[TheClimate.Vote] December 20, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Wed Dec 20 10:45:02 EST 2017
/December 20, 2017/
[NYRenews video Dec 19]
*NY State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman
<https://www.facebook.com/NYRenews/videos/2113746328912638/>*
/[political positioning - almost a stump speech on global warming actions] /
"I'm hungry for the next special election"
"Doug Jones ran on the strongest climate science"
"New Yorkers, ever since Sandy, get climate science.. droughts,
wildfires, ... this is happening now and people are asking for action."
"There are no more generations beyond us and the solution"
"Progressive Federalism gives power to the states... NYState takes the
aggressive action, ... three ways to show leadership Fill in, Fight
Back and Show now to move forward."
https://www.facebook.com/NYRenews/videos/2113746328912638/ speaks at
38:38 and Q and A at 57:00
[Divestment watch]
*Cuomo Urges New York Pension Fund to End Fossil-Fuel Investments
<https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-19/cuomo-urges-new-york-pension-fund-to-end-fossil-fuel-investments>*
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday called on the $201.3 billion
New York State Common Retirement Fund to stop all significant
fossil-fuel investments and develop a plan to "de-carbonize" the portfolio.
"Moving the Common Fund away from fossil-fuel investments will protect
the retirement savings of New Yorkers," Cuomo said in a statement. He
cited recent moves by the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund to divest
fossil fuels and the World Bank's announcement that it will stop
financing oil and gas exploration within two years.
The state's pension fund - the third-largest in the U.S. - had holdings
of at least 50 oil and gas companies that have been identified as some
of the most carbon-intensive operations in the world, the governor's
office said.
New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said that the fund has "no
immediate plans to divest our energy holdings" but would work with the
governor on ways it can contribute to the low-carbon economy...
http://www.pionline.com/article/20171219/ONLINE/171219793/new-york-governor-calls-on-common-retirement-fund-to-move-away-from-fossil-fuel-investments
https://twitter.com/nygovcuomo/status/943282600180936705
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-19/cuomo-urges-new-york-pension-fund-to-end-fossil-fuel-investments
[carbon trading markets]
*China unveils market-based plan to curb global warming
<https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/12/19/china-unveils-market-based-plan-curb-global-warming/964050001/>*
China previewed a scaled-down version of its national carbon emissions
plan Tuesday that still is expected to dramatically reduce pollution
while creating the world's largest emissions trading system.
More than 1,700 power companies are expected to "trade" 3.5 billion tons
of carbon dioxide annually through a Shanghai-based marketplace, China's
National Development and Reform Commission said. The "cap-and-trade
rule" will allow polluters to buy "credits" from lesser polluters. The
bigger polluters can save money by curbing emissions while the lesser
polluters can make money by doing the same.
The plan drew high praise from the Washington-based Environmental
Defense Fund, which said it has been working with Chinese authorities
for more than two decades on plans for curbing pollution.
"China has stepped up its climate leadership dramatically in recent
years and is now increasingly seen as filling the leadership void left
by the U.S."...
Krupp said he expects China to phase in additional industries, *and by
2020 the plan could involve 5.5 tons of carbon dioxide annually.
*/(typo? probably should read 5.5 Billion)/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/12/19/china-unveils-market-based-plan-curb-global-warming/964050001/
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[How much CO2 goes into the air every year? *38 Billion tons. *]
*Carbon dioxide emissions rise to 2.4 million pounds per second
<https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-dioxide-emissions-rise-to-24-million-pounds-per-second/>*
Last year, all the world's nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion
tons of carbon dioxide into the air from the burning of fossil fuels
such as coal and oil, according to new international calculations on
global emissions published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Dec 2, 2012
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carbon-dioxide-emissions-rise-to-24-million-pounds-per-second/
[RollingStone]
*California's Climate Emergency
<https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/southern-california-wildfires-climate-change-emergency-w513659>*
Eric Holthause
Fires continue to burn Southern California, and climate scientists have
warned us for years that the region was entering a year-round fire regime
In the hills above the Pacific Ocean, the world crossed a terrifying
tipping point this week.
As holiday music plays on the radio, temperatures in Southern California
have soared into the 80s, and bone-dry winds have fanned a summer-like
wildfire outbreak. Southern California is under siege...
For years, climate scientists have warned us that California was
entering a year-round fire regime. For years, climate campaigners have
been wondering what it would take to get people to wake up to the
urgency of cutting fossil fuel emissions. For years, we've been
tip-toeing as a civilization towards a point of no return...
The sirens are wailing, the long-feared scenarios are coming true. The
era that scientists have warned us about for decades is here. There's no
denying the facts anymore: What's happening right now in California is a
climate emergency.
A baby alive today has a good chance of living to the year 2100. The
people of the future are real people, you can already meet them. Their
climate futures are increasingly tangible. That climate change is now a
California emergency doesn't necessarily fate the region to
uninhabitability, it provides an opportunity for a radical rethink. If
we bungle this opportunity, all indications are that things can
definitely get a lot worse.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/southern-california-wildfires-climate-change-emergency-w513659
[Betting on the Future]
*A 12-Year-Old Bet on Global Warming Is About to Pay Out*
<https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/19/12-year-old-bet-global-warming-about-pay-out>
By Graham Readfearn
A climate change modeler who bet two Russian solar physicists $10,000
that the world would get warmer appears to have easily won the 2005
wager with less than two weeks to go.
British scientist James Annan says he is "confident" that he has won his
bet with the Russian pair Galina Mashnich and Vladimir Bashkirtsev.
Agreed 12 years ago, Annan bet the Russians that the six years between
2012 and 2017 would be warmer than the six years between 1998 and 2003.
Both sides of the bet agreed to use temperature data from the U.S.
National Climatic Data Center
<https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global/globe/land_ocean/ytd/12/1880-2016>,
which has since been renamed the National Centers for Environmental
Information.
Annan was sure that human emissions of carbon dioxide, mainly from
fossil fuel burning, would see temperatures climb.
The two Russian scientists looked at forecasts of a drop in the amount
of energy coming from the sun, and put their money on this keeping
temperatures down.
Annan told the Guardian:
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2017/dec/19/checkmate-how-do-climate-science-deniers-predictions-stack-up>"Yes,
I am confident of winning the bet, even the threatened eruption of Agung
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/26/balis-mount-agung-jetstar-flights-resume-after-volcanos-second-eruption>
[a volcano in Bali] couldn't matter … even if it had happened earlier
this year.
"With only a few weeks to go, there is no chance of sufficient cooling
for me to lose."
Annan last looked in detail at the progress of the bet in 2015
<https://julesandjames.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/temperature-bet-update.html>,
and even then he appeared to be well in front...
In 2016, climate science denial activist Marc Morano turned down two
$10,000 bets offered by science communicator and TV presenter Bill Nye.
In 2015, a study published in a journal of Britain's Royal Society found
that any bets against global warming placed on any 15-year period from
1970 onwards would have lost.
An email to Galina Mashnich went unanswered. DeSmog was unable to find
correct contact information for Vladimir Bashkirtse
https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/12/19/12-year-old-bet-global-warming-about-pay-out
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*Checkmate: how do climate science deniers' predictions stack up?
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2017/dec/19/checkmate-how-do-climate-science-deniers-predictions-stack-up>*
Graham Readfearn
The years 2017, 2016 and 2015 will make up the three hottest years on
record for the planet... 2017 will likely be ranked either side of 2015
as the second or third hottest year on record
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/06/2017-set-to-be-one-of-top-three-hottest-years-on-record>,
with 2016 still in top spot...
*The $10,000 bet*
In 2005, two Russian solar physicists, Galina Mashnich and Vladimir
Bashkirtsev, accepted a $10,000 bet with the British climate modeller
James Annan
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/aug/19/climatechange.climatechangeenvironment>
that will be concluded in a couple of weeks...
He bet the two Russians $10,000 that the six years between 2012 and 2017
would be warmer than the six years between 1998 and 2003.
Temperature data
<https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global/globe/land_ocean/ytd/12/1880-2016>from
the US National Climatic Data Centre - since renamed the National
Centres for Environmental Information - would be used.
So far, only two years between 1998 and 2003 rank in the top 10 warmest
years, compared with at least five years between 2012 and 2017.
*El Nino enough?*
In 2011, a group of Australian and New Zealand "sceptics" predicted that
temperatures were about to plummet. The year 2011, they said, would
likely be "the coolest year globally since 1956 or even earlier".
Largely ignoring the role of increasing levels of greenhouse gases, the
group, led by Australian John McLean, thought instead that the cycle of
warming El Nino and cooling La Nina weather patterns would be enough to
explain what would happen that year. This natural cycle had entered its
cooler phase in late 2010...
According to data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration <https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201113>, 2011 tied
as the 11th warmest year on record. At the time, 2011 ranked as the
warmest La Niña year on record.
*What about Newsweek?*
Advertisement
In April 1975, Newsweek magazine ran a story highlighting how some
scientists thought the world was heading for global cooling.
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2016/nov/08/tough-choices-for-the-media-when-climate-science-deniers-are-elected>
Climate science deniers love to cite that Newsweek story to claim there
was a consensus among scientists in the 1970s that the world was heading
for global cooling. They cited it so often, it became Newsweek's most
popular ever.
The dodgy logic goes like this. Because scientists were wrong then about
future temperatures, they might be wrong now about projections of
further warming...
The real story is this. Some scientific studies in the 1970s did suggest
the world was going to cool. But even back then, analysis has shown
<http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/2008BAMS2370.1> that for
every study predicting cooling there were six studies predicting warming.
*Plimer minus £1,000*
In 2008, Prof Ian Plimer, an Australian geologist and mining industry
figure, accepted a bet from a British climate policy expert and economic
modeller, Dr Chris Hope.
Hope had been at a conference in Cambridge where, he later wrote, "most
of the participants were sceptical about the influence of humans on the
climate".
Hope took the microphone and offered a £1,000 bet that 2015 would be
hotter than 2008. Plimer, who thinks climate change is all natural and
nothing to do with humans, accepted the bet.
Oops. According to the UK's MetOffice, 2015 turned out to be the hottest
year on record. In fact, every year from 2009 to 2015 was hotter than
2008...
*Archibald prize?*
In 2006 and 2007, the Perth-based geologist David Archibald made several
predictions about the coming years and decades. It was going to be cool,
cool, cool.
"The sun drives climate change and it will be colder next decade by 2C,"
wrote Archibald...
What happened? When Archibald made his "prediction", 1998 was the
hottest year on record and he thought it would stay that way until at
least 2030.
Now, 1998 has dropped all the way down to eighth warmest, according to
the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA). <https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201613>
Archibald last made headlines in early 2017, when the geologist was
running for the far-right One Nation party in Australia's federal
election, and called single mothers "ugly" and "lazy"
<https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/01/albanese-hits-out-at-one-nation-candidate-who-called-single-mothers-ugly-and-lazy>.
*Cooling any minute*
Don Easterbrook is a geology professor at Western Washington University
who has been making predictions of imminent global cooling for the best
part of two decades...
In 2008 he wrote that his "predicted cooling seems to have already begun".
That year he also wrote: "In a nutshell, in 2001 I put my reputation on
the line and published my predictions for entering a global cooling
cycle about 2007 (plus or minus three to five years), based on past
glacial, ice core, and other data ... If the present cooling trend
continues, the [United Nations climate change] reports will have been
the biggest farce in the history of science."
*Rapid cooling*
Kevin Long is an Australian mechanical engineer and one of those
"long-range" weather forecasters who pull together things like moon
cycles and sun spot activity to make predictions.
In January 2014, Long declared
<http://www.thelongview.com.au/documents/RAPID-GLOBAL-COOLING-FORECAST-IN-2017-Kevin-Long.pdf?COLLCC=550309295&>
the world was heading for "the most rapid global cooling trend for two
centuries" and that during 2016 this event "should become very obvious
to all"....
Fellow Guardian environmental blogger Dana Nuccitelli wrote a whole book
about the predictive qualities of this failed army of "sceptics", called
Climatology versus Pseudoscience: Exposing the Failed Predictions of
Global Warming Skeptics...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/planet-oz/2017/dec/19/checkmate-how-do-climate-science-deniers-predictions-stack-up
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[Book Review]
*Climatology versus Pseudoscience book tests whose predictions have been
right
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/feb/23/climatology-versus-pseudoscience-new-book-checks-whose-predictions-have-been-right>*
... investigates climate prediction accuracy to determine who's credible
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2015/feb/23/climatology-versus-pseudoscience-new-book-checks-whose-predictions-have-been-right
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[Mother Jones 2016]
*Every Insane Thing Donald Trump Has Said About Global Warming
<http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/12/trump-climate-timeline/>*
Well, most of them, anyway!
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/12/trump-climate-timeline/
AGU lecture video segment
*Why we fund science - how academic science works
<https://youtu.be/44goD1w4TDo?t=19m10s>*
Sadredin C Moosavi, Geological Society of America, Education,
Communication & Outreach
https://youtu.be/44goD1w4TDo?t=19m10s
[OpenDemocracyUK]
Why there's a moral duty to sue our government over climate change
<https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/tim-crosland/why-there-s-moral-duty-to-sue-our-government-over-climate-change>
TIM CROSLAND 19 December 2017
The UK government is leading us to climate tragedy, by failing to align
its climate change targets with science and international law. So 11 UK
citizens, plus the charity Plan B, have started legal action against it.
And we need your help...
The UK, as a rich, developed country, and a historically high greenhouse
gas emitter, bears a particular responsibility to mitigate climate
change. Under the UNFCCC, developed country Parties generally have a
legal responsibility to take the lead. Ostensibly that is a
responsibility the UK Government embraces. It loudly proclaims its
'international leadership on climate change'.
Ten years ago the claim had some merit. The UK Climate Change Act 2008
was the first of its kind, and a model borrowed around the world. More
recently UK diplomats did much to advance the Paris Agreement, and the
UK has, of course, signed and ratified it.
Yet the current Government knows its domestic target for 2050, unchanged
since 2008, is inconsistent with the Paris Agreement. It does not deny
this, but makes lame excuses about the difficulty of setting a more
ambitious target. Its leadership status makes this failing all the more
serious. UK 'leadership' and its global model is now directing the world
only closer towards the brink.
We, as citizens, face a choice. Do we accept our government's abdication
of responsibility (and so become complicit)? Or do we hold it answerable
to the rule of law and demand that it does whatever it takes to keep our
children and ourselves safe - aligning its targets to science and
international law?
It's not an easy thing to do. But twelve of us from all walks of life
have concluded we now have no choice but to take the government to Court
- before it's too late.
You can read more about us here <https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/planb/>.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/tim-crosland/why-there-s-moral-duty-to-sue-our-government-over-climate-change
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[Crowd Justice]*
**Citizens sue Government for safe Climate Target
<https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/planb/>*
The UK Government knows its carbon target for 2050 doesn't align to
science or its legal obligations, and that it's not enough to keep us
safe. So twelve of us (aged 9 to 79) are taking them to court.
..follow us on Facebook: @ThereIsAPlanB and Twitter: @PlanB_earth for
regular updates on case progress.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/planb/
[Solar Cooking]
Join *Solar Cookers International (SCI)*'s sector updates webinar on
Wednesday, 10 January 2018. SCI and its partners will share game
changing recent developments including outcomes of COP 23. Registration
at
https://solarcookers.salsalabs.org/solarcookingsectorupdatesjan2018/index.html
by 3 January, 2018 for your updates to be included (time permitting).
The webinar is from 8:00-9:00 am Pacific time (15:00-16:00 GMT),
immediately followed by a Refugee Working Group call 9:00-10:00 am
Pacific time (16:00-17:00 GMT). The webinar is free and open to the
public. A recording of the webinar will be available to Solar Cookers
International Associates (join at
http://www.solarcookers.org/our-work/sciassociation/).
https://solarcookers.salsalabs.org/solarcookingsectorupdatesjan2018/index.html
*
*[Clipping Services]*
Republican PR Firm Ends Controversial Contract With EPA
<http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/12/republican-pr-firm-ends-controversial-contract-with-epa/>
*Rebecca Leber - Definers says it will no longer pursue other federal
contracts.*
*The Republican PR firm that was awarded a $120,000 EPA contract for
media monitoring has pulled out of the deal, days after Mother Jones
first revealed the controversial arrangement. The no-bid contract drew
widespread scrutiny in recent days, in part because the for-profit firm,
called Definers, is overtly partisan and is connected to a network of
GOP political groups, including America Rising and America Rising
Squared, that have performed opposition-style research on
environmentalists. Definers itself specializes in opposition research
and what it calls "war room"-style media monitoring...
"Definers offered EPA a better and more efficient news clipping service
that would give EPA's employees real-time news at a lower cost than what
previous administrations paid for more antiquated clipping services,"
Definers president Joe Pounder said in a statement on Tuesday. "But it's
become clear this will become a distraction. As a result, Definers and
the EPA have decided to forgo the contract*
*http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/12/republican-pr-firm-ends-controversial-contract-with-epa/*
*
[New Creation News]
*Coping during the "Great Unraveling"
<https://newcreationews.blogspot.com/2017/12/coping-during-great-unraveling.html>*
Margaret Swedish
There are many people who still get upset with me and others who name
the process, who state what appears obvious - that an old normal, an old
understanding of how life is ordered, of how we find our places within
this culture, how we understand ourselves within it, is over.
And there is no going back. What is underway is underway, driven by
forces bigger than any of us, an unraveling that has come in its
time, as inevitable as that the wildfires driven by drought, record
heat, Santa Ana winds, and living completely inappropriately within
the eco-communities of this planet would end up devouring hundreds
of homes in one of many communities devoured by wildfires in the
State of California this year.
It is becoming increasingly hard for me to pretend this is not the
case, to ease the message to something more soothing and comforting.
Given how slow we are to pick up the pace of our collective
understanding, we simply no longer have time for that. We have to
deal with reality now, because reality is not a static thing. It is
ever-changing, forever in motion, and reality is changing much
faster than we want to change...
And so it is changing us - and a lot of that change is occurring by way
of trauma, shock, and fear. If we understood what was going on and why,
we might do a better job of how we cope with it...
In times of tremendous insecurity and fear, when nothing we know works
anymore, when uncertainty is extreme, people often look to some leader
who can save them, bring the old order back, ease the uncertainty and
relieve us of the fear....
The other possibility is to gather all our courage together and face the
situation as it is. But how do we do that and keep our balance, our
equanimity - our sanity? How do we do that and remain tender and gentle,
patient and kind, generous and free of rage and hate and fear?..
Well, we do that, for one thing, in community. We do that together or we
won't be able to do it at all. I have repeated this principle in many
posts and in many workshops over the years, and it only gets truer and
truer by the day, with every intense event that increases the dynamic of
rapid change. To isolate ourselves from this reality, either as
individuals or in silos of class or culture, will only weaken the bonds
that can help keep the web intact enough to hold us as we move through
these turbulent times...
video: Valerie Kaur speaking @ the National Moral Revival Watch Night
Service. <https://youtu.be/qQ7QlKG70LE>.
https://youtu.be/qQ7QlKG70LE
What else will we need in order to cope? We could do this list together,
yes?..
*- A spiritual practice, one that involves meditation, deep inner
stillness, restoring balance and equanimity, getting to our core,
getting rid of distractions so that we can see and hear clearly what
is stirring within us.*
*- A practice of compassion and solidarity with the most vulnerable
among us.* Engaging the sorrows, fears, and joys of the world as
partners in the journey - this is essential.
*- A radical simplicity of lifestyle. *The Earth cannot support
affluence and economic excess any longer, not when half the world is
living in profound economic insecurity, poverty, outright hunger and
desperation, not when tens of millions are wandering the world
fleeing violence, famine, and climate change disasters, seeking
shelter, safety, a place to call home.
*- Creating new ways of being.* There will be no one way, no one
set of directions. This road will only be made by walking it,
without any clear view of where we're going. We don't know. And that
can be terrifying (another reason we cannot set out alone). It can
also be exhilarating, an adventure. It will take courage.
*- Cultural expressions of all kinds *- rituals, celebrations, art
and music, poetry and story-telling, laughter and lots of play.
https://newcreationews.blogspot.com/2017/12/coping-during-great-unraveling.html
*
What Renaissance Literary Theory Tells Us about Climate Communication
<https://medium.com/@DoctorVive/what-renaissance-literary-theory-tells-us-about-climate-communication-2ebf6ca37dc2>*
Genevieve Guenther
Author and climate activist with a PhD in Renaissance Literature. Member
of Al Gore's Climate Reality Leadership Corps. Lecturer at The New
School. Dec 18
...At that point, the spot would transition into a vivid demonstration
of how climate change threatens what the targeted group values. And that
threat must not be soft-balled. The campaign should represent not the
most certain projected effects of continuing to emit carbon at our
current rates, but the worst projected effects within the category of
what may unfold in the next eighty years - in the lifetime of a child
born today. The goal is to visually and artfully convey what those
effects would feel like in the bodies of the people represented in the
campaign. Yes, the idea is to scare people. The goal is to enact vivid
scenarios that, as Sidney puts it, "strike, pierce, and possess the
sight of our souls."
Of course, as social-science research tells us, we shouldn't just scare
people and then leave them hanging. Nor, as I have suggested, should we
implicitly reassure them about our current emissions trajectory by
immediately going on to describe climate solutions. Those solutions
still need to be implemented. Rather, we should scare people with the
truth, and then show them what to do - not by listing tasks with what
Sidney calls "wordish descriptions," but by showing them concrete
actions to emulate, "the form of goodness" as Sidney puts it, so that
not mere gnosis but praxis may be the fruit.
In other words, in the conclusion of this theoretical campaign, the
people depicted in the video would both decarbonize their own lives and
fight politically to have decarbonizing policies implemented. So the
stay-at-home mother or the business person would be shown turning down
their thermostats, biking, joining with their neighbors in erecting
community solar, signing up for wind power, writing emails, voting,
marching, protesting, and so on. The final frame of the spot might be a
close-up of the lead actor looking right into the camera, or, even
better, the face of whatever child might have appeared in the spot.
Ideally, the campaign would end with a URL of an advocacy group who
specifically organized regular political actions on climate....
Like the comedic form of advocacy communication, this imagined mini-epic
has a tripartite structure, but rather than enacting what we might call
the "connection, fear, hope" dynamic it offers something more like
"love, fear, love" - a love sandwich, as it were. The love is partly
narcissistic, reinforced by identification with one's ideals, but it's
also connected, bound to the values and the people for which one cares
the most. And the fear is not just fear of bodily harm (although vivid
depictions of climate possibilities rightly produce such terrors) but
also the fear that our happiness might be taken away if we don't
struggle to change how we produce and use energy. What we want is to
model the harnessing of that fear - literally to enact it on screen - in
a way that inspires emulation, or at the very least gives people a
heroic struggle to emulate rather than leaving them tragically
grief-stricken or comedically relieved. Instead of oscillating between
fear and hope, climate communication could inspire both fear and love at
the same time by generating powerful models for our own personal and
political actions. As Sidney himself insists, paraphrasing Machiavelli:
"the only means of avoiding contempt are love and fear." We need stories
that inspire these emotions as fuel for the climate heroism of our ideal
selves.
https://medium.com/@DoctorVive/what-renaissance-literary-theory-tells-us-about-climate-communication-2ebf6ca37dc2
*This Day in Climate History December 20, 1983
<http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/24/movies/earth-s-climatic-crisis-examined-by-nova.html>
- from D.R. Tucker*
December 20, 1983:PBS airs "Climate Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect,"
<http://youtu.be/T8JlBkOe6HU> a
"NOVA" special on global warming featuring Tennessee Rep. Al Gore.
On the NOVA episode "Climate Crisis," Al Gore lays out the case for
human induced climate change in 1983, nearly 30 years ago. "I dont know
if our civilization has ever confronted a problem quite like this. This
problem has reached a new level of development. A scientific consensus
has emerged and now the debate is over when the first effects will
actually be felt."
http://youtu.be/T8JlBkOe6HU
PICKING up where a high-school chemistry class might end,
''Nova,'' the public-broadcasting science series, offers the
nonmatriculating viewer an advanced course in worrying. The cause of
the concern is all the carbon dioxide that's being pumped into the
industrialized and motorized air. The hourlong broadcast is called
''The Climate Crisis: The Greenhouse Effect,'' at 9 tonight on
Channel 13.
The conclusion, conveyed with great authority by several big-league
climatologists from government and private research organizations,
is terrible: by the year 2000, the atmosphere and weather will grow
warmer by several degrees and life - animal, plant, human - will be
threatened. The experts say that melting ice caps, flooded cities,
droughts in the corn belt and famine in the third world could result
if the earth's mean temperature rises by a mere two or three degrees.
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/24/movies/earth-s-climatic-crisis-examined-by-nova.html
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