Climate Letter #873

All of sub-Saharan Africa has high-risk exposure to drought.  More than 300 million people live in this region and have limited food supplies to begin with.  Their most important food crop, maize, is relatively sensitive to drought.  Not all future models have pessimistic scenarios but there is clearly a need for planning a variety of changes in agriculture and perhaps other options as temperatures rise.  This study was not designed to take future population trends into account.

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An inside look at China’s environmental movement.  This is a fascinating interview by Yale E360 with an American ecologist who is working closely at a high level with the Chinese government, which has already made a decision on which way it wants to go.  Clean air and long-term sustainability are being treated as equally important goals.  Her own specialty is land management, and the problem for China is that every bit of land is under some kind of pressure.  Sustaining biodiversity is part of the program. Overall, a model is being constructed that the rest of the world will want to pay attention to.
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China’s air pollution has been worsened by effects due to extensive ice melting in the Arctic.  That is the conclusion of more than one recent study, blaming the effects on changes in global circulation mechanisms.
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A new study on the outlook for the Great Barrier Reef.  The severity of the situation is even more dire than others have reported, and yet this work was completed before the unexpected bleaching event of the past few months.  “At current rates of warming, the loss of the Great Barrier Reef is as close as 20-30 years away.”  Their conclusion—the only way to prevent this loss, and that of many other reefs, is by urgent and rapid action to reduce global warming.
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Australia has opened the door to quicker future transition to renewables for the grid.  Plans have been set for massive development of pumped hydro storage, which will exactly fit the needs of grid-scale wind and solar facilities.
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A new Gallup poll about the levels of belief and concern Americans have over climate change.  These show how far out of touch with the American people is the Trump administration.  All of the principal categories are at strong levels and show a trend of rising numbers.
Carl

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