But the research team assessed the impacts from four other pollutants: 
methane, black carbon soot, ground level ozone, and hydrofluorocarbon 
refrigerants. These pollutants last for a much shorter time in the 
atmosphere, but cause just as much warming as carbon dioxide, the team 
says. Yet they have been absent from global mitigation actions.

The new study is the first to assess the impacts of curbing only carbon 
dioxide emissions, versus emissions of all these greenhouse-effect 
pollutants. Using data on radiative forcing—which measures heating of 
the lower atmosphere and the Earth’s surface—from the U.N. 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the researchers assessed the 
net warming effect of carbon dioxide and non-carbon dioxide pollutants 
from both fossil fuel and non-fossil fuel sources.

Tackling only greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel sources will not 
solve the climate crisis, they found. Achieving net-zero carbon 
emissions will be essential for the long-tern to keep global warming 
below 2°C past 2050. But it will not be enough in the short run to keep 
warming below that cutoff by 2050.

Reducing levels of both carbon dioxide and all the other pollutants 
could keep global temperatures from rising beyond 1.5°C, the temperature 
cutoff beyond which experts agree that climate impacts could 
increasingly harm people and the planet.

“Decarbonization is crucial to meeting our long-term climate goals, but 
it’s not enough,” Drew Shindell, a professor of earth science at Duke 
University and co-author of the paper, said in a press release. “To slow 
warming in the near-term and reduce suffering from the ever-increasing 
heatwaves, droughts, superstorms and fires, we need to also reduce 
short-lived climate pollutants this decade.”
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/05/if-only-the-problem-was-just-carbon-dioxide/



[ PNAS research paper ]
*Mitigating climate disruption in time: A self-consistent approach for 
avoiding both near-term and long-term global warming*
May 23, 2022
119 (22) e2123536119
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2123536119

*Significance*
This study clarifies the need for comprehensive CO2 and non-CO2 
mitigation approaches to address both near-term and long-term warming. 
Non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs) are responsible for nearly half of all 
climate forcing from GHG. However, the importance of non-CO2 pollutants, 
in particular short-lived climate pollutants, in climate mitigation has 
been underrepresented. When historical emissions are partitioned into 
fossil fuel (FF)- and non-FF-related sources, we find that nearly half 
of the positive forcing from FF and land-use change sources of CO2 
emissions has been masked by coemission of cooling aerosols. Pairing 
decarbonization with mitigation measures targeting non-CO2 pollutants is 
essential for limiting not only the near-term (next 25 y) warming but 
also the 2100 warming below 2 °C.
*Abstract*
The ongoing and projected impacts from human-induced climate change 
highlight the need for mitigation approaches to limit warming in both 
the near term (<2050) and the long term (>2050). We clarify the role of 
non-CO2 greenhouse gases and aerosols in the context of near-term and 
long-term climate mitigation, as well as the net effect of 
decarbonization strategies targeting fossil fuel (FF) phaseout by 2050. 
Relying on Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change radiative forcing, 
we show that the net historical (2019 to 1750) radiative forcing effect 
of CO2 and non-CO2 climate forcers emitted by FF sources plus the CO2 
emitted by land-use changes is comparable to the net from non-CO2 
climate forcers emitted by non-FF sources. We find that mitigation 
measures that target only decarbonization are essential for strong 
long-term cooling but can result in weak near-term warming (due to 
unmasking the cooling effect of coemitted aerosols) and lead to 
temperatures exceeding 2 °C before 2050. In contrast, pairing 
decarbonization with additional mitigation measures targeting 
short-lived climate pollutants and N2O, slows the rate of warming a 
decade or two earlier than decarbonization alone and avoids the 2 °C 
threshold altogether. These non-CO2 targeted measures when combined with 
decarbonization can provide net cooling by 2030 and reduce the rate of 
warming from 2030 to 2050 by about 50%, roughly half of which comes from 
methane, significantly larger than decarbonization alone over this time 
frame. Our analysis demonstrates the need for a comprehensive CO2 and 
targeted non-CO2 mitigation approach to address both the near-term and 
long-term impacts of climate disruption.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2123536119



/[ We shouldn't overlook any population ]/
*The Deadly Link Between Climate Change and Incarceration*
By Cynthia Golembeski, Michael Méndez and Nicholas Shapiro - - July 5, 2022
Incarceration and climate change are often examined separately, but 
increasingly evidence suggests that policy makers and academics should 
address their combined negative effect on health.

Both incarceration and climate are associated with poor health outcomes. 
Both disproportionately impact marginalized communities including Black, 
Latino, Asian, and Indigenous communities, as well as people living in 
poverty, and people with disabilities.

However, until recently, the two phenomena were considered in isolation, 
instead of as mutually overlapping challenges.

Incarceration and climate change are problems deeply rooted in 
historical and current structural policy choices—the results of 
political, economic, and racial injustices that shape political 
determinants of health.

For example, the United States, while constituting only 5 percent of the 
global population, produces 25 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions.

It also holds 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated population. About 
1,700 U.S. prisons and 3,000 jails hold 1.8 million people.

Even though that population has decreased—by 16 percent since 2019, 
largely due to COVID—the connection with the global climate crisis is 
now hard to ignore.

On a global scale, the climate crisis is the 21stt century’s greatest 
health threat.

Climate change and extreme weather contributed globally to a fivefold 
increase in disasters over the past 50 years, and it will incur further 
rising temperatures, increasing in severity, frequency, duration, and 
unpredictability.

In 2021 alone, 20 weather and climate disaster events in the U.S. caused 
688 fatalities and over $1 billion in losses.

Heat, for example, is the leading cause of weather-related 
mortality—though it is difficult to precisely track how heat influences 
many illnesses. Longer, stronger, and more frequent extreme heat events 
will escalate climate-driven heat-related health incidences.

As noted above, despite the decline in prison populations, the U.S. is 
still a global leader in incarceration rates per capita.

“Decarceration” efforts—which seek to reduce the number of people in 
prisons, jails, and detention centers nationally—have not reduced the 
racial inequities of mass incarceration.

People involved with the criminal legal system also disproportionately 
face significant health challenges before, during, and after incarceration.

When Climate Change and Incarceration Converge
Climate change and incarceration occur in contexts in which government 
authority and power is concentrated, and where individual power to enact 
change—including mitigation, adaptation, planning, and management 
efforts—is limited or out of reach.

This often leads to unmet basic needs among incarcerated people, 
including climate vulnerability. For example, during extreme heat 
events, individuals who are not incarcerated could adapt by visiting a 
local cooling center...
People outside of prison systems can also stockpile medications in 
advance of a severe weather event, but these same acts are legally 
prohibited for incarcerated people.

People in prison may be disproportionately susceptible to climate-driven 
extreme temperatures, disasters, diseases, and displacement.

Incarcerated older adults and those with mental health and neurological 
conditions are particularly vulnerable; people with more than one 
medical condition or disease, and those with limited mobility, are 
especially vulnerable to extreme temperatures.

Certain health conditions and prescription medications, including 
psychotropics, interfere with temperature regulation. Approximately 43 
percent of people in prison reported a previous mental health diagnosis, 
and 66 percent reported taking prescription medication.

What’s more, evidence suggests mortality risk, including suicide, 
increases with higher temperatures. The Vera Institute of Justice 
identified increases in self-harm, aggression, and conflict coinciding 
with higher heat indexes.

Given the high rates of comorbid conditions and accelerated aging within 
prison populations, addressing how health conditions and medications may 
increase health risks associated with extreme temperature exposure is 
critical.

Incarcerated populations have higher rates of certain chronic diseases 
and mental health diagnoses, which are exclusively treated by (often 
inadequate) prison and jail health care.

The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects incarcerated 
people from “cruel and unusual punishment.” That constitutional 
protection, according to the U.S. Supreme Court, requires that prisons, 
jails, and detention centers provide medical and mental health care and 
protect incarcerated people from serious physical and psychological harm.

Despite this constitutional guarantee, there is a lack of 
standardization, transparency, oversight, and accountability when it 
comes to regulating American prisons.

Heat index temperatures have been logged at higher than 150°F inside prisons
This failure is deadly. Heat index temperatures have been logged at 
higher than 150°F inside prisons. People in solitary confinement, forced 
outdoors, coerced to work, and in transit to court or prison may be at 
increased risk, as well.

No national data exists; but as of 2019, 13 states in the hottest 
regions of the country do not provide universal air conditioning in 
state prisons: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, 
and Virginia.

Although the Bureau of Prisons has adopted operational guidelines for 
federal prisons of 76°F for cooling and 68°F for heating, there are no 
other national or federal temperature regulation standards or requirements.

Marcia Powell’s Story
In May 2009, Marcia Powell, a 48-year-old woman serving a two-year 
sentence in Arizona for sex work related charges, was kept in an 
uncovered chain-linked outdoor cell for at least four hours while 
temperatures hovered above 107°F.

Arizona prison policy limits this type of confinement to two hours. 
Powell, like many, would have benefited more from social services or 
other alternatives to incarceration.

The medical examiner documented a core temperature of 108°F; first and 
second-degree burns on her face and body; dehydration; metabolic 
acidosis (when too much acid is produced by the body) with coagulopathy 
(a blood coagulation disorder); rhabdomyolysis (a life-threatening 
condition where the muscle breaks down); and acute kidney failure.

Death as “a result of complications of hyperthermia due to environmental 
heat exposure” was reported. Yet, the manner of death was ruled an accident.
No one was held accountable for Powell’s painful, unnecessary death, 
despite the fact that in the United States, incarcerated people 
constitute the only group with a constitutional guarantee to health care 
and protection from physical and psychological harm.

Powell’s toxicology report includes positive tests for benztropine for 
Parkinson’s disease; the antipsychotic medication Haloperidol; the 
mood-stabilizing drug valproic acid for depression and epilepsy; and 
lidocaine, a local anesthetic. Some of these drugs were psychotropic.

Powell exemplifies what Homer Venters, a former chief medical officer at 
Rikers Island jail in New York, terms a “jail or prison attributable 
injury, illness, or death”—one that would not have occurred without 
incarceration.

Powell was incarcerated, exposed to extreme heat, and left to die 
despite constitutional protections. Given bipartisan consensus on 
prioritizing decarceration, drug-policy reform, and alternatives to 
incarceration, protecting people like Marcia Powell from injury, illness 
and death due to prison or jail exposure is paramount.

Marcia is not alone.

Timothy Souders, died at the age of 21 while lying in his own urine 
shackled to a concrete slab in solitary confinement in Southern Michigan 
Correctional Center amidst temperatures above 107°F during an August 
2006 heat wave. Souders was incarcerated for resisting arrest and 
destroying police property.

Souders, who lived with mental illness, was disciplined and placed in 
four-points restraints in a small cell without windows or water for 
disobeying orders. Surveillance video reveals his mental and physical 
deterioration over the course of four days of being shackled.

The autopsy attributes the cause of death to hyperthermia with 
dehydration, yet his death was ruled an accident. Federal Judge Richard 
Enslen concluded the conditions surrounding Souder’s death amounted to 
torture and ordered an immediate ban on punitive restraints in three 
Michigan prisons.

What It Means to Be Vulnerable to Climate Change
Factors compounded by social, structural, and political determinants of 
health, including age, race, gender, poverty, disability, and poor 
health, increase climate vulnerability and lower the adaptive capacity 
to climate risks.

Longer, stronger, and more frequent extreme heat events will escalate 
climate-driven heat-related health incidences .

Contextual vulnerability, an emerging concept within disaster and 
climate change policy, considers the social and economic circumstances 
of specific disasters that intensify their harmful effects for groups 
that are already marginalized.

Employing the concept of contextual vulnerability to account for these 
interactions between societies and changing environments, aids in 
evaluating how they expose specific groups to greater harm, and allows 
for targeted, more effective responses.

Differences in human vulnerability stem from a range of social, 
economic, historical, and political factors.

Attention to political determinants of health and contextual 
vulnerability exposes how human health can be affected by climate change 
in several ways.

History and geography may influence uneven health effects. Resources and 
environments shape health outcomes. Power and relationships influence 
health inequities.

And multiple systems and scales may produce unfair and unavoidable 
differences in health.

People who are incarcerated often experience intersectional inequities, 
which exacerbate discrimination and exclusion from systems for climate 
governance and disaster prevention, mitigation, and recovery planning.

The differential vulnerability of incarcerated people to disaster is a 
consequence of structural inequality, power relations, and the “slow 
violence” that climate injustices gradually unleash on vulnerable 
populations over time.

Victories in Court
Incarcerated people have responded to extreme temperature and 
insufficient mitigation measures with protest, including hunger strikes 
and litigation. Between 1980 and 2019, more than 1,200 U.S. court cases 
challenging temperature conditions in prisons and jails were brought 
under the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

Court cases involving temperature regulation in Arizona, Mississippi and 
Wisconsin, have decided in favor of incarcerated people...
Climate adaptation planning and management efforts involving 
correctional institutions remain inadequate, though. Despite 
constitutional protections from harm and health-care guarantees, 
incarcerated people are considered wards of the state with limited 
influence.

A proposed bill requires the Bureau of Prisons to report related 
outcomes for prisons and incarcerated people, and incentivizes 
early-release and home confinement to decrease staff responsibilities 
and harm to incarcerated people.

The state has historically struggled in “aligning the constitutional 
notions of equal protection and general welfare to our laws and policies.”

Special consideration to proactively protect people within prisons and 
jails, given their increased vulnerability, is necessary.

Decarbonization and decarceration are two sides of the same intervention 
strategy that is badly needed to address the “code red” warnings we have 
already been given by the confluence of climate change and mass 
incarceration.
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/07/05/the-deadly-link-between-climate-change-and-incarceration/



/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*July 6, 2010*/
July 6, 2010: Washington Post writer Ezra Klein observes:

    "There's a range of likely outcomes from a tax on carbon, and we can
    handle most of them. There's also a range of outcomes from radical
    changes in the planet's climate, and we've really no idea which we
    can handle, and which we can't. We don't even really know what that
    range looks like. And although a tax can be undone or reformed,
    there's no guarantee that we can reverse hundreds of years of rapid
    greenhouse gas buildup in the atmosphere. If you want proof, look at
    our inability to deal with an underwater oil spill, and consider how
    much more experience we have repairing oil rigs than reversing
    concentrations of gases in the atmosphere.

    "One of the oddities of the global warming debate, in fact, is that
    the side that's usually skeptical of government intervention is
    potentially setting up a future in which the government is
    intervening on a planetary scale. I don't think of myself as
    particularly skeptical of the feds, but I'm a lot more comfortable
    with their ability to levy a tax than their capacity to reform the
    atmosphere. That's why, when faced with the choice between being
    risk averse about a tax or about the planet, I tend to choose the
    planet."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/the_case_for_being_careful_wit.html


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