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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 4, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ because it is real, it's serious, and it's here -- brief video
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<b>Why Does Climate Change Matter? We Asked a NASA Scientist</b><br>
NASA<br>
Nov 2, 2022<br>
Why does climate change matter? Because it's happening and we’re
already feeling its effects around the world. But there's hope. NASA
Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor Dr. Kate Calvin explains
how NASA collects data and develops tools that can help us better
understand and prepare for climate change: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climate.nasa.gov">https://climate.nasa.gov</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfWCUYX2_U0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfWCUYX2_U0</a><br>
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<i>[ global warming delivers more changes to the food supply ]</i><br>
<b>Big agriculture warns farming must change or risk ‘destroying the
planet’</b><br>
Report sponsored by some of the largest food and farming businesses
finds pace of shift to sustainable practices too slow<br>
Dominic Rushe<br>
@dominicru<br>
Thu 3 Nov 2022<br>
Food companies and governments must come together immediately to
change the world’s agricultural practices or risk “destroying the
planet”, according to the sponsors of a report by some of the
largest food and farming businesses released on Thursday.<br>
<br>
The report, from a taskforce within the Sustainable Markets
Initiative (SMI), a network of global CEOs focused on climate issues
established by King Charles III, is being released days before the
start of the United Nation’s Cop27 climate summit in Egypt.<br>
Many of the world’s largest food and agricultural businesses have
championed sustainable agricultural practices in recent years.
Regenerative farming practices, which prioritize cutting greenhouse
gas emissions, soil health and water conservation, now cover 15% of
croplands.<br>
<br>
But the pace of change has been “far too slow”, the report finds,
and must triple by 2030 for the world to have any chance of keeping
temperature rises under 1.5C, a level that if breached, scientists
argue, will unleash even more devastating climate change on the
planet.<br>
<br>
The report is signed by Bayer, Mars, McCain Foods, McDonald’s,
Mondēlez, Olam, PepsiCo, Waitrose and others. They represent a
potent political and corporate force, affecting the food supply
chain around the world. They are also, according to critics, some of
those most responsible for climate mismanagement with one calling
the report “smoke and mirrors” and unlikely to address the real
crisis...<br>
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Kuyek pointed out that Yara, another signatory to the report, is the
world’s largest supplier of nitrogen-based fertilizers, “which are
responsible for one out of every 40 tonnes of greenhouse gas emitted
annually”.<br>
<br>
“It’s pretty disingenuous,” said Kuyek. “Small, local food systems
still feed most of the people on the planet and the real threat is
that the industrial system is expanding at the expense of the truly
sustainable system. Corporations are creating a bit of smoke and
mirrors here, suggesting they are part of the solution when
inevitably they are part of the problem.”<br>
<br>
Considering the controversial histories of some of the companies
involved in the report, Verghese said he expected criticism and
scrutiny. “All companies have to stand up to the scrutiny of being
attacked if there is real greenwashing. There is no place to hide,”
he said. “As far as Olam is concerned we are very clear on our
targets, we have had the confidence to make these targets public.
All of us have progressed along the sustainable journey. It is not
that we have not made mistakes in the past but as we have become
better at this we are willing to be subject to scrutiny.”<br>
<br>
Both Reid and Verghese said the scale of the issues the world’s food
supply is facing cannot be underplayed but that more governments and
companies were becoming convinced of the need for urgent change. “I
believe change can be made,” said Verghese. “I am optimistic. The
fact that these kinds of coalitions are emerging is very positive.
We are all otherwise very strong rivals and competitors. We hate
each other’s guts, we don’t come together on anything unless there
is a huge crisis. Everyone is recognizing there is a huge crisis. We
need to come together.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/03/big-agriculture-climate-crisis-cop27">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/03/big-agriculture-climate-crisis-cop27</a><br>
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<i>[ cherry-picked data can make food hysteria -- but may be valid
-- start video 4 mins in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvGMGP-iV0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvGMGP-iV0</a> ]</i><br>
<b>Global Food Supply Risks Rising Rapidly</b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Nov 3, 2022<br>
I chat about how global food production in 2022 is much lower than
usual, and how this will play out for the rest of this year and for
2023. <br>
<br>
Many crops yields are down significantly this year, and the ability
of the UN World Food Program (WFP) to supply food has been severely
challenged. <br>
<br>
WFP is forced to reduce food to hungry people in order to keep
starving people alive.<br>
<br>
I also chat about a new Lancet report just published online on
October 25th, 2022 about how a confluence of factors has really
harmed human health and the ability of humanity to feed itself this
year, into next year.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvGMGP-iV0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyvGMGP-iV0</a>
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who have a sustainability or CSR head and can thus be<br>
deemed a proxy for companies leading on climate action. We<br>
found a surprising trend: nearly a quarter of these surveyed<br>
global climate leaders will not be publicising their<br>
achievements and milestones beyond the bare minimum or<br>
as required by for example the Science Based Targets<br>
initiative. This is concerning: more than ever, we need those<br>
making headway on sustainability targets to inspire others to<br>
make a start, to help shift mindsets and then behaviours..."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.southpole.com/">https://www.southpole.com/</a><br>
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<i>[ Opinion -- Is that all ya got? Just the word "hope" ?]</i><br>
<b>Despite years of exposure to the climate science, I don’t believe
we are headed for total societal collapse</b><br>
Rebecca Huntley<br>
People can seem immune to the news of catastrophic climate
breakdown, but that’s a very human response. There is hope<br>
Tue 1 Nov 2022<br>
Last Friday the Guardian published a story under the headline “World
close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown”. This was not a quote
from Greta Thunberg or Extinction Rebellion, but the central message
from three United Nations agencies.<br>
<br>
They found there was “no credible pathway to 1.5C in place” and
current pledges for action, even if honoured, would result in global
heating of around 2.5C – in other words, a catastrophic climate
breakdown, with devastating consequences for societies around the
globe.<br>
<br>
I read the report, but admit I skimmed it and went on to read an
op-ed about the recent federal budget and a story about a boy
rescued from a stormwater drain. Not because I don’t care about
climate change (on the contrary, it is an all-consuming personal and
professional passion), but because since I became involved in the
climate movement I have read countless reports like these.<br>
<br>
I’m not immune to the message. I just know I can’t do the work I
need to do unless I treat this information in a particular way.
Namely like a floor-length taffeta dress I once bought for a formal
event: it hangs in my wardrobe as a reminder, worn only
occasionally, but I can’t relax or do actual work in it.<br>
<br>
That requires the elasticated pants of functional denial.<br>
<br>
I am often asked why other people outside the climate movement don’t
react immediately with alarm and take to the streets when they read
headlines like this. They may actually be immune to the message.
They may not pay attention to the United Nations. But more likely
their failure to respond is a very human response.<br>
<br>
To feel fear, we must observe and register a threat, such as the
sight of a predator. That will then activate our “fight or flight”
response. Climate change seems to defy nearly all the evolutionary
and cognitive triggers for urgent action.<br>
<br>
Of course, the kinds of extreme weather events we have seen in
Australia and around the world are as tangible a threat to us as a
terrorist attack or a virus. But in order to see these floods and
fires in the same vein you must make the connection – that this is
climate change created by humans rather than just Mother Nature
doing her thing.<br>
In other words, our reptile brains have not evolved as quickly as
our ability to develop the kinds of technology that can alter, in
under 200 years, environments across a planet that have taken
millennia to develop.<br>
The good news is that the research I have conducted shows that in
the last few years more of us are seeing these climate impacts as
signs of impending catastrophe. Around one in three Australians are
alarmed about climate change and would describe it as a “crisis”
requiring greater government attention than any other issue. And we
can see how quickly the electoral politics can shift around climate
when we compare the 2019 and 2022 federal elections.<br>
<br>
But the research also shows that opinion still shifts slowly,
perhaps 1% for every extreme weather event that occurs. Floods and
fires alone will not turn us all into climate champions in the time
we have left.<br>
<br>
Call me wildly optimistic or semi-delusional, but despite years of
exposure to the climate science, I don’t believe that we are headed
for total societal collapse any time soon. I still have a faith in
the ability of groups of dedicated humans to collaborate to shift
the odds in our favour.<br>
<br>
But I also have the faith in capital to move quickly and decisively.
It’s already happening. Once the corporations that fund the
politicians realise there is more money to be made in climate action
than climate denial, we will all be amazed about how fast things can
move.<br>
<br>
And this leads me to my abiding worry right now above and beyond
societal collapse: my concern is not that it’s “the end of the world
as we know it”. It’s more like “the end of the world as we’d like
it”.<br>
We need to move quickly to speed up the solutions to climate action.
More renewable infrastructure and – if we are to meet our domestic
energy needs and replace coal and gas as an export – large-scale
renewables like the proposed Sun cable and the Asian renewable hub.
More, not less mining.<br>
<br>
My concern is that in our necessary speed towards solutions we
forget the views, values and needs of those who are going to be most
impacted. The communities where those working in fossil fuels are
concentrated. Those who are geographically, socially, economically
or culturally at a disadvantage when it comes to accessing all the
proposed benefits from this energy revolution.<br>
<br>
Those communities that have been, and will be, hit time and again by
extreme weather, drought and water shortages. And the First Nations
communities fighting for a real say when it comes to renewables
projects, after decades of fighting with fossil fuel companies.<br>
<br>
My worry is not that the Australia of the future will be like Mad
Max. More that it could be a more benevolent version of The Hunger
Games.<br>
<br>
Again – call me wildly optimistic or semi-delusional – voters and
communities have the chance right now to shape the nature of this
energy revolution we are already experiencing.<br>
<br>
It’s not just about windfarms and green hydrogen, with social
disadvantage worse than it was during our fossil fuel heyday. That
means we must amplify the voices and choices of the people who are
the most exposed to climate impacts and the ones most at risk if we
just act quickly and forget about fairly.<br>
<br>
Dr Rebecca Huntley is director of research at 89 Degrees East<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2022/nov/02/despite-years-of-exposure-to-the-climate-science-i-dont-believe-we-are-headed-for-total-societal-collapse">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2022/nov/02/despite-years-of-exposure-to-the-climate-science-i-dont-believe-we-are-headed-for-total-societal-collapse</a><br>
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<i>[ here's the upsetting article ]</i><br>
<b>World close to ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, warn major
studies</b><br>
The UN environment agency’s report found there was ‘no credible
pathway to 1.5C in place’ amid ‘woefully inadequate’ progress on
cutting carbon emissions. Photograph: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images<br>
Key UN reports published in last two days warn urgent and collective
action needed – as oil firms report astronomical profits<br>
by Damian Carrington -- Environment editor<br>
Thu 27 Oct 2022<br>
The climate crisis has reached a “really bleak moment”, one of the
world’s leading climate scientists has said, after a slew of major
reports laid bare how close the planet is to catastrophe.<br>
<br>
Collective action is needed by the world’s nations more now than at
any point since the second world war to avoid climate tipping
points, Prof Johan Rockström said, but geopolitical tensions are at
a high.<br>
<br>
He said the world was coming “very, very close to irreversible
changes … time is really running out very, very fast”.<br>
<br>
Emissions must fall by about half by 2030 to meet the
internationally agreed target of 1.5C of heating but are still
rising, the reports showed – at a time when oil giants are making
astronomical amounts of money...<br>
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Climate experts agree that every action that limits global heating
reduces the suffering endured by people from climate impacts. “The
1.5C target is now near impossible, but every fraction of a degree
will equate to massive avoided damages for generations to come,”
said Prof Dave Reay, at the University of Edinburgh, UK.<br>
<br>
Röckstrom said: “Despite the fact that the situation is depressing
and very challenging, I would strongly advise everyone to act in
business or policy or society or science. The deeper we fall into
the dark abyss of risk, the more we have to make efforts to climb
out of that hole. It’s not as if we don’t know what to do – it’s
rather that we’re not doing what is necessary.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/world-close-to-irreversible-climate-breakdown-warn-major-studies">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/27/world-close-to-irreversible-climate-breakdown-warn-major-studies</a><br>
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<i>[ Moby-Dick - the Whale influence modern science data collection
]</i><br>
<b>How centuries-old whaling logs are filling gaps in our climate
knowledge</b><br>
Whalers from the 18th and 19th centuries are helping 21st Century
scientists on climate change.<br>
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“What we want to see is, ‘Where did the whalers experience the
strongest winds? At what latitude? And was that where the strongest
winds are being experienced today? Or was that further north or
further south, and how has it varied over the 100 years or so that
the whalers went to this area?’” said Ummenhofer.<br>
<br>
With this work, Ummenhofer and her team aim to minimize what’s
missing in climate reporting: usable information from data-sparse
regions of the world. <br>
<br>
On Monday, May 14th, 1888, as a moderate trade wind blew from the
northeast between Cabo Verde and the Caribbean, the crew aboard the
Eunice H. Adams killed two sperm whales found in the middle of the
Atlantic. <br>
<br>
“At 10 AM, lowered the two port boats,” wrote Arthur O. Gibbons, the
vessel’s log keeper. “Larboard boat went on and struck a small
whale. Soon after the waist boat went and struck a larger one,”
wrote Gibbons. “Cut in the small whale. So ends this day.” Six days
later, the crew caught and killed another two sperm whales...<br>
- -<br>
“There are a lot of avenues that historians can explore, to work
hand in glove with scientists,” Walker said. Whether it’s ancient
medical records or port records, he sees centuries-old documentation
as an untapped asset in our long-term understanding of climate
change. “There is a gold mine in our backyard for finding out
information on past weather patterns globally.” <br>
<br>
The expedition of the Eunice H. Adams officially came to an end in
the spring of 1890. <br>
<br>
“The ship was leaking badly from the beginning of the voyage in
October 1887 to its end in March 1890,” said historian Stephen Luce,
one of the historians currently logging data for the Woods Hole
whaling project. Captain Martin was a Black sea captain, Luce said,
suspecting that the captain being given a leaky ship may have been
reflective of racism. <br>
<br>
Roughly one month before the Eunice H. Adams returned to
Massachusetts, Martin was replaced by another member of the crew.
The ship’s logbook offers no explanation. What it does offer is a
look into the captain’s struggles as one of the only Black sea
captains leading such expeditions at the time. “My guess is that all
the better ships, the good ships that were out there, went to the
white captains,” said Luce. <br>
<br>
Luce says he doesn’t know what happened to Martin after he left the
Eunice H. Adams. Records suggest that the transatlantic voyage
aboard the dilapidated brig was his final journey at sea, with one
account saying he fell ill and resigned of his own accord, returning
home as a paralytic.<br>
<br>
What Luce does know is that Martin died in 1907 and that he was laid
to rest in a humble plot beside his wife in Chappaquiddick,
Massachusetts, close to the place the Martins once called home. “I
was actually thinking about visiting his grave,” said Luce. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/article/how-centuries-old-whaling-logs-are-filling-gaps-in-our-climate-knowledge/">https://grist.org/article/how-centuries-old-whaling-logs-are-filling-gaps-in-our-climate-knowledge/</a>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at time of different political
tonality ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>November 4, 2009</b></i></font> <br>
November 4, 2009: On the same day that Senators John Kerry, Joe
Lieberman and Lindsey Graham announce a (doomed) plan to ensure that
climate-change legislation makes it through the Senate, MSNBC's
Rachel Maddow interviews Al Gore about the bill. <br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://swampland.time.com/2009/11/04/kerry-graham-lieberman-launch-climate-change-framework/">http://swampland.time.com/2009/11/04/kerry-graham-lieberman-launch-climate-change-framework/</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/HlRxkK7jPN0">http://youtu.be/HlRxkK7jPN0</a>
(Part 1)<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/ymB1TIkcit8">http://youtu.be/ymB1TIkcit8</a>
(Part 2)<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/uLZOBj3dLmg">http://youtu.be/uLZOBj3dLmg</a>
(Part 3)<br>
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