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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>April 1, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all
thy Piety nor Wit<br>
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash
out a Word of it." ― Omar Khayyám ]</i><br>
<b>Greta Thunberg to publish a ‘go-to source’ book on the climate
crisis</b><br>
The Climate Book will include contributions from scientist Katharine
Hayhoe, economist Thomas Piketty and novelist Margaret Atwood<br>
Lucy Knight - - 31 Mar 2022<br>
Greta Thunberg is releasing a new book this autumn, which aims to
offer a “global overview of how the planet’s many crises connect”.<br>
<br>
“I have decided to use my platform to create a book based on the
current best available science – a book that covers the climate,
ecological and sustainability crises holistically”, Thunberg said in
a statement. “Because the climate crisis is, of course, only a
symptom of a much larger sustainability crisis. My hope is that this
book might be some kind of go-to source for understanding these
different, closely interconnected crises.”<br>
<br>
In The Climate Book, which is due to be published by Penguin this
autumn, Thunberg has assembled more than 100 contributors, from
scientists Johan Rockström and Katharine Hayhoe to economist Thomas
Piketty and novelist Margaret Atwood. The 19-year-old also shares
what she has learned from her own experiences of climate activism.
In particular, she discusses the prevalence of greenwashing,
revealing the extent to which we have been kept in the dark about
the issue. She names this as one of our biggest problems, but also
our greatest source of hope – because, she believes, once we are all
given the full picture, we will be able to act.<br>
“Right now, we are in desperate need of hope”, Thunberg said. “But
hope is not about pretending that everything will be fine.”<br>
She added: “To me, hope is not something that is given to you, it is
something you have to earn, to create. It cannot be gained
passively, through standing by and waiting for someone else to do
something. Hope is taking action. It is stepping outside your
comfort zone. And if a bunch of weird schoolkids were able to get
millions of people to start changing their lives, just imagine what
we could all do together if we really tried.”<br>
<br>
Since 2018, when Thunberg, then 15, started her now famous school
strike, the Swedish teenager has been calling for stronger action to
be taken against the climate crisis. She has become a worldwide
celebrity and figurehead of the environmental activist community,
becoming the youngest Time Person of the Year in 2019 and being
nominated three times for a Nobel peace prize.<br>
She has previously published three books, two co-authored by her
parents and sister: Scenes from the Heart and Our House Is on Fire,
and one collection of speeches, No One Is Too Small to Make a
Difference. This new book is set to be her most comprehensive work
yet, pulling together ideas and knowledge from experts with a view
to “equip us all” to make positive change.<br>
<br>
“Greta has proven herself to be one of our finest and most
galvanising new writers”, said Chloe Currens, Thunberg’s editor at
Penguin. “In a series of sharp, insightful and impassioned chapters,
which knit the book’s different parts together, she shares her own
experiences and responds to what she’s learned.”<br>
Currens went on to call The Climate Book “unique” and “alive with
moral purpose”. It “aims to change the climate conversation forever”
she said.<br>
The Climate Book is due to be published in the UK on 27 October
2022, with a US release planned for early 2023.<br>
The full list of contributors can be found [here at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2022/03/31/Contributors.pdf">https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2022/03/31/Contributors.pdf</a> ].<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/31/greta-thunberg-the-climate-book-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/31/greta-thunberg-the-climate-book-crisis</a><br>
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<i>[ NYT tells us ] </i><br>
<b>How Bad Is California’s Drought Ahead of Dry Season?</b><br>
Moving into April means the end of the state’s rainy season — and
hope of improving drought conditions.<br>
By Soumya Karlamangla - - March 31, 2022<br>
<br>
Today marks the final day of California’s rainy season.<br>
<br>
December, January and February are typically the wettest months in
the Golden State, with 75 percent of the state’s annual
precipitation falling between November and March.<br>
<br>
Now we’re about to enter our dry season, and the drought is nowhere
near over. Gov. Gavin Newsom this week, in an attempt to curb water
usage, proposed banning businesses from watering their lawns. More
than 93 percent of California is considered to be in severe or
extreme drought.<br>
<br>
“We are definitely very much at the tail end of our wet season in
California,” Jeanine Jones, drought manager with the California
Department of Water Resources, told me. “We are not expecting any
significant amount of additional precipitation — certainly not
something that would make any difference for the drought.”<br>
<br>
Jones added: “In other words, most of what we’re going to get, we
have gotten.”<br>
<br>
So where does that leave us?<br>
All of California’s major reservoirs are currently at below-average
levels. The state’s snowpack on Wednesday was a dismal 39 percent of
what it typically is this time of year, according to state data.
Newsom hasn’t yet announced mandatory water cuts for Californians
but faces increasing pressure to do so.<br>
<br>
The water year in California runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 and is
defined that way so that the winter rainy season falls within a
single water year.<br>
<br>
Between October and December — the start of this water year —
California received more rainfall than it had over the previous 12
months. Atmospheric rivers shattered records and replenished
reservoirs.<br>
<br>
But then we entered 2022. January and February represented the
driest two-month start to a year on record in California, according
to state officials. March is unlikely to be much better, even after
this week’s storms.<br>
<br>
The whiplash isn’t unusual in the Golden State; we have more climate
variability than any other state in the nation, Jones said. And the
weather has recently become even more unpredictable because of the
effects of climate change...<br>
Still, the heavy rains from the end of 2021 were not enough to
overcome the past three exceptionally dry months.<br>
<br>
At the end of December, the state had received 150 percent of the
precipitation it typically has at that point in the water year. That
figure has since dropped to below average — to roughly 70 percent.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, with March coming to a close and no storms on the
horizon, we can say with near certainty that California’s drought in
2022 will keep getting worse.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/us/california-rain-drought.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/us/california-rain-drought.html</a><br>
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<i>[ reconsidering measurements ]</i><br>
Estimates of the carbon cycle—vital to predicting climate change—are
incorrect, researchers show<br>
by Virginia Tech -- APRIL 1, 2022<br>
"Either the amount of carbon coming out of the atmosphere from the
plants is wrong or the amount coming out of the soil is wrong," said
Meredith Steele, an assistant professor in the School of Plant and
Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life
Sciences, whose Ph.D. student at the time, Jinshi Jian, led the
research team. The findings are to be published Friday in Nature
Communications.<br>
<br>
"We are not challenging the well-established climate change science,
but we should be able to account for all carbon in the ecosystem and
currently cannot," she said. "What we found is that the models of
the ecosystem's response to climate change need updating."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phys.org/news/2022-04-carbon-cyclevital-climate-changeare-incorrect.html">https://phys.org/news/2022-04-carbon-cyclevital-climate-changeare-incorrect.html</a><br>
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<i>[ no joke from National Geographic video ] </i><br>
<b>2 Degrees Till The End. Global Warming Documentary</b><br>
Dec 1, 2021<br>
Science<br>
Global warming is sure to cause many cataclysms. Poisonous methane
is overcoming the atmosphere. The new Flood is coming. These are not
usual tabloid scary stories. United Nations have stated the point of
no return for the climate on Earth. They say, we have only two
degrees Celsius left. If the weather gets two degrees warmer, the
consequences will be crucial for humanity.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCIeAqusDuk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCIeAqusDuk</a><br>
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<i>[ A big issue - video panel ]</i><br>
<b>The Middle East's Climate Change Wake-Up</b><br>
Feb 17, 2022 <br>
Carnegie Endowment<br>
In the Middle East, climate change poses an unchecked threat as it
sharpens socio-economic inequalities and further jeopardizes the
plight of vulnerable communities already challenged by poor
governance, water shortages, and conflict-induced displacement.
While some Middle East governments have been proactive in the
transition to renewable energy, there is still much more they can
and should do to adapt to the far-reaching effects of climate change
through better governance and inclusion.<br>
<br>
Join a panel of distinguished scholars for a wide-ranging discussion
on the cascading impacts of climate change in the Middle East and
how governments and citizens can prepare.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GHyZGziSM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5GHyZGziSM</a><br>
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<i>[ Potholer54 has a great journalistic analysis in this video ]
</i><br>
<b>A close look at Roy Spencer's claims on global warming</b><br>
Mar 19, 2022<br>
potholer54<br>
<br>
CORRECTIONS: <br>
1:47 GRL paper is 2019, not 2020<br>
2.52 RSS is 5 degrees short of worldwide, N & S latitiudes<br>
10:15 date should be 85mya not 50mya<br>
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Charity donations: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://healthinharmony.org/donate/">https://healthinharmony.org/donate/</a><br>
<br>
Table of troposphere results:<br>
climatefeedback.org/claimreview/noaa-shows-clear-global-warming-trends-over-the-past-58-years-based-on-radiosonde-data
2 copy 2 <br>
<br>
UAH wrong, the Earth is warming:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://archive.is/zfd3D">https://archive.is/zfd3D</a><br>
<br>
'Global Warming Conference: The State of Climate Change Science'<br>
by Dr. Roy Spencer (COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE) 1997<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/2002112722">http://web.archive.org/web/2002112722</a>...<br>
<br>
Graph of hindcast/forecast from 2000<br>
From "Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming
Projections Right" <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/st">https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/st</a>...<br>
<br>
"There isn't a problem with the measurements that we can find," <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://science.nasa.gov/science-news">https://science.nasa.gov/science-news</a>...<br>
<br>
" Evaluating the Performance of Past Climate Model Projections"<br>
-- Hausfather et al 2019<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c">https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.c</a>...<br>
<br>
NOTE: Models don't actually project temperatures in degrees
centigrade per decade, they predict the forcing effect of the
various feedbacks for a given rise in carbon gas concentration, and
the temperature rise per decade is inferred from that. In the case
of the 17 models reviewed in the Geophysical Research Letters
journal, ten of them accurately predicted the actual CO2
concentration increase and matched actual temperature data. Four
matched actual temperature data when their CO2 assumptions were
adjusted to match actual CO2 concentration. Two were overestimates,
and one was an underestimate. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29QDGEJC1fg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29QDGEJC1fg</a><br>
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<i>[ DeSmogBlog Database entry for Roy Spencer ]</i><br>
<b>Roy W Spencer</b><br>
Background<br>
Roy W. Spencer is a research scientist at the University of Alabama,
Huntsville. He operates his own blog on global warming where he
describes himself as a “climatologist, author, [and] former NASA
scientist.” [1]<br>
<br>
Spencer is an advisor to the Cornwall Alliance, formerly the
Interfaith Steward Alliance (ISA), an evangelical Christian group
that claims environmentalism is “one of the greatest threats to
society and the church today.” [2], [3], [4]<br>
<br>
According to “Global Warming 101,” a section of Spencer’s website,
“the extra carbon dioxide we pump into the atmosphere is not enough
to cause the observed warming in the last 100 years.” [5]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/">https://www.desmog.com/roy-spencer/</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back - is anybody keeping score? ]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>April 1, 2009</b></font><br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"The debate on global warming and energy policy
accelerated on Tuesday as two senior House Democrats unveiled a
far-reaching bill to cap heat-trapping gases and quicken the
country’s move away from dependence on coal and oil.<br>
<br>
"But the bill leaves critical questions unanswered and has no
Republican support. It is thus the beginning, not the end, of the
debate in Congress on how to deal with two of President Obama’s
priorities, climate change and energy.<br>
<br>
"The draft measure, written by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of
California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, sets a slightly
more ambitious goal for capping heat-trapping gases than Mr.
Obama’s proposal. The bill requires that emissions be reduced 20
percent from 2005 levels by 2020, while Mr. Obama’s plan calls for
a 14 percent reduction by 2020. Both would reduce emissions of
carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases by roughly 80
percent by 2050."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/us/politics/01energycnd.html?pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/us/politics/01energycnd.html?pagewanted=print</a><br>
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