[✔️] March 23, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Wed Mar 23 07:29:03 EDT 2022

/*March 23, 2022*/

/[ BBC Speaking to the winds ]/
*Climate change: 'Madness' to turn to fossil fuels because of Ukraine war*
By Matt McGrath - 3-22-1-22
Environment correspondent
The UN Secretary General says the rush to use fossil fuels because of 
the war in Ukraine is "madness" and threatens global climate targets.

The invasion of Ukraine has seen rapid rises in the prices of coal, oil 
and gas as countries scramble to replace Russian sources.

But Antonio Guterres warns that these short-term measures might "close 
the window" on the Paris climate goals.

He also calls on countries, including China, to fully phase out coal by 
2040.

In his first major speech on climate and energy since COP26, Mr Guterres 
makes no bones about the fact that the limited progress achieved in 
Glasgow is insufficient to ward off dangerous climate change...
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The war in Ukraine threatens to make that situation even more 
problematic, he says.

Europe and the UK and other countries are looking to cut their reliance 
on Russian oil and gas this year. Many are turning to coal or imports of 
liquefied natural gas as alternative sources.

But Mr Guterres warns this short-term approach heralds great danger for 
the climate.
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He points out that right now, one person in three globally is not 
covered by early warning systems for disasters - in Africa six in ten 
people are not protected....
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60815547

/[  Text and audio by the author ]/
*‘OK Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late*
A growing chorus of young people is focusing on climate solutions. 
“‘It’s too late’ means ‘I don’t have to do anything, and the 
responsibility is off me.’”
By Cara Buckley - -March 22, 2022

Alaina Wood is well aware that, planetarily speaking, things aren’t 
looking so great. She’s read the dire climate reports, tracked 
cataclysmic weather events and gone through more than a few dark nights 
of the soul.

She is also part of a growing cadre of people, many of them young, who 
are fighting climate doomism, the notion that it’s too late to turn 
things around. They believe that focusing solely on terrible climate 
news can sow dread and paralysis, foster inaction, and become a 
self-fulfilling prophecy...
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“I hate when people say one person can’t make a change,” Mr. Donaldson 
said. “It takes a whole group, but it takes one person to start. One 
person to inspire. One person to raise a voice.”...
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There is debate over what role individual actions play in the climate 
crisis, given that fossil fuel companies, large corporations and 
governments are responsible for the overwhelming majority of 
planet-heating carbon emissions. Focusing on an individual’s impact is a 
useless, guilt-inducing distraction, detractors say. They point to 
marketers for the oil giant BP that helped popularize the notion of an 
individual’s carbon footprint as an example of shifting blame.
Philip Aiken, 29, who hosts the podcast “just to save the world,” said 
that privilege is also baked into the attitude of “it’s too late.”

“‘It’s too late’ means ‘I just want to be comfortable for as much of my 
life as possible, because I’m already comfortable,’” Mr. Aiken said. 
“‘It’s too late’ means ‘I don’t have to do anything, and the 
responsibility is off me, and I can continue existing however I want.’”

To ward off his own sense of doom, Mr. Aiken monitors his intake of 
climate news. He came up with a metric: Focus 20 percent on problems, 
and 80 percent on solutions. He’s come to understand that there’s a 
lifetime of work ahead, and concentrates on grassroots movements and 
affecting local change. “That work fulfills me,” he said, “and keeps me 
optimistic about a future in which we can still survive and thrive.”

Kate Marvel, a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for 
Space Studies and Columbia University, said that even she freezes up 
when she encounters fear-based climate messaging. But her own focus is 
on all that humans can still do. She pointed out the positive effects of 
federal clean air and water legislation and the Montreal Protocol, 
signed in 1987 to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals, which helped to 
heal the hole in the ozone layer, prevented millions of cases of skin 
cancer a year and headed off even worse global warming.

“We are still facing very dire threats, that’s legitimate,” Dr. Marvel 
said. “But that doesn’t mean that no policy has ever been effective, and 
no progress has ever been made. And it certainly doesn’t mean that 
progress isn’t possible.”

Or, as Mary Annaïse Heglar, a climate essayist and co-host of the Hot 
Take podcast and newsletter, said, “Look at all the lives in the balance 
between 1.5 and 1.6 degrees.” She was referring to the additional 
drought, heat, flooding and destructive storms that scientists say will 
result with every fraction of a degree of global warming.

For Ms. Heglar, as bad as climate doomism is, so is what she called 
“hopeium” — an unfounded optimism that someone else will come up with a 
magical climate solution akin to a silver bullet.

“Underneath doomerism and hopeium is the question of ‘Are we going to 
win?’” Ms. Heglar said. “That’s premature at this point. We need to ask 
ourselves if we’re going to try. We don’t know ’til we try if we’re 
going to win. Whether or not we do, it will still have been worth it.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/climate/climate-change-ok-doomer.html
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/[ "where can we go?"  Northern New England, but there are many factors 
PBS video 9 mins] /
*THIS Is the Safest Place to Live as the Climate Changes*
Mar 21, 2022
PBS Terra
We asked six experts where the safest, or least risky, places will be to 
live as the climate changes and weather becomes more extreme. And the 
answer is pretty surprising. In this episode, we look at many hazards 
from temperature, storms, drought, farming, wildfire, polar vortex, 
hurricanes, sea-level rise, crop failure, extreme heat, and even 
economics. We look at the effect of climate on future migration patterns 
in the US and talk to someone who left New York City after Hurricane 
Sandy and identifies as a climate migrant. She ended up moving to the 
safest county in the United States from a weather and climate 
perspective. We’ll reveal where she went and why.
Here is a link to the ProPublica article that was very influential in 
our research of this episode: 
https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/ (scroll to the bottom 
of the article for a list of counties and the criteria used to rate them)
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by 
Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what 
causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcj9IGY6Etg

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/[ Highest risks ranked by county:   Heat    Wet Bulb    Farm Crop 
Yields    Sea Level Rise     Very Large Fires   Economic Damages ] /
*New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States*
by Al Shaw, Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, and Jeremy W. Goldsmith, 
Special to ProPublica, September 15, 2020.
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.

According to new data from the Rhodium Group analyzed by ProPublica and 
The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures and changing rainfall 
will drive agriculture and temperate climates northward, while sea level 
rise will consume coastlines and dangerous levels of humidity will swamp 
the Mississippi River valley...
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Taken with other recent research showing that the most habitable climate 
in North America will shift northward and the incidence of large fires 
will increase across the country, this suggests that the climate crisis 
will profoundly interrupt the way we live and farm in the United States. 
See how the North American places where humans have lived for thousands 
of years will shift and what changes are in store for your county...
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*Economic Damages From Climate: 2040-2060*
Rising energy costs, lower labor productivity, poor crop yields and 
increasing crime are among the climate-driven elements that will 
increasingly drag on the U.S. economy, eventually taking a financial 
toll that exceeds that from the COVID-19 pandemic in some regions. 
Rhodium measured how much damage — or how much of a benefit — those 
counties might see, as a share of their GDP...
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*The Greatest Climate Risk? Compounding Calamities.*
Taken together, some parts of the U.S. will see a number of issues stack 
on top of one another — heat and humidity may make it harder to work 
outside, while the ocean continues to claim more coastal land. The table 
below ranks the most at-risk counties in the U.S. if all of the perils 
were combined. You can also sort by individual climate risk to see how 
each one stacks up, with higher numbers being worse in all categories. 
The projections are for 2040-2060 under RCP 8.5.
https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/

/[  Overpopulation is the real problem -- nicely explained in this 
classic video from 2017 ] /
*Underestimating Overpopulation 2.0*
Jun 9, 2017
Jack Alpert
We are underestimating the human predicament - overpopulation is a much 
bigger problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdksoUuAXDc

/[  Climate scientist predicted the warming of cold was the first big 
change  ]/*
**TV Meteorologist Chris Gloninger on Warming Winters*
Mar 22, 2022
greenmanbucket
Part of my series of interviews with Television Meteorologists who are 
seeking to educate their audience about the effects of climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzu7fOC_uG4

/[ Down Under Mis-Information watch ]/
*We need to talk about the response to the floods | with Sue Higginson*
Mar 22, 2022
thejuicemedia
In which I talk with Lismore farmer, mother, grandmother and 
environmental lawyer Sue Higginson about the devastating floods that him 
them: the great (the community response), the bad (the damage) and the 
ugly (the government’s response)
This is the podcast companion to our latest Honest Government Ad: 
https://youtu.be/PvFy2TuPDaw
🔹 Learn more about the Environmental Defenders Office here: 
https://www.edo.org.au
💁‍♀️ CHAPTERS

    00:00 Giordano Intro
    01:56 Sue Higginson, welcome
    04:15 Experiencing the Lismore Floods
    14:01 Preparing for climate disasters like this
    15:43 The government’s failure to respond
    19:48 Scott Morrison’s Lismore visit
    23:40 The coming election
    27:32 Sharma v Environemnt Minister court case
    35:45 Sue’s turn to politics
    40:51 Thank you, Sue
    41:17 Giordano Conclusion

👉 listen to the podcast on your podcast app: 🔹 
https://thejuicemedia.simplecast.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI6diTjrI-I

/[ Dis-information watch ]/
*Mapped: How the Net Zero Backlash is Tied to Climate Denial – and Brexit*
The ties between anti-green politicians, climate denial groups and the 
backers of “hard” Brexit are extensive.
ANALYSIS
https://www.desmog.com/2022/03/18/mapped-how-the-net-zero-backlash-is-tied-to-climate-denial-and-brexit/

/[The news archive - looking back]/
*March 23, 2006*
In a CBSNews.com interview,  "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley 
explains why he doesn't cite the views of climate-change deniers in his 
stories:

"'If I do an interview with Elie Wiesel,' he asks, 'am I required as a 
journalist to find a Holocaust denier?' He says his team tried hard to 
find a respected scientist who contradicted the prevailing opinion in 
the scientific community, but there was no one out there who fit that 
description. 'This isn't about politics or pseudo-science or conspiracy 
theory blogs,' he says. 'This is about sound science...'There becomes a 
point in journalism where striving for balance becomes irresponsible.'"
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-pelley-and-catherine-herrick-on-global-warming-coverage/ 
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