[✔️] December 2, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Blaming nations, Shrimp, War fuels climate heat, Military blind-spot, Mad Max Furiosa, 1970 EPA est

Sat Dec 2 07:59:12 EST 2023

/*December 2*//*, 2023*/

/[ From CNN -  great graphs and graphics ]/
*As climate chaos accelerates, which countries are polluting the most?*
By Laura Paddison and Annette Choi, CNN
December 1, 2023

Countries have a mammoth task ahead as they gather for the COP28 climate 
summit in Dubai. They are way off track for preventing “climate 
catastrophe,” and scientists are sounding the alarm that time is running 
out to slash fossil fuels.

Data from Climate Action Tracker, an independent research group, reveals 
how much planet-heating pollution is still being spewed out, who are the 
biggest polluters and how much progress still needs to be made.
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The world pumped out around
*50 billion metric tons *of planet-heating gases in 2022, according to 
this data. China was the largest climate polluter, making up nearly 30% 
of global emissions.
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Most of the world’s planet-heating pollution comes from just a few 
countries. The
*top 20 global climate polluters* — dominated by China, India, the 
United States and the European Union — were responsible for 83% of 
emissions in 2022. What these countries do to respond to the climate 
crisis has an outsized impact on the rest of the world.
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A different picture emerges when we look at per capita emissions, which 
represent the climate pollution produced by the average person in each 
country, and are calculated as total emissions divided by population.

*China* may be the biggest emitter overall, but the average*American *is 
responsible for nearly twice as much climate pollution as the average 
person in China. And in densely populated *India*, one of the world’s 
biggest climate polluters, per capita emissions are significantly below 
the global average.
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The world is heading toward nearly 3 degrees of global warming, even if 
current climate policies are met, the United Nations has warned.

As the pressure increases on countries — especially those in the rich 
world — to rapidly scale up their climate ambitions, here’s a look at 
where we are now and how we got here...
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There are many different ways to determine what a country’s fair share 
of emissions cuts should be, Friedlingstein said. Climate Action 
Tracker's calculations are just one way of attempting to quantify 
responsibility.

“There is no one single answer” to the question of who should do what, 
he added. “It's not about physics. It's not about math. It's not about 
climate science. It's about decision and policy and diplomacy.”
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/us/countries-climate-change-emissions-cop28/

/[simple signs of change ]/
*New England's decades-old shrimp fishery, a victim of climate change, 
to remain closed indefinitely*
Regulators voted on Friday that New England’s long-shuttered shrimp 
business, which fell victim to warming waters, will remain in a fishing 
moratorium indefinitely

By PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press
December 1, 2023
PORTLAND, Maine -- New England's long-shuttered shrimp business, which 
fell victim to warming waters, will remain in a fishing moratorium 
indefinitely, fishery regulators ruled on Friday.

The shrimping business was based mostly in Maine and produced small, 
pink shrimp that were a winter delicacy in New England and across the 
country. The industry has been in a moratorium since 2013 in large part 
because environmental conditions off New England are unfavorable for the 
cold water-loving shrimp.

That moratorium will remain in effect with no firm end date, a board of 
the regulatory Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission voted Friday. 
The board stopped short of calling the move a permanent moratorium 
because it included a provision to continue monitoring the shrimp 
population and consider reopening the fishery if the crustaceans 
approach a healthy level.

But it was clear board members saw little chance of a future for a 
fishery that once provided a beloved seafood item that appeared on 
restaurant menus and in seafood markets every year around Christmas.

“I think we’re all done here with this stock. I see the water 
temperatures. I don’t think we’re coming back,” said Mike Armstrong, an 
environmental analyst and member of the panel...
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“A lot of people, mostly in the industry, don't think that we have a 
complete picture of what's going on,” Libby said. “Let's not open it up, 
let's just have a limited season. There's a hunger for more data, that's 
for sure.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/new-englands-decades-shrimp-fishery-victim-climate-change-105311895

/[ Unwise to use carbon fuels anywhere ]*
*/ *Battlefield Earth: How War Fuels Climate Catastrophe*
ClimateAdam
Dec 1, 2023  #ClimateChange #cop28 #war
War, conflict and climate change are tearing apart lives across the 
world. But these aren't separate harms - they're intricately connected. 
Wars and militaries drive emissions in myriad ways, soak up vital cash, 
and derail climate deals. So, whether it's the Israel-Hamas conflict or 
the invasion of Ukraine, war and conflict are fuelling the changes to 
our climate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vf7Bi6GdRY

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/[ clips from a Reuters article in July ]/
*Insight: World's war on greenhouse gas emissions has a military blind spot*
By Sarah Mcfarlane and Valerie Volcovici
July 10, 20232
LONDON/WASHINGTON, July 10 (Reuters) - When it comes to taking stock of 
global emissions, there's an elephant in the room: the world's armed forces.

As temperatures hit new highs, scientists and environmental groups are 
stepping up pressure on the U.N. to force armies to disclose all their 
emissions and end a long-standing exemption that has kept some of their 
climate pollution off the books.

Among the world's biggest consumers of fuel, militaries account for 5.5% 
of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2022 estimate by 
international experts.
But defence forces are not bound by international climate agreements to 
report or cut their carbon emissions, and the data that is published by 
some militaries is unreliable or incomplete at best, scientists and 
academics say.

That's because military emissions abroad, from flying jets to sailing 
ships to training exercises, were left out of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on 
reducing greenhouse gases - and exempted again from the 2015 Paris 
accords - on the grounds that data about energy use by armies could 
undermine national security.
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*MORE DRONES*
Neta Crawford, a professor of international relations at Oxford 
University, said U.S. troop withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq, the 
adoption of renewable energy technologies, more fuel-efficient vehicles, 
as well as fewer and smaller military exercises, had contributed to the 
declines in the fuel use.

The wider use of drones may also have helped...
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Some military emissions are recorded under unspecified fuel combustion 
in the U.N.'s reporting tables, the UNFCCC said.

In the meantime, global military emissions will remain poorly 
understood, said Stuart Parkinson, executive director of the group 
Scientists for Global Responsibility.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-war-greenhouse-gas-emissions-has-military-blind-spot-2023-07-10/

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/[ Some describe the future as " Mad Max " - new movie seems to be 
unaware of carbon usage]/
*FURIOSA Trailer (2024) Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth*
Movie Coverage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPGm52dbKWg

/[The news archive -   ]/
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