Climate Letter 1440

Climate change is driving rapid shifts between high and low water levels on the Great Lakes (The Conversation).  Two professors from the University of Michigan describe the unusual series of current events and offer several explanations.  As with almost everything else that is weather-related and written about these days, ” The bigger point is that past conditions around the Great Lakes are not a reliable basis for decision-making that will carry into the future.”

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A new study discusses the unique role of the entire food system in the effort to control climate change (Phys.org).  This subject involves the main sources of human-activated emissions that are beyond the burning of fossil fuels, and the numbers are significant.  Progress toward reduction to date has been slow, but there are many opportunities available for that to change.  Here the lead author talks about the recommendations of the study, showing clarity and good sense.
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Will the average American need to make sacrifices in helping to mitigate climate change?  A writer for The New Republic believes it will be a necessity, in large part because of letting the problem get out of hand due to inaction.  Her call is of the type that resembles full wartime mobilization, but “likely won’t require the same type of sacrifice Americans made in the 1940s.  But it will require a similar level of commitment and a shared understanding that we’re all in this fight together. If we fail in this regard—if we kick the can down the road—the struggle will only get harder.”
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A Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz, also envisions the economics of climate action in terms like those of war mobilization, but on more of a macro scale (The Guardian).  As he puts it, “The mobilization efforts of the second world war transformed our society……There is absolutely no reason the innovative and green economy of the 21st century has to follow the economic and social models of the 20th-century manufacturing economy based on fossil fuels, just as there was no reason that that economy had to follow the economic and social models of the agrarian and rural economies of earlier centuries.”
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A view from Australia describing the existential risks of climate change.  The authors of this policy paper have studied, written and lectured about the dangers of climate change for decades, in much the same manner as Bill McKibbin has done in the US.  They generally base their predictions on references taken directly from the writings of well-known climate scientists.  This paper has been publicized over the last few days by a number of prominent media outlets.
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