[GWSG] Active investors; oil demand; snot palaces; WAIS instability; Arctic climate; Trump's analysis; US changes; people to move; globally

[Tilley, Al]

1.  Climate Action 100+, representing over 518 institutional investing organizations globally and managing over $47tn in assets, “has demanded the world’s biggest corporate polluters back strategies to reach net-zero emissions and promised to hold them to public account.”   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/14/investors-worth-us47tn-demand-worlds-biggest-polluters-back-plan-for-net-zero-emissions

2. BP’s annual report judges that oil may have passed its peak demand. The central scenario of three in the report shows oil demand decreasing by 55% over the next 20 years as it is replaced by renewable energy. Part of the picture is a forecast that the market for single-use plastics will decrease.  https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/sep/14/global-oil-demand-may-have-passed-peak-says-bp-energy-report

3. Larvaceans are tiny sea creatures which build mucus palaces, filtering a great deal of water as they build and trapping a great deal of carbonaceous debris. When they let the palaces sink to the ocean floor these sequester the carbon in significant amounts, as larvaceans are common in the world’s waters. https://climatecrocks.com/2020/09/14/cbs-mucus-palaces-sequester-carbon/

4. In 2017 Pine Island and Thwaites Glaciers in the West Antarctic were found to be unstable. They are now slipping the remaining restraints and moving to support serious sea level rise. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/antarctica-s-thwaites-and-pine-island-glaciers-are-weakening-at-worrying-levels/ar-BB1938E5

5. The Arctic is in transition to a new climate state, with a new set of weather patterns. “The rate of change is remarkable.” https://phys.org/news/2020-09-arctic-transitioning-climate-state.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
The Arctic’s new climate is characterized by open water and rain instead of ice and snow. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/global-warming-shifts-arctic-climate-from-ice-and-snow-to-water-and-rain/ar-BB191mUN?ocid=msedgdhp
The change will have great impact on the climate generally, especially in the Northern Hemisphere. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/14/northern-hemisphere-record-hottest-summer-noaa?utm_campaign=Carbon%20Brief%20Daily%20Briefing&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter

6.  Our President assures us that “It’ll start getting cooler.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/14/president-who-says-coronavirus-will-go-away-makes-same-prediction-about-global-warming/

7. ProPublica has put together an interactive map of changing conditions expected in the US for the remainder of the century. (Not much is getting cooler.) Thanks to Ed Brock for the link. https://projects.propublica.org/climate-migration/

8. We are on the verge of dealing with a great movement of our population away from newly threatened areas. Thanks again to Ed Brock for this follow-up to the previous material. We need to begin planning for sustainable communities in great numbers in the right places. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/climate-crisis-migration-america.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

9. Mass migrations are coming globally. https://climatenewsnetwork.net/mass-migration-set-to-increase-as-world-warms/

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