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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>April </b></i></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>19, 2024</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Polls expose disappointment ]</i><br>
<b>More Americans worried about climate change, but few think
Biden’s climate law will help, AP-NORC poll says</b><br>
Politics Apr 18, 2024<br>
Most say it’s extremely or very important for the federal government
to invest in new, environmentally friendly technologies, and most,
like 38-year-old Julio Carmona, a health program associate who lives
in Stratford, Connecticut, and identifies as a moderate Democrat,
say the same about enforcing current environmental regulations.<br>
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“We can all do our part when it comes to saving energy, recycling
and all those other things,” said Carmona. “But if the big
corporations aren’t doing it, I think that, for me, would be where
the government should start.”...<br>
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The poll of 1,204 adults was conducted April 4-8, 2024, using a
sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which
is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin
of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 3.9
percentage points...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/more-americans-worried-about-climate-change-but-few-think-bidens-climate-law-will-help-ap-norc-poll-says">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/more-americans-worried-about-climate-change-but-few-think-bidens-climate-law-will-help-ap-norc-poll-says</a><br>
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<i>[ I heartily and mindfully recommend </i><i>this top-notch
channel </i><i>- today it's about Arizona ]</i><br>
<b>Arizona 2C Climate Outlook: NCA5 Update</b><br>
American Resiliency<br>
Apr 18, 2024<br>
Folks, this outlook is rough. Lots of details here for the greater
Phoenix area, Tucson, and Flagstaff. Bottom line: we're looking at
an almost 3 month extension of days over 95 in the cities of
southern Arizona, with a full month of that over 105. Bad situation.
Follow along with me in this video, we'll look at what you're up
against in this outlook for 2C conditions. <br>
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Here's a link to the NCA5 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/">https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG_GCpmc9IU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG_GCpmc9IU</a><br>
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<i>[ reference the 5th National Climate Assessment ]</i><br>
<b>How the United States Is Addressing Climate Change</b><br>
The effects of human-caused climate change are already far-reaching
and worsening across every region of the United States. Rapidly
reducing greenhouse gas emissions can limit future warming and
associated increases in many risks...<br>
Throughout this report, three important terms are used to describe
the primary options for reducing the risks of climate change:<br>
<blockquote><b>Mitigation:</b> Measures to reduce the amount and
rate of future climate change by reducing emissions of
heat-trapping gases (primarily carbon dioxide) or removing
greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.<br>
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<b>Adaptation: </b>The process of adjusting to an actual or
expected environmental change and its effects in a way that seeks
to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities.<br>
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<b>Resilience: </b>The ability to prepare for threats and
hazards, adapt to changing conditions, and withstand and recover
rapidly from adverse conditions and disruptions.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/">https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/</a><br>
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<i>[ Why not sooner? ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change may cost $38 trillion a year by 2049, study says</b><br>
Andrew Freedman, author of Axios Generate<br>
Projected change in income due to climate change by 2049<br>
Climate change through the middle of this century is likely to be
far costlier than thought — to the tune of $38 trillion per year, a
new study finds.<br>
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<b>Why it matters: </b>The study finds the world economy is already
headed for a loss of 19% of income per capita around the globe
within the next 26 years due to historical emissions that will
continue to warm the planet.<br>
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, shines a new
light on the patterns and severity of climate change's economic
impacts while bolstering key conclusions from other research.<br>
The $38 trillion figure is given in 2005 dollars.<br>
It is more than double the annual GDP of the entire European Union.<br>
<b>Zoom in: </b>The paper, from three scientists at the Potsdam
Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, found that the
likely economic damages of climate change during the next quarter
century outweigh by six times the costs of mitigating global warming
and holding it to 2°C above preindustrial levels.<br>
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The research is novel since it focuses on subnational regions,
rather than looking at broader geographical areas.<br>
It examines climate's economic impacts during the past 40 years in
about 1,600 subnational regions and then projects such impacts out
to 2050.<br>
<b>How it works: </b>The researchers examined how climate change is
likely to change daily temperature variability, total annual
precipitation, the annual number of wet days and extreme daily
rainfall that occur, plus the shifts already identified by changing
average temperatures.<br>
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The study finds that the economic impacts of climate change are
likely to be far more persistent than previous studies have shown.<br>
For example, study coauthor Anders Levermann tells Axios via email
that "a change in annual mean temperature will yield a change in
[the] economic growth rate that persists for about 8-10 years."<br>
<b>Between the lines:</b> The new research is likely an
underestimate of the economic hit from climate change since it does
not include the impacts of sea level rise, stronger hurricanes, heat
waves and human health effects, along with other costly influences.<i><br>
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</i>The study shows that the largest economic losses are likely to
take place at warmer latitudes, with the countries least responsible
for historical emissions absorbing outsized economic damages.<br>
However, the U.S. and EU would be significantly affected, the study
shows, with per capita incomes increasing but by smaller amounts
than they otherwise would have in the absence of climate change. (In
the short-term, far northern latitudes could see net economic
benefits from climate change, purely from a numbers perspective.)<br>
"The study is consistent with previous studies but finds even higher
damages. It shows that also rich countries suffer enormous economic
consequences of climate change," Levermann tells Axios. "These arise
not only from destruction due to weather extremes, but also through
... perturbations of the economic flow which is less easily detected
and thereby less easily adapted to and countered."<br>
One message of the study is the necessity of making sharp, near-term
emissions cuts to avoid even larger economic losses after
mid-century.<br>
Yes, but: The damages, with an average person losing 19% of their
income through midcentury, are compared to a baseline of a world
without human-caused climate change.<br>
This means that many places would still see incomes grow, but at a
slower pace and to a lower extent than they would have otherwise.<br>
<b>What they're saying: </b>Outside researchers who were not
involved in the new study told Axios that it adds valuable
information and builds upon previous work.<br>
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"I think the paper's main finding that there are committed damages
from climate change over the next few decades, and that these
damages can be large, makes a lot of sense," said Marshall Burke of
Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability, via email.<br>
He said the study makes the point that even small amounts of warming
over a few decades can have "very large economic impacts."<br>
"This is believed by some but not by others," he said, noting he
agrees with that point. <br>
Amir Jina, a climate and economics researcher at the University of
Chicago, said the precise numbers in the study may be off, but the
main points and trends are supported by other studies.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/18/climate-change-damages-38-trillion">https://www.axios.com/2024/04/18/climate-change-damages-38-trillion</a><br>
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<i>[ Choose one or the other ]<br>
</i><b>The only way to save coral reefs is to end fossil fuels</b><br>
One of the world's premier coral scientists calls for more "honest"
messaging amid a global bleaching event.<br>
Emily Atkin<br>
Apr 18<i><br>
</i>The world’s coral reefs are in bad shape. On Monday, two major
scientific bodies announced that record-breaking ocean heat is
causing a worldwide coral bleaching event. It’s the fourth-ever mass
bleaching event on record, and the second in the last decade. This
current global bleaching is expected to be the worst ever recorded,
endangering coral from the Caribbean to the South Pacific.<br>
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I’ve been following this latest mass coral bleaching with concern
since Monday. And through it all, I haven’t been able to stop
thinking of something one of the world’s premier coral reef
scientists told me years ago.<br>
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We were chatting for a 2022 story about the world’s most
climate-threatened places, which I was reporting for GQ magazine.
She said that, after decades of studying coral reefs, she came to a
realization: The best way to save coral reefs was not actually to be
in a lab studying how they work. It was to advocate for a transition
away from fossil fuels...<br>
If society does not transition away from fossil fuels, these
solutions will also fail and nearly all of the world’s coral will
die. “If we push the climate system to 2 degrees Celsius, we’re
talking about 1 percent of reefs surviving,” Kim Cobb, a Georgia
Tech climate scientist, told me for the GQ story. “That makes it
less likely that coral-resilience engineering efforts will succeed.”<br>
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<i>[ Not caused by cloud seeding - and the cat was saved ]</i><br>
<b>Unprecedented flooding soaks Dubai</b><br>
NBC News<br>
Apr 17, 2024 #WorldNews #Dubai #Flood<br>
A massive storm that flooded roads and closed the airport in Dubai
also killed at least 18 people in neighboring Oman.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77_VGku7RI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77_VGku7RI</a><br>
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<i>[ Amanpour & Co ]</i><br>
<b>Destroyed Communities & Climate Migrants: Climate Change
Upends Small Towns | Amanpour and Company<br>
</b>Amanpour and Company<br>
Apr 16, 2024 #amanpourpbs<br>
Hurricanes, storms, and wildfires are persuading Americans to
abandon their homes as nature lashes out against human-made climate
change. Over three million Americans have already moved due to risk
of flooding, and climate experts say some 13 million coastal
residents will be displaced by the end of this century. CBS News
correspondent and author Jonathan Vigliotti has reported from the
front lines of climate change. He explains to Hari Sreenivasan how
American towns might become more resilient and why it's crucial to
listen to the science.<br>
Originally aired on April 16, 2024<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltF3-llZ1JU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltF3-llZ1JU</a>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - again with
Bush ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>April 19, 1990 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> April 19, 1990: The New York Times
reports:<br>
"President Bush, responding to criticism that the United States had
delayed taking concrete steps to address the threat of global
warming linked to pollution, said today, 'We have never considered
research a substitute for action.'<br>
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"Closing a two-day White House conference on the issue, Mr. Bush
said: 'To those who suggest we're only trying to balance economic
growth and environmental protection, I say they miss the point. We
are calling for an entirely new way of thinking, to achieve both
while compromising neither, by applying the power of the marketplace
in the service of the environment.'<br>
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"Mr. Bush also proposed a series of steps for integrating
international responses to the issue of global climate change. They
included an international 'charter' for cooperation in science and
economics related to global change, a statement of principles to
guide such research, the creation of international research
institutes and a communications network to monitor global changes."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/19/us/bush-denies-putting-off-action-on-averting-global-climate-shift.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/19/us/bush-denies-putting-off-action-on-averting-global-climate-shift.html</a><br>
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