[✔️] January 7, 2023- Global Warming News Digest - predicament
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sat Jan 7 06:00:55 EST 2023
/*January 7, 2023*/
/[ brief video images -- weathers that have happened, can happen again,
and more often]/
*California Atmospheric River hype video*
Pacific Northwest Weather Watch
7,478 views Jan 6, 2023
California rain hype video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l8L01ElPEg
/[ The Guardian has some conjectures ]/
*Why 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation*
Judgments across public and private sector expected to throw light on
worst perpetrators and force action
Isabella Kaminski
Wed 4 Jan 2023
Over the past 12 months, courts from Indonesia to Australia have made
groundbreaking rulings that blocked polluting power plants and denounced
the human rights violations of the climate crisis. But 2023 could be
even more important, with hearings and judgments across the world poised
to throw light on the worst perpetrators, give victims a voice and force
recalcitrant governments and companies into action.
Although the bulk of climate lawsuits have been filed in the US, most
have been thrown out of court or bogged down in procedural arguments.
This year will, however, finally see a case go to trial when a group of
children and young people between the ages of five and 21 square off
against the state of Montana.
Over two weeks in June, they will argue that the US state is failing to
protect their constitutional rights, including the right to a healthy
and clean environment, by supporting an energy system driven by fossil
fuels. They will also say climate breakdown is degrading vital resources
such as rivers, lakes, fish and wildlife which are held in trust for the
public.
“Never before has a climate change trial of this magnitude happened,”
says Andrea Rodgers, senior litigation attorney with Our Children’s
Trust, which is behind the case. “The court will be deciding the
constitutionality of an energy policy that promotes fossil fuels, as
well as a state law that allows agencies to ignore the impacts of
climate change in their decision-making.”
She said the trial would be watched around the world and “is set to
influence the trajectory of climate change litigation going forward”.
Other cases against US states could also be given permission to go to trial.
In Canada, a ruling is expected this year in the country’s first climate
lawsuit to have had its day in court. Seven young people, fronted by
now-15-year-old Sophia Mathur, made history last autumn when they
challenged the Ontario government’s rollback of its 2030 greenhouse gas
emissions reduction target.
And in Mexico, young people have led several important court cases
challenging the slow pace of the country’s clean energy system. The
supreme court is due to decide whether they are allowed to seek justice
in at least one case.
In South Africa – already a hotspot for climate litigation – there could
be decisions in several important cases. One, a constitutional challenge
to the country’s plan to build new coal-fired power stations during the
climate crisis, was heard in November and a ruling is expected soon.
Meanwhile, the Australian crucible of successful climate litigation will
hear a class action case in June led by Torres Strait islanders Pabai
Pabai and Guy Paul Kabai, who argue the state should slash its emissions
to save their islands from rising sea levels and other devastating
climate impacts...
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Whatever happens in those cases, expect to see many more lawsuits filed
this year, as well as more creative uses of the law. These will be filed
against governments of all levels, based on the most cutting-edge
science, as well as against companies.
The financial sector, in particular, is likely to be a big target, and
there will be continuing waves of related litigation targeting plastics
and biodiversity loss. This year is “shaping up to be a really important
year for climate litigation”, says Mead.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/04/why-2023-will-be-a-watershed-year-for-climate-litigation
https://www.the-wave.net/climate-litigation-watershed-year/
[/ not blame, responsibility ]/
*Accountability Is The Most Important Climate Solution*
JAN 2, 2023
In December 2022, the House Oversight Committee published a second round
of documents received in response to subpoenas issued as part of its
investigation into climate disinformation. You can read my analysis of
those documents—both batches, all 1500-ish pages of them—over at The
Intercept, but I want to draw your attention today to the investigation
itself and what it tells us about the need for climate accountability.
House Oversight Committee chair Rep Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and chair of
the Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on the Environment Ro Khanna
(D-CA) opened their investigation into the fossil fuel industry's
disinformation on the climate crisis in September 2021. They requested
various documents, and asked that the CEOs of five top oil companies, as
well as the American Petroleum Institute and U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
testify before the Committee. The following month, at an Oversight
Committee Hearing, some of those executives did indeed testify, but none
had complied fully with the Committee's request for documents, so Rep
Maloney announced at that hearing that she would subpoena the withheld
documents. Since the start of the investigation the Committee has
received around a million documents, but has not had the staff resources
to comb through them all or to redact and publish all of the documents
that seem important for both policymakers and the public to be aware of.
https://www.drilledpodcast.com/accountability-is-a-climate-solution/
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/[ Read the documents - link below to archives ]/
*Subpoenaed Fossil Fuel Documents Reveal an Industry Stuck in the Past*
The industry is still running the same five-step plan, to the same end:
preserving power, subsidies, and social license.
Amy Westervelt
December 24 2022,
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As part of its investigation into climate disinformation, the House
Oversight Committee subpoenaed documents in November 2021 from four of
the world’s largest oil companies; their U.S. trade association, the
American Petroleum Institute; and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The
chamber did not comply with the subpoena, but the rest submitted a
variety of responsive documents, the most salient of which have been
published by the Oversight Committee in two batches. The more than 1,500
pages include internal communications about media relations,
advertising, and marketing campaigns from 2015 to 2021.
Taken together, they reveal that the industry’s approach on climate
really hasn’t changed since scientists first started warning that the
burning of fossil fuels was becoming a problem: push “solutions” that
keep fossil fuels profitable, downplay climate impacts, overstate the
industry’s commitments, and bully the media if they don’t stay on
message. It’s the same five-step plan, deployed to the same end:
preserving power, subsidies, and social license...
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https://theintercept.com/2022/12/24/oil-gas-climate-disinformation/
/[ DW documentary on modern climate change ]/
*Wind and climate change | DW Documentary*
DW Documentary
4.51M subscribers
Oct 1, 2022 #dwdocumentary #documentary #climatechange
Shifting wind patterns are making extreme weather events more likely.
This is because the wind, which distributes areas of high and low
pressure along the latitude lines of the Earth, is also being influenced
by climate change.
The wind is the motor for our weather. It brings us both sunshine and
rain. And during the winter months, it regularly blows itself up into
heavy storms. But throughout the globe, climate change is causing shifts
in existing wind systems - with devastating consequences. Atlantic
hurricanes, which build up over the tropics and often lay waste to
swathes of land on the eastern coast of the US, are becoming more
intense and bringing heavier rainfall.
Scientists are looking for clues as to the precise causes for the
warming in the Arctic, where temperatures are climbing more rapidly than
anywhere else in the world. In the northern hemisphere, rising
temperatures result in wind systems ‘twisting’ at 10-kilometer
altitudes. The Arctic jet stream drives high- and low-pressure areas
around the globe. It travels around the planet from west to east at
speeds of up to 500 kilometers an hour. But in recent years,
meteorologists have noticed more frequent weaker phases in the jet
stream - with fatal consequences for Europe. Droughts like the one
experienced in 2018 and flood catastrophes like that of 2021 are both
likely to recur.
Researchers on the island of Spitsbergen have already made an alarming
discovery. Climate change is altering the wind, and the altered wind is
accelerating climate change - a dangerous vicious cycle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qySBQjSXbfw
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/[ now is the abnormal time of the intelligent human life on our planet,
philosophizing by Bill Rees ]/
*Too clever by half, but not nearly smart enough - Bill Rees to the
Canadian Club of Rome*
Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
35,551 views May 12, 2021
Abstract
Humans pride themselves as being the most ‘intelligent’ species on
Earth yet, despite a half century of stark warnings by many of our
best scientists, the human enterprise remains in a state of
potentially fatal ‘overshoot’. The human enterprise is exploiting
ecosystems far beyond nature’s regenerative and waste assimilative
capacities; we are growing by liquidating the biophysical basis of
our own existence. Remarkably, the global community shows little
sign of taking the corrective action necessary to avoid potential
disaster. I argue here that this seeming paradox is perfectly
natural, that H. sapiens is inherently – and even predictably –
unsustainable. The human ecological predicament is the product of
base human nature reinforced by an ingrained, increasingly global,
but radically maladaptive growth-based cultural narrative. Modern
techno-industrial (MTI) society cannot be ‘reformed’ to mesh
harmoniously with biophysical reality. Hubris, born of humanity’s
clever success in manipulating the material world, blinds us to
symptoms of impending systemic collapse. The behaviour of
politicians and ordinary people often springs from wilful ignorance
or deep denial, papered over by unwarranted confidence in
technological solutions. Aspirations to high intelligence aside, H.
sapiens is not primarily a rational species – but there is a way
forward.
Bio note:
William Rees, PhD, FRSC
Dr. William Rees is a population ecologist, ecological economist,
Professor Emeritus and former Director of the University of British
Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning. His academic
research focuses on the biophysical prerequisites for sustainability.
This focus led to co-development (with his graduate students) of
‘ecological footprint analysis, a quantitative tool that shows
definitively that the human enterprise is in dysfunctional overshoot.
(We would need five Earth-like planets to support just the present world
population sustainably with existing technologies at North American
material standards.) Frustrated by political unresponsiveness to
worsening indicators, Dr. Rees also studies the biological and
psycho-cognitive barriers to environmentally rational behavior and
policies. He has authored hundreds of peer reviewed and popular
articles on these topics.
Prof Rees is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada and also a Fellow of
the Post-Carbon Institute; a founding member and former President of the
Canadian Society for Ecological Economics; a founding Director of the
OneEarth Initiative; and a Director of The Real Green New Deal. He was a
full member of the Club of Rome from 2013 until 2018. His international
awards include the Boulding Memorial Award in Ecological Economics, the
Herman Daly Award in Ecological Economics and a Blue Planet Prize
(jointly with his former student, Dr Mathis Wackernagel).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEXEIp5vB8
/[ Mark Lynas is the author of numerous books on the environment. His
latest is Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency and is
co-founder of the pro-science environmental campaign network RePlanet ]/
*Mark Lynas: Don't Look Up: Is Climate Change an Extinction-Level Event?*
CSER Cambridge
Feb 4, 2022
Mark Lynas - "Don't Look Up: Is Climate Change an Extinction-Level
Event?" (1 February 2022, CSER Public Lecture, University of Cambridge)
In the movie Don't Look Up, humanity dithers when faced with an
extinction-level threat from a comet and is wiped out. Designed
explicitly as an analogy for what the moviemakers see as our collective
lack of response to the existential risk of climate change, how accurate
is this comparison? Mark Lynas, the climate author who has recently
released an updated version of his award-winning book Six Degrees,
reviews the latest evidence as to whether climate breakdown can be
considered a planetary-scale extinction threat and whether human
civilisation or even humanity as a species it significantly at risk this
century.
Mark Lynas is the author of several books on the environment, including
High Tide, Six Degrees, The God Species, Nuclear 2.0 and Seeds of
Science. His most recent publication, in June 2020, was ‘Our Final
Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency’. This is an entirely new
update of the original 2007 Six Degrees which won the prestigious Royal
Society science books prize. The original Six Degrees was translated
into 22 languages and was also adapted into a documentary broadcast on
the National Geographic Channel. He also received the Breakthrough
Paradigm Award in 2012.
He advises former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on climate, and
works with the 48-member Climate Vulnerable Forum in this capacity. Mark
is currently a visiting fellow with the Cornell Alliance for Science at
Cornell University, which engages in pro-science advocacy and research
around the world on issues ranging from GMOs to vaccines to climate. He
has written for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the
Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian and CNN.com.
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is an
interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge
dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human
extinction or civilisational collapse. For more information, please
visit our website:
https://www.cser.ac.uk
https://twitter.com/CSERCambridge
https://www.facebook.com/CSERCambridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gc3GHDJM9Q
/[ The news archive - looking back 41 years ago and the NYTimes report
on our predicament ]/
/*January 7, 1982
*/January 7, 1982: The New York Times report on Section B, Page 14s:
*WARMING OF WORLD'S CLIMATE EXPECTED TO BEGIN IN THE 80'S*
Special to the New York Times
Jan. 7, 1982
Mankind's activities in increasing the amount of carbon dioxide and
other chemicals in the atmosphere can be expected to have a
substantial warming effect on climate, with the first clear signs of
the trend becoming evident within this decade, a scientist at the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration said here today.
The changes are in prospect because of excess carbon dioxide put
into the atmosphere as humans burn coal, gas, oil and wood and cut
forests for agriculture and other purposes. More recently there has
also been an atmospheric buildup of methane, nitrous oxide and other
chemicals as a result of agriculture and industry, said Dr. James
Hansen of the space agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in
New York.
Dr. Hansen spoke at a session of the annual meeting of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science here and amplified some
of his remarks at a news conference.
Several recent studies have concluded that such a warming trend will
occur, but the effects have usually been predicted for the next
century and have been interpreted differently by specialists. Dr.
Roger Revelle of the University of California at San Diego said the
subject of future climate change produced by mankind's activity was
shrouded by a fog of uncertainty.
Dr. Hansen said the probability was that a warmer climate would make
some places wetter while others were likely to be drier than today,
but that it was too early to say which effects any given region
would experience. Several specialists have noted that a pronounced
warming trend could raise sea levels sufficiently to inundate many
of the world's major cities. There has already been a small rise in
sea level simply because of expansion of the warmer surface waters
of the ocean, Dr. Hansen said.
At the same session of the meeting, Hermann Flohn of University of
Bonn said warming effects on the climate would be small at first,
but, through the next century, might give the planet its warmest
spell since an interglacial period 125,000 years ago. In that
period, he noted, lions, elephants and other warm-climate animals
roamed what is now England.
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/07/us/warming-of-world-s-climate-expected-to-begin-in-the-80-s.html
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