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<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>April</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 28, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Beckwith reviews web page of Radio
Ecoshock Alex Smith in a comprehensive essay. "Collective
illusions" ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Many “Words of Wisdom” on Humanities
Climate Future from Radio Ecoshock’s Alex Smith</b><br>
Paul Beckwith<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Apr 27, 2023<br>
About ten years ago Alex Smith called me for the first time to
invite me on his radio program “EcoShock Radio” or “Radio
EcoShock”; I always interchange the two words. <br>
<br>
Since then, I’ve chatted with Alex on his program two or sometimes
three times per year. I’ve always thought that his interviews are
the best, since he knows so much about climate, the environment,
science, and most other topics. <br>
<br>
In a recent post, Alex stepped out of his normal routine of
interviewing top scientists, authors, activists, etc. and told us
what he thinks humanity and civilization has in store for it over
the next few years, few decades, and longer. <br>
<br>
I highly recommend you listen to what he has to say, and read what
he has to say; I agree with most of his thoughts and think that
they are very insightful. They are reasoned and nuanced, and
emphasize that we just don’t know what how our future will play
out since predicting future human behaviour and actions is a fools
game. <br>
<br>
Alex and I certainly agree that “doomers” who are certain humanity
will go extinct in 3 years or so are off their rockers, and are
self-delusional, even cult-like. We just don’t know, and anybody
that seems certain of a specific extinction date a few years off,
etc. is just nuts, and laughably so...<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK01EKrOjiM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK01EKrOjiM</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ one web page is a full credo by Alex Smith
unchained - much to read and hear and view. audio, text and
video ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>What I Really Think Will Happen Is
Happening Already</b><br>
Posted on April 5, 2023, by Radio Ecoshock<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ecoshock.org/2023/04/what-i-really-think-will-happen-is-happening-already.html">https://www.ecoshock.org/2023/04/what-i-really-think-will-happen-is-happening-already.html</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Consensus -- app for searching for
academic papers -- do NOT use chat gpt - as it will include
false information ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Evidence-Based Answers, Faster</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">What is Consensus?<br>
Consensus is a search engine that uses AI to extract and<br>
distill findings directly from scientific research<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://consensus.app/">https://consensus.app/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ In the next 2 decades: when huge chunks
of the Antarctic Thwaits glacier ice falls into the ocean and
generates corresponding global sea level rise --- full spread of
global sea level rise about a month after it splashes in to the
waters. A giant ice fall could pulse enough water into the
oceans for an ankle deep increase. Like a King Tide that never
subsides or a Miami flooding that never goes away. A bad
scenarios would be for salt water to intrude into major river
deltas of the world. That would mean instant crop loss. And
generic social chaos ] </i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Rapid Heating of Oceans Frightens
Scientists: Threatens Marine Life, Coastal Areas</b><br>
JUAN COLE<br>
04/26/2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The oceans are
hot. They are hot in a way that surprises and distresses climate
scientists, Everyone knew they would heat up because of the
climate emergency. But no one thought it would happen this fast
and with this intensity. Moreover, some of the side effects we are
seeing, like less oxygen in the oceans, are positively
frightening.<br>
<br>
That is the conclusion of a paper published last week by Karina
von Schuckmann et al., “Heat stored in the Earth system 1960–2020:
where does the energy go?” in Earth System Science Data.<br>
<br>
Because we have been burning gasoline to run our cars and burning
gas and coal to heat our homes and office buildings, we have been
putting tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere for decades, and have been spewing extra CO2 in some
quantity since the Industrial Revolution began around 1750. Carbon
dioxide is a heat-trapping gas. Earth is heated by sun rays, but a
lot of the heat they brought to the earth used to dissipate right
back into outer space through our oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere that
only had 280 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Now, we are
averaging 417 ppm of CO2, and the planet has heated up
significantly, by nearly 2 degrees F., in the past little over a
century.<br>
<br>
Where has all that extra heat gone? Well, 87% of it has gone into
the oceans. They will also absorb the carbon dioxide itself,
making them much more acidic. The authors point out that ocean
heating is a good proxy for global heating and the effects of the
climate emergency in general.<br>
<br>
The authors observe, “The long atmospheric lifetime of carbon
dioxide means that [extra heating and its effects] will remain
positive for centuries, even with substantial reductions in
greenhouse gas emissions, and lead to substantial sea-level rise,
ocean warming, and ice shelf loss.”<br>
<br>
Most of the heat that has gone into the ocean is stored in the
2100 feet closest to the surface, though the next level down is
also heating up. In fact, recent research has shown that some heat
waves reach all the way to the floor of the ocean.<br>
<br>
Von Schuckmann and her colleagues looked at heat gain in the
atmosphere above the oceans and found that it is accelerating,
with recent decades heating up much more quickly than the average
since 1971. In 2006-2023 there was a big increase in the rate of
heating.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The rate of sea level rise varies from place to
place, but overall it has doubled since the 1990s. Back then, the
seas were rising about 2.3 millimeters a year, but in 2013-2023 it
is 4.6 mm annually.<br>
<br>
Just this month, April 2023, ocean surface temperatures spiked to
a new high, leaving scientists scratching their heads. In the
first week of April, the average was nearly 70 degrees F. (21.1
C.), which is the highest average temperature recorded since
record-keeping began in the late 19th century.<br>
<br>
Hot ocean surface water, and hot levels below that, are bad for
many reasons. Hot water takes up more space than cold water, which
contributes to sea level rise. The hot ocean surface waters
provide the energy to drive hurricanes and cyclones, making them
more intense. Warmer water has more water vapor in the air above
it, so those massive storm systems cause heavier precipitation and
flooding. The extra evaporation and water vapor also contributes
to further global heating, since water vapor is a greenhouse gas
that keeps heat from radiating into space. Hot ocean water also
helps melt ice in places like Greenland and Antarctica. Land ice
that melts runs into the oceans and that raises their level,
threatening low-lying cities and plains. The hot ocean water
develops oxygen deserts, causing dead zones. Some marine life
can’t survive a sudden increase in temperature, and if this
phenomenon continues we could see a mass die-off. Some 10% of
humanity depends on fishing for its nutrition.<br>
For these reasons, the new scientific findings are highly
alarming.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.juancole.com/2023/04/frightens-scientists-threatens.html">https://www.juancole.com/2023/04/frightens-scientists-threatens.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ renewed sense of dread ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Why are ocean temperatures warmer than ever?
Even experts are scratching their heads</b><br>
</font>Fiona Harvey <br>
As heatwaves, disasters and extreme weather afflicting people on
land grab our attention, the role of the world’s oceans in the
climate crisis is often overlooked. Perhaps we should be paying more
heed: for the best part of two months now, something very strange
has been happening in the oceans. Something very worrying.<br>
- -<br>
Meteorologists have been expecting an El Niño this year, and had
already warned of its potential warming impact. But the current
ocean temperature anomaly cannot be attributed to El Niño, as that
weather system is still building up in the Pacific, and has not
developed sufficiently yet to have an impact.<br>
<br>
Prof Mike Meredith, of the British Antarctic Survey, told the
Guardian it was “very concerning”, and while it was still too soon
to tell what exactly was going on, if the phenomenon continued it
“could be the start of something very serious”.<br>
<br>
Covering two thirds of the planet, the oceans play a vast role in
the climate system. They have absorbed about 90% of the extra energy
we have put into the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning, and the
amount of carbon dioxide they are absorbing is so great they are
acidifying.<br>
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“Hearing about these recent data has made me feel this deep sense of
dread. It’s not like we didn’t know that the ocean was warming and
that the death of some of the most precious ecosystems and species
was likely, if not inevitable, within the next decade or so. But
these extremes imply that things are changing faster than was
predicted,” Perrin told me.<br>
<br>
“It’s hard to reckon with what that means – not only for life in the
ocean, but for life everywhere else too.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis</a><br>
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<i>[ Movies and Climate - Yale sponsored -- a video discussion and
overview ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change and the Big Screen</b><br>
On March 29, 2023, the Yale Center for Environmental Communication
and the 2023 Environmental Film Festival at Yale hosted a panel
discussion on “Climate Change and the Big Screen,” exploring
Hollywood’s role in climate change and culture change, and featuring
a preview of a new exciting TV series. The scripted drama series
“Extrapolations” by executive producer Scott Z. Burns (Contagion, An
Inconvenient Truth) launched in March, 2023 on Apple TV+ and it
depicts a possible future where unmitigated climate change
increasingly impacts our everyday lives. Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz,
Founder and Director of the Yale Program on Climate Change
Communication, moderated a conversation with Dorothy Fortenberry,
Executive Producer of Extrapolations, Anna Jane Joyner, Founder and
CEO of Good Energy Story, and Emily Coren, Science communicator
affiliate at Stanford University’s Dept. of Psychiatry &
Behavioral Sciences.<br>
--Climate storytelling is often centered around the worst case
scenario, but EXTRAPOLATIONS paints an idea of what the near-future
could look like in people’s daily lives with a 2.5-3 degree warming
scenario starting in the year 2037, through 2070.<br>
--The show portrays not only the physical health impacts of climate
change, but also social and technological innovation.<br>
--Talk is not a substitute for action, but is a necessary condition
for action – films and entertainment education, in particular, are
underutilized channels to advance the narrative of climate change
communication and help audiences feel less alone.<br>
--Perhaps more than a lack of climate storytelling, we’ve lived
through a very successful climate communication campaign designed to
convince the public that climate change is controversial,
polarizing, and a question of belief.<br>
-- The oil and gas industry has played a part in the film industry
for many decades, driving a very specific narrative.<br>
-- Massive global problems like the mass biodiversity extinction are
tough to process; storytelling with parallel characters can help
people mentally and emotionally comprehend and feel what is at
stake.<br>
-- Stories can provide a role model that people can identify with –
people learn by watching the behavior of others (mirroring and
modeling), which can collectively inspire a variety of actions to
improve climate outcomes within their respective spheres of
influence.<br>
--No single story can speak to every audience – it will take many
different forms of content, which come with different costs.<br>
-- Film executives and decisionmakers grapple with a balance between
wanting to avoid “pushing boundaries” and fear of being “left
behind” amidst social change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/news-events/climate-change-and-the-big-screen/">https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/news-events/climate-change-and-the-big-screen/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Nice little video explains it well - two
experts ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>The Climate
Change Solution Tier List! feat. @EngineeringwithRosie</b><br>
ClimateAdam<br>
Apr 25, 2023 #engineering #ClimateChange #technology<br>
There are a host of solutions to help climate change action, but
how do we tell what's worth the hype, and what's just
greenwashing? From solar pv, to wind power, plus nuclear and even
geoengineering. So are renewables worth it, and could the future
of fusion save the day? I'm joined by @EngineeringwithRosie to
break down the tools that could help save us from climate break
down.<br>
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And don't forget to watch the video over on Rosie's channel all
about solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering <br>
• Ultimate Climate ... <br>
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<i>[History of an important event, classic bit of misinformation
bias -- why "global warming" was deliberately manipulated to
become "climate change"- Now you know ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>April 28, 2013</b></i></font> <br>
April 28, 2013: Slate's Phil Plait re-debunks the "Why don't they
call it global warming anymore?" talking point often heard on the
Fox News Channel: this talking point had been previously debunked
by Peter Sinclair of ClimateCrocks.com.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://youtu.be/mqMunulJU7w">http://youtu.be/mqMunulJU7w</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/04/28/fox_news_global_warming_versus_climate_change.html">http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/04/28/fox_news_global_warming_versus_climate_change.html</a><br>
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