[✔️] November 13, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Kate Marvel, Drawdown, Dr Kaitlin Naughten, Harvard frisht, Martin Rees predicts, Cryosciences, 2005 Fox

Mon Nov 13 05:51:58 EST 2023

/*November 13*//*, 2023*//
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/[ Dr Kate Marvel delivers the surest science and best story of hero's 
quest ]/
*The End of Normal: Understanding—and correcting—Earth's troubling 
climate trajectory | Kate Marvel*
Project Drawdown
Aug 28, 2023
The planet is now more than 1.1°C warmer than before the Industrial 
Revolution—and it shows. This summer, we’ve experienced punishing heat 
waves, devastating floods, and toxic levels of wildfire smoke filling 
our skies. As temperatures climb, the risk of extreme weather rises, 
too. And we’re facing an even hotter, more dangerous future. Humans are 
conducting an unprecedented experiment on the entire planet, and no one 
is sure exactly how bad it will turn out. But there is hope. Most of the 
solutions we need to stop climate change and avoid the worst-case 
scenarios are already here.

Join Dr. Kate Marvel, senior climate scientist at Project Drawdown, as 
she draws on her own experiences as a scientist and vocal advocate for 
climate solutions to explore the science behind current climate changes 
and future projections. We’ll discuss the science of attributing extreme 
weather events to our warming climate, the different ways humans affect 
climate, and the things science doesn’t yet understand.

This webinar is part of Project Drawdown’s new monthly Drawdown Ignite 
webinar series. Drawdown Ignite provides information and inspiration to 
guide your climate solutions journey. Updates on future webinars can be 
found by visiting drawdown.org/events

Key links:  Project Drawdown: https://drawdown.org/
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/[ Video interview with the widely respected climate scientist Dr 
Kaitlin Naughten ]/
*We can’t save the West Antarctic. So what now?*
Dr Gilbz
Nov 8, 2023  #Antarctica #ClimateChange
It’s not often that I make a video with a title this bleak, but 
unfortunately, needs must. Several pieces of new research point to the 
inevitability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, which is pretty bad 
news. But what we do with this bad news is still up to us.

Here, I talk to the lead author of one of these new papers, Dr Kaitlin 
Naughten. She tells me what it all means, including why we need to focus 
on adaptation, and why we must take courage, not hope, from this 
information.

Contents

    00:00 Intro
    01:06 Who cares about the Amundsen Sea
    01:58 What the study shows
    03:06 Mechanisms of change
    05:34 Can we trust it?
    06:36 The link to sea level rise
    07:02 Time to adapt
    08:53 Why our actions DO matter
    10:51 Courage vs hope
    13:52 Thank yous
    #ClimateChange #Antarctica
    References and resources

THE PAPER: Naughten et al. (2023) 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01818-x
Kaitlin’s twitter thread: 
https://twitter.com/kaitlinnaughten/status/1716472710107222440
Kaitlin’s article in The Conversation: 
https://theconversation.com/increasing-melting-of-west-antarctic-ice-shelves-may-be-unavoidable-new-research-216030
more at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BoZDS1gjU

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/[ Since 2009 "ClimateSight.org" -- I've been reading her superb blog  
-  before Kaitlin got her PHD.   Her writing is always superb. 
https://climatesight.org /
/In 2009 I took her advice:  "So go do some reading. Do some searching 
and reading and watching. See what individuals, professionals, groups 
and scientific bodies are saying about climate change. Assess their 
credentials. Decide who you’re going to believe."  ]/
*Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be unavoidable – 
new research*
Posted on Oct 23, 2023
https://climatesight.org/2023/10/23/increasing-melting-of-west-antarctic-ice-shelves-may-be-unavoidable-new-research/

/[ From Harvard ]/
*When future weather outside is frightful — hot, that is*
Experts warn how life will change for people of different economic 
levels in various parts of world as global temperatures rise
BY Alvin Powell  Harvard Staff Writer

October 18, 2023
Climate change is raising sea levels, creating stronger and wetter 
storms, melting ice sheets, and fostering conditions for more and worse 
wildfires. But as cities around the world warm, climate change’s complex 
global picture often comes down to this: Residents say they are just too 
hot.

Jane Gilbert, one of the nation’s first official “heat officers,” works 
in Miami-Dade County. She said South Florida may be suffering the 
effects of sea level rise and is in the crosshairs of stronger and more 
frequent hurricanes, but residents testifying at 2020 hearings on 
climate-change impacts on low-income neighborhoods repeatedly said the 
biggest one was the heat.

Panelists gathered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s 
Longfellow Hall last Friday for an event on the “Future of Cities” in a 
warming world said the topic is particularly relevant this year, when 
global temperatures soared to new records. As Gilbert spoke on the 
Cambridge campus on a cool fall afternoon, the heat index in Miami was 
109 degrees, just the latest of more than 60 days this year that have 
seen heat indices higher than 105 degrees.
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Satchit Balsari, who conducts research among members of India’s largest 
labor union for women in the nation’s informal economy, did research in 
Gujarat among the millions of people who are already living with a 
global climate that has increased 1 degree Celsius. While that rise may 
seem a small change, that global average is experienced through much 
wider daily swings in some areas in the form of longer and hotter heat 
waves, warmer winters, higher nighttime temperatures and more extreme 
weather events, such as stronger storms or wildfires.

One thing that has become apparent, said Balsari, an assistant professor 
of global health and population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of 
Public Health, is that when talking about individuals, microenvironments 
matter much more than global averages, because those environments are 
what affect people as they live and work.

Balsari shared stories of a street vendor, a weaver who works in a 
building whose rooftop temperature was 10 to 15 degrees above that of 
the surrounding area, who put up awnings to create shade from the sun, 
only to have them taken down because they blocked security cameras.

“It’s very hot, and it cools down a little bit at night, but in their 
work environment, in the lived experience in their homes, there’s this 
constant experience of ‘It’s too hot,’” said Balsari, who is also an 
assistant professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School.

As hot as this year has been globally, experts who gathered for the 
event only expect it to get hotter in the decades to come.

“This is an issue for the long run. Yes, things are bad now. We’re at 
1.3, 1.2 (degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures) now; we’re 
going to blow through 1.5. We’re going to probably blow through 2,” said 
James Stock, vice provost for climate and sustainability and director of 
the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. “It gets 
worse nonlinearly really quickly.”

Stock offered closing remarks at the event, which wrapped up Worldwide 
Week at Harvard and included lectures, performances, exhibitions, and 
other events across campus to highlight the ways in which the University 
interacts and intersects with the world around it through the sciences, 
arts, culture, politics, and other disciplines.

Joining Stock, Balsari, and Gilbert were Spencer Glendon, founder of the 
nonprofit Probable Futures; Francesca Dominici, co-director of the 
Harvard Data Science Initiative; Zoe Davis, climate resilience project 
manager for the city of Boston; and moderator John Macomber, senior 
lecturer at Harvard Business School. Harvard Provost Alan Garber and 
Mark Elliott, vice provost for international affairs, offered opening 
remarks.

Panelists agreed that better data collection is key to adapting 
solutions to circumstances that vary widely even across small geographic 
areas. Interventions such as providing vulnerable populations with air 
conditioners, for example, may be valuable in low-income communities, 
but less so in nearby communities with wealthier residents.

In Miami-Dade County, Gilbert said, air conditioners are considered 
life-saving equipment to the extent that, after Hurricane Irma, the 
state required nursing homes to have back-up power supplies so that 
residents could be cooled even in a power outage. ZIP codes with the 
highest land temperatures — which also tend to be low-income 
neighborhoods — have four times the rate of hospital admissions during 
heat waves as other parts of the region.

Gilbert echoed other panelists in calling for better, more granular data 
through more widespread use of sensors, including wearable sensors that 
can record heat impact on individuals. With different microclimates 
affecting different people, different jobs — whether someone is in an 
office or working at a construction site — also matter, both to public 
health officials and business leaders. Estimates of the potential 
economic impact of extreme heat in the Miami metro area are around $10 
billion per year in lost productivity.

Nonprofit leader Glendon said we’re entering an unprecedented climate 
era. Humans were nomadic, regularly moving to where conditions were 
best, until about 10,000 years ago, when the temperature stabilized to 
the narrow range that we now consider normal. Centered in the range that 
humans prefer, climate stability helped foster human settlement and the 
rise of civilizations.

In the 10,000 years since, Glendon said, everything we’ve created, from 
building designs to cultural practices, has been made with the unstated 
assumption that this stable temperature regime — averaging roughly 60 
degrees Fahrenheit — will continue. Recent decades’ warming and the 
projected warming in the decades to come will push heat and humidity in 
some places beyond the range that the human body can cool itself, with 
unknown consequences for societies.

“Everything is built on that stability, on the assumption that those 
ranges are fixed,” Glendon said. “It’s in building codes, grades of 
asphalt, architecture. … Those ranges are embodied so they became 
unconscious, but we need to make them conscious, and ideally they 
motivate us to avoid 2, 2½, or 3 degrees.”
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/experts-warn-how-life-will-change-as-global-temperatures-rise/

/[ listen in on a Wonderful discussion on the practice of science ]/
*Martin Rees Predicts the Future of Humanity and Science!*
Dr Brian Keating
Nov 11, 2023  Brian Keating's Into The Impossible Podcast
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What’s written in our stars? Here to read humanity's horoscope is none 
other than Lord Martin Rees!

Lord Martin Rees has played a huge role in my career and is an 
inspiration to me and millions of scientists around the world. There is 
literally nothing beyond his purview, and our conversation bore this out 
-- we covered everything from A to Z: artificial intelligence to 
zoology! Nothing was off-limits – we even shared our mutual and 
controversial distaste for alchemy and astrology!

Lord Rees of Ludlow, the Astronomer Royal, is the Co-founder of the 
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and an Emeritus Professor of 
Cosmology & Astrophysics at Cambridge University. He is the 38th Master 
of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of ‘On the Future’ and 
10 other books and the 60th President of the Royal Society.

  @drbriankeating
Key Takeaways:

    Intro (00:00)
    Judging a book by its cover: On The Future (01:34)
    Reading the Queen's horoscope (02:53)
    Do physicists envy mathematicians? (06:32)
    Why is Einstein so often a target of criticism? (10:07)
    The steady-state of the universe debate and cosmology's earlier days
    (15:12)
    Martin's prediction that the CMB could be polarized (21:18)
    Theories of Everything. Do we need them? (28:28)
    Complex vs. complicated (36:46)
    There may be some benefits to the pandemic! (55:24)
    What do you think about blockchain and Bitcoin? (57:11)
    How coins got their ridges (59:06)
    What is your ethical will? (1:15:30)
    Outro (1:25:26)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88YbV3p8EAU

/[ Cryosciences ]/
*Arctic 21: Special Antarctica Session*
*International Cryosphere Climate Initiative*
Jul 14, 2023
With new cryosphere research published every month, understanding the 
latest findings in snow and ice science is of crucial importance for 
climate negotiators and policy makers. This Arctic 21 session focuses on 
Antarctica, providing a series of scientific presentations on ice sheet 
loss projections, sea ice, and the Southern Ocean, including the 
influence of ocean currents on the continent.

Speakers include:
Pam Pearson, Executive Director, ICCI;
Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst, on the 
paleo record of Antarctica;
Dr. Robert DeConto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, on Antarctica's 
contribution to past and future sea level rise;
Dr. Chris Stokes, Durham University, on the sensitivity of East 
Antarctica to climate change;
Dr. James Kirkham, recently of the British Antarctic Survey, on his 
observations of the record-low sea ice extent during a research 
expedition there in April;
Dr. Sian Henley, University of Edinburgh, on Southern Ocean acidification;
Dr. Martin Siegert, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Exeter University, on new 
exploration of extreme Antarctic weather events;.
Friday, July 14th, 2023 at 16:00CEST (10:00EDT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZTPrhGdkz8

/[The news archive -    ]/
/*November 13, 2005 */
November 13, 2005: Fox News Channel airs "The Heat is On: The Case of 
Global Warming," a special that reportedly (and surprisingly, 
considering Fox's track record) does not feature any climate-change 
deniers. After fossil-fuel-industry front groups attack Fox for not 
including their viewpoint, Fox runs a special several months later 
featuring the views of climate-change deniers.

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/24/timeline-fox-news-role-in-the-climate-of-doubt/190906 

See also

https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/timeline-fox-news-role-climate-doubt

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