[✔️] September 28, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Daniel Schmachtenberger. Norrsken Fouindation, Dave Roberts on politics, City Climate Corner, RealClimate Old Habits, Butterflys, 2007 Lunt\z and GWBush

[Richard Pauli]

/*September 28*//*, 2023*/

/[ Brilliant lecture  50 min video ]
/ *Daniel Schmachtenberger l An introduction to the Metacrisis l 
Stockholm Impact/Week 2023*
Norrsken Foundation
Sep 20, 2023
An introduction to the Metacrisis by Daniel Schmachtenberger, founding 
member of The Consilience Project. Moderated by Niklas Adalberth, 
founder of Norrsken Foundation. Recorded live during Stockholm 
Impact/Week 2023.

Stockholm Impact Week is an annual Summit hosted by Norrsken and the 
City of Stockholm, dedicated to defining the critical issues of our time 
and enabling solutions to them.

Read more about Norrsken Foundation: norrsken.org
Read more about Stockholm Impact/Week 2023: impactweek.se
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBoLVvoqVY

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/[ visit the YouTube channel  ]/
*Norrsken Foundation*
https://www.norrsken.org/
https://www.youtube.com/@norrskenfoundation1979/featured



/[ Audio -- about serious political change --  Dave Roberts interview 
--SEP 27 • 52M ]/
*Minnesota forces transportation planners to take climate change seriously*
A conversation with state Representative Larry Kraft.
In 2022, Democrats narrowly won a trifecta in Minnesota — House, Senate, 
and governor — whereupon they launched into an absolute frenzy of 
activity, passing bills on everything from abortion to paid leave to gun 
control to free school lunch to clean energy. Vanity Fair called it a 
“tour de force for progressive legislation.”

I covered the state’s new clean-energy law on a previous pod, but I also 
wanted to take a closer look at the big transportation bill that was 
signed in May. It passed somewhat under the radar, but it’s got some 
very cool stuff in it.


One key feature is that it requires both state and municipal 
transportation-planning agencies to take the state’s climate goals into 
account when assessing new projects — to hold themselves accountable to 
those goals. As obvious as that may seem, it’s not something any other 
state has done.

To discuss the significance of this and some other provisions of the 
bill, I contacted one of its primary authors, first-term state 
Representative Larry Kraft (D). We talked about what these changes mean 
for transportation planners, the kinds of transportation projects that 
can reduce emissions, the new money the state will raise for public 
transit, and the state’s new e-bike incentive (!).

By the way, if you enjoy this conversation, you should know that Kraft 
co-hosts a podcast of his own, on climate policy in small and mid-sized 
cities. It’s called City Climate Corner, with co-host Abby Finis. Check 
it out.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/minnesota-forces-transportation-planners

https://www.volts.wtf/p/minnesota-forces-transportation-planners?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=193024&post_id=137058667&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&r=e3p5r#details

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/[ from comments ]/
J.Petri
*I recommend the "City Climate Corner" *podcast. I listen to it 
regularly. This podcast "Explores how small and mid-sized cities are 
tackling climate change and moving toward an equitable and sustainable 
future." The podcasts are always interesting, and cover a range of 
topics: Boise's geothermal energy district; Santa Monica's 3D printed 
bike lanes.... Check it out: https://www.cityclimatecorner.com/
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidroberts/p/minnesota-forces-transportation-planners?r=10305&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=40774914

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/[ Excellent site ]/
*City Climate Corner*
Explores how small and mid-sized cities are tackling climate change and 
moving toward an equitable and sustainable future. Co-hosted by Abby 
Finis and Larry Kraft
https://www.cityclimatecorner.com/



/[  Discover emerging climate news from climate scientists at 
RealClimate.org    ] /
*Old habits*
26 SEP 2023 BY RASMUS
Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown fairly 
steadily since 2004. My impression is that journalists today tend to 
possess a higher climate literacy than before. This increasing awareness 
and improved knowledge is encouraging, but there are also some common 
interpretations which could be more nuanced. Here are two examples, 
polar amplification and extreme rainfall.

*Polar amplification*
A recent report on the ice on Greenland in the Washington Post discussed 
the melting of land-based ice on Greenland. The melting of ice in the 
polar regions is a great concern and is exacerbated by the so-called 
Polar Amplification which is responsible for a rapid warming in the 
polar region, especially in the Arctic.

In the said report, the fast pace of melting was explained as a 
consequence of a spiraling effect, where retreating ice uncovers a 
darker surface that soaks up more heat from the sunlight (the so-called 
albedo-feedback):

Vanishing land ice — such as ice sheets and glaciers — can also create a 
feedback loop. But because land isn’t quite as dark as the surface of 
the ocean, it doesn’t cause as much additional heating. This is partly 
why the South Pole (which is covered by the Antarctic continent) isn’t 
warming as fast as the North Pole (which is surrounded by ocean).

The situation is more complicated, however, as the strongest Arctic 
warming takes place in winter during polar nights, when the days are 
subject to 24-hr darkness. In other words, there is no albedo effect 
that can explain this exceptional warming because of the lack of sunlight.

Yet, sea-ice acts as an insulator between air and sea. When it retreats, 
it opens up for more heat and moisture exchange between the ocean and 
the atmosphere, and the strongest warming can be found where the sea-ice 
has retreated (Isaksen, et al., 2022).

There are also additional mechanisms that can explain the rapid warming 
near the poles. One of them is that the already colder conditions are 
responsible for lower heat losses, but this is the case for Antarctica 
as well.

Changes in cloud cover and air moisture (vapour pressure) also play a 
role. If there is a permanent cloud cover, then we expect a reduced 
albedo-feedback connected with ice and snow. Clouds also affect the 
albedo, and both clouds and air moisture affect the surface heat loss to 
space.

Other mechanisms include changes in the lapse rate (Boeke et al., 2020) 
and boundary layers (Bintanja et al., 2012), as well as heat transport 
from lower latitudes.

Storms may also influence the temperature indirectly through their 
effect on sea-ice. A take-home message from a talk by Gabriele Messori, 
Ehlke Hepworth, and Marcello Vichi at the European Meteorological 
Society’s 2023 annual meeting in Bratislava was that high-latitude 
cyclones in the Southern Ocean can reach and shape the Antarctic sea-ice.

Storms also play a role in the Arctic, and Aue and Rinke (2023) reported 
that seasonal variations in storms leave an imprint on the sea ice 
concentration in the Barents and Kara Seas. They also found that storms 
have an impact on the Arctic sea ice and that it has changed during the 
last 40 years.

Finally, in the BAMS State of the Climate (2023) the Arctic 
amplification was also associated with various localised 
land–ocean–sea-ice interactions as well as large-scale atmospheric and 
oceanic energy transport processes.

*Extreme rainfall*
Another common topic is extreme rainfall, and the link to global warming 
is often explained in terms of increased evaporation with higher 
temperatures. This is not wrong, but also not the whole story.

We can call it the thermodynamical explanation, and we indeed expect 
more extreme rainfall with higher temperatures which enhance the air’s 
moisture holding capacity and increase the rate of evaporation.

There are also dynamical aspects, which involve changes in winds and 
cloud structure, but they are rarely mentioned in news reports.

The water that evaporates comes down again, but in patches. It doesn’t 
rain all the time nor everywhere. Over time, the daily rain has fallen 
over a shrinking fraction of Earth’s surface (Benestad et al., 2022), 
thus becoming more concentrated into smaller and more intense wet patches.

A recent and tentative (not yet peer-reviewed) analysis suggests that 
about half of the increased extreme precipitation may be due to 
thermodynamics and about half may be due to dynamics (Benestad et al., 2023)

The dynamical nature of this trend may involve more convective clouds, 
higher cloud tops or an expansion of the sub-tropics connected to a 
widening of the Hadley cell. Another factor may be a slowdown of moving 
rain-generating systems (Kahraman et al, 2023).

There are reports of increased rainfall amounts connected with tropical 
cyclones, which combines both thermodynamics (evaporation) and dynamics 
(wind and cloud structures). Recently storm Daniel brought extreme 
rainfall amounts that caused devastating calamities both in 
Greece/Bulgaria/Turkey as well as Libya. The extreme rainfall was a 
result of both excessive evaporation (the Mediterranean Sea has been 
unusually warm) and circulation.

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2023/09/old-habits/



/[  Butterflies declining 2% per year.   All insects 2% annual decline.  
Decline 75% by biomass "People should not be the source"  Birds 
delinging 2% per year.  Humans are running a giant experiment ]/
*Nick Haddad: "Insects - A Silent Extinction" | The Great Simplification 
#90*
Nate Hagens
Sep 27, 2023  The Great Simplification - with Nate Hagens
On this episode, Nate is joined by Professor Nick Haddad, a conservation 
scientist with a focus on butterflies and other insects. Nick unpacks 
what decades of research have indicated about the declining state of 
insect populations, which act as the foundation of critical ecosystem 
functions. The overlooked degradation of butterflies, beetles, bees, 
ants, ladybugs, and countless other species have huge ripple effects 
across our local and global ecological functions - from a loss of bird 
populations to a reduced ability to grow food. Why are we not more 
concerned about the health and vitality of these critical organisms? Can 
humans - or life as we know it - survive without these little creatures? 
What can we do as individuals, businesses, and governments to help 
insects rebound as quickly as possible, and in turn strengthen the 
health of everything else.

About Nick Haddad
Professor Nick Haddad is co-lead of the Long Term Ecological Research 
site at Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University. He 
leads decades-long, landscape-scale experiments that bring scientific 
principles to conservation actions. He studies how landscape diversity, 
including prairie strips through croplands, affect biodiversity, 
especially of plants and insects, and of ecosystem services including 
pollination, biocontrol, and decomposition. For three decades he has led 
the world’s largest experiment testing the role of landscape corridors 
in increasing dispersal of most plant and animal species, and increasing 
plant diversity. He has conducted long-term restoration experiments to 
guide conservation of rare butterflies in the face of climate and land 
use change. Nick brings together ideas in science and management through 
ConservationCorridor.org.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qzS5Nig4_w



/[ The news archive - looking back at how Luntz and GWBush harms ]/
/*September 28, 2007*/
September 28, 2007: President George W. Bush speaks at a "conference" on 
climate change in Washington. The speech and the "conference" are widely 
viewed as political efforts to obscure the Bush administration's overall 
lack of interest in taking serious steps to reduce carbon pollution.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/americas/28iht-28climatesub.7674315.html

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2007/09/28/201917/bush-climate-speech-follows-luntz-playbook-technology-technology-technology-blah-blah-blah/

    *Bush climate speech follows Luntz playbook: “Technology,
    technology, blah, blah, blah.”*
    JOE ROMM
    SEP 28, 2007, 5:49 PM

    Bush has given us a new drinking game: Down a shot whenever the
    President uses the word “technology” in a climate speech. You’d get
    19 shots for today’s 21 minute speech!

    As predicted Bush closely follows the Frank Luntz playbook on how to
    seem like you care about the climate when you don’t. Bush stated the
    basic do-nothing message well:

    Our investments in research and technology are bringing the world
    closer to a remarkable breakthrough — an age of clean energy where
    we can power our growing economies and improve the lives of our
    people and be responsible stewards of the earth the Almighty trusted
    to our care.

    Translation: “If we had those technologies today, then maybe we
    could take genuine action now. But, darn it, people, we don’t. We
    can’t grow the economy and be responsible stewards of the earth
    quite yet. We are close, though, so be patient already and stop with
    all those calls for mandatory regulation. Sheesh!”

    Since this is the main message of the shrewd Luntz-led delayers, who
    realized years ago it could be politically dangerous to be seen as
    opposing all action on global warming, let me repeat Luntz’s advice
    from his 2002 and 2005 memos to conservatives [both must-reads for
    progressives]. In his 2002 “Straight Talk” memo on climate change
    messaging he writes:

    Technology and innovation are the key in arguments on both sides.
    Global warming alarmists use American superiority in technology and
    innovation quite effectively in responding to accusations that
    international agreements such as the Kyoto accord could cost the
    United States billions. Rather than condemning corporate America the
    way most environmentalists have done in the past, they attack us for
    lacking faith in our collective ability to meet any economic
    challenges presented by environmental changes we make. This should
    be our argument. We need to emphasize how voluntary innovation and
    experimentation are preferable to bureaucratic or international
    intervention and regulation.

    This is what I call the technology trap, where clean energy
    technology is used to delay action, rather than to foster action, on
    climate change.Luntz reiterated this point in an early 2005 strategy
    document “An Energy Policy for the 21st Century”: “Innovation and
    21st-century technology should be at the core of your energy
    policy.” Luntz repeated the word “technology” thirty times in that
    document.

    In an April 2005 speech describing his proposed energy policy, Bush
    repeated the word ‘technology’ more than forty times. This time
    Business Week recognized that Bush was following Luntz’s script and
    noted “what’s most striking about Bush’s Apr. 27 speech is how
    closely it follows the script written by Luntz earlier this year.”
    The article also pointed out “the President’s failure to propose any
    meaningful solutions.” Indeed the article’s headline was unusally
    blunt for the much-maligned MSM:

    Bush Is Blowing Smoke on EnergyHitting all the points in a noted GOP
    pollster’s playbook, the President’s plan is driven by politics not
    policy. Worse, it won’t cut oil dependency.

    Can we get some similarly cogent press coverage of Bush’s climate
    speech today?

https://web.archive.org/web/20190615031146/https://thinkprogress.org/bush-climate-speech-follows-luntz-playbook-technology-technology-blah-blah-blah-1281f60c681c/


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