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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>September 28</b></i></font></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Brilliant lecture 50 min video ]<br>
</i> </font><font face="Calibri"><b>Daniel Schmachtenberger l An
introduction to the Metacrisis l Stockholm Impact/Week 2023</b><br>
Norrsken Foundation<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Sep 20, 2023<br>
An introduction to the Metacrisis by Daniel Schmachtenberger,
founding member of The Consilience Project. Moderated by Niklas
Adalberth, founder of Norrsken Foundation. Recorded live during
Stockholm Impact/Week 2023.<br>
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Stockholm Impact Week is an annual Summit hosted by Norrsken and
the City of Stockholm, dedicated to defining the critical issues
of our time and enabling solutions to them. <br>
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Read more about Norrsken Foundation: norrsken.org<br>
Read more about Stockholm Impact/Week 2023: impactweek.se<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Audio -- about serious political change
-- Dave Roberts interview --SEP 27 • 52M ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Minnesota forces transportation
planners to take climate change seriously</b><br>
A conversation with state Representative Larry Kraft.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">In 2022, Democrats narrowly won a
trifecta in Minnesota — House, Senate, and governor — whereupon
they launched into an absolute frenzy of activity, passing bills
on everything from abortion to paid leave to gun control to free
school lunch to clean energy. Vanity Fair called it a “tour de
force for progressive legislation.”</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">I covered the state’s new clean-energy law on a
previous pod, but I also wanted to take a closer look at the big
transportation bill that was signed in May. It passed somewhat
under the radar, but it’s got some very cool stuff in it.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">One key feature is that it requires both state
and municipal transportation-planning agencies to take the state’s
climate goals into account when assessing new projects — to hold
themselves accountable to those goals. As obvious as that may
seem, it’s not something any other state has done.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">To discuss the significance of this and some
other provisions of the bill, I contacted one of its primary
authors, first-term state Representative Larry Kraft (D). We
talked about what these changes mean for transportation planners,
the kinds of transportation projects that can reduce emissions,
the new money the state will raise for public transit, and the
state’s new e-bike incentive (!).<br>
<br>
By the way, if you enjoy this conversation, you should know that
Kraft co-hosts a podcast of his own, on climate policy in small
and mid-sized cities. It’s called City Climate Corner, with
co-host Abby Finis. Check it out.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ from comments ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">J.Petri<br>
<b>I recommend the "City Climate Corner" </b>podcast. I listen to
it regularly. This podcast "Explores how small and mid-sized
cities are tackling climate change and moving toward an equitable
and sustainable future." The podcasts are always interesting, and
cover a range of topics: Boise's geothermal energy district; Santa
Monica's 3D printed bike lanes.... Check it out: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cityclimatecorner.com/">https://www.cityclimatecorner.com/</a></font><br>
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href="https://open.substack.com/pub/davidroberts/p/minnesota-forces-transportation-planners?r=10305&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=40774914">https://open.substack.com/pub/davidroberts/p/minnesota-forces-transportation-planners?r=10305&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=40774914</a></font><br>
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<i>[ Excellent site ]</i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>City Climate Corner</b><br>
Explores how small and mid-sized cities are tackling climate
change and moving toward an equitable and sustainable future.
Co-hosted by Abby Finis and Larry Kraft<br>
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href="https://www.cityclimatecorner.com/">https://www.cityclimatecorner.com/</a><br>
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</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Old habits</b><br>
26 SEP 2023 BY RASMUS<br>
Media awareness about global warming and climate change has grown
fairly steadily since 2004. My impression is that journalists
today tend to possess a higher climate literacy than before. This
increasing awareness and improved knowledge is encouraging, but
there are also some common interpretations which could be more
nuanced. Here are two examples, polar amplification and extreme
rainfall.<br>
<br>
<b>Polar amplification</b><br>
A recent report on the ice on Greenland in the Washington Post
discussed the melting of land-based ice on Greenland. The melting
of ice in the polar regions is a great concern and is exacerbated
by the so-called Polar Amplification which is responsible for a
rapid warming in the polar region, especially in the Arctic. <br>
<br>
In the said report, the fast pace of melting was explained as a
consequence of a spiraling effect, where retreating ice uncovers a
darker surface that soaks up more heat from the sunlight (the
so-called albedo-feedback):<br>
<br>
Vanishing land ice — such as ice sheets and glaciers — can also
create a feedback loop. But because land isn’t quite as dark as
the surface of the ocean, it doesn’t cause as much additional
heating. This is partly why the South Pole (which is covered by
the Antarctic continent) isn’t warming as fast as the North Pole
(which is surrounded by ocean).<br>
<br>
The situation is more complicated, however, as the strongest
Arctic warming takes place in winter during polar nights, when the
days are subject to 24-hr darkness. In other words, there is no
albedo effect that can explain this exceptional warming because of
the lack of sunlight.<br>
<br>
Yet, sea-ice acts as an insulator between air and sea. When it
retreats, it opens up for more heat and moisture exchange between
the ocean and the atmosphere, and the strongest warming can be
found where the sea-ice has retreated (Isaksen, et al., 2022).<br>
<br>
There are also additional mechanisms that can explain the rapid
warming near the poles. One of them is that the already colder
conditions are responsible for lower heat losses, but this is the
case for Antarctica as well.<br>
<br>
Changes in cloud cover and air moisture (vapour pressure) also
play a role. If there is a permanent cloud cover, then we expect a
reduced albedo-feedback connected with ice and snow. Clouds also
affect the albedo, and both clouds and air moisture affect the
surface heat loss to space.<br>
<br>
Other mechanisms include changes in the lapse rate (Boeke et al.,
2020) and boundary layers (Bintanja et al., 2012), as well as heat
transport from lower latitudes. <br>
<br>
Storms may also influence the temperature indirectly through their
effect on sea-ice. A take-home message from a talk by Gabriele
Messori, Ehlke Hepworth, and Marcello Vichi at the European
Meteorological Society’s 2023 annual meeting in Bratislava was
that high-latitude cyclones in the Southern Ocean can reach and
shape the Antarctic sea-ice.<br>
<br>
Storms also play a role in the Arctic, and Aue and Rinke (2023)
reported that seasonal variations in storms leave an imprint on
the sea ice concentration in the Barents and Kara Seas. They also
found that storms have an impact on the Arctic sea ice and that it
has changed during the last 40 years.<br>
<br>
Finally, in the BAMS State of the Climate (2023) the Arctic
amplification was also associated with various localised
land–ocean–sea-ice interactions as well as large-scale atmospheric
and oceanic energy transport processes.<br>
<br>
<b>Extreme rainfall</b><br>
Another common topic is extreme rainfall, and the link to global
warming is often explained in terms of increased evaporation with
higher temperatures. This is not wrong, but also not the whole
story.<br>
<br>
We can call it the thermodynamical explanation, and we indeed
expect more extreme rainfall with higher temperatures which
enhance the air’s moisture holding capacity and increase the rate
of evaporation. <br>
<br>
There are also dynamical aspects, which involve changes in winds
and cloud structure, but they are rarely mentioned in news
reports. <br>
<br>
The water that evaporates comes down again, but in patches. It
doesn’t rain all the time nor everywhere. Over time, the daily
rain has fallen over a shrinking fraction of Earth’s surface
(Benestad et al., 2022), thus becoming more concentrated into
smaller and more intense wet patches. <br>
<br>
A recent and tentative (not yet peer-reviewed) analysis suggests
that about half of the increased extreme precipitation may be due
to thermodynamics and about half may be due to dynamics (Benestad
et al., 2023)<br>
<br>
The dynamical nature of this trend may involve more convective
clouds, higher cloud tops or an expansion of the sub-tropics
connected to a widening of the Hadley cell. Another factor may be
a slowdown of moving rain-generating systems (Kahraman et al,
2023).<br>
<br>
There are reports of increased rainfall amounts connected with
tropical cyclones, which combines both thermodynamics
(evaporation) and dynamics (wind and cloud structures). Recently
storm Daniel brought extreme rainfall amounts that caused
devastating calamities both in Greece/Bulgaria/Turkey as well as
Libya. The extreme rainfall was a result of both excessive
evaporation (the Mediterranean Sea has been unusually warm) and
circulation.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Butterflies declining 2% per year. All
insects 2% annual decline. Decline 75% by biomass "People
should not be the source" Birds delinging 2% per year. Humans
are running a giant experiment ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Nick Haddad:
"Insects - A Silent Extinction" | The Great Simplification #90</b><br>
Nate Hagens<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Sep 27, 2023 The Great Simplification -
with Nate Hagens<br>
On this episode, Nate is joined by Professor Nick Haddad, a
conservation scientist with a focus on butterflies and other
insects. Nick unpacks what decades of research have indicated
about the declining state of insect populations, which act as the
foundation of critical ecosystem functions. The overlooked
degradation of butterflies, beetles, bees, ants, ladybugs, and
countless other species have huge ripple effects across our local
and global ecological functions - from a loss of bird populations
to a reduced ability to grow food. Why are we not more concerned
about the health and vitality of these critical organisms? Can
humans - or life as we know it - survive without these little
creatures? What can we do as individuals, businesses, and
governments to help insects rebound as quickly as possible, and in
turn strengthen the health of everything else.<br>
<br>
About Nick Haddad<br>
Professor Nick Haddad is co-lead of the Long Term Ecological
Research site at Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State
University. He leads decades-long, landscape-scale experiments
that bring scientific principles to conservation actions. He
studies how landscape diversity, including prairie strips through
croplands, affect biodiversity, especially of plants and insects,
and of ecosystem services including pollination, biocontrol, and
decomposition. For three decades he has led the world’s largest
experiment testing the role of landscape corridors in increasing
dispersal of most plant and animal species, and increasing plant
diversity. He has conducted long-term restoration experiments to
guide conservation of rare butterflies in the face of climate and
land use change. Nick brings together ideas in science and
management through ConservationCorridor.org.<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ The news archive - looking back at how
Luntz and GWBush harms ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 28, 2007</b></i></font> <br>
September 28, 2007: President George W. Bush speaks at a
"conference" on climate change in Washington. The speech and the
"conference" are widely viewed as political efforts to obscure the
Bush administration's overall lack of interest in taking serious
steps to reduce carbon pollution. <br>
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href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/americas/28iht-28climatesub.7674315.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/world/americas/28iht-28climatesub.7674315.html</a><br>
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<p><b>Bush climate speech follows Luntz playbook: “Technology,
technology, blah, blah, blah.”</b><br>
JOE ROMM<br>
SEP 28, 2007, 5:49 PM<br>
<br>
Bush has given us a new drinking game: Down a shot whenever the
President uses the word “technology” in a climate speech. You’d
get 19 shots for today’s 21 minute speech!<br>
<br>
As predicted Bush closely follows the Frank Luntz playbook on
how to seem like you care about the climate when you don’t. Bush
stated the basic do-nothing message well:<br>
<br>
Our investments in research and technology are bringing the
world closer to a remarkable breakthrough — an age of clean
energy where we can power our growing economies and improve the
lives of our people and be responsible stewards of the earth the
Almighty trusted to our care.<br>
<br>
Translation: “If we had those technologies today, then maybe we
could take genuine action now. But, darn it, people, we don’t.
We can’t grow the economy and be responsible stewards of the
earth quite yet. We are close, though, so be patient already and
stop with all those calls for mandatory regulation. Sheesh!”<br>
<br>
Since this is the main message of the shrewd Luntz-led delayers,
who realized years ago it could be politically dangerous to be
seen as opposing all action on global warming, let me repeat
Luntz’s advice from his 2002 and 2005 memos to conservatives
[both must-reads for progressives]. In his 2002 “Straight Talk”
memo on climate change messaging he writes:<br>
<br>
Technology and innovation are the key in arguments on both
sides. Global warming alarmists use American superiority in
technology and innovation quite effectively in responding to
accusations that international agreements such as the Kyoto
accord could cost the United States billions. Rather than
condemning corporate America the way most environmentalists have
done in the past, they attack us for lacking faith in our
collective ability to meet any economic challenges presented by
environmental changes we make. This should be our argument. We
need to emphasize how voluntary innovation and experimentation
are preferable to bureaucratic or international intervention and
regulation.<br>
<br>
This is what I call the technology trap, where clean energy
technology is used to delay action, rather than to foster
action, on climate change.Luntz reiterated this point in an
early 2005 strategy document “An Energy Policy for the 21st
Century”: “Innovation and 21st-century technology should be at
the core of your energy policy.” Luntz repeated the word
“technology” thirty times in that document.<br>
<br>
In an April 2005 speech describing his proposed energy policy,
Bush repeated the word ‘technology’ more than forty times. This
time Business Week recognized that Bush was following Luntz’s
script and noted “what’s most striking about Bush’s Apr. 27
speech is how closely it follows the script written by Luntz
earlier this year.” The article also pointed out “the
President’s failure to propose any meaningful solutions.” Indeed
the article’s headline was unusally blunt for the much-maligned
MSM:<br>
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Bush Is Blowing Smoke on EnergyHitting all the points in a noted
GOP pollster’s playbook, the President’s plan is driven by
politics not policy. Worse, it won’t cut oil dependency.<br>
<br>
Can we get some similarly cogent press coverage of Bush’s
climate speech today?<br>
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