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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>April 3, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ unsurprising headlines ]</i><br>
<b>Dire warning on climate change ‘is being ignored’ amid war and
economic turmoil</b><br>
The third segment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
report is being overshadowed, just like the previous one<br>
Fiona Harvey -- Sun 3 Apr 2022<br>
Scientists fear that their last-ditch climate warnings are going
unheeded amid international turmoil caused by the war in Ukraine,
and soaring energy prices.<br>
<br>
The third segment of the landmark scientific report from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which could be the last
comprehensive assessment of climate science to be published while
there is still time to avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown
– will be published on Monday, warning that the world is not
shifting quickly enough to a low-carbon economy.<br>
<br>
But the previous instalment of the vast report – known as working
group 2 of the IPCC – was published a month ago, just as Russia
invaded Ukraine, and received only muted attention, despite warning
of catastrophic and irreversible upheavals that can only narrowly be
avoided by urgent action now. Scientists told the Observer that
Monday’s fresh scientific warning must spur governments to belated
action.<br>
<br>
‘They said they’d mutilate and kill me,’ says kidnapped Ukrainian
journalist<br>
Deborah Brosnan, adjunct professor of biology at Virginia Tech
University in the US and a scientific consultant, told the Observer:
“That [working group 2] report was widely anticipated, but
completely ignored. Eclipsed mostly by the war in Ukraine, and
domestic issues such as inflation, most major media have barely
reported let alone analysed the findings.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/03/dire-warning-on-climate-change-is-being-ignored-amid-war-and-economic-turmoil">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/03/dire-warning-on-climate-change-is-being-ignored-amid-war-and-economic-turmoil</a><br>
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<i>[ Carnegie Endowment discussions video ]</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>
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>[ Hidden Brain radio show - 54 min audio] <br>
</i><b>You Don’t Need a Crystal Ball</b><br>
When disaster strikes — from the explosion of a space shuttle to the
spread of a deadly virus — we want to know whether we could have
avoided catastrophe. Did anyone speak up with concerns about the
situation? And if so, why didn’t someone listen? This week, we
revisit a favorite episode about the psychology of warnings, and how
we can all become better at predicting the future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/you-dont-need-a-crystal-ball/">https://hiddenbrain.org/podcast/you-dont-need-a-crystal-ball/</a><br>
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<i>[ common morality - and crucial to success ]</i><br>
<b>Indigenous Land Rights Are Critical to Realizing Goals of the
Paris Climate Accord, a New Study Finds</b><br>
Tribal lands studied sequester far more carbon than non-Indigenous
regions. Yet Indigenous’ rights are often ignored and the forests
the tribes protect are exploited or lost.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01042022/indigenous-land-rights-paris-agreement/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01042022/indigenous-land-rights-paris-agreement/</a>
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<i>[ stronger language ]</i><br>
<b>Reaching the Paris Agreement without protecting Indigenous lands
is “impossible”, says report</b><br>
<blockquote> - - A new report by the Forest Declaration Assessment
says that fulfilling the Paris Agreement won’t be possible without
acknowledging and supporting the crucial role of Indigenous
peoples and other local communities’ (IPLCs) in protecting lands.<br>
<br>
- - About 90% of IPLC lands are carbon sinks, say the report
authors, Climate Focus and the World Resources Institute (WRI),
which analyzed the IPLC lands in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and
Peru.<br>
<br>
- - Each hectare of IPLC land sequesters an average of 30 metric
tons of carbon every year, about twice as much as lands outside
IPLC protection. This equates to about 30% of the four nation’s
Paris Agreement targets.<br>
<br>
- - Countries should facilitate the titling of all IPLC lands,
ensure consent to development projects, commit to protecting
environmental defenders and make sure IPLCs are included in U.N.
targets, says the report.<br>
</blockquote>
“How is it possible that governments, after having so much evidence
based on Western modern science, still don’t understand the
relevance [of Indigenous communities]?” said Guadalupe Yesenia
Hernández Márquez, a Zapotec Indigenous leader from Oaxaca in Mexico
who was part of the Indigenous people’s caucus at the U.N.
biodiversity negotiations.<br>
<br>
“We are requesting a role in the post-2020 [global biodiversity
framework] because we have shown that we are needed,” said Márquez.
“We want to continue conserving [biodiversity] as our lives depend
directly on nature – something sacred to us.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/reaching-the-paris-agreement-without-protecting-indigenous-lands-is-impossible-says-report/">https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/reaching-the-paris-agreement-without-protecting-indigenous-lands-is-impossible-says-report/</a><br>
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<i>[ here is the briefing paper report from Forest Declaration
Assessment ]</i><br>
<b>Sink or swim: How Indigenous and community lands can make or
break nationally determined </b><b>contributions</b><br>
March 2022<br>
This paper examines the role of Indigenous peoples and<br>
local communities’ (IPLC) lands as carbon sinks and<br>
how they may impact national climate commitments<br>
in four countries – Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru.<br>
These countries are responsible for 5.1 percent of global<br>
greenhouse gas emissions and store about 28 percent<br>
of the carbon located in IPLC lands. Together, they are<br>
home to over 300 Indigenous groups whose lands are<br>
currently threatened by over-development, mining, and<br>
agri-business. For each of the four countries, we<br>
examined past and existing nationally determined<br>
contributions and related documents, conducted a<br>
geospatial analysis to examine carbon sequestration<br>
and emissions on IPLC lands, and assessed the extent<br>
to which IPLCs lands are protected by national laws<br>
and policies. This analysis was used to develop a set of<br>
actionable recommendations for governments in the<br>
four countries, many of which are also relevant to<br>
governments in other forest countries with significant<br>
IPLC populations. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sink-or-swim-IPLC-lands-and-NDCs.pdf">https://forestdeclaration.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Sink-or-swim-IPLC-lands-and-NDCs.pdf</a><br>
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<i>[ a reminder from Scientific American ] </i><br>
<b>Double Disaster: Wildfires Followed by Extreme Rainfall Are More
Likely with Climate Change</b><br>
These events can cause devastating landslides and flash floods<br>
- -<br>
Their work, published on Friday in Science Advances, found that by
the end of this century most wildfires in in large parts of the West
would be followed by several extreme rain events within five years.
This would carry major risks of landslides and flash floods...<br>
And these risks are not confined to decades in the future: the study
showed the odds of this type of compound event occurring have
already risen across the West. “We’re starting to see these types of
things happen with our own eyes,” Stevenson says.<br>
<br>
Climate scientists combine historical data with computer models to
look for trends in how the severity and frequency of extreme weather
events have already changed and how they will continue to do so in
the future. These efforts have already made it clear that wildfires
in the western U.S. will likely become more intense and burn larger
areas and that heavy downpours are likely to get more frequent and
intense...<br>
- -<br>
The day after the Marshall Fire ignited, a major snowstorm
fell—which helped extinguish the flames. But in a warmer future,
that snow may have fallen as rain, potentially compounding the
devastation. “We’re not going to prevent” such events, Stevenson
says, so “we need to be prepared.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/double-disaster-wildfires-followed-by-extreme-rainfall-are-more-likely-with-climate-change/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/double-disaster-wildfires-followed-by-extreme-rainfall-are-more-likely-with-climate-change/</a><br>
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<i>[ What do birds know that humans fail to grasp? text and audio
reading ]</i><br>
<b>Birds are laying their eggs a month earlier than normal</b><br>
Did your backyard nest produce little songbirds a bit earlier this
year?<br>
<br>
You’re not alone. It turns out birds are laying their eggs earlier
than before — and eggshell evidence points the finger at our
changing climate.<br>
<br>
A new analysis published in the Journal of Animal Ecology shows that
the average egg-laying dates have moved up by nearly a month for 72
species of birds in the Upper Midwest region.<br>
<br>
The bodies of these shorebirds are actually shrinking, and global
warming is the cause<br>
<br>
A 120-year-old collection of eggshells held by Chicago’s Field
Museum helped hatch an investigation by a national group of
researchers. The museum houses hundreds of the shells, most of which
were collected before the 1920s, along with data about the types of
birds and when the eggs were laid. The scientists also used records
of bird nesting observations taken in the Chicago area between 1880
and 1920 and about 1990 to 2015.<br>
<br>
A bird egg collection at the Field Museum of Natural History in
Chicago. (John Bates/Field Museum)<br>
Over time, the researchers found, the average egg-laying date moved
up for a variety of species in Chicago. Overall, the birds’ lay
dates advanced by an average of 25.1 days, with less shift for
resident species and a wider shift for short- and long-distance
migrants.<br>
<br>
The animals studied aren’t just early birds: They are sensitive to
climactic shifts. The researchers found that small changes in
temperature — approximated using carbon-dioxide data from over the
years — affected birds’ laying patterns.<br>
<br>
<b>Birds’ winter habits are shifting as climate, land use change</b><br>
<br>
Climate change has shifted seasonal rhythms of animals and plants,
which affects everything from bird food to bird habitats and can
place birds in competition with one another for insects and other
food sources. The earlier and warmer springs that accompany
human-caused climate change can effectively strand birds that are
born earlier than their traditional food sources.<br>
<br>
The study points not just to the urgency of human-caused climate
change but also the value of historic observations to modern
scientists.<br>
<br>
Combining archival data with modern observations, the researchers
write, “will provide the ability to track, understand and perhaps
even predict responses to present and future human-driven
environmental change.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/04/02/birds-eggs-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2022/04/02/birds-eggs-climate-change/</a><br>
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<i>[ noticing the mighty Sahuaro Cactus ]</i><br>
<b>Saguaro, Free of the Earth</b><br>
by Boyce Upholt<br>
March 31, 2022<br>
The O’odham peoples of the Sonoran Desert have long revered the
saguaro cactus as a being with personhood—a belief that is congruous
with the recent rights-of-nature movement. As legal protections for
the cactus come up against the push to build a wall through Organ
Pipe Cactus National Park, Boyce Upholt travels to the US-Mexico
border, where a coalition of Indigenous voices are speaking on
behalf of the rooted beings of the desert.<br>
- -<br>
IN 1982, A MAN named David Grundman shot a twenty-seven-foot-tall
saguaro cactus. His reason remains unarticulated in the Arizona
Republic article that recounts the crime, but we know that Grundman
managed to get off two blasts from his sixteen-gauge shotgun before
the cactus enacted its revenge: twenty-three feet of its central
column—thousands of pounds of cactus flesh—fell atop his body.
According to witnesses, he had only gotten halfway through the word
“timber!” Grundman was dead before authorities arrived on the scene,
though he lives on now as the subject of a sardonic country ballad:
“Saguaro / A menace to the west,” as the chorus goes...<br>
- -<br>
Desert life offers a reminder that we humans, too, need aid. Even
the Border Patrol has found that we ignore nature at our peril, as
Mona Polacca points out. Last year, a particularly strong monsoon
ripped through many gates in the wall, taking a first step towards
the dismantling that the Healing the Border coalition seeks. “We
didn’t do any of that work,” Polacca said. “The laws of nature did.”
The monsoons will only grow worse as the climate changes. So too
will floods and wildfires, droughts and heatwaves. This Earth is
looking increasingly precarious. To grant the saguaro its freedom
need not be an act of selflessness, then. How we fare in the coming
years seems to increasingly depend on how willing we are to
collaborate—with one another, and with the world’s many other
beings. Now, then, may be the time to bring our own laws in line
with nature’s.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/saguaro-free-of-the-earth/">https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/saguaro-free-of-the-earth/</a>
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<i>[</i> <i>Walter Cronkite</i><i> -- the most trusted person in
mass media, quotes and video from the late Paul Tsongas - video]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>April, 3, 1980</b></font><br>
<b>"The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite" </b>reports on the
role coal plays in fueling global warming.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://climatecrocks.com/2013/01/23/1980-cronkite-on-climate/">http://climatecrocks.com/2013/01/23/1980-cronkite-on-climate/</a><br>
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