[✔️] August 22, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Youth speak, BC fires, PBS Maui questions and anger, Eliot Jacobson on the future, CA Wildfire report, Ezra Klein, Fox gives unintentional truth, Books, 1981 we knew Sea Level rise

Tue Aug 22 07:21:51 EDT 2023

/*August  22*//*, 2023*/

/[  NYTimes  ] /
*With TikTok and Lawsuits, Gen Z Takes on Climate Change*
David Gelles writes the Climate Forward newsletter.

“We’re the last resort,” one young activist said.

“The fire was made so much worse due to climate change,” she said. “How 
many more natural disasters have to happen before grown-ups realize the 
urgency?”
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“We really need adults to wake up,” she said. “If we don’t fix this now, 
there’s not going to be a future.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/climate/young-climate-activists.html

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/[  video report from Democracy Now ]/
*British Columbia in State of Emergency as Climate Change Fuels Canada’s 
Worst Wildfire Season Ever*
Democracy Now!
Aug 21, 2023  Latest Shows
In Canada, the province of British Columbia has declared a state of 
emergency where entire towns have been burned to the ground in the 
country’s worst wildfire season ever. Evacuation orders are in place for 
more than 35,000 people, and 30,000 more have been told to be prepared 
to evacuate. Nearly all 20,000 residents have already left the city of 
Yellowknife, the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Scientists 
say climate change is increasing the risk of wildfires because they are 
fueled by the increasingly hot and dry weather. “There’s a symbiosis 
here between how the climate is changing relative to the length of a 
potential fire season and the fuels that provide energy to fires,” says 
Bob Gray, a wildland fire ecologist, speaking to us from Chilliwack, 
British Columbia. Gray warns that Canada’s firefighting workforce is 
stretched thin, relying on a network of provincial firefighters, 
contractors and international firefighters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_UmExrAdt8

/[  video report  ]/
*Questions and anger emerge over Maui wildfire response and lack of 
communication*
PBS NewsHour
Aug 21, 2023
Local officials and residents are still assessing the scope of loss from 
the Maui wildfires. Troubling questions and anger have emerged as well 
about the role of Hawaii's biggest power utility, the response by local 
and state government and a lack of critical communication when residents 
most needed it. Geoff Bennett discussed that perspective with Marina 
Riker of Honolulu Civil Beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwOlnoFixkw

/[ Deep philosophy of global heating and destabilizations  ]/
*Doomer Dr. Eliot Jacobson talks Hurricane Hilary, Phoenix Heat, 
Canadian Fires, Ocean Heat Rise*

Santa Barbara Talks with Josh Molina

Aug 20, 2023
Doomer Dr. Eliot Jacobson returns to Santa Barbara Talks to discuss the 
potential catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Hilary and why we are seeing 
a tropical hurricane on the West Coast. Jacobson also talks about rising 
heat records in Phoenix, increasing ocean temperatures, and the 
wildfires in Canada. Jacobson is a doomer who believe that it is too 
late to save the planet for humans, but to think about saving the planet 
for whatever species is able to survive. He also talks about climate 
change, fossil fuels, electric and solar power and the inconsistent 
discussion around environmentalism.
After our first podcast, Jacobson appeared on CNN and a variety of other 
media platforms. Check out this latest episode for his compelling views. 
Find Jacobson online at https://climatecasino.net/ or his twitter at 
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson
Joshua Molina is a journalist and college instructor who interviews a 
variety of individuals on topics such as housing, environment and 
culture. Consider a contribution to his independently owned podcast at 
www.santabarbarapodcasts.com or santabarbaratalks.com. Also please 
subscribe to this podcast if you enjoy conversations with people from 
all perspectives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjeBg-l9XHM

/[ CA wildfire independent discussion ]/
*NW California Wildfire Report - 8/21/2023*
The Lookout
Aug 21, 2023
A week into a regional lightning bust across the Klamath and Siskiyou 
Mountains, fires have burned over 50,000 acres. Much of this acreage has 
burned with 'backing fire' which has resulted in beneficial low-moerate 
severity fire effects. This video discusses the potential for growth on 
the largest fires, looks at how fire history in each area affects the 
potential for major growth, and talks about other aspects of wildfire 
behavior and management.

In this video, we look at the amount of resources available for 
firefighting across NW California, and talk about why the numbers of 
firefighters is insufficient to contain most of the largest fires.

The Lookout is an independent media company reporting on wildfire, 
forestry, land management, and rural culture. We are driven by a desire 
to help people understand how wildfires work, the strategies employed by 
people attempting to manage them, and the intersection of fire and 
culture. We are based in Chico, in Northern California. We are 100% 
user-supported. If you enjoy our content, check out the-lookout.org and 
consider becoming a subscriber at the-lookout.org/donate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duDXfd8jXiA

/[  We are feeling a global predicament -  audio  ]/
*When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action Collide*/
/New York Times Podcasts
Aug 22, 2023  The Ezra Klein Show
The global decarbonization effort is colliding headfirst with the 
realities of great power politics. China currently controls more than 75 
percent of the world’s electric vehicle battery and solar photovoltaic 
manufacturing supply chains. It also processes the bulk of the so-called 
critical minerals, like lithium, cobalt and graphite, that are essential 
to building out clean energy technologies. There is no clean energy 
revolution without China.

What would happen if China decided to weaponize its clean energy 
resources in the same way Russia recently weaponized its oil and gas? Is 
it possible for the U.S. to end its energy dependency on China by 
investing in clean energy at home? What does this geopolitical reality 
mean for the prospect of meeting the world’s climate goals?

Over the past few years, Jason Bordoff and Meghan O’Sullivan have been 
at the forefront of mapping out the ways decarbonization will upend the 
world’s economic and geopolitical order. Bordoff is the founding 
director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University 
and a former senior director for energy and climate change for the 
National Security Council under Barack Obama. O’Sullivan is the director 
of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the 
Harvard Kennedy School and a former deputy national security adviser in 
the George W. Bush administration.

In Bordoff and O’Sullivan’s view, decarbonization won’t just affect what 
kinds of cars we drive or how we power our homes. It will transform 
everything from the nature of international markets and trade relations 
to the global balance of military and diplomatic power. And it will 
create new economic superpowers, new alliances and new sources of 
geopolitical conflict in the process.

This conversation explores the contours of this transformation and what 
it will mean for the future of the climate and world politics.
/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KdXQJkCrhA
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/[////When my sarcasm meets Fox News' Dept of Unintentional Truth 
Telling//it brings a revealing truth ]/
*America's schools are becoming training grounds for climate change 
activists*
Students are being trained to serve as climate activists for Big 
Government power grabs
By Nicholas Giordano Fox News
Published August 16, 2023

Just when you thought we had made progress by exposing diversity, 
equity, and inclusion (DEI) and critical race theory (CRT)-infused 
curricula throughout our education system, we now have a new 
distraction: the climate change agenda.

States like New Jersey, California, Connecticut, New York, and others, 
are advancing legislation to require climate change lessons in every 
K-12 subject – including foreign languages, math and physical education.

This blatant attempt to cultivate an entire generation of Greta 
Thunbergs at a time when proficiency levels are abysmal should incite 
outrage among parents, teachers, and students.

Just 29% of eighth graders are proficient in reading, 26% are proficient 
in math, 22% are proficient in civics, and a measly 13% are proficient 
in American history, according to the National Assessment of Educational 
Progress (NAEP).

SCHOOLS ARE SCARING OUR KIDS TO DEATH WITH THIS INDOCTRINATION PROGRAM

While climate change deserves attention in science classes, other 
important subjects should not be used as a vehicle to push a political 
agenda.

As the first state to integrate climate change standards across all 
subjects, New Jersey provides a glimpse into the climate curricula. 
According to the New Jersey Department of Education, all curricula must 
"approach climate change and climate solutions from a climate justice 
perspective." What this looks like in practice is an unabashed 
indoctrination effort.

In foreign language courses, students will learn about "global 
citizenry" and the "impact of climate change." In math, teachers must 
actively incorporate climate change into word problems, charts and 
graphs. In social studies, students will learn about climate change, 
"all for the purpose of planning/proposing advocacy projects to inform 
others about the impact of climate change."

New Jersey’s physical education standards reference climate change eight 
times, but never mention the danger of obesity. There are four standards 
related to climate change and only two regarding the importance of 
healthy eating habits. The indoctrination is evident in these new 
learning standards.

Manipulating young minds inhibits academic growth and stifles skills 
such as critical analysis and problem-solving. Indoctrination restrains 
independent thought and pushes a one-sided perspective – but that is the 
point.

At the same time that our public schools are indoctrinating the next 
generation to pledge allegiance to the climate change doctrine, the 
Biden administration and its allies are pushing misguided climate 
policies that kill jobs, waste taxpayer money, drive up prices, and 
artificially manipulate our economy. Our youngest minds are being 
trained to serve as activists for Big Government power grabs.

Furthermore, infusing climate change into every subject shortchanges our 
children from the quality education they deserve. Each subject is 
important in shaping well-rounded, informed students. When these 
subjects are treated as mere vehicles to push a political agenda, 
students receive only diluted versions of the foundational skills of 
each subject area.

This push to codify climate change-infused subject matter in all 
subjects comes amid a stark decline in our education system, highlighted 
by historic lows in student performance. Climate change curricula shifts 
the focus away from the essential material that needs to be taught and 
serves as a distraction to divert our attention away from our failing 
schools. It is an attempt to create activists rather than foster 
critical thinkers capable of analyzing complex issues from multiple 
perspectives.

It is time for parents, teachers and concerned citizens to reclaim our 
education system from those who prioritize political indoctrination over 
genuine learning.

Young minds deserve genuine education. We must demand an immediate end 
to the politicization of curricula and insist on an education that 
empowers students to become informed, engaged, and responsible citizens.

Nicholas Giordano is a political science professor at Suffolk Community 
College
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/americas-schools-becoming-training-grounds-climate-change-activists

/[ LA Times offers a lists a few books ]/
*Want to read more books about climate change? Here’s a list to get started*
BY ROSANNA XIA - STAFF WRITER
AUG. 21, 2023
This list is by no means comprehensive, but consider it a snapshot of 
all the many ways you can connect more deeply with the issue. Perhaps 
it’s a practical guidebook on carbon footprints, or a sharp essay 
collection, or a rigorous assessment of how we relate to the natural 
world. I’ve also included a few novels at the end, in case fiction is 
more your jam.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-21/la-enviro-cc-climate-change-book-list

/[The news archive - looking back at an article by Walter Sullivan that 
I may have read back then - when I was 32 yrs old ]/
/*August  22, 1981 */
August 22, 1981: The New York Times reports on a groundbreaking study by 
Dr. James Hansen on the risks of escalating carbon emissions.

    *STUDY FINDS WARMING TREND THAT COULD RAISE SEA LEVELS*

    A team of Federal scientists says it has detected an overall warming
    trend in the earth's atmosphere extending back to the year 1880.
    They regard this as evidence of the validity of the ''greenhouse''
    effect, in which increasing amounts of carbon dioxide cause steady
    temperature increases.

    The seven atmospheric scientists predict a global warming of
    ''almost unprecedented magnitude'' in the next century. It might
    even be sufficient to melt and dislodge the ice cover of West
    Antarctica, they say, eventually leading to a worldwide rise of 15
    to 20 feet in the sea level. In that case, they say, it would
    ''flood 25 percent of Louisiana and Florida, 10 percent of New
    Jersey and many other lowlands throughout the world'' within a
    century or less.

    Workings of Greenhouse

    The forecast, which also envisions widespread disruption of
    agriculture, is the fruit of analyses and computer simulations
    conducted by the Institute for Space Studies of the National
    Aeronautics and Space Administration. The institute, which is in New
    York City, is part of the space agency's Goddard Spaceflight Center
    in Greenbelt, Md. The forecast is in an article in the Aug. 28 issue
    of the journal Science.

    Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which is primarily a result of
    mankind's burning of fuels, is thought to act like the glass of a
    greenhouse. It absorbs heat radiation from the earth and its
    atmosphere, heat that otherwise would dissipate into space. Other
    factors being equal, the more carbon dioxide there is in the
    atmosphere, the warmer the earth should become, according to the theory.

    A century ago the amount of carbon dioxide in the air was 280 to 300
    parts per million. It is now 335 to 340 parts per million and it is
    expected to be at least 600 parts per million in the next century.

    The possibility that the greenhouse effect could alter the earth's
    temperature has long been debated. Scientists have agreed that
    carbon dioxide is increasing, but disagree on whether temperatures
    are also increasing.

    The major difficulty in accepting the greenhouse theory ''has been
    the absence of observed warming coincident with the historic carbon
    dioxide increase,'' the scientists wrote.

    Researchers were further confounded by an apparent cooling trend
    since 1940. As a result, many atmospheric scientists concluded that
    the climatic effects of increased carbon dioxide might not become
    detectable for many decades. But the Government scientists say they
    see clear evidence that carbon dioxide added to the atmosphere since
    the Industrial Revolution has already warmed the climate.

    If fuel burning increases at a slow rate with emphasis on other
    energy sources, the study predicts a global temperature rise in the
    next century of about 5 degrees Fahrenheit. If fuel use rises
    rapidly, which some believe may occur as the developing countries
    industrialize, the predicted rise is from 6 to 9 degrees.

    Even the more moderate rise of 5 degrees, the authors say, would
    result in higher average temperatures than were reached in the
    period between the last two ice ages. At that time sea levels were
    30 feet higher than they are today, probably because West Antarctica
    was ice free. The climate ''would approach the warmth of the
    Mesozoic, the age of dinosaurs,'' the report says.

    The study's conclusions are likely to be challenged on two counts:
    their detection of a trend of temperature increase and linking it
    with a carbon dioxide increase, and their projections of the
    consequences of the increase.

    A leading participant in past carbon dioxide studies has been Dr.
    Stephen H. Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
    in Boulder, Colo. Reached by telephone there, he said the
    conclusions about the extent of warming and how quickly it will
    occur would be reasonable if the assumptions on which they are based
    prove valid, but that many can be challenged.

    One of these is the space agency group's contention that a cooling
    trend in recent decades was caused by dust from volcanic eruptions
    high in the atmosphere. If that was not the case, their model might
    be seriously flawed.

    Other assumptions open to challenge include such uncertain factors
    as population growth rates, energy-consuming trends in the
    developing world, new developments in solar energy and other
    alternative energy sources, trends in energy conservation and lack
    of knowledge regarding the extent to which oceans might remove
    carbon dioxide from the air.

    These uncertainties are, to a large extent, recognized in the new
    report, signed by Dr. James Hansen and six colleagues at the space
    studies institute.

    In their analysis, the scientists seek to respond to an outspoken
    skeptic regarding the carbon dioxide threat, Dr. Sherwood B. Idso, a
    climate specialist with the Federal Department of Agriculture in
    Phoenix. Last March he circulated an analysis saying that a doubling
    or tripling of atmospheric carbon dioxide would have little effect
    except to increase global agricultural productivity by 20 to 50 percent.

    Plants grow by converting carbon dioxide and water into
    carbohydrates and other compounds, aided by solar energy. One
    proposed strategy to limit the growth of atmospheric carbon dioxide
    would be to plant extensive forests.

    Dr. Hansen and his colleagues cite the observed surface temperatures
    of Mars and, particularly, Venus as support for their predicted
    greenhouse effect. The surface of Venus, with an atmosphere formed
    largely of carbon dioxide, is at about 900 degrees Fahrenheit.

    Their conclusion that the climate has warmed by almost one degree in
    the last century is based on a re-analysis of global observations,
    paying special attention to the Southern Hemisphere. ''The common
    misconception that the world is cooling,'' they say, ''is based on
    Northern Hemisphere experience to 1970.''

    As ''an appropriate strategy,'' the report proposes emphasis on
    energy conservation and development of alternative energy sources
    while using fossil fuels ''as necessary'' in the coming decades.

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/22/us/study-finds-warming-trend-that-could-raise-sea-levels.html

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*This Year's Model*
greenman3610

Jun 26, 2009

Climate science is not completely dependent on climate models. There are 
many threads of supporting evidence. Still,  it is clear that climate 
models are telling us something important that we cannot afford to ignore.
http://youtu.be/D6Un69RMNSw

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