[✔️] April 21, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | El Niño, more pollen, Antarctic melting faster, Greenland too, Seaweed blob Headed to Florida, Energy imbalance, Pruitt the blewitt

Fri Apr 21 04:30:14 EDT 2023

/*April*//*21, 2023*/

/[ El Niño the hot little one - Calif TV meteorologist - later this 
year  - 5 min report]/
*El Niño is on the way: What it could mean for California*
ABC10
Apr 19, 2023
With the El Niño Southern Oscillation expected to flip from La Niña to 
El Niño this year, climate scientists are concerned 2023 will be even 
warmer. All of this is occurring with a backdrop of a consistently 
warmer climate, and this climate change means more extreme drought but 
also more extreme wet periods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRU1XYfjVF4

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/[ warming airs generate more pollen  ]/
*‘In every breath we take’: How climate change impacts pollen allergies*
Longer growing seasons and more pollen spell misery for millions.
Sam Harrington
by SAMANTHA HARRINGTON
APRIL 19, 2023...
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When spring arrives, as many as 81 million Americans experience seasonal 
allergies. And as the planet warms and more carbon dioxide is pumped 
into the atmosphere, climate change is lengthening pollen seasons and 
making them more severe.

Worsening allergies are “a really clear example of how climate change is 
impacting us now, every spring, in every breath that we take. This is 
climate change in our own backyards, in our own towns and cities. It’s 
not future generations or other countries or future decades,” said 
William Anderegg, an associate professor at the University of Utah who 
has studied the impact of climate change on pollen seasons in North America.

This increased exposure to pollen is particularly dangerous for 
children, people with asthma, and people who live in areas with high 
levels of air pollution. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 
Americans spend over $3 billion on medical costs linked to pollen, with 
nearly half of those costs coming from prescription medication.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/04/in-every-breath-we-take-how-climate-change-impacts-pollen-allergies/

/[ PBS specials  YouTube video  5.5 mins ]/
*Ice sheets in Greenland, Antarctica melting faster than previously 
thought, research shows*
PBS NewsHour
Apr 20, 2023
New research shows that the massive ice sheets at the top and bottom of 
our planet are shrinking much faster than previously thought. The 
international study compiled satellite measurements over time and depict 
what one researcher described as a "devastating trajectory." William 
Brangham discussed the implications of the analysis with Twila Moon of 
the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDmAIffgkro

/[  Blob is a trigger word - makes some hunger for buttered-popcorn  ] /
*Those Seaweed Blobs Headed for Florida? See How Big They Are.*
By Elena Shao
April 19, 2023
Scientists say they spotted more than 13 million tons of Sargassum, a 
yellowish-brown seaweed, drifting in the Atlantic Ocean last month — a 
record for the month of March...
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Tangles of the goopy, leafy seaweed have already begun to wash ashore 
beaches in southern Florida and Mexico. In the coming months, they could 
start emitting a rotting stench as they decay, potentially posing health 
risks to beachgoers.

Floating mats of seaweed accumulate in the central Atlantic Ocean for 
much of the year. But during the spring and summer, patches of it are 
carried by ocean currents toward the Caribbean, eastern Florida and 
elsewhere along the Gulf Coast.

It’s hard to predict how much will creep onto beaches in the coming 
months, but the right combination of ocean currents and wind conditions 
could push a lot of it ashore, experts said.

Some parts of the Florida Keys have already seen unusually large amounts 
of seaweed for this time of year, said Brian Lapointe, a research 
professor at Florida Atlantic University who has studied Sargassum for 
most of his career.

“I was amazed at what I saw driving along the Overseas Highway,” he 
said, referring to the main road that runs through the Keys...
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As the Sargassum washes ashore and begins to decompose, it degrades the 
water quality and pollutes beaches, scientists say. The decaying algae 
releases ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, which has an unpleasant odor like 
rotten eggs and can irritate the eyes, nose and throat.

Some Caribbean islands have seen huge amounts of the brown algae 
inundate beaches during Sargassum season, posing worrisome respiratory 
health risks to residents exposed to the hydrogen sulfide, according to 
a 2018 study.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/19/climate/seaweed-florida-sargassum.html

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/[ careful tracking started  ]/
*A Giant Blob of Seaweed Is Heading to Florida*
The mass, known as the great Atlantic Sargassum belt, is drifting toward 
the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists say seaweed is likely to come ashore by 
summer to create a rotting, stinking, scourge...
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Last summer, the U.S. Virgin Islands declared a state of emergency, 
after “unusually high amounts” of sargassum piled up on its shores, 
affecting a desalination plant on the island of St. Croix. And in 2018, 
after a mass bloom that sprawled across about 5,500 miles in the 
Atlantic Ocean, doctors on the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and 
Martinique reported thousands of cases of “acute” exposure to hydrogen 
sulfide, according to a study published that year.

In the past, besieged beach towns have turned to various measures to rid 
themselves of sargassum: In Mexico, the navy has been recruited to scoop 
the seaweed from the ocean, and rake the country’s beaches. Meanwhile, 
some entrepreneurs have proposed transforming the seaweed into animal 
feed, fuel or construction materials.

But Dr. Lapointe, the research professor, warned that anyone 
experimenting with new uses for the seaweed should exercise extreme 
caution: sargassum contains arsenic, which, if used in fertilizer, could 
potentially make its way up the food chain.

The most immediate threat, however, is to tourism. “It’s having 
catastrophic effects,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/us/seaweed-blob-florida-mexico.html

/[  EEI = Earth Energy Imbalance -- presents updated version  YouTube ]/
*EEI (Earth Energy Imbalance) is the single most important Metric to 
know to understand Earth warming*
Paul Beckwith
Apr 19, 2023
The Earth Energy Imbalance is simply (Energy In) to the Earth system 
minus (Energy Out). As long as it is positive, Earth warms, when it is 
zero Earth stabilizes, and when it is negative Earth cools.

Between 1961 and 2020, EEI was about 0.48 Watts per square meter. 
Between 2006 and 2020, it was much higher, being 0.76 W/m**2.

Politicians, company CEOs, decision makers, policy makers, and the 
general public must learn these basic facts of EEI, and know that their 
efforts are futile until the EEI is reduced to zero, and even 
temporarily below to restore our planetary capacity to support life, 
including that of humans.

Donate to my PayPal at http://PaulBeckwith.net to support my research 
and videos. Get this message on EEI spread far and wide on social media. 
We can’t just give up, and do nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbI9OJRYRQ0

/[The news archive - looking back at the rise of Pruitt  ]/
/*April 21, 2018*/
April 21, 2018:
The New York Times reports on EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s long 
history of corruption.
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At the E.P.A., Mr. Pruitt is under investigation for allegations of 
unchecked spending, ethics lapses and other issues, including his 
interactions with lobbyists. An examination of Mr. Pruitt’s political 
career in Oklahoma reveals that many of the pitfalls he has encountered 
in Washington have echoes in his past...
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David Walters, a former Oklahoma governor and Democrat, described Mr. 
Pruitt as someone who looked out for himself over the needs of 
constituents, especially during his years as attorney general.
“I was disappointed to find him operating in a hyperpartisan manner and 
seemingly representing corporate interests over Oklahoma citizens,” Mr. 
Walters said.

In response to questions submitted by The New York Times about Mr. 
Pruitt’s finances in Oklahoma, an E.P.A. spokeswoman said Mr. Pruitt’s 
business dealings with Mr. Kelly and Mr. Wagner “were ethical” and his 
stake in the shell company “was a simple real estate investment.”
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Oklahoma campaign disclosures filed by Mr. Pruitt at the time made no 
mention of the home purchase or the rental agreement with Mr. Dunlap. 
Real estate records show that the transfer of ownership from Ms. 
Lindsey, the lobbyist, was rather complicated and involved multiple 
steps — none of them with any public reference to Mr. Pruitt, though the 
E.P.A. spokeswoman confirmed that he was one of five co-owners of the 
shell company

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/politics/scott-pruitt-oklahoma-epa.html 

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