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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 8, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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</i><i>[ policy overview report, important new science insights
from UN - video presentation]</i><br>
<b>10 New Insights in Climate Science | #COP26 | Climate action</b><br>
Nov 4, 2021<br>
United Nations<br>
Overview by Professor Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research, Co-Chair, Advisory Committee
of Future Earth, and Co-Chair of the Earth League. <br>
The 10 New Insights in Climate Science:<br>
<blockquote>1. Stabilizing at 1.5°C warming is still possible, but
immediate and drastic global action is required<br>
2. Rapid growth in methane and nitrous oxide emissions put us on
track for 2.7°C warming<br>
3. Megafires – climate change forces fire extremes to reach new
dimensions with extreme impacts<br>
4. Climate tipping elements incur high-impact risks<br>
5. Global climate action must be just<br>
6. Supporting household behaviour changes is a crucial but often
overlooked opportunity for climate action<br>
7. Political challenges impede the effectiveness of carbon pricing<br>
8. Nature-based solutions are critical for the pathway to Paris –
but look at the fine print<br>
9. Building resilience of marine ecosystems is achievable by
climate-adapted conservation and management, and global
stewardship<br>
10. Costs of climate change mitigation can be justified by the
multiple immediate benefits to the health of humans and nature<br>
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The UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow, United Kingdom
is a crucial opportunity to achieve pivotal, transformational change
in global climate policy and action. It is a credibility test for
global efforts to address climate change and it is where Parties
must make considerable progress to reach consensus on issues they
have been discussing for several years. COP 26 comes against the
background of widespread, rapid and intensifying climate change
impacts, which are already impacting every region on Earth. Also,
COP 26 comes against the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, with
the urgent need to build back better for present future generations
to ensure a safe future.<br>
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The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations
entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of
climate change. UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change. The Convention has near universal
membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris
Agreement. The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global
average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. The UNFCCC is also the
parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The ultimate objective of
all three agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse gas
concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent
dangerous human interference with the climate system, in a time
frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables
sustainable development.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febQEOF4IUI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=febQEOF4IUI</a><br>
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<i>[amusing, informative discussion between 2 very smart men. Easy
listening on 1.25 speed -- Audio interview ]</i><br>
<b>Our Climate Guy – Nobel Prize Recipient Michael Mann on COP-26
(Nov. 7, 2021)</b><br>
Nov 5, 2021 - Al Franken<br>
What to look for coming out of COP -26 <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/rvsH5Be0g-0?t=393">https://youtu.be/rvsH5Be0g-0?t=393</a>
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<i>[ Opinion. Perhaps to dearest child, "You were born at just the
right time to change everything" ]</i><br>
<b>COP is broken</b><br>
The Phoenix - Nov 7, 2021<br>
It's time to admit it, even if it hurts: The COP process — the
official international system of negotiations led by the United
Nations to combat climate change — is broken.<br>
<br>
After an entire generation of effort, major failures in Kyoto (in
the 1990s), Copenhagen (in the 2000s), Paris (in the 2010s), and now
Glasgow (in the 2020s) have put the world on a path to warm by 2.7
degrees Celsius by 2100, nearly twice the redline temperature rise
that science says would give us a chance to preserve human
civilization in line with environmental and social justice.<br>
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Bowing to national interests of the major polluting countries, the
COP process has always been voluntary, based on words and pledges,
not binding peer-led enforcement. Those pledges collectively have
the world on a path to emitting 40% more carbon in 2030 than in 1990
when the process began, and nearly twice the level that would put us
on a safe climate path.<br>
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<b>We need a different path</b><br>
Glasgow is failing because so far the focus has been diametrically
opposed to the actual problem itself: a crisis of justice. Instead,
through billionaire-funded side events and exclusionary attendance
policies, the debate has focused on carbon markets, and appeasing
the fossil fuel industry that has all but captured the official
process.<br>
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"People think that the COP is sort of like the World Series, right?
And that there's going to be some, you know, walk-off home run from
China or the U.S. And it's not," Rachel Kyte, an advisor to the UK
government, told NPR last week. "It's like an Iditarod, right? Lots
of huskies, long and arduous, and maybe it never ends."<br>
<br>
<b>It's time for it to end.</b><br>
This doesn't mean it's too late to fix climate change — in fact just
the opposite. It means what was always true: Radical change won't be
led by those who created the problems. The answer was always a
reimagining of the social contract of human society. That work has
been in progress for hundreds of years, and it's time to help it
rapidly spread around the world.<br>
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The reason we've had 26 years of COP meetings isn't because the
process has failed — it's because it's working exactly as it was
intended to. Letting governments set their own climate targets
reinforces the status quo, giving the fossil fuel industry and those
that enable it a free pass while the rest of the world bears the
brunt of the crisis. It's climate colonialism. It's an abject,
willful dereliction of duty at the most important moment in human
history.<br>
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And it doesn't work any more.<br>
<b>Real change won't come from politicians, it will come in spite of
them</b><br>
That's an uncomfortable truth for those of us who have spent our
entire career trusting the process. Grieving this moment is part of
what we have to do for the rest of our lives, alongside our
life-long struggle for justice. That push-pull of grief + righteous
anger, alongside struggle + solidarity is what will define the rest
of our lives. It's what's going to deliver us a livable world for
everyone.<br>
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A counter-COP, beginning today in Scotland, is a major step towards
kicking alternative approaches into high gear. The People's Summit
for Climate Justice is a hybrid summit for the climate movement,
with in-person and online events so everyone can join. There are
hundreds of events, all organized by the COP26 Coalition, a huge
group of "environment and development NGOs, trade unions, grassroots
community campaigns, faith groups, youth groups, migrant and racial
justice networks – to name a few".<br>
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It's not our job to convince ourselves that what has happened
doesn't hurt. When we admit that hurt to ourselves, there's a
tendency to throw our hands up and give in to despair. I've been
there. It's seductive. But it's also a luxury we can't afford to
dwell inside of, and we have a duty to help our friends out of.<br>
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The plain reality is that these are going to be difficult years. But
giving up is never an option. We are doing this work together, for
each other.<br>
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This is the struggle we were born into.<br>
The Phoenix<br>
<b>You were born at just the right time to change everything.</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thephoenix.earth/cop-is-broken/">https://thephoenix.earth/cop-is-broken/</a><br>
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<i>[ What about old ideas? Asks the Washington Post. Aspirational
opinion ] </i><br>
<b>The magic 1.5: What's behind climate talks' key elusive goal</b><br>
By Seth Borenstein | AP - Nov, 7, 2021<br>
For protesters and activists, the phrase is “1.5 to stay alive.”...<br>
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“It’s physically possible (to limit warming to 1.5 degrees), but I
think it is close to politically impossible in the real world
barring miracles,” Columbia University climate scientist Adam Sobel
said. “Of course we should not give up advocating for it.”<br>
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A dozen other climate scientists told The Associated Press
essentially the same thing — that if dramatic emission reductions
start immediately the world can keep within 1.5 degrees. But they
don’t see signs of that happening.<br>
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The 2018 IPCC report found that compared to 2 degrees, stopping
warming at 1.5 would mean:<br>
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— Fewer deaths and illnesses from heat, smog and infectious
diseases.<br>
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— Half as many people would suffer from lack of water.<br>
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— Some coral reefs may survive.<br>
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— There’s less chance for summers without sea ice in the Arctic.<br>
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— The West Antarctic ice sheet might not kick into irreversible
melting.<br>
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— Seas would rise nearly 4 inches (0.1 meters) less.<br>
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— Half as many animals with back bones and plants would lose the
majority of their habitats.<br>
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— There would be substantially fewer heat waves, downpours and
droughts.<br>
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“For some people this is a life-or-death situation without a doubt,”
report lead author Cornell University climate scientist Natalie
Mahowald said at the time.<br>
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That finding that there’s a massive difference to Earth with far
less damage at 1.5 is the biggest climate science finding in the
last six years, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Director Johan Rockstrom said in an interview at the Glasgow
conference.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-magic-15-whats-behind-climate-talks-key-elusive-goal/2021/11/07/3e032572-3f9f-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-magic-15-whats-behind-climate-talks-key-elusive-goal/2021/11/07/3e032572-3f9f-11ec-bd6f-da376f47304e_story.html</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
November 8, 1989</b></font><br>
November 8, 1989: Margaret Thatcher delivers an address to the UN
General Assembly on global warming, noting that societies should
have economic growth "which does not plunder the planet today and
leave our children to deal with the consequences tomorrow."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817">http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107817</a><br>
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