[✔️] June 23, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Dangers of Broadcasting, Sick Moose by ticks, Rotting seaweed beaches, 1988 Hansen warned us,

[Richard Pauli]

/*June*//*23, 2023*/

/[ Real dangers of broadcasting ]/
U.S.
*Iowa meteorologist Chris Gloninger quits 18-year career after death 
threat over climate coverage*
BY LI COHEN
JUNE 22, 2023
Gloninger, the chief meteorologist for CBS affiliate KCCI in Des Moines, 
Iowa, has spent the past 18 years working at seven news stations across 
five states. But on Wednesday, the New York native tweeted that he now 
must focus on his "health, family and combating the climate crisis" in 
another way.

"After a death threat stemming from my climate coverage last year and 
resulting in PTSD, in addition to family health issues, I've decided to 
begin this journey *now*," he tweeted. "...I take immense pride in 
having educated the public about the impacts of climate change during my 
career."...
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The threats Gloninger referenced in his resignation began in June 2022.
"Getting sick and tired of your liberal conspiracy theory on the 
weather," an email Gloninger shared that's dated June 21, 2022, says. 
"Climate changes every day, always has, always will, your pushing 
nothing but a Biden hoax, go back to where you came from."

Another email dated three days later from the same address asks for his 
home address, saying, "We conservative Iowans would like to give you an 
Iowan welcome you will never forget."

And another sent from the same person a few weeks later told him to "go 
east and drown from the ice cap melting."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iowa-meteorologist-chris-gloninger-quits-18-year-career-after-receiving-death-threat-over-his-climate-coverage/



/[ Michigan moose sick ticks ick]/
*Moose herds threatened by ticks, brain worms, the result of climate change*

Moose populations are being decimated in Minnesota, Maine, New Hampshire 
and other states as parasites their toll
Michigan’s U.P. herds are remaining steady for now, thanks in part to 
severe winters in recent years
But climate change is a longer-term threat, warming winters and allowing 
ticks and brain worms to thrive
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The best defense is a long, frigid winter, which can kill the pest as 
they shed from their host. But those are growing more rare as climate 
change warms the Great Lakes region, and ticks are thriving as a result.

A 2018 study by the University of New Hampshire found that of 179 
radio-tagged moose calves, only 54 survived over a three-year period. 
More than 40,000 ticks were found on each dead calf, “causing emaciation 
and severe metabolic imbalance from blood loss.”

Seth Moore, natural resources director for the Grand Portage Band of 
Lake Superior Chippewa, which is leading research on moose populations, 
said the rising toll of tick infestations is a direct result of climate 
change. Winter is coming on later and spring is arriving earlier, 
leaving fewer cold, snow-covered days to kill off ticks...
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Once inside the moose, the worms attack their neurological system, 
leaving the animals delirious and defenseless. Side effects of brain 
worms, Cartensen said, include disorientation — walking in circles or 
with a tilted head — and losing fear of humans...
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/moose-herds-threatened-ticks-brain-worms-result-climate-change

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/[ ick ]/*
**Rotting seaweed, dead fish, no sand: Climate change threatens to ruin 
US beaches*
Elizabeth Weise
USA TODAY
june 17. 2023
As Americans flock to the beach this summer, they're often greeted with 
disconcerting news: Their destination might be smelly with dead fish or 
rotting seaweed, − and danger often lurks from rip currents or even 
shark attacks.

In a warming world, those problems are set to get worse, experts say.

"The climate is changing and it's changing drastically," said Todd 
Crowl, director of the Institute of Environment at Florida International 
University in Miami. "It is measurable and happening."

No single ruined beach day should be directly attributed to a warming 
globe. But the rise in atmospheric and ocean temperatures is rapidly 
altering the stretches of coastline where land and water meet...
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/17/gross-climate-change-effects-soil-us-beaches-seaweed-dead-fish/70318332007/


/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*June 23, 1988*/

June 23, 1988: NASA scientist James Hansen warns the US Senate about the 
risks of human-caused climate change.

    *Global Warming Has Begun, Expert Tells Senate*
    By Philip Shabecoff, Special To the New York Times
    June 24, 1988

    The earth has been warmer in the first five months of this year than
    in any comparable period since measurements began 130 years ago, and
    the higher temperatures can now be attributed to a long-expected
    global warming trend linked to pollution, a space agency scientist
    reported today.

    Until now, scientists have been cautious about attributing rising
    global temperatures of recent years to the predicted global warming
    caused by pollutants in the atmosphere, known as the ''greenhouse
    effect.'' But today Dr. James E. Hansen of the National Aeronautics
    and Space Administration told a Congressional committee that it was
    99 percent certain that the warming trend was not a natural
    variation but was caused by a buildup of carbon dioxide and other
    artificial gases in the atmosphere.

    Dr. Hansen, a leading expert on climate change, said in an interview
    that there was no ''magic number'' that showed when the greenhouse
    effect was actually starting to cause changes in climate and
    weather. But he added, ''It is time to stop waffling so much and say
    that the evidence is pretty strong that the greenhouse effect is
    here.'' An Impact Lasting Centuries

    If Dr. Hansen and other scientists are correct, then humans, by
    burning of fossil fuels and other activities, have altered the
    global climate in a manner that will affect life on earth for
    centuries to come.

    Dr. Hansen, director of NASA's Institute for Space Studies in
    Manhattan, testifed before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources
    Committee.

    He and other scientists testifying before the Senate panel today
    said that projections of the climate change that is now apparently
    occurring mean that the Southeastern and Midwestern sections of the
    United States will be subject to frequent episodes of very high
    temperatures and drought in the next decade and beyond. But they
    cautioned that it was not possible to attribute a specific heat wave
    to the greenhouse effect, given the still limited state of knowledge
    on the subject. Some Dispute Link

    Some scientists still argue that warmer temperatures in recent years
    may be a result of natural fluctuations rather than human-induced
    changes.

    Several Senators on the Committee joined witnesses in calling for
    action now on a broad national and international program to slow the
    pace of global warming.

    Senator Timothy E. Wirth, the Colorado Democrat who presided at
    hearing today, said: ''As I read it, the scientific evidence is
    compelling: the global climate is changing as the earth's atmosphere
    gets warmer. Now, the Congress must begin to consider how we are
    going to slow or halt that warming trend and how we are going to
    cope with the changes that may already be inevitable.'' Trapping of
    Solar Radiation

    Mathematical models have predicted for some years now that a buildup
    of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and
    oil and other gases emitted by human activities into the atmosphere
    would cause the earth's surface to warm by trapping infrared
    radiation from the sun, turning the entire earth into a kind of
    greenhouse.

    If the current pace of the buildup of these gases continues, the
    effect is likely to be a warming of 3 to 9 degrees Fahrenheit from
    the year 2025 to 2050, according to these projections. This rise in
    temperature is not expected to be uniform around the globe but to be
    greater in the higher latitudes, reaching as much as 20 degrees, and
    lower at the Equator.

    The rise in global temperature is predicted to cause a thermal
    expansion of the oceans and to melt glaciers and polar ice, thus
    causing sea levels to rise by one to four feet by the middle of the
    next century. Scientists have already detected a slight rise in sea
    levels. At the same time, heat would cause inland waters to
    evaporate more rapidly, thus lowering the level of bodies of water
    such as the Great Lakes.

    Dr. Hansen, who records temperatures from readings at monitoring
    stations around the world, had previously reported that four of the
    hottest years on record occurred in the 1980's. Compared with a
    30-year base period from 1950 to 1980, when the global temperature
    averaged 59 degrees Fahrenheit, the temperature was one-third of a
    degree higher last year. In the entire century before 1880, global
    temperature had risen by half a degree, rising in the late 1800's
    and early 20th century, then roughly stabilizing for unknown reasons
    for several decades in the middle of the century. Warmest Year Expected

    In the first five months of this year, the temperature averaged
    about four-tenths of a degree above the base period, Dr. Hansen
    reported today. ''The first five months of 1988 are so warm globally
    that we conclude that 1988 will be the warmest year on record unless
    there is a remarkable, improbable cooling in the remainder of the
    year,'' he told the Senate committee.

    He also said that current climate patterns were consistent with the
    projections of the greenhouse effect in several respects in addition
    to the rise in temperature. For example, he said, the rise in
    temperature is greater in high latitudes than in low, is greater
    over continents than oceans, and there is cooling in the upper
    atmosphere as the lower atmosphere warms up.

    ''Global warming has reached a level such that we can ascribe with a
    high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship between
    the greenhouse effect and observed warming,'' Dr. Hansen said at the
    hearing today, adding, ''It is already happening now.''

    Dr. Syukuro Manabe of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory of
    the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration testified today
    that a number of factors, including an earlier snowmelt each year
    because of higher temperatures and a rain belt that moves farther
    north in the summer means that ''it is likely that severe
    mid-continental summer dryness will occur more frequently with
    increasing atmsopheric temperature.'' A Taste of the Future

    While natural climate variability is the most likely chief cause of
    the current drought, Dr. Manabe said, the global warming trend is
    probably ''aggravating the current dry condition.'' He added that
    the current drought was a foretaste of what the country would be
    facing in the years ahead.

    Dr. George Woodwell, director of the Woods Hole Research Center in
    Woods Hole, Mass., said that while a slow warming trend would give
    human society time to respond, the rate of warming is uncertain. One
    factor that could speed up global warming is the widescale
    destruction of forests that are unable to adjust rapidly enough to
    rising temperatures. The dying forests would release the carbon
    dioxide they store in their organic matter, and thus greatly speed
    up the greenhouse effect. Sharp Cut in Fuel Use Urged

    Dr. Woodwell, and other members of the panel, said that planning
    must begin now for a sharp reduction in the burning of coal, oil and
    other fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide. Because trees absorb
    and store carbon dioxide, he also proposed an end to the current
    rapid clearing of forests in many parts of the world and ''a
    vigorous program of reforestation.''

    Some experts also believe that concern over global warming caused by
    the burning of fossil fuels warrants a renewed effort to develop
    safe nuclear power. Others stress the need for more efficient use of
    energy through conservation and other measures to curb fuel-burning.

    Dr. Michael Oppenheimer, an atmospheric physicist with the
    Environmental Defense Fund, a national environmental group, said a
    number of steps can be taken immediately around the world, including
    the ratification and then strengthening of the treaty to reduce use
    of chlorofluorocarbons, which are widely used industrial chemicals
    that are said to contribute to the greenhouse effect. These
    chemicals have also been found to destroy ozone in the upper
    atmosphere that protects the earth's surface from harmful
    ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/24/us/global-warming-has-begun-expert-tells-senate.html 




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