[✔️] September 13, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Rollie Williams video, Kevin Anderson & Johan Rockström discussion, migration, math over water, Ocean waves, 2015 CA Jerry Brown

[Richard Pauli]

/*September 13*//*, 2023*/

/[  Rollie Williams in top form!   In this important, interesting and 
funny video  -- must see /https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNRuafoyZ4/  ]/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pNRuafoyZ4



/[ Kevin Anderson in discussion - much conjecture - worth our attention, 
"since we have chosen not to act for the last 40 years." 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLq8e73-FAw ]/
*Johan Rockström interview | Planetary boundaries, 'negative emissions', 
mitigation models & fairness*
Climate Uncensored
Sep 11, 2023  VATNAHALSEN STASJON
Johan Rockström is best known for his work on the Planetary Boundary 
Framework and as co-director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact 
Research. In this wide-ranging conversation with Kevin Anderson, 
recorded in Norway in March 2023, they discuss their respective views on 
the risks and challenges we face in delivering on our Paris climate 
commitments.

    CONTENTS:
    00:03 Introductions
    01:05 Outlining the planetary boundary & tipping points framework
    05:14 How long before we see tipping points occurring?
    10:00 Climate impacts this century
    17:45 Understanding the conservatism of the IPCC process
    24:20 Integrated Assessment Models: do they rely too much on CO2
    removal?
    28:58 Is the promise of future 'carbon dioxide removal' undermining
    emission reductions?
    37:06 How ready to deploy are 'negative emissions technologies' really?
    40:39 Where is equity in Integrated Assessment Models?
    46:36 Privileged scientists in wealthy countries have framed the
    mitigation agenda
    49:15 Is change driven top-down or bottom-up?
    52:21 The role for citizens' assemblies in guiding mitigation policy
    56:39 Is academia biased towards the status quo, rather than real
    action on climate?

👉 The seminal 2009 paper on planetary boundaries that Johan 
co-authored, 'Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space 
for Humanity', is available in full at https://www.jstor.org/stable/26268316

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLq8e73-FAw



/[ "Reshape" means to migrate  ] /
*How Climate Change Will Reshape Where Americans Live | FiveThirtyEight 
Politics Podcast*
FiveThirtyEight
May 4, 2023  FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast
For decades, Americans have been moving south and west. That migration 
pattern become apparent in American politics, when seven congressional 
districts moved states after the 2020 census, and it continues to be 
visible in the booming construction and job markets in cities across the 
Sun Belt.

In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen 
speaks with author Jake Bittle, who argues that it’s only a matter of 
time before those trends reverse, or at least shift. Although, this 
time, he writes in his new book "The Great Displacement," it won’t be 
cheap housing, low taxes and plentiful jobs that attract people to new 
places. It will be a worsening climate that pushes them away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcYMH35Hqog



/[ some simple climate science videos... from Scripps ]/
*The Math of Water*
Scripps Oceanography
Sep 6, 2023  #WomeninSTEM #NSF #mathisfun
Dive into the world of underwater weather with Scripps Oceanography PhD 
student Taylor McKie. This engineer-turned-oceanographer studies how the 
physics happening below the ocean’s surface impacts water density, which 
informs climate and weather patterns such as rain, drought, and even 
monsoon storms. In a conversation with Scripps alumna Kate Furby, Taylor 
discusses her early love of math, how a background in STEM translates to 
the field of ocean physics, and how research on the interactions between 
water masses can lead to improved weather predictions and more resilient 
communities.

1:55 Taylor McKie explains the Wirewalker instrument
2:40 Taylor uses coffee and cream to illustrate how the submesoscale, or 
interactions between different water masses, works
4:11 Animation explaining submesoscale currents, and how they impact our 
atmosphere and climate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwePqR-4-g8

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/[ fundamentals of waves ]/
*Ocean Waves Basics*
Earth Rocks!
Mar 24, 2015  Oceanography
For an introductory college-level earth sciences class: Review of the 
basic molecular bonding and shape of the water molecule including a 
review of what makes a water molecule polar. Review of the basics of 
ocean waves including wave components, generating and restoring forces, 
and orbital motion.
**This video comes near the middle of the semester, so there may be 
terms with which the audience is unfamiliar. For a full playlist, refer 
to the Geology or Oceanography playlist on the Earth Rocks! YouTube Channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qogWcsW1eMg



/[The news archive - looking back fossil fuels in California politics ]/
/*September 13, 2015 */
September 13, 2015:
The Los Angeles Times reports on the fossil fuel industry's role in 
sabotaging a bill to reduce petroleum consumption in California.

    *The inside story of how power struggles doomed Jerry Brown’s top
    priority*

    BY CHRIS MEGERIAN, MELANIE MASON
    SEPT. 13, 2015

    Reporting from Sacramento —  One of Gov. Jerry Brown’s most
    ambitious environmental goals was hanging in the balance when two
    powerful California lawmakers met for dinner near the Capitol.

    Pushing the governor’s proposal to slash gasoline use on state roads
    was Senate leader Kevin de León, a Democrat from Los Angeles.
    Sitting across from him was Assemblyman Henry Perea, the Fresno
    leader of business-friendly Democrats fighting the plan.

    If the two could make a deal, the controversial legislation might be
    saved despite fierce opposition from the oil industry. They hit on a
    potential compromise that would limit new state regulations, ending
    dinner with an agreement to keep working.

    “I thought there was a real possibility,” De León said.

    But the next day, things fell apart, and the bid to cut gas
    consumption was stripped from the bill. At a time when Brown likes
    to say the eyes of the world are on California, the leaders conceded
    a major environmental fight a few months before they will attend the
    United Nations conference on climate change in Paris.

    Brown and De León blamed the oil companies, describing their
    warnings about gas rationing and high pump prices as a “smoke
    screen.” That was far from the only hurdle, however, according to
    lawmakers and staff members.

    The measure’s supporters were also unable to counter industry
    assertions that the bill would hand too much authority to state
    regulators — a message that resonated with a new generation of
    lawmakers eager to shift more Capitol power in their direction.
    Meanwhile, the governor carefully guarded his administration’s wide
    authority to pursue aggressive climate-related goals without
    interference from the Legislature.

    In the end, it wasn’t doubts about the global dangers of climate
    change that scuttled the gasoline target, but questions of who would
    get to pull the strings in Sacramento.

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    De León drew the idea for his legislation directly from Brown’s
    January inaugural address, which kicked off the governor’s historic
    fourth and final term.

    Brown laid out three goals: doubling energy efficiency, generating
    half of California’s electricity from renewable sources and cutting
    petroleum consumption in half, all within 15 years.

    The senator included all three in his bill. But the Brown
    administration had mixed feelings about the move, according to
    participants in private conversations who declined to speak publicly.

    In fact, administration officials believed they could push the state
    toward the gas-reduction goal without new legislation. The
    California Air Resources Board, a regulatory agency led by longtime
    Brown ally Mary Nichols, says it already has programs in place to do
    exactly that.

    But De León, whose district suffers from poverty and pollution and
    who has sought to put his stamp on environmental policies, wanted
    the target in law. Whereas the governor is likely to discuss climate
    change in global terms, De León pitched the bill as a chance to
    improve public health and spark economic development with green jobs.

    The measure, SB 350, sailed through the Senate in June. But it
    quickly met a hostile reception in the much larger Assembly, where
    many members elected under relatively new term limits were eager to
    assert themselves, emboldened by the longer service they are
    allowed. In addition, business interests hold more sway in the lower
    house, and oil companies spent significantly to help elect
    candidates last year.

    Perea is a top beneficiary of oil largesse; he has received nearly
    $100,000 in campaign contributions from the oil and gas industry
    since his first Assembly campaign in 2010, according to the National
    Institute for Money in State Politics.

    Others include Assemblyman Adam Gray (D-Merced), with $80,000, and
    Assemblyman Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield), with more than $65,000.

    Perea, who became De León’s main foil, and his allies said they
    feared aggressive policies from regulators. Such stringency could
    harm low-income communities like Perea’s with higher costs for fuel
    and electricity, they said.

    To De León, that sounded like talking points from the oil companies.
    But the message stuck even with lawmakers who weren’t industry
    backers, and Perea brushed off accusations that he was doing oil’s
    bidding.

    “Who gets to wear the white hat and who gets to wear the black hat …
    oversimplifies the issue,” he said, “and allows you not to listen to
    the other side, who may actually have a point.”

    As lawmakers returned from summer recess in August, the oil
    companies’ campaign was in full swing, with television ads, radio
    spots, social media graphics and fliers in the mail warning that
    rationing would leave families pushing their out-of-gas minivans
    down the road.

    Environmental activists responded by going door to door in undecided
    lawmakers’ neighborhoods. National Democratic figures backed the
    bill; President Obama mentioned it in a Las Vegas speech.

    But the rallying cry was falling flat. The debate was grating on
    lawmakers. Some Democrats, including Perea and Assemblyman Sebastian
    Ridley-Thomas of Los Angeles, began blocking activists on Twitter.

    Administration officials ramped up their involvement as the deadline
    for bills neared, but it was clear that the atmosphere surrounding
    the issue had already become poisonous.

    Some proposed concessions — making the gas target more flexible, for
    example — didn’t appease opponents, who felt their concerns about
    oversight were not being adequately addressed.

    With only three days to go until the Legislature adjourned, “we’re
    still not happy,” said Assemblyman Jose Medina (D-Riverside).

    That night De León dined with Perea. Their idea was simple: If
    administration officials felt they could reach the gas target with
    existing policies, why not bar regulators from adopting additional
    rules?

    But the next day, De León reconsidered. He and Brown feared the
    change would be a Trojan horse: Rather than simply bar new
    regulations, it would allow oil companies to re-litigate policies
    already in place.

    For the governor, it was critical that regulators kept a free hand
    to pursue his climate-related goals. His meetings with oil
    representatives suggested they would settle for nothing less than a
    neutered air board.

    “He was given a Hobson’s choice. There was no good solution,” said
    Timothy O’Connor, director of the California Climate Initiative at
    the Environmental Defense Fund. “In the end, he wanted to preserve
    his world-class agency.”

    Now the end of the legislative session was just two days away. Brown
    and De León needed to decide their next move. They huddled in the
    senator’s office with Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins (D-San Diego)
    while reporters stood outside.

    De León wanted a vote on the Assembly floor. He believed his bill
    could pass with a few tolerable concessions if environmental and
    labor groups could be rallied to tip undecided lawmakers to their side.

    But after more than two hours, the trio agreed there was no path
    forward that included the gas goal. Dropping it was the only way to
    get a vote on the rest of the bill, which still included important
    mandates for renewable energy and energy efficiency.

    They decided to cut their losses, but they stayed mum. Opponents of
    the bill began lining up votes for a floor fight, not knowing they
    had already won.

    At a hastily arranged news conference, Brown, De León and Atkins
    told reporters the measure — which the Legislature ultimately passed
    on Friday night — would no longer be the “triple crown.”

    Asked if the defeat would weaken California’s message at the Paris
    summit, Brown said, “We have to keep working here at home.”

    He thanked De León and Atkins for their work.

    “This was a tough battle,” he said gravely, “and they’re going to
    have a few scars to show for it.”

    chris.megerian at latimes.com
    melanie.mason at latimes.com
    Twitter: @chrismegerian and @melmason

http://www.latimes.com/local/politics/la-me-pol-sac-brown-legislature-20150913-story.html


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