[✔️] June 12, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sun Jun 12 10:37:54 EDT 2022
/*June 12, 2022*/
/[ Climate crimes --
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/series/climate-crimes]
/*US temperatures hit record levels as south-west bakes in heatwave*
Phoenix reported 114F, Las Vegas soared to 109F and Denver hit 100F,
while inland areas of California reached triple digits
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/12/us-temperatures-hit-record-levels-south-west-heatwave/
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/[ What? Where? Why? ]/
*Migration to the U.S. Is on the Rise Again – but It’s Unlikely to Be
Fully Addressed During the Summit of the Americas, or Anytime Soon*
By Jack Maguire - - 9 June 2022
Migration in the Americas has dramatically increased over the past
decade due to deteriorating political, economic and humanitarian
conditions in several countries, particularly in Venezuela, El Salvador,
Guatemala, Honduras and Haiti. High rates of crime, corruption, poverty,
environmental degradation and violence all influence people’s decisions
to migrate. The power of drug cartels, which can be embedded in
government institutions like the police, also plays a key role in
prompting migration.
An estimated 6,000 Latin American migrants are traveling together
through Mexico to reach the U.S. by foot and car, marking the largest
caravan yet in 2022 of migrants traveling to the U.S. border...
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The conditions driving migrants to the U.S.– like violence, climate
change and limited work opportunities – are simply too big to solve
through any one agreement or set of policy decisions.
https://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20220609-migration-to-the-u-s-is-on-the-rise-again-but-it-s-unlikely-to-be-fully-addressed-during-the-summit-of-the-americas-o?page=0,0
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/[ serious connection between climate instability and migration ]/
*How climate change is driving emigration from Central America*
Miranda Cady Hallett - - September 6, 2019
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights Center Research
Fellow, University of Dayton
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Rising global temperatures, the spread of crop disease and extreme
weather events have made coffee harvests unreliable in places like El
Salvador. On top of that, market prices are unpredictable.
In the back of the pickup truck that day, we talked about gangs too.
There was increasing criminal activity in the town nearby, and some
young people in the town were being harassed and recruited. But this was
a relatively new issue for the community, layered on top of the
persistent problem of the ecological crisis.
As a cultural anthropologist who studies factors of displacement in El
Salvador, I see how Ruben’s situation is reflective of a much broader
global phenomenon of people leaving their homes, directly or indirectly
due to climate change and the degradation of their local ecosystem. And
as environmental conditions are projected to get worse under current
trends, this raises unresolved legal questions on the status and
security of people like Ruben and his family...
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The link between environmental instability and emigration from the
region became apparent in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Earthquakes
and hurricanes, especially Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and its aftermath,
were ravaging parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Many people from El Salvador and Honduras lived in the U.S. at the time,
and the Bush administration granted them Temporary Protected Status. In
this way, the government of the United States recognized the inhumanity
of sending people back to places struggling with ecological disaster.
In the years since those events, both rapid-onset and long-term
environmental crises continue to displace people from their homes
worldwide. Studies show that displacement often happens indirectly
through the impact of climate change on agricultural livelihoods, with
some areas pressured more than others. But some are more dramatic: Both
Honduras and Nicaragua are among the top 10 countries most impacted by
extreme weather events between 1998 and 2017.
https://theconversation.com/how-climate-change-is-driving-emigration-from-central-america-121525/
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/[ warned, warning, will warn... video CBSNews 4:45 ]
/*Scientists warn of poisonous air if Utah's Great Salt Lake dries up*
7,030 views Jun 9, 2022 There's a potential climate catastrophe
forming in Utah's Great Salt Lake. It has shrunk to a third of its
original size, and scientists warn if it continues to dry up, it may
expose heavy metals in the lakebed that could become airborne. CBS News
correspondent Jamie Yuccas speaks with Westminster College biology
professor Bonnie Baxter about what is causing the lake to shrink.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWy-D7VuIU/
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/[ didn't hear about this till now ]/
*NASA, FEMA Release Comprehensive Climate Action Guide*
Jun 8, 2022
NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have released a
guide which provides resources for adapting to and mitigating impacts of
climate change. The guide, Building Alliances for Climate Action,
includes various perspectives, stories, insights, and resources about
climate change to help individuals and organizations make informed
decisions.
“NASA’s Earth observation and research supports the Biden-Harris
Administration’s climate agenda, which outlines putting the climate
crisis at the center of our nation’s foreign policy and national
security,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. “NASA is working hand in
hand with FEMA to ensure communities across the U.S. and around the
world have the resources they need to adapt in the face of extreme
weather – which is increasing due to climate change.”
The guide is a result of the Alliances for Climate Action, which NASA
and FEMA co-hosted last year, a virtual series aimed at addressing
rising demand for accurate, timely, and actionable information at a time
of rapid global climate change. During the series, speakers shared their
perspectives and paths to bolstering collective climate action.
“To meet this moment, we need to invest in initiatives to break the
cycles of disaster, damage and reconstruction,” said FEMA Administrator
Deanne Criswell. “Our actions now will directly impact the future. In
the past, FEMA was criticized for insufficient action on climate change.
This will not be our future.”
NASA also partners with FEMA in other ways related to climate and Earth
science. Before, during and after disasters occur, NASA's Disasters
Program coordinates with FEMA and other response agencies,
decision-makers, and local governments to provide Earth-observing data
and applied research results. NASA data informs choices, supports
decisions, and guides actions to build resilient communities. NASA’s
Disasters Mapping Portal provides near-real time data on current events.
To improve access to key information, Nelson announced a concept for
NASA’s Earth Information Center, which is an opportunity for the agency
to leverage its data and modeling capabilities to work with trusted
government and community partners with longstanding engagement in
communities most affected by climate change.
Supporting this effort are the Earth-observing missions we are flying
today and building for the future. The center will complement the next
generation of Earth observation satellites – NASA’s Earth System
Observatory – to be launched by the end of this decade. As the next
generation of missions to observe our planet, NASA’s observatory will
provide a 3D, holistic view of Earth to help us better understand what
our planet’s changes mean for humanity.
For more information about NASA’s Earth science programs, visit:
https://www.nasa.gov/earth
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https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-fema-release-comprehensive-climate-action-guide
/[ new book mentioned in the Guardian - ] /
*Climate crisis is ‘battering our economy’ and driving inflation, new
book says*
Climatenomics lays out how ‘supply chain disruptions’ has become a
euphemism for the effects of climate change
Edward Helmore - - Sat 11 Jun 2022
Forget Ukraine, coronavirus, corporate greed and “supply chain issues”,
when it comes to inflation the climate crisis is the real, lasting,
worry, according to a new book, and one that’s only likely to get worse.
Climatenomics, by former White House reporter and director of
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) Bob Keefe, is a narrative account of
how the climate crisis is fundamentally altering not just the US but
global economies.
Within its pages, Keefe lays out what he sees as the false choice
between creating jobs and driving economic growth and protecting the
planet, and how “supply chain disruptions” has become a euphemism for
the effects of climate change.
“I don’t think people have realized that climate change is an economic
issue now because it’s always been seen as an environmental, health or
social issue,” says Keefe. “The fact of the matter is climate change is
battering our economy.”
Political and monetary policy leaders hinted as much this week after the
US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, acknowledged that inflation had
reached “unacceptable” highs, it hit a 40-year high of 8.6% in the year
to the end of May. Two days later the White House said: “Our hemisphere
is facing the devastating impacts and costs of climate change,” ahead of
Joe Biden’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles.
Assessing the role of climate change on economies is one thing but, for
now, most models merely assess the cost of climate-related disasters,
not their underlying effect on inflation.
According to Keefe, citing National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (Noaa) figures, climate-related weather disasters cost
the US economy more than $145bn in 2021 – a nearly 50% increase from
last year. Over the last five years, they have cost $750bn. Since 1980
323 weather and climate disasters have cost $1bn or more, the total cost
of these events exceeds $2.195tn.
Moreover, according to a report from the reinsurance firm Swiss Re last
year, climate disasters could cost the US economy 10% of gross domestic
product (GDP) – the broadest measure of economic health – by 2050.
Globally, that figure rises to 18%. A 2018 National Climate Assessment
(NCA) projects that rising temperatures and extreme heat are projected
to decrease worker productivity by $221bn a year by 2090, and
climate-related weather disasters are projected to cost the US $500bn a
year.
Another study published in Environmental Research Letters in July last
year, found long-term warming contributed $27bn to the losses covered by
the US crop insurance program from 1991 to 2017, or just over 19% of the
total. In 2102, the single costliest year, rising temperatures
contributed nearly half of losses valued at $18.6bn.
While each of those relate to GDP and productivity, none specifically
refer to inflation and inflationary pressure – prices rising over time –
and are not factored into official government statistics released by the
Bureau of Labor’s Consumer Price Index, which measures the changing
prices of a basket of goods and services.
Yellen and the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, have faced
criticism for initially describing inflation as a “transitory” problem
that would resolve itself. Yellen has admitted that her initial
evaluation of the economy was “wrong” and that she and Powell “could
have used a better term than transitory”. She said that the “bulk of
inflation” was related to imbalances in supply and demand.
But that, too, has climate component, says David Super, professor of law
and economics at Georgetown University, who argues that climate change
is largely ignored as an inflationary driver, in part because it is
manifesting as a global problem in overt and covert ways that makes the
direct inflationary impact hard to assess.
“Its impact is broad and systemic, so there’s no one item in the CPI
that you can say reflects climate change. We can say that grain and
gas-oil costs reflect the Ukraine war but you can’t do that with climate
change because it affects so many things,” says Super.
Loss of timber and homes due to wildfires in the west might show up in
housing construction costs, or the cost of retrofitting homes to guard
against coastal erosion and flooding. “Right there you have several
things that are either increasing demand or undermining supply,” Super
points out. “And that’s just one small part of it.”
Similarly, supply chain issues frequently cited as inflationary may not
simply be issues around China Covid lockdowns affecting manufacturing,
but a range of issues from roads washing out or loss of crops due to
extreme weather events and shifting weather patterns.
The CPI is focused on results, not causes. The responsibility to assess
causes rests with the White House council of economic advisers or
national cconomic council. Bodies that have attempted to come out with
estimates that have been met with challenges to their data by climate
deniers, resulting in paralysis.
“That has led to less eagerness to do estimations in areas where a lot
of estimates would have to be made because there’s so little inclination
to assume those estimates would be done in good faith,” says Super. “In
the face of a well-funded climate denier industry, the estimates get
turned into a sideshow.”
Shifting the climate crisis from an environmental to an economic issue
is at the heart of what Climatenomics presents. What’s required, says
Keefe, is an effort similar in scale to the shift from the industrial to
the information age to renewable energy and with it, provisions to
counter climate change’s increasing disruption.
“What we do know is that the economic cost of climate change, both from
weather disaster and commodities costs, is taking an increasing toll on
economies,” says Keefe.
But if one of the major inflationary forces is climate, it’s also one
that can’t be tackled simply by central bankers adjusting interest rates.
According to Super, seeing climate change as an environmental issue –
which it is – but not as an economic issue, which it surely is as well,
is now in the process of changing. “The current round of inflation has
widened people’s eyes to it,” he says.
“Sure, the pandemic and war on Ukraine are part of it, but I think this
is a teachable moment that will allow people to see just how pervasive
climate change is in affecting the way we live. We have framed the
climate concern in extremely narrow ways – never a good idea with a
complex social phenomenon or with something as all-encompassing as this.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/11/climate-crisis-inflation-economy-climatenomics-book
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/[ a superb, well-informed rant from Extinction Rebellion - message not
suitable for young children. ]/
*Heading for Extinction and What To Do About It*
Mar 30, 2020 A talk about the Climate and Ecological Emergency by Tom
Sinclair of Extinction Rebellion Oxford
Based on reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), this talk covers the causes of the Climate and Ecological
Emergency, it's consequences for humans and wildlife as well as
timescales and the action that our Rebellion is demanding to avert
Climate Catastrophe.
Tom Sinclair is a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Wadham College (one
of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford), and an
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford's Faculty of Philosophy
This video is not suitable for young children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R68VnUCV9bU
/[ accountability for working in extreme heat - 50///°/C = 122°F video
Journeyman Pictures ] /
*Qatar: Killer Heat Cripples Workers*
Jun 10, 2022 A look at the impact of extreme heat on migrant workers in
the Gulf. It focuses on the large number of unexplained deaths
(allegedly due to heart failure) among Nepalese workers in Qatar. We
also examine the role of heat exposure in relation to young workers
returning from the Gulf with Chronic Kidney Disease, which leaves them
on dialysis for the rest of their lives. Filming in Nepal reveals a
different dimension of the migrant experience: the background of extreme
poverty that motivates so many people to migrate to the Gulf, despite
the well-known risks in doing so. The film looks at the disastrous 2019
World Athletics Championships Women’s Marathon, held in Qatar, to show
the dangers of heat on the human body. Thirty of the runners had to drop
out because of the heat. We meet Malcolm Bidali, a Kenyan security guard
who was fined and extradited for raising concerns about workers’ rights
violations, specifically security guards working in the midday heat in
breach of Qatar’s own laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0rnZQlIOtM
[ a major disinformation volley fired decades ago ]
*Warned of ‘massive’ climate-led extinction, a US energy firm funded
crisis denial ads*
Southern Company spent $62.1m over the years to deny the impact of
fossil fuel combustion on climate crisis
Geoff Dembicki - - Wed 8 Jun 2022
In 1980, a report circulated to a division of one of the biggest
coal-burning utilities in the US warned that “fossil fuel combustion”
was rapidly warming the atmosphere and could cause a “massive extinction
of plant and animal species” along with a “5 to 6-meter rise in sea
level” across the world.
Several years later an official at the utility co-chaired a conference
where scientific researchers fretted that “as we continue to exploit the
vast deposits of fossil fuels” it could cause “disruptive climate changes”.
Not only did Southern Company fail to adjust its business model towards
cleaner energy sources, it began paying for print advertisements saying
climate change was not real. “Who told you the earth was warming,” asks
one ad from 1991...
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Southern has now become the third-largest greenhouse gas polluter in the
US due to its fleet of coal and gas-burning power plants, and until
relatively recently was still denying the science behind global
temperature rise. “Do you think it’s been proven that CO2 is the primary
climate control knob?” the Southern Company CEO, Tom Fanning, was asked
on CNBC in 2017. “No, certainly not,” he replied.
In response to a request for comment from the Guardian, spokesperson
Schuyler Baehman said: “Southern Company is committed to reducing our
GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions and providing the customers and
communities we serve a clean energy future.
“We always have engaged with regulators, stakeholders and legislators in
the interest of our customers and shareholders.”
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Southern Company’s massive carbon footprint, combined with new
revelations about its involvement in climate denial campaigns, could
make the company highly vulnerable to litigation.
“Let’s say I’m a lawyer,” said Leonard Hyman, who formerly headed
utility research at Merrill Lynch and is author of America’s Electric
Utilities: Past, Present and Future. “I would sue from the standpoint of
an investor, and I would say ‘you made certain [high-carbon] investments
knowing full well that there was a very substantial risk from climate
change.’”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/08/georgia-southern-company-climate-denial-ads
/[The news archive - looking back at a significantly harmful attack of
disinformation warfare ]/
/*June 12, 1996*/
June 12, 1996: Unrepentant professional climate-change denialist
Frederick Seitz wrongfully accuses climate scientist Ben Santer of fraud
in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Seitz's claims are quickly debunked, but
the op-ed forms the centerpiece of a years-long effort by the fossil
fuel industry to destroy Santer's life, reputation and career.
http://www.odlt.org/dcd/docs/Seitz%20-%20A%20Major%20Deception%20on%20Global%20Warming.pdf
http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/WSJ_June25.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2XVILHUjQ
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