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<font size="+2"><i><b>January 15, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Record set above 50°C ] </i><br>
<b>Australia ties Southern Hemisphere's all-time heat record of
123°F; epic heat cooks Argentina</b><br>
The Southern Hemisphere heat record was 62 years old; the heat wave
in Argentina is a threat to a key world grain-producing breadbasket.<br>
by JEFF MASTERS -- JAN 14, 2022<br>
It’s the peak of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and this week
historic heat waves have hit both Australia and South America.<br>
On Thursday, January 13, one of the most iconic world weather
records was tied when a ferocious heat wave in Western Australia
sent the mercury soaring to 50.7 degrees Celsius (123.3°F) in the
coastal city of Onslow...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://i0.wp.com/yaleclimateconnections.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0122_aussie-heatwave.png?w=680&ssl=1">https://i0.wp.com/yaleclimateconnections.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/0122_aussie-heatwave.png?w=680&ssl=1</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/BOM_WA/status/1481547395225772035/photo/1">https://twitter.com/BOM_WA/status/1481547395225772035/photo/1</a><br>
If the current drought in Argentina turns out to be as bad as the
drought of 2017-2018, and two other major global breadbaskets are
hit by exceptional 1-in-50-year droughts this summer, we could see
dangerously high global food prices capable of causing a global
emergency.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/01/australia-ties-southern-hemispheres-all-time-heat-record-of-123f-epic-heat-cooks-argentina/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/01/australia-ties-southern-hemispheres-all-time-heat-record-of-123f-epic-heat-cooks-argentina/</a><br>
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<i>[ A sane, current and careful explanation from NASA - brief
video 8 mins] </i><br>
<b>Temperature Record 101: How We Know What We Know about Climate
Change</b><br>
Jan 13, 2022<br>
NASA Goddard<br>
1.01M subscribers<br>
2021 was tied for the sixth warmest year on NASA’s record,
stretching more than a century. <br>
But, what is a temperature record? <br>
<br>
GISTEMP, NASA’s global temperature analysis, takes in millions of
observations from instruments on weather stations, ships and ocean
buoys, and Antarctic research stations, to determine how much warmer
or cooler Earth is on average from year to year. Stretching back to
1880, NASA’s record shows a clear warming trend. <br>
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However, individual weather events and La Niña — a pattern of cooler
waters in the Pacific that was responsible for slightly cooling
2021’s average temperature — can affect individual years. Because
the record is global, not every place on Earth experienced the sixth
warmest year on record. Some places had record-high temperatures,
and we saw record droughts, floods and fires around the globe. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLU8v8fAw7s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLU8v8fAw7s</a><br>
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<i>[ a college level course using simple language and drawings
videos ] </i><br>
<b>Arctic Amplification Pt. 1 - Why is the Arctic Ice Cap Melting?</b><b><br>
</b><b>Arctic Amplification Pt. 2 - How Our Planet is Impacted by
Arctic Warming</b><b><br>
</b><b>Arctic Amplification Pt. 3 - How Arctic Climate Change
Impacts Us</b><br>
The Half Drawn Man<br>
Find out how Arctic Amplification and Arctic Climate Change impact
us as humans living predominantly South of the Arctic Circle. Here
we talk about sea level rise and the effect of a slowing down
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, permafrost thaw, jet
stream meandering, North Atlantic Oscillation trends and polar
vortex and polar night jet disruptions.<br>
part 1 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSs2I4HMndY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSs2I4HMndY</a><br>
part 2 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSaIWzzxfo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHSaIWzzxfo</a><br>
Part 3 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/NSdOBogwTnE">https://youtu.be/NSdOBogwTnE</a>
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<i>[ critics of COP26 politics in video 22 mins ]</i><br>
#DemocracyNow<br>
<b>How Wealth Inequality Fuels the Climate Emergency: George
Monbiot, Scientist Kevin Anderson on COP26</b><br>
Nov 11, 2021<br>
Democracy Now!<br>
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The United States and China made a surprise announcement on
Wednesday at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow on a joint pledge to
reduce methane emissions and slow deforestation. The United States
is the largest historical emitter of carbon emissions, while China
has been the largest emitter in recent years. As negotiations
continue, we speak with British journalist George Monbiot and
British climate scientist Kevin Anderson about how world leaders and
even some climate scientists are downplaying the climate emergency.
“Everything we’ve been hearing here and at the previous 25 summits
is basically distraction,” says Monbiot, adding that global leaders
could “fix” the worst impacts of the climate crisis “in no time at
all if they wanted to.” Both guests highlight the role of extreme
wealth in fueling the climate crisis, with Anderson noting it’s
unfair to penalize nations like China, whose rising emissions
correlate to the production of goods transported to wealthier
countries. “Equity has to be a key part of our responses,” says
Anderson.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYbgZNE4Y0g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYbgZNE4Y0g</a><br>
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<i>[ Telling it like it is. Wired and smart. Video]</i><br>
<b>CO2Budget Day 1 - Kevin Anderson Keynote</b><br>
Jun 2, 2021<br>
Klimatriksdagen<br>
Kevin Anderson, professor in Climate and Energy transitions at the
University of Manchester gives his keynote on CO2budgets and how the
language of net-zero goals downplays the scale of mitigation
efforts. <br>
Followed up by a Q&A at the end, moderated by Isabel Baudish,
Coordinator at Climate Change Leadership, Uppsala University.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzDWVjstN7s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzDWVjstN7s</a><br>
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<i>[ He's still alive ! - video ]</i><br>
<b>Al Gore on his hopes for the planet: "Job number one is to stop
using the sky as an open sewer"</b><br>
JANUARY 13, 2022 / 1:03 PM / CBS NEWS<br>
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, which are helping warm the planet,
increased by 6.2% last year as the economy rebounded after pandemic
lockdowns—fueled by a rise in coal-generated power and pollution
from trucking. <br>
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Former Vice President Al Gore has been warning about the climate
emergency for decades. <br>
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He's been living on his 400-acre Tennessee farm since the pandemic
began. Most people would not consider Gore to be a farmer. <br>
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"I don't think so and truth to tell, I don't have many calluses on
my hands either," Gore joked with CBS News' senior national and
environmental correspondent Ben Tracy. <br>
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His team handles most of the farm work, tending to the sheep and
raising the animals that help fertilize the land where they are
growing everything from carrots and beets to a variety of greens. <br>
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They are sent to local markets, but this land outside Nashville is
also Gore's climate change laboratory. <br>
<br>
He is collecting a soil sample as he experiments with what is known
as regenerative farming, which Gore said will "cut back on the
plowing." <br>
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"There are better ways to plant," he said. <br>
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There is three times more carbon stored in the topsoil of the earth
than all the trees and plants combined. By plowing less and making
that soil more fertile, scientists believe that farmers could help
trap massive amounts of additional planet-warming carbon emissions
in the ground. <br>
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"Job number one is to stop using the sky as an open sewer for all
this man-made global warming pollution," Gore said. "That's what's
making the weather crazy and dangerous—leading to all of the
consequences that are on the TV news almost every night now." <br>
<br>
Gore says Mother Nature is now making the most effective argument
for climate action, and he is encouraged by the rapid growth of
solar and wind power and people buying electric vehicles in record
numbers. <br>
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But the planet is still rapidly warming as we continue to pump
near-record amounts of pollution into the sky, leading scientists to
declare a code red for humanity. <br>
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"A realist will tell you 'Look, we've done some damage, some of it
regrettably is not recoverable.' But we go from where we are. You
want to avoid tipping people into despair because some people go
from denial to despair without pausing at the intermediate step of
actually doing something about it," Gore said. <br>
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After attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in
Glasgow, Scotland, he said 2022 is the year world leaders need to
stop talking and actually start cutting their greenhouse gas
emissions. <br>
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"Some of the pledges are still weak and we need to measure what
they're doing and we need to keep an eye on them," Gore said. <br>
<br>
He is a major investor in a new tech platform called Climate TRACE.
It uses satellites, sensors and artificial intelligence to track
greenhouse gas emissions around the globe, from specific power
plants and factories to individual cargo ships and even forests
which release all of their stored carbon when they burn. <br>
<br>
Gore believes this will be an important tool to hold countries
accountable for their pollution. <br>
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He has been sounding the climate alarm for more than four decades —
first as a young congressman and then 15 years ago, with his film
"An Inconvenient Truth." <br>
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It earned him an Oscar, a Nobel Peace Prize, and plenty of scorn
from climate change deniers. <br>
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Despite all his accolades, Gore said he has not succeeded in getting
the message across. <br>
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"This crisis is still getting worse faster than we're deploying the
solutions. There is a remaining question about whether we can solve
it in time," he said. <br>
<br>
He said he's still optimistic, mainly because of young people all
over the world now demanding change—including Greta Thunberg. <br>
<br>
She and her fellow climate activists accuse world leaders of not
doing enough and this former politician does not want them to tone
down their criticism. <br>
<br>
"The more they march, the more noise they can make, the more demands
they insist upon, the faster progress we'll make. I'm a firm
believer in that," said Gore. <br>
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He still believes the climate crisis that humans created is one that
can be solved. <br>
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"The direction of travel is clear and I do believe that we will get
there," said Gore. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-gore-climate-change/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/al-gore-climate-change/</a><br>
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<i>[ great idea to find data, bookmark the link, download the PDF ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Trace </b><br>
We harness satellite imagery and other forms of remote sensing,
artificial intelligence, and collective data science expertise to
track human-caused GHG emissions as they happen.<br>
<br>
Climate TRACE’s emissions inventory is the world’s first
comprehensive accounting of GHG emissions based primarily on direct,
independent observation. Our innovative, open, and accessible
approach relies on advances in technology to fill critical knowledge
gaps for all countries that rely on the patchwork system of
self-reporting that serves as the basis for most existing emissions
inventories.<br>
Climate TRACE is a global coalition created to make meaningful
climate action faster and easier by independently tracking
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unprecedented detail and speed.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatetrace.org/about">https://www.climatetrace.org/about</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
January 15, 2009</b></font><br>
<p>January 15, 2013: Think Progress reports: "Virginia’s legislature
commissioned a study to determine the impacts of climate change on
the state’s shores. After Tea Party complaints, lawmakers
[removed] the words 'climate change' and “sea level rise” from the
title.<br>
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"This week, Virginia released its analysis, under the title
'Recurrent Flooding Study for Tidewater Virginia.' The report
discusses the threat of flooding and rising sea levels to coastal
Virginia, but gives less notice to the causes of climate change."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1448711/virginia-waters-down-report-on-impacts-of-climate-change-after-tea-party-complaints/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1448711/virginia-waters-down-report-on-impacts-of-climate-change-after-tea-party-complaints/</a>
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