[✔️] Feb 27, 2024 Global Warming News | Sled dogs rest, Thwaits Doomsday, Wall of Shame, 2001 Bush ignores

Tue Feb 27 08:38:21 EST 2024

/*February *//*27, 2024*/

/ [ adjustment is part of the sport ]/
*World-famous sled dog race canceled because of lack of snow*
The event normally brings thousands of spectators and valuable tourism 
to one of the most rural parts of the Northeast
Patrick Whittle
2.27.24
The longest sled dog race in the eastern United States has been canceled 
due to a lack of snow on the ground.
The Can-Am Crown International Sled Dog Races have taken place in 
northern Maine for more than three decades, including a 250-mile event 
that is the marquee sled dog race in New England.

But this year, snowfall has been well below average in Maine, and it's 
not safe to run the races, organisers said.

A forecasted heavy rainstorm and period of unseasonably warm weather 
also bode poorly for trail conditions, said Can-Am president Dennis Cyr.

“The unique challenges presented by the lack of snow have led us to 
conclude that moving forward with this year’s race could compromise the 
well-being of all involved,” Cyr said. "It is a decision made with heavy 
hearts but necessary caution.”

The races are held in Fort Kent, more than 300 miles north of Portland 
near the border with Canada. The town has had 46.8 inches (119 cm) of 
snow this year and normally would have had more than 80 inches (203 cm) 
by now, the National Weather Service said.

The races were founded in 1992 and they've had to occasionally reroute 
over the years because of conditions. The race was halted early in 1994 
due to thinning ice and a cold snap on race day resulted in last-minute 
changes in 2017. The 2021 races were also canceled due to the COVID-19 
pandemic.

The event normally brings thousands of spectators and valuable tourism 
dollars to one of the most rural parts of the Northeast. It's one of 
many cold weather events that has been jeopardized in recent years by 
increasingly warm winter temperatures in northern parts of the country. 
This month's Pond Hockey Classic in New Hampshire was moved from Lake 
Winnipesaukee because of a lack of thick ice.

Organisers said plans are underway to bring back the races next year.

The race is “not just an event; it's a tradition that celebrates the 
remarkable bond between the mushers and their sled dogs, as well as the 
rugged beauty of Maine's winter landscape,” said event vice president 
Sarah Brooks.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/can-am-sled-dog-race-canceled-snow-b2502810.html?

/[ #1 High school science experiment from the great Richard Alley ]/
*Vital Signs of Thwaites, the "Doomsday Glacier" Episode #1. (Climate 
Change Education)*
USIceDrilling
  Feb 3, 2024
Dr. Richard and Dr. Karen Alley take vital signs of Thwaites Glacier in 
Antarctica to see if it is deserving of the "Doomsday Glacier" 
nickname.  Three vital signs are examined throughout the series to 
access how this glacier may single handedly impact future predictions of 
sea level rise.  In this episode, the speed of the glacier over the last 
20 years is analyzed using satellite imagery. Episode One of a 
three-part series.  This video is part of the U.S. Ice Drilling 
Program's School of Ice Virtual Field Lab Series. (CC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHgSCCQrttI

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/[ #2 highschool ]/
*Vital Signs of Thwaites, the "Doomsday Glacier" Episode #2. (Climate 
Change Education)*
USIceDrilling
Feb 20, 2024
Dr. Richard and Dr. Karen Alley take vital signs of Thwaites Glacier in 
Antarctica to see if it is deserving of the "Doomsday Glacier" 
nickname.  Three vital signs are examined throughout the series to 
access how this glacier may single handedly impact future predictions of 
sea level rise.  In this episode, the speed of the glacier over the last 
20 years is analyzed using satellite imagery. Episode Two of a 
three-part series.  This video is part of the U.S. Ice Drilling 
Program's School of Ice Virtual Field Lab Series. (CC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkjy3S8yN4A

/[ Shame, flame, defame,  ]/
*Let’s Build a Climate Wall of Shame*
Feb. 23, 2024
By Nate Loewentheil
Mr. Loewentheil is the founder and managing partner of Commonweal 
Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in clean energy, health 
and financial technologies.
Here is a proposal for the environmental movement: Pool philanthropic 
funds for a day, buy a small plot of land in Washington, D.C., and put 
up a tall marble wall to serve as a climate memorial. Carve on this 
memorial the names of public figures actively denying the existence of 
climate change. Carve the names so deep and large, our grandchildren and 
great-grandchildren need not search the archives.

This is not a metaphor. The problem with climate change is the 
disconnect between action and impact. If politicians vote against 
construction standards and a school collapses, the next election will be 
their last. But with climate change, cause and effect are at a vast 
distance.

We are already seeing the consequences of our past and present 
greenhouse gas emissions. In coming decades, those emissions will wreak 
their full havoc on the climate, and it will take hundreds, possibly 
thousands, of years for those pollutants to fully dissipate. But in the 
short term, the most immediate burdens are borne mostly by the poor in 
America and distant people in distant lands. Misaligned incentives are 
at the heart of why some political and business leaders deny and delay.

For them, there can be immediate political and economic benefits to 
avowed ignorance, and by the time the waters rise, their deeds and words 
will be forgotten. A memorial would help adjust for this temporal gap. 
It would serve as a permanent testament of climate deniers whose actions 
might otherwise be lost to history and a reminder to those weighing 
their words today of what the future may bring.
The climate memorial would need to be in a highly visible place. Perhaps 
a commission could be established to select one climate antihero from 
academia or politics or business to be added to the memorial each 
quarter. Better yet, the names could be crowdsourced.

  would first nominate those who have sown confusion over climate 
science, like Myron Ebell, who recently retired as director of the 
Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, 
where he sought to block climate change efforts in Congress, and served 
as the head of Donald Trump’s transition team for the Environmental 
Protection Agency. Mr. Ebell has argued that the idea that climate 
change is “an existential threat or even crisis is preposterous.”

Then there are lawmakers who have consistently stood in the way of 
federal action, like the recently retired senator James Inhofe of 
Oklahoma, the author of the book “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global 
Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future.”

True, some might celebrate their inclusion on the memorial as a badge of 
honor. Let them. The memorial is designed to set the record straight for 
posterity. In an age of effervescent social media content, a climate 
memorial would etch permanently into the public imagination the names of 
those who hewed to ignorance at a moment of urgent crisis, one that 
requires “climate action on all fronts — everything, everywhere, all at 
once,” as António Guterres, the United Nations secretary general, put it 
last year.

By the same token, the memorial might induce some business and political 
leaders to reflect on the longer arc of history. The nature of a legacy 
is defined by future historians. To paraphrase Thomas Reed, a speaker of 
the House in the late 19th century, only after death can a politician 
hope to become a statesman. The memorial might move a politician or 
business leader toward sanity. The antihero nominees could be given a 
chance to reconsider their positions before hammer hits marble.

Memorials bring the present into the future and the future into the 
present and, in this case, would put the focus on what is at stake: 
Earth and humanity’s place on it.

Our nation’s capital would be a good place to build the first climate 
memorial, but we need not stop there. States like Florida and Louisiana 
will be among the first to suffer the worst effects of rising oceans and 
more severe weather. We should build state-specific walls in Tallahassee 
and Baton Rouge to bring the message home. Just make sure the memorials 
are situated well above sea level
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/23/opinion/climate-change-memorial.html

/[The news archive -  what did they do when they knew? ]/
/*February 27, 2001 */

February 27, 2001: Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill sends a memo to 
President George W. Bush urging him to take strong action to combat 
carbon pollution. The memo is ignored, and O'Neill would be forced out 
as Treasury Secretary a year later.

http://books.google.com/books?id=ijQLBeDklxcC&pg=PA360&lpg=PA360&dq=paul+o%27neill+global+warming+memo+february+27&source=bl&ots=573aM1IF-O&sig=JrLs5DMwXJIc-AotPsqL-Z1VLHU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=yKnAUrCKB_K-sQT36ILQDQ&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=paul%20o%27neill%20global%20warming%20memo%20february%2027&f=false

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