[TheClimate.Vote] January 30, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Sat Jan 30 07:38:58 EST 2021

/*January 30, 2021*/

[so says the Guardian]
*Dizzying pace of Biden's climate action sounds death knell for era of 
denialism*
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The dizzying list of actions demonstrated the breadth and depth of the 
climate crisis. Biden’s administration will spur new climate-friendly 
policies for farmers while also devoting resources to the urban 
communities, typically low-income people of color, disproportionally 
blighted by pollution from nearby highways and power plants. In all, 21 
federal agencies will be part of a new, overarching climate body. “This 
isn’t time for small measures,” Biden said. “We need to be bold.”

The first 10 days of Biden’s presidency have represented a startling 
handbrake turn from Donald Trump’s term, where climate science was 
routinely disparaged or sidelined and policies to cut planet-heating 
emissions were jettisoned. A complete rewiring of the economy is now 
needed to avert what the president calls an “existential threat” to 
civilization. US emissions dropped by about 10% last year but only 
because of pandemic shutdowns, and similar cuts will be required each 
year. “We can’t wait any longer – we see it with our own eyes, we feel 
it in our bones,” Biden implored.

“It truly is a new day for climate action,” said Carol Browner, former 
administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President 
Bill Clinton. “President Joe Biden is taking unprecedented actions and 
sending an unmistakable message to the world that the United States is 
back and serious about tackling the climate crisis.”...
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The Trump years may well have been the death rattle of influential 
denialism. The American public’s concern over the climate crisis is at 
record levels, with even a majority of Republican voters supporting 
government intervention in the wake of a year of unprecedented wildfires 
and hurricanes that cost hundreds of lives and tens of billions of 
dollars. The question is now whether the US is able to change quickly 
enough to avert further disaster, rather than if it will change at all...
more at - 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/30/joe-biden-climate-change-action

[Opinion-video, explained]
*How The U.S. Can Build A 100% Clean Grid*
Jan 27, 2021
CNBC
The U.S. electric grid is outdated. Designed for a world that runs on 
fossil fuels, our grid needs some major tech upgrades in order to 
transition to a more distributed, all-renewable system. That means 
smart, internet connected hardware working in tandem with advanced data 
analytics software to ensure that supply and demand are balanced, even 
when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KJE3POgWSc

[Opinion]
*Biden Passes the Climate Test, Short and Sweet*
POSTED BY PETER CARTER  ON JANUARY 28, 2021
This is a short blog on the greatest climate news.
President Biden of the United States has acted on planet-wrecking fossil 
fuel subsidies, with an executive order directing federal agencies to 
eliminate fossil fuel subsidies as consistent with applicable law, and 
he will bring up this crime of all time with the US Congress.

Biden is wisely taking a “whole of government approach” on climate and 
his orders make climate change a national security and foreign policy 
priority.
https://www.joboneforhumanity.org/biden_passes_the_climate_test_short_and_sweet 

[Luntz is still the top Republican field general in the propaganda wars]
*Trump's American Carnage: Frank Luntz (interview) | FRONTLINE*
Jan 27, 2021
FRONTLINE PBS | Official
Frank Luntz is a strategist and pollster who has worked on behalf of the 
Republican Party for nearly three decades.

The following interview was conducted by FRONTLINE’s Jim Gilmore on Jan. 
12, 2021. It has been edited for clarity and length. This interview is 
being published as part of FRONTLINE’s Transparency Project, an effort 
to open up the source material behind our documentaries. Explore the 
transcript of this interview, and others, on the FRONTLINE 
website:https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/interview-collection/the-choice-2020/
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT3hPuY8w5M
[Now he is trying to redefine his name - search for Frank Luntz Memo 2002]

[Where can we go? Iceland is tops.  (Less so is the US which is 40th)]
*The Green Future Index*
The Green Future Index is a ranking of 76 leading countries and 
territories on their progress and commitment toward building a low 
carbon future. It measures the degree to which their economies are 
pivoting toward clean energy, industry, agriculture, and society through 
investment in renewables, innovation, and green finance.
Overall rankings
The overall rankings tab shows the performance of the examined economies 
relative to each other and aggregates scores generated across the 
following five pillars: Carbon emissions, Energy transition, Green 
society, Clean innovation and Climate policy.
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The rankings show business leaders, policymakers, and societies whether 
their country is making the right investments in building a green future 
and whether it is likely to emerge as a green leader or a laggard in 
tackling humanity’s greatest challenge—the global climate emergency.

The index is weighted toward trends and future-looking indicators that 
show whether an economy is moving in the right direction. This 
recognizes the efforts that more industrialized economies are making to 
pivot and decarbonize. Smaller, less developed economies are recognized 
for their commitment to embrace renewable technologies and drive 
economic development without the previously accompanying environmental 
footprint.

Climate policy is the most significant pillar in the index methodology. 
It measures state-level activities and overall policies aimed at 
reducing greenhouse gases, as well as the degree to which pandemic 
recovery stimulus programs will be oriented toward sustainable projects 
and promoting carbon neutral practices.

This last point is significant, for the green future of every nation 
will not only be determined by the speed and precision with which each 
reduces its own carbon footprint, but by the steps it takes to make its 
economy more robust and resilient through sustainable activity and 
policy. Just as a biodiverse ecosystem cultivates stability and 
resilience through a complex network of adaptive species, a green 
economy is powered by multiple sources of renewable energy, a low-carbon 
food industry, clean transport and industry, and a flexible, responsive, 
and innovative society.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/25/1016648/green-future-index/

[Digging back into the internet news archive]
*On this day in the history of global warming - January 30, 2007 *

The House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight holds a hearing 
on the Bush administration's censorship of climate science. (The next 
day, Dr. Francesca Grifo of the Union of Concerned Scientists discusses 
the hearings on Air America’s “EcoTalk with Betsy Rosenberg.”)

http://youtu.be/w6b_JGaL128

http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2007/01/dr_francesca_gr.html

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