[✔️] March 23, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Comic+Scientist

Richard Pauli Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Thu Mar 23 09:26:15 EDT 2023 

/*March 23, 2023*/

/[ this risk is important to understand  ]/
*Climate change could spur severe economic losses, Biden administration 
says*
White House economists warned this week that rising temperatures 
threaten infrastructure, insurance programs, and human health.
Zoya Teirstein, Staff Writer
Mar 22, 2023
Climate change is generating major economic problems in the United 
States, the Biden administration said in an annual report published this 
week. The assumptions that higher-income countries like the U.S. would 
safely weather the risks associated with global warming, and that those 
risks would be clear cut, have proven to be false, administration 
economists wrote. A “wide array of risks” are currently impacting the 
“well-being of American communities,” the White House Council of 
Economic Advisers wrote in its report, particularly low-income and 
minority neighborhoods.

Heat, flooding, wildfires, and diseases that spread from animals to 
humans threaten public health and health care systems, the report warns. 
Trillions of dollars’ worth of infrastructure like bridges, roads, and, 
crucially, homes, are susceptible to flooding, posing massive problems 
for America’s insurance industry and federal mortgage lenders. And the 
cost of responding to disasters such as hurricanes and drought, which 
have totalled hundreds of billions of dollars in some recent years, are 
putting a strain on local and state governments, as well as the federal 
government.

Those economic risks, and their unequal toll, require the government to 
reassess how it spends public money, from the federal to the local level...
The Economic Report of the President isn’t a binding plan, nor does it 
contain concrete policy proposals. Rather, it points at how the 
president and his cadre of economists are thinking about the biggest 
issues of the day. But the report is a significant document nonetheless 
— it offers clues about the flavor of legislation President Joe Biden is 
likely to try to push his party toward writing and passing over the 
course of 2023 and the executive actions the president may take. And it 
offers yet another stark warning about the dangerous direction in which 
climate change is taking the nation. The economic report was published 
on the same day as a major United Nations report that said the world is 
at risk of seriously overshooting its climate targets and condemning 
future generations to irreparable harm.

The report “paints a clear-eyed picture of the challenges we face and 
the actions that the federal government can take if we are to grapple 
with the impacts of climate change that are already unavoidable,” Rob 
Moore, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, 
told Grist.

Without intervention, some of the programs that make America’s economy 
tick run the risk of going bankrupt. For example, the report recommends 
that the government continue to reform the National Flood Insurance 
Program, the flood insurance system administered by the Federal 
Emergency Management Agency that for far too long subsidized new 
development in flood zones and obscured the full risks to homeowners who 
chose to live in those areas. The program, the report said, is “at risk 
of financial insolvency.” Better flood disclosure laws would help 
discourage these risky investments, but many states allow sellers to 
keep buyers in the dark. The report recommends that the federal 
government push states to increase transparency and climate resilience 
more generally, particularly as it relates to flooding. Hundreds of 
billions of dollars have begun flowing to states via the Bipartisan 
Infrastructure Law that Congress passed in 2021. The report suggests 
making some of that funding, and future federal funds, contingent on 
states adopting climate resiliency measures and passing flood risk 
disclosure laws.

Moore, from NRDC, heralded this recommendation as a necessary step in 
adapting the nation to the worsening effects of climate change, but 
noted that actually setting the report’s suggestions in motion would 
require the government to work with a greater sense of urgency. “Now the 
problem is getting the Federal Emergency Management Administration — and 
the administration — to fast-track these changes,” he said.

The report also takes aim at rampant inequity in the U.S., illuminated 
and exacerbated by climate change. Low-income, minority, and tribal 
populations live on some of the most vulnerable real estate in the 
country due to racism, redlining, and the forced migration of Native 
Americans. Changing state and federal laws to account for climate risks 
and the impacts of climate change on real estate, agriculture, and other 
sectors will necessarily lead to price hikes across the economy. “This 
could present challenges for low-income communities, for whom higher 
prices are particularly burdensome,” the authors write. The report 
suggests alleviating that burden by creating policies that boost income 
growth and “increase access to wealth-building opportunities” for those 
communities, and by sending America’s most vulnerable “lump sum 
transfers” — cash.

Moore said the window of opportunity for Biden to make these changes is 
coming to a close. “We’re just past the halfway point of the President’s 
first term and there’s a real risk of the administration running out of 
time to complete the changes that everyone knows are needed,” he said.
https://grist.org/economics/climate-change-could-spur-severe-economic-losses-biden-administration-says/


/[ Wide open sea ]/
*Marine Heat Waves Can Happen Even At The Bottom Of The Ocean, New Study 
Finds*
By Jan Wesner Childs - - March 23, 2023

    At a Glance
    - - Marine heat waves can damage habitats and lead to die-offs of
    marine life.
    - - Ripple effects can impact the commercial fishing industry.
    - - Ocean warming is fueled by greenhouse gas emissions.

The new study looked at temperature extremes along continental shelves 
on the bottom of the ocean. Those areas hadn't been targeted in previous 
studies, but more sophisticated computer modeling is making it easier to 
do so. That's important because these areas are home to habitats for 
critical commercial species including lobsters, scallops, crabs and 
flounder.

"There are a lot of sea critters that are either rooted to the sea 
floor, or primarily live near the ocean bottom," Amaya said. "Living so 
deep in the water column, they are really attuned with the temperature 
conditions there, so when a heat wave happens it can really impact them."
"Corals can bleach, the metabolisms of different fishes can increase and 
cause them to burn energy faster than they can eat. All of which can 
lead to die-offs," Amaya said. "In 2015, the Pacific cod industry in the 
Gulf of Alaska saw a 70% decline in response to a heat wave. In 2018, 
there was a big decline in snow crab in the Bering Sea. These are 
$100-$200 million fisheries, so it can really take an economic toll."

T​hey can also make habitats more hospitable to invasive species like 
lionfish, which prey on and compete with native species.
O​ceans cover 70% of the planet. Greenhouse gases trap heat radiated 
from the Earth's surface and prevent it from being disbursed into space. 
As greenhouse gas emissions have risen in the past 140 years, so have 
Earth's temperatures.

"The oceans take up 90% of the excess heat associated with global 
warming," Amaya said. "Marine heat waves (both at the surface and at the 
ocean bottom) are getting hotter as a result. It's an open science 
question whether marine heat waves themselves, the actual physical 
phenomenon, are becoming more frequent or intense, but they are 
definitely becoming hotter and it's because of global warming."
Deeper waters warrant a deeper look.

Amaya and his fellow researchers found that bottom marine heat waves 
tend to last longer than surface marine heat waves. They can occur at 
the same time as surface heat waves, or come on with no signs of heating 
in the waters above.

"The scary thing about bottom marine heat waves is that they can happen 
without a clear surface signature," Amaya said. "That makes them really 
hard to prepare for because we often don't know that one is happening 
until the marine ecosystem impacts are apparent. We need better, more 
widespread and more consistent observations at the bottom of the ocean 
to see these things coming."
https://weather.com/news/climate/news/2023-03-22-marine-heat-wave-bottom-of-ocean



/[ Into our hands, into our communities, across our planet ]/
*Analysis: Latest IPCC report confirms climate change is worsening, but 
we have the tools to combat it*
Science Mar 21, 2023
The world is in deep trouble on climate change, but if we really put our 
shoulder to the wheel we can turn things around. Loosely, that’s the 
essence of a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 
(IPCC).

The IPCC is the world’s official body for assessment of climate change. 
The panel has just released its Synthesis Report, capping off seven 
years of in-depth assessments on various topics.
The report draws out the key insights from six previous reports, written 
by hundreds of expert authors. They spanned many thousands of pages and 
were informed by hundreds of thousands of comments by governments and 
the scientific community.

The synthesis report confirms humans are unequivocally increasing 
greenhouse gas emissions to record levels. Global temperatures are now 
1.1℃ above pre-industrial levels. They’re likely to reach 1.5℃ above 
pre-industrial levels in the early 2030s.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/analysis-latest-ipcc-report-confirms-climate-change-is-worsening-but-we-have-the-tools-to-combat-it
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https://theconversation.com/it-can-be-done-it-must-be-done-ipcc-delivers-definitive-report-on-climate-change-and-where-to-now-201763



/[ feet on the street, cash in the banks, follow the money... ]/
*Climate activists target nation's big banks, urging divestment from 
fossil fuels*
March 22, 2023
WBUR
By Michael Copley, Paula Moura
Across the U.S., people protested outside major banks on Tuesday, 
calling on financial institutions to shift investments away from fossil 
fuel companies. In Boston, more than 200 people marched from a Chase 
Bank to a Bank of America branch. A man there used a solar-powered chain 
saw to cut through giant credit cards from Chase and Bank of America.

One hundred protests took place across the country, from Juneau, Alaska, 
to Washington, D.C., to urge banks including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of 
America and Citi to stop funding fossil fuel projects, which 
significantly contribute to human-caused climate change. Third Act, a 
climate activism group largely made up of retirees, organized the 
nationwide events ahead of annual meetings where investors can propose 
changes to corporate policies...
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The demonstrations happened a day after a United Nations report was 
released showing that the world is on track to face catastrophic 
warming. However, world leaders already have the necessary tools to 
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save lives, according to the report. 
The authors of the report hope it will give guidance for political 
leaders who will gather later this year for international negotiations 
on how to limit emissions...
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McKibben said the world faces a "balancing act" trying to eliminate 
greenhouse gas emissions from the economy. "We're not going to be off 
oil and gas tomorrow, sadly," he said. "That's why we've been very clear 
in saying our only demand is that these guys [banks] stop funding the 
expansion of the fossil fuel industry."

Citi, one of the banks where protests happened Tuesday, said in an 
emailed statement that the bank "shares the goal of transitioning to a 
low-carbon economy." The company pointed to efforts to invest in "clean 
energy solutions through our net zero commitments and our $1 trillion 
commitment to sustainable finance." Citi also stated its commitment to 
its clients to "support their efforts to decarbonize their businesses."...
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/22/1165127291/climate-change-activists-target-big-banks-divest-from-fossil-fuels

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/[ non-profits take the pledge ]/*
**Climate Funders Justice Pledge
*Donors of Color Network
Feb 3, 2021
The Donor of Color Network's Climate Funders Justice Pledge shifts the 
center of gravity in philanthropy towards racial and economic justice, 
challenging the nation’s largest climate funders to commit publicly to 
greater transparency and give at least 30% of their climate funding to 
the BIPOC-led powerbuilding groups nationwide who have an outsized 
impact in fighting the climate crisis.
Find out more here: http://climate.donorsofcolor.org/*
*https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAiJx14eQ5g*
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/[ Climate.donorsofcolor.org]/*
**THE CLIMATE MOVEMENT’S BIG PROBLEM, NARRATED BY ROSARIO DAWSON. *
https://www.climate.donorsofcolor.org/
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/[ interconnection with BIPOC = black, indigenous, and people of color 
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*Putting more climate philanthropy toward economic and racial justice*
A conversation with Abdul Dosunmu about the Climate Funders Justice Pledge.
MAR 22, 2023
Whether it’s suffering the effects of fossil fuel pollution or fighting 
back against it, black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) are on 
the front lines of climate change.

Yet they are starved for resources. More than a billion dollars a year 
goes toward climate philanthropy, but of that amount, little more than 1 
percent goes to BIPOC-led environmental justice groups.

The two-year-old Climate Funders Justice Pledge, run by the Donors of 
Color Network, is trying to change that. It challenges big donors to a) 
be more transparent about where their grants are going, and b) within 
two years of signing the pledge, raise the amount going to BIPOC-led 
groups to 30 percent.

The pledge, featured in a just-released report from Morgan Stanley and 
the Aspen Institute on how to increase the impact of climate 
philanthropy, has already led to more than $100 million in annual 
commitments to BIPOC-led groups.

I talked with Abdul Dosunmu, who runs the pledge campaign, about why 
BIPOC leadership is important to the climate fight, how transparency 
changes the behavior of foundations, and how to improve the relationship 
between environmental justice groups and big funders.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/putting-more-climate-philanthropy?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=193024&post_id=107936836&utm_medium=email#details

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/[ Hollywood Reporter -- About "Extrapolations"  - on Apple   ]/
*The Making of Star-Studded Climate Drama ‘Extrapolations’: “I Hope 
People Are Moved, Entertained and Perhaps a Little Bit Scared”*
BY BRANDE VICTORIAN
MARCH 22, 2023
The Making of Star-Studded Climate Drama ‘Extrapolations’: “I Hope 
People Are Moved, Entertained and Perhaps a Little Bit Scared”
Sienna Miller, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker and Kit Harington are among 
the international cast of Apple TV+'s ambitious limited series, which 
asks what happens to humanity in the near future, when global warming 
upends every aspect of our lives, including the way we love and grieve.
BY BRANDE VICTORIAN
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue

When Sienna Miller arrived on the set of Extrapolations for the first 
day of filming in October 2021, a Native American shaman came to bless 
the grounds. There were no printed signs directing her where to go, or 
stacks of paper scripts available for producers to scribble their notes 
in the margins. Instead, there were clothing racks filled with thrifted 
and vintage garments sustainably sourced by the costume department, 
water stations for refilling nonplastic bottles, compostable plates and 
utensils, and plant-based craft services. It was the greenest set the 
actress says she’s ever been on.
“It was really environmentally conscious, and that was a treat,” says 
Miller. “I’ve been on sets with bamboo stools, but nothing to the degree 
that this was.”

That difference was intentional on the part of Scott Z. Burns, writer, 
director and creator of the new Apple TV+ series, and executive 
producers Dorothy Fortenberry and Media Res’ Michael Ellenberg.

“Dorothy and I, along with Media Res and Apple, felt that if we were 
going to make this show, we needed to try and make it in the way that 
the subject matter required of us,” says Burns.
All filming took place throughout New York City’s five boroughs, 
drastically reducing the project’s carbon footprint. But the greatest 
success of the production, which employed the help of Green Spark Group, 
a consulting firm that trains filmmakers on how to reduce their 
environmental impact during production, was simply demonstrating what’s 
possible when it comes to how we engage with the Earth and with each 
another.

Which is precisely the point of Extrapolations. Rather than fixate on 
hypotheticals about what the planet might be like if humans continue on 
our current path or depict a distant, apocalyptic-like universe, the 
eight-episode drama drops viewers in near-future societies around the 
world where its characters’ entire relationship to one another revolves 
around the climate issues many believe we still have the luxury to 
ignore. And that, in and of itself, is terrifying, says Yara Shahidi, 
another member of the star-studded cast.
“I think that this series asks a question in a really helpful way, which 
is, As much as you may think of it as an extreme imagining of the 
future, is it really all that extreme? Is it really all that unrealistic?”
Extrapolations begins in the year 2037 with climate activists protesting 
Alpha Industries, a tech company that claims economies will fail if 
corporations such as theirs aren’t allowed to develop technologies that 
will raise average temperatures more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial 
levels — which scientists say is the cutoff to avoid climate catastrophe 
— in the short term in order to remedy ecological issues in the long 
term. The argument sets the stage for the theme of environment versus 
enterprise that plays out in the series.

Kit Harington plays Alpha CEO Nicholas Bilton. “He’s obviously shaped 
around a few different people in our consciousness right now,” says 
Harington. “You could pick any one of those kinds of tech billionaires 
and decide that’s who he’s based on. But really, he’s his own invention. 
It’s this idea of someone who is ultra-capitalist and very motivated by 
the free market and believes that they can save the world through 
capitalism and all of the issues that come with it.”

It’s also during this episode that audiences are introduced to two of 
the characters who’ll humanize the threat of environmental calamity: 
newly appointed youth Rabbi Marshall Zucker (Daveed Diggs) and marine 
biologist Rebecca Shearer (Miller).
“The fame of the cast was important because we wanted characters and 
actors that the audience would immediately connect to and feel for,” 
says Ellenberg. “We wanted to collapse the distance from this issue, and 
with these famous actors you’re there automatically.”
Beyond depicting how climate change could upend individual lives on an 
intimate level, the series also zooms out to the larger, geopolitical 
landscape. Ecocide — widespread, long-term and severe destruction of the 
natural environment that’s brought on by either deliberate or negligent 
human action — is a concept that originated in the 1970s following the 
Vietnam War. While 10 nations have domestic laws criminalizing ecocide, 
only one of which — France — is a Western country, there’s currently no 
international law that bans the practice in peacetime. In 
Extrapolations, world leaders can no longer afford to overlook how the 
devastation brought on by increasing global temperatures affects 
countries in disparate ways...
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/extrapolations-kit-harington-yara-shahidi-apple-climate-drama-1235352373/



/[ Comic meets a scientist promoting April 21 demonstration - video 5 
min  ]/
*Kiri Meets Bill | Climate Science Translated*
Climate Science Breakthrough
Mar 19, 2023
Comedian Kiri Pritchard-McLean helps Professor Bill McGuire spell out 
the actual risks of climate change, pulling zero punches, and using 
highly unscientific language throughout.
climatesciencebreakthrough.com
Follow us on Twitter @ClimateSciBreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxLpoPKF7lw



/[The news archive - looking back at some simple reasoning ]/
/*March 23, 2006*/
March 23, 2006: In a CBSNews.com interview, "60 Minutes" correspondent 
Scott Pelley explains why he doesn't cite the views of climate-change 
deniers in his stories:

    "'If I do an interview with Elie Wiesel,' he asks, 'am I required as
    a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?' He says his team tried
    hard to find a respected scientist who contradicted the prevailing
    opinion in the scientific community, but there was no one out there
    who fit that description. 'This isn't about politics or
    pseudo-science or conspiracy theory blogs,' he says. 'This is about
    sound science...'There becomes a point in journalism where striving
    for balance becomes irresponsible.'"

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-pelley-and-catherine-herrick-on-global-warming-coverage/ 




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