[✔️] January 6, 2023- Global Warming News Digest

Fri Jan 6 08:34:40 EST 2023

/*January 6, 2023*/

/[ positive news when we "follow the money" - from OilPrice.Com ]/
*Renewables Financing Tops Fossil Fuel Lending For The First Time Ever*
By Tsvetana Paraskova - Jan 05, 2023
- - For the first time in history, banks underwrote more loans for 
renewable energy projects than for fossil fuel projects.
- - Hydrocarbon producers increasingly attract funds from private equity 
investors.
- - At the end of last year, two prominent banks in Europe vowed to 
significantly cut exposure to the fossil fuels sector...
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Banking giant HSBC announced last month it would stop funding new oil 
and gas field developments and related infrastructure as part of a 
policy to support and finance a net-zero transition.

Following HSBC’s pledge, the pressure is now on U.S. banks to halt 
funding for new oil and gas projects, RAN and other climate community 
groups said.

U.S. banks were the biggest funders of fossil fuel projects in the world 
and “are still refusing to make real commitments on climate,” the 
environmental groups added.

“Four US banks, JP Morgan Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo and Bank of America, 
are the top fossil fuel funders and make up one quarter of the total 
global funding for the industry. Between 2016 and 2021 these banks 
pumped over US$1.2 trillion into the fossil fuel sector.”
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Renewables-Financing-Tops-Fossil-Fuel-Lending-For-The-First-Time-Ever.html

/[ Grist says the answer is no ]/
*Will California’s ‘atmospheric river’ storms end the drought?*
Heavy rains may refill reservoirs, but they won't solve the state's 
broader water crisis.
Jake Bittle
Jan 05, 2023
A deluge of snow may help recharge the reservoirs that supply major 
Central Valley irrigators, but it won’t refill the underground aquifers 
in the region, in part because most valley communities don’t have the 
ability to store excess water. In other parts of the country like 
Arizona, officials can bank water from wet years in underground 
aquifers, but any extra rainfall in the Central Valley just gets lost.

Cities in the Los Angeles metropolitan area face a similar two-pronged 
challenge. The region gets about a third of its water from the State 
Water Project, a canal system that diverts water from the reservoirs in 
the northern part of the state, and these deliveries have declined in 
recent years, forcing some cities to make drastic cuts.

The current bout of rain will help fill up those reservoirs, but the 
rest of the water used by these cities comes from the Colorado River, 
which snakes through the arid western United States. The river’s two 
main reservoirs in Nevada and Arizona are both in danger of bottoming 
out this year, and the federal government may soon slash California’s 
water allotment to stop that from happening. The rainfall from this 
week’s atmospheric river event won’t do anything to alleviate that 
crisis, although it will make the most dire scenarios for Los Angeles 
much less likely.

“Our focus tends to be on filling of surface reservoirs, and everybody 
declares the drought over,” said Mount. “That’s just fundamentally wrong.”
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/california-atmospheric-river-storms-floods-drought/

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/[ World climate in the new year.   One climate scientist in a graceful 
rant ]/
*2023 will be among HOTTEST ever | Climate Change*
ClimateAdam
  Jan 6, 2023  #ClimateChange #science
2023 has barely begun, but thanks to global warming, climate scientists 
are already predicting it will be one of the hottest years ever 
recorded. But how can we already know the effects of climate change this 
year, and what role with the natural cycle of El Niño play?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RbeXUV4OWs

/[ The Juice Media - yearly thank you note from Australia - 11 min Video ]/
*Honest Government Ads | Behind the Scenes 2022*
thejuicemedia
83,804 views  Dec 26, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_f61YsiZeY

/[ //MEDIA ANALYSIS by CarbonBrief.org //is worthy of greater study  ]/
*Analysis: The climate papers most featured in the media in 2022*
January 5. 2023.
Using Altmetric data for 2022, Carbon Brief has compiled its 
now-traditional list of the 25 most talked-about climate or 
energy-related papers that were published the previous year.

 From megafloods to megadroughts and insects to polar bears, last year 
saw a broad range of headline-grabbing research – as well as a new 
record-high Altmetric score for a paper in a Carbon Brief annual review.

The infographic above shows which papers made it into the top 10, while 
the chart at the end of the article shows which journals feature most 
frequently in the top 25.

*Pandemic prominence*
As in 2020 and 2021, the most talked-about scientific research of the 
past year has been about Covid-19.

All but five of the 50 highest scoring papers of 2022 relate to the 
coronavirus. Those five include two papers on monkeypox (since renamed 
“mpox”), one on the global burden of drug-resistant bacteria, one that 
identifies the Epstein-Barr virus as “the leading cause of multiple 
sclerosis”, and one finding that, in 2020, firearms became the main 
cause of deaths in children in the US.

Continuing the theme, the most talked-about climate and energy paper of 
2022 also relates to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Just outside the overall top 50, in 56th place, is “Climate change 
increases cross-species viral transmission risk”. Published in Nature, 
the study warns that mammals forced to move to cooler climes amid rising 
global temperatures are “already” spreading their viruses further – with 
“undoubtable” impacts for human health.
- -
Rounding off the top 10 climate articles of 2022 is the Nature Climate 
Change study, “Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the 
early 2000s”, with an Altmetric score of 4,195. This article was 
mentioned in 563 news stories from 434 outlets, including Carbon Brief, 
BBC News, the Independent, the New York Times and New Scientist.

The study finds that three-quarters of the Amazon rainforest has lost 
“resilience” since 2003 – making it more vulnerable to extreme events 
such as droughts. The work shows we are “approaching a tipping point”, 
the lead author of the study told journalists at a press conference...
https://www.carbonbrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2022-retina-ps4.png
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Research into extreme weather also appears in the top 25. This includes 
a Nature Communications study in 18th place on the 2020 North Atlantic 
hurricane season – the most active on record – which finds that 
“human-induced climate change increased the extreme three-hourly storm 
rainfall rates and extreme three-day accumulated rainfall amounts…for 
observed storms that are at least tropical storm strength”. A Science 
Advances paper in 23rd place warns that climate change has already 
doubled the likelihood of an event capable of producing a catastrophic 
“megaflood” in California.

Finally, rounding out the top 25 is a Nature Geoscience study showing 
that the Thwaites glacier in west Antarctica has seen “sustained pulses 
of rapid retreat” in the past two centuries and similar pulses “are 
likely to occur in the near future”.

All the final scores for the top 25 climate papers of 2022 can be found 
in this spreadsheet. 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTuldmIkRCj74w4vRmB_NT06t-kPSjeAv0OWzWGA51nm1kiMPgHHzMBbKeUmM5wjgzpirnZ7sICtfBB/pubhtml?gid=1529023877&single=true
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*Top journals*
Across the top 25 papers in Carbon Brief’s leaderboard this year, Nature 
Climate Change features most frequently with four papers. Nature Climate 
Change also took first place in 2021 (jointly with Nature) and 2016 
(jointly with Science).

In joint-second place is Nature and Science with three papers each. 
Nature is perennially high-placed in this analysis, taking first – or 
joint first – spot in Carbon Brief’s top 25 in 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 
2017 and 2015.

For the rest of the top 25, there are four journals that appear twice 
and seven that appear once.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-the-climate-papers-most-featured-in-the-media-in-2022/
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/[ see the data ]/
*DATA Top climate papers 2022 from Altmetric | Carbon Brief : Top25*
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTuldmIkRCj74w4vRmB_NT06t-kPSjeAv0OWzWGA51nm1kiMPgHHzMBbKeUmM5wjgzpirnZ7sICtfBB/pubhtml?gid=1529023877&single=true 

/[ CBS 60 Minutes just learned about the 6th Mass Extinction  - 
reporting what was widely known in 2014 ]/
*Earth currently experiencing a sixth mass extinction, according to 
scientists | 60 Minutes*
60 Minutes
1,416,529 views  Jan 1, 2023  #60Minutes #Extinction #News
Leading biologist tells Scott Pelley humans would need “five more 
Earths” to maintain our current way of life.
#60Minutes #News #Extinction
"60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. 
Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature 
segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 
and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's 
Top 10.
Subscribe to the “60 Minutes” YouTube channel: http://bit.ly/1S7CLRu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TqhcZsxrPA

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/[ Pulitzer, best-seller book came out 9 years ago -- First Published 
2014 ]/
*The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History Paperback – January 6, 2015*
by Elizabeth Kolbert
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and 
natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass 
extinction unfolding before our eyes

Over the last half-billion years, there have been Five mass extinctions, 
when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically 
contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the 
sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event 
since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time 
around, the cataclysm is us.

In prose that is at once frank, entertaining, and deeply informed, New 
Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert tells us why and how human beings have 
altered life on the planet in a way no species has before. Interweaving 
research in half a dozen disciplines, descriptions of the fascinating 
species that have already been lost, and the history of extinction as a 
concept, Kolbert provides a moving and comprehensive account of the 
disappearances occurring before our very eyes. She shows that the sixth 
extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy, compelling us 
to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
https://www.biblio.com/search.php?author=&title=The+Sixth+Extinction%3A+An+Unnatural+History&keyisbn=&stage=1

/[ Two old guys discuss betting on doom future - video interview 50 mins ]/
*Eliot Jacobson: "Humans Are Just Not Compatible With Life"*
Collapse Chronicles
Jan 4, 2023  SANTA BARBARA
In today's Chronicle of the Collapse, I have the great honor of finally 
being able to interview my good friend and fellow Doomer, Eliot 
Jacobson. As far as I can recall, he never calls Elon Musk a Fascist in 
this conversation. Here is a link to Eliot's fine YouTube channel, 
Climate Casino: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateCasino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b7MiBIiizk

/[The news archive - The election of 2000, how one government official 
handled it wisely ]/
/*January 6, 2001*/
January 6, 2001: In a joint session of Congress presided over by Vice 
President (and, thus, President of the Senate) Al Gore, George W. Bush 
is certified as the winner of the 2000 Presidential election.  The New 
York Times notes: "Federal law requires a member of both the House and 
the Senate to question a state's electoral votes in writing for a formal 
objection to be considered. But the House members [who objected to the 
certification] had no Senate support. So Mr. Gore, who was presiding in 
his role as Senate president, slammed down the gavel to silence them and 
rule their objections and parliamentary maneuvers out of order."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6wl_86qnsI

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/us/over-some-objections-congress-certifies-electoral-vote.html 

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