[✔️] October10 , 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*October 10, 2021*/

/[ another battery breakthrough - possibly] /
*Lithium Sulfur batteries: SOLVED! Two new tech breakthroughs in the 
same week!*
Oct 10, 2021
Just Have a Think
Lithium Sulphur (or Sulfur) batteries have been on the 'hopeful 
technology' list for over a decade now. Potentially they have 5 times 
the energy density of existing lithium-ion batteries. The trouble is, 
previous prototypes had terribly short cycle lives, so they were pretty 
much useless. Now, after ten years of waiting, suddenly two different 
solutions have been announced within a
Video Transcripts available at our website http://www.justhaveathink.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqH5yB9RB_Y



/[ Religion challenges politics ]/
*Pope calls on lawmakers to quickly reach consensus on fighting climate 
change*
OCTOBER 9, 2021
Pope Francis on Saturday called on lawmakers worldwide to overcome "the 
narrow confines" of partisan politics to quickly reach consensus on 
fighting climate change. The pope addressed parliamentarians who were in 
Rome for a preparatory meeting before the U.N's annual climate 
conference, which begins in Glasgow, Scotland, on October 31.

Francis referred to a joint appeal he and other religious leaders signed 
this week that calls for governments to commit to ambitious goals at the 
U.N. conference, which experts consider a critical opportunity to tackle 
the threat of global warming.

"To meet this challenge, everyone has a role to play,'' Francis told the 
visiting lawmakers from many countries. "That of political and 
government leaders is especially important, and indeed crucial."
"This demanding change of direction will require great wisdom, foresight 
and concern for the common good: in a word, the fundamental virtues of 
good politics,'' Francis said.

Francis said in a recent interview that he intended to participate in 
the U.N.'s upcoming COP26 conference, but the Vatican announced Friday 
that he would not attend and the Vatican delegation would be led by the 
secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-francis-calls-on-lawmakers-reach-consensus-fighting-climate-change/



/[BBC reports]/
*Kraft Heinz says people must get used to higher food prices*
Mr Patricio says that consumers will need to get used to higher food 
prices given that the world's population is rising whilst the amount of 
land on which to grow food is not.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58847275



/[easy prediction]/
*Defense Department warns climate change will increase conflicts over 
water and food*
PUBLISHED FRI, OCT 8 2021
Emma Newburger
KEY POINTS
- Climate change poses a serious threat to U.S. military operations and 
will lead to new sources of global political conflict, the Department of 
Defense wrote in its new climate adaptation plan.
- Water shortages could become a primary source of friction or conflict 
between U.S. military overseas and the countries where troops are based, 
it warned.
- The DOD was among 20 federal agencies unveiling the plans, which 
reveal the biggest threats global warming poses to their operations and 
suggest how they could handle them.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/defense-department-warns-climate-change-will-increase-conflicts.html



/[ obstructing progress ]/*
**Kyrsten Sinema Wants to Cut $100 Billion in Proposed Climate Funds, 
Sources Say*
The Arizona senator, who started in politics as an environmentalist, is 
one of two centrist Democrats who could make or break a spending bill at 
the center of President Biden’s legislative agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/climate/arizona-senator-sinema.html



/[Some sarcastic humor 20 min video -- Halloween Hell-House ]/
*Full Frontal Rewind: Sam's Takes on Climate Change*
Oct 6, 2021
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
You’re not imagining things: it’s getting hotter. Cool down with our 
best pieces from the show about climate change and what we can do about 
it before Denver has a beach.

Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZnEKYGBA9k


[climate physicist talk philosophical]
*Could climate change make Earth uninhabitable for humans? | Niel 
Bowerman | EA Global: London 2019*
Dec 18, 2019
Centre for Effective Altruism
How likely is human extinction due to climate change? Niel Bowerman, a 
former climate physicist who is now at 80,000 Hours, addresses one 
component of this question — the future physical habitability of Earth — 
by surveying possible routes to extreme levels of warming and ways in 
which extreme warming could lead to uninhabitability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsQgDwXmsyg



[The Great, the Wise Woman - Joanna Macy in a classic video]
*The Hidden Promise of Our Dark Age*
Sep 30, 2021
Facing Future
One of the great activists and spiritual teachers of our era, 
#JoannaMacy asks us to  discover our inherent wisdom, strength and 
beauty in the midst of crisis.  Her Buddhist teaching is that we must 
sustain the motivation to care for the welfare of all, despite the 
overwhelming catastrophe that is coming fast upon us.

  She tells us that uncertainty can be a gift, freeing us from the 
delusions and dependencies bred by our pathological “industrial growth 
society,” and instead, we must stand in the way of the forces that are 
destroying life on our planet.  Steering clear of panic, we may well 
find, at last, the wild power of our creativity and solidarity, as we 
link arms and take up the great work of our time.

This talk was given at Bioneers in 2018.  For relevant content in this 
year's Bioneers conference, Dr. Gabor Maté will address trauma, illness 
and healing @Bioneers 2021 Virtual Conference.  For a 15% Facing Future 
Discount, use code bc36m2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9OT8MFr3IE



/[ text and audio ]
/*A rant about economist pundits, and other things, but mostly economist 
pundits*/
/Read the room.
David Roberts
Oct 8, 2021/
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/There are those in climate circles who lay most of the blame for the 
failure of climate action to date at the feet of economists. I’m not one 
of those people. I just lay … some of the blame at their feet. The fact 
is, rapidly transforming the entire industrial base of every country on 
earth was always going to be difficult — lots of extremely powerful 
interests stand to lose a great deal of money and power — and was 
probably going to go slowly no matter what economists did.
- -
Conventional economics has mostly gotten climate change wrong
Part of what prompted me to write this post in the first place is this 
piece by economist Daron Acemoglu about the failures of economics on 
climate change and some longstanding assumptions that need to be 
updated. It’s a smart, approachable distillation of some critiques that 
will be familiar to policy nerds:

Economists have dramatically underestimated the cost of climate damages.

They have treated technology as an exogenous variable, something 
external that just happens, applied to models at a set rate; models with 
“endogenous and directed technological change,” which reflects our 
ability to shape and focus technology development through policy, reveal 
that much more dramatic emission cuts are affordable.

They have used “discount rates” familiar in short-term market contexts 
to calculate the value of inter-generational goods.

They have failed to account properly for risk and uncertainty, 
especially for “long-tail risks,” i.e., low-probability but disastrous 
outcomes.

They have assessed the costs and benefits of wholesale sociotechnical 
transformation using utility functions designed to model changes at the 
margins of existing systems.

They have obsessed over optimally efficient policy in a way that ignores 
other values and trade-offs.

(See Noah Smith and Tom Brookes and Gernot Wagner for other recent 
fulsome critiques of climate economics.)...
- -
But here’s the thing. If you’re calculating the optimally efficient 
policy, you’re an economist; once you go out in public and argue, 
“legislators should pass this policy,” you’re no longer acting purely as 
an economist, you’re acting as a citizen, an advocate.

You’re no longer merely saying, “this is the optimally efficient policy 
on paper,” you’re saying, “this is the right policy to push, all things 
considered.” Economist pundits spent years conflating those two in 
climate policy, and they’ve inspired a lot of other people to conflate 
them as well.

When you enter the realm of politics and make political arguments and 
recommendations, you ought to be cognizant of, not merely the likely 
economic effects of a policy if it is passed and enforced, but the 
political dynamics that determine its feasibility, the likelihood that 
it will stay in place if passed, the state’s ability to enforce it, what 
social and economic interests will gain and lose from it, how equitable 
its distribution of costs and benefits may be, and how all of it might 
shape the space of political possibilities in the future.

You ought to be cognizant of and feel responsible for the political 
effects of your intervention — what interests and factions you are 
strengthening and which you are weakening, where your argument weighs in 
the current moment, how your words are likely to be used, and by whom.

Those are all difficult things to know! And the truth is difficult to 
glean from the ungainly morass of political journalism and commentary. 
Unlike disciplines with some academic or professional standards of 
rigor, political punditry and advocacy are a veritable festival of gut 
instincts, guesses, bad logic, bad faith, and confirmation bias. Pundits 
rarely offer empirical evidence; they rarely assess the accuracy of 
their prior predictions; they rarely change their minds.

It drives scientists, economists, and, uh, ex-philosophy students out of 
their heads. It is tempting to try to claim some authority, to claim 
that a background in economics (or some other technical field) confers 
the status of referee, making the final calls on the merits of various 
policies.

But it doesn’t. There are no real “experts” in politics, despite many 
claims to the contrary. The best we can hope for is to develop a few 
empirically informed heuristics (including those from economics), to 
remain open and alive to new evidence, to find trustworthy guides to the 
current political economy, and to strive toward, for lack of a better 
word, wisdom.

Technical training and specialist knowledge are valuable. Those involved 
in political analysis and advocacy ought to pull in more from economics, 
political science, sociology, and ecology, among other disciplines.

But those who have technical training should never mistake it for wisdom.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/a-rant-about-economist-pundits-and


/[Every so often it's wise to check in with the other side ]/
*The Latest Media Matters Climate Deniers*
https://www.mediamatters.org/climate-deniers


/The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming October  10, 2009*

October 10, 2009: In a New York Times opinion piece, Senators John
Kerry and Lindsey Graham express confidence that bipartisan
climate-change legislation will receive 60 votes in the Senate. Graham
would later disavow support for such legislation, setting the stage
for its demise in 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11kerrygraham.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0




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