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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>July</b></i></font></font><font
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<b>Thousands flee wildfires in Greece as heatwave continues – BBC
News</b><br>
Jul 26, 2023 #Greece #Rhodes #BBCNews<br>
BBC NEWS<br>
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes
and abandon holidays on Greek islands including Rhodes and Corfu as
fires spread across the region.<br>
Temperatures are expected to rise above 44C (111F) in parts of the
country as the heatwave continues<br>
Two pilots battling the fires have died after their plane crashed.<br>
They were tackling a blaze on the island of Evia, north of Athens,
when the plane smashed into a hillside. <br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ If you've been reading my daily summaries
for the past 7 years - you might know ] </i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>What
frightens me about the climate crisis is we don’t know how bad
things really are</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Roger Harrabin</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Tue 25 Jul 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">As the barrage of bad news from places like
Greece continues, all we can be certain of is there are many
surprises lying ahead<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Over the past few decades, climate scientists
have made huge strides in understanding the future climate. But
after recent weeks of extreme heat and devastating floods it’s
clear that, although climate models have provided good information
about overall rising temperatures, they can’t be sure what level
of destruction each notch on the thermometer will bring.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Climate modelling is extremely complex, but its
fundamentals rely on basic physics – X tonnes of emissions will
bring Y increase in temperature, with some error bars.
Supercomputers have been able to factor in shifts in land use that
will change the reflectivity of the Earth’s surface. Improved
temperature records helped verify their findings.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">But lately, leading researchers have made a
painful confession: even their most sophisticated models can’t yet
foresee exactly how Earth systems will respond to those higher
temperatures.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The influential Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) says cranking up global temperature by half
a degree will bring “much more extreme weather, and it can be more
often, more intense, or extended in duration” – but exactly how
much more, it can’t precisely say.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">So, for instance, we’ve already had a global
temperature rise of about 1.2C: that’s in line with IPCC
projections. Yet the panel couldn’t warn us about the appalling
heat dome that’s been searing North America. I can’t find heat
domes mentioned in the bible of climate change, the IPCC report.
This periodic report inevitably lags behind new science and –
under pressure from some governments and industries, as well as a
desire not to scaremonger – its pronouncements tend to be
conservative.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The models also couldn’t warn us accurately
about the emergence of the heat trapped deep in the ocean, which
soaks up 90% of the world’s excess warmth. In the 35 years I
covered the environment for the BBC, I recall speculation that the
warmth could stay deep for decades, perhaps centuries – not that
some of it would suddenly burst up to the surface off the coast of
northern Britain.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Major uncertainties remain, too, over rainfall.
Good information about the future of monsoon rain would be a
godsend for farmers who rely upon it – not just in India but in
southern China. Unfortunately, good information on precipitation
is proving a bit tricky to find.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">The macro models also failed to project the
effect of current elevated temperatures on ice at both poles. The
former IPCC chief, Prof Bob Watson, told me: “I am very concerned.
None of the observed changes so far (with a 1.2C temperature rise)
are surprising. But they are more severe than we predicted 20
years ago, and more severe than the predictions of five years ago.
We probably underestimated the consequences.”</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">This is a massive admission. He added:
“Scientists are only now starting to understand the response of
large ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica – and it is very
disturbing.”</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Prof Jane Francis, director of the British
Antarctic Survey, told me a few months ago the latest science on
ice melt was “truly scary”...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Watson said at current rates the world would
almost certainly exceed the agreed maximum temperature rise of
1.5-2C. We would be lucky to get away with 2.5C, he said. More
likely, we’re heading towards 3C.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">That number positively frightens many climate
scientists. But, as India starts stockpiling rice with a
temperature rise of 1.2C, what useful advice can scientists offer
for a 3C world? Just how bad will things be by then?</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Should holidaymakers avoid buying homes in
Greece? China is vulnerable to extremes – how should its economy
adapt? The US has considered itself less vulnerable. But tell that
to New Yorkers choking on wildfire smoke, or people in Phoenix
trapped under that heat dome.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">While immediate harm to people grabs the
headlines, what’s even more destructive could be the impact of
heat and humidity on food production for an expanding population.
A global shift towards a plant-based diet could halve the land and
water used for agriculture – and halve the carbon emissions – but
politicians fear angering voters by recommending a dietary shift.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Facing all this gloom means we need imagineers
as well as climatologists. Watson said civilisation will still
exist in the future, but with much worse living conditions. But
what sort of a degraded civilisation might that be? By then we may
even have triggered some natural tipping points that could result
in a massive release of trapped methane in the tundra – let’s hope
not...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">What we do know is that so far, the effects of
heating the climate are sooner and worse than many scientists
projected (in public at least). This has policy implications. The
world has agreed to cut emissions to net zero by 2050, but the UN
secretary general, António Guterres, says rich countries should be
aiming to squeeze the timetable to 2040. But what is the use of a
net zero policy if it relies in part on planting trees that may
shrivel in future drought or crackle in wildfire?</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">To make matters worse, climate heating is one
thing on a list of huge environmental problems – including
pollution of the air and water, destruction of wildlife habitats,
overfishing, insect population declines, loss of birds, plastic
pollution, nitrates, soil loss and more.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Watson says we don’t know how these phenomena
will interact with each other, but he urges politicians to err on
the side of caution, as the stakes are so very high. Every 0.1C
warming matters, scientists say: 1.5C is better than 1.6C. That in
turn is less bad than 1.7C.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">As the barrage of bad news continues, all we
can be certain of is that there are many climate surprises lying
ahead of us. Governments, companies and individuals need to
urgently squeeze down emissions to insulate ourselves as far as
possible from what we may face.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Roger Harrabin is an energy and environment
analyst and a former BBC correspondent</font><br>
<b><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/frightens-climate-crisis-do-not-know-how-bad-wildfires-greece">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/frightens-climate-crisis-do-not-know-how-bad-wildfires-greece</a></font></b><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ PBS News Hour - video ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Study finds human-caused climate
change a definitive factor in brutal heat waves</b><br>
PBS NewsHour<br>
Jul 25, 2023<br>
A new analysis finds the brutal heat waves the world has
experienced over the past month would be virtually impossible
without the impact of human-caused climate change. It comes from
an international group of researchers that are part of an
initiative known as the World Weather Attribution. William
Brangham discussed the assessment with meteorologist Bernadette
Woods Placky of Climate Central.<br>
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<i><font face="Calibri"> [ the Guardian shows flames brief video ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Flames spread across Dubrovnik region of
Croatia in latest wildfires</b><br>
Guardian News<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Jul 25, 2023<br>
Footage captured from residents and local firefighters shows
wildfires burning in Croatia's Dubrovnik region, a popular area
for tourists in the Mediterranean. The country faced strong winds
and extremely high temperatures, causing fires to spread quickly.
Croatian authorities said up to 16 fire engines and 95
firefighters were deployed to the area, while the country's
airforce sent two specialised planes to help extinguish the
flames. Parts of southern Europe, including Italy, Greece, Turkey
and Algeria are battling wildfires after suffering from extreme
temperatures <br>
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Storms and heatwave kill five in northern Italy as wildfires
continue in south <br>
Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis,
scientists show<br>
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<i>[ top opinions from selected experts ]</i><br>
<b>‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists’ horror
and exasperation as global predictions play out</b><br>
Climate experts<br>
Mon 24 Jul 2023 <br>
As the northern hemisphere burns, experts feel deep sadness – and
resentment – while dreading what lies ahead this Australian summer<br>
Guardian Australia asked seven leading climate scientists to
describe how they felt as much of the northern hemisphere is
engulfed by blistering heatwaves, and a number of global land and
ocean climate records are broken.<br>
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<b>‘I am stunned by the ferocity’</b><br>
What is playing out all over the world right now is entirely
consistent with what scientists expect. No one wants to be right
about this. But if I’m honest, I am stunned by the ferocity of the
impacts we are currently experiencing. I am really dreading the
devastation I know this El Niño will bring. As the situation
deteriorates, it makes me wonder how I can be most helpful at a time
like this. Do I keep trying to pursue my research career or devote
even more of my time to warning the public? The pressure and anxiety
of working through an escalating crisis is taking its toll on many
of us.<br>
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Dr Joëlle Gergis, senior lecturer in climate science Fenner School
of Environment and Society, associate investigator ARC Centre of
Excellence for Climate Extremes at the Australian National
University<br>
<b>‘Even 1.2C of global warming isn’t safe’</b><br>
We knew by the mid-1990s that lurking in the tails of our climate
model projections were monsters: monstrous heatwaves, catastrophic
extreme rainfall and floods, subcontinental-scale wildfires, rapid
ice sheet collapse raising sea level metres within a century. We
knew – just like we know gravity – that Australia’s Great Barrier
Reef could be one of the earliest victims of uncontained global
warming.<br>
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But as today’s monstrous, deadly heatwaves overtake large parts of
Asia, Europe and North America with temperatures the likes of which
we have never experienced, we find even 1.2C of global warming isn’t
safe.<br>
Driving all this is the fossil fuel industry. Enabling it are
political leaders unwilling to bring this industry under control and
who promote policies such as offsetting and massive gas expansion
that simply enable this industry to continue.<br>
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Bill Hare, physicist and climate scientist and chief executive of
Climate Analytics<br>
<b>‘What other choice do we have?’</b><br>
This is what climate change looks like now. And this is what climate
change looks like in the future, though it will likely continue to
get worse.<br>
<br>
I don’t know how many more warnings the world needs. It’s as if the
human race has received a terminal medical diagnosis and knows there
is a cure, but has consciously decided not to save itself.<br>
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But those of us who understand, and who care, just have to keep
trying – after all, what other choice do we have?<br>
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Prof Lesley Hughes, board member of the Climate Change Authority and
an emeritus professor at Macquarie University..<br>
<b>‘History will judge them very harshly’</b><br>
I still recall reading the 1985 Villach conference report, alerting
the scientific community to the possible link between greenhouse gas
production and climate change. In 1988, I directed the Australian
Commission for the Future and worked with CSIRO’s Graeme Pearman on
Greenhouse ‘88, a program to draw public attention to what the
science was showing.<br>
<br>
Now all the projected changes are happening, so I reflect on how
much needless environmental damage and human suffering will result
from the work of those politicians, business leaders and public
figures who have prevented concerted action. History will judge them
very harshly.<br>
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Prof Ian Lowe, emeritus professor in the School of Science at
Griffith University<br>
<b>‘Only time will tell’</b><br>
While we’ve been saying for decades now that this is what to expect,
it’s still very confronting to see these climate extremes play out
with such ferocity and with such global reach. It’s going to be
Australia’s turn this summer, no doubt about it.<br>
It makes me feel deeply frustrated to watch the slow pace of policy
action – it’s bewildering to see new fossil fuel extraction projects
still getting the go-ahead here in Australia. And with this comes
deep resentment for those who have lobbied for ongoing fossil fuel
use despite the clear climate physics that have been known about for
almost half a century.<br>
<br>
Over the last few weeks I’ve found myself wondering is this finally
going to be the year when any doubts about the climate change crisis
are blown away by a spate of costly climate extremes. That could be
one benefit of 2023 being off the charts like this. Only time will
tell.<br>
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Prof Matthew England, scientia professor, Australian Centre for
Excellence in Antarctic Science (ACEAS), University of New South
Wales<br>
<b>What we are living through now is just the beginning’</b><br>
I spent the last four weeks at a German research institute in the
middle of the current heatwave. Travelling to my hometown, Berlin,
on weekends to see my elderly and sick dad, trying to keep him cool
in his city flat and convincing him that drinking water might be a
good idea (not always successfully). I also bragged to colleagues
and friends complaining about the heat, “This is nothing; try to
live through a heatwave in Australia!” Australia is great for
bragging. There are always bigger, more extreme and more venomous
examples down under.<br>
Was I surprised by this heatwave? Of course I was not. If anything I
felt a mild scientific curiosity to see materialise what we have
been forecasting for years. I also felt sad. We know that what we
are living through now is just the beginning of much worse
conditions to come. What this will do to our ecosystems, water
availability, human health, infrastructure and supply chains? We
know the answer. But I can also see signs of change. More than once,
I was almost run over by a bike; I was not used to the busy bike
lanes in Germany. I also spent many hours on trains and saw a real
change in the landscape flying by. I travelled through large solar
and windfarms and I listened in on conversations between
co-travellers, which more often than not revolved around climate
change. In one of them someone mentioned that all these sunny
countries, like Australia, are likely 100% on renewable energy by
now. I smiled silently; there are still some things we cannot brag
about in Australia (yet).<br>
Prof Katrin Meissner, director of the Climate Change Research
Centre, University of NSW<br>
<b>‘This should cause us concern’</b><br>
It is distressing to see the widespread damage caused by the current
outbreak of extreme events in many parts of the globe.
Unfortunately, they are not a one-off but part of a longer trend
fuelled by human greenhouse gas emissions. So they are not
unexpected.<br>
Worryingly, it is clear that future extremes will again break
records and cause even greater damage. In particular, this is
because the damage in many cases is nonlinear – it rises more and
more quickly for each increment of climate change. This should cause
us concern. It rationally should cause us to step back and assess
what is in our economic, social and environmental interests. The
IPCC has done this and the assessment is clear: it is in our
interest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions rapidly, substantially
and in a sustained way.<br>
<br>
It is also in our interest to put in place large and integrated
programs for climate adaptation to deal with the climate change
impacts we can’t avoid. Taking action to reduce emissions and to
adapt to climate change will give us hope. Do we really want the
alternative?<br>
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Professor Mark Howden, director of the Institute for Climate, Energy
and Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-europe-greece-italy-wildfires-extreme-weather-climate-experts">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-europe-greece-italy-wildfires-extreme-weather-climate-experts</a><br>
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<i>[ Comic relief - click below ]</i><br>
<b>The northern hemisphere is on fire! The temperature records being
broken are record-breaking!</b><br>
First Dog on the Moon<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/19/the-northern-hemisphere-is-on-fire-the-temperature-records-being-broken-are-record-breaking">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/19/the-northern-hemisphere-is-on-fire-the-temperature-records-being-broken-are-record-breaking</a><br>
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<i>[ More Climate Refugees ]</i><br>
<b>There could be 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050....</b><br>
June 03, 2023 | 8 min read<br>
Extreme weather, rising seas and damaged ecosystems are threatening
the lives of millions of climate refugees. A collective effort is
needed to solve the issue of climate migration and help the “world’s
forgotten victims” of climate change.<br>
By Sean McAllister<br>
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Climate migration is devastating lives. Imagine losing your home or
livelihood due to a flood. Going hungry because of a failed harvest
or drought. Or being forced to flee your home due to
desertification, rising sea levels or a lack of clean drinking
water.<br>
<br>
This is the reality for millions and millions of climate refugees
who live on the frontlines of the climate crisis. For them, climate
change is real, and it is happening now. And as the threat of
climate change increases globally, the number of climate migrants
will grow exponentially.<br>
<br>
According to UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, an annual average of
21.5 million people were forcibly displaced each year by
weather-related events – such as floods, storms, wildfires and
extreme temperatures – between 2008 and 2016. This climate migration
is expected to surge in coming decades with forecasts from
international thinktank the IEP predicting that 1.2 billion
people could be displaced globally by 2050 due to climate change and
natural disasters.<br>
<br>
<b>Who are climate refugees?</b><br>
<br>
The term “climate refugees” has been used since 1985 when UN
Environment Programme (UNEP) expert Essam El-Hinnawi defined climate
refugees – also called climate or environmental migrants – as people
who have been “forced to leave their traditional habitat,
temporarily or permanently, because of marked environmental
disruption.” But the extent of the definition still causes some
confusion.<br>
<br>
For instance, when two category 4 hurricanes hit Honduras, Guatemala
and El Salvador in November 2020, people poured across the border
into Mexico and headed towards the U.S. as torrential rains and
landslides meant they lost their homes, livelihoods and access to
clean water.<br>
<br>
In this case, the cause and effect are clear. It is easy to see how
unlivable conditions in their home countries caused by extreme
weather led people to cross borders as climate refugees.<br>
<br>
But Amar Rahman, Global Head of Climate Resilience at Zurich
Resilience Solutions, believes the definition should apply to a much
broader range of people. Namely, “anyone who has been impacted by
disruption in their society that could somehow directly or
indirectly be related to short- or long-term change in the
environment.”<br>
<br>
This means acknowledging that climate change does not just pose a
threat by causing immediate harm to people and infrastructure, it is
also a long-term danger that can slowly destabilize societies and
economies. Take for instance sea-level rise. Over the past 30 years,
the number of people living in coastal areas at high risk of rising
sea levels has increased from 160 million to 260 million, 90 percent
of whom are from poor developing countries and small island states.<br>
<br>
Rahman explains the situation is made worse as climate risks are
interconnected and can cause a domino effect. “When temperatures
rise in a country, for instance, it can reduce water availability
and water quality. This may increase the spread of disease and raise
the likelihood of drought leading to crop failures that will reduce
incomes and food supplies.”<br>
<br>
<b>How conflict worsens the climate crisis</b><br>
<br>
This domino effect was felt in Syria, where the desertification of
formerly fertile farming land between 2006 and 2010 meant crop
yields plummeted, 800,000 people lost their income and 85 percent of
the country’s livestock died. As people lost their livelihoods, food
prices soared and 1.5 million rural workers moved to the city to
find jobs. Those left behind facing poverty were an easy target for
recruiters from the Islamic State.<br>
<br>
These are not the only factors that led to the Syrian civil war,
with the Arab Spring and strict restrictions from the Syrian
government playing a key role. But societal issues caused by climate
change worked to exacerbate existing tensions. The result was a
conflict that fueled the world’s worst refugee crises in decades
with around 6.6 million Syrians (roughly a quarter of the
population) forced to flee their country.<br>
<br>
The experience in Syria is sadly not unusual as there is a strong
correlation between countries most vulnerable to climate change and
those experiencing conflict or violence. According to the UNHCR’s
report Global Trends in Forced Displacement 2020, 95 percent of all
conflict displacements in 2020 occurred in countries vulnerable or
highly vulnerable to climate change.<br>
<br>
The good news is that international governments are starting to
recognize climate migration as an issue that needs to be tackled. In
November 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden released the Report on the
Impact of Climate Change on Migration – the White House report
represents the first time the U.S. Government has officially
recognized a link between climate change and migration.<br>
<br>
The report recognizes that climate migration can have significant
implications for international security, instability, conflict and
geopolitics. And it calls for the development of strategies that
would allow the humane, safe, and proactive management of climate
migration flows.<br>
<br>
<b>How can we help climate refugees?</b><br>
<br>
One way to tackle climate migration is by creating economic
opportunity in societies threatened by environmental change. For
example, in Bangladesh cyclones causing floods have increased the
salinity of 53 percent of farmland. This means farmers are unable to
grow their normal crops, which poses a deadly threat to communities
who rely on agriculture to survive.<br>
<br>
However, farmers have been able to adapt to the new conditions with
support from Dutch research project Salt Solution and local NGOs who
are teaching them to grow salt-tolerant crops, including potatoes,
carrots, cabbages and coriander. So far 10,000 farmers have received
training, resulting in two to three extra harvests per year.<br>
<br>
Bangladesh is also home to more than 900,000 Rohingya refugees from
neighboring Myanmar, many of whom live in refugee camps. To prevent
these political refugees becoming climate refugees, the UNHRC is
working with local partners to plant fast-growing trees in parts of
refugee camps that are prone to landslides during monsoon storms to
stabilize the ground....<br>
<br>
This all requires investment. But at COP27 in November 2022, a
breakthrough agreement was reached to provide “loss and damage”
funding for vulnerable countries hit by climate disasters. This
could help climate refugees internally displaced within their own
country. Details of the new funding arrangements were not decided,
but countries agreed to operationalize them at COP28 in Dubai. It
marks an important first step that acknowledges the people and
countries least responsible for climate change are being affected
first and most severely.<br>
<br>
The White House report also highlights the need for climate
financing – from U.S. foreign aid and international financial
institutions, for example – to support vulnerable communities to
respond to, prepare for, and adapt to climate and migration risks.
It also urges the U.S. government to establish an interagency
working group on climate migration to coordinate its efforts to
address the challenge. It would oversee the drafting of U.S. policy,
strategies and budgets to help those impacted by climate change and
migration, either domestically or internationally.<br>
<br>
<b>Protected status for climate refugees</b><br>
<br>
But another issue is protected status. Most experts argue climate
change refugees need access to the same protected status offered to
other refugees, such as those who have escaped conflict.<br>
<br>
In March 2018, the UN Human Rights Council found that many climate
refugees do not fit the definition of “refugees” and called them
“the world’s forgotten victims.” This means they cannot access legal
protections to their human rights, which could protect them from
threats like deportation.<br>
<br>
To rectify this, governments and legal bodies must reframe
conditions caused by climate change as a threat to human rights and
recognize the deadly threat that climate refugees face – even if
that threat is not always as immediate as the dangers faced by
refugees fleeing war.<br>
<br>
Even the White House report says current legal instruments to
protect refugees “do not readily lend themselves to protect those
individuals displaced by the impacts of climate change, especially
those that address migration across borders.” One of its key
legislative suggestions is for the U.S. to expand use of its migrant
protection program known as Temporary Protected Status.<br>
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But the ultimate solution is to curtail climate change by achieving
the goals set out in the Paris Agreement to limit temperature
increase to well below 2 degrees Celsius (°C) and ideally to 1.5°C.<br>
<br>
“We need to act collectively to manage this crisis,” says Rahman.
“It requires a huge team effort starting from governments through to
civil institutions, academia and companies. Even as individuals, we
must carefully consider our responsibilities as consumers, voters
and global citizens. Together we can have a big impact.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.zurich.com/en/media/magazine/2022/there-could-be-1-2-billion-climate-refugees-by-2050-here-s-what-you-need-to-know">https://www.zurich.com/en/media/magazine/2022/there-could-be-1-2-billion-climate-refugees-by-2050-here-s-what-you-need-to-know</a><br>
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<i>[ Climate Refugees ]</i><b><br>
</b><b>Climate Refugees is a human rights organization that calls
for the protection and rights of those displaced by climate change</b><br>
<font face="Calibri">Through advocacy, storytelling, case studies
and global monitoring, we shed light on the complexities of
climate-induced displacement, its human rights implications and
the climate injustice at its roots. <br>
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<font face="Calibri">[ UNHCR ]<br>
</font> <b>Climate change and disaster displacement</b><br>
Climate change is the defining crisis of our time and displacement
is one of its most devastating consequences.<br>
UNHCR is providing protection and assistance to many refugees and
IDPs impacted by the climate emergency as well as helping them
increase their resilience in a changing climate.<br>
<br>
The past nine years were the warmest on record. Climate-fuelled
crises are already a devastating reality, forcing people to flee and
making life more precarious for people already uprooted from their
home<br>
The impacts of climate change are numerous and may both trigger
displacement and worsen living conditions or hamper return for those
who have already been displaced. Limited natural resources, such as
drinking water, are becoming even scarcer in many parts of the world
that host refugees. Crops and livestock struggle to survive where
conditions become too hot and dry, or too cold and wet, threatening
livelihoods. In such conditions, climate change can act as a threat
multiplier, exacerbating existing tensions and adding to the
potential for conflicts.<br>
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Hazards resulting from the increasing intensity and frequency of
extreme weather events, such as abnormally heavy rainfall, prolonged
droughts, desertification, environmental degradation, or sea-level
rise and cyclones are already causing an average of more than 20
million people to leave their homes and move to other areas in their
countries each year.<br>
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Some people are forced to cross borders in the context of climate
change and disasters and may in some circumstances be in need of
international protection. Refugee and human rights law therefore
have an important role to play in this area.<br>
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The Global Compact on Refugees, affirmed by an overwhelming majority
in the UN General Assembly in December 2018, directly addresses this
growing concern. It recognizes that “climate, environmental
degradation and disasters increasingly interact with the drivers of
refugee movements”.<br>
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We need to invest now in preparedness to mitigate future protection
needs and prevent further climate caused displacement. Waiting for
disaster to strike is not an option...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.unhcr.org/uk/what-we-do/how-we-work/environment-disasters-and-climate-change/climate-change-and-disaster">https://www.unhcr.org/uk/what-we-do/how-we-work/environment-disasters-and-climate-change/climate-change-and-disaster</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at
political statements ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>July 26, 2004 </b></i></font> <br>
July 26, 2004: <br>
• At the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts,
former Vice President Al Gore states:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"And I also ask tonight for the
consideration and the help of those who supported a third party
candidate in 2000. I urge you to ask yourselves this question:
Do you still believe that there was no difference between the
candidates? Are you troubled by the erosion of America’s most
basic civil liberties? Are you worried that our environmental
laws are being weakened and dismantled to allow vast increases
in pollution that are contributing to a global climate crisis?
No matter how you voted in the last election, these are profound
problems that all voters must take into account this November
2."</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/algore2004dnc.htm">http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/convention2004/algore2004dnc.htm</a>
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