[✔️] January 28, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Fri Jan 28 11:32:54 EST 2022

/*January 28, 2022*/

/[  waking up slowly ]/
*Court Revokes Oil and Gas Leases, Citing Climate Change*
A judge ruled that the Interior Department must consider the climate 
effects of oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico before awarding leases.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/27/climate/federal-court-drilling-gulf.html
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/[  raise blood-pressure, raise hands, raise a sign, raise Cain  ] /
*Interest in civil disobedience has reached a mini climate tipping point*
Non-violent protest for the planet? “Definitely,” say 5 percent of 
Americans in Yale study.
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On Tuesday, the Yale Program on Climate Communication and the Center for 
Climate Change Communication at George Mason University shared a new 
analysis looking at where the American public stands on the issue of 
civil disobedience — namely, are people willing to show up to some form 
of nonviolent protest to demand action on global warming? This builds on 
earlier research from the same program, which found that the American 
public can be divided into six different “audiences” characterized by 
the following stances on climate change: Alarmed, concerned, cautious, 
disengaged, doubtful, and dismissive.

Ten percent of the “alarmed” group — those who most strongly support 
climate policies” and are convinced global warming is happening, 
human-caused, and an urgent threat — responded that they “definitely 
would” participate in some form of environmental civil disobedience if 
someone they like and respect asked them to. Of everyone surveyed, even 
including respondents in the “cautious” and “disengaged” groups, about 
5* percent expressed the same degree of commitment to the cause...
https://grist.org/protest/interest-in-civil-disobedience-has-reached-a-mini-climate-tipping-point/ 

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[Yale Study --Jan 25, 2022 ]
*Who is willing to participate in non-violent civil disobedience for the 
climate?*
By Eryn Campbell, John Kotcher, Edward Maibach, Seth Rosenthal and 
Anthony Leiserowitz
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Social movements (e.g., anti-war, civil rights, labor, environmental) 
and leaders (e.g., the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma 
Gandhi, Rosa Parks) have historically used non-violent civil 
disobedience (e.g., sit-ins, blockades) as a powerful tool to build 
political power and motivate corporate or government action. In recent 
years, groups like Extinction Rebellion have advocated for the use of 
non-violent civil disobedience to promote climate action.

In September 2021, we asked Americans about their willingness to support 
an organization engaging in non-violent civil disobedience against 
corporate or government activities that make global warming worse and 
about their willingness to personally engage in such non-violent civil 
disobedience themselves. Here we examine how this willingness varies 
across different groups including Global Warming’s Six Americas, 
generations, and the three largest racial/ethnic groups in the United 
States.

Among the Six Americas segments, the Alarmed are the most likely to 
support an organization engaging in non-violent civil disobedience; half 
(50%) said they “definitely” (21%) or “probably” (29%) would support 
such an organization...
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Likewise, about one fourth (28%) of the Alarmed said they “definitely” 
(10%) or “probably” (18%) would personally engage in non-violent civil 
disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global 
warming worse, if asked to by a person they liked and respected. The ten 
percent of the Alarmed who are “definitely willing” to personally engage 
in non-violent civil disobedience represents approximately 8.6 million 
American adults.
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We then examined three age categories – Millennial and younger adults 
(aged 18-40), Generation X (aged 41-56), and Baby Boomers and older 
(aged 57+). Millennial and younger adults are more likely to support 
organizations engaging in non-violent civil disobedience than older 
generations, with about one third (35%) stating they “definitely would” 
(14%) or “probably would” (21%) support them.
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Millennial and younger adults are also more likely than Baby Boomers or 
older to say they would personally engage in non-violent civil 
disobedience to protect the climate; 8% said they “definitely would” and 
12% said they “probably would,” if asked to by a person they liked and 
respected...
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/who-is-willing-to-participate-in-non-violent-civil-disobedience-for-the-climate/ 

/[  A review of energy policy - served up in new book - reviewed in 
Financial Time$ ]/
*How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil -- what powers our econoimies*
 From fossil fuels to food production: the Canadian scientist on the 
fundamental importance of energy in human affairs...
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  But some activities are going to be hard to power electrically, such 
as long-distance wide-body jet flights. An even larger dilemma is posed 
by what Smil calls “the four material pillars of modern civilization”: 
steel, ammonia, cement and plastics. At present, there is no widely 
available, commercial-scale way of making these materials with 
electricity alone, no matter how green it is.

Fossil fuels are also of existential importance when it comes to the 
agrochemicals and synthetic fertilisers used in the global food system. 
Going back to purely organic farming, Smil writes, would require a much 
bigger rural workforce. Most of us would have to abandon cities, 
resettle villages and spend much of our time collecting and spreading 
animal manure. “I do not foresee the organic green online commentariat 
embracing these options anytime soon,” says Smil, adding that, even if 
they did, they would not produce enough food for half the world’s 
population. In short, any decline in fossil carbon will inevitably be 
gradual, not sudden or rapid...
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His deep understanding of the slow pace of past energy transitions may 
make him overly pessimistic about the prospect of a rapid green shift 
today. But the current crop of global leaders are offering depressingly 
little policy action to disprove his analysis any time soon.
https://www.ft.com/content/71072c77-53b3-4efd-92ae-c92dc02f09ad

/[   Sinking of the Titanic is still the best metaphor ] /
*Disaster flicks like ‘Don’t Look Up’ won’t spur climate change action. 
Here’s why.*
It all goes back to the 1980s and the fight over nuclear weapons
By Justin McBrien -- Jan 26, 2022
Justin McBrien is an environmental historian and lecturer at the 
University of Virginia. He is currently at work on a book manuscript 
concerning the history and politics of extreme weather disasters in the 
age of anthropogenic climate disruption.
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While the political will for action on global warming weakened, asteroid 
disaster flicks such as “Deep Impact” (1998) and “Armageddon” (1998) 
provided people an escapist fantasy of planetary catastrophes averted 
(for the most part) through scientific expertise and international 
cooperation. Climate catastrophe films kept the memory of nuclear winter 
alive but discouraged civic engagement in the process. Whether the 
mechanism was terrestrial (“The Day After Tomorrow,” 2004), 
extraterrestrial (“Earthstorm,” 2006) or of human design (“Snowpiercer,” 
2013), the disaster was always an instantaneous cataclysm triggering a 
Snowball Earth. The movies presented audiences with the options of total 
extinction or technological salvation — options that rendered people 
powerless to join in mass mobilization to effect systemic change.

Yet, the climate crisis is very different from an errant asteroid. 
Stopping it demands far more than listening to scientists and trusting 
their technical solutions. For fiction to have an influence on the 
climate debate, it needs stories that highlight the ways climate change 
is disrupting everyday life, stories about its impacts — visible and 
submerged — on health and psychology, family and community, inequality 
and justice. This, far more than films about sudden Earth-killer comets 
or nefarious geo-engineering schemes, could help galvanize people to 
confront the dangers they face in their communities here, now, today.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/01/26/disaster-flicks-like-dont-look-up-wont-spur-climate-change-action-heres-why/

/[  Tipping points is not a bar on the beach  - video ] /
*RUNAWAY Climate Change*
Oct 4, 2021
Peter Carter
The many now triggered feedbacks that lead to climate change runaway, 
with the latest research findings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gse2SRcqFDI

/[ The news archive - looking back at a very big deal ]/
*On this day in the history of global warming January 28, 1969*
January 28, 1969: The notorious Santa Barbara, California oil spill 
takes place.
http://youtu.be/jqd_VTADHzM
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/30/3453277/oil-spill-heard-round-the-world/

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