[✔️] September 9, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | 46 pager, Boiling Man cartoon, Deadly heatwave

Sat Sep 9 09:00:10 EDT 2023

/*September 9*//*, 2023*/

/[UN's report - boring layout of distressing words - everything must 
change - right now  ]/
*Technical dialogue of the first global stocktake. Synthesis report by 
the co-facilitators of the technical dialogue*
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice
Fifty-ninth session
https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/sb2023_09_adv.pdf

/[ Opinion cartoon ] /
*What’s worse than Burning Man? A burning planet*
We are burning a lot more than just effigies
Burning Man Boiling planet
  Illustration: Fiona Katauskas/The Guardian
Fiona Katauskas
  @fionakatauskas
Fri 8 Sep 202
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/sep/09/whats-worse-than-burning-man-a-burning-planet

/[ “Everything is OK until it’s not..." ]/
*Deadly humid heatwaves to spread rapidly as climate warms – study*
Small rise in global temperatures would affect hundreds of millions of 
people and could cause a sharp rise in deaths
Damian Carrington Environment editor
@dpcarrington
Fri 8 Sep 2023
Life-threatening periods of high heat and humidity will spread rapidly 
across the world with only a small increase in global temperatures, a 
study has found, which could cause a sharp acceleration in the number of 
deaths resulting from the climate crisis.

The extremes, which can be fatal to healthy people within six hours, 
could affect hundreds of millions of people unused to such conditions. 
As a result, heat deaths could rise quickly unless serious efforts to 
prepare populations were undertaken urgently, the researcher said.

Normally, the human body cools itself by producing sweat, which 
evaporates and takes heat away. But when humidity is high, evaporation 
is reduced. The study used a limit based on experiments on people 
showing that when combined heat and humidity, as measured by so-called 
wet bulb temperature, passes 31.5C, the body is no longer able to cool 
itself.

The researchers called this threshold “non-compensable heat stress”, as 
sweating cannot compensate for the extreme conditions. Without cooling 
aids, such as cold water, fans or air conditioning, death is likely 
within hours.
- -
Of all of the different manifestations of climate change, heat is the 
one that I personally worry the most about and these results have made 
me more concerned,” said Carter Powis, at the University of Oxford, UK, 
who led the study with colleagues at the Woodwell Climate Research 
Center in the US...
“Everything is OK until it’s not and there are limits to what the human 
body can tolerate when it comes to heat,” he said. “Things will keep on 
chugging along hunky dory until we pass those limits and then very 
abruptly, they will not be OK. Suddenly, you’ll see an acceleration in 
mortality.

“What I worry about is that our bodies and our society will prove more 
fragile to small changes than we think,” Powis said. “This is just 
another [study] saying we need to start reducing emissions – but that’s 
what we need to do.”

Dr Colin Raymond, at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was 
not part of the study team, said: “Many areas are only slightly below 
the non-compensable heat level now, so as the planet continues to warm, 
the total increase in exposure will be exponential.

“We know the broad contours of what’s ahead, but not every last wiggle,” 
he said. “But the seriousness of the extreme-heat hazard means it is 
incredibly important to not be caught unprepared, and to treat heatwaves 
near or above the non-compensable limit like other life-threatening 
disasters. For the most severe events likely in the coming decades, 
lives will depend on the availability of artificial cooling.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/deadly-humid-heatwaves-to-spread-rapidly-as-climate-warms-study

/[ The news archive - looking back at an Al Gore quote ]/
/*September 9, 2005 */
September 9, 2005: At the National Sierra Club Convention in San 
Francisco, Al Gore declares:

    "There are scientific warnings now of another onrushing catastrophe.
    We were warned of an imminent attack by Al Qaeda; we didn't respond.
    We were warned the levees would break in New Orleans; we didn't
    respond. Now, the scientific community is warning us that the
    average hurricane will continue to get stronger because of global
    warming. A scientist at MIT has published a study well before this
    tragedy showing that since the 1970s, hurricanes in both the
    Atlantic and the Pacific have increased in duration, and in
    intensity, by about 50%. The newscasters told us after Hurricane
    Katrina went over the southern tip of Florida that there was a
    particular danger for the Gulf Coast of the hurricanes becoming much
    stronger because it was passing over unusually warm waters in the
    gulf. The waters in the gulf have been unusually warm. The oceans
    generally have been getting warmer. And the pattern is exactly
    consistent with what scientists have predicted for twenty years. Two
    thousand scientists, in a hundred countries, engaged in the most
    elaborate, well organized scientific collaboration in the history of
    humankind, have produced long-since a consensus that we will face a
    string of terrible catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves
    and deal with the underlying causes of global warming. It is
    important to learn the lessons of what happens when scientific
    evidence and clear authoritative warnings are ignored in order to
    induce our leaders not to do it again and not to ignore the
    scientists again and not to leave us unprotected in the face of
    those threats that are facing us right now."

http://web.archive.org/web/20050924210135/http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0912-32.htm

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