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<i>[ a daily report on COP26 from IISD Earth Negotiations Bulletin -
link and PDF ] </i><br>
<b>Report of main proceedings for 9 November 2021</b><br>
Glasgow Climate Change Conference<br>
PDF Version<br>
The Glasgow Climate Change Conference continued to be dominated by
finance discussions. Informal informals, minister-led discussions,
and Presidency-led discussions convened throughout the day.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://enb.iisd.org/Glasgow-Climate-Change-Conference-COP26-daily-report-9Nov2021">https://enb.iisd.org/Glasgow-Climate-Change-Conference-COP26-daily-report-9Nov2021</a><br>
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<i>[ video lecture on climate fundamentals and outlooks 47 min ]</i><br>
<b>Climate and Ecological Crisis: Heading for Extinction</b><br>
Dec 30, 2019<br>
Rafael Ubal<br>
We are entering a critical decade in our history, in which a failure
to enact unprecedented changes in all aspects of industrialized
societies may lead to a catastrophic and irreversible ecological
collapse. In this video I survey the most relevant scientific facts
related with our current climate and ecological crisis, and urge all
members of society to take immediate action for systemic change.<br>
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All scientific facts and predictions presented in this video are
extracted from the mainstream scientific literature on the topic,
accessible through the references below.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukN_S-EsH8&">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukN_S-EsH8&</a>
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<i> ["...we believe the pre-end period will be filled with
unprecedented opportunities for profit." ]</i><br>
<b>Climate is the ‘biggest single opportunity’ the insurance
industry has ever seen, CEO says</b><br>
PUBLISHED NOV 9 2021<br>
-- From floods and rising temperatures to cold snaps, the fallout
from climate-related events already affects the insurance industry
in a number of ways.<br>
-- “We think of Covid as systemic risk – climate is the ultimate
systemic risk,” John Neal, Lloyd’s CEO, tells CNBC.<br>
LONDON — Climate is the “ultimate systemic risk” and represents “the
biggest single opportunity the insurance industry has ever seen,”
according to the CEO of the centuries-old insurance market Lloyd’s.<br>
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In an interview with CNBC, John Neal, who heads up the British
company, attempted to paint a picture of how his sector would
operate going forward.<br>
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“We think of Covid as systemic risk — climate is the ultimate
systemic risk, so this is our chance to show businesses, communities
and even governments how we can help,” Neal, who was speaking at the
COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, said last
week. <br>
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From floods and rising temperatures to cold snaps, the fallout from
climate-related events already affects the insurance industry in a
number of ways.<br>
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The Association of British Insurers says an extreme freeze in the
U.K. during 2018 led to payouts for burst pipes totaling £194
million (around $263.16 million) across a period of three months. In
the same year, an extreme heatwave saw over 10,000 homes in the U.K.
claim for damage created by subsidence. This exceeded £64 million,
according to the ABI. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/gregbeier/status/1239948694167990274/photo/1">https://twitter.com/gregbeier/status/1239948694167990274/photo/1</a> ]<br>
<b>Data and the long game</b><br>
Back at Lloyd’s, Neal was asked about pricing climate risk when
providing insurance and if the tools were available to do that. His
response emphasized the importance of gathering knowledge over a
sustained period of time.<br>
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“We’ve got 25 years of high quality weather data,” he said. “The
frequency and severity of … convective storms, right the way up to
hurricane related activity we see in the U.S. – we’ve got amazing
data on that,” he went on to add. <br>
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“The advantage we have is unlike, say, life assurers where they’re
making long, long-term decisions, we are repricing our products
every 12 months,” he said.<br>
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“So in real time, we’re managing weather and trying to understand
weather and then trying to extrapolate that through a climate lens.”<br>
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Looking ahead, Neal was bullish about his sector’s prospects going
forward. “The insurance industry’s got $35 trillion under
management, so we’re part of the solution, if you like, of putting
our assets at play to support transition,” he said.<br>
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He concluded by saying: “I genuinely, genuinely think … climate is
the biggest single opportunity the insurance industry has ever
seen.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/climate-biggest-single-opportunity-for-insurance-lloyds-ceo.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/09/climate-biggest-single-opportunity-for-insurance-lloyds-ceo.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/gregbeier/status/1239948694167990274/photo/1">https://twitter.com/gregbeier/status/1239948694167990274/photo/1</a>
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<i>[ Undermining ] </i><br>
<b>Julian Assange’s Fiancée Stella Moris: WikiLeaks Helped Expose
Climate Change Hypocrisy & War Crimes</b><br>
NOVEMBER 9, 2021<br>
<b>STELLA MORIS: </b>Hi, Amy. I am here because I’m here to rally
support for Julian and also to raise awareness of the extraordinary
wealth of information that WikiLeaks has published about the climate
over the years. And the archive of WikiLeaks just becomes more and
more relevant for every year that passes. There are thousands and
thousands of emails and documents that document not only, for
example, how the melting ice cap sparked a scramble for the Arctic,
like the scramble for Africa, for Arctic oil and minerals, but also,
for example, about how Shell had infiltrated the Nigerian
government, and the Shell executive vice president boasted to the
U.S. Embassy that they had seconded people into every relevant
ministry of the Nigerian government and that the Nigerian government
wasn’t aware that Shell knew exactly what was going on and which
decisions were being taken and shaping how those decisions were
being taken.<br>
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So, really, the WikiLeaks archive is quite an extraordinary tool for
activists, for academics, for people working in this area, to be
able to understand the relationship between the states and the
fossil fuel companies, how those interests are intertwined, the fact
that there is no bright line between many of these states and the
fossil fuel industry, and that, in fact, there’s a revolving door
and that the goals of the summit are frustrated by this reality...<br>
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STELLA MORIS: Well, ... I know that BP, for example, covered up a
massive blowout in Azerbaijan just months before the Deepwater
Horizon catastrophic disaster in the Mexican Gulf. So there’s an
enormous wealth of information, of documents, about every single
country and about these climate negotiations, from the inside, how
the U.S. was manipulating and bribing smaller countries, spying on
delegates, and so on.<br>
<br>
And I encourage everyone who’s involved and who’s interested in our
climate to go to the WikiLeaks archive and search, search for their
specific companies — there are thousands and tens of thousands of
references to the major oil companies — and also searchable by
country and so on.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/9/stella_moris_on_wikileaks_and_climate">https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/9/stella_moris_on_wikileaks_and_climate</a>
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<i>[ Activism for YouTube still needed ] </i><br>
<b>YouTube's Climate Denial Problem</b><br>
Mar 23, 2020<br>
zentouro<br>
In January of 2020, AVAAZ released a report investigating YouTube
and Climate Misinformation. Let's talk about it. <br>
Great Climate & Environmental YouTube Peeps (let me know in
comments anyone else I should be watching!)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYH_MirvV8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYH_MirvV8</a><br>
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<i>[ Avaaz is a global web movement to bring people-powered politics
to decision-making everywhere.]</i><br>
<b>With millions of members from every country of the world, Avaaz
is the largest global web movement in history.</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://secure.avaaz.org/page/en/media/">https://secure.avaaz.org/page/en/media/</a><br>
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<i>[ Academic lesson future climates.. Univ of Bonn. 53 min video
lesson ] </i><br>
<b>Climate change 4 - impact projection</b><br>
Nov 9, 2020<br>
HortiBonn<br>
This video was produced for the module ‘Tree phenology analysis with
R’, which is offered to MSc students in agricultural programs at the
University of Bonn in Germany. The materials are also accessible to
anyone not taking this class. The module revolves around functions
of the ‘chillR’ package for R, with the ambition that students of
this course will be able to conduct analyses of climate change
impacts on deciduous trees during their dormancy season.<br>
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This specific video is one of four contributions on climate change.
This is video 4, which presents modeling approaches we can use to
derive the responses of agricultural (and other) systems to
projected future climates.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8HF4E7rkM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q8HF4E7rkM</a><br>
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<p><i><i>[ "swamp...nic, nic, nic" - quote from 'Easy Rider' ]</i><br>
</i><b>Serious about climate change? Get serious about peat.</b><br>
By William Booth<br>
Nov 10, 2021<br>
GARSTANG, England — Moor, bog, fen, mire, flush, swamp, slough.
Peatlands have gotten a bum rap. They’re inhospitable, useless.
Too wet to plow, too dry to fish, the old farmers say.<br>
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Slagged off as anaerobic wastelands, dissed in the popular
imagination, imagined as the eerie Dead Marshes in “The Lord of
the Rings” or the forbidding Grimpen Mire in “The Hound of the
Baskervilles.” When bad things go down in Charles Dickens, the
scene is set in a forbidding moor.<br>
<br>
All slander, said Christian Dunn, wetlands scientist at Bangor
University in Wales.<br>
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“Peat is the superhero of the natural world,” he said...<br>
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Out at Winmarleigh Moss, they’re testing a new idea: “carbon
farming.” In which the “crop” is the carbon a farmer is locking
into the peat. Mike Longden, a peatland initiative officer with
the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, stood on a berm and explained the
farm.<br>
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The team took five aces of an unloved degraded peatland, drained
in the 1970s, and rebuilt the dikes, pumps and plumbing. They
stripped off the top four inches of nutrient-rich top soil, left
over from when sheep grazed the pasture, and planted 150,000 plugs
of the new cover crop, sphagnum moss. Then they brought the water
level back to the field to re-wet the new moss and existing five
feet of unoxidized peat below.<br>
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The newly planted moss is looking happy and healthy. As it grows,
it will carpet the site, and the bottom of the moss will just sit
there in watery acidic conditions, to form — presto! — new peat.<br>
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Who will pay for it? Rob Stoneman, director of landscape recovery
at the Wildlife Trusts, says very soon the government will
probably pay land managers a few hundred dollars an acre to store
carbon in a reclaimed peat bog. Corporations, too, might buy even
more for credits from the carbon farmers of the future to offset
their greenhouse gas emissions.<br>
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“The thinking is, that if you are going to get to net-zero as
promised in Britain, somebody is going to subsidize this,”
Stoneman said.<br>
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For a thousand years?<br>
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“At least for a while,” Stoneman said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/10/cop26-peat-carbon/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/10/cop26-peat-carbon/</a><i><br>
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<i>[ from the sci-fi novel Dune - The fictional planet Arrakis and
global warming video]</i><br>
<b>Scientists Simulated Desert Planet Arrakis To See If It's
Habitable</b><br>
Nov 9, 2021<br>
Anton Petrov<br>
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk
about a new interesting simulation of the desert planet Arrakis from
Frank Herbert's Dune<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1yZVqtwxY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC1yZVqtwxY</a><br>
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<i>[ start with understanding the planet Earth -- text website]</i><br>
<b>Dune: we simulated the desert planet of Arrakis to see if humans
could survive there</b><br>
October 26, 2021<br>
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We are scientists with specific expertise in climate modelling, so
we simulated the climate of Arrakis to find out. We wanted to know
if the physics and environment of such a world would stack up
against a real climate model.<br>
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Here’s a visualisation of our climate model of Arrakis:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://images.theconversation.com/files/427871/original/file-20211021-15766-1q37jmx.gif?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=539&fit=crop&dpr=2">https://images.theconversation.com/files/427871/original/file-20211021-15766-1q37jmx.gif?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=30&auto=format&w=754&h=539&fit=crop&dpr=2</a><br>
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<b>How do you build a fantasy world like Arrakis?</b><br>
We started with a climate model commonly used to predict weather and
climate here on Earth. To use these sorts of models you have to
decide on the physical laws (well-known in the case of planet Earth)
and then input data on everything from the shape of mountains to the
strength of the sun or the makeup of the atmosphere. The model can
then simulate the climate and tell you roughly what the weather
might be like.<br>
<br>
We decided to keep the same fundamental physical laws that govern
weather and climate here on Earth. If our model presented something
completely strange and exotic, this could suggest those laws were
different on Arrakis, or Frank Herbert’s fantastical vision of
Arrakis was just that, fantasy.<br>
We then needed to tell the climate model certain things about
Arrakis, based on the detailed information found in the main novels
and the accompanying Dune Encyclopedia. These included the planet’s
topography and its orbit, which was was essentially circular, akin
to the Earth today. The shape of an orbit can really impact the
climate: see the long and irregular winters in Game of Thrones.<br>
<br>
Finally, we told the model what the atmosphere was made of. For the
most part it is quite similar to that of the Earth today, although
with less carbon dioxide (350 parts per million as opposed to our
417 ppm). The biggest difference is the ozone concentration. On
Earth, there is very little ozone in the lower atmosphere, only
around 0.000001%. On Arrakis it is 0.5%. Ozone is important as it is
around 65 times more effective at warming the atmosphere than CO₂
over a 20-year period...<br>
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Arrakis’s climate is basically plausible<br>
The books and film describe a planet with unforgiving sun and
desolate wastelands of sand and rock. However, as you move closer to
the polar regions towards the cities of Arrakeen and Carthag, the
climate in the book begins to change into something that might be
inferred as more hospitable...<br>
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The book says that there is no rain on Arrakis. However, our model
does suggest that very small amounts of rainfall would occur,
confined to just the higher latitudes in the summer and autumn, and
only on mountains and plateaus. There would be some clouds in the
tropics as well as polar latitudes, varying from season to season.<br>
<br>
The book also mentions that polar ice caps exist, at least in the
northern hemisphere, and have for a long time. But this is where the
books perhaps differ the most from our model, which suggests summer
temperatures would melt any polar ice, and there would be no
snowfall to replenish the ice caps in winter.<br>
<br>
<b>Hot but habitable</b><br>
Could humans survive on such a desert planet? First, we must make an
assumption that the human-like people in the book and film share
similar thermal tolerances to humans today. If that’s the case then,
contrary to the book and film, it seems the tropics would be the
most habitable area. As there is so little humidity there,
survivable wet-bulb temperatures – a measure of “habitability” that
combines temperature and humidity – are never exceeded...<br>
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It’s important to remember that Herbert wrote the first Dune novel
way back in 1965. This was two years before recent Nobel-winner
Syukuro Manabe published his seminal first climate model, and
Herbert did not have the advantage of modern supercomputers, or
indeed any computer. Given that, the world he created looks
remarkably consistent six decades on.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/dune-we-simulated-the-desert-planet-of-arrakis-to-see-if-humans-could-survive-there-170181">https://theconversation.com/dune-we-simulated-the-desert-planet-of-arrakis-to-see-if-humans-could-survive-there-170181</a><br>
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<i></i><i>[ basic lessons video 28 min ]</i><br>
<b>Disappearing beaches - The trouble with sand | DW Documentary</b><br>
DW Documentary<br>
Around the world, beaches are under threat. Severe storms and sea
levels are rising. Huge quantities of sand are being washed away
into the ocean. Even entire islands are in existential danger.<br>
<br>
In Germany, the island of Sylt is battling against disappearance.
Its beaches, like those of other North Sea islands, have been under
assault for decades. Authorities are trying to halt the loss of
kilometers of sandy beaches with construction measures and beach
nourishment. Big sand dredging ships play an important role in this
process. They remove enormous quantities from the seabed and pump it
back onto eroding shores. <br>
<br>
Replenishing an shorelines in this manner costs several million
euros a year. But the financial expense is not the only problem -
the ecological price of these significant interventions into the
fragile maritime ecosystem is far from clear. Currently, people are
still putting coastal protection before environmental protection.
But there are debates about whether this strategy can be continued
in future. After all, sand is the second most important commodity in
our modern society after water. It can be found in concrete, cars,
computer chips, cleaning detergents and cellphones. And because
desert sand is too fine, all of this sand has to come from the sea
or from rivers. <br>
<br>
In total, between 40 and 50 billion tons of sand are used each year.
As a result, sand has gradually become a scarce resource. Meanwhile,
many countries have seen a rise of illegal sand mining organized by
criminal gangs. Sand mafias plunder and destroy entire regions. The
workers who remove sand from beaches, the sea, or riverbeds often do
so under hazardous conditions. <br>
Researchers are working hard to find replacement materials and
innovative recycling processes. Sand may seem essentially limitless,
but global demand far outstrips availability. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuQjyMP8_c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iuQjyMP8_c</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 11, 2013</b></font><br>
November 11, 2013: <br>
MSNBC's Chris Jansing interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on
Washington's climate silence.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.msnbc.com/jansing-and-co/watch/will-washington-act-on-climate-change-62900803599">http://www.msnbc.com/jansing-and-co/watch/will-washington-act-on-climate-change-62900803599</a><br>
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