[✔️] July 6, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | WFLA summary, Dave Roberts AI help, Jem Bendell, Explaining a wavy Jet stream, 2010 WAPO

Thu Jul 6 03:30:30 EDT 2023

/*July*//*6, 2023*/

/[ an excellent report in the style of TV news ... weeks ago, still 
current https://youtu.be/9ryhkEqIvZk ]/
*Ocean heat spike stuns scientists: Did we breach a climate tipping 
point? | Jeff’s Climate Classroom*
WFLA News Channel 8
Jun 15, 2023
Global oceans are so hot right now, scientists around the world are 
struggling to explain it. WFLA Chief Meteorologist Jeff Berardelli 
discusses whether the surge is evidence that human-caused heating has 
pushed the climate past a tipping point.

Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3NzR9UY
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/43OtjdO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ryhkEqIvZk
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/[ Dave Roberts --- pep talk how AI helps humans in climate survival - 
audio interview of the basics ]/
*How can AI help with climate change?*
A conversation with MIT's Priya Donti.
As you might have noticed, the world is in the midst of a massive wave 
of hype about artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) — 
hype tinged with no small amount of terror.

Here at Volts, though, we’re less worried about theoretical machines 
that gain sentience and decide to wipe out humanity than we are with the 
actually existing apocalypse of climate change.
Are AI and ML helping in the climate fight, or hurting? Are they 
generating substantial greenhouse gas emissions on their own? Are they 
helping to discover and exploit more fossil fuels? Are they unlocking 
fantastic capabilities that might one day revolutionize climate models 
or the electricity grid?

Yes! They are doing all those things. To try to wrap my head around the 
extent of their current carbon emissions, the ways they are hurting and 
helping the climate fight, and how policy might channel them in a 
positive direction, I contact Priya Donti, an assistant professor at MIT 
and executive director of Climate Change AI, a nonprofit that 
investigates these very questions...
https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-can-ai-help-with-climate-change

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/[ links referenced above ]/

https://www.climatechange.ai/

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485128

/[ harsh language from a writer ] /
*Airpocalypse: David Wallace-Wells on Red Skies, Raging Wildfires & 
Pollution Link to Climate Crisis*
Democracy Now!
Jun 8, 2023  Latest Shows
Record-breaking Canadian wildfires continue to fill skies across much of 
North America with smoke, putting about 100 million people under air 
quality alerts. New York City recorded the worst air quality of any 
major city in the world as a result of the haze. Around the world, air 
pollution is already responsible for as many as 10 million deaths per 
year, and the problem is likely to get worse, says New York Times 
opinion writer David Wallace-Wells. He explains how today's smoky skies 
are a glimpse of our future in the climate crisis, when warmer 
temperatures and dry conditions will continue to increase the size and 
severity of wildfires across the globe. "It's not just that we're 
getting more fires, and it's not even that they're getting larger. 
They're also getting much more intense, which means that they are 
cooking much of the landscape," says Wallace-Wells, author of The 
Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. We also hear from 
Cree/Iroquois/French journalist Brandi Morin, who just returned from 
reporting on the wildfires raging in the remote Indigenous community of 
Fort Chipewyan in Canada's North, which she calls the "epicenter of the 
effects of climate change because it's downstream from one of the 
largest oil production developments in the world, Alberta's oil sands."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OWYgOzEduE
Transcript https://www.democracynow.org/2023/6/8/wildfires_climate_crisis

/[ Jem Bendell ]/
*Conversation with Jem Bendell, part 1: is industrial capitalism coming 
to an end?*
Lowimpact TV
Jun 23, 2023
This is the first part of a conversation between Dave Darby of 
Lowimpact.org and Jem Bendell, professor of sustainability leadership at 
the University of Cumbria, and author of the now famous 2018 Deep 
Adaptation paper that claimed that we’re on an inevitable path to 
civilisational collapse.

Transcript of interview, with links to organisations and information 
mentioned in the video: 
https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/conversation-with-jem-bendell-part-1-is-industrial-capitalism-coming-to-an-end 

We’re interviewing key players in the new economy, to: a) bring their 
work to a wider audience b) try to find ways to co-ordinate their 
efforts c) stimulate debate d) help to build the new economy.

Lowimpact.org: https://www.lowimpact.org/

JemBendell.com: https://jembendell.com/

Breaking Together: 
https://schumacherinstitute.org.uk/product/jem-bendell-book/

Deep Adaptation: https://jembendell.com/2019/05/15/deep-adaptation-versions/

Here’s what we mean by new economy: 
https://www.lowimpact.org/categories/low-impact-economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPjMWBEAm3M

/[ Becwith explanins some recent papers ]/
*Crazy Wavy Greenland Jet Stream Blocking Results from Extensive Snow 
Cover Melt over North America*
Paul Beckwith
Jul 4, 2023
The jet stream waviness these days is utterly insane, and causing huge 
negative consequences for humanity.

The main purpose of this video chat is to discuss a brand new peer 
reviewed paper just released last week that connects a huge high 
pressure dome that occurs often in summer months over Greenland with the 
ever increasing rapid snow cover melt over North America in the spring 
months, mostly May and June. The jet streams basically form an omega 
block, with exceptional high pressure, cloudless skies, and heat over 
Greenland, and extreme weather events associated with this jet stream 
pattern at lower latitudes.

Arctic Temperature Amplification has greatly increased, and now main 
stream scientific papers and articles are saying it is 4x (they 
incorrectly said, en masse, that it was 2x for many years). One of the 
jet stream patterns that commonly establishes now is an omega block with 
a high pressure region over Greenland. Not only does this pattern lead 
to surface ice melt on Greenland doubling over the rates used in the 
large scale sophisticated climate models, but it is warming a large 
region of the North Atlantic Ocean, which is seeing SST’s (Sea Surface 
Temperatures) 5 to 6 C above previous highs, which is basically off the 
scale.

With jet streams being much wavier and setting up persistent blocks, we 
are seeing very intense, widespread heatwaves around the planet, for 
example in Mexico and Texas, where temperatures have reached about 50 C 
and temperature/humidity conditions have essentially briefly reached wet 
bulb uninhabitable states. Heatwaves are occurring in numerous other 
places like China and India. Much of the boreal forest regions in Canada 
have had heatwaves resulting in uncontrollable unprecedented wildfires 
burning over 8 million hectares, or about 3% of Canada’s boreal forests.

In the southern hemisphere, wavy jet streams are bringing extensive heat 
down to Antarctica, and sea ice extent has dropped off a cliff by 4 or 5 
standard deviations below previous record lows.

Add an El Niño to the equation, and it is obvious that numerous climate 
records will be obliterated over the next few years, and humanity is in 
for a very precarious and rough ride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6o6nma12vY

/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*July 6, 2010 */
July 6, 2010: Washington Post writer Ezra Klein observes:

    "There's a range of likely outcomes from a tax on carbon, and we can
    handle most of them. There's also a range of outcomes from radical
    changes in the planet's climate, and we've really no idea which we
    can handle, and which we can't. We don't even really know what that
    range looks like. And although a tax can be undone or reformed,
    there's no guarantee that we can reverse hundreds of years of rapid
    greenhouse gas buildup in the atmosphere. If you want proof, look at
    our inability to deal with an underwater oil spill, and consider how
    much more experience we have repairing oil rigs than reversing
    concentrations of gases in the atmosphere.

    "One of the oddities of the global warming debate, in fact, is that
    the side that's usually skeptical of government intervention is
    potentially setting up a future in which the government is
    intervening on a planetary scale. I don't think of myself as
    particularly skeptical of the feds, but I'm a lot more comfortable
    with their ability to levy a tax than their capacity to reform the
    atmosphere. That's why, when faced with the choice between being
    risk averse about a tax or about the planet, I tend to choose the
    planet."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/the_case_for_being_careful_wit.html

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