[✔️] August 3, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Surf's up, Kevin Anderson, flooding in China, Activist in the press room, Ice melting, First Dog humor, Lewis Black, 2015 different politicians

[Richard Pauli]

/*August  3*//*, 2023*/

/[ AP report:  Surfs up -- move away from the shoreline ] /
*Waves grow up to 13 feet tall in California as Earth warms, research finds*
BY JULIE WATSON
August 3, 2023
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet 
(about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as 
the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the 
increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years.

Oceanographer Peter Bromirski at Scripps Institution of Oceanography 
used the unusual method of analyzing seismic records dating back to 1931 
to measure the change in wave height.

When waves ricochet off the shore, they collide with incoming waves and 
cause a ripple of energy through the seafloor that can be picked up by 
seismographs designed to detect earthquakes. The greater the impact, the 
taller the wave is.
Until now, scientists relied on a network of buoys by the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that collect data on wave height 
along U.S. coasts, but that data along the California coast only went 
back to 1980...
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They found that average winter wave heights have grown by as much as a 
foot since 1970, when global warming is believed to have begun 
accelerating. Swells at least 13 feet tall (about 4 meters) are also 
happening a lot more often, occurring at least twice as often between 
1996 to 2016 than from 1949 to 1969.
Bromirski was also surprised to find extended periods of exceptionally 
low wave heights prior to about 1970 and none of those periods since.

“Erosion, coastal flooding, damage to coastal infrastructure is, you 
know, something that we’re seeing more frequently than in the past,” 
Bromirski said. “And, you know, combined with sea level rise, bigger 
waves mean that is going to happen more often.”

Changes in waves are showing up in other ways, too.

“There’s about twice as many big wave events since 1970 as there was 
prior to 1970,” Bromirski said.

The study, published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research: 
Oceans, adds to the evidence that climate change is causing massive 
shifts in the world’s oceans. Other studies have shown waves are not 
only getting taller but also more powerful...
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Damage from intense storms and massive surf is already playing out. This 
winter, California’s severe storms and giant waves collapsed bluffs, 
damaged piers and flooded parts of the state’s picturesque Highway 1.

Bromirski said that is a harbinger of the future. Scientists say global 
warming may even be accelerating, ushering in even bigger waves.
As sea levels rise and storms intensify, bigger waves will cause more 
flooding in coastal communities, erode away beaches, trigger landslides 
and destabilize remaining bluffs, he said.
These issues are of particular concern along the California coast, where 
sea cliffs have already started crumbling and brought down homes in 
recent years. Because of sea level rise, projections at the end of the 
21st century indicate even moderate waves might cause damage comparable 
to that of extreme weather events, according to the study.

Oceanographer Gary Griggs at the University of California Santa Cruz 
said while a jump of a foot in wave height over more than 50 years is 
not huge, the findings are consistent with what scientists know is 
happening to the world’s oceans as they warm: They are becoming 
increasingly violent due to more extreme storms and wreaking havoc along 
coasts.

Griggs, who was not involved in the research, said it adds to growing 
scientific data showing how fast the world is warming and how quickly 
seas are rising.

“We know hurricanes are more intense and last longer, and now we’ve got, 
you know, waves increasing in power. So those are all consistent,” he 
said. “The challenge ... is sort of how to really respond to that.”
https://apnews.com/article/ocean-waves-bigger-california-climate-change-2dba8b958acf6642647b40a716924765



/[ conversation highly regarded climate scientist  - video 1:27  ]/
*Kevin Anderson: "The Uncomfortable Link Between Climate and Equity" | 
The Great Simplification #82*
Nate Hagens
Aug 2, 2023  The Great Simplification - with Nate Hagens
On this episode, Nate is joined by climate scientist Kevin Anderson to 
discuss the possible paths of averting severe climate outcomes and how 
this is interconnected with equity. As nations plan their climate goals 
and coordinate with each other, it’s clear that extreme actions would be 
needed from everyone to meet the goal of keeping the global average 
temperature increase below 2ºC - if this is even possible. At the same 
time, there are wide disparities in the greenhouse gas emissions between 
the materially wealthiest and poorest within and across countries. How 
are past inequities already affecting people in presently climate 
impacted zones? How can concerned individuals begin incorporating 
changes and communicating with others in their own lives - and is it 
even worth it to do so? How can we attempt to balance the equity in 
standards of living and create rapid reductions in emissions, all while 
grappling with growing geopolitical tensions, declining energy 
availability, and the multitude of other converging risks in this 
impending poly-crisis.

    About Kevin Anderson:
    Kevin is professor of Energy and Climate Change at the University of
    Manchester and visiting professor at the Universities of Uppsala
    (Sweden) and Bergen (Norway). Formerly he held the position of
    Zennström professor (in Uppsala) and was director of the Tyndall
    Centre for Climate Change Research (UK). Kevin engages widely with
    governments, industry and civil society, and remains research active
    with publications in Climate policy, Nature and Science. He has a
    decade’s industrial experience in the petrochemical industry, is a
    chartered engineer and fellow of the Institution of Mechanical
    Engineers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQzdK1uGhWA



/[ Big flooding in China //displays Propaganda and Disinformation -- 
reports by two producers of "The China Show " ]/
*BREAKING - Beijing Destroyed by Biblical Floods - CCP Panics*
The China Show
Streamed live 8-2-23  The China Show
Go to http://athleticgreens.com/ADV to get healthy, and take control of 
your life.

Yikes. Biblical floods wipe out Beijing. Mandate of Heaven? Why are they 
covering this up?

Some good clips came from a great Taiwan YouTuber -
  / @ucvte3z7tzsjgzuerx4ce6za

Laowhy86 - China made a fake version of me for propaganda -

  • China Made a FAKE Version of ME 
fhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVNz_6pg3bU&t=0s
SerpentZA - China's hidden homeless problem -

  • China is Hiding its homeless people 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdC9xube-2c
ADVChina -

China Fact Chasers - Please subscribe!    / chinafactchasers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LbLXRtGoDg


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/[ Newsweek called attention to this poignant outburst ]/
*Video of Activist Confronting Biden Admin Viewed Over 4 Million Times*
BY KATHERINE FUNG ON 7/28/23

A video of a climate change activist confronting White House press 
secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been viewed over 4 million times on 
Twitter.

Elise Joshi, executive director of Gen Z for Change, stood up in the 
middle of Jean-Pierre's remarks interrupted at the Voters of Tomorrow's 
summit on Thursday, interrupting the press secretary to confront the 
Biden administration over its climate policy.

"Excuse me for interrupting, but asking nicely hasn't worked out. A 
million young people wrote to the administration pleading not to approve 
a disastrous oil-drilling project in Alaska, and we were ignored," Joshi 
said. "So I'm here channeling the strength of my ancestors and 
generation. Will the administration stop approving new oil and gas 
projects and align with youth, science and front-line communities from 
the north slope of Alaska to Louisiana?"
https://www.newsweek.com/video-activist-confronting-biden-admin-viewed-4-million-times-1816068

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/[ see this video of press conference activism  - worth viewing ]/
Elise Joshi
@EliseJoshi
I just mustered up every ounce of courage to interrupt White House Press 
Secretary
@K_JeanPierre and urge the Biden Administration to stop approving new 
coal, oil, and gas projects.
The climate crisis is here now.
https://twitter.com/EliseJoshi/status/1684725645496958976



/[ newly discovered mechanisms of ice melting ]/
*Extreme Rain From Atmospheric Rivers and Ice-Heating Micro-Cracks Are 
Ominous New Threats to the Greenland Ice Sheet*
New evidence of a previous Greenland meltdown suggests large parts of 
the ice sheet vanished at temperatures similar to today’s.
By Bob Berwyn
July 31, 2023
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So what could melt a slab of ice that’s bigger than Alaska and up to 2 
miles thick, holding enough water to raise average global sea level by 
24 feet? Or perhaps more importantly, what could melt it fast?

The second recent study, published in June in Nature Geoscience, shows a 
possible new mechanism that could accelerate ice sheet disintegration. 
There are vast networks of previously undetected micro-cracks on the 
Greenland Ice Sheet that may run hundreds of meters deep, carrying warm 
surface water to the interior of the ice sheet and melting it from 
within, said David Chandler, a postdoctoral researcher at the Bjerknes 
Centre for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway, and a co-author.

That could help partly explain why, when researchers measure the 
interior temperatures of Greenland’s ice, it’s often warmer than models 
suggest it should be, and the “associated reduction in ice viscosity and 
increased damage accumulation act to enhance the vulnerability of ice 
sheets and shelves to dynamic instability” as the cracks and other 
drainage networks spread inland and to higher elevations, the authors 
wrote in the paper.

The narrow fractures described in the paper are different from the large 
drainage structures often featured in dramatic climate videos from 
Greenland, when entire meltwater lakes pour down off the surface through 
holes called moulins into a deep system of tunnels that can lead all the 
way to the base of the ice sheet, where the water, under the weight of 
the ice builds up so much pressure that it hydraulically lifts the ice, 
enabling it to slide faster.

Chandler said he first started wondering about the significance of the 
smaller cracks more than 10 years ago, when he was doing field research 
on the ice sheet, studying how water flowed through the larger drainage 
structures.

“I spent a long time camping on the ice sheet and in the spring, when 
they open, you can hear them banging and popping and banging all the 
time,” he said. “It’s quite noisy, actually. I was working at four 
different sites where this happened in West Greenland at high elevation, 
where the ice is about 900 meters thick. Even there, there were cracks 
opening and capturing streams and developing moulins, he added.

His field work was focused on the subglacial hydrology: how and where 
the drainage systems develop, because that can affect the inside and the 
base of the ice sheet. But then he started to realize the extent of the 
smaller cracks, which don’t end up draining out in a big rush, and that 
made him wonder how the micro-cracks affect the ice from a temperature, 
rather than a hydrological, perspective.

“How deep are they?” he said. “If they can get quite deep in the ice, 
then it’s interesting because of the englacial warming.”

“Turbocharged Melt Seasons”
The study documents the opening of “abundant hairline fractures 
associated with ice flow acceleration following the onset of seasonal 
melt,” he and co-author Alun Hubbard wrote. “Typically, we observed sets 
of multiple parallel thin fractures extending hundreds of meters 
perpendicular to prevailing ice flow, even across zones distant from 
crevasse fields and supraglacial lakes.”

The cracks are generally 1 to 2 centimeters wide and “hence remain 
undetectable by satellites or drone remote observations.” But because 
they are so ubiquitous, the study suggests they can not only heat the 
ice from the inside-out, but can also contribute to accumulating damage 
that could promote disintegration of the glaciers farther downstream, 
thousands of tiny stress fractures that can eventually lead to 
catastrophic failure.

“When we think of water, it’s kind of a mundane, innocent feature of 
ice,” said James Kirkham, chief science advisor and coordinator to the 
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, set up to draw attention to 
Earth’s vanishing ice. “But it’s extremely powerful, one of the most 
powerful driving forces of shifting these ice sheets today, both in 
Greenland and Antarctica.”

The changes wrought by the effects of water on the ice sheets are most 
visible in Greenland right now, he said, which is “seeing melt seasons 
turbocharged by recent warming.”

Multiple recent studies suggest the beginning of some chain reactions 
that could rapidly accelerate the ice loss, he said. “That is really 
concerning for everyone around the world, including the U.S., given that 
10 percent of the U.S. population lives quite close to the coast where 
they could be affected by the sea level rise.”

He said the worst-case scenario for Greenland is approaching faster than 
previously thought. More studies a are showing “fairly extreme” melt 
projections, pointing toward some of the high-end outcomes for ice mass 
loss and sea level rise, including potentially a foot of sea level by 
2100 from Greenland, at the current level of warming.

*Atmospheric River “Rapids”*
Melting surface ice isn’t the only source of water on the Greenland Ice 
Sheet. Rainfall is playing an increasing role, and the amounts of rain 
now falling are “insane,” said Jason Box, a snow and ice climatologist 
at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland and lead author of the 
third recent study, published in July by the Royal Meteorological 
Society documenting an increase of extreme rainstorms in Greenland.

Box said his study, the study by Chandler on the ice cracks and 
Bierman’s new research on Greenland’s meltdown in Marine Isotope Stage 
11 “add insight to an all-too-long list of factors not yet encoded in 
ice sheet models used to project future sea level rise.” The increased 
meltwater delivery from rainfall is an important aspect of the 
hydrofracturing processes that are cracking up the ice sheet, he added.

“Greenland Ice Sheet rainfall exemplifies how climatology has been 
undergoing a paradigm shift,” Box said in a video outlining the study 
results. “Our attention is now a lot less focused on the gradually 
upward creeping averages. Extremes in weather are increasingly 
disrupting our world and dominating the climate conversation.”

His new study measured a 33 percent increase in rainfall on the 
Greenland Ice Sheet since 1991, and includes new readings of extreme 
rainfalls since gauges were installed at several climate stations in 
Greenland.

Box said there is already strong theoretical evidence that the frequency 
and intensity of extreme rainfall increases because the warmer the 
atmosphere is, the more moisture it can hold. The study found that, 
since 1991, there have been 16 times when daily rainfall somewhere on 
the ice sheet exceeded 300 millimeters (11.8 inches).

“The single event I detail here was ranked second for total ice sheet 
rainfall,” he said. “The amount of rainfall that day would run the 
Thames River for two years.”

The study also focused on the role atmospheric rivers, wide streams of 
very moist air from the subtropics, play in bringing extreme rains to 
Greenland. The main impact of extreme rainfall on the ice sheet is the 
warm air surrounding the rain, which wipes out snow cover and reveals 
dark ice, and leads to the darkening of the remaining snow at the higher 
elevations.

“The dark snow effect is from the rounding of ice crystal edges,” he 
said. “Elevated melting becomes sustained for days or even another week, 
when otherwise snow would have brightened the surface, protecting the 
underlying ice from melting.”

Embed video: https://youtu.be/Tua4p9ns2JY

After analyzing wind speeds and directions at different elevations, Box 
said he detected “atmospheric river rapids” over southern Greenland, 
where the moisture is squeezed out of the clouds as the south-to-north 
flowing winds push up over the mountains and the ice sheet.

High rainfall rates are eroding the so-called cold content of the snow, 
making the ice sheet more prone to melting because less heat is later 
required to bring the temperature up to the melting point, he said. The 
flooding quickly drains into the ice sheet, heating the ice internally...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31072023/greenland-ice-sheet-microcracks-atmospheric-rivers-tipping-points/ 




/[ Dept of wry humor -- click to see the cartoon ]/
*First Dog on the Moon*
Australia weather
It’s so sunny and warm! Is this great or utterly terrifying?
First Dog on the Moon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/02/its-so-sunny-and-warm-is-this-great-or-utterly-terrifying?



/[ More unintentional humor based on reality in Massachusetts ]/
*" the national weather service is forecasting high impact, 
multi-faceted weather events...."  !*
And I heard about it from Lewis Black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGyhNvTHpf8      try 8:45 in



/[The news archive - looking back -- 2015 was very recent for 
politicians to ignore the issue of global warming. ]/
/*August 3, 2015 */
August 3, 2015:
The New York Times reports:

"The issue of climate change played almost no role in the 2012 
presidential campaign.

President Obama barely mentioned the topic, nor did the Republican 
nominee, Mitt Romney. It was not raised in a single presidential debate.

"But as Mr. Obama prepares to leave office, his own aggressive actions 
on climate change have thrust the issue into the 2016 campaign. 
Strategists now say that this battle for the White House could feature 
more substantive debate over global warming policy than any previous 
presidential race."

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/us/politics/obama-policy-could-force-robust-climate-discussion-from-2016-candidates.html?_r=0


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