[✔️] Dec 18, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | pseudo-children's story, Sabine's climate, Aussi crocks in floods, Iraq dry, 2014 Putin's fuels.

Mon Dec 18 10:28:22 EST 2023

/*December 18*//*, 2023*/

/[ Just Have a Think - video - misuse of children's stories and some 
positive comment from COP28 ] /
*The INSANE numbers of a global climate conference!*
Just Have a Think
Dec 17, 2023
What a super Christmas gift! Our global leaders all gathered in one of 
the biggest oil producing nations on the planet to discuss with more 
than two thousand oil industry lobbyists exactly how they should 
legislate to protect our children and grandchildren from the worst 
effects of global warming in the coming decades. What could possibly go 
wrong?

    **NOTE : If you are not on YouTube premium you might see ads on
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    video ( I NEVER monetize any of my videos). It appears that one of
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    copyright claim on it. The owner of that music therefore has the
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    nothing I can do to prevent this. Apologies if this affects you.

    COP28 Global Stocktake FINAL DRAFT (21 pages)
    https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/cma2023_L17_adv.pdf

    Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance
    https://beyondoilandgasalliance.org/

    Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation treaty
    https://fossilfueltreaty.org/

https://www.creationeffects.com/custom-3d-book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9l2ZDYFTMg

/[ Why the wait?  video 15 min ]/
*Sabine Hossenfelder's shocking predictions on climate action*
Mallen Baker
Dec 11, 2023
Sabine Hossenfelder is one of YouTube's foremost science communicators. 
Recently, she made some very specific predictions about what the human 
race really will do - and not do - about climate change. They managed to 
upset both sides, so that made it a natural topic of conversation for 
this channel! In this video, we cover the prediction, why it's 
interesting, and what I think of it.
      Sabine Hossenfelder's channe/  @sabinehossenfelder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IfAsdI9uEU

/[ Down Under dramatic images    ]/
*Queensland floods: Airport submerged and crocodiles seen after record rain*
17th December 2023
By Tiffanie Turnbull
BBC News, Sydney
Thousands of people have been evacuated but others remain stranded.
Extreme weather driven by a tropical cyclone has dumped a year's worth 
of rain on some areas.
Images from the region show planes submerged at Cairns airport, a 
crocodile seen in the middle of a town, and people fleeing homes in boats.
- -
So far no deaths or missing people have been reported.
Intense rainfall is expected to continue for another 24 hours.
Hundreds of people have been rescued - with many homes inundated, power 
and roads cut off and safe drinking water dwindling.
The city of Cairns has received more than 2m of rainfall since the 
weather event began.
Queensland Premier Steven Miles told the Australian Broadcasting 
Corporation the natural disaster was "about the worst I can remember".
- -
"I have been talking to Cairns locals on the ground... and they say they 
have never seen anything like it," he said.
"For someone from far north Queensland to say that, that is really 
saying something."
He said the immediate concern was getting those trapped in rising waters 
to safety, like those in the remote town of Wujal Wujal, about 175km 
(110 miles) north of Cairns.
Nine people - including a sick child - spent the night on the roof of 
the hospital after emergency crews were unable to reach them.
The group on Monday were relocated to another spot, but Mr Miles said 
the entire town would now need to be evacuated...
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"After that, we have concerns about drinking water, about sewerage, 
power and telecommunications, the roads - many of the roads are blocked 
and we can't get aerial support in."
Forecasters said the torrential rain would continue for most of Monday 
and coincide with a high tide, intensifying the impact on low-lying 
communities.
While the rain is expected to begin easing on Tuesday, rivers are yet to 
peak and will remain swollen for days...
- -
Several rivers are expected to break records set during a mammoth flood 
event in 1977. The Daintree River, for example, has already exceeded the 
previous record by 2m, after receiving 820mm of rain in 24 hours...
- -
State officials estimate the toll of the disaster will top A$1bn 
(£529,000; $670,000).
Eastern Australia has been hit by frequent flooding in recent years and 
the country is now enduring an El Nino weather event, which is typically 
associated with extreme events such as wildfires and cyclones.
Australia has been plagued by a series of disasters in recent years - 
severe drought and historic bushfires, successive years of 
record-breaking floods, and six mass bleaching events on the Great 
Barrier Reef.
A future full of worsening disasters is likely unless urgent action is 
taken to halt climate change, the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change (IPCC) report warns.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-67740978

/[ Parts of Iraq are drying up ]/
*‘Everyone is leaving’: water scarcity and displacement in Iraq*
Dec. 17, 2023
Abdullah Omar Yassen
As the country rebuilds from almost 20 years of conflict, Iraq is 
increasingly facing the impact of a climate changing at whirlwind pace. 
The United Nations estimates upwards of 130 thousand people have been 
displaced by drought, and our latest report indicates the rate of this 
displacement may be increasing.
- -
This year, 60 per cent of farmers across Anbar, Kirkuk, Nineveh and 
Salahaddin told NRC they were forced to cultivate less land or use less 
water. 4 in 5 in farming communities in Nineveh and Kirkuk used less 
money for food. As Haleema, a single mother from Basra told me, “There 
is very little for us here but hardship, and with each year, it gets 
worse. Even the water we drink is not safe. It feels like nobody cares 
for us anymore.”

While everyone across Iraq is impacted, our report finds the Nineveh 
Plains might be an emerging hotspot. One in five people we spoke to in 
Baaaj linked climate change to increased social tensions, and one in 
four are thinking of moving because of drought. One in four farmers in 
Sinjar and Baaj reported being forced to give up farming in 2023, and 
almost 40 per cent had to reduce expenditure on food. The people of 
Nineveh witnessed some of the worst impacts of war and decided to remain 
or return home. Now, in 2023, it is the climate that might force them to 
move...
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To mitigate the rapidly increasing risks of climate change, NRC 
recommends that Iraq swiftly establish monitoring systems to track 
levels of rainfall, river and groundwater to better inform regulation 
and allocation of water resources. Second, the development of Iraq’s 
Green Paper -which seeks to outline the country’s climate ambition and 
mobilize cross-sectoral collaboration - should be hastened. Given the 
pace at which the climate is changing in Iraq, the longer policies take 
to be developed, the faster they will become outdated. Lastly, we urge 
international financial institutions to take notice and step-up both 
technical and financial support. The future of millions across Iraq hang 
in the balance.

Abdullah Omar Yassen is the Advocacy Adviser for the Norwegian Refugee 
Council (NRC) in Iraq.
https://www.rudaw.net/english/opinion/17122023

/[ The news archive Putin and the GOP  ]/
/*December 18, 2014 */
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow observes that Russian President Vladimir Putin has 
damaged his country by making its economy overdependent on fossil 
fuels...Russian President Vladimir Putin's marathon press conference, 
the love he enjoys from American conservatives and the dire economic 
straits he has run his country into.

http://on.msnbc.com/16xIDy9

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