Climate Letter #1159

“We’re doomed.”  An interview with an 86-year old social scientist who has been studying climate science in his later years.  He has accepted the reality of what scientists have to say and then applies his own judgment about the way humans are behaving in response, which is not very favorable.  He thinks that might change some day when things get bad enough.  This piece, which was published by the Guardian, was picked up by a large number of the sites I have visited this morning, so it should get wide readership.  It has my endorsement.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/26/were-doomed-mayer-hillman-on-the-climate-reality-no-one-else-will-dare-mention

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The science journal Nature provides us with a fine editorial on where things stand today in the struggle to halt catastrophic global warming.  For starters, “the world is on track for more than 3 °C of warming by the end of the century.”  From there, “The good news is that clean-energy technology is at last making substantial strides. The bad news is that the pace isn’t nearly quick enough. Big economic and political hurdles stand in the way of shutting off the fossil-fuel spigot and the cheap energy it provides.”  Those “hurdles” are not described in this writing like they were in the above post.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-04931-
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Research from MIT has determined that China could quickly get rid of its coal-fired power plants by making investments in renewable energy that would more than pay for themselves.  With the burden of extraordinary air pollution lifted the savings in healthcare costs alone would easily cover the cost of those investments.  This could actually be undertaken as a policy since China’s leaders are not held back by fossil fuel interests like they are in the US and others of the same sort.
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Thousands of low-lying atolls will soon be losing their sources of groundwater.  Many of them are likely to become uninhabitable within decades.  A new study provides the full story, reviewed here by Carbon Brief.  “Many of these atoll islands may be impacted by wave-driven flooding within the next few decades, such that they will have their infrastructure, agriculture and habitats negatively impacted and will not have potable [drinkable] groundwater.”

https://www.carbonbrief.org/low-lying-atolls-could-become-uninhabitable-earlier-than-thought

The most important thing an individual can do to fight global warming (Joe Romm).  Nearly two thirds of Americans (65 percent) report they discuss global warming with their friends or family “rarely” or “never”.  That needs fo change.  If I may add an extra point, the more one knows about the ins and outs of climate science the easier it is to speak with confidence on that subject.  These letters are largely intended to help keep that objective up to date.
https://thinkprogress.org/the-most-important-thing-you-can-do-to-fight-global-warming-b0cbe1fdf775/
Carl

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