[✔️] July 15, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Death Valley record, Jason Box on ice, Flood maps, hot Florida, Non-fiction book by Lipsky, All positive news, XR radical screed, 1976 Jimmy Carter

[Richard Pauli]

/*July*//*15, 2023*/

/[ Big record to break -  that's 54º Celsius -- and no max  ]/
*Death Valley Could Set a World Record Hot Temperature*
The temperature in Death Valley could rise above 130 degrees Fahrenheit 
this weekend. If it does, it would set a record for the hottest 
temperature ever reliably measured on Earth
By Andrea Thompson on July 14, 2023

Amid a punishing heat wave gripping the U.S. Southwest, Death Valley, 
Calif., could tie or set the record for the hottest temperature ever 
reliably measured on Earth.

That record currently stands at a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit 
set there in August 2020 and again in July 2021. Such heat records are 
becoming more likely—and record cold temperatures less likely—as the 
Earth heats up from the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere by 
humans burning fossil fuels.

Death Valley, as its name suggests, is sweltering—it’s known as the 
hottest place on Earth thanks to its desert climate and the local 
topography. Summer temperatures there often soar past 120 degrees F even 
in the shade, according to the National Park Service. Because the area’s 
dry climate is coupled with typically clear skies, the sun constantly 
heats up the ground, and that heat radiates back into the air. When the 
air rises, it gets trapped by the steep walls of the valley, which sits 
282 feet below sea level. It cools very slightly and starts to descend. 
As it does so, it compresses and heats up again, making the valley a 
virtual blowtorch of hot air.

Temperatures in Death Valley could rocket past their usual, 
already-mind-boggling typical values because of a heat dome that has 
trapped sizzling hot air over the southern tier of the U.S. Records 
could also be set in Las Vegas, Nev., Phoenix, Ariz. and parts of 
Southern California. Phoenix has already seen 14 days in a row with high 
temperatures at or above 110 degrees F, which is the third-longest such 
stretch on record. Texas has had weeks of hot, humid weather that has 
sent the heat index—a basic measure of how hot the temperature feels on 
your body—spiking into dangerous territory, particularly for young 
children, the elderly, those who work outdoors and those with existing 
health issues such as asthma or heart disease. Heat is the number one 
weather killer in the U.S., causing more deaths than hurricanes, 
tornadoes and flooding combined.

And the climate emergency is causing a clear trend toward more frequent, 
longer-lasting and more intense heat waves and more heat records. This 
past June was the hottest on record globally, according to the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the planet likely had its 
hottest week in human history in the first week of July, according to 
the World Meteorological Organization.

The WMO, which keeps official global weather records, places the hottest 
temperature ever measured on Earth at 134 degrees F; this reading was 
taken in Death Valley on July 10, 1913. This measurement was declared a 
record in 2012 after a WMO review threw out the previous record of 136 
degrees F in Al ʻAzīzīyah, Libya, from 1922 because of issues with the 
instrument and its placement. Several experts also doubt the legitimacy 
of the 134-degree measurement because it has similar issues as the Libya 
temperature reading, however.

The WMO will need to verify any record-high reading from Death Valley, 
but if it is verified, it would be one of the hottest temperatures ever 
measured on Earth and the hottest ever reliably measured—though there 
are decent odds that another heat wave in the not-too-distant future 
will best it.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/death-valley-could-set-a-world-record-hot-temperature/



/[ Jason Box is an ice scientist  ] /
*What is the Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis?*
Jason Box
Jun 25, 2023
This is a background video for a forthcoming video on a new study that 
applies the Copernicus Arctic Regional Reanalysis (CARRA) to a Greenland 
extreme event.
The C3S Arctic regional reanalysis project has been supported by EU 
Copernicus contract: 2017/C3S_322_Lot2_METNO/SC2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8gfrJ853UY



/[ Flood maps https://coastal.climatecentral.org/  ]/
*Coastal Risk Screening Tool*
An interactive map showing areas threatened by sea level rise and 
coastal flooding. Combining the most advanced global model of coastal 
elevations with the latest projections for future flood levels.

*Cutting-Edge Science*
Flood maps are only as good as the elevation data they're founded on. We 
used machine learning to develop CoastalDEM®, a high-accuracy digital 
elevation model (DEM) for coastal areas, now updated to version 2.1. 
Read more.

Climate change science is constantly evolving. Our maps are based on the 
latest sea-level projections, including those from the recently released 
Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) from the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change (IPCC) and the 2022 Sea Level Rise Technical Report from 
an interagency U.S. government task force.

*Global Coverage*
Using CoastalDEM to model land elevation outside the U.S., our maps help 
screen for coastal flood risk in parts of the world where top-accuracy 
elevation data based on airborne lidar is unavailable.

For mapping coastal flood risk within the U.S., we use high-resolution 
airborne lidar data collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration (NOAA).
Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4W6pZcerRsA
https://coastal.climatecentral.org/


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/////[ Heat in Florida - meteorologist ]/
*Record Hot Ocean Temperatures Threatening Florida Coral (El Nino & 
Climate Change July 2023)*
WKMG News 6 ClickOrlando
Jul 12, 2023
Parts of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico are record hot for this time of 
the year. (July 2023). This is being fueled by El Nino and Climate change.

Coral bleaching begins when the ocean becomes hotter than a certain 
threshold. Bleaching has already begun around the Florida Keys as water 
temperatures have surged into the 90s. Dr. Derek Manzello  says the only 
way to cool the waters is for a hurricane or tropical storm to churn up 
cooler water. Unprecedented bleaching time is possible, potentially up 
to three months. In past events bleaching lasts between 4 and 6 weeks 
and starts in mid-August.

    Chapters:
    00:00: Intro
    00:50: Current Ocean Temperatures (July 12, 2023)
    01:33: Coral Reef Stressed By early Record Heat
    02:57: Coral Bleaching Alert Levels 2023 (NOAA Coral Reef Watch)
    04:59: Coral Reef Mortality Thresholds
    05:27: Current Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly (Florida)
    06:46: Current Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly (Atlantic Ocean)
    07:22: El Nino getting Stronger
    09:24: Impact Of Coral Reef

Bleaching is about a month ahead of scheduled compared to other 
widespread bleaching episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEd_ZFiaPVs



/[ Nonfiction book review ]/
*A Global Warming Book for the Streaming Age*
In “The Parrot and the Igloo,” the novelist and journalist David Lipsky 
spins top-flight climate literature into cliffhanger entertainment.

*THE PARROT AND THE IGLOO: Climate and the Science of Denial, by David 
Lipsky*

In the preface to “The Parrot and the Igloo,” the journalist David 
Lipsky’s new book on global warming, he admits he thought about opening 
it with a threatening line: “This story put a hole through my life. Now 
it’s your turn.” You can see why. Reading it is like watching a car 
crash in slow motion. You know where this is headed.

Lipsky’s book is a project of maximum ambition. He retells the entire 
climate story, from the dawn of electricity to the dire straits of our 
present day. It’s well-trod ground, but Lipsky, a newcomer to the 
climate field (he is best known for “Although of Course You End Up 
Becoming Yourself,” a memoir set on a road trip with David Foster 
Wallace), makes it page turning and appropriately infuriating. He says 
it up front: He wants this to be like a Netflix series, bingeable.

We usually think of global warming as a modern malady, Lipsky writes, 
one that began in our lifetimes. Even as a climate reporter, I admit 
some part of me thought that too. Yet he reminds us that a Swedish 
chemist first realized that burning coal would warm the planet in the 
1890s, and it’s chilling to learn that people were reading headlines 
about unprecedented heat in American newspapers as early as the 1930s. 
Of course, all the modern climate graphs show that the red line had 
crept up by then. For them it was unprecedented. Imagine if they could 
see a summer now.

The book takes its title from two moments in time. In 1956, The New York 
Times published a story imagining the Arctic of the future, thawed and 
tropical, complete with “gaudy parrots squawking in the trees.” Earlier 
that year, the oceanographer Roger Revelle had looked at the previous 
century’s worth of CO2 released from burning fossil fuels and suggested, 
according to Time magazine, that it “may have a violent effect” on the 
earth’s climate. We could be headed to a runaway “greenhouse” effect.

Fast-forward 54 years. In 2010, the Republican senator James Inhofe’s 
grandchildren built an igloo on the Capitol Mall, and stuck a sign on 
the roof: “AL GORE’S *NEW* HOME.” (Inhofe is also the guy who brought a 
snowball to the Senate floor in 2015.) It didn’t matter that 2010 would 
come to tie 2005 as the hottest year on record up to that point. There 
was snow enough to build an igloo. Global warming is a hoax.

The distance between the parrot and the igloo is Lipsky’s main subject. 
How did we slide so far from that early grasp of reality? The answer, of 
course, is good marketing. Around 2002, the Republican pollster Frank 
Luntz encouraged candidates to use the term “climate change” to play 
down the catastrophic tone of “global warming,” the phrase that the 
scientists were using. He wanted it to sound more like a neutral shift, 
the climatic equivalent of taking a Pittsburgh-to-Fort-Lauderdale road 
trip, and less like a broiling existential threat. Luntz came to regret 
it, but the term stuck.

Lipsky acknowledges that “The Parrot and the Igloo” draws heavily from a 
handful of landmark climate books, including Naomi Oreskes and Erik 
Conway’s “Merchants of Doubt” and Elizabeth Kolbert’s “Field Notes From 
a Catastrophe.” Readers of those texts will find some of the material 
here quite familiar, but Lipsky repackages it well; “The Parrot” is a 
thriller of deceptions, side deals and close calls.

Otherwise dry proceedings of back-room history are given a juicy 
injection of drama and humor. We get tales of vanity, fame and money — 
and at least one God complex. In 1982, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the 
leader of the Unification Church and a self-described messiah, founded 
The Washington Times, a newspaper that soon became a vehicle for 
right-wing talking points and climate denialism. (“Climate Claims Wither 
Under the Luminous Lights of Science,” one headline blared.) The 
Washington Times was Ronald Reagan’s favorite morning read. “Without 
knowing it,” Moon reportedly said, “even President Reagan is being 
guided by Father.”

Every new face (and there are many!) is important. The climate 
denialists come back again and again, at each fresh wave of global 
warming awareness, like “fire-jumpers,” Lipsky writes, landing in 
interview seats on news shows to snuff out concern before it can gain 
much momentum.

Eventually, Lipsky’s narrative, leaning on Oreskes and Conway and 
others, detours to Big Tobacco and its quest to suppress evidence that 
cigarettes cause cancer. The reader is left to wonder why, until the 
same characters paid by Philip Morris to scuttle bans on cigarettes 
become the ones shilling for Big Oil. By the time we hear about a scheme 
in the 1980s to deny the connection between aspirin and a scourge of 
sudden child deaths from Reye’s syndrome, we know where this is going. 
Denial is a cottage industry of the few but talented.

The yearning question for climate journalists now: What are the magic 
words? We have the facts and the wildfires to prove them. But climate 
communication — how to make those facts penetrate hearts and minds — 
seems always a losing battle. The denialists have always had sexier 
language, and they pay handsomely for it. Lipsky, with his cinematic 
account, has a good chance to grab back some of that ground.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/books/review/the-parrot-and-the-igloo-david-lipsky.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/books/review/the-parrot-and-the-igloo-david-lipsky.html?unlocked_article_code=zuhm2tK__xEgFetZ9uMglJOqSXE0m_RvklY06SB7hdYwSaMdT7BOEOgfdlt-9qOAXLllhfyU4DiPqH7-ONFNsw4vwKMhfMWQDgQVtJkAXphCKbBaPrCYWqeiC42hMEycPzAPVKzDMY8xGaMxZftvyIKwBOhA8uvgO2-yzfk9LC0UZqGWH0IbX7ULPT71orcBN_EkBTFOO0BSgsg3anKLIkec9wEFeWuMUKV3OSFwh-ZIV0ah_p69U7VhZz3MwKfE94ZfQ-4EcPkzOsLWWntSeQ-HNoNILXuAuPWoknY5PCj2Fgcv_54OovxSlSOYGHxcdAbBCKzGcSVAUGiPYKaWW0VcOz7h2MV_Td8qZJ2n6Z9tO2YY&smid=url-share



/[ many, many in this link, each brief ]/
*Here are all the positive environmental stories from 2023 so far*
https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/07/11/here-are-all-the-positive-environmental-stories-from-2023-so-far



/[  time for radical action -- from the founder of Extinction Rebellion ]/
*Roger Hallam on Crisis, Disruption and Democracy | Extinction Rebellion 
Netherlands | 8 July 2023*
Extinction Rebellion (XR) UK
Jul 11, 2023  AMSTERDAM
In this talk to Extinction Rebellion Netherlands audience Extinction 
Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam explains why it is a moral imperative 
to go into non-violent civil resistance and save our democracies from 
collapse. Roger Hallam calls on everybody to join Extinction Rebellion 
Netherlands from 9 September 2023 on the A12 in The Hague where XR will 
demand an immediate end to fossil fuel subsidies in the Netherlands, 
currently about thirty billion euro’s yearly.

The blockade of the A12, a vital part of road between the Dutch 
Parliament and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate, will be 
blocked until the demand is met. Forever if must be. In the previous 
peaceful blockades up to 1500 arrests were made. More than 10.000 people 
are expected to join in September. Join the (Dutch and English) telegram 
channel to learn more and stay updated: https://t.me/A12StopSub

"We have to act quickly. What we do I believe in the next 3-4 years will 
determine the future of humanity" Sir David King, Former Chief 
Scientific Advisor to the UK Government (2022)

The UK community of concerned climate conscious citizens who 'Rebel for 
Life'!.

Connected around the globe to other activists and supporters by our 
similarities and our compassion for all life on earth.

Using non-violent direct action (NVDA) to highlight the need to upgrade 
democracy and create a future decided by us, not to us.

Share, comment, subscribe, like, mobilise, donate!

https://chuffed.org/xr/uk

Extinction Rebellion UK: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/

    THE 3 DEMANDS
    1. Tell The Truth
    2. Act Now
    3. Decide Together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUI7fgM_Ft8



/[The news archive - looking back - he's still alive -- in hospice ]/
/*July 15, 1976*/
July 15, 1976: At the Democratic National Convention, presidential 
nominee Jimmy Carter states, "We can have an America that has reconciled 
its economic needs with its desire for an environment that we can pass 
on with pride to the next generation."
(34:46--34:58)
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Car


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