[✔️] May 1, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sun May 1 08:52:35 EDT 2022
/*May 1, 2022*/
//[ Smart TV weather forecaster matches money with mouth - brief video ]/
/*Chris Gloninger Bringing the Weather, Powered by Wind!*
Apr 30, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqHSJ50JVHI
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/[ From DW - a brief video ~2 min - https://youtu.be/PdOKg4qIydg ]/
*Up to 50 °C: India hit by record-shattering temperatures since spring |
DW News*
Apr 29, 2022
DW News
New Delhi was sweltered through a heat wave on Wednesday as smoke
billowed out from a large fire at a rubbish dump. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi warned of the prospect of more fires as the mercury
climbed earlier than usual across the country. Temperatures in Delhi are
expected to hover around 44 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) until
Sunday. And peak summer heat is still to come before the monsoon rains
in June. "We are seeing increasing incidents of fires in various places
— in jungles, important buildings and in hospitals — in the past few
days," Modi said.
The typically humid eastern Indian states have been hard hit, with
temperatures above 43 Celsius. The heat wave is almost certainly a
consequence of climate change, according to climate scientists. "Rarely
it happens that nearly the whole country ... is reeling under [a]
heatwave," hydroclimatologist Arpita Mondal at the Indian Institute of
Technology Bombay told Reuters news agency. Dr. Friederike Otto, senior
lecturer in climate science at the Grantham Institute in Imperial
College London told the Associated Press: "India's current heatwave has
been made hotter by climate change." She said that unless the world
stops adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, such heat waves will
become even more common. The heat may also be exacerbated by urban
pollution, with black carbon and dust absorbing sunlight and further
warming the cities.
India is particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. A
landmark report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned
in February that with just 1.5C of warming, temperatures could expect an
annual repeat of the 2015 heatwave, in which temperatures hit 44C and
thousands of people died.This March was the hottest in over 100 years of
record-taking in India, and April has been similar. /
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/[ Keep your masks handy. Amy Goodman - Democracy Now - video ] /
*“We Created the Pandemicene”: Ed Yong on How the Climate Crisis Could
Spark the Next Pandemic*
Apr 29, 2022
Democracy Now!
Climate change is forcing animal migrations at an unprecedented scale,
bringing many previously disconnected species into close contact and
dramatically raising the likelihood of viruses leaping into new hosts
and sparking future pandemics. That’s according to a new study in the
journal Nature, which predicts that climate-driven disruptions to
Earth’s ecosystems will create thousands of cross-species viral
transmissions in the coming decades. We speak with The Atlantic’s Ed
Yong, who says this new era can be thought of as the “Pandemicene,” a
time defined by the power of viruses over humanity and the wider world.
“In a warming world, we’ll get lots of these spillover events in which
viruses find new hosts, mostly transferring between animal to animal but
increasing the odds that they will eventually then spill over into us,”
says Yong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNEPmhALybA
/[ Birdwatchers will need night vision help ]/
*Warming Trends: Tracking Bird Migration in the Night Sky*
*There’s a Plume of Birds Over a City Near You*
The spring bird migration in the United States is quickly gearing up. On
Thursday night, nearly 2 million birds passed over Harris County, Texas,
where Houston is located. In Cook County, Illinois, home of Chicago,
about 270,000 birds passed over. And about 90,000 birds ventured over
Denver, Colorado.
Most birds migrate under the cover of night, which means that avid
birders can’t see the plume of airborne travelers filling the sky as
they work their way north to breed from late April into May.
But a new tool helps illustrate how significant that nightly migration
really is. The migration dashboard created by the Cornell Lab of
Ornithology and several partners uses radar data collected from weather
stations to count how many birds passed over every county in the U.S.,
with updated numbers each morning for the night before.
“You can see how many birds are in flight, what direction and speed
they’re moving, the altitude they’re flying,” said Andrew Farnsworth, a
senior research associate at the Cornell lab. “It’s a game changer when
it comes to thinking about how to tell people about all sorts of
measures of migration and just what the magnitudes are at a much more
local scale than we’ve ever been able to do.”
The hyper-local data is available for the first time this spring because
of recent advancements in machine learning and cloud computing,
Farnsworth said.
He hopes this tool gets more people excited about the biannual
migration, potentially encouraging more people to adopt bird-friendly
behaviors like turning off disorienting lights during peak migration.
Plus, he said, the tool can be used by scientists to dive deeper into
migration patterns over space and time, especially as those patterns
change with a warming climate.
“How are birds adapting to that? How do they evolve these patterns to
deal with climate change? And how can they keep up or not, with really
rapid changes?” Farnsworth said. “There’s some real fundamental
information there that’s good to understand for science.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30042022/warming-trends-tracking-bird-migration-in-the-night-sky-plus-the-olympic-mountains-rapidly-shrinking-glaciers-and-a-podcast-focused-on-floridas-polluted-environment/
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/[ Data for bird migrations ]/
*BirdCast*
About the dashboard
This dashboard provides summaries of radar-based measurements of
nocturnal bird migration for the contiguous United States, including
estimates for the total number of birds migrating as well as their
directions, speeds, and altitudes. Watch migration patterns in near real
time or see a summary for a whole night the next morning. Check back
often to find out how migration has changed across a night and season
and to learn which species of nocturnally migrating birds are likely
migrating through your region.
The live data feed runs from March 1 to June 15 during spring migration
and from August 1 to November 15 during fall migration.
https://dashboard.birdcast.info/
/[ it only took about 5 years ]/
*Historical Iraqi Lake Dries Up*
By Rain Jordan -- Apr 29, 2022
It would take a miracle to restore Lake Sawa to life in Iraq, one of the
five countries most susceptible to climate change.
Desertification in the area has been increased by overuse, human
activities, and climate change.
https://twitter.com/defis_eu/status/1518144002326945795/photo/1
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/50600/20220429/historical-iraqi-lake-dried-up-and-vanished-from-the-map.htm
/[climate agency is//self-efficacy//in engagement with the environment ] /
CPA Climate Crisis Digest - May 2022:
*What does healthy climate agency look like?*
Laurie Michaelis
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We may be able to control some things. Subjective agency is linked to
our freedoms to shape our lives into the future – to have a safe home,
warmth and food security, or to raise children. Experiencing agency
might also include being able to choose not to contribute to the crisis
– refraining from the use of fossil-fuel based products and services
including motorised transport, and adopting a local, plant-based diet
based on regenerative agriculture. Each of these choices involves other
people to some degree. They are only possible if we have the capacity to
live contrary to current social norms – which might depend on having
money, skills, knowledge, and supportive relationships...
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*The hard problem - influencing others*
We most often get stuck in our climate engagement when our agency needs
are focused on influencing or changing others. We might want them to
behave in particular ways, or we might want to do something ourselves
that requires their cooperation. But the attempt to influence can imply
an assertion of one person’s agency over another’s. The influencer might
be claiming superior knowledge or using emotional manipulation.
Campaigns for personal or collective action on climate change mostly
take one of these forms. Activism mostly works with the assumption that
certain people and institutions hold the power, and we need to influence
them to do things that they would not otherwise. It is easy to move from
that assumption to another: that those people and institutions have the
wrong information, values or motivations. And then to another: that they
are the wrong people to be in those positions. But changing the type of
people in positions of power generally involves conflict and pain, and
does not necessarily solve the original problem...
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*Relational disciplines for healthy agency*
There are many useful tools and practices. I find Nonviolent
Communication a helpful discipline for taking care not to make
assumptions about others’ intentions, for being clear about my own
needs, thoughts and feelings and inquiring into those of others.
Spiritual traditions bring much insight to the development of
intersubjectivity. From the Vedas, “thou art that”, and “Atman and
Brahman are one”; in Buber’s terms, this is about the I-and-thou
relationship; and in Quaker language it is about answering that of God
in the other. These insights relate closely to principles of
psychotherapy. If I am answering that of God in you, I will treat you
with love and respect (unconditional positive regard). I will endeavour
to understand your thoughts and be sensitive to your feelings. I will
also trust that your actions are right for you at this time. I will not
try to change you although I might support you in your intention to change.
Spiritual activism works with principles like these in seeking to
further the flourishing of all life. It understands that healthy agency
is not an expression of the individual, but of archetypal or
transpersonal power channelled by individuals and collectives. It
recognises that life on Earth is at stake and we live in a time of great
urgency, yet one of the greatest needs is for individuals to put our
egos aside, to be patient, to be non-attached to the outcomes of our own
actions. Indeed, we take action because it is the right thing to do,
regardless of its effects. And spiritual activism understands the need
of the activist for community – to have a shared space of deep
reflection, mutual examination, discernment and support, nurturing the
values and practices that enable us to be channels for agency.
https://mailchi.mp/climatepsychologyalliance/cpa-climate-crisis-digest-dec-8660038?e=0b0af05aa0
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/137nstFvJnmViyFfKYh3EC63Hu11Qk5nM/view
/[ A well-known risk is suddenly news to the NYTimes ] /
*Warmer Oceans Threaten Another California Forest, This One Underwater*
By David Helvarg - April 30, 2022
Mr. Helvarg is the executive director of Blue Frontier, an ocean
conservation group, and the co-host of “Rising Tide: The Ocean Podcast.”
RICHMOND, Calif. — The bull kelp forests off Northern California are
sometimes spoken of as the redwoods of the sea. And like the redwoods,
these forests are in danger. In less than a decade, these otherworldly
undersea landscapes, lush with life, have all but disappeared along 200
miles of coast north of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
The warming climate has set in motion this disaster and it is unclear
whether it can be reversed as greenhouse gas emissions continue to flood
the atmosphere. Energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose by 6
percent globally in 2021, the biggest increase ever, as the world began
bouncing back from pandemic. These kelp forests are yet another ocean
casualty of fossil-fueled climate disruption, along with habitats ruined
by coral bleaching, rising sea levels, warming ocean waters and the
pronounced loss of Arctic sea ice...
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But their future does not look good. Using satellite imagery, scientists
estimate that 95 percent of these bull kelp forests have vanished in
less than a decade. The collapse of these kelp forests — despite a few
local rebounds in 2020 and 2021 — has hurt the small coastal communities
that rely on fishing and tourism dollars and Indigenous traditions of
kelp and seaweed harvesting...
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“All these things are related to climate change,” Dr. Tissot told me,
“and they’re coming together in ways we never thought about, making it
very difficult to know what to do other than address climate change.”
Bull kelp is among the fastest-growing plants in the world, expanding up
to 10 inches a day and stretching 100 feet and more from the ocean
bottom to the surface of the sea. But even it can’t outpace our failure
to slow the warming of our planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/30/opinion/climate-change-california-kelp.html
/[ I//nnovation //for the pre-market - (the seed of a market) paying
for CO2 removal - new and voluntary //carbon dioxide removal (CDR) -
audio interview //] /
*Volts podcast: Nan Ransohoff on how (and why) Stripe is kick-starting
the carbon-removal market*
Nearly a billion dollars available to anyone who can take tons out of
circulation.
David Roberts
In 2019, the payments company Stripe announced that it would spend at
least $1 million a year on verified, permanent carbon dioxide removal
(CDR). The response was intense, not only from those working on CDR, but
from customers, organizations, and companies that wanted to follow suit.
There’s a lot of money and good will floating around these days that
isn’t quite sure how to have the biggest climate impact. Stripe had
assembled a group of experts to scrutinize CDR technologies and
companies. Why not just let Stripe invest the money?
Fast-forward a few years: Stripe has now unveiled a nearly
billion-dollar pot of CDR money ($925 million, to be exact). A new
Stripe-owned company called Frontier will pool money from Stripe,
partners like Alphabet, Meta, and Shopify, and thousands of Stripe
customers who donate a small portion of their transaction costs and make
it available to CDR contenders.
Frontier is offering what’s called an “advance market commitment,” a
guarantee that if companies can figure out ways to verifiably and
permanently draw down carbon, no matter the initial price, there will be
buyers. This enables companies to get financing and start deploying
projects...
Nan Ransohoff
@nanransohoff
Today, I’m excited to launch Frontier—an advance market
commitment (AMC) that will buy $925M+ of permanent carbon
removal by 2030. Build and we will buy:
frontierclimate.com
Stripe at stripe
Introducing Frontier—a $925M advance market commitment (AMC) to
accelerate carbon removal. https://t.co/DbXBC7AEVb It’s funded
by Stripe, @Google, @Shopify, @Meta, @McKinsey, and the
thousands of businesses using Stripe Climate.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-nan-ransohoff-on-how?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjgzNTA5LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1Mjg1OTQ3NywiXyI6IlpzaHhnIiwiaWF0IjoxNjUxMjUzNDY5LCJleHAiOjE2NTEyNTcwNjksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xOTMwMjQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.LlgKNbccAAdgdZTMo9hPzkC4nVNpmlYKbIyhjt0kDag&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&s=r#play
/[ Audio opinion -- //new book, The Intersectional Environmentalist --
56 mins ]/
*DISMANTLING WHITE SUPREMACY TO ADDRESS THE CLIMATE CRISIS*
April 29th, 2022
We know that the climate crisis doesn’t affect everyone equally. A
fundamental injustice of the climate crisis is that those who have
contributed to it least are being impacted the most. This inequality
will only be exacerbated as humanity continues to cause global
temperatures to rise.
Hop Hopkins, director of organizational transformation at The Sierra
Club, doesn’t mince words when discussing the roots of white supremacy
in the climate crisis:
“Climate change is caused by white supremacy… We’re in this global
mess because we have declared parts of our planet to be disposable,
right. And for such a long time that disposability and extraction
was happening in places that weren’t majority white that folks could
escape from. And so, the cumulative impact of that disregard for
those environments and those peoples meant that now the whole planet
is a wasteland so no one is going to escape the detrimental impacts
of climate change. And so, as we head deep into the climate crisis
what we need to understand is that there are those among us who
might promote fear and anger and who will seek to divide people
based on their identities. And a lot of suffering is gonna take
place in the US, as well as elsewhere. And when people suffer, they
often look to find someone to blame for that suffering. Usually
those are marginalized people based on their race or their
immigration status.”
In her new book, The Intersectional Environmentalist, Leah Thomas
presents a new model for working together to solve interconnected
crises, tracing the origins of the ecofeminism, environmental justice
and other movements to guide a new kind of work that centers the voices
and experiences of Black, Indigenous and people of color.
This is how Thomas defines intersectional environmentalism:
“I think intersectional environmentalism is more of a lens to think
about environmental issues and the goal is to be environmental
justice, land back, those sorts of things, etc. So, I would say
thinking about environmentalism through a lens of diversity and
inclusion will naturally kind of pivot you to understanding and
learning about movements like land back. Learning about the history
of the environmental justice movement. Because when you’re thinking
about the protection of both people and planet and the most
vulnerable people then it’ll naturally kind of guide you to those
sorts of other movements.”
When thinking about how she came to intersectional work, Thomas
reminisces, “I bought the environmentalist dream through and through. I
was a park ranger in the middle of Kansas and like, you know, I was a
conservation girl. So, I was frustrated at times because I made a lot of
great friends along the way and it made me question those friendships
because I would go to protest with them and the reason I mentioned
salmon so much is actually because I was one of the last environmental
protest I went to was a protest to save salmon. And I went with like
hundreds of coworkers and local activists that I knew and then when it
came to racial justice movements they weren’t there. Many of them were
not there. And when I would talk to them about it they would say, you
know, this is more of a racial issue; I’m an environmentalist. And for
years I kept hearing some sort of iteration of that, you know, I'm an
environmentalist, the people thing, the social thing, the human rights
thing, that's not really my thing. So, I think that was the frustration
of just it has to be your thing how can you care about the earth and not
the people on the earth? That sounds silly. So, I had a bit of a moment
and never stopped talking.”
https://www.climateone.org/audio/dismantling-white-supremacy-address-climate-crisis
/[ Ukraine/Russian war include misinformation explained in detail by the
BBC ]/
*War on Truth*
Radio 4
What's fake, what's real? Stories from the information war over Ukraine.
BBC disinformation reporter Marianna Spring speaks to people caught up
in the battle for the truth./
/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0btv73r/
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/[The news archive - looking back on a famous battle of misinformation ]/
/*May 1, 1998*/
May 1, 1998: The AP reports on a bogus petition allegedly claiming that
15,000 scientists reject the evidence of human-caused climate change.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?slug=2748308&date=19980501
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2XVILHUjQ
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