[✔️] June 22, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Wed Jun 22 11:16:42 EDT 2022

/*June  22, 2022*/

/[ Opinion - Baltimore is Biden territory ] /
*If Biden gives up on climate, it’s a white flag for the planet *
https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-biden-climate-white-flag-20220620-lnid6ixerrczbhuptmzzr6thvm-story.html

/[ future in Washington State and Oregon ]/
*How does the Pacific Northwest fit into climate change-driven migration?*
Mar 10, 2022  OSU professor David Wrathall, a lead author on a UN 
climate report, says the Pacific Northwest will fare better than many 
other places in the U.S. as our climate warms, and will likely see more 
people move here to escape climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ixNm9SP-c

/[ Activism from NIck Breeze -- video  20 min] /
*Sunny Morgan: Cancel the debt... take your knee off the neck of the 
Global South!*
June 20, 2022  Support this ClimateGenn's work: https://patreon.com/genncc
Find out more about https://debtforclimate.org
In this ClimateGenn episode, I am speaking with Sunny Morgan in South 
Africa about the Debt for Climate Campaign that is calling for the 
global north to cancel the debts of the global south, which are both 
crippling the economies in developing nations and financing huge fossil 
fuel projects that we desperately need to get rid of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G55ew-fchOU

/[ straight forward ]/
*Logging Yosemite Will Make It More, Not Less, Vulnerable to Fire*
BY CHAD HANSON  - JUNE 20, 2022
While it may seem counter-intuitive to some people, the truth is that 
the strong weight of scientific evidence and opinion indicates that 
removing live and dead trees from forests does not stop or curb 
wildfires, and often increases overall fire severity. In fact, more than 
200 of the nation’s top climate scientists and ecologists recently 
concluded the following:

We have watched as one large wildfire after another has swept through 
tens of thousands of acres where commercial thinning had previously 
occurred due to extreme fire weather driven by climate change. Removing 
trees can alter a forest’s microclimate, and can often increase fire 
intensity. In contrast, forests protected from logging, and those with 
high carbon biomass and carbon storage, more often burn at equal or 
lower intensities when fires do occur.

This was the case in the 380,000-acre Creek fire of 2020, where forests 
in which commercial thinning and post-fire logging were conducted under 
the guise of “fuel reduction” actually burned more severely, not less, 
similar to the results of another large California fire last year. 
Removing live, mature trees from forests, as Yosemite National Park is 
doing right now, reduces the cooling shade of the forest canopy, 
creating hotter, drier, and windier conditions that favor faster 
wildfire spread.

Nor does the best available science support the Editorial Board’s 
assumption that dead trees are a fire hazard. Shortly after trees die, 
dead needles and small twigs fall and quickly decay into soil, leaving 
little to carry flames. The biggest studies find no relationship between 
density of dead trees and wildfire spread or intensity. When dead trees 
fall, they soak up huge amounts of water like giant sponges and can hold 
25 times more water per unit of volume than the surrounding soil, even 
during a drought. Moreover, contrary to the Editorial Board’s 
assumptions, stacks of scientific studies find that patches of 
fire-killed trees, called “snag forest habitat”, supports one of the 
richest and most biodiverse communities of native plants and wildlife in 
our forests.

Currently, instead of directly helping homeowners and communities become 
fire-safe, federal land management agencies such as the U.S. Forest 
Service, and now the National Parks Service, are heavily focusing on 
logging projects in remote forest wildlands distant from homes, using a 
series of deceptive euphemisms like “thinning”, “fuel breaks”, 
“restoration”, and “forest health.”

Their narrative is that these massive commercial logging projects will 
so dramatically reduce fire intensity and spread that wildfires can be 
easily suppressed before they reach communities. That is a dangerous 
falsehood — one that is leading to the devastation of one community 
after another.

We saw the abject failure of this approach in 2018, as the Camp Fire 
roared intensely through thousands of acres of “thinning” and post-fire 
logging, conducted as “fuel reduction,” before destroying over 14,000 
homes and claiming 86 lives in Paradise and adjacent communities. We saw 
similar results last year with the Caldor Fire in Grizzly Flats, and the 
Dixie Fire in Greenville.

The approach promoted by The Bee’s Editorial Board would give us more of 
the same — degraded forests, faster-moving wildfires, and destroyed 
towns. The approach that the John Muir Project promotes would shift away 
from backcountry logging and direct resources and attention toward the 
two key things that science has proven will effectively protect 
communities from wildfires: home hardening and defensible space pruning 
within 100 feet around homes.

We need to start listening to independent scientists, not scientists 
funded by logging interests. The ecological integrity of our forests, 
and the safety of our communities depends on it.

Chad Hanson is a research ecologist with the John Muir Project
https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/06/20/logging-yosemite-will-make-it-more-not-less-vulnerable-to-fire/

/[ here is new activism ]/
*DEBT FOR CLIMATE!*
We are a grassroots, Global South-driven initiative connecting social & 
climate justice struggles by uniting labor, social and climate movements 
from the Global South & North toward a common goal of turning debt-trap 
diplomacy on its head by canceling the debt of impoverished nations as a 
way to pay for leaving fossil fuels in the ground and financing a just 
transition. The implementation of a global Debt-for-Climate initiative 
has the potential to leave trillions of dollars in fossil fuel reserves 
in the ground, while freeing countries from a strangling debt burden 
often used as a tool for further extraction of natural resources. We are 
organizing a global action to push these demands during the G7 meeting 
on June 26-28. Join us!
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Developed countries of the global North owe an ecological debt to the 
countries of the global South. In addition to being responsible for the 
highest historical emissions of greenhouse gases, their exploitation and 
colonization of most of the global South still continues today through 
their multinational corporations with the systematic plundering of 
natural resources. According to scientific studies, 100 multinationals 
are responsible for 71% of global industrial emissions. A large part of 
these emissions are a consequence of the exploitation of the South, 
fueling a system of unsustainable consumption and waste in privileged 
classes of rich countries at the cost of the growing destruction and 
sacrifice of populations in countries of the global South...
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These same high-emitting nations are responsible for exploiting, 
colonizing and enslaving much of the rest of the world for centuries. 
Thus the Debt for Climate demands that the richest countries of the 
Global North begin to pay their climate debt, and this encompasses the 
demands for reparations, loss and damage, and climate finance which must 
not come in the form of loans but as interest-free payments. Debt for 
Climate demands the unconditional cancellation of the illegitimate 
debts, often awarded illegally and unconstitutionally.
https://debtforclimate.org/

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/[ video 54 mins]/
*Debt for Climate Launch Webinar*
Apr 15, 2022  We are a grassroots, Global South-driven initiative 
connecting social & climate justice struggles by uniting labor, social 
and climate movements from the Global South & North toward a common goal 
of turning debt-trap diplomacy on its head by canceling the debt of 
impoverished nations as a way to pay for leaving fossil fuels in the 
ground and financing a just transition.

The implementation of a global Debt-for-Climate initiative has the 
potential to leave trillions of dollars in fossil fuel reserves in the 
ground, while freeing countries from a strangling debt burden often used 
as a tool for further extraction of natural resources. We are organizing 
a global action to push these demands during the G7 meeting on June 
26-28. Join us!
Contact: info at DebtforClimate.org
https://debtforclimate.org/

/[  video from Vice  ] /
*Water Crisis: A Global Problem That's Getting Worse | Planet A*
Nov 29, 2021  In this episode of ‘Planet A’, Professor Deborah McGregor 
explains why human systems like the commodification of water are at the 
root of the current crisis, how climate change will intensify water 
scarcity and why we need to change our relationship with water to avoid 
a bigger, looming crisis.

In 'Planet A', VICE World News takes viewers on a global tour of the 
ecosystems that sustain life on earth to expose the existential threats 
that reach far beyond climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi3aZLA1tMw

//[ Aljazeera reported in 2021]//
//*Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’*
Researchers say ‘overexploitation of the Earth’ has seen many of its 
‘vital signs’ deteriorate to record levels.

Thousands of scientists have repeated calls for urgent action to tackle 
the climate emergency, warning that several tipping points are now imminent.

The researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have 
signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said 
in an article published in the journal BioScience on Wednesday that 
governments had consistently failed to address “the overexploitation of 
the Earth”, which they described as the root cause of the crisis...
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The authors repeated previous calls for transformative change in six 
areas: eliminating fossil fuels, slashing pollutants, restoring 
ecosystems, switching to plant-based diets, moving away from indefinite 
growth models and stabilising the human population...
. .
“We need to stop treating the climate emergency as a stand-alone issue – 
global heating is not the sole symptom of our stressed Earth system,” 
said William Ripple, a distinguished professor of ecology at Oregon 
State University’s College of Forestry.

“Policies to combat the climate crisis or any other symptoms should 
address their root cause: human overexploitation of the planet,” Ripple 
said.

He added: “We need to quickly change how we’re doing things, and new 
climate policies should be part of COVID-19 recovery plans wherever 
possible.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/thousands-of-scientists-declare-worldwide-climate-emergency 

/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*June  22, 2005*/
June 22, 2005: The US Senate votes 60-38 to reject the McCain-Lieberman 
Climate Stewardship Act of 2005.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/senate-rejects-greenhouse-gas-caps

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