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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 11, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ COP27 agenda summary from </i>Carbon Brief Daily <i>] </i><br>
<b>Loss and damage' Debate set to dominate the COP27 agenda</b><br>
Camilla Hodgson, Financial Times<br>
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Many publications carry stories on how conversations around “loss
and damage” could dominate COP27, the UN climate summit taking place
in Egypt in a few weeks. The FT reports that world leaders “are
gearing up for a renewed battle over how much financial support rich
countries provide to developing nations, to help them cope with the
consequences of rising global temperatures”. It continues: “The
question of so-called ‘loss and damage’ funding for developing
nations has been contentious for years, with rich countries
reluctant to accept financial responsibility for climate change
caused by industrial activity and offer compensation to poorer
countries. But many developing countries, such as the low-lying
Pacific island states vulnerable to sea level rise, are stepping up
their demands. They want to see the creation of an international
loss and damage finance facility.” (The FT story is part of a
“special report on managing climate change”, which also features an
article on how global food and energy crises “threaten to distract”
from COP27 and an article on Egypt’s climate activists fear
“consequences” for protesting at the summit.) Reuters reports on a
document suggesting “Caribbean nations will unite to seek ‘loss and
damage’ compensation” at the talks. Associated Press reports that
Germany also “wants” loss and damage finance to be on the agenda at
COP27. BBC News reports that young climate activists are also
pushing for loss and damage finance to be high on the agenda at
COP27. Bloomberg reports on how Pakistan’s recent floods could
reignite loss and damage talks at the summit.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CarbonBriefDailyBriefing/issues/carbon-brief-daily-10-10-2022-1397311">https://www.getrevue.co/profile/CarbonBriefDailyBriefing/issues/carbon-brief-daily-10-10-2022-1397311</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ft.com/content/3195ce2f-d4b3-4f9d-b6d4-6a05aa3da01a">https://www.ft.com/content/3195ce2f-d4b3-4f9d-b6d4-6a05aa3da01a</a>?<br>
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<i>[ climate activism in the DC area ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Protesters Spur Miles-long Backup on Capital Beltway in
Silver Spring</b><br>
Maryland State Police arrested seven people after protesters shut
down part of I-495 in Montgomery County, Maryland<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/climate-protesters-spur-miles-long-backup-on-capital-beltway-in-silver-spring-officials/3178304/">https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/climate-protesters-spur-miles-long-backup-on-capital-beltway-in-silver-spring-officials/3178304/</a><br>
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<i>[ see this video -- ABC10 weathercast about large scale changing
weather patterns ]</i><br>
<b>California Drought: 'A train wreck of dryness' - The atmosphere
is working against rain</b><br>
Oct 9, 2022 California Drought: ABC10 meteorologist Brenden
Mincheff explores the complex relationships between atmospheric
oscillations and drought in California.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwRYc-K9R9k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwRYc-K9R9k</a><br>
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<i>[ Just Have a Think, video commentary 13 mins - updated
understanding ]</i><br>
<b>We fixed the Ozone Layer, right?.. didn't we??</b><br>
Oct 9, 2022 The ozone layer is a vital component of our atmosphere.
Without it the sun's UV rays would sterilise the planet. In the
1980s we discovered we were badly damaging the layer, so a major
global initiative was created to repair it. But, did it work? And if
we could mobilise to address this issue, why didn't we do the same
thing for greenhouse gas emissions?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FRgEclRXmU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FRgEclRXmU</a><br>
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<i>[ everything he produces is worth viewing -- great reports video
channel ]</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/c/ClimateTown">https://www.youtube.com/c/ClimateTown</a><i><br>
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<i>[ tic-toc video is play only, no fast forwards ]</i><br>
<b>Is the new climate bill good or bad?</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TWXtm0B_JkE">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TWXtm0B_JkE</a><i><br>
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<i>[ UK blunders in failing to go green ]</i><br>
<i> </i><b>Analysis: UK’s gas imports would be 13% lower if it had
not ‘cut the green crap’</b><br>
8 October 2022<br>
SIMON EVANS<br>
The findings come as the government’s North Sea Transition Authority
announces a new licensing round for North Sea oil and gas, with the
stated aim of increasing UK energy security. The analysis also
follows news that the UK is at risk of blackouts if imports of gas
and electricity are restricted.<br>
<br>
Carbon Brief’s analysis shows that UK gas imports would have been
cut by 65 terawatt hours (TWh) if government support for energy
efficiency and renewables had continued, instead of being rolled
back after then-prime minister David Cameron told ministers in 2013
to “cut the green crap”.<br>
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This saving would have been nearly twice as large as the 34TWh
imported from Russia last year. It would have been sufficient to cut
the UK’s net gas imports by 13% overall, significantly boosting
energy security. The saving would have avoided buying 65TWh of gas
at a cost of around £5bn.<br>
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Most of the savings would have been from additional onshore wind and
solar capacity, which would have cut UK gas demand for electricity
by 20%. Moreover, the analysis shows that gas demand for electricity
generation would have been twice as high, if the UK had no renewable
energy sources.<br>
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‘Cutting the green crap’<br>
From 2013 onwards, successive Conservative-led governments cut
support for home energy efficiency improvements, scrapped a
requirement for new homes to be “zero carbon”, ended subsidies for
onshore wind and solar, and effectively banned onshore wind in
England.<br>
<br>
This caused a precipitous decline in the rate of home energy
efficiency improvements, led to millions of inefficient new homes
being built and dramatically reduced the amount of onshore wind and
solar capacity being built each year, as shown in Carbon Brief’s
January 2022 analysis.<br>
<br>
The new Carbon Brief analysis aggregates these climate policy
rollbacks in terms of the gas demand they would have avoided, if the
measures had remained in place.<br>
<br>
In total, UK gas demand would have been 65TWh lower if it had
insulated more homes (11TWh), built new homes to zero-carbon
standards (2TWh) and continued to add onshore wind (31TWh) and solar
(20TWh) at historical rates.<br>
<br>
This saving from not “cutting the green crap” is shown by the red
bars in the chart below, relative to UK gas demand in 2021 (grey)
and relative to net UK gas imports in the same year (light blue).
The chart also shows direct imports from Russia in 2021 in dark
blue...<br>
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At the £77 per megawatt hour average price of gas during 2022 to
date, this 65TWh would have amounted to a saving worth £5bn in
avoided gas costs.<br>
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Electricity supply<br>
The majority of the savings would have come from continuing to build
onshore wind and solar at historical rates, instead of seeing their
growth collapse due to climate policy rollbacks.<br>
<br>
Carbon Brief’s analysis assumes onshore wind would have grown at the
same rate as in 2017, when 1.8 gigawatts (GW) was built, meaning an
extra 5.4GW being built by the end of 2021. It assumes an extra 10GW
of solar capacity would have been added during 2016-2021. This is
based, conservatively, on adding capacity at 2016 levels, well below
the peak seen in 2017...<br>
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In total, this 15GW of extra renewable capacity would have generated
some 25TWh of electricity per year on average. Generating this
electricity at average UK gas-fired power stations would require
51TWh of gas, because half the energy in the fuel is lost as waste
heat.<br>
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This saving from not “cutting the green crap” is shown by the red
bar in the chart below – a 20% cut relative to actual UK gas demand
for electricity generation in 2021 (grey)...<br>
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In addition, the chart shows how much more gas would have been
needed if the UK had not got 40% of its electricity from renewable
sources in 2021.<br>
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The UK would have needed to double the 254TWh of gas used to
generate electricity last year, if it had not had any supplies from
wind, solar, hydro and biomass power.<br>
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This would have increased UK gas demand in 2021 by 29% at a cost of
around £10bn.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-gas-imports-would-be-13-lower-if-it-had-not-cut-the-green-crap/">https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-gas-imports-would-be-13-lower-if-it-had-not-cut-the-green-crap/</a><br>
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<i>[ Nate Hagens - climate commentator, educator and now enumerator
-- 14 min video]</i><br>
<b>The 7 Stages of Climate Awareness | Frankly #10</b><br>
Sep 30, 2022 On this weeks Frankly, I highlight (what was in my
case) Seven Stages of Climate Awareness – from recognizing ‘there is
an environment’ to understanding that the systems dynamics of the
human economy implies a much different choreography of societal
response than is currently being advertised and pursued. Global
warming is becoming more obvious to more people, but the
interventions look quite different at Stage 7 than Stage 4. It is
unlikely we’ll find ‘solutions’ without first understanding the
dynamics at its core.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDi82plBOh4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDi82plBOh4</a><br>
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<i>[ Use this site to get long term predictions ]</i><br>
<b>Climate News</b><br>
La Niña is favored to continue through Northern Hemisphere winter
2022-23, with La Niña chances decreasing in January-March 2023 (8
Sep 2022)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml">https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml</a><br>
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href="https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/">https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/</a><br>
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<i>[ another good rant -- play it at fast speed - 28 minute video ]</i><br>
<b>The Biggest Myth About Climate Change</b><br>
Sep 15, 2022 Check out America Outdoors Understory on @PBS : <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/s-R1p89zHnk">https://youtu.be/s-R1p89zHnk</a>
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You’ve seen it in the comment section before: “Climate change is
natural. It’s happened before and it will keep happening”. In
reality, comments like these are the newest kind of climate change
denial. In this video we’re going to learn about all the reasons
that Earth’s climate changes, natural and otherwise, and then how we
know that modern climate change can’t be blamed on natural forces.
Maybe we can finally put this biggest myth about climate change in
the trash.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6bVBH9y5O8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6bVBH9y5O8</a><br>
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<i>[ new magazine in Australia = Sight ]</i><br>
<b>Climate impacts: US east coast faces "competing catastrophies" as
fire risk grows</b><br>
09 October 2022<br>
DAVID SHERFINSKI<br>
Nags Head, North Carolina<br>
Thomson Reuters Foundation<br>
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Nags Head, a quiet beachfront community of colourful wooden homes in
North Carolina's Outer Banks, faces no shortage of climate
change-fuelled threats, from wilder storms to sea level rise and
flooding.<br>
<br>
A survey of some of the coastal resort town's residents, for a state
resilience report released in May, found nearly 80 per cent had been
impacted by flooding or hurricanes.<br>
But as global temperatures approach a key 1.5 degrees Celsius level
of warming that scientists fear could herald a transition to far
costlier and deadlier climate change impacts, a new threat is rising
in normally water-threatened Nags Head: wildfire.<br>
<br>
Western US states, including California, have grown accustomed to
dealing with catastrophic-scale wildfires in the face of a
relentless increase in "fire weather" - conditions of record
temperatures, low humidity and high winds.<br>
But now similar threats are quietly spreading across the nation,
including into states not up to now thought of as at significant
risk.<br>
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North Carolina saw 5,151 wildland fires in 2021, the third most in
the country after California and Texas. In March, a thousand acres
burned just a short drive from Nags Head, after a fire prevention
blaze went wrong.<br>
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The eastern seaboard state still ranks 23rd nationally in the area
affected by wildfires, with 10,500 hectares burned in 2021,
according to the National Interagency Fire Center.<br>
<br>
But North and South Carolina have some of the largest numbers of
properties threatened by wildfire after California and New Mexico,
according to a May report by First Street Foundation, a non-profit
that maps climate risks.<br>
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"Wildfire risk is increasing so much faster than even flood risk is
across the US," said Ed Kearns, the group's chief data officer. "And
it's likely to affect areas that aren't thought of as wildfire-prone
areas right now, but will be soon."<br>
<br>
Global temperatures have risen more than 1.2 degrees Celsius since
preindustrial times, and oil, gas and coal use - the major driver of
that increase - are still rising, despite pledges to slash
emissions...<br>
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"It's the hurricanes and the rising water – they're right in
[residents'] face all the time, and wildfire may not be," said
Duncan, now the executive secretary for Grassroots Wildland
Firefighters, an advocacy group.<br>
<br>
"Which one do you put your time and energy into the most?" she
asked. "What's the biggest bang for the buck?"<br>
On the Dare County mainland, less than an hour's drive from Nags
Head, a huge wildfire torched more than 1,000 acres of land in
March...<br>
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"There's just been so many damn fires," Van Riper said, lowering his
voice to a whisper. <br>
<br>
"Too many fires," the forest fire equipment operator added.<br>
<br>
Cook said steady development in the Nags Head area - including a
build-up of trees, shrubs and other flammable vegetation - is
increasing the risk of wildfires.<br>
<br>
Close to 5,000 properties in the town of Nags Head - 87 per cent of
the total - now have some risk of being affected by wildfire in the
next three decades, according to First Street Foundation.<br>
<br>
That risk in populated areas of Nags Head is, on average, higher
than in 70 per cent of communities nationwide, the federal mapping
tool Wildfire Risk to Communities shows.<br>
<br>
"Hurricanes, fires, floods - we got a little bit of everything
here," Cook said.<br>
Nags Head Mayor Ben Cahoon said wildfires were a concern but
resources were limited in a coastal town where erosion, hurricanes
and flooding are more immediate dangers.<br>
<br>
He hailed the town's beach nourishment plan which periodically
installs fresh sand and plantings to protect beachfront homes and
infrastructure – a top priority for a community at risk of being
swallowed by rising seas.<br>
<br>
The survey of residents released in May, which showed most had been
impacted by floods or hurricanes, found only one person so far
affected by wildfires.<br>
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Still, "we spend so much time talking about floods," Cahoon
admitted. "We probably should be a little more attentive to [fire],
talk to our citizens a little bit more about it than we do."<br>
<br>
Residents, so far, aren't particularly worried.<br>
<br>
"I've been here 37 years," said Bryan Whitehurst, a co-owner of
Greentail's Seafood Market and Kitchen in Nags Head and a resident
of nearby Kill Devil Hills. "There's been fires, but nothing they
haven't been able to put out." <br>
<br>
Elena Shevliakova, a senior climate modeller at the US National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said authorities need to
start thinking now about how to protect the public from worsening
wildfire threats.<br>
<br>
"How are you going to change your management of fires? And how are
you going to do urban planning?" she asked.<br>
<br>
In Dare County, local, state and federal officials are working to
cut the risks with efforts like prescribed burns in Nags Head Woods
Preserve and Jockey's Ridge State Park, both of which abut
residential neighbourhoods.<br>
<br>
Residents are slowly coming around to the idea of "good fire" that
can cut threats by removing vegetation that burns easily, said Kayla
Barnes, a Dare County ranger for the state's Forest Service.<br>
<br>
But Hallac, of the National Park Service, said it can be challenging
to communicate rising levels of risk to people who might never have
seen a big wildfire before.<br>
<br>
"I'm sure that if we had a large wildfire that threatened or
impacted private dwellings, [it] would become a hot topic," he said.
Wildfires "are not a huge issue until they are."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sightmagazine.com.au/features/27066-climate-impacts-us-east-coast-faces-competing-catastrophies-as-fire-risk-grows">https://www.sightmagazine.com.au/features/27066-climate-impacts-us-east-coast-faces-competing-catastrophies-as-fire-risk-grows</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 11, 2015</b></i></font> <br>
October 11, 2015:<br>
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The New York Times editorial page observes:<br>
<br>
"Misinformation about climate change is distressingly common in the
United States — a 2014 Yale study found that 35 percent of Americans
believe that global warming is caused mostly by natural phenomena
rather than human activity, and 34 percent think there is a lot of
disagreement among scientists about whether global warming is even
happening. (In fact, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree
that climate change is here and that it is caused by humans.) One
way to stop the spread of this misinformation is to teach children
about climate change.<br>
<br>
"The Next Generation Science Standards offer one guide for doing so.
Developed by a committee of scientists and education experts and
honed by teams in 26 states before their release in 2013, the
standards set forth a variety of scientific practices and concepts
for students from kindergarten through 12th grade to master.<br>
<br>
"Middle school students should understand that 'human activities,
such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels,
are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface
temperature.' In high school, students should learn that
human-caused environmental changes, including climate change, 'can
disrupt an ecosystem and threaten the survival of some species,' and
they should be able to use climate models to determine the rate of
climate change and its possible effects."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/teaching-the-truth-about-climate-change.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/teaching-the-truth-about-climate-change.html</a>
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