[✔️] November 9, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Wed Nov 9 08:43:46 EST 2022
/*November 9, 2022*/
/[ World Health gives specific numbers for Europe ] /
*Statement – Climate change is already killing us, but strong action now
can prevent more deaths*
Statement by WHO Regional Director for Europe Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge
7 November 2022
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Based on country data submitted so far, it is estimated that at least 15
000 people died specifically due to the heat in 2022. Among those,
nearly 4000 deaths in Spain, more than 1000 in Portugal, more than 3200
in the United Kingdom, and around 4500 deaths in Germany were reported
by health authorities during the 3 months of summer.
This estimate is expected to increase as more countries report on excess
deaths due to heat. For example, France's National Institute of
Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) reported that more than 11 000
more people died between 1 June and 22 August 2022 compared with the
same period in 2019 – the last year before the COVID-19 pandemic. INSEE
suggested that these figures were “likely to be explained by the
heatwave that occurred in mid-July, after an initial heatwave episode as
early as mid-June”.
Temperatures in Europe have warmed significantly over the 1961–2021
period, at an average rate of about 0.5 °C per decade. This is the
fastest-warming region, according to a report launched this week by the
World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Extreme temperatures accounted
for more than 148 000 lives lost in the European Region in the previous
50 years. In just 1 year since, we lost at least another 15 000 lives.
In 2021, high-impact weather and climate events led to hundreds of
fatalities and directly affected over half a million people. About 84%
of these events were floods or storms.
These impacts on health that people in our Region are experiencing now
with a 1.1 °C rise in global average temperature give just a glimpse of
what we can expect if the temperature rises 2° C and above compared to
preindustrial levels. This should sound the alarm for our future under a
changing climate.
https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/07-11-2022-statement---climate-change-is-already-killing-us--but-strong-action-now-can-prevent-more-deaths
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/[ NPR On Point talking about our climate future for 47 minutes - audio ]/
*Journalist David Wallace-Wells on climate change and climate hope*
NPR
November 8, 2022
When the U.N. Secretary General says this to the world —
“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the
accelerator.”
… It’s hard not to despair.
But journalist David Wallace-Wells says there’s reason for hope. He’s
been writing about climate for years. And he says, there’s progress.
“Five years ago, certainly ten years ago, most climate scientists
thought that we were heading for four or five degrees of warming,”
Wallace-Wells says.
“Now, most of them would say we’re heading for about two or three
degrees. So roughly half what we thought we were heading for.”
That doesn’t mean that carbon reduction efforts should stop. But
Wallace-Wells says focusing too much on climate doom is stopping us from
making critical, permanent changes.
“We have to start thinking about what it means to navigate a world that
is post normal, post safe, and yet sub-apocalyptic,” Wallace-Wells says.
Today, On Point: David Wallace-Wells on climate change and climate hope.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2022/11/08/climate-uninhabitable-earth-change-alarm-in-a-warming-world
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/[ Book by Wallace-Wells ]/
*The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming *
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a
comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending
Armageddon.”—Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon
With a new afterword
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global
warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely
scratching the surface of what terrors are possible—food shortages,
refugee emergencies, climate wars and economic devastation.
An “epoch-defining book” (The Guardian) and “this generation’s Silent
Spring” (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a
travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will
look to those living through it—the ways that warming promises to
transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the
modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of
human progress.
The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action. For just
as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the span of
a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a single
generation—today’s.
https://www.amazon.com/Uninhabitable-Earth-Life-After-Warming/dp/0525576711
/[ MeCCO Monthly Summary - Media and Climate Change Observatory ]/
Issue 70, October 2022
*"Increasingly ruling out fossil fuel projects "*
October media coverage of climate change or global warming in newspapers
around the globe dipped 5% from September 2022 and 37% from September
2021 levels. Meanwhile, coverage in international wire services
decreased 15%, as radio coverage rose 21% from September 2022. Compared
to the previous month, coverage decreased in the European Union (EU)
(-4%), Asia (-6%), , Oceania (-6%), the Middle East (-7%) and North
America (-11%). But, coverage was up from the previous month in Africa
(+14%), and Latin America (+19%). Figure 1 shows trends in newspaper
media coverage at the global scale – organized into seven geographical
regions around the world – from January 2004 through October 2022...
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At the country level, United States (US) print coverage decreased 18%
while television coverage also decreased 33% from the previous month.
Among other countries that we at the Media and Climate Change
Observatory (MeCCO) monitor, coverage increased in Spain (+6%), Canada
(+7%), India (+11%), Denmark (+13%), and Norway (+76%). However,
coverage in April 2022 decreased in Japan (-1%), Finland (-4%), New
Zealand (-5%), the United Kingdom (UK) (-5%), Australia (-7%), Germany
(-10%), Sweden (-12%), and Korea (-23%) (see Figure 2). You may note
that we have added four new sources in Korea – Chosun Ilbo, Dong-a Ilbo,
Maeil Business Newspaper, and Hankyoreh – thanks to the work of our two
new team members Dr. Kyungsun Lee and Dr. Kyotaek Hwang.
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We monitor 130 sources (across newspapers, radio and TV) in 59 countries
in seven different regions around the world. We assemble the data by
accessing archives through the Lexis Nexis, Proquest and Factiva
databases via the University of Colorado libraries. These sources are
selected through a decision processes involving weighting of three main
factors:
1. geographical diversity (favoring a greater geographical range)
2. circulation (favoring higher circulating publications)
3. reliable access to archives over time (favoring those accessible
consistently for longer periods of time)
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/icecaps/research/media_coverage/summaries/issue70.html
/[ Santer is one of the great climate scientists - the political attacks
on his work was ruthless - perhaps because it was so important and
impactful. ]/
*Ben Santer PhD, of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, interviewed in San
Francisco, December 2015. *
Ben Santer Interview Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2YqNGs89hQ
Ben Santer Interview Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_m691OUrh8
Wikipedia posting -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_D._Santer
/[ The young Ms Beckisphere climate summary report - video ]/
*Big Ag sign regenerative agriculture pledge, Peru indigenous people
hold tourists hostage | Recap*
Beckisphere Climate Corner
Souce list
https://heavenly-sceptre-002.notion.site/Climate-Recap-November-7-c0ce0f897b7541a2bb042c3259c3ef4a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3jwEvVJWr0
/[ 7 Basic principles for climate communications using visuals -
Beckwith video review 27 min ]/
*Powerful Climate Change Communication Using Visuals: What Works and
What Doesn’t Work*
Paul Beckwith
Nov 1, 2022
There has been a plethora of research on what works and what doesn’t
work in the communication of climate change both verbally and written.
A huge gap exists in research on the effectiveness of climate visuals.
Photographs (visuals) of climate change, emergencies, extreme weather,
droughts, floods, wildfires, etc. are actually very powerful for getting
messages across.
Basically, what works powerfully for effective climate communication
visuals are the following 7 core principles:
1) Show “real people” and not staged photo-ops - staged photographs are
seen as gimmicky or manipulative
2) Tell new stories -
Less familiar (and more thought-provoking) images can help tell a new
story about climate; Familiar, ‘classic’ images can prompt cynicism and
fatigue
3) Show climate causes at scale -
If communicating the links between ‘problematic’ behaviours and climate
change, it is best to show these behaviours at scale – e.g. a congested
highway, rather than a single driver
4) Climate impacts are emotionally powerful -
People are moved more by climate impacts – e.g. floods, and the
destruction wrought by extreme weather – than by ‘causes’ or ‘solutions’
5) Understand your audience -
Images of ‘distant’ climate impacts produced much flatter emotional
responses among those on the political right; images depicting
‘solutions’ to climate change generated mostly positive emotions – for
those on the political right, as well as those on the left
6) Show local (but serious) climate impacts -
There is a balance to be struck (as in verbal and written communication)
between localising climate change (so that people realise the issue is
relevant to them) and trivialising the issue (by not making clear enough
links to the bigger picture)
7) Be very careful with protest imagery -
Images depicting protests (or protesters) attracted widespread cynicism;
most people do not feel an affinity with climate change protesters, so
images of protests may reinforce the idea that climate change is for
‘them’ rather than ‘us’
The climate visuals (images) on the website https://climatevisuals.org
are absolutely stunning, and are based on the research into what
communication is most effective.
If you communicate climate change verbally, in writing, on social media,
in media, in blogs, in videos, in talks, or any other way then you will
be happy to know that many of the images (each coming with a detailed
description) are Creative Commons images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A4kWvj1BLM
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/[ //sites for climate visuals. //many open source, public domain ]/
*Welcome to Climate Visuals, a Climate Outreach project*
The world's only evidence-based and impact focused climate photography
resource
Ocean Visuals collection launches 26th October
93 evidence based photographs selected by an independent jury
Freely available to the media, non-profits, campaigners and educators
Increasing the diversity and impact of climate and visual communications
https://climatevisuals.org/ and https://climateoutreach.org/
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/[ classic research paper from 2016 ]/
Global Environmental Change
Volume 41, November 2016, Pages 172-182
*Climate visuals: A mixed methods investigation of public perceptions of
climate images in three countries*
Highlights
• Little extant climate change communication research examines the
impact of imagery.
• Perceived authenticity and credibility importantly influenced image
evaluations.
• Familiar climate images were easily understood but also attracted
cynicism.
• Images of ‘solutions’ produced positive affective responses and less
polarization.
• Images of ‘impacts’ produced greater intentions towards personal
behavioral change.
Abstract
Imagery plays a central role in climate change communication. But
whereas research on the verbal communication of climate change has
proliferated, far fewer studies have focused on visual
communication. Correspondingly, relatively little is known about how
to effectively engage the public using the visual medium. The
current research is the first mixed methods, cross-national
investigation of public perceptions of climate images, with a focus
on photographic climate change imagery. Four structured discussion
groups in the UK and Germany (N = 32) and an international survey
with an embedded experiment in the UK, Germany and the US (N = 3014)
were conducted to examine how different types of climate change
imagery were evaluated. The qualitative research pointed to the
importance of the perceived authenticity and credibility of the
human subjects in climate images, as well as widespread negativity
towards images depicting protests and demonstrations. Images of
climate ‘solutions’ produced positive emotional responses in the
survey and were less polarizing for climate change skeptics, but
they were also the least motivating of action. Familiar climate
images (such as a polar bear on melting ice) were easily understood
in the survey (and evaluated positively as a consequence) but viewed
with cynicism in discussion groups. We present a detailed discussion
of these and other key findings in this paper and describe a novel
application of the data through an online image library for
practitioners which accompanies the research (www.climatevisuals.org).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S095937801630351X
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/[ Society for Conservation Biology most modern research from 2022 ]/
*Testing the influence of visual framing on engagement and
pro-environmental action*
Gabby Salazar,Martha C. Monroe,Megan Ennes,Jennifer Amanda Jones,Diogo
Veríssimo
First published: 17 September 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12812
Abstract
Although images play a significant role in environmental
communications, few studies have empirically examined whether
positive or negative images are more effective at engaging attention
and promoting behavior change. We conducted a 6-week public
experiment at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville,
Florida, to test whether viewing a photography exhibit featuring
images of the impacts of marine plastic pollution on ocean
ecosystems (negative valence) or images of pristine ocean ecosystems
(positive valence) would increase engagement, monetary donations to
conservation, and pledges to help protect the ocean from plastic
pollution. We tracked 1179 adults while observing the negative
exhibit and 1304 adults while observing the positive exhibit. Of the
adults tracked, significantly more engaged with the negative exhibit
(270; 22.90%) than the positive exhibit (159; 12.19%). The mean
number of pledges per visitor for the negative exhibit was
significantly higher than for the positive exhibit. However, there
was not a significant difference in donations between the two
exhibits. These results suggest that environmental organizations
that seek to capture attention should consider using images that
show the negative impacts of human behavior on the environment.
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.12812
/[ a little drama - a video reading ]/
*The Creator Checks In On Planet Earth 2022 by Glen Merzer*
Healthy World Sedona
Oct 9, 2022
What would happen if the Creator came back to visit Earth today, and had
a few minutes to point out what we are doing wrong? Let's say she met
with the head statistician of the United Nations, a guy who knows
everything we are doing here on Earth. This is how the dialogue might go.
Kudos to Maria Walsh and David Jarvi , of the Healthy World Vitality
Plan (HWVitality.com) for their wonderful rendition of this play!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIEFhxPX9wA
/[ Journalist's Guide to Counter Disinformation ]/
*Best Practices for Dealing with Misinformation*
Assess whether to report or ignore misinformation.
Determining the impact and visibility of misinformation before
covering it is key. The 2020
Debunking Handbook contains a detailed flowchart on this topic,
while communications
strategist Sabrina Joy Stevens has developed a response framework
chart based on the spread
and impact of misinformation, as published in the 2022 Union of
Concerned Scientists video
“How to Counter Disinformation.”
https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Journalist-Field-Guide-3pager.pdf
/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*November 9, 2011*/
November 9, 2011: The Guardian reports:
"The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled power stations,
energy-guzzling factories and inefficient buildings in the next five
years that it will become impossible to hold global warming to safe
levels, and the last chance of combating dangerous climate change
will be 'lost for ever,' according to the most thorough analysis yet
of world energy infrastructure." [the IEA seems to have "lost" this
one too ]
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change
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