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Climate Change Poses ‘Systemic Threat’ to the Economy, Big Investors Warn

“The climate crisis poses a systemic threat to financial markets and the real economy, with significant disruptive consequences on asset valuations and our nation’s economic stability,” reads the letter, which was signed by more than three dozen pension plans, fund managers and other financial institutions that together manage almost $1 trillion in assets.

That financial threat, combined with the physical risks posed by climate change, may create “disastrous impacts the likes of which we haven’t seen before,” the letter says. It urges the Fed, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies to “explicitly integrate climate change across your mandates.”

 

[hoytedow]

Systemic as a term has become overused, abused and misapplied to the point of being counterproductive to those in the business of propagandising, well, everything.

 

[hoytedow]

If you really want a silent spring, just eliminate a major food source from our avian friends.

Oxitec - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxitec

 

[A II]

If you really want a silent spring, just eliminate a major food source from our avian friends.

Oxitec - Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxitec

The bird food will find some other food, there are many more mosquito species and other insect larvae less harmful for humans left for them to eat.

I'm happy now with these new technologies they're reducing some serious human diseases like eg. — Dengue fever — Chikungunya — Yellow fever — West Nile fever — Zika fever — Saint Louis encephalitis — Japanese encephalitis — Tick-borne encephalitis — Kyasanur Forest disease — Omsk hemorrhagic fever — etc., etc...

The Dutch Caribbean island Saba is OX5034 land too, from there I've heard those at risk of various of these diseases are very happy with Oxitec Technologies to fight it.

P.S.​

From the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment

(in Dutch: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu, abbreviated to RIVM)

RIVM report 2017 - 0087:
Technical evaluation of a potential release of OX513A Aedes aegypti mosquitos on the island of Saba → PDF

 

[SamSam]

Climate Change Poses ‘Systemic Threat’ to the Economy, Big Investors Warn

“The climate crisis poses a systemic threat to financial markets and the real economy, with significant disruptive consequences on asset valuations and our nation’s economic stability,” reads the letter, which was signed by more than three dozen pension plans, fund managers and other financial institutions that together manage almost $1 trillion in assets.

That financial threat, combined with the physical risks posed by climate change, may create “disastrous impacts the likes of which we haven’t seen before,” the letter says. It urges the Fed, the Securities and Exchange Commission and other agencies to “explicitly integrate climate change across your mandates.”

Banks could then use the information from those climate-related stress tests to increase the amount of money they hold in reserve, to help them stay solvent if some of those companies defaulted.

Well, they could do that....
I guess they have to use words like poses, may, could, might etc, to coddle and mollify the RW

the objections of some Republican lawmakers to acting on climate change have had a chilling effect on regulators,

 

[SamSam]

It looks like 2 hurricanes at once could impact the Gulf States. Good luck to you all. With a runaway pandemic and incompetent officials, this little touch of AGW would be a real disaster.

 

[SamSam]

Methane clathrates: another revolution in the gas-industry in the making?
Flammable ice, as sometimes methane clathrates (or hydrates) are called, lately has become an important issue for global powers. Attaining technology making it possible to extract resource from deposits, which haven’t been up to now taken into consideration may change the face of world economy and influence the prices of LNG.

Though the estimates aren’t much reliable, it’s believed that methane hydrates contain more of gas than any other known fossil fuels put together.

Bad grammar, but who cares when they're talking money.

One of the main Chinese geological institutions made a statement that the country may have access to the amount of clathrates equivalent to 80 billion tons of oil. Commercial production has been announced to begin in 2030.
Four years ago a Japanese corporation conducted a six-day trial which ended in extracting 20 thousand m3 of gas daily. Private commercial initiatives are likely to begin in the first half of the next decade
According to OilPrice, the United States is interested in research which focuses on the Gulf of Mexico.

So there's worldwide money interest in mining methane clathrates and methane hydrates as this 2017 article outlines. They had a little bit at the end,

Extracting gas from clathrates is highly controversial because of ecological issues. It is estimated that 1m3 of hydrate provides about 163 m3 of gas. The production may release enormous amounts of methane into the atmosphere and as a result the global warming will be intensified. At the same time it won’t be possible to keep its increase below the goal of 2°C if the extraction will lead to a discharge of vast quantities of carbon dioxide, which is present in many hydrate deposits. What’s more the marine life may be in danger as hydrates are responsible for the stabilization of seafloor.

and a comment,

This methane (if it is there) “will contribute to further warming of the air over the Arctic and the North Atlantic, causing further extreme weather events, such as heatwaves and storms along the path of the Gulf Stream from the North Atlantic into the Arctic Ocean, in turn triggering further releases from hydrates at the seafloor of the Arctic Ocean and threatening to escalate into runaway global warming.

but who cares as long as capitalism/rampantmindlessconsummerism is perpetuated? Liburdy and Fraydum, right?

 

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[hoytedow]

It looks like 2 hurricanes at once could impact the Gulf States. Good luck to you all. With a runaway pandemic and incompetent officials, this little touch of AGW would be a real disaster.

It would be too bad if they hit one of those states. Fortunately the Gulf States will take the brunt of the storms before the incompetently run states feel the impact.
What AGW?

 

[hoytedow]

Capitalism pulls humanity from the muck. Socialism tries to drag it back down.

 

[ImaginaryNumber]

Climate Change Threatens to Wipe Out Valuable Mangrove Ecosystems Entirely by 2050

According to the IPCC, the sea levels are rising at an average rate of about 3.4 mm per year—in comparison, the rate of rising was about 1.8 mm per year during the 20th century. In fact, due to the rapidly warming globe, this rate is projected to increase up to 5 mm per year over the next few decades, and reach 10 mm per year by 2100!

Researchers estimate that mangroves can more or less survive as long as the sea-level rise is limited to 5 mm, i.e. about 0.2 inches per year. But this scenario is only possible if low emission is maintained. If not, and the sea levels rise by say 6 mm per year, mangroves will die out by 2050, the research warns.

The study was published in the journal Science.

 

[hoytedow]

Unbelievable. Truly unbelievable.

 

[ImaginaryNumber]

Global warming makes tropical soils leak carbon dioxide

Tropical forest soil warmed in experiments to levels consistent with end-of-century temperature projections released 55 percent more CO2 than control plots, exposing a previously underestimated source of greenhouse gas emissions.

The quantity of carbon cycling each year through soils worldwide is up to 10 times greater than human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. Just a one-percent imbalance—with more carbon going out than in—would equal about ten percent of global anthropogenic (man-made) carbon emissions.

The study adds to recently accumulating evidence that tropical forests are unlikely to continue indefinitely to be carbon sinks as the world warms.

The study was published in Nature.

 

[hoytedow]

Oh, the poomanity!
Oh, the flapdoodle!

 

[SamSam]

How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans
After exhausting areas close to home, China’s vast fishing fleet has moved into the waters of other nations, depleting fish stocks. More than seafood is at stake, as China looks to assert itself on the seas and further its geo-political ambitions, from East Asia to Latin America.

By Ian Urbina • August 17, 2020

The new revelations cast new light on the dire lack of governance of the world’s oceans and raise thorny questions about the consequences of China’s ever-expanding role at sea and how it is connected to the nation’s geopolitical aspirations.

How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-chinas-expanding-fishing-fleet-is-depleting-worlds-oceans

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