[TheClimate.Vote] May 24, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Thu May 24 11:00:20 EDT 2018
/May 24, 2018/
[scenario study]
*Strict curbs on global warming would buoy world economy: study
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-economics/strict-curbs-on-global-warming-would-buoy-world-economy-study-idUSKCN1IO2PC>*
OSLO (Reuters) - Stringent limits on global warming would bolster the
world economy by averting tens of trillions of dollars in damage this
century from heat waves, droughts and floods, a U.S. study said on
Wednesday.
The report, among the first to assess the economics of the 2015 Paris
climate agreement, said the toughest temperature curbs would benefit 90
percent of the world's population, especially in poor nations in Africa,
Asia and Latin America.
The world's biggest economies - the United States, China and Japan -
would also gain if the world achieves the toughest targets, according to
the study led by researchers at Stanford University and published in the
journal Nature.
Russia, Canada and Nordic countries, where rising temperatures could
boost farm output and limit deaths from winter cold, would be among a
few nations to suffer economically from tough curbs on global warming,
the study said...
More at:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-economics/strict-curbs-on-global-warming-would-buoy-world-economy-study-idUSKCN1IO2PC
[new movie with global warming as character]
*First Reformed (2017) Official Trailer
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgK_KtutxI>*
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgK_KtutxI
R - 2018 - 1hr 48min - Suspense/Drama
Reverend Ernst Toller is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a
small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of celebrating
its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, the
church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling congregation,
eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with its
state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant
parishioner asks Reverend Toller to counsel her husband, a radical
environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged into his own
tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he finds redemption
in an act of grandiose violence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdgK_KtutxI
- - - -
[A viewer response to movie "First Reformed" from psychotherapist Betty
Merton,]
It was surprisingly Bergmanesque for an American film. Watching it I
had a feeling of deja vu - its austerity, the stark winter light,
the alienation & anguish of the protagonist, the silence of God.
The movie has stayed with me, and the more I think about it the more
I'm impressed with its religious symbolism. It was steeped in dark &
gloomy Calvinism, not the forgiving grace of Luther's God. The head
minister's comment to Toller that "you're always in the Garden
before dawn" reflects the agony Toller experiences, the terrible
pain and isolation of his conflict within himself. (The dawn, for
Jesus, was when he finally became reconciled to being crucified.)
Toller drinks whiskey alone at night, struggles, paces, pushes
people away, & is in torment without reconciliation - until the very
end when his alienation is overcome by Mary: when he sees that she
is there...he accepts a sort of crucifixion by piercing his own
flesh. Even though it's a cliche' to end with love, it's also
meaningful, I think, in that it shows a transformative alternative
to violence. I liked the spare use of color - mainly in the magic
carpet scene and the kissing at the end - color showing abundant
life. I would like to read what others thought, so if you find
reviews...please forward them.
Psychotherapist Betty Merton, May 22, 2018
- - - - -
[8 minute Video review]
*First Reformed Movie Review <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_BedZJtVU>*
What The Flick?!
May 17, 2018
First Reformed starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried and Cedric the
Entertainer directed by Paul Schrader is reviewed by What the Flick?!
[This clip is brought to you in partnership with http://atomtickets.com.
Use code WTF5 for $5 off your first purchase!]
Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish
pastor at a small Dutch Reform church in upstate New York on the cusp of
celebrating its 250th anniversary. Once a stop on the Underground
Railroad, the church is now a tourist attraction catering to a dwindling
congregation, eclipsed by its nearby parent church, Abundant Life, with
its state-of-the-art facilities and 5,000-strong flock. When a pregnant
parishioner (Amanda Seyfried) asks Reverend Toller to counsel her
husband, a radical environmentalist, the clergyman finds himself plunged
into his own tormented past, and equally despairing future, until he
finds redemption in an act of grandiose violence. From writer-director
Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver; American Gigolo; Affliction) comes a
gripping thriller about a crisis of faith that is at once personal,
political, and planetary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_BedZJtVU
- - - - -
Read what other critics had to say:
*https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/first_reformed*
[art nurtures resilience]
*Medusa's Curse: The Necessity of Art in the Climate Struggle
<https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-05-22/medusas-curse-the-necessity-of-art-in-the-climate-struggle/>*
By Kathleen Dean Moore on May 22, 2018
Because I am a literary writer, writing about climate justice, people
often ask me, What is the importance of the arts in the climate
struggle? I turn to Friedrich Nietzsche, the nineteenth century German
philosopher. "We have art in order not to die of the truth," he wrote.
I turn to Friedrich Nietzsche, the nineteenth century German philosopher.
"We have art in order not to die of the truth," he wrote.
So then. What are these lethal truths, the truths that break our hearts,
sap our spirits, and turn us to stone? How can art save us in the face
of those truths? Those are my two questions.
*1. What are the paralyzing truths that the world faces?*
Number one. That we have the good fortune to have been born into the
Cenozoic Era, when evolution has achieved its greatest fullness of
flowering, what theologian Thomas Berry called the most "lyric period in
Earth history."
Imagine our good fortune, to live in the time of thrush-song and thirty
thousand species of orchids, the time of small laughing children and
whales that teach each other to sing. The fate of these lives is not a
matter of indifference or economic expedience. These lives, human or
otherwise, are the irreplaceable consequence of planetary creativity
over four billion years. And they are the progenitors of everything that
will grow on the face of the Earth.
Truth number two. That the greed and duplicity built into the extractive
growth economy threaten to make the planet uninhabitable for the
creatures that evolved in the mild Eocene era. That would be, among
others, us. The economic machine is killing the planet - in an
unspeakable cruelty, starting first with those who have no voices to
defend themselves, the plants and animals, people on the economic and
geographical margins of society, future generations, and children of all
species.
Over the last fifty years, poisoning and plundering have reduced the
number of plants and animals on earth by forty percent. This is the
wonder-filled world that we are destroying, the lyric voices that we are
silencing, the sanctity that we are defiling, at a rate and with a
violence that cannot be measured because we have only the sorriest
understanding of the world's multitude of lives.
Truth number three, the most important of them all: It doesn't have to
be this way. We are creatures of desperate love who are born with the
ability to imagine a different way. We can change this destructive
course. It's true that we will live to see the end of a way of life on
Earth. But whether we witness the emergence of new ways of life based on
sharing and intelligence and justice, or whether it is the emergence of
a degraded, dangerous, brutal new slide toward who knows what? - that
is a human choice.
These are hard, hard truths, we may agree. It is difficult - maybe
impossible - to face them. So we jeer at our truth-tellers and cheer
the liars and deniers, in fear that facing the truth would destroy us.
*2. How can art save us?*
Do you remember Medusa, the monstrous woman in Greek mythology? Medusa
was a Gorgon, with such a terrifying face that no mortal could gaze upon
it without dying - the reptilian face, the poisonous hair dripping
snakes. A person who looked straight at her would turn to stone.
And isn't this the danger, that when people look straight into the face
of the desperate truths of our time, they are turned to stone? Their
hearts are hardened. They are unable to act. Joyless, inhumane,
immobilized, they freeze into business-as-usual, as if they had no choice.
Enter the hero Perseus, who carried (along with his winged shoes and his
magic scythe), a beautiful reflective shield. When he held the shield up
and caught Medusa's ugly image, here was Medusa - transformed, but not
transformed. Revealed, but not represented. Revealed. Revealed! And
Perseus, seeing her in an entirely new way, faced her reflection boldly,
and cut off her head.
What is this reflective shield that can show us the danger without
turning us to stone? What can open our hearts, without breaking them?
What can replace paralyzing fear with a new vision of what is beautiful
and possible? What can break the bonds of lies and denial? What can
allow us "to see, to sing, to welcome with courage and grace and
imagination, whatever asks entrance into our lives"? The words are from
the poet, Jane Hirschfield.
The answer, of course, is art, this magic reflective shield. In a time
of climate change, ecological collapse, and social transformation, art
allows us to see hard truths without being destroyed by them, but rather
lifted and heartened.
Let us celebrate the artists who have set aside their ordinary work and
stepped up to do the work of the moment. Let us be those artists. Our
work may be inside or outside the gallery and concert hall, in the
streets, in the halls of politics and power, in the new street theaters
of creative disruption. These are the voices of writers, the genius of
dancers, the vision of artists - all the power of words and story and
image that can help us escape finally from the narrow self-interest of
our economy, the catastrophic vision of our future, and the paralysis of
our age - and imagine a way forward.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-05-22/medusas-curse-the-necessity-of-art-in-the-climate-struggle/
[Melting Arctic opens military theater]
*Latest: Russia fired volley with four ballistic missiles from submarine
in White Sea* <https://youtu.be/VUdIUdouLv0>*
[*not corroborated - Is fake news the same as propaganda?]
Never before have four Bulava missiles been launched from a single
Borei-class submarine at the same time.
video https://youtu.be/VUdIUdouLv0
The nuclear-powered submarine "Yury Dolgoruky" launched four Bulava
missiles from the White Sea. All four dummy-warheads reached their
designated targets at the Kura test range on Kamchatka, the press
service of the Northern Fleet informs on Tuesday evening according
to military TV channel Zvezda.
The test launching is the most powerful weapons tests from a single
submarine since the Cold War times.
Russia's Defense Ministry has released a promo-video
<https://youtu.be/VUdIUdouLv0> showing the launch of all four missiles
[From last year - Russia rearms strategic forces:]
*Satellite images show expansion of nuclear weapons sites on Kola
<https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/content/satellite-images-show-expansion-nuclear-weapons-sites-kola>*
May 08, 2017
The reverse gear seems to hang up for continuing disarmament of nuclear
weapons in the Arctic. Barents Observer has made a comprehensive review
of satellite images from naval base-level storage facilities that
confirms heavy construction works.
The New START Treaty says USA and Russia must limit the numbers of
deployed strategic nuclear warheads to 1,550 by February 5, 2018. Over
the last two years, Russia has increased the number of deployed warheads
and is now 215 over the max limit to be reached.
There are extensive construction work at two of the Northern Fleet's
facilities for storage of warheads and ballistic missiles for submarines
(SLBM) on the coast of to the Barents Sea. The Barents Observer has
studied satellite images of the Kola Peninsula open available via Google
Earth, combined with open-source data on numbers of nuclear warheads in
Russia. The results are frightening.
Expansion of the two base-level storages in Okolnaya Bay near
Severomorsk and Yagelnaya Bay in Gadzhiyevo are clearly visible. At both
locations, new reinforced bunkers, auxiliary buildings and
infrastructure partly finished and partly still under construction can
be seen.
The satellite images, however, only reveal what is visible on the
surface. Most of the actual warheads are underground...
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/content/satellite-images-show-expansion-nuclear-weapons-sites-kola
[As if the planet could speak- video 1 hour]
*Messages From The Blue Planet <https://wp.me/p3HkhX-3CX>
What if planet Earth could talk? - Complete Film
<https://youtu.be/57u_NGMQbkk>
*https://youtu.be/57u_NGMQbkk*
*In this eight part film, Messages From The Blue Planet provides a
thought provoking view on Earth and our society.
Do we have a Future?
What kind of Future?
What could get in the way?
Can we learn to think and feel like a Planet?
This collection of eight videos are a loving confrontation by the Planet
of all of us.
View, deny, embrace, discuss and if you have proposals for resolving the
Emergency leave a comment.
Teaser image https://pixabay.com/en/photoshop-space-universe-sky-2845779
May 23, 2018 Categories: 2018, Climate Change, Communication, Economy |
URL: https://wp.me/p3HkhX-3CX
*This Day in Climate History - May 24, 2006
<http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/al_gore_about_a.html>
- from D.R. Tucker*
May 24, 2006: "An Inconvenient Truth" is released in the United States.
BoxOfficeGuru.com's Gitesh Pandya notes:
"Setting the limited release box office on fire was the global
warming documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' which opened in only
four theaters but grossed a hefty $367,311. That gave the Al Gore
pic a stunning average of $91,827 per location over four days.
Distributed by Paramount Vantage, the new incarnation of Paramount
Classics, Truth collected $281,330 over the Friday-to-Sunday portion
averaging a scorching $70,332. Total since Wednesday stands at
$490,860. Opening this weekend on multiple screens at a pair of
theaters in both New York and Los Angeles, Truth will add about 60
more playdates on Friday and expand throughout June hoping to become
the dominant doc of the summer."
(Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim would appear on the June 2, 2006
edition of "EcoTalk" on Air America to discuss the film.)
http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0
http://www.boxofficeguru.com/052906.htm
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/al_gore_about_a.html
http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/davis_guggenhei.html
/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//Archive of Daily Global Warming News
<https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/2017-October/date.html>
//
/https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote//
///
///To receive daily mailings - click to Subscribe
<mailto:subscribe at theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request>
/to news digest. /
*** Privacy and Security: * This is a text-only mailing that
carries no images which may originate from remote servers.
Text-only messages provide greater privacy to the receiver and
sender.
By regulation, the .VOTE top-level domain must be used for
democratic and election purposes and cannot be used for
commercial purposes.
To subscribe, email: contact at theclimate.vote with subject:
subscribe, To Unsubscribe, subject: unsubscribe
Also youmay subscribe/unsubscribe at
https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote
Links and headlines assembled and curated by Richard Paulifor
http://TheClimate.Vote delivering succinct information for
citizens and responsible governments of all levels. List
membership is confidential and records are scrupulously
restricted to this mailing list.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/attachments/20180524/23cfe3e5/attachment.html>
More information about the TheClimate.Vote
mailing list