[✔️] May 8, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sun May 8 10:58:22 EDT 2022
/*May 8, 2022*/
/[ hot, dry, fuel means wildfires ]/
*Critical fire weather for parts of the Southwest and Southern High
Plains this weekend*
Bill Gabbert -- May 7, 2022
Critical fire weather for parts of the Southwest and Southern High
Plains this weekend
Red Flag Warnings issued for parts of seven states
https://wildfiretoday.com/2022/05/07/critical-fire-weather-for-parts-of-the-southwest-and-southern-high-plains-this-weekend/
/[ When in Boston, visit the Museum of Science - or visit the web site ]/
*Change Climate Change*
A new way to think about climate action.
With the Museum of Science as your guide, gain insight into the ways
climate change is affecting us. Feel confident taking action and making
a difference as we adapt to a changing landscape.
*Get Informed*
Cutting-edge exhibits like Arctic Adventure and Resilient Venice,
giant-screen film Ancient Caves, and more highlight how climate change
affects both people and the natural world around us. Learn how we can be
a part of the solution to adapt to, and lessen the effects of, a
changing climate.
https://www.mos.org/climate-change
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/[ This is a classic -- a really good talk -- basic predicament nicely
explained by Jennifer Francis - 2019 video ]/
*Rough Weather Ahead with Dr. Jennifer Francis*
Rough Weather Ahead with Dr. Jennifer Francis
Aug 22, 2019
Woodwell Climate Research Center
WHRC presents Rough Weather Ahead: How Climate Change is Making Our
Weather More Extreme with Dr. Jennifer Francis.
It’s only August and already 2019 has delivered a rash of extreme
weather events around the globe. In the United States we’ve seen record
snows in many western states, record flooding in the Midwest, record
heatwaves in Alaska and the East, record rainfall along the Mississippi
Valley, and even tornadoes on Cape Cod. Can we point a finger at climate
change? And in particular, what does the melting Arctic have to do with it?
Dr. Jennifer Francis is world-renowned for her research on Arctic
climate change impacts and the resulting effect on weather in other
regions of the world. Dr. Francis’ research has focused specifically on
the connection between the rapidly warming Arctic and a weakened jet
stream. She is regularly quoted in major media outlets, including The
New York Times and The Washington Post, and in 2019, she testified to
the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee on climate change
and its connection to extreme weather. Dr. Francis received her Ph.D. in
Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington and her
undergraduate degree from San Jose State.
https://youtu.be/QmGK6TpiwIA
/[ Effective politics can only be local -- Peter Sinclair video clip 2
mins ]/
*Bill Drews, Pine Township Supervisor, Montcalm County Michigan, 04/07/2022*
May 7, 2022
greenmanbucket
Across America, local officials are under attack wherever clean energy
siting is being considered.
That disinformation attack is directed and coordinated thru social media
from a handful of media savvy, fossil fuel funded "think tanks"
operating in places like New York and Washington DC. Some of it is even
enhanced by bots and operatives on the other side of the world, whose
only goal is to create dissension and chaos anywhere they can in America.
Bill Drews, Supervisor of Pine Township, in Montcalm County, Michigan,
is trying to navigate a fair path to deploy clean energy, respecting
both the rights of farmers who wish to diversify their income, and valid
safety concerns from local residents. Too often the discussions are
distorted by ginned up non-issues from citizens who have been
misdirected by falsehoods.
Most often, climate issues are not considered in these procedures, as
many local residents do not see climate as an issue of importance, and
many still believe it is a political hoax.
In the course of his due diligence, Mr Drews reached out to an eminent
climate scientist for clarity on the importance of carbon free energy.
In my life, I've had the privilege to observe quiet courage up close.
This is what it looks like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzM9BWVaaW0
/[ Alaskans like to gamble on the Nenana Ice Classic 2022 Winning Time:
//May 2nd 2022, 6:47 PM AST ] /
*Nenana Ice Classic **An Alaskan Tradition Since 1917*
Nenana Ice Classic 2022 Winning Time: May 2nd 2022, 6:47 PM AST
The river usually freezes over during the months of Oct. and
Nov. The ice continues to get thicker throughout the winter
with the average thickness being 42” on April 1. Depending
on the temperature, snow cover, wind, etc., the ice may freeze
slightly more and then start to melt. The ice melts on the
top due to the weather and on the bottom due to the water flow.
https://www.nenanaakiceclassic.com/
/[ That's wild birds ] /
*Climate change: Spring egg-laying shifts by three weeks*
By Victoria Gill
BBC News
May 5, 2022
"In some parts of this wood, egg-laying has shifted by three weeks,"
explains Dr Ella Cole of Oxford University.
The softly-spoken, seasoned ornithologist is showing me around a very
special field site - Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire; one of the most
studied woodlands in the world.
This year is the 75th anniversary of a study that has tracked 40
generations of great tits in the wood.
It is one of the longest-running animal-tracking studies in the world.
It is precisely because this is a decades-long study that has followed
every nestling - marking and counting the birds, recording the exact
date that females lay their eggs and the date those eggs hatch - that
the data has revealed this trend in the timing of critical seasonal
behaviour.
"The tits here are actually managing to track the other members of their
food chain," explains Dr Cole. "So, that's the peak in the number of the
caterpillars they feed on and in the timing of the oak trees [that the
caterpillars] feed on.
A 75-year study in numbers:
-- 700-800 - the number of nest boxes checked every year
-- 10,000 - the number of caterpillars that adults feed to an
average clutch of great tit nestlings in the two weeks between
hatching and fledging
-- 350 - the number of scientific papers produced from the Wytham
great tit project.
But the longest-running of the Wytham Woods experiments is the great tit
project.
These birds are relatively short-lived - with an average life span of
just under two years - so 75 years of research has tracked 40
generations. "The human equivalent of that would be studying a family
tree back to the 10th Century," Dr Cole explains.
She and her colleagues have special permission to access the nest boxes,
to mark each nestling and to ring every bird before it fledges.
The detail and longevity of the study has produced some remarkable insights.
One evolutionary study back in 2017 that compared Wytham's great tits
with a population in the Netherlands revealed that UK great tits had
evolved longer beaks, which appear to allow them to use bird feeders
more efficiently.
"In this country we spend more than twice as much on bird food than the
rest of Europe put together, so in some ways it's easy to see how we
might be causing evolutionary change," says Dr Cole.
Our changing climate has put a renewed focus on the evidence this
project has provided about how the natural world is responding -
allowing scientists to put all of the aspects of how a population of
wild birds works in the context of climate change.
"We can ask how productivity and survival change over time, as well as
behaviours like dispersal and migration," says Prof Ben Sheldon from
Oxford University, who currently leads the great tit project.
"We're also able to ask how extreme climatic events - increasingly seen
as a risk of climate change - affect the population because the length
of the study gives us more chance to observe these."
The study shows no sign of slowing down - a small group of researchers
has the task of checking about 800 occupied nest boxes every spring. And
each year, the timing of their busiest season becomes a little more
unpredictable.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61314226
/[ surviving stupidity - advice from a disasterologist... 17 min video ]/
*How to Live in an Age of Disaster | Amanpour and Company*
Apr 27, 2022
Amanpour and Company
Juliette Kayyem, former assistant secretary for homeland security, is
one of today's foremost thinkers on disaster management. Her latest book
is a guide on what to do when things go wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX4gArycs2k
/[ So you want to try a Diesel car? - Sabine Hossenfelder video ] /
*How bad is Diesel?*
May 7, 2022
Sabine Hossenfelder
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In recent years we’ve seen a lot of bad headlines about diesel. Why do
diesel engines have such a bad reputation? How much does diesel exhaust
affect our health really? And what’s the car industry doing about it? In
this video we go through the numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apbS205t53w
/[ So you want to build a solar energy farm? -- one minute video tip ]
/*Peter Schubert PhD on Building Solar Farms (and taking them out)*
May 6, 2022
greenmanbucket
I interviewed Dr Peter Schubert, a Professor of electrical and computer
engineering and the Director of the Richard G. Lugar Center for
Renewable Energy (LCRE) at Indiana University-Purdue University
Indianapolis (IUPUI)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lic1pQQIcSM
/[ visit Venice and see the great art ]/
*At the 2015 Biennale we gave six reasons why Venice was doomed. Guess
what: it still is*
From the impact of the global sea level rise to Unesco’s abandonment of
the city, the situation is looking bleak. Has anything changed for the
better in the past seven years?
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/11/at-the-2015-biennale-we-gave-six-reasons-why-venice-was-doomed-guess-what-it-still-is//
/[ The news archive - looking back at significant events ]/
/*May 8, 1989*/
May 8, 1989: The New York Times reports that the Office of Management
and Budget in the George H. W. Bush administration altered NASA climate
scientist James Hansen's upcoming Senate testimony to emphasize alleged
uncertainties in climate science.
*Scientist Says Budget Office Altered His Testimony*
By Philip Shabecoff, Special To the New York Times
May 8, 1989
The White House's Office of Management and Budget has changed the
text of testimony scheduled to be delivered to Congress by a top
Government scientist, over his protests, making his conclusions
about the effects of global warming seem less serious and certain
than he intended.
The testimony had been prepared by Dr. James E. Hansen, director of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard
Institute for Space Studies, for delivery Monday before the Senate
Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, Congressional sources
said. Dr. Hansen confirmed that the testimony had been changed.
In his original testimony, he said that computer projections of
climatic changes caused by carbon dioxide and other gases released
into the atmosphere would cause substantial temperature increases,
drought, severe storms and other stresses that will affect the
earth's biological systems.
The text of his testimony was edited by the budget office to soften
the conclusions and make the prospects of change in climate appear
more uncertain, Dr. Hansen said in an interview.
The budget office and other officials in the White House have been
urging a go-slow approach to policies dealing with global warming,
called the greenhouse effect by scientists. Those officials have
opposed the State Department and Environmental Protection Agency,
which have been urging President Bush to take the lead in mobilizing
the international community to meet the threat of rapid climate
change. The Administration is deeply split over whether to endorse
an international treaty that would require action to deal with
global warming, high-ranking executive branch officials said.
Senator Albert Gore, Democrat of Tennessee and chairman of the
subcommittee, who had been told by Dr. Hansen of the alterations in
the testimony, said that White House officials were attempting to
change science to make it conform to their policy rather than base
policy on accurate scientific data.
''They are scared of the truth,'' Mr. Gore said. He charged that the
testimony was censored to support those in the Office of Management
and Budget and other parts of the Administration who are seeking to
keep the United States from proposing an international treaty to
ameliorate the now widely anticipated global warming trend.
Mr. Gore said that at a future hearing ''I intend to ask O.M.B.
officials who have substituted their scientific judgments for those
of atmospheric scientists to come in and testify about the basis for
their conclusions. I want to determinte their qualifications, the
climate models they have used, the amount of study they have given
to the subject and the evidence that they found most persuasive. And
I intend to pursue this at great length.'' Budget Office Review Is
Routine
A spokeswoman for the budget office reached Saturday said that she
made repeated attempts to seek an explanation but that no one from
the office was available to respond to questions about the changed
testimony. She also said that the only press official who will agree
to have her name used in connection with budget office statements is
Barbara Clay, who was among those not available.
The Office of Management and Budget routinely reviews testimony to
be presented to Congressional committees by officials to make sure
that Federal policy conforms to the President's budget.
The United States heads an international panel assigned the task of
preparing a policy response to the global warming trend. The panel
is scheduled to make recommendations at a meeting sponsored by the
United Nations in Geneva this week.
Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d and Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator William K. Reilly are said to be urging that
the United States take the lead on a convention to meet the threat
of global warming. But officials in the White House, including the
Office of Management and Budget, as well as in the Department of
Energy, are urging a wait-and-see approach, saying the scientific
information and data on economic effects of a remedial action are
inadequate.
Dr. Hansen's testimony, before it was changed, would have given
strong support to the position that while there are still many
uncertainities, enough is known now about the general and even
regional effects of the global warming trend to start acting now to
mitigate and prepare for those effects. Dr. Hansen concluded, for
example, ''We believe it is very unlikely that this overall
conclusion - drought intensification at most middle- and
low-latitude land ares, if greenhouse gases increase rapidly - will
be modified by improved models.''
At the end of the section of his testimony dealing with regional
effects of global warming, however, the Office of Management and
Budget, over Dr. Hansen's objections, added this paragraph: ''Again,
I must stress that the rate and magnitude of drought, storm, and
temperature change are very sensitive to the many physical processes
mentioned above, some of which are poorly represented in the
G.C.M.'s [ general climate models ] . Thus, these changes should be
viewed as estimates from evolving computer models and not as
reliable predictions.'' Scientists Criticizes Change
Dr. Hansen said in an interview that the additional paragraph served
to ''negate'' the entire point of that part of his testimony, which
was that scientific understanding has now reached the stage where
''we can begin to draw significant conclusions about droughts,
storm, temperature - conclusions which are unlikely to change as the
models and observational data become more detailed.''
Another change required the testimony to say that the relative
contribution of human and natural processes to changing climate
patterns ''remains scientifically unknown.'' In fact, Dr. Hansen
said, he and his colleagues at NASA who helped prepare the testimony
''are confident that greenhouse gases are primarily'' of human origin.
The Office of Management and Budget routinely reviews testimony to
be presented to Congressional committees by officials to make sure
that Federal policy conforms to the President's budget.
The United States heads an international panel assigned the task of
preparing a policy response to the global warming trend. The panel
is scheduled to make recommendations at a meeting sponsored by the
United Nations in Geneva this week.
Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d and Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator William K. Reilly are said to be urging that
the United States take the lead on a convention to meet the threat
of global warming. But officials in the White House, including the
Office of Management and Budget, as well as in the Department of
Energy, are urging a wait-and-see approach, saying the scientific
information and data on economic effects of a remedial action are
inadequate.
Dr. Hansen's testimony, before it was changed, would have given
strong support to the position that while there are still many
uncertainities, enough is known now about the general and even
regional effects of the global warming trend to start acting now to
mitigate and prepare for those effects. Dr. Hansen concluded, for
example, ''We believe it is very unlikely that this overall
conclusion - drought intensification at most middle- and
low-latitude land ares, if greenhouse gases increase rapidly - will
be modified by improved models.''
At the end of the section of his testimony dealing with regional
effects of global warming, however, the Office of Management and
Budget, over Dr. Hansen's objections, added this paragraph: ''Again,
I must stress that the rate and magnitude of drought, storm, and
temperature change are very sensitive to the many physical processes
mentioned above, some of which are poorly represented in the
G.C.M.'s [ general climate models ] . Thus, these changes should be
viewed as estimates from evolving computer models and not as
reliable predictions.'' Scientists Criticizes Change
Dr. Hansen said in an interview that the additional paragraph served
to ''negate'' the entire point of that part of his testimony, which
was that scientific understanding has now reached the stage where
''we can begin to draw significant conclusions about droughts,
storm, temperature - conclusions which are unlikely to change as the
models and observational data become more detailed.''
Another change required the testimony to say that the relative
contribution of human and natural processes to changing climate
patterns ''remains scientifically unknown.'' In fact, Dr. Hansen
said, he and his colleagues at NASA who helped prepare the testimony
''are confident that greenhouse gases are primarily'' of human origin.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/08/us/scientist-says-budget-office-altered-his-testimony.html
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