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Post by the Scribe on Apr 20, 2022 5:48:04 GMT
Climate Revolution Book $12.95 The Climate Revolution e-book is a ‘Must Read’ for understanding our Sun driven climate as we progress deeper into the new Eddy Grand Solar Minimum. Weather extremes leading to Global food scarcity and high food prices are here now, and this book describes the expected changes, how to survive & thrive during future challenging times with practical preparations. You will get a PDF (44MB) file
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Post by the Scribe on Jun 25, 2022 2:44:29 GMT
Lake Mead is nearing dead pool status. www.yahoo.com/news/lake-mead-nearing-dead-pool-181452293.html
The water level at Lake Mead was measured at 1,044.03 feet on Wednesday — the lowest elevation since it was filled in the 1930s.
If the reservoir drops below 895 feet — a possibility still years away — the lake would reach dead pool status, with potentially catastrophic consequences for millions of people across Arizona, California, Nevada and parts of Mexico.
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 4, 2022 10:24:30 GMT
29 June 2022
For cities, staying cool is the hot new thing www.axios.com/2022/05/31/cities-heat
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
As summer kicks off, a small but growing number of cities are getting serious about heat mitigation — but experts say too many leaders are still ignoring the problem.
Why it matters: Scientific studies have documented a dramatic rise in heat-related deaths,and there’s broad agreement that cities need to adopt comprehensive cooling strategies to maintain public health. www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/health/heat-deaths-concerning-study/index.html
That’s especially urgent as climate change contributes to extreme events like last year’s heat wave in the Pacific Northwest, which resulted in an estimated 1,400-plus deaths. www.axios.com/2021/07/08/pacific-northwest-heat-wave-climate-change
But most cities are only at the planning stages or conducting small-scale pilots — if they’re addressing the issue at all. Where it stands: There’s broad acknowledgment that rising temperatures are making urban centers less livable, but many cities lack the budget or political support to meaningfully tackle the problem.
Only three major U.S. metro areas — Phoenix, Los Angeles and Miami/Dade County — have established “chief heat officers.“ www.axios.com/2021/11/01/an-up-and-coming-title-chief-heat-officer
“There’s a huge number of small- and mid-sized cities that really don’t have anybody thinking about sustainability and climate in a fully comprehensive or truly integrated way,” says Rushad Nanavatty, managing director of RMI, a clean energy nonprofit.
Driving the news: Cities have been gearing up for this summer’s heat, trying in particular to use cooling methods other than air conditioning, which is energy-and-emissions intensive.
They’re installing cooling and misting centers and hydration stations, and planting trees for extra shade.
They’re experimenting with high-tech solutions like sealants and reflective coatings for sidewalks, streets and rooftops. www.axios.com/2021/09/03/cities-combat-urban-heat-islands-climate-change-technology
They’re updating their building codes with green criteria and issuing “cool roof” mandates. www.csemag.com/articles/why-updated-building-codes-have-cities-seeing-green/ www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/realestate/cool-roofs-climate-change-nyc.html#:~:text=Under%20the%202019%20Climate%20Mobilization,or%20a%20green%2Droof%20system.
But a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) urban heat mitigation handbook found a “vast gap between the stated ambition and what was actually happening on the ground,” Nanavatty, one of the authors, told Axios. rmi.org/press-release/un-issues-new-guidance-to-address-warming-in-cities/
“We haven’t gotten to a point — and this is what we’re working on — where climate logic is fully embedded into a city’s operations.”
The big picture: Cities have been warming at twice the global average because of the “urban heat island” effect, whereby buildings and pavement trap heat that might have otherwise been diffused by foliage.
Low-income people tend to suffer the most, since they’re more likely to lack A/C, work outdoors and live near industrial facilities.
A 2021 study found that “in areas with higher rates of poverty, temperatures can be as much as 4 degrees Celsius, or 7 degrees Fahrenheit, warmer during the summer months when compared with richer neighborhoods,” per NPR. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021EF002016 www.npr.org/2021/07/14/1015983700/extreme-heat-is-getting-worse-for-low-income-non-white-americans-a-new-study-sho
Details: Phoenix — one of the hottest U.S. cities — has been particularly proactive in tackling the problem. www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/10-of-the-hottest-cities-in-the-us/432421
Its “Cool Pavement Program,” which involved painting a gray coating on streets, reduced roadway temperatures by 10.5 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit, per Scientific American. www.phoenix.gov/streets/coolpavement www.phoenix.gov/streets/coolpavement www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-beat-the-heat-phoenix-paints-its-streets-gray/#:~:text=Paint%20the%20streets%20gray.,an%20average%202.4%2Ddegree%20drop.
The city aims to build 100 “Cool Corridors” by 2030 “in shade-starved zones with high pedestrian traffic,” the Arizona Republic reports. www.phoenix.gov/oepsite/Documents/Cool%20Corridors%20Policy%20Recommendations%20for%20Phoenix%20UHITS_2021%20Apr%2008.pdf www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2022/04/17/beating-heat-phoenix-plants-first-cool-corridor/7308133001/
“This is life and death infrastructure for cities,” Jad Daley, CEO of American Forests — which is supporting the Cool Corridor initiative — told the Arizona Republic. “We ought to be investing in it, as a country, like it matters.” Among smaller cities, Chelsea, Massachusetts, a low-income neighbor of Boston, has a noteworthy pilot involving a single city block: www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2022/04/17/beating-heat-phoenix-plants-first-cool-corridor/7308133001/
“The Cool Block project is loading the area with pretty much every heat-fighting tool in use around the country,” according to WBUR. www.wbur.org/news/2022/05/12/chelsea-massachusetts-heat-island-cooling
“There are 47 new elm, crabapple, cherry and hawthorn trees. Sidewalks are being ripped up to add planters, porous pavers or white concrete. Dark asphalt will be replaced with gray.”
What’s next: A new tool called the Heat Action Platform, which city leaders can use to develop an extreme heat road map, was unveiled last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. onebillionresilient.org/heat-action-platform/?utm_source=AR+website&utm_medium=CTA+Button&utm_campaign=Press+Release
“A big positive is that cooling as an issue is really coming on the radar of people in a way that it didn’t necessarily in the past,” says Sneha Sachar of RMI.
Source: Axios
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 9, 2022 20:48:31 GMT
Like I mentioned before, do a controlled volcanic explosion every so often. It will cool down the atmosphere and give us much needed rain. And what about chemtrails? Aren't they really about cooling things down? Seems obvious to me.BGR
MIT scientists think they’ve discovered how to fully reverse climate change www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mit-scientists-think-ve-discovered-180800050.html Joshua Hawkins Sat, July 9, 2022 at 2:08 PM
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Scientists at MIT think they may have finally found a way to reverse climate change. Or, at the least, help ease it some.
The idea revolves heavily around the creation and deployment of several thin film-like silicon bubbles. The “space bubbles” as they refer to them, would be joined together like a raft. Once expanded in space it would be around the same size as Brazil. The bubbles would then provide an extra buffer against the harmful solar radiation that comes from the Sun.
Scientists at MIT think they may have finally found a way to reverse climate change. Or, at the least, help ease it some.
The idea revolves heavily around the creation and deployment of several thin film-like silicon bubbles. The “space bubbles” as they refer to them, would be joined together like a raft. Once expanded in space it would be around the same size as Brazil. The bubbles would then provide an extra buffer against the harmful solar radiation that comes from the Sun.
space bubbles in front of sun, MIT concept The goal with these new “space bubbles” would be to ease up or even reverse climate change. The Earth has seen rising temperatures over the past several centuries. In fact, NASA previously released a gif detailing how the global temperature has changed over the years. Now, we’re seeing massive “mouths to hell” opening in the permafrost.
There’s also the fact that scientists just discovered yet another hole in the Earth’s ozone layer. As such, finding ways to ease or reverse climate change continues to be a high priority for many. This new plan is based on a concept first proposed by astronomer Roger Angel. Angel originally suggested using a “cloud” of small spacecraft to shield the Earth from the Sun’s radiation.
Researchers at MIT have taken that same basic concept and improved it, though, by changing out inflatable silicon bubbles for the spacecraft that Angel originally proposed. Being able to reverse climate change would be a huge step in the right direction. Shielding the Earth from the Sun’s radiation would only be one part of it, though. We’d still need to cut down on other things, too.
How will bubbles shield the Earth?
space bubble raft could reverse climate change
But how exactly what a “raft” of space bubbles shield Earth from the Sun’s radiation? Well, the basic idea requires sending the bubbles to the L1 Lagrangian Point. This is the location directly between the Earth and the Sun where gravity from both our star and our planet cancels out. As such, the space bubbles would theoretically be able to just float without much pull from either body.
The researchers say we’d probably still need to put some kind of spacecraft out there to help keep things on track. But, it could give us a good chance at reversing climate change, or at least slowing down the changes. It is important to note that MIT does not view this as an alternative solution to our current adapt and mitigate efforts. Instead, it’s a backup solution meant to help if things spin out of control.
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 11, 2022 5:26:50 GMT
Scientists from the international program on the state of the ocean:
oceans are changing faster than expected
excess co2 and heat from the atmosphere is rapidly warming and acidifying the oceans
this is compounded by increased levels of deoxigenation from nutrient runoffs from farming and climate change
this is a deadly trio, when combined are creating changes in the seas that are unprecedented in the planets history
each of the earths known 5 mass extinctions were preceded by ONE of these deadly trios
acidification warming deoxygenation
3 are now underway, the first such mass extinction in 55 million years is upon us
Chris Hedges | Imminent Mass Extinction
25,740 views Jul 3, 2022 Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015); and his most recent, America: The Farewell Tour (2018). Obey, a documentary by British filmmaker Temujin Doran, is based on his book Death of the Liberal Class.
Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East (he is fluent in Arabic), and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) serving as the paper's Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the war in the former Yugoslavia.
In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University.
Hedges, who wrote a weekly column for the progressive news website Truthdig for 14 years, was fired along with all of the editorial staff in March 2020. Hedges and the staff had gone on strike earlier in the month to protest the publisher's attempt to fire the Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer, demand an end to a series of unfair labor practices and the right to form a union. He hosts the Emmy-nominated program On Contact for the RT (formerly Russia Today) television network.
Hedges has also taught college credit courses for several years in New Jersey prisons as part of the B.A. program offered by Rutgers University. He has described himself as a socialist, specifically an anarchist, identifying with Dorothy Day in particular.
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Post by chronologer on Jul 23, 2022 12:57:50 GMT
Corporate carbon offset company accidentally starts devastating wildfire
On Monday, Dutch reforestation company Land Life started what has become a 35,000 acre forest fire in Spain. The fire started in Bubierca, a province of Zaragoza, the capital of autonomous community Aragon, when a Land Life contractor planting trees accidentally set off sparks that ignited nearby plant life. “The fire started while one of our contractors was using a retro-spider excavator to prepare the soil to plant trees later this winter,” Land Life said in a statement on Thursday. “The operators alerted the emergency services. The emergency teams are working non-stop to control the fire and have fortunately established the fire perimeter. Nonetheless, we are devastated by the latest estimate that the damage will be around 14,000 hectares,” or roughly 35,000 acres.” www.vice.com/en/article/v7vdyx/corporate-carbon-offset-company-accidentally-starts-devastating-wildfire
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Post by the Scribe on Jul 24, 2022 7:06:27 GMT
Taps have run dry in Monterrey, Mexico, where there is water for factories but not for residents www.yahoo.com/news/taps-run-dry-monterrey-mexico-090054182.html Kate Linthicum Fri, July 22, 2022 at 5:00 AM
Residents wait in line for water from a delivery truck on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico, a major industrial city that is running out of water. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
Experts say the crisis unfolding here is a stark warning for the rest of Mexico — as well as the American West.
“It should be a wake-up call,” said Samuel Sandoval Solis, an expert in water management at UC Davis who described the situation in Monterrey as a “crystal ball” for Southern California.
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2022 17:40:52 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 3, 2022 19:22:49 GMT
How climate change drives inland floods www.npr.org/2022/08/03/1115384628/how-climate-change-drives-inland-floods August 3, 20221:57 PM ET REBECCA HERSHER
Vehicles after a flood in July 2022 in Jackson, Ky. Deadly floods in the region were caused by very heavy rain. Michael Swensen/Getty Images
Climate change means more flood risk across the United States. That includes places far from the ocean and sometimes far from rivers and streams, but where rain storms can still cause dangerous flash floods.
Why, exactly, does a hotter Earth mean more inland flood risk? And what does the future hold? This FAQ is for the millions of people who live in increasingly flood-prone parts of the United States, and who want to know how to stay safe and prepare for a changing climate.
How does climate change affect heavy rain?
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 4, 2022 10:26:01 GMT
China warns that its temperatures are rising faster than global average www.yahoo.com/news/china-warns-temperatures-rising-faster-045514345.html
The Wider Image: The thaw of the Third Pole: China's glaciers in retreat
FILE PHOTO: A tree stands on the dried-up riverbed of Ai River in Dandong 2/2 China warns that its temperatures are rising faster than global average FILE PHOTO: A tree stands on the dried-up riverbed of Ai River in Dandong The Wider Image: The thaw of the Third Pole: China's glaciers in retreat
Wed, August 3, 2022 at 9:55 PM
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's average ground temperatures have risen much more quickly than the global average over the past 70 years and will remain "significantly higher" in the future as the challenges of climate change mount, a government official said.
In its annual climate assessment published this week, China's weather bureau described the country as "a sensitive region in global climate change", with temperatures rising 0.26 degrees Celsius (0.47 degrees Fahrenheit) a decade since 1951, compared to the global average of 0.15 degrees.
"In the future, the increase in regional average temperatures in China will be significantly higher than the world," said Yuan Jiashuang, vice-director of China's National Climate Center (NCC), at a Wednesday briefing.
He warned that changing weather patterns in China will affect the balance of water resources, make ecosystems more vulnerable and reduce crop yields.
Extreme weather has wreaked havoc in recent weeks, with lengthy heatwaves causing droughts and forest fires across the world. Historically high rainfall in some countries has also caused deadly floods.
U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned last month that "no nation is immune" from climate change and said the world now had to choose between "collective action or collective suicide".
China has already endured weeks of torrid weather, with temperatures reaching in excess of 44C (111F) in southwestern Yunnan and Hebei in the north.
As many as 131 Chinese weather stations have recorded temperatures that equalled or exceeded historical highs, up from 62 for the whole of last year, according to NCC data.
China's 2021 climate assessment said coastal water levels last year were at their highest since 1980. Glacial retreat also accelerated, active permafrost along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway reached a record high and sea ice continued to decline.
China also recorded a 7.9% increase in vegetation cover in 2021 compared to the 2001-2020 average, and the assessment noted growth periods for many plants are starting earlier each year.
(Reporting by David Stanway; Editing by Tom Hogue)
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 9, 2022 6:02:53 GMT
Associated Press
Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases www.yahoo.com/news/study-connects-climate-hazards-58-150509474.html SETH BORENSTEIN Mon, August 8, 2022 at 8:05 AM
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says. apnews.com/hub/climate-and-environment
Researchers looked through the medical literature of established cases of illnesses and found that 218 out of the known 375 human infectious diseases, or 58%, seemed to be made worse by one of 10 types of extreme weather connected to climate change, according to a study in Monday’s journal Nature Climate Change. www.nature.com/nclimate/
The study mapped out 1,006 pathways from the climate hazards to sick people. In some cases, downpours and flooding sicken people through disease-carrying mosquitos, rats and deer. There are warming oceans and heat waves that taint seafood and other things we eat and droughts that bring bats carrying viral infections to people. camilo-mora.github.io/Diseases/
Doctors, going back to Hippocrates, have long connected disease to weather, but this study shows how widespread the influence of climate is on human health.
“If climate is changing, the risk of these diseases are changing,” said study co-author Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Doctors, such as Patz, said they need to think of the diseases as symptoms of a sick Earth.
“The findings of this study are terrifying and illustrate well the enormous consequences of climate change on human pathogens,” said Dr. Carlos del Rio, an Emory University infectious disease specialist, who was not part of the study. “Those of us in infectious diseases and microbiology need to make climate change one of our priorities, and we need to all work together to prevent what will be without doubt a catastrophe as a result of climate change.”
In addition to looking at infectious diseases, the researchers expanded their search to look at all type of human illnesses, including non-infectious sicknesses such as asthma, allergies and even animal bites to see how many maladies they could connect to climate hazards in some way, including infectious diseases. They found a total of 286 unique sicknesses and of those 223 of them seemed to be worsened by climate hazards, nine were diminished by climate hazards and 54 had cases of both aggravated and minimized, the study found.
The new study doesn’t do the calculations to attribute specific disease changes, odds or magnitude to climate change, but finds cases where extreme weather was a likely factor among many.
Study lead author Camilo Mora, a climate data analyst at the University of Hawaii, said what is important to note is that the study isn’t about predicting future cases.
“There is no speculation here whatsoever,” Mora said. "These are things that have already happened.”
One example Mora knows firsthand. About five years ago, Mora’s home in rural Colombia was flooded — for the first time in his memory water was in his living room, creating an ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes — and Mora contracted Chikungunya, a nasty virus spread by mosquito bites. And even though he survived, he still feels joint pain years later.
Sometimes climate change acts in odd ways. Mora includes the 2016 case in Siberia when a decades-old reindeer carcass, dead from anthrax, was unearthed when the permafrost thawed from warming. A child touched it, got anthrax and started an outbreak. apnews.com/article/06fa0d19a239419885c9f12bda0d8d62
Mora originally wanted to search medical cases to see how COVID-19 intersected with climate hazards, if at all. He found cases where extreme weather both exacerbated and diminished chances of COVID-19. In some cases, extreme heat in poor areas had people congregate together to cool off and get exposed to the disease, but in other situations, heavy downpours reduced COVID spread because people stayed home and indoors, away from others.
Longtime climate and public health expert Kristie Ebi at the University of Washington cautioned that she had concerns with how the conclusions were drawn and some of the methods in the study. It is an established fact that the burning of coal, oil and natural gas has led to more frequent and intense extreme weather, and research has shown that weather patterns are associated with many health issues, she said. apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-latin-america-middle-east-africa-europe-1d89d5183583718ad4ad311fa2ee7d83
“However, correlation is not causation,” Ebi said in an email. “The authors did not discuss the extent to which the climate hazards reviewed changed over the time period of the study and the extent to which any changes have been attributed to climate change.”
But Dr. Aaron Bernstein, interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard School of Public Health, Emory’s del Rio and three other outside experts said the study is a good warning about climate and health for now and the future. Especially as global warming and habitat loss push animals and their diseases closer to humans, Bernstein said. apnews.com/article/climate-science-health-environment-infectious-diseases-a354d82963fc2bd246e7be51d0033af9
“This study underscores how climate change may load the dice to favor unwelcome infectious surprises,” Bernstein said in an email. “But of course it only reports on what we already know and what’s yet unknown about pathogens may be yet more compelling about how preventing further climate change may prevent future disasters like COVID-19.”
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 11, 2022 21:41:14 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 14, 2022 19:15:13 GMT
Seems like most of our man made global warming issues could be minimized just by banning coal use alone. Regulations on fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals that are killing our oceans would be another. Unfortunately if China and India do not get on board they will cancel out all of our efforts. They are the biggest polluters.How Much CO2 And Pollution Comes From Burning Coal? www.freeingenergy.com/how-much-co2-and-other-pollutants-come-from-burning-coal/ BILL NUSSEY
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Post by the Scribe on Aug 14, 2022 19:17:46 GMT
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