[✔️] July 9, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*July 9, 2022*/

/[ Opinion from the Guardian  ] /
*We’ve overexploited the planet, now we need to change if we’re to survive*
Patrick Vallance
8 Jul 2022
The relationship between humans and nature is under intense and 
increasing strain. The report released today by Ipbes, the 
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem 
Services (akin to the IPCC reports on climate change), provides 
compelling evidence that humans are overexploiting wild species and 
habitats. Harmful activities, including habitat destruction, poor 
farming practices and pollution, have altered ecosystems significantly, 
driving many species past the point of recovery. In Great Britain alone, 
of the 8,431 species assessed in the 2019 State of Nature report, 1,188 
are threatened with extinction. Globally, there are an estimated one 
million at risk, with biodiversity declining at a faster rate than at 
any time in human history.

We cannot ignore biodiversity loss. Biodiversity is the variability that 
exists among all living organisms, between different species, within 
species including genetic makeup, and in wider ecosystems. Billions of 
people rely on wild species for food, clean water, energy, income and 
health and wellbeing. Annually, crops worth up to £480bn are pollinated 
by a variety of wild animals, and an estimated 4 billion people depend 
on natural medicines for their healthcare. These vital ecosystem 
services are fundamentally based on a healthy environment, and this 
requires biodiversity. Losing biodiversity leaves species and ecosystems 
less resilient to challenges such as invasive species or pests, meaning 
there is an increased risk of whole populations being wiped out and 
destabilising the entire ecological network. Nature is a finite 
resource, and human self-interest alone should determine that 
biodiversity must be protected.

Alongside overexploitation, humans are driving biodiversity loss by 
destroying, polluting and fragmenting habitats across the globe. Many of 
the UK’s important peatlands, which provide a home for rare species such 
as the hen harrier, have been drained for agricultural use. The Amazon 
rainforest is being cleared to such an extent that it may be near a 
tipping point beyond which it cannot recover.
The climate crisis is exacerbating the issue. Many species simply cannot 
adapt to the scale and pace of changing temperatures. For example, 
warming seas and ocean acidification are devastating coral reefs around 
the world. This year, the Great Barrier Reef suffered its sixth mass 
bleaching event since 1998 with more than 90% of reefs affected. In many 
cases, when an ecosystem loses biodiversity, it becomes less able to 
store carbon, contributing to further climate change. We have a vicious 
cycle: climate change leads to biodiversity losses, which in turn leads 
to further climate change. As governments around the world develop plans 
to reduce carbon emissions and conserve biodiversity, the message is 
simple: we must solve both problems together...
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What can be done? Just as science has diagnosed the problem, it can 
provide solutions. Using strong evidence, such as this Ipbes report, 
governments can develop effective policy. Integrated and collaborative 
planning can deliver sustainable solutions which address climate change 
and biodiversity loss simultaneously, protecting and enriching human 
lives...   https://ipbes.net/
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CBD Cop15 could deliver landmark action and be as important for 
biodiversity as the Paris Agreement is proving for reducing greenhouse 
gas emissions. It will set the direction for the next decade of 
international action and beyond. Governments should agree to halt and 
reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, and develop evidence-based, 
actionable plans to do so. An important challenge is to define a 
reliable and simple integrated metric, like carbon emissions have been 
used for climate goals. At the end of June, negotiators met in Nairobi 
for their latest attempt to agree the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity 
Framework, and while progress was made, it did not go far enough.

The last decade’s targets were not met; the next decade’s must be. 
Credible delivery plans will be required, and we need a robust mechanism 
for monitoring progress and holding ourselves to account. CBD Cop15 is 
the time to finalise the framework, and countries must come to the table 
prepared to make and support ambitious commitments. This is our chance 
to secure long-lasting agreements to protect our planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/08/climate-crisis-biodiversity-decline-overexploited-planet-change-to-survive-aoe 


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https://ipbes.net/



/[  the answer is long and complicated, but mostly it is "No" ] /
*Can FEMA Keep Up With Climate Change?*
JULY 08, 2022
https://slate.com/transcripts/Vm40VEdDN2tYbzBTYXNnY0ltVi9kUWh1WGlvcVFWR28yNmM0WmpxTHFjWT0=



/[  British view of US politcs ] /
*The supreme court has left the US with no plan for the climate crisis*
Oliver Milman
In mid-June, a ferocious “heat dome” brought roasting temperatures to 
much of the US, placing around a third of Americans under hazardous-heat 
warnings. It came soon after a record heatwave in India so brutal birds 
fell from the sky. Floods, meanwhile, have been the worst in a century 
in Bangladesh and so fierce in America’s Yellowstone national park that 
entire bridges and buildings were washed away.

Amid this tumult, the US supreme court has restricted the ability of the 
world’s largest historical carbon polluter to address the climate 
crisis. Last week, the rightwing-dominated court ruled that the US 
government cannot use its existing powers to reshape the country’s power 
generation away from coal towards a cleaner future.

In another country, this would be surmountable by simply passing 
legislation to remedy the shortfall. Many places, such as the UK, have, 
after all, enshrined climate targets and stipulations to phase out coal 
and other fossil fuels within certain timeframes.

Our planet’s leading superpower, however, has contrived to turn global 
heating into a partisan, ideological argument that sees climate action 
wax and wane depending on which party is in power. It has been almost 
four decades since then-president George HW Bush boasted: “Those who 
think we are powerless to do anything about the greenhouse effect forget 
about the White House effect.” And yet the US still has no national 
climate or energy policy in place. Having no such plan in 2022 as the 
world hurtles into a new reality of electric cars and wind turbines has 
left it oddly out of place in the modern world.

Governments do not have a further four decades to address escalating 
temperatures, and the window of opportunity to avoid the worst is now 
severely shrivelled. It’s unlikely we will dodge disastrous heating 
without strong action from the US and yet that first-ever climate bill 
is stalled in Congress – held up by a centrist senator who owns a 
coal-trading firm – and there is little time to strike a deal ahead of 
midterm elections in November, where Democrats are expected to lose.

The political failure for Joe Biden, who campaigned as the first climate 
president and presided over slender Democratic control of the Senate and 
Congress, would be enormous. But the real losers will be those left 
bereft of life, limb and property from the latest heatwave or flood. The 
next few months will be critical in deciding how many will have to 
suffer that fate.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/06/the-us-supreme-court-is-turning-the-constitution-into-a-suicide-pact 





/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*July 9, 2008*/
July 9, 2008: The UK Daily Telegraph reports that prior to leaving the 
G8 Summit in Japan, President George W. Bush, "who has been condemned 
throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a 
private meeting with the words: 'Goodbye from the world's biggest 
polluter.' He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of 
those present including [British Prime Minister] Gordon Brown and 
[French President] Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-Goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/bush-to-g8-goodbye-from-the-worlds-biggest-polluter-863911.html


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