Climate Letter #1398

A Carbon Brief profile:  Australia.  A superlative look at a fascinating country that exhibits one extreme after another.  It has the potential to go 100% carbon-free, maybe sooner than any other nation—something fiercely and openly resisted by the federal government and the leaders of certain huge industries.

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–An update on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.  “Rising sea temperatures have wrecked the Great Barrier Reef’s ability to regrow, researchers said Wednesday, highlighting for the first time a 90 percent fall in new corals since back-to-back heatwaves bleached the World Heritage site.”

https://phys.org/news/2019-04-global-disrupts-recovery-coral-reefs.html

An important new study about a vital component of the carbon sink—vegetation in the Northern Hemisphere.  “Until now, it has been known that land vegetation and oceans absorb as much as half of the CO2 emitted by human activities. This new study shows that the vegetation sink in the Northern Hemisphere has made a dominant contribution to global carbon uptake over the past 50 years. Far from being compromised by recent droughts and climate changes, this carbon sink has increased considerably over the last twenty years.”  It looks to me like this information was drawn from high quality research.  It sends a clear message that going to work on reforestation and various other land reclamation projects must quickly get moving on a massive scale, as it really does good things for the climate.
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Another recent study has the same idea but takes a different approach (Yale Climate Connections).  “Climate change experts accept that reducing greenhouse gas emissions – even doing so substantially – won’t be sufficient for limiting atmospheric warming to the 2°C (3.6°F) goal of the Paris Climate Agreement. And with carbon capture technologies years away from maturity and widespread commercialization, one option is to take advantage of proven nature-based systems for sequestering carbon.”  The study proceeds to demonstrate the tremendous potential for accomplishment, with many associated benefits.  According to the lead author, “We have a rapidly closing window to achieve a world that everyone agrees we want, and the only way to get there is to invest in natural climate solutions, on top of rapidly transitioning the energy sector…..It’s really our only hope.”   (Geoengineering is also a hope, but not nearly as dependable.)
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Serious flooding in Iran (BBC News).  This link has a couple of videos with some sensational footage of a truly extreme event.
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A message from Bill McKibben.  Bill has been an environmental activist for decades, writing many books and countless articles and giving speeches along the way.  I believe he has an unmatched perspective on every aspect of the problem of climate change.  “Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben calls climate change the most important issue facing the world today and likens the struggle against it to the Second World War.”
Carl

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