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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">1. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is slowing and will slow further due to our use of coal, oil, and commercial gas. One effect of the slowdown will be to increase starvation and migration
of people from stressed areas. Our primary course to halt the slowdown of the AMOC is to halt the development and use of fossil fuels.
</span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-11-experts-ocean-currents.html" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://phys.org/news/2022-11-experts-ocean-currents.html</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">2. The earth has remained continuously habitable through volcanic throes and great changes in solar radiation. We have been lucky, but we have also benefited from the carbon-regulating effect of silicate
weathering over hundreds of thousands of years. On that scale, the earth appears to be capable of surviving the greed of oil, coal, and gas corporations, even if we humans don’t. (Things are looking up—we, the life forms of earth, may not have to wait for
the silicates. Of course, some species have already fall victim to gas and oil profits, and others are fated to. Our control of emissions is faster acting than silicate weathering but the effects of our gas lawnmowers and propane grills will still outlive
us.) <span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-temperature-millennia.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-temperature-millennia.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">3. Endangered species now include such familiars as giant pandas, orangutans, and African forest elephants, along with many others less well known. “Over 50% of the world’s species are estimated to be at
risk of extinction.” </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_species</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">On extinction risk from climate change:
</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_risk_from_climate_change" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_risk_from_climate_change</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">4. Should we cease burning fossil fuels? No COP agreement has ever said so.
</span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/getting-rid-fossil-fuels-at-a-climate-summit-is-harder-than-you-think-cop27-egypt" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/getting-rid-fossil-fuels-at-a-climate-summit-is-harder-than-you-think-cop27-egypt</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">5. The US is proposing to spend $25b on nature-based solutions to the climate crisis. “Nature-based solutions” is too vague to convey much, and is often used for corporate greenwashing.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">6. The energy transition will itself produce emissions. Reduction of energy use is the best way to mitigate the effect. Reliance on biofuels and fossil fuels with carbon capture are less efficient emissions
reduction technologies. <a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-11-low-carbon-energy-transition-result-substantial.html" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">7. California has released a proposed plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 48% this decade and achieve carbon neutrality by 2045. The plan includes mitigation of emissions from wildfires. Much work
needs to be done to flesh out the proposal with appropriate programs. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0">
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