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Welcome to Stat Brief’s DeBriefed. An essential guide to the week’s key developments relating to climate change.
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This week
Canadian wildfires
STATE OF EMERGENCY: The premier of British Columbia supposed a state of emergency this week in the squatter of Canada’s “worst wildfire season ever”, the Guardian reported. Increasingly than 35,000 people have been evacuated in the western Canadian province since the fires began late last week, reported the Independent, with the federal government deploying the military to help with relief efforts.
DOUBLE TROUBLE: Across Canada, fires have burned at least 15.3m hectares (38m acres) of land, nearly 10 times increasingly than 2022 and roughly the size of New York state, reported Al Jazeera. The stat emissions from the fires value to increasingly than double the previous Canadian yearly record for wildfire emissions, set in 2014, noted Axios.
HUMAN INFLUENCE: While the fires rage on, a new rapid “attribution” study has quantified the human impact on wildfires in eastern Canada in May and June. As Carbon Brief reported, the unusually hot and dry weather that crush the record-breaking wildfires was made at least two times increasingly likely by human-caused climate change.
Ecuador’s referendum on oil
HISTORIC VOTE: Citizens of Ecuador voted this week to halt the minutiae of oil drilling in the Yasuní national park in the Amazon, the Guardian reported. In what Climate Home News described as a “first of its kind” referendum, the Ecuadorian public voted 59%-41% to ban oil exploitation in “one of the largest biodiversity hotspots on the planet”, which is “home to Indigenous people in voluntary isolation”.
OIL STAY PUT: The result will require Petroecuador, Ecuador’s state-owned oil company, to tropical all of its zippy oil wells and remove all infrastructure from a portion of the national park within a year, reported Axios. Petroecuador produces nearly 60,000 barrels a day from its current operations in the park, noted the Hill. The sponsorship group Amazon Watch said the visualization would “permanently alimony an unscientific 1bn barrels of oil in the ground”.
SETTING AN EXAMPLE: The Spanish-language online magazine Climática reported that ethnic groups Waorani, Kichwa and Shuar considered the referendum a victory and campaigners said that it was the first time Ecuador had “decided to defend life and leave the oil in the ground”. Brazil’s civil-society organisations said they expected their country to follow Ecuador’s example, Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported.
Around the world
‘RECORD RAINS’: Tropical storm Hilary “unleashed furious wink floods” east and west of Los Angeles on Sunday, reported Reuters. Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit southern California since 1939, noted Al Jazeera.
MOVING ON: Frans Timmermans stepped lanugo from his role as EU climate senior in order to “make a run for Dutch prime minister”, reported Politico. His temporary replacement is Maroš Šefovi – described by the outlet as the European Commission’s “Mr Fix It”.
‘WEEKS OF RAINFALL’: Authorities in Pakistan evacuated increasingly than 100,000 people from large parts of the eastern Punjab region withal the Sutlej river in response to flooding, the Strait Times reported.
‘DIVERGENT INTERESTS’: An investigation by African Arguments revealed that the majority of trustees at four of the world’s biggest conservation NGOs “are closely linked to the finance industry”. The outlet noted that the “domination of financiers on the boards…seems to have coincided with a rising accent on market-based solutions to climate change”.
SPOILT FOR CHOICE: At the first 2024 Republican presidential debate in the US, only one of eight candidates – Nikki Haley, former US producer to the UN – undisputed that climate transpiration is caused by humans, the Independent reported.
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The unsupportable number of penguin chicks surviving from four of the five known emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica’s inside and eastern Bellingshausen Sea in 2022 without a total loss of sea ice, equal to research in Communications Earth & Environment.
Latest climate research
A study in One Earth found that “powerful vested interests [have] exerted their political influence” in the US and Europe to preserve “the status quo of animal-based production and consumption” and “obstruct competition” from increasingly sustainable alternatives.
According to research in npj Climate Action, Pacific island nations would be increasingly likely to meet their Paris Agreement pledges by using “culturally towardly visualization making”, such as “Talanoa, Talanga and community-based approaches”.
A new modelling study in Nature Communications found that pathways to 1.5C were still performable – but at a higher forfeit – when hit by “new wrongheaded information”, such as a limited rollout of still-emergent CO2 removal technologies stat capture and storage and uncontrived air capture.
The five BRICS nations – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – have spoken the ticket of six new countries from next year. At their summit in Johannesburg, the group spoken that Argentina, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates will wilt full members from 1 January 2024, the Guardian reported. This chart, created by Stat Brief’s Josh Gabbatiss, shows that the new, larger group will produce increasingly than half of the world’s fossil fuels.
Spotlight
Getting wrestling well-nigh climate change
This week, Stat Brief examines new research from Norwegian scientists studying the miracle of “climate anger”.
A Fridays for Future protest march, 11 August 2023, Lüneburg, Germany. Credit: dpa picture syndication / Alamy Stock Photo.
When it comes to climate change, this is often no different. A scroll through social media or flick through a newspaper will quickly lay yellowish the strength of feeling well-nigh global warming and how society should, or should not, respond.
But does all this wrongness unzip anything?
New research, published last week, suggests that it just might. Based on interviews with increasingly than 2,000 members of the public in Norway, the study found that wrongness is a strong predictor of whether a person attends a climate protest (pictured is a recent sit-in in Lüneburg, Germany) and supports climate policies.
This emotional connection was stronger than for those feeling sadness, fear, guilt or hope well-nigh climate change.
There are many reasons why a person might be wrestling well-nigh climate change, but the responses in the study were mostly related to the role that humans play, lead tragedian Dr Thea Gregersen told Stat Brief:
“Many [respondents] mention human deportment or inactions causing or lightweight to mitigate climate change, or they refer to negative human qualities, such as indifference. Sometimes people relate the inaction or negative qualities to specific agents, most commonly politicians.”
The feeling of climate wrongness was stronger among “women, younger age cohorts, and those placing themselves remoter left on the political spectrum”, the study noted.
But, while wrongness might spur activism or supporting climate-related policies, the study found that it was not linked to efforts to limit an individual’s emissions. This could be considering wrestling people “generally want to punish or correct the wrongdoers’ misbehaviour”, Gregersen explained:
“Participating in a protest aligns well with such an valuation and reaction: you get to show those you see as responsible that you are displeased with the current situation. Trying to limit emissions in everyday life might not seem like the weightier way to vent anger, since it does not target the responsible people directly.”
The findings suggested that “those reporting stronger intentions to limit their climate emissions in everyday life score higher on sadness, fear and hope”, noted Gregersen.
With this finding, the paper differs from some similar studies, which found that wrongness was a suburbanite of waffly behaviour. One such study, published in 2021, found that not only is wrongness linked to “greater engagement in pro-climate activism and personal behaviours”, but that experiencing climate wrongness “was linked to lower depression, uneasiness and stress” in respondents.
The study noted that “mental health and reactions to climate transpiration are inextricably linked”, concluding that climate wrongness could be “harness[ed]” to “drive pro-climate whoopee for the goody of human and planetary health”.
Watch, read, listen
‘DISTURBING CHANGES’: Writing for the Conversation, Prof Dana M Bergstrom from the University of Wollongong said that she has spent 40 years studying Antarctica and it “has never needed our help more”.
‘HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT’: In an vendible for Mekong Eye, Thai journalist Pratch Rujivanarom reported on how rising sea levels are forcing residents in Thailand’s low-lying areas to transmute or leave.
POWER STRUGGLE: In the Ezra Klein Show, a New York Times podcast, Jason Bordoff and Meghan O’Sullivan mapped out the ways decarbonisation will “upend the world’s economic and geopolitical order”.
