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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>April</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 18, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ NPR audio report ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>How disappearing ice in Antarctica
threatens the U.S.</b><br>
April 17, 20234:58 PM ET<br>
Heard on All Things Considered<br>
Rebecca Hersher</font>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">8 Minute listen
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/04/20230417_atc_how_disappearing_ice_in_antarctica_threatens_the_us.mp3?d=482&size=7724348&e=1170371283&t=progseg&seg=4&sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer">https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/04/20230417_atc_how_disappearing_ice_in_antarctica_threatens_the_us.mp3?d=482&size=7724348&e=1170371283&t=progseg&seg=4&sc=siteplayer&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Galveston, Texas, has some of the fastest sea
level rise in the world. To protect the city, engineers need to
know how fast ice in West Antarctica will melt. Scientists are
racing to figure it out, often camping out on the ice for weeks on
end to study the effects of climate change.<br>
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This story was edited by Neela Banerjee and Sadie Babits. It was
produced by Ryan Kellman. Special thanks to Sean McConnell of the
Rosenberg Library in Galveston, Texas, for assistance with
archival audio and historical records...<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1170371283/how-disappearing-ice-in-antarctica-threatens-the-u-s">https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1170371283/how-disappearing-ice-in-antarctica-threatens-the-u-s</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Very current science meets with politics
to present a respected, radical message -- excellent video 1:30]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>SR Talks | Prof. Kevin Anderson — A
Velvet or Violent Climate Revolution: Which will we choose?</b><br>
Scientist Rebellion<br>
Apr 13, 2023<br>
Abstract: The deliberate failure of national leaders, whether in
politics, business, journalism or indeed much of academia to be
honest about the climate emergency has left us facing fundamental
questions of every facet of modern society. Central amongst these
is the issue of equity – both between and within nations. In this
presentation, Kevin Anderson will unpick the policy gulf that
exists between the temperature and equity commitments enshrined in
the Paris Agreement and the emission trajectory of so called
“developed” countries. He will close by looking beyond
techno-optimistic solutions, concluding there are now no
non-radical futures. The choice is between immediate and profound
social change or waiting a little longer for chaotic and violent
social change. In 2023 the window for this choice is rapidly
closing.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Speaker: Kevin is professor of Energy and
Climate Change at the University of Manchester and visiting
professor at the Universities of Uppsala (Sweden) and Bergen
(Norway). Formerly he held the position of Zennström professor (in
Uppsala) and was director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
Research (UK). Kevin engages widely with governments, industry and
civil society, and remains research active with publications in
Climate policy, Nature and Science. He has a decade’s industrial
experience in the petrochemical industry, is a chartered engineer
and fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.<br>
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Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/KevinClimate">https://twitter.com/KevinClimate</a><br>
Website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateuncensored.com">https://climateuncensored.com</a><br>
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The presentation builds on the following work:<br>
- How alive is 1.5°C? [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/3KBJmV7">https://bit.ly/3KBJmV7</a>]<br>
- Phaseout schedules for fossil fuel production
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/3KaxWGb">https://bit.ly/3KaxWGb</a>]<br>
- What's in a name? [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/40Z0PMq">https://bit.ly/40Z0PMq</a>]<br>
- The New Denialism [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/40GFEz1">https://bit.ly/40GFEz1</a>]<br>
- Three decades of failure to bend the emissions curve
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/40Z18a2">https://bit.ly/40Z18a2</a>]<br>
- Critique of the IPCC’s 2023 Synthesis report
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/40L7fzc">https://bit.ly/40L7fzc</a>]<br>
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For more information on how get involved with Scientist Rebellion,
head over to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://linktr.ee/scientistrebellion">https://linktr.ee/scientistrebellion</a> <br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Predicting a predicament is part of
planning ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>The worst-case scenario for drought on the
Colorado River</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">One in eight Americans depend on a river that’s
disappearing.</font><font face="Calibri"><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">By Umair Irfan </font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Apr 17, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Part of the issue The 100-year-old-mistake
that’s reshaping the American West from The Highlight, Vox’s home
for ambitious stories that explain our world.<br>
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The Colorado River provides water for irrigation, power
generation, recreation, and habitats for endangered species. But
the 40 million people who drink from this critical artery have
watched it wither amid the region’s worst dry spell in more than
1,200 years...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">This massive drought, sometimes called a
megadrought, settled over the Western United States two decades
ago, and precious precipitation has flowed and faded from year to
year. But since 2020, the region has faced essentially a drought
within a drought. In an already water-sparse region, this has led
to some of the driest conditions the Western US has seen in
memory.<br>
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“It’s kind of like the slowest-moving freight train that you know
is going to hit you,” said Cynthia Campbell, water resources
management adviser for the City of Phoenix. “At the same time,
what we’ve seen in the last couple of years has been an enormous
acceleration that frankly we didn’t expect.”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">This year, the two largest reservoirs in the
US, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, saw water levels dip to record
lows. The falling waterline revealed relics and corpses previously
lost for decades, leaving behind stark bathtub rings along the
surrounding canyons. In turn, the Hoover Dam and the Glen Canyon
Dam that impound these reservoirs saw their hydroelectric power
production dwindle...</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Over the long term, cutting greenhouse
gas emissions would limit future warming and thus reduce the
chances of major droughts across the Colorado River basin. The
immediate task, though, is for states along the river to come up
with a set of cuts they can all agree to.<br>
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The Interior Department is also putting together revised
guidelines for operating the Hoover Dam and the Glen Canyon Dam.
“This process will help to provide the Department the alternatives
and tools needed to address the likelihood of continued low-runoff
conditions, and therefore reduced water availability, across the
Basin over the next two years,” a spokesperson for the Interior
Department said in an email. The agency expects to finalize these
new guidelines in August.<br>
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The snow and rain this past winter have bought some breathing room
for the discussion, but the worry is that this will be another
excuse to ship the unavoidable difficult decisions further
downstream.<br>
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“I think we were just at the point where we were getting people to
really pay closer attention to this, and we could turn around and
lose all of that momentum,” Campbell said.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23670139/colorado-river-drought-lake-mead-climate-change-water-cuts">https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23670139/colorado-river-drought-lake-mead-climate-change-water-cuts</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ video overview of research papers ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Almost Everything You Need to Know about
Global, Regional, and Local Sea Level Rise and Acceleration</b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
Apr 17, 2023<br>
There is an awful lot to know about sea level rise, and the
consequences to humanity, as well as to changing carbon sinks and
cascading links to accelerate already abrupt climate system
change. <br>
<br>
I cannot possibly cover all these things in one video, so I take a
scattered, shotgun type approach to bring up a number of important
aspects and consequences of rapid sea level rise.<br>
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Here are some of the topics I chat about in this video:<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">- how rising sea levels can undercut
fresh groundwater near coastlines, forcing the less dense
groundwater upwards to near the surface and even above the surface
level to flood inland areas even before the sea water rises
significantly over the coastlines</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">- how rising seas make tropical storms much
more deadly and costly, especially when the storms hit during
so-called king tides</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">- how an indigenous community in Panama is
escaping rising seas; this community has been in place for many
many centuries and has no choice but to move inland</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">- how climate and human impacts have disrupted
the hydrological process greatly increasing the land area lost in
Southern Louisiana </font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">- Puerto Rico has declared a state of emergency
on coastal erosion; two-thirds of the islands 3.2 million
residents live along coastal areas, with 20% living in areas at
high risk of ocean flooding</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">- how to access data on the US Nationsl
Esruarine Research Reserve System (estuaries are brackish meeting
places of fresh water rivers and the ocean)</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">- rapid sea level rise of 10 mm per year are
occurring along some parts of the US East and Gulf Coasts over the
past decade</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">- how the vast Sundarbans Mangrove Forest in
southwest Bangladesh is responding to climate change impacts
including coastal flooding and extreme weather events. Mangroves
are one of the most carbon dense systems on our planet, and are a
vital global sink of carbon</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">- how coastal nuclear power plants (comprising
one quarter of the worlds working commercial nuclear reactors) are
being negatively affected by accelerating global sea level rise</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">- how coastal infrastructure planners use
widely varying sea-level rise projections for coastal adaptation,
or even ignore global SLR completely</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">- how record rises in global sea level along
some Chinese coastlines (10 mm per year) threaten China; about 45%
of China’s population of around 1.4 billion people, and more than
50% of the counties economic output comes from coastal regions</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">- how climate risk causing flooding is unpriced
in US housing markets, and thus the residential housing market is
overvalued by US $121 to US $237 billion dollars. Low-income
households are at greater risk, and municipalities that are
heavily reliant on property taxes for revenue (most of them) are
very vulnerable to budgetary shortfalls</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57VXj7FLf44">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57VXj7FLf44</a><br>
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April 18, 1977: President Carter declares that the effort needed
to avert an energy crisis is the "moral equivalent of war."<br>
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