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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>July 28, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[news-climate change]<br>
<b>Thousands of scientists warn climate tipping points ‘imminent’</b><br>
Researchers say ‘overexploitation of the Earth’ has seen many of its
‘vital signs’ deteriorate to record levels.<br>
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The researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who
have signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate
emergency, said in an article published in the journal BioScience on
Wednesday that governments had consistently failed to address “the
overexploitation of the Earth”, which they described as the root
cause of the crisis...<br>
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For the study, scientists relied on “vital signs” to measure the
health of the planet, including deforestation, greenhouse gas
emissions, glacier thickness and sea-ice extent and deforestation.
Out of 31 signs, they found that 18 hit record highs or lows...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/thousands-of-scientists-declare-worldwide-climate-emergency">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/28/thousands-of-scientists-declare-worldwide-climate-emergency</a><br>
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[NYTimes]<br>
<b>Why was Pacific Northwest heat off the charts? Recent research
offers clues.</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/united-states-heat-wave.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/us/united-states-heat-wave.html</a><br>
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[source material]<br>
<b>Increasing probability of record-shattering climate extremes</b><br>
E. M. Fischer, S. Sippel & R. Knutti <br>
Nature Climate Change (2021)<br>
<b>Abstract</b><br>
<blockquote>Recent climate extremes have broken long-standing
records by large margins. Such extremes unprecedented in the
observational period often have substantial impacts due to a
tendency to adapt to the highest intensities, and no higher,
experienced during a lifetime. Here, we show models project not
only more intense extremes but also events that break previous
records by much larger margins. These record-shattering extremes,
nearly impossible in the absence of warming, are likely to occur
in the coming decades. We demonstrate that their probability of
occurrence depends on warming rate, rather than global warming
level, and is thus pathway-dependent. In high-emission scenarios,
week-long heat extremes that break records by three or more
standard deviations are two to seven times more probable in
2021–2050 and three to 21 times more probable in 2051–2080,
compared to the last three decades. In 2051–2080, such events are
estimated to occur about every 6–37 years somewhere in the
northern midlatitudes.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01092-9">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01092-9</a>
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[video discussion]<br>
<b>Extreme Weather Events</b><br>
Jul 14, 2021<br>
ClimateEmergency Forum<br>
Join Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez as they
discuss the challenges we face as a result of the increasing
frequency, severity, and duration of Extreme Weather Events,
abbreviated EWEs.<br>
<br>
This video was recorded on April 16th, 2021, and was first published
on this channel on July 14th, 2021.<br>
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Items discussed include the following:<br>
- Given the land and oceans continue to warm, EWEs will increase in
frequency, severity, and duration.<br>
- The toll EWEs are placing on our infrastructure and food supply.<br>
- Both Hurricane Harvey and Katrina are discussed.<br>
- The inevitable need for people to migrate inland from coastal
cities as a result of Sea Level Rise (SLR) and EWEs.<br>
- The reasons for the increase in EWEs is discussed.<br>
- The EWEs we are seeing today can no longer be considered
‘natural.’<br>
- The fact that according to the UN, EWEs have doubled in frequency
over the last 20 years<br>
- The fact that we can no longer count on the relatively stable
climate of greater than 50 years ago, ‘The Holocene’, and that we
have moved to a new age, ‘The Anthropocene’, where the climate will
be much less stable<br>
- The need for more aggressive activist movements to spur government
action such as Extinction Rebellion.<br>
- The impact of EWEs on crop yields<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZMh9v6EP4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZMh9v6EP4</a><br>
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[Check for climate calamities]<br>
<b>Is your state at risk? </b><br>
FIND OUT IF YOUR STATE IS AT RISK<br>
Across the country, many of us are experiencing climate changes —
summers are hotter, storms are hitting harder, wildfires are burning
longer, and extreme weather is increasing. When these events strike,
they have a profound and detrimental impact on our economy and our
daily lives. <br>
<br>
States at Risk is a project aimed at showing how Americans in all 50
states are experiencing the impacts of climate change. Our work
focuses on five threats — extreme heat, drought, wildfires, coastal
flooding and inland flooding — and the states most affected by these
threats. <br>
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In 2015 States at Risk evaluated how prepared each of the 50 states
are for their current and future climate threats in its Preparedness
Report Card.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://statesatrisk.org/">https://statesatrisk.org/</a><br>
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[let's call it the overburden]<br>
<b>What’s the true cost of shipping all your junk across the ocean?</b><br>
Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on
polluting cargo ships.<br>
The largest retail company in the United States, Walmart, was also
the biggest polluter of the bunch. In 2019, Walmart imported enough
goods to equal 893,000 shipping containers, resulting in some 3.7
million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions...<br>
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After Walmart, the next top polluter in the report was Ashley
Furniture, which imported 270,000 containers and generated over 2.2
million metric tons of CO2. Next up was Target, with some 600,000
containers and over 2 million metric tons of CO2. Researchers could
only track some 123,000 container imports for Amazon, a company
whose 2019 revenues topped $280 billion. Those imports were
responsible for more than 390,000 metric tons of emissions.<br>
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Representatives from Walmart and Amazon didn’t comment directly on
the study but provided information on their companies’ efforts to
curb emissions from their supply chains. In response to a request
for comment, a Target spokesperson said the company is committed to
“reducing our shipping carbon footprint,” as it works toward
becoming a “net zero enterprise” in its operations and supply chain
by 2040.<br>
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A spokesperson from IKEA, which came in seventh place for CO2
output, said addressing emissions from cargo ships is “a significant
topic” for the Swedish furniture giant. Ocean shipping accounts for
about 40 percent of IKEA’s total carbon emissions from
transportation. The spokesperson said the company is working to
reduce its carbon footprint from every shipment by 70 percent on
average by 2030. To that end, IKEA participated in a 2019 pilot
project to test biofuels in an ocean-going container ship. <br>
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Researchers who worked on the retail-focused report said it took
them months to scour and analyze data. And it’s taken years to
develop the statistical models and build the database that underpin
the recent findings. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/climate/the-true-cost-of-shipping-junk-across-ocean-walmart-target/">https://grist.org/climate/the-true-cost-of-shipping-junk-across-ocean-walmart-target/</a><br>
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[here is the report]<br>
<b>Shady Ships: Retail Giants Pollute Communities and Climate with
Fossil-Fueled Ocean Shipping</b><br>
Date: July 20, 2021<br>
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Just fifteen companies are responsible for emitting millions of tons
of pollution from importing their goods into the United States on
fossil-fueled ships. Our report Shady Ships: Retail Giants Pollute
Communities and Climate with Fossil-Fueled Ocean Shipping is the
first study to quantify the environmental and public health impacts
from some of the biggest American retailers’ reliance on overseas
manufacturing and fossil-fueled, transoceanic shipping.<br>
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full report at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pacificenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SIZ_Shady-Ships-Report.pdf">https://www.pacificenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SIZ_Shady-Ships-Report.pdf</a><br>
<b>Conclusions</b><br>
Retail giants are polluting communities and climate through their
fossil-fueled<br>
maritime shipping at an enormous scale. If retail companies are to
continue relying<br>
on fossil-fueled shipping to import their products, they must take
responsibility for<br>
the pollution they generate on the voyage. <br>
Without including maritime shipping emissions in their corporate
responsibility or<br>
climate reporting, these retail companies are not living up to the
spirit of their climate <br>
commitments or their duty to the customers they serve.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pacificenvironment.org/reports/shady-ships/">https://www.pacificenvironment.org/reports/shady-ships/</a><br>
[BTW Redbull is #12 on the list. ]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://shipitzero.org/">https://shipitzero.org/</a><br>
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[hopeful innovation]<br>
<b>Disruptive iron-air grid-scale battery is 10% the cost of lithium</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://newatlas.com/energy/form-energy-iron-air-battery-bezos/">https://newatlas.com/energy/form-energy-iron-air-battery-bezos/</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 July
28, 2012</b></font><br>
Physicist Richard Muller, long known for accusing climate scientists
of data manipulation, writes an opinion piece for the New York Times
acknowledging that he cannot disprove the monumental evidence
pointing to human activity as the main driver of climate change.
Days later, in an interview with Betsy Rosenberg, Muller continues
to smear acclaimed climate scientist Michael E. Mann.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?pagewanted=all</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9453">http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9453</a><br>
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