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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>November 23, 2021</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ predictable dangers firefighters prepared ]</i><br>
WEATHER<br>
<b>Red flag warning: Santa Ana winds batter Southern California amid
fears of increased wildfire risk</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://abc7.com/wind-red-flag-warning-southern-california/11259792/">https://abc7.com/wind-red-flag-warning-southern-california/11259792/</a><br>
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<i>[ clips from a Weather.com opinion ] </i><br>
<b>Phase Out or Phase Down, Just Transition Away From Fossil Fuels
Remains Critically Lacking in Global Climate Discourse</b><br>
By Sanjay Vashist and Victor Minnoti Nov 23, 2021<br>
This article is a guest column reflecting the author’s opinions and
do not necessarily represent the official views of The Weather
Channel.<br>
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India’s initial proposal to include ALL fossil fuels is critical for
the world to grapple with as we face the climate crisis. There is no
scientific or legal basis to say that the UN climate talks should
focus on coal alone. In fact, it is the exact opposite with the
IPCC, IEA and UNEP all releasing reports this year calling for the
end of fossil fuel expansion.<br>
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Similarly, India’s call for support for the just transition will be
central if we are actually to succeed in phasing out the fossil fuel
industry. A new report released in Glasgow by over 200
organisations—CSO Equity Review—underscores the complexity of our
climate crisis, including long-standing structural injustices and
inequities aggravated by historical pollution and decades of lies
and delay tactics by the fossil fuel industry.<br>
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The reality is that wealthy nations, particularly the US, have long
dismissed the idea of equity in UN climate negotiations. Many of
these countries still have very active, influential oil and gas
industries with little reliance on coal. So the final text does
little to upturn business as usual for the wealthy countries but has
significant impacts on nations like India and China that are
currently more reliant on coal. A large chunk of 3 billion people
worldwide still experiencing energy poverty belongs to these two
countries...<br>
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Directly addressing fossil fuels in international climate
negotiations is much overdue. While their mention in the final text
is unprecedented, it is merely dipping our toes in the waters of
dirty energy.<br>
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The needed energy transition away from fossil fuels will undoubtedly
require an ambitious international cooperation agenda with true
climate leadership. That leadership must come from wealthy
countries, not least the US, who continues to produce fossil fuels.
The world must phase out fossil fuel production swiftly and fairly
to keep the dream of 1.5°C alive.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://weather.com/en-IN/india/climate-change/news/2021-11-23-transition-from-fossil-fuels-lacking-in-global-climate">https://weather.com/en-IN/india/climate-change/news/2021-11-23-transition-from-fossil-fuels-lacking-in-global-climate</a><br>
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[ yes, this is geo-engineering ]<br>
<b>Cloud seeding gains steam as West faces worsening droughts</b><br>
A 75-year-old technology is back on the map thanks to new scientific
discoveries and persistent water shortages<br>
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The premise of cloud seeding is simple. Certain clouds contain large
amounts of “supercooled liquid” water, or water that exists in a
liquid state below the freezing point. At temperatures below about
minus-5 degrees Celsius (23 Fahrenheit), adding particles of silver
iodide to that water can promote ice crystal formation, resulting in
additional snowfall.<br>
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But while the basic principles of cloud seeding were worked out in
the 1940s and more than 50 countries were running cloud seeding
programs as of 2017, scientists have long struggled to quantify how
effective cloud seeding is — if it even works at all.<br>
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A six-year study that Wyoming conducted from 2008 to 2013 — among
the most ambitious done thus far — estimated that cloud seeding can
boost precipitation within seedable clouds by about 3.3 percent over
the winter season. But those findings did not meet key thresholds
for statistical significance, meaning scientists were unable to say
for sure that the extra snowfall produced by seeded clouds wasn’t
the result of chance...<br>
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Part of the reason that states out west are embracing cloud seeding,
despite lingering uncertainties about the benefits, is that it’s
cheap. Utah, which estimates that its statewide network of 165
silver iodide generators boosts snowpack by 5 to 15 percent, says
the program cost works out to just $2.18 per acre-foot of water
produced.<br>
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“It’s basically free,” said state cloud seeding coordinator Jake
Serago, noting that in urban areas out west, water can cost hundreds
of dollars per acre-foot.<br>
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But there is an even more fundamental reason that cloud seeding is
gaining popularity. “The only way to add water to the system is
through cloud seeding,” Rickert said. “I do think it’s gaining
support because of the dire straits we’re in with regards to
drought.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/11/21/cloud-seeding-drought-west/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/11/21/cloud-seeding-drought-west/</a><br>
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<p>[ a bit of history ]</p>
<p>In a two year period 13 to 19 percent of all large sequoias in
their natural range were killed by fires<br>
Bill Gabbert -- November 22, 2021<br>
If a sequoia is lucky, it can live for up to 3,000 years<br>
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<p>Early estimates expect that on two fires in 2021, the KNP Complex
and the Windy Fire, 2,261 to 3,637 sequoias over four feet in
diameter have already been killed or will die within the next
three to five years. These losses make up an estimated additional
3-5% of the entire Sierra Nevada sequoia population over four feet
in diameter.<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/11/22/in-a-two-year-period-13-to-19-percent-of-all-large-sequoias-in-their-natural-range-were-killed-by-fires/">https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/11/22/in-a-two-year-period-13-to-19-percent-of-all-large-sequoias-in-their-natural-range-were-killed-by-fires/</a><br>
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<i>[ Congress hearing, but are they listening? ] </i><br>
<b>U.S. House Hearing on the National Security Implications of
Climate Change in the Arctic </b><br>
By Dr. Marc Kodack <br>
On November 20, the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee
on Europe, Energy, the Environment and Cyber held a virtual hearing
entitled “National Security Implications of Climate Change in the
Arctic.” Witnesses providing written statements and answering
questions included retired Admiral Paul Zukunft, Former Commandant
of U.S. Coast Guard and an Advisory Board member with the Center for
Climate and Security; Dr. Susan Natali, Arctic Program Director,
Woodwell Climate Research Center; Dr. Dalee Sambo Dorough,
Chairperson, Inuit Circumpolar Council, and Luke Coffey, Director,
Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy, The Heritage
Foundation. <br>
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<b>Highlights of the Hearing </b><br>
<blockquote>· The Arctic will see both competition and collaboration
between the U.S., Russia and China as climate change continues to
affect both maritime and land resources, such as loss of sea ice,
increased land erosion, rising sea levels, wildfires, and
permafrost melting, all of which have implications for U.S.
national security. <br>
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· Local indigenous communities will continue to be adversely
affected by climate change including effects on fisheries and
existing infrastructure which also includes ice. <br>
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· The U.S. needs to work with its NATO partners, other allies, and
indigenous communities to address mutual Arctic challenges
including those that are directly security-related and those that
are environmental. <br>
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· The U.S. needs to invest resources into the Arctic including
building a deep-water port, field additional ice breakers, and
launch satellites that can improve awareness and increase
communication bandwidth for the military, but also for indigenous
communities. There also needs to be top-down support for knowledge
sharing among indigenous communities, scientists, and others.
There is currently no strategic plan on how all these groups can
work together. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/11/u-s-house-hearing-on-the-national-security-implications-of-climate-change-in-the-arctic/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2021/11/u-s-house-hearing-on-the-national-security-implications-of-climate-change-in-the-arctic/</a><br>
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[ Hearings text and video archive is online ]<br>
<b>National Security Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic</b><br>
November 16, 2021 10:00 AM<br>
Location: Virtually via Cisco WebEx<br>
Subcommittee: Europe, Energy, the Environment and Cyber<br>
<blockquote><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/y9r85KiwQMo?t=1643">https://youtu.be/y9r85KiwQMo?t=1643</a><br>
National Security Implications of Climate Change in the Arctic<br>
460 viewsStreamed live on Nov 16, 2021<br>
House Foreign Affairs Committee<br>
Subcommittee: Europe, Energy, the Environment and Cyber<br>
Chair William R. Keating<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/2021/11/national-security-implications-of-climate-change-in-the-arctic">https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/2021/11/national-security-implications-of-climate-change-in-the-arctic</a><br>
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</i><i>[ It is a difficult quest to find amusing discussion, or
witty, or talkative. audio & transcript ]</i><br>
<b>Comedians Conquering Climate Change</b><br>
#03: Clean energy jobs and sick beats (feat. Antony Del Rio)<br>
NOVEMBER 18, 2021<br>
Esteban offends (and then apologizes too) an entire nation, Antony
has a crush on teacher, and we start our road to rock stardom —
album drops next month on Def Jam.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://generation180.org/comedians-conquering-climate-change/">https://generation180.org/comedians-conquering-climate-change/</a><br>
<i>[ not much is funny here. More like clever or cute. ]</i><br>
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<i>[ a little bit of science ]</i><br>
<i> </i><b>How Drought Could Make Sea-Level Rise Worse</b><br>
Take southern California, for instance.<br>
By: Sierra Garcia November 1, 2021<br>
n the first decade of the Cold War, California was in a drought. The
coastline north of Los Angeles retreated inland by several hundred
feet. Less water flowing to the ocean meant less sediment swept down
rivers to replenish the beaches that the waves, left to their own
devices, would eat away over time.<br>
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The ocean’s rapid encroachment wasn’t too unusual in the longer view
of history, according to research published last year by earth
scientists Julie Zurbuchen, Alexander Simms, and Sebastien Huot.
They mapped the historical waterline over most of the last millenium
near Ventura, California, with a blend of ground-penetrating radar,
radiocarbon dating, and dosimetry (a measure of how long ago sand
was last exposed to sunlight), among other methods, which helped
pinpoint precisely where the beach edge used to be. Their analysis
revealed that on timescales of decades, the southern California
coastline often grew and shrank with natural cycles of drier and
wetter periods in the Pacific that always seemed to balance one
another out over the course of a century or so.<br>
That balance is now likely at an end. California and the western
United States face drier futures with climate change, and although
there is already significant concern about how drought will continue
to interact with agriculture, wildfires, and habitats, sea-level
rise and coastal erosion tend to be part of an entirely separate
climate conversation. Because drought is so strongly linked with
natural shoreline retreat in southern California, it could further
imperil attempts to shore up the coastline against sea-level rise.<br>
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Sea-level rise today is mainly linked to two related climate-change
effects: meltwater from land-based ice, like glaciers, and seawater
physically expanding to take up more space as it warms. Scientists
have long known that sea-level rise is not uniform everywhere,
thanks to both natural processes—like tectonic activity in a region,
the gravitational influences on an area, and leftover rebound
effects from the last ice age—as well as influences like excess
groundwater pumping. The poorly recognized reality of sea-level rise
is that despite the global scope of the issue, planning for the
impacts must happen at a smaller scale—in part because researchers
may unearth more unintuitive interactions in other coastal areas
that complicate their own sea-level-rise prognoses.<br>
As California emerges from its driest summer on record, the harsh
reality of drier times ahead may be settling in on the Golden
State’s 40 million residents. It remains to be seen whether a
connection between drought and accelerated coastline loss inspires
beachfront constituents to grow more proactive in addressing the
ocean-sized elephant of sea level rise in the climate-adaptation
room.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://daily.jstor.org/how-drought-could-accelerate-sea-level-rise/">https://daily.jstor.org/how-drought-could-accelerate-sea-level-rise/</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 23, 2014</b></font><br>
<br>
November 23, 2014: The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"A warming climate is melting [Glacier National Park's]
glaciers, an icy retreat that promises to change not just
tourists’ vistas, but also the mountains and everything around
them.<br>
<br>
"Streams fed by snowmelt are reaching peak spring flows weeks
earlier than in the past, and low summer flows weeks before they
used to. Some farmers who depend on irrigation in the parched days
of late summer are no longer sure that enough water will be there.
Bull trout, once pan-fried over anglers’ campfires, are now caught
and released to protect a population that is shrinking as water
temperatures rise."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/us/climate-change-threatens-to-strip-the-identity-of-glacier-national-park.html?mwrsm=Email">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/us/climate-change-threatens-to-strip-the-identity-of-glacier-national-park.html?mwrsm=Email</a><br>
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