[✔️] September 12, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Sun Sep 12 09:41:40 EDT 2021

/*September 12, 2021*/

/["We have already landed on a new planet"...At the Writers' Conference 
-- The speed of our disorientation and the brink of catastrophe]/
*THE UNINHABITABLE EARTH: LIFE AFTER WARMING - David Wallace-Wells*
Jul 20, 2021
Sun Valley Writers' Conference
Writing about climate change can be challenging, especially if the 
desire is to raise serious alarm but offer some solutions and hope. No 
one has done that better than DAVID WALLACE-WELLS, whose recent book, 
The Uninhabitable Earth, has been called “this generation’s Silent 
Spring.” He alerts us to the human effects on our planet, the ways that 
environmental damage is transforming nature, influencing global 
politics, threatening capitalism and, indeed, human progress. But—as the 
author will explain—his book is also an impassioned call to action. For 
just as the world was brought to the brink of catastrophe within the 
span of a lifetime, the responsibility to avoid it now belongs to a 
single generation—today’s. Guiding us forward, Wallace-Wells will also 
lay out some of the dramatic actions we could take to build a livable, 
prosperous world in the age of global warming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrFhFz2EQfE

/[Interview about a counter-attack on the source of danger -- on the 
battlefield of misinformation]/
*‘We’re going after creatives that greenwash fossil fuels’: the group 
targeting ad agencies*
Jocelyn Timperley
Jamie Henn, the founder of Fossil Fuel Free Media, on how advertising 
agencies help legitimise the fossil fuel industry
Sat 11 Sep 2021
Jamie Henn, a co-founder of the climate group 350.org, had for a long 
time noticed a gap in climate advocacy that many had overlooked: while 
the fossil fuel industry pours money into ad campaigns, much of the 
climate movement simply doesn’t have the resources to do that work.

Inspired to change that, Henn launched Fossil Free Media to give public 
relations and communications support to grassroots groups taking on the 
fossil fuel industry and campaigning for climate justice.

Fossil Free Media is also trying to change the wider PR and advertising 
industry through its Clean Creatives campaign, pressuring agencies to 
break their ties with the fossil fuel industry...
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Many agencies have already pledged not to work with tobacco companies. 
Fossil fuels kill more people than cigarettes each year, so if you’re 
going to draw a red line on smoking, you should certainly do the same on 
pollution.

We also have a pledge for individuals within those agencies to decline 
future contracts with fossil fuel companies, trade associations or front 
groups, because we know that a lot of people who work in huge 
multinational conglomerates would not be able to get their entire agency 
to switch overnight. We want to build a movement within the industry of 
individual creatives and freelancers.

Then, finally, we have a pledge for clients. We know that one of the 
ways to move a big ad agency is to get their top clients, who may care 
deeply about sustainability and see it as part of their business plan, 
to really send the signal that they don’t want to work with an agency 
that is also working with fossil fuels.
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But these ads are political propaganda designed explicitly to try to 
block the type of real action that we need. Oil companies are trying to 
act as if they’re on top of the problem, they’re dealing with it, they 
care, so that they can avoid the type of public pressure and ultimately 
political regulation that would truly force them to change at the pace 
that we need them to.

The people they need to be working with are the engineers, lawyers and 
others who are figuring out how to restructure these companies to be 
part of the clean energy economy. Not PR and ad people who figure out 
how to make them look good while they’re continuing to pollute the planet.

We are in the era of true climate greenwashing. We’re seeing these 
companies pretend that they’re part of the solution. And I think it’s so 
important for the next decade for people to not believe the problem is 
solved when they hear oil companies saying they care about the climate 
crisis but instead to ask: are you still drilling for oil? Or, have you 
developed a new business plan?
*What are the most effective things that companies can do about the 
climate crisis?*

One is really committing to a clear zero emissions plan, not just net 
zero. Making sure that they are going to be compliant with the Paris 
climate agreement and have a plan to transition over the next decade is 
essential.

But just as important is getting involved in political pressure. 
Supporting grassroots advocates, where companies can, but also really 
getting involved in the political process is really important.

We’ve heard time and again from senators, including the Rhode Island 
senator Sheldon Whitehouse, that they’re not seeing Apple, Google or 
Facebook put any lobbying muscle behind the fight against climate 
change, despite all their grandiose statements on climate action.

Specifically for Clean Creatives, people should call up their 
advertising and PR shop and ask them if they’re working with fossil fuel 
companies. That doesn’t mean you have to drop them tomorrow, we 
understand that there are contracts and people have pre-existing 
relationships. But what we want to do is really spark that conversation.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/11/greenwash-fossil-fuels-ad-agencies

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/[This organization acts to break up misinformation ]/
*Together We Can End Fossil Fuels*
Fossil Free Media is a nonprofit media lab that supports the movement to 
end fossil fuels and address the climate emergency.
*Fossil Free Media:* https://fossilfree.media
Fossil Free Media is a nonprofit media lab that supports the movement to 
end fossil fuels and address the climate emergency.
https://fossilfree.media/

/[BBC explains talks]/
*Glasgow climate change summit faces huge challenges - BBC News*
Sep 6, 2021
BBC News
10.7M subscribers
Key global climate talks will be be hosted by the UK in Glasgow in 
November 2021.

Campaigners for action on global warming say the summit will need to 
agree tough and radical reductions in carbon emissions if they are to 
limit the worst effects climate change.

  So what are the main challenges facing those trying to forge a new 
agreement at the talks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKiNfHaWvH4

/[Moose and people and of course it is global warming]/
*What’s killing Minnesota’s moose?*
Sep 9, 2021
Vox
And what it would mean to lose the moose.

The Anishnaabe, or Ojibwe, have lived on the land we now call Minnesota 
since long before European settlers arrived. For as long as they can 
remember, their lives have been intertwined with that of the moose. It’s 
more than a source of food — it’s also a way of staying in touch with 
their ancestors, who carved game pieces from the antlers, fashioned 
elaborate clothing from the hides, and used the hair to embroider 
intricate designs on everything from stockings to cradleboards.

But this relationship between the Anishnaabe and the moose is in danger. 
The population has been in freefall for the past two decades. We joined 
a group of scientists as they set out to unravel the mystery, in the 
hopes that this generation of Anishnaabe won’t be the last to thrive 
alongside the moose.

Note: A previous version of this video was mistakenly published with a 
graphical error. The error was corrected and a new version was published.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3mazk5j8Sg

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/[Great images of melting permafrost... video from Russia]/
*The Big Thaw: Russia's disappearing permafrost*
Jul 21, 2021
Sky News
Expanses of Russia's permafrost in the Arctic Circle is thawing - 
revealing fascinating prehistory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4kD9FYXlWk

/[Radio Ecoshock video is boring to view, interesting to hear]/
*Abrupt Climate Change Is Possible - Sune O. Rasmussen on Radio Ecoshock*
May 5, 2021
Alex Smith
Abrupt climate change: unimaginable changes in less than a lifetime.  
 From Copenhagen Dr. Sune Olander Rasmussen explains the risks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M8BF9wmBrw

[Global risks]
*Imperial Climate X Change Tipping Points: Looming Non-linearities in 
the Climate System*
Jul 14, 2021
University of Exeter
Imperial Climate X Change Seminar: Tipping Points: Looming 
Non-linearities in the Climate System.
What is a tipping point? Why are they important? Are they connected to 
one another?  Will we find out in time before we cross one?
Professor Tim Lenton, expert on tipping points and Director of the 
Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter to explain 
everything there is to know about tipping points!
Date: 7/5/2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haG2S0B0aNU

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//[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming September 12, 2007*

September 12, 2007: US District Judge William Sessions III issues a 
240-page decision upholding Vermont's right to regulate greenhouse gas 
emissions from vehicles.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202391.html

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