[✔️] October 21, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Climate Migration, Harvard Gazette, Corporate responsibility, Rising waters, Underestimating impact to elderly, Poster art from the past,

[Richard Pauli]

/*October *//*21, 2023*/

/[ a brief overview video ]/
*Escaping the Elements: The truth behind Climate Migration*
ClimateAdam
Oct 20, 2023  #ClimateChange #climatecrisis
 From sea level rise to heatwaves, fires, floods and droughts – climate 
change is forcing people across the globe from their homes. But where do 
these people go? Is there such a thing as a climate change refugee? And 
what's the truth behind a lot of the misleading information about 
climate change and migration?
Huge thanks to Sophia Burton from @MigrationMatters! Check her on 
twitter here: https://twitter.com/SophiaKBurton

And check Migration Matters here: https://migrationmatters.me/

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/[  Climate migration - climate refugee ]/
*How will climate change impact migration?*
Migration Matters

Sep 14, 2020
Say hello to your experts for the series: Dr. François Gemenne is a 
political scientist at the University of Liège and director of the Hugo 
Observatory, Dr. Caroline Zickgraf is a social scientist at the 
University of Liège and deputy director of the Hugo Observatory, and Dr. 
Yvonne Su is a social scientist at York University.

In this video, the three experts and youth activists from around the 
world introduce some of the main themes in The Big Climate Movement. 
They raise the issue of identifying climate change-induced migration, 
and the problem with current reporting and policymaking on migration 
related to climate change. The experts and activists explain how climate 
change is not only a phenomenon that will happen in the Global South in 
the future, but that it is already happening and its effects are felt 
everywhere.

This series was originally produced by Migration Matters e.V. for an 
Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange that invites refugees and non-refugee students 
from all over Europe and the Southern Mediterranean to learn together in 
an interactive, online classroom. These videos have been produced under 
a contract with the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, 
financed by the European Union’s budget. The opinions expressed are 
those of the contractor and do not represent the contracting authority’s 
official position.

Please visit www.migrationmatters.me to learn more about our work and 
subscribe to our courses.

You are free (and encouraged!) to embed this video and use it for any 
non-commercial purposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THdZI8-PiIA&list=PL0i55_U4aP2Js9XJhbfmsOyPprpBWKUZg&index=2



/[Harvard Gazette ]
/ *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

DATE 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.

     [/Animated Earth graphic as a data display  ] / 
https://youtu.be/8ZdDWQTgP2Y

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/



/[ Corporate social responsibility is a rarely used phrase ]/
*Fear of reprisals prevent people calling out employers on climate, says 
charity*
Workers can often be first to spot harms, from rule breaches and 
pollution to false sustainability claims
Isabella Kaminski
Sat 14 Oct 2023

Concerns about being fired or victimised at work are preventing people 
from calling out their employers on the climate crisis and the wider 
environment, according to a charity.

A survey commissioned by Protect, a charity that defends whistleblowers, 
found fear of reprisals and uncertainty about how to provide proof were 
the main barriers to reporting on poor and misleading behaviour about 
the environment. Employees were also sceptical that their concerns would 
be properly dealt with.

The organisation started investigating after receiving a “surprisingly” 
low number of calls about the environment to its whistleblowing advice 
hotline. Of the handful who had contacted Protect about an environmental 
issue at work over the past decade, three-quarters said they faced 
negative treatment as a result.

Workers inside organisations can often be the first to spot 
environmental harms, from the illegal dumping of chemicals into a river 
to false claims about a product’s sustainability.

Whistleblowers can make a difference by reporting those concerns. A gas 
company was fined after a whistleblower identified dangerous regulatory 
breaches while civil servants speaking anonymously to the press helped 
expose failures by England’s environmental regulator to prevent water 
pollution.

In Germany, Desiree Fixler lost her jobafter exposing corporate 
greenwashing at Deutsche Bank’s asset management arm DWS Group. But her 
actions led to several regulatory investigations and recently forced the 
company into a multibillion-dollar settlement with the US Securities and 
Exchange Commission.

“Workers are the eyes and ears of an organisation and are best placed to 
spot when things go wrong,” said Caitlín Comins, a legal officer at 
Protect. “With the right information, they can raise concerns and damage 
can be prevented, minimising the impact on the environment. By exposing 
environmental wrongdoing, they can also help ensure organisations are 
accountable for their climate impact and there is appropriate 
intervention where required.”

Legal experts say growing requirements on companies, especially publicly 
listed ones, to disclose and control their environmental impacts give 
employees new opportunities to highlight discrepancies between what 
their employer says in public and what it is actually doing.

Protect acknowledges there are risks involved in whistleblowing, but 
says it has found little understanding among UK workers that they can 
raise environmental concerns and receive some legal protection. To help 
address this it has published a guide for environmental whistleblowers, 
which explains how the law works, how to raise concerns properly and how 
to seek redress for victimisation.

Workers can also raise concerns directly to the UK’s environmental 
regulators, although few people currently do so; between April 2021 and 
March 2022 they only received 38 disclosures between them.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/14/fear-of-reprisals-prevent-people-calling-out-employers-on-climate-says-charity 



/[ is this a widespread sense?  ]/
*'Climate isolation' a growing threat to millions of Americans*
Scripps News
By: Maya Rodriguez
For the more than 128 million people in the U.S. who live in counties 
that border the sea, water is never far away. Yet, it may be getting 
closer in ways not previously examined until now."It's not associated 
with a hurricane or a natural disaster. That maybe gets more attention," 
says Kelsea Best, an assistant professor at Ohio State University, 
focusing on civil, environmental and geodetic engineering and city and 
regional planning.Best, along with researchers in New Zealand and at the 
University of Maryland, looked at how sea level rise might impact 
communities beyond just the flooding of structures."This idea that 
direct inundation, or direct flooding of people and properties, isn't 
really getting the whole story of how sea level rise is likely to impact 
communities," she said.

According to NOAA, sea levels could rise by as much as a foot and a half 
along America's coasts in the next 30 years. However, new research shows 
the flooding risk is even greater for some communities than previously 
thought. In a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, 
researchers looked at how sea level rise could disrupt roads and 
transportation corridors and lead communities to so-called "climate 
isolation.""The study in Nature Climate Change showed that isolation 
could occur in some communities even decades before inundation," Best 
said. "So, that adds some urgency to the planning."The researchers 
created an interactive map that allows anyone to look up their county 
and see for themselves how many people are at risk from flooding or 
isolation due to sea level rise in a given area.For example, in Monroe 
County, which is home to the Florida Keys, about 22% of the population 
is at risk of direct flooding from sea level rise. But double that 
number 44% is at risk of isolation. It's something we saw first-hand 
there two years ago.

"By the year 2045, half of our roads, which is 150 miles, are going to 
be subject to inundation of some level or another," Monroe County Chief 
Resiliency Officer Rhonda Haag said in October 2021.Low-lying 
communities there are already dealing with so-called "sunny day 
flooding," which occurs during high tides and can swamp streets."They 
call it 'nuisance flooding' also, because typically it's been known as a 
nuisance," Haag said. "But when it gets to that level of water and it's 
on for a tremendous period of time, it's no longer a nuisance. It's a 
real problem."It's a problem because flooding like that is what 
researchers believe could lead to communities' climate isolation, as sea 
level rise impacts roads initially built decades ago."[It could] 
specifically disrupt people's ability to access essential services 
places they might really need to get to, such as emergency services, 
like fire stations, hospitals, schools and education," Best said. "If a 
community is only thinking about inundation and thinks they have 50 
years to address the problem, if you look at isolation, it really might 
be more like 20 years to address the problem."It's a critical timeline 
now inching ever close  [ Mya Rodiguez, Scripps News]
https://www.pasconewsonline.com/news/national/climate-isolation-a-growing-threat-to-millions-of-americans/video_0d947bd1-c41e-59f3-8409-d9917585853a.html

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/[ Surely anyone near rising waters will have noticed   ]/
*Risk of isolation increases the expected burden from sea-level rise*
T. M. Logan, M. J. Anderson & A. C. Reilly
Nature Climate Change volume 13, pages397–402 (2023)Cite this article

    *Abstract*
    The typical displacement metric for sea-level rise adaptation
    planning is property inundation. However, this metric may
    underestimate risk as it does not fully capture the wider cascading
    or indirect effects of sea-level rise. To address this, we propose
    complementing it by considering the risk of population isolation:
    those who may be cut off from essential services. We investigate the
    importance of this metric by comparing the number of people at risk
    from inundation to the number of people at risk from isolation.
    Considering inundated roadways during mean higher high water tides
    in the coastal United States shows, although highly spatially
    variable, that the increase across the United States varies between
    30% and 90% and is several times higher in some states. We find that
    risk of isolation may occur decades sooner than risk of inundation.
    Both risk metrics provide critical information for evaluating
    adaptation options and giving priority to support for at-risk
    communities.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01642-3

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/[  Hey this applies to me! ]
/*Underestimated climate risks from population ageing*
Luke J. Harrington & Friederike E. L. Otto
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science volume 6, Article number: 70 (2023)

Population ageing is one of the most challenging social and economic 
issues facing governments in the twenty-first century1. Yet the 
compounding challenges of people living longer while also coping with 
the impacts of climate change has been subject to less examination. 
Here, we show that often-used binary definitions of”vulnerable” older 
communities – such as people over the age of 65 – can lead to the 
underestimation of future risks from extreme weather in a warming 
climate. Within this broad grouping, successively older age groups not 
only exhibit higher vulnerability to the impacts of climate extremes, 
but they also show more rapid growth in the future. Lower income 
countries are more likely to underestimate future climate risks if 
simplistic classifications of vulnerable older communities persist.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-023-00398-z


/[ Poster art retrospective ]/
*New exhibit at Poster House shows 'failed' efforts to warn humanity 
about climate change
*By  Zach Gottehrer-Cohen and Alison Stewart
Published Oct 18, 2023

Some of the posters evoke images of childhood: Porky Pig with a gas 
mask. There's Count von Count from Sesame Street. How does this 
environmental messaging get at the idea of childhood? Why is it a good 
tool for persuasion?
Ooh, that's a good question and not one I expected. I think children get 
it. Why would you not want to protect nature? And so the imagery works 
for them. And yes, it's frequently from shows or books that they've 
already read. And also, for the adults, it brings in their inner child. 
It’s actually interesting how many adults will go to the Eric Carle 
poster to stand in front of it and smile.

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/new-exhibit-at-poster-house-shows-failed-efforts-to-warn-humanity-about-climate-change

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/[ 
https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/we-tried-to-warn-you-environmental-crisis-posters-1970-2020/ 
]
/

*We Tried to Warn You! Environmental Crisis Posters, 1970–2020*
September 28, 2023–February 25, 2024

        “The great question of the 1970s is shall we surrender to our
        surroundings or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to
        make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our
        land and to our water?”
        —Richard Nixon, State of the Union Address, 1970

Every poster in this exhibition is a failure—not in the sense that they 
failed in their graphic intent of communicating a message, but rather 
that they failed to successfully modify behavior. Almost all of the 
environmental issues showcased in these posters remain or have worsened.

Nevertheless, these impactful images have shaped the bounds of public 
debate on environmental issues, drawing attention to distinct and 
particular concerns. While these highlighted narratives have increased 
the visibility of environmental crises, they have historically masked 
systemic causes of these problems and ignored structural inequalities. 
They have also relied heavily on a clear visual culture associated with 
most environmental poster messaging—what one critic labeled “gas masks 
and honeybees”—creating a graphic sameness regardless of country or issue.

This exhibition avoids these tropes, charting a global history of 
environmental activism through posters, ranging in style from whimsical 
to apocalyptic.

Tim Medland is an independent curator who focuses on the history of 
visual and material culture. He holds an MA in Museum Studies from the 
University of Leicester, with a concentration in socially engaged 
practice. His research interests include environmental activism and 
sustainability, and the histories of transport, propaganda, colonialism, 
and migration.

This exhibition is supported by the Simons Foundation.

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https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/we-tried-to-warn-you-environmental-crisis-posters-1970-2020/



/[The news archive - looking back at moments that may relate to our 
present ]/
/*October 21, 1984 */
October 21, 1984: In the second presidential debate between President 
Ronald Reagan and Democratic challenger Walter Mondale, Reagan is asked 
by panelist Marvin Kalb:

"Mr. President, perhaps the other side of the coin, a related question, 
sir. Since World War II, the vital interests of the United States have 
always been defined by treaty commitments and by Presidential 
proclamations. Aside from what is obvious, such as NATO, for example, 
which countries, which regions in the world do you regard as vital 
national interests of this country, meaning that you would send American 
troops to fight there if they were in danger?"

Reagan responds:
"Ah, well, now you've added a hypothetical there at the end, Mr. Kalb, 
about where we would send troops in to fight. I am not going to make the 
decision as to what the tactics could be, but obviously there are a 
number of areas in the world that are of importance to us. One is the 
Middle East, and that is of interest to the whole Western World and the 
industrialized nations, because of the great supply of energy upon which 
so many depend there."

(15:00-15:52)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF73k5-Hiqg




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