Guy McPherson - Soul Crushing Climate Despair: Video

Walking the line between hope and despair

Tim Bob

 

Published on Jan 21, 2019

Jan 15, 2019 - Burnout - The Toll of Studying Climate Change, 

Jan 18, 2019 - Doug Peacock and Guy in Tucson AZ

 

#climate despair  #climate action  #climate change  #climate catastrophe

Climate change will wipe $2.5tn off global financial assets: study

Stock Exchange

"Losses could soar to $24tn and wreck the global economy in worst case scenario, first economic modelling estimate suggests"

"The new study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change, used economic modelling to estimate the impact of unchecked climate change. 

It found that in that scenario, the assets were effectively overvalued today by $2.5tn, but that there was a 1% chance that the overvaluation could be as high as $24tn.
The losses would be caused by the direct destruction of assets by increasingly extreme weather events and also by a reduction in earnings for those affected by high temperatures, drought and other climate change impacts."

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#climate catastrophe  #stranded assets  #economy  #global economy  #climate action  #extreme weather events  # economic modelling  #financial assets 

Do you think Santos wants something in return for its donations?

Fossil fuels and politics

"Despite calls from the crossbench during debate on the foreign integrity laws, the major parties refused to entertain changes to either the donation threshold or the timeliness of disclosures." ABC

Meanwhile regional anti gas well campaigners carry on their struggle against polluting corporations like Santos.

U.S. Midwest Freezes, Australia Burns: This Is the Age of Weather Extremes : New York Times

Frozen Lake Michigan

"As for the extremely low temperatures this week in parts of the United States, they stand in sharp contrast to the trend toward warmer winters. They may also be a result of warming, strangely enough. 

Emerging research 

suggests that a warming Arctic is causing changes in the jet stream and pushing polar air down to latitudes that are unaccustomed to them and often unprepared. Hence this week’s atypical chill over large swaths of the Northeast and Midwest."

Read the NYT article

Related: 

A Closer Look at the Polar Vortex’s Dangerously Cold Winds

Chicago will be as cold as the Arctic on Wednesday. We’ll show you why.

Jan. 30, 2019

 

Climate Change Leads to More Wars and Refugees: Bloomberg

Aleppo,  Photo by aladdin hammami on Unsplash

Pentagon Fears Confirmed: Climate Change Leads to More Wars and Refugees

The conclusions published Wednesday in a scientific journal underscore the rising levels of anxiety that global warming has among leaders. Attendees at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, said the inability to adapt to higher temperatures is the biggest global risk. A Pentagon report published on Tuesday in Washington warned that rising seas and more frequent wild fires threaten U.S. security.

 

The peer-reviewed study, “Climate, conflict and forced migration,” published in Elsevier Ltd.’s Global Environmental Change, analyzed sprawling data sets covering drought, battle deaths, ethnicity and political systems. Those were then combined with geographic information about refugee flows. The researchers discovered that deteriorating climate conditions played a “a statistically significant role” in the recent waves of migrants fleeing Middle East conflict.

 Read the Bloomberg article

 

#war  #climate migration  #climate change  # Syria  # Davos  #sea rise  #wildfire 

Grey Power supports Australian climate action on March 15

Go this Facebook Post to join the action.

#grey power school strike  #climate action  # Australia

Warming world gets older, wiser, richer activists hot under the collar

A growing number of older protesters are standing up and fighting for the environment

When Audrey Cooke first spoke to her family about her retirement plans, they had one condition: “Don’t get arrested.”
The 72-year-old retired Melbourne schoolteacher’s husband died of pancreatic cancer nine years ago. She has two young grandchildren. And she is now a full-time climate activist.

“I’ll do it until I drop,” she says. “I’m in a hurry. We are facing an existential threat and this is more important than anything for me.”

Read The Guardian article 

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Adani contractor won't work on Carmichael project after protesters target worksites

The New Language of Climate Change: Politico Magazine

Climate Catastrophe

Scientists and meteorologists on the front lines of the climate wars are testing a new strategy to get through to the skeptics and outright deniers.

PHOENIX—Leading climate scientists and meteorologists are banking on a new strategy for talking about climate change: Take the politics out of it.

That means avoiding the phrase “climate change,” so loaded with partisan connotations as it is. Stop talking about who or what is most responsible. And focus instead on what is happening and how unusual it is—and what it is costing communities.

That was a main takeaway at the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting this month, where top meteorologists and environmental scientists from around the country gathered to hear the latest research on record rainfall and drought, debate new weather prediction models and digest all manner of analysis on climatic mutations.

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