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

[Richard Pauli]

/*July 15, 2022*/

/[  DW News - German TV video  ] /
*Heatwave and blazing wildfires scorch Southern Europe | DW News*
Jul 14, 2022  Temperatures are set to soar across Europe on Wednesday, 
with France, Britain, Portugal and Spain on high alert over wildfires 
and public health.

Spain's Health Ministry warned the "intense heat" could affect people's 
"vital functions" with heatstroke being a possible consequence. On 
Twitter, the ministry advised citizens to be on the lookout for the 
warning signs of heatstroke, such as a rapid heart rate, severe 
headaches or confusion.

Since Sunday, large parts of the Iberian Peninsula have seen 
temperatures surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) as 
firefighters have battled wildfires across Spain and Portugal.

Around 1,500 firefighters were mobilized to put out three wildfires 
raging for more than 48 hours in central and northern Portugal over the 
weekend as the country was hit by a heat wave that prompted the 
government to declare a "state of contingency."

Southern France is currently battling a wildfire that has been raging 
since Tuesday afternoon, ripping through 800 hectares of pine trees near 
Bordeaux and forcing 150 residents to evacuate their homes, according to 
the local fire department.

Near the Dune of Pilat — Europe's tallest sand dune — another fire tore 
through 180 hectares of old pine trees, authorities said.

Some 6,000 campers near the dune had to be evacuated from campsites 
overnight as a precautionary measure, fire department official 
Lieutenant Colonel David Annotel told local news channel BFMTV.

High temperatures are also anticipated for other parts of western and 
central Europe in the coming days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmC97xf8lfY


/[   wild weather in Spain video ] /
*Heaven is attacking Spain!! A hellish hailstorm has hit Teruel, Andorra!*
625,240 views  Jul 9, 2022  Severe weather continues to affect Spain.
On July 6, a severe storm hit the province of Teruel in the east of the 
country.
In the town of Andorra, hail began to fall, sometimes reaching the size 
of golf balls.
Wind gusts reached speeds of 145 km/h.
The hail damaged the roofs of houses and windows of cars.
The streets became like icy rivers, in which the water level reached 40 
centimeters.
Numerous calls for help came from elderly people who were unable to 
enter their homes due to hail that had accumulated on their doorstep.
Fortunately, there were no injuries.
Extreme rainfall also caused significant damage to other municipalities 
in the province.
In Mazaleon, a storm flooded the streets and destroyed the almond crop.
The locals have not seen anything like this since 2003, the mayor said.
In Calanda, farmers have unfortunately lost almost their entire peach crop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9EJuFpEo9g



/[ An interesting blog site ]/
*Watching the World Go Bye*
Eliot Jacobson's Collapse of Everything Blog
https://climatecasino.net/

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/[ video from Environmental Coffeehouse - Eliot Jacobson is a smart man ]/
*METHANE MUCH MORE SENSITIVE TO GLOBAL HEATING THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT*
Streamed live on Jul 8, 2022  "Very bad news today: climate change 
fueled wildfires are causing a release of massive amounts of carbon 
monoxide which is reacting with hydroxyl radicals, leaving less hydroxyl 
to oxidize atmospheric methane, creating a feedback loop driving even 
faster methane growth." Eliot Jacobson. Jennifer Hynes will be joining 
us!!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqqe7qvg3c

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/[ Article from Nature Communications ]/
*Impact of interannual and multidecadal trends on methane-climate 
feedbacks and sensitivity*
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31345-w.pdf

- - https://gml.noaa.gov/webdata/ccgg/trends/ch4_trend_all_gl.png

/[The Guardian a few weeks ago ]/
*Methane much more sensitive to global heating than previously thought – 
study*
Greenhouse gas has undergone rapid acceleration and scientists say it 
may be due to atmospheric changes
Kate Ravilious - -  5 Jul 2022
Methane is four times more sensitive to global warming than previously 
thought, a new study shows. The result helps to explain the rapid growth 
in methane in recent years and suggests that, if left unchecked, methane 
related warming will escalate in the decades to come.

The growth of this greenhouse gas – which over a 20 year timespan is 
more than 80 times as potent than carbon dioxide – had been slowing 
since the turn of the millennium but since 2007 has undergone a rapid 
rise, with measurements from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration recording it passing 1,900 parts a billion last year, 
nearly triple pre-industrial levels.

“What has been particularly puzzling has been the fact that methane 
emissions have been increasing at even greater rates in the last two 
years, despite the global pandemic, when anthropogenic sources were 
assumed to be less significant,” said Simon Redfern, an earth scientist 
at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore...

About 40% of methane emissions come from natural sources such as 
wetlands, while 60% come from anthropogenic sources such as cattle 
farming, fossil fuel extraction and landfill sites. Possible 
explanations for the rise in methane emissions range from expanding 
exploration of oil and natural gas, rising emissions from agriculture 
and landfill, and rising natural emissions as tropical wetlands warm and 
Arctic tundra melts.

But another explanation could be a slowdown of the chemical reaction 
that removes methane from the atmosphere. The predominant way in which 
methane is “mopped up” is via reaction with hydroxyl radicals (OH) in 
the atmosphere.

“The hydroxyl radical has been termed the ‘detergent’ of the atmosphere 
because it works to cleanse the atmosphere of harmful trace gases,” said 
Redfern. But hydroxyl radicals also react with carbon monoxide, and an 
increase in wildfires may have pumped more carbon monoxide into the 
atmosphere and altered the chemical balance. “On average, a carbon 
monoxide molecule remains in the atmosphere for about three months 
before it’s attacked by a hydroxyl radical, while methane persists for 
about a decade. So wildfires have a swift impact on using up the 
hydroxyl ‘detergent’ and reduce the methane removal,” said Redfern.

To understand what was driving the methane acceleration, Redfern and his 
colleague Chin-Hsien Cheng used four decades of methane measurements and 
analysed changes in the climate to identify how the availability of 
hydroxyl radicals might have changed and what impact the changing 
climate might have had on methane sources.

Their findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, suggest 
global heating is four times more influential in accelerating methane 
emissions than previously estimated, with rising temperatures helping to 
produce more methane (by speeding up microbe activity in wetlands for 
example), while at the same time slowing down the removal of methane 
from the atmosphere (with increasing numbers of wildfires reducing the 
availability of hydroxyl radicals in the upper atmosphere). “It was a 
really shocking result, and highlights that the effects of climate 
change can be even more extreme and dangerous than we thought,” said 
Redfern.

If the oxidative capacity of the air is also in trouble, as these 
results suggest, then we have a double-edged sword,” said Euan Nisbet, 
an earth scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London, who led the 
UK’s Global Methane Budget project and was not involved in the study. 
“That’s a real worry because methane acceleration is perhaps the largest 
factor challenging our Paris agreement goals.”

While carbon reduction needs to remain the main focus, Redfern and Cheng 
said methane cannot be ignored. Nisbet agreed, saying: “Much of the 
emission comes from recently industrialised or developing countries and 
they need help. What is needed is not money but good governance. We need 
to persuade China and India – the two biggest emitters – to join the 
global methane pledge and deal with their coalmine vents, crop waste 
fires and landfill emissions. And we need to look at Africa where 
methane emissions may be growing rapidly from growing population, 
widespread crop waste fires and landfills, and warming natural wetlands.”

Meanwhile, reducing and preventing forest fires and biomass burning is 
also important. “The worry is that climate change may accelerate such 
risks, feeding back to accelerating atmospheric methane concentrations 
in a vicious circle,” said Redfern.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/05/global-heating-causes-methane-growth-four-times-faster-than-thought-study

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/[ Methane info from NOAA ]/
*Trends in Atmospheric Methane*
Global CH4 Monthly Means..
The graphs show globally-averaged, monthly mean atmospheric methane 
abundance determined from marine surface sites. The first graph shows 
monthly means for the last four years plus the current year, and the 
second graph shows the full NOAA time-series starting in 1983. Values 
for the last year are preliminary, pending recalibrations of standard 
gases and other quality control steps. Other impacts on the latest few 
months of data are described below...
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https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_ch4/#:~:text=Global%20CH4%20Monthly%20Means&text=The%20Global%20Monitoring%20Division%20of,et%20al.,%201994



/[ classic //from 2020 -- a //9 min video segment of doomerist sermon ] /
*Chris Hedges | Imminent Mass Extinction*
Jul 3, 2022  Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an 
American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Presbyterian minister, 
author and television host. His books include War Is a Force That Gives 
Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award 
for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph 
of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of 
Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, 
which was a New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral 
Imperative of Revolt (2015); and his most recent, America: The Farewell 
Tour (2018). Obey, a documentary by British filmmaker Temujin Doran, is 
based on his book Death of the Liberal Class.

Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central 
America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East (he is fluent in Arabic), 
and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has 
worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and 
The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen 
years (1990–2005) serving as the paper's Middle East Bureau Chief and 
Balkan Bureau Chief during the war in the former Yugoslavia.

In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that 
received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the 
paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty 
International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002.  He has 
taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of 
Toronto and Princeton University.

Hedges, who wrote a weekly column for the progressive news website 
Truthdig for 14 years, was fired along with all of the editorial staff 
in March 2020.  Hedges and the staff had gone on strike earlier in the 
month to protest the publisher's attempt to fire the Editor-in-Chief 
Robert Scheer, demand an end to a series of unfair labor practices and 
the right to form a union.  He hosts the Emmy-nominated program On 
Contact for the RT (formerly Russia Today) television network.

Hedges has also taught college credit courses for several years in New 
Jersey prisons as part of the B.A. program offered by Rutgers 
University.  He has described himself as a socialist, specifically an 
anarchist, identifying with Dorothy Day in particular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbH_o-96qZI
- - - [original lecture in Sept 2020 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9XmyYYaZ18 ]



/[The news archive - looking back at the spiritually positive voice of 
President Jimmy Carter (who is still alive ) ]/
/*July 15, 1976*/
July 15, 1976: At the Democratic National Convention, presidential 
nominee Jimmy Carter states, "We can have an America that has reconciled 
its economic needs with its desire for an environment that we can pass 
on with pride to the next generation."

(34:52--35:10)

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Car
https://www.c-span.org/video/?3435-1/carter-1976-acceptance-speech


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