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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November 13</b></i></font></font><font
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<i>[ Dr Kate Marvel delivers the surest science and best story of
hero's quest ]</i><br>
<b>The End of Normal: Understanding—and correcting—Earth's troubling
climate trajectory | Kate Marvel</b><br>
Project Drawdown<br>
Aug 28, 2023<br>
The planet is now more than 1.1°C warmer than before the Industrial
Revolution—and it shows. This summer, we’ve experienced punishing
heat waves, devastating floods, and toxic levels of wildfire smoke
filling our skies. As temperatures climb, the risk of extreme
weather rises, too. And we’re facing an even hotter, more dangerous
future. Humans are conducting an unprecedented experiment on the
entire planet, and no one is sure exactly how bad it will turn out.
But there is hope. Most of the solutions we need to stop climate
change and avoid the worst-case scenarios are already here. <br>
<br>
Join Dr. Kate Marvel, senior climate scientist at Project Drawdown,
as she draws on her own experiences as a scientist and vocal
advocate for climate solutions to explore the science behind current
climate changes and future projections. We’ll discuss the science of
attributing extreme weather events to our warming climate, the
different ways humans affect climate, and the things science doesn’t
yet understand. <br>
<br>
This webinar is part of Project Drawdown’s new monthly Drawdown
Ignite webinar series. Drawdown Ignite provides information and
inspiration to guide your climate solutions journey. Updates on
future webinars can be found by visiting drawdown.org/events<br>
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Key links: Project Drawdown: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://drawdown.org/">https://drawdown.org/</a><br>
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<i>[ The most highly recommended organization ]</i><br>
<b>Project Drawdown is the world’s leading resource for climate
solutions.</b><br>
Our mission is to help the world stop climate change—as quickly,
safely, and equitably as possible. <br>
<br>
To do this, we pursue three key strategies:<br>
<blockquote>Advance Effective, Science-based Climate Solutions and
Strategies. We do the science no one else does to cut through the
noise and find effective “whole system” solutions and strategies
for stopping climate change.<br>
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Foster Bold, New Climate Leadership. We inform, inspire, and
empower business leaders, investors, and philanthropists to take
bold, new positions, act more strategically, and rapidly bring
climate solutions to scale.<br>
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Promote New Narratives and New Voices. We work to shift the
conversation about climate change from “doom and gloom” to
“possibility and opportunity.” And we elevate new,
underrepresented climate heroes through storytelling and “passing
the mic.”<br>
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<i>[ Video interview with the widely respected climate scientist Dr
Kaitlin Naughten ]</i><br>
<b>We can’t save the West Antarctic. So what now?</b><br>
Dr Gilbz<br>
Nov 8, 2023 #Antarctica #ClimateChange<br>
It’s not often that I make a video with a title this bleak, but
unfortunately, needs must. Several pieces of new research point to
the inevitability of West Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, which is
pretty bad news. But what we do with this bad news is still up to
us.<br>
<p>Here, I talk to the lead author of one of these new papers, Dr
Kaitlin Naughten. She tells me what it all means, including why we
need to focus on adaptation, and why we must take courage, not
hope, from this information.</p>
<p>Contents</p>
<blockquote>00:00 Intro <br>
01:06 Who cares about the Amundsen Sea<br>
01:58 What the study shows<br>
03:06 Mechanisms of change<br>
05:34 Can we trust it?<br>
06:36 The link to sea level rise<br>
07:02 Time to adapt<br>
08:53 Why our actions DO matter<br>
10:51 Courage vs hope<br>
13:52 Thank yous<br>
#ClimateChange #Antarctica <br>
References and resources<br>
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THE PAPER: Naughten et al. (2023)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01818-x">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01818-x</a><br>
Kaitlin’s twitter thread:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/kaitlinnaughten/status/1716472710107222440">https://twitter.com/kaitlinnaughten/status/1716472710107222440</a><br>
Kaitlin’s article in The Conversation:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/increasing-melting-of-west-antarctic-ice-shelves-may-be-unavoidable-new-research-216030">https://theconversation.com/increasing-melting-of-west-antarctic-ice-shelves-may-be-unavoidable-new-research-216030</a><br>
more at:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BoZDS1gjU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_BoZDS1gjU</a><br>
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<i>[ Since 2009 "ClimateSight.org" -- I've been reading her superb
blog - before Kaitlin got her PHD. Her writing is always
superb. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatesight.org">https://climatesight.org</a> </i><br>
<i>In 2009 I took her advice: "So go do some reading. Do some
searching and reading and watching. See what individuals,
professionals, groups and scientific bodies are saying about
climate change. Assess their credentials. Decide who you’re going
to believe." ]</i><br>
<b>Increasing melting of West Antarctic ice shelves may be
unavoidable – new research</b><br>
Posted on Oct 23, 2023<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatesight.org/2023/10/23/increasing-melting-of-west-antarctic-ice-shelves-may-be-unavoidable-new-research/">https://climatesight.org/2023/10/23/increasing-melting-of-west-antarctic-ice-shelves-may-be-unavoidable-new-research/</a><br>
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<i>[ From Harvard ]</i><br>
<b>When future weather outside is frightful — hot, that is</b><br>
Experts warn how life will change for people of different economic
levels in various parts of world as global temperatures rise<br>
BY Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer<br>
<br>
October 18, 2023<br>
Climate change is raising sea levels, creating stronger and wetter
storms, melting ice sheets, and fostering conditions for more and
worse wildfires. But as cities around the world warm, climate
change’s complex global picture often comes down to this: Residents
say they are just too hot.<br>
<br>
Jane Gilbert, one of the nation’s first official “heat officers,”
works in Miami-Dade County. She said South Florida may be suffering
the effects of sea level rise and is in the crosshairs of stronger
and more frequent hurricanes, but residents testifying at 2020
hearings on climate-change impacts on low-income neighborhoods
repeatedly said the biggest one was the heat.<br>
<br>
Panelists gathered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s
Longfellow Hall last Friday for an event on the “Future of Cities”
in a warming world said the topic is particularly relevant this
year, when global temperatures soared to new records. As Gilbert
spoke on the Cambridge campus on a cool fall afternoon, the heat
index in Miami was 109 degrees, just the latest of more than 60 days
this year that have seen heat indices higher than 105 degrees.<br>
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Satchit Balsari, who conducts research among members of India’s
largest labor union for women in the nation’s informal economy, did
research in Gujarat among the millions of people who are already
living with a global climate that has increased 1 degree Celsius.
While that rise may seem a small change, that global average is
experienced through much wider daily swings in some areas in the
form of longer and hotter heat waves, warmer winters, higher
nighttime temperatures and more extreme weather events, such as
stronger storms or wildfires.<br>
<br>
One thing that has become apparent, said Balsari, an assistant
professor of global health and population at the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health, is that when talking about individuals,
microenvironments matter much more than global averages, because
those environments are what affect people as they live and work.<br>
<br>
Balsari shared stories of a street vendor, a weaver who works in a
building whose rooftop temperature was 10 to 15 degrees above that
of the surrounding area, who put up awnings to create shade from the
sun, only to have them taken down because they blocked security
cameras.<br>
<br>
“It’s very hot, and it cools down a little bit at night, but in
their work environment, in the lived experience in their homes,
there’s this constant experience of ‘It’s too hot,’” said Balsari,
who is also an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Harvard
Medical School.<br>
<br>
As hot as this year has been globally, experts who gathered for the
event only expect it to get hotter in the decades to come.<br>
<br>
“This is an issue for the long run. Yes, things are bad now. We’re
at 1.3, 1.2 (degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures) now;
we’re going to blow through 1.5. We’re going to probably blow
through 2,” said James Stock, vice provost for climate and
sustainability and director of the Harvard Salata Institute for
Climate and Sustainability. “It gets worse nonlinearly really
quickly.”<br>
<br>
Stock offered closing remarks at the event, which wrapped up
Worldwide Week at Harvard and included lectures, performances,
exhibitions, and other events across campus to highlight the ways in
which the University interacts and intersects with the world around
it through the sciences, arts, culture, politics, and other
disciplines.<br>
<br>
Joining Stock, Balsari, and Gilbert were Spencer Glendon, founder of
the nonprofit Probable Futures; Francesca Dominici, co-director of
the Harvard Data Science Initiative; Zoe Davis, climate resilience
project manager for the city of Boston; and moderator John Macomber,
senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. Harvard Provost Alan
Garber and Mark Elliott, vice provost for international affairs,
offered opening remarks.<br>
<br>
Panelists agreed that better data collection is key to adapting
solutions to circumstances that vary widely even across small
geographic areas. Interventions such as providing vulnerable
populations with air conditioners, for example, may be valuable in
low-income communities, but less so in nearby communities with
wealthier residents.<br>
<br>
In Miami-Dade County, Gilbert said, air conditioners are considered
life-saving equipment to the extent that, after Hurricane Irma, the
state required nursing homes to have back-up power supplies so that
residents could be cooled even in a power outage. ZIP codes with the
highest land temperatures — which also tend to be low-income
neighborhoods — have four times the rate of hospital admissions
during heat waves as other parts of the region.<br>
<br>
Gilbert echoed other panelists in calling for better, more granular
data through more widespread use of sensors, including wearable
sensors that can record heat impact on individuals. With different
microclimates affecting different people, different jobs — whether
someone is in an office or working at a construction site — also
matter, both to public health officials and business leaders.
Estimates of the potential economic impact of extreme heat in the
Miami metro area are around $10 billion per year in lost
productivity.<br>
<br>
Nonprofit leader Glendon said we’re entering an unprecedented
climate era. Humans were nomadic, regularly moving to where
conditions were best, until about 10,000 years ago, when the
temperature stabilized to the narrow range that we now consider
normal. Centered in the range that humans prefer, climate stability
helped foster human settlement and the rise of civilizations.<br>
<br>
In the 10,000 years since, Glendon said, everything we’ve created,
from building designs to cultural practices, has been made with the
unstated assumption that this stable temperature regime — averaging
roughly 60 degrees Fahrenheit — will continue. Recent decades’
warming and the projected warming in the decades to come will push
heat and humidity in some places beyond the range that the human
body can cool itself, with unknown consequences for societies.<br>
<br>
“Everything is built on that stability, on the assumption that those
ranges are fixed,” Glendon said. “It’s in building codes, grades of
asphalt, architecture. … Those ranges are embodied so they became
unconscious, but we need to make them conscious, and ideally they
motivate us to avoid 2, 2½, or 3 degrees.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/experts-warn-how-life-will-change-as-global-temperatures-rise/">https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/experts-warn-how-life-will-change-as-global-temperatures-rise/</a><br>
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<i>[ listen in on a Wonderful discussion on the practice of science
]</i><br>
<b>Martin Rees Predicts the Future of Humanity and Science!</b><br>
Dr Brian Keating<br>
Nov 11, 2023 Brian Keating's Into The Impossible Podcast<br>
Please join my mailing list here 👉 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://briankeating.com/list">https://briankeating.com/list</a> to
win a meteorite 💥<br>
<br>
What’s written in our stars? Here to read humanity's horoscope is
none other than Lord Martin Rees! <br>
<br>
Lord Martin Rees has played a huge role in my career and is an
inspiration to me and millions of scientists around the world. There
is literally nothing beyond his purview, and our conversation bore
this out -- we covered everything from A to Z: artificial
intelligence to zoology! Nothing was off-limits – we even shared our
mutual and controversial distaste for alchemy and astrology!<br>
<br>
Lord Rees of Ludlow, the Astronomer Royal, is the Co-founder of the
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and an Emeritus Professor
of Cosmology & Astrophysics at Cambridge University. He is the
38th Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the author of ‘On
the Future’ and 10 other books and the 60th President of the Royal
Society.<br>
<br>
@drbriankeating <br>
Key Takeaways: <br>
<blockquote>Intro (00:00)<br>
Judging a book by its cover: On The Future (01:34)<br>
Reading the Queen's horoscope (02:53)<br>
Do physicists envy mathematicians? (06:32)<br>
Why is Einstein so often a target of criticism? (10:07)<br>
The steady-state of the universe debate and cosmology's earlier
days (15:12)<br>
Martin's prediction that the CMB could be polarized (21:18)<br>
Theories of Everything. Do we need them? (28:28)<br>
Complex vs. complicated (36:46)<br>
There may be some benefits to the pandemic! (55:24)<br>
What do you think about blockchain and Bitcoin? (57:11)<br>
How coins got their ridges (59:06)<br>
What is your ethical will? (1:15:30)<br>
Outro (1:25:26)<br>
</blockquote>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font><i>[ Cryosciences ]</i><br>
<b>Arctic 21: Special Antarctica Session</b><br>
<b>International Cryosphere Climate Initiative</b><br>
Jul 14, 2023<br>
With new cryosphere research published every month, understanding
the latest findings in snow and ice science is of crucial importance
for climate negotiators and policy makers. This Arctic 21 session
focuses on Antarctica, providing a series of scientific
presentations on ice sheet loss projections, sea ice, and the
Southern Ocean, including the influence of ocean currents on the
continent. <br>
<br>
Speakers include: <br>
Pam Pearson, Executive Director, ICCI; <br>
Dr. Julie Brigham-Grette, University of Massachusetts Amherst, on
the paleo record of Antarctica; <br>
Dr. Robert DeConto, University of Massachusetts Amherst, on
Antarctica's contribution to past and future sea level rise; <br>
Dr. Chris Stokes, Durham University, on the sensitivity of East
Antarctica to climate change; <br>
Dr. James Kirkham, recently of the British Antarctic Survey, on his
observations of the record-low sea ice extent during a research
expedition there in April; <br>
Dr. Sian Henley, University of Edinburgh, on Southern Ocean
acidification;<br>
Dr. Martin Siegert, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Exeter University, on
new exploration of extreme Antarctic weather events;.<br>
Friday, July 14th, 2023 at 16:00CEST (10:00EDT)<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> November 13, 2005: Fox News Channel
airs "The Heat is On: The Case of Global Warming," a special that
reportedly (and surprisingly, considering Fox's track record) does
not feature any climate-change deniers. After fossil-fuel-industry
front groups attack Fox for not including their viewpoint, Fox runs
a special several months later featuring the views of climate-change
deniers.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/24/timeline-fox-news-role-in-the-climate-of-doubt/190906">https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2012/10/24/timeline-fox-news-role-in-the-climate-of-doubt/190906</a>
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<p>See also<br>
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<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/timeline-fox-news-role-climate-doubt">https://www.mediamatters.org/sean-hannity/timeline-fox-news-role-climate-doubt</a><br>
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