Any doubts about Climate Change?

**S Landreth** · 26-09-2021, 07:29 AM

Nice to see less resistance here with most but not all the flakes gone.

For those who still question the science………..

Carbon Dioxide

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Warming

Overview of Greenhouse Gases

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Glen Peters - Observed warming is driven by emissions from human activities, with GHG warming partly masked by aerosol cooling.

Warming components add to >1.8°C, while cooling components subtract ~0.8°C, with a net warming of 1.06°C.: https://twitter.com/Peters_Glen/stat...70511401324552

**harrybarracuda** · 26-09-2021, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by OhOh

"The new route made it possible to shift starch production from traditional agricultural cultivation to industrial manufacturing".

Powered by coal?

**OhOh** · 27-09-2021, 12:40 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Powered by coal?

The Chinese are going nuclear. They're building/testing a new type.

In the middle of the Gobi Desert, IIRC.

At least it's not a pacific island or downtown Tokyo.

**harrybarracuda** · 27-09-2021, 03:56 PM

Originally Posted by OhOh

The Chinese are going nuclear. They're building/testing a new type.

In the middle of the Gobi Desert, IIRC.

At least it's not a pacific island or downtown Tokyo.

One would hope it's true, however I notice Mr. Shithole specifically excluded Chinastan when he said Chinastan was going to stop building coal fired power stations.

**S Landreth** · 27-09-2021, 05:03 PM

^18 blast furnaces and 43 coal fired power plants planned this year

https://energyandcleanair.org/wp/wp-...-steel-CO2.pdf

**OhOh** · 27-09-2021, 09:15 PM

Electric cars?

**cyrille** · 27-09-2021, 09:43 PM

Electric Ladyland?

**OhOh** · 27-09-2021, 10:59 PM

**S Landreth** · 28-09-2021, 04:24 AM

Originally Posted by OhOh

Electric cars?

Evergrande's electric car company stock slumps and it having trouble paying its suppliers

An electric car company owned by China's Evergrande is having trouble paying suppliers and has called off plans to sell new shares as the group's woes spread beyond its core real estate business.

Shares in China Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group fell more than 9% in Hong Kong on Monday following announcements that it would no longer pursue a secondary listing in Shanghai, and that it was having trouble paying suppliers. The stock was down as much as 30% earlier in the day.

Concerns have been swirling for some time: shares of the EV firm have suffered several single-day drops of more than 20% in recent weeks, and have crashed more than 90% so far this year.

The carmaker's latest warnings mirrored those of its owner, which has rattled global investors and sparked fears among some analysts of a potential Lehman Brothers moment in the world's second biggest economy.

Evergrande Group has in recent weeks warned that it could default on its enormous debts, which run up to more than $300 billion. Evergrande New Energy Vehicle, which is known for its Hengchi electric car brand, is 65% owned by the Chinese conglomerate.

The group has been trying to sell off part of its stake in the EV business to ease its debt crisis, but without success, according to a stock exchange filing earlier this month.

Without fresh funding, Siu warned that Evergrande Group's cash crunch "is expected to affect the daily operations of the [overall] group, worsen its ability to pay employees' salary and/ or other expenses."

It also would hurt the company's ability to continue production of its vehicles, he noted.

Back on track,……….

Study: Today's children will experience 36 times more heat waves than grandparents

Children today will likely live through more weather and climate disasters than their grandparents if the planet continues to warm at its current pace, a study published in the journal Science this week estimates.

Why it matters: The study quantifies what is already widely known: extreme weather and climate events will become more common and severe as the planet warms primarily from human influences, like increased greenhouse gas emissions.

How it works: The researchers drew from current international climate policy pledges and climate and demographic models to project how many extreme weather and climate events children today will witness throughout their lifetimes compared to those experienced by previous generations.

The researchers estimate that a child who was 6 years old in 2020 will see twice as many wildfires and tropical cyclones, around three times more river floods, two-and-a-half times more crop failures, five times as many droughts and 36 times more heatwaves than a person born in 1960.

What they're saying: "Our results highlight a severe threat to the safety of young generations and call for drastic emission reductions to safeguard their future," the researchers wrote.

This reality has been the impetus behind large, global climate strikes in recent years, which have been largely led by younger people, they added.

The big picture: A large UN-sponsored review of climate science published last month determined that the planet will pass a crucial temperature threshold as early as 2030 — far sooner than previously thought.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/todays-y...er-generations

World's largest companies make major carbon-cutting pledges

Estimated emissions cuts by large companies with net-zero targets

Carbon-cutting pledges of many of the world's largest companies would together take a big bite out of global greenhouse gas output, a new tally shows.

Driving the news: BloombergNEF analyzed the pledges of 111 companies with net-zero targets on the "focus" list of companies held by Climate Action 100+, an investor network that pushes corporations on climate.

Why it matters: Through August, 111 companies of the 167 companies on the list had targets that would cut 9.8 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent by 2050, or roughly one-fourth of global emissions today.

Yes, but: While ambitious long-term pledges have become the coin of the realm in big companies' boardrooms, the degree of tangible steps that follow these targets is uncertain.: https://www.axios.com/worlds-largest...d0c9333a7.html

**OhOh** · 28-09-2021, 12:57 PM

The Collision of Two Opposing Green Destinies: COP26 and East Anglia’s Fraud

Matthew Ehret September 27, 2021

"Where one system increases deserts by spreading solar panels across the face of the earth, the other actually greens deserts by careful reclamation, desalination and water diversion programs, Matt Ehret writes.

With the world gearing up for Mark Carney’s upcoming COP26 Climate Summit in the UK this October 31- September 12, 2021, it is worth asking: Will China and India collaborate with other nations of the multipolar alliance once more to save the world from a supranational world government?

You may be asking what I mean by “once more”?

The fact is that today’s efforts by an international financial elite to lock nation states into binding carbon reduction treaties is nothing new and was first attempted in December 2009. This was a period of profound instability as the world economy was trembling on a near meltdown of a $700 billion speculative bubble. We were also told that a new black plague was emerging with a novel influenza virus called H1N1. Back then, the Belt and Road Initiative was still four years from coming online, and Presidents Qaddafi, Assad, Mubarak and Bashir still could not guess what horrors they would yet face under the new regime change operation then still in its planning phase.

But just like today, the goals behind COP14 were clear: Create new supranational mechanisms capable of penalizing nations from breaking CO2 reduction targets between 2009 and 2050. This new order of governance would of course only function through the creation of 1) a new system of global technocratic controls to help nations adapt to the new era of scarcity and de-growth, and 2) a new post-nation state system enforcing a rules-based order which could trump the wishes of selfish sovereign nation states who might otherwise make decisions in defense of their people instead of “wise” computer models.

The 2009 summit was marketed as “historic”. World leaders walked into the event treating it like a gala of stars where Obama, Hollande, Brown, Merkel, Rudd and other trans Atlantic leaders hoped they would return to their home nations as heroic eco-warriors having saved the world.

But in the weeks before the summit signs of its inevitable failure were already visible. The name for this failure was “Climate-gate”.

Climate-Gate Derails a Dream

On November 17, 2009, a major scandal erupted when 61 MB of data comprising thousands of emails internally circulated among the directors and researchers at East Anglia University’s Climate Research Unit (CRU) were made public. To this day, it has not been verified if the scandal occurred via an internal leak or a hack, but what was verified throughout the hundreds of emails between director Phil Jones and the teams of climatologists staffing the CRU was that vast scales of fraud were committed. Jones himself was caught red handed demanding that data sets be ignored and massaged in order to justify the climate models (such as Michael Mann’s fraudulent “hockey stick” made famous by Al Gore) which had all been used to sell the idea that CO2 was the greatest threat to humanity.

Within the leaked emails, scientists were told to fudge data and cover up such problematic things as the medieval warming period which saw average temperatures far warmer than those seen in the 20^th century, yet with far lower rates of human-made CO2.

East Anglia’s CRU is the world’s foremost center of data set centralization and climate model generation which feeds directly into the UN’s Independent Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and which in turn feeds into every major NGO, school, corporation and government. The other central control point of data selection and model generation (for both climate change and covid-19 data sets) is an Oxford-based operation called “Our World In Data ”, funded in large measure by the UK government and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The results of Climate Gate sent shockwaves through the scientific community as even leading climate scientist and pro-COP14 supporter George Monbiot proclaimed:

“It’s no use pretending that this isn’t a major blow. The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are genuine, and I’m dismayed and deeply shaken by them.

Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that was subject to a freedom of information request.

Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of work by climate sceptics, or to keep it out of a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the unit, Phil Jones, should now resign.”
The terrible publicity of Climate Gate essentially caused COP-14 to become a big goose egg, as Chinese and Indian delegates refused to play along, and ensured that all teeth were removed from any binding carbon caps.

China and India Break the Rules of the Game

London Guardian climate journalist Mark Lynas reported in horror:

“Copenhagen was a disaster. That much is agreed… China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama, and insisted on an awful “deal” so western leaders would walk away carrying the blame. How do I know this? Because I was in the room and saw it happen. China’s strategy was simple: block the open negotiations for two weeks, and then ensure that the closed-door deal made it look as if the west had failed the world’s poor once again.”

In case anyone was still uncertain about China’s role in derailing this event, Lynas wrote:

“To those who would blame Obama and rich countries in general, know this: it was China’s representative who insisted that industrialised country targets, previously agreed as an 80% cut by 2050, be taken out of the deal. “Why can’t we even mention our own targets?” demanded a furious Angela Merkel. Australia’s prime minister, Kevin Rudd, was annoyed enough to bang his microphone. Brazil’s representative too pointed out the illogicality of China’s position. Why should rich countries not announce even this unilateral cut? The Chinese delegate said no, and I watched, aghast, as Merkel threw up her hands in despair and conceded the point… China, backed at times by India, then proceeded to take out all the numbers that mattered. A 2020 peaking year in global emissions, essential to restrain temperatures to 2C°, was removed and replaced by woolly language suggesting that emissions should peak “as soon as possible”.

Not only did Chinese and Indian delegates lock themselves in a room alongside other nations of the global south (notably including Sudan), refusing entry of Hillary Clinton and other western puppets attempting to “help” reach a consensus, but the leaders of both nations blocked all binding agreements from being set in stone.

In December 2009, a former chief economic advisor to Putin stated that Russia had sent data to East Anglia’s CRU from 476 meteorological stations covering over 20% of the globe’s surface hosting a wide range of data from as far back as 1865 to 2005. Dr. Illarionov explained that he was dismayed to see that Phil Jones and the CRU entirely ignored the data from all but 121 stations. From those stations they did use, Jones and his team artificially cherry-picked data that gave off the false result that temperatures between 1860-1965 were 0.67 degrees colder than they truly were while temperatures from 1965-2005 were made artificially high. (1)

After being suspended for a few months, a UK review panel absolved Jones from his transgressions and re-installed him into his old position of carbon data gatekeeper at the CRU.

Twelve Years Later

Today, 12 years of propaganda have attempted to wipe Climate Gate from the internet and our collective memory as the same fallacious models and data sets have continued to be used to justify the sort of panicky fear-driven decisions to radically alter civilization forever.

Mark Carney has risen to great heights since his 2009 role steering Canada’s Central Bank through the storm of 2009 to become the head of the Bank of England (2013-2019), trustee of the World Economic Forum, co-founder of the Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures alongside Michael Bloomberg and leading technocratic manager of the Great Reset program for global governance. His role as a high priest of green finance has been documented elsewhere, but the thing to keep in mind is that the Carney/WEF version of a green world differs drastically from the approach taken by China, India, Russia and the growing array of nations among the Multipolar alliance.

Two Opposing Paths to a Green Future

How do these approaches to green, sustainable policymaking differ?

Where one defines “sustainable development” as a euphemism for de-growth (and de-population) under a unipolar rules-based international order, the other looks towards “sustained development” as a driving force for long term growth, multipolarism and even population increases premised on large scale capital-intensive infrastructure building.

Where one system increases deserts by spreading solar panels across the face of the earth (and in turn increasing surface temperatures drastically), the other actually greens deserts by careful reclamation, desalination and water diversion programs such as China’s Move South Water North.

Yes, China and India are building a lot of green energy programs and they intend to lower their rates of CO2 output by 2060. However, unlike the post-modern basket cases in the west who are clamoring for a Fourth Industrial Revolution, Eurasian nations are not resting their entire development strategies on windmills and solar panels. Instead what we find are competent programs for hydropower, oil, coal, natural gas, hydrogen power and importantly next generation nuclear power (with pioneering work on Molten Salt thorium as well as fusion power in the works.

Looking to NASA’s recent surprise discovery that the world’s biomass has increased by over 5% due in large measure to India and China’s economic activity, the fact is slowly emerging into the zeitgeist that the apparent conflict between humanity’s aspirations to grow vs the health of ecosystems is a chimera. The obvious fact that carbon dioxide also happens to be considered by all chlorophyl-based life to be a delicious food should also not be lost in the rush to demonize CO2.

Any doubts about Climate Change?-ehret27092101-jpg

If we can simply break ourselves free from the imperial operating system attempting to herd the world into a slaughterhouse of a new technocratic feudalism and instead embrace our destiny as a species of creative reason capable of boundless self-perfectibility both on the earth and beyond into the cosmos, then not only could a war be averted in the short term, but a new multipolar cultural renaissance might even emerge."

https://www.strategic-culture.org/ne...-anglia-fraud/

**harrybarracuda** · 28-09-2021, 01:26 PM

An electric car company owned by China's Evergrande is having trouble paying suppliers and has called off plans to sell new shares as the group's woes spread beyond its core real estate business.

Well that certainly tells you they have been doing some creative accounting. Stealing from subsidiaries to prop up a failing umbrella?

**harrybarracuda** · 28-09-2021, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by OhOh

The Collision of Two Opposing Green Destinies: COP26 and East Anglia’s Fraud

Translation: "I'm going to write a load of bollocks and deliberately not mention the chinkies are still building coal fired power stations by the dozens".

The emails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging.

The emails extracted by a chinky hacker of course.

**S Landreth** · 02-10-2021, 08:28 AM

Major ocean current could warm greatly, new study reveals

A new study led by researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York found that the Kuroshio Current Extension is sensitive to global climate change and has the potential to warm greatly with increased carbon dioxide levels.

Ocean currents embody motion, snaking their way from the tropics to the poles and back, shifting vast quantities of water from moment to moment. But they are also incredibly old, following their basic course for millions of years.

The major western boundary current in the northern Pacific Ocean, the Kuroshio Current and Extension, is analogous to the Gulf Stream, which flows along North America’s east coast. Driven by the wind, boundary currents are the workhorses of the ocean, moving heat, salt and gases from the equatorial seas to the middle latitudes, Lam explained.

“In other words, these currents help distribute heat from the tropics to higher latitudes. In fact, corals occur at their highest latitude of anywhere in the world within the Kuroshio Current because the waters are so warm,” she said.

That warmth stems from the surface waters that collect in the western Pacific Ocean along the equator, called the Western Pacific Warm Pool. The Kuroshio Current takes these waters north, past the Japanese coast, and then eastward at the 36°N latitude, where it joins the open Pacific Ocean. At this point, it becomes the Kuroshio Current Extension.

The current and extension vent vast amounts of heat and moisture evaporating from the warm water into the lower atmosphere in the Northern Hemisphere. Because of this, they help shape precipitation patterns over Japan and North America’s West Coast, as well as the paths of typhoons, which feed off warm waters. In addition to affecting the weather, the Kuroshio also likely affects the climate, although its impact on thousand- and million-year time scales is still unclear.

The Kuroshio also plays a major role in ecosystems and the fishing industry. In the northwest Pacific, it meets the Oyashio Current, which brings the cool waters of the polar region southward. Where the two currents meet, a strong temperature gradient forms due to the mixing of warm and cool waters. It also creates a region of upwelling, where nutrient-rich waters from the deep ocean are brought to the surface as the currents flow eastward.

It’s not just the waters that mingle: the warm- and cool-water organisms that live in the respective currents also flow together in a transition area between ecosystems, known as an ecotone. Its inhabitants include several species of fish and plankton, which ultimately power Japan’s prolific fishing industry and form a major part of that nation’s economy.

Because of their impact on biodiversity, weather and the climate, understanding how boundary currents such as the Kuroshio will respond to climate change and increasing CO2 levels in the atmosphere is critical. Today, these currents are warming two to three times faster than other areas of the ocean, Lam said.

Much more in the article

NASA climate advisor (Gavin Schmidt): 'We're seeing things happen ... that are clearly unprecedented'

**S Landreth** · 07-10-2021, 04:02 PM

Copernicus – September 2021 was the 2^nd warmest September recorded

Globally, the latest three Septembers are the warmest three in the data record. September 2021 was:

0.40°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average for September.

estimated to be the second warmest September, after September 2020, but only limited significance can be attached to the rankings of the four warmest Septembers (which include 2016 and 2019) as the four differ by less than 0.08°C in global average temperature.

Copernicus

In other news

Nobel Prize in physics awarded for climate change research

This Nobel honors three pioneers in using physics to design increasingly sophisticated computer models used to simulate and project global warming.

Manabe, 90, for example, paved the way for the current generation of computer models run at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, New Jersey. While the Nobel Peace Prize has gone to climate scientists before, namely the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007, this is a different level of recognition.

The big picture: Hasselmann, 89, created a model that links together weather and climate and helped answer why climate models can be reliable despite weather being changeable and chaotic.

Parisi, 73, conducted research that makes it possible to understand and describe many different and apparently entirely random phenomena in physics and other scientific fields.

Major oil spill reaches Southern California coast

A major oil spill reached Huntington Beach in Southern California on Saturday, causing an emergency response to protect the region's ecology.

Huntington Beach spokesperson Jennifer Carey said the oil spill is believed to have originated from a pipeline that has dumped 126,000 gallons into the waters.

“We classify this as a major spill, and it is a high priority to us to mitigate any environmental concerns,” Carey was quoted as saying by the Los Angeles Times. “It’s all hands on deck.”

Workers moved to shut down the pipeline and retrieve as much of the oil as possible soon after the spill occurred, the Times noted.

As of Sunday morning, the ongoing spill had already surpassed the 2007 oil spill that affected San Francisco Bay when a cargo ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and 58,000 gallons leaked.

There were "significant ecological impacts" in Huntington Beach, Orange County Supervisor Katrina Foley tweeted.

"We’ve started to find dead birds & fish washing up on the shore," Foley tweeted, sharing photos of oil washing onto the beach.

The Planet Lost 14% Of Coral Reefs In 10-Year Period, Startling Report Finds

The planet lost about 14% of its coral reefs between 2009 and 2018, a startling figure that reflects the dire threats to the iconic creatures as climate change continues to ravage sensitive ecosystems around the globe.

A new report, released Monday by the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, found mass coral bleaching events linked to warmer temperatures remained the greatest threat to sensitive reefs. The study is the largest analysis of global coral reef health ever done, and includes observations along reefs in more than 70 countries over the last 40 years.

That 14% figure is staggering. Effectively, the loss amounts to about 4,500 square miles of reef, or more than all of the living coral off the coast of Australia, including the iconic Great Barrier Reef.

Which countries are historically responsible for climate change?

This is a big deal

Homeowners face new risks and costs

Property owners are now seeing the real, personal cost of climate change, as some homes are in danger of becoming increasingly expensive to insure — forcing property values to plummet and turning interested buyers away.

Starting this month, new National Flood Insurance Program policies will no longer include subsidized plans that for decades helped prop up home values in some of the most dangerous flood zones.

Existing policies may start to see changes in premiums in six months.

Why it matters: Housing development and population density patterns will change as parts of the country become virtually uninsurable due to more frequent extreme weather events and rising sea levels.

Catch up quick: Lower-valued homes have been paying more than their share of the risk than higher-valued homes, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency says it can now "equitably distribute premiums" based on individual property flood risk and home value.

In the past premiums were essentially based on just two numbers — the elevation of the home and the elevation of a 100-year-flood event, which is the height of water during a flood that has a 1% chance of occurring in any given year.

FEMA’s "Risk Rating 2.0," announced in April, incorporates more risk variables than previous methodologies, including flood frequency, flood types, distance to water sources, elevation and costs to rebuild.

The result: Older homes owned by less affluent people will be more likely to see premiums that are much higher compared to home values, says Rob Moore, director of the water and climate team at the Natural Resources Defense Council.: https://www.axios.com/climate-change...d7340da26.html

White House proposes reversing parts of Trump rewrite of bedrock environmental law implementation

The White House said in a statement that it would propose reversing parts of the Trump administration’s rollback of the implementation of a law called the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

NEPA requires the government to consider environmental impacts of major projects, and governs the construction of things like airports, highways, buildings and pipelines.

The changes announced Wednesday by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) are considered to be “Phase 1” and will restore provisions that had been in place for decades.

Specifically, it would seek to ensure that additional environmental implications are considered and give more flexibility to government agencies to consider project alternatives.: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...ite-of-bedrock

**OhOh** · 07-10-2021, 04:23 PM

I love that historical chart style.

**S Landreth** · 08-10-2021, 09:35 AM

Google, YouTube to prohibit ads and monetization on climate denial content

Google and YouTube on Thursday announced a new policy that prohibits climate deniers from being able to monetize their content on its platforms via ads or creator payments.

Why it matters: It's one of the most aggressive measures any major tech platform has taken to combat climate change misinformation.

Details: Google advertisers and publishers, as well as YouTube creators, will be prohibited from making ad revenue off content that contradicts "well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change," the company's ads team said in a statement.

"This includes content referring to climate change as a hoax or a scam, claims denying that long-term trends show the global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or human activity contribute to climate change."
Ads and monetization will still be allowed to run alongside other climate-related topics, like public debates on climate policy, impacts of climate change, and new research around the issue.

Google said it's making these changes in response to frustration from advertisers and content creators about their messages appearing alongside climate denialism.

"Advertisers simply don’t want their ads to appear next to this content. And publishers and creators don’t want ads promoting these claims to appear on their pages or videos," the company said.

Yes, but: Google often makes changes to its ads policies to reduce misinformation, but this update is notable, given how hard it can be to characterize certain commentary about climate change as denialism or misinformation.

The tech giant says that when evaluating content against the new policy, "we’ll look carefully at the context in which claims are made, differentiating between content that states a false claim as fact, versus content that reports on or discusses that claim."
The company says it has consulted with experts, like representatives of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Reports, to create the policy. The report found that there is "unequivocal" evidence showing that human emissions of greenhouse gases are causing global warming."
Google says it will use a combination of automated tools and human review to enforce the new policy.

The big picture: Internet companies have been under increased pressure from climate activists to do more to address climate change denial on their platforms.

Google on Wednesday unveiled a suite of new tools that give consumers more information so they can choose to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.
In February, Facebook expanded an online portal meant to counter misinformation about climate change.

Why it matters: Social media platforms have immense reach, and they've come under fire from activists and some lawmakers globally for doing too little to thwart the spread of inaccurate content.

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Government agencies release climate resilience plans

More than 20 federal agencies on Thursday released plans to improve the resilience of their facilities and operations against climate change.

“Agencies face a multitude of risks caused by climate change, including rising costs to maintain and repair damaged infrastructure from more frequent and extreme weather events, challenges to program effectiveness and readiness, and health and safety risks to federal employees who work outside,” said a White House fact sheet.

“By taking action now to better manage and mitigate climate risks, we will minimize disruptions to federal operations, assets and programs while creating safer working conditions for employees,” it continued.: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...silience-plans

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Pentagon climate plan prepares military for extreme conditions

The Pentagon on Thursday began its biggest effort ever to prepare the military for the effects of climate change with the release of a 32-page strategy.

“Climate change is an existential threat to our nation's security, and the Department of Defense must act swiftly and boldly to take on this challenge and prepare for damage that cannot be avoided,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement released alongside the strategy, known as the Climate Adaptation Plan.

The Pentagon’s strategy aims to transition the military into an agency that can handle and operate within ever increasing hurricanes, wildfires, heat, drought and floods “that can trigger crises and instability around the world.”

The new plan will help the Pentagon better consider what effects climate change will have on its operations, training, installations, planning and business processes when making decisions.: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5...eme-conditions

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Administration confirms it will restore national monuments to pre-Trump boundaries

The Biden administration confirmed Thursday evening that it will restore the borders of three national monuments that were shrunk under the Trump administration.

In a fact sheet, the White House said it will restore protections for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante National Monuments, which saw their boundaries curtailed under former President Trump. The administration will also prohibit commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyon and Seamounts Marine National Monument, with red crab and lobster fishing phased out by September 2023.

The Bears Ears National Monument, which saw its acreage reduced about 85 percent in 2017, will also have additional rangers assigned by the Bureau of Land Management, the White House said. The restoration will expand the protected section of Bears Ears to 1.36 million acres and Grand Staircase Escalante to 1.87 million acres.

“By restoring these national monuments, which were significantly cut back during the previous administration, President Biden is fulfilling a key promise and upholding the longstanding principle that America’s national parks, monuments, and other protected areas are to be protected for all time and for all people,” a White House spokesperson said.

The fact sheet also touts other environmental actions by the administration, including ending oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The White House initially imposed a pause on all new leasing on federal lands, but earlier this year a federal judge imposed an injunction on the order. The White House has resumed lease sales while it appeals the ruling.: https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...numents-to-pre

**RPETER65** · 08-10-2021, 08:11 PM

A good article about the need and how to pay for carbon capture.
Carbon removal will cost as much annually as the NHS budget, but research shows polluters could pay

**S Landreth** · 08-10-2021, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by S Landreth

Nice to see less resistance here with most but not all the flakes gone.

well like I said,.........not all. See above

**harrybarracuda** · 09-10-2021, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by RPETER65

A good article about the need and how to pay for carbon capture.
Carbon removal will cost as much annually as the NHS budget, but research shows polluters could pay

Polluters "could" pay?

Or polluters will pay off politicians to give them more subsidies?

**S Landreth** · 10-10-2021, 05:19 AM

Dr. Zeke Hausfather - 2021 is now on track to be the 5th warmest year on record in the ERA5 dataset – consistent with the long-term warming trend over the past four decades. It could end up anywhere between 5th and 7th warmest depending on the remaining three months.: https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1446545532965457920

Turkey ratifies Paris climate agreement; last G20 country to do so

Turkey's parliament ratified the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, making it the last G20 country to do so, after holding off for years due to what it saw as injustices in its responsibilities as part of the agreement.

Turkey has been a signatory to the Paris agreement since April 2016. But Ankara had not ratified the deal, arguing that it should not be considered a developed country as part of the agreement, which gives it more responsibility, as Turkey is historically responsible for a very small share of carbon emissions.

Announcing that Turkey would ratify the deal at the United Nations General Assembly last month, President Tayyip Erdogan said countries that have a "historical responsibility" for climate change should make the most effort.

"Whoever made the most damage to nature, our air, our water, our soil, the earth; whoever savagely exploited natural resources needs to make the largest contribution to the fight against climate change," he said.

On Wednesday, 353 members of Turkey's parliament ratified the agreement unanimously.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) currently lists Turkey in the Annex I group, described as industrialised countries.

**RPETER65** · 12-10-2021, 08:33 AM

Just for you Harry pointing out carbon capture is much more important than what you think. Dedicated CO2 Carriers Ordered for Norway's Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage Project

**harrybarracuda** · 12-10-2021, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Just for you Harry pointing out carbon capture is much more important than what you think. Dedicated CO2 Carriers Ordered for Norway's Northern Lights Carbon Capture and Storage Project

It's a desperate last throw of the dice, and the fossil industry will play along as long as (a) they get paid for it and (b) it allows them to keep selling.

**S Landreth** · 14-10-2021, 08:21 AM

NASA – September 2021 was tied with 2019 to be the 2^nd warmest September recorded.

NASA GISS: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Biden administration outlines "ambitious" plans for coastal wind farms

The Biden administration plans to identify and lease federal waters along seven coastal areas to offshore wind power developers over the next few years, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Wednesday.

Why it matters: The new plan constitutes an aggressive push by the federal government to reach its goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind-generating capacity in U.S. waters by 2030.

If implemented, the plan would see the development of wind farms along nearly the entire U.S. coastline and would constitute the first long-term strategy to produce electricity from offshore turbines, the New York Times noted.

The big picture: The administration is exploring wind leasing agreements in Oregon, California, the Gulf of Mexico, the Carolinas, the Central Atlantic, the Gulf of Maine, as well as the New York Bight — a small stretch of ocean between Long Island and New Jersey.

The plan is to hold up to seven new offshore lease sales by 2025.

Flashback: The administration has already taken other steps to spur offshore wind power, including approval in May of the long-proposed Vineyard Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts.

What they're saying: “The Interior Department is laying out an ambitious roadmap as we advance the Administration’s plans to confront climate change, create good-paying jobs, and accelerate the nation’s transition to a cleaner energy future,” Haaland said in the press release.

Between the lines: Identifying potential areas for this ambitious plan doesn't guarantee the projects will come to fruition.

Many obstacles remain, including opposition from the fishing industry and coastal landowners.

Weather and climate disasters have cost the U.S. over $100 billion in 2021

Weather and climate disasters in 2021 have killed 538 people in the U.S. and cost over $100 billion, according to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.

Why it matters: The first nine months of 2021 saw the largest number of billion-dollar disasters in a calendar year so far, with 2021 on pace for second behind 2020, per the report.

Driving the news: From January through the end of September, the U.S. has experienced 18 weather and climate disasters that each cost more than $1 billion, per the report.

Additionally, 538 people have died from the disasters, which is more than twice the number of deaths from all billion-dollar disasters that occurred in 2020, per the report.

Details: The disasters include four tropical cyclones, two flooding events, one combined drought and heat wave, one wildfire event, and one combined winter storm and cold wave.

Hurricane Ida leads as the year's most expensive disaster to date. Recovery from Ida has cost $60 billion and ranks among the top five most costly hurricanes on record since 1980 — and its cost is only expected to rise.

Thought bubble from Axios' Andrew Freedman: The spate of billion-dollar extreme weather and climate disasters reflects both climate change-related trends, such as an uptick in heavy precipitation events and stronger hurricanes, as well as the fact that there are more things in harms' way than there used to be.

Over 20 more countries vow to slash methane emissions

U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry announced Monday that 24 additional countries agreed to a voluntary pledge to cut emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, by one-third by 2030.

Why it matters: The Global Methane Pledge, which the Biden administration announced with the European Union last month, now includes nine of the world's top 20 methane emitting countries, representing around 30% of total emissions and 60% of the global economy.

New pledgers include Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Nigeria, Sweden and Pakistan.

Argentina, Ghana, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Mexico and the United Kingdom agreed to the pact when it was first announced.

Yes, but: These are voluntary pledges for a yearslong plan. The key thing to watch is what tangible steps follow the nonbinding agreements from nations and corporations.

Thought bubble, via Axios' Andrew Freedman: Along with carbon dioxide, which is a long-lasting planet-warming gas, methane is a potent warming agent that acts in the near term, over the time span of one to two decades.

In recent years, methane emissions have been increasing quickly, and reducing them could have a near-immediate effect on the climate, studies show.

The new methane pledge is part of a Biden administration-led effort to pursue an all-encompassing strategy to slash emissions of planet-warming gases, from ozone-depleting substances to carbon dioxide.

The big picture: More than 20 leading philanthropic organizations also announced Monday that they will commit over $223 million to support implementation of the pledge.

The new commitments come just weeks before the UN is set to hold a climate summit in Glasgow on Oct. 31.: https://www.axios.com/methane-emissi...9f9740e7c.html

**S Landreth** · 18-10-2021, 09:41 AM

JMA – September 2021 tied with September 2019 as the 3^rd warmest September recorded

Five Warmest Years (Anomalies)
1st. 2015 (+0.33°C), 2nd. 2016 (+0.32°C), 3rd. 2021,2019 (+0.31°C), 5th. 2020 (+0.30°C)

気象庁 Japan Meteorological Agency

Pew: Americans perceive a rise in extreme weather

Americans are taking notice of extreme weather events, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Details: Two-thirds of Americans say extreme weather events in the U.S. have been occurring more frequently than in the past, while only 28% said they've been taking place about as often, and just 4% perceiving a dropoff in frequency.

So far in 2021, the U.S. has seen a record 18 billion dollar extreme weather events.

When it comes to extreme weather events in their backyards, 46% of U.S. adults say the area where they live has had an extreme weather event over the past year.

The area with the greatest number of people reporting an extreme weather event was the South Central Census Division. It includes Louisiana, a state hit hard by Hurricane Ida and heavy rainfall events.

Yes, but: Even on perceptions of extreme weather events, there is a partisan split, the survey found, with Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents more likely to report experiencing extreme weather than Republicans and Republican-leaning independents.

**harrybarracuda** · 20-10-2021, 11:37 AM

Africa’s rare glaciers will disappear in the next two decades because of climate change, a new report warned Tuesday amid sweeping forecasts of pain for the continent that contributes least to global warming but will suffer from it most.

The report from the World Meteorological Organization and other agencies, released ahead of the U.N. climate conference in Scotland that starts Oct. 31, is a grim reminder that Africa’s 1.3 billion people remain “extremely vulnerable” as the continent warms more, and at a faster rate, than the global average. And yet Africa’s 54 countries are responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The new report seizes on the shrinking glaciers of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda as symbols of the rapid and widespread changes to come. “Their current retreat rates are higher than the global average. If this continues, it will lead to total deglaciation by the 2040s,” it says.

Africa’s rare glaciers soon to disappear, climate report says - TheGrio

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