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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November </b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>14, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ indeed, "This is a BFD" -- Dr James Hansen latest paper - top
climate informer ]</i><br>
<b>How We Know that Global Warming is Accelerating</b><br>
<b>and that the Goal of the Paris Agreement is Dead</b><br>
10 November 2023<br>
James Hansen, Pushker Kharecha, Norman Loeb, Makiko Sato,<br>
Leon Simons, George Tselioudis, and Karina von Schuckmann<br>
<blockquote>The drive for global temperature change is Earth’s
energy imbalance (EEI), the<br>
difference between the energy Earth receives from the Sun and
energy Earth reflects<br>
and radiates back to space. We have good measurement of EEI today
based on precise<br>
satellite data for change of reflected and emitted radiation
calibrated by decadal ocean<br>
heat content change measured by deep-diving Argo floats.
Interpretation of global<br>
temperature change and prediction of future temperature requires
knowledge of the<br>
principal forcings that now affect EEI: human-made greenhouse
gases (GHGs) and<br>
atmospheric aerosols (fine airborne particles). Aerosol climate
forcing is not being<br>
measured, but information on aerosol forcing can be extracted from
an ongoing “great<br>
inadvertent aerosol experiment” as a result of discrete changes in
International<br>
Maritime Organization (IMO) regulations on the sulfur content of
ship fuels. These<br>
limited assessment tools are threatened by the absence of firm
plans to continue direct<br>
EEI observations. A shortcoming of our climate science is failure
to communicate<br>
well what is known from existing data. Global warming in the
pipeline and emissions<br>
in the pipeline assure that the goal of the Paris Agreement – to
keep global warming<br>
well below 2°C – is already dead, if policy is constrained only to
emission reductions<br>
plus uncertain and unproven CO2 removal methods.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/Acceleration.2023.11.10.pdf">https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2023/Acceleration.2023.11.10.pdf</a><br>
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<i>[ Report from the Independent news - Nov 7th traffic shooting ]</i><br>
<b>Elderly lawyer shoots dead two climate protesters blocking
highway</b><br>
A copper mine protest turned deadly after a man allegedly opened
fire, killing two demonstrators<br>
<br>
A retired lawyer allegedly shot and killed two men who were part of
a protest blocking a highway in Panama.<br>
<br>
While he has not been officially named by police, the suspect has
been widely reported to be Kenneth Darlington, 77, a retired
American lawyer and university professor who lives in Panama.<br>
<br>
Police said on X (formerly Twitter) that a man has been arrested at
the scene, where he was charged with aggravated homicide and illegal
possession of a firearm.<br>
Mr Darlington, who was born in Panama but has US citizenship, was
caught up in a traffic jam on Tuesday on a highway 55 miles west of
Panama City, caused by protesters campaigning against the recent
deal the Panama government made to restart a copper mine.<br>
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The protest attracted a group of photographers and TV reporters to
the site of the traffic block, where they had lined the middle of
the highway with tyres, flags, tree branches and stones to stop the
cars.<br>
Despite the cameras, horrific video footage showed Mr Darlington,
who was allegedly caught in the traffic, walking up to the
protesters and open firing, leaving two men dead.<br>
<br>
According to the Panama TV network TVN, who reported they were able
to access the court hearing on the shooting incident for a few
minutes, the suspect uttered something along the lines of “this ends
here” before leaving his vehicle and storming up the highway towards
the protesters.<br>
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The widely circulated video footage shows Mr Darlington arguing with
a group of men from the protest.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/thetatvaindia/status/1722498442340016558">https://twitter.com/thetatvaindia/status/1722498442340016558</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawyer-shoots-two-protestors-panama-b2445820.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lawyer-shoots-two-protestors-panama-b2445820.html</a><br>
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<i>[ discussion of climate disaster ]</i><br>
<b>Earth Ablaze</b><br>
Facing Future<br>
Aug 11, 2023 #MauiFires #HeatWaves #ClimateEmergency<br>
The evidence is all around us. Our industrialized civilization is
taking us into an unlivable future. Every continent is affected by
the fever we have inflicted on our planet. The gravity of the
climate emergency is clear. <br>
Even as the crisis hits the United States and Europe - #MauiFires,
Midwest hailstorms, hot tub ocean temperatures in Florida, Italian
cities on red alert, Spain in drought, extended #HeatWaves-
mirroring what's been happening in the global south, political
action is still not happening. What will it take for world leaders
to stop subsidizing extinction? And what do the next decades
portend? <br>
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In this program, Peter Carter, the director of the #ClimateEmergency
Institute, and co-author of Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science
Denial and Game Changers for Survival and<br>
Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist and Professor of
Climatology, Meteorology, and Oceanography at the University of
Ottawa and Carleton University <br>
look at this question and explain why getting off fossil fuels is
essential to our survival.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6goo4SapW90">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6goo4SapW90</a>
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<i>[ Young, ambitious NYTimes reporter summarizes an academic
publication - buries the lede on carbon offsets - "caveats" ]</i><br>
<b>How Much Can Trees Fight Climate Change? Massively, but Not
Alone, Study Finds.</b><br>
The research, which comes with important caveats, was partly an
effort to address the scientific uproar surrounding an earlier
paper.<br>
By Catrin Einhorn<br>
Nov. 13, 2023<br>
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Restoring global forests where they occur naturally could
potentially capture an additional 226 gigatons of planet-warming
carbon, equivalent to about a third of the amount that humans have
released since the beginning of the Industrial Era, according to a
new study published on Monday in the journal Nature.<br>
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The research, with input from more than 200 authors, leveraged vast
troves of data collected by satellites and on the ground and was
partly an effort to address the controversy surrounding an earlier
paper. That study, in 2019, helped to spur the Trillion Trees
movement but also caused a scientific uproar.<br>
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The new conclusions were similar to those in a separate study
published last year. Mainly, the extra storage capacity would come
from allowing existing forests to recover to maturity.<br>
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But major caveats remain: If we protect all current forests, where
will people get timber, rubber and palm oil? Would forests be able
to store carbon quickly enough? And how much forest carbon would be
lost to fire, drought and pests as climate change intensifies?...<br>
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In 2019, he acknowledged, careless language led to trees being
wrongly painted as a silver bullet for climate change. Now, his
biggest fear is that countries and companies will keep treating
forests that way, using them for carbon offsets to enable the
continued use of fossil fuels.<br>
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“We are all terrified that this potential of nature gets misused,”
Dr. Crowther said. “Nature has such spectacular potential to help us
tackle global threats, but it will be devastating if major
organizations use nature as an excuse to do more harm to our
planet.”...<br>
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Still, he emphasized that carbon drawdown from forests should be
kept in perspective. “There is still only a finite amount of land to
dedicate to forests,” he said, “so only a small fraction of the
potential carbon uptake has a chance of being realized.”...<br>
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He and other scientists also raised concerns about the warming
effects that trees can have in colder and dryer climates as they
absorb heat that would otherwise have been reflected by snow or
grass.<br>
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But there is one thing they all agree on: To tackle both climate
change and biodiversity loss, the world must do far more to cut
fossil fuels and end deforestation of old-growth forests.<br>
<font size="2">Catrin Einhorn reports on biodiversity for the
Climate and Environment desk. She has also worked on the
Investigations desk, where she was part of the Times team that
received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its
reporting on sexual harassment</font><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/climate/trillion-trees-research.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/13/climate/trillion-trees-research.html</a><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[ The news archive about Obama
first statement on climate change ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>November 14, 2012 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> November 14, 2012: At a
post-election press conference, President Obama declares:<br>
<blockquote> "I think the American people right now have been so
focused, and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs
and growth, that if the message is somehow we’re going to ignore
jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don’t think
anybody is going to go for that. I won’t go for that. If, on the
other hand, we can shape an agenda that says we can create jobs,
advance growth, and make a serious dent in climate change and be
an international leader, I think that’s something that the
American people would support."</blockquote>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlF6ikIbjGU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlF6ikIbjGU</a><br>
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