<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Core climate certainties for taping to your fridge : "...things are only going to get worse." "... if we continue to burn fossil fuels"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class=""> ********************************</font></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class="">=========================</font></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""><font size="4" class="">*********************************</font></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">This Isn’t ‘the New Normal’ for Climate Change — That Will Be Worse</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">David Wallace-Wells</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Excerpts from the concluding paragraphs</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Of course, there is also an enormous variance in weather, and we shouldn’t expect, say, that next year’s hurricane season will be necessarily as bad as this one, or worse, or that next year’s wildfire season will be as bad as this one, or worse, even as the planet continues to warm. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">But, over time, the trend lines are inarguable: Climate change will give us more devastating</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> hurricanes </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">than we have now, and more horrible </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">wildfires</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, as well as more </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">tornadoes </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">droughts </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">heat waves</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> and</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> floods.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">What that means is that we have not, at all, arrived at a new normal. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">The effects will grow and build as the planet continues to warm: </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">from one degree to one-point-five to almost certainly two degrees and beyond. The last few months of climate disasters may look like about as much as the planet can take.<b class=""> </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">But things are only going to get worse.</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><<<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/why-this-isnt-the-new-normal-for-climate-change.html" class="">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/why-this-isnt-the-new-normal-for-climate-change.html</a>>></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Michael Mann: ““A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. But<b class=""> </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">if we continue to burn fossil fuels </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">... we are going to ... get </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">worse and worse </b>droughts</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">, and</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> heat waves,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> and super</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> storms,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> and</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> floods,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> and</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> wildfires.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how" class="">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class=""> ********************************</b></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">=========================</b></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">*********************************</b></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> Now these :</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">NEWS RELEASE 2-SEP-2021</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 32, 32);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Do we need an IPCC for food?</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Excerpts</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">As the human population continues to skyrocket and the climate crisis threatens food production, global action is needed. Would an IPCC for food be part of the answer? Writing in <i class="">Science</i>’s <a href="http://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj5263" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0e73c0" class="">Policy Forum</span></a> this week, researchers discuss the potential benefits and drawbacks that such a global food panel could bring.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">While many global organizations prioritize food system transformation, including <a href="https://www.cgiar.org/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0e73c0" class="">One CGIAR</span></a> and the <a href="https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission/" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0e73c0" class="">EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Planet, Health</span></a>,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> none have the authority to bring together 196 nations like the IPCC did to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the legally binding <a href="https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0e73c0" class="">Paris Agreement</span></a> of 2016.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 10);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">But action on food is as urgent as action on climate</b>. The IPCC’s accomplishments have taken decades of drawn-out negotiations, and we don’t have this luxury for food i</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">f we are going to achieve 2030 goals.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(71, 71, 71); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> ********************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEOd-D2rzpBdukTrxswPRProqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowy5qUCzDYxqkDMLW5kQc?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">'Carbon Footprint' Was Coined by Big Oil to Blame You for Climate Change</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMMualAsw2MapAw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Interesting Engineering</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 19, 21);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">2 days ago</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> ********************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denial/" class=""><b class="">Caught in a Trap of Our Own Making: Climate Change, Blame, and Denial</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">JUNE 25, 2018 <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/author/lance-olsen/" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">La</span></a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #121212" class="">nce Olsen</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">****************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiELJAaJiAc799lex-_dACLv8qFggEKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCTDlkko?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Up to half of world’s wild tree species could be at risk of extinction</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBggKMJeqezDfswk?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">The Guardia</a>n</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">****************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">"We linked 25,000 Animalia species threat records from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List to more than 15,000 commodities </span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">…. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">we found that </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">30% of global species threats are due to international trade.</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> In many developed countries, the </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">consumption of imported</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> coffee, tea, sugar, </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">textiles, fish and ... manufactured items </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""><b class="">causes a biodiversity footprint</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""> </b>that is larger abroad than at home."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">M. Lenzen, D. Moran, K. Kanemoto, B. Foran, L. Lobefaro & A. Geschke.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">International trade drives biodiversity threats in developing nations.</b> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Nature 7 June 2012 doi:10.1038/nature11145</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">****************************************</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">"The global shipping industry is continuing to release more and more greenhouse gas emissions by the year,</span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""> according to a new study released by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT). "The findings are the result of an analysis utilizing 'state of the art' global ship operations (AIS) data, along with </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class="">detailed vessel characteristics relating to over half a million ships </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">— collectively used to estimate greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution released by shipping “at high resolution (1° x 1°) on an hourly basis for the years 2013 to 2015.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">CleanTechnica Oct 24 2017</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/24/icct-shipping-industrys-greenhouse-gas-emissions-rise/" class="">https://cleantechnica.com/2017/10/24/icct-shipping-industrys-greenhouse-gas-emissions-rise/</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">****************************************</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
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