Climate Letter #1412

Whoops—my apologies.  In some recent letters I was trying to transmit images that only last for one day at their source, and the method didn’t work, so the information has been lost.  I think I have found a better way to preserve such material, which is a necessity for explaining what the Weather Maps can tell us.  Every day there are new examples to look at so I will keep trying, but not today.  This is a good day to pass on some new stories from the web, which happen to be plentiful.

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The world’s forests are still disappearing at an alarming rate (Inside Climate News).  Figures for annual tree cover loss are now in for 2018, one of the four worst years in this century.  Losses of old-growth tropical rainforests are the most troubling, with the main spotlight on Brazil
–Experiments show that lost rainforests can recover naturally if the common practice of annual burning regimes in savanna regions is discontinued.  That’s good news, but it takes about 150 years to complete regrowth.
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A new study has found that climate change is a key factor in how much nitrogen enters the water system (Science Daily).  “What we have shown is that deteriorating lake and coastal water quality is not just about how we develop land and how much fertilizer we use on fields; it’s also about how human action at a global scale is changing rainfall and temperatures.”  The result is an increase in toxic algae blooms or low-oxygen dead zones.
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Torrential rains that result in deadly floods and mudslides are happening in many parts of the world.  This report from Reuters provides an example from South Africa that has taken almost 70 lives in an event of unprecedented severity for the location.
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George Monbiot describes the reasons why the economic system called capitalism is incompatible with the survival of life on Earth (The Guardian).  His logic is quite sound on all counts, but then he has trouble when searching for a viable alternative.  His proposal starts with: “I believe our task is to identify the best proposals from many different thinkers and shape them into a coherent alternative.”   My own belief is that most people are highly attracted to the idea of “green growth” and will cling to it for as long as they possibly can, with no alternative getting serious attention, in spite of the arguments telling about its limitations.
–Here is a link to the weakness of green growth study that Monbiot referred to:
Carl

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