Climate Letter #1360

A British ‘leftwing thinktank’ has issued a report grounded on environmental disasters (The Guardian).  This is interesting because the report achieves a much broader perspective than what is usual for a politicized argument.  It properly shows that climate change is just one of a perfect storm of destructive practices that are messing with the planet’s habitability.  It also introduces economic weaknesses that are a threat to future prosperity, but only as kind of a secondary sideshow.  The authorship understands that if the environmental component is not solved—on every level—the economic issues or setbacks become irrelevant.  Proponents of the Green New Deal in the US would do well to follow this same track.  The radical solutions that are called for need to be thoroughly disconnected from traditional modes of class warfare and designed instead around pure fundamentals of survival, much like those required for mobilization in cases of total war.

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The Guardian also has an editorial based on yesterday’s new study about the global decline of insect populations and the need for extensive agricultural reform.  This is a reinforcing of part of the same narrative found in the story above.
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New calculations show that volumes of ice in the world’s mountain glaciers have been overestimated.  With respect to High Mountain Asia, which includes the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau and more, “The study indicates that previous calculations overestimated this volume by almost a quarter…..In light of these new calculations, we have to assume that glaciers in High Mountain Asia might disappear more quickly than we thought so far.”  An unrelated study reported on February 4 (CL #1354) gave a comprehensive warning about the rapid warming of these glaciers without any mention of this new data.
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-ice-volume-anew.html
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A new study finds correlation between heavy losses of Arctic sea ice and extreme, abrupt warming events on Greenland during the last glacial period.  “During some of these events, Greenland temperatures are likely to have increased by 16 degrees Celsius in less than a decade.”  The study is said to have implications for those who make determinations of the outcome of current sea ice losses.
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-arctic-sea-ice-loss-linked.html
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Climate change has become the number one worry of a majority of those surveyed in 26 countries, and is rising sharply (Earther).  Pew Research Center interviewed over 27,000 individuals in conducting the survey.  “…..worry about climate change stands out the most, with a median of 67 percent of survey respondents listing it as their top threat last year, compared with 63 percent in 2017 and 56 percent in 2013.”  (For Americans, the top worry was cyberattacks from other countries.)
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The concept of ‘weather whiplash’ is adding to its reputation as a regular impact of climate change (Scientific American).  This story is about the reasons for seeing more participation from winter weather in that role.
Carl

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