[✔️] May 29, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sun May 29 10:59:44 EDT 2022
/*May 29, 2022*/
/[ today is not supposed to resemble the year 2080 ]/
*Israeli study: Climate change already causing storm levels only
expected in 2080*
Weizmann Institute of Science examination of recent Southern Hemisphere
storms finds ‘considerable intensification’ that is heating poles and
threatening communities
By TOI STAFF - 27 May 2022
An Israeli study published on Thursday found that climate change is
already causing a “considerable intensification” of winter storms in the
Southern Hemisphere to a level not anticipated until 2080.
The study published by the Weizmann Institute of Science in the Nature
Climate Change journal is part of an effort by scientists around the
world to use 30 massive, intricate computer networks to better model and
predict climate change.
The study, which compared previous predictions of human-caused
intensification of winter storms in the Southern Hemisphere with current
storm observations, found that the “bleak” reality was far worse than
expected...
“It became clear that storm intensification over recent decades has
already reached levels projected to occur in the year 2080,” said a
statement from the institute.
The study, led by Dr. Rei Chemke of Weizmann’s Earth and Planetary
Sciences Department in collaboration with Dr. Yi Ming of Princeton
University and Dr. Janni Yuval of MIT, “shows that current climate
models severely underestimate the intensification in mid-latitude storm
tracks in recent decades,” the report said.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-study-climate-change-already-causing-storm-levels-only-expected-in-2080/
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/[ UCTV.TV video lecture 30 min. ( starts 1:37 in.) ]
/*CARTA: Sixth Mass Extinction, the Tree of Life, and the Future of
Humanity*
750 views May 28, 2022 We are losing species much more rapidly now
than in the last two million years! At that pace, we may lose a large
proportion of vertebrates, including mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians and fishes, in the next two to three decades. Modern
extinctions caused by human activities is higher that the normal or
natural extinction rate. This is important because it would let us
understand if we are causing a mass extinction. In the history of life
on Earth, there have been five mass extinctions – episodes where large
numbers of species became extinct in a short period of time. All mass
extinctions have been caused by natural catastrophes, such as the impact
of a meteorite. We are the only species that has the capability to save
all endangered animals. Paradoxically, saving them is the only way to
save humanity. [Show ID: 37904]
00:00 Start
01:37 Main Presentation/
/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4AwBYNzpns/
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/[ What? What did you say? Once again?? ]/
*Using comedy to combat climate change*
The Climate Comedy Cohort aims to help comedians infuse climate activism
into their creative work.
Grace van Deelen - - May 27, 2022
A car pulls up to a street corner, and a young, bearded man hops in the
passenger seat, only to come face to face with a weathered and bald
future version of himself.
The two have an offbeat, funny conversation that veers from their shared
dream of marrying Taylor Swift and the pronunciation of the word
“Worcestershire” to the power of hope in the face of climate change and
the benefits of electric vehicles.
No, it’s not a fever dream—it’s a sketch comedy video produced by
Esteban Gast, the comedian in residence for Generation180, a clean
energy nonprofit. Gast, along with Generation180 and the American
University-based Center for Media and Social Impact, has created a new
project to help comedians become climate ambassadors through their craft.
The project is a response to growing research and understanding about
how comedy, even about topics as serious as climate change, can be an
important avenue for activism.
Comedy meets science
This isn’t the first time comedy has been used as a tool to engage
people in climate conversations — last September, seven popular
late-night hosts dedicated one night of their shows, dubbed “Climate
Night,” to covering climate stories. The jokes ranged in accuracy and
effectiveness, highlighting the need for more, and more responsible,
climate comedy.
Toward that end, the Climate Comedy Cohort aims to put established
comedians into conversation with climate experts and scientists — the
“serious people,” said Caty Borum, executive director of the Center for
Media and Social Impact. In this first year, nine comedians will spend
six weeks in workshops and conversations with prominent voices in the
climate movement, such as Dyanna Jaye, co-founder of the Sunrise
Movement and Niklas Hagelberg, an environmental expert at the United
Nations.
Comedy can be a valuable tool for social change, said Gast and Borum.
Research has shown that the public is more likely to take action on an
issue if they feel like their actions can make a difference. Comedy can
do that by changing a typically gloomy narrative into a hopeful one,
helping the audience understand that solutions are possible. For
example, in Gast’s sketch, his older self assures him that, while the
future is different, humans found a way to live sustainably.
If comedians decide to talk about tangible solutions in their work, Gast
said, they can inform people about tangible ways society can move toward
a sustainable future. “We're not just going to talk about hope or
solutions because we're naive but because there actually are [solutions].”
Comedy is also a way to “sustain” social movements that might otherwise
become overwhelmed with anger or hopelessness, Lauren Feldman, a
professor of media studies at Rutgers University who studies the role of
comedy in social movements, told EHN. Additionally, she said, comedy can
be disarming, making divisive topics like climate change more accessible
to people who might not otherwise want to pay attention.
The purpose, said Gast, is not to turn comedians into activists, but to
help them make responsible and accessible creative work that includes
climate change as a topic. “They are not going to be ‘climate change
comedians,’” said Gast. “They're going to do their set. And if they do
an hour, maybe seven minutes or maybe one bit is [about climate change].”
*Comedy as a communication tool *
Another goal of the program is to instill curiosity in climate experts
to learn how to use comedy as an effective communication tool. “If
serious advocates in climate start to really take comedians seriously
and invite them into [climate activism], that can be really powerful
over time,” she said.
Comedians, said Gast, have an appetite for creating comedy about current
issues facing society. “The climate crisis is going to be more and more
and more relevant, right?” he said. At a certain point, comedian or not,
“we're all gonna have to talk about it.”
https://www.ehn.org/comedy-climate-change-2657397989/comedy-as-a-communication-tool
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/[ Here is the starter page ]/
*The Climate Comedy Cohort*
Laugh along with us
The cohort concludes with a live comedy show tour (with a celebrity
headliner) in select states this October. Stay tuned for updates about
the cohort and to find out when tickets are available for a show near
you by subscribing below.
The Climate Comedy Cohort is an unprecedented network of comedians who
are coming together to learn, create hilarious new comedy informed by
the hottest climate science, and take their work on the road in a series
of live shows and short-form video content.
Co-created and directed by Generation180 and the Center for Media &
Social Impact’s GoodLaugh initiative, the Climate Comedy Cohort brings
together diverse comedians from around the country to flip the script on
the way we think about climate change. The ultimate aim: to leverage
humor as a strategy to change the climate narrative from doom and gloom
to “we’ve got this!”—and shift how people see their role in clean energy.
https://generation180.org/climate-comedy-cohort/
/[ It doesn't make cool, instead moves heat around ]/
*Rethinking air conditioning amid climate change*
ACs and refrigerators help keep people safe — but they also further warm
the planet. Scientists are working on eco-friendlier solutions as global
demand for cooling grows.
UGET BOLAHKE, KNOWABLE MAGAZINE - 5/28/2022
It was a monumental day for the environmental movement more than 30
years ago when all 198 countries in the world agreed on something for
the first and only time ever. They signed on to the Montreal Protocol,
making a pact to phase out a roster of chemicals that damage the Earth’s
ozone layer. Chief among these were the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and
hydrochlorofluorocarbons used by the cooling and refrigeration industry.
Alternatives, such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), were quickly found.
But in recent years, scientists have come to realize that the Montreal
Protocol of 1987 might have traded an immediate problem for a long-term
one. Though HFCs don’t cause the same damage to the ozone layer as CFCs
do, the chemicals have warming potentials hundreds to thousands of times
higher than that of CO2 — making their growing global use a cause for
concern...
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*And how can scientists and researchers contribute more to solving
problems associated with this industry?*
There’s a lot that needs to be done from an industry and policy
perspective, but individual households and individual people may feel
like they can’t really do anything substantial. So I think trying to
find things that households can do to have an impact and feel like
they’re contributing to solving a problem is really important. Promoting
things like energy-efficient devices, thinking through things like
reducing household food waste as something that can reduce your
greenhouse gas footprint, can be really, hopefully, impactful.
*Is your team exploring more on this topic?*
The environmental impact of cooling services, I think, is a really
important topic and one that our group continues to explore. We are
really interested in the intersection of cooling services and avoidable
food waste. As the cold chain expands, particularly into places like
Africa that don’t have a very well-developed cold chain, what are the
environmental impacts of increasing the cold chain presence?
On the one hand, you have the ability to extend the shelf life of foods
and increase food security. But on the other hand, you’re increasing
overall energy use in the food system. Are there ways that we can bring
the benefits of the cold chain to developing countries without the
environmental impact? That’s the major question that my research group
is trying to tackle
https://knowablemagazine.org/article/food-environment/2022/rethinking-air-conditioning-amid-climate-change
/[ look out for more snakes on the land ]/
*Thermal ecology and baseline energetic requirements of a large-bodied
ectotherm suggest resilience to climate change*
First published: 07 May 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7649
*Abstract*
1. Most studies on how rising temperatures will impact terrestrial
ectotherms have focused on single populations or multiple sympatric
species. Addressing the thermal and energetic implications of
climatic variation on multiple allopatric populations of a species
will help us better understand how a species may be impacted by
altered climates.
2. We used eight years of thermal and behavioral data collected from
four populations of Pacific rattlesnakes (Crotalus oreganus) living
in climatically distinct habitat types (inland and coastal) to
determine the field-active and laboratory-preferred body
temperatures, thermoregulatory metrics, and maintenance energetic
requirements of snakes from each population.
3. Physical models showed that thermal quality was best at coastal
sites, but inland snakes thermoregulated more accurately despite
being in more thermally constrained environments. Projected
increases of 1 and 2°C in ambient temperature result in an increase
in overall thermal quality at both coastal and inland sites.
4. Population differences in modeled standard metabolic rate
estimates were driven by body size and not field-active body
temperature, with inland snakes requiring 1.6× more food annually
than coastal snakes.
5. All snakes thermoregulated with high accuracy, suggesting that
small increases in ambient temperature are unlikely to impact the
maintenance energetic requirements of individual snakes and that
some species of large-bodied reptiles may be robust to modest
thermal perturbations under conservative climate change predictions.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.7649
/[ Beckwith explaining global warming weather systems ]/
*HEAT WAVES, A Deadly Threat*
May 26, 2022
#HeatWaves are a clear and present danger. Temperatures over 100 F can
last for days, as they have this year in #India and Pakistan, where the
hot weather came early. People who must work outdoors, without access
to AC, are dying. The heat island effect in cities is worsened by air
conditioners, available to only 10% of the population. Even these are
unreliable as transformers can explode in extreme heat.
This heat can strike anywhere in the world, as it did in Europe in 2003,
when 72,000 people died, and in Russia in 2010 when 56,000 perished.
#PaulBeckwith explains the causes of heat domes, and the danger of wet
bulb events, when humidity combines with heat. As the chances of
extreme heat increase, Paul and Dale suggest some measures we can take
to increase survivability - white roofs, more trees, refuge centers,
keeping water at hand.
#ClimateChange is not coming. It is upon us. Business as usual is
taking us to an unlivable planet. The window of opportunity to preserve
life is closing fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAXryobEJXo
/[ Peter Sinclair ]/
*THINC Interview: Jeff Masters PhD on Drought, Heat and Human Survival*
May 27, 2022 Dr. Jeff Masters on current world drought and food
conditions, and India's deadly heat wave.
greenmanbucket
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULPUjmQP8CQ
[ German documentary ]
*Floods, drought and the consequences of extreme weather | DW Documentary*
May 27, 2022 Long periods of sunny weather; a few heavy rain showers.
That’s all fine...or is it? With increasing frequency, summer days are
turning into long periods of drought, while rainfall is causing
catastrophic flooding.
Whereas weather systems were relatively moderate and predictable in
recent centuries, now they appear to have been thrown off balance.
What’s heading our way - and what can we do to protect ourselves?
29 May 2016 is a day Frank Harsch will never forget. The mayor was in
his office at the town hall in Braunsbach near Schwäbisch Hall in
southern Germany. The rain was coming down in buckets. Suddenly he felt
the building vibrate. When he looked out of the window, he saw a wave of
brown water crashing past, carrying cars and debris along with it.
A storm and a few hours of heavy rain was all it took to transform a
village stream into a devastating monster wave. Suddenly, Braunsbach was
a disaster zone. It’s a situation that’s becoming all too familiar. The
opposite scenario is equally common, of late: heatwaves and droughts
that last several months. Despite the many flood catastrophes of summer
2021, in many regions it’s simply too dry.
In other areas of Germany, trees are dying because moisture isn’t
penetrating deep enough into the ground to reach the roots. Rainfall has
decreased to such an extent in recent years that forestry workers have
been forced to come up with new ways to direct water to where it’s most
needed.
In the film, weather experts and climate researchers predict what the
future may have in store for us. Their forecasts may be bleak, but there
are solutions and initiatives in place to at least try and mitigate the
effects of extreme weather events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvf_OyjLURM
/[The news archive - looking back at interesting, tragic or just stupid
events ]/
/*May 29, 2008*/
The New York Times reports:
"ExxonMobil’s chairman and chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson,
defeated a shareholder effort on Wednesday to take away one of his
jobs at an annual meeting punctuated by a debate of the company’s
policy toward renewable energy and global warming."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/business/29exxon.html?_r=1&
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