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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>September 9</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[UN's report - boring layout of distressing
words - everything must change - right now ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Technical dialogue of the first
global stocktake. Synthesis report by the co-facilitators of the
technical dialogue</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Subsidiary Body for Scientific and
Technological Advice<br>
Fifty-ninth session<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/sb2023_09_adv.pdf">https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/sb2023_09_adv.pdf</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Opinion cartoon ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>What’s worse than Burning Man? A
burning planet</b><br>
We are burning a lot more than just effigies</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Burning Man Boiling planet<br>
Illustration: Fiona Katauskas/The Guardian<br>
Fiona Katauskas<br>
@fionakatauskas<br>
Fri 8 Sep 202<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/sep/09/whats-worse-than-burning-man-a-burning-planet">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/sep/09/whats-worse-than-burning-man-a-burning-planet</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ “Everything is OK until it’s not..." ]</i></font><br>
<b>Deadly humid heatwaves to spread rapidly as climate warms – study</b><br>
Small rise in global temperatures would affect hundreds of millions
of people and could cause a sharp rise in deaths<br>
Damian Carrington Environment editor<br>
@dpcarrington<br>
Fri 8 Sep 2023<br>
Life-threatening periods of high heat and humidity will spread
rapidly across the world with only a small increase in global
temperatures, a study has found, which could cause a sharp
acceleration in the number of deaths resulting from the climate
crisis.<br>
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The extremes, which can be fatal to healthy people within six hours,
could affect hundreds of millions of people unused to such
conditions. As a result, heat deaths could rise quickly unless
serious efforts to prepare populations were undertaken urgently, the
researcher said.<br>
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Normally, the human body cools itself by producing sweat, which
evaporates and takes heat away. But when humidity is high,
evaporation is reduced. The study used a limit based on experiments
on people showing that when combined heat and humidity, as measured
by so-called wet bulb temperature, passes 31.5C, the body is no
longer able to cool itself.<br>
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The researchers called this threshold “non-compensable heat stress”,
as sweating cannot compensate for the extreme conditions. Without
cooling aids, such as cold water, fans or air conditioning, death is
likely within hours.<br>
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Of all of the different manifestations of climate change, heat is
the one that I personally worry the most about and these results
have made me more concerned,” said Carter Powis, at the University
of Oxford, UK, who led the study with colleagues at the Woodwell
Climate Research Center in the US...<br>
“Everything is OK until it’s not and there are limits to what the
human body can tolerate when it comes to heat,” he said. “Things
will keep on chugging along hunky dory until we pass those limits
and then very abruptly, they will not be OK. Suddenly, you’ll see an
acceleration in mortality.<br>
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“What I worry about is that our bodies and our society will prove
more fragile to small changes than we think,” Powis said. “This is
just another [study] saying we need to start reducing emissions –
but that’s what we need to do.”<br>
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Dr Colin Raymond, at the University of California, Los Angeles, who
was not part of the study team, said: “Many areas are only slightly
below the non-compensable heat level now, so as the planet continues
to warm, the total increase in exposure will be exponential.<br>
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“We know the broad contours of what’s ahead, but not every last
wiggle,” he said. “But the seriousness of the extreme-heat hazard
means it is incredibly important to not be caught unprepared, and to
treat heatwaves near or above the non-compensable limit like other
life-threatening disasters. For the most severe events likely in the
coming decades, lives will depend on the availability of artificial
cooling.”<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/deadly-humid-heatwaves-to-spread-rapidly-as-climate-warms-study">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/deadly-humid-heatwaves-to-spread-rapidly-as-climate-warms-study</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ The news archive - looking back at an Al
Gore quote ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 9, 2005 </b></i></font> <br>
September 9, 2005: At the National Sierra Club Convention in San
Francisco, Al Gore declares:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"There are scientific warnings now
of another onrushing catastrophe. We were warned of an imminent
attack by Al Qaeda; we didn't respond. We were warned the levees
would break in New Orleans; we didn't respond. Now, the
scientific community is warning us that the average hurricane
will continue to get stronger because of global warming. A
scientist at MIT has published a study well before this tragedy
showing that since the 1970s, hurricanes in both the Atlantic
and the Pacific have increased in duration, and in intensity, by
about 50%. The newscasters told us after Hurricane Katrina went
over the southern tip of Florida that there was a particular
danger for the Gulf Coast of the hurricanes becoming much
stronger because it was passing over unusually warm waters in
the gulf. The waters in the gulf have been unusually warm. The
oceans generally have been getting warmer. And the pattern is
exactly consistent with what scientists have predicted for
twenty years. Two thousand scientists, in a hundred countries,
engaged in the most elaborate, well organized scientific
collaboration in the history of humankind, have produced
long-since a consensus that we will face a string of terrible
catastrophes unless we act to prepare ourselves and deal with
the underlying causes of global warming. It is important to
learn the lessons of what happens when scientific evidence and
clear authoritative warnings are ignored in order to induce our
leaders not to do it again and not to ignore the scientists
again and not to leave us unprotected in the face of those
threats that are facing us right now."</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050924210135/http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0912-32.htm">http://web.archive.org/web/20050924210135/http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0912-32.htm</a><br>
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