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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>December 16, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[Experienced choice]<br>
<b>Biden to Name Gina McCarthy, Former E.P.A. Chief, as White House
Climate Coordinator</b><br>
Ms. McCarthy will serve as a senior adviser to President-elect
Joseph R. Biden Jr., coordinating climate change policy throughout
the government.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/gina-mccarthy-biden-climate.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/climate/gina-mccarthy-biden-climate.html</a><br>
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[NPR]<br>
<b>U.N. Report: In The Age Of Humans, 'The Dominant Risk To Our
Survival Is Ourselves'</b><br>
December 15, 2020<br>
"Warning lights — for our societies and the planet — are flashing
red." That's according to a new report from the United Nations
Development Programme.<br>
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The report notes that COVID-19 has thrived "in the cracks in
societies, exploiting and exacerbating myriad inequalities in human
development."<br>
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While the pandemic has dominated much of the world's attention in
2020, the report notes that existing crises continue: a historically
intense Atlantic hurricane season, raging wildfires on different
continents, animal species dying off in what some experts believe is
a mass species extinction event....<br>
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"We are not the last generation of the Anthropocene; we are the
first to recognize it," he writes. "We are the explorers, the
innovators who get to decide what this — the first generation of the
Anthropocene — will be remembered for."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946765066/un-report-in-the-age-of-humans-the-dominant-risk-to-our-survival-is-ourselves">https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/946765066/un-report-in-the-age-of-humans-the-dominant-risk-to-our-survival-is-ourselves</a><br>
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[source: UN DP report]<br>
<b>The Next Frontier</b><br>
<b>Human development and the Anthropocene</b><br>
Overview
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr_2020_overview_english.pdf">http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr_2020_overview_english.pdf</a><br>
Full Report <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2020.pdf">http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2020.pdf</a>
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[follow the money in corporate governance]<br>
<b>Climate crisis: FTSE giants fail to disclose their carbon
footprint</b><br>
BP, Glencore, Rolls-Royce, Just Eat and B&M among last eight
firms yet to provide investors with information<br>
BP, Glencore and Rolls-Royce are among eight FTSE 100 companies who
have refused to comply with investor demands to disclose their
carbon dioxide emissions, as the UK government prepares to compel
firms to report their climate impact.<br>
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Companies are coming under increasing pressure from shareholders,
campaigners and governments to report climate data, and show how
they intend to reduce emissions to help tackle the climate crisis.<br>
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Ninety-two of the UK’s blue-chip companies have so far provided data
to CDP, the non-governmental group that requests data on behalf of
investors. The other laggards who have not reported data included
Melrose, the engineering company, and B&M, the fast-growing
discount retailer...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/13/climate-crisis-ftse-giants-fail-to-disclose-their-carbon-footprint">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/dec/13/climate-crisis-ftse-giants-fail-to-disclose-their-carbon-footprint</a><br>
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[article in Barons]<br>
<b>GE Released a Manifesto for Climate Change. It Involves Hydrogen.</b><br>
By Al Root<br>
Dec. 15, 2020<br>
General Electric released a kind of manifesto for climate change
Tuesday. It lays out a plan to help the world dramatically cut its
carbon emissions while meeting its growing demand for power.
Renewable technology plays a big role, but so does natural gas and
eventually even hydrogen gas.<br>
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Manifesto is a charged word. And there are some big ideas in General
Electric’s (ticker: GE) white paper even though the title is
somewhat benign: “Renewables and Gas Power Can Rapidly Change the
Trajectory on Climate Change.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/ge-climate-plan-focuses-on-renewables-gas-power-51608034500">https://www.barrons.com/articles/ge-climate-plan-focuses-on-renewables-gas-power-51608034500</a><br>
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[Future]<br>
<b>6 Arizona counties may be uninhabitable in next 30 years due to
climate change, study shows</b><br>
"All of the problems that we're confronting today are also
environmental problems," Prof. Kathy Jacobs, Director of the Center
for Climate Adaptation Science, said.<br>
ARIZONA, USA — Six of Arizona's counties are at risk of being
uninhabitable in the near future due to climate change, a ProPublica
and Rhodium Group study found.<br>
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The study predicted which counties in the U.S. would face climate
change issues to the point of having an uninhabitable climate for
humans in the next 20 to 40 years by combining multiple metrics. <br>
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The Arizona counties listed, which included Pinal, Graham, Cochise,
Mohave, Yuma and Maricopa, were among the top 100 most at-risk
counties in the United States. For context, there are 3,700 counties
in the nation. <br>
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The study's findings listed Pinal County in Arizona as the second
most at-risk county in the United States of being uninhabitable.<br>
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Why are Arizona counties so at risk?<br>
Arizona faces specific challenges in the near future when it comes
to climate change, according to the study.<br>
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The study created multiple climate maps showing the changes in
rising temperatures, rainfall, wildfire frequency, humidity, sea
level rises, agriculture yields and economic damages in the United
States' counties.<br>
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Pinal County faces major challenges when it comes to heat, farm crop
yields, wildfires and economic damages due to climate change, which
gave it a No. 2 spot on the list. ..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.12news.com/article/weather/heat/six-arizona-counties-at-high-risk-of-being-uninhabitable-by-2040-due-to-climate-change-rhodium-group-study-shows-pinal-graham-cochise-maricopa-yuma/75-24d65d75-00fc-4007-ae4c-2aa4e15c1550">https://www.12news.com/article/weather/heat/six-arizona-counties-at-high-risk-of-being-uninhabitable-by-2040-due-to-climate-change-rhodium-group-study-shows-pinal-graham-cochise-maricopa-yuma/75-24d65d75-00fc-4007-ae4c-2aa4e15c1550</a><br>
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<p>[Mental health for youth and parents - some information, not
advice]<br>
<b>Eco distress: for young people</b><br>
This webpage is aimed at young people and is about eco distress –
it explains how understanding the distress and having some tools
to cope with it can help people feel better and take action at the
same time.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/parents-and-young-people/young-people/eco-distress---for-young-people">https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/parents-and-young-people/young-people/eco-distress---for-young-people</a><br>
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<b>Eco distress: for parents and carers </b>[caregivers]<br>
This webpage is for parents and carers, as well as teachers and
others who support children and young people, to help you
understand what eco distress is, how to recognise if your child is
experiencing eco distress, and provide some suggestions to help
them cope with their feelings. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/parents-and-young-people/information-for-parents-and-carers/eco-distress---for-parents-and-carers">https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mental-health/parents-and-young-people/information-for-parents-and-carers/eco-distress---for-parents-and-carers</a><br>
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[come again?]<br>
<b>New climate models suggest faster melting of the Greenland Ice
Sheet</b><br>
15 December 2020<br>
Modelling the Greenland ice sheet<br>
To capture the full range of possibilities for the Greenland ice
sheet over the coming century, the study explores a range of warming
scenarios known as representative concentration pathways (RCPs).<br>
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Each RCP scenario details a different climate “forcing” – the extra
amount of energy in the Earth’s system as a result of human
activity. A higher forcing results in a greater rise in global
temperature.<br>
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The study focuses on three of these scenarios: RCP8.5, RCP4.5 and
RCP2.6. They describe, respectively, a baseline scenario of very
high emissions, an intermediate scenario that broadly matches the
trajectory the world is likely to follow in the coming decades, and
a stringent mitigation scenario that limits warming to 2C.<br>
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The researchers use two sets of climate models from the Coupled
Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), a global modelling effort.
These are taken from the latest CMIP6 suite of models and the older
CMIP5 suite.<br>
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One key difference in CMIP6 is that it uses five “shared
socioeconomic pathways” (SSPs), which are socioeconomic narratives
that go alongside the RCPs...<br>
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Furthermore, the melt season – the days in which melting is greater
than accumulation and surface mass balance is decreasing – starts
seven days earlier and extends 15 days longer in CMIP6 than in
CMIP5, the paper says.<br>
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Most of this change is due to a greater melting intensity, the
authors note, with little difference in accumulation noticed between
CMIP5 and CMIP6. This suggests that the increased temperatures and
Arctic amplification are the main factors driving the increased
melting from the Greenland ice sheet, they conclude...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-climate-models-suggest-faster-melting-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet">https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-climate-models-suggest-faster-melting-of-the-greenland-ice-sheet</a><br>
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[source matter]<br>
<b>Greater Greenland Ice Sheet contribution to global sea level rise
in CMIP6</b><br>
Stefan Hofer, Charlotte Lang, Charles Amory, Christoph Kittel,
Alison Delhasse, Andrew Tedstone & Xavier Fettweis <br>
Nature Communications volume 11, Article number: 6289 <br>
Abstract<br>
Future climate projections show a marked increase in Greenland Ice
Sheet (GrIS) runoff during the 21st century, a direct consequence of
the Polar Amplification signal. Regional climate models (RCMs) are a
widely used tool to downscale ensembles of projections from global
climate models (GCMs) to assess the impact of global warming on GrIS
melt and sea level rise contribution. Initial results of the CMIP6
GCM model intercomparison project have revealed a greater 21st
century temperature rise than in CMIP5 models. However, so far very
little is known about the subsequent impacts on the future GrIS
surface melt and therefore sea level rise contribution. Here, we
show that the total GrIS sea level rise contribution from surface
mass loss in our high-resolution (15 km) regional climate
projections is 17.8 ± 7.8 cm in SSP585, 7.9 cm more than in our
RCP8.5 simulations using CMIP5 input. We identify a +1.3 °C greater
Arctic Amplification and associated cloud and sea ice feedbacks in
the CMIP6 SSP585 scenario as the main drivers. Additionally, an
assessment of the GrIS sea level contribution across all emission
scenarios highlights, that the GrIS mass loss in CMIP6 is equivalent
to a CMIP5 scenario with twice the global radiative forcing.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20011-8">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20011-8</a><br>
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[NYT makes an grand conjecture - text and audio]<br>
<b>HOW RUSSIA WINS THE CLIMATE CRISIS</b><br>
Climate change and its enormous human migrations will transform
agriculture and remake the world order — and no country stands to
gain more than Russia.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russia-climate-migration-crisis.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russia-climate-migration-crisis.html</a><br>
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[Heated.World in Georgia politics]<br>
<b>Six corporations that talk green and spend dirty</b><br>
They just called on Congress to pass climate action. They're also
donating to keep the Senate red...<br>
Companies that signed C2ES climate letter are backing Republicans in
Georgia Senate run-off...<br>
- Microsoft defends its $5,000 campaign contribution to Perdue as
“engagement”...<br>
- Bank of America's corporate PAC donated $5,000 to Perdue...<br>
- Goldman Sachs' corporate PAC donated $5,000 to support Perdue...<br>
- Ford's corporate PAC donated $5,000 to Loeffler. On November 17,
it donated $1,000 to Perdue...<br>
- Dominion Energy's corporate PAC donated $5,000 to Perdue...<br>
- On November 16, General Motors' corporate PAC also donated $5,000
to Perdue...<br>
Perdue and Loeffler have no record of supporting bipartisan action<br>
The climate-friendly corporations donating to Perdue and Loeffler
aren’t just supporting a Republican-led Senate. They’re supporting
two candidates with no record of supporting the type bipartisan
climate policy they claim is an urgent priority. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://heated.world/p/six-corporations-that-talk-green">https://heated.world/p/six-corporations-that-talk-green</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 -
December 16, 2008 </b></font><br>
On MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show," Francesca Grifo of the Union of
Concerned Scientists discusses the Bush Administration's
environmental track record.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/EaIe9c_UxU4">http://youtu.be/EaIe9c_UxU4</a> <br>
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