[✔️] April 1, 2024 Global Warming News | Geo Girl explains, Europe at double speed, No insurance, European Environment, EUCRA report, Hansen calls it bad, 2009 Congress flops
Richard Pauli
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Mon Apr 1 06:25:40 EDT 2024
/*April *//*1, 2024*/
/[ Youthful PhD Geo Girl - science talk ]/
*5 Ways We Distinguish Human-Induced vs Natural Climate Change | GEO GIRL*
GEO GIRL/
/Mar 31, 2024 Global Biogeochemical Cycles & Climate Change (Full Course)
Is climate change man-made or natural? In this video, I discuss how we
can tell the difference between human-induced climate change and natural
climate change, specifically regarding the modern climate trend.
0:00 How do we know it’s us?
1:18 Timing is not a coincidence
2:01 Tracking how much C we burn
2:32 C isotope signatures don’t lie
6:28 Associated oxygen depletion
8:20 Models (not the kind you think)
9:31 ‘Small amount’ of C emissions = misleading
References:
Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, 4th Ed.
https://amzn.to/41CDHVz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-C728HoRA
/[ Europe is the fastest heating area of the planet - video ]/
*Europe is cooking at double speed! Are Europeans ready?
*Just Have a Think
Mar 31, 2024
Europe is now the fastest warming continent on the planet. The European
Environment Agency has just published it's first ever Climate Risk
Assessment, which finds that EU policies are nothing like robust enough
to cope with what's coming our way. So, what's the plan??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDnkq_KeTA
/[ What?? No insurance? ]/
*CNN: Home Insurance Becoming Unaffordable due to Climate Disasters*
greenmanbucket/
/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOQsEM26os0
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/[ briefing of the first-ever report from the European Environment Agency ]/
*Europe is not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks*
Press release Published 10 Mar 2024
Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world, and climate risks
are threatening its energy and food security, ecosystems,
infrastructure, water resources, financial stability, and people’s
health. According to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA) assessment,
published today, many of these risks have already reached critical
levels and could become catastrophic without urgent and decisive action.
Extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and flooding, as experienced in recent
years, will worsen in Europe even under optimistic global warming
scenarios and affect living conditions throughout the continent. The EEA
has published the first ever European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA) to
help identify policy priorities for climate change adaptation and for
climate-sensitive sectors.
According to the assessment, Europe’s policies and adaptation actions
are not keeping pace with the rapidly growing risks. In many cases,
incremental adaptation will not be sufficient and, as many measures to
improve climate resilience require a long time, urgent action may be
needed even on risks that are not yet critical.
Some regions in Europe are hotspots for multiple climate risks. Southern
Europe is particularly at risk from wildfires and impacts of heat and
water scarcity on agricultural production, outdoor work, and human
health. Flooding, erosion and saltwater intrusion threaten Europe’s
low-lying coastal regions, including many densely populated cities.
Our new analysis shows that Europe faces urgent climate risks that
are growing faster than our societal preparedness. To ensure the
resilience of our societies, European and national policymakers must
act now to reduce climate risks both by rapid emission cuts and by
strong adaptation policies and actions. -- Leena Ylä-Mononen, EEA
Executive Director
*Many climate risks in Europe require urgent action now *
The assessment identifies 36 major climate risks for Europe within five
broad clusters: ecosystems, food, health, infrastructure, and economy
and finance. More than half of the major climate risks identified in the
report demand more action now and eight of them are particularly urgent,
mainly to conserve ecosystems, protect people against heat, protect
people and infrastructure from floods and wildfires, and to secure the
viability of European solidarity mechanisms, such as the EU Solidarity
Fund.
*Ecosystems:* Almost all risks in the ecosystem cluster require urgent
or more action, with risks to marine and coastal ecosystems assessed as
particularly severe. The EEA report reminds that ecosystems provide
multiple services to people, and therefore these risks have a high
potential to cascade to other areas, including food, health,
infrastructure, and economy.
*Food: *Risks from heat and drought to crop production are already at a
critical level in southern Europe, but countries in central Europe are
also at risk. Especially, prolonged droughts that affect large areas
pose a significant threat on crop production, food security and drinking
water supplies. As one solution, even a partial shift from animal-based
proteins to sustainably grown plant-based proteins, would reduce water
consumption in agriculture and dependency on imported feed.
*Health: *Heat is the gravest and most urgent climate risk driver for
human health. At greatest risk are specific population groups, such as
outdoor workers exposed to extreme heat, the elderly and people living
in poorly built dwellings, in areas with a strong urban heat island
effect or with inadequate access to cooling. Many levers to reduce
climate risks for health lie outside traditional health policies, such
as urban planning, building standards and labour laws.
*Infrastructure:* More frequent and extreme weather events increase the
risks to Europe’s built environment and critical services, including
energy, water and transport. While coastal flood risks have been managed
relatively well in Europe, rising sea levels and changes in storm
patterns can cause devastating impacts on people, infrastructure and
economic activities. In southern Europe, heat and droughts cause
substantial risks to energy production, transmission and demand.
Residential buildings also need to be adapted to increasing heat.
*Economy and finance: *Europe’s economy and financial system are facing
many climate risks. For example, climate extremes can increase insurance
premiums, threaten assets and mortgages, and increase government
expenditure and loan costs. The viability of the EU Solidarity Fund is
already critically threatened due to costly floods and wildfires in
recent years. Worsening climate impacts can also widen private insurance
gaps and make low-income households more vulnerable.
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*About the EUCRA report*
The EEA’s EUCRA report builds on and complements the existing knowledge
base on climate impacts and risks for Europe, including recent reports
by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Copernicus
Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Joint Research Centre of the
European Commission (JRC), as well as outcomes of EU-funded research and
development projects and national climate risk assessments. The
knowledge in this first-of-its-kind assessment is synthesised with the
aim to support strategic policymaking.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/europe-is-not-prepared-for
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/[ 40 page Executive Summary report -
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment/at_download/file
]
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EEA Report No 1/2024The EUCRA report builds on and complements the
existing knowledge base on climate impacts and risks for Europe,
including recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Joint Research
Centre of the European Commission, as well as outcomes of EU-funded
research and development projects and national climate risk assessments.
The knowledge in this first-of-its-kind assessment is synthesised with
the aim to support strategic policymaking.Download
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY European climate risk assessment
TH-AL-24-001-EN-N.pdf [4.2 MB]
See additional files
Read the full report (UNEDITED)/Link for the Full Report
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment/resolveuid/a81df2f222524f79a54b2c421a1c9525/
/[ Respected climate scientist -professor James Hansen thinks things
are much more worse that we thought ]/
*Hansen: Hope vs Hopium - Global Warming Acceleration*
Climate Chat
3-31-2024
In this Climate Chat episode, we discuss the recent white paper from
climate scientist James Hansen titled "Global Warming Acceleration: Hope
vs Hopium". In this paper, Hansen says that evidence shows that his
recent "Global Warming in the Pipeline" peer-reviewed paper is correct
and that both warming from greenhouse gases and cooling from aerosols
(smoke from coal plants, ships, etc.) are both higher than the IPCC
assumes in their climate models. This has critical implications
including possibly passing "Points of No Return" soon.
This is a Climate Chat open discussion. To join the discussion, join our
Clubhouse room for access to the Zoom link or leave comments in the
YouTube Live comments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQaU4FPtvbo
/[The news archive - When Congress missed an opportunity, now our
predicament is worse due to their inaction. ]/
/*April 1, 2009 */
April 1, 2009:
• The New York Times reports:
"The debate on global warming and energy policy accelerated on
Tuesday as two senior House Democrats unveiled a far-reaching bill
to cap heat-trapping gases and quicken the country’s move away from
dependence on coal and oil.
"But the bill leaves critical questions unanswered and has no
Republican support. It is thus the beginning, not the end, of the
debate in Congress on how to deal with two of President Obama’s
priorities, climate change and energy.
"The draft measure, written by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of
California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, sets a slightly
more ambitious goal for capping heat-trapping gases than Mr. Obama’s
proposal. The bill requires that emissions be reduced 20 percent
from 2005 levels by 2020, while Mr. Obama’s plan calls for a 14
percent reduction by 2020. Both would reduce emissions of carbon
dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases by roughly 80 percent by
2050."
The bill would require every region of the country to produce a
quarter of its electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar
and geothermal by 2025. A number of lawmakers around the country,
particularly in the Southeast, call that goal unrealistic because
the natural resources and technology to meet it do not yet exist...
The bill also calls for modernization of the electrical grid,
production of more electric vehicles and significant increases in
efficiency in buildings, appliances and the generation of electricity.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/us/politics/01energycnd.html?pagewanted=print
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