[✔️] October 6, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Never the same summer, Hottest year ever, Eye of the Storm. 2014 politics of coal

Fri Oct 6 05:50:51 EDT 2023

/*October 6*//*, 2023*/

/[ NYTimes Interactive graphic -- words over images ]
/ photographer Gregg Vigliotti for The New York Times
In the summer of 2023, no matter where you lived, it was difficult to 
ignore how our shifting climate has upended many rites of the season.
Few parts of the country were spared. Children at summer camps stayed 
inside. People worked and played outside late at night. Some considered 
moving to escape the worst effects.
Now, many Americans are looking to their future summers and wondering if 
they will ever be the same.
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*Why Summers May Never Be the Same*
The globe’s warmest months on record redefined summer for many Americans.

A Shifting Sense of Childhood
As temperatures soared, summer break felt different.

When Indoors Became an Escape
Smoke and heat wore away at the tug of nature.

Time, Turned on Its Head
Amid scorching days, the night came alive.

Unsettled in Familiar Places
A summer that left some wondering about home.

They wanted to come north to escape the Southern California heat, which 
they knew was getting worse. Settling near one of the Great Lakes — and 
within a few hours’ drive of a big city with plenty of amenities — felt 
like the right long-term move.

“It’s cooler, it’s wetter, it’s near Chicago, it has lots of fresh 
water,” he said. “Although we understand there is no one place that is 
immune to the effects.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/us/summer-climate-change.html

/[ Hottest year ever ]/
*Copernicus: September 2023 – unprecedented temperature anomalies; 2023 
on track to be the warmest year on record*
DATE:5th October 2023

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European 
Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European 
Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate 
bulletins reporting on the changes observed in global surface air 
temperature, sea ice cover and hydrological variables. All the reported 
findings are based on computer-generated analyses using billions of 
measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations 
around the world.

September 2023 – Surface air temperature and sea surface temperature 
highlights:

  * September 2023 was the warmest September on record globally, with an
    average surface air temperature of 16.38°C, 0.93°C above the
    1991-2020 average for September and 0.5°C above the temperature of
    the previous warmest September, in 2020. 
  * September 2023 global temperature was the most anomalous warm month
    of any year in the ERA5 dataset (back to 1940). 
  * The month as a whole was around 1.75°C warmer than the September
    average for 1850-1900, the preindustrial reference period. 
  * The global temperature for January-September 2023 was 0.52°C higher
    than average, and 0.05°C higher than the equivalent period in the
    warmest calendar year (2016). 
  * For January to September 2023, the global mean temperature for 2023
    to date is 1.40°C higher than the preindustrial average (1850-1900).
  * For Europe, September 2023 was the warmest September on record, at
    2.51°C higher than the 1991-2020 average, and 1.1°C higher than
    2020, the previous warmest September. 
  * The average sea surface temperature for September over 60°S–60°N
    reached 20.92°C, the highest on record for September and the second
    highest across all months, behind August 2023.
  * El Niño conditions continued to develop over the equatorial eastern
    Pacific.

  September 2023 – Sea ice highlights

  * Antarctic sea ice extent remained at a record low level for the time
    of year. 
  * Both the daily and monthly extents reached their lowest annual
    maxima in the satellite record in September, with the monthly extent
    9% below average. 
  * The daily Arctic sea ice extent reached its 6th lowest annual
    minimum while the monthly sea ice extent ranked 5th lowest, at 18%
    below average. 

According to Samantha Burgess, Deputy Director of the Copernicus Climate 
Change Service (C3S): "The unprecedented temperatures for the time of 
year observed in September - following a record summer - have broken 
records by an extraordinary amount. This extreme month has pushed 2023 
into the dubious honour of first place - on track to be the warmest year 
and around 1.4°C above preindustrial average temperatures. Two months 
out from COP28 – the sense of urgency for ambitious climate action has 
never been more critical.”...

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-september-2023-unprecedented-temperature-anomalies

/[ New publication - a non-fiction book of stories ]/
*Eye of the Storm: Facing climate and social chaos with calm and courage. *
Calm is contagious. And courage is contagious. The tools in this book 
can help you to find calm, purpose, and even joy in hard times. Climate 
chaos is accelerating, democracy is in peril, species and ecosystems are 
disappearing, and economic inequality is soaring. These are 
interconnected parts of a complex and devastating predicament. But you 
need not respond with denial or despair. You can be the eye of the 
storm, calm and centered, living your values despite an uncertain 
future, and helping others to do the same.

Eye of the Storm offers resources and stories from people around the 
globe that will build your practical and emotional skills to face 
whatever comes. Engaging and insightful essays, interviews, and 
reflections invite you to reorient your ideas of what matters, give you 
perspectives to face fear and loss with courage, and inspire you to live 
creatively and compassionately in hard times.

You can find it at opendoorcommunication.org/eye, and Michael Dowd 
recently recorded it here: 
https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/eye-of-the-storm-by-terry-lepage-audiobook

Terry LePage MDiv, PhD, combines heart and head with her clear and 
insightful writing, speaking, and facilitation. She has worked as a 
research chemist, transitional minister, and hospice chaplain. She 
currently lives in Southern California and facilitates Nonviolent 
Communication practice groups, grief circles, and social justice groups 
both locally and for the international Deep Adaptation Forum. She enjoys 
cooking, hanging out in pubs, puttering with native plants, and holding 
space for people facing hard things.
https://opendoorcommunication.org/eye

/[The news archive - looking back at the politics of coal ]/
/*October 6, 2014*/
*October 6, 2014: MSNBC's Chris Hayes airs the first part of a series on 
the politics of coal in the US.*

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/the-war-on-the-war-on-coal-338458691505#

http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/united-mine-workers-prez-and-chris-hayes-spar-338418755664#

http://www.msnbc.com/now/watch/kentucky--ground-zero-for-war-on-coal-338770499970#

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