[✔️] November 25, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Fri Nov 25 11:00:11 EST 2022
/*November 25 , 2022*/
/[Maybe smoke some first -- then decide ]/
*Could hemp be a key tool in fight against climate change?*
The fast-growing plant is believed to be twice as effective as trees at
absorbing and locking up carbon
Jeremy Plester
Thu 24 Nov 2022
In all the debates on how to curb climate change, hemp is hardly
mentioned. Better known as cannabis, modern varieties of hemp are too
weak to use as narcotics, but they are extremely efficient at absorbing
and locking up carbon.
Hemp is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world and can grow 4
metres high in 100 days. Research suggests hemp is twice as effective as
trees at absorbing and locking up carbon, with 1 hectare (2.5 acres) of
hemp reckoned to absorb 8 to 22 tonnes of CO2 a year, more than any
woodland. The CO2 is also permanently fixed in the hemp fibres, which
can go on to be used for many commodities including textiles, medicines,
insulation for buildings and concrete; BMW is even using it to replace
plastics in various car parts...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/24/could-hemp-be-a-key-tool-in-fight-against-climate-change
/[ had enough turkey? ]/
* Can wild turkeys survive climate change?*
By DANIEL CUSICK and ARIANNA SKIBELL
11/23/2022
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Native wild turkeys are tough birds. They survived European settlement,
the clearing of North America’s native forests, the rise of industrial
agriculture and unfettered hunting through the early 20th century.
But in the last 17 years, the nation’s wild turkey population has
declined by 15 percent, or 1 million birds. Today, there are an
estimated 6.5 million turkeys nationwide, a number that wildlife
experts, conservation groups and hunting advocates are closely watching.
Droughts, fires, and forests dying from pests and disease are squeezing
many wild turkey populations, particularly in the West, said Mark
Hatfield, national director of conservation for the National Wild Turkey
Federation. And losing those habitats will only be compounded by warming
temperatures.
The decline in turkey populations isn’t necessarily a catastrophe yet,
Hatfield said. While wild turkeys are seeing their sharpest drops in the
Southeast, a traditional stronghold, other regional populations are
holding steady or even seeing some growth.
Still, some of the fastest-growing turkey states are in cooler-climate
places like Minnesota, Michigan, Maine and even Canada, which brings its
own set of risks. Turkeys follow food, and the primary barrier to food
is deep snow. One unseasonal blizzard can wipe out a growing flock.
“If we’re unable to maintain a climate-resilient ecosystem, there’s no
question turkeys will be negatively impacted,” said Hatfield, who’s
family will have wild turkey for Thanksgiving on Thursday. His uncle
shot it about 5 miles from his grandmother’s Kentucky farm.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2022/11/23/can-wild-turkeys-survive-climate-change-00070676
/[ a clever, very positive rap song - 4:30 video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMeceuVSbo ]/
*Strange Humankind - An Ecological History of Humanity*
NATHANOLOGY
23,150 views Sep 22, 2022
Conceived and commissioned by Save the Humans (@savethehumans.us).
*Lyrics: *
Many and strange are the things of this world,
But nothings as strange, or quite as absurd
As you and I — Humankind —
You might have heard: We’re kind of the worst.
Is the title deserved? — Human Beings:
It’s a quarter million years since we came on the scene;
In the past 300, we made some machines
And began a new age — the Anthropocene.
…Now just how extreme do I have to be
To have a whole planet age that’s named after me?
Anthropos — human — it’s Greek — I agree:
We changed the whole thing by quite a degree…
Celsius. — See? — It’s kind of intense —
We don’t always make ecological sense:
Cuz the things we invent, for survival success,
May, in the end, just lead to our deaths!
…Yes. … But for now we’re alive,
And while we’re all here, we may as well ask why —
And how’d we change so much, in so little time —
The history of Strange Humankind.
We’ve been around 300 thou’,
And it all started out au naturale —
No horse, no plough; no slave, no master —
That’s fire, Wow! — we hunted, and gathered.
But nearer to now — 12 millenia tops —
Just a little while relative to how long we’ve walked
Upon this rock — someone stopped and said Let’s plant crops!
And settle in a place, make bread and tend flocks.
Bet — why not? But in the course of time,
As the hunter-gatherer became the grower of the vine,
It brought about changes in their hearts and minds:
Your farm’s there; this farm’s mine.
Darn — fine. Don’t let it get your goose —
They started owning animals — and ownership and use
Came to dominate a consciousness that used to keep it loose:
For as one lives, so is one’s truth.
We changed, we adapted —
Our numbers increasing,
Our Feeling gave way
To Thinking and Reasoning.
People of taste — eating with seasoning,
Instead of just eating whatever the season brings.
I sing how the shift began,
As they planted grains in the shifting sand,
As the power-grip shifted throughout the lands
From animal to human, and from woman to man,
From family to clan — and what slipped through the cracks
As the way got paved, was the way to get back
From the fictions we made to the natural fact
Of the Here and the Now. — We became abstract.
…That’s that.
Home on the range:
The world was ours,
But the world was changed.
And the things of this world
Became things of exchange,
And the Earth and the Self
Which were one,
Were estranged.
Ah yes. Humans will be humans —
Dust unto dust to industrial revolution.
The age of mass production and accelerated movement —
And it never really ended, cuz we’re kinda still doin it.
Throw this one a way, buy myself a new one —
Throw myself away — my self is such a nuisance —
Find myself a way to disappear into my room and
If I need to know what life is like I’ll stay at home and google it.
And true, we’ve made progress,
And awesome hits,
And the laptop software I wrought this with —
But we also made an big atomic bomb that hit,
And for all time altered all of this.
The radiation remains,
And in our blood and our brains
Are all the particles of polythene in hydrocarbon chains
From our plastic bags —
And so it’s hardly strange
We made a problem as large
As climate change.
Ahhh, homo sapiens —
One part progress, one part sloppiness.
I don’t want to descend into soppiness,
But sometimes I feel sorry for all of us.
Imagine the scene,
Ecstatically green —
The age when humanity gathers its dream into action — and seeing
The rational being
Reconnected at last, with a planet that’s clean.
This means that we’re not the worst:
Your actions do matter,
The plan is not cursed –
Integrate the new with the way we lived first,
And celebrate the work:
Save the Humans of the Earth
It isn’t just words
Or an abstract ‘movement’ –
It’s a fact, and a truth
That if everyone is doin’ what
That can where they’re at,
Well then that’s a revolution:
A radical reunion of the planet and the human.
… So yes it is strange,
Being this animal, having this brain –
And yet we can change — and may redefine
Just what it is to be human: kind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzMeceuVSbo
/[ doom scrolling and rolling around - opinion reprinted on the NYTimes]/
*End-Times Tourism in the Land of Glaciers*
By Tom Kizzia
Mr. Kizzia was a reporter for The Anchorage Daily News for 25 years. He
is the author of several books about Alaska, most recently, the
ghost-town history “Cold Mountain Path.”
Nov. 22, 2022
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I found a sunny deck chair on the ship’s stern, clamped on a pair of
headphones and cued up the final movement of Mahler’s Ninth, his aching
farewell symphony. As I watched the last glaciers recede from view, the
violins eased me at last into the consoling adagio of geological time.
The glaciers will come back someday. But our species will be gone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/opinion/glaciers-alaska-climate-change.html
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/[ see and hear Leonard Bernstein conduct ]/
*GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony No.9 (Adagio) LEONARD BERNSTEIN*
https://youtu.be/lTK9Y9TLdFw?t=936
/[ a few short videos ]/
*Want to feel inspired about our environment? Watch these five short films*
24/11/2022
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2021/jul/06/the-return-a-family-reconnects-with-the-amazon-as-covid-threatens-their-village-video
/[ more listening enjoyment NPR music review ]/
*In the devastation of climate change, Daniel Bachman captures what's
left behind*
'Almanac Behind' is a diary in field recordings and fingerstyle guitar
November 17, 20229
VANESSA AGUE
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. Now a decade into his career, he mangles and morphs acoustic
instruments into an electronic palette to chart the emotional toll of
climate change. In compositions that foreground extreme weather — across
field recordings and radio broadcasts — Bachman's Almanac Behind, out
Friday, captures both the literal and the metaphorical devastation, the
moment as well as the feeling it leaves behind.
From his home in central Virginia, Bachman saw flash floods, major
snowstorms, power outages and secondhand smoke blowing in from the west
coast. As each event came to pass, he took field recordings and asked
friends and family to chronicle the sound of pouring rain and strong
winds as it affected them all. He draws an arc to illustrate these
effects, moving from uncertainty ["Barometric Cascade (Signal
Collapse)"] to nervousness ("540 Supercell") to lamentation ("Think
Before You Breathe"), creating a sense of melancholy and contemplation
throughout.
In moments of deep reflection, Bachman's music feels its most potent.
"Flood Stage," a track made of hazy, dark drones, blossoms out of a
heartbeat-like pulse, ruminating and brooding; "Think Before You
Breathe," one of the album's standout tracks, pairs the crackle of a
fire with poignant guitar plucks, creating what feels like a meditation
on the ravage and destruction of wildfires. Elsewhere, audio collages
directly reflect on what's going on, like on "Five Old Messages (MadCo
Alert)," which features concerned voicemails from neighbors and
officials; "3:24 AM KHB36 (When the World's on Fire)" unites choppy
radio warnings with The Carter Family's "The World's on Fire" in a
sarcastic burst. Each of these tracks come straight from the heart,
painting a picture of what it's felt like to be alive today...
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Almanac Behind often feels personal, like a diary — and moments like
"Daybreak (In the Awful Silence)" certainly show it. But it's also a
means of documenting the reality of cataclysmic weather as it becomes a
larger part of our lives. By making music from the chain of events he's
experienced, Bachman reminds us that climate change isn't just one
moment or one harrowing news report; it's an accumulation of events that
we're responding to in real time.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137165601/review-daniel-bachman-almanac-behind
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/[ Composed Sounds - newly released ]/
*Almanac Behind*
by Daniel Bachman
Weather is happening. https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/almanac-behind
From the heart of Delhi, to Tangier Island. The burning redwood
forests, the dying jet stream waters. It is happening to you and to me.
We pump carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere by the gigaton as
the cascading feedback loops of climate breakdown continue to
destabilize the biosphere. Oh, the wind and rain. We have all lived it.
Stunned by the unfathomable power of our Earth and a sinking
derealization about our tenuous future.
"Almanac Behind" exists in this space. The title is both an anagram of
Daniel Bachman’s name and a reference to the fact that rapid
environmental changes have rendered traditional weather forecasting
methods woefully unable to accurately predict our future. Over fifteen
tracks, "Almanac Behind" guides the listener through natural disaster
and its aftermath, via a series of field recordings by Bachman and his
collaborators. The guitar, banjo, fiddle, and other instruments are
presented in neutral modal tunings, avoiding conventional harmonic
representations of mood and sentiment, and are often digitally altered
in both subtle and obvious ways. At its core, "Almanac Behind" is
powered by the sounds of the Earth, tones inherently familiar to the
billions of people who have experienced extreme weather. It is an
attempt to emotionally contend with and foster connection over a shared
global experience.
“Barometric Cascade (Signal Collapse)” begins with wind blowing through
front porch windchimes. Broken segments of cut-and-pasted slide guitar
improvisations play over a tanpura-like guitar drone.
The slide guitar crackles out of a thin radio speaker, achieved by
broadcasting the recording to a home radio via an FM transmitter. As the
storm gathers, the radio signal collapses into squelching tones. Local
NOAA weather radio, “8:35 PM KHB36 (Alter Course)” cuts through the
static and relays a year’s worth of emergency weather broadcasts
recorded by Bachman at his home in Banco, Va. The chaotic thumps and
strums of a 12-string guitar warn of the events unfolding. An emergency
broadcast plays over church hymns. The signal morphs into “Bow Echo/Wall
Cloud,” a series of repeating audio patterns made from traditional
Appalachian rain signs rendered into WAV files.
“Gust Front (The Waiting)” follows, with solo banjo playing an uneasy
cadence as winds gather in tight mountain valleys. The storm begins
almost instantly in “540 Supercell,” where a now-driving banjo and
frogs, recorded in the mill race behind Bachman’s house, are easily
overtaken by waves of hissing rain and hail. “10:17 PM KHB36 (The Warned
Area)” returns with an updated emergency alert of imminent flooding in
the neighborhood. Disparate radio transmissions swell as the broadcast
is overtaken by the rising water. All that remains when “Flood Stage”
opens is repeating AM radio static, slowed 43 times to create a pulsing
rhythmic pattern that drives through the entirety of the track. The same
cut-and-paste technique used earlier is repeated here to create a
buoyant slide guitar melody, like a dead log floating down a swollen
river. The flood waters rise during “Inundation (The Blackout),” in
which the sounds of all of Virginia’s major rivers at flood stage flow
into one sonic stream. Tree limbs, pulled into the water, scream in high
pitched wails. Electrical lines flail wildly as all sound condenses into
a single point, then silence.
A match is lit in the darkness as “Wildfire (Smoke Over Old Rag)”
begins. Here, Bachman has built a fire from field recordings, YouTube
videos of Virginia wildfire responders, harmonium drone, and a beat
created by rendering a photo of the sun setting behind Old Rag Mountain,
red from West coast wildfire smoke, into a WAV file. “Think Before You
Breathe” is audio of dying fire, significantly slowed to exaggerate its
final gasps for air. The warbling guitar floats to great heights with
the smoke, consistently interrupted by glitches and abrupt pitch drops.
“3:24 AM KHB36 (When The World’s On Fire)” breaks out of the relative
calm with the drone of hand-wound emergency radio crank underneath clips
from the 2022 IPCC report, time signal radio broadcast, a smoke
inhalation alert, and a performance of the Carter Family’s gospel tune
“When The World’s On Fire” on slide guitar and accompaniment.
The tired and mournful banjo solo, “Daybreak (In The Awful Silence)”
represents exhaustion and frustrated resignation during an extended
power outage. “Grid Reactivation” comes suddenly, rushing down the lines
to reach the transformer, powering on the A/C, radio, and other
temporarily-muted appliances. “Five Old Messages (MadCo Alert)” await.
Now, as cleanup begins, comes “Recalibration/Normalization.” The
cut-and-paste technique is repeated one final time to represent
disorientation of facing a new reality in the aftermath of disaster. At
its end, we again hear wind rustling the porch chimes, signaling storms
on the horizon. "Almanac Behind" ends as it began, and can be played on
a loop, mirroring the cyclicality of these weather patterns. The only
thing that has changed is that the listener has now also experienced them.
Weather is happening.
released November 18, 2022/**Almanac Behind - Film out November 20 2022
- Three Lobed Recordings /
https://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/almanac-behind*
*
/[ emotional opinions from Climate Adam ]/
*Life & Climate || Past & Future*
Climate Adam
2,578 views Nov 17, 2022
My niece was just born. And her new life has made me reflect on old
questions - what the past years of climate action and climate change
teach us, and what the future might hold. I don't know the answers to
these global warming we can only answer them together. For newborns and
for ourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRkS9u-7FUc
/[ Discussions with professor Rupert Reed - video 55 min ]/
*Activism: The Moderate Flank | Rupert Read*
Planet: Critical
Nov 23, 2022
Rupert Read is an ecological philosopher and activist. Associate
Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, Rupert has
written over a dozen books whilst campaigning for the climate with the
Green Party and Extinction Rebellion. His recent work focuses on the
precautionary principle—examining how humankind often fails to act
cautiously despite not having enough evidence to warrant our choices and
decisions. This can be applied both to the climate crisis and the
development of AI.
Rupert joins me to discuss truth, counter-histories, chance,
through-topias, and the moderate flank—the next branch of activism which
seeks to recruit those resistant to the radical action which more
commonly makes the headline. Don’t fancy throwing soup at paintings or
shutting down roads? There are myriad ways we can all get involved in
resisting the fossil-fuel economy and demand change. Rupert reveals the
many campaigns happening in the UK for those who want to take action but
don’t know where to start.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnq_I_NjCgk
/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*November 25, 2006*/
November 25, 2006: The Washington Post reports:
"While the political debate over global warming continues, top
executives at many of the nation's largest energy companies have
accepted the scientific consensus about climate change and see federal
regulation to cut greenhouse gas emissions as inevitable.
"The Democratic takeover of Congress makes it more likely that the
federal government will attempt to regulate emissions. The companies
have been hiring new lobbyists who they hope can help fashion a national
approach that would avert a patchwork of state plans now in the works.
They are also working to change some company practices in anticipation
of the regulation."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/24/AR2006112401361_pf.html
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