[✔️] Jan 6, 2024 Global Warming News | Calif waves, Rachel Donald, Spencer Glendon, Probable futures, France flooding, 2001 Gore gavels

Sat Jan 6 08:32:18 EST 2024

/*January*//*6, 2024*/

/[ Lessons not learned will be repeated ]/
*Huge waves will keep battering California in January. Climate change is 
making them worse.*
Dinah Voyles Pulver
USA TODAY
Jan 4, 2024
Hazardous waves up to 16 feet in size are returning to the California 
coast this week, driven by the strong El Niño pattern in the Pacific Ocean.

The latest event is unlikely to be as dramatic as the waves and swell 
that slammed the California coast last week, but such massive waves are 
occurring more often than they used to researchers say, as global 
warming amplifies extreme weather events and pushes sea levels higher. 
They say that means greater coastal flooding in the future.

A swell with big waves and coastal flooding is expected along the West 
Coast this week. Then a seasonal king tide could bring even more water 
shoreward in about 10 days, said Laura Engeman, a coastal resilience 
specialist with California Sea Grant. “If there are large waves those 
days, we may see more flooding.” ...
While this latest round of waves isn't expected to be as strong as the 
late December event, it's the El Niños of the future and the increase in 
coastal flooding fueled by the warming climate that alarm those who 
study the coast.

El Niño brings larger, more energetic waves, more impactful winter 
storms and higher sea levels, said William Sweet, an oceanographer with 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That means greater 
coastal flooding, higher astronomical high tides and more severe erosion.
“It’s such a dynamic environment. We’ve basically built ourselves in 
harm’s way up and down the coast,” Barnard said. “We didn’t anticipate 
(sea level rise) when we built out the California coast in the 50s and 
60s. But you know, we're going to get three feet of sea level rise by 
the end of the 21st century.”...
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Today, the swell of water and massive waves arrive on top of sea levels 
driven higher by climate change, and years of tide gauge data show an 
increase in West Coast flooding events during El Niños.

The ocean has risen roughly 10 inches along the West Coast over the last 
century, and that trend is accelerating, Barnard said. “We’re riding on 
a higher baseline when these larger waves come in, so you tend to have 
larger coastal impacts, more erosion and more flooding.” ...
A study published last summer looked at data back to the 1930s and found 
the average height of winter waves along the California coast has 
increased with climate change. Barnard said some evidence has suggested 
El Niños are becoming more extreme, but the research isn't yet definitive.

The 2015/2016 El Niño left record erosion along many California beaches, 
researchers concluded in studies afterward. When sea levels are higher, 
the largest waves have even more of an impact, Sweet said.

NOAA’s monthly high tide flooding outlook takes daily high tides and El 
Niño into consideration, but not storm events. Its data shows high tide 
flooding occurs nearly three times more often today than it did in 2000. 
It continues to accelerate, particularly along many Atlantic and Gulf 
Coast locations, Sweet said...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/04/big-waves-batter-california-fueled-by-el-nino-climate-change/72087540007/

/[ personal monologue with smart woman,  activist, journalist  ]/
*Keep Trying in 2024 | Rachel Donald*
Planet: Critical
Jan 4, 2024
One week ago I emailed my subscribers and asked them to submit any 
burning question they may have about me or Planet: Critical. I expected 
most questions to be personal, about me and my journey. Instead, most 
were asking for advice or my opinion on the state of the world. I guess 
I never thought about the moment when I would become more than the 
interviewer, but three years of Planet: Critical have furnished me with 
more knowledge, ideas and dare I say wisdom than I ever imagined possible.

Thank you to everyone who submitted to the form, there were many 
questions to choose from, and many of them touching on similar themes. 
Here are the 13 I chose:

    1. You've had many answers to your opening question, all of which go
    some way to approaching a single dimension of the meta-crisis. Is
    there a picture building in your head which brings together and
    synthesises these threads, or could start a conversation to do just
    that?

    2. What political ideology would you say you closest identify with?

    3. How can we quickly change the way everyone on the planet
    understands and engages with the causes and effects of climate
    change, so that we can have more concerted and faster progress to
    prepare for it's effects and stop it from becoming worse?

    4. Truly deeply madly, what do you, (you personally) - based on all
    the knowledge and inspiration you have acquired through your
    interviews - think this world will look like in 2100?

    5. What role do you see for religious innovation/improvisation in
    our civilisations ongoing & unavoidable decline?

    6. Rachel: people talk of the gut/brain axis, and the heart/brain
    axis. When you were moving towards Planet: Critical, what was your
    road between your gut, your heart, and your mind?

    7. How has what you have learned from Planet Critical changed you?
    Your mindset, priorities and how you live?

    8. How important is the United States government to the health of
    the planet? Can climate action happen without the government?

    9. Do you think mainstream centrist politics will ever come round to
    the idea of degrowth or the steady-state economy?

    10. Can women save the world?

    11. What helps you stay steadfast and optimistic in the face of so
    much knowledge of how deeply tragic our situation is?

    12. Members of Novara Media say it is very important to them that
    they work in a team with editors. You seem to be all alone. How do
    you manage?

    13. I listened to your episode with George Monbiot, and you both
    mentioned the "machine" ratcheting up. This is despite the
    well-meaning people shouting from the rooftops in protest for
    decades, if not centuries (if we reach all the way back to, say,
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and John Muir). Do you feel
    that your podcast and similar endeavours from other people (such as
    George Monbiot, Nate Hagens, Jem Bendell, James Hansen,
    Resilience.org etc.) make any difference or are you bound to "bark
    as the caravan moves on"? If the latter is the case, are you at
    peace with it? Is it enough for you that "you tried", as Louise
    Harris sings in her song that you've shared? Do you think humanity
    will have a change of heart at the 11th hour or do you think that
    the "machine" will run until it hits the hard physical, biological
    and climatic boundaries?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4_ZsrzxPFE

/[ Spencer Glendon -- from a year ago -- a classic Harvard presentation 
- about 9 minutes in ]/
*Acting Now for a Better Future | HGSE Convening: Education and Climate 
Action*
Harvard Graduate School of Education
   Nov 1, 2022  The Askwith Education Forum
The Education Sector Can Drive Impact — with Innovation, Urgency, and 
Leadership.

"Education Leaders Driving Climate Action" is part of the convening 
called Education and Climate Action, held at the Harvard Graduate School 
of Education on October 27, 2022.

We’ll look broadly at how education systems can begin to grapple with 
their own climate footprint and nurture learning communities that can 
drive solutions.

This session features: Bridget Long, HGSE
Spencer Glendon, Founder of Probable Futures and Senior Fellow of the 
Woodwell Climate Research Center
Jim Stock, Harvard University Vice Provost for Climate and 
Sustainability; Director, The Salata Institute for Climate and 
Sustainability

Full program details are available here: 
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7F42C10261719B76
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuYV6KnKBS0

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/[ Probable futures ]/
*This platform offers interactive maps, science, historical context, and 
stories to help us all envision a range of climate futures.*
"Make friends, learn to cook, dance and sing"
https://probablefutures.org/maps/?volume=water&selected_map=change_in_total_annual_precipitation&map_version=latest&warming_scenario=1&map_projection=mercator#3.41/4.04/-23.39
https://probablefutures.org/

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/[ finding more recordings by Spencer Glendon  ]/
*The Probable Futures of Climate Change with Spencer Glendon*
Wavemaker Conversations with Michael Schulder
Sep 18, 2022
A visually immersive Wavemaker Conversation on climate change, featuring 
Spencer Glendon -- former Partner at the trillion-dollar investment firm 
Wellington Capital, and creator of the eye-opening climate platform 
Probable Futures.

The latest climate change developments make it feel like we are on a 
runaway train that will flatten the dreams of our children.  With this 
conversation, I hope to play a small part in slowing down that train.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhILGLHRs0

/[ France wrangles flood waters ]/
Jan 5, 2024  ПА-ДЕ-КАЛЕ
*Terrible disasters hit France! 189 municipalities were affected after 
the flood*
Natural disaster 5 January 2023.
/    [ https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pas-de-Calais ]/
Extensive areas of the department of Pas-de-Calais in northern France 
have been flooded for the second time in recent months, triggered by 
heavy rains causing river levels to rise. According to the latest 
government report for the department of Pas-de-Calais, approximately 189 
municipalities were affected by the recent flooding. At least 1,299 
homes sustained damage, some severely, prompting firefighting services 
and local authorities to evacuate a total of 371 people. Around 700 
firefighters are actively involved in the region, collaborating with the 
police to address the consequences of the flooding, engage in recovery 
efforts, and provide protection. As of January 5, they have carried out 
nearly 600 interventions.

Naturals hazards in 2023 have become
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuVDSIO-6kg

/[The news archive - Gore gavels us into a different world.   ]/
/*January 6, 2001*/
January 6, 2001: In a joint session of Congress presided over by Vice 
President (and, thus, President of the Senate) Al Gore, George W. Bush 
is certified as the winner of the 2000 Presidential election.  The New 
York Times notes: "Federal law requires a member of both the House and 
the Senate to question a state's electoral votes in writing for a formal 
objection to be considered. But the House members [who objected to the 
certification] had no Senate support. So Mr. Gore, who was presiding in 
his role as Senate president, slammed down the gavel to silence them and 
rule their objections and parliamentary maneuvers out of order."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6wl_86qnsI

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/us/over-some-objections-congress-certifies-electoral-vote.html 

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