[✔️] December 11 , 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*December 11, 2022*/

/[  Prof Katharine Hayhoe at BYU by Deseret News ] /
*Opinion: We need to talk about ‘global weirding’*
As Katharine Hayhoe called it in her recent BYU forum address, ‘global 
weirding’ is dividing the world
By Readers’ Forum
Dec 10, 2022
I had the pleasure of watching climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe 
address the Nov. 29 BYU Forum. She started with “I’m a climate scientist 
because I’m a Christian.”

“It’s not about saving the planet; we need to save us.” The most 
vulnerable to climate disasters are the poorest people on earth. Global 
warming is increasing the economic gap between the world’s richest and 
poorest countries … something to ponder as Christmas approaches.

She is an articulate, engaging speaker who backed up her talk with 
effective visuals. While climate change is the most polarizing issue in 
politics, a thermometer doesn’t give us different answers based on how 
we vote. Extreme weather doesn’t care about politics.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2022/12/10/23500322/opinion-katharine-hayhoe-global-weirding 


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/[ this video sermon presented at BYU  ]/
*Katharine Hayhoe | Loving All God’s Creation*
BYU Forum Address
duration 46:12
Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist. “Caring about God’s creation…is a 
genuine expression of our faith, a faithful acceptance of our 
responsibility and a true expression of God’s love.”
https://www.byutv.org/byu-forum/episodes/2022.?player-open=true&content-id=7ad53049-ffd3-4b2b-a1d6-c5e911c86be0 




/[ Meanwhile on Twitter - ]/
*Climate misinformation explodes on Twitter*
Update December 5th, 2022
2022 has been the worst year yet for ‘climate-sceptic’ content on the 
social media platform, according to recent analysis.
Lies about climate change on Twitter escalated to unprecedented levels 
this year, according to new analyses. The unnerving rise of content that 
rejects widely accepted climate science — sometimes referred to as 
climate skepticism or climate denial — piles on top of growing concerns 
about misinformation and hateful content that’s proliferated since Elon 
Musk’s takeover of the social media platform.

There have been more tweets and retweets “using climate-sceptic 
terminology” in 2022 than in any other year since Twitter’s founding in 
2006, according to analysis conducted for The Times by City, University 
of London researchers. That’s 850,000 climate-skeptic tweets or retweets 
this year compared to 650,000 in 2021 and 220,000 in 2020.

“Climate denial on Twitter was already a dumpster fire; now, it’s as if 
it had a litre of gas thrown on it,” climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe 
said to The Times.
Much of the recent rise in climate misinformation can be tied to a 
single hashtag: “#climatescam.” It makes up around 40 percent of tweets 
this year containing climate-skeptic language, City, University of 
London researchers Max Falkenberg and Andrea Baronchelli found. That’s 
compared to just 2 percent before 2022.

Now, “#climatescam” appears as a top result when searching for 
“#climate” on Twitter. The hashtag offers up a buffet of false 
information about climate change. One popular post includes an image 
that defines “manmade climate change” as “the made up catastrophe the 
globalists/socialists use to instil fear and guilt to tax, regulate, and 
remove our freedoms while pretending to be saving the planet.”

Another popular meme tweeted with #climatescam features what looks like 
an altered image of Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons with his finger in 
his nose. “The TV told me that if I eat bugs and pay more money to the 
government the weather will be gooder,” the meme says.

The overwhelming body of research confirms that greenhouse gas emissions 
from fossil fuels are causing climate change. A major United Nations 
climate science report published last year by 230 authors from 66 
countries concluded that human activity is primarily responsible for 
more frequent extreme weather across the planet.

Nevertheless, misinformation about climate change exploded on Twitter in 
November as delegates from across the world met for a key United Nations 
climate conference. The use of #climatescam in tweets doubled from 
October to November, appearing in 23,832 posts last month. That was 17 
times more than the hashtag was used in an average month in 2021, 
according to another analysis conducted for The Times by the Center for 
Countering Digital Hate.

Repeat offenders seem to be driving much of the climate misinformation 
on Twitter. Just 10 Twitter handles accounted for a quarter of recent 
widely shared climate-skeptic content. Musk’s decision to welcome back 
people who had previously been barred from the platform has also allowed 
people to return who push content that contradicts mainstream climate 
science. That includes Canadian personality Jordan Peterson, who was 
initially thrown off Twitter in July for tweets misgendering trans actor 
Elliot Page. Recently, Peterson has taken to Twitter to disparage 
efforts to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions, which research has 
found is necessary by the middle of the century to prevent global 
warming from surpassing 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times.
Meanwhile, actual climate scientists and experts are weighing leaving 
Twitter, The Guardian reports, as the platform fails to moderate harmful 
content. Separately, the Center for Countering Digital Hate has also 
found a rise in hate speech on Twitter since Musk took the reins. 
Twitter, which effectively disbanded its media relations team during 
layoffs in November, did not respond to a request for comment by The Verge.

“I can understand climate scientists saying this is not a productive 
place for conversations with each other any more. They’ve become 
lightening rods for hate speech and death threats, we are seeing a real 
escalation of threats against them, intended to drive them off the 
platform,” Jennie King, head of civic action and education at the 
Institute for Strategic Dialogue, said to The Guardian.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/5/23494220/elon-musk-twitter-climate-misinformation-rise-analysis

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/[  Things to talk about in your congregation - PEW opinion research ]/
*Younger evangelicals in the U.S. are more concerned than their elders 
about climate change*
BY MICHAEL LIPKA, BECKA A. ALPER AND JUSTIN NORTEY
DECEMBER 7, 2022

Young people around the world have been at the forefront of climate 
change protests, and in the United States, adults under 40 are 
considerably more likely than their elders to express concern about the 
issue and attribute it to human activity.

This age pattern also exists within major Christian traditions in the 
U.S., including evangelical Protestants, who are among the groups most 
skeptical about climate change.

Overall, two-thirds of U.S. adults younger than 40 say global climate 
change is an extremely or very serious problem, compared with roughly 
half of those ages 40 and older (52%), according to a recent Pew 
Research Center survey. Furthermore, 64% of adults under 40 say the 
Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity, such as 
burning fossil fuels, while fewer than half of older Americans (47%) 
take that position.

There are similar age gaps among evangelical Protestants, even though 
both younger and older evangelicals are less likely than Americans 
overall to express concern about climate change. Evangelical Protestant 
adults under 40 are more likely than older evangelicals to say climate 
change is an extremely or very serious problem (41% vs. 31%). And 42% of 
evangelical adults under 40 say the Earth is warming due to human 
activity, compared with 28% of evangelicals ages 40 and older.

These age gaps are not unique to evangelicals. For instance, around 
two-thirds of U.S. Catholic adults under 40 (66%) say the Earth is 
warming because of human activity, while half of older Catholics share 
this view. Among religiously unaffiliated Americans – a group that is 
more concerned than Christians as a whole about climate change – young 
people again are especially concerned. (The survey did not include large 
enough samples of members of non-Christian groups to analyze age 
categories within them.)

Views toward climate change are even more closely tied to political 
party than to religion or age, with Democrats and Democratic-leaning 
independents much more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to 
express high levels of concern. Still, among Republicans, adults under 
40 are considerably more likely than those ages 40 and older to say that 
climate change is an extremely or very serious problem (35% vs. 21%) and 
that the Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity (38% 
vs. 19%). The age gap is not as pronounced among Democrats, with large 
majorities of both younger and older Democrats expressing these views.

Few young adults are both highly religious and concerned about climate 
change
While young adults in the U.S. tend to be more concerned about climate 
change than adults ages 40 and older, they also tend to be less 
religious than older Americans. These crosscutting patterns show up when 
examining the percentage of young Americans who are both highly 
religious and concerned about climate change.

Just 5% of U.S. adults under 40 are both highly religious and concerned 
about climate change, compared with 9% of those ages 40 and older. (In 
this study, “highly religious” is defined as those who say they pray 
each day, attend religious services at least weekly and consider 
religion to be very important in their lives.)

Adults under 40 are far more likely than older Americans to both have a 
low level of religious commitment and be concerned about climate change. 
This is true for 27% of U.S. adults ages 18 to 39 – about double the 
share of those ages 40 and older in this category (13%).

A table showing that Americans under 40 are less likely than their 
elders to say God gave humans a duty to protect and care for Earth
Young Americans are less likely than their elders to hold some beliefs 
that connect religion to the environment. For instance, while 55% of 
Americans under 40 say they completely or mostly agree with the idea 
that God gave humans a duty to protect and care for the Earth, 72% of 
adults 40 and older say the same. Younger Americans also are less likely 
than their older counterparts to say they have prayed for the 
environment in the past year (27% vs. 37%). These gaps exist in part 
because young Americans are less religious in general, including being 
less likely to believe in God and to pray on a regular basis.

Among evangelical Protestants, however, differences between younger and 
older adults on these questions are modest. Eight-in-ten or more 
evangelical adults under 40 (82%) and ages 40 and older (88%) say God 
gave humans a duty to care for the Earth, while similar shares of both 
groups say they have prayed for the environment in the past 12 months 
(41% and 44%, respectively).

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/12/07/younger-evangelicals-in-the-u-s-are-more-concerned-than-their-elders-about-climate-change/

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/[ Twitter communication from the professor ]/
*Prof. Katharine Hayhoe*
@KHayhoe
Dec 9, 2022
Stunning visuals show how wildlife is disappearing around the world, in 
the oceans and on land. Humans are taking over too much of the planet 
and climate change make survival harder. Read more: #COP15
nytimes.com
Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live
Talks in Montreal this month could be a big victory, or a missed 
opportunity, for the planet’s wildlife. We explain why, and show...
https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1601394116184924160



/[NYTimes offers a colorful display ]/
*Animals Are Running Out of Places to Live*
By Catrin Einhorn and Lauren LeatherbyDec. 9, 2022

WILDLIFE IS DISAPPEARING around the world, in the oceans and on land. 
The main cause on land is perhaps the most straightforward: Humans are 
taking over too much of the planet, erasing what was there before. 
Climate change and other pressures make survival harder.

This week and next, nations are meeting in Montreal to negotiate a new 
agreement to address staggering declines in biodiversity. The future of 
many species hangs in the balance. Meet some of the animals most 
affected as humans convert more and more land:

At least 60 percent habitat loss since 2001At least 50 percent habitat 
loss since 2001At least 45 percent habitat loss since 2001At least 40 
percent habitat loss since 2001At least 35 percent habitat loss since 
2001At least 33 percent habitat loss since 2001..
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The groups of animals you just scrolled through aren’t the only species 
that have lost a third or more of their global habitat. They’re just 
some of the mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles researchers can 
currently track. Most live in tropical forests.

“If the forest disappears, they will disappear,” said Walter Jetz, a 
professor of biodiversity science at Yale University who leads Map of 
Life, a platform that combines satellite imaging with ecological data to 
determine how species ranges are changing around the world. Map of Life 
shared data with The New York Times.

Biodiversity, or all the variety of life on the planet — including 
plants, invertebrates and ocean species — is declining at rates 
unprecedented in human history, according to the leading 
intergovernmental scientific panel on the subject. The group’s 
projections suggest that a million species are threatened with 
extinction, many within decades.

Nations are meeting in Montreal to try to chart a different path. 
Delayed two years because of the pandemic, delegations are working to 
land a new, 10-year agreement to tackle biodiversity loss under a United 
Nations treaty called the Convention on Biological Diversity.

“With our bottomless appetite for unchecked and unequal economic growth, 
humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction,” said António Guterres, 
the United Nations secretary general, in his opening remarks on Tuesday 
in Montreal...
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“Currently, most governments spend far more on subsidies that actually 
are destroying nature than they do on financing conservation,” Mr. 
Cooper said. “So, certainly a change in that will be critical.”

The United States is the only country besides the Holy See that isn’t a 
party to the convention, so although the United States will attend the 
meeting, it will be participating from the sidelines.

“We can play a very constructive role from the outside,” said Monica 
Medina, an assistant secretary of state who is also special envoy for 
biodiversity and water resources. But she acknowledged that being a 
member would be better. “I hope that someday we will be,” she said.

Of the many targets being negotiated, the one that has gotten the most 
attention seeks to address habitat loss head on. Known as 30x30, it’s a 
plan to safeguard at least 30 percent of the planet’s land and oceans by 
2030. More than 100 countries back the proposal. While some Indigenous 
groups fear it will lead to their displacement, others support the plan 
as a means to secure stronger land rights.

But experts emphasize that action will have to go further than lines on 
a map.

“You can set up a protected area, but you've not dealt with the fact 
that the whole reason you had habitat loss in the first place is because 
of demand for land,” Dr. McElwee said. “You have to tackle the 
underlying drivers, otherwise you're only dealing with like half the 
problem.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/12/09/climate/biodiversity-habitat-loss-climate.html?unlocked_article_code=I4ZyYn11IX0coKgKexXjpwboRT90tl2ggqHznTaicdjhGppWbRmV1YSsSRqm-mH8fHzyI2LvqQe9eCpqtB9lHEE4vuDVroQqQEIuET3BjDpiwHsyZ1ftObGDS0t1DnQzbaQrV9tI8_YP-izDJcX4PMv4RJXYYr-NMWEliqw1lr5QHv2OCbWc1RPBmdPd2ouourKe0L8zy7ZapArPFXQ9F4POvnlrn4ZnjGQYb4puBj3kU3w81Cdq82FFWV1cCFbxtKNKSokmFN_JBu6rzhzyX2OBOL0KwPb5QrLvlEVEtLvfZsaZ6lPT4HrmDEU2D4Qfb7SdDFgc12x-sDGbuFchYNPMwdL2kSNJBibmQ_ckYcsOfUzSHNu0iJd91A&smid=share-url



/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*December 11, 1985*/
December 11, 1985: The New York Times reports:

    "A group of senators and scientists today called for national and
    international action to avert a predicted warming of the earth's
    climate resulting from a buildup of carbon dioxide and other
    man-made gases in the atmosphere.

    "They warned at a Senate hearing that such an effect, like that of a
    greenhouse, would produce radical climate changes and a subsequent
    rise in ocean levels that could have catastrophic results in the
    next century unless steps were taken now to deal with the problem.

    "Senator Albert Gore Jr., Democrat of Tennessee, said he would
    introduce legislation to expand and focus scientific efforts on this
    greenhouse effect.

    "At a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Toxic Substances and
    Environmental Oversight, Mr. Gore said his bill would call for 'an
    international year of scientific study of the greenhouse effect and
    would request that the President take steps to begin this worldwide
    cooperative investigation.'"

http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/11/us/action-is-urged-to-avert-global-climate-shift.html 




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