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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>January 4, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ 32 min podcast about the money ]</i><br>
<i></i><b>Will there be significant action against climate change in
2022?</b><br>
Our future-gazing podcast series examines speculative scenarios and
provocative prophecies<i><br>
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<p>The World Ahead from The Economist<br>
The World Ahead: COP-out?<i><br>
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AFTER A major UN climate summit, momentum behind climate policy
often falters. But will that happen in 2022 in the wake of COP26?
Climate cooperation is leading to some unlikely alliances and new
reports on the impact of global warming underline greater urgency.
Will significant action follow? Tom Standage hosts. Runtime: 32
min..<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2022/01/03/will-there-be-significant-action-against-climate-change-in-2022">https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2022/01/03/will-there-be-significant-action-against-climate-change-in-2022</a><br>
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<i>[ some ideas are obvious -- text Anthropocene Magazine ]<br>
</i><b>In the face of climate change, it’s time to rethink regular
work hours</b><br>
According to a first-of-its-kind study, working at night or in the
cool of the morning could spare outdoor laborers extreme heat
exposure—at least for the time being.<br>
By Sarah DeWeerdt - January 4, 2022<i><br>
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About 30% of the work hours currently being lost to extreme heat
could be recovered if work schedules shifted from some of the
hottest hours of the day to some of the coolest, according to a new
study.<br>
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The findings suggest a strategy to help human societies adapt to
climate change – but one that becomes less effective as the planet
heats further.<br>
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“Working in hot and humid environments can be dangerous because high
temperatures combined with high humidity limit the body’s ability to
cool itself by sweating,” explains study team member Luke Parsons, a
postdoctoral researcher studying the impacts of climate change at
Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.<br>
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“Workers in many hot and humid locations are already stopping or
slowing work in the middle of the day because it is too
uncomfortable or unsafe to conduct heavy labor,” Parsons says.. These
conditions affect hundreds of millions of workers in agriculture,
forestry, fisheries, and construction, especially in the tropics...<br>
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“I think it’s important for us to recognize that heat exposure and
this lost potential productivity can have implications for the
health and well-being of workers and economy, especially as
policymakers weigh the costs and benefits of limiting climate
change,” Parsons says. “I hope this work calls attention to how
climate change is already impacting and will impact people who
depend on outdoor work to support themselves and their communities.”<br>
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Source: Parsons L.A. et al. “Increased labor losses and decreased
adaptation potential in a warmer world.” Nature Communications 2021.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/01/in-face-of-climate-change-rethink-regular-work-hours/">https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2022/01/in-face-of-climate-change-rethink-regular-work-hours/</a><i><br>
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<i>[ “God, where are you?”, evangelism, climate science in the
NYTimes - clips ] </i><br>
Dec. 29, 2021<br>
<b>An Evangelical Climate Scientist Wonders What Went Wrong</b><br>
By David Marchese<br>
Such is the grimly politicized state of science these days that the
descriptors typically used to explain who Katharine Hayhoe is —
evangelical Christian; climate scientist — can register as somehow
paradoxical. Despite that (or, indeed, because of it), Hayhoe, who
is 49 and whose most recent book is “Saving Us: A Climate
Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World,” has
become a sought-after voice for climate activism and a leading
advocate for communicating across ideological, political and
theological differences. “For many people now, hope is a bad word,”
says Hayhoe, the chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy as well
as a professor of political science at Texas Tech. “They think that
hope is false hope; it is wishful thinking. But there are things to
do — and we should be doing them.”<br>
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<b>Where, if any, are there areas where you see a conflict between
scientific consensus and your religious beliefs? </b>The biggest
struggle I have is that in the Bible, Jesus says to his disciples,
“You should be recognized as my disciples by your love for others,”
and today when you look at people who self-identify as Christians in
the United States, love for others is not one of the top
characteristics you see. Christianity is much more closely linked
with political ideology and identity, with judgmentalism,
partisanship, science denial,1 rejection of responsibility for the
poorest and most vulnerable who we, as Christians, are to care for.
You know, there was a really interesting recent article about the
landscape of evangelicalism in the United States, and it said that
about 10 years ago if you asked people, “Do you consider yourself to
be evangelical?” and they said yes, and then you asked, “Do you go
to church?” about 30 percent would say no. But nowadays something
like 40 percent of people who self-identify as evangelicals don’t go
to church. They go to the church of Facebook or Fox News or whatever
media outlet they get their information from. So their statement of
faith is written primarily by political ideology and only a distant
second by theology...<br>
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<b>Does our current situation ever make you doubt?</b> It does not
make me doubt the existence or the goodness of God. It makes me
doubt God’s ability to act in people who call themselves his
followers. I had an interesting experience a few years ago: I was
visiting a university, as I often do, doing a luncheon event with a
group of early-career women. One of the administrators stuck their
head in and said the dean wants to talk to Katharine. They ushered
everybody out and then the dean came and sat down and said, “I used
to be an evangelical.” So I asked the obvious question: “Why are you
no longer?” He said: “It wasn’t because I doubted the existence of
God. It’s because I couldn’t see any evidence of God working in
people. I saw person after person who claimed that they took the
Bible seriously, they were Christian” — I’m paraphrasing — “and all
I saw was the opposite of love. It got to the point where I couldn’t
see any evidence of God working in people.” That’s what I’ve
struggled with, too. What breaks my heart is the attacks I get from
people who identify as Christians. When someone on Twitter has just
called me a whore and I go to their profile and it says something
about “loving others” and “so blessed” it makes me feel so
discouraged. I’m thinking, God, what are you doing?<br>
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<b>How do you understand it?</b> When that happens, almost always
within a day or two or sometimes even within an hour, I hear from
somebody who is expressing love and joy and peace and patience and
kindness — the fruits of the spirit7 — and who encourages me again.
Part of the active hope is recognizing that there are people out
there who are motivated from the heart, who are expressing love for
others. Some of them call themselves Christians and some of them
don’t, but those expressions restore your faith in the goodness of
people, in the goodness of creation and, ultimately, the goodness of
God. But, yes, I certainly have moments when I just say, “God, where
are you?”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/03/magazine/katharine-hayhoe-interview.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/01/03/magazine/katharine-hayhoe-interview.html</a>
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<i>[ Keep an eye on the Colorado River ] </i><br>
<b>The Colorado River Is Dying - And It Could Crash The Economy |
Answers With Joe</b><br>
Jan 3, 2022<br>
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The Colorado River is often called The Lifeline of the Southwest. 40
million people rely on it. It supports a $1.7 trillion economy. And
it is quickly drying up.<br>
So let's start 2022 with a look at the Colorado River. What's
causing this<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYvQNon4aLg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYvQNon4aLg</a><br>
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<i>[ follow the money - listen to politics ]</i><br>
<b>Warren urges crackdown on Wall Street over global warming</b><br>
28 December 2021<br>
US Senator Elizabeth Warren has blamed Wall Street for contributing
to global warming, calling for action against major emitters.<br>
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“The volume of greenhouse gas emitted by the financial-services
industry is outrageous,” she said in a tweet on Monday.<br>
Warren called for a crackdown on financial institutes in the US
which were behind the emission of carbon dioxide and greenhouse
gasses contributing to global warming. <br>
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The Democratic senator from Massachusetts said regulators needed to
crack down on these financial institutes for the role they played in
global warming.<br>
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"Regulators need to crack down on the financial sector's role in the
#ClimateCrisis," she said in her tweet, adding, “If it were a
country it would rank as the fifth-largest emitter in the world.”<br>
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In Warren's call for action against Wall Street, she cited a new
report published earlier this month by the Center for American
Progress and the Sierra Club.<br>
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The report finds that the 18 largest US banks and asset managers
alone were responsible for financing the equivalent of 1.968 billion
tons of CO₂ in 2020.<br>
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In this regard, the United Nations held the World Leaders’ Summit of
the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on
November 2, 2021... <br>
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Beijing and Moscow responded to Biden's criticisms, insisting that
the US must itself take serious action to cut emissions. <br>
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“Tackling climate change requires concrete action, not empty words,”
said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in response
to Biden’s criticism.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/12/28/673588/US-Senator-Warren-Wall-Street-global-warming">https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/12/28/673588/US-Senator-Warren-Wall-Street-global-warming</a><br>
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Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a
planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth. The response from a
distracted world: Meh.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJq2gGo5Mg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJq2gGo5Mg</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back to 1996]</i><br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
January 4, 1996</b></font><br>
January 4, 1996: The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"The earth's average surface temperature climbed to a
record high last year, according to preliminary figures,
bolstering scientists' sense that the burning of fossil fuels is
warming the climate.<br>
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"Spells of cold, snow and ice like the ones this winter in the
northeastern United States come and go in one region or another,
as do periods of unusual warmth. But the net result globally made
1995 the warmest year since records first were kept in 1856, says
a provisional report issued by the British Meteorological Office
and the University of East Anglia.<br>
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"The average temperature was 58.72 degrees Fahrenheit, according
to the British data, seven-hundredths of a degree higher than the
previous record, established in 1990.<br>
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"The British figures, based on land and sea measurements around
the world, are one of two sets of long-term data by which surface
temperature trends are being tracked.<br>
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"The other, maintained by the NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies in New York, shows the average 1995 temperature at 59.7
degrees, slightly ahead of 1990 as the warmest year since
record-keeping began in 1866. But the difference is within the
margin of sampling error, and the two years essentially finished
neck and neck.<br>
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"The preliminary Goddard figures differ from the British ones
because they are based on a somewhat different combination of
observations around the world.<br>
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"One year does not a trend make, but the British figures show the
years 1991 through 1995 to be warmer than any similar five-year
period, including the two half-decades of the 1980's, the warmest
decade on record.<br>
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"This is so even though a sun-reflecting haze cast aloft by the
1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines cooled the
earth substantially for about two years. Despite the post-Pinatubo
cooling, the Goddard data show the early 1990's to have been
nearly as warm as the late 1980's, which Goddard says was the
warmest half-decade on record.<br>
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"Dr. James E. Hansen, the director of the Goddard center,
predicted last year that a new global record would be reached
before 2000, and yesterday he said he now expected that 'we will
still get at least a couple more' by then.<br>
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"Dr. Hansen has been one of only a few scientists to maintain
steadfastly that a century-long global warming trend is being
caused mostly by human influence, a belief he reiterated
yesterday."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-the-global-trend-resumes.html?pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/04/world/95-is-hottest-year-on-record-as-the-global-trend-resumes.html?pagewanted=print</a><br>
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