[✔️] October 3, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Treasury Dept warns US households, Climate Corp 20, 000 youth, Climate trauma on the unhoused - opinion, 2010 how Congress messes up

[Richard Pauli]

/*October 3*//*, 2023*/

/[  CNBC PERSONAL FINANCE  - this may be the first big agency warning to 
the US public   ]/
*Climate change could impose ‘substantial financial costs’ on U.S. 
household finances, Treasury warns*
OCT 2 2023
Climate change is expected to impose “substantial financial costs” on 
U.S. households in the coming years.
In a new Treasury Department report, government officials warn of rising 
prices and disruptions to income due to climate disasters and the 
warming planet.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/02/climate-change-could-devastate-household-finances-us-treasury-warns.html 


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/*FACT SHEET: The Impact of Climate Change on American Household Finances
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    Today’s report evaluates the various impacts of climate change on
    American household finances, with particular attention to those
    households and individuals that may be most adversely affected.  It
    responds to the objectives set forth by President Biden in Executive
    Orders 14030 and 13985 Climate-Related Financial Risk and Advancing
    Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the
    Federal Government, and to a recommendation in the October 2021
    Financial Stability Oversight Council climate report.

    The report synthesizes governmental and academic sources to provide
    a focused exploration of the ways climate change impacts household
    finances. Specifically, the report explores the impacts of climate
    hazards, i.e., climate-related events and conditions that cause harm
    or damage to people, property, resources, and the environment. The
    report identifies certain populations and places that may face
    heightened financial strain due to their vulnerability and exposure
    to climate hazards. Though many households are impacted by climate
    hazards, certain households are particularly susceptible to
    experiencing financial strain, for example outdoor workers facing
    income loss due to adverse climate conditions, single-parent
    households, particularly those headed by women, facing reduced child
    care availability, and lower-income households facing reduced access
    to credit...

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1775#:~:text=For%20impacted%20households%2C%20climate%2Drelated,face%20additional%20expenditures%20on%20utilities.

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/[Clip from the intro of //a 48 page r//eport - this may be is the first 
time a US gov agency sent such an honest report for the American 
family.  This is a very big deal ]/
*THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON AMERICAN HOUSEHOLD FINANCES
* US Department of the Treasury

    This report seeks to deepen our understanding of the relationship
    between climate hazards and household
    finances. Already, over half of U.S. counties – home to millions of
    Americans – face heightened future exposure
    to at least one of the three climate hazards described in this
    report: flooding, wildfire, or extreme heat. While
    climate hazards impose financial challenges for households across
    income and wealth spectrums, financial
    burdens are not distributed evenly. For vulnerable households, the
    financial costs and losses associated with
    climate hazards have the potential to compound existing inequities
    and cause disproportionate financial
    strain. As detailed in this report, approximately one-fifth of all
    U.S. counties face both elevated vulnerability and
    elevated future exposure to climate hazards. These counties rank in
    the top 25 percent for both vulnerability
    and future exposure to at least one of the three climate hazards.
    This report brings together existing information
    and research to provide a focused exploration of the various
    pathways through which climate hazards impact
    household finances, and to identify people and places that may face
    heightened impacts.

    To begin, this report identifies what could happen at the household
    level by describing several pathways
    through which climate hazards impact household finances. This
    analysis is accompanied by an in-depth look
    at who faces the most significant impacts, including a discussion of
    those households that are particularly
    vulnerable to climate-related financial strain...
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    *Higher prices for consumer products*
    Climate hazards can also strain household finances by increasing the
    costs of consumer goods through
    interruptions to production or distribution, including through
    impacts on established supply chains. For
    example, climate hazards such as droughts, floods, and extreme
    temperatures can reduce crop yields, creating
    shortages and higher food prices. Further, when climate hazards
    occur, they can disrupt supply chains by
    interfering with transportation and logistics. Delays and increased
    costs for shipping and storing goods can
    increase consumer prices. Because the U.S. imports a substantial
    amount of consumer goods from abroad,
    American households are exposed to price increases from both foreign
    and domestic climate hazards.
    Lower-income households may experience disproportionate financial
    strain from higher prices of consumer
    goods. Food is a spending category of particular concern. When
    climate hazards increase food prices, this may
    cause additional households to experience food insecurity, defined
    as limited or uncertain access to adequate
    food. Food insecurity disproportionately impacts lower-income
    households, families led by single mothers,
    families with children, and households in Southern states. The
    effects of climate-related food price increases
    may further exacerbate food insecurity among these households.

    *Increased spending on energy*
    As climate events and conditions continue to grow in frequency and
    intensity, additional spending on utilities
    may present a source of financial strain. Households could face
    higher energy prices if climate events cause
    interruptions to energy generation, disruptions to fuel production
    and distribution systems, and damage to
    energy resources and infrastructure. In addition, climate conditions
    could require households to increase
    the amount of energy they use. For example, households exposed to
    heat waves and higher average
    temperatures are more likely to need and use air-conditioning, which
    could further increase energy costs and
    add to households’ total utilities spending. The potential increase
    in energy prices is a concern especially
    for lower-income households that already spend a larger share of
    their budget on utilities than higher-income
    households.

  Full PDF is 48 pages 
https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/Climate_Change_Household_Finances.pdf


/[ Launch of the "Climate Corps" - video ]/
*Biden Admin Will Train 20,000 Young People in Skills to Combat Climate 
Change | Amanpour and Company*
Amanpour and Company
Sep 29, 2023  #amanpourpbs
Ali Zaidi is national climate adviser for the White House, and his job 
couldn’t be more important right now. The year has so far seen 23 
separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, according to the 
U.S. government. Zaidi joins Michel Martin to talk about turning the 
climate crisis into opportunity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB-rwBlWGZA

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OPINION  GUEST ESSAY
*Climate Change Is Forcing Families Into a New Kind of Indefinite Hell*
Oct. 2, 2023
By Matthew Wolfe and Malcolm Araos
Dr. Wolfe is a national fellow at New America. Dr. Araos is a 
postdoctoral fellow at the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy 
at the University of Utah.

The August wildfire that roared through the town of Lahaina in Hawaii 
burned so hot that some of the dead were effectively cremated, their 
bones combusting to unidentifiable ash. Other bodies may have been lost 
in the Pacific Ocean, into which many of those fleeing the inferno were 
forced to plunge. As of Sept. 22, 97 people have been confirmed dead, 
but the Maui Police Department still lists 22 people as missing.

That’s a common pattern in the aftermath of disasters. In Morocco, 
families are still desperately searching for hundreds of loved ones 
after a devastating earthquake, while thousands in Libya are missing 
after two dams collapsed in a heavy rainstorm. Climate change has 
supercharged the kind of deadly weather that creates disappearances. In 
March, over 500 Malawians were presumed dead after being buried in 
mudslides unleashed by the exceptionally intense Cyclone Freddy. For 
families of the missing, disappearance is a special kind of indefinite 
hell. In a wealthy country like the United States, victims of disaster 
tend to be quickly tallied and searched for. But poorer nations, which 
are already more vulnerable to the damage wrought by climate change, 
often don’t have the resources to follow through. We need to fund 
measures for these countries that both prevent disappearances through 
emergency preparedness and also resolve them by promptly identifying 
bodies. The nations responsible for the most climate pollution have a 
moral responsibility to help families left in limbo.

In addition to intensifying disasters, climate change is also leading to 
disappearances through migration and conflict. Some years ago, one of 
us, Dr. Wolfe, visited refugee camps on the Greek islands of Lesbos and 
Chios to learn more about migrants who had disappeared while trying to 
reach Europe. Malnutrition, hunger and famine linked to new climate 
conditions have pushed more Africans to undertake the perilous journey 
across the Mediterranean and more Latin Americans to travel through 
Central America and into Mexico. Tens of thousands have disappeared. 
Rising temperatures have also made these passages more lethal as 
migrants die of heat exhaustion while trekking across deserts and 
asphyxiate inside metal shipping containers.

What was most striking on Lesbos and Chios was both the sheer number of 
people who seemed to be missing and the loneliness of their relatives’ 
investigations. There was no government agency their families could turn 
to for the help they needed, no nation willing to invest resources in 
searching for someone who had disappeared while crossing borders.

Without a body to bury and visit, a loved one’s death, however likely, 
remains uncertain. This form of ambiguous loss makes grieving difficult 
if not impossible, forestalling funerals and pushing many kin of missing 
persons into a potentially endless search. More practically, such 
absences can deprive surviving relatives of a breadwinner while also 
creating legal difficulties in receiving a declaration of death. Even if 
a person is declared dead, the wound of disappearance frequently remains 
unhealed. Years later, against ever thinning odds, families of the 
missing are still seeking some proof of their loved one’s life or death.

We need more resources for the climate missing, but we also need better 
data. Right now, we don’t even know the number of people who have 
disappeared because of climate change. Unless we get some sense of what 
disappearance actually looks like and how it happens, it’s going to be 
much harder for governments to respond to the problem — and much easier 
for them to ignore it.

A big part of the problem is that the people who are most exposed to the 
ravages of climate change are also the people who are already most 
likely to slip through the cracks if they disappear. Although we are all 
affected by extreme weather, the well-off are largely insulated from 
harm, while the already marginalized suffer. It is probably no 
coincidence that Lahaina had an outsize population of people 
experiencing homelessness who were poorly equipped to withstand extreme 
weather. Put bluntly, many of the missing are not people who, 
collectively, we seem to miss, so there is little pressure on 
governments to find them.

“A lot of the people we deal with don’t have connections with family,” 
said Scott Hansen, the executive director of the Maui Rescue Mission, a 
group that works with unhoused people and has helped lead efforts to 
find some who disappeared in the fires. “There’s no next of kin to 
contact, so when they do go missing or pass away, they end up being 
forgotten.”

For governments, searching for missing persons can be a hassle. The ad 
hoc work of finding and identifying remains after a disaster, drawing on 
forensic anthropology and DNA matching, is slow and expensive. While 
international pacts have created rules for locating the missing, these 
agreements often go unheeded. Disappearances can still exist in a 
bureaucratic “gray zone” where no nations take responsibility for 
corpses. Many of those who become lost at the border and in the sea are 
never identified, often through a lack of money and political will.

We need more cooperation between countries. We also need a clear, 
equitable division of global responsibilities in resolving 
disappearances. Wealthy states should invest in initiatives in poorer 
countries that aim to both prevent individuals from disappearing in the 
first place and resolve the fate of those already dead. They must also 
sponsor disaster preparation and emergency responses that can save lives 
in the immediate aftermath of a catastrophe, as well as the 
identification of bodies later on, including funds for coroners to 
collect identifying biometric data like tattoos and fingerprints.

How can rich nations help? In Lahaina, the F.B.I. and Maui Police 
Department cooperated to send out calls for information about who was 
missing and under what circumstances they disappeared. The authorities 
then quickly published a list of the names — crucial information in the 
search for the disappeared. Phone lines remained opened for days to 
gather information, while investigative teams ran down cases. As a 
result, the number of people still unaccounted for plummeted from 
hundreds down to a few dozen after just a few weeks. Libya and Morocco 
don’t have the same systems and resources to pull off similar efforts. 
But funding their search of missing persons could help.

Better emergency preparedness can also prevent disappearances. Wealthier 
governments like the United States have the ability to publicize 
detailed plans on what citizens should do during natural disasters. They 
can also save lives by maintaining infrastructure and enforcing building 
standards. If poorer countries can’t afford these lifesaving measures, 
it’s incumbent upon richer nations to help them.

Missing persons posters can still be seen in Maui, though the likelihood 
of spotting someone alive has grown slim. They function now less as 
tools of surveillance than as petitions for aid — silent pleas for the 
sacred right to grieve.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/missing-climate-change-weather-dead.html#:~:text=OPINION,a.m.%20ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/02/opinion/missing-climate-change-weather-dead.html 


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/[  A superb and elegant educational video about our solar system  - at 
3 and a half hours - worth seeing and hearing it all ]/
*Bizarre Journey to the Outer Solar System DOCUMENTARY BOXSET These 
Planets Continue to Mystify Us*
TV - Quantum Universe
Premiered Feb 7, 2021
Evidence of ninth planet found in outer reaches of solar system ... in 
the outer reaches of our solar system, US scientists announced on ... 
and follows a "bizarre, highly elongated orbit in the distant solar 
system," said ... "Although we were initially quite skeptical that this 
planet could exist, as we continued to ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSg7TREgNTA



/[The news archive - looking back politics in 2010]/
/*October 3, 2010*/
October 3, 2010: NewYorker.com posts Ryan Lizza's analysis of the demise 
of climate legislation in the Senate earlier in the year. The piece, 
which also appears in the October 11 edition of the New Yorker, notes 
that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was concerned about being rhetorically 
assaulted by right-wing media entities for supporting the climate bill:

    "At a climate-change conference in South Carolina on January 5,
    2010, Graham started to sound a little like Al Gore. 'I have come to
    conclude that greenhouse gases and carbon pollution' are 'not a good
    thing,' Graham said. He insisted that nobody could convince him that
    'all the cars and trucks and plants that have been in existence
    since the Industrial Revolution, spewing out carbon day in and day
    out,' could be 'a good thing for your children and the future of the
    planet.' Environmentalists swooned. 'Graham was the most
    inspirational part of that triumvirate throughout the fall and
    winter,' Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club,
    said. 'He was advocating for strong action on climate change from an
    ethical and a moral perspective.'

    "But, back in Washington, Graham warned Lieberman and Kerry that
    they needed to get as far as they could in negotiating the bill
    'before Fox News got wind of the fact that this was a serious
    process,' one of the people involved in the negotiations said.'"

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/11/101011fa_fact_lizza?printable=true#ixzz11K5nMoZ9




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