[✔️] October 24, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
👀 Richard Pauli
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Sun Oct 24 10:32:27 EDT 2021
/*October 24, 2021*/
/[ Superb talk of heroic activism -- George Monbiot interview on YouTube ]/
*Climate Change and Capitalism with George Monbiot | Penguin Talks*
Oct 13, 2021
Penguin Platform
Join author of _This Can't be Happening_, George Monbiot, and co-Founder
of 'Earthrise.studio', Alice Aedy, as they discuss the impact of
capitalism on the climate crisis, activism, the role of storytelling and
what we have to gain if we change our lifestyle.
Penguin Talks is a series of free creative events which gives young
people the opportunity to hear from, and question, some of Penguin’s
most influential authors.
This Can't be Happening: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/44284...
Join our Discord full of YA and teen readers: https://discord.gg/zr9TGZH
Instagram: https://instagram.com/penguinplatform/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/penguinplatform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm78X0RZNho
/[ Deep science -- yet a plain-speaking academic assessment - video
lecture 75 minutes]/
*Day 9 - William E. Rees: The Enigma of Climate Inaction – On the Human
Nature of Policy Failure*
Oct 5, 2021
Institut des sciences cognitives - UQAM
ISC 2021 Summer School – Cognitive Challenges of Climate Change
(https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites...)
Day 9
Talk by William E. Rees: The Enigma of Climate Inaction – On the Human
Nature of Policy Failure
MC: Alexia Ostrolenk, Ph.D Candidate in Psychiatric Science (UdeM);
Science Communicator (ComScicon-QC, BrainReach)
Abstract:
H. sapiens is a self-described intelligent species, yet seems committed
to destroying its own habitat. Human-induced climate change, driven by
carbon-dioxide and other GHG emissions, is one of several well-known
threats to global civilization. Nevertheless, 34 climate conferences and
half a dozen major international agreements in the past 50 years have
failed to produce even a ripple in the curve of exponentially increasing
atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Climate change is accelerating. This
presentation: 1) examines some of the evolutionary, behavioural and
cognitive impediments to effective corrective action by governments and
international agencies and; 2) advances some ideological, political and
organizational changes that must be implemented at all levels of society
to avoid global climate catastrophe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWhjSUu8UY
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/[ summer school on climate studies ]/
*ISC 2021 SUMMER SCHOOL COGNITION & CLIMATE*
Description: This course is offered as part of the cognitive sciences
summer school on cognitive challenges of climate change. The goal is to
make disciplines studying climate change interact with the cognitive
science approaches such as computation, interpretation, situated
cognition and macrocognition. This intensive course, spread over two
weeks, will bring together more than thirty-five national and
international experts, who will present the results of their research on
climate change. The course will also include poster session.
Contributions from various disciplines, including neuroscience,
psychology, philosophy, linguistics, computer science and artificial
intelligence, education, communication, law, biology, environmental
sciences and climate sciences will be presented. Several dimensions of
climate change will be addressed, including reasoning and
decision-making, mental models and biases, behaviors and emotions,
systemic modeling of problems, risks and solutions, linguistic and
pragmatic determinations, etc.
https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/isc/en/iscuqam2021/schedule?date=2021-06-03
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*Institut des sciences cognitives - UQAM*
https://www.youtube.com/c/InstitutdessciencescognitivesUQAM/videos
/[ Should have been done -- in '71 ] /
*French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in 1971’,
Study Finds*
Campaigners say the research shows Total and other oil and gas majors
have “stolen the precious time of a generation to stem the climate crisis”.
Adam Barnett and Phoebe Cookeon - Oct 20, 2021
French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could
contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent about it
until 1988, according to a new study.
Research published today in the journal Global Environmental Change,
based on internal company documents and interviews with former staff,
found that personnel “received warnings of the potential for
catastrophic global warming from its products by 1971”.
Total – which this year rebranded as TotalEnergies – “became more fully
informed” about climate change in the 1980s and “began promoting doubt
regarding the scientific basis for global warming by the late 1980s”.
The company publicly accepted climate science in the 1990s but promoted
“policy delay or policies peripheral to fossil fuel control”, the
authors found...
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In a statement, a Total spokesperson said that “knowledge of climate
risk since the 1970s has been no different from that published in
scientific journals at the time, which the scientific paper published
today fully confirms”.
He continued: “It is therefore wrong to claim that the climate risk was
concealed by Total or Elf, either in the 1970s or since. TotalEnergies
notes that the paper itself states that Elf and Total already accepted
the findings of climate science, publicly and openly, as long as 25
years ago.
“TotalEnergies regrets that it was never approached or consulted by the
authors of the paper, which TotalEnergies will study in detail.
TotalEnergies deplores the process of pointing up at a situation from
fifty years ago, without highlighting the efforts, changes, progress and
investments made since then.”
https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/20/french-oil-company-total-knew-about-global-warming-impact-in-1971-study-finds/
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/[ link to source material]/
*Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to global
warming, 1971–2021*
Christophe Bonneuila, Pierre-LouisChoquetb, BenjaminFrantac
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102386
Highlights
• Archives, interviews used to trace Total's engagement with global
warming since 1970s.
• Total or predecessors aware of harmful global warming impacts
since at least 1971.
• Total engaged in overt denial of climate science in late 1980s,
early 1990s.
• Various postures and strategies pursued by Total other than overt
science denial.
• IPIECA played key role in coordinating international oil industry
beginning in 1980s.
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Abstract
Building upon recent work on other major fossil fuel companies, we
report new archival research and primary source interviews
describing how Total responded to evolving climate science and
policy in the last 50 years. We show that Total personnel received
warnings of the potential for catastrophic global warming from its
products by 1971, became more fully informed of the issue in the
1980s, began promoting doubt regarding the scientific basis for
global warming by the late 1980s, and ultimately settled on a
position in the late 1990s of publicly accepting climate science
while promoting policy delay or policies peripheral to fossil fuel
control. Additionally, we find that Exxon, through the International
Petroleum Industry Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA),
coordinated an international campaign to dispute climate science and
weaken international climate policy, beginning in the 1980s. This
represents one of the first longitudinal studies of a major fossil
fuel company’s responses to global warming to the present,
describing historical stages of awareness, preparation, denial, and
delay.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378021001655
/[ take the polar route ] /
*How Russia Is Cashing In on Climate Change*
Global warming may pose grave dangers around the world, but as one tiny
Russian town on the Arctic Ocean shows, it can also be a ticket to
prosperity.
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The trip from Busan, in South Korea, to Amsterdam, for example, is 13
days shorter over the Northern Sea Route — a significant savings in time
and fuel.
Ship traffic in the Russian Arctic rose by about 50 percent last year,
though still amounting to just 3 percent of traffic through the Suez
Canal. But a test run last February with a specially reinforced
commercial vessel provided proof that the passage can be traversed in
winter, so traffic is expected to rise sharply when the route opens
year-round next year, Yuri Trutnev, a deputy prime minister, told the
Russian media.
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“We will gradually take transport away from the Suez Canal,” Mr. Trutnev
said of the plan. “A second possibility for humanity certainly won’t
bother anybody.”
Money has been pouring in for Arctic projects. Rosatom in July signed a
deal with DP World, the Dubai-based ports and logistics company, to
develop ports and a fleet of ice-class container ships with specially
reinforced hulls to navigate icy seas.
The thawing ocean has also made oil, natural gas and mining ventures
more profitable, reducing the costs of shipping supplies in and products
out. A multi-billion-dollar joint venture of the Russian company
Novatek, Total of France, CNPC of China and other investors now exports
about 5 percent of all liquefied natural gas traded globally over the
thawing Arctic Ocean.
Overall, analysts say, at least half a dozen large Russian companies in
energy, shipping and mining will benefit from global warming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/world/europe/russia-arctic-climate-change-putin.html
/[NPR is trying to hide this shameful history. Especially now, during
pledge drive ]/
*On this day in the history of global warming October 24, 2014*
InsideClimate News reports on NPR's abandonment of climate-change coverage.
http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20141024/npr-reduces-its-environment-team-one-reporter
*NPR Guts Its Environment And Climate Reporting Team, Becomes ‘Part
Of The Problem’*
BY JOE ROMM POSTED ON OCTOBER 24, 2014
NPR has gutted its staff dedicated to covering environmental and
climate issues. Given the nation’s and world’s renewed focus on the
threat posed by unrestricted carbon pollution, this baffling move is
already receiving widespread criticism from scientists and media
watchers. It is “a sad commentary on the current state of our
media,” as one top climatologist told me.
Katherine Bagley broke the story for InsideClimate News. She reports
that earlier in 2014, NPR “had three full-time reporters and one
editor dedicated” to cover environmental and climate issues within
NPR’s science desk. Now, shockingly, “One remains — and he is
covering it only part-time.”
NPR’s climate coverage has been fairly stagnant for years, as this
graph shows (click to enlarge):
BrulleNPR
Climate communications expert Dr. Robert J. Brulle of Drexel
University is the source of that graph. He also emailed me a comment
on NPR’s move:
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 that led to the founding of NPR
had as one of its goals that public broadcasting would serve as a
“source of alternative telecommunications services” that would serve
to “address national concerns.” This latest announcement illustrates
how NPR has lost its way. The level of coverage of climate change by
NPR has not served to increase public knowledge of climate change
any more than any other commercial news outlet. Its coverage has
returned to the levels seen around 2006. Reducing the environmental
staff will further decrease its coverage of climate change. I would
have thought NPR would take a proactive stance toward the coverage
of climate change, given its charter to address issues of national
concern. Sadly, it seems that instead of being part of the solution,
NPR has now become part of the problem.
An InsideClimate News analysis of NPR pieces tagged “environment,”
found that the number “has declined since January … dropping from
the low 60s to mid-40s every month.”
Journalists and scientists quickly criticized NPR’s move. The LA
Times energy and environment reporter in Washington, D.C., Neela
Banerjee, almost immediately tweeted out:
@NPR dismantles its great environment desk because that worked so
well for @NYTimes a year ago: http://t.co/xwtApHigHr #climate
#science — Neela Banerjee (@neelaeast) October 24, 2014
Last year, climate coverage at the New York Times dropped following
its closure of its own environmental desk. But the Times recently
reversed course and expanded its team.
In an email to ClimateProgress, Bagley wrote “With the impacts of
climate change becoming more salient, this seems like the wrong time
for a news outlet to be reducing the resources or manpower it
dedicates to covering this issue.” She hopes NPR ultimately ends up
where the Times did: “It closed its desk, but after much criticism
and data showing that its coverage declined, the paper made
environment and climate a key priority again by assigning a number
of new reporters to the beat.”
Michael Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center
and one of the country’s top climatologists, told ClimateProgress,
“This is a sad commentary on the current state of our media and, in
particular, environmental reporting. Climate change is perhaps the
greatest challenge we face as a civilization. Yet NPR apparently
feels that it only deserves a fraction of one reporter.”
How does NPR explain the shift?
The move to shift reporters off the environment beat was driven by
an interest to cover other fields more in depth, said Anne
Gudenkauf, senior supervising editor of NPR’s science desk….
Gudenkauf also said she doesn’t “feel like [the environment]
necessarily requires dedicated reporters” because so many other
staffers cover the subject, along with their other beats.
Personally, I don’t know anyone in the media business who shares
that view. Indeed, one of the reasons that Climate Progress greatly
expanded its team of reporters dedicated to covering climate change
last year is precisely because major MSM outlets like the Times were
slashing coverage.
Yet, ironically, at the same time that the New York Times has
figured out it made a mistake cutting dedicated climate reporters,
NPR has made the exact same mistake.
https://web.archive.org/web/20141102225133/https://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/24/3584246/npr-guts-climate-team
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