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<i><font size="+1"><b>July 13, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[Forbes - new book review]<br>
<b>Fighting Climate Change Requires A New Capitalism</b><br>
Her experiences and the research that came out of them culminate in
her new book, <b>Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire</b>, a
deeply personal exploration of capitalism's role in addressing
climate change...<br>
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I hope the book will give them a sense of why what they're doing is
so important, how every individual effort inside every firm has the
potential to add up to systemic change, and an understanding of the
pathways through which business can help to play a major role in
solving our problems.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2020/07/13/fighting-climate-change-requires-a-new-capitalism/#4013ecda27fc">https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2020/07/13/fighting-climate-change-requires-a-new-capitalism/#4013ecda27fc</a>
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[Book Genre: Nonfiction / Business & Economics / Economics /
Theory]<br>
<b>Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire</b><br>
by Rebecca Henderson<br>
A renowned Harvard professor debunks prevailing orthodoxy with a new
intellectual foundation and a practical pathway forward for a system
that has lost its moral and ethical foundation in this "powerful"
book (Daron Acemoglu).<br>
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Free market capitalism is one of humanity's greatest inventions and
the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this
success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying
the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top.
The time for action is running short.<br>
<br>
Rebecca Henderson's rigorous research in economics, psychology, and
organizational behavior, as well as her many years of work with
companies around the world, gives us a path forward. She debunks the
worldview that the only purpose of business is to make money and
maximize shareholder value. She shows that we have failed to
reimagine capitalism so that it is not only an engine of prosperity
but also a system that is in harmony with environmental realities,
striving for social justice and the demands of truly democratic
institutions.<br>
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Henderson's deep understanding of how change takes place, combined
with fascinating in-depth stories of companies that have made the
first steps towards reimagining capitalism, provides inspiring
insight into what capitalism can be. With rich discussions of how
the worlds of finance, governance, and leadership must also evolve,
Henderson provides the pragmatic foundation for navigating a world
faced with unprecedented challenge, but also with extraordinary
opportunity for those who can get it right.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/rebecca-henderson/reimagining-capitalism-in-a-world-on-fire/9781541730137/">https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/rebecca-henderson/reimagining-capitalism-in-a-world-on-fire/9781541730137/</a><br>
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[video graphics explaining major ice melt]<br>
<b>Why scientists are so worried about this glacier</b><br>
Jul 13, 2020<br>
Vox<br>
It's at the heart of Antarctica and on the verge of collapse.<br>
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Man-made climate change is warming the planet's atmosphere and
oceans, and the effects are being felt the most at the poles. In
Antarctica, home to the largest chunk of ice on earth, ice shelves
and glaciers are beginning to collapse, and one in particular could
spell disaster. The Thwaites Glacier, in West Antarctica, has
retreated more than 14 kilometers in the last two decades as warm
ocean water undermines it. The glacier is situated on a downward
slope that falls deep into the center of Antarctica. It's why
scientists are racing to find out how close it is to total collapse
- and what that would mean for future sea levels. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUxTFWWWdY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRUxTFWWWdY</a><br>
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[more Beckwith on lightning]<br>
<b>Lightning Types: Intracloud, Intercloud, and Cloud to Ground, and
the Extremely Powerful Superbolts</b><br>
Jul 12, 2020<br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
In large storms powerful updrafts generate friction between graupel,
and ice crystals causing charge separation (negative charge
accumulates near cloud base, positive charge near cloud top). With
large enough voltage separation, lightning occurs either intracloud
(within one cloud), intercloud (cloud to cloud), or cloud to
ground. Cloud to ground comprises about 20% of the total.
Occasionally "superbolts" can occur with much higher energies,
fortunately these occur mostly over oceans and over the Andes but
they can occur anywhere. Lighting science is fascinating.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNYjE_alCY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guNYjE_alCY</a><br>
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[dendrochronology]<br>
JULY 7, 2020<br>
<b>Tree rings show unprecedented rise in extreme weather in South
America</b><br>
by Earth Institute at Columbia University<br>
Scientists have filled a gaping hole in the world's climate records
by reconstructing 600 years of soil-moisture swings across southern
and central South America. Along with documenting the mechanisms
behind natural changes, the new South American Drought Atlas reveals
that unprecedented widespread, intense droughts and unusually wet
periods have been on the rise since the mid-20th century. It
suggests that the increased volatility could be due in part to
global warming, along with earlier pollution of the atmosphere by
ozone-depleting chemicals. The atlas was published this week in the
journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<br>
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Recent droughts have battered agriculture in wide areas of the
continent, trends the study calls "alarming." Lead author Mariano
Morales of the Argentine Institute of Snow, Glacier and
Environmental Sciences at the National Research Council for Science
and Technology, said, "Increasingly extreme hydroclimate events are
consistent with the effects of human activities, but the atlas alone
does not provide evidence of how much of the observed changes are
due to natural climate variability versus human-induced warming."
The new long-term record "highlights the acute vulnerability of
South America to extreme climate events," he said.<br>
<br>
Coauthor Edward Cook, head of the Tree Ring Lab at Columbia
University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said, "We don't want
to jump off the cliff and say this is all climate change. There is a
lot of natural variability that could mimic human-induced climate
change." However, he said, armed with the new 600-year record,
scientists are better equipped to sort things out.<br>
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The South American Drought Atlas is the latest in a series of
drought atlases assembled by Cook and colleagues, covering many
centuries of year-by-year climate conditions in North America; Asia;
Europe and the Mediterranean; and New Zealand and eastern Australia.
Subsequent studies building on the atlases have yielded new insights
into how droughts may have adversely affected past civilizations,
and the increasingly apparent role of human-induced warming on
modern climate. Most recently, followup analyses of North America
have suggested that warming is driving what may be the worst-ever
known drought in the U.S. West...<br>
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The new atlas covers Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, most of
Bolivia, and southern Brazil and Peru. It is the result of years of
field collections of thousands of tree-ring records, and subsequent
analyses by South American researchers, along with colleagues in
Europe, Canada, Russia and the United States. Ring widths generally
reflect yearly changes in soil moisture, and the researchers showed
that collected rings correlate well with droughts and floods
recorded starting in the early Spanish colonial period, as well as
with modern instrumental measurements. This gave them confidence to
extend the soil-moisture reconstruction back before written records.<br>
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The atlas indicates that there has been a steady increase in the
frequency of widespread droughts since 1930, with the highest return
times, about 10 years, occurring since the 1960s. Severe water
shortages have affected central Chile and western Argentina from
1968-1969, 1976-1977, and 1996-1997. Currently, the drylands of
central Chile and western Argentina are locked in one of the most
severe decade-long droughts in the record. In some areas, up to
two-thirds of some cereal and vegetable crops have been lost in some
years. This threatens "the potential collapse of food systems," says
Morales.<br>
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At the same time, southeastern parts of the continent are seeing
heavier than normal rains. Walter Baethgen, who leads Latin American
agricultural research for Columbia University's International
Research Institute for Climate and Society, says his own studies
show that the La Plata basin of Uruguay has seen more frequent
extremely wet summers since 1970, with corresponding increases in
crop and livestock production. But the frequency of very dry summers
has remained the same, which translates to bigger losses of expected
yields when they do come along, he said.<br>
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"Everything is consistent with the idea that you'll be intensifying
both wet and dry events with global warming," said Jason Smerdon, a
climate scientist at Lamont-Doherty and a coauthor of the study.<br>
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Using newly developed tree-ring records from Peru, Brazil, Bolivia
and Colombia, the group is now working to expand the atlas to cover
the entire continent, and extend the climate reconstruction back
1,000 years or more, said Morales.<br>
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The authors wish to dedicate the study to the memory of the late
María del Rosario Prieto, their coauthor, and active promoter of
environmental history studies in South America.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phys.org/news/2020-07-tree-unprecedented-extreme-weather-south.html">https://phys.org/news/2020-07-tree-unprecedented-extreme-weather-south.html</a><br>
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[Bookmark and check this regularly for scholarly reports]<br>
<b>Skeptical Science New Research for Week #27, 2020</b><br>
Posted on 8 July 2020 by doug_bostrom<br>
79 Articles<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://skepticalscience.com/new_research_27_2020.html">https://skepticalscience.com/new_research_27_2020.html</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 -
July 13, 2003 </b></font><br>
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Former EPA Climate Policy Adviser Jeremy Symons recounts the George
W. Bush Administration's assault on climate science in a Washington
Post op-ed.
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Symons.pdf?language=printer">http://stephenschneider.stanford.edu/Publications/PDF_Papers/Symons.pdf?language=printer</a><br>
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