‘Green News Report’ – August 24, 2021

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IN TODAY’S RADIO REPORT: Unprecedented storm in Tennessee shatters rainfall records, triggers deadly flooding; Tropical Storm Henri breaks rainfall records, cancels Barry Manilow; Montreal Protocol saved the ozone layer and bought us time on global warming; PLUS: Scientists shocked at first-ever rain at Greenland ice sheet’s summit… All that and more in today’s Green News Report!

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IN ‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (see links below): Climate change made Europe’s summer floods worse; Trump’s border wall torn apart by Arizona monsoon rains; Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness closed for due to wildfires; How water shortages are brewing wars; Army Corps will take closer look at Formosa plant’s impact on environment, minority residents in LA; Trump EPA suppressed assessment finding formaldehyde causes leukemia; Carbon from UK’s blue hydrogen bid still to equal 1m petrol cars… PLUS: Economists have quantified the economic risks of climate “tipping points.” It’s grim…. and much, MUCH more! …

STORIES DISCUSSED ON TODAY’S ‘GREEN NEWS REPORT’…

• Tennessee: Record-shattering rainfall triggers deadly floods:
• Tennessee flooding prompts Biden disaster declaration (AP)
• 22 dead, many missing after 17 inches of rain in Tennessee (AP)
• This Is The Devastation The Deadly Flooding Wrought In Tennessee (NPR)
• On Saturday, a catastrophic flash flood unfolded in Tennessee. Here’s how it happened. (Washington Post/MSN)
• Survivors recount ‘living nightmare’ as Tennessee’s deadly floodwaters swept them up in moments (Washington Post)
• EXPLAINER: How did Tennessee flooding downpour fall so fast? (AP)
• VIDEO: How climate change amplifies extreme weather like Tennessee’s deadly floods and NYC’s record rainfall (CNN)
• 88% of U.S. Deaths From Hurricanes, Tropical Storms Are From Water, Not Wind (Weather Channel)
• Tropical Storm Henri breaks rainfall records, cancels Barry Manilow:
• Cleanup begins in soggy Northeast as Henri plods back to sea (AP)
• Drivers Rescued From Flooded Cars as Henri Gives NYC Rainiest Hour in History (NBC-New York)
• 2 Months of Rain in a Day and a Half: New York City Sets Records (NY Times)
• Biden urges Americans in hurricane-prone states to get COVID-19 shots (Reuters)
• VIDEO: Joe Biden Briefing Transcript: Tropical Storm Henri and Evacuations from Afghanistan (Rev.com)
• VIDEO: Barry Manilow reacts to being interrupted mid-song at ‘We Love NYC’ due to weather (CNN)
• How a 1 degree Celsius increase to Earth’s average temperature is impacting weather (News 9-Denver)
• VIDEO: How climate change amplifies extreme weather like Tennessee’s deadly floods and NYC’s record rainfall (CNN)
• Greenland sees first-ever rain instead of snow at its summit:
• Rain Fell On The Peak Of Greenland’s Ice Sheet For The First Time In Recorded History (NPR)
• Rain falls at the summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for first time on record (Washington Post):
  The rain coincided with warmer temperatures that caused extensive melting across the ice sheet. Some areas were more than 18 degrees Celsius warmer than the average temperature. At the summit, temperatures peaked at 33 degrees Fahrenheit — within a degree above freezing.
• Scientists Blindsided by Rain at the Summit of Greenland’s Ice Cap (Mother Jones)
• Montreal Protocol saved the ozone layer and bought us time on global warming:
• Scientists reveal how landmark CFC ban gave planet fighting chance against global warming (Lancaster University):
  Without the global CFC ban we would already be facing the reality of a ‘scorched earth’, according to researchers measuring the impact of the Montreal Protocol.
• Saving ozone layer has given humans a chance in climate crisis – study (Guardian UK)
• How the world already prevented far worse warming this century (MIT Technology Review):
  The Montreal Protocol was designed to heal the ozone layer. It may have also fended off several degrees of warming—and a collapse of forests and croplands.

‘GREEN NEWS EXTRA’ (Stuff we didn’t have time for in today’s audio report)…

For a comprehensive roundup of daily environmental news you can trust, see the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Daily Headlines page

• Climate change made Europe’s summer floods worse (The Verge)
• Trump’s Border Wall Torn Apart by Arizona Monsoon Rains (Earther)
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Closed For 1 Week Due To Wildfires (CBS Local)
• How water shortages are brewing wars (BBC)
• Economists have quantified the economic risks of climate “tipping points.” It’s grim. (David Roberts, Volts)
• Army Corps will take closer look at Formosa plant’s impact on environment, minority residents in St. James (The Advocate)
• Formaldehyde Causes Leukemia: EPA Assessment Suppressed Under Trump (The Intercept)
• Carbon from UK’s blue hydrogen bid still to equal 1m petrol cars (Guardian UK)
• Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines (Inside Climate News)
• Biden Backs End To Wolf Protections But Hunting Worries Grow (AP)
• In Fire Scorched California, Town Aims To Buy At-Risk Properties (NPR)
• Denser Cities Could Be A Climate Boon – But Nimbyism Stands In The Way (Guardian UK)
• Attack of the Superweeds: Herbicides are losing the war — and agriculture might never be the same again (NY Times)
• Texas Is Letting Shell, Exxon, and Other Oil Producers Break the Rules (Earther)
• 10th Circuit Rules Kansas ‘Ag-Gag’ Law Unconstitutional (Reuters)
• Mapping a Course to Shrink the Heat Gap Between New York Neighborhoods (Inside Climate News)
• Drought-Weakened Bee Colonies Shrink U.S. Honey Crop, Threaten Almonds (Reuters)
• Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries? (BBC)
• Climate Fund Choices for Investors Are Multiplying (Bloomberg/Yahoo)
• How climate change could undo 50 years of public health gains (Grist)
• Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration (Pro Publica)
• Exxon’s Snake Oil: 100 years of deception (Columbia Journalism Review)
• What Does ’12 Years to Act on Climate Change’ (Now 9 Years) Really Mean? (Inside Climate News)
• VIDEO: A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (The Intercept)
• What genuine, no-bullshit ambition on climate change would look like: How to hit the most stringent targets, with no loopholes. (David Roberts, Vox)
• A Global Shift To Sustainability Would Save Us $26 Trillion (Vox)
• Project Drawdown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (Drawdown.org)
• An Optimist’s Guide to Solving Climate Change and Saving the World (Vice)
• The great nutrient collapse: The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention. (Politico)
• The world’s bleak climate situation, in 3 charts: We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there. (Vox)
• The Climate Risks We Face (NY Times):
  To stabilize global temperature, net carbon dioxide emissions must be reduced to zero. The window of time is rapidly closing to reduce emissions and limit warming to no more than 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit or 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels, the goal set in the Paris climate accord. The further we push the climate system beyond historical conditions, the greater the risks of potentially unforeseen and even catastrophic changes to the climate – so every reduction in emissions helps.
• The Uninhabitable Earth: When will climate change make earth too hot for humans? (New York Magazine):
  Famine, economic collapse, a sun that cooks us: What climate change could wreak – sooner than you think.
• A beginner’s guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy (Vox):
  Clean-energy enthusiasts frequently claim that we can go bigger, that it’s possible for the whole world to run on renewables – we merely lack the “political will.” So, is it true? Do we know how get to an all-renewables system? Not yet. Not really.