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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>April 20, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Political sea change in labor]<br>
<b>Miners’ union backs shift from coal in exchange for jobs<br>
</b>By MATTHEW DALY <br>
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest coal miners’ union said
Monday it would accept President Joe Biden’s plan to move away from
coal and other fossil fuels in exchange for a “true energy
transition” that includes thousands of jobs in renewable energy and
spending on technology to make coal cleaner.<br>
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Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said
ensuring jobs for displaced miners — including 7,000 coal workers
who lost their jobs last year — is crucial to any infrastructure
bill taken up by Congress...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-cecil-roberts-climate-change-1ee4ba04f4f49246b19d1e025bec3586">https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-cecil-roberts-climate-change-1ee4ba04f4f49246b19d1e025bec3586</a>
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[Bloomberg graphic display of future - worth reading]<br>
<b>Whatever Climate Change Does to the World, Cities Will Be Hit
Hardest</b><br>
By Laura Millan Lombraña and Sam Dodge<br>
April 18, 2021<br>
More than half of humanity is crowded together in cities. That’s
about 4 billion people living on top of one another, working,
commuting, polluting, and figuring out how to survive. And that
proportion will only rise: By the end of the century, about 85% of
the world’s population will be urban, according to the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development.<br>
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Cities are also incredibly vulnerable to climate change. High
temperatures, sea level rise, and extreme weather are all felt more
acutely in urban areas. Built on concrete, they absorb solar
radiation but not water, making the effects of both heat waves and
heavy rains more severe.<br>
If humans keep emitting planet-warming greenhouse gases at our
current pace, Earth will warm by at least 3C and as much as 4C by
the end of the century compared with preindustrial temperatures,
causing much of the planet to become unlivable. Radical emissions
cuts could change that forecast if they’re made within the next few
decades. Lockdowns during the coronavirus led to a record 7.5% drop
in emissions in 2020, but the reduction was short-lived. The latest
data from the International Energy Agency shows that global
emissions were 2% higher in December than at the same point in
2019...<br>
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No matter how much the world warms, cities will have it worse, with
average summer temperatures rising between 1.9C and 4.4C above
current levels, depending on how the future plays out, according to
a research team led by Lei Zhao at the University of Illinois. That
increase will lead to more deaths in places with scarce resources to
adapt and mitigate the effects of a changing climate.<br>
By 2100, cities will be significantly hotter than surrounding
regions<br>
Average summer temperature change under RCP 4.5<br>
Difference between projected urban warming and background regional
warming<br>
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Note: Urban temperatures are currently between 1 and 2 degrees
Celsius warmer than surrounding areas due to the urban heat island
effect, according to Zhao’s research...<br>
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Sea level rise will wipe out most of Tianjin’s current surface area
if no adaptation measures are taken. Meanwhile, average temperatures
in the city are expected to increase between 2.5C and 5C above
current levels.<br>
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As the world warms, the effects of climate change will become more
unpredictable, with storms, cold spells, and heat waves often
matching or even surpassing scientists’ worst-case scenarios. Cities
and their dwellers will need to spend trillions to mitigate damages,
adapt, and survive in a planet that’s growing more hostile by the
minute.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-cities-climate-victims/">https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2021-cities-climate-victims/</a><br>
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[video Brown University - video Watson Institute - Islam is
supportive of anthropogenic climate change]<br>
<b>Wael Al-Delaimy ─ Climate Change and Global Warming Related to
the Middle East</b><br>
Apr 19, 2021<br>
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs<br>
Wael Al-Delaimy is Professor of Public Health and Associate Director
of the Institute for Public Health at the University of California
San Diego and the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Society
for Advancement of Science and Technology in the Arab World. He is
also the current Chair of the Eastern Mediterranean Chapter of the
International Society for Environmental Epidemiology. A native of
Iraq where he finished his medical degree and a graduate diploma in
community medicine, he obtained his PhD in Epidemiology from New
Zealand, finished post-doc training at Harvard School of Public
Health, was a scientist with the International Agency for Research
on Cancer, before becoming a faculty at the University of California
San Diego. His recent research focus has been on climate change
health impacts, and global mental health. His book that he edited
with colleagues, titled Health of People, Health of Planet and Our
Responsibility was published May 2020 by Springer Nature and reached
a record milestone of more than 230,000 downloads.<br>
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His talk will focus on climate change health impacts in the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) Region, which was the title of a
chapter in the above book. The climate change impacts are going to
be felt in the MENA region most severely and most early compared to
other regions. Yet there is limited data, research, policies, and
preparation by the population of the region and their governments.
The talk will highlight the risks and the need for regional
cooperation to develop adaptation and mitigation initiatives to
lessen the impact on an already volatile region in the middle of
ongoing conflicts.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dVtTOJBMdw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dVtTOJBMdw</a>
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[622 pages, the electronic version is free]<br>
<b>Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility:
Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health</b><br>
by Wael Al-Delaimy, Veerabhadran Ramanathan, et al. | May 13, 2020<br>
This open access book not only describes the challenges of climate
disruption, but also presents solutions. The challenges described
include air pollution, climate change, extreme weather, and related
health impacts that range from heat stress, vector-borne diseases,
food and water insecurity and chronic diseases to malnutrition and
mental well-being.The influence of humans on climate change has been
established through extensive published evidence and reports.
However, the connections between climate change, the health of the
planet and the impact on human health have not received the same
level of attention. Therefore, the global focus on the public health
impacts of climate change is a relatively recent area of interest.
This focus is timely since scientists have concluded that changes in
climate have led to new weather extremes such as floods, storms,
heat waves, droughts and fires, in turn leading to more than 600,000
deaths and the displacement of nearly 4 billion people in the last
20 years. Previous work on the health impacts of climate change was
limited mostly to epidemiologic approaches and outcomes and focused
less on multidisciplinary, multi-faceted collaborations between
physical scientists, public health researchers and policy makers.
Further, there was little attention paid to faith-based and ethical
approaches to the problem. The solutions and actions we explore in
this book engage diverse sectors of civil society, faith leadership,
and political leadership, all oriented by ethics, advocacy, and
policy with a special focus on poor and vulnerable populations. The
book highlights areas we think will resonate broadly with the
public, faith leaders, researchers and students across disciplines
including the humanities, and policy makers.<br>
Review<br>
“The book is written for scientists and policy developers. It will
probably be most useful to scientists, engineers, and technicians in
government bureaus and departments seeking facts and solutions for
environmental problems. … This work is unique in bringing together
expert scientists and leading political and religious figures to
work on needs and solutions in environmental policy.” (Eugene N.
Anderson, Doody’s Book Reviews, October 9, 2020)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Health-People-Planet-Our-Responsibility-ebook/dp/B088LMSRQH/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Health-People-Planet-Our-Responsibility-ebook/dp/B088LMSRQH/ref=sr_1_1</a><br>
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[in the New Yorker]<br>
<b>Greta Thunberg’s Happy Crusade</b><br>
From a Stockholm safe house, the teen-age activist discusses her
disappointment in Biden and Merkel, her new documentary, and
pranking her parents.<br>
By Lizzie Widdicombe - April 8, 2021<br>
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Greta Thunberg, the eighteen-year-old Swedish climate activist,
hasn’t decided exactly what she’ll be doing on Earth Day (April
22nd) this year. But she’s sure she will have some critical things
to say about the virtual climate summit that begins that day, to
which President Biden has invited forty world leaders. Even though
Biden has reversed the course set by his predecessor, who liked to
call climate change “a very expensive hoax,” Thunberg knows she will
be disappointed. “The things that they are going to present will not
be nearly enough for what science is saying will be in line with the
Paris Agreement,” she said. “So I’ll just be calling that out, I
guess.”...<br>
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Later this month, a three-part BBC documentary about Thunberg will
première on PBS. The film, “A Year to Change the World,” follows her
as she takes a year off from school to visit sites that show the
climate crisis in all its complexity—melting glaciers in the
Canadian Rockies, a California town torched by wildfires, a Polish
coal mine. The film provides a gentle portrait of Thunberg growing
up and growing into her power. She attends the World Economic Forum,
in Davos, where she’s cast as a media foil to Donald Trump, an
experience that she said she found surreal. “Even though I was in
the very middle of it, I was still just watching it from a
distance,” she recalled. She meets with Angela Merkel, the German
Chancellor, to discuss the country’s Paris Agreement progress, and
emerges unimpressed. (“Is this in line with what you have promised?”
Thunberg asks in the film. “The fact is, no.”)...<br>
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Thunberg is on the autism spectrum, and the film illustrates how the
condition lends a unique moral clarity to her activism. “I don’t
follow social codes,” she said. “Everyone else seems to be playing a
role, just going on like before. And I, who am autistic, I don’t
play this social game.” She eschews empty optimism. Her over-all
reaction to the coronavirus pandemic is to compare it with her
cause: “If we humans would actually start treating the climate
crisis like a crisis, we could really change things.”<br>
Her uncompromising words can give the wrong impression. “People seem
to think that I am depressed, or angry, or worried, but that’s not
true,” she said. Having a cause makes her happy. “It was like I got
meaning in my life.”...<br>
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“People say autistic people can’t understand irony,” she went on.
She disputes this energetically. “I am irony, almost,” she said. “I
think the world, as it is, is quite funny.” She finds the climate
crisis darkly comic, especially the response in rich countries—the
posturing, the self-justification, the bargaining, the denial. “If
you are doing everything you possibly can, and you can’t do anything
more, then you might as well just sit back and laugh at it,”
Thunberg said. “Because otherwise you will get depressed.” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/19/greta-thunbergs-happy-crusade">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/19/greta-thunbergs-happy-crusade</a><br>
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[ice update- one minute video] <br>
<b>An update on the Greenland Ice Shelf</b><br>
Apr 18, 2021<br>
60 Minutes<br>
Back in 2006, Scott Pelley travelled north to a fjord in Greenland
to witness “Global Warning” – the melting arctic.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y-G0biDv74">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y-G0biDv74</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 -
April 20, 2002 </b></font><br>
The Guardian reports:<br>
<blockquote>"The head of the international scientific panel on
climate change, which has called for urgent action to curb global
warming, was deposed yesterday after a campaign by the Bush
administration, Exxon-Mobil and other energy companies to get him
replaced.<br>
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"At a plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) in Geneva, Robert Watson, a British-born US
atmospheric scientist who has been its chairman since 1996, was
replaced by an Indian railway engineer and environmentalist, R K
Pachauri.<br>
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"Dr Pachauri received 76 votes to Dr. Watson's 49 after a
behind-the-scenes diplomatic campaign by the US to persuade
developing countries to vote against Dr Watson, according to
diplomats. The British delegation argued for Dr Watson and Dr
Pachauri to share the chairmanship.<br>
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"The US campaign came to light after the disclosure of a
confidential memorandum from the world's biggest oil company,
Exxon-Mobil, to the White House, proposing a strategy for his
removal."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/20/internationaleducationnews.climatechange">http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/20/internationaleducationnews.climatechange</a><br>
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