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<i><font size="+1"><b>May 9, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[top story this time]<br>
<b>Big Oil's Reign Is Finally Weakening</b><br>
By Bill McKibben - May 7, 2020<br>
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Even before covid-19 really bit, Exxon had been "humbled," according
to Bloomberg Businessweek, becoming a "mediocre" company. Now it
seems entirely likely that we have seen peak oil demand, a moment
that the oil companies had predicted wouldn't come for decades.
Here's the energy analyst Kingsmill Bond's precis: "If demand for
fossil fuels bounces back in 2021 by half the amount it fell in
2020, and grows at 0.5% a year, it would take 8 years to get back to
where the industry started. And in the meantime, the renewable
energy revolution has not stopped."...<br>
"The ability of the industry to dictate to governments will weaken,"
Bond said, "and the capacity of incumbents to frustrate the growth
of renewables will reduce." Exit Lee Raymond, stage right.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/big-oils-reign-is-finally-weakening">https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/big-oils-reign-is-finally-weakening</a><br>
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[already]<br>
<b>It's already getting too hot and humid in some places for humans
to survive</b><br>
Extreme conditions are happening more often than scientists
previously thought...<br>
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A combination of heat and humidity so extreme that it's unendurable
isn't just a problem for the future -- those conditions are already
here, a new study finds. Off-the-chart readings that were previously
thought to be nearly nonexistent on the planet today have popped up
around the globe, and unyielding temperatures are becoming more
common.<br>
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Extreme conditions reaching roughly 115 degrees Fahrenheit on the
heat-index scale -- a measurement of both heat and humidity that's
often referred to as what the temperature "feels like" -- doubled
between 1979 and 2017, the study found. Humidity and heat are a
particularly deadly combination, since humidity messes with the
body's ability to cool itself off by sweating. The findings imply
that harsh conditions that scientists foresaw as an impending result
of climate change are becoming reality sooner than expected.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theverge.com/21252174/heat-humidity-human-survival-climate-change-science-advances">https://www.theverge.com/21252174/heat-humidity-human-survival-climate-change-science-advances</a><br>
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[Source material from AAAA Science Advances]<br>
<b>The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance</b><br>
Abstract<br>
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Humans' ability to efficiently shed heat has enabled us to range
over every continent, but a wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35 C
marks our upper physiological limit, and much lower values have
serious health and productivity impacts. Climate models project
the first 35 C TW occurrences by the mid-21st century. However, a
comprehensive evaluation of weather station data shows that some
coastal subtropical locations have already reported a TW of 35 C
and that extreme humid heat overall has more than doubled in
frequency since 1979. Recent exceedances of 35 C in global maximum
sea surface temperature provide further support for the validity
of these dangerously high TW values. We find the most extreme
humid heat is highly localized in both space and time and is
correspondingly substantially underestimated in reanalysis
products. Our findings thus underscore the serious challenge posed
by humid heat that is more intense than previously reported and
increasingly severe.<br>
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Read more:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242855-climate-change-has-already-made-parts-of-the-world-too-hot-for-humans/#ixzz6Lu8njEhC">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242855-climate-change-has-already-made-parts-of-the-world-too-hot-for-humans/#ixzz6Lu8njEhC</a>
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[highly recommended book]<br>
<b>A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety</b><br>
How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet<br>
Reviews<br>
"Not surprisingly ... this small book reads like the distillation of
simple folk wisdom."--Geography Realm<br>
"It would be foolish not to freak out over climate change. But it
would be sad if that despair kept you from working hard on this
crisis, not to mention enjoying life on what is still a beautiful
planet. This book has some wise strategies for finding a useful
balance."--Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun
to Play Itself Out?<br>
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"Ever laid awake at night gripped with panic about the future? Ever
wondered how to make sense of your path in light of the forecasted
climate futures? Bold and beautiful, this hands-on companion is
essential reading for wrestling with the most important issue of our
time."--Kari Marie Norgaard, author of Living in Denial: Climate
Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life<br>
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"Written for the Gen Z 'climate generation,' this book is essential
reading for anyone despairing over our current climate emergency and
future of turbulent change. Ray's strategies offer deep and
practical ways to cultivate collective resilience and creative
adaptation, and even thrive in a climate-changed world."--Leslie
Davenport, author of Emotional Resiliency in the Era of Climate
Change<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343306/a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520343306/a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety</a><br>
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[video interview]<br>
<b>Sarah Jaquette Ray on "A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to
Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet"</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/adNUFvsHwio">https://youtu.be/adNUFvsHwio</a><br>
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[Two Beckwith videos on aerosols]<br>
<b>How the Absence and Presence of Anthropogenic Aerosols is
Affecting Our Skies and Climate</b><br>
May 7, 2020<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Anthropogenic Aerosols have a large effect on our climate, and due
to global economic shutdowns from coronavirus have been much reduced
for several months. Here, and in the next few videos I get delve
into the science of direct aerosol effects (scattering; blocking
sunlight) and indirect aerosol effects (smaller cloud droplets
increasing reflectivity in the Twomey Effect, suppressing drizzle,
increasing cloud heights and cloud lifetimes in the Albrecht Effect,
and Heating Effects dissipating clouds). Scientists need a good
understanding of these effects to reduce uncertainties in climate
models and projections.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ruCxowpuug">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ruCxowpuug</a><br>
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<b>Science of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Vital to Reduce Uncertainty
in Climate Models and Projections</b><br>
In this video and the next I explain the basic science of direct
aerosol effects (scattering; blocking sunlight) and indirect effects
(smaller cloud droplets increasing reflectivity in the Twomey
Effect, suppressing drizzle, increasing cloud heights and cloud
lifetimes in the Albrecht Effect, and Heating Effects dissipating
clouds). Scientists can determine the number of droplets Nd and the
vertical updraft velocity (Wb) at the base of Marine Stratospheric
Clouds from satellite measurements, allowing determination of the
number of Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) which is key to
understanding aerosol and cloud climate interactions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcwTiXfCNsA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcwTiXfCNsA</a><br>
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[good question]<br>
<b>How did Michael Moore become a hero to climate deniers and the
far right?</b><b><br>
</b>George Monbiot<br>
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We have been here many times before. Dozens of films have spread
falsehoods about environmental activists and ripped into green
technologies, while letting fossil fuels off the hook. But never
before have these attacks come from a famous campaigner for social
justice, rubbing our faces in the dirt.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/michael-moore-far-right-climate-crisis-deniers-film-environment-falsehoods">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/michael-moore-far-right-climate-crisis-deniers-film-environment-falsehoods</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
May 9, 2007 </b></font><br>
Grist.org reports on News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch's plans to make
his company carbon-neutral and conscious of climate risk, plans that
apparently did not involve ending the Fox News Channel's fixation on
attacking climate science.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://grist.org/article/murdoch/">http://grist.org/article/murdoch/</a><br>
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