[✔️] October 26, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*October 26, 2021*/

/[ Driving the money forward - -100,000 Teslas in the Hertz deal.]
/*Tesla-Hertz EV deal is climate change tipping point for national car 
rental fleets*
OCT 25 2021
KEY POINTS
-- The rental car industry’s major players have not made major 
commitments to electric vehicles as part of their fleets to date.
-- The Hertz deal with Tesla will pressure its competitors like Avis 
Budget Group and Enterprise Holdings to more seriously consider adoption 
of EVs.
-- Government scrutiny of rental car emissions and consumer interest in 
EVs will continue to grow, says Northcoast Research analyst John Healy.
/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/tesla-hertz-ev-deal-signal-to-rental-car-fleets-its-time-for-electric.html
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/[ follow the money that may take a serious path ]/
*U.S. Warns Climate Poses ‘Emerging Threat’ to Financial System*
A Financial Stability Oversight Council report could lead to more 
regulatory action and disclosure requirements for banks.
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Ms. Yellen, who will travel to Glasgow for the U.N. conference next 
month, hailed the significance of the report at the council’s meeting on 
Thursday.

“It’s a critical first step forward in addressing the threat of climate 
change and it will by no means be the end of this work,” she said.

Ben Cushing, manager of the Sierra Club’s Fossil-Free Finance campaign, 
said that the report was a step in the right direction but that it 
needed to be more bold. He said that Wall Street firms were contributing 
to the climate crisis and that regulators must rein them in.

“Secretary Yellen’s report lays out preliminary steps to make the 
financial industry more transparent and accountable for their growing 
climate risks, but it’s also a missed opportunity to recommend actions 
that actually reduce climate risk and limit Wall Street’s toxic 
investments in the fossil fuels that are driving the crisis,” Mr. 
Cushing said.

The next step is for the various financial regulators to act on the 
warnings in the report, said Steven M. Rothstein, managing director of 
the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, which works with 
investors to address climate risks.

“Banks, insurance and fossil fuel companies should be on notice,” Mr. 
Rothstein said. “Each agency must now provide specific timelines when 
they plan to put in place measures to protect the safety and soundness 
of our financial system, our institutions, our savings and our communities.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/climate-change-cost-us.html



/[ Cli-Migrants ]/
*‘Disappointing’: The US’s first climate migration report falls flat*
“We went from a bold call and vision to, well, nothing.”
María Paula Rubiano A. & Adam Mahoney
Oct 25, 2021
On Thursday, the National Security Council released a long-anticipated 
report on what environmental advocates are calling one the most pressing 
issues of our time: climate change-induced migration. The report is the 
first U.S. government report on the effects of climate on migration and 
arrives right as President Biden is slated to attend a major United 
Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland known as COP26.

The 37-page report, which was commissioned by President Joe Biden in 
February with an August deadline, notes that climate migration, both 
within countries and between them, is already here, but is set to get a 
lot worse. Climate change is expected to displace as many as 143 million 
people, nearly three percent of the populations of Latin America, South 
Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, by 2050. Roughly a quarter of those are 
expected to migrate internationally as a result of their displacement. 
The sheer mass of migrants will have “significant implications for 
international security, instability, conflict, and geopolitics,” the 
report says. This includes climate change-induced wars and conflicts 
over natural resources, namely water. ..
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Yayboke says he understands why many groups may be disappointed with the 
report, but notes it an important step forward — especially given the 
country’s documented inability to pass climate legislation. “Very few 
people would say with a straight face that our current protections are 
sufficient — but this document is just meant to be a report,” he said. 
“Some of this may take congressional action, which we can all agree is 
really hard in today’s climate and the administration needs to take its 
time to make sure that their plans are durable from rollbacks from 
future administrations.”

While that may be true, the report made one thing clear about the 
country’s role in protecting climate migrants — despite being the 
largest greenhouse gas emitter in history: the country has no obligation 
to support climate migrants. “The United States does not consider its 
international human rights obligations to require extending 
international protection to individuals fleeing the impacts of climate 
change,” the report states.

Climate Refugees’ Amali Tower believes that’s a mistake, since “climate 
change destabilizes entire existences, it marginalizes people who are 
already oppressed, and it erodes their rights, their abilities to feed 
themselves, to work, to withstand disasters, to survive increasing costs 
of living,” she said. “This is a failure to not recognize all of that in 
your policy prescription.”
https://grist.org/climate/disappointing-the-uss-first-climate-migration-report-falls-flat/




/[ From the master of climate communications -- aimed at scientists, 
suitable for anyone, hear experts speaking - succinctly - Yale School of 
the Environment YouTube 90 min video ] /
*Climate Communications*
Oct. 25, 2021
Oxford Climate Society
"so here we go." Scientists agree:

    *it's real**
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    **it's us**
    **
    **it's bad**
    **
    **but there's hope*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDvbPMxoPo



/[ Congressional hearings begin on Thursday ]/
*Fueling the Climate Crisis: Exposing Big Oil’s Disinformation Campaign 
to Prevent Climate Action*
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On Thursday, October 28, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. ET, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, 
the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Ro 
Khanna, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Environment, will hold a 
hearing to examine the fossil fuel industry’s long-running, 
industry-wide campaign to spread disinformation about the role of fossil 
fuels in causing global warming.

The fossil fuel industry has had scientific evidence about the dangers 
of climate change since at least 1977.  Yet for decades, the industry 
spread denial and doubt about the harm of its products—undermining the 
science and preventing meaningful action on climate change even as the 
global climate crisis became increasingly dire, and its deadly impact on 
Americans increased.

More recently, some large fossil fuel companies took public stances in 
support of climate actions while privately continuing to block reforms, 
invest overwhelmingly in fossil fuel extraction, and support efforts to 
extend the life of fossil fuel investments.  The industry reportedly 
spends billions to promote climate disinformation through branding and 
lobbying.   Moreover, they increasingly outsource lobbying to trade 
groups, obscuring their own roles in disinformation efforts.

On September 16, 2021, the Chairs sent letters to top fossil fuel 
executives requesting documents and communications related to their 
organization’s role in supporting disinformation and misleading the 
public to prevent action on the climate crisis.  To date, all the fossil 
fuel entities have failed to adequately comply with the Committee’s request.
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/fueling-the-climate-crisis-exposing-big-oil-s-disinformation-campaign-to



/[  Academic YouTube 53 min ] /
*Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2021-09-21: Ronja Reese*
Oct 23, 2021
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2021-09-21
Speaker: Ronja Reese
Title: The role of ice shelves for sea-level rise from Antarctica

Abstract: The Antarctic Ice Sheet’s contribution to global sea level 
rise has increased in the past decade and might rise further in the 
future, with implications for coastal regions worldwide. At present, its 
mass loss is mainly driven through the interaction with the surrounding 
Southern Ocean: at the fringes of the ice sheet, enhanced melting and 
calving of the ice shelves reduces their “buttressing” and thereby cause 
glaciers to accelerate and retreat.

The underlying processes and their influence on future mass losses can 
be examined with numerical models that encompass the dynamics of the ice 
sheet as well as melting physics at the ice-ocean interface. 
Understanding these processes is particularly important as they are key 
to understanding uncertainties in future sea-level projections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejM4KhqmhWc


/[ looking forward ]
/*Major economies plan to extract more fossil fuels—incompatible with 
keeping global temps at safe levels*
Oil and gas recovery is set to rise sharply with only a modest decrease 
in coal
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Large economies will produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels 
in 2030—than is consistent with meeting climate change goals set under 
the Paris Agreement.
These findings come from the United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) 
annual production gap report.

The report assesses the difference between governments’ planned 
production of coal, oil and gas and production levels that are 
consistent with meeting Paris temperature limits.

The report concludes that of the 15 major fossil fuel producers 
assessed, they plan to produce around 110% more fossil fuels in 2030 
than would be consistent with limiting the degree of warming to 1.5C, 
and 45% more than is consistent with 2C.

“Governments continue to plan for and support levels of fossil fuel 
production that are vastly in excess of what we can safely burn,” says 
Ploy Achakulwisut, a lead author on the report from the Stockholm 
Environment Institute.

The countries analyzed in the report were Australia, Brazil, Canada, 
China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, 
South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the 
United States.
https://pvbuzz.com/major-economies-plan-to-extract-more-fossil-fuels//
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/[ addiction to growth ]/
*Day 9 - Robert Costanza: Overcoming our societal addiction to growth*
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 Robert Costanza: Overcoming our societal addiction to growth
MC: Alexia Ostrolenk, Ph.D Candidate in Psychiatric Science (UdeM); 
Science Communicator (ComScicon-QC, BrainReach)

Bio:
Professor Robert Costanza is a Vice-Chancellor’s Chair in Public Policy 
at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National 
University. He is also currently a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm 
Resilience Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, an Affiliate Fellow at the Gund 
Institute at the University of Vermont, and a deTao Master of Ecological 
Economics at the deTao Masters Academy in Shanghai, China. He is a 
Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the 
Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in the UK, and is an Overseas Expert in the 
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Professor Costanza’s transdisciplinary research integrates the study of 
humans and the rest of nature to address research, policy and management 
issues at multiple time and space scales, from small watersheds to the 
global system. His specialties include: transdisciplinary integration, 
systems ecology, ecological economics, ecosystem services, landscape 
ecology, integrated socio-ecological modeling, ecological design, energy 
analysis, environmental policy, social traps and addictions, incentive 
structures, and institutions.

He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for 
Ecological Economics and was founding chief editor of the society’s 
journal Ecological Economics. He currently serves on the editorial board 
of ten other international academic journals. He is also founding 
co-editor in chief of Solutions a unique hybrid academic/popular journal 
and editor in chief of the Anthropocene Review.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QCuNLh2Wss


/[ notice the secondary damage to infrastructure.  ]/
*Naomi Klein Hopes This Is the Stage Before the Breakthrough*
The author activist on overcoming defeats, her new role at UBC, the 
future of climate justice and more.
Olamide Olaniyan -- 22 Oct 2021 | TheTyee.ca
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And the reason why I emphasize the importance of the investments in the 
social sphere — affordable housing, the infrastructure of care, valuing 
care workers, recognizing that care work is climate work, that 
affordable housing is climate policy — is that when we make these 
investments in our societies that build schools that value everyone, 
where people have the basics taken care of, “Yes, you will have a home. 
Yes, you will have food. Yes, there will be water.” This will serve us 
extremely well as these shocks hit.

It isn’t only that we can do these things in a way that bring down 
emissions. And we can: When we invest in the care sector as opposed to 
the extractive sector, we are enacting climate policy, we are changing 
our economy in a way that’s going to lower emissions if we do it well 
and we do it smartly. But from what I’ve seen from covering disasters 
now — since Katrina, but including Hurricane Maria, including Hurricane 
Sandy and the fire that burned down Paradise, California — what I know 
is that what makes these disasters really cataclysmic and what is 
responsible for the highest death toll, is very rarely the disasters 
themselves.

Like Maria, it was less than 50 people who died as a direct result of 
falling debris in the storm. But 3,000 people died because of a failed 
health-care system and a failed electricity system and a failure of care 
in the months that followed. More than 1,000 people died in New Orleans 
after [Hurricane] Katrina. Also, it was not because of the force of that 
storm. The reason people died was because of systemic racism, it was 
because of a government that just abandoned the city.

And so these investments in what I’m broadly calling the “infrastructure 
of care” are going to save lives in the millions in the rocky future 
that is headed our way and these shifts in values, and you could call it 
eco-socialism, you could call it whatever you want, are going to be what 
keep us from turning on each other when things get stressful, when we’re 
tested by shocks. So it’s not that I’m rosy and hopeful and optimistic. 
It’s just that I think that this is how we hold on to our humanity in 
the future to come. And that this is not a luxury.  [Tyee]
https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/10/22/Naomi-Klein-Stage-Before-Breakthrough/



/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming October  26, 2000*

October 26, 2000: At a campaign appearance in Davenport, Iowa, 
Democratic candidate Al Gore declares:

"Now, I want to talk about the environment here today, because we have a 
situation where the big polluters are supporting Governor Bush, and they 
are wanting to be in control of the environmental policies.

"In his state of Texas -- Tom talked about some of the statistics there 
-- here's another: They're No. 1 in something; they rank No. 1 out of 
all 50 in industrial pollution. They rank No. 1 as the smoggiest state. 
Houston's just solidified its title as the smoggiest city.

"He put a lobbyist for the chemical manufacturers in charge of enforcing 
the environmental laws, made some of the environmental laws voluntary 
and then the state sank in its ratings.

"Now, look, just today we are seeing on television the new study that 
just comes out once every five years where the scientific community 
around the world tells us what they've learned about this problem that 
these kids are going to grow up with unless we do something, and that's 
the problem of global warming. And I know a lot of people say that that 
looks like it's off in the future.

"But let me tell what you this new study said: instead of just going up 
a few degrees in the lifetimes of these kids, unless we act, the average 
temperature is going to go up 10 or 11 degrees. The storms will get 
stronger, the weather patterns will change. But it does not have to 
happen, and it won't happen if we put our minds to solving this problem."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/26/se.02.html


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