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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 22, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ We have a meme! = "blah, blah, blah" -- good analysis in this
18 min video] </i><br>
<b>BLAH, BLAH, BLAH? Is that all our leaders provided at COP26?</b><br>
Nov 21, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
The COP 26 climate conference in Glasgow was billed as our last
chance to limit global warming this century to no more than 1.5
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Our leaders tell us it
was a success, but hundreds of thousands of climate activists
outside the event did not seem to share that optimism. A quick
scratch at the surface of the announced policies suggests their
cynicism may be well founded.<br>
Video Transcripts available at our website -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justhaveathink.com">http://www.justhaveathink.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvwToK19Aw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvwToK19Aw</a>
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<i>[ video of damage - more coming in days ]</i><br>
<b>Global National: Nov. 21, 2021 | More rainfall on the way for
flood-ravaged BC</b><br>
Nov 21, 2021<br>
Global News<br>
More bad news for British Columbia as that province is set to see
more heavy rain this week even as crews scramble to repair the
damage from last week’s rainfall. By the end of today more than 500
Canadian Forces personnel will be on the ground assisting with
evacuations, rescuing livestock and helping to protect critical
infrastructure. And that help is desperately needed in the city of
Abbotsford which is now racing to build up dikes ahead of that
severe weather expected in the coming days. Mike Armstrong is in
Abbotsford.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4xN187Cpk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE4xN187Cpk</a><br>
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[ went around, comes around ]<br>
<b>Vancouver Is Marooned by Flooding and Besieged Again by Climate
Change</b><br>
After a summer of deadly heat and uncontrolled wildfires, British
Columbia was hit by record rainfalls that forced the evacuation of
towns and destroyed highways and rail lines.<br>
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Much of the fertile farmland near Abbotsford was created 100 years
ago by draining the Sumas Lake, a process that forced Indigenous
people onto other land. While pumps and levees held back some of the
water, the storm last week allowed the lake to reassert itself after
a century...<br>
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While the water has started to recede in most flood zones, it is
unclear when evacuees will return home or abandoned cars will be
returned to their owners. And more danger may be ahead for British
Columbia. Forecasts predict another batch of heavy rain this week.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/canada-flooding-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/21/canada-flooding-climate-change.html</a><br>
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[ from Wikipedia]<br>
<b>Sumas Lake</b><br>
The lake used to support sturgeon, trout, salmon, grizzly bears and
geese, and its wetland habitat was a destination for migrating birds
and a breeding ground for both fish and waterfowl. Flocks of
white-fronted goose as well as whistling swan and Hutchins geese
also used the lake. Its partially sandy banks also provided for
sturgeon spawning grounds. The lake supplied food to the Sumas Band,
and their life ways were intimately connected to it.[3][4][5][6] In
the late 1800s, the lake drew the attention of various naturalists
within the growing European population engaged in the work of
cataloging the flora and fauna that they encountered where they
settled.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumas_Lake#/media/File:Sumas_lake_panorama.png">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumas_Lake#/media/File:Sumas_lake_panorama.png</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumas_Lake#Draining_the_Lake">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumas_Lake#Draining_the_Lake</a><br>
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[ only if they want the changes ... ]<br>
<b>Could the B.C floods be a tipping point for dealing with climate
change?</b><br>
Nov 21, 2021<br>
CBC News Network host John Northcott speaks with Courtney Skye from
the Yellowhead Institute and Saman Tabasinejad from Progress Toronto
about how you combat government intransigence when it comes to
climate change, and the need for leaders with vision.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1976399939896">https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1976399939896</a><br>
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<i>[ the smooth sea level rise of about 1/4 per year, maybe giving
way to more episodic pulse-water events ]</i><br>
<b>Warming Events Could Destabilize The Antarctic Ice Sheet Soon.
Very Soon</b><br>
DAVID NIELD20 NOVEMBER 2021<br>
Here's another reminder of the precarious position that the world's
climate and ecosystems are in: a new study estimates that global
warming could push the Antarctic ice sheet past a tipping point in
as little as 10 years.<br>
In other words, the point of no return in terms of ice sheet loss is
arriving earlier than previously thought, and we may well already be
in the midst of it. That could have serious consequences when it
comes to sea level rise globally, and the local habitats that
animals in Antarctica rely on.<br>
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To get a better idea of what's happening right now, the researchers
went back into the past, looking at the continent's history over the
last 20,000 years – back to the last ice age – through ice cores
extracted from the sea floor.<br>
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"Our study reveals that during times in the past when the ice sheet
retreated, the periods of rapid mass loss 'switched on' very
abruptly, within only a decade or two," says paleoclimatologist Zoë
Thomas, from the University of New South Wales in Australia.<br>
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"Interestingly, after the ice sheet continued to retreat for several
hundred years, it 'switched off' again, also only taking a couple of
decades."<br>
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As icebergs break off Antarctica, they float down a major channel
known as Iceberg Alley. Debris released from these icebergs
accumulates on the seafloor, giving researchers a record of history
some 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) under the water.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencealert.com/warming-events-could-destabilize-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-in-just-10-years">https://www.sciencealert.com/warming-events-could-destabilize-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-in-just-10-years</a><br>
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Published: 18 November 2021<br>
<b>Decadal-scale onset and termination of Antarctic ice-mass loss
during the last deglaciation</b><br>
Michael E. Weber, Nicholas R. Golledge, Chris J. Fogwill, Chris S.
M. Turney & Zoë A. Thomas <br>
Nature Communications volume 12, Article number: 6683 (2021) Cite
this article<br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
Emerging ice-sheet modeling suggests once initiated, retreat of
the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) can continue for centuries.
Unfortunately, the short observational record cannot resolve the
tipping points, rate of change, and timescale of responses.
Iceberg-rafted debris data from Iceberg Alley identify eight
retreat phases after the Last Glacial Maximum that each
destabilized the AIS within a decade, contributing to global
sea-level rise for centuries to a millennium, which subsequently
re-stabilized equally rapidly. This dynamic response of the AIS is
supported by (i) a West Antarctic blue ice record of ice-elevation
drawdown >600 m during three such retreat events related to
globally recognized deglacial meltwater pulses, (ii) step-wise
retreat up to 400 km across the Ross Sea shelf, (iii) independent
ice sheet modeling, and (iv) tipping point analysis. Our findings
are consistent with a growing body of evidence suggesting the
recent acceleration of AIS mass loss may mark the beginning of a
prolonged period of ice sheet retreat and substantial global sea
level rise.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27053-6">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27053-6</a><br>
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<i>[ classic article ]</i><br>
<b>How to spot the tricks Big Oil uses to subvert action on climate
change</b><br>
Three ways fossil fuel companies try to trick the public.<br>
By Jariel Arvin@jarielarvin Feb 1, 2021, <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/22260311/oil-gas-fossil-fuel-companies-climate-change">https://www.vox.com/22260311/oil-gas-fossil-fuel-companies-climate-change</a><br>
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<i>[ Misinformation battleground ] </i><br>
<b>Climate denial is waning on the right. What’s replacing it might
be just as scary</b><br>
‘Sure, you want good things for the children of the world. But
ultimately you will put your children first.’<br>
The wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant
immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe
movements in Europe and the US<br>
Oliver Milman @olliemilman - Sun 21 Nov 2021<br>
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This wrapping of ecological disaster with fears of rampant
immigration is a narrative that has flourished in far-right fringe
movements in Europe and the US and is now spilling into the
discourse of mainstream politics. Whatever his intent, Johnson was
following a current of rightwing thought that has shifted from
outright dismissal of climate change to using its impacts to fortify
ideological, and often racist, battle lines. Representatives of this
line of thought around the world are, in many cases, echoing
eco-fascist ideas that themselves are rooted in an earlier age of
blood-and-soil nationalism.<br>
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The number of people uprooted around the world will balloon further,
to as many as 1.2 billion by 2050 by some estimates, and while most
will move within their own countries, many millions are expected to
seek refuge across borders. This mass upending of lives is set to
cause internal and external conflicts that the Pentagon, among
others, has warned will escalate into violence...<br>
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Experts are clear that the main instigators of the climate crisis
are wealthy people in wealthy countries. The richest 1% of the
world’s population were responsible for the emission of more than
twice as much carbon dioxide as the poorer half of the world from
1990 to 2015, research has found, with people in the US causing the
highest level of per capita emissions in the world. Adding new
arrivals to high-emitting countries doesn’t radically ramp up these
emissions at the same rate: a study by Utah State University found
that immigrants are typically “using less energy, driving less, and
generating less waste” than native-born Americans.<br>
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‘Protect our people’<br>
Still, the idea of personal sacrifice is hard for many to swallow.
While there is strengthening acceptance of climate science among the
public, and a restlessness that governments have done so little to
constrain global heating, support for climate polices plummets when
it comes to measures that involve the taxing of gasoline or other
impositions. According to a research paper co-authored by Fieschi,
this has led to a situation where “detractors are taking up the
language of freedom fighters”...<br>
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“The big players aren’t invested in changing any of the definitions
around refugees – in fact the US and UK are making it even more
difficult to claim asylum,” said Turner. “I think what you’re going
to see is internally displaced people increasing and the burden, as
it already is, falling on neighbors in the global south.”<br>
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Ultimately, the extent of the suffering caused by global heating,
and the increasingly severe responses required to deal with that,
will help determine the reactionary response. While greater numbers
of people will call for climate action, any restrictions imposed by
governments will provide a sense of vindication to rightwingers
warning of overreaching elites.<br>
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“My sense is that we won’t do enough to avoid others bearing the
brunt of this,” Fieschi said. “Solidarity has its limits, after all.
Sure, you want good things for the children of the world. But
ultimately you will put your children first.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/21/climate-denial-far-right-immigration">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/21/climate-denial-far-right-immigration</a>
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<i>[ a cartoon instructional 6 min video ] </i><br>
<b>Could climate change make us sick?</b><br>
Aug 4, 2021<br>
SciToons<br>
For decades, scientists have been predicting that climate change
will escalate the transmission of diseases such as malaria, yellow
fever, and encephalitis. These hypotheses are grounded in the
understanding that major vectors for infectious diseases, like
mosquitoes and ticks, experience population increases in warmer
weather. Over the past several decades, our planet has undoubtedly
warmed, but the trend in infectious disease transmission has not
been as clear. So, what drives the transmission of infectious
diseases? And what does climate change have to do with it? Watch
SciToons’ new video ”Could climate change make us sick?” to learn
more!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9maouuyQiA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9maouuyQiA</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
November 22, 2009</b></font><br>
November 22, 2009:<br>
CNN reports on the disproportionate toll climate change takes on
women.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/">http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/</a><br>
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