[✔️] November 12, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
👀 Richard Pauli
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Fri Nov 12 08:38:06 EST 2021
/*November 12, 2021*/
/[ Climate disasters are not changing minds ]//
/*The strong winds of climate change have failed to move the opinions of
many Americans*
Most believe global warming is a problem, but the partisan divide is growing
American views about the threat of global warming over the past few
years remain largely unchanged, a Washington Post-ABC News poll finds.
A clear majority of adults say that warming is a serious problem, but
the share — 67 percent — is about the same as it was seven years ago,
when alarms raised by climate scientists were less pronounced than they
are now....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/12/strong-winds-climate-change-have-failed-move-opinions-many-americans/
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/[ see the poll ]/
*Nov. 7-10, 2021, Washington Post-ABC News poll*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/nov-7-10-2021-washington-post-abc-news-poll/160508a9-cea2-4433-92c8-6dc51838721e/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2
/[PBS video - 8+ mins and transcript ]/
*Growing number of young Americans feel climate anxiety. Here’s what
they need to cope*
Nov 10, 2021 ...
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*Lise Van Susteren:*
Kids have told me that they don't want to pursue a secondary
education. What's the point? Kids have said, of course, that they
don't want to have children because they don't want to bring a child
into the chaos.
And then there are other kids who have just become anxious by
themselves and might take all sorts of responses, maybe eating
disorders, some people, or just a general feeling of apathy....
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/growing-number-of-young-americans-feel-climate-anxiety-heres-what-they-need-to-cope
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/[ Find their web site - Youth Organization ]/
*YOUTH VS APOCALYPSE*
YVA About
Youth Vs. Apocalypse is a diverse group of young climate justice
activists working together to lift the voices of youth, in particular
youth of color and working class youth. Their collective action aims to
fight for a livable climate and an equitable, sustainable, and just world.
YVA started as a group of Oakland youth, supported by adults in their
community, using direct action and lobbying to fight a proposed coal
terminal in their city, then expanded its focus to other climate justice
issues. After a video with youth from YVA pushing Senator Feinstein to
support the Green New Deal went viral, YVA students organized press
conferences, gave interviews, wrote Op Eds, and developed a website. By
September 2019, YVA organized a crowd of 30,000, after working as a
group to develop an intersectional set of targets and demands,
organizing transportation for thousands of students from around the Bay
Area, and connecting with dozens of labor and community groups, many of
whom took climate action for the first time. YVA youth have supported
climate actions across the state, taken leadership on local and
statewide campaigns, and continued their presence in national media. YVA
was recently named by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as one of (and the
only youth-led) the YBCA 100. YVA is now a local group of young people
who are impacting national conversations on climate...
YVA approaches the climate crisis as a symptom of the same system that
has impacted frontline youth and their communities in so many ways...
https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/
/[ COP26 activity ]/
*Calls for Climate Reparations Reach Boiling Point in Glasgow Talks*
For decades, vulnerable countries and activist groups have demanded that
rich polluter countries pay for irreparable damage from climate change.
This year, there may be a breakthrough.
By Somini Sengupta - Nov. 11, 2021
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Year after year, calls have steadily grown louder for industrialized
nations responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions already heating up
the planet to own up to the problem — and pay for the damage.
This year, demands for redress have sharpened as climate justice has
become a rallying cry, not just from countries in the global south, like
Mr. Huq’s, but from a broad range of activists, especially young people,
in the United States and Europe. They have peaked in Glasgow: As
negotiations close this week, a major point of contention between rich
and poor countries is whether the final summit document will acknowledge
the need for a separate pool of money to address historic harms.
Known by sterile code words crafted to avoid blame, “loss and damage,”
that fund would be separate from money to help poor countries adapt to a
changing climate, its proponents have argued. Loss and damage is a
matter of historic responsibility and would pay for irreparable losses,
such as the disappearance of national territory, culture and ecosystems,
they said...
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Year after year, calls have steadily grown louder for industrialized
nations responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions already heating up
the planet to own up to the problem — and pay for the damage.
This year, demands for redress have sharpened as climate justice has
become a rallying cry, not just from countries in the global south, like
Mr. Huq’s, but from a broad range of activists, especially young people,
in the United States and Europe. They have peaked in Glasgow: As
negotiations close this week, a major point of contention between rich
and poor countries is whether the final summit document will acknowledge
the need for a separate pool of money to address historic harms.
Known by sterile code words crafted to avoid blame, “loss and damage,”
that fund would be separate from money to help poor countries adapt to a
changing climate, its proponents have argued. Loss and damage is a
matter of historic responsibility and would pay for irreparable losses,
such as the disappearance of national territory, culture and ecosystems,
they said.
“We have entered what I call the era of loss and damage,” Mr. Huq said...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/climate/climate-glasgow-cop26-loss-damage.html
/[ Sure, give it a try. ]/
*Governments and Big Oil were first. The next wave of climate lawsuits
will target banks and boards*
Sam Meredith - NOV 11 2021
KEY POINTS
-- “I think that the next step is to start also litigating against
financial institutions who make these emissions and fossil fuel projects
possible,” said Roger Cox, lawyer for Milieudefensie, an environmental
campaign group and the Dutch branch of Friends of the Earth.
-- The Hague District Court on May. 26 ordered the Anglo-Dutch oil giant
to reduce its global carbon emissions by 45% by the end of 2030,
compared with 2019 levels.
-- The ruling marked the first time in history that a company had been
legally obliged to align its policies with the Paris Agreement and
reflected a watershed moment in the climate battle.
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A report from a coalition of NGOs, published in March, found the world’s
largest 60 banks had provided $3.8 trillion of financing for fossil fuel
companies since the Paris accord was signed in 2015. The authors of the
report described the findings as “shocking” and warned runaway funding
for the extraction of fossil fuels and infrastructure threatened the
lives of millions worldwide.
To be sure, burning fossil fuels is the chief driver of the climate
emergency. Climate scientists have repeatedly stressed that the best
weapon to tackle rising global temperatures is to cut greenhouse gas
emissions as quickly as possible.
Nine de Pater, researcher and campaigner at Milieudefensie, said Tuesday
that the campaign group initially sought to persuade Shell to take
meaningful climate action with protests and direct talks with both the
company and politicians....
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/11/cop26-climate-campaigners-to-target-banks-after-shell-court-ruling.html
/[ COP26 -twitter video - emotional ]
/*In emotional video at U.N. climate summit, Ireland’s former president
slams Saudi Arabia and world leaders*/
/An emotional Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, called out
Saudi Arabia at a United Nations climate forum this week for "playing
dirty games” in allegedly taking out crucial language from the text that
will emerge from the meetings.
Complete coverage from the COP26 U.N. climate summit
Speaking on the sidelines of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland,
Robinson’s voice wavered as she described her disappointment at a
perceived lack of urgency among world leaders to slow the rise in the
Earth’s temperature, even as the often destructive impact of climate
change becomes increasingly apparent. It is rare for international
leaders, even when retired, to criticize their counterparts so directly.
“We are literally talking about having a safe future … You can’t
negotiate with science. You can’t talk about a glass being half full. We
have to get it down. We have to be on track for 1.5 [degrees of global
warming],” she told Britain’s Sky News. (The COP21 Paris agreement
included language that suggested countries should aim to limit the
global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.)/
//https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/11/mary-robinson-ireland-emotional-saudi-arabia/
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/[ hear her simple answer - twitter video 3 mins]/
*An emotional Mary Robinson, Chair of @TheElders and former President of
Ireland slams leaders for not being in crisis mode and blames Saudi
Arabia for blocking *
@skynews
#COP26 Today will be very important.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1458425470584860678
/[ Why COP26 allows military to keep secret their emissions - video
explains ]/
*Key polluter exempt from CO2 targets - Militaries lag in green
technologies | DW News*
Nov 11, 2021
DW News
Despite the desperation to reduce global warming by cutting carbon
emissions, one huge polluter is completely exempt from joining that
effort. But maybe, not for long. DW's Teri Schultz takes a look at who’s
getting off the hook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFv7imUcifE
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/[ TheGuardian explains ]/
*World’s militaries avoiding scrutiny over emissions, scientists say*
Countries do not have to include armed forces’ emissions in their
targets despite estimates sector creates 6% of greenhouse gases
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/11/worlds-militaries-avoiding-scrutiny-over-emissions
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/[ Military emissions tracking ]/
*Mind The Military Emissions Gap*
11.11.21 - Glasgow, Scotland - Rick Wayman
For the past nine days at COP26, governments have been releasing
information about what they will do – or will not do, as the case may be
– to meet the targets of the Paris Climate Accord.
According to a new website published this week, militaryemissions.org,
one significant piece of the puzzle that continues to be hidden relates
to many governments refusing to publish the carbon emissions caused by
their military activities...
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The organizers of this new project are calling for three commitments
from governments around the world:
Developed industrialised countries to undertake mandatory and
independently verified reporting of the greenhouse gas emissions of
their militaries, making the information transparent, accessible and
distinct from emissions from other parts of the economy;
Developing countries should begin annual voluntary reporting of their
military’s emissions;
All governments to set clear targets for militaries to conserve energy,
reduce reliance on fossil fuels and switch to environmentally
responsible renewable energy, making genuine cuts to emissions and not
relying on offsets.
Compliance with these three requests will certainly not solve the global
climate crisis. But citizens deserve to understand the full scope of how
their militaries are contributing to the climate crisis. The organizers
of Military Emissions Gap caution against military-grade greenwashing,
calling for a specific list of requirements so that their reporting is
credible and meaningful in the overall movement for massive emissions
reduction.
https://www.pressenza.com/2021/11/mind-the-military-emissions-gap/
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/[ Look up The Military Emissions Gap for yourself ]/
*View your government’s military emissions data*
Militaries are huge energy users whose greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
are making a significant contribution to the climate crisis.
Military GHG emissions data reported by Parties to the UNFCCC has been
examined to gauge its status, transparency and consistency.
Under guidelines published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), military fuel use should be reported under IPCC category
1.A.5 (Other, not elsewhere specified). This category includes all
mobile fuel consumption, such as ships, aircraft and road vehicles. It
also includes all stationary fuel consumption, such as heating buildings
on military bases...
https://militaryemissions.org/
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/[ Details, how it is done ]/
*How the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions*
November 9, 2021...
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Which emissions should militaries count? Should such accounting
exercises focus exclusively on fuel use and energy consumption? Or
should the operation of the massive, global supply chains – like those
run by the US government’s Defense Logistics Agency – also be included?
Emissions from supply chains can be 5.5 times higher than an
organisation’s own operational emissions.
And what about overseas operations, whether overt or covert, or the
wider climatic costs of war and peace, such as landscape degradation,
deforestation or rebuilding?
Western governments, including institutions like NATO, are busy
positioning themselves as leaders on the security implications of the
climate crisis. Their credibility on climate security, and on climate
action more broadly, will be contingent on their willingness to first
face up to some difficult truths about their own contribution to climate
change. It will also require far more openness and transparency. Both
will be vital for delivering real change, rather than more weapons-grade
greenwash...
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https://theconversation.com/how-the-worlds-militaries-hide-their-huge-carbon-emissions-171466
/[ misinformation propagandist knows what he is doing ]/
*As the window for meaningful climate action closes, climate change
skeptic Bjorn Lomborg tells right-wing media everything’s going to be
all right*
WRITTEN BY EVLONDO COOPER
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TED MACDONALD
11/10/21
Around the early days of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change
Conference (COP26) on November 1, climate change contrarian Bjorn
Lomborg was near ubiquitous in right-wing media. He appeared on Fox News
and Fox Business a combined seven times, published an opinion piece in
the New York Post, and wrote a series of op-eds in the Wall Street
Journal since September. Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen even
published an opinion piece on November 2 that drew heavily on Lomborg’s
writings and statements.
This campaign fits a familiar pattern of right-wing and even mainstream
news outlets promoting Lomborg to downplay the seriousness of climate
change during a time when the world is focused on the need for climate
action. Lomborg’s true value for the polluter industry and its fellow
travelers in right-wing media is that he provides a thin veneer of
seriousness and sincerity about climate change on one hand, while
advocating climate inaction on the other. This cynical stance mirrors
that taken by the fossil fuel industry, which has shifted tactics away
from outright denial toward subtler forms of climate delay...
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With this backing, Lomborg became a media darling, given ample space in
both mainstream and right-wing news outlets to promote his brand of
climate skepticism. For example, to promote the release of his book last
July, Lomborg was able to publish op-eds in the New York Post and The
Wall Street Journal, while getting favorable profiles in The Epoch Times
and Climate Depot. He was also interviewed by fellow climate misinformer
Dennis Prager. No climate-denier press run would be complete without
stops on Fox. During this same period, Lomborg appeared on Fox Business’
Varney & Co. and Making Money with Charles Payne.
When he isn’t promoting a book, Lomborg often receives airtime and print
coverage to downplay the seriousness of climate change when an important
climate story makes headlines. At the beginning of the year, after
President Joe Biden announced the United States’ reentry into the Paris
climate accord, Lomborg was invited on Fox & Friends and asserted that
rejoining the Paris agreement would “cost a fortune and cut almost
nothing, so basically achieve almost nothing to fix climate change,”
before downplaying both the severity of future climate impacts and the
record-breaking 2020 hurricane season. He appeared on Fox News again in
February to falsely blame the Texas blackouts on renewable energy.
More recently, Lomborg published an op-ed in the New York Post in August
downplaying the urgency of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report and accused the media of
“hyperventilating” about its finding that climate change is a “code red
for humanity.” Ahead of COP26, Lomborg once again made the rounds on Fox
News and Fox Business to claim climate change isn’t driving wildfires,
even as new research finds a direct connection, and to downplay the need
for global climate action.
Why Lomborg’s climate skepticism is so valuable to the polluter industry
and its right-wing media allies
Even though Lomborg is “spectacularly wrong” about nearly everything,
he’s the perfect poster child for an industry that knowingly drove
climate change, engaged in a campaign to hide this fact, and is
currently funding sophisticated greenwashing campaigns to fool the
public about its meager efforts to mitigate a crisis it is primarily
responsible for.
His faux-serious dismissal of the climate crisis allows companies such
as News Corp. and Fox News Media, for example, to pretend to be serious
about climate change, via a net-zero campaign and weather app, while
their core news media property continues coverage that denies or mocks
the reality of climate change. As long as climate deniers and skeptics
such as Lomborg are given space to promote soft climate denial and
climate inaction, one should not take conservative news outlets’ public
statements about their supposed commitment to cover climate change
seriously.
Lomborg’s siren song would lull us into a sense of complacency --
especially during pivotal moments such as COP26, which represents one of
the few remaining chances to advance a framework that could stave off
the worst climate consequences. And that's precisely why the polluter
lobby and its right-wing media allies are singing his tune.
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/window-meaningful-climate-action-closes-climate-change-skeptic-bjorn-lomborg-tells-right#comments
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[Famous database of dis-informers is at DeSmogBlog ]
*Bjørn Lomborg*
Credentials
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
(1994).1
M.A., political science (1991).-
Lomborg is best known as the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist
and Cool It, two books that downplay the risks of global warming.
Lomborg does not have a background in climate science and has published
no peer-reviewed articles in journals devoted to climate change
research. He has, however, authored policy studies arguing against
climate change prevention measures. He wrote a similar article in the
peer-reviewed journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change where
he claimed, “Climate policies also have costs that often vastly outweigh
their climate benefits.”...
https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/
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/[ visualize the solution]/
*Stocks and Flows [The Climate Leader]*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlYGDBGcRA
see also
https://www.climateinteractive.org/ci-topics/systems-thinking/the-climate-leader/
/[ What did we know back then? - A classic 1977 video lecture on
systems dynamics - Dartmouth ]/
*A Philosophical Look at System Dynamics*
Aug 11, 2017
Donella Meadows
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Spring of 1977. In this
lecture, Donella Meadows takes on a more philosophical concept. How can
we bring ourselves to be aware of the assumptions we make as systems
thinkers? She asserts that models are a set of assumptions. Donella
Meadows defines some of these system dynamics assumptions (such as
causal relationships and feedback loops) in this video.
___________________________________________________________________
Youtube videos covered by CCBY license and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_lOoomRTA
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/[ vs 2014 MIT Systems Dynamics video starts about 2:45]/
*Introduction to System Dynamics: Overview*
Jul 28, 2014
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT 15.871 Introduction to System Dynamics, Fall 2013
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/15-871F13
Instructor: John Sterman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnTwZVviXyY
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/[from 2015 new understanding of climate systems - with a simple video
animation ]/
*Introduction to System Dynamics: Overview*
Jul 28, 2014
MIT OpenCourseWare
MIT 15.871 Introduction to System Dynamics, Fall 2013
View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/15-871F13
Instructor: John Sterman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlYGDBGcRA
/[ Text - Sometimes we need cute ]/
*The Cutest Way to Fight Climate Change? Send in the Otters*
Saving California's adorable (and very hungry) sea otters helps control
other species, leading to the growth of more carbon-sequestering
vegetation...
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So since 2002, the aquarium has been on a mission to bring back the
otters with the cutest adoption program in the world. Sea otter moms in
captivity take in orphaned pups—often left parentless thanks to great
white sharks, which bite but don’t actually eat otters, since sharks
prefer blubber to fur. The new moms teach the pups how to do sea otter
things—like clean themselves, float on their backs, and use rocks to
crack open sea urchins on their bellies. “We're not hand-feeding them
and imprinting them on humans—they're learning how to be an otter from
an otter,” says Fujii. “Some of these animals come in when they're only
a day old. They don't have any notion of what home used to be.”
When the adoptees are ready, Fujii’s team sets them loose in the coastal
habitats of California. Each is tagged and monitored closely for the
first two weeks to make sure they’re getting along fine. (Along with
observational surveys in Monterey Bay, tagging helps scientists conduct
censuses of the otter population.) If not, they’re brought back in and
returned to otter school. But the team found that the 37 adopted otters
released between 2002 and 2016 have survived just as well as if they’d
grown up fully in the wild. The reintroduced otters go on to reproduce
and make more otters. Thanks in part to this first-of-its-kind program,
the sea otter population along the California coast has swelled to 3,000...
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Healthy ecosystems also support sustainable fisheries, providing
livelihoods for community members. And the sea otters in Monterey have
the added benefit of being very cute, which brings in tourists and their
money. These kinds of knock-on benefits are why conservationists are
increasingly campaigning for blue carbon-related nature-based solutions:
restoring ecosystems to fight climate change. Everyone wins—the locals,
the climate, the ecosystem. Well, maybe not the sea urchins and crabs.
But they won’t be missed.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-cutest-way-to-fight-climate-change-send-in-the-otters/
/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming November 12, 2012*
November 12, 2012: Powerful conservative activist Grover Norquist is
quoted in the National Journal as saying that a federal revenue-neutral
carbon tax would not violate the Republican Party's "no new taxes"
position. After being viciously criticized by representatives from Koch
Industries, Norquist abruptly flip-flops.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/11/13/1182511/grover-norquist-abruptly-reverses-position-on-carbon-tax-after-facing-criticism-from-koch-backed-group/
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