Climate Letter #903

A report from Oxfam on the deteriorating climate conditions in the Horn of Africa.  Millions of people and livestock, dependent on rainfall that keeps getting more scarce, are running out of food and water.  The report clearly describes how climate has changed in substantial ways, with charts that show the regional rise in temperature and decline in rainfall since 1980 that are coincidental with the developing crisis.  Oxfam is interested in bringing relief but equally interested in fundamental actions that would restore long-term self-sustainability.

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An enlightening article on the biological role of fungi on Earth.  Of some 1.5 million species most are beneficial but some can be pests.  They thrive in a certain range of temperatures, which is now increasing in area, and some are also adapting to higher extremes.  The article mainly focuses on how this development has an ongoing adverse affect on both agriculture and human health.
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An article about the shrinking of glaciers in the Andes Mountains running through the central part of Chile.  There is a striking parallel between their history of decline and that of sea ice in the far-off Arctic Ocean in the past three decades.  This is just part of a complicated regional display of climate change that has also produced massive wildfires, flooding and landslides.
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Experiments that test changes in the marine food web do not look good.  Researchers are seeking to duplicate a variety of natural conditions in a set of large, carefully designed aquariums.  They find that warmer water temperatures cause stresses among marine animals that prevent them from putting food resources to good use, enough to undermine the function of the web even when plant life is flourishing.
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An update on the transition away from India’s plans to build coal-fired power plants.  It is actually moving rapidly in a favorable way, but the numbers involved are outlandishly large and there is no sense of control or direction over how the future should unfold.  Importantly, “The financial case for coal just doesn’t exist in India anymore.”
Carl

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