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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>October 14</b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>, 2023</b></i></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ We suspected as much ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Global warning: 2023 will be the hottest
year on record<br>
</b></font><font face="Calibri">Global mean September temperature
anomalies</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Sweltering temperatures baking the globe this
year, both on land and sea, have amplified the odds of the Earth
setting an inauspicious record.<br>
<br>
Driving the news: Months of hotter-than-normal weather have made
the planet go from a 46.8% chance of having the warmest year on
record at the end of July, to a greater than 99% chance of this
outcome now, according to new data from NOAA.<br>
<br>
September's air and ocean temperatures shattered global records,
with NOAA and NASA each confirming early data that indicated it
was a highly unusual month.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>September was the most </b>unusually warm
month ever recorded in the agency's 174 years of instrument
records, with a temperature anomaly of 1.44°C (2.59°F).<br>
<br>
This beat the previous warmest September by a staggering margin of
0.46°C (0.83°F), and the prior largest temperature anomaly, which
occurred in March 2016, by 0.09°C (0.16°F), NOAA stated.<br>
Last month was the 49th-straight September with temperatures
higher than the 20th century average, and the 535th straight month
with warmer-than-average temperatures.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>What they're saying: </b>"September 2023
was the fourth month in a row of record-warm global temperatures,"
said Sarah Kapnick, NOAA's chief scientist, in a statement.<br>
<br>
"Not only was it the warmest September on record, it was far and
away the most atypically warm month of any in NOAA's 174 years of
climate keeping. To put it another way, September 2023 was warmer
than the average July from 2001-2010."</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Between the lines: </b>Throughout the year,
meteorologists and climate scientists have been playing catch-up
with global temperatures as the oceans have soared to record
warmth, while entire continents have baked.<br>
<br>
Record warm temperatures during September covered 20% of the
world's surface, which was the largest area since at least 1951.
Less than 1% of the world's surface had a record-cold September,
NOAA found. <br>
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<font face="Calibri">When the year began, NOAA projected that 2023
would likely be a top-10 warmest year, but not at the top of the
list.<br>
However, with a building El Niño in the tropical Pacific, record
ocean warmth worldwide, and extremely high land surface
temperatures, that has rapidly changed.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The NOAA now pegs the odds of a record warm
year in 2023 at greater than 99%, which is near to or matching
other global climate centers.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>By the numbers: </b>NASA data, which is
processed using different methods, also showed that September was
a shockingly warm month — with a temperature anomaly of 1.47°C
(2.6°F).<br>
<br>
This was the most unusually warm month on record in NASA's data
set as well.<br>
<br>
Other data, including from the Japan Meteorological Agency and the
Copernicus Climate Change Service, corroborates NASA and NOAA's
findings.<br>
North America, South America, Europe and Africa had their warmest
Septembers on record, and for the sixth-straight month, global
oceans ranked as the hottest on record, NOAA found.<br>
September tied August for the highest monthly sea surface
temperature departure from average, at 1.03°C (1.85°F), of any
month on record.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Of note: </b>The U.S. has already seen
two-dozen billion-dollar weather and climate disasters through the
end of September, which is an annual record, NOAA reported last
week.<br>
<br>
<b>The intrigue: </b>Scientists are trying to determine what
exactly is driving the extreme heat this year, in addition to
human-caused climate change. Some factors are well-understood,
such as a sudden flip from a three-year La Niña, which slightly
cools the globe, to a warming El Niño. But there may be unknown
factors involved as well.<br>
<br>
"What's remarkable is that these record values are happening
before the peak of the current El Nino event, whereas in 2016 the
previous record values happened in the spring, after the peak,"
said NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt in a statement.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.axios.com/2023/10/13/climate-heat-september-noaa-nasa">https://www.axios.com/2023/10/13/climate-heat-september-noaa-nasa</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><i>[ a very
dangerous chemical is widespread ]<br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>When it comes to heating the
planet, the fluid in your AC is thousands of times worse than
CO2<br>
</b></font><font face="Calibri">BY ISABELLA O’MALLEY<br>
October 13, 2023<br>
Air conditioning has made it possible to live comfortably in many
hot places, but the special chemicals that makes it work are
actually extremely hazardous to the climate.<br>
<br>
Refrigerants used in fridges, freezers and cars change from a
fluid to a gas to transport heat away from the place you want
cooled.<br>
<br>
In refrigerators, the refrigerant starts as a liquid and expands
into a gas, which forces it to cool down. This chilled gas
circulates through the fridge, absorbing heat as it flows along.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Once the chilled fluid has absorbed significant
heat, say, from eggs you just hardboiled and placed inside, it
gets squeezed in a compressor and gets even hotter. The
refrigerant then flows through condenser coils where it releases
its heat out and cools back into a liquid.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The cycle starts over when the refrigerant
enters the expansion device, where the fluid spreads out, cools,
and once again turns into a gas.<br>
<br>
Air conditioners also use refrigerants and operate similarly to
this, but they release their heat to the outdoors rather than your
kitchen.<br>
<br>
Refrigerants absorb a lot more heat than water or other common
fluids, which makes them great for cooling systems but bad for
climate change when they escape.<br>
<br>
Some of the earlier refrigerant chemicals that allowed hot places
like Phoenix, Arizona and Dubai to grow into population centers,
were a family known as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), but scientists
discovered that these were causing widespread damage to the ozone
layer in the mid to late 1900s.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">So countries came together and ratified the
Montreal Protocol which went into effect in 1987 and banned CFCs.
This is cited as one of the most successful international
environmental laws ever.<br>
<br>
The family of chemicals that replaced those CFCs was
hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs. They were first commercialized in the
1990s. But these were found to be dangerous for the climate and
were rapidly building up in the atmosphere as air conditioning
spread across the world.<br>
<br>
The way to compare damaging gases is “global warming potential” or
GWP, which the Environmental Protection Agency defines as how much
energy one ton of a gas can absorb over a certain period of time,
compared to one ton of carbon dioxide. Over one century, the GWP
of carbon dioxide is one, therefore. Methane, the second most
important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide is 28, or 28 times
worse. The common refrigerant known as R-410A, has a global
warming potential of 2,088.<br>
<br>
In 2016, the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol phased down
the use of climate-harming hydrofluorocarbons 85% by 2036, so that
phasedown is currently happening.<br>
<br>
According to the most recent comprehensive climate report from
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2021, this Kigali
Agreement will meaningfully prevent some warming of the Earth if
fully enforced.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">In the United States, people are not allowed to
intentionally release hydrofluorocarbons and other refrigerants
under the Clean Air Act. When an appliance containing a
refrigerant is disposed of, the EPA also requires the last person
in the disposal process to recover the refrigerant to a certain
level or verify that there hasn’t been any leakage.<br>
<br>
However, accidents happen. When a car is totaled in a collision,
all of that refrigerant escapes into the atmosphere. The EPA also
restricts sales of refrigerants, but people can purchase small
cans of certain HFCs in stores if they contain two pounds or less.
When a car is dumped at a junk yard, personnel there are
responsible for recovering the refrigerant.<br>
<br>
Scientists say that lowering our emissions of HFCs will have a
fairly quick payoff because most persist in the atmosphere for
roughly 15 years, far less time than carbon dioxide.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://apnews.com/article/refrigerant-global-warming-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-77c37a0127716266defb329b10800bba">https://apnews.com/article/refrigerant-global-warming-carbon-dioxide-atmosphere-77c37a0127716266defb329b10800bba</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Michigan Conservative Energy Forum ]<br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>Ed Rivet: Renewable Siting
Needs Reform in Michigan</b><br>
greenmanbucket<br>
Oct 13, 2023<br>
Ed Rivet is Executive Director of the Michigan Conservative Energy
Forum, a group of Conservative Republicans who support Clean
energy development.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHhE4jvkxP4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHhE4jvkxP4</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><i>- -<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Local zoning battles moving to state
battlegrounds ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>WJRT 12 Flint Michigan: Controversy over
Clean Energy Siting Reform</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">greenmanbucket</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7rOTs0VKOo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7rOTs0VKOo</a></font><br>
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<i>[ engaging with a New World - video interview ]</i><br>
<b>The Interconnected Grid | Nafeez Ahmed</b><br>
Planet: Critical<br>
What if the only viable future is a better one?<br>
<p>Oct 11, 2023<br>
<br>
Whatever the future holds, one thing is certain: tomorrow’s world
will not look like today’s. We could see fossil-fascism in which
nations hoard their fossil reserves (coal and gas) for accelerated
use at the expense of international collaboration. We could see
eco-fascism after an unplanned recession which crashes the
financial system and slashes demand. We could see a descent into
madness in which we run out of fuel to heat, to eat, to survive. <br>
<br>
We could also see degrowth, eco-socialism, renewable sharing and
governance reimagined to meet human rights. No, this isn’t
utopia—it’s laid out in the policy plans of many scholars around
the world as one of the only paths to navigating the planetary
crisis. <br>
<br>
Systems theorist Nafeez Ahmed joins me to discuss the
interconnected grid—a piece of renewable infrastructure which, by
its design, would change our economic system, our geopolitics and
our relationship with one another. Nafeez debated Simon Michaux a
few months ago, and I highly recommend listening to these episodes
as a trio: Nafeez, Simon, the debate.<br>
<br>
- Nafeez Ahmed: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nafeezahmed.net/">https://www.nafeezahmed.net/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q0Sgzkoh8w">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q0Sgzkoh8w</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at when
one great newspaper spoke clearly ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 14, 2013 </b></i></font> <br>
October 14, 2013: In an editorial, the Baltimore Sun declares:<br>
</font>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">"The latest analysis produced by
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), compiled
by hundreds of scientists and dozens of authors from around the
globe, shows that climate change is real, it's largely caused by
man, and it's the greatest environmental threat we face.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">"That's not alarmism, it's reality. Of
course, know-nothing deniers will be as dismissive of the IPCC
findings as they've been of similar reports in the past. That
the IPCC is under the auspices of the United Nations will be
used to stir up nationalistic suspicions. That climate change
policy is highly inconvenient for the fossil fuel industries
will cause the big coal and oil companies to continue their
disinformation campaigns.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">"None of which changes the reality that
climate change poses a serious threat, and as the evidence
mounts, it's actually become easier to distinguish these basic
changes in the ecosystem from the normal ups and downs of
weather. No one super storm or drought or tornado is traceable
to global warming, of course, but the data are simply too
overwhelming to ignore. Each of the last three decades has
proven successively warmer than the previous. Any recent slowing
of that trend or plateau, as the report notes, has more to do
with variables such as volcanic activity and the solar cycle
over the last five years than it does the build-up of greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere."</font><br>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-10-14/news/bs-ed-climate-20131014_1_ipcc-report-climate-change-intergovernmental-panel">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-10-14/news/bs-ed-climate-20131014_1_ipcc-report-climate-change-intergovernmental-panel</a><br>
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