[✔️] February 10, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Thu Feb 10 06:55:27 EST 2022

/*February  10, 2022*/

/[  House Committee on Oversight and Reform  -- over 3 hours of video ] /
*Fueling the Climate Crisis: Examining Big Oil's Climate Pledges*
Meeting Notes: This hearing will be a hybrid hearing held over Zoom and 
in 2154 RHOB.
Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 10:00am
Location: 2154 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515
Fueling the Climate Crisis: Examining Big Oil's Climate Pledges
Washington D.C. (February 4, 2022)—On Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at 10:00 
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 whether 
climate pledges made by fossil fuel companies Exxon, Chevron, Shell, and 
BP are adequate to address global warming.
The hearing is part of the Committee’s investigation into the fossil 
fuel industry’s long-running campaign to spread disinformation about 
climate change and greenwash its role in causing global warming. The 
Committee will hear from climate experts and environmental advocates who 
will testify to the urgent need for fossil fuel companies to 
fundamentally alter their operations and reduce emissions, and assess 
whether the companies’ climate pledges will meet that goal, or are 
instead just the latest example of climate disinformation.

Following testimony from the climate experts, the Committee will hold a 
hearing next month with members of the Boards of Directors of four 
fossil fuel companies.

WITNESSES
Ms. Tracey Lewis
Policy Counsel, Public Citizen

Dr. Michael E. Mann
Professor of Atmospheric Science, Pennsylvania State University

Ms. Katie Tubb
Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation

Mr. Mark van Baal
Founder, Follow This
https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/fueling-the-climate-crisis-examining-big-oils-climate-pledges?

/[  a wonderful breakthrough discussion podcast - the YouTube version is 
of higher quality  ]
/*How Imaginary Worlds Teach Us to Care for This One (w/ Dr. Sørina 
Higgins)*
Feb 9, 2022
THIS IS THE END Podcast
Source:
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-p6kst-11a0cfe
In this episode, I talk to Dr. Sørina Higgins, a professor of English 
literature at Signum University. We discuss how speculative fiction can 
teach us to take care of our planet, both ecologically and 
societally.Authors and works discussed include: Tolkien's Lord of the 
Rings, Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars, Octavia Butler's Kindred, 
Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and superhero fiction. Real world 
topics discussed include: climate change, racial and economic justice, 
terraforming, space colonization, permaculture, regenerative 
agriculture, and small scale activism.Dr. Higgins also tells us about 
TexMoot 2022, a speculative fiction conference that is currently seeking 
submissions for papers and round table discussion prompts from the 
general public (not just academics).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YerUFL6-mYg

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[ another video exposition ]
*A New Philosophy of Nature: On Ecological Disconnect, Climate Despair, 
and Moving Forward*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzxlSGulR84

/[  it's always 50 years away  ]/
*Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy*
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The fusion announcement is great news but sadly it won't help in our 
battle to lessen the effects of climate change.

There's huge uncertainty about when fusion power will be ready for 
commercialisation. One estimate suggests maybe 20 years. Then fusion 
would need to scale up, which would mean a delay of perhaps another few 
decades...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60312633

/[ Cinema culture - commentary - 41 minute video - "an accidental form 
of denialism" ??   ]/
*Don’t Look Up – A Problematic Metaphor For Climate Change?*
Jan 26, 2022
Like Stories of Old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7QggAyha_0

/[ The Guardian //critics "offer up culture for processing the impending 
crisis" -  point to this one from nearly 200 years ago  ]/
*A rainforest cries: music, art, books and more to help you deal with 
climate anxiety*
Book
When it was first published in 1826, Mary Shelley’s The Last Man did not 
get the favourable notices of her earlier novel Frankenstein. It was 
derided as the product of a “diseased” imagination, perhaps that was 
because the premise seemed far-fetched. After all, who could possibly 
believe in a world where there was not only a global pandemic, but also 
climate meltdown and apocalyptic flooding? Now, of course, it feels 
eerily prescient, even if plenty of its other details are clearly stuck 
in the 19th century. It’s an wildly inventive and pioneering 
investigation into humanity’s precarious relationship with nature – and 
still more fascinating as it also provides a thinly veiled history of 
the author’s tragically deceased husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. 
Sam Jordison
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/07/a-rainforest-cries-music-art-books-and-more-to-help-you-deal-with-climate-anxiety 

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/[Here it is free online -- from Project Gutenberg ]/
*The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley*
"So true it is, that man’s mind alone was the creator of all that was 
good or great to man, and that Nature herself was only his first minister."
Download This eBook
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18247

/[  a little humorously sarcastic history of climate ] /
*The Time America Almost Stopped Climate Change | Climate Town*
Jan 21, 2021
Climate Town
We've totally beefed it on climate policy for 30 years, let's try a new 
approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MondapIjAAM&t=190s

/[The news archive - looking back]/
*On this day in the history of global warming February 10, 2010*

February 10, 2010: On their respective MSNBC programs, Keith Olbermann 
and Rachel Maddow try to explain to people who flunked all of their 
science classes, many of whom are in Congress, that snow does not 
disprove climate change.

http://youtu.be/OjHUHCjYP9I
http://youtu.be/0R9UfIUJB1Y

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