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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>April </b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Youthful PhD Geo Girl - science talk ]</i><br>
<b>5 Ways We Distinguish Human-Induced vs Natural Climate Change |
GEO GIRL</b><br>
GEO GIRL<i><br>
</i>Mar 31, 2024 Global Biogeochemical Cycles & Climate Change
(Full Course)<br>
Is climate change man-made or natural? In this video, I discuss how
we can tell the difference between human-induced climate change and
natural climate change, specifically regarding the modern climate
trend. <br>
<blockquote>0:00 How do we know it’s us?<br>
1:18 Timing is not a coincidence<br>
2:01 Tracking how much C we burn<br>
2:32 C isotope signatures don’t lie<br>
6:28 Associated oxygen depletion<br>
8:20 Models (not the kind you think)<br>
9:31 ‘Small amount’ of C emissions = misleading<br>
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References: <br>
Biogeochemistry: An Analysis of Global Change, 4th Ed.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://amzn.to/41CDHVz">https://amzn.to/41CDHVz</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-C728HoRA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-C728HoRA</a><br>
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<i>[ Europe is the fastest heating area of the planet - video ]</i><br>
<b>Europe is cooking at double speed! Are Europeans ready?<br>
</b>Just Have a Think<br>
Mar 31, 2024<br>
Europe is now the fastest warming continent on the planet. The
European Environment Agency has just published it's first ever
Climate Risk Assessment, which finds that EU policies are nothing
like robust enough to cope with what's coming our way. So, what's
the plan??<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDnkq_KeTA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDnkq_KeTA</a><br>
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<i>[ What?? No insurance? ]</i><br>
<b>CNN: Home Insurance Becoming Unaffordable due to Climate
Disasters</b><br>
greenmanbucket<i><br>
</i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOQsEM26os0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOQsEM26os0</a><br>
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<i>[ briefing of the first-ever report from the European Environment
Agency ]</i><br>
<b>Europe is not prepared for rapidly growing climate risks</b><br>
Press release Published 10 Mar 2024<br>
Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world, and climate
risks are threatening its energy and food security, ecosystems,
infrastructure, water resources, financial stability, and people’s
health. According to the European Environment Agency’s (EEA)
assessment, published today, many of these risks have already
reached critical levels and could become catastrophic without urgent
and decisive action. <br>
Extreme heat, drought, wildfires, and flooding, as experienced in
recent years, will worsen in Europe even under optimistic global
warming scenarios and affect living conditions throughout the
continent. The EEA has published the first ever European Climate
Risk Assessment (EUCRA) to help identify policy priorities for
climate change adaptation and for climate-sensitive sectors.<br>
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According to the assessment, Europe’s policies and adaptation
actions are not keeping pace with the rapidly growing risks. In many
cases, incremental adaptation will not be sufficient and, as many
measures to improve climate resilience require a long time, urgent
action may be needed even on risks that are not yet critical. <br>
Some regions in Europe are hotspots for multiple climate risks.
Southern Europe is particularly at risk from wildfires and impacts
of heat and water scarcity on agricultural production, outdoor work,
and human health. Flooding, erosion and saltwater intrusion threaten
Europe’s low-lying coastal regions, including many densely populated
cities. <br>
<blockquote>Our new analysis shows that Europe faces urgent climate
risks that are growing faster than our societal preparedness. To
ensure the resilience of our societies, European and national
policymakers must act now to reduce climate risks both by rapid
emission cuts and by strong adaptation policies and actions. --
Leena Ylä-Mononen, EEA Executive Director<br>
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<b>Many climate risks in Europe require urgent action now </b><br>
The assessment identifies 36 major climate risks for Europe within
five broad clusters: ecosystems, food, health, infrastructure, and
economy and finance. More than half of the major climate risks
identified in the report demand more action now and eight of them
are particularly urgent, mainly to conserve ecosystems, protect
people against heat, protect people and infrastructure from floods
and wildfires, and to secure the viability of European solidarity
mechanisms, such as the EU Solidarity Fund. <br>
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<b>Ecosystems:</b> Almost all risks in the ecosystem cluster require
urgent or more action, with risks to marine and coastal ecosystems
assessed as particularly severe. The EEA report reminds that
ecosystems provide multiple services to people, and therefore these
risks have a high potential to cascade to other areas, including
food, health, infrastructure, and economy. <br>
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<b>Food: </b>Risks from heat and drought to crop production are
already at a critical level in southern Europe, but countries in
central Europe are also at risk. Especially, prolonged droughts that
affect large areas pose a significant threat on crop production,
food security and drinking water supplies. As one solution, even a
partial shift from animal-based proteins to sustainably grown
plant-based proteins, would reduce water consumption in agriculture
and dependency on imported feed. <br>
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<b>Health: </b>Heat is the gravest and most urgent climate risk
driver for human health. At greatest risk are specific population
groups, such as outdoor workers exposed to extreme heat, the elderly
and people living in poorly built dwellings, in areas with a strong
urban heat island effect or with inadequate access to cooling. Many
levers to reduce climate risks for health lie outside traditional
health policies, such as urban planning, building standards and
labour laws. <br>
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<b>Infrastructure:</b> More frequent and extreme weather events
increase the risks to Europe’s built environment and critical
services, including energy, water and transport. While coastal flood
risks have been managed relatively well in Europe, rising sea levels
and changes in storm patterns can cause devastating impacts on
people, infrastructure and economic activities. In southern Europe,
heat and droughts cause substantial risks to energy production,
transmission and demand. Residential buildings also need to be
adapted to increasing heat.<br>
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<b>Economy and finance: </b>Europe’s economy and financial system
are facing many climate risks. For example, climate extremes can
increase insurance premiums, threaten assets and mortgages, and
increase government expenditure and loan costs. The viability of the
EU Solidarity Fund is already critically threatened due to costly
floods and wildfires in recent years. Worsening climate impacts can
also widen private insurance gaps and make low-income households
more vulnerable. <br>
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<b>About the EUCRA report</b><br>
The EEA’s EUCRA report builds on and complements the existing
knowledge base on climate impacts and risks for Europe, including
recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC), the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) and the Joint
Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC), as well as
outcomes of EU-funded research and development projects and national
climate risk assessments. The knowledge in this first-of-its-kind
assessment is synthesised with the aim to support strategic
policymaking.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/europe-is-not-prepared-for">https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/europe-is-not-prepared-for</a><br>
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<i>[ 40 page Executive Summary report -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment/at_download/file">https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment/at_download/file</a>
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EEA Report No 1/2024The EUCRA report builds on and complements the
existing knowledge base on climate impacts and risks for Europe,
including recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change, the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Joint Research
Centre of the European Commission, as well as outcomes of EU-funded
research and development projects and national climate risk
assessments. The knowledge in this first-of-its-kind assessment is
synthesised with the aim to support strategic policymaking.Download<br>
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY European climate risk assessment
TH-AL-24-001-EN-N.pdf [4.2 MB]<br>
See additional files<br>
Read the full report (UNEDITED)<i> Link for the Full Report
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment/resolveuid/a81df2f222524f79a54b2c421a1c9525">https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/european-climate-risk-assessment/resolveuid/a81df2f222524f79a54b2c421a1c9525</a></i><br>
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<i>[ Respected climate scientist -professor James Hansen thinks
things are much more worse that we thought ]</i><br>
<b>Hansen: Hope vs Hopium - Global Warming Acceleration</b><br>
Climate Chat<br>
3-31-2024<br>
In this Climate Chat episode, we discuss the recent white paper from
climate scientist James Hansen titled "Global Warming Acceleration:
Hope vs Hopium". In this paper, Hansen says that evidence shows that
his recent "Global Warming in the Pipeline" peer-reviewed paper is
correct and that both warming from greenhouse gases and cooling from
aerosols (smoke from coal plants, ships, etc.) are both higher than
the IPCC assumes in their climate models. This has critical
implications including possibly passing "Points of No Return" soon.<br>
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This is a Climate Chat open discussion. To join the discussion, join
our Clubhouse room for access to the Zoom link or leave comments in
the YouTube Live comments.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQaU4FPtvbo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQaU4FPtvbo</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - When Congress missed
an opportunity, now our predicament is worse due to their
inaction. ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>April 1, 2009 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> April 1, 2009: <br>
• The New York Times reports:<br>
<blockquote>"The debate on global warming and energy policy
accelerated on Tuesday as two senior House Democrats unveiled a
far-reaching bill to cap heat-trapping gases and quicken the
country’s move away from dependence on coal and oil.<br>
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"But the bill leaves critical questions unanswered and has no
Republican support. It is thus the beginning, not the end, of the
debate in Congress on how to deal with two of President Obama’s
priorities, climate change and energy.<br>
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"The draft measure, written by Representatives Henry A. Waxman of
California and Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, sets a slightly
more ambitious goal for capping heat-trapping gases than Mr.
Obama’s proposal. The bill requires that emissions be reduced 20
percent from 2005 levels by 2020, while Mr. Obama’s plan calls for
a 14 percent reduction by 2020. Both would reduce emissions of
carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases by roughly 80
percent by 2050."<br>
The bill would require every region of the country to produce a
quarter of its electricity from renewable sources like wind, solar
and geothermal by 2025. A number of lawmakers around the country,
particularly in the Southeast, call that goal unrealistic because
the natural resources and technology to meet it do not yet
exist...<br>
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The bill also calls for modernization of the electrical grid,
production of more electric vehicles and significant increases in
efficiency in buildings, appliances and the generation of
electricity.<br>
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