"Top Five 2019 Summer Arctic Calamities" Increase Geoengineering Pressure

I'm grateful to Dave Borlace's Just Have a Think for these updates. For those in the US, when he says 21 degrees Celcius "about 560 miles from the North Pole," that equals 69.8 Fahrenheit; "Anchorage [, Alaska] sweltered in 32 degrees Celcius heat" equals 89.6 Fahrenheit; and "Markusvinca [, Sweden] reported a temperature of 34.8 Celcius" equals 94.64 Fahrenheit, "the hottest ever recorded in a country above the Arctic Circle." Here is his video on the "Blue Ocean Event" he mentioned. In that video, the "50 degrees Celcius" equals 122 Fahrenheit in major food-growing regions. He says "Our current human activity puts us on a path towards 4 degrees Celcius [. . .] by 2100. [. . . .] The comfortable detachment and insulation we currently enjoy in the West will be pretty much shattered as we struggle to find enough food to feed our populations." 

In a related matter, according to Matt McGrath of BBC.com, Japan, Australia, the US, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia are not participating in "the special UN summit on climate change taking place in New York on Monday." He added, "Perhaps most worrying of all is the data on sea-level rise." He quoted UN Secretary General António Guterres, "on [a goal of] reaching carbon neutrality by 2050." As you can see in the right frame, I have readers from four of those five nations (not Saudi Arabia) so I hope they will pressure elected officials to act in time, which an October 2018 IPCC report notes is about 12 years before humanity loses control and, according to Jonathan Watts of The Guardian, failure will "significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people."

On NPR September 23, 2019 I heard part of this VICE News video Greta Thunberg Rips World Leaders at the U.N. Over Climate Change at yesterday's "special UN summit on climate change taking place in New York."

On September 20 I marched in the Climate Strike with students from San Diego's Mission Bay High School, SanDiego350, ReWild Mission Bay, and an expected million students, and four million people total, around the globe. The timing was good as the September 25, 2019, new UN climate report noted, according to Mark Phillips of cbsnews.com in Monaco, "Tipping points are being reached where some of the more severe consequences of climate change can no longer be avoided [. . . .] In the worst case scenarios as many as a billion people could be affected [. . . .] The report's authors say that we are now in a race between the speed of climate change and our ability to adapt to it, and that it's a race that we're losing."