[✔️] October 9, 2022 - Global Warming News - daily selection
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sun Oct 9 11:21:00 EDT 2022
/*October 9, 2022*/
/[ a pleasant view - flying the coast - see the erosion - 15 min video - ]/
*Watch: Pacifica Coastal Erosion Oct 1st 2022*
77,487 views Oct 1, 2022 #FlyinCameras #Pacifica #CoastalErosion
Pacifica Coastal Erosion 10.1.22
In parts of the Bay Area, officials have already retreated from some
parts of the coast, removing homes from cliffs that have eroded and
areas that have flooded. San Francisco is taking steps to move the Great
Highway away from Ocean Beach because erosion is eating away at the
earth beneath it. Houses and apartments in Pacifica, south of the city,
were declared uninhabitable as cliffs that supported them gave way to
erosion./
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/[ Greta the Wise -- clips from her new book -- text from the Guardian ] /
*Greta Thunberg on the climate delusion: ‘We’ve been greenwashed out of
our senses. It’s time to stand our ground’*
A sand timer with most of the sand, which is coloured to look like Earth
from space, in the bottom
Governments may say they’re doing all they can to halt the climate
crisis. Don’t fall for it – then we might still have time to turn things
around
Greta Thunberg
Sat 8 Oct 2022
Maybe it is the name that is the problem. Climate change. It doesn’t
sound that bad. The word “change” resonates quite pleasantly in our
restless world. No matter how fortunate we are, there is always room for
the appealing possibility of improvement. Then there is the “climate”
part. Again, it does not sound so bad. If you live in many of the
high-emitting nations of the global north, the idea of a “changing
climate” could well be interpreted as the very opposite of scary and
dangerous. A changing world. A warming planet. What’s not to like?
Perhaps that is partly why so many people still think of climate change
as a slow, linear and even rather harmless process. But the climate is
not just changing. It is destabilising. It is breaking down. The
delicately balanced natural patterns and cycles that are a vital part of
the systems that sustain life on Earth are being disrupted, and the
consequences could be catastrophic. Because there are negative tipping
points, points of no return. And we do not know exactly when we might
cross them. What we do know, however, is that they are getting awfully
close, even the really big ones. Transformation often starts slowly, but
then it begins to accelerate.
The German oceanographer and climatologist Stefan Rahmstorf writes: “We
have enough ice on Earth to raise sea levels by 65 metres – about the
height of a 20-storey building – and, at the end of the last ice age,
sea levels rose by 120 metres as a result of about 5C of warming.” Taken
together, these figures give us a perspective on the powers we are
dealing with. Sea-level rise will not remain a question of centimetres
for very long.
The Greenland ice sheet is melting, as are the “doomsday glaciers” of
west Antarctica. Recent reports have stated that the tipping points for
these two events have already been passed. Other reports say they are
imminent. That means we might already have inflicted so much built-in
warming that the melting process can no longer be stopped, or that we
are very close to that point. Either way, we must do everything in our
power to stop the process because, once that invisible line has been
crossed, there might be no going back. We can slow it down, but once the
snowball has been set in motion it will just keep going.
“This is the new normal” is a phrase we often hear when the rapid
changes in our daily weather patterns – wildfires, hurricanes,
heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts and so on – are being discussed.
These weather events aren’t just increasing in frequency, they are
becoming more and more extreme. The weather seems to be on steroids, and
natural disasters increasingly appear less and less natural. But this is
not the “new normal”. What we are seeing now is only the very beginning
of a changing climate, caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases.
Until now, Earth’s natural systems have been acting as a shock absorber,
smoothing out the dramatic transformations that are taking place. But
the planetary resilience that has been so vital to us will not last for
ever, and the evidence seems to suggest more and more clearly that we
are entering a new era of more dramatic change.
Climate change has become a crisis sooner than expected. So many of the
researchers I’ve spoken to have said that they were shocked to witness
how quickly it is escalating. But since science is very cautious when it
comes to making predictions, maybe this should not come as a big
surprise. One result of this, however, is that very few people actually
knew how to react when the signs started becoming obvious in recent
years. And fewer still had planned how to communicate what is happening.
It seems like the vast majority of people were preparing for a
different, less urgent scenario. A crisis that would take place many
decades into the future. And yet here we are. The climate and ecological
crisis is not happening in some faraway future. It’s happening right
here and right now.
f everyone lived like we do in Sweden, we would need the resources of
4.2 planet Earths to sustain us. And the climate targets set in the
Paris agreement would be but a very distant memory – a threshold that we
would have crossed many, many years ago. The fact that 3 billion people
use less energy, on an annual per capita basis, than a standard American
refrigerator gives you an idea of how far away from global equity and
climate justice we currently are.
The climate crisis is not something that “we” have created. The
worldview that largely dominates the perspective from Stockholm, Berlin,
London, Madrid, New York, Toronto, Los Angeles, Sydney or Auckland is
not so prevalent in Mumbai, Ngerulmud, Manila, Nairobi, Lagos, Lima or
Santiago. People from the parts of the world that are most responsible
for this crisis must realise that other perspectives do exist and that
they have to start listening to them. Because when it comes to the
climate and ecological crisis – just like most other issues – many
people living in rich economies still act as if they rule the world. By
using up the remains of our carbon budgets – the maximum amount of CO2
we can collectively emit to give the world a 67% chance of staying below
1.5C of global temperature rise – the global north is stealing the
future as well as the present. It is stealing not only from its own
children but, above all, from those who live in the most affected parts
of the world, many of whom are yet to build much of the most basic
modern infrastructure that others take for granted. And still this
deeply immoral theft does not even exist in the discourse of the
so-called developed world.
Saving the world is voluntary. You could certainly argue against that
statement from a moral point of view, but the fact remains: there are no
laws or restrictions in place that will force anyone to take the
necessary steps towards safeguarding our future living conditions on
planet Earth. This is troublesome from many perspectives, not least
because – as much as I hate to admit it – Beyoncé was wrong. It is not
girls who run the world. It is run by politicians, corporations and
financial interests – mainly represented by white, privileged,
middle-aged, straight cis men. And it turns out most of them are
terribly ill suited for the job. This may not come as a big surprise.
After all, the purpose of a company is not to save the world – it is to
make a profit. Or, rather, it is to make as much profit as it possibly
can in order to keep shareholders and market interests happy.
This leaves us with our political leaders. They do have great
opportunities to improve things, but it turns out that saving the world
is not their main priority, either.
Approaching the issues of the climate and ecological crisis inevitably
involves confronting numerous uncomfortable questions. Taking on the
role of being the one who tells the unpleasant truth, and thereby
risking one’s popularity, is clearly not on any politician’s wishlist.
So they try to stay clear of the subject until they absolutely cannot
avoid it any longer – then they turn to communication tactics and PR to
make it seem as if real action is being taken, when in fact the exact
opposite is happening.
It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to keep calling out the bullshit of
our so-called leaders. I want to believe that people are good. But there
really seems to be no end to these cynical games. If your objective as a
politician truly is to act on the climate crisis, then surely your first
step would be to gather accurate figures for our actual emissions to get
a complete overview of the problem, and from there start looking at real
solutions? That would also give you a rough idea of the changes needed,
the scale of them and how quickly they need to be put in place. This,
however, has not been done – or even suggested – by any world leader.
Or, to my knowledge, by any one single politician.
Journalist Alexandra Urisman Otto describes how she started
investigating Swedish climate policies and found that only a third of
our actual emissions of greenhouse gases were included in our climate
targets and the official national statistics. The rest were either
outsourced or hidden in the loopholes of international climate
accounting frameworks. So whenever the climate crisis is debated in my
“progressive” home country, we conveniently leave out two-thirds of the
problem. An investigation by the Washington Post in November 2021 has
shown that this phenomenon is far from unique to Sweden. Though the
figures vary from case to case, this process and the overall mentality
of constantly trying to sweep things under the carpet and blame others
is the international norm.
So when our politicians say that we must solve the climate crisis, we
should all ask them which climate crisis they are referring to. Is it
the crisis that contains all our emissions or the one that contains only
a part of them? When politicians go a step further and accuse the
climate movement of not offering any solutions to our problems, we
should ask them what problems they are talking about. Is it the problem
that is caused by all our emissions or just by the ones they didn’t
manage to outsource or hide in the statistics? Because these are
completely different issues.
If your objective as a politician is to act on the climate crisis,
surely your first step would be to gather accurate emissions figures
It will take many things for us to start facing this emergency – but,
above all, it will take honesty, integrity and courage. The longer we
wait to start taking the action needed to stay in line with our
international targets, the harder and more costly it will get to reach
them. The inaction of today and yesterday must be compensated for in the
time that lies ahead.
For us to have even a small chance of avoiding setting off irreversible
chain reactions far beyond human control, we need drastic, immediate,
far-reaching emission cuts at the source. When your bathtub is about to
overflow, you don’t go looking for buckets or start covering the floor
with towels – you start by turning off the tap, as soon as you possibly
can. Leaving the water running means ignoring or denying the problem,
delaying doing anything to resolve it and downplaying its consequences.
Our politicians do not need to wait for anyone else in order to start
taking action. Nor do they need conferences, treaties, international
agreements or outside pressure. They could start right away. They also
have – and have had for a long time – endless opportunities to speak up
and send a clear message about the fact that we must fundamentally
change our societies. And yet, with very few exceptions, they actively
choose not to. This is a moral decision that will not only cost them
dearly in the future, it will put the entire living planet at risk.
According to the United Nations’ emissions gap report, the world’s
planned fossil fuel production by the year 2030 will be more than twice
the amount that would be consistent with keeping to the 1.5c target.
This is science’s way of telling us that we can no longer reach our
targets without a system change. because meeting our targets would
literally require tearing up contracts, valid deals and agreements on an
unimaginable scale. This should, of course, be dominating every hour of
our everyday news feed, every political discussion, every business
meeting and every inch of our daily lives. But that is not what is
happening.
The media and our political leaders have the opportunity to take drastic
and immediate action, and still they choose not to. Perhaps it is
because they are still in denial. Maybe it is because they do not care.
Maybe it is because they are unaware. Maybe it is because they are more
scared of the solutions than of the problem itself. Maybe it is because
they are afraid of causing social unrest. Maybe they are afraid of
losing their popularity. Maybe they simply did not go into politics or
journalism to uproot a system they believe in – a system they have spent
their lives defending. Or maybe the reason for their inaction is a
mixture of all these things.
We cannot live sustainably within today’s economic system. Yet that is
what we are constantly being told we can do. We can buy sustainable
cars, travel on sustainable motorways, powered by sustainable petroleum.
We can eat sustainable meat and drink sustainable soft drinks out of
sustainable plastic bottles. We can buy sustainable fast fashion and fly
on sustainable aeroplanes using sustainable fuels. And, of course, we
are going to meet our short- and long-term sustainable climate targets,
too, without making the slightest effort.
Our so-called leaders still think they can bargain with physics and
negotiate with nature. They speak to flowers in the language of economics
“How?” you might ask. How can that be possible when we don’t yet have
any technical solutions that can fix this crisis alone, and the option
of stopping doing things is unacceptable from our current economic
standpoint? What are we going to do? Well, the answer is the same as
always: we will cheat. We will use all those loopholes and all the
creative accounting that we have conjured up in our climate frameworks
since the very first conference of the parties, the 1995 Cop1 in Berlin.
We will outsource our emissions along with our factories, we will use
baseline manipulation and start counting our emission reductions when it
suits us best. We will burn trees, forests and biomass, as those have
been excluded from the official statistics. We will lock decades of
emissions into fossil gas infrastructure and call it green natural gas.
And then we will offset the rest with vague afforestation projects –
trees that might be lost to disease or fire – while we simultaneously
cut down the last of our old-growth forests at a much higher speed.
Don’t get me wrong. Planting the right trees in the right soil is a
great thing to do. It eventually sequesters carbon dioxide from the
atmosphere and we should do it wherever it is suitable for the soil and
suitable for the people living there who care for that land. But
afforestation should not be confused with offsetting or climate
compensation, because that is something completely different. You see,
the main problem is that we already have at least 40 years of carbon
dioxide emissions to “compensate” for. It is all up there, in the
atmosphere, and that is where it will stay, probably for many centuries
to come. This historic CO2 is what we should be focusing on when we are
using our present – very limited – ways of removing CO2 from the
atmosphere, in various projects such as planting trees. But offsetting,
as we have conceived it, is not meant to do that. It was never created
for us to clean up our mess. Far too often it has been used as an excuse
for us to continue emitting CO2, maintain business as usual and
meanwhile send a signal that we have a solution and therefore we do not
have to change.
Words matter, and they are being used against us. These are lies.
Dangerous lies that will cause further, disastrous delay. Predictions by
the UN conclude that our CO2 emissions are expected to rise by another
16% by 2030. The time we have left to avoid creating increasing climate
catastrophes in many places around the world is rapidly running out.
We are currently on track to have a world that is 3.2C hotter by the end
of the century – and that’s if countries fulfil all the policies they
have in place, policies that are often based on flawed and
under-reported numbers. But in many cases they are nowhere near doing
even that. We are “seemingly light years away from reaching our climate
action targets”, to quote UN secretary general António Guterres in the
autumn of 2021. And there is also the matter of our previous track
record of failure when it comes to delivering on all those non-binding
pledges and promises. Let’s just say it is not so impressive or convincing.
Even if we carried out all of our climate action plans, we’d still be in
trouble. Net zero by 2050 is simply too little, too late. There is just
too much at stake for us to place our destiny in the hands of
undeveloped technologies. We need real zero. And we need honesty. At the
very least, we need our leaders to start including all our actual
emissions in our targets, statistics and policies. Before they do that,
any mention of vague, future goals is nothing but a distracting waste of
time. They say that we should not let the perfect be the enemy of the
good. But what exactly do we do when the “good” not only fails to keep
us safe but is also so far away from what is needed that it can only be
described as comedy material. Very dark comedy, but still.
They say we must be able to compromise. As if the Paris agreement were
not already the world’s biggest compromise. A compromise that has
already locked in unimaginable amounts of suffering for the most
affected people and areas. I say: “No more.” I say: “Stand your ground.”
Our so-called leaders still think they can bargain with physics and
negotiate with the laws of nature. They speak to flowers and forests in
the language of US dollars and short-term economics. They hold up their
quarterly income reports to impress the wild animals. They read
stock-market analysis to the waves of the ocean, like fools.
We are approaching a precipice. And I would strongly suggest that those
of us who have not yet been greenwashed out of our senses stand our
ground. Do not let them drag us another inch closer to the edge. Not one
inch. Right here, right now, is where we draw the line.
This is an edited extract from The Climate Book created by Greta
Thunberg and published on 27 October by Allen Lane (£25). To support the
Guardian and Observer, buy your copy from guardianbookshop.com. Delivery
charges may apply
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/08/greta-thunberg-climate-delusion-greenwashed-out-of-our-senses
/[ Air Force announcement ]/
*Department of the Air Force rolls out plan addressing climate change*
Oct. 5, 2022
Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs
WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- he Department of the Air Force released its
Climate Action Plan Oct. 4, which defines how it will preserve
operational capability, increase resiliency, and do its part to help
mitigate future climate impacts through specific and measurable
objectives and key results. It lays out its enterprise-wide approach to
ensuring policies, technology innovation, and evolving operations remain
relevant in a changing climate.
“Make no mistake – the department’s mission remains to fly, fight, and
win, anytime and anywhere. We are focused on modernization and improving
our operational posture relative to our pacing challenge: China. We
remain ready to respond and achieve air and space dominance when and
where the nation needs us,” said Secretary of the Air Force Frank
Kendall. “Our mission remains unchanged, but we recognize that the world
is facing ongoing and accelerating climate change and we must be
prepared to respond, fight, and win in this constantly changing world.”
The plan outlines three major priorities that ensure the Department of
the Air Force maintains the ability to operate under a changing climate,
preserves operational capability, protects its systems, and contributes
toward enhancing climate change mitigation.
1. Maintain air and space dominance in the face of climate risks: Invest
in climate-ready and resilient infrastructure and facilities so our
installations are better able to project air and space combat power.
2. Make climate informed decisions: Develop a climate-informed
workforce, integrate security implications of climate change into
Department strategy, planning, training, and operations, and incorporate
climate considerations into Department requirements, acquisition,
logistics, supply chain processes, and wargaming.
3. Optimize energy use and pursue alternative energy sources: Expand
operational capability and power projection to support operations
globally while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions and
adopting cost-competitive alternative energy sources.
The department will provide updates as necessary to address new
policies, technology innovation and evolving missions that answer
emerging climate concerns.
https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3178524/department-of-the-air-force-rolls-out-plan-addressing-climate-change/
/[ 3 Podcasts so far ]/
*The Big Burn: How To Survive the Age of Wildfires*
As the world enters a new age of wildfires, science reporter Jacob
Margolis dives deep into personal stories that illuminate the history of
how we got here, why we keep screwing things up, and what we can do to
survive and maybe even thrive while the world around us burns.
Episodes --
*About the Show*
It’s easy to feel like we’re in a dark timeline. Waking up to smoke and
flames, staring down a future of burned homes, lost forests, and orange
skies. Over the past decade, California has been hit by nine out of ten
of its largest fires on record. And even if you don't live in the state,
you’re likely impacted by the fire crisis. A combination of climate
change and poor policy decisions got us here.
So, is there anything we can do about this new age of devastating
wildfires? Science reporter Jacob Margolis goes on a journey to figure
out how we got here, why we keep screwing things up, and what we can do
to survive and even thrive while the world around us burns. From LAist
Studios, the creators of The Big One, this next installment of The Big
Disaster series will provide you with a wildfire survival guide that
includes not just tangible safety tips — but hope for our future.
Support for this podcast is made possible by Gordon and Dona Crawford,
who believe that quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to
live, the Strelow Family, and by the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting, a private corporation funded by the American people.
https://laist.com/podcasts/the-big-burn
/[The news archive - looking back at early mention of carbon capitalism ]/
/*October 9, 1996*/
October 9, 1996: Vice President Al Gore and former Representative Jack
Kemp discuss the environment in the Vice Presidential debate, with Kemp
bizarrely accusing Gore of promoting "fear of the climate" and embracing
an "anti-capitalistic mentality," while Gore defends the Clinton
administration's first-term environmental accomplishments.
(60:13--70:50)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/74250-1
*Jack French Kemp*
Jim, Al has to hear one more time. Every time in this century we've
lowered the tax rates across-the-board on employment, on saving,
investment, and risk-taking in this economy, revenues went up, not
down. Now, if the purpose of the tax code is to raise revenue. We
ought to think, as John F. Kennedy did, about lowering the rates. We
can't go to zero. They can't go too low, because there's not enough
revenue, but President Clinton apologized in Houston for saying,
whoops, I raised your taxes and they're too high. President Bush
apologized for raising taxes. Bob Dole knows that the rates have to
come down across-the-board and then we'll get to the most important
part, to repeal this code and go to a new system for the 21st Century.
01:00:13
*Jim Lehrer*
Mr. Vice President, some Democrats have charged that the environment
would be in jeopardy if Mr. Kemp and Senator Dole are elected. Do
you share that fear?
01:00:25
*Al Gore Jr.*
I certainly do. In citing John F. Kennedy's tax cut in the 1960s, I
want to also remind you that, Mr. Kemp, pointed out in the past, Bob
Dole was in the Congress then. He was one of those who voted against
John F. Kennedy's tax cut. The environment faces dire threats from
the kind of legislation that Senator Dole and Speaker Newt Gingrich
tried to pass by shutting down the government and attempting to
force President Clinton to accept it. They invited the lobbyists for
the biggest polluters in America to come into the Congress and
literally rewrite the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.
President Clinton stopped them dead in their tracks. We have a
positive agenda on the environment because we believe very deeply
that it's about our children and our future. Clean air and clean
water, cleaning up toxic waste sites, when millions of children live
within one mile of them. That's important. We have a plan to clean
up two-thirds of the toxic waste sites in America over the next four
years. We've already cleaned up more in the last three years than
the previous two administrations did in 12. The President just set
aside the Utah National Monument. He is protecting the Everglades
here in Florida. Bob Dole is opposed to that plan. President Bill
Clinton will protect our environment and prevent the kind of attacks
on it that we saw in the last Congress and are included in the
Republican platform.
01:02:12
*Jack French Kemp*
And so will Bob Dole. I mean, Al, get real. Franklin Roosevelt said
in 1932 that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. The only
thing, Jim, they have to offer is fear. Fear of the environment,
fear of the climate, fear of Medicare, fear of Newt, fear of
Republicans, fear of Bob, and probably fear of cutting tax rates.
They ain't seen nothing yet. Look, we recognize that this country
has to live in balance with our environment. Every one of us who
have children and grandchildren recognize how we have to reach a
balance. It is not jobs versus our environment. Both are important.
This is the most overregulated, overly litigated economy in our
nation's history. And to call a businessman or woman who sits down
and has a chance to express his or her interest in how to make these
laws work and call them a polluter is just outrageous. It is typical
of the anti-capitalistic mentality of this administration. That will
change, because we believe in democratic capitalism for everybody.
01:03:28
*Al Gore Jr.*
There are lots of jobs to be created in cleaning up the environment.
All around the world we're seeing problems that people want to solve
because they love their children. They want them to be able to drink
clean water and breathe clean air. They don't want them to live next
to toxic waste sites. When the United States of America takes the
lead in protecting the environment, we do right by our children, and
we also create new business opportunities, new jobs, new sources of
prosperity for the United States of America, and we're going about
it in a common sense way.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/74250-1
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