Some Reflections on Life in the Climate Casino and on the Latest Climate Report

Posted on August 13, 2021 by paulbeckwith

Some Reflections on Life in the Climate Casino and on the Latest Climate Report // Aug 12, 2021

I am long overdue for a video, since I have been spending some time boning up on the latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) WG1 (Working Group 1) AR6 (Assessment Report 6). I am reading every word in the main report (3497 pages long) and in the Summary for Policymakers document (40+ pages), as well as thoughts from various scientists and NGO (Non-Governmental Organizations) and ENGOs (Environmental NGOs).
This takes a little bit of time, but I am game:)

I already know my overall conclusion on the report. Too little, too late. Governments around the planet are still subsidizing fossil fuel companies to the tune of trillions of dollars, which continues to destroy our planet.

We are rapidly heading to a global food shortage and then famine. Vegetation (forests, grasslands, tundra, croplands, etc…) in ever larger areas of the planet is going up in flames and smoke, but for now it is still a small percentage of the total.

In a few years, with ever higher temperatures, it is easy to imagine Canada’s and Russia’s boreal forests completely incinerating, and causing horrendous nuclear winter type scenarios.

But that is for future, detailed videos, while I finish my reading of the IPPC report in its entirety.

Here, in this video, I prefer to chat, and “shoot the breeze” on life and my latest SCUBA diving exploits including having my weight belt fall off, and surfacing from the dive in torrential rains, with a massive thunderstorm overhead and close lightning strikes, which I could actually see while I was 40 feet under the water:) Also, enjoying the near darkness and 4 degree C temperatures 24.7 meters down (82.5 feet) near the bottom of an old magnesium quarry in Quebec.

Take care, and I wish to thank everybody, from the bottom and top of my heart, that are watching my videos, and the folks that are going above and beyond by contributing to my blog PayPal at easy to use Donate button here, to help support my independent scientific research on abrupt climate system change (can be either $CAD to $USD). Take care, and stay safe in our Climate Casino so we can experience our climate unravelling together:)
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Alex Smith, is always a absolute fav! Have We Crossed a Climate Tipping Point?
Posted on August 11, 2021, by Radio Ecoshock


With record heat, drought, Biblical wildfires, and flash floods around the world – did we just pass a climate tipping point? The latest news & science from Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith, with reporting from Alex Smith. Beckwith has a couple of degrees and taught climate science at two Canadian Universities. Now he is the single biggest climate science teacher on the Net with hundreds of YouTube video explainers.

Listen to or download this Radio Ecoshock show in CD Quality (57 MB) or Lo-Fi (17 MB)

From Ottawa Canada, we welcome Paul Beckwith back to Radio Ecoshock. There is so much catastrophic news in so many countries it is hard to know where to start. And all that comes to a drumbeat of more urgent predictions from the biggest climate science institutions. Let’s start with this: THE WORLD WATER CYCLE HAS GONE HAYWIRE (continues below. cf link,)

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Paul Beckwith Abrupt Climate System Change Mayhem

Posted on July 29, 2021 by paulbeckwith

Paul Beckwith Abrupt Climate System Change Mayhem // Jul 28, 2021

Canadian Association for the Club of Rome

Summary:
Temperatures in Lytton, BC set new consecutive records recently on a Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and then on Thursday wildfires burned the town to the ground. Torrential rains leading to swollen rivers and flooding just devastated many towns in Europe. Weather extremes are wreaking havoc around the planet. No place is spared. Why?

Two Basic Facts:
1) For each 1 degree C rise in temperature, the air can hold 7% more water vapour. This results in the supercharging of storm intensities.

2) The Jet Streams which guide weather patterns are slowing as the Arctic warms, making them wavier in the North-South direction. This increases the intensity, duration, and frequency of extreme weather events around the planet. It also causes them to occur where they never did before.

What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. It’s not like Las Vegas. Polar changes have rewired the behaviour of the jet streams.

Weather wilding, weirding, and whiplashing is wreaking havoc on our society and imperiling our ability to grow food.

It won’t end well; it is getting uglier and uglier at an accelerated pace.
What can we do??

Who is he?
Paul Beckwith, a well-known climate system scientist/physicist/engineer and educator, recently returned from his latest road trip to create a series of videos pertaining to the climate and biodiversity crises. Paul went from Ottawa, Ontario, to Alberta. In addition, he took a carbon dioxide monitor with him to measure CO2 levels in enclosed spaces.

Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Paul is a respected creator of entertaining and comprehensible videos, usually pertaining to climate system science, abrupt climate change, meteorology, oceanography and Earth Sciences. He occasionally teaches at the University of Ottawa in the Laboratory for Paleoclimatology, and has also taught at Carleton University.

He is often asked by concerned citizens and government officials to speak at conferences and events. In addition to participating in numerous panel discussions, Paul has often been interviewed on various radio and podcast programs, and has participated as a guest and panelist at three United Nations Conference of the Parties Climate Conferences, including COP25 in Madrid, Spain, in December 2019.

In addition to his own YouTube channel , he is a panelist on the Climate Emergency Forum and is a member of the Facing Future team.

Paul has been committed to raising public awareness about the climate crisis for over twenty years. Prior to the Kyoto Protocol, he collected petition signatures, which he presented to a Canadian representative, Elizabeth May. Paul has been actively involved in local climate events since the Kyoto Protocol.
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Abrupt Climate System Change Mayhem

Posted on July 24, 2021 by paulbeckwith

Extreme Weather Patterns // July 20, 2021?? (dk)

CTV Video, about 4 minutes long.

Me, live on CTV News, connecting heat domes and wildfires out west to torrential rains and flooding in Europe, via high crests and deep valleys of the slow jet stream wave winds; all part of abrupt climate system change mayhem.


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Abrupt Climate System Change Mayhem: Part 1 of 2 // Jul 18, 2021

Temperatures in Lytton, BC set new consecutive records recently on a Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and then on Thursday wildfires burned the town to the ground. Torrential rains leading to swollen rivers and flooding just devastated many towns in Europe. Weather extremes are wreaking havoc around the planet. No place is spared. Why?

Two Basic Facts:
1) For each 1 degree C rise in temperature, the air can hold 7% more water vapour. This results in the supercharging of storm intensities.

(cf Ref below,Clausius-Clapyron equation)

2) The Jet Streams which guide weather patterns are slowing as the Arctic warms, making them wavier in the North-South direction. This increases the intensity, duration, and frequency of extreme weather events around the planet. It also causes them to occur where they never did before.

What happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. It’s not like Las Vegas. Polar changes have rewired the behaviour of the jet streams.

Weather wilding, weirding, and whiplashing is wreaking havoc on our society and imperilling our ability to grow food.

It won’t end well; it is getting uglier and uglier at an accelerated pace.

What can we do??

Please donate here, to support my research and videos.

Ref: Clausius-Clapyron equation. Wki: The Clausius–Clapeyron relation, named after Rudolf Clausius and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, is a way of characterizing a discontinuous phase transition between two phases of matter of a single constituent.
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Second Video, Part Two of Two:

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Wowie:

https://twitter.com/A_W_Gordon/status/1418567383732588551?s=20
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A Farewell to my Friend: Climate Warrior Stuart Scott

Posted on July 19, 2021 by paulbeckwith

A Farewell to my Friend: Climate Warrior Stuart Scott // Jul 19, 2021

A Farewell to my Friend:
Climate Warrior Stuart Scott
Died: Thursday July 15th, 2021

My friend Stuart Scott will be sorely missed. Although his physical manifestation is gone, there are many many things that remain with us. His indomitable spirit, work ethic, caring heart, hope for humanity, fight, and resilience remain.

In the summer of 2014, I got an email out of the blue from Stuart. He had seen some of my work, and he invited me to attend the fall 2014 climate conference COP20 (20th version of the Climate of the Parties) in Lima, Peru. He offered to cover my travel expenses with Air Miles. After doing my due diligence and determining that Stuart was not a serial killer, I gladly accepted his gracious offer. Off I went to Peru, to a most memorable UN climate conference where I presented with Stuart on the perils of abrupt climate change in many press conference side events. I remembering Stuart telling me to run a comb through my dishevelled mop, wear a nice suit, and straighten my tie.

I’ll never forgive Stuart for convincing me to wander around the conference each day for an hour or two wearing a polar bear suit. It was extremely hot and humid in Lima, and needless to say it was torture inside the bear. Our lodgings was a Nun’s Convent, enclosed in a compound with very high walls, in a sketchy part of town. On more than a few evenings, after a night of refreshments in the local watering holes, I would return late and have to convince the guard to let me cross the gate, sometimes necessitating the waking up of Stuart; annoying him to no end.

Next conference for me and Stuart’s team was COP21 in Paris in 2015. Somehow Stuart had convinced James Hansen to attend, and we all had some great presentations on abrupt climate change risks and consequences.

I skipped a few COPs, but not Stuart. He went almost every year, and many UN people organizing the conferences knew Stuart on a first name, friendship level.

Then came the 2019 COP in Madrid Spain, hastily assembled in one month since Santiago, Chile was cancelled as a venue due to civil unrest. I got an email, out of the blue, offering me lodging, so again, after my detailed due diligence to ensure it wasn’t a Dexter 2.0 situation, I gladly accepted Alfonso’s gracious offer.

Once again, I had the pleasure of working with Stuart and his teams at the COP to inform the world in almost daily press conferences on the perils of climate mayhem.

I was extremely sick the weekend before the conference (early Covid?), and missed the first day. I remember getting to the conference early the second day, sitting at a sofa just inside the entrance, and hearing a loud commotion. A woman with a camera ran by me, and then a man with a camera literally leaped over me on the sofa, to get close to a group of teens sitting in a circle. I looked around, and there was Greta Thunberg joining the circle. This was the first rock star that I have ever met; hordes of reporters and paparazzi followed her every movement and word she spoke at the conference.

It was Stuart who first got Greta and her dad to a COP climate conference years earlier in Katowice, Poland; the world can thank him for that.

Stuart could never understand how my blog and video channel could get so successful; using raw unedited videos done invariably with one take, and having no polishing. I told him it was the cat, which annoyed him even more.

Stuart always had to balance many of his projects on the go, but when I introduced him to the group Scientist’s Warning, he took it to heart to greatly expand their breadth and depth of social media outreach. Never one to rest on his laurels, Stuart then went on to start Facing Future. I remember on one group Zoom call when I was walking outside, he got annoyed with me saying it was very unprofessional. A few months later, being inside for the Zoom call, my coworker Shackleton the Explorer (black cat) jumped into the call, again annoying Stuart:)

From one fellow Climate Warrior to another, thank you Stuart. Your rich and deep climate fight legacy and work will continue to be a long term inspiration to us all.

Paul Beckwith
Monday July 19, 2021
Ottawa


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A Community of People Most Likely to Survive Abrupt Climate Change: The Amish and Mennonites

Posted on July 14, 2021 by paulbeckwith

A Community of People Most Likely to Survive Abrupt Climate Change: The Amish and Mennonites // Jul 14, 2021

In Northern Ontario, while on the road towards home in Ottawa, I passed a horse pulled carriage. I pulled off the road a few miles later, and decided to film a video.

Many many years ago, Amish people came from Europe to Canada and built up settlements in various locations, including in northern Ontario.

Some of the Amish , known as progressives, built community structures and became known as Mennonites, while others avoided doing this, and stayed as older school Amish. This is likely a gross oversimplification on my part; here is more information:

There is actually a University of Waterloo course you can take titled “Who are Mennonites”.

In any case, I think the Amish and Mennonites have a lot in common. In general, they live very close to the land, in tune with nature. They live without electricity and plumbing in their houses, and shun “modern lifestyles” and consumerism. Thus, I think that they are a very resilient people, who as a group would likely fare very well in a world where society essentially collapsed due to abrupt climate system change.
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Another video:

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Calgary’s Saddledome Stadium: Ground Zero for Epic Flooding from Climate Driven Extreme Weather

Posted on July 9, 2021 by paulbeckwith

Calgary’s Saddledome Stadium: Ground Zero for Epic Flooding from Climate Driven Extreme Weather // Jul 7, 2021

I am in downtown Calgary, Alberta next to the famous Saddledome stadium. I’m glad my visit was not a week later, since the Calgary Stampede was due to start the following week at the stadium.

The Bow River meanders through the region, and during the 2013 rain on snow deluge in the Rocky Mountains the water overflowed all the rivers, and the water in Canmore made its way downhill to Calgary and flooded the downtown region.

The original bridge over the Bow River was wiped out by the flood, and the replacement bridge has been designed to withstand any water level in the river; this design claim will likely be tested in the near future.

The entire region around the Saddledome was flooded, and water filled the stadium up to about row ten or so.

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Two week road trip to Canada’s tornado alley, to document extreme storms, old disaster spots: Calgary flooding, Wildfires, Grassy Narrows mercury, Elliot Lake uranium, clear cut forests… etc.

Ref: Tornado Alley, here: ‘Tornado Alley is a loosely defined area of the central United States where tornadoes are most frequent. The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska. Tornado climatologists distinguish peaks in activity in certain areas and storm chasers have long recognized the Great Plains tornado belt.‘
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Downtown Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Tunnels Built by Chinese Workers Reveal Dark Tales of Canada’s Past

Posted on July 3, 2021 by paulbeckwith

Downtown Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Tunnels Built by Chinese Workers Reveal Dark Tales of Canada’s Past // Jul 2, 2021

In Moose Jaw Saskatchewan there is an underground maze of tunnels under the city in the downtown core. For longer than 75 years, city officials denied their existence, in one of the most bizarre stories in this wild frontier town in Canada’s west. Part of the tunnel network has been restored, and is open to visitors, but not during COVID.

Work on these so-called “Tunnels of Little Chicago” started in 1908 after several Chinese rail workers were savagely beaten at the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) rail yards by whites who thought the Chinese were taking their jobs. Western Canada was in hysteria over the so-called “yellow peril”, and Ottawa feds imposed the infamous “head tax” on Chinese would be immigrants. The Chinese, terrified, and unable to pay the head tax literally went underground, digging secrete tunnels under the downtown city core to hide, live with their woman, and raise kids in the rat infested darkness. Access to the secret tunnels was via basements of buildings owned by legal Chinese immigrants. The underground residents worked in above ground laundries and restaurants and were paid in food and supplies.

In the 1920s, during prohibition, Moose Jaw became a bootlegging hub, and a gangsters resort, with regular visits from the Chicago mob including Al Capone. The entire police force was in cahoots with the mob and the Chinese, using the tunnels for gambling, prostitution, and for storing illegal booze. One tunnel under the CPR station allowed for loading and unloading of contraband.

In the late 1970s part of Main St. collapsed into a tunnel from the weight of a car, which ended up down the hole. The jig was up; the City could no longer deny the existence of the tunnels!!

Bizarre story; you cannot make this stuff up!!!
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GoFundMe Campaign: Cross Canada Climate Reports with Paul

Paul will be travelling with Lazar, a doctoral student in the Department of Geography at the University of Ottawa. Lazar is studying urban geography and gentrification and, like Paul, is an avid chess player. I’m sure they’ll be bringing a chess board with them! They’ll be travelling from Eastern Ontario to Alberta in Western Canada.

Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Paul is a respected creator of entertaining and comprehensible videos, usually pertaining to climate system science, abrupt climate change, meteorology, oceanography and Earth Sciences. He occasionally teaches at the University of Ottawa in the Laboratory for Paleoclimatology, and has also taught at Carleton University. He is often asked by concerned citizens and government officials to speak at conferences and events. In addition to participating in numerous panel discussions, Paul has often been interviewed on various radio and podcast programs, and has participated as a guest and panelist at three United Nations Conference of the Parties Climate Conferences, including COP25 in Madrid, Spain, in December 2019′.


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Cross Country Climate Reports with Paul: Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta

Posted on June 28, 2021 by paulbeckwith

Cross Country Climate Reports with Paul: Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta // Jun 25, 2021

Two week road trip to Canada’s tornado alley, to document extreme storms, old disaster spots: Calgary flooding, Fort Mac Wildfires and crap, Grassy Narrows mercury, Elliot Lake uranium, clear cut forests… please support my efforts…

If you have been following my videos on a fairly regular basis, you will likely recall my interesting venues in a northern Ontario clear cut forest, a uranium mining town (Elliot Lake) and next to the super-stack in nickel mining town Sudbury Ontario. That trip was to take my son Neil and his friend Olivier to tree plant near Kenora on the Ontario-Manitoba border.

Neil has decided he doesn’t want to walk home, so being the good dad that I am I will pick him up July 6th, on the way home. First, I will drive from Ottawa to Winnipeg, then Regina, and then Calgary.

I will document my trip via videos each day, and a biweekly blog, as I visit sites like Grassy Narrows, ON (huge mercury spill), Winnipeg (flooding water diversion project), and Residential School sites (like the one just E of Regina where the unmarked graves of 751 First Nations children were just identified by ground penetrating radar). In Calgary, I will examine the Saddledome part of downtown which was flooded out a few years ago from a rain on snow event near Banff in the Rocky Mountains.

I hope to track extreme weather events such as mesocyclone complex thunderstorms on the Great Plains (Canada’s Tornado Alley). Radar apps on my iPhone show me the best places to be at any given time; one just follows the red dots on the map showing where storm chaser zealots are in real-time:)

If there is a lack of storms, I will head northward to the Athabaska Tar Sand sites near Fort McMurray and see the tailings ponds and see rebuilding efforts from the wildfire damaged part of time. I expect to also see some wildfires out west, since the region has been extremely dry lately.

Just last week I acquired a portable CO2 detector (range 0-5000ppm) which also detects radon gas, and on my trip I will take a variety of measurements over time inside the car (windows up and then down), in cities, deep in forests, in the tar sands, etc. just for laughs.

I am also hoping to visit some friends in Winnipeg and Regina, and maybe even get in a poker game if any of the casinos are open. After all, we are living in the climate casino ourselves.
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Deep Connections: From Building Collapse in Florida to Arctic Coastal Erosion: Sea Level Rise // Jun 28, 2021

Two week road trip to Canada’s tornado alley, to document extreme storms, old disaster spots: Calgary flooding, Fort Mac Wildfires and crap, Grassy Narrows mercury, Elliot Lake uranium, clear cut forests… please support my travel…

You are probably already well aware of the catastrophic collapse of an apartment block in Miami Florida. Rising sea level has exacerbated coastal erosion and weakening of the limestone base in Florida. King tides flood the coastal streets and undermine the building foundations in Miami on a regular basis. Salt water has percolated through the limestone, dissolving the rock and creating a Swiss-cheese like morphology. The building that collapsed was found to be subsiding at a rate of 2 mm per year between the years 1993 and 1999 as reported on by an engineering assessment, and there is little chance that that sinking was not ongoing at the same rate or even faster in the last two decades. It is probable that the ocean facing side of the building subsided the fastest, since that face of the building appeared to shear away and crumple, causing the loss of many lives.

Coastal erosion is also accelerating in the Arctic, with rising sea levels, oceans devoid of coastal sea ice resulting in much larger waves, and thawing coastal permafrost causing shoreline collapses of material into the sea.

It is all connected. Florida, especially coastal cities and buildings, are all in grave danger of further catastrophes.
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On the Deployment of Ocean Spraying Vessels to Brighten Marine Clouds to Cool the Planet

Posted on June 24, 2021 by paulbeckwith

On the Deployment of Ocean Spraying Vessels to Brighten Marine Clouds to Cool the Planet // June 23, 2021

I was recently in a great video discussion with Peter Wadhams and Stephen Salter, hosted by Metta Spencer, to hash out the cloud brightening technique as conceptualized by Emeritus Professor Stephen Salter in the Engineering and Design Department at the University of Edinburgh over the last couple of decades.

Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) has the potential to cool the planet in a highly controllable fashion. Essentially, sea water is pumped to high pressure through nozzles where it generates water jets that then break apart (via Rayleigh instability) to form tiny water droplets. The nozzle size, number of nozzles, water pressure, etc… are engineered to produce water droplets of 800 nm size (0.8 micron) so that when the water evaporates we are left with 200 nm salt crystals. These salt crystals are then transported within the turbulent boundary layer above the surface of the ocean up to heights about 1 km to 1.5 km where they act as cloud condensation nuclei, ensuring that the clouds that do form are of extremely high albedo (reflectivity) and thus can reflect enough incoming sunlight to cool the surface of the Earth.

The spray nozzles are transported around the oceans of the planet by hydrofoil ships powered by the wind using so-called Flettner Rotors. The ships are sailed to specific areas of the ocean at specific times of the year to brighten the clouds in specific regions to get the desired regional cooling, for example to reduce Atlantic Basin hurricane strength, protect coral reefs, cool the Arctic enough to restore Arctic Sea Ice, and!or modify monsoons or redistribute rainfall to reduce droughts or torrential rainfalls.

This technology has enormous potential to cool the planet enough to buy us time to slash fossil fuel emissions and deploy carbon removal technologies.

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