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<font size="+2"><i><b>December 29, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Snow-copalypse knows no boundaries, like Godzilla ] </i><br>
<b>Japan freezes! Ice apocalypse has stopped life! The snow is
endless</b><br>
Vulnerability<br>
Dec 29, 2022 ЯПОНИЯ<br>
Natural disaster 29 December 2022...<br>
Heavy snow in large swaths of Japan injured more than 90 people and
left hundreds of homes without power, disaster management officials
said Monday.<br>
Powerful winter fronts have dumped heavy snow in northern regions
since last week, stranding hundreds of vehicles on highways.<br>
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Municipal offices in the snow-hit regions urged residents to use
caution during snow removal activity and not to work alone.<br>
Many parts of northeastern Japan reported three times their average
snowfall for the season...<br>
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Watch the most current news about natural disasters on our
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The channel lists such natural disasters as:<br>
1) Geological emergencies: Earthquake, Volcanic eruption, Mud,
Landslide, Landslide, Avalanche;<br>
2) Hydrological emergencies: Flood, Tsunami, Limnological disaster,
Flood, Flood;<br>
3) Fires: Forest fire, Peat fire;<br>
4) Meteorological emergencies: Tornado, Cyclone, Blizzard, Hail,
Drought, Tornado, Hail, Hurricane, Tsunami, Storm, Thunderstorm,
Tempest.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DgVUpa4Tz8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DgVUpa4Tz8</a><br>
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<i>[ from Financial Times and Carbon Brief Daily ]</i><br>
<b>Japan approves nuclear energy U-turn to avert crisis</b><br>
Eri Sugiura and Kana Inagaki, Financial Times<br>
Japan has approved a plan to revive the use of nuclear energy,
reports the Financial Times, “redrafting an energy policy that has
been paralysed since the 2011 Fukushima crisis to address a serious
electricity shortage”. The paper continues: “...<br>
Under a new policy outlined by an advisory panel for the government
[yesterday], the country would ‘maximise the use of existing nuclear
reactors’ by accelerating restarts in a reversal of a post-Fukushima
plan to phase out the use of nuclear power plants. It would also
extend the lifespan of nuclear reactors beyond 60 years and develop
advanced reactors to replace those that are decommissioned.” Japan
sourced about a third of its energy from 54 nuclear reactors before
the Fukushima disaster, the paper says, but, “now, only nine are
operational, forcing the country to burn additional coal, natural
gas and fuel oil despite pledges to achieve net-zero carbon
emissions by 2050”...<br>
ABC News‘s numbers are slightly different, noting that “utility
companies have applied for restarts at 27 reactors in the past
decade. Seventeen have passed safety checks and only 10 have resumed
operations”. The Associated Press writes: “According the paper
laying out the new policy, nuclear power serves 'an important role
as a carbon-free baseload energy source in achieving supply
stability and carbon neutrality’ and pledged to ‘sustain use of
nuclear power into the future’... Deutsche Welle, Nikkei Asia and
Bangkok Post also have the story.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ft.com/content/721b66c6-fd73-432f-aef9-fe59befba2cf?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20221223&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily">https://www.ft.com/content/721b66c6-fd73-432f-aef9-fe59befba2cf?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_content=20221223&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20Daily</a><br>
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<i>[ US textbooks lacking - says British paper The Guardian ]</i><br>
<b>US college biology textbooks failing to address climate crisis,
study says</b><br>
Coverage of climate crisis solutions is slim in textbooks, with many
references moving to the back pages<br>
Aliya Uteuova<br>
Wed 21 Dec 2022 <br>
US college-level biology textbooks miss the mark on offering
solutions to the climate crisis, according to a new analysis of
books over the last 50 years.<br>
<br>
Fewer than three pages in a typical 1,000-page biology textbook from
recent decades address climate change, according to the new study,
despite experts warning it is humankind’s biggest problem.<br>
<br>
While the coverage of the topic has expanded since the 1970s, and
sentences focused on climate solutions peaked in the 1990s, that
emphasis declined by 80% in recent decades.<br>
<br>
The average coverage of climate change in biology textbooks from the
past decade was 67 sentences, a step up from 51 sentences in the
2000s.<br>
<br>
Researchers said that was not enough given the scale of the crisis.<br>
“Climate change is affecting life all over the globe,” said Jennifer
Landin, author of the study and an associate professor of biology at
North Carolina State University. “And we are not covering it to
nearly the degree it needs to be.”<br>
<br>
The researchers analyzed a total of 57 US college biology textbooks
published between 1970s to 2019 for the new study, published in the
Public Library of Science journal, Plos One.<br>
<br>
In that span, the placements of material about solutions to the
climate crisis migrated further back in the books, from the last 15%
to the last 2.5% of the pages.<br>
<br>
“People tend to move through books from beginning to end,” Landin
said, “and of course, everybody sort of runs out of time, so if you
have something at the very end, the odds are that that’s going to be
either covered quickly or not at all.”<br>
<br>
In their analysis of sentences that cover solutions, national or
international responsibility came up over four times that of
individual or local solutions. No textbook mentioned actions related
to dietary choices, with only eight books addressing transportation
as means to lower greenhouse emissions.<br>
<br>
“I was never really taught about climate change, maybe a day or two
but nothing in depth,” said Rabiya Arif Ansari, co-author of the
paper who started researching these textbooks in her second year of
college. “A lot of my peers lacked information regarding climate
change so I was very curious about how people are learning it.”<br>
<br>
One of the possible reasons for the downward shift in solutions
coverage that the paper points to might be stemming from textbook
authors. In the 1990s, there were many authors focused on science
education and science communication, while in recent decades the
field saw an increase in the number of authors who specialize in
cellular or molecular biology. Another possible reason that the
paper discusses is the societal backlash against not only acceptance
and action on climate change, but also conservation issues overall.<br>
<br>
The researchers conclude that the proportion of biology textbooks
that cover climate change solutions don’t reflect the severity of
the problem. And such a trend is not unique to biology.<br>
<br>
A 2019 study of top 11 best-selling introductory sociology textbooks
show a similar pattern of relegating pages on environmental issues
and climate toward the end of the books.<br>
<br>
“What troubles me a lot is that sociology rarely talks about climate
change,” says John Chung-En Liu, associate professor of sociology at
National Taiwan University. “Which is very ironic because climate
change is a problem of our society, especially social inequality,
not to mention the justice dimension.”...<br>
Liu points to the role of the publication industry, with college
textbooks known for not keeping up to date with the changes. Most
textbooks are updated only every three or four years, with the
structure remaining more or less the same.<br>
<br>
“Very often textbooks are 10 years behind in terms of how the
research has progressed,” Liu says...<br>
He hopes to see an increase in page space devoted to the climate
crisis, and shifting of that content from the end of the book to the
center. Landin notes that biology textbooks tend to go from
small-scale to large-scale, with the environmental issues and
ecology appearing only in the end.<br>
<br>
“I think that students learn best when we start from what they know
and then expand into the unknown,” Landin says, proposing the
reversal of the order from large-scale organisms to small-scale
topics of cellular and molecular biology.<br>
<br>
Another issue is that traditional textbook use is declining, which
Landin views as an opportunity to look at what comes next and what
needs to be emphasized to better help students.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/21/us-college-textbooks-not-addressing-climate-crisis-study">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/21/us-college-textbooks-not-addressing-climate-crisis-study</a><br>
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<i>[ Study done - see the data for yourself ]</i><br>
<b>Coverage of climate change in introductory biology textbooks,
1970–2019</b><br>
Rabiya Arif Ansari ,Jennifer M. Landin <br>
Published: December 21, 2022<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278532">https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278532</a><br>
<blockquote>Abstract<br>
Climate change is a potent threat to human society, biodiversity,
and ecosystem stability. Yet a 2021 Gallup poll found that only
43% of Americans see climate change as a serious threat over their
lifetimes. In this study, we analyze college biology textbook
coverage of climate change from 1970 to 2019. We focus on four
aspects for content analysis: 1) the amount of coverage,
determined by counting the number of sentences within the climate
change passage, 2) the start location of the passage in the book,
3) the categorization of sentences as addressing a description of
the greenhouse effect, impacts of global warming, or actions to
ameliorate climate change, and 4) the presentation of data in
figures. We analyzed 57 textbooks. Our findings show that coverage
of climate change has continually increased, although the greatest
increase occurred during the 1990s despite the growing threats of
climate change. The position of the climate change passage moved
further back in the book, from the last 15% to the last 2.5% of
pages. Over time, coverage shifted from a description of the
greenhouse effect to focus mostly on effects of climate change;
the most addressed impact was shifting ecosystems. Sentences
dedicated to actionable solutions to climate change peaked in the
1990s at over 15% of the passage, then decreased in recent decades
to 3%. Data figures present only global temperatures and CO2
levels prior to the year 2000, then include photographic evidence
and changes to species distributions after 2000. We hope this
study will alert curriculum designers and instructors to consider
implicit messages communicated in climate change lessons.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278532">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278532</a><br>
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<i>[ a famous ice storm in Montreal 1998 YouTube 40 min video ]</i><br>
<b>The Worst Natural Disaster in Canadian History (Ice Storm 1998)</b><br>
Discover Montréal<br>
Premiered Feb 5, 2022<br>
In January 1998, Montreal and the region surrounding it was hit by
the most disastrous ice storm ever recorded: more than four inches
of ice entombed an area larger than the State of Florida, causing
trees and power lines to collapse on an unprecedented scale, leaving
millions in the dark without heat (some for up to four weeks). 35
people died and damages totalled more than $5 billion making it the
worst natural disaster in Canadian history.<br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back more than a decade at a brief
moment of insight that needs to be revived ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>December 29, 2009</b></i></font> <br>
December 29, 2009: Washington Post writer Ezra Klein excoriates
members of the US Senate who have developed cold feet about
addressing global warming:<br>
<blockquote>"Amidst all this, conservative Senate Democrats are
waving off the<br>
idea of serious action in 2010. But not because they're opposed.
Oh,<br>
heavens no! It's because of abstract concerns over the political<br>
difficulties the problem presents. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), for<br>
instance, avers that 'climate change in an election year has very
poor<br>
prospects.' That's undoubtedly true, though it is odd to say that
the<br>
American system of governance can only solve problems every other<br>
year. Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) says that 'we need to deal with the<br>
phenomena of global warming,' but wants to wait until the economy
is<br>
fixed.<br>
<br>
"Rather than commenting abstractly on the difficulty of doing
this,<br>
Conrad and Bayh and others could make it easier by saying things
like<br>
'we simply have to do this, it's our moral obligation as
legislators,'<br>
and trying to persuade reporters to write stories about how even<br>
moderates such as Conrad and Byah are determined to do this. They<br>
could schedule meetings with other senators begging them to take
this<br>
seriously, leveraging the credibility and goodwill built over
decades<br>
in the Senate. They could spend money on TV ads in their state,<br>
talking directly into the camera, explaining to their constituents<br>
that they don't like having to face this problem, but see no
choice.<br>
That effort might fail -- probably will, in fact -- but it's got a<br>
better chance of success than not trying. And this is, well,
pretty<br>
important."<br>
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