[✔️] June 3, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Fri Jun 3 10:02:14 EDT 2022
/*June 3 , 2022*/
/[ common sense from the WHO ] /
*Why mental health is a priority for action on climate change*
The new WHO policy brief recommends five important approaches for
governments to address the mental health impacts of climate change:
integrate climate considerations with mental health programmes;
integrate mental health support with climate action;
build upon global commitments;
develop community-based approaches to reduce vulnerabilities; and
close the large funding gap that exists for mental health and
psychosocial support.
https://www.who.int/news/item/03-06-2022-why-mental-health-is-a-priority-for-action-on-climate-change
/[ Time to face the music ]/
*For 50 years, governments have failed to act on climate change. No more
excuses*
Christiana Figueres, Yvo de Boer and Michael Zammit Cutajar
Conflict and Covid make these troubling times, but national leaders must
cooperate and take action now
June 2, 2022...
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If science has not persuaded most governments to act, perhaps economics
will. The IPCC provides clear evidence that societies will be more
prosperous in a world where climate change is constrained, than in one
left to burn. In the energy sector, evidence of the zero-carbon
transition is all around us. Wind and solar generation shows compound
growth of about 20% a year and is cheaper almost everywhere than the
alternatives. Electric car sales doubled between 2020 and 2021.
Unless one is invested in fossil fuels, there is now no reason not to
take the clean energy path. Many corporate actors understand the need
for early action on this front. But governments still need to
incentivise the transition. The evolving Just Energy Transition packages
may yet offer an investment pathway that can accelerate deployment in
emerging and developing countries. Corporate action towards other
targets such as reduction of methane emissions, also needs to be encouraged.
If economics should give us hope for accelerating action despite the
host of other issues menacing our times, then so should history. Fifty
years ago the international community faced a similar litany of
troubles: depletion of natural resources, desertification, the legacy of
atom bomb testing, mercury contamination, cold war proxy conflicts.
Geopolitics split the world. Yet at the 1972 Conference on the Human
Environment in Stockholm, leaders agreed to cooperate on threats faced
in common.
Now, with geopolitics made frosty by superpower disagreements and with
nations bleeding from Covid and conflict, the world’s people need their
leaders once more to work together. Governments have acknowledged that
their window of opportunity to avert dangerous climate change is closing
and have admitted the perils that failure will bring. Rapidly changing
economics mean that a climate-safe future is also a more prosperous one.
The will of the public – especially among young people – to see climate
change constrained is clear.
As we recall the Stockholm conference on its 50th anniversary this week,
we need national leaders to recall what it demonstrated about the
potential of cooperative action even in disturbed times. We need to see
leaders delivering on their climate change promises, in the interests of
people, prosperity and the planet.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/02/for-50-years-governments-have-failed-to-act-on-climate-change-no-more-excuses
/[ an excellent, quiet conversation - deep .. //if you wish, //start a
few minutes in ] /
*Creating Complex Solutions | Asher Miller*
Jun 2, 2022 Asher Miller, CEO of Post Carbon Institute, on the role the
Institute has played in pointing out the severity of the crisis, the
dangers of oversimplifying or universalising responses, and how to apply
systems thinking to creating complex solutions—and just how tough that
can be.
Read the transcript:
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/transcript-creating-complex-solutions?s=r
One of the greatest challenges we face when tackling the polycrisis
is understanding and applying a diversity of approaches. This means
recognising the solutions are as complex as the crisis itself.
Discover Post Carbon Institute: https://www.postcarbon.org/
Bonus available on MONDAY: https://youtu.be/PyXToWRkYSw
Accepting the ecosystem of solutions we need to implement also comes
with accepting both unknown variables and the fact that different people
are going to attempt different things—but each attempt is valid, and
potentially plays a significant role in the bigger picture. A diversity
of approaches demands a diversity of understanding. It also demands
accepting we’re not always going to agree with how some choose to fight
the battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIQ01E_euNE
/[ "Hey, let's pour gasoline on this fire!" ] /
*House Republicans to introduce climate change strategy with eye on
midterms*
The strategy released by House Republicans contains few new policy ideas.
House Republicans are preparing to release a six-part strategy to try to
tame surging gasoline prices and to combat climate change that calls for
increasing production of all types of energy and sets no greenhouse gas
targets...
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The report, however, is also notable in what it does not include. House
Republicans continue to resist setting a specific emissions reduction
target. They oppose policies to reduce fossil fuel use, including
regulations, taxes, or mandates. And Graves said House Republicans,
unlike at least some GOP counterparts in the Senate, are skeptical of
the government extending and expanding clean energy tax credits that the
renewable industry says are critical to helping them deploy zero-carbon
power at the scale needed to address climate change...
- -
In leaning too much into fossil fuels to counter Biden’s more aggressive
climate agenda, Republicans risk turning off swing voters in states and
districts already feeling the effects of climate change, with forecasts
predicting a brutal summer for wildfires, extreme heat and drought.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/house-republicans-to-introduce-climate-change-strategy-with-eye-on-midterms-00036481
/[The news archive -//Walter Sullivan //looking back at first seen
risks, still not learned. ]/
/*June 3, 1977 */
June 3, 1977: The New York Times reports, "To avoid accumulation in the
air of sufficient carbon dioxide to cause major climate changes, it may
ultimately be necessary to restrict the burning of coal and other fossil
fuels, according to Dr. William D. Nordhaus of the President's Council
of Economic Advisers."
*Climate Peril May Force Limits On Coal and Oil, Carter Aide Says*
By Walter Sullivan
June 3, 1977
To avoid accumulation in the air of sufficient carbon dioxide to
cause major climate changes, it may ultimately be necessary to
restrict the burning of coal and other fossil fuels, according to
Dr. William D. Nordhaus of the President's Council of Economic Advisers.
This would limit the dependence on coal that, under present policy,
is to replace rapid expansion of nuclear energy.
Dr. Nordhaus, who is on leave from his post as professor of
economics at Yale University, told this week's spring meeting of the
American Geophysical Union in Washington that by early in the next
century, the burning of coal, oil and as might have to be curtailed
by taxation or rationing.
He said he was speaking as an individual and not presenting a
Government policy. He has been investigating the climatic and
economic implications of carbon dioxide accumulation, having also
worked on the problem at the International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis near Vienna.
He cited estimates that if the trend toward heavy use of fossil
fuels continued, by early in the next century the level of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere will have doubled. This, it has been
proposed, could make the worldwide climate warmer than at any time
in the last 100,000 years..
Dr. Nordhaus's argument was based in part on calculations by Dr.
Wallace S. Broecker of Columbia University's Lamont‐Doherty
Geological Observatory, who also presented a report. Each ton of
coal or other fossil fuel burned, he said, produces three tons of
carbon dioxide.
*Gas Acts Like Greenhouse Glass*
In the atmosphere carbon dioxide acts much like the glass of a
greenhouse. It readily permits the passage of sunlight, warming the
earth, but it inhibits the escape of heat into space as infrared
radiation.
While carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere by absorption
into the oceans and incorporation into trees and other plants, these
processes have been unable to keep pace with the addition of the gas
from smokestacks, automobile exhaust and other sources.
If, as now seems likely, the development of nuclear energy is slowed
in favor of heavier coal consumption, a more rapid rise in
atmospheric carbon dioxide must be expected. While there is still
muchuncertainty as to how much of an increase could occur without
major influences on climate, Dr. Nordhaus proposed that within 40
years severe restraints might become necessary.
He cited Dr. Broecker's estimate that by 1985 to 1990, there will
have been a 20 percent increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide,
leading to a mean global warming of about one degree Fahrenheit.
This would still be within the range of naturally occurring changes
over the last 100,000 years, Dr. Nordhaus said.
In that period, which included the last ice age, the fluctuations
remained within 10 degrees, but the current climate is near the
upper (warmer) limit of that range. Dr. Nordhaus referred to an
analysis by Dr. Syukuro Manabe and R. T. Wetherald at Princeton
University's Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, which predicted a rise of
almost six degrees if the carbon dioxide doubles.
*Serious Consequence Feared*
This would exceed the fluctuations of the last 100,000 years,
deduced from analysis of ocean sediments and cores from ice sheet
drill holes, and could have serious consequences. Dr. Nordhaus also
noted that the Princeton studies indicated a far more marked warming
in the polar ??egions than near the Equator.
In the long run, as noted by Dr. Broecker, this could melt polar
ice, raising sea levels enough to flood many coastal cities and food
producing areas.
To limit the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the air to an
increase of 100 per cent, he suggested an escalating tax schedule
that would impose 14 cents a ton of released gas in 1980, increasing
to $87.15 a ton by 2100.
This would force energy consumers to shift to other sources, such as
nuclear energy, which he termed presently “the only proven
large‐scale and low‐cost alternative.” The shift from carbon‐based
fuels would not reach major proportions until about 40 years hence.
By then energy sources now at an early stage of development, such as
solar power and atomic fusion, might be able to contribute electric
power and noncarbon fuels.
Since the United States contributes 10 to 20 percent of the carbon
dioxide, any solution must be international, Dr. Nordhaus said. It
will be “expensive, but not unthinkable,” he added.
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/03/archives/climate-peril-may-force-limits-on-coal-and-oil-carter-aide-says.html
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