[✔️] December 23 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Thu Dec 23 15:55:32 EST 2021

/*December 23, 2021*/

/[  in case we forgot what a Grinch looks like ] /
*How the climate crisis is killing Christmas this year*
“It just kind of breaks your heart that you go out there and one day 
they’re nice fresh-looking trees, and the next day, they’re wilted and 
turning colors. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”
https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-change/586979-how-the-climate-crisis-is-killing-christmas

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/[ Beyond Grinch-ism  -- it is not very smart to have revenue dominate 
safety ]/
*How the Building Industry Blocked Better Tornado Safeguards*
Engineers know how to protect people from tornadoes like the ones that 
recently devastated parts of Kentucky, but builders have headed off 
efforts to toughen standards.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/climate/tornadoes-building-codes-safety.html

/[ philosophical consideration$ ]/
*The Trap of Climate Optimism*
Dan Sherrell’s Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World shows us a 
new way to tell the story of how we might cope and survive a future of 
catastrophe.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/dan-sherrell-warmth-qa/

/[  play the 10 min audio ]/
PRESS PLAY WITH MADELEINE BRAND
*If Build Back Better dies, what happens to climate legislation?*
Dec. 21, 2021 CLIMATE CHANGE
President Biden’s $2 trillion “Build Back Better” plan appears to be 
dying. West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin announced on Sunday that he 
wouldn’t vote for it, despite months of back-and-forth negotiations with 
the White House.

Part of that plan includes major reforms to address climate change, like 
shutting down coal plants and moving towards electric cars. 
Environmental advocates say the policies in this bill were crucial for 
staving off the worst predictions of global warming.

But there are other routes the Biden administration — and even its 
biggest thorn, Joe Manchin — can take to advance progressive climate 
policies. What can be done now?
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/covid-afghanistan-film-beverages/build-back-better-climate-ca

/[  clips NYTimes noteworthy article for Kids and Climate Change] /
*Bad Future, Better Future*
A Guide for kids, and everyone else, about climate change -- and what we 
can do about it
by Julia Rosen
Illustrations by Yuliya Parshina-Kottas
April 18, 2021
If you’re a kid, almost every year you’ve been alive has broken a 
temperature record, or come close. You’ve witnessed huge wildfires, 
intense droughts and severe storms. This is what climate change looks 
like, and it’s here to stay.
The planet is going to change a lot more in your lifetime. Things could 
get really bad. Or, if we take action now, we could avoid the worst 
effects. You can help decide. So, let’s take a look at how both 
scenarios could unfold...
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If we continue on like this, the planet will keep getting hotter and the 
effects of climate change will get worse. Let’s take a look at this 
scenario,
  which
   we’ll
    call
*    “The*
*        Bad*
*          Future”*
              because
                life
                  will get harder for
                     many people and
                  other living things.
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In The Better Future, we would get around in cars
that run on electricity and cleaner-burning fuels,
instead of gasoline and diesel. This would also
improve air quality in many communities.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/04/18/climate/climate-change-future-kids.html 

/[  assault on the future ] /
*Manchin Rejects Landmark Legislation, Putting Biden’s Climate Goals at 
Risk*
Senator Joe Manchin III said he was opposed to legislation that includes 
climate action designed to keep the planet from dangerously overheating.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/19/climate/manchin-climate-build-back-better-bill.html

/[   disinformation battle training ]/
*Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda*
Oct 20, 2021
Tom Nicholas

A video about Veritasium, Science YouTube, misinformation and Why You 
Should Want Driverless Cars On Roads Now (or maybe not).

*Chapters*

    00:00 Veritasium: A Story of YouTube Propaganda
    00:40 1. Driverless Cars
    08:07 2. YouTubers for Sale
    14:58 Surfshark Spot
    16:52 3. Veritasium vs. the Technophobes
    24:54 4. Lying With Statistics
    34:15 5. Misinformation by Omission
    45:22 6. The Limited Futures of youTube Propaganda

*Some Copy about the Video for the YouTube Algorithm*

In this month's video, we're looking at a video by Veritasium. One of 
the biggest science channels (or, indeed, educational channels) on the 
YouTube platform, Veritasium makes videos which aim to challenge our 
preconceptions about physics, science and the world more broadly.

In July 2021, they released a video called "Why You Should Want 
Driverless Cars On Roads Now". The video was supposedly an attempt to 
explain the current capabilities of self-driving cars. The channel's 
host, Derek Muller, argues enthusiastically that autonomous vehicles are 
far safer than their human alternatives and have the potential to both 
save lives and greatly improve contemporary urban life.

Nevertheless, the video was sponsored by Waymo (the successor to 
Google's self-driving car project), filmed in the backseat of one of 
Waymo's "Waymo One" ride-sharing vehicles and heavily featured Waymo 
staff throughout. In this, it is part of a growing trend of videos in 
which companies, billionaires and elite institutions using sponsorship 
deals with supposedly educational YouTubers to spread what is in 
practice little more than corporate propaganda.

In this video, I use Veritasium's sponsorship deal with Waymo as a case 
study in the extent to which a creator signing up to one of these 
sponsorship deals results in them compromising the editorial content of 
their videos to the point where education becomes misinformation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc

/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming December 23, 2015*
December 23, 2015: On MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports," Bill Nye 
discusses 2015's record heat.
http://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/bill-nye-reveals-the-science-behind-warm-winter-weather-590808131544
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