Climate Letter #1401

How the Middle East is suffering from climate change (World Economic Forum).  This is the region where the highest temperatures on record have been set, with an absolute peak of 54C (129.2F).  It suffers from having a hot location to begin with, plus experiencing some of the highest anomalies on Earth due to climate change.  “And without urgent action to curb global emissions…..cities in the region may become uninhabitable before 2100.”

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What climate change is doing to cities and towns on the West Coast of northern Africa (Citylab).  “More than 100 million people live in West Africa’s coastal areas…..Shorelines are receding by as much as 10 meters (33 feet) a year in some areas.”  While a city of 300,000 is in serious trouble, one village has already disappeared, lying several feet under water.
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The New Republic offers a critique of two prominent efforts to explain the catastrophic nature of climate change, both within the past year, by Nathaniel Rich and David Wallace-Wells.  The reviewer, Meehan Crist, has won numerous awards for journalism.  Her underlying theme concerns the difficulties faced by anyone hoping to communicate the real climate story to the general public, and she does so very well.  “How do you talk about an emergency when it seems as if no one is listening?…..Climate change is huge, abstract, and wickedly complex, so it resists the kind of easy narrative that might make it stick in a reader’s mind or suggest concrete policy.”
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Here comes another book devoted to the same kind of climate story, and of at least the same high level of authority, this time by Bill McKibben.  Rolling Stone has published excerpts of the book, “FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?,” due for release on April 16
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Studies show that climate change is a principal cause of the migration problem on the southern US border (Washington Monthly).  It looks like policy decisions that now seem difficult will only get harder.
Carl

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