Climate Letter #1521

An author has much to say about the damage to climate that is caused by animal agriculture (The Guardian).  Jonathan Safran Foer is a novelist who has done serious research in this subject and has just published his second non-fiction book about it.  In this post he writes his own review of why he is doing it and many of the difficulties involved in facing up to the problem.

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Sierra magazine has published a review of the new book, titled We Are the Weather, along with an interview of the author that sounds out more of his feelings about why this subject has so much importance, yet is widely ignored.
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Basic things that everyone needs to know about palm oil (Phys.org).  The source of the product is a different kind of agriculture that also does grave environmental damage and somehow needs to be controlled because of the rapid rate of expansion of demand for the oil.
–Further commentary on the same subject, but from a different and broader perspective  (EcoWatch, republished from Asparagus Magazine).
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Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene (PNAS journal).  This paper was published in August, 2018 and reviewed in these letters by Science Daily (CL #1230, Aug. 7, 2018).  Having a blue-ribbon cast of Earth-system researchers in the authorship, it may be the most important paper ever written about the potential longer-term effects of the current warming trend, and I want to be sure everyone has had a chance to read it.  Also, I have just learned that a prominent rating system, called Altmetric, which says it covered 2.8 million “research outputs” in 2018, gave this study a ranking of #4 among the “most-mentioned” scholarly articles of the year—in all sciences.
–Here is the Altmetric website, which has capsule descriptions of all the top 100 research papers of the year.  In the case of Trajectories…, “Researchers have found that without major interventions to curb emissions, global warming could be stuck in a frightening feedback loop before eventually stabilizing. Risks of disastrous climate effects rise substantially if temperatures increase above the predicted “tipping point” of 2 degrees Celsius.”
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The Mekong Delta in Vietnam is home to 18 million people who face displacement from rising sea level (BBC News).  Their plight is described in a 10-minute video:
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