[✔️] July 30, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*July 30, 2022*/

[ DW news from Germany ]
*Record-breaking wildfires in Alaska burn more than 3 million acres | DW 
News*
Jul 29, 2022  As floods hit some parts of the US, wildfires are 
devastating other parts of the country, including the largely 
uninhabited state of Alaska. The White House says the total area 
destroyed is far higher than the ten-year average, in large part driven 
by the climate crisis. President Biden has approved a major disaster 
declaration for Alaska, which is experiencing an unusually fierce wave 
of forest fires. DW's Carolina Chimoy met some of the people battling 
the fires, as well as the residents fleeing from them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZQ2J9Sn8Dk

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/[ another record broken -  hottest June globally ]/
*State of the climate: 2022 on track for a summer of extreme heat*
The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be a scorcher. June 2022 saw the 
warmest temperatures on record over the world’s land areas – and 
record–breaking heatwaves have swept across the northern hemisphere, 
particularly continental Europe, the UK, China and parts of the US.

Summer warmth notwithstanding, 2022 is still on track to likely be the 
fifth warmest year on record in most datasets, though it could be as 
high as the second or as low as the eighth depending on how temperatures 
develop in the remaining six months of the year.

Global temperatures are being pushed down due to a persistent “double 
dip” La Niña event that has brought cooler ocean waters to the surface 
in the tropical Pacific. However, even with 2022 not setting a new 
record, the world will have experienced its eight warmest years on 
record in the past eight years.

Antarctic sea ice has been at record low levels for the first quarter of 
the year, as well as nearly all of the month of July, while Arctic sea 
ice extent has tracked the low end of the historical range...
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While it seems very unlikely that 2022 will be a record warm year for 
the world as a whole, it still may have many more regional climate 
extremes in store. Not every year will set a new record, but the 
long-term warming over the past few decades is unmistakable and is being 
driven by human emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-2022-on-track-for-a-summer-of-extreme-heat
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/[ Wowee Zoe ]/
*World’s First Named Heat Wave Hits Most Severe Tier In New Heat Wave 
Rating System*
JULY 28, 2022
Alexander Haro
The world is heating up, and it’s heating up quickly. We’ve reached a 
point where a heat wave can be extraordinarily dangerous — dangerous to 
the point where it’s become necessary to create a new weather warning 
system to categorize them and highlight the impacts they have on the 
public. The first one, named “Zoe” hit Seville, Spain, and it hit it hard.

Temperatures this week pushed over 110 F, which puts Zoe in the third 
and most-severe tier of the heat wave ranking system. “Even in the 
evenings,” Scientific American reported, “the Spanish meteorological 
service recorded temperatures that hovered in the mid-80s in some areas 
— an extra stress on the human body, which relies on cooler nights to 
recover from high daytime heat.”

The ranking system, called proMETEO Sevilla, is a collaboration between 
the City of Seville, Arsht-Rock’s Extreme Heat Resilience Alliance 
Science Advisory Panel, Spain’s Meteorology Agency, AEMET, the 
University of Sevilla, Pablo de Olavide University; the Carlos III 
Institute, the Spanish Office for Climate Change, and El Día Después. 
The most severe heat waves get names, starting with the letter Z and 
working back towards the letter A. After Zoe, comes Yago, Xenia, 
Wenceslao, and then Vega.

“We are the first city in the world to take a step that will help us 
plan and take measures when this type of meteorological event happens – 
particularly because heat waves always hit the most vulnerable,” Antonio 
Muñoz, the Mayor of Seville, said in a statement last month. “The city 
government ratifies its commitment in the fight against climate change 
through the reduction of emissions and decarbonization, and second, 
through adaptation–to make Seville a resilient city with a model that 
truly tackles the big challenge of rising heat.”...
https://www.theinertia.com/environment/zoe-first-named-heat-wave-severe-tier-spain-ranking-system/



/[ DeSmog - warns of gaslighting around explosive information - 
https://www.desmog.com/gaslit/ ]/
*When Extreme Weather Reigns, Disinformation Pours*
As heatwaves, heavy rainfall, and flooding hit countries worldwide, 
climate deniers and those obstructing climate action deny or downplay 
extreme weather’s climate connection.
By Stella Levantesion - - Jul 29, 2022...
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Accusing people of alarmism has long been a favorite tactic of climate 
deniers and those who oppose climate action. And although more news 
outlets are beginning to cover the connection between extreme weather 
and climate change, the Daily Mail article is one among still too many 
actively hiding, ignoring, or misrepresenting this connection. In Italy, 
daily newspaper Il Mattino published multiple interviews with climate 
deniers saying the record heat is “influenced by the sun’s cycles” and 
“isn’t news.” A video showing people at the beach was embedded in the 
article; images of people enjoying beaches, ice creams, and fountains 
often accompany articles on extreme heat, not just in Italy.

“Heatwaves should not be covered with kids eating ice cream or romping 
around in fountains. Cover extreme heat as a threat not a vacation. We 
don’t cover the approach of a hurricane as great potential kite flying 
weather,” tweeted Marshall Shepherd, leading expert in weather and 
climate and director of the Atmospheric Sciences program at the 
University of Georgia.
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*Deny, Distract, Doubt*
The fossil fuel industry and the entire climate denier “infrastructure” 
have created a “top-down approach,” environmental philosopher and public 
health scientist Yogi Hendlin said, for precise messaging on extreme 
weather. Two amongst the strategies in this approach: communicating that 
weather is completely unrelated to climate change, and redirecting 
responsibility for mitigation and adaptation to extreme weather events 
from the industry and political leaders to individuals...
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Climate deniers and those interested in obstructing climate action are 
also using the complexity of attribution science to create confusion and 
sow doubt regarding the connection between extreme weather and climate 
change.

According to climate scientist Daniel Swain, who specializes in studying 
extreme events, this complexity is often exploited intentionally. “It’s 
very strategic,” Swain said. “Misinformation on extreme weather is very 
nuanced and rhetorical. It’s more insidious [than general climate 
misinformation] because — I’ll borrow a term from Stephen Colbert 15 
years ago — ‘the truthiness’ is high. It sounds like it’s real. And I 
understand why people believe it.”...
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Swain echoed this. “I think that the thing that really matters is 
people’s experiential trend over time. It is sufficiently obvious that 
what you’re experiencing now is something that you didn’t used to 
experience either with this intensity or this frequency. And I think 
that’s where it gets harder to deny.”

Another part of effectively communicating extreme weather, he believes, 
is focusing on historical trends. “When London hits 40 degrees C … it’s 
not just that nobody alive has experienced that in London, but nobody 
alive in dozens and dozens of generations, perhaps hundreds, maybe even 
thousands of generations before them haven’t experienced a day as hot as 
the 19th.”

Although there are some partisan differences, a recent survey has shown 
that large shares of Americans experiencing rising sea levels or extreme 
weather — including droughts, floods, or intense storms — believe that 
climate change contributed either a lot or a little.

“For so long, the [climate change] narrative was about something way off 
in the distance,” Shepherd said. “But attribution science and the fact 
that we see the DNA of climate change in extreme weather today, that is 
what I think is also changing the public narrative.”
https://www.desmog.com/2022/07/29/extreme-weather-climate-disinformation-droughts-hurricanes-floods-wildfires/



/[ One initiative to summarize the bill - the original bill is over 700 
pages long ] /
*Want a spreadsheet synopsis of the 100+ energy & climate investments in 
the new Manchin-Schumer bill?*
Here you go. This offers a side-by-side comparison of the new bill, the 
House-passed bill, & prior versions we've all worked on since time 
immemorial:
https://twitter.com/Ben_Beachy/status/1552655208387211269


/[When will it be ready?  what does "if it all goes well" mean? 5 
years?   gee, in WW2 - Detroit switched to building tanks one month 
after Pearl Harbor - why the delay Bill? ] /
*Air conditioning is a climate disaster and Bill Gates is investing in 
this startup to fix it*
JUL 28 2022
Catherine Clifford
- - Bill Gates’ clean tech investment fund, Breakthrough Energy 
Ventures, is leading a $20 million investment round in an air 
conditioning startup, Blue Frontier.
- - Blue Frontier’s air conditioner uses a salt solution as a liquid 
desiccant to do both the cooling and dehumidification work that is done 
by refrigerants in conventional air conditioner units.
- - That’s key because refrigerants are bad for the environment and also 
the salt solution can be a store of energy, which evens out peak energy 
demand in the hottest days of summer, for example.
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Some test units will be installed in buildings in 2022, and another 
round of pre-commercial unites are expected to go into buildings in 2023 
and then the first commercial product for commercial buildings will be 
available in 2025. And if all goes well, a residential product will be 
on the market by 2026 or 2027, Betts told CNBC.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/28/bill-gates-breakthrough-energy-ventures-backs-air-conditioning-startup.html



/[ Journalist Nick Breeze -- from a British viewpoint  ] /
*IS US CONGRESS A GLOBAL CLIMATE SECURITY THREAT? Interview with 
Lieutenant General Norman Seip (Ret)*
Premiered July 29, 2022   Visit https://patreon.com/genncc or 
https://genn.cc
In this ClimateGenn episode, I speak with Lieutenant General Norman 
Seip, the President of the American Security Project, about the urgency 
for the US Senate to stop playing dice with the global climate and vote 
through policy that will steer America back on course to being a nation 
worthy of respect.

Ever since President George Bush Senior declared the American Way of 
Life is not up for negotiation, the United States has stood in the way 
of global efforts to limit the impacts of climate destruction.

We are now unnecessarily gambling our collective futures away because US 
politicians put wealth and ideology above the endless warnings of 
climate scientists, ecologist, among many others now screaming for 
change to avert disaster.

It is late in the day and we are all now at risk from business as usual 
policy and investment that prolongs the use of fossil fuels. Changing 
now could avert some suffering and, as we discuss here, the United 
States must grow up and face its responsibility as the world largest 
emitter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVnmVIFlIps



/[The news archive - looking back -- wow, 12 years ago  -- look whats 
happening today ]/
/*July 30, 2010*/
July 30, 2010: On MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," fill-in host Chris 
Hayes and Mother Jones reporter Kate Sheppard discuss the coal 
industry's role in killing climate-change legislation.
http://youtu.be/sWlwmzgLzVc


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