[✔️] March 12, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

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/*March 12, 2022*/

/[ Jon Steward gives us a comic rant in 13 min video]/
*The World Is Ending, So… Recycle? | The Problem With Jon Stewart | 
Apple TV+*
Mar 11, 2022
The Problem With Jon Stewart
https://theproblem.link/ClimateEpisode

The Problem with Humans, now streaming on Apple TV+, delves into why the 
Earth’s climate is changing and why we’re not fixing it fast enough. 
Turns out, humans may not be prepared to meet the moment. Don’t worry, 
only one bird was hurt in the making of this monologue.

Listen to The Problem With Jon Stewart podcast on Apple Podcasts, where 
available.
https://theproblem.link/ApplePodcast

Subscribe to The Problem with Jon Stewart’s YouTube channel:
https://theproblem.link/YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmCDe_joBlA

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/[ one followup - where Stewart seems to be completely played  ]/
*Can We Trust Fossil Fuel Companies? Interview w/Shell CEO | The Problem 
With Jon Stewart | Apple TV+*
The Problem With Jon Stewart
https://theproblem.link/ClimateEpisode

The Problem with Climate Change is that humans want to consume energy 
constantly, and fossil fuel companies have profited greatly from that 
consumption. But with a climate apocalypse looming, will they be willing 
to change their ways? In this clip from the full interview with the CEO 
of Shell, Jon investigates what can be done to protect our future.
The Problem With Jon Stewart is now streaming on Apple TV+ 
https://theproblem.link/AppleTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-9Uk3xnkU

[ down to minimums ]
*Antarctic sea ice hits lowest minimum on record*
Natural variability is probably the cause, although global warming could 
have a role.
Tosin Thompson -- 11 March 2022
Antarctic sea ice shrank to below 2 million square kilometres this year, 
the lowest minimum extent since satellite records began 43 years ago.

The minimum extent of 1.92 million square kilometres occurred on 25 
February and was 190,000 square kilometres less than the now 
second-lowest extent, reached in 2017, the US National Snow and Ice Data 
Center (NSIDC) reported on 8 March.

“The record low for total Antarctic sea ice happened in much the same 
way as the 2017 event,” says Ryan Fogt, a climatologist at Ohio 
University in Athens. Both events had an earlier than average maximum 
sea-ice extent, which was followed by rapid declines, he says. From 
2017, the sea-ice extent stayed well below average for a few years, 
returning to near-average conditions again in 2020...
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https://media.nature.com/lw800/magazine-assets/d41586-022-00550-4/d41586-022-00550-4_20209534.jpg
Meier says the isolation of Antarctica has, so far, protected much of it 
from experiencing warming, with the exception of the Antarctic 
Peninsula, which sticks up to the north and has warmed markedly in the 
past 40 years. Global warming could have a role in this new record, but 
it is too early to tell, he says.

“This could be the start of sustained loss of Antarctic ice similar to 
what we have seen in the Arctic over the past 50 years, or it could be 
short-term variability that reverts back to the mean year,” says Zeke 
Hausfather, a climate scientist at Berkeley Earth in California. In the 
long term, climate change will result in declining Antarctic sea ice, he 
adds.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00550-4
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00550-4

/[  Audio podcast - SCOTUS wrangles a climate legal banshee   - EPA 
seeks "the best system of emission reduction" ] /
*Volts podcast: Jack Lienke & Kirti Datla on the ridiculous (but 
extremely important) EPA case before the Supreme Court*
It is absurd from top to bottom, but its effects could be massive.

David Roberts - March 11, 2010
Last week, the US Supreme Court heard opening arguments in West Virginia 
v. EPA. Red states and coal companies are suing EPA, claiming that it 
overstepped its authority in creating the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era 
policy meant to reduce carbon emissions at existing power plants. One 
interesting and relevant feature of the CPP is that it was never 
actually implemented and is not in effect.

If it seems odd to you that petitioners are claiming to be harmed by a 
rule that does not exist, you are not alone. The fact that the court 
took this case at all seems to indicate that it is eager to have a say 
about EPA’s authority over greenhouse gases in advance of the Biden 
administration writing a new rule. Climate advocates are bracing for the 
worst.

There are several legal questions at stake in the case, ranging from 
narrow issues regarding the exact interpretation of statutory text to 
broad issues that relate to the ability of Congress to delegate 
rule-making authority to administrative agencies at all...

To help me dig into the details of the case and explore its possible 
outcomes, I called up two experts on the subject. Jack Lienke is 
regulatory policy director at the Institute for Policy Integrity and an 
adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law, where he 
teaches about regulatory policy. He is a longtime expert on the Clean 
Air Act and co-author of a book on the subject called Struggling For Air.

Kirti Datla is the director of strategic legal advocacy at Earthjustice. 
Before that she was a lawyer who briefed cases before federal courts and 
the Supreme Court, an attorney-advisor in the Department of Justice, and 
a clerk for Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor. She studies 
broader legal doctrines like jurisdiction and the scope of federal power.

Lienke, Datla, and I discuss the history of the case, whether SCOTUS 
should have taken it at all, the legal issues involved, and the possible 
rulings we might expect from the court, ranging from bad to terrible. 
Despite the absurdity of the situation, the conversation was a ton of 
fun and extremely educational.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-jack-lienke-and-kirti?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDk3NTc2MDksIl8iOiJmamkzUSIsImlhdCI6MTY0NzAyMDQ0NywiZXhwIjoxNjQ3MDI0MDQ3LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.IAjrZhLGu9p6TVLhuYDDzA_6LxauMi4YD15mOdFIjN4&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&s=r#play

/[  what is the right to refuse? ] /
*Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security 
(City Lights Open Media)
*https://www.amazon.com/Storming-Wall-Migration-Homeland-Security/dp/0872867153/ref=sr_1_1 

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/[  So now this is the question - posed 5 years ago ]/
*Q&A: what legal obligation does the US have to accept refugees?*
Published: January 27, 2017/
/https://theconversation.com/qanda-what-legal-obligation-does-the-us-have-to-accept-refugees-72007

[ Gulf stream ]
*Oh, Look. Another Doomsday Scenario To Worry About. | Answers With Joe*
Mar 7, 2022
Joe Scott

We live on a water planet. And the currents generated in the oceans 
affect all of our lives, even if you don't live near the ocean. So as 
evidence seems to mount that the North Atlantic Gulf Stream is weakening 
- in fact, it's the weakest it's been in over a thousand years - that's 
something to pay attention to.

But is it the doomsday scenario many people are predicting? Let's take a 
look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gRQkG_s6m4

/[The news archive - looking back]/
*March 12, 2013*
The Boston Phoenix's Wen Stephenson observes:

"On January 24, Congressman [Edward] Markey joined his colleague Henry 
Waxman of California and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island — 
three of the most vocal climate champions in the United States Congress 
— in sending a letter to President Obama, informing him that they are 
creating a special 'bicameral task force on climate change.' It's a 
strongly worded letter. 'We believe, as you do,' they write, 'that 
climate change is a profound threat to our nation, that our window for 
preventing irreversible harm is rapidly closing, and that leaders have a 
moral obligation to act.' They call upon Obama for 'decisive 
presidential leadership.' This does not include, at least in their 
letter, any mention of the Keystone XL pipeline. But it does include 
'executive action' — such as using the EPA's authority under the Clean 
Air Act to regulate existing power plants — to ensure that U.S. 
emissions are reduced 'at least 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.'

"Yes, that's the same target Obama pledged at Copenhagen, and the same 
as the 2009 Waxman-Markey bill. Never mind that the window is 'rapidly 
closing.' With fossil-fuel funded deniers controlling the House, with 
the U.S. Senate no longer bound to 51-vote majority rule, even the 
strongest advocates for climate action in Congress make no pretense that 
what's necessary — that what science demands — can be  seriously 
discussed in Washington.

"As I write this, President Obama's State of the Union address is still 
days away. There's chatter about another 'strong' statement on climate. 
But it's too much to expect that the president is finally ready to lead, 
to level with the American people about what it would actually mean to 
'respond to the threat of climate change,' as he said on January 21 — in 
a speech invoking Lincoln and the abolition of slavery — and 'preserve 
our planet, commanded to our care by God.'

"No, the only thing that matters now is whether there are enough of us 
ready to lead him, and the rest of our country, in the direction that 
science — and hope, and patriotism, and love — tell us we must go."

http://web.archive.org/web/20130509041103/http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/151670-new-abolitionists-global-warming-is-the-great/ 

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