[✔️] March 1, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*March 1, 2022*/

/[ Scientists using stronger language ]/
*Time Is Running Out to Avert a Harrowing Future, Climate Panel Warns*
The impacts of global warming are appearing faster than expected, 
according to a major new scientific report. It could soon become much 
harder to cope.
By Brad Plumer, Raymond Zhong and Lisa Friedman
Feb. 28, 2022
The dangers of climate change are mounting so rapidly that they could 
soon overwhelm the ability of both nature and humanity to adapt, 
creating a harrowing future in which floods, fires and famine displace 
millions, species disappear and the planet is irreversibly damaged, a 
major new scientific report has concluded.

The report released Monday by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change, a body of experts convened by the United Nations, is the most 
detailed look yet at the threats posed by global warming. It concludes 
that nations aren’t doing nearly enough to protect cities, farms and 
coastlines from the hazards that climate change has already unleashed, 
such as record droughts and rising seas, let alone from the even greater 
disasters in store as the planet keeps heating up.

Written by 270 researchers from 67 countries, the report is “an atlas of 
human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership,” 
said António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general. “With fact 
upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet are getting 
clobbered by climate change.”...
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“This report is terrifying; there is no other way of saying it,” said 
Simon Stiell, the environment minister of the Caribbean nation of 
Grenada. “We need to see enhanced action and increased climate finance 
provision for adaptation. The scale of this crisis requires nothing 
less.”...
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“Every country needs to do more in terms of mitigation and they need to 
do more in terms of addressing both adaptation and resilience, no 
question about it,” he said...
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  Improvements in basic services like health, roads, electricity and 
water could help make poor and rural communities more resilient against 
climate shocks.

“If we act now, we have a lot of choices,” said Edward R. Carr, a 
professor of international development at Clark University and an author 
of the report. “Ten years from now, hell of a lot of less. Thirty years 
from now, I don’t know.” He added, “We’ll always have choices. But 
they’ll be less good choices, and they’ll be much harder choices to make.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/climate/climate-change-ipcc-un-report.html

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/[ Original documents of IPCC  latest report ]/
*Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability*

The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report 
assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, 
biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It 
also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the 
natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change...

*Summary for Policymakers*  37 pages 
https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_SummaryForPolicymakers.pdf

*Technical Summary*  96 pages 
https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_FinalDraft_TechnicalSummary.pdf

*Full Report * 3675 pages 
https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6wg2/pdf/IPCC_AR6_WGII_FinalDraft_FullReport.pdf

*Fact Sheets * https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/about/factsheets

*https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/*



/[ brief video briefing on why it is so cold in late Winter ]/
*Nebraska State Climatologist on Arctic Outbreaks*
Feb 28, 2022
greenmanbucket
Martha Shulski PhD discusses increased incidence of cold  outbreaks in 
central North America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzCoGGVyLoU



/[ Yale grad students bring wisdom to their future ] /
*Rising Leaders on Social and Environmental Sustainability*
*A Global Survey of Business Students (2022)*
Todd Cort Katie Gilbert Stuart DeCew (MBA '11, Master of Environmental 
Management '11) Elizabeth Wilkinson Matthew H. Goldberg Heather Fitzgerald
Rising leaders 2022
Awareness of the environmental and societal challenges facing our world 
has expanded dramatically in recent years. Since 2015, the year we 
published our inaugural report, Rising Leaders on Environmental 
Sustainability and Climate Change, an ongoing global pandemic has laid 
bare societal strains and inequalities in access to basic healthcare. 
Extreme weather events have intensified all over the planet. The sixth 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report included unprecedented 
warnings of catastrophic global warming in the absence of immediate 
action. The U.S. signed—and then left, before rejoining—the Paris Agreement.

In this survey of 2,035 global business students, conducted in 
partnership with the Global Network for Advanced Management and the Yale 
Program on Climate Change Communication, our key findings include:

Business students believe corporate leaders should be solving 
environmental and social issues—but they perceive the most serious 
issues to be elsewhere, no matter where they live in the world
Business students expect sustainability to be threaded throughout 
corporations’ highest priorities—not treated as a stand-alone top priority.

Business schools are integrating sustainability topics, but students are 
calling on them to go further.

The ‘carbon tax on talent’ continues to rise: Now, the majority of 
business students state that they would accept a lower salary to work 
with a sustainability-forward employer.

Our students will soon be at the helms of such impactful organizations, 
and it is incumbent on us to equip them with the knowledge, the 
resources, and the networks to pursue positive and ambitious change for 
society. Our schools should model how leadership decisions must account 
for impacts on a wide range of stakeholders, including organizations, 
vulnerable communities, and the environment.

-Ingrid C. Burke, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean; Professor of Ecosystem 
Ecology at Yale School of the Environment

-Kerwin K. Charles, Indra K. Nooyi Dean & Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of 
Economics, Policy & Management at Yale School of Management

Read the report for the full context and a galvanizing Foreword by Dean 
Indy Burke (Yale School of the Environment) and Dean Kerwin Charles 
(Yale School of Management).
https://cbey.yale.edu/research/rising-leaders-on-social-and-environmental-sustainability

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/[ Download the full Report -- a few clips below ]/
Cort, T., Gilbert, K., DeCew, S., Goldberg, M., Wilkinson, E., 
Fitzgerald, H. (2022). Rising Leaders on Social and Environmental 
Sustainability, February 2022. Yale University and Global Network for 
Advanced Management. New Haven, CT: Yale Center for Business and the 
Environment, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
*FINDING #1*
Business students believe corporate leaders should be solving
environmental and social issues—but they perceive the most serious
issues to be elsewhere, no matter where they live in the world...
*FINDING #2*
Business students expect sustainability to be threaded
throughout corporations’ highest priorities—not treated as
a stand-alone top priority...
*FINDING #3*
Business schools are integrating sustainability topics,
but students are calling on them to go further...
*FINDING #4*
The ‘carbon tax on talent’ continues to rise: Now, the majority
of business students state that they would accept a lower
salary to work with a sustainability-forward employer...
*Conclusion*

    *Business schools *should celebrate the success of potentially
    having some
    role in boosting students’ perceived understanding of sustainability
    topics. At the
    same time, they should hone in on possibilities for more integration
    in the specific
    areas of experiential learning opportunities and career advising.

    *Corporations *need to improve sustainability practices—both to meet the
    challenges at hand and to position their organizations to attract
    the best talent.
    They can take heart that students understand that the supposed
    tradeoff between
    financial and sustainability priorities is a false one.

    *Business students* can more fully embrace their roles as some of
    the most
    potent agents for change. Much of the credit for catalyzing change
    within business
    schools belongs to them—and, similarly, much of the responsibility
    for pushing
    businesses to make changes will lie here, too.

https://cbey.yale.edu/sites/default/files/2022-02/Rising%20Leaders_2022%20_Final.pdf



/[ Over 3500 cases backlog is a good reason - the Government 
Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection 
organization. Through litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing 
concerns and developing legal reforms, Government Accountability 
Project’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting 
government and corporate accountability.  ]/
*Press Release: Over 100 Civil Society Organizations Urge Senate to Vote 
on Pending MSPB Nominations*
Over 100 Civil Society Organizations Urge Senate to Vote on Pending MSPB 
Nominations

WASHINGTON – This week, 104 organizations released a letter to Senate 
Majority Leader Schumer and Minority Leader McConnell to urge them to 
allow the full Senate to vote on pending nominations to all three 
vacancies on the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). The MSPB is the 
primary adjudicative agency for worker claims of whistleblower 
retaliation and other prohibited personnel practices for federal 
employees, and is essential to the prevention of waste, fraud, and abuse 
of power.

The board hasn’t had a quorum for more than five years, and it hasn’t 
had any members at all since March 2019, resulting in the largest-ever 
backlog of more than 3,500 cases. As a result, government whistleblowers 
waiting for board review of their retaliation claims remain in limbo 
while their only due process channel for relief under the Whistleblower 
Protection Act is paralyzed. This inaction opens an opportunity to many 
larger issues, including federal agencies taking advantage of the long 
wait on unresolved cases, large back pay ordered to be paid to federal 
employees with wrongful termination or demotion claims, and the 
jeopardizing of the existence of meaningfully enforceable employment 
rights for millions of Americans.

This is a crisis that the U.S. Senate must rectify as soon as possible. 
In September 2021, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 
Committee considered and reported nominations to fill all MSPB vacancies 
to the full Senate; the next step is clearly to bring the nominations to 
the Senate floor.

Government Accountability Project Legal Director Tom Devine commented:

“The last four years are the first since 1883 when there has been no 
authority to enforce the merit system for a professional, non-partisan 
work force. It has been four years since federal whistleblowers who 
challenge betrayals of the public trust could defend themselves. This is 
inexcusable. Any senator who tries to sustain this accountability vacuum 
is shielding fraud, waste and abuse.”

Read the full letter to Senate Leaders Schumer and McConnell here. 
https://whistleblower.org/letter/letter-to-senate-leaders-to-fill-mspb-vacancies/
https://whistleblower.org/press-release/press-release-over-100-civil-society-organizations-urge-senate-to-vote-on-pending-mspb-nominations/



/[   put down your Cannon camera --  it's run out of ethical power and 
moral memory ] /
*Thinktank linked to tech giant Canon under pressure to remove 
‘dangerous’ climate articles*
Exclusive: Some Canon Institute for Global Studies posts call the 
climate crisis ‘fake news’ and compare Greta Thunberg to a communist
A thinktank linked to Japanese technology giant Canon is coming under 
pressure to remove multiple articles from a research director who 
describes the climate crisis as “fake news” and compares campaigner 
Greta Thunberg to a communist.

One Australia-based international fellow at the Canon Institute for 
Global Studies (CIGS), Prof Jeffrey Braithwaite, told the Guardian the 
claims about climate science from research director Dr Taishi Sugiyama 
were “not defensible”.

Campaign group Action Speaks Louder, which has produced a report 
documenting Sugiyama’s claims, says the institute is “promoting 
dangerous climate delay and denial” and is demanding Canon withdraws 
support until the articles, which include a book aimed at school-age 
children, are removed.

In articles on the institute’s website and in other outlets, Sugiyama, 
using his CIGS affiliation, says there is no climate crisis, and rejects 
evidence of increasing heat extremes and more intense rainfall.

An orange Elsevier logo sign is seen on a brick and stone building the 
company occupies in Missouri.
Revealed: leading climate research publisher helps fuel oil and gas drilling
Read more
During November’s Glasgow climate talks, Sugiyama, who has helped write 
several major UN climate reports, said a speech from the Swedish teenage 
activist Greta Thunberg showed she had “turned from an environmentalist 
to a communist”.

Sugiyama also authored a book, published this year, encouraging Japanese 
school children to question the science of climate change. His work is 
often published on conservative outlet Daily Will, and then republished 
on the CIGS website.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/27/thinktank-linked-to-tech-giant-canon-under-pressure-to-remove-dangerous-climate-articles

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/[ Action Speaks Louder is an activist organization ]/
*CANON INC.: SPEAK UP AGAINST THE CANON THINK TANK CLIMATE DENIAL*
*We hold companies accountable **for their climate change promises.*
Canon Inc. needs little introduction.

It’s one of the world’s most trusted brands – particularly with nature 
and wildlife photographers. Its corporate philosophy of kyosei 
translates to “living and working together for the common good.”

Which is why it’s shocking that the Canon Institute of Global Studies 
(CIGS), a non-profit think tank instituted in 2008 and Chaired by Canon 
Inc.’s CEO, actively advocates climate denial.

CIGS researchers have labeled the climate crisis “liberal propaganda,” 
termed environmental campaigns as “evil” and even called climate 
activist Greta Thunberg a “communist.”

Recently, CIGS Research Director Tashi Sugiyama released a book for 
schoolchildren that downplays the climate crisis. One of his other 
publications, Decarbonization is full of lies, contains a chapter 
titled, “Net zero is a song to ruin the country.”

What's worse, these researchers also sit on powerful committees that can 
influence Japan’s climate policies.

Canon Inc. has a reach that can genuinely inspire climate action amongst 
its millions of customers.

It has a reputation to protect and if enough of us speak up, it has to 
listen.
Join us in asking Canon CEO Fujio Mitarai to truly embrace kyosei by 
ending CIGS’s climate denial.
https://speakslouder.org/



/[ book from Prof Britt Wray - released in May ] /
*Generation Dread*
*FINDING PURPOSE IN AN AGE OF CLIMATE CRISIS*
By Britt Wray
Category: Psychology | Personal Growth

May 03, 2022 | ISBN 9780735280724

*ABOUT GENERATION DREAD*
An impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate 
disruption.

Climate and environment-related fears and anxieties are on the rise 
everywhere. As with any type of stress, eco-anxiety can lead to lead to 
burnout, avoidance, or a disturbance of daily functioning.

In Generation Dread, Britt Wray seamlessly merges scientific knowledge 
with emotional insight to show how these intense feelings are a healthy 
response to the troubled state of the world. The first crucial step 
toward becoming an engaged steward of the planet is connecting with our 
climate emotions, seeing them as a sign of humanity, and learning how to 
live with them. We have to face and value eco-anxiety, Wray argues, 
before we can conquer the deeply ingrained, widespread reactions of 
denial and disavowal that have led humanity to this alarming period of 
ecological decline.

It’s not a level playing field when it comes to our vulnerability to the 
climate crisis, she notes, but as the situation worsens, we are all on 
the field—and unlocking deep stores of compassion and care is more 
important than ever. Weaving in insights from climate-aware therapists, 
critical perspectives on race and privilege in this crisis, ideas about 
the future of mental health innovation, and creative coping strategies, 
Generation Dread brilliantly illuminates how we can learn from the past, 
from our *own emotions, and from each other to survive—and even 
thrive—in a changing world.**
*

*PRAISE*
“Dr. Britt Wray doesn’t ever look away from the hard emotional truths of 
the climate crisis. But it’s also exactly from this scary place that she 
is able to help us manifest something we all desperately need nowadays: 
strength. Generation Dread is a vital and deeply compelling read.” 
—*Adam McKay,* award-winning writer, director and producer (Vice, 
Succession, Don’t Look Up)

“In this intriguing and engaging work, Britt Wray explores the internal 
ecology of climate anxiety with insight and sensitivity. She shows 
finally that meaningful living is possible even in the face of that 
which threatens to extinguish life itself, and that addressing global 
climate change begins with attending to the climate within.” —Dr. *Gabor 
Maté,* author of When the Body Says No

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/647141/generation-dread-by-britt-wray/



/[The news archive - looking back]/
*March 1, 2001*
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak suggests that President George W. Bush 
will side with EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman and Treasury 
Secretary Paul O'Neill regarding the need to combat carbon pollution. By 
the end of the month, Bush would declare that he would not move to 
regulate carbon emissions, nor would he embrace the Kyoto Protocol.
*Bush's global warming*** Robert Novak

    WASHINGTON -- President Bush's first address to Congress Tuesday
    night doubled its intended time to a near Clinton-like length of
    close to 50 minutes, but there was not a word said about global
    warming. What makes this significant is that the treacherous subject
    was actually touched on in an early speech draft, but then was
    omitted.  Word leaked Monday that Bush's planned address contained a
    single sentence advocating carbon dioxide emission controls. When
    decoded, it meant that the president was agreeing with Al Gore and
    the liberals that rising global temperatures are a menace and
    require radical solutions.
    That sent conservatives into a frenzy that apparently resulted in
    losing the sentence from the speech. But the issue is far from
    settled.  This unresolved conflict over the environment is part of a
    broader question concerning what kind of administration George W.
    Bush is heading.  His Tuesday night speech, well delivered as are
    all his prepared speeches, avoided ideological rhetoric while
    advocating intensely conservative tax and Social Security proposals.
    The likes of Ted Kennedy and Charlie Rangel stood and applauded as
    the president recited a laundry list of socially desirable goals,
    but sat on their hands when he asked for a tax "refund" to the
    public. Before putting in his pitch for tax reduction in a fight
    that will test the credibility of his presidency, Bush made clear he
    does not follow the Republican orthodoxy that government is the
    problem and not the solution.  As part of this thesis, his
    speechwriters wrote a throwaway line advocating a "multi-pollutant
    strategy" on clean air and taking on the monumental task of
    regulating carbon dioxide.  Conservative activists tried to inundate
    Bush administration policymakers Monday with e-mails. "If you agree
    that CO2 is a threat," wrote one protester, "you accept the theory
    of catastrophic global warming." On CNN's "Crossfire" Monday night,
    I asked Environmental Protection Administrator Christie Whitman
    about the issue and received a surprisingly unequivocal answer.
    "George Bush was very clear during the course of the campaign that
    he believes in a multi-pollutant strategy, and that includes CO2,"
    said Whitman, "He has also been very clear that the science is good
    on global warming." She added that "introducing CO2 to the
    discussion" is an "important step" in confronting a "real problem."
    That would come as a surprise to voters, who heard Republicans
    upbraid Democratic candidate Gore all through 2000 for swallowing
    the scientific predicates of global warming. "Maybe they didn't
    listen closely enough (to Bush), but he was very clear about that
    during the campaign," Whitman told me. In fact, he was not that
    clear. Bush's only personal comment on global warming during the
    campaign was made in the Oct. 11 presidential debate. While
    asserting that "global warming needs to be taken very seriously," 
    Bush turned to Gore and asked whether "some of the scientists" were
    not "changing their opinion a little bit on global warming."
    However, Bush's proposed energy policy issued Oct. 16 shocked
    conservatives when it proposed mandatory reduction targets for "four
    main pollutants: sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury and carbon
    dioxide."  The Oil & Gas Journal called this "a Bush misstep on
    CO2," adding: "Regulation of CO2 as an air pollutant is a bad idea
    that belongs on the outer fringes of environmental extremism."  The
    "four pollutant strategy" is considered eco-extremism by
    conservatives but not by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill. At the
    administration's first Cabinet meeting, the assertive former Alcoa
    CEO distributed a paper he had delivered in March 1998 to a meeting
    of the Aluminum Assn.  Calling for a government program at the level
    of the Manhattan Project to mobilize the government, O'Neill's paper
    said: "For these two issues -- nuclear holocaust and global climate
    change -- we may not get a second chance for it."
    Nobody in the Cabinet suggested O'Neill was being alarmist, but just
    where the new administration stands on global warming is one of many
    questions left unanswered by Tuesday's speech. Where does Bush stand
    on government-imposed racial quotas? Does he really oppose a deeper
    tax cut? The president was lauded for his mastery in his Capitol
    Hill debut, but it would be nice to know whether he has bought into
    Christie Whitman's position.

http://townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/2001/03/01/bushs_global_warming

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