Climate Letter #1160

How different rates of global warming would impact Africa (Carbon Brief).  A new study tells that heatwaves and hot nights would both increase significantly as global temperatures rise, causing many more fatalities.  Africa, which is generally a very hot continent to start with, is also expected to far surpass others with respect to birth rate and population growth.  Predicted gains in either drought or flooding in many local regions will not make life any easier.

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Air pollution and climate change both result from burning fossil fuels.  A writer for The Guardian does an unusually good job of comparing the present and future harmful effects involved by each of them.  Eliminating the damage that air pollution is doing to human life and health right now should always be treated as one of the main goals of climate change policy.  “The Health Effects Institute estimates that only 5% of the global population are lucky enough to live in areas with air pollution levels below safe guidelines. Though recent studies suggest there may in fact be no risk-free level of air pollution.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/apr/26/the-missing-maths-the-human-cost-of-fossil-fuels
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A major new intergovernmental report on land degradation has been issued.  This post contains the highly informative media release with all the reasons for urgently required action.  Considerable emphasis is given to the link between land degradation and climate change, which is separate from fossil fuel burning, not as high in magnitude but certainly not too far behind.  The report states that, “Avoiding, reducing and reversing land degradation could provide more than a third of the most cost-effective greenhouse gas mitigation activities needed by 2030 to keep global warming under 2°C, increase food and water security, and contribute to the avoidance of conflict and migration.”  This is a good reminder that a 100% transition to renewable energy, were it to be accomplished, is only part of the solution.  https://www.ipbes.net/news/media-release-worsening-worldwide-land-degradation-now-%E2%80%98critical%E2%80%99-undermining-well-being-32

Bill McKibben, writing for The New Yorker, draws an analogy between the threat of climate change and the threat of atomic war.  Climate change is not dramatic enough to get a strong grip on the public imagination.  “Still, global warming doesn’t haunt even the uncorrupted imagination in quite the same way as the bomb, perhaps because it unfolds more slowly. On a geologic time scale, a day and a century are roughly the same unit, but for the purposes of a news cycle, the difference is crucial.”
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/hiroshima-kyoto-and-the-bombs-of-climate-change
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“Climate Cover-up, the Crusade to Deny Global Warming.”  This new book by James Hoggan is getting rave reviews, plenty of which can be seen as excerpts in this post.  For example, from David Suzuki, “Climate Cover-Up documents one of the most disgusting stories ever hidden about corporate disinformation. What you’ll discover in this book amounts to proof of an intergenerational crime.”  That sounds like a work of fiction, but unfortunately it’s not.  I certainly look forward to reading it.

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