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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>January 21, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[President Joe]<br>
<b>President Joe Biden rejoins the Paris climate accord in first
move to tackle global warming</b><br>
JAN 20 2021<br>
Emma Newburger<br>
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-- President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order
rejoining the U.S. into the Paris climate accord, his first major
action to tackle global warming.<br>
-- Nearly every country in the world is part of the Paris Agreement,
a landmark nonbinding accord among nations to reduce their carbon
emissions.<br>
-- Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2017.<br>
-- Biden vows to move quickly on climate change action, and his
inclusion of scientists throughout the government marks the
beginning of a major policy reversal after four years of the Trump
administration’s environmental rollbacks.<br>
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“Rejoining is just table stakes,” said John Morton, who was
President Barack Obama’s energy and climate director at the National
Security Council. “The hard work of putting the country on a course
to becoming net zero emissions by mid-century begins now.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/biden-inauguration-us-rejoins-paris-climate-accord.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/biden-inauguration-us-rejoins-paris-climate-accord.html</a><br>
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[World Weather Attribution]<br>
<b>Siberian heatwave of 2020 almost impossible without climate
change</b><br>
In the first six months of 2020, Siberia experienced a period of
unusually high temperatures, including a record-breaking 38 degrees
C in the town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June, causing wide-scale impacts
including wildfires, loss of permafrost, and an invasion of pests.<br>
World Weather Attribution<br>
Since 2015 the World Weather Attribution (WWA) initiative has been
conducting real-time attribution analysis of extreme weather events
as they happen around the world. This provides the public,
scientists and decision-makers with the means to make clear
connections between greenhouse gas emissions and impactful extreme
weather events, such as storms, floods, heatwaves and droughts.<br>
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We research and develop scientific tools and methodologies to
perform timely and robust assessments of whether and to what extent
human-induced climate change played a role in the magnitude and
frequency of extreme weather events.<br>
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We’ve made real and significant advances in isolating the climate
signal in the costly impacts of such events, in both developed and
developing countries. Our partners are at the forefront of this
emerging scientific field<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/about/">https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/about/</a><br>
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[NYmag]<br>
David Wallace-Wells<br>
<b>Climate change is much bigger than the U.S., and addressing it
much more complicated than electing a new president. </b><br>
But on the eve of the inauguration, a thread to show just what a
different world the new president is inheriting. (1/x)<br>
After Climate Alarmism<br>
The war on denial has been won. And that’s not the only good news.<br>
@dwallacewells<br>
·<br>
"The price of solar energy has fallen ninefold over the past decade,
as has the price of lithium batteries, critical to the growth of
electric cars."<br>
·<br>
"The costs of utility-scale batteries, which could solve the
“intermittency” (i.e., cloudy day) problem of renewables and help
power whole cities in relatively short order, have fallen 70 percent
since just 2015."<br>
·<br>
"Wind power is 40 percent cheaper than it was a decade ago, with
offshore wind experiencing an even steeper decline."<br>
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"Overall, renewable energy is less expensive than dirty energy
almost everywhere on the planet, and in many places it is simply
cheaper to build new renewable capacity than to continue running the
old fossil-fuel infrastructure."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1351627130103328768">https://twitter.com/dwallacewells/status/1351627130103328768</a>
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[action]<br>
<b>Earth is hotter than ever — So what happens next?</b><br>
By Chelsea Gohd - 1-19-2021<br>
"These are really big numbers for the Earth."<br>
<br>
This week, NASA revealed that 2020 tied with 2016 as the hottest
year on record. <br>
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The announcement, part of an annual release of global temperature
data by NASA and NOAA (the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration), revealed that our planet just keeps getting hotter.
This data is an important part of our growing understanding of
climate change. <br>
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But what do these new findings mean for the future of our planet and
life on Earth? <br>
<br>
"We're already seeing impacts," Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist
and director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New
York City, told Space.com in an exclusive interview. Schmidt, who
led the new study, named increasing numbers of heatwaves, increasing
wildfires across the globe, drought, sea level changes in the
Arctic, changes in rainfall and melting ice sheets in Greenland as
just a few of the many consequences of climate change that we're
already seeing. <br>
<br>
According to an analysis from NASA, 2020 was the hottest year on
record.<br>
<br>
According to an analysis from NASA, 2020 tied 2016 for the hottest
year on record. (Image credit: NASA/Scientific Visualization
Studio)<br>
"We've warmed more than 2degrees Fahrenheit since the late 19th
century, those trends are continuing and may even be accelerating,"
Schmidt added. "And that's driven by our emissions of carbon dioxide
and methane and other greenhouse gases."<br>
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Now, when talking about rising temperatures many look to the Paris
Agreement, an international treaty made within the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change that was signed in 2016. The
agreement's goal is to limit global warming to, hopefully, 1.5
degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) when compared to levels
before the industrial revolution. <br>
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"Nothing particularly terrible happens exactly at 1.5 degrees,"
Schmidt said. However, "what we're going to see is [a] continuing
amount of damages and impacts increasing as the global mean
temperature increases."<br>
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For video -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.space.com/2020-global-temperature-nasa-climate-change-interview?jwsource=cl">https://www.space.com/2020-global-temperature-nasa-climate-change-interview?jwsource=cl</a><br>
And according to Schmidt, we're not that far off from missing the
goal of the Paris Agreement. In fact, "we will probably get our
first year above 1.5 [degrees C] by the end of this decade, by 2030
or so. And then, to be kind of like permanently above that number,
that will take maybe another 10 years," he said. <br>
<br>
This number might seem meaningless or not all that important, 1.5
degrees doesn't seem like that much of a change without context. <br>
<br>
But, as Schmidt pointed out, 1.5 degrees is a major deal. <br>
<br>
"For folks who say, 'Oh, well, you know, these aren't big numbers,'
these are really big numbers for the Earth," he said. "When you put
it on the scale of previous changes on the Earth, this is massive."<br>
<br>
"A really good way of conceptualizing it," Schmidt added, "is to
remember that the last ice age … was only about 5degrees Celsius,
[or] 8 and 9 degrees Fahrenheit, colder than the pre-industrial
[levels]. And so the two degrees Fahrenheit that we've warmed since
the 19th century, that's like a quarter of an ice age, right, but in
the other direction.<br>
<br>
"The fact that we're already seeing impacts, tells us that, if it
gets much worse, the impacts are going to be very, very severe."<br>
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Email Chelsea Gohd at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cgohd@space.com">cgohd@space.com</a> or follow her on Twitter
@chelsea_gohd. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.space.com/2020-global-temperature-nasa-climate-change-interview">https://www.space.com/2020-global-temperature-nasa-climate-change-interview</a><br>
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[The Barents Observer reports]<br>
<b>Disney to shoot climate change drama at Svalbard</b><br>
Few places see a more dramatic impact of climate changes than
Svalbard, where sea ice vanishes, glaciers shrink, and permafrost
thaws.<br>
ByThomas Nilsen<br>
January 18, 2021<br>
When daylight is back in the high Arctic, a crew filming for
Disneynature head to Svalbard to document climate changes.<br>
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Local newspaper Svalbardposten reports about the film crew receiving
permits from the Governor of Svalbard to land at three glaciers with
personnel. The filming is also reported by Forbes.<br>
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It is PolarX logistics, specialized Film and TV production services,
that will assist Disneynature in the filming set to take place from
March to May this year.<br>
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The company says to Svalbardposten the project has “massive
potential” to raise awareness about climate changes to a worldwide
audience.<br>
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As previously reported by the Barents Observer, Svalbard has since
1971 experienced a winter warming of 7ºC. And worse could it be. In
Longyearbyen, the main Norwegian settlement on the archipelago,
people see their houses sagging as the ground underneath is thawing.<br>
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Precipitation for the years to come is more rain instead of snow.
This will lead to increased combined snowmelt-, glacier melt- and
rain-floods. Isfjorden (The Ice fjord) next to Longyearbyen no
longer freezes in winter, something that would have been unthinkable
only a few decades ago.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/01/disney-shoot-climate-change-drama-svalbard">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/01/disney-shoot-climate-change-drama-svalbard</a><br>
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[Labor joins climate activists - the New Yorker]<br>
<b>Joe Biden’s Cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline Is a Landmark
in the Climate Fight</b><br>
By Bill McKibben<br>
January 21, 2021<br>
In his first hours in office, Joe Biden has settled—almost
certainly, once and for all—one of the greatest environmental
battles this country has seen. He has cancelled the permit allowing
the Keystone XL pipeline to cross the border from Canada into the
United States, and the story behind that victory illustrates a lot
about where we stand in the push for a fair and working planet...<br>
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As the legislative director of the United Auto Workers explained to
Congress, “The continuing recovery of the automobile industry in the
United States has as its foundation the regulatory certainty of
these tailpipe-emission standards, which is driving innovation in
every company and in every vehicle segment.” A few days before
Biden’s Inauguration, the team sat down with labor leaders for a
formal “listening session.” The official readout was anodyne, but
the effort itself was promising—if Biden sticks to his stance that
all policy is climate policy, then much can be done. Even Joe
Manchin, the conservative Democrat from West Virginia, who now may
be the most powerful man in the Senate, given its fifty-fifty split,
can perhaps be enticed with a series of proposals to cushion the
irrevocable demise of the coal industry. Bernie Sanders now runs the
Senate Budget Committee, which will have to look at any of these
transition projects, and in the Senate he’s been both organized
labor’s biggest booster and the most outspoken opponent of new
fossil-fuel infrastructure.<br>
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Biden’s action on Keystone XL couldn’t be more welcome, but it’s
cold comfort to the Native Americans camped out along the upper
Mississippi trying to block Line 3. That battle looks hard right
now, especially because the coronavirus pandemic is preventing
people from joining them in large numbers. But the Keystone battle
looked impossible at the start. When enough people demand action,
vested interest and political convenience have to accommodate them.
That’s how change works.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/joe-bidens-cancellation-of-the-keystone-pipeline-is-a-landmark-in-the-climate-fight">https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/joe-bidens-cancellation-of-the-keystone-pipeline-is-a-landmark-in-the-climate-fight</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 -
January 21, 2009 </b></font><br>
<p>January 21, 2009: Peter Sinclair's "Climate Denial Crock of the
Week" video series debuts.<br>
Climate Denial Crock of the Week- "It's cold. So there's no
Climate Change"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/l0JsdSDa_bM">http://youtu.be/l0JsdSDa_bM</a><br>
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