[✔️] July 8, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Double agent PR, Yale Dust storm, Bill McKibben Degrowth, Doomer Dr Eliot Jacobson, Food security risk, Hottest day summary by Becki, Degrowth and Ecosocialism, Michael Mann

[Richard Pauli]

/*July*//*8, 2023*/

/[ call them the "Fox and Henhouse Lobbyists"  -- 
https://youtu.be/gd08rqVjAxE ]/
*"Double Agents": Lobbyists for Big Tech, Universities & Eco Groups Also 
Work for Big Oil*
Democracy Now!
Jul 7, 2023  Latest Shows
A damning new database reveals thousands of lobbyists are working for 
fossil fuel companies at the same time they represent hundreds of 
cities, universities, tech companies and even environmental groups that 
claim to be taking steps to address the climate crisis. We speak with 
_The Guardian_'s environmental reporter Oliver Milman. "It's clear that 
the wielding of political power and influence is far more important to 
them than staying true to any kind of ideals of distancing themselves 
fully from the fossil fuel industry," says Milman.

Transcript: 
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/7/guardian_investigation_fossil_fuel_lobbyists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd08rqVjAxE



/[ Yale text and audio ]/
*Dust storms are on the rise in the Southwest. That could harm health.*
Exposure to dust storms can cause eye irritation and in some cases, 
severe respiratory distress.
by YCC TEAM
JULY 5, 2023
As the climate warms, parts of the American Southwest are experiencing 
more frequent dust storms.

“What happens is there is a mixture of drought or dry conditions, higher 
temperatures, and reduced soil moisture, as well as wind, that come 
together and create these giant walls of sand and dust,” says Dr. 
Caitlin Rublee, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the 
University of Colorado.

She says these events are harmful to human health. The airborne 
particles can hurt people’s eyes, airways, and lungs.

“In severe circumstances, they’ll have such difficulty breathing that 
they’ll get something like air hunger whereby they have to come to the 
emergency department and see me because they are just gasping for air,” 
Rublee says.

She was part of a team that analyzed data on intensive care unit 
admissions and dust storms over a 15-year period. They found that 
admissions for respiratory problems increased by an average of about 9% 
on the day of a dust storm.

So as the Southwest gets hotter and drier, there’s a growing need for 
doctors to educate vulnerable patients about the risks and for early 
warning systems to alert people about possible dust storms.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/07/dust-storms-are-on-the-rise-in-the-southwest-that-could-harm-health/



/[  Degrowth is the solution ]/
*Bill McKibben: Climate Crisis Needs Urgent Action as Earth Records 
Hottest Temps Ever*
Democracy Now!
Jul 7, 2023  Latest Shows
This week unprecedented temperatures driven by climate change shattered 
heat records around the world. More records could be broken soon, as 
scientists say 2023 is set to be one of the warmest years in the history 
of planet Earth. "We can't stop global warming at this point," says Bill 
McKibben, co-founder of 350.org. "All we can do is try to stop it short 
of the place where it cuts civilizations off at the knees." McKibben 
says these temperatures are the "inevitable result" of fossil fuel use, 
criticizes politicians for their simultaneous embrace of renewable 
energy and fossil fuels, and calls on activists to disrupt the status 
quo: "This is the last of these moments we're going to have when the 
world is summoned to action by events and when there's still time to 
make at least some difference in the question of how hot it ultimately 
gets."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-PNlUkgfMs



/[  One very bold chart explained by the author ] /
*Doomer Dr. Eliot Jacobson talks sudden ocean temperature rise, viral 
chart tweet, 'Big Green Lie'*
Santa Barbara Talks with Josh Molina
Jun 14, 2023

    Dr. Eliot Jacobson is a doomer with a website called "Watching the
    World Go Bye, Eliot Jacobson's Collapse of Everything Blog. In this
    podcast he talks about three dramatic climate events happening at
    once: ocean temperature rise in the north Atlantic, diminishing ice
    near Antarctica and rising global temperatures. "While climate
    scientists have been talking about North Atlantic sea surface
    temperatures these last few days, what's going on with sea ice in
    Antarctica is even more extreme, nearly 2.4 million km² below the
    1991-2020 mean, with a big jump down today," he tweeted.
    Joshua Molina is a journalist and college instructor who interviews
    a wide variety of people on the issues of education, housing,
    politics, culture and business. Molina is a former reporter at the
    San Jose Mercury News and teaches at Cal State University,
    Northridge and Santa Barbara City College.
    Visit SantaBarbaraPodcasts.com or SantaBarbaraTalks.com to sign up
    for his newsletter and make a contribution to this individually
    owned podcast.

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

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/[ his Twitter page ]/
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1676384446633631752/photo/1
https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson


/[ Everything compounds  ]/
*Guest post: Climate models underestimate food security risk from 
‘compound’ extreme weather*
5 July 2023
Climate change poses a risk to global food security.

Weather and climate extremes, such as prolonged drought, heavy rainfall 
and heatwaves, can lead to harvest failures. These are occurring with 
increased magnitude and frequency on a warming planet.

In addition, such events can disrupt supply chains, decreasing food 
supply and leading to price spikes.

Our previous work shows that when extreme weather events happen 
simultaneously – such as a heatwave and drought at the same time – this 
can negatively affect crop yields in major crop-producing regions, known 
as “breadbaskets”.

This co-occurrence constitutes a growing food security risk.

In our latest paper, published in Nature Communications, we highlight 
factors that can lead to low crop yields in several breadbasket regions 
simultaneously. We also examine how well state-of-the-art climate and 
crop models are able to reproduce observed relationships.

We find that climate models tend to underestimate the risks of 
concurrent extreme weather events, potentially leading to “blind spots” 
in our understanding of future implications.

Complex climate risks
Ensuring global food security under changing climate conditions is a 
global challenge.

Meeting this challenge relies on reliable projections of future climate 
conditions, in order to establish reasonable and preventive adaptation 
measures.

Such assessments are not trivial. They rely on “coupled” experiments 
that combine both climate models and crop models. The projections must 
also be done for a range of emissions scenarios in order to fully 
understand the risk.

Climate extremes are rare, but impactful, events. The accuracy with 
which we can determine future climate risks for agriculture depends on 
the skill of climate models in accurately reproducing their frequency 
and magnitude, as well as the crop models’ accuracy in simulating crop 
responses.

Research shows that increasingly complex climate risks, in which several 
extremes interact, are a direct consequence of rising extreme weather 
trends.

More and longer-lasting extremes translate to higher likelihoods of 
consecutive climate disasters.

For example, two hurricanes in a row hitting the same region; several 
different disasters occurring at the same place at the same time, such 
as concurrent heatwaves and drought; or multiple disasters occurring at 
the same time globally, such as heatwaves in multiple regions.

Such “compound” events are usually associated with greater impacts, 
often beyond the sum of the effects had each disaster occurred in 
isolation. Interacting effects put extra stress on existing 
vulnerability, disaster preparedness and disaster response measures.

For instance, heatwaves are particularly disastrous for local crop 
production if they occur in unison with intense drought conditions. 
Consecutive heatwaves in a region can cause crops to fail that might 
have survived a solo event.

‘Breadbaskets’
 From a global food security perspective, simultaneous extremes are 
particularly problematic as they could lead to harvest failures in 
several crop-producing regions – known as “breadbaskets” –      at the 
same time.

As a result, countries that rely heavily on crop imports could 
experience heightened food insecurity, as global scarcity could lead to 
price spikes and even result in national export bans.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-climate-models-underestimate-food-security-risk-from-compound-extreme-weather/?



/[ Becki assembles and delivers a weekly video summary .] /
*HOTTEST day in recorded HISTORY (again). LAB-GROWN meat in restaurants. 
| RECAP*
Beckisphere Climate Corner
Jul 6, 2023  #climatechange #cleanenergy #news
If you like the work I do, please consider joining the Beckisphere 
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about the climate crisis every day and support your local news 
organizations!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZLtWmaeYh0


/[ DeGrowth -- carbon capitalism kills - audio podcast ]/
*"To deal with the climate crisis you need to deal with Capitalism" 
Degrowth, with Jason Hickel*
GND Media
Premiered Jul 2, 2023  GND Media
Join our Patreon and win a copy of White Skin, Black fuel by Zetkin 
Collective and Andreas Malm. Sign up  to patreon.com/gndmediauk to enter 
the prize draw. closes on July 17th.

We've always said that environmentalism needs to understand class if it 
wants to protect the world from climate catastrophe. Degrowth has been 
accused by some on the Left as green austerity or just a terrible 
political message.

To debunk degrowth myths and to discuss why class is at the heart of any 
just transition and a degrowth economy we are join by Jason Hickel. 
Jason is the author of"Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World"  
and a world-leading scientist and scholar on Degrowth.

We discuss how class politics and environmentalism should work in 
tandem, why capitalism can't stop the climate crisis, why Universal 
Basic Services (UBS) is at the heart of a Degrowth economy, how trade 
unions need to remember their radical past and how the EU conference on 
beyond growth is opening the doors for more radical policy in Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M79a2eCB6xw

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/[ one more interview ]/
*Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Jason Hickel*
Planet: Critical
  Mar 17, 2022  #education #politics #democracy
Economic anthropologist, Jason Hickel, is one of the leading degrowth 
researchers leading the charge for ecosocialism. He says if we limit the 
energy demands of the elite and hungry multinational corporations, 
reimagining economics to support and nurture human dignity, we could 
stay within our planetary boundaries—and lift the entire world out of 
poverty.

Degrowth proves putting people over profit would be good for the planet. 
Some of the most exciting policies include shortening the work week, 
providing universal basic services, and redistributing income. As we 
discuss, it’s a form of environmentalism that could join forces with the 
labour movement to dictate massive, sweeping global changes that could 
provide a better quality of life for every living being on earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjWWCRBJBk



/[The news archive - looking back ]/
/*July 8, 2010 */
July 8, 2010: CNN reports on the exoneration of Michael Mann and other 
climate scientists who had been falsely accused of fraud in 2009.

http://youtu.be/AMbZxVCUT-I


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