[✔️] March 11, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
👀 Richard Pauli
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Fri Mar 11 09:27:08 EST 2022
/*March 11, 2022*/
/[ Perhaps a coal-powered automobile? ] /
*As War Rages, a Struggle to Balance Energy Crunch and Climate Crisis*
Rising oil prices and increased demand for expanded production come at a
time when scientists say nations must sharply cut the use of fossil fuels.
By Brad Plumer, Lisa Friedman and David Gelles
March 10, 2022
As the world reels from spikes in oil and gas prices, the fallout from
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare a dilemma: Nations remain
extraordinarily dependent on fossil fuels and are struggling to shore up
supplies precisely at a moment when scientists say the world must slash
its use of oil, gas and coal to avert irrevocable damage to the planet.
While countries could greatly reduce their vulnerability to wild swings
in the oil and gas markets by shifting to cleaner sources of energy such
as wind or solar power and electric vehicles — which is also the
playbook for fighting climate change — that transition will take years.
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It remains uncertain how much the United States will actually do to curb
its dependence on fossil fuels in the years ahead. In its most recent
annual outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said that oil
and gas were expected to remain the nation’s leading energy sources
through 2050 without a major shift in policy. That is the same year by
which, scientists say, nations need to largely eliminate fossil fuel
emissions if they want to prevent the most catastrophic effects of
global warming.
The administration’s main legislative proposal for speeding up the
transition to cleaner energy, the Build Back Better Act, remains in
limbo. That bill includes $555 billion in spending to deploy low-carbon
technologies like wind, solar, geothermal and nuclear power. Buyers of
electric vehicles would receive up to $12,500 in tax credits. The bill
also has billions of dollars to make buildings more energy efficient and
replace gas-powered furnaces with electric versions...
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“If it’s six, seven months now that we’re trying to adjust to
volatility, we can still move forward,” he said. “We’re not talking
about unabated burning for the next 10 years. That would be absurd and
unacceptable.”
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February came just as the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of scientists convened
by the United Nations, published an exhaustive report finding that the
dangers from climate change are bigger and unfolding faster than
previously expected and that humanity may struggle to adapt to the
consequences unless greenhouse gas emissions are quickly reduced in the
next few decades.
“They are two sides of the same coin,” John Doerr, a venture capitalist
now focused on the energy transition, said in an interview. “We need
energy security because we’ve got an energy crisis. We’ve also got a
climate crisis. The same week that Putin unleashed his army, the
I.P.C.C. put out yet another report that mounted even more evidence that
we are out of time.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/climate/climate-oil-crisis-global.html
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/[ Financial Times will tell you - after you subscribe ]/
*Will the Ukraine war derail the green energy transition?*
https://www.ft.com/content/93eb06ec-ba6c-4ad2-8fae-5b66235632b2
/[ so says WAPO ]/
*Heat pumps can counter Putin and the climate crisis, advocates say*
By Maxine Joselow - with research by Vanessa Montalbano
March 10, 2022
Last month, author and climate activist Bill McKibben proposed an
unusual way that President Biden could simultaneously combat climate
change and the war in Ukraine.
It all came down to heat pumps.
At the time, McKibben's musings largely flew under the radar. But today,
the White House is seriously considering his plan, which would involve
scaling up U.S. manufacturing of heat pumps and sending them overseas to
counter Europe's reliance on Russian gas...
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*Heat pumps for peace*
In a Feb. 27 Substack piece, McKibben argued that Biden should invoke
the Defense Production Act, an emergency national defense law, “to get
American manufacturers to start producing electric heat pumps in
quantity, so we can ship them to Europe where they can be installed in
time to dramatically lessen Putin’s power.”
McKibben compared the effort to the program established by the
Lend-Lease Act of 1941, in which the United States sent critical
supplies to Allied nations that had been invaded by Germany in World War II.
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*Heating up*
The idea got another boost when more than 200 groups released a letter
yesterday urging Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act to
turbocharge deployment of clean energy technologies, including heat
pumps and battery storage.
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Ladislaw pointed to a recent International Energy Agency report, which
found that doubling current E.U. installation rates of heat pumps would
save 2 billion cubic meters of gas use within the first year. But if
everyone in a European building turned down the thermostat by 1 degree
Celsius, they would save around 10 billion cubic meters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/10/heat-pumps-can-counter-putin-climate-crisis-advocates-say/
/[ High Aspirations is a digital paradigm ] /
*Microsoft’s Pursuit of Climate Goals Runs Into Headwinds*
The company aims to be “carbon negative” by the end of the decade, but
its emissions rose sharply in the most recent year measured....
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/business/microsoft-climate-carbon-emissions.html
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[ green goals aplenty in corporate message ]
*An update on Microsoft’s sustainability commitments: Building a
foundation for 2030*
Mar 10, 2022
https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2022/03/10/an-update-on-microsofts-sustainability-commitments-building-a-foundation-for-2030/
[ Women in the future of global warming ]
*Women and Climate Change: Leading the way to a more sustainable and
equitable world*
Mar 9, 2022
Grantham Imperial
As part of Women in Imperial Week (7-11th March 2022), Grantham
Institute organised this panel discussion on the 8th of March 2022, on
International Women’s Day.
Each speaker reflects on their experience, and their observation of the
contribution that women have made to the climate change narrative (in
science, policy, business, education, innovation and science
communication). They discuss the positive steps taken by
scientists/academics, funding organisations/donors, and local
governments to bring women’s skills and knowledge to the forefront of
climate change adaptation and mitigation; How COP26 framed and tackled
vulnerability in relation to gender-bias and the recommendations set
forth in the Glasgow Pact that recognise the role of women, with a focus
on what we need to see more of moving forward.
- Chair: Ms Karen Makuch, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law in Centre
for Environmental Polict at Imperial College London
- Dr Courtnae Bailey, PhD Scholar at Imperial College London's Centre
for Environmental Policy
- Dr Friederike Otto, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the Grantham
Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London
- Dr Mirabelle Muuls, Assistant Professor in Economics at the Imperial
College Business School and programme director of the MSc Climate
Change, Management and Finance.
- Dr Florence Gschwend, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Lixea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGzsk3xbXcQ
[ legal question ]
*Limiting the National Right to Exclude *
https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4529&context=umlr
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[ right to compel to degrowth ]
*Climate Justice and Degrowth*
Jan 10, 2022
Global Health
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Department of Global Health and
Social Medicine, we continue our symposia series with, "Climate Justice
and Degrowth." Dr. Eugene Richardson, Dr. Maxine Burkett, Dr. Jason
Hickel, and Dr. Paul Farmer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1hF9XeM5MM
/[ South of me about 30 miles ] /
*Tacoma methane storage stirs conflict over climate, health and tribal
rights*
The 14-story tank on the Tideflats holds 8 million gallons of liquefied
natural gas and it is compounding human rights and climate crises,
opponents say.
by Rico Moore High Country News / March 9, 2022
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“The salmon are sick in the water because of facilities like [PSE’s]
that continue to pollute us and dump these toxic chemicals on top of us,
day in and day out,” Puyallup member Dakota Case told High Country News
in January.
The subsequent fight against the tank illustrates the critical place
Indigenous sovereignty holds at the intersection of human rights and
climate change. On Nov. 19, 2021, the state’s Pollution Control Hearings
Board affirmed the issuance of the necessary final permits, which
require PSE to monitor sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compound
emissions. The Puyallup Tribe and a coalition of environmental groups
represented by EarthJustice immediately appealed, arguing that the
facility and its associated operations would hamper decarbonization at a
life-or-death moment for the planet. They were joined by some unlikely
allies: immigration advocates, who fear that it would endanger detainees
in the nearby Northwest ICE Processing Center, and pensioners from
Canada, who object to having their retirement funds used to help pay for
the tank. The opposition, like the tank itself, is both unique and
common, normal but not. Given the kind of climate solutions likely to be
offered by settler-colonial institutions, it might be a glimpse of the
future.
Since time immemorial, the Tideflats have been the Puyallup’s home. The
tribe came to the water to fish, traveling by canoe to gather plants for
food and medicine. Prior to colonization and industrialization,
shellfish were abundant at low tide. “When the tide was out, the table
was set,” said Puyallup Tribal Councilmember Annette Bryan. “So you can
imagine all of the tidelands without any industry as just very, very
beautiful.” ..
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“The salmon are sick in the water because of facilities like [PSE’s]
that continue to pollute us and dump these toxic chemicals on top of us,
day in and day out,” Puyallup member Dakota Case told High Country News
in January.
The subsequent fight against the tank illustrates the critical place
Indigenous sovereignty holds at the intersection of human rights and
climate change. On Nov. 19, 2021, the state’s Pollution Control Hearings
Board affirmed the issuance of the necessary final permits, which
require PSE to monitor sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compound
emissions. The Puyallup Tribe and a coalition of environmental groups
represented by EarthJustice immediately appealed, arguing that the
facility and its associated operations would hamper decarbonization at a
life-or-death moment for the planet. They were joined by some unlikely
allies: immigration advocates, who fear that it would endanger detainees
in the nearby Northwest ICE Processing Center, and pensioners from
Canada, who object to having their retirement funds used to help pay for
the tank. The opposition, like the tank itself, is both unique and
common, normal but not. Given the kind of climate solutions likely to be
offered by settler-colonial institutions, it might be a glimpse of the
future.
Since time immemorial, the Tideflats have been the Puyallup’s home. The
tribe came to the water to fish, traveling by canoe to gather plants for
food and medicine. Prior to colonization and industrialization,
shellfish were abundant at low tide. “When the tide was out, the table
was set,” said Puyallup Tribal Councilmember Annette Bryan. “So you can
imagine all of the tidelands without any industry as just very, very
beautiful.”
https://crosscut.com/environment/2022/03/tacoma-methane-storage-stirs-conflict-over-climate-health-and-tribal-rights
/[The news archive - looking back at digital media that is disappearing ]/
*March 11, 2009*
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann rips Paul Dellegatto, meteorologist for Tampa,
Florida Fox affiliate WTVT, for failing to forecast the facts about
human-caused climate change:
"[I]n the middle of a forecast [Dellegatto] declared global warming was
no longer a threat. [Dellegatto stated,] 'Athens, Georgia, just about a
week ago, and they had up to half a foot of snow. Las Vegas got snow.
It actually snowed in New Orleans this winter.' Dellegatto went on to
say the current warming trend peaked in 1998 and, quote, 'I just think
the whole global warming doomsayer theory is tough to see, based on
recent calculations.'
"Once again, this is science‘s fault. Never should have used the phrase
'global warming.' 'Weather disaster' would have worked. The mistake
was they thought even the dimmer folks would realize during global
warming, it could get colder from time to time, especially in the places
where it‘s not supposed to, like Tampa last month, when it got down to
28 here. This guy missed it, obviously because he was more worried
about putting in global warming denial propaganda into the local
freaking weather forecast on the local freaking Fox station!"
http://www.nbcnews.com/video/countdown/29645384#29645384 /[ NBCnews
decided to drop this video]/
/[denialist warning]/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/13/heres-what-happens-when-a-tv-meteorologist-speaks-his-mind/
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