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<font size="+2"><i><b>December 27, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ BBC announced] </i><br>
<b>Climate change: Huge toll of extreme weather disasters in 2021</b><br>
Weather events, linked to a changing climate, brought misery to
millions around the world in 2021 according to a new report.<br>
The study, from the charity Christian Aid, identified 10 extreme
events that each caused more than $1.5bn of damage.<br>
The biggest financial impacts were from Hurricane Ida which hit the
US in August and flooding in Europe in July.<br>
In many poorer regions, floods and storms caused mass displacements
of people and severe suffering.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59761839">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-59761839</a><br>
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[ The original report from Christian Aid ]<br>
Published on 27 December 2021<br>
<b>Counting the cost 2021: A year of climate breakdown</b><br>
This report highlights the 10 most financially devastating climate
events of 2021, from hurricanes in the US, China and India to floods
in Australia, Europe and Canada. All cost over 1.5 billion dollars
of damage.<br>
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It also looks at five events which, while carrying a lower financial
cost, brought devastating human impacts such as drought in Africa
and Latin America and floods in South Sudan.<br>
[clip from Executive Summary]<br>
<blockquote>The top ten most expensive events financially all cost
over 1.5 billion<br>
dollars of damage with Hurricane Ida in the US topping the list at
$65<br>
billion. The floods in Europe came second at $43 billion.<br>
Unless the world acts rapidly to cut emissions these kinds of<br>
disasters are likely to worsen. Steve Bowen, Meteorologist &
Head<br>
of Catastrophe Insight at insurers Aon has noted that 2021 is<br>
expected to be the sixth time global natural catastrophes have<br>
crossed the $100 billion insured loss threshold. All six have<br>
happened since 2011 and 2021 will be the fourth in five years.<br>
Worryingly, despite the pandemic concentrations of greenhouse<br>
gasses in the atmosphere reached a new all-time record according<br>
to a study by the World Meteorological Organisation published in<br>
October.2 And the latest Emissions Gap Report published by the<br>
UN’s Environment Programme last month showed that the national<br>
climate plans which make up the Paris Agreement were not currently<br>
on track to ensure global heating is kept below 1.5C<br>
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Download the report
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.christianaid.org.uk/sites/default/files/2021-12/Counting%20the%20cost%202021%20-%20A%20year%20of%20climate%20breakdown.pdf">https://www.christianaid.org.uk/sites/default/files/2021-12/Counting%20the%20cost%202021%20-%20A%20year%20of%20climate%20breakdown.pdf</a><br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.christianaid.org.uk/resources/our-work/counting-cost-2021-year-climate-breakdown">https://www.christianaid.org.uk/resources/our-work/counting-cost-2021-year-climate-breakdown</a><br>
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<i>[ insane or clever ?? ] </i><br>
<b>Space Solar Power Stations. Are they bonkers?</b><br>
Dec 26, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Solar power stations in space. Sounds like pure science fiction
doesn't it? And indeed, it was the likes of Isaac Asimov and Arthur
C. Clarke who were among the first to consider the idea. But now
there's a global race on to be the first to develop the concept into
a genuinely functional system supplying solar power direct from
space straight into our grids. And the prize for the winner could be
massive.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnzuv90VDqQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnzuv90VDqQ</a><br>
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<i>[ from the Weather Channel ] </i><br>
<b>Second Year of Crippling Drought—Made Worse By Climate
Change—Grips Afghanistan (PHOTOS)</b><br>
The country is in the grips of a second year of crippling drought.<br>
Drought has become more common in recent years.<br>
About half of the population faces acute food shortages.<br>
Amid decades of war, the coronavirus pandemic and the chaos of the
Taliban seizing power after the U.S. and NATO troops withdrawing
earlier this year, Afghanistan is in the grips of a second year of
crippling drought that experts say is made worse by climate change.<br>
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"I remember from my childhood ... there was a lot of snow in the
winters, in spring we had a lot of rain," 53-year-old Abdul Ghani, a
local community leader in the village of Sang-e-Atash in the
hard-struck province of Badghis, told the Associated Press.<br>
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"But since a few years ago there has been drought, there is no snow,
there is much less rain. It is not even possible to get one bowl of
water from drainpipes to use."<br>
<br>
Necephor Mghendi, head of the Afghanistan Delegation of the
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,
told the AP that severe drought has affected more than 60% of the
country’s provinces.<br>
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Experts say the extreme dry conditions bring home the reality of
climate change. Over the last two decades, 14% of the glaciers in
Afghanistan have melted and the frequency of drought has doubled,
according to Assem Mayar, a water resource management expert and PhD
candidate at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.<br>
<br>
"The effect of climate change and global warming in Afghanistan is
very clear in multiple ways," Mayar told the AP.<br>
<br>
Nearly 23 million people in Afghanistan, about half the country's
population, face acute food shortages, according to the World Food
Program. Aid workers say the drought is only making things worse,
and residents like Ghani have lost hope.<br>
<br>
"There is no solution, we are just destroyed," he said. "We can’t go
anywhere, to a foreign country, we have no money, we have nothing.
In the end, we must dig our graves and die."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2021-12-27-photos-of-climate-change-induced-crippling-drought-in-afghanistan">https://weather.com/en-IN/india/news/news/2021-12-27-photos-of-climate-change-induced-crippling-drought-in-afghanistan</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
December 27, 2014</b></font><br>
<br>
December 27, 2014: The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"In state legislatures and major professional
associations, a bipartisan effort is emerging to change the way
state attorneys general interact with lobbyists, campaign donors
and other corporate representatives.<br>
<br>
"This month, during a closed-door meeting of the National
Association of Attorneys General, officials voted to stop
accepting corporate sponsorships. In Missouri, a bill has been
introduced that would require the attorney general, as well as
certain other state officials, to disclose within 48 hours any
political contribution worth more than $500. And in Washington
State, legislation is being drafted to bar attorneys general who
leave office from lobbying their former colleagues for a year.<br>
<br>
"Perhaps most significant, a White House ethics lawyer in the
administration of George W. Bush has asked the American Bar
Association to change its national code of conduct to prohibit
attorneys general from discussing continuing investigations or
other official matters while participating in fund-raising events
at resort destinations, as they often now do. Those measures could
be adopted in individual states. <br>
<br>
"The actions follow a series of articles in The New York Times
that examined how lawyers and lobbyists — from major corporations,
energy companies and even plaintiffs’ law firms — have
increasingly tried to influence state attorneys general."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/us/bipartisan-effort-to-restrict-lobbyists-influence-of-attorneys-general.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/us/bipartisan-effort-to-restrict-lobbyists-influence-of-attorneys-general.html</a><br>
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