[✔️] October 8, 2022 - Global Warming News - daily selection

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/*October 8, 2022*/

/[ North Western coastal ]/
*Gov. Inslee meets with West Coast leaders on climate change*
Oct 7, 2022,
BY KIRO NEWSRADIO NEWSDESK
Friday, Oct. 7.
Governor Jay Inslee gathered with leaders from California, Oregon, and 
British Columbia to sign a new agreement to fight climate change.

The initiative promotes investments in climate infrastructure like 
electric vehicle charging stations and a clean electric grid.

According to the Governor’s website, the initiative will also have a 
major focus on equity, ensuring all communities are able to transition 
to a low-carbon future.

“We have watched, we have smelled, we have suffered through the smoke. 
We understand what it is doing to our communities, to our children, and 
to our economy,” Inslee said.

Governor Inslee says that a commitment to greener jobs and lowering 
carbon usage will help future generations in our state.

Low water levels close salmon season early
Historically low water levels have prompted Washington state wildlife 
officials to end the salmon and game fishing season early this year for 
many rivers and streams.

Officials say there have been such low water flows, that many fish have 
been unable to get to their spawning grounds, with about 50 rivers and 
streams affected.

So, there will be no salmon and game fishing as of Saturday, Oct. 8, and 
it will stay closed for the foreseeable future.

You can go to the Fish and Wildlife Department’s website for specifics.
https://mynorthwest.com/3667661/gov-inslee-meets-with-west-coast-leaders-on-climate-change/

/[ GIZMODO report  - click site to see images  ] /
*Aerial Images Show Alarming Extent of Hurricane Ian's Devastation in 
Florida*
A massive storm surge, 150+ mph winds, and inundating rain have reshaped 
parts of coastal southwestern Florida.
ByLauren Leffer
October 6, 2022
Hurricane Ian tore across Florida last week, killing at least 105 people 
in the state and leaving destruction in its wake. Hundreds of thousands 
of households remain without electricity, and multiple counties are 
under boil water notices after the storm damaged crucial infrastructure.
In an attempt to understand the full scope of Ian’s impact, the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collected aerial imagery of many 
of the hardest hit areas. NOAA has previously done the same following 
other severe storms, like Hurricane Ida in 2021. Side by side, the 
aerial photos compared with satellite imagery captured before the storm 
illustrate the true extent of the destruction...
https://gizmodo.com/before-after-images-hurricane-ian-florida-1849620978

/[ tough to keep rail tracks safe along the California coastline ]/
*A Reckoning With Mother Nature In South OC As Coastal Train Travel Is 
Suspended*
By Jill Replogle
Published Oct 7, 2022
The compounding effects of sea level rise, stronger storms and building 
along the coast are threatening one of the nation's busiest intercity 
train corridors.

Metrolink and Amtrak, working with the Orange County Transportation 
Authority (OCTA), suspended all passenger service in late September 
between Mission Viejo and Oceanside for safety reasons. Freight service 
has been reduced to just one slow-moving train per day.

Over the last year, the tracks just south of San Clemente State Beach 
have been pushed nearly 2 ½-feet outward — toward the crashing waves — 
by an old landslide that has reactivated.

On the coastal side, what used to be 40-50 yards of sandy beach between 
the waves and the train tracks has disappeared into the ocean over the 
last two years.
https://laist.com/news/transportation/south-orange-county-train-travel-suspended-climate-emergency

/[  Attn activists -- thoughtful, deep discussion between Ted Nace and 
Dale Willman of ColumbiaClimateSchool - video 1 hour ]/
*Bringing Fossil Fuel Stories Home to Your Neighborhood*
Oct 7, 2022 Tracking fossil fuel production, reserves and emissions has 
always been tricky, if not impossible – until now. Join Dale Willman of 
the Columbia Climate School’s Resilience Media Project for a discussion 
about the first-ever Global Registry of Fossil Fuels, with Drew Costley, 
Health and Science Reporter for the Associated Press, Ted Nace of Global 
Energy Monitor and Rob Schuwerk of Carbon Tracker. Learn how to use the 
database to localize stories for your town.
Explore the registry here: https://fossilfuelregistry.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWGvntl9itE

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/[  Good information for investors, journalists, activists, those of us 
walking on sand ]/
*The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels*
The Global Registry is the first open-source database of oil, gas and 
coal production and reserves globally, expressed in CO2-equivalent. By 
increasing transparency and accountability around fossil fuel 
production, the Registry aims to improve understanding of extraction 
impacts on the remaining carbon budget and ultimately to inform its 
management by decision makers.

Countries around the world are projected to produce more than twice the 
fossil fuels consistent with 1.5°C by 2030. It is clear that addressing 
the climate crisis requires managing the supply of fossil fuels, 
alongside demand-side measures, and that this needs to be done fairly 
and equitably. The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels is therefore the 
first the first-ever comprehensive, independent, policy neutral and 
fully open-source database that demonstrates the scale of CO2 emissions 
associated with each country's national reserves and production, thus 
enabling policy-makers, investors and others to make informed decisions 
to align fossil fuel production with 1.5°C, and equipping researchers 
with the data needed to provide timely analysis...
*Who is it for*
The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels is designed to be a tool to support 
policymakers and investors in making sensible, 1.5°C-aligned decisions 
around future fossil fuel production. The Registry therefore focuses on 
tracking fossil fuel production by country and by project.

The Registry is also expected to be a useful tool for researchers and 
non-profit organisations in providing the foundation for rigorous 
analysis on how the world is tracking towards the goal of 1.5°C, and 
where production is occurring.
https://fossilfuelregistry.org/

/[ DW documentary on feces, urine and new toilet technology - video ]/
*The great toilet battle - Does Bill Gates have a solution? | DW 
Documentary*
11,871 views  Oct 7, 2022  A toilet revolution is set to bring 
much-needed change when it comes to human waste. Each day, a single 
person produces one liter of urine and 200 grams of feces. In many 
places, feces is flushed down the toilet using around six liters of 
water, generating millions of tons of waste.

Globally, the issue presents major health and environmental challenges, 
because this waste has to be processed and disposed of. Reducing 
toilets’ immense water consumption is the focus of a good deal of 
research. The goal is almost completely dry toilets.

Bill Gates is among those concerned about the problem. The 
philanthropist has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in new 
technologies designed to be more efficient and ecological than 
traditional flushing toilets. One central question in the research is 
that of bad odors. Scientists have begun a global effort to figure out 
how toilet stink can be decoded at the molecular level and eliminated 
using science.

Feces has a special composition that generates its unpleasant odor. This 
in turn has a warning function, as drinking water contaminated with 
feces can transmit cholera, hepatitis A and typhoid. These diseases kill 
hundreds of thousands of children worldwide every year.

In India, open defecation is a major public health hazard. Prime 
Minister Narendra Modi wants to put an end to this habit with the 
"Swachh Bharat” or "Clean India” Mission. Basic sanitation has become a 
political issue, and millions of dry toilets are planned throughout the 
country.

When it comes to dealing with human waste, the idea of recycling crops 
up again and again. In times of water scarcity and more conscious waste 
management, the possibilities of turning excrement and urine into 
electricity or fertilizer are gaining importance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKGDl_suBNI

/[ video trailer for National Geographic documentary ]/
*The Territory | Official Trailer | National Geographic Documentary Films*
4,485,839 views  Jun 22, 2022  The Territory, from director Alex Pritz, 
provides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the 
Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation 
brought by farmers and illegal settlers in the Brazilian Amazon.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wL9wvdbk7A4

/[The news archive - People Magazine knew this in 1979 ]/
/*October 8, 1979*/

    *CO2 Could Change Our Climate and Flood the Earth—Up to Here*
    By MICHAEL J. WEISS October 08, 1979 12:00 PM
    If Gordon MacDonald is wrong, they’ll laugh, otherwise, they’ll gurgle

    The scenario reads like an Irwin Allen disaster movie. Early in the
    21st century, carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere thickens
    ominously. The CO2 admits sunlight but prevents escape of heat from
    the planet’s surface, creating a situation known as the “greenhouse
    effect.” Average temperatures increase, from 3 to 20°F, melting ice
    at the poles. Oceans rise everywhere by perhaps 20 feet, inundating
    coastal cities. Some 25 percent of the world’s population must flee
    to higher ground. Food shortages follow. All is chaos.

    Purveyor of this doomsday theory—the man Charlton Heston would play
    in the movie—is Gordon MacDonald, 50, a geology and environmental
    sciences professor at Dartmouth. Researchers have long worried about
    the effects of carbon dioxide produced by burning oil, gas and coal.
    MacDonald says the Carter administration’s proposal to develop
    synthetic fuels by converting coal into oil and gas involves a
    process that will dramatically increase the CO2 level. With
    synfuels, atmospheric carbon dioxide could double by 2020, MacDonald
    predicts. As a result, new temperature patterns could begin to
    change the weather all over the globe by 1990.

    “The Adirondacks and New England might not get snow,” he predicts.
    “In Washington, summer highs will jump from the 90s to the 100s.
    Some leafy plants like corn and sugar beets will benefit from
    increased photosynthesis, but you’ll see a 30- to 40-percent drop in
    wheat production. That’s because the latitudes suitable for wheat
    will move north, where the land lacks nutrients to support intensive
    agriculture.”

    MacDonald has taken his concern to Congress as well as to the
    scientific community, and he has credentials in both. At 32, he was
    one of the youngest members ever elected to the National Academy of
    Sciences in 1962. His résumé lists 134 published articles, plus 10
    major lecture series. He has also been an adviser to Presidents
    Eisenhower (on space exploration), Kennedy (weather), Johnson (ocean
    pollution), Nixon (coal), Ford (technology exchange) and Carter
    (national security). “Nixon,” MacDonald remembers, “would say he had
    three summa cum laudes from the Harvard class of 1950: Jim
    Schlesinger, Henry Kissinger and me.” (At the National Academy of
    Sciences in 1963 MacDonald first ran across statistics relating
    climate to CO2; since the late 1950s carbon dioxide is up to 10
    percent in the atmosphere, but because the ocean is still absorbing
    it, no real temperature changes have occurred.)

    The greenhouse theory continues to be the subject of heated debate.
    Some scientists contend the oceans will never become so saturated
    with CO2 that the climate is affected. Dan Dreyfus, staff director
    of the Senate Energy Committee, dismisses MacDonald’s fears by more
    or less dismissing him. “He’s a generalist,” Dreyfus says. “Carbon
    dioxide is not the only thing he’s interested in, and it’s a very
    complicated geophysical problem. I don’t think anyone can definitely
    say what effect increased CO2 will have on the climate.” Yet in
    July, when MacDonald and other scientists reported on CO2 to the
    President’s Council on Environmental Quality, the council called it
    “an extremely important, perhaps historic, statement.”

    As an alternative to synthetic fuels, MacDonald suggests a mix of
    solar energy, fusion, natural gas and biomass (mostly alcohol-based
    fuels made from converting trees, sugarcane and other plants). He
    prefers natural gas, which produces little carbon dioxide. He’s
    lobbying for it while on leave from Dartmouth to work as chief
    scientist at the MITRE Corporation, a goverment-funded Washington
    think tank.

    MacDonald grew up in Mexico City, the son of a British mining
    executive and an American embassy clerk. He became a U.S. citizen in
    1955 and taught at UCLA and California (Santa Barbara) before moving
    to Dartmouth in 1972. His first marriage ended in divorce. He has
    three children by his second wife, who died of cancer; he has a son
    with his third wife.

    With CO2, MacDonald is of course presenting the worst case scenario
    with great flair. “He isn’t the usual ass-covering bureaucrat,” an
    Energy Committee staffer marveled after MacDonald testified against
    the Carter synfuel proposal. “He provided quite a show.” MacDonald
    realizes that if he is wrong, his warnings will sound ridiculous. If
    not, world catastrophe will result—”not 200 years from now but
    within our lifetime.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20190601163347/https://people.com/archive/co2-could-change-our-climate-and-flood-the-earth-up-to-here-vol-12-no-15/

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