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<i>[ 8 min video message from top scientist ]<b><br>
</b></i><b>Johan Rockström - Existential Threat<br>
</b>Peter Carter<br>
Feb 21, 2024<br>
Climate expert Johan Rockström on how the combined climate and
ecological crisis- is an existential threat.<br>
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<i>[ from Politico ]</i><br>
<b>Trump vs. an emerging Republican climate strategy</b><br>
“We’re not dependent on a standard-bearer outside of the House,”
insists Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah), who founded the 82-member
Conservative Climate Caucus.<br>
By EMMA DUMAIN and TIMOTHY CAMA<br>
02/21/2024 <br>
<br>
Former President Donald Trump’s hard-line positions on climate
change aren’t deterring some members of his party from backing
policies to stop global warming.<br>
<br>
But their challenges are likely to grow as the GOP is poised to
nominate a presidential candidate openly hostile to climate science
— after years in which Republicans have been divided over whether
their party should address the problem at all.<br>
A Trump victory would likely strengthen the hand of the dominant
strain of party members and House leaders who only want to attack
Democrats on climate — not develop their own policies. Still, the
small but growing number of Republicans advocating action say
they’ll stay in the fight, with some saying Trump may actually be a
net positive.<br>
<br>
“We’re not dependent on a standard-bearer outside of the House,”
said Rep. John Curtis (R-Utah), the chair and founder of the
82-member Conservative Climate Caucus who is now running for Senate.<br>
<br>
“I don’t think it’s a surprise to anybody that charting the course
as a Republican to talk about climate has never been easy,” Curtis
said, “and so if there are headwinds, we’ll keep pushing forward.”<br>
<br>
Trump’s ascendance could do more than just create headwinds. The
climate caucus, which represents a little more than a third of House
Republicans, already lost a pivotal ally when lawmakers deposed
then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year.<br>
<br>
Now, the likely Republican nominee for president has shown no signs
of moving away from his denial of climate change science and his
rejection of major action to reduce emissions.<br>
<br>
He pronounced, as recently as December, that “the only global
warming we should be worrying about … is nuclear warming” — a
reference to the threat of an “arms race” with foreign adversaries.
He has previously called climate change a “make-believe problem” and
“nonexistent,” as well as a “hoax.”<br>
<br>
Trump has repeatedly called for the elimination of the clean energy
tax credits contained in the Inflation Reduction Act that are
contributing to major green job booms around the country, including
in Republican-held districts.<br>
<br>
He also promised at an event this fall to slash incentives around
electric vehicle production specifically, saying, “You can be loyal
to American labor, or you can be loyal to the environmental
lunatics.”<br>
Meanwhile, hundreds of conservatives, including many who worked in
the last Trump administration, have penned a 900-page memo, dubbed
Project 2025, to preview some of the actions Trump could take if
returned to the White House.<br>
<br>
Recommendations include dismantling a carbon capture tax credit —
technology many Republicans support because it could allow fossil
fuel-burning plants to remain active while also reducing emissions —
and gutting a program to assist cash-strapped nuclear reactors — at
a time when Republicans are touting nuclear power as an alternative
fuel source to oil, gas and coal.<br>
<br>
It all threatens to undermine the work many Republicans have done
lately to try to improve their party’s image on climate issues,
specifically to show that they care about actively solving the
climate crisis...<br>
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A long-lapsed bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus was
relaunched last summer to bring Republicans to the table with
Democrats to talk about “combat[ing] climate change while also
protecting the economic prosperity of the United States.”<br>
<br>
And across the Capitol, a growing number of Republicans are
embracing a policy that would compel foreign trade partners to pay
tariffs on the carbon intensity of certain imported industrial
goods, while advocacy groups catering to conservative climate
policies are expanding as well...<br>
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Ultimately, it could be up to individual Republicans to chart that
course to differentiate themselves from Trump.<br>
<br>
When McCarthy was House minority leader, the California Republican
directed a task force to develop an energy plank that would become a
part of the GOP’s platform to retake control of the House in 2022.
He is credited with having created an opening for his party to move
away from climate science denialism.<br>
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Rep. Garret Graves (R-La.), whom McCarthy put in charge of that 2022
task force, said new Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) won’t be following
that example.<br>
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“I think that you’ve lost an open-minded leader on the Republican
side in terms of McCarthy,” he said. “I don’t think you’re going to
have a Mike Johnson or a [Majority Whip Tom] Emmer or a [Majority
Leader Steve] Scalise pick up on the baton on that one and say, ‘Oh,
we’re going to lead on that one.’”<br>
<br>
Graves added it would be “a huge mistake for Republicans to forgo,
give up or cave on this fight, because the data and the science on
this issue is so much on our side, and I think it’s a battle we
should actually lean into.”<br>
<br>
Republicans have repeatedly pointed to statistics showing that U.S.
energy is produced more cleanly than anywhere else in the world and
that domestic greenhouse gas emissions have decreased as a result.<br>
<br>
The GOP also tends to tout innovation as the solution to climate
change in an alternative to Democratic-style climate regulations and
efforts to transition the economy away from fossil fuels.<br>
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Conservative climate and clean energy groups, which have largely
stayed out of the presidential primaries, support this approach,
while environmentalists have long regarded it as insufficient for
meeting the scale of the crisis.<br>
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‘Mixed bag’</b><br>
Johnson did not respond to a request for comment about whether he
would be putting together a similar plank ahead of the 2024
elections.<br>
<br>
Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), chair of the House Natural Resources
Committee and a trained forester, said, “There’s nothing formal in
the works that I’m aware of.”<br>
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But he added, “It’s important we get our message out about what real
conservation is.”<br>
<br>
Westerman also told POLITICO’s E&E News he wasn’t familiar with
what Trump has said on the subject.<br>
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Graves, when asked whether Trump’s climate talking points complicate
the GOP’s message, asserted that although the former president “has
said things against climate,” his environmental policies are solid.<br>
<br>
Other Republicans are likewise bullish about Trump’s record.<br>
<br>
“I think we’re aligned,” said House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy
McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). “Good energy policy is good climate
policy. And when America is energy independent, when America’s
producing and when America’s innovating on energy solutions, that’s
helping the climate.”<br>
<br>
Quill Robinson, a senior adviser at ConservAmerica, a group seeking
to get conservatives to back environmental policies, agreed it was
worthwhile to distinguish between rhetoric and actual policy
proposals when it comes to parsing Trump’s positions.<br>
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“President Biden frames the Inflation Reduction Act as a policy to
restore American manufacturing, reduce reliance on China and fight
climate change; President Trump is on board with the first two
priorities. In fact, they have consistently been his top
priorities,” Robinson said. “Discerning semantic and substantive
differences is key. The focus should be on policy impact.”<br>
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“It’s the pollution, not the energy source, that’s the problem.”<br>
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Heather Reams, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions.<br>
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For Republicans, “it’s the pollution, not the energy source, that’s
the problem,” said Heather Reams, president of Citizens for
Responsible Energy Solutions.<br>
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“I think that President Trump has some alignment there — not
perfectly — but has some alignment that I think we can absolutely
work with.”<br>
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Trump’s anti-China policies could also be a boon to clean energy by
helping grow domestic manufacturing, Reams added, where goods are
made with lower carbon footprints.<br>
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Hayes, of Lot Sixteen, predicted Trump could loosen guidelines for
who can leverage the IRA’s hydrogen tax credits. Some critics of the
Biden administration’s interpretation, climate hawks included, have
complained the guidance is so rigid it could hinder efforts to lower
carbon pollution.<br>
<br>
He said Trump also might unlock federal lands now being protected
from non-conservation activities, an alarming proposition for
environmentalists who don’t want to create more opportunities for
oil and gas development but a welcome move for those looking to
build new renewable projects.<br>
<br>
“I’m not trying to tell you that a Trump presidency would be better
for clean energy,” Hayes said. “But I am saying there’s more nuance
involved than a lot of people seem to think. It’s a mixed bag.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/more-republicans-now-want-climate-action-but-trump-could-derail-everything-00142313">https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/20/more-republicans-now-want-climate-action-but-trump-could-derail-everything-00142313</a><br>
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<i>[ from the journal <b>nature</b> ]</i><br>
<b>Scientists under arrest: the researchers taking action over
climate change</b><br>
Fed up with a lack of political progress in solving the climate
problem, some researchers are becoming activists to slow global
warming.<br>
By Daniel Grossman<br>
21 February 2024<br>
<br>
Climate scientist Peter Kalmus is freaked out. And he thinks
everyone should be just as alarmed as he is over the state of the
planet.<br>
<br>
When he was a graduate student in 2006, Kalmus was studying
astrophysics and says he was “blissfully ignorant” about the dangers
of climate change. But then he learnt how the greenhouse effect
worked — how carbon dioxide pollution from the use of fossil fuels
is effectively trapping heat in the atmosphere and warming the
planet at an accelerating pace.<br>
<br>
Over time, Kalmus was plagued by the increasing certainty that, “if
we continue burning fossil fuels at this pace, that will render
large parts of the planet uninhabitable”. By 2012, he had abandoned
his budding career in astrophysics to pursue work at NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on the impact of
intensifying temperatures on humans and other species.<br>
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Kalmus became worried that the accumulation of evidence was not
leading the world to necessary action. “Policymakers in general are
not responding appropriately to the science that we’ve been giving
them.” Hence the freak out. (Kalmus stresses that his views are his
own, not NASA’s.)<br>
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He decided he needed to do more to confront the problem. On 6 April
2022, Kalmus, two other scientists and an engineer blockaded a Los
Angeles branch of JP Morgan Chase, an investment banking firm that
invests heavily in fossil-fuel extraction. “I’m willing to take a
risk for this gorgeous planet and my son,” he said to a small crowd
and in a video posted on Facebook, earning himself some 700,000 page
views. He was arrested for trespassing. The protest was part of a
global effort that day by members of the international
environmentalist group Scientist Rebellion, which claims the event
was “the largest civil disobedience campaign by scientists in
history”.<br>
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Researchers are noticing a rising tide of anger and action by
climate scientists such as Kalmus, who are frustrated that ever-more
dire forecasts and extreme events related to climate change aren’t
provoking an effective response. They are “increasingly becoming
aware that while science is necessary for moving towards
policy-making, it is insufficient to get to policy-making on its
own, and science cannot create political will”, said Dana Fisher, a
sociologist at American University in Washington DC. Her book,
Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action, which was
published earlier this month, argues that this evergrowing group has
become a ‘radical flank’ of concerned climate scientists who are
doing things such as vandalizing art work, blocking entrances to
buildings and interrupting traffic.<br>
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These scientists are, she says, “getting blue in the face trying to
use the normal channels through which we usually express how our
science has relevance to the world”.<br>
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<b>Eighty hours on a train</b><br>
Early last December, a train pulled slowly out of Boston’s South
Station. In the dining car, earth scientist Rose Abramoff was
starting an 80-hour cross-country train ride to the 2023 conference
of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco,
California. Out of concern for her carbon footprint, Abramoff no
longer flies even if, as with this trip, the ground journey takes
ten times as long and costs more. I joined her for the first leg of
the trip.<br>
<br>
The lengthy journey gave her a lot of time to think about what
happened a year before at the previous AGU annual meeting. At the
very start of the conference, in a giant lecture hall, she and
Kalmus leapt onto the stage and unfurled a banner for Scientist
Rebellion. Kalmus yelled, “As scientists we have tremendous
leverage, but we need to use it.” Abramoff pleaded, “Please. Please.
Find a way to take action.”<br>
<br>
As they had anticipated, an official escorted them out of the hall.
Their protest lasted all of 30 seconds. The AGU also confiscated
their conference badges and officially expelled them from the rest
of the meeting — a reaction that Abramoff says felt extreme. “Being
asked to leave the session would have been a reasonable response,”
Abramoff said during the train ride, sounding bitter. More than
2,000 researchers urged the AGU to reverse its sanctions on Abramoff
and Kalmus.<br>
<br>
That wasn’t the only consequence for Abramoff, who was then an
associate scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
Alerted of the event, Oak Ridge fired her. In her termination
letter, she was accused of the “misuse of government resources” and
of violating the “Code of Business Ethics and Conduct”. She says, in
her defence, that her government work at the conference that week
was finished by the time she took to the stage, and so the protest
was done in her free time. (Kalmus did not lose his position,
although Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials issued him a warning.)<br>
<br>
A year later, in 2023, Abramoff, who now continues her research as
an independent researcher in Maine, and Kalmus were again at the AGU
conference (Kalmus joined remotely). But this time, the AGU ran four
official sessions on climate activism and grief over climate change.
In an e-mail to Nature, an AGU press officer said that removing
Abramoff and Kalmus from the 2022 meeting was appropriate, citing
the organization’s code of conduct. After the incident, the “AGU
doubled down on making members aware of new opportunities”, such as
activism. The AGU also stressed the need for civility, which rules
out disrupting meeting sessions.<br>
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Abramoff studied biology and dance for her undergraduate degree and
then earned a PhD in ecology. Her political awakening occurred in
2019, while peer-reviewing several chapters of the latest report of
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). She had never
before focused so intently on the effects that the climate crisis
has had on the planet and its inhabitants. “In every single system
is evidence of fundamental major breakdown that has implications for
human health, for ecosystem services.” The document’s style, she
says, betrayed no sense of existential urgency of the dangers at
hand. “My job can’t just be to calmly document the end of the
world.”<br>
<br>
While talking about that experience on the train, Abramoff welled up
and wiped away a tear. It’s the third time in eight months that a
climate scientist or climate negotiator has choked up during an
interview with me, something I haven’t witnessed before in my 25
years of climate reporting.<br>
<br>
After working on the IPCC report, Abramoff decided that she needed
to take more concrete action. On 6 April 2022, she chained herself
to the White House fences during a climate protest. She was arrested
on the same day that Kalmus was arrested on the other side of the
continent. There were news stories, with pictures of her dressed in
a white lab coat. She draws on her background as a performer during
protests. “The types of things that get media attention are a little
theatrical and visually interesting.”<br>
<br>
Since her arrest two years ago, Abramoff has blockaded banks and the
White House Correspondents’ Dinner, glued herself to a fence at a
private jet terminal, occupied a state Capitol building and tried to
shut down the construction of a natural-gas pipeline. Seven of her
14 actions have led to arrests.<br>
<br>
<b>Political awakening</b><br>
Although Abramoff’s activist rap sheet is an outlier among
scientists, many researchers agree with her that the climate crisis
needs an urgent response. A survey conducted last year of 9,220
researchers around the world, from a range of scientific and
academic disciplines, found that more than 90% agree that
“fundamental changes to social, political, and economic systems” are
needed1. Fabian Dablander, one of three postdoctoral researchers at
University of Amsterdam and Maastricht University in the Netherlands
who led the research, says its the largest of only three global
surveys that he is aware of regarding scientists’ attitudes on
climate.<br>
<br>
The study, which has not yet been peer reviewed, surveyed
researchers in 115 countries who had authored papers in 545 leading
peer-reviewed journals between 2020 and 2022. Dablander cautions
that the results are probably biased in favour of the concerned
scientists, because they would be the most motivated to fill out the
survey, which was sent to almost 250,000 authors. “I’m not sure how
big this bias is exactly,” he says.<br>
<br>
Overall, 78% of the respondents had discussed climate change with
someone other than a colleague; 29% had engaged in climate advocacy,
23% had joined legal protests and 10% — nearly 900 scientists — had
engaged in civil disobedience.<br>
<br>
Political engagement varied by discipline and country. Scientists in
Oceania were more likely to take civic actions (such as joining a
climate protest). Europe and North America are virtually tied for
second place. Scientists in Asia were least likely to engage in most
of the civic actions included in the survey, Dablander found.<br>
<br>
A follow-up analysis of the survey data shows that scientists who
were involved ‘a great deal’ in climate research were about 2.5
times more likely (37% of participants) to have joined protests, and
at least 4 times more likely (18% of participants) to have engaged
in civil disobedience than were non-climate researchers2.<br>
<br>
Another survey also found high levels of engagement among climate
researchers. In a 2021 study of 1,100 climate scientists, 90% had
participated in at least one form of public engagement on climate
issues, including doing press interviews, briefing policymakers and
being active on social media over the past year3.<br>
<br>
Viktoria Cologna, the lead author of the survey, says that long-held
taboos against political participation by scientists on climate
issues are waning. Cologna, a postdoctoral researcher at the
University of Zurich in Switzerland, has previously been a member of
Scientists for Future, the scientists’ wing of Fridays for the
Future, which is a global student movement inspired by environmental
activist Greta Thunberg. “I definitely see — also in my own circles,
both within social science and natural science circles — that
scientists are becoming more vocal; they are joining more protests,”
she says.<br>
<br>
In the past, many scientists worried that they would lose
credibility by taking political stances. But Cologna didn’t find
that to be true in her study, which also surveyed 884 members of the
public in the United States and Germany. She and her co-authors
reported that 70% of Germans and 74% of Americans approve of
scientists advocating for climate-related policies.<br>
<br>
The survey of researchers also uncovered hints that people who
engage in advocacy do not lose the respect of their colleagues. It
found that 73% of German climate scientists and 59% of US climate
scientists agree that people in their field should “actively
advocate for specific climate-related policies”.<br>
<br>
A similar finding emerged from a 2020 survey about political
engagement of 2,208 members of the US Union of Concerned Scientists
(UCS). Less than 6% of respondents thought that scientists should
‘rarely’ or ‘never’ be politically active. Fernando Tormos-Aponte, a
sociologist at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania who led
the team that conducted the study, says that a cohort of scientists
became politicized by policies widely seen as anti-scientific during
the administration of former US president Donald Trump. These
scientists continued their activism even when Trump left office.
“The thing that persists is climate. There’s a sense of urgency
around that, that’s almost unparallel to any other issue.”<br>
<br>
Greta Dargie, a geographer at the University of Leeds, UK, is one of
many climate researchers who have ramped up their activism in the
past few years. Last year she was arrested, for the first time in
her life, for deliberately blocking traffic in London at an event
organized by the British environmental activist group Just Stop Oil.
Then, in the same week, she was arrested again, for the same
offence.<br>
<br>
Some researchers worry that the more extreme forms of activism can
have negative consequences. Jörg Geldmacher, a geochemist at the
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany, says he
doesn’t take part in more aggressive actions, such as vandalizing
buildings, because they could be counterproductive. “If the masses
are against it, because of these extreme activities, then I don’t
know if that is very helpful for the movement,” he says.<br>
<br>
Instead, he is an active member of the German branch of Scientists
for Future. Geldmacher joins legal demonstrations frequently,
attends monthly meetings that send ideas to local politicians for
conserving energy and often speaks at schools and to the general
public about the climate crisis.<br>
<br>
<b>Climate grief</b><br>
Halfway through the 2023 AGU gathering in San Francisco, I saw
Abramoff again, this time in a crowd at the Chieftain Irish Pub. She
had just come from the ‘climate grief circle’, an officially
approved event that she and Kalmus had organized. A few dozen
researchers sat in several intimate groups and discussed their
feelings about confronting the deterioration of Earth’s systems each
day and, for some, the fears they couldn’t share with their
children. On the train, Abramoff had said that these circles serve
both as group therapy and as motivation. “It’s extremely calming and
fortifying,” she says.<br>
<br>
At the pub, a couple of dozen activists traded their stories and
tips for organizing protests. Noah Liguori-Bills, a first-year
atmospheric-science PhD student at North Carolina State University
in Raleigh, received a short pep talk from Abramoff. Afterwards he
said that this was his first scientific conference, and that he
hadn’t expected to meet any radicals. But then he stumbled on an
unsanctioned guerrilla-theatre performance on the pavement right
outside the conference. It promoted one of the official activist
events. The mixer at the pub is “definitely one of the most exciting
things I’ve done here”, he says. “I’m really impressed with how
committed everyone is.”<br>
<br>
Liguori-Bills says he expects to join a branch of Scientist
Rebellion when he goes home. He says that it’s unlikely that he’ll
face serious consequences, such as what happened to Abramoff. But
he’s willing to take the risk. “I think it’s worth it. The whole
world’s at stake.”<br>
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Nature 626, 710-712 (2024)<br>
doi: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00480-3">https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00480-3</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00480-3">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00480-3</a><br>
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<i>[ Gee-whiz report on AI and weather forecasting - 8 min video ]</i><br>
<b>Can AI help us predict extreme weather?</b><br>
Vox<br>
Feb 21, 2024<br>
AI models are starting to revolutionize weather forecasting. <br>
<br>
We’ve learned how to predict weather over the past century by
understanding the science that governs Earth’s atmosphere and
harnessing enough computing power to generate global forecasts. But
in just the past three years, AI models from companies like Google,
Huawei, and Nvidia that use historical weather data have been
releasing forecasts rivaling those created through traditional
forecasting methods. <br>
<br>
This video explains the promise and challenges of these new models
built on artificial intelligence rather than numerical forecasting,
particularly as it relates to the ability to foresee extreme
weather. <br>
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Here are the papers that describe the models mentioned in the video.
<br>
<blockquote>Google’s GraphCast: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-1550/full">https://www.science.org/stoken/author-tokens/ST-1550/full</a><br>
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Huawei’s Pangu-Weather: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06185-3">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06185-3</a><br>
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Nvidia’s FourCastNet: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11214">https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11214</a><br>
</blockquote>
Here is the announcement of the ERA5 dataset, released by the
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in 2020: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qj.3803">https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qj.3803</a><br>
<br>
We interviewed Dr. Aaron Hill over email for this video. Hill is
involved in developing responsible AI for environmental science via
AI2ES: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ai2es.org">https://www.ai2es.org</a><br>
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Google has also developed a weather forecasting model called
Nowcasting, which is already embedded in its weather products
specifically for short-term precipitation forecasts: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/nowcasting-the-next-hour-of-rain/">https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/nowcasting-the-next-hour-of-rain/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU4viZzTaRc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU4viZzTaRc</a><br>
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<p><i>[ Global warming related music ]<br>
</i><b>TA'U TAMA - Small Island Big Song ft' Vaiteani & Luc</b><br>
Small Island Big Song 小島大歌<br>
Premiered Aug 31, 2021<br>
Now available on all music platforms <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bfan.link/tau-tama">https://bfan.link/tau-tama</a>
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“What will we tell our children if we fail to protect our planet?”
- Vaiteani & Luc<br>
<br>
Small Island Big Song is a music, film, live project featuring
musicians across 16 island nations of the Pacific and Indian
Oceans, creating a contemporary and relevant musical statement of
a region in the frontline of cultural and environmental
challenges. <br>
<br>
Luc of the Tahitian duo Vaiteani wrote TA'U TAMA over his concerns
for the world we are passing onto future generations. <br>
<br>
TA'U TAMA is a collaboration, with - TAHITI (& FRANCE)<br>
Luc Totterwitz - Composition, Vocals, Guitar, Udu & Kayamb<br>
Vaiteani - Vocals, Tahitian Chant<br>
Poemoana - Tahitian dance<br>
<br>
TAIWAN<br>
漂流出口 Putad (Amis) - Amis improvised Vocals<br>
Sauljaljui 戴曉君 (Paiwan) Mortar and Pestle & dance<br>
- -<br>
PRODUCTION CREDITS <br>
Directed & Edited by Tim Cole<br>
Produced by BaoBao Chen 陳玟臻<br>
Translations : Albert Guilloux-Chevalier (reo maohi) / Vaiteani
(english)<br>
Music produced and mixed by Tim Cole<br>
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Originally created for 2021 World Village Festival, Finland <br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> February 23, 2014: <br>
• The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote> "President Obama’s annual budget request to Congress
will propose a significant change in how the government pays to
fight wildfires, administration officials said, a move that they
say reflects the ways in which climate change is increasing the
risk for and cost of those fires.<br>
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"The wildfire funding shift is one in a series of recent White
House actions related to climate change as Mr. Obama tries to
highlight the issue and build political support for his
administration’s more muscular policies, like curbing carbon
emissions from coal-fired power plants. On Monday, Mr. Obama plans
to describe his proposal at a meeting in Washington with governors
of Western states that have been ravaged recently by severe
drought and wildfires."<br>
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