Climate Letter #1031

Ending “extreme poverty” (under $1.90 per day) globally would have almost no effect on the carbon budget, certainly good news.  This article by Carbon Brief is based on an interesting research study about the relationship between income and carbon footprint.  The study also found that moving everyone on the globe to an income level above $2.97 per day would make it impossible to stay below the 2C limit set in Paris without a massive redistribution of income from those in the highest group.

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The world’s poorest are also the most grievously affected by climate change.  That is a well-known fact but the details are not so familiar.  This post has an excerpt from a new book on the subject, presenting a picture of what life is like for various residents of Lagos, Nigeria.
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A new study shows that the thickness of Arctic sea ice has been overestimated.  Satellite measurements have misinterpreted the difference in thickness between hard ice and the salty type of snow cover above it.  The result is that the estimated timing for full disappearance of the ice in summer months, currently thought to begin in 2040-2050, will have to be moved forward.
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The loss of soil fertility is fast becoming a hot topic.  In the UK there are estimates of fundamental eradication in 30 to 40 years because of the overuse of chemicals and other harmful practices.  The rest of the world is on the same track, making change imperative if people want to keep eating.  As reported elsewhere, the most effective changes will also be of substantial benefit to reducing carbon emissions and sequestering carbon from the air.
–This story from last month adds information about soil loss from a global context:
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A naturalist who has written a book about the decline of a particular kind of moth laments the recent reports about the large-scale collapse of overall insect abundance.  He puts much of the blame on insecticide-based agriculture.  “…..even the most successful organisms that have ever existed on earth are now being overwhelmed by the titanic scale of the human enterprise, as indeed, is the whole natural world.”
Carl

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