<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<p><font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November </b></i></font></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>22, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ clips from the Press Release from the WHO ]</i><br>
<b>Greenhouse Gas concentrations hit record high. Again.</b><br>
Published 15 November 2023<br>
Press Release Number: 15112023<br>
Geneva, 15 November (WMO) - The abundance of heat-trapping
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere once again reached a new record
last year and there is no end in sight to the rising trend,
according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization
(WMO).<br>
<br>
Global averaged concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most
important greenhouse gas, in 2022 were a full 50% above the
pre-industrial era for the first time. They continued to grow in
2023...<br>
- -<br>
<b>It cites the need for greater information about:</b><br>
<blockquote><b>Feedback Mechanisms:</b> The Earth's climate system
has multiple feedback loops, for example, increased carbon
emissions from soils or decreased carbon uptake by oceans due to
changing climate as illustrated for Europe for the droughts in
2018 and 2022.<br>
<br>
<b>Tipping Points: </b>The climate system may be close to so
called "tipping points", where a certain level of change leads to
self-accelerating and potentially irreversible cascade of changes.
Examples would include the potential rapid die-back of the Amazon
rainforest, slowing of the northern ocean circulation or the
destabilization of large ice sheets;<br>
<br>
<b>Natural Variability: </b>The major three greenhouse gases have
substantial variability driven by natural processes superimposed
on anthropogenic signal (e.g., driven by El Niño). This
variability can either amplify or dampen observed changes over
short periods;<br>
<br>
<b>Non-CO₂ Greenhouse Gases:</b> Climate change is driven by
multiple greenhouse gases, not just CO2. These gases have
different atmospheric lifetimes, greater Global Warming Potential
(GWP) than CO2 and uncertain future emissions...<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/greenhouse-gas-concentrations-hit-record-high-again">https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/greenhouse-gas-concentrations-hit-record-high-again</a><br>
<p>- -<br>
</p>
<i>[ clip from WMO Bulletin is 11 pages ]</i><br>
<b>WMO GREENHOUSE GAS BULLETIN</b><br>
No. 19 | 15 November 2023<br>
Achieving the goal of net-zero emissions and meeting<br>
the Paris Agreement’s target of limiting global warming<br>
to well below 2 °C, with a specific focus on keeping<br>
it within 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial level, involves<br>
navigating numerous uncertainties. These uncertainties<br>
stem from scientific, technological, economic, social,<br>
and political complexities associated with global climate<br>
change. A growing body of literature highlights the<br>
following challenges in addressing the drivers of climate<br>
change, greenhouse gases (GHGs):<br>
<blockquote><b>• Feedback mechanisms:</b> The Earth’s climate system<br>
has multiple feedback loops, including increased<br>
carbon emissions from soils and reduced carbon <br>
uptake by the oceans and forests due to the<br>
changing climate, as illustrated in a recent Nature<br>
Communications article concerning the droughts<br>
in Europe in 2018 and 2022 (see Figure 1(b)) [1];<br>
<br>
<b>• Tipping points:</b> The climate system may be on the<br>
brink of “tipping points”, critical thresholds where<br>
a certain degree of change triggers self-accelerating<br>
and potentially irreversible cascades of changes.<br>
Examples include the potential rapid die-back of the<br>
Amazon rainforest, the slowing of the North Atlantic<br>
circulation and the destabilization of large ice sheets;<br>
<br>
<b>• Natural variability:</b> The three major greenhouse<br>
gases (GHGs): carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4)<br>
and nitrous oxide (N2O), have substantial variability<br>
driven by natural processes (for example, El Niño)... <br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://library.wmo.int/viewer/68532/download?file=GHG-19_en.pdf&type=pdf&navigator=1">https://library.wmo.int/viewer/68532/download?file=GHG-19_en.pdf&type=pdf&navigator=1</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<i>[ Big sigh at political error ]</i><br>
<b>‘Extremely worrying’: Argentinian researchers reel after election
of anti-science president</b><br>
As part of his plan to address the country’s economic crisis, Javier
Milei has promised to slash research funding and shut down key
science agencies.<br>
20 November 2023<br>
- - <br>
Milei’s views on climate change being a “socialist hoax” have also
stirred concern in the science community. “His position is typical
of a denier,” says Matilde Rusticucci, an atmospheric scientist at
the University of Buenos Aires who has been an author since 2004 on
the global climate assessments published by the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change. Milei has said that companies should be
allowed to pollute rivers “as much as they want to”, while other
members of La Libertad Avanza have supported privatizing the seas,
suggesting that threatened species can be protected like livestock,
by fencing them off.<br>
Milei “is denying the value of science, denying the value of the
environment, denying climate change”, Rusticucci says. “His
government will be a massive setback for the entire scientific
community, for all the advances that are being made, which required
a lot of effort.”<br>
<br>
“National efforts in climate change will likely be discontinued,”
predicts Pilar Bueno, who studies international relations and
climate negotiations at the CONICET-funded University of Rosario in
Argentina. “A climate policy that also brings a business opportunity
might still be considered [by Milei]. However, seeing it only as a
business opportunity without the proper safeguards could generate
many negative effects,” she says.<br>
<br>
How many of Milei’s ideas will be put into practice remains to be
seen. He will take office on 10 December.<br>
<br>
doi: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03620-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03620-3</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03620-3">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03620-3</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<i>[ why still the terror... ]</i><br>
<b>Why the latest temperature check on climate change is still
terrifying</b><br>
The outlook is stark ahead of key international climate
negotiations.<br>
<br>
By Justine Calma, a science reporter covering the environment,
climate, and energy with a decade of experience. She is also the
host of the Hell or High Water podcast.<br>
Nov 20, 2023<br>
The latest numbers are in for how much our planet is projected to
heat up this century, and it’s got me sweating.<br>
<br>
Look, I am not a numbers person. And if I didn’t write about climate
change for a living, this latest report from the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP) wouldn’t hit the same. It says that
this century, global temperatures are on track to reach between 2.5
and 2.9 degrees Celsius above where they were prior to the
Industrial Revolution. That statement’s a snooze, right? Well,
here’s why I’m stress-eating Corn Pops while writing this.<br>
<br>
It felt like 139.5 degrees Fahrenheit (59.7 degrees Celsius) in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil, on Saturday. That was the heat index, a measure
of both heat and humidity that’s crucial because humidity curbs the
body’s lifesaving ability to cool itself by sweating. The night
before, a thousand people reportedly fainted from the heat during a
Taylor Swift concert in the city, and one person died. Brazil’s
wetlands are ablaze during this month’s monster spring heatwave....<br>
This is the kind of thing that happens with just a little over 1
degree Celsius of global warming today. Now, imagine close to 3
degrees of warming. That’s the trajectory countries’ current
policies lead us to, according to the UNEP analysis released today
called the Emissions Gap Report.<br>
<br>
A hopeful caveat is that the outlook was much worse about a decade
ago before countries adopted the landmark 2015 Paris climate
agreement. The dire projection in 2014 was close to 4 degrees of
warming this century.<br>
<br>
So there’s been some progress. But not nearly enough to meet the
goals of the Paris accord and stave off even more extreme events
like what’s recently struck Brazil. The Paris agreement aims to
limit global warming to “well below” 2 degrees Celsius, preferably
at 1.5 degrees above the preindustrial era.<br>
<br>
Those targets could slip out of reach very soon, research is
starting to show. With pollution levels rising, the world could
breeze past that 1.5-degree threshold by as soon as 2029, according
to a study published last month in the journal Nature Climate
Change. Preliminary data show that on Friday, average global
temperatures briefly rose above 2 degrees Celsius for the first time
in recorded history.<br>
<br>
That was a brief, albeit terrifying, breach on Friday. The goal of
the Paris accord is to prevent sustained average temperatures that
high. But these dangerous side effects from burning fossil fuels are
happening much faster than scientists initially expected.<br>
Back in 2018, United Nations climate experts published a roadmap for
meeting the goals of the Paris agreement that included reaching
net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century. As
countries make slow progress on that end, the window for success
keeps shrinking. And yet, global greenhouse gas emissions continued
to grow over the past year, the new UNEP report says. Another
pivotal round of climate negotiations is scheduled to start on
November 30th at the United Nations conference in Dubai. There,
world leaders are expected to argue over a potential deal to phase
out fossil fuels to stop climate change — never mind that the
negotiations will be overseen by an oil exec appointed president of
this year’s climate conference held in a top oil-producing country
or that US President Joe Biden, head of the world’s biggest oil and
gas producer, has reportedly decided not to attend.<br>
<br>
United Nations Secretary-General Antònio Guterres, at least, is ever
the optimist. “We know it is still possible to make the 1.5 degree
limit a reality. It requires tearing out the poisoned root of the
climate crisis: fossil fuels. And it demands a just, equitable
renewables transition,” Guterres said in a press release today. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969101/temperature-check-climate-change-united-nations-negotiations-dubai">https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/20/23969101/temperature-check-climate-change-united-nations-negotiations-dubai</a><br>
- -<br>
<i>[ from the UN Environment Programmer ]</i><br>
<b>Nations must go further than current Paris pledges or face global
warming of 2.5-2.9°C </b><br>
-- Predicted 2030 emissions must fall by 28-42 per cent for pathway
to 2°C and 1.5°C <br>
-- Relentless mitigation and low-carbon transformations essential to
narrow emissions gap <br>
- - COP28 and Global Stocktake chance to build greater ambition for
next round of climate pledges <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/nations-must-go-further-current-paris-pledges-or-face-global-warming">https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/nations-must-go-further-current-paris-pledges-or-face-global-warming</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
<i>[ Patricia Arquette is in the news today for her actions from
nearly a decade ago ]</i><br>
<b>THERMOPHILIC COMPOSTING AS A SANITATION ALTERNATIVE
</b>GIVELOVE.ORG PROJECT, SANTO VILLAGE, LEOGANE, HAITI - A CASE
STUDY<br>
Project duration: February 2012 through December 2014<br>
Author’s name and affiliations: Joseph Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins,
Inc.; Contact name: Joe Jenkins<br>
Postal address: 143 Forest Lane, Grove City, PA 16127 USA; Email
address: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Joe@JosephJenkins.com">Joe@JosephJenkins.com</a><br>
Telephone: 1-814-786-9085; Skype: joseph.c.jenkins<br>
Date of Paper: April, 2015 [All photos are by author unless
otherwise indicated.]<br>
ABSTRACT<br>
After Haiti’s devastating earthquake in January of 2010, sanitation
became non-existent there in many<br>
areas. GiveLove.org, founded by actress Patricia Arquette and
Rosetta Getty, with Program Director Alisa<br>
Keesey and Compost Instructor Lucho Jean, taught local personnel how
to establish sanitation systems based<br>
on thermophilic (hot) composting. Visits to Haiti by the author, who
was also a volunteer composting consultant<br>
for GiveLove during this time period, documented these systems in
schools and orphanages. By 2012, the organization had built over 30
toilets for over 4,000 users, and trained 15 Compost Managers.The
most recent<br>
project, started in 2012, involved a village-wide system that
serviced about 250 households. The “small village<br>
system” at Santo Village in Leogane, Haiti, is the subject of this
paper.<br>
The self-managed system utilized sugar cane bagasse as the primary
carbon-based cover material. It was<br>
used to cover the contents of the toilets as well as the contents of
the compost bins. The toilets are designed<br>
with either 20 liter or 60 liter recycled plastic receptacles used
to collect toilet material. The toilet contents are<br>
covered with bagasse inside the toilet, then composted in bins
located on-site, away from the toilets and the<br>
houses. Urine is not separated, nor is toilet paper. Food materials
are also used as a compost feedstock, if<br>
available. Temperatures of the compost piles are monitored. The
compost system requires no turning of the<br>
piles. The bins are walled using recycled wooden shipping pallets
turned on edge and are approximately 2.4<br>
meters wide by 3.2 meters long by 1.2 meters deep.<br>
The sanitation system is based upon the utilization of the
thermophilic, or heat-producing composting<br>
process, which is effective in eliminating human pathogens. The
objective is to create an above-ground static<br>
organic mass, made primarily of material collected in toilets, that
reaches a temperature of at least 55C (131F)<br>
sustained for at least three days throughout the entire mass. The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency requires a three day period at
131F for static aerobic compost piles to be considered hygienically
safe, because<br>
this time and temperature combination has been shown to be deadly to
human disease organisms. The compost piles in Haiti are sustaining
temperatures at or above 55C for months, much more than the required
time<br>
period. The use of sugar cane bagasse as a cover material in the
bins minimizes the exposed surface area of<br>
the compost and maximizes heat retention. This containment system
also eliminates odors and flies and helps<br>
prevent vermin such as dogs and other animals from accessing the
compost. Soap and water used to clean<br>
toilet receptacles are added to the compost piles, thereby creating
a closed system.<br>
The process relies on local management by Haitians, compost
training, a dedicated compost management<br>
crew, public education, access to and transport of carbon-based
cover materials to the toilet sites, and constructive use of the
finished compost. This project created many tons of odor-free,
hygienically safe, agriculturally valuable, finished compost.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/Santo_Paper.pdf">https://humanurehandbook.com/downloads/Santo_Paper.pdf</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://humanurehandbook.com/videos.html">https://humanurehandbook.com/videos.html</a><br>
<p><br>
</p>
<font face="Calibri"><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - blundered
predictions of cooling - misinformation? or exuberance? ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>November 22, 2006 </b></i></font>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> October 22, 2006: Newsweek's Jerry
Adler acknowledges that his magazine dropped the ball in April 1975
when it ran a story claiming that global cooling was on the
horizon--a story that went against the scientific evidence of the
era pointing to global warming.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-prediction-perils-111927">http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-prediction-perils-111927</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M</a><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/11/10/203320/killing-the-myth-of-the-1970s-global-cooling-scientific-consensus/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/11/10/203320/killing-the-myth-of-the-1970s-global-cooling-scientific-consensus/</a><br>
<br>
<p><font face="Calibri"> <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">=== Other climate news sources
===========================================<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>*Inside Climate News</b><br>
Newsletters<br>
We deliver climate news to your inbox like nobody else. Every
day or once a week, our original stories and digest of the web’s
top headlines deliver the full story, for free.<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/">https://insideclimatenews.org/</a><br>
--------------------------------------- <br>
*<b>Climate Nexus</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatenexus.org/hot-news/*">https://climatenexus.org/hot-news/*</a>
<br>
Delivered straight to your inbox every morning, Hot News
summarizes the most important climate and energy news of the
day, delivering an unmatched aggregation of timely, relevant
reporting. It also provides original reporting and commentary on
climate denial and pro-polluter activity that would otherwise
remain largely unexposed. 5 weekday <br>
================================= <br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b class="moz-txt-star"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Carbon Brief Daily </b><span
class="moz-txt-star"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/newsletter-sign-up">https://www.carbonbrief.org/newsletter-sign-up</a></span><b
class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> <br>
Every weekday morning, in time for your morning coffee, Carbon
Brief sends out a free email known as the “Daily Briefing” to
thousands of subscribers around the world. The email is a digest
of the past 24 hours of media coverage related to climate change
and energy, as well as our pick of the key studies published in
the peer-reviewed journals. <br>
more at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.getrevue.co/publisher/carbon-brief">https://www.getrevue.co/publisher/carbon-brief</a>
<br>
================================== <br>
*T<b>he Daily Climate </b>Subscribe <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://ehsciences.activehosted.com/f/61*">https://ehsciences.activehosted.com/f/61*</a>
<br>
Get The Daily Climate in your inbox - FREE! Top news on climate
impacts, solutions, politics, drivers. Delivered week days.
Better than coffee. <br>
Other newsletters at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.dailyclimate.org/originals/">https://www.dailyclimate.org/originals/</a>
<br>
<br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Calibri">
/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
<br>
/Archive of Daily Global Warming News <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/">https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
/To receive daily mailings - click to Subscribe <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:subscribe@theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request"><mailto:subscribe@theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request></a>
to news digest./<br>
<br>
Privacy and Security:*This mailing is text-only -- and carries no
images or attachments which may originate from remote servers.
Text-only messages provide greater privacy to the receiver and
sender. This is a personal hobby production curated by Richard
Pauli<br>
By regulation, the .VOTE top-level domain cannot be used for
commercial purposes. Messages have no tracking software.<br>
To subscribe, email: <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:contact@theclimate.vote">contact@theclimate.vote</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:contact@theclimate.vote"><mailto:contact@theclimate.vote></a>
with subject subscribe, To Unsubscribe, subject: unsubscribe<br>
Also you may subscribe/unsubscribe at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote">https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote</a><br>
Links and headlines assembled and curated by Richard Pauli for <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://TheClimate.Vote">http://TheClimate.Vote</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://TheClimate.Vote/"><http://TheClimate.Vote/></a>
delivering succinct information for citizens and responsible
governments of all levels. List membership is confidential and
records are scrupulously restricted to this mailing list. </font><font
face="Calibri"><br>
</font>
</body>
</html>