[✔️] November 24, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Face the music, Prepare for COP. Flood videos, Taylor Swift concert planning, 2014 past pledges

[Richard Pauli]

/*November *//*24, 2023*/

/[ Face the music  - get some agency  - from CarbonBrief ]/
*How to tackle your inner climate denier*
Simon Kuper, Financial Times
The FT’s Simon Kuper says that, “like many others, my instinctive 
response is to change the subject, but collectively that has to change”. 
He continues: “I understood the ‘new climate denial’ only after hearing 
a talk about it by Wolfgang Blau, head of the global climate hub at the 
consultancy Brunswick. Most of us practise the new denial. We’ll 
activate it next week during [COP28], which will achieve almost nothing 
and be overshadowed by wars and nonsense. But saving my daughter’s 
generation will require ditching denial. Blau, speaking at the recent 
Faith Angle Europe conference, suggested how to do that…We made a 
civilisational blunder. Correcting it will require huge collective 
effort now. To help people understand this, Blau recommends learning to 
see ourselves ‘as a comparatively young species, as mostly 
well-intentioned highly gifted kids, who compared to most species have 
just arrived, and are still learning to live here without breaking 
things’. Then, he says, people need to know we can combat climate 
change. In other words, we need a sense of agency.”

https://www.ft.com/

https://preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webview/249617/105714993745364624



/[  Preparing for COP ]/
*Bad science and good intentions prevent effective climate action: The 
Urgent Case for SRM*
Paul Beckwith
Nov 23, 2023
A crucial paper preprint was just released by Peter Wadham’s and his 
colleagues making a very strong case for the vital, absolute necessity 
of studying, scaling, and deployment of Solar Radiation Management (SRM).

The IPCC and the policymakers and governments around the world have left 
it too long, and climate catastrophe is now upon us.

Slashing fossil fuels, and deploying and scaling Carbon Dioxide Removal 
(CDR) is absolutely necessary, but no longer sufficient to avoid climate 
catastrophe.

It is now imperative that we add SRM at scale to our climate mitigation 
toolkit.

The paper refers to SRM as climate cooling interventions, or just 
interventions, but really it is referring to what many people call Solar 
Radiation Management.

We simply have no other choice.

We either perish on this planet from abrupt climate system mayhem, or 
study the heck out of and throw vast amounts of money into 
scientifically assessing and then deploying all the possible SRM ideas 
in order to preserve human society on this planet.

We have no other options, at this stage. Climate change warming and 
disruption is accelerating “like a bat out of hell”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz7BQojvjdU



/[  Unable to validate the sources of this 8 min video - the YouTube 
channel is 3 weeks old  ]/
*Biblical rainfall floods China! Scenes of chaos shock the World!*
KN News
  Nov 23, 2023  ГУАНДУН
Record levels of precipitation are also observed in Guangdong province.
Extreme weather has brought chaos to the nearby Chinese city of Shenzhen.
It is a technology hub with a population of over 17.7 million people.
In Shenzhen, precipitation intensity exceeded historical maximums on record.
465mm of rain fell in 12 hours, the most since records began in 1952.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brobuGT75OY



/[ DW reports - Health  Brazil ]/
*Death at Taylor Swift concert: How organizers deal with heat*
Jan D. Walter
November 22, 2023
After the death of a 23-year-old woman in Brazil, DW looks at how 
organizers of large events handle extreme heat and supply water.
*Is it right to point the finger at the organizers?*
Asked about whether blame should be attributed to the organizers, two 
experts warned against jumping to hasty conclusions. The exact 
circumstances are difficult to determine from a distance, they told DW
- -
However, supplying 60,000 fans with water is no mean feat, according to 
Sven Hansens. "The necessary quantities are also frequently 
underestimated in Europe," the managing director of Event Safety Consult 
and deputy chairman of the German Event Safety Association said.

One must also bear in the mind the potential behavior of concert-goers. 
"If a young fan has struggled to get a ticket, queued for hours and 
somehow manages to get a spot right at the front, they might disregard 
their basic needs in order to hold on to that spot," Hansen said.
*Is global warming changing event planning?*
"We no longer organize open air events without meteorologists," Hansen 
said. This way, large event planners make certain decisions before but 
also during the event.

"Up until now, the biggest issue in this regard has been the risk of 
thunderstorms," says the expert. It is common practice for event 
organizers to insure themselves against financial losses in case an 
event must be cancelled.

But these days, other forms of extreme weather are relevant too. 
Organizers also consider the risk that excessively hot weather or strong 
UV radiation could end events early.
"In summer, it's relatively normal for events with tens of thousands of 
visitors to have a three-digit number of first-aid situations. That 
includes everything from dehydration and heatstroke to insect bites and 
so on," he said.

At Taylor Swift's concert in Rio de Janeiro on Friday, the fire 
department registered more than 1,000 cases of fainting among the 60,000 
attendees.

Swift's second concert in Rio had been planned for Saturday but the 
organizers shifted the show to Monday, when temperatures were expected 
to be (and indeed were) significantly lower. A court has also ordered 
that water containers be allowed at the singer's next three upcoming 
concerts in Sao Paulo and that a supply of drinking water must be ensured.
https://www.dw.com/en/death-at-taylor-swift-concert-how-event-organizers-deal-with-heat/a-67515111


/[The news archive - fairly recent  ]/
/*November 24, 2014*/
October 24, 2014: The New York Times reports:

    "The 28 leaders of the European Union agreed early on Friday on
    targets for protecting the climate and generating greener power
    despite deep divisions among their nations over how to produce energy.

    "The main target that won approval was a pledge to slash emissions
    by at least 40 percent, compared with 1990 levels, by 2030."


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/world/europe/european-leaders-agree-on-targets-to-fight-climate-change-.html

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/24/3584121/european-union-deal-40-percent/

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/eu-climate-deal-2030-18228


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