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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">1. New climate modelling for the first time captures the coupling among ice sheets, icebergs, ocean, and atmosphere. It indicates that we can avoid runaway sea level rise only if we achieve zero carbon emissions
before 2060. Heating above 1.8C would expose us to marked rises from destabilization of the polar ice sheets.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-02-global-sea-imminent-18c-planetary.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://phys.org/news/2023-02-global-sea-imminent-18c-planetary.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">2. New studies of the melting underside of the Thwaites Glacier in the West Antarctic found it to be more destabilized than supposed. It may already be in the process of adding two feet of sea level rise
this century, and of adding much more in time to come. Other regions may be undergoing similar destabilization. “This means we should be worried, very worried for the other places where the melt [rates are] high and the retreat is high. The system is very
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</span></span><a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/02/16/thwaites-glacier-melt-antarctica-sea-level-rise?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-02-16&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+16+02+2023" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.axios.com/2023/02/16/thwaites-glacier-melt-antarctica-sea-level-rise?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-02-16&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+16+02+2023</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">The two Nature articles describing the findings have been made available to the public. On the general melting near the ground line:
</span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05586-0?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-02-16&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+16+02+2023" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05586-0?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-02-16&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+16+02+2023</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 the high melt rates where the ice is sharply sloped at the ocean interface:
</span><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05691-0?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-02-16&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+16+02+2023" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05691-0?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-02-16&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+16+02+2023</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. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warns that rising seas threaten to produce climate refugees “on a biblical scale.</span>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">And we would see ever fiercer competition for fresh water, land and other resources. ”
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/14/rising-seas-threaten-mass-exodus-on-a-biblical-scale-un-chief-warns" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/14/rising-seas-threaten-mass-exodus-on-a-biblical-scale-un-chief-warns</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. A study by two independent research organizations warns that the shocks of the climate crisis threaten to create a doom loop which will prevent us from taking effective action.
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span>“This is a doom loop: the consequences of the [climate] crisis draw focus and resources from tackling its causes, leading to higher temperatures and ecological loss, which then create more severe
consequences, diverting even more attention and resources, and so on.” A perception of unfairness in climate actions can render the actions ineffective. We need to frame our actions as contributing to a desirable future, and then secure results which encourage
further action. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/16/world-risks-descending-into-a-climate-doom-loop-warn-thinktanks" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/16/world-risks-descending-into-a-climate-doom-loop-warn-thinktanks</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. A chart shows to what states the hundreds of thousands of new jobs created by the Inflation Reduction Act by 2030 are likely to go.
<a href="https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy-jobs/chart-us-climate-law-to-spur-thousands-of-new-jobs-in-every-state?utm_campaign=canary&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=246527889&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8UDopBqMQRk7b7QwitjSKb19hXdf7OIddGzmAjp1dOcea_DysG-Mg0D4CSM4jb8t0HPouNiLRxXIEeF5w68g-fsCNZHw&utm_source=newsletter" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt" class="ContentPasted0">6. Love—for others, for animals, for forests, for the planet—is a powerful driver of climate action.
<a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2023/02/the-power-of-love-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/?utm_source=Weekly+News+from+Yale+Climate+Connections&utm_campaign=1d93dd6477-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_02_16_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-1d93dd6477-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D" class="ContentPasted0">
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