[TheClimate.Vote] April 22, 2020 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Wed Apr 22 07:48:08 EDT 2020
/*April 22, 2020*/
[Significant divestment move]
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Earth Day Announcement - University of Oxford to
divest from fossil fuels and follow a net-zero investment strategy after
successful passage of university-wide resolution*
In the lead up to this announcement, Oxford has reduced its exposure to
fossil fuels to 0.6% of its endowment and now holds no direct
investments in the fossil fuel industry, putting Oxford on a swift
timeline to reach full divestment, even compared to peer institutions
who have already enacted divestment resolutions. Oxford also plans to
release a much wider, ambitious sustainability strategy in the coming
academic year...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wmP1IM134bvoKbv2l-nQjAsblVOBPW0dV08rolGkEu0/edit
[de-couple]
***The coronavirus crisis means we may have already reached peak carbon*
PUBLISHED MON, APR 20 2020
KEY POINTS
- The Covid-19 outbreak has meant countries around the world have
effectively had to shut down, with many governments imposing draconian
restrictions on the daily lives of billions of people.
- A side-effect of these confinement measures has been a dramatic fall
in the level of global carbon emissions.
- "This time could be different as we have potentially already reached
peak energy-related carbon," analysts at Goldman Sachs said in a
research note...
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"The way in which we have tackle to climate change is to continue to
improve living standards around the world while reducing emissions by
cutting the link between economic growth and pollution."
"I think the absolutely critical element here is governments must
understand that if they rebuild in a high carbon way then all they are
doing is locking in the risks of climate change in the future, making us
more vulnerable and exposed," he concluded.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/20/the-coronavirus-crisis-means-we-may-have-already-reached-peak-carbon.html
[simple videos on core concepts]
*Debunking Cranky Uncle on the greenhouse effect*
Apr 21, 2020
by John Cook
A debunking of the "CO2 is a trace gas so can't warm the Earth" myth,
using cartoons from the Cranky Uncle vs. Climate Change book:
http://crankyuncle.com/book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbOzLCkYIuc
[NYTimes daily informational]
*A crash course on climate change, 50 years after the first Earth Day*
The science is clear: The world is warming dangerously, humans are the
cause of it, and a failure to act today will deeply affect the future of
the Earth.
This is a seven-day New York Times crash course on climate change,
in which reporters from the Times's Climate desk address the big
questions:
1.How bad is climate change now?
2.How do scientists know what they know?
3.Who is influencing key decisions?
4.How do we stop fossil fuel emissions?
5.Do environmental rules matter?
6.Can insurance protect us?
7.Is what I do important?
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/19/climate/climate-crash-course-1.html
[NYTimes Greenhouse video discussion]
GROUP CALL
*The Greenhouse: This Climate Book Is For You*
APRIL 22, 2020
Want to read more about climate change but don't know where to start?
Let us help. On Earth Day, check out this list of essential climate
change books. Whatever your specific interest, we have something that
can help you pass the time.
In the third session of The Greenhouse, our digital event series about
climate change, join our climate reporter, Kendra Pierre-Louis, and Gal
Beckerman, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, as they discuss
some of our top climate book picks. They will also be joined by Amitav
Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement.
Episode one and two of The Greenhouse are now available to view on Youtube.
1. https://timesevents.nytimes.com/greenhouse
2. https://timesevents.nytimes.com/greenhouse-carbonscasualties
3. https://timesevents.nytimes.com/climate-book
[a new mooring - Forbes]
*New Michael Moore-Backed Documentary On YouTube Reveals Massive
Ecological Impacts Of Renewables*
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2020/04/21/new-michael-moore-backed-documentary-on-youtube-reveals-massive-ecological-impacts-of-renewables/#23e92dbc6c96
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[info confabulation and epitaph - free on YouTube]
*Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary |
Directed by Jeff Gibbs*
Apr 21, 2020
Michael Moore
Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a documentary that dares to
say what no one else will this Earth Day -- that we are losing the
battle to stop climate change on planet earth because we are following
leaders who have taken us down the wrong road -- selling out the green
movement to wealthy interests and corporate America. This film is the
wake-up call to the reality we are afraid to face: that in the midst of
a human-caused extinction event, the environmental movement's answer is
to push for techno-fixes and band-aids. It's too little, too late.
Removed from the debate is the only thing that MIGHT save us: getting a
grip on our out-of-control human presence and consumption. Why is this
not THE issue? Because that would be bad for profits, bad for business.
Have we environmentalists fallen for illusions, "green" illusions, that
are anything but green, because we're scared that this is the end--and
we've pinned all our hopes on biomass, wind turbines, and electric cars?
No amount of batteries are going to save us, warns director Jeff Gibbs
(lifelong environmentalist and co-producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and
"Bowling for Columbine"). This urgent, must-see movie, a full-frontal
assault on our sacred cows, is guaranteed to generate anger, debate,
and, hopefully, a willingness to see our survival in a new way--before
it's too late.
Featuring: Al Gore, Bill McKibben, Richard Branson, Robert F Kennedy
Jr., Michael Bloomberg, Van Jones, Vinod Khosla, Koch Brothers, Vandana
Shiva, General Motors, 350.org, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sierra Club, the
Union of Concerned Scientists, Nature Conservancy, Elon Musk, Tesla.
Music by: Radiohead, King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Blank &
Jones, If These Trees Could Talk, Valentina Lisitsa, Culprit 1, Patrick
O'hearn, The Torquays, Nigel Stanford, and many more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
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[web source]
*Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans | Full Documentary |
Directed by Jeff Gibbs*
https://planetofthehumans.com/
[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - April 22, 1970 *
"NBC Nightly News" anchor Frank Blair, covering the events of the first
Earth Day, cites global warming as a concern.
Transcript First Earth Day: News Coverage on April 22, 1970
FRANK BLAIR, reporting:
Earth Day demonstrations began in practically every city and
town in the United States this morning, the first massive
nation-wide protest against the pollution of the environment.
The outcry took enumerable forms: some students went to school
wearing gas masks, the automobile was banned in parts of some
cities including New York, Miami planned a dead orange parade,
skywriting planes were ordered out to inscribe the word "air"
over Los Angeles. In Jamestown, New York, the Kiwanis Club
arranged to dump twenty tons of sand in a downtown area to show
just how much dirt falls in one square mile of the city during
just thirty days of maximum air pollution.
In Washington, the House and Senate adjourned for the day.
Practically every senator and congressman was off to make
speeches on the year's most popular and least risky election
issue. But there was a pre-Earth Day rally in New York's Wall
Street and Senator Jacob Javitz voicing the concern of many
national leaders cautioned against letting pollution overwhelm
other vital national issues.
Sen. JACOB JAVITZ (R – New York): …concern, that this fight
against environmental and physical pollution is so popular that
it will tout us all, to use a New York phrase, it will tout us
all, the long-standing and at least equal vital effort to deal
with poverty, alienation, racial tensions, the gross inadequacy
of health services, education, housing, and intelligent
population control and the ending of the war in Vietnam.
BLAIR: The Wall Street crowds broke into song to express their
protest and later today to show concern for automobile
pollutants, New York will close part of famed Fifth Avenue to
auto traffic. And Mayor Lindsay was keeping appointments in an
electric car. In Philadelphia where the Declaration of
Independence was signed, demonstrators at another pre-Earth Day
rally signed a so-called Declaration of Interdependence,
dramatizing a point that every man depends on his fellows and on
nature to help keep the environment livable.
Two thousand ghetto residents were boycotting another
Philadelphia rally today arguing that the nation's new-found
infatuation with the environment has distracted attention from
the misery from the poor.
This morning there was an awesome Earth Day warning from a
government scientist in remarks prepared for the American
geophysical union in Washington, Dr. Jay Murray Mitchell, said
"pollution and over-pollution unless checked could so warm the
Earth in 200 hundred years as to create a greenhouse effect
melting the Arctic Ice Cap and flooding vast areas of the world."
https://highered.nbclearn.com/portal/site/HigherEd/flatview?cuecard=41748
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/icue/29901277
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