[✔️] November 18, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Plant hardiness map new, annual maps by state, older maps, Farm work dangers, French politician retires, Urgency of doom, Wildfire doc, 2008 Obama

[Richard Pauli]

/*November *//*18, 2023*/

/[  changes to the USDA plant hardiness map ]/
*Climate change is forcing tweaks to a vital map for farmers and gardeners*
Warming temperatures are changing where and when different plant 
varieties can grow most successfully, according to a U.S. Department of 
Agriculture (USDA) map released this week.

*Why it matters:* The Plant Hardiness Zone Map is a kind of bible for 
farmers and gardeners, helping them understand which plants can thrive 
in their area — and when to plant them.

    The new zones are particularly significant for those already growing
    plants at the extreme edge of their suggested range.

*How it works:* The map divides the U.S. into 13 zones, each 
representing a range of 10 degrees Fahrenheit.

    Each zone is divided further into two five-degree half zones.

*Zoom in: *The new zones are based on the average annual extreme minimum 
winter temperature from 1991–2020.

    The previous map, released in 2012, was based on 1976–2005 data.

*The upshot:* Areas in the Midwest and Great Plains warmed the most, 
shifting them into warmer half zones.

    And the Pacific Northwest's growing season may last longer than in
    years past.

*Yes, but:* Many factors influence whether a given plant grows 
successfully or not, including light, soil moisture, humidity and 
exposure to the elements.

    The USDA recommends consulting with local producers, nurseries or
    master gardeners for area-specific growing advice.

*The bottom line: *You don't need to start changing which plants you're 
growing — thriving plants will likely continue to grow successfully.
https://www.axios.com/2023/11/17/2023-plant-hardiness-map

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/[ Get your new 2023 annual map ]/
*2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map*
https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/

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/*[ Washington State plant hardiness map has slight changes - longer 
growing season ]*/
https://phzm-prod.ars.usda.gov/system/files/WA300_HS.png

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/*[ *amazing data display *-- compare to the older map from 1990 ]*/
  ( https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/pages/map-downloads/)
/https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/system/files/US_Map_1990.jpg


/[ cooler heads in the winter may ponder this problem ]/
*I was 13 when I went to work in the fields. Why farmwork is even more 
dangerous now
*Opinion: Few standards exist to protect farmworkers from the extreme 
heat that has only worsened because of climate change. That's got to change.
Emma Torresopinion contributor
Nov 14, 2023*...
**
**Heat waves make farm work more dangerous*
The frequency of U.S. heat waves has nearly tripled since the 1960s, and 
Latino people in Western states are twice as likely as the population as 
a whole to live in areas affected by extreme heat and wildfires.

Farmworkers are especially susceptible: Almost 20% of heat-related 
deaths among non-U.S. citizens occur on a farm. The vast majority of 
deaths took place in Texas, Arizona and California — states that 
regularly experience extreme heat and supply most of the country’s 
farmworkers.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2023/11/14/extreme-heat-dangerous-farmwork-climate-change-food-supply/71534388007/


/[ documentary of French politician who has fled Paris for the 
countryside - "vote for me, we'll try not to die together"  ]/
*Ex-Minister of the Environment predicts & prepares for the end of days*
Best Documentary
Nov 15, 2023
Yves Cochet shows his survival strategy, if by 2050 there is no 
electricity, water, & food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH9pKBeBtBA



/[  Science vs Math ]/
*The Urgent Agency of Doom*
Eliot Jacobson, Ph.D.
November 16, 2023
As everyone who pays attention knows, Michael Mann, the self-appointed 
media darling for climate science, is famous for attacking doomers as 
being worse than climate deniers. But what has become clear after 
reading the content of Mann’s attacks is his nearly complete ignorance 
of what it means to be a doomer.

For example, here is what he wrote in this Guardian article from 
February 27, 2021:

    “Doom-mongering has overtaken denial as a threat and as a tactic.
    Inactivists know that if people believe there is nothing you can do,
    they are led down a path of disengagement. They unwittingly do the
    bidding of fossil fuel interests by giving up…

    Many of the prominent doomist narratives … can be traced back to a
    false notion that an Arctic methane bomb will cause runaway warming
    and extinguish all life on earth within 10 years. This is completely
    wrong. There is no science to support that.”

On September 26, 2023, in *Yale Climate Connections*, Mann wrote:

    “One of the premises that’s very prevalent among climate doomers,
    those who say ‘It’s too late,’ is that methane escaping from the
    permafrost will warm Earth beyond the level that humans can tolerate
    and lead to our extinction.”

Then three days ago (November 13, 2023), *Mann wrote:*

    “Climate doomers insist it’s too late to act. They claim we’ve
    triggered runaway warming due to a putative, unstoppable release of
    methane escaping into the atmosphere as the Arctic permafrost melts.
    They draw an analogy with past major extinction events, like the
    so-called ‘end Permian extinction’ or simply ‘the great dying’ 250m
    years ago, associated with the loss of 90% of Earth’s species. They
    claim the event was driven by a similar runaway warming event to
    what is occurring today.”

These quotes, and many other recent statements Mann has made about 
doomers, show that he believes doomers are myopically focused on 
permafrost methane. He seems to think this is what we talk and write 
about, that almost every video, essay, blog post and Twitter post is 
about methane, permafrost and extinction. The absurdity of this 
reductionism never occurs to him. Self-reflection and self-doubt, the 
keystone qualities of a scientist who wants to avoid bias in their work, 
seem entirely absent from his writing about doomers.

Unequivocally, I have never stated that humanity has already triggered a 
methane bomb or that such an event will bring on near-term human 
extinction. In fact, I routinely argue against this claim by citing 
isotope studies and posting CAMS methane images, including an update to 
methane in this article I wrote just a few weeks ago.

Though methane from the East Siberian Arctic Sea and permafrost may 
become an issue over the next few decades, it is not what is driving the 
collapse of global industrial civilization or the sixth great 
extinction. That honor belongs to one and only one source: human overshoot.

Somewhere in his history Mann latched onto this idea that all doomers 
think the same way about doom. Somehow he got stuck on the methane bomb. 
Somehow he thought all doomers agreed on the inevitability of near-term 
human extinction. Somehow he got the notion that we don’t understand 
physical processes, including those that led to the Permian extinction. 
And above all, he believes doomers are ignorant in general about climate 
science.

Maybe Mann’s delusion was the result of watching the Nova episode on 
permafrost methane. Maybe his delusion began after he read the July, 
2017 essay “The Uninhabitable Earth” by former doomer David 
Wallace-Wells. Maybe it started after he watched one of the near-term 
human extinction videos from Guy McPherson. Or maybe Mann’s rejection of 
doom is his own suppressed fear. The false narrative Mann is putting 
into the mouths of doomers may be his own way of coping with his 
psychological transference.

Whatever the source, Mann is repeatedly demonstrating his stubborn 
ignorance of what it means to be a doomer.

Sam Mitchell of  Collapse Chronicles fame stated that if you were to ask 
ten doomers to define what it means to be a doomer, you would get eleven 
different answers (I may have four or five definitions myself, depending 
on how I feel). Yet none of those eleven definitions, or any of the 
others I’ve heard or read, comes close to Mann’s definition.

Michael Mann’s definition was created specifically to suit his 
rhetorical needs. It allows him to attack something that does not exist. 
He gets to win the argument over and over against his strawman, an 
invisible doomer boogeyman of his own creation.

But the damage Mann does with this simplification reaches far beyond 
that boogeyman. It harms those who are invested in journalism, science 
communication and education. It harms those who want to know the full 
scope of future possibilities. It harms those who are learning for the 
first time about the planet’s dire situation. By casting a shadow over 
all those who want to talk about the 50% of the bell curve that lies on 
the other side of collapse, Mann risks the future suffering of billions 
who might otherwise have had time to at least consider preparations for 
what’s coming.

Being a doomer means many things, but it absolutely does not mean 
sitting in front of your computer in your underwear doom-scrolling and 
smoking joints until Armageddon comes (with apologies to all doomers and 
anyone else who likes to do this). Being a doomer does not mean 
believing fringe climate science. Being a doomer does not mean focusing 
obsessively on permafrost methane and the Permian extinction. Being a 
doomer does not mean thinking that human extinction is inevitable by 
2026, 2030, 2050, or at all in the near future. Being a doomer does not 
mean we stop educating ourselves and others. And being a doomer does not 
mean that we are not activists and environmentalists.

Michael should just stop it. He is too smart to be this ignorant. He is 
too smart to repeat such stupid stereotyping over a span of years. He is 
too smart to be so profoundly intellectually lazy on this one issue.

Mann is well-know for his use of the terms “urgency” and “agency” in his 
writing about climate change. It is “urgent” we do something now. And we 
have “agency” — at least those of us who are first-world privileged 
humans — to take action to avert the worst outcomes.

Michael Mann should take one of the “urgency agency” pills he hands out 
with such self-glorifying frequency in his media appearances and educate 
himself on doom.

Eliot Jacobson, Ph.D.
Retired professor of mathematics and computer science, retired casino 
consultant, now a full time volunteer, husband and grandfather. 
Know-it-all doomer. Born in the year 316 ppm CO2.

https://climatecasino.net/2023/11/the-urgent-agency-of-doom/#comments



/[ Documentary on wildfires...from 2019 ]/
*Full Documentary: FireStorm*
Dave Malkoff
Feb 20, 2019
An in-depth look at the men and women who fight the most dangerous a 
deadly wildfires in the United States. Dave Malkoff [ 
http://davemalkoff.com] hosts this documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWY2kTr_u-I




/[The news archive - of how we began to recognize the problem  ]/
/*November 18, 2008*/
November 18, 2008: President-elect Obama addresses the Global Climate 
Summit in Los Angeles, California via a pre-taped speech, declaring that 
his administration will be committed to reducing carbon pollution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvG2XptIEJk



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