[✔️] June 24, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Fri Jun 24 07:16:25 EDT 2022
/*June 24, 2022*/
/[ disinformation wars, no matter, the burdens of weather remain the same ]
/*Factual climate change reporting can influence Americans positively,
but not for long*
AYANA ARCHIE - - June 24, 2022/
/Media coverage of climate change can influence Americans to adopt more
accurate beliefs about the environment, but the information doesn't stay
with them for long, according to a new report.
After reading accurate articles about climate change, Americans may see
it more as a problem that impacts them and lean toward supporting the
government's climate change policies.
"It is not the case that the American public does not respond to
scientifically informed reporting when they are exposed to it," said
Thomas Wood, one of the study's authors and an associate professor of
political science at The Ohio State University./
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But those changes are quickly reversed when participants are exposed to
articles that doubted climate change.
Approximately 2,898 Americans participated in a four-part study,
conducted by Wood, along with professors Brendan Nyhan of Dartmouth
College and Ethan Porter of George Washington University...
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"What we found suggests that people need to hear the same accurate
messages about climate change again and again. If they only hear it
once, it recedes very quickly," Wood said. And that creates a new
challenge, he said: "The news media isn't designed to act that way."
Climate change has impacted the world's water, air and land masses. The
amount of Arctic Sea ice has decreased 13% every decade since 1971, the
sea level has risen 4 inches since 1993 and ocean temperatures are at
the highest they've been in 20 years — which can cause coral bleaching,
negative changes to the ocean's biochemistry and more intense
hurricanes, according to NASA.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/24/1107239912/climate-change-science-environment-global-warming-study-report/
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/[ personal history delivered via by ClimatePsychology.US ]/
*The rural mental health crisis in drought-stricken Klamath Basin is
coming for the entire West*
As the Klamath Basin's fish go extinct and farms go bankrupt, the
region's native tribes and agricultural communities are struggling with
profound despair and racist conflict. One Klamath Tribal Health leader
is facilitating indigenous-based mental health workshops for distressed
farmers and ranchers - It's a tentative start, and a reminder of how
much work lies ahead.
By Rei Takver
The last time conditions were as dry in the American West as they are in
June 2022, it was at least 800 A.D., and possibly earlier. Charlemagne
was king of the Franks. The Maori people were migrating on their
earliest canoes to New Zealand.
To vastly understate—the West Coast is parched, and (due to global
warming) the parching trends towards permanence. Aquifers are draining
down, and waterways are disappearing...
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Looking forward to this year’s extremely dry summer, Hyde warned me
that, “Farmers are gonna start being really stressed because they’re
learning about what’s happening with our water year.”
It hasn’t rained nearly enough this winter, and Hyde suspects that the
tension of the dry season might make further irrigator talks with native
groups hard. What might they need? “Before we even walk into a room with
one another to talk about something so serious like water, which has
huge conflict around it,” Hyde recommended, “We need everybody to have a
mental health session that talks about: Are you thinking about how
you’re breathing right now. Are you getting really adrenalized right
now? Are you scared?”
As Hyde reminds us both towards the end of our conversation in spring,
“We’re about to get sucked under again, right?”
Klamath’s story today might soon be the story of the entire West. As
water runs out, racism, intercultural conflict, financial duress, and
ecological destruction will collide at heightened levels. Now is the
time for the mental health field to adapt to meet what’s needed.
https://www.climatepsychology.us/blog/the-rural-mental-health-crisis-in-drought-stricken-klamath-basin-is-coming-for-the-entire-west
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/[ Council Strategic Risk -- Center for Climate and Security - military
thinking ]/
*Climate Security: An Agenda for Future Research*
By Dr. Duncan Depledge, Matt Ince, Olivia Lazard, and Erin Sikorsky
Editor: Francesco Femia - - June 23, 2022
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Climate change is altering the physical and strategic context in which
national and international security
is pursued. But it is not just increased climate variability and its
socio-economic consequences that could
compound instability and violent conflict in the future. The scale of
transformation required to mitigate
and adapt to the climate crisis, as well as the speed and orderliness
with which any such transition must
occur, carries additional risk and demands more attention from scholars
and policymakers...
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Increased climate variability and the prospect of even greater extremes
are not just multiplying existing
threats, but reshaping the broader geopolitical landscape and
influencing strategic decisions...
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The potential geostrategic ramifications of decarbonizing the world
economy are also understudied. This
includes the possibility of greater social unrest over the uneven
distribution of costs and benefits
associated with any transition, which could contribute towards future
conflict and instability. There is also
evidence of growing intersections between various ideologies and
concerns about climate change
(including, for example, the rise of eco-fascism) which could create or
exacerbate dividing lines within
and between societies. Between states, we should expect to see more
disputes over who should carry the
costs of mitigation, adaptation and regeneration...
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Failure to deal appropriately with fast-accelerating and
compounding risks may well lead to undermining planetary security,
threatening the very viability of
human civilizations to function/./
https://climateandsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Climate-Security_An-Agenda-for-Future-Research_BRIEFER-32_2022_06_23.pdf/
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/[ Manchin in the mansion ]/
*Democrats may drop another clean energy proposal to appease Manchin*
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Analysis by Maxine Joselow -- research by Vanessa Montalbano
June 22, 2022
Democrats are likely to drop or scale back a key proposal in their
party-line bill that would make it easier for clean energy developers to
use federal tax credits, as they race to clinch a deal with holdout Sen.
Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) in the coming weeks, according to two people
familiar with the matter.
Manchin has indicated that he will not support a budget reconciliation
bill that includes direct pay, in which payments are sent directly to
companies that produce clean energy for consumers, according to the two
individuals, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the
private negotiations. Politico first reported Manchin's opposition to
the proposal...
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“Our goal here is to make it easier for startups and nonprofits in
particular to deploy the credits to fund projects,” Wyden added.
“Cutting out the middlemen will help get projects off the ground more
quickly.”
When asked Tuesday about direct pay, Wyden declined to comment on the
specifics of the negotiations with Manchin.
The irony
In a twist, proponents say direct pay would help turbocharge the
technologies that Manchin has publicly championed, such as nascent
technology to capture carbon from the air and store it underground.
“The irony here is that some of the technologies that Manchin has been
most publicly supportive of, like carbon capture and hydrogen in
particular, would be most hurt by taking direct pay out of the tax
package,” Sasha Mackler, who leads the Energy Project at the Bipartisan
Policy Center, told The Climate 202...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/22/democrats-may-drop-another-clean-energy-proposal-appease-manchin/
/[ Hot enough for ya?? ]/
*Americans connect extreme heat and climate change to their health, a
survey finds*
June 22, 2022
Heard on Morning Edition
MOLLY PETERSON
From higher electricity bills to worsened health, more than half of
Americans have felt the impacts of extreme heat, according to a new
survey released by NPR, Harvard University and the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation. That percentage is even higher in California, where heat was
the top climate impact, reported by 71% of those surveyed.
"California does have low rates of air conditioning in homes, maybe
because it's blessed with cool breezes in a lot of parts of the state,
but when an extreme heat event comes and there's no cool air available,
you're in trouble," says David Eisenman, a doctor who directs the UCLA
Center for Public Health and Disasters. "That's why you're seeing this
higher number."
- -
In a letter of support for the bill, public health officers, emergency
room physicians and health researchers pointed out that the health risks
of heat are worse for Black Americans and Latinos, outdoor workers and
city dwellers, writing that "in an average Los Angeles summer ... there
is an 8% increase in total mortality on the hottest days."
But "we are not tracking the health harms of heat events in any way that
is really useful," says UCLA's Eisenman, who added that tracking climate
change in health is important in places like California, where people
may suffer health risks from multiple disasters at the same time,
including spiking temperatures and raging wildfires. The
NPR/Harvard/Robert Wood Johnson poll bears that out; separate from heat,
in 36% of households affected by wildfire, Californians reported serious
health problems. And some households reported impacts from heat and from
wildfire.
"That combination of smoke and heat is where the future looks really bad
for California," he says.
Ranking heat waves is one of several proposals that would go further
than the recommendations in California's extreme heat action plan,
announced earlier this year. California lawmakers are also considering
legislation that would make indoor cooling a housing right.
Air Conditioning is a necessity, but could cooling be a right?
The proposal would particularly help renters like Minerva Contreras, a
44-year-old mother of two who lives near Bakersfield, Calif. In the
past, her neighborhood averaged 42 days where temperatures soared past
100 degrees; last year, Kern County racked up 67 days that hot, and
projections are for that number to keep climbing.
"It is very difficult because, since it is practically like not being
able to breathe," Contreras says, in Spanish. "It's frustrating."
When she's well, Contreras works in agricultural fields picking anything
from tangerines to radishes. But she has developed a lung tumor. It's
benign, but it makes hot days harder. Contreras points out that other
people who are also sensitive to heat live all around her, including the
very young and very old; Kern County's asthma rates are above state and
national averages.
Indoor cooling standards have won support of tenants, housing advocates
and editorial writers, but they face a serious fight in Sacramento.
Property owners represented by the California Apartment Association
argue that the cooling standards bill "circumvents California's building
code adoption process and ignores the variety of climates present in the
state," and if passed the law would be the first such state-level
requirement in the country.
For now, the cost of keeping cool for millions of California renters
mostly falls on them.
Behind her modest brown ranch home, Contreras shows off an asador, a
grill that her husband built for her. She's got pots out here too, for
making chicharrones and tamales. When she cooks for dinner, she tries to
do it early in the morning, before the sun comes up.
Across the backyard, she has strung several laundry lines; she hangs
bulky towels and blankets and most of her clothing out here to dry in
the sun.
These are health measures, she says; it's essential to avoid doing
anything that makes it hotter inside. "I definitely need to be in a cool
place," she says.
It also helps save some money. In summer, their electricity bills run
between $600 and $800 a month; after the landlord spent $3,000 to fix
the air conditioning, he raised the rent to $1,300. Minerva is planning
to pay this summer's electricity bill off in installments through next
January.
She isn't optimistic California will pass cooling standards — yet. "I
would like it very much, but I always think that money wins more than
everything," she says.
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106392334/extreme-heat-climate-change-health
/[ a rhetorical question ]/
*Should Climate Change Force Some Military Bases to Close?*
BY SHARON E. BURKE - - JUNE 23, 2022
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It was just BRAC, or Base Realignment and Closure—the process by which
the U.S. Department of Defense decides which military bases live or die...
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Usually, BRAC is a matter of shedding excess property or unused land,
and as McCollum pointed out, the Pentagon has identified around 20
percent of its holdings as excess. But in a hearing back in 2019, other
Members of Congress floated a different metric for deciding which bases
to close: vulnerability to natural disasters. If climate change were to
become a BRAC criterion, that could mean consequences for
communities—for which bases are often an important source of jobs and
economic activity—and also for the way military forces train and deploy...
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But how long will the Department of Defense—and the American
taxpayer—keep paying the repair bills in these places
That question may be bigger than BRAC, which is actually a singularly
unpopular bureaucratic maneuver. McCollum notwithstanding, most members
of Congress would probably rather poke their eyes out with a fork than
allow another round of base closures in their districts. And yet the
storms, droughts, and heat will just keep on coming. Perhaps it’s time
for the Pentagon to admit that BRAC isn’t going to happen and look for
other, aggressive ways to streamline the property footprint and increase
resilience to severe weather. On a bipartisan basis, Congress has
steadily shown a willingness to consider such resilience improvements,
and the Biden administration just asked for $3 billion for climate
initiatives in 2023. Even that won’t be enough, however, for places like
Norfolk, which may require more radical land use management, realignment
of some key missions, and doubling down on shared community resilience
measures.
More generally, the Pentagon should ruthlessly integrate disaster risk
reduction into how it spends all military construction, operations,
maintenance, and related dollars.
This is one time when sounding the retreat may be the only way to win
the battle.
https://slate.com/technology/2022/06/miliary-bases-climate-change-brac.html
/[ just don't call me late for dinner ] /
*Seville Launches World’s First Program to Name and Rank Heat Waves*
The launch comes after the hottest first two weeks of June ever recorded
in Spain
CLIMATEWIRE | Seville, Spain, has officially launched a new pilot
program to address deadly heat waves. The program, unveiled yesterday on
the summer solstice, introduces a system for naming and ranking heat
waves in much the same way as hurricanes.
It’s the first city in the world to implement such a program, according
to organizers. And it’s launching just in time for another
record-breaking hot season.
Spain has been grappling with extreme temperatures for weeks. A sizzling
heat wave last month sent temperatures soaring across the southern part
of the country — in some places rising nearly 30 degrees Fahrenheit
above the average for that time of year. The city of Jaén broke 104
degrees, a record for the month of May...
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Extreme heat is one of the deadliest forms of severe weather. In the
United States, it kills more people than any other type of weather
event, including hurricanes or floods.
Yet heat-related deaths are also highly preventable, experts say.
Extreme heat disproportionately affects certain vulnerable populations,
including elderly people, unhoused people, people without air
conditioning and people with underlying health conditions. The danger
can be managed with public messaging campaigns, early warning systems,
expanded access to air conditioning and cooling centers, protections for
people who work outdoors and other interventions.
“The exciting thing about addressing extreme heat is that you can do
something about it,” Kathy Baughman McLeod, director of the Atlantic
Council’s Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center
(Arsht-Rock), said in an interview. “People do not need to die from
heat.”...
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A handful of U.S. cities also have launched pilot programs for ranking
heat waves. Those include Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Miami and Kansas City,
Mo...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/seville-launches-world-rsquo-s-first-program-to-name-and-rank-heat-waves/
/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*June 24, 2004*/
June 24, 2004: NYTimes.com reports:
"The Supreme Court handed a major political victory to the Bush
administration today, ruling 7 to 2 that Vice President Dick Cheney is
not obligated, at least for now, to release secret details of his energy
task force.
"The majority of the justices agreed with the administration's arguments
that private deliberations among a president, vice president and their
close advisers are indeed entitled to special treatment — arising from
the constitutional principle known as executive privilege — although
they said the administration must still prove the specifics of its case
in the lower courts.
"'A president's communications and activities encompass a vastly wider
range of sensitive material than would be true of any ordinary
individual,' the court said in a summary of the majority opinion written
by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
"By sending the case back to the lower federal courts, the majority
removed a significant political headache for President Bush and Vice
President Cheney. As a practical matter, the outcome today means that
the final resolution will not come until well after the November elections."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/politics/24CND-CHEN.html
https://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/cheney062404.pdf
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