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<font size="+2"><i><b>January 15, 2023</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Clip from BBC explaining California wet and dry - a minute
+plus ] </i><br>
<b>Daniel Swain on California's Flood/Drought Whiplash</b><br>
greenmanbucket<br>
2.59K subscribers<br>
Jan 14, 2023<br>
BBC Interview with climate scientist Daniel Swain of the Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO.<br>
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<i>[ Easy to understand, simple explanation from respected scientist
--and no deep math nor complex chemistry -- 18 min video ]</i><br>
<b>Hydrogen Will Not Save Us. Here's Why.</b><br>
Sabine Hossenfelder<br>
39,786 views Jan 14, 2023 #science #technology #climate<br>
Replacing fossil fuel with hydrogen seems like an ideal solution to
make transportation environmentally friendly and to provide a backup
for intermittent energy sources like solar and wind. But how
environmentally friendly is hydrogen really? And how sustainable is
it, given that hydrogen fuel cells rely on supply of rare metals
like platinum and iridium? In this video, we have collected all the
relevant numbers for you. <br>
👉 Transcript and References on Patreon ➜ <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.patreon.com/Sabine">https://www.patreon.com/Sabine</a><br>
<blockquote> 00:00 Intro<br>
00:49 Hydrogen Basics<br>
03:39 The Hydrogen Market<br>
06:04 The Colours Of Hydrogen<br>
12:11 Water Supply<br>
13:34 The Cold Start Problem<br>
14:05 Rare Metal Shortages<br>
15:55 Hydrogen Embrittlement<br>
16:45 Summary<br>
18:16 Protect Your Privacy with NordVPN<br>
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<i>[ More science - superb text article - and an audio read ]</i><br>
<b>How We Came to Know and Fear the Doomsday Glacier</b><br>
We’re only beginning to understand Antarctica’s Thwaites, the
world’s most vulnerable glacier<br>
Marissa Grunes, Hakai<br>
January 10, 2023<br>
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Thwaites and its neighbor Pine Island Glacier drain about one-third
of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet—the ice sheet extending west from
the natural dividing line of the Transantarctic Mountains. The two
glaciers are breaking up into icebergs far more quickly than new ice
can be created. Already they contribute five percent of annual sea
level rise, or roughly 0.18 millimeters annually: the equivalent of
dumping over 20 million Olympic-sized swimming pools into the ocean
each year. And if Thwaites collapses, its shape and location mean
the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could go with it. All told,
that’s enough water to raise sea levels by over three meters,
redrawing coastlines and transforming the planet we know...<br>
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The next generation of polar researchers responded to these
developments at the bottom of the world. David Holland, a Canadian
mathematician interested in modeling ocean-water-air interactions,
had been on the second plane to land atop Pine Island Glacier in
2007. He knew that ocean currents respond principally to wind and
other atmospheric patterns, and had developed a sophisticated
weather station to find out what the atmosphere was up to. He and
two assistants camped out on Pine Island Glacier five summers in a
row before they shifted their focus to Thwaites.<br>
<br>
They were still figuring out where to focus their research, he
explains. Building on previous work, Holland’s team started at Pine
Island. But, he says, “while we were there, we thought, Shouldn’t we
be next door at Thwaites?”<br>
<br>
The storms around Thwaites and its vast extent make it especially
difficult to study. In 2004, a joint project between the United
States and the United Kingdom had included the first systematic
airborne survey of the topography beneath Thwaites, revealing
patterns of ice flow into the glacier’s interior and its connection
to the surrounding ice sheet. The scope of its possible impact was
becoming clear.<br>
<br>
Thwaites is larger than Pine Island Glacier—much, much larger. It
has a wide front—over 120 kilometers—and its base slopes steeply
down to nearly 1,000 meters below sea level. These dimensions give
the warm ocean water a lot of ice to work with. Moreover, Thwaites’s
catchment basin, meaning the ice that flows into the glacier, is
around 700 kilometers long, the distance from Boston, Massachusetts,
to Washington, DC. In short, it’s the perfect candidate for collapse
on a massive scale. Today, Thwaites contributes more sea level rise
than Pine Island Glacier by a factor of four to one.<br>
<br>
For decades, though, the focus had been on Pine Island Glacier. The
two glaciers are neighbors—but on an Antarctic scale of over 50
kilometers of thick sea ice between the most accessible ice fronts.
In fact, since earlier cruises had been so intent on reaching Pine
Island Glacier, it’s possible that nobody saw Thwaites from
shipboard until 2019. And as Holland found when he sailed there in
January 2022, the glacier’s disintegration is making it even harder
to reach.<br>
<br>
Headlines in December 2021 announced that the Thwaites ice shelf
might “shatter like a car windscreen” within five years. That’s hard
to say for sure. We do know that the floating ice shelf acts like a
buttress, keeping Thwaites’s inland, grounded ice stable. We also
know that the ice shelf is fracturing into icebergs at unprecedented
rates. If the ocean drives the grounding line back too far, it can
cause runaway melting.<br>
<br>
Thwaites is a cork in the bottle of West Antarctica. Its vast size
and central position mean that its collapse could trigger a reaction
across the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet. It’s possible this
happened around 125,000 years ago, when sea levels were about six to
nine meters higher than today. West Antarctica won’t fall apart
overnight. It might take a few hundred years. But if it does
happen—as many researchers fear it will—it will redraw global
coastlines.<br>
Unusually warm ocean currents are melting the ice. Those currents
are driven by shifting wind patterns: stronger winds displace cold
surface water, allowing deep warmer water to rise up and pour over
the continental shelf into the marine basin beneath the glaciers.
The winds, in turn, respond to one thing: changes in air
temperature. And those changes are caused by greenhouse gas
emissions.<br>
<br>
In short, Holland says, “the winds will change the ocean, the ocean
will melt Antarctica—and the water is coming to visit you.” There is
evidence that atmospheric changes can raise sea levels by several
meters within the space of a century. But the systems are so complex
that they’re hard to predict. We have apps on our phone to tell us
the weather tomorrow, Holland remarks, but we’re a long way from
having such apps for the ocean or ice sheets. In fact, the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change asserts that predicting
the “dynamic contribution” of ice sheets “remains the key
uncertainty” in sea level rise projections.<br>
<br>
Science is a fallible, communal human process; it moves by slow
self-correction, threading its way through uncertainties like a ship
among icebergs. In Pine Island Bay, where the ocean charts
themselves are still being updated, precision is vital. But
precision takes time, and Thwaites’s time seems to dwindle with each
new study.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-we-came-to-know-and-fear-the-doomsday-glacier-180981392/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-we-came-to-know-and-fear-the-doomsday-glacier-180981392/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-we-came-to-know-and-fear-the-doomsday-glacier/">https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-we-came-to-know-and-fear-the-doomsday-glacier/</a><br>
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<i>[ He's a media-anointed saint of the "Techno-fides" religion (
faith in technology) ]</i><br>
<b>Bill Gates: We will overshoot 1.5 degrees Celsius of global
warming, nuclear can be ‘super safe’ and fake meat will eventually
be ‘very good’</b><br>
PUBLISHED FRI, JAN 13 2023<br>
Catherine Clifford<br>
KEY POINTS<br>
<blockquote> -- The world will not be able to avoid overshooting the
goal established in the 2015 Paris Climate Accord to limit global
warming to, ideally, 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to
pre-Industrial levels, Bill Gates told Reddit users on Wednesday.<br>
-- While it’s “great” if people want to be vegan, Gates doesn’t
think most people will do that and thinks that alternative meat
products will “eventually” be “very good.”<br>
-- Individuals who want to contribute to climate change mitigation
can do thinks like vote, buy an electric car and stay optimistic.<br>
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“The pace of innovation is really picking up even though we won’t
make the current timelines or avoid going over 1.5,” Gates wrote in
response to a question about how well the world is responding to
climate change...<br>
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“You are a voter, a consumer, a giver and a worker. In every one of
those roles you can help,” Gates wrote.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/13/bill-gates-we-will-overshoot-1point5-degrees-of-global-warming.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/13/bill-gates-we-will-overshoot-1point5-degrees-of-global-warming.html</a><br>
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<p><i>[ from Reddit ]</i><br>
<b>I’m Bill Gates, and I’m back for my 11th AMA. Ask Me Anything</b><br>
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<blockquote>
<p>Feel free to ask what I’m excited about in the year ahead, our
work at the foundation, or anything else.<br>
<br>
Proof: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1613272185342414848">https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1613272185342414848</a><br>
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Update: It looks like I’m out of Diet Coke, so it must be time
to wrap things up. Thanks for all the great questions!<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/109eze3/im_bill_gates_and_im_back_for_my_11th_ama_ask_me/">https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/109eze3/im_bill_gates_and_im_back_for_my_11th_ama_ask_me/</a><br>
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<i>[ California reservoirs, machine reading - video ]</i><br>
<b>California Reservoirs are filling quickly, boosting water
supplies after years of drought</b><br>
Every News<br>
107,439 views Jan 13, 2023 <br>
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<i>[ Greta watch BBC ]</i><br>
<b>Lützerath: Greta Thunberg joins 'Pinky' and 'Brain' tunnel
protest</b><br>
By Paul Kirby & Sira Thierij<br>
BBC News<br>
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has denounced "police
violence" in removing climate protesters trying to stop an abandoned
village being swallowed up by an open coal mine.<br>
<br>
The last resident left Lützerath in western Germany more than a year
ago and police moved in to clear activists from the site on
Wednesday.<br>
<br>
Many of the protesters have gone but two protesters nicknamed
"Pinky" and "Brain" are holed up in a tunnel.<br>
<br>
Others are waiting in treehouses.<br>
<br>
Several thousand supporters are expected to attend a big rally on
Saturday in the neighbouring village of Keyenberg.<br>
<br>
The police operation in Lützerath, now owned by energy firm RWE, has
proved awkward for the government as Germany's Vice-Chancellor
Robert Habeck is a leading figure in the Greens.<br>
<br>
Germany has promised to phase out coal-fired power by 2030, bringing
forward the date from 2038, and Lützerath is expected to be the
final village to be swallowed up by the Garzweiler opencast mine.
RWE said the coal under the village would be needed as early as this
winter.<br>
<br>
But the climate protesters have been buoyed by public support, with
a survey suggesting 59% of Germans are against the lignite mine
expanding.<br>
<br>
Lützerath has become a symbol for activists from all over Germany.<br>
<br>
"People are already suffering in the global south. Here we're
privileged and able to protest and we have to use this privilege to
stop the use of fossils," one activist told the BBC.<br>
<br>
As police moved in on Wednesday, protesters formed human chains, and
took to treehouses or rooftops in the village.<br>
<br>
Most had been cleared by Friday, when the focus turned to two young
men in a tunnel they had dug beneath Lützerath.<br>
<br>
Sitting beside a bouquet of flowers, the two protesters have posted
videos on YouTube in which they call themselves Pinky and Brain,
taken from an animated cartoon about lab rats in the late 1990s.<br>
"We're trying to make this last as long as possible so the people
upstairs have time to mobilise even more and make the protest even
bigger," they said on Thursday night.<br>
<br>
"It's much harder to evict a tunnel than a tree house. They don't
know exactly where [we] are. All the ways in are barricaded with
doors, so getting inside will be a lot harder."<br>
<br>
Aachen police chief Dirk Weinspach said his team were trying to
communicate with the two underground protesters and warned that the
tunnel was in danger of collapse.<br>
<br>
Responding to Greta Thunberg's accusations of violence, the police
chief said the Swedish activist had made no attempt to speak to
authorities about what was going on and had made only a brief visit
during which she spoke to the media.<br>
<br>
Like the Greens, many of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats
are unhappy with the operation to clear the village and believe it
runs counter to Germany's commitment to limiting global warming to
1.5 degrees.<br>
<br>
Mr Scholz rejected the protesters' claims that using the lignite
deposits from Lützerath would put Germany's climate goals in danger.
"It's exactly the other way around - we're working politically to
achieve our climate goals."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64261197">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64261197</a>
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<i>[ activist Eliot Jacobson drinks and expounds in this personal,
informative video - over a hour long, sort of entertaining video ]</i><br>
<b>California Rainpocalypse Ask Me Anything for January 14, 2023</b><br>
Climate Casino<br>
This is an AMA "ask me anything" Live on YouTube video.<br>
Links for today's video: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatecasino.net">https://www.climatecasino.net</a><br>
Contact: Twitter @EliotJacobson<br>
Mastodon @EliotJacobson@toad.social<br>
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<i>[ his YouTube channel is the Climate Casino
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateCasino">https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateCasino</a> ]</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfdh1mOgbU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amfdh1mOgbU</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at government control of
language ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>January 15, 2013</b></i></font> <br>
January 15, 2013: Think Progress reports: "Virginia’s legislature
commissioned a study to determine the impacts of climate change on
the state’s shores. After Tea Party complaints, lawmakers [removed]
the words 'climate change' and “sea level rise” from the title.<br>
<br>
"This week, Virginia released its analysis, under the title
'Recurrent Flooding Study for Tidewater Virginia.' The report
discusses the threat of flooding and rising sea levels to coastal
Virginia, but gives less notice to the causes of climate change."<br>
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<strike><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1448711/virginia-waters-down-report-on-impacts-of-climate-change-after-tea-party-complaints/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/01/15/1448711/virginia-waters-down-report-on-impacts-of-climate-change-after-tea-party-complaints/</a>
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<blockquote><b>Virginia Waters Down Report On Impacts Of Climate
Change After Tea Party Complaints</b><br>
REBECCA LEBER<br>
JAN 15, 2013<br>
<br>
Earlier this year, Virginia’s legislature commissioned a study to
determine the impacts of climate change on the state’s shores.
After Tea Party complaints, lawmakers approved the report on
condition it strike the words “climate change” and “sea level
rise” from the title.<br>
<br>
This week, Virginia released its analysis, under the title
“Recurrent Flooding Study for Tidewater Virginia.” The report
discusses the threat of flooding and rising sea levels to coastal
Virginia, but gives less notice to the causes of climate change.<br>
<br>
State Delegate Chris Stolle (R), a climate denier himself, deemed
terms like “sea level rise” “liberal code words” and insisted on
cutting them from the report’s description. The Virginia Tea Party
originally slammed the study as “more ridiculous studies designed
to separate us from our money and control all land and water use.”<br>
<br>
The science backing climate change is noncontroversial. Even the
modified report recognizes the reality of the changing climate:<br>
<blockquote><b>Sea level rise in Virginia is a documented fact.</b>
Water levels in Hampton Roads have risen more than one foot over
the past 80 years. The causes of this rise are well understood
and current analyses suggest the rate of rise is increasing.<br>
</blockquote>
Despite the report’s concrete recommendations that Virginia
“should immediately begin comprehensive and coordinated planning
efforts,” lawmakers have already decided to ignore it, even though
Virginia cities spend millions each year elevating roads and
replacing piers to withstand flooding. The Virginian-Pilot writes,
“State Sen. Ralph Northam, a Democrat who represents Norfolk and
the Eastern Shore, and who was a co-patron of the study request
last year, said he has no plans to introduce legislation on sea
level rise this year. Neither does state Del. Chris Stolle,
R-Virginia Beach, who also was a co-patron of the study last
year.”<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190612165125/https://thinkprogress.org/virginia-waters-down-report-on-impacts-of-climate-change-after-tea-party-complaints-f74833cde5db/">https://web.archive.org/web/20190612165125/https://thinkprogress.org/virginia-waters-down-report-on-impacts-of-climate-change-after-tea-party-complaints-f74833cde5db/</a><br>
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