[✔️] November 7, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*November 7, 2021*/

[ A Greta authorized 4 min video ]
*Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050*
Nov 6, 2021
thejuicemedia
The Government has made an ad about Net Zero by 2050 and it’s 
surprisingly honest and informative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FqXTCvDLeo


/[ Gender wars all over again? ] /
*Young Women Are Leading Climate Protests. Guess Who Runs Global Talks?*
There’s a clear gender and generation gap at the Glasgow talks, and the 
two sides have very different views on how to address global warming.
By Somini Sengupta - Nov. 6, 2021
GLASGOW — The week began with more than 130 presidents and prime 
ministers posing for a group photo in a century-old Baroque museum 
crafted from red sandstone. Fewer than 10 were women. Their median age, 
as their host at the climate summit, British Prime Minister Boris 
Johnson, reminded them, was over 60.

The week ended with boisterous protests of thousands on the streets of 
Glasgow. A march on Friday was led by young climate activists, some 
barely old enough to vote in their countries. They accused the world 
leaders of wasting what little time remains to safeguard their future.

These bookends to the first week of this watershed international climate 
summit in Scotland reveal a widening divide that threatens to grow 
larger in the weeks and months ahead.

Those with the power to make decisions about how much the world warms in 
the coming decades are mostly old and male. Those who are angriest about 
the pace of climate action are mostly young and female.

The two sides have vastly divergent views of what the summit should 
achieve. Indeed, they seem to have different notions of time.

At the summit, leaders are setting goals for 2030 at the earliest. In 
some cases, they’re setting targets for 2060 and 2070, when many of 
today’s activists will be hitting retirement age. The activists say 
change must come immediately. They want countries to abruptly stop using 
fossil fuels and to repair the climate damage that is now being felt in 
all corners of the globe but is especially punishing the most vulnerable 
people in the Global South. For them, mid-century is an eternity.

“Now is the time. Yesterday was the time,” is how Dominique Palmer, 22, 
an activist with Fridays for Future International, put it during a panel 
discussion at The New York Times Climate Hub on Thursday. “We need 
action right now.”

Social movements have almost always been led by young people. But what 
makes the climate movement’s generational divide so pointed — and the 
fury of the young so potent — is that world leaders have been meeting 
and talking about the need to address climate change since before most 
of the protesters were born, with few results.

In fact, emissions of planet-warming gases have risen sharply since the 
first international climate summit 27 years ago. Now scientists say the 
world has less than a decade to sharply cut emissions to avert the worst 
climate consequences. That urgency drives the protesters.

Or as one banner at Friday’s demonstration articulated, “Don’t Mess With 
My Future.”

World leaders are showing a sensitivity to that criticism. Their public 
and private remarks in Glasgow have been laced with both paeans to the 
passion of the young as well as a hint of anxiety. They’ll have to face 
young voters back home; many of these leaders have done so already, with 
climate action emerging as an important election issue, at least in some 
countries, including in the United States. In Germany, voters elected 
their youngest Parliament, with the Green Party recording its best 
result ever and launching climate change to the top of its agenda.

Mr. Johnson, for his part, warned his peers about their legacy. Future 
generations, he said in his opening remarks, “will judge us with 
bitterness and with a resentment that eclipses any of the climate 
activists of today.”

The organizers of the conference took pains to include youth speakers in 
the official program. One after another, heads of state and government 
rose to the podium this week and assured attendees that they had heard 
the demands of the young.

This did not impress Mitzi Jonelle Tan, a 24-year-old climate activist 
who had come to Glasgow from the Philippines. “When I hear leaders say 
they want to listen to our generation I think they’re lying to 
themselves,” Ms. Tan said in an interview on the eve of the Friday protests.
If they are really listening, she went on, “they would be prioritizing 
people over profit.”

“Cognitive dissonance,” was the verdict of Eric Njuguna, 19, who had 
come from Kenya. “We were expecting serious commitments at COP26 on 
climate finance and climate mitigation. The commitments aren’t strong 
enough.”...
There is a huge gap between how the leaders and the young activists view 
the summit.

John Kerry, the 77-year-old U.S. climate envoy, marveled on Friday at 
the progress made at this summit.

“I’ve been to a great many COPs and I will tell you there is a greater 
sense of urgency at this COP,” Mr. Kerry told reporters.

He acknowledged the complexity of global negotiations. Diplomats are 
still hammering out the rules of global carbon trading and discussing 
how to address demands for reparations from countries that have played 
no role in creating the climate problem but that have suffered its most 
acute effects.

Still, Mr. Kerry said, “I have never in the first few days counted as 
many initiatives and as much real money, real money put on the table, 
even if there are some question marks.”

Jochen Flasbarth, the German energy minister, cited three areas of 
progress: a global agreement on reversing deforestation by 2030; a 
commitment to reduce methane emissions, also by 2030; and a coal exit 
plan endorsed by three dozen countries, though not its biggest users.

“I understand young people are trying to push very hard to see concrete 
implementation and not abstract goals,” Mr. Flasbarth, 59, said Friday. 
“However we need these goals.”

But it was when leaders spoke to each other away from the cameras, that 
it was clear that the anger from the youth was getting under their skin.

At one closed-door meeting with his fellow ministers, Mr. Flasbarth was 
heard expressing concern that the activists were painting all the world 
leaders with the same broad brush, portraying them as protectors of the 
fossil fuel industry.

“Let’s tell young people there are differences, not all the politicians, 
all the countries are on the same side,” he said. “Progress is possible, 
and this is the group of progress.”

At the same meeting, which was attended by a bloc of countries called 
the High Ambition Coalition, the French minister for ecological 
transition, Barbara Pompili, said she recognized herself in the young 
people. She too was once an activist, she told her fellow ministers.

But then, she went on, she chose a different route. She chose to work 
inside the system. “I chose to be a politician,” she said. “I chose to 
try to act.”

The differences between the decision makers inside the summit, and the 
protesters outside the barricades extend beyond age to gender. While the 
world leaders and heads of state are mostly male, the streets of Glasgow 
have been filled with young women.

Girls and young women around the world have emerged as some of the most 
passionate climate activists, arguing that many of those most vulnerable 
to drought, water scarcity and other climate disasters are low-income 
women with children to feed. As a result, the climate movement has a 
shared mission with efforts to educate girls in developing nations.

The young women activists have found a sisterhood and a sense of 
empowerment in the climate protests, marches and campaigns. The 
inspiration for many of these young women is the Swedish activist Greta 
Thunberg, whose school strikes for climate that began as a solo effort 
in 2018 have blossomed into a worldwide movement.

Ms. Thunberg, 18, has become so influential that on Wednesday when she 
criticized carbon offsets — making up for carbon emissions in one area 
by paying for the reduction of emissions somewhere else — a company that 
verifies carbon offsets felt compelled to defend the practice.

On Friday, Ms. Thunberg appeared before a cheering throng of thousands 
in Glasgow to pronounce the summit a failure.

“The COP has turned into a P.R. event, where leaders are giving 
beautiful speeches and announcing fancy commitments and targets, while 
behind the curtains governments of the Global North countries are still 
refusing to take any drastic climate action,” she said.

That prompted Michael Mann, the 55-year-old climate scientist, to 
caution that negotiations among hundreds of countries are complex, and 
that the politics around climate policy are not as simple as they might 
seem. “Activists declaring it dead on arrival makes fossil fuel 
executives jump for joy,” he tweeted, referring to the summit. “They 
want to undermine and discredit the very notion of multilateral climate 
action.
On Saturday, the young protesters returned to the streets, joining with 
a coalition of other groups in what organizers billed as a global day of 
climate action.

Vanessa Nakate, a 24-year-old activist from Uganda, said the protesters 
were committed to keep up the pressure, “to continue holding leaders 
accountable for their actions.”

Daphne Frias, a 23-year-old climate activist from New York City, gave a 
nod to the inevitable: generational change is coming.

“We always say our leaders have failed us,” she said. “We are the new 
leaders. We are the ones who are going to make the decisions going forward.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/climate/climate-activists-glasgow-summit.html



/[  um,... duh. ] /
*Bill Gates predicts oil companies ‘will be worth very little’ in 30 
years — here’s why*
Nov 6 2021 - Tom Huddleston Jr.
If you’re looking for an extremely long-term stock pick from billionaire 
Bill Gates, here it is: Avoid Big Oil.

As the world moves away from fossil fuels and adopts more clean and 
renewable energy sources, oil giants that have dominated markets for 
more than a century could be in trouble, the Microsoft co-founder said 
in a briefing at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, on Thursday.

“Some of these giants will fall. You know, 30 years from now, some of 
those oil companies will be worth very little,” Gates, an outspoken 
advocate for investing in renewable energy and green technologies, said 
at the briefing, according to Axios.

Companies like ExxonMobil, BP and Royal Dutch Shell all have seen their 
stock prices decline over the past five years — especially at the onset 
of the Covid-19 pandemic, which crippled demand for oil and resulted in 
huge losses for even the biggest oil and gas companies.

ExxonMobil, the largest oil and gas producer in the U.S., lost $20 
billion in last year. The company still sports a market value of $275 
billion — but as countries like the U.S. shift their energy policies to 
fight climate change, and the automotive industry moves toward an 
electric future, investors are becoming increasingly dubious about the 
future of oil stocks.

“With the oil companies, we still just don’t think they represent good 
long-term businesses,” David Moss, head of European equities at BMO 
Global Asset Management, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Europe” in August.

Major oil companies that pivot their businesses toward forms of 
renewable energy stand a chance of surviving, Gates said at the 
briefing. But in May, International Energy Agency analyst Heymi Bahar 
told “Street Signs Europe” that major oil companies are unlikely to ever 
become leaders in renewable technologies.

“Will they become the major investors of renewable technology? The 
answer is no,” Bahar said. “Will they increase their pace? Yes, for sure.”

In Glasgow, Gates said he believes oil companies could transition their 
businesses relatively easily from fossil fuels to cleaner energy 
sources. He cited low-carbon hydrogen — which, when burned, emits less 
carbon into the air than today’s greenhouse gases — as one possible example.

“We have a pipeline infrastructure in the United States that probably 
can be retrofitted to transmit hydrogen,” Gates said.

But his investment track record doesn’t indicate optimism. In his latest 
book, “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” Gates wrote that in 2019, he 
divested all of his “direct holdings in oil and gas companies, as did 
the trust that manages the Gates Foundation’s endowment.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/06/bill-gates-big-oil-companies-will-be-worth-very-little-in-30-years.html/
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[ As if you were there on the street -  video interview ]
*Hope, Anger & Finding A Better Future | Jason Box talks to Rupert Read*
Nick Breeze ClimateGENN
This COP26 in Glasgow is the story of split perspectives, a greenwashing 
COP hell-bent on establishing a narrative of just-in-time, saviour 
pledges that we all sit back and hope come to pass, and another one that 
is based on ripping the blindfold away that has been concealing the 
truth of protracted failure. The result is anger, resentment, and a 
growing sense of injustice.
Where will this lead us?
Glaciologist and father, Professor Jason Box, discusses the perspective 
of climate action through the lens of collapsing ice sheets and 
Philosopher and activist, Professor Rupert Read, anticipates the 
symptoms of collapse that may occur prior to large-scale climate events.
Visit: https://genn.cc for more info
Follow on Twitter: @climategenn and @nickgbreeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLCgnaom8pE



[ one deep, wonky event at COP26 ]
*The value of our villain — CO2 in the circular economy*
Nov 6, 2021
We Don't Have Time
 From the Nordic Pavilion: Nordic companies have developed sustainable 
solutions for using CO2 as a resource as well as permanently 
transforming it to stone, thereby eliminating any negative effect it has 
on climate. They have found innovative ways to create value of our 
villain. Experts from the Nordics will discuss solutions and prospects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9bZjyMiqYY&list=TLPQMDYxMTIwMjHFrWd2E5otlg&index=2
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The video channel *We Don't Have Time*
https://www.youtube.com/c/WeDontHaveTime/videos



/[ Opinion -- video ~4 mins ] /
*How Republicans Became "the Stupid Party" on Climate*
Nov 6, 2021
greenmanbucket
2.44K subscribers
Stuart Stevens is a long time Republican campaign strategist, and 
currently a member of the Lincoln Project. He is the author of "It Was 
All a Lie".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcByqTS8F0w

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[ another opinion ~ 2 min video ]
*Bringing Conservatives to Climate Action*
Nov 6, 2021
greenmanbucket
Karly Mathews is a conservative activist with the American Conservation 
Coalition, working to raise awareness on climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X35lGs2Iloc



[ Classics of the Internet information battles - 45 min presentation ]
*YouTube's Climate Denial Problem*
Mar 23, 2020
zentouro
In January of 2020, AVAAZ released a report investigating YouTube and 
Climate Misinformation. Let's talk about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZYH_MirvV8



/[The news archive - 8 years ago]/
*On this day in the history of global warming November 7, 2014*
HBO's Bill Maher denounces the climate-change deniers who seized control 
of the Senate earlier in the week.
http://youtu.be/A5PRSuCW1eY
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The New York Times reports:
"Inspired by global efforts to reduce carbon emissions, environmentally 
focused donors want institutions to divest themselves of investments in 
companies connected with fossil fuels like petroleum and coal."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/giving/push-for-fossil-free-nonprofits-.html?mwrsm=Email


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