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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 29, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ McKibben -- New Yorker simple explanation ] </i><br>
<b>Hurricane Ian Is a Storm That We Knew Would Occur</b><br>
Too much climate energy, too little climate action.<br>
By Bill McKibben<br>
September 28, 2022<br>
Officials have done little, if anything, with decades of information
on the phenomena that are making storms more severe...<br>
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Whatever the eventual damage, it’s already another stark
demonstration of what happens when there’s too much physical energy
in a closed system, and too little political energy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hurricane-ian-is-a-storm-that-we-knew-would-occur">https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hurricane-ian-is-a-storm-that-we-knew-would-occur</a>
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<i>[ The United Nations - UN News ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change: Hurricanes and cyclones bring misery to millions,
as Ian makes landfall in the US</b><br>
<b>Fingerprints of climate change</b><br>
The World Meteorological Organization has reminded that climate
change is expected to increase the proportion of major tropical
cyclones worldwide, and to increase the heavy rainfall associated
with these events.<br>
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Meanwhile, sea level rise and coastal development are also worsening
the impact of coastal flooding...<br>
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“The human and socio-economic impacts of these cyclones will be felt
for years,” warned Cyrille Honoré, WMO Director of Disaster Risk
Reduction and Public Services branch...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1128221">https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1128221</a><br>
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<i>[ Vox seems to have best scientific explanation ]</i><br>
<b>Hurricane Ian’s rapid intensification is a sign of the world to
come</b><br>
How Hurricane Ian got so powerful — in just two days.<br>
<br>
By Benji Jones and Umair Irfan Sep 28, 2022<br>
On Monday morning, Hurricane Ian had wind speeds of 75 miles per
hour. Just 48 hours later, those speeds had more than doubled. On
Wednesday, as the storm made landfall in southwestern Florida, Ian’s
wind hit 155 mph — just shy of a Category 5 storm, the most severe
category for a hurricane.<br>
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Such rapid growth is known by meteorologists as “rapid
intensification.” It’s defined as storms whose wind speeds increase
by roughly 35 mph or more in less than 24 hours. “Ian definitely met
that criteria,” said Paul Miller, a professor of oceanography and
coastal sciences at Louisiana State University.<br>
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While wind speed isn’t the only force that makes storms dangerous,
hurricanes that rapidly intensify are especially worrisome. They can
easily catch coastal communities off guard, giving them little time
to prepare, Miller said.<br>
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<b>What made Hurricane Ian strengthen so quickly</b><br>
There are three main ingredients that, when mixed together, can
result in a rapidly intensifying hurricane: moist air, low wind
shear (wind coming from different directions or at different
speeds), and warm ocean water.<br>
All three of those things create a favorable ecosystem for a
hurricane to establish circulation and intensify,” Miller said.<br>
<br>
Ian had them all. As it developed several days ago, the storm system
faced some disrupting winds, but there was little shear as it grew
over the last few days, Miller said. And Ian has largely avoided a
region of dry air in the Gulf of Mexico. (Had Ian hit Florida
farther north, it might have deteriorated faster, he said.)<br>
<br>
Then there’s the warm ocean water. The Gulf of Mexico has been
unseasonably warm this summer, according to the National Weather
Service. And climate change is heating the Caribbean ocean by a
little over 1 degree C (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) per century.<br>
<br>
“Even small changes — half a degree C, or a degree — can really make
a big difference,” said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the
University of Miami...<br>
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According to a recent analysis of hurricane data by the Associated
Press, there were about 25 percent more rapidly intensifying storms
in the Atlantic Ocean and Eastern Pacific in the last 10 years
compared to 40 years ago. Some past scientific studies have also
shown that hurricanes are intensifying more rapidly in parts of the
Atlantic in recent years.<br>
<br>
“As the oceans warm a little bit, you’re just gradually making
[rapid intensification] more likely,” McNoldy said.<br>
<br>
Global warming could also help rapidly intensify storms in another
way: Climate change tends to warm the land faster than the sea,
forming a temperature gradient along coasts, said Karthik Balaguru,
a climate scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. That
gradient tends to favor rapid intensification of hurricanes along
the Atlantic Coast, he said...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2022/9/28/23376761/hurricane-ian-rapid-intensification-climate-change">https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2022/9/28/23376761/hurricane-ian-rapid-intensification-climate-change</a><br>
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<i>[ Planetary sabotage is not very smart ]</i><br>
<b>Nord Stream Gas Leaks May Be a New Disaster for the Climate</b><br>
Germany estimates 300,000 metric tons of methane escapes<br>
Scientists speculate it could be one of the worst leaks ever<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-28/nord-stream-gas-leaks-could-be-unprecedented-climate-disaster#xj4y7vzkg">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-28/nord-stream-gas-leaks-could-be-unprecedented-climate-disaster#xj4y7vzkg</a><br>
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<i>[ BBC -- considering Tipping Point #5 Society ]</i><br>
<b>Justin Rowlatt asks whether humanity itself is on the cusp of its
own tipping point</b> - one that will galvanise us to take rapid
unprecedented action in order to contain the worst effects of
climate change. In this series, he discovers how global warming may
trigger irreversible changes to our planet.<br>
Producer: Laurence Knight<br>
Released On: 10 Jun 2022 --Available for over a year<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00181m0">https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00181m0</a><br>
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<i> [ 60 min video lecture - will be difficult to view ]</i><br>
<b>Collapse and Ecocide as Religious Failure - Dowd</b><br>
1,733 views Sep 20, 2022 A follow-up to Rev. Michael Dowd's "Main
Drivers of Collapse, Ecocide, and Likely NTHE" video, this 44-minute
video makes the rather audacious claim that each of the four main
drivers of collapse: (1) Civilization, (2) Science & Technology,
(3) Progress & Development, and (4) Growth Economics arise from
and remain grounded in anthropocentrism (human-centeredness), which
is itself caused by being "G🌎D-blind and biosphere deaf". For those
unfamiliar with such an "Eco-Theo" or "Religious Naturalism"
perspective, please see the links below.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCGFkRGfiUk&">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCGFkRGfiUk&</a><br>
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<i>[ Carbon Brief - calling attention to the un-quantified losses ]</i><br>
<b>Loss and damage: What happens when climate change destroys lives
and cultures?</b><br>
INTERNATIONAL POLICY 28 September 2022 <br>
According to the most recent assessment of climate impacts from the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), loss and damage
can broadly be split into two categories: economic losses involving
“income and physical assets”; and non-economic losses, which include
– but are not limited to – “mortality, mobility and mental wellbeing
losses”.<br>
<p>Non-economic loss and damage is often also referred to as
“intangible” loss and damage. According to a scientific review
published in 2019, the term “intangible” is used because
non-economic losses “cannot and perhaps should not be quantified”.</p>
This review offers a much broader definition of what constitutes
intangible loss and damage from climate change.It says that
intangible loss and damage can result from climate-induced harm to:<br>
<blockquote>Biodiversity and species<br>
Culture, traditions and heritage<br>
Human dignity<br>
Ecosystem services or habitat<br>
Human life<br>
Human mobility<br>
Human identity<br>
Knowledge and ways of knowing<br>
Mental and emotional wellbeing<br>
Order in the world<br>
Physical health<br>
Productive land<br>
Self-determination and influence<br>
Sense of place<br>
Social fabric<br>
Sovereignty<br>
Territory<br>
</blockquote>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/loss-and-damage-what-happens-when-climate-change-destroys-lives-and-cultures/">https://www.carbonbrief.org/loss-and-damage-what-happens-when-climate-change-destroys-lives-and-cultures/</a></p>
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[ perhaps an academic paper will help us better understand ]<br>
<b>One thousand ways to experience loss: A systematic analysis of
climate-related intangible harm from around the world</b><br>
Author links open overlay
panelP.TschakertN.R.EllisC.AndersonA.KellyJ.Obeng<br>
<blockquote><b>Abstract</b><br>
A situated and socially engaged science of loss arising from
climate change takes people’s lived experiences with risk and harm
as its fundamental starting point. It foregrounds what losses
occur, where and how, which of these losses matter most to people
and why, and whether or not such losses are considered acceptable
and potentially reversible. However, obtaining such insight is
difficult if the many things people value, across space and time,
are intangible, i.e. they cannot and perhaps should not be
quantified, and hence are often overlooked and omitted. This is
the case, for instance, for the symbolic and affective dimensions
of culture and place, such as sense of belonging, personal and
collective notions of identity, and ways of knowing and making
sense of the world, all of which are already undermined by climate
change. Here, we perform the first systematic comparative analysis
of people-centered and place-specific experiences with
climate-related harm to people’s values that are largely
intangible and non-commensurable. We draw upon >100 published
case studies from around the world to make visible and concrete
what matters most to people and what is at stake in the context of
climate-related hazards and impacts. We show that the same threats
can produce vastly different outcomes, ranging from reversible
damages to irreversible losses and anticipated future risks,
across numerous value dimensions, for indigenous and
non-indigenous families, communities, and countries at all levels
of development. Through this analysis, we also empirically
validate dimensions of harm that have been produced and reproduced
in the literature, albeit often devoid of distinct substance,
lived experiences, and intrinsic significance. We end by
discussing ethical implications of the ‘one thousand ways’ to
encounter harm and offer recommendations to overcome
methodological challenges in advancing a science of loss grounded
in place.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378018308276?via%3Dihub#">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378018308276?via%3Dihub#</a>!<br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 29, 2000</b></i></font> <br>
September 29, 2000: In an apparent effort to convince moderate
voters<br>
not to support Democratic opponent Al Gore, GOP presidential
candidate<br>
George W. Bush delivers an energy speech implying that he will
pursue<br>
efforts to reduce carbon pollution as president. Bush would go on to<br>
abandon this implied promise during his tenure in the White House.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/EnergyIssues3">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/EnergyIssues3</a><br>
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