[✔️] April 10, 2024 Global Warming News | EU Court of Human Rights rule, Extreme temp projections, 10th hot month in a row, 2007 GOP got climate.

Wed Apr 10 08:48:46 EDT 2024

/*April 10*//*, 2024*/

/[ Seeking justice from the courts  - BBC news ]/
*European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction*
By Georgina Rannard, BBC climate reporter
March 9, 2024*
**A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case 
victory in the European Court of Human Rights.
*The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made 
them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to 
climate change.

The court said Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction 
targets had been woefully inadequate.

It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming.

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg joined activists celebrating at the 
court in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
"We still can't really believe it. We keep asking our lawyers, 'is that 
right?' Rosemarie Wydler-Walti, one of the leaders of the Swiss women, 
told Reuters news agency. "And they tell us it's the most you could have 
had. The biggest victory possible."

"This is only the beginning of climate litigation," said Ms Thunberg. 
"This means that we have to fight even more, since this is only the 
beginning. Because in a climate emergency, everything is at stake."

The ruling is binding and can trickle down to influence the law in 46 
countries in Europe including the UK.
The Court ruled that Switzerland had "failed to comply with its duties 
under the Convention concerning climate change" and that it had violated 
the right to respect for private and family life.

It also found that "there had been critical gaps" in the country's 
policies to tackle climate change including failing to quantify 
reductions in greenhouse gases - those gases that warm Earth's 
atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas.

The Swiss women, called KlimaSeniorinnen or Senior Women for Climate 
Protection, argued that they cannot leave their homes and suffer health 
attacks during heatwaves in Switzerland.

On Tuesday data showed that last month was the world's warmest March on 
record, meaning the temperature records have broken ten months in a row.

More than 2,000 women are in the KlimaSeniorinnen group. They launched 
the case nine years ago, calling for better protection of women's health 
in relation to climate change.

Swiss President Viola Amherd told a news conference that she needed to 
read the judgement in detail before commenting, according to Reuters 
news agency.
She said: "Sustainability is very important to Switzerland, biodiversity 
is very important to Switzerland, the net zero target is very important 
to Switzerland."

The court dismissed two other cases brought by six Portuguese young 
people and a former French mayor. Both argued that European governments 
had failed to tackle climate change quickly enough, violating their rights.

Swiss glaciers get 10% smaller in two years
Why is the world getting warmer?
Record hot March sparks 'uncharted territory' fear
Member of the KlimaSeniorinnen Elisabeth Stern, 76, told BBC News that 
she has seen how the climate in Switzerland has changed since she was a 
child growing up on a farm.

'Not made to sit in a rocking chair and knit'
Asked about her commitment to the case, she said: "Some of us are just 
made that way. We are not made to sit in a rocking chair and knit."

"We know statistically that in 10 years we will be gone. So whatever we 
do now, we are not doing for ourselves, but for the sake of our children 
and our children's children," she added.

Youth activists around the world had hoped that the six Portuguese young 
people would also win their case against 32 European governments.

The youth, aged from 12-24, had argued that increasingly extreme 
heatwaves and wildfires left them unable to go outside to play, to go to 
school, and that they suffered from climate anxiety.

But the court said the case needed to be decided in Portugal first.

Sofia Oliveira, 19, told BBC News that she was disappointed but that the 
Swiss women's win 'is a win for us too and a win for everyone'."

A third case by a former French mayor claimed that inaction by the 
French government risked his town being submerged in the North Sea.

It was dismissed because he no longer lived in France and claimants must 
prove that they are direct victims of human rights violations.

Decisions made in the European Court of Human Rights influence law 
across its 46 member states.

Estelle Dehon KC, a barrister at Cornerstone Barristers in the UK, said 
"the judgement deals with difficult issues that also vex the UK courts 
in a way that may be persuasive."

"It comprehensively dismisses the argument that courts cannot rule on 
climate legal obligations because climate change is a global phenomenon 
or because action by one state is just a 'drop in the ocean'," she told 
BBC News.

Governments globally have signed up to drastically reduce their 
greenhouse gas emissions.

But scientists and activists say that progress is too slow and the world 
is not on track to meet the crucial target of limiting global 
temperature rise to 1.5C.

Switzerland's largest party, the right-wing Swiss People's Party, 
condemned the ruling, calling it a scandal and threatening to leave the 
Council of Europe.

That is unlikely to happen because they hold just two seats of seven in 
government.

The Socialist Party welcomed the court's decision and said the 
government should implement it as soon as possible, according to Swiss 
broadcaster RTS.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68768598

/[ long term heat ]/
*Extreme Heat Projections: New Understanding*
AmericanResiliency
Apr 9, 2024
We haven't taken a good look at the projections for increased days over 
105 as we get ready for 2C.  Let me show you what I figured out, and you 
can look for yourself here: https://atlas.globalchange.gov/#exploreshorts

Open the explorer, and from in the explorer, choose the "open map" 
button towards the bottom of the screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMj_6lbuwMY

/[ March Climate Bulletins -see the data  ]/
*Copernicus: March 2024 is the tenth month in a row to be the hottest on 
record*
DATE:9th April 2024
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European 
Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the European 
Commission with funding from the EU, routinely publishes monthly climate 
bulletins reporting on the changes observed in *global surface air and 
sea temperatures*, *sea ice cover *and *hydrological variables*. All the 
reported findings are based on computer-generated analyses and according 
to ERA5 dataset, using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, 
aircraft and weather stations around the world.
- -
*Surface air temperature and sea surface temperature highlights*

    March 2024 was warmer globally than any previous March in the data
    record, with an average ERA5 surface air temperature of 14.14°C,
    0.73°C above the 1991-2020 average for March and 0.10°C above the
    previous high set in March 2016.

    This is the tenth month in a row that is the warmest on record for
    the respective month of the year.

    The month was 1.68°C warmer than an estimate of the March average
    for 1850-1900, the designated pre-industrial reference period.

    The global-average temperature for the past twelve months (April
    2023 – March 2024) is the highest on record, at 0.70°C above the
    1991-2020 average and 1.58°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial
    average.

    The average European temperature for March 2024 was 2.12°C above the
    1991-2020 average for March, making the month the second warmest
    March on record for the continent, only a marginal 0.02°C cooler
    than March 2014. Temperatures were most above average in central and
    eastern regions.

    Outside Europe, temperatures were most above average over eastern
    North America, Greenland, eastern Russia, Central America, parts of
    South America, many parts of Africa, southern Australia, and parts
    of Antarctica.

    The El Niño continued to weaken in the eastern equatorial Pacific,
    but marine air temperatures in general remained at an unusually high
    level. 

    The global sea surface temperature averaged for March over 60°S–60°N
    was 21.07°C, the highest monthly value on record, marginally above
    the 21.06°C recorded for February.

- -
*Sea ice highlights*

    Arctic sea ice extent reached its annual maximum in March, with a
    monthly value slightly below average, marking the highest March
    extent since 2013.

    As in January and February, sea ice concentration anomalies were
    mixed across the Arctic Ocean. Concentrations remained above average
    in the Greenland Sea, a persistent feature since October. 

    Antarctic sea ice extent was 20% below average, the sixth lowest
    extent for March in the satellite data record, continuing a series
    of large negative anomalies observed since 2017. 

    As in February, sea ice concentrations were most below-average in
    the northern Weddell Sea and in the Ross-Amundsen Sea sector. 

    *Hydrological variables highlights*
    In March 2024, it was wetter than average in most of western Europe,
    with storms causing heavy rainfall over the Iberian Peninsula and
    southern France. It was also wetter than average in regions of
    Scandinavia and north-western Russia.

    The rest of Europe was predominantly drier than average, with
    pronounced below-average precipitation over north-western Norway.

    In March 2024, it was wetter than average in regions of North
    America, across Central Asia, Japan, much of the Arabian Peninsula,
    Madagascar, and parts of South America. Australia experienced an
    exceptionally wet month.

    Drier-than-average conditions established in parts of central USA,
    western Canada and northern Mexico, regions of Central Asia and
    China and in south-eastern Australia, most of southern Africa and
    South America...

https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-march-2024-tenth-month-row-be-hottest-record

/[The news archive - before the GOP's unified climate stupidity ]/
/*April 10, 2007 */
April 10, 2007: In a debate with Senator John Kerry in Washington, DC, 
Newt Gingrich acknowledges that climate change is real and largely 
caused by human activity, though he insists that regulatory solutions 
are not needed to stem emissions. By 2009, Gingrich would once again 
suggest that the basic science of human-caused climate change was in 
dispute.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/197538-1
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/19/gingrich-didnt-always-take-issue-with-john-kerr/198125 

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