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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>June 21, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[The elephant gains attention]<br>
<b>Top financial regulators and Biden to focus on climate change at
White House meeting – live</b><br>
Biden to host Janet Yellen, FDIC chair Jelena McWilliams and others<br>
‘Financial risk of climate change’ to be discussed in meeting<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jun/21/joe-biden-climate-change-coronavirus-covid-us-politics-live">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2021/jun/21/joe-biden-climate-change-coronavirus-covid-us-politics-live</a><br>
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[Newsweek]<br>
<b>Bernie Sanders Knocks Lack of Climate Change Provisions in
Bipartisan Infrastructure Proposal</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-knocks-lack-climate-change-provisions-bipartisan-infrastructure-proposal-1602349">https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-knocks-lack-climate-change-provisions-bipartisan-infrastructure-proposal-1602349</a><br>
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[the Guardian]<br>
<b>UN blasts world leaders for failing to seal £72bn-a-year deal on
climate</b><br>
Financial aid ‘critical’ to help developing countries limit fossil
fuels – and make Cop26 a success, says UN<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/un-blasts-world-leaders-for-failing-to-seal-72bn-a-year-deal-on-climate">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jun/20/un-blasts-world-leaders-for-failing-to-seal-72bn-a-year-deal-on-climate</a><br>
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[opinion]<br>
<b>Climate change: what G7 leaders could have said – but didn’t</b><br>
June 15, 2021..<br>
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But more interesting than these pledges and non-pledges were the
things that weren’t mentioned at all. One of the greatest
unmentionables at climate summit after climate summit is just how
badly we keep track of contributions to global warming.<br>
<br>
It’s the elephant in the room at any gathering where the leaders of
rich countries discuss climate change: historical responsibility.
Everyone knows that G7 nations have contributed disproportionately
to the global warming that has already happened. But exactly how
much more?...<br>
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If you search online for which country has caused most global
warming, you find a list of how much countries emit each year. Delve
deeper, and the next thing you find is how much they have reduced
their emissions since 1990. This flatters mature economies, whose
emissions are declining. But for carbon dioxide – the effects of
which last almost indefinitely (and to an only slightly lesser
degree, nitrous oxide, a byproduct of fertiliser production and use)
– it’s accumulated emissions over time that determine a country’s
contribution to global warming, not emissions in any given year...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/406449/original/file-20210615-3862-hjwvvv.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=532&fit=crop&dpr=2">https://images.theconversation.com/files/406449/original/file-20210615-3862-hjwvvv.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=532&fit=crop&dpr=2</a><br>
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<b>Landing the plane with one eye shut</b><br>
In the Paris Agreement, the world set itself a very ambitious goal.
The headline goal is not about emissions, but to limit the rise in
global average temperature to “well below 2°C”, pursuing efforts to
limit warming to 1.5°C if possible.<br>
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That’s a good thing. By and large, the effects of climate change
depend on how much we warm the planet overall, not warming by any
given date, or the rate of emissions and warming at any given time,
and certainly not planetary energy imbalance summed over an
arbitrary time horizon. But right now, it is impossible to take
stock of progress towards this temperature goal because countries,
in their plans for 2030 and beyond, only report aggregate emissions
using this rather odd accounting system that doesn’t reflect the
effect of these emissions on global temperature.<br>
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This isn’t just about outing the guilty rich. Acknowledging what is
causing warming should focus minds on what it will take to stop it.
And if we add up the G7’s planned contributions to future warming –
never mind the contributions from China, India and the rest – it
will soon become clear that we don’t just need to stop causing
global warming as soon as possible, but we also need to be able to
reverse it by taking carbon dioxide back out of the atmosphere and
storing it, safely and permanently, somewhere else. Which is another
topic they prefer to avoid at climate summits.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/climate-change-what-g7-leaders-could-have-said-but-didnt-162703">https://theconversation.com/climate-change-what-g7-leaders-could-have-said-but-didnt-162703</a>
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[a superb summary and overview]<br>
<b>Introduction to Ecological Economics with Professor Julia
Steinberger</b><br>
May 10, 2021<br>
Rethinking Economics<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WHtvPUan9w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WHtvPUan9w</a><br>
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[great video summary from economist Dr, Dan O'Neill]<br>
<b>What Is Ecological Economics?</b><br>
May 25, 2021<br>
Dan O'Neill<br>
What is ecological economics, and how does it differ from mainstream
(or neoclassical) economics? Ecological economics began in part as
an attempt to bring together ecology and economics – to bridge the
gap between a natural and social science. Today it a
transdisciplinary field that covers topics from degrowth to the
Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. In this short lecture,
I discuss the history, fundamental vision, and modern focus of
ecological economics.<br>
<b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUF7s4Bp_ok">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUF7s4Bp_ok</a></b><br>
more at :
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwrP2XlhjT1iUESMGHgLxQ/videos">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwrP2XlhjT1iUESMGHgLxQ/videos</a><br>
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[Big stock market power moves]<br>
<b>Why has Andy Karsner frightened the mighty ExxonMobil?</b><br>
The oil giant spent millions of dollars to keep Karsner, a
Republican who favors renewable energy, off the company’s board of
directors. It failed.<br>
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The installation of Karsner as one of ExxonMobil’s 12 board members
shows how much has changed among Republicans involved in the energy
business, a group that is looking for ways to deal with climate
change, not dally over whether it really exists. And the proxy fight
shows how shareholders and investors no longer judge ExxonMobil by
the size of its oil and gas reserves, but rather by looking at the
company’s plans for decarbonizing its operations and thinking about
how to make a transition to a very different kind of enterprise.<br>
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That demands a very different kind of director or employee...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/19/exxon-board-karsner-engine1/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/06/19/exxon-board-karsner-engine1/</a><br>
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[USA Today text and video]<br>
<b>West's drought has no end in sight: 'If we do nothing, it’s going
to be really bad'</b><br>
- -About 40% of the country is currently experiencing drought
conditions, according to U.S. Drought Monitor.<br>
- - Doing nothing to reduce water usage could lead to an
unimaginable future for the West: “If we do nothing, it’s going to
be really bad.”<br>
- -Agriculture, which uses about 90% of ground and surface water in
many western states, is likely to be the first to be impacted by
shortages.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/19/us-drought-water-restrictions-west-california-utah-nevada/7719608002/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/19/us-drought-water-restrictions-west-california-utah-nevada/7719608002/</a><br>
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[CNN say$ watch out for next year]<br>
<b>The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/19/politics/what-matters-climate-change-western-drought/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/19/politics/what-matters-climate-change-western-drought/index.html</a><br>
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[Moscow Times]<br>
<b>Russian Climate Strike Protester Announces Parliamentary Run</b><br>
Russian youth climate protester Arshak Makichyan will run for a seat
in the lower-house State Duma in this September’s high-stakes
parliamentary elections, he announced Saturday.<br>
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Makichyan, 26, rose to prominence over the past two years by staging
weekly solo pickets on central Moscow’s Pushkin Square that called
for greater action against climate change. Inspired by Swedish
climate activist Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement, he
and other young Russians coordinated climate strike activities
across the country.<br>
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“The time has come to move on,” Makichyan said in a video posted to
social media announcing his campaign for the Duma.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/19/russian-climate-strike-protester-announces-parliamentary-run-a74269">https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/06/19/russian-climate-strike-protester-announces-parliamentary-run-a74269</a><br>
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[related news]<br>
<b>Northernmost wildfire at 72° N discovered from space</b><br>
There is an abnormally high number of wildfires in Siberia to be
June, and parts of the northern regions are recording temperatures
more than +15°C higher than normal.<br>
By Thomas Nilsen - June 20, 2021<br>
It is the EU Commission Directorate-General for Defence Industry and
Space (DG DEFIS) that on June 20 published a satellite image of a
wildfire in the border areas between the Taimyr Peninsula
(Krasnoyarsk Krai) and the Sakha Republic in northern Siberia.<br>
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Flames are spreading over a large area on the tundra southwest of
the Lena River delta. <br>
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This will be the third year in a row when Russia’s Arctic region
suffers from huge blazes. However, the wildfire now discovered by
the European Union’s Earth observation program with the help of
Sentinel satellites is exceptionally further north than seen in the
previous two years.<br>
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“At Lat 72.0 N Long 179.9, this is, to date, the northernmost
wildfire detected in the Polar Circle by the Sentinel satellites in
2021,” according to a tweet from the agency.<br>
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In comparison, Europe’s North Cape on the northern coast of the
island of Magerøya in Northern Norway is at 71.10° North.<br>
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Dry summers and high temperatures are the main reason for the
increasing number of wildfire blaze across Siberia and Russia’s Far
East. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/06/northernmost-wildfire-72deg-n-discovered-space">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/06/northernmost-wildfire-72deg-n-discovered-space</a><br>
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[Beginning hubris of geoengineering ]<br>
<b>Autonomous Spray Ship Deployment to Cool Planet via Marine Cloud
Brightening: Part 1 of 4</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4rVwR0wY-0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4rVwR0wY-0</a><b><br>
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</b><b>On the Enormous Potential of Sea-Water Spraying to Brighten
Clouds to Cool the Planet: Part 2 of 4</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYYk8lR_Go">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYYk8lR_Go</a><br>
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Paul Beckwith - Jun 19, 2021<br>
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I was recently in a great video discussion with Peter Wadhams and
Stephen Salter, hosted by Metta Spencer, to hash out the cloud
brightening technique as conceptualized by Emeritus Professor
Stephen Salter in the Engineering and Design Department at the
University of Edinburgh over the last couple of decades.<br>
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Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) has the potential to cool the planet
in a highly controllable fashion. Essentially, sea water is pumped
to high pressure through nozzles where it generates water jets that
then break apart (via Rayleigh instability) to form tiny water
droplets. The nozzle size, number of nozzles, water pressure, etc…
are engineered to produce water droplets of 800 nm size (0.8 micron)
so that when the water evaporates we are left with 200 nm salt
crystals. These salt crystals are then transported within the
turbulent boundary layer above the surface of the ocean up to
heights about 1 km to 1.5 km where they act as cloud condensation
nuclei, ensuring that the clouds that do form are of extremely high
albedo (reflectivity) and thus can reflect enough incoming sunlight
to cool the surface of the Earth. <br>
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The spray nozzles are transported around the oceans of the planet by
hydrofoil ships powered by the wind using so-called Flettner Rotors.
The ships are sailed to specific areas of the ocean at specific
times of the year to brighten the clouds in specific regions to get
the desired regional cooling, for example to reduce Atlantic Basin
hurricane strength, protect coral reefs, cool the Arctic enough to
restore Arctic Sea Ice, and!or modify monsoons or redistribute
rainfall to reduce droughts or torrential rainfalls.<br>
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This technology has enormous potential to cool the planet enough to
buy us time to slash fossil fuel emissions and deploy carbon removal
technologies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4rVwR0wY-0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4rVwR0wY-0</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYYk8lR_Go">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsYYk8lR_Go</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming June
21, 2010</b></font><br>
In the New Republic, Brad Plumer writes that if the Senate can't
pass cap-and-trade, the EPA should move ahead with regulating carbon
emissions. He further observes:<br>
<blockquote>"In the long term, though, we'd really need a price on
carbon to transform the country's energy sector and give people
incentive to develop new clean-energy technologies—having the EPA
just flatly tell polluters that they have to adopt this or that
specific pollution-cutting gizmo isn't very good for innovation.
But hey, maybe a few years from now we'll have a Congress that's
ready to address this problem. Odder things have happened."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats">http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-vine/75723/leaving-global-warming-the-bureaucrats</a><br>
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