[✔️] November 24, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

Thu Nov 24 11:05:35 EST 2022

/*November 24, 2022*/

/[ we prefer trusted news organizations -- not propaganda attacks - NPR ]/
*Climate change is making the weather more severe. Why don't most 
forecasts mention it?*
November 23, 2022
Rebecca Hersher at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C...
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The day before the storm made landfall in Florida, the acting director 
of the hurricane center, Jamie Rhome, appeared on CNN and was asked how 
climate change might be affecting the storm's intensification. He 
responded, "We can come back and talk about climate change at a later 
time. I want to focus on the here and now."

Pressed by CNN's Don Lemon, Rhome responded, "I don't think you can link 
climate change to any one event. On the whole, on the cumulative, 
climate change may be making storms worse. But to link it to any one 
event, I would caution against that."
"That statement was wrong," says Wehner. "It is entirely appropriate for 
me to say climate change made this event more intense."

Indeed, a preliminary analysis by Wehner and other climate scientists in 
the days after Ian made landfall estimated that climate change caused 
the storm to drop at least 10% more rain than it would have without 
global warming.

Asked about Rhome's comments, Rick Spinrad, administrator of NOAA , 
which oversees the National Hurricane Center, said it is clear that 
climate change is affecting hurricanes and tropical storms.

"You look at what happened with Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Ian," he 
said in a recent interview with NPR, about two months after Hurricane 
Ian. "These storms are dumping feet of rain. We've not tended to see 
that before. So when you talk about attribution, I think it's 
unequivocal that we can attribute to climate change the changes in the 
dynamics of these storms."
But, Spinrad says, the research "isn't robust enough yet" for weather 
forecasters to say exactly how much worse a given weather disaster will 
be, in real-time. Nor should that necessarily be the primary goal. 
Instead, he says his agency is focused on giving people information 
about what to expect in the future. For example, as heat waves get more 
intense, NOAA hopes to use extreme-event attribution science to beef up 
its ability to warn people.

*How we communicate about climate change affects public support for 
climate policies...*
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https://www.npr.org/2022/11/23/1136809782/climate-change-is-making-the-weather-more-severe-why-dont-most-forecasts-mention

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/[ Note how Australian weather forecasters freely use climate change 
references  ]/
*Summer 2022-2023 Climate and water long-range forecast, issued 24 
November 2022*
Bureau of Meteorology
549 views  Nov 23, 2022
The Bureau's long-range forecast video provides a look at likely 
rainfall, streamflow, and temperature for the months ahead. See 
http://ow.ly/BEey50K5Tvq for more detail.

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/[  weather forecaster explains down-under weather to Aussie audience]/
*What is causing all this rain and when will it end? | VideoLab | ABC News*
ABC News In-depth
106K views  1 month ago
This year has been the wettest year on record for Sydney. The rainfall 
surpassed 2.2m in October, and it still has a wet summer ahead. So what 
is causing all this rain and will that mean more floods are to come? 
Meteorologist Tom Saunders explains.  Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06KdEydouaY

/[  Lies -- report from the disinformation battleground YouTube video 9 
mins ]/
*Climate Change: They Lied*
Climate Adam
5,983 views  Sep 30, 2022
We've been warned about climate change for many decades. So what's been 
stopping us from acting?! Well, in part, the lies of fossil fuel 
companies. These lies have taken many shapes: doubt; denial; delay and 
greenwashing. Now, three bodies of evidence show the shady reality of 
climate change misinformation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7pzM4e0ljM

/[  video interview about climate migration  -- 42 mins ]/
*‘We haven’t faced anything like climate change before’ - Gaia Vince*
Channel 4 News
7,471 views  Sep 29, 2022
Gaia Vince is a science and environment journalist and author who has 
written extensively about the impact of human activity on our planet and 
climate.
In this episode, she joins Krishnan to talk about her new book, Nomad 
Century, in which she takes a look at how migration could be the 
solution to the climate crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlIIrSgIbVg

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/[  her recently published book ]/
*Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World *
by Gaia Vince  (Author)
“The MOST IMPORTANT BOOK I imagine I'll ever read.”―Mary Roach

FROM AN AWARD-WINNING SCIENCE JOURNALIST comes an urgent investigation 
of environmental migration―the most underreported, seismic consequence 
of our climate crisis that will force us to change where―and how―we live.

“An IMPORTANT and PROVOCATIVE start to a crucial conversation.” ―Bill 
McKibben

“We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will 
require a planned and deliberate migration of a kind humanity has never 
before undertaken. This is the biggest human crisis you’ve never heard of.”

Drought-hit regions bleeding those for whom a rural life has become 
untenable. Coastlines diminishing year on year. Wildfires and hurricanes 
leaving widening swaths of destruction. The culprit, most of us accept, 
is climate change, but not enough of us are confronting one of its 
biggest, and most present, consequences: a total reshaping of the 
earth’s human geography. As Gaia Vince points out early in Nomad 
Century, global migration has doubled in the past decade, on track to 
see literal billions displaced in the coming decades. What exactly is 
happening, Vince asks? And how will this new great migration reshape us all?

In this deeply-reported clarion call, Vince draws on a career of 
environmental reporting and over two years of travel to the front lines 
of climate migration across the globe, to tell us how the changes 
already in play will transform our food, our cities, our politics, and 
much more. Her findings are answers we all need, now more than ever.
https://www.amazon.com/Nomad-Century-Climate-Migration-Reshape/dp/1250821614/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=31279046912

/[ strong opinion from the Atlantic ]/
*The World Could Be Entering a New Era of Climate War*
Runaway climate change once seemed like it could spur violence. Now a 
different risk has emerged.
By Robinson Meyer
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
Back in 2015, when I started covering climate change, climate war meant 
one thing. At the time, if someone said that climate change posed a 
threat to the world order, you would assume they were talking about the 
direct impacts of warming, or its second-order consequences. Analysts 
and scholars worried over scenarios in which unprecedented droughts or 
city-destroying floods would prompt mass migrations, destabilizing the 
rich world or giving rise to far-right nationalism. Or they worried that 
a global famine could send food prices surging, triggering old-fashioned 
resource wars. Or they fretted over social science showing that weather 
fluctuations could lead to revolutions and civil wars.

The world of 2015 is not the world of 2022. Countries have made 
remarkable progress averting worst-case climate scenarios since then: 
Canada taxes carbon pollution, Europe has its Green Deal, and the United 
States somehow passed the Inflation Reduction Act. What’s more, elected 
leaders have run on these policies and won. Thanks to a global turn away 
from coal power, the world will likely not warm 9 degrees Fahrenheit by 
the end of the century, as had once seemed possible...
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/11/climate-change-world-conflict-america-china/672255/

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/[ Or just read an academic study from 2019 in the Journal nature ]/
*Climate as a risk factor for armed conflict *
Katharine J. Mach1*, Caroline M. Kraan2, W. Neil Adger3, Halvard 
Buhaug4,5, Marshall Burke1,6, James D. Fearon7, Christopher B. Field2, 
Cullen S. Hendrix8,9, Jean-Francois Maystadt10,11, John O’Loughlin12, 
Philip Roessler13, Jürgen Scheffran14, Kenneth A. Schultz7 & Nina von 
Uexkull4,15
Abstract
Research findings on the relationship between climate and conflict are 
diverse and contested. Here we assess the current understanding of the 
relationship between climate and conflict, based on the structured 
judgments of experts from diverse disciplines. These experts agree that 
climate has affected organized armed conflict within countries. However, 
other drivers, such as low socioeconomic development and low 
capabilities of the state, are judged to be substantially more 
influential, and the mechanisms of climate–conflict linkages remain a 
key uncertainty. Intensifying climate change is estimated to increase 
future risks of conflict.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1300-6

/[ read a few articles for free - Not sure their web page works OK ]/
*This Holiday Season, You Can Find Ways to Talk to Your Family About the 
Climate Crisi*s
Once you ask people about the ways they see the climate changing around 
them, many want to engage.
MADELINE OSTRANDER
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-communication/

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/[ Possibly another great article from The Nation that you can read 
after you subscribe - they think their web site offers 3 free views of 
articles - but I have never seen it work properly ]
/*Students Tell Their Universities: Keep Fossil Fuel Companies Out of 
Climate Research*
NOVEMBER 22, 2022
Amid COP27, members of the Fossil Free Research movement took action 
around the world, protesting the influence of Big Oil on crucial climate 
change studies.
ILANA COHEN
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-change-cop27-fossil-fuel-university-research/

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/[ Maritime and global warming ]/
*Fires, Inflation and Climate Change: Global Trends to Watch in Marine 
Insurance*
Mike Schuler
November 22, 2022
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According to AGCS, climate change will increasingly impact marine 
insurance claims, with more extreme weather events and new exposures 
linked to the transition to net-zero.
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Meanwhile, efforts to decarbonize the shipping industry will also impact 
marine claims going forward. AGCS notes that a key risk factor in the 
transition will be the adoption of alternative fuels, which could 
include liquefied natural gas, green hydrogen and methanol, as well as 
electric- and wind-powered assisted vessels. The introduction of new 
technology and working practices can, however, result in new risks or 
unexpected consequences...
Fire and explosion is now the most expensive driver of claims activity, 
overtaking sinking and collision. Mis-declared or non-declaration of 
dangerous cargos is a common issue.

Of AGCS’ analysis of more than 240,000 industry claims over the past 
five years with an approximate value of 9.2 billion euros, fires 
accounted for 18% of the value of marine claims analyzed. The number of 
fires on board large vessels has increased significantly in recent 
years, with a string of incidents involving cargo fires and explosions, 
which are difficult to extinguish and can easily lead to the total loss 
of a vessel, tragic loss of life and environmental damage. AGCS also 
noted a recent trend of threat posed by Lithium-ion batteries in 
electric vehicles or cargo that is not stored, handled or transported 
correctly. Li-ion battery and electric vehicle fires burn more 
ferociously, can be difficult to extinguish, and are capable of 
spontaneously reigniting hours or even days after they have been put out,

“Shipping losses may have more than halved over the past decade (54? 
total losses at the end of 2021 ?compared to? 127? at ?the ?end of 2012, 
according to the AGCS Safety & Shipping Review 2022), but fires on board 
vessels remain among the biggest safety issues for the industry,” said 
Captain Rahul Khanna, Global Head of Marine Risk Consulting at AGCS. 
“The potential dangers that the transportation of lithium-ion batteries 
pose if they are not stored or handled correctly only add to these 
concerns, and we have already seen a number of incidents.”..
https://gcaptain.com/fires-inflation-and-climate-change-global-trends-to-watch-in-marine-insurance/

/[  Bold, artistic posters from the DOE back in 2016] /
*Gorgeous new WPA-style posters celebrate the US energy revolution*
By David Roberts at drvolts  Feb 24, 2016
https://www.vox.com/2016/2/24/11107908/department-of-energy-posters

/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*November 24, 2008*/
November 24, 2008: In an interview on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," 
Robert Redford denounces the Bush administration's plan to have the 
Bureau of Land Management hold an oil and gas lease auction in Salt Lake 
City, Utah on December 19, 2008. That auction would become famous for 
Tim DeChristopher's act of civil disobedience during the event, as well 
as the auction's illegality.

http://youtu.be/fmgYX8gfxfs

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/americans-rejected-drill_b_144499

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