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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>July</b></i></font></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ DW news outlet from Germany - summarizes
out predicament ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>'This is climate change and we just
have to get used to it somehow' | DW News</b><br>
DW News<br>
Jul 14, 2023 #climatechange #heatwaves #drought<br>
A heatwave is hitting hard across southern Europe. Temperatures
are expected to surpass 40C in parts of Italy, Spain, France,
Greece, Croatia and Turkey.<br>
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In Rome, temperatures could reach as high as 43C, and a possible
47C on the island of Sardinia. In the Greek capital Athens,
maximum temperatures could reach 45 degrees on Saturday.
Sweltering heat has made life harder for people. Authorities are
urging residents and tourists to be cautious. Extreme temperatures
are likely to continue into the weekend.<br>
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Scientists say droughts, heat, wildfires, and other dangerous
weather events are becoming more likely and severe due to climate
change in most places worldwide. Extreme rainfall has become more
frequent and intense because of man-made global warming – this is
true for most places in the world, especially Europe, large parts
of Asia, central and eastern North America, and parts of South
America, Africa and Australia. However, it is not responsible for
all weather disasters.<br>
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For more on this, we speak to Sjoukje Philip, a climate scientist
at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. We ask her:
When can we blame extreme weather events on climate change? <br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>[' Tweet from Prof. Eliot Jacobson ]</i><br>
@EliotJacobson<br>
<b>For those who are keeping track, we are now at 13 consecutive
days with record global (60S-60N) temperatures, since
satellite era measurements began in 1979, likely the 13
hottest days on a global scale over the last 100,000+ years.</b><br>
And now temperatures are going back up again.<br>
Jul 16, 2023<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1680534942508281856">https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1680534942508281856</a><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ video - about ethics - Just Have a Think -
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Are future humans really our problem?</b><br>
Just Have a Think<br>
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Is our short-term thinking risking the future prosperity and
possibly even survival of our descendants? Many scientists say
very emphatically yes! Now a new paper explores how we are
breaking boundaries and setting up unstoppable feedback loops for
future generations to deal with...</font><br>
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<i></i><font face="Calibri"><i>[ Just where are we on the Titanic
sinking? Is the bow starting to rise?</i><i> Is the band still
playing? ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Is It Hot Enough Yet for Politicians
to Take Real Action?</b><br>
The latest record temperatures are driving, again precisely as
scientists have predicted, a cascading series of disasters around
the world.<br>
By Bill McKibben<br>
July 11, 2023<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">"But it’s not fair to just pick on
Canada. In the United States, President Biden has laid claim to a
powerful environmental legacy by passing the Inflation Reduction
Act, but his Administration also approved both a giant oil and a
giant L.N.G. project, in Alaska; the Mountain Valley Pipeline, in
the Virginias; and lots of offshore leasing—and it may back big
L.N.G. terminals on the Gulf Coast. In Great Britain, the leader
of the Labour Party, Keir Starmer, was quoted in the Times of
London on Sunday as saying that he “hates tree-huggers,” probably
because they keep pushing for more action than his party wants to
commit to. China is building huge amounts of renewable energy, but
also more coal-fired power, because the government’s legitimacy
depends on keeping economic growth hot at all times. And so on:
politicians want to be seen doing a lot about climate change, but
not so much that it lands them in any kind of real trouble with
the industry. Their argument, invariably, is that the green
infrastructure they’re building will eventually reduce emissions
more than the fossil fuel they’re continuing to permit."<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-it-hot-enough-yet-for-politicians-to-take-real-action">https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/is-it-hot-enough-yet-for-politicians-to-take-real-action</a></font><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Opinion from the Guardian ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>As heat records break, the climate movement
has the right answers – but the words are all wrong</b><br>
The fossil fuel industry has spent billions on winning over the
public. Green activists must learn from its tactics</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Jonathan Freedland<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Fri 14 Jul 2023</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">You may think we have all the proof we need.
More of it is in front of us right now, with heatwaves scorching
through Europe, breaking records, wreaking havoc</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">There is, too, the syndrome captured so well by
the movie Don’t Look Up, namely the very human inability to
contemplate our own destruction. We will find almost any excuse to
look elsewhere, to find something immediate and diverting: in
Britain this week, it was the alleged conduct of a BBC TV
presenter. But there’s always something.<br>
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Those faults are in our stars; they are hard to change. And yet
there are other explanations that are more susceptible to remedy.
Most obvious is the fact that a vastly wealthy industry has spent
billions to make people think the way they do. In just the three
years following the Paris accords, five of the largest fossil fuel
companies spent over $1bn on communications and lobbying.<br>
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But the effort goes back decades, centred on selling one commodity
above all: doubt. Like the tobacco industry before it, oil and gas
has sought to persuade the global public that they can’t be sure
the climate crisis is real or human-made or that serious. It’s
been hugely effective. To take just one number: only about one in
seven Americans understand that there is a consensus among climate
scientists, defined as more than 90% having “concluded that
human-caused global warming is happening”.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">- -</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Start with the most basic terms. “Global
warming” was rightly rejected by many some time ago, not least
because, as Goodell writes, it “sounds gentle and soothing, as if
the most notable impact of burning fossil fuels will be better
beach weather”. But talk of heat is not much more apt: “In pop
culture, hot is sexy. Hot is cool. Hot is new.”<br>
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Yet “climate change” doesn’t work either. Mere “change” is too
gentle: it doesn’t indicate whether the change will be negative or
positive. It is not immediate: it hints that its consequences will
be felt only in the future, when we are feeling them right now.
Which is why this newspaper is right to speak of a climate crisis
or emergency.<br>
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But there are multiple other terms favoured by the climate
cognoscenti that fall at a more basic hurdle: they are simply not
understood by the wider public. Net zero, decarbonisation. 1.5C –
when tested, they meet blank faces. People either don’t know what
they mean or find them confusing. David Fenton, a longtime PR
specialist for progressive causes, cites as one example the phrase
“climate justice”. When most voters hear the word “justice”, he
tells me, they think of courts or police; bolt it to “climate”,
and people are not moved, just confused.<br>
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Of course, this connects to a perennial problem for the left –
which so often makes its case using statistics and abstract
concepts, rather than simple images and emotion. (Think of the
remain campaign.) Fenton urges the climate community to speak of
pollution – a word everyone gets – and to settle on the image of a
“blanket of pollution trapping heat on Earth”. Every oil and gas
emission makes that blanket thicker – and all that trapped heat
helps cause floods and start fires, he says.<br>
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Once settled on, that metaphor has to be deployed again and again,
repeated so often it becomes exhausted – and exhausting – to those
using it. This too clashes with progressive habit, which tends to
hold to the “enlightenment fallacy”: the belief that the facts
will persuade all by themselves. They don’t need to be repeated or
simplified or embedded in moral or emotional stories: their sheer
truth will prevail.<br>
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Perhaps this is why the climate movement has devoted relatively
few resources to reaching or persuading the public, outside of
periodic fundraising drives – certainly nothing to compete with
their polluting opponents, who hire ad men steeped in marketing
science to push their message relentlessly. “We’re in a propaganda
war, but only one side is on the battlefield,” says Fenton.<br>
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To enter the fight will require serious donors to dig deep, but
also a change of mindset. Christiana Figueres, former executive
secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, who
now hosts the aptly named Outrage + Optimism podcast, admits that
the climate community has recoiled from marketing, which it
regarded as “sort of tainted. It’s icky. You know, ‘We’re too good
for marketing. We’re too righteous’… hopefully we’re getting over
it.”<br>
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It needs to do that fast, deploying whatever tools work to push a
double message: both fear and hope. Fear for all the beauty, life
and lives that will be lost from a parched planet – and hope that
we still have time to avert the worst.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian
columnist</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/big-oil-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel-public">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/big-oil-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel-public</a><br>
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<i> </i><font face="Calibri"><i> [ Newspaper article - a fairly
interesting read ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Israel’s
hotter than hell: Can climate change be reversed?</b><br>
Heatwaves continue to become longer, more frequent and more
extreme as the years progress.<br>
Israelis who feel like they are living in a modern-day version of
Dante’s Inferno might want an exit strategy just so they can
breathe without sweating. Unfortunately, climate change is like
COVID-19 without a vaccine. The best one can hope for is to
flatten the curve while minimizing economic damage and death.<br>
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The international greenhouse gas emission agreements are meant to
“flatten the curve of CO2 emissions in the atmosphere,” said Prof.
Yoav Yair. “If we can do that, we can curb climate change and keep
the global warming average at less than two degrees Celsius.<br>
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“If not, our grandchildren will inherit a much hotter planet that
is much harder to live on.”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Yair, dean of the School of Sustainability at
Reichman University, IDC Herzliya, and UNESCO chair for
sustainability, spoke to The Jerusalem Post on Sunday, four days
into another burning heatwave that meteorologists have said is
likely to last until Tuesday. However, the current heatwave is not
breaking any records like in parts of Mediterranean Europe where
temperatures reached over 45 degrees Celsius – so hot that the
weather people gave it a name: Cerberus, for the three-headed dog
in ancient Greek mythology who guarded the gates to the
underworld.<br>
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France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain face significant
heatwaves. Last Monday, the United Nations’ World Meteorological
Organization said global temperatures recorded in early July were
among the hottest on record.<br>
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“On the one hand, the extreme weather event we are having in
Israel is not so extreme,” said Hadas Saaroni, a climatologist at
the Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Tel
Aviv University. “We have to be careful not to exaggerate, because
when there are real extremes, no one will react or take it
seriously. Israel has always had extreme summer heatwaves.”<br>
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According to Amos Porat, head of climatic services at the Israel
Meteorological Service, the first 10 days of July were the eighth
hottest recorded in Israel.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">On the other hand, Porat said that if one looks
at this heatwave and compares it and other recent waves to 20 or
30 years ago, there is a significant increase in the maximum
temperature, in the number of heatwaves, and in their lengths.<br>
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“We are getting more and more extreme,” he said. “In the next
decade or two, we can expect an average of five heatwaves per year
that each last as long as five days.”<br>
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And this is whether or not we stop polluting the Earth.<br>
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<b>What will happen if the world can stop pollution?</b><br>
“Even if we stopped emitting greenhouse gases, this instant, it
would still take a couple of decades for the atmosphere to stop
warming – and I am not saying anything about it cooling,” Yair
said. “That is not on the horizon.”<br>
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When looking at the projections for climate change in Israel made
by the Israel Meteorological Service, there are two scenarios
based on the level of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. In one
scenario, there would be 4.5 watts per square meter of additional
heat on Earth, and the country would warm by around 0.9 degrees
Celsius by 2050. In another scenario, there would be an extra 8.5
watts per square meter of heat, and Israel warms by 1.2 degrees.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Israel already averages 1.5 degrees Celsius
warmer in peak seasons compared to the average temperature between
1951 and 1980. Add to it the 1.2 degrees, and in 2050 the country
would experience temperatures an average of 2.7 degrees Celsius
warmer than in the previous period.<br>
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“I don’t want to think further than this because it gets worse,”
Yair said.<br>
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The projections are based on the country and its neighbors meeting
their Paris Agreement commitments. In Israel’s case, that is
achieving an 85% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
relative to 2015 emission levels. All recent reports by the
Environmental Protection Ministry, the State Comptroller, and the
United Nations indicate that Israel will not meet its targets.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-750282">https://www.jpost.com/environment-and-climate-change/article-750282</a><br>
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July 17, 2012: On MSNBC's "NewsNation with Tamron Hall," Heidi
Cullen of Climate Central discusses the extreme drought tormenting
the United States.<br>
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