[✔️] May 5, 2023- Global Warming News Digest |

Fri May 5 06:08:50 EDT 2023

/*May*//*5, 2023*/

/[ innovation in France ]/
*Fire and concrete: will France’s model of radical climate protest catch 
on?*
As campaigning hots up around the world once again, eyes have been 
turning to the country that is taking things further

Damien Gayle
@damiengayle
Thu 4 May 2023

In the UK, when climate activists want to block a road, they sit down on 
it. When their fellow activists in France want to do the same, they 
build a wall across one side, and set the other side on fire.

As Extinction Rebellion drew tens of thousands to their peaceful “Big 
One” protests in London last month, in the south of France 8,500 
environmental protesters occupied the road from Toulouse to the town of 
Castres.

In protest at plans for a new motorway, which critics say will devastate 
agricultural land and accelerate climate breakdown, the coalition of 
organic farmers, environmentalists, communists and anarchists danced to 
techno and raced soapboxes along the carriageway. Then they used breeze 
blocks and concrete to block one side of the carriageway, while on the 
other they piled haystacks and tyres and set them ablaze.

Remarkably, they did so without any interruption from police, despite 
perpetrating a level of illegal disruption unheard of across the Channel.

As climate protests hot up around the world once again, eyes have been 
turning to France as the country taking it to its most radical extent. 
This month, Andreas Malm, the human ecologist and author of the climate 
activist bible How to Blow Up a Pipeline, said in an interview it was 
France that was seeing the most exciting developments in environmental 
protest.
The battle of Sainte-Soline

Before last month’s march, the French protesters gathered at a camp on 
land provided by a local dairy farmer whose farm, just outside Castres, 
would be sliced in two by the new A69 motorway. Police had warned them 
that they could block access to the site at any moment.

Three young activists with France’s organic farmers’ union the 
Confédération Paysanne, Mathieu, Victor and Valentin, said there were 
fears about how the police would respond to the protest. It was to be 
the first major environmental protest since a fierce battle between 
activists and police in March at a controversial reservoir project in 
Sainte-Soline.

On 25 March, thousands of environmental protesters had defied an 
official ban on protests to gather at a camp near the small town, 
south-west of Poitiers, near France’s west coast, with many intent on 
sabotaging the 628,000 sq metre reservoir. They were met by a huge 
police response: 20 squadrons of mobile gendarmes, nine helicopters, 
four armoured vehicles, and four water cannon, with officers arranging 
themselves in defensive formations around the construction site.

But why is it in France that environmental activists are taking the most 
radical action?...

Subsequent scenes, filmed by journalists and activists, were shared 
widely. Protesters were seen running towards the police lines through 
volleys of teargas grenades, while gendarmes flanked them on quad bikes. 
Activists fired improvised firework mortars at officers, who responded 
with baton rounds.

The battle lasted roughly an hour. Mathieu, Victor and Valentin told 
how, after activists had started covering teargas canisters with earth 
to stop their fumes dispersing, police switched to using flash bang 
grenades. Several protesters lost fingers as a result, the three 
activists said, while others were injured after standing on dormant 
grenades.

By the time it was over, police had, by their own account, fired more 
than 5,000 teargas grenades, more than 100 stun grenades, and 81 baton 
rounds. The French interior ministry said 28 gendarmes were hurt, two of 
them seriously. Organisers counted 200 protesters injured in the 
fighting, with one still in a coma more than a month later.

In the following days, there were dozens of rallies denouncing the 
police violence at government buildings around France. The minister of 
the interior, Gérald Darmanin, announced he intended to ban Les 
Soulèvements de la Terre (Earth Uprisings), a group that had played a 
key role in organising the protest.

*‘There is no question of working with the police’*
Les Soulèvements de la Terre was among a number of organisations that 
had called the Castres protest last month. Darmanin had backed down from 
his threat to ban the group, but the motorway project was one of 42 
which he had claimed in parliament were “likely to give rise to 
extremely violent protests”, including “against republican 
institutions”. According to reports, a contingent of nearly 800 
gendarmes and CRS riot police was deployed, including eight mobile units.

As the sun rose over the camp on Saturday morning, the scale of the 
protest could be seen. Hundreds of campers had spent the night in tents 
next to two big tops decked out with sound systems and furniture. 
Marquees housed a kitchen handing out banana porridge and coffee. 
Compost toilets were provided for protesters’ convenience.

A young activist called Birdie explained that even though they intended 
the day’s protest to be peaceful, activists in France were extremely 
wary of police – and therefore of the media. “The French government has 
this doctrine of how they want to deal with protesters, which is 
violence and weapons and surveillance,” Birdie said.

“And so it means that as protesters … we have to protect ourselves from 
the government. I know that the police know who I am. I know they know 
who my friends are, who my family is, and they will just grab anything 
to repress me, to put me in prison.”

Birdie said Darmanin called them “terrorists”. “You can see this camp: 
we’re not terrorists. We are just people who cook, who clean, who put up 
toilets, who play music, who protest. This is something that we do. We 
are not violent people. But they try to make us pass as violent people 
and as terrorists. And as such, we have to be careful what we show and 
who we show we are.”

Jean-Luc Herve, an organic farmer and member of Confédération Paysanne, 
was one of a few taking part in the Castres protests who would speak on 
the record. He explained that the new road would devastate agriculture 
in the area.

“The demonstration, it’s a protest against the A69 motorway project,” 
Herve said. “We [already] have a national road between Toulouse and 
Castres. At rush hour, it currently operates at 30% capacity so we 
absolutely don’t need to build a motorway next to this national road 
because there are not enough vehicles to use it.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/04/will-france-model-of-radical-climate-protest-catch-on

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/[ talking apocalypse directly  - how it is all connected, but...]/

*Staying Sane During the Climate Apocalypse*
Regan Parenton
May 4, 2023
Do whatever sets your 'soul' free.
Help others along the way wherever they are in their journey to reach a 
place of deep acceptance of our predicament. If they are unable to grasp 
the enormity of the situation then they are simply unable at this moment 
in time. You must not dwell and simply move on.

Encourage others to drop potentially toxic narratives they tell 
themselves about who they are and set to redefine, if necassary, what 
they truly value. These stories we tell ourselves can act like 
undercurrents to our lives moment to moment. If we're not careful they 
can lead us into some very perilous situations.

The point in life is to live, the meaning is whatever you make it.

Your meaning could be completely different from someone elses, or 
actually the same!

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"Sudden Ocean Warming May Be ‘First of Many Heat Records to Shatter’
Greenland Ice Loss in ‘Hyperdrive’, An ‘Extreme Event on a Global Scale’,
http://www.theenergymix.com/2023/05/0...

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

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/[ many records to fall.]/
*Sudden Ocean Warming May Be ‘First of Many Heat Records to Shatter’*
May 2, 2023 - Reading time: 6 minutes
Full Story: The Associated Press with files from The Energy Mix
Primary Author: Seth Borenstein
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The world’s oceans have suddenly spiked much hotter and well above 
record levels in the last few weeks, with scientists trying to figure 
out what it means and whether it forecasts a surge in atmospheric warming...

*Greenland Ice Loss in ‘Hyperdrive’*
Just a week earlier, AP reported that the Greenland and Antarctic ice 
sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they 
were 30 years ago, according to a new comprehensive international study.

Using 50 different satellite estimates, researchers found that 
Greenland’s melt has gone into hyperdrive in the last few years. 
Greenland’s average annual melt from 2017 to 2020 was 20% more a year 
than at the beginning of the decade and more than seven times higher 
than its annual shrinkage in the early 1990s...
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*An ‘Extreme Event on a Global Scale’*
Climate scientists have been talking about the ocean warming on social 
media and amongst themselves, AP writes. Some, like University of 
Pennsylvania’s Michael Mann, quickly dismiss concerns by saying it is 
merely a growing El Niño on top of a steady human-caused warming increase.

The waters have warmed especially off the coast of Peru and Ecuador, 
where before the 1980s most El Niños began. El Niño is the natural 
warming of parts of the equatorial Pacific that changes weather 
worldwide and spikes global temperatures. Until last month, the world 
has been in the flip side, a cooling phenomenon called La Niña, that has 
been unusually strong and long, lasting three years and causing extreme 
weather...
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*Massive Ocean Warming*
It’s been about seven years since the last El Niño, and it was a 
whopper. The world has warmed in that seven years, especially the deeper 
ocean, which absorbs by far most of the heat energy from greenhouse 
gases, said Sarah Purkey, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution 
for Oceanography. The ocean heat content, which measures the energy 
stored by the deep ocean, sets new record highs each year regardless of 
what’s happening on the surface.

Since that last El Niño, the global heat ocean content has increased 
.04°C (.07°F). That may not sound like a lot, but “it’s actually a 
tremendous amount of energy,” Purkey said. It’s about 30 to 40 
zettajoules of heat, which is the energy equivalent of hundreds of 
millions of atomic bombs the size that leveled Hiroshima, she said.
https://www.theenergymix.com/2023/05/02/sudden-ocean-warming-may-be-first-of-many-heat-records-to-shatter/

/[  Trying to make wishes into fishes.... ] /
*Utah State Board of Education considers removing ‘climate change’ from 
curriculum*
by: Megan Pickett, Nate Larsen
May 4, 2023
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — When the Utah State Board of Education meets on 
Thursday, May 4, they will have a controversial topic to discuss — 
whether the term “climate change” is too politically charged to be 
taught to students....
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“Would there be anything wrong with using ‘changing climate’ instead of 
climate change?” Board of Education Dist. 13 Rep. Randy Boothe said. 
“Because everybody sees that there is a change in climate and that’s 
really what these meteorologists are wanting to talk about.” ...
https://www.abc4.com/news/northern-utah/utah-state-board-of-education-considers-removing-climate-change-from-curriculum/

/[ Video lecture on current science from the most respected climate 
scientist - 1:18:35   ]/
*Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf: Ocean Circulation, Tipping Points, and the 
Public Climate Debate*
Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
May 4, 2023
EPA Climate Change Lecture, Dublin Mansion House, April 19th 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkAYnkpYADs/
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/[ Advanced seminar about Sea Level Rise ]/
*Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2023-03-07: Hilmar Gudmundsson*
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Mar 20, 2023
Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2023-03-07
Speaker: Hilmar Gudmundsson (Northumbria University)

    *Title:   The Dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet*
    Abstract: The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is currently losing
    mass and raising global sea levels, although this mass loss is
    currently less than that of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) and of
    alpine glaciers. The key reason scientists worry about the future of
    WAIS is the possibility of the ice sheet becoming unstable and
    entering a phase of self-sustaining and irreversible retreat.  Some
    modelling work suggests that this could lead to an increase in sea
    level of about a meter or more within a century. While considerable
    progress has been made over the last decade, there are still some
    key research questions that remain unresolved.  The possibility of
    WAIS becoming unstable is no longer debated, but we still do not
    have good estimates of how early in the future this could happen. An
    overview will be provided over recent ice-flow modelling work and
    the key mechanisms that have been suggested for WAIS to potentially
    become unstable. I will present new estimates of the buttressing
    capabilities of the Thwaites ice shelf, and explain why the ice
    shelf, in its current configuration, is almost entirely irrelevant
    for the future mass loss of the glacier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6HS2KPyVU

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/[ this YouTube video Channel has 89 seminars ]/
*Sea Level Rise Seminars*
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Mar 20, 2023/
/https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpMmnV3HS7r1zEsdKRnKOpmhy7vaB2Bz1/
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///[ Tourist Report from Seville Spain - video ]/
*Climate Change: The baking Spanish city that's too hot for tourists and 
farmers*
Sky News
Apr 26, 2023  #sevillespain
By the late afternoon, it's uncomfortable to be outside in Seville as 
the temperatures in Andalucia build towards nearly 40C (104F).

Measures are being taken to ensure the city remains liveable for its 
people and those who visit, but there are concerns these actions will 
not be enough.
  - Read more: 
https://news.sky.com/story/this-area-of-spain-could-become-too-hot-for-tourists-no-matter-what-action-is-taken-12866853
#sevillespain #spainheatwave #spain40c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oTQCxTYI6o

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/[ More from SKY News ]/
*This area of Spain could become too hot for tourists - no matter what 
action is taken*
Seville is tucked away in what is sometimes referred to as the "Iberian 
oven" because of the hot air that blows in from North Africa. Measures 
are being taken to ensure the city remains liveable for its people and 
those who visit - but there are concerns they may not be enough.
Hannah Thomas-Peter

Climate change and energy correspondent @hannahtpsky
By the late afternoon it is uncomfortable to be outside in Seville as 
the temperatures in Andalucia build towards nearly 40C (104F) at the end 
of the week.
This kind of heat is normal in the summer, but not now...
https://news.sky.com/story/this-area-of-spain-could-become-too-hot-for-tourists-no-matter-what-action-is-taken-12866853

/[The news archive - looking back at political legacy of slight impact]/
/*May 5, 2013*/
*May 5, 2013: New York magazine's Jon Chait declares that President 
Obama doesn't get enough credit for being a climate hawk:*

    "The assumption that Obama’s climate-change record is essentially
    one of failure is mainly an artifact of environmentalists’
    understandably frantic urgency. The sort of steady progress that
    would leave activists on other issues giddy does not satisfy the
    sort of person whose waking hours are spent watching the glaciers
    melt irreversibly. But there is a difference between failing to do
    anything and failing to do enough, and even those who criticize the
    president’s efforts as inadequate ought to be clear-eyed about what
    has been accomplished. By the normal standards of progress, Obama
    has amassed an impressive record so far on climate change."

http://nymag.com/news/features/obama-climate-change-2013-5/

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