[✔️] June 24, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Stripes, High ocean temps, air quality Canada, Power grid seeks market, Western US hopeful. Dave Roberts., Disability Justice and climate Adaptation, Human Climate Niche

Sat Jun 24 05:38:54 EDT 2023

/*June*//*24, 2023*/

/[ Show your stripes on the solstice --  be aware every day  ] /
*Show your Stripes Day meaning: Why are people sharing climate crisis 
graphic today*
The stripes, which show average annual temperatures based on colour, are 
designed to illustrate rising global temperatures and spark 
conversations and action around the climate crisis
Warming Stripes for United Kingdom from 1884-2020

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/show-your-stripes-day-meaning-global-warming-b1869663.html/
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/[ high ocean temps explained   YouTube video ]/
*What's Causing the Ocean Heatwave? (With Jeff Berardelli)*
The Climate Pod
Jun 21, 2023
The record-shattering ocean surface temperatures across the Atlantic 
over the last two weeks have shocked anyone paying attention to the 
climate crisis. Ocean surface temperatures are more than a degree 
Fahrenheit above previous records, and climate scientists hadn't 
expected this level of warming for decades, even in the worst case 
scenario models. But is there more to the story than human-caused 
climate change? Are there other factors contributing to this spike in 
ocean temperatures? How likely is it that the ocean has surpassed a 
tipping point that could spell disaster for marine life and all of the 
lifeforms that depend on a healthy marine ecosystem, including humans.

Jeff Berardelli, WFLA's Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist joins 
The Climate Pod to answer these questions and explain global warming's 
impact on the warming oceans and the other causes of the extreme 
temperatures we're seeing. We also discuss El Nino's potential impact on 
2023's extreme weather, the Texas heatwave, the early season hurricane 
forming in the Atlantic Ocean, and a little history behind Dr. Ed 
Hawkins' Climate Stripes as we celebrate International #ShowYourStripes Day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HplbEZmX_Pw

/[ Air Quality Canada - more wildfires  - mostly video of one map ]/
*Canada’s Boreal Still Going Up in Smoke*
Paul Beckwith
Jun 23, 2023
If you live in one of the major U.S. cities on the eastern seaboard like 
New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, or Philadelphia you can be 
forgiven if you think that the Canadian wildfires have been subdued.

Unfortunately, the reality of the situation is that they have worsened, 
and are producing even more smoke then before. The only difference now 
is that the smoke is not being transported your way since the wind 
patterns are different. Not to worry, when winds become similar to that 
a few weeks ago (lot pressure off coast, generating ccw winds blowing 
smoke from Quebec and Ontario south and southeast to give hundreds of 
millions of Americans that Mars experience (orange skies, minimal 
visibility, darkness during the day, air you can’t breathe without a 
respirator). If you happen to be unlucky, this smoke may even coincide 
with a crushing heat wave, but you can always get a chill suit to cool 
your body when you are outside.

I discuss all this and more in this video, also the various hazards to 
health from the wildfire smoke and ways you can protect yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWgA2oXXElc

/[ Power utility seek efficiency and reliability - Dave Roberts 
interview audio  ]/
*Steps toward a unified electricity market in the western US*
A conversation with scholar Michael Wara.
JUN 23, 2023
In about half the country, power utilities have turned over 
administration of their electrical transmission systems to regional 
transmission organizations (RTOs), or what amounts to the same thing, 
independent system operators (ISOs). RTOs and ISOs oversee wholesale 
electricity markets and do regional transmission planning, which 
increases system efficiency and reduces costs for ratepayers.

The power utilities in the 11 western US states are not joined together 
in an RTO. California has its own ISO, but it only covers that one 
state. In the rest of the region, utilities are islands — they each 
maintain their own reserves and do their own transmission planning 
within their own territories. It leads to enormous duplicated efforts 
and inefficiencies.

For years, there has been discussion of creating a western RTO, to bring 
the western states together to share resources and coordinate 
transmission planning. Analysts have found that an RTO could save the 
region’s ratepayers billions of dollars a year.

Recently the discussion has begun to heat up again. A regionalization 
bill in California was tabled this year but promises to return next 
session. Governor Gavin Newsom expressed his support for the idea. 
Nonetheless, numerous sticky technical and political issues remain to be 
hashed out.

To explore the promise and risks of a western RTO, I contacted Michael 
Wara, director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program at the Stanford 
Woods Institute for the Environment. We discussed the political forces 
pushing for and against an RTO, the way the west's electrical system has 
changed since the last time this discussion came up, and incremental 
steps that can be taken in the direction of greater regional cooperation.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/steps-toward-a-unified-electricity

/[ Any human is TAB = Temporarily Able Bodied   -- brief video ]/
*Cripping Climate Adaptation: Disability Justice and Climate Change*
Climate Atlas of Canada
696 views  Dec 2, 2022
AVAILABLE WITH DESCRIPTIVE AUDIO  ➡️
  • Cripping Climate ...

People with disabilities are the world's largest minority group and are 
disproportionately affected by climate change. As disability justice and 
climate issues collide, Cripping Climate Adaptation lays bare the often 
disastrous consequences of overlooking people with disabilities and 
illustrates the need to consider the unique needs of people with 
disabilities and include them in climate adaptation.

Set to a lively visual backdrop of dance, music, and activism, this 
documentary defines the incredible toolkit on adaptation from the 
disability community, one that adds depth, texture and creativity to get 
beyond traditional ways of how the environment is used. Let's not miss 
out on this tool kit of ways of seeing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G7wLlI7N6E

/[  A new concept in the science - a video explanation ]/
*Using the Concept of the Human Climate Niche to Quantify the Human Cost 
of Global Warming**
*Paul Beckwith
Jun 23, 2023
A new peer-reviewed scientific paper recently published (first author 
Tim Lenton) tries to determine the human costs from global warming.

Most studies look at monetary losses, but since huge inequalities exist 
in how money is distributed among countries and regions and individuals 
these dollar methods are highly inequitable.

According to this paper, a better way to analyze costs is using the 
concept of the human climate niche. Basically, when you graph human 
population density as a function of Mean Annual Temperature (MAT) you 
get a distribution with two peaks. The main peak is at MAT = 13 C which 
is where most of the global north lives, and the second, smaller peak is 
at MAT = 27 C where most of the Asian monsoonal climates are. Most 
humans on our planet live in regions that follow this MAT distribution 
since we have common physiology and comfort levels with respect to 
temperature.

Unprecedented climate is essentially occurring in regions where MAT 
exceeds 29 C. Essentially, this paper determines what fraction of the 
global population lives in regions with unprecedented climate today, and 
what we can expect in the future. The human climate niche curves of 
population density versus MAT will obviously shift as our planet warms, 
and as our population and demographics (population distribution versus 
age)  changes.

Results are that the 1.2 C global temperature increase we already 
experience today (relative to the “pre-industrial” 1880-1910 baseline) 
has pushed 9% of the global population out of the human climate niche 
already.

When we reach global warming of 2.7 C, then between 22% and 39% of the 
global population will have been pushed out of the human climate niche, 
with huge fractions of the global population exposed to unprecedented 
climate (MAT exceeds 29 C). Since MAT is highly correlated to MMT (Mean 
Maximum Temperature) and WBT (Wet Bulb Temperature) we know that over 
time humanity will be driven by adverse climate into smaller and smaller 
regions of our planet as the human climate niche shrinks our options of 
survivable places to live.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFlTHafjAyA

/[The news archive - looking back at significant Whitehouse secret 
meeting with big oil pals ]/
/*June 24, 2004*/
June 24, 2004: NYTimes.com reports:

    "The Supreme Court handed a major political victory to the Bush
    administration today, ruling 7 to 2 that Vice President Dick Cheney
    is not obligated, at least for now, to release secret details of his
    energy task force.

    "The majority of the justices agreed with the administration's
    arguments that private deliberations among a president, vice
    president and their close advisers are indeed entitled to special
    treatment — arising from the constitutional principle known as
    executive privilege — although they said the administration must
    still prove the specifics of its case in the lower courts.

    "'A president's communications and activities encompass a vastly
    wider range of sensitive material than would be true of any ordinary
    individual,' the court said in a summary of the majority opinion
    written by Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

    "By sending the case back to the lower federal courts, the majority
    removed a significant political headache for President Bush and Vice
    President Cheney. As a practical matter, the outcome today means
    that the final resolution will not come until well after the
    November elections."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/politics/24CND-CHEN.html

https://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/cheney062404.pdf

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