[✔️] November 3, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*November 3, 2022*/

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/[ for enjoyment and edification - the peak fall colors in this report 
from Maine - video https://vimeo.com/765840736 ]
/*How climate change is impacting Maine’s iconic fall foliage*
Maine Public | By Esta Pratt-Kielley
Published November 2, 2022
It’s a beautiful early October day at Pigeon Hill Preserve in Steuben as 
a group gets ready for a fall foliage hike organized by the Downeast 
Coastal Conservancy. Despite the Maine foliage report saying we’re not 
quite at peak, the colors are looking pretty spectacular.

    Check out “How climate change is impacting Maine’s iconic fall
    foliage” from Maine Public Video Production on Vimeo.

    The video is available for your viewing pleasure at
    https://vimeo.com/765840736

    If you like this video, make sure you share it, too!

“I think it’s like just about peak. Not quite there, not fully … but 
we’re starting to lose a couple leaves, so pretty good,” said Cathy 
Lookabaugh, the Membership & Outreach Director for the Downeast Coastal 
Conservancy.

Today’s hike is a group of locals who’ve come to leaf peep, like Barbara 
Snapp, who has been hiking Pigeon Hill for decades...
Snapp said she has noticed how the changes in weather impact the peak 
color timing from year to year.

“From what I can tell, it depends how much rain we get in the late 
summer and into September, and what the temperatures are," she said. "If 
it’s warm later, then it’s going to extend later.”

Her observations are pretty spot on, according to Maine forest 
pathologist Aaron Bergdahl.

“The recipe for really nice fall foliage is periodic rains throughout 
the summer, no drought periods. And a warm, wet spring followed by good 
growing conditions throughout the entire summer,” Bergdahl said, “cooler 
temperatures in the fall with adequate moisture. And that's really been 
the issue for these last three years; we haven't had really excellent 
moisture conditions consistently throughout the summer.”

Summer drought and warmer temperatures lasting well into the fall in 
Maine have caused unpredicatability in the leaf peeping season. Warmer 
temperatures have delayed the onset of fall in Maine, pushing the color 
peak later.
Other factors are also stressing Eastern forests. More intense storms, 
rainfall and invasive species harm trees and their leaves, and may 
already be reducing the vibrancy of fall colors and shortening the season.

Scientists refer to fall as the most understudied season in climate 
change research. There are still a lot of unknowns. Yet, understanding 
the effects of climate change on fall phenology are critical for regions 
like Down East Maine, where fall tourism is a billion-dollar industry.

“Fall foliage is important to the state of Maine, it makes up between 
20% and 25% of the annual visitation to the state,” said Steve Lyons, 
the director of the Maine Office of Tourism. He said if the season is 
more unpredictable, that can be a challenge. But there are also 
opportunities in encouraging people to visit Maine later in the fall 
instead of congregating in the summertime.

About 50 miles south of Pigeon Hill, there are thousands of leaf peepers 
at Acadia National Park, hoping they timed their trips just right to see 
the iconic fall colors paint the coastal landscape...
Environmental scientist Stephanie Spera is surveying people outside the 
visitor center in Acadia. Since 2019, she has been researching how 
changes in temperature and precipitation have affected the timing of 
peak fall foliage in the park, and if those changes impact fall visitorship.

Using satellite data, GIS, spatial statistics, climate models and a 
historical analysis of old monthly reports and newspaper clippings, 
Spera has found evidence of the shift.

“The timing of peak fall foliage has actually gotten about 10 days later 
than it was in the 1950s. It's getting about a day later (per) decade. A 
little over a day a decade,” Spera said. “In the early 1950s, you’d come 
to Acadia the first weekend in October … that'd be your peak fall 
foliage. Now, it's about right now, which is the second weekend of 
October even later.”

More visitors are coming to Acadia in the fall and staying later in the 
season, which affects park management and staffing of local businesses.

These changes are difficult to see during a single leaf peeping trip or 
outing. But for those who value the annual ritual of admiring fall 
leaves, the season is becoming more unpredictable

“I came up to Maine every fall for last 20 years on this weekend. The 
trees are beautiful, I want to conserve that place. I want to preserve 
the people in the places, and the experiences that I love. So my kids, 
my grandkids can have them. And I think that's why it should matter,” 
Spera said.

Lookabaugh said that’s why Downeast Coastal Conservancy organizes these 
hikes in Washington County.

“By introducing people to these landscapes, and these places, they'll 
maybe want to invest in them, become future stewards. And as stewards of 
the land, we can help mitigate climate change by conserving big pieces 
of land,” Lookabaugh said.

For Snapp, that connection to the landscape over times resonates in her 
family, who have owned a home at the bottom of Pigeon Hill for more than 
100 years.

"It’s a tradition to come up here," she said. "It’s ours to make sure it 
stays accessible and in good shape and enjoyable for people."

Scientists and conservationists want Down East visitors to share that 
sense of stewardship, because the shifting leaves are a visible sign 
that change is already here.
https://www.mainepublic.org/environment-and-outdoors/2022-11-02/watch-how-climate-change-is-impacting-down-east-maines-iconic-fall-foliage



/[ new coal financing is deceptive and //hard-to-understand //] /
Nov 2
*Coal plants are still getting financed, despite pledges otherwise*
David Roberts
Here at Volts, I have done fairly extensive coverage of the US coal 
industry and its woes. Most listeners probably know the basic story: in 
the US, coal is on the way out, initially because of cheap natural gas 
but now because of the whole suite of inexpensive clean power technologies.

But the global coal fleet is a different matter. Coal is still growing 
across Asia, still getting funded, despite all the headlines from the 
last five years about countries and institutions getting out of the 
business of coal financing.

It's a bit of a paradox: it's difficult to find a major financial 
institution or government that is willing to be openly associated with 
coal, but somehow coal plants are still getting financed.

How is that? Well, it turns out that it has to do with some fairly fine 
distinctions among different kinds of financing and how they are 
tracked. A new report from Global Energy Monitor — “Opacity and 
Accountability: the Hidden Financial Pipelines Supporting New Coal“ — 
digs into this question.
Ted Nace & Paddy McCully
To explore the subject, I got in touch with Ted Nace, executive director 
of Global Energy Monitor, and Paddy McCully, executive director of 
Reclaim Finance. We talked about where the money to build coal plants is 
coming from, which sources are and aren't being cut off, and the next 
steps for anti-coal activism.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/coal-plants-are-still-getting-financed#details



/[ "it's corruption of the political process" - 1 hour video discussion  ]/
*Why Scientists Are Protesting | Charlie Gardner*
Planet: Critical
Charlie Gardner is a conservationist, activist and writer. An outspoken 
member of Scientist Rebellion, Charlie left academia last year to focus 
on raising the climate alarm through civil disobedience and science 
communication.

Charlie joins me to discuss why scientists feel forced to choose 
activism. After decades of ignored data, warnings and suggestions, these 
same scientists who have been fighting to understand the crisis are 
taking to the streets to be heard.

We discuss ecological systems, energy policy, corrupt politics, media, 
Extinction Rebellion, how to engage the public and how people can get 
involved in the face of disastrous inaction. Just this week, a new 
report on the state of climate action looked at 40 indicators of change 
and found not a single one is on track to keep the world from heating to 
the level at which world leaders promised to try to stop global warming.

  Scientist Rebellion: https://scientistrebellion.com/
  Charlie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CharlieJGardner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G5SvRe0eYw



/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*November 3, 2012*/
November 3, 2012:
   In a CNN.com article, writer Carl Safina notes that were it not for 
Superstorm Sandy, climate change would have remained outside of the 
political conversation in the final two months of the 2012 presidential 
election.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/03/opinion/safina-sandy-said-the-words/?c=&page=0


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