[✔️] January 23, 2023- Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*January  23, 2023*/

/[ Simple video explanation of drinking water and glaciers -- 12 min  ] /
*Global Glacier Collapse. Will YOU have fresh water in 2050?*
Just Have a Think
35,240 views  Jan 22, 2023
For most of us, glaciers are apparently unimportant sheets of ice high 
up on mountain ranges far away. But no les than 50% of the entire human 
species relies directly or indirectly on the water those glaciers 
provide during their summer melt. Our warming atmosphere means those 
glaciers are disappearing fast! So where are they all, and what are the 
implications for the coming decades?
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Video Transcripts available at our website http://www.justhaveathink.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhE_fEDezTM



/[ A wonderful fascination for ice -- all 19 types -- 25 min video ( #9 
is called "Ice IX" whereas "Ice-9" is for Cat's Cradle fiction) ]/
*Everything You Could Ever Want to Know About Ice! | GEO GIRL*
GEO GIRL
Jan 22, 2023

    0:00 Outline
    1:20 What is ice?
    3:15 Why ice floats?
    6:34 Why ice looks blue?
    7:35 Different types of ice?
    8:37 Amorphous ice
    10:57 List of 19+ ice phases
    12:14 Does dense ice prevent alien life?
    15:31 Rime ice
    17:39 Ice pellets (sleet)
    19:47 Hail
    21:25 Snowflakes

References:
1: Harvey, 2017: Properties of Supercooled Water: 
https://www.scribd.com/document/616703972/Properties-of-Supercooled-Water-For-Cp#
2: The Life of a 
Glacier:https://web.archive.org/web/20141215195325/http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/life-glacier.html
   - -  more at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qnNzgo9MSA

GEO GIRL Website: https://www.geogirlscience.com/ (visit my website to 
see all my courses, shop merch, learn more about me, and donate to 
support the channel if you'd like!)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qnNzgo9MSA

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/[See the Wikipedia entry  ]/
*Ice*
This article is about water ice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Non-water


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/ [  Activism from Oil Change International ]/
*Would you trust a big oil and gas company to organize the United 
Nations climate negotiations? Because that’s very close to what’s 
happening.*

...news that Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the CEO of oil and gas company 
ADNOC, had been appointed President of the UN climate talks happening 
later this year in the UAE. This is completely unacceptable given the 
importance of the COP Presidency in organizing the negotiations – we 
won't let this happen without a fight.

    Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the CEO of oil and gas company ADNOC, has
    been appointed President of the UN climate talks (COP28) happening
    later this year in the UAE. This is completely unacceptable given
    the importance of the COP Presidency in organizing the negotiations.

    Last year, at COP27, over 80 countries called for a phase out or
    phase down of all fossil fuels. The only way to keep warming below
    1.5ºC is to stop fossil fuel expansion. But big oil and gas
    companies are still putting forward new fields for approval, and
    ADNOC is on track to be the company with the second most oil and gas
    expansion from 2023 to 2025.
    https://act.priceofoil.org/sign/kick-polluters-out/?t=4&akid=45093%2E238921%2EF0eaxJ

On Thursday, Politico broke another shocking story revealing the way 
fossil fuel interests are at the heart of the UAE’s plan to organize the 
climate talks. Not only has ADNOC’s CEO been appointed as the President 
of the negotiations – but the UAE has decided to have the climate team 
in charge of the talks share offices with the fossil fuel company!

That’s not just putting the fox in charge of the hen house. That’s 
putting the hens in the fox’s den!

We’re now calling on the UNFCCC Secretariat — the governing body in 
charge of the climate talks — to protect the climate talks from big 
polluters by:
    - -  Requiring that Al Jaber either step down from the COP 
Presidency or resign as CEO of ADNOC;
    - -  Ensuring that the Presidency team is entirely separate from 
ADNOC and any other oil and gas companies; and
    - -  Adopting an Accountability Framework that makes sure big 
polluters cannot capture the climate negotiations.
https://act.priceofoil.org/sign/kick-polluters-out/?t=4&akid=45093%2E238921%2EF0eaxJ



/[ Suggesting an empathetic approach - from EuroNews.Green ]/
*‘Climate deniers are victims not villains’: A psychologist’s guide to 
winning them over*
By Jessica Kleczka
22/01/2023
It’s not by accident that climate denial is one of the biggest threats 
to meaningful action.

Fossil fuel companies have spent millions on lobbying politicians, 
advising their PR teams to sow uncertainty about solid climate science, 
and refusing to change their business model. All despite knowing the 
effects of burning their products since the 1960s.

To this day, the industry has a huge presence at climate summits like 
COP27, and governments accept generous donations from sceptics and 
fossil fuel interests.

I encounter climate deniers regularly on social media, as I dedicate 
part of my work towards science communication and public advocacy.

A lot of them are automated bots. Others are angry men stuck in 
polarising media cycles, many with industry interests and affiliations, 
who see advocating for a liveable planet as “woke propaganda”.

Both groups are vocal minorities, and neither of them are worth wasting 
much energy on.

But the most common form of climate denial is not the aggressive kind, 
but passive denial. This is from people who know that climate change 
exists, but don’t care much about it or avoid the subject altogether: 
so-called dismissives.

Some climate deniers are people you wouldn’t expect it from, sometimes 
belonging to groups which will be heavily affected by rising temperatures.

*Climate deniers are victims, not villains*
Your average climate dismissive is not an evil business mogul looking to 
squeeze as much profit as possible before the world burns. And I believe 
that we are often on the wrong track when we demonise people for not 
believing in “the whole global warming thing”.

My academic research focuses on climate anxiety, and I find that climate 
denial often stems from a fear of change and what the climate crisis 
will mean for our lives, livelihoods and lifestyles.

Because climate change can seem too enormous of a threat to tackle as an 
individual, hostility is instead directed at those advocating for 
climate action.

Humans have evolved to engage in a fight-flight-freeze response whenever 
we’re faced with a threat. While some people respond to the climate 
crisis by fighting it (for example, by engaging in activism), many 
experience a freeze response (fear and inability to act), or indeed a 
flight response - avoiding the problem altogether.

While it can feel counter-intuitive, meeting climate dismissives with 
compassion can go a long way and help them break free from denial.

Many people are victims of their own emotional response to the climate 
crisis, rather than villains. As the ultimate threat, the climate crisis 
triggers their fear of change.

The key is to help people understand that runaway climate change poses a 
much bigger risk than pretty much any alternative.

*Delay is the new denial*
Climate deniers are arguably a dying breed these days. A mere 4 per cent 
of people in the UK, for example, report not feeling at all concerned 
about the crisis.

But a new and insidious tactic is threatening to undermine our efforts 
to build a more sustainable future: climate delay, spearheaded by the 
fossil fuel industry and politicians with links to it.

Julia Steinberger, Professor of Societal Challenges of Climate Change at 
the University of Lausanne, has studied the forms that delay takes. 
Redirecting responsibility is one of the four main tactics that she and 
colleagues have identified; with people shifting the blame away from 
governments and polluting industries and onto individuals.

Others are pushing non-transformative solutions, in particular 
technologies like carbon capture or storage which are as yet unproven to 
be effective at scale.

Focusing on the negatives of climate action has also gained in 
popularity. Some claim, for example, that “shifting away from fossil 
fuels will make people colder and poorer” while ignoring the devastating 
impacts of failing to do so.

Many fossil fuel companies engage in a tactic coined wokewashing - 
exploiting communities of colour, who are disproportionately impacted by 
fossil fuel pollution, in their advertising. Often those ads will imply 
that better living conditions in countries such as India are only 
possible with the help of Shell and co - perpetuating white saviorism 
and imperialism.

Lastly, surrendering to doomism is often framed as “adapting to climate 
change” or “accepting the inevitable” and plays directly into the hands 
of those most responsible for climate change, while the most affected 
communities are left to fend for themselves.

Though we must learn to validate our climate-related feelings, it is 
crucial to understand that giving in to doomism means betraying people 
around the world for whom climate change is an acute and 
life-threatening danger.

We can lean into fear and anxiety, whilst channelling our pain for the 
world into action.

*So how do we combat delay and denial?*
Many people don’t see the climate crisis as something that’s immediately 
relevant to their life.

In my research with Imperial College and Greener & Cleaner charity, we 
found that identifying the issues that are important to people and using 
them as a first point of engagement is often more effective than 
bombarding people with scary data about an issue that can often feel 
distant.

Instead of climate change, it can sometimes be more effective to talk 
about air pollution, access to green spaces, or the cost-of-living crisis.

Another component of effective climate change communication is speaking 
to people’s values.

As Katharine Hayhoe writes in her great book Saving Us, “the biggest 
challenge we face is not science denial. It’s a combination of 
tribalism, complacency, and fear”.

She cites research which found that people’s attitudes to climate change 
are most strongly correlated with their values, worldviews and political 
orientation, rather than education and knowledge.

Challenging people’s sense of belonging, or even attacking them on a 
personal level for their climate-avoidance, is only likely to increase 
their defences. Meeting people where they’re at is more likely to lead 
to success, together with reducing psychological distance to an issue 
which often seems far away from our daily lives and struggles.

Hayhoe gives the example of explaining the impacts of drought and 
chaotic weather to farmers, without mentioning the word ‘climate’.

*Just talk about it*
Finally, we must reconsider the way we communicate the climate crisis.

Many news stories frame the climate crisis in terms of imminent 
apocalypse and societal breakdown. While we must acknowledge these very 
real threats, the reality is that most people feel demotivated and 
terrified when encountering doomist headlines, resulting in a flight or 
freeze response.

Perhaps counterintuitively, our brains have evolved to pay more 
attention to negative information - though fear-based approaches are 
effective in getting people to feel concerned in the first place. But 
research shows that we are most motivated to take action when we see 
solutions, hope, and perhaps most importantly, others taking action.

Rather than climate denial, our biggest challenge is climate delay and 
dismissiveness at a time when taking bold and ambitious action is 
crucial. The reality is that most of us are concerned about the climate 
crisis and want to do something about it; but most people don’t know 
where to start.

As climate-aware people, reaching out and offering guidance is often all 
it takes to break through the defences. And the best way to achieve this 
is to simply talk about the climate crisis - at work, in schools, at the 
dinner table. By normalising climate conversations, we encourage more 
healthy emotional responses.

Rather than sowing seeds of fear and polarisation, encouraging 
vulnerability and hope in equal measure is how we motivate people to 
take action for a better future.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/01/22/climate-deniers-are-victims-not-villains-a-psychologists-guide-to-winning-them-over



/[The news archive - looking back at the reign of Trump ]/
/*January 23, 2018 */
January 23, 2018:
The New York Times reports:

    “President Trump slapped steep tariffs on imports of washing
    machines and solar energy cells and panels on Monday, the first
    major step by the administration to erect the kind of trade barriers
    Mr. Trump has frequently said are necessary to protect manufacturers
    in the United States.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/business/trump-tariffs-washing-machines-solar-panels.html?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/business/trump-tariffs-washing-machines-solar-panels.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news 


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/business/trump-tariffs-washing-machines-solar-panels.html?unlocked_article_code=4j7-hApuKGQXXGFdMrtGvnDTlCfGxLjsGTPD-1ohNpHhMK7Ai6AVtEsNJUNNYJy3_NkiAoa18LZEpfDuxfjytbpOLKPgRUOUdvJtl8gNkbgbK7tXFYskIg_2evyEiS2M7hE_mryf0JB8XFYdaio-0RwdHlwJIzxZZD3iQtH5tNaV-xU_yD9XD8p3HbZ_8vWioo9qBIc5NFrdvw_-NjlqWEMiD_ygvlIBme09qO7Mhqcs38JPz9VGvTpRY1BtgsYHiSH-H6aVCmBSoDCdX9VeUc3b-XkXbo1ZktD8Xzkv0HsFQxM1GxhrFcX1MhtcQwQK7buK1NDaNkC0GjqzGt7oyFgJduwkmCnQT8K6bFwP-nK_e8ARCZA&smid=share-url


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