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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>November </b></i></font></font><font
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<i>[ Smithsonian Magazine ]</i><br>
<b>Earth Headed for Nearly Three-Degree Temperature Hike—Well Above
Paris Agreement Level</b><br>
A new U.N. report finds current pledges put the planet on track to
warm 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels this
century<br>
Margaret Osborne<br>
Daily Correspondent<br>
November 21, 2023<br>
The Earth is on track for global average temperatures to rise by up
to nearly 3 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, according to
a new United Nations report. That temperature hike is almost double
the amount that nations agreed upon in the Paris Agreement.<br>
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“There is no person or economy left on the planet untouched by
climate change, so we need to stop setting unwanted records on
greenhouse gas emissions, global temperature highs and extreme
weather,” Inger Andersen, executive director of the U.N. Environment
Program (UNEP), says in a statement. “We must instead lift the
needle out of the same old groove of insufficient ambition and not
enough action, and start setting other records: on cutting
emissions, on green and just transitions and on climate finance...<br>
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The analysis comes as the Earth hits another major climate
milestone: The planet appears to have reached an average surface
temperature of more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial
levels for the first time.<br>
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According to preliminary data, November 17, 2023, was the first day
on record that this threshold was breached, and November 18, 2023,
was the second day. This doesn’t mean that the Paris Agreement was
broken, as the treaty refers to a sustained average over two or more
decades, rather than one day or even one year, writes Andrew
Freedman of Axios. But it does signal how much the planet has warmed
already—crossing this milestone is “shockingly impactful,” as Carlo
Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, tells
the Atlantic.<br>
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In less than two weeks, the U.N. climate conference called COP28
will start in Dubai. There, countries will gather to draft plans for
limiting human-caused global warming. COP28 will begin on Nov. 30,
2023, and run through Dec. 12, 2023.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-headed-for-nearly-three-degree-temperature-hike-well-above-paris-agreement-level-180983305/">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earth-headed-for-nearly-three-degree-temperature-hike-well-above-paris-agreement-level-180983305/</a><br>
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<i>[ data moving up ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change: Rise in Google searches around ‘anxiety’</b><br>
22nd November 2023<br>
By Lucy Gilder<br>
BBC 100 Women<br>
Online search queries related to "climate anxiety" have risen,
according to data gathered by Google and shared exclusively with BBC
100 Women.<br>
<br>
Studies also suggests that women are more affected by climate
anxiety than men.<br>
<br>
The rise of wildfires, floods and droughts around the world are just
some of the highly visible signs of climate change.<br>
<br>
What is reported less is the impact of climate change on human
minds.<br>
<br>
Climate anxiety - defined as feelings of distress about the impacts
of climate change - has been reported globally, particularly among
children and young people...<br>
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Data from Google Trends shows that search queries related to
"climate anxiety" have increased dramatically.<br>
<br>
Search queries in English around "climate anxiety" in the first 10
months of 2023 are 27 times higher than the same period in 2017...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67473829">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67473829</a><br>
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<i>[ "Follow the money" Reuters news ]</i><br>
<b>Economic models buckle under strain of climate reality</b><br>
By Mark John<br>
November 22, 2023<br>
Summary<br>
Critics say economic models not fit for purpose<br>
Economists urged to take broader, cross-discipline view<br>
COP28 climate talks start in Dubai on Nov. 30<br>
Nov 22 (Reuters) - Ahead of international climate talks in Dubai
this month, economists are updating estimates of the impact of
global warming on the world economy, sometimes calculating down to a
decimal place the hit to output in decades to come.<br>
<br>
But detractors say those numbers are the product of economic models
that are not fit to capture the full extent of climate damage. As
such, they can provide an alibi for policy inaction...<br>
Record temperatures, droughts, floods and wildfires this year have
caused billions of dollars of damage, even before emissions take
warming beyond the 2015 Paris Agreement cap of 2 degrees Celsius
(3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.<br>
<br>
Still, some economist models conclude - implausibly, say the critics
- that by the turn of the century, warming will cause less harm to
the world economy than COVID-19 has, or hit global shares by less
than in the 2007-2009 financial crisis.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/economic-models-buckle-under-strain-climate-reality-2023-11-22/">https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/economic-models-buckle-under-strain-climate-reality-2023-11-22/</a><br>
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<i>[ from the Irish Examiner ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change models based on grossly wrong interpretation of
economic stakes</b><br>
Climate economists insist there is essentially nothing to worry
about, and economic growth will continue even as the world burns,
ecosystems fail, the ice shelves collapse, and the global weather
system goes haywire, writes John Gibbons<br>
19 NOV, 2023<br>
JOHN GIBBONS<br>
Social share<br>
While not yet over, 2023 has already delivered some of the most
extreme weather conditions in human history. This year is virtually
certain to be the hottest since records began. In all probability,
2023 is the hottest year on Earth in about 125,000 years.<br>
<br>
A new study found damage from extreme weather fuelled by the
worsening climate crisis has cost on average about €15m an hour,
every hour for the last 20 years. In 2022 alone, these costs
totalled at least €270bn.<br>
<br>
While the deterioration in global weather conditions is in line with
scientific projections, what is now becoming apparent is that “our
societies and ecosystems are more vulnerable to even small changes
than expected previously, and so the damages are worse”. That's
according to climate attribution specialist Dr Friederike Otto.<br>
<br>
Given this unremitting torrent of bad news from the scientific
community, you may be surprised to hear that, in fact, everything is
fine, and that economic growth means humanity as a whole will be
wealthier, healthier and no doubt happier by the end of the 21st
century.<br>
<br>
This news came via an article on the website of Chartered
Accountants Ireland. Author Cormac Lucey, a finance lecturer and
former political adviser to Progressive Democrats’ leader Michael
McDowell, decrying the “public hysteria” surrounding the climate
debate.<br>
<br>
As Lucey recently explained, scenarios set out by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show human welfare
“will likely increase to 450% of today’s welfare over the 21st
century. Climate damages will reduce this to 434%.” <br>
<br>
In other words, climate change is no more than a slight bump on the
road towards our ever-improving golden era of human prosperity.<br>
<br>
On the one hand, climate scientists warn we face a near-term future
of deadly heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, extreme flooding, coastal
inundation, mass migration, freshwater shortages, more dangerous
storms and major threats to global food production.<br>
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<b>Climate economics</b><br>
On the other hand, climate economists insist there is essentially
nothing to worry about, and economic growth will continue even as
the world burns, ecosystems fail, the ice shelves collapse, and the
global weather system goes haywire.<br>
<br>
The fact politicians, media and corporations are far more likely to
take their advice from economists than scientists means the dominant
messaging being listened to is that yes, climate is an issue, but
no, it’s absolutely not a crisis...<br>
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<b>Negligence by economists like Nordhaus, he said, “will end up
killing billions of people.”</b><br>
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Andrew Glikson, who teaches at Australian National University in
Canberra and advises the IPCC, has written about the coming era of
mass human death, what he calls the Plutocene, the natural successor
to the Anthropocene. Global governments, he charges, are “criminals”
for ushering in the Plutocene in pursuit of short-term political and
economic gain. I first reached out to him during the black summer of
bushfires that raged across Australia in 2020. Glikson’s mood was
foul then, and it has not gotten better since.<br>
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“The governing classes have given up on the survival of numerous
species and future generations,” he told me, “and their inaction
constitutes the ultimate crime against life on Earth.” Part of the
reason for inaction is the false cheer that Nordhaus has spread with
his math-genius, climate-idiot models.<br>
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Yet, in a nutshell, Nordhaus is dead wrong. About almost everything,
in fact. According to the IPCC, the world should aim to keep global
warming to well below 2C, ideally close to 1.5C, to avoid the most
dangerous impacts of climate change, including multiple irreversible
tipping points.<br>
<br>
Ignoring the physical sciences, Nordhaus argues the global economy
reaches what he calls “optimal adaptation” at between 2.7C and 3.5C
— his argument is that it does not make economic sense to try to
prevent climate change until it has reached these near-apocalyptic
levels.<br>
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Any first-year science undergrad will understand that if Nordhaus’s
“optimal” world of temperatures rising 3C and more versus
pre-industrial comes to pass, it would mean global immiseration,
with dying oceans and runaway sea level rise, while famines,
conflict and disease sweep away countless millions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41273215.html">https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41273215.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - health risk of climate
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>November 23, 2007 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> October 23, 2007: Dr. Julie
Gerberding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
addresses a US Senate committee regarding the health risks of
climate change. Her testimony was extensively edited by the Bush
White House to dramatically downplay the severity of the risks. <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/10/23/17139/gerberding-global-warming/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/10/23/17139/gerberding-global-warming/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/24cnd-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/24cnd-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/08/174078/burnett-cheney-boiling/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/08/174078/burnett-cheney-boiling/</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp">http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp</a><br>
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