[✔️] June 9, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | El Nino brings Canadian fires, More airline turbulence, Airpocalypse and David Wallace-Wells, Critical tough love interview, Jem Bendel reading, Comedy and global warming, EPA in 2008

Fri Jun 9 08:23:14 EDT 2023

/*June*//*9, 2023*/

/[ Oh, El Nino is here ]/
*‘How Could This Happen?’: Canadian Fires Burning Where They Rarely Have 
Before*
Of the more than 400 fires burning in Canada, more than one-third are in 
Quebec, which has little experience with so many and such large wildfires.
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The outbreak has hit not only the western provinces traditionally prone 
to wildfires, but also provinces in the east, like Quebec, where it is 
rare for so many fires to burn simultaneously and whose residents have 
little experience evacuating from such blazes...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/world/canada/quebec-canada-wildfires-locations.html

/[ Airline emissions ]/
*Climate crisis leading to more turbulence during flights, says study*
Researchers say bumpier air travel is driving up costs and increasing 
the risks for passengers and crew
Matthew Taylor
Thu 8 Jun 2023...
The study found that warmer air, caused by carbon emissions, is creating 
bumpier flights around the world with severe turbulence in the North 
Atlantic up by 55% since 1979.

The study’s co-author Mark Prosser, from the University of Reading, said 
every additional minute spent travelling through turbulence increased 
the wear and tear on an aircraft, as well as the risk of injuries to 
passengers and flight attendants...
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The rapidly changing climate is already known to be affecting air 
travel. A faster jet stream across the Atlantic is increasing travel 
times and rising temperatures are reducing the weight aircraft can 
carry. At the same time carbon emissions from aviation are a significant 
driver of the climate crisis...

The study, published in the Geophysical Research Letters journal, found 
that at a typical point over the north Atlantic – one of the world’s 
busiest flight routes – the total annual duration of severe turbulence 
increased by 55% from 17.7 hours in 1979 to 27.4 hours in 2020. Moderate 
turbulence increased by 37% from 70.0 to 96.1 hours, and light 
turbulence increased by 17% from 466.5 to 546.8 hours.

The authors said that while the US and north Atlantic had experienced 
the largest increases, other busy flight routes over Europe, the Middle 
East and the south Atlantic also recorded significant increases in 
turbulence.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/climate-crisis-leading-to-more-turbulence-during-flights-says-study 

/[ video interview - 6min in https://youtu.be/2OWYgOzEduE ] /
*Airpocalypse: David Wallace-Wells on Red Skies, Raging Wildfires & 
Pollution Link to Climate Crisis*
Democracy Now!
Jun 8, 2023

    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

/[ Critical tough love - YouTube ]/
*A Human Transition | Bob Jensen*
Planet: Critical
Jun 7, 2023  #politicalcrisis #climatecrisis #socialcrisis
If we can’t undo the damage, how do we survive it?
Bob Jensen, political theorist, is the co-author of An Inconvenient 
Apocalypse: Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of 
Humanity. He joined me to discuss the book’s message: transitioning 
humanely to a more equitable and a smaller society will demand 
creativity, resilience and community.

In this episode, we swap stories on those themes, telling tales of 
friends who marked us, communities who are forming in the face on 
political instability, the importance of storytelling as a tool with 
which to remind us of the best of humanity. This is a moving interview 
which intertwines knowledge with emotional honesty in the face of 
potential collapse.

During, I also introduce a new project, WE WILL BEAR WITNESS, which 
documents stories from around the world detailing the perils and 
resistance of this moment in history. Sign up to bear witness.

    00:00 Intro
    04:17 The old future
    07:13 Imagination and technology
    13:01 A humane transition
    23:00 What stories do we need to tell?
    28:09 Introducing We Will Bear Witness
    29:42 Stories of community
    36:10 Stories of creativity
    42:37 Stories of opportunity
    45:58 Stories of The Left
    51:11 Stories of humanity
    54:13 Who would you like to platform?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNSN2VJ-wcI

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/[ philosophizing for a new ending   YouTube 1:36 book reading ]/
*Breaking Together - Introduction and art exhibition*
Jem Bendell
Jun 8, 2023  #BreakingTogether #KintsugiWorld
#BreakingTogether: A freedom-loving response to collapse, by Jem 
Bendell, published by Good Works in 2023, becomes available in all 
formats and regions during June 2023. That includes the full audiobook 
which will become available from Audible and other platforms. Visit 
http://www.jembendell.com for more information on ordering. More free 
audio chapters are also available at: https://soundcloud.com/jem-bendell

The artwork at the start of this video is from the #KintsugiWorld 
exhibition, by Darinka Montico and Jem Bendell, which accompanies the 
launch of the book. Images were made using AI and then extensive 
post-generation digital editing. Each image relates to a theme in a 
chapter. They also form the basis of paintings, sculptures and videos 
that are currently in production. The prints, paintings, sculptures and 
videos will be exhibited in person at venues during late 2023 and 2024. 
Subscribe to http://www.jembendell.com to be informed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQtW5qgSn0Q

/[ Classic about why comedy concerning global warming is difficult and 
rare ]/
*Why TV Comedies Get Climate Change So Wrong*
Our Changing Climate
206,323 views  Dec 18, 2020  #Comedy #ClimateChange #Environmentalism
Why do TV comedies always get climate change wrong?  Help NCSE build 
their climate change in scripted media database: 
https://ncse.ngo/understanding-climat...

Support OCC and get 20+ bonus, ad-free videos by signing up for Nebula: 
https://go.nebula.tv/occ/

In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, we look at how 
and why TV comedies get climate change so wrong. We look at the last 30 
years of television comedies that address climate change from The 
Simpsons to South Park to The Good Place to Modern Family to It's Always 
Sunny in Philadelphia in order to understand why TV comedies get climate 
change so wrong. TV comedies use a number of character archetypes that 
turn environmentalists into obnoxious pariahs, directly deny the 
existence of climate change in the case of South Park, or build jokes 
and comedic elements on how hopeless climate action can be. TV comedies 
ultimately have undermined needed progress on climate change and climate 
action by approaching the issue of climate change in an unproductive 
way. To conclude we offer a number of avenues through which TV comedies 
like The Simpsons, The Politician, and The Good Place might be able to 
actually spur climate action through jokes and comedy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFQJ1sxCNd8

/[The news archive - looking back EPA in 2008 ]/
/*June 9, 2008*/
June 9, 2008:
• Deputy EPA administrator Jason Burnett resigns; he later claims that 
he did so after repeated interference from the White House on issues 
related to carbon pollution.

https://www.sfgate.com/green/article/Ex-EPA-aide-tells-of-White-House-censorship-3205205.php 

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2008-07-09/news/36799342_1_climate-change-epa-deputy-associate-administrator-congressional-testimony 

http://youtu.be/IPjyauzrrv0

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