[✔️] May 5, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Thu May 5 07:24:50 EDT 2022
/*May 5, 2022*/
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*The Salton Sea could produce the world’s greenest lithium, if new
extraction technologies work*
PUBLISHED WED, MAY 4 2022
About 40 miles north of the California-Mexico border lies the shrinking,
landlocked lake known as the Salton Sea. Though the lake was once the
epicenter of a thriving resort community, water contamination and
decades of drought have contributed to a collapse of its once-vibrant
ecosystem and given rise to ghost towns.
But amid this environmental disaster, the California Energy Commission
estimates that there’s enough lithium here to meet all of the United
States’ projected future demand and 40% of the world’s demand. That’s
big news for the booming electric-vehicle industry, as lithium is the
common denominator across all types of EV batteries.
Traditionally, lithium extraction involves either open-pit mining or
evaporation ponds, which work by pumping lithium-containing brine to the
surface and waiting for the water to dry up. Both of these methods have
huge land footprints, are often very water intensive and can create a
lot of contamination and waste.
But at the Salton Sea, three companies are developing chemical processes
to extract lithium in a much cleaner way, taking advantage of the Salton
Sea’s rich geothermal resources. Near the lake, there are already 11
operating geothermal power plants, 10 of which are owned by Berkshire
Hathaway’s renewable energy division, BHE Renewables...
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CTR is using ion-exchange technology, which it developed in partnership
with Bay Area-based Lilac Solutions, to recover lithium. In this method,
geothermal brine flows through tanks filled with ceramic beads, which
absorb lithium from the brine. When the beads are saturated, the lithium
is flushed out with hydrochloric acid, and lithium chloride remains.
This is an intermediary product that CTR plans to refine on-site,
yielding lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide, a powder that’s ready
to be processed and transformed into precursor chemicals and then
manufactured into battery cells.
Berkshire Hathaway is also using ion-exchange technology, though the
company hasn’t revealed as many specifics as CTR about how it will work.
EnergySource has developed technology known as Integrated Lithium
Adsorption Desorption, or ILiAD, and it’s jumping straight into building
a full-scale facility, which it expects to be operational by 2024.
″What we see in terms of production costs is that geothermal brine
should be around the first quartile in terms of market competitiveness,”
said Derek Benson, CEO of EnergySource.
Notably, all three companies plan to refine the lithium on-site, a
process that normally takes place overseas. But the companies aren’t
equipped to handle additional steps, such as chemical processing and
battery cell manufacturing, which still primarily take place in Asia.
“The rest of the supply chain hopefully in the coming years will also be
developed in the U.S.,” said Knapp, “so that we’re able to go straight
from lithium and other minerals in the ground to batteries that we’re
using to run our infrastructure.”
EV battery maker Italvolt recently announced plans to launch a new
company, Statevolt, with the intent to build a $4 billion gigafactory in
Imperial Valley that would produce enough lithium-ion batteries for
650,000 electric vehicles per year. Statevolt signed a letter of intent
to source lithium and geothermal power from CTR, but did not respond to
CNBC’s inquiry about whether it will do chemical processing on-site.
*Community involvement *
The new industry could have a major impact on the Imperial Valley
community, where many low-income residents work in agriculture and the
unemployment rate is 12%, over three times the national average.
California formed the Lithium Valley Commission so that government,
industry and community stakeholders could come together and analyze the
potential opportunities that lithium recovery could bring.
“It’s going to be really important that the community is involved and
engaged, because if the community isn’t there, the vision is going to be
drawn out for them,” said Luis Olmedo, a member of the commission who
represents disadvantaged and low-income communities in the Salton Sea
geothermal resource area. “We know that these are prime target areas
where communities will be taken advantage of. We know that.”
Both Berkshire Hathaway and CTR also have representatives on the Lithium
Valley Commission. The companies emphasize the positive impacts they
believe the burgeoning industry will bring, from job creation to
property tax revenue that could benefit local schools and fund
additional government services.
″This community needs us,” Knapp said. “And this is a fantastic place
for us to invest and benefit not just ourselves as a company but all of
us, as lithium is so essential, and [benefit] these people right here in
this community by providing jobs, education, opportunities, all the
economic development that comes with that big of an investment.”
Once a thriving resort destination, many of the communities around the
Salton Sea are turning into ghost towns. Funky sculptures and other art
pieces dot the otherwise barren landscape in Bombay Beach.
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Knapp says that they’re working with a number of educational
institutions in the area, from high schools to community colleges to
four year institutions, to make sure that students interested in getting
a job in the geothermal and lithium industries are properly trained.
“You know, we’re about 90% trades, right? So we’re not looking for a
bunch of Ph.D.s here,” said Colwell.
Olmedo and Nava-Froelich say they’re encouraged by the conversations
that are happening, but they’ve been disappointed by big talk before.
“We are a little cautious because we don’t want to get our hopes up
high,” Nava-Froelich said. “All this talk, is it really happening or are
they just kind of talking about it and they may pull out and go
somewhere else? It’s almost too good to be true.”
Environmentalists also see this as a moment to catalyze momentum around
habitat restoration at the Salton Sea. While California has been working
on the problem for years, advocates are pushing the state to expedite
projects that involve creating lower-salinity ponds on the dry lake bed
where fish and bird species can thrive. And with the state’s budget
surplus, things are finally moving.
“They need a longer-term vision and a pipeline for additional projects
moving forward. So there’s a lot more that needs to be done, but we’re
starting to see some things happen,” said Michael Cohen, senior research
associate at the Pacific Institute, a research institute focused on
water conservation. “So we’re seeing more progress than we’ve seen ever,
really.”
As mining projects face community concern and backlash in other parts of
the country, it seems that lithium recovery at the Salton Sea could be
the rare-minerals project that unites most stakeholders. That is, if it
works.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/05/04/how-the-troubled-salton-sea-could-supply-the-us-with-green-lithium.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/04/the-salton-sea-could-produce-the-worlds-greenest-lithium.html
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*How companies blame you for climate change*
By William Park -- 5th May 2022
Businesses shape how we talk about climate change, and sometimes this
can stop us from paying attention to their actions...
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Keep America Beautiful campaign against littering, but have also lobbied
against bottle bills and legislation that would have required packaging
to be returnable or recyclable rather than disposable, says Dunaway, who
is also the author of Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American
Environmental Images.
Rather than addressing the root cause of America's litter problem – the
fact that there was much more disposable packaging after World War Two –
their advertising campaigns focused on the bad behaviour of some
consumers, he says. "Images and feelings were being manipulated by
corporations to put the onus on the individual."...
Initially, "environmental groups like the Audubon Society, the Sierra
Club – in other words big mainstream groups – were part of the Advisory
Board for Keep America Beautiful", says Dunaway. "Many of these groups
resigned their membership. They no longer wanted to be associated with
Keep America Beautiful after this ad, because they saw it as what we
today call greenwashing."
Similar criticisms have been levelled at terms like "carbon footprints"
– which was first coined in a 2005 TV advert from BP. The advert appears
to show members of the public being stopped in the street and asked what
is "their carbon footprint". Most look a bit perplexed. BP explains that
the carbon footprint is "the amount of carbon dioxide emitted due to
your daily activities – from washing a load of laundry to driving a
carload of kids to school"...
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The question of who is responsible for climate change is incredibly
complicated, explains my colleague Jocelyn Timperley in an article for
BBC Future's Climate Emotions series. Is it the companies who supply
goods and services or the consumers who create the demand?
On the one hand, 70% of greenhouse gas emissions in the past two decades
can be attributed to 100 fossil fuel producers, according to a report
from the CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project). So their role is
clearly important. But rich, Western consumers also contribute a
disproportionate amount of emissions through the choices they make.
Another assessment, co-authored by Diana Ivanova, a research fellow
specialising in household consumption from the Sustainability Research
Institute at the University of Leeds in the UK, suggests households
contribute more than 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It depends
on whom you hold responsible for Scope 3 emissions, which are "indirect"
emissions resulting from using goods and services, for example.
But I am not just interested in whether it is fair to hold individuals
responsible for climate change, I want to know how the debate was shaped
in that direction. How did companies and corporations influence the
language and images we associate with climate change?
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**Under attack*
The Keep America Beautiful advert was broadcast a year after the first
Earth Day in 1970. The climate was a hot topic; books like Rachel
Carson's Silent Spring had inspired grassroots climate activists and the
public had recently witnessed the awe-inspiring Earthrise image from the
Apollo missions...
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Companies which produce "green" goods tend to have lower profitability,
according to a 2020 report from Misato Sato, a research fellow at the
London School of Economics, and her colleagues. This is in part because
these firms operate less efficiently. Added to this, there is still a
high demand for less-sustainable products, like SUVs, which are among
the most popular models of car.
While it might seem harmless for the public to be encouraged to reduce
their emissions and recycle, Dunaway warns it could have a downside.
"The disconnect between the severity of the climate crisis versus so
much focus on these little actions [like recycling or picking up
litter], that not only distract from corporate responsibility, but also
don't seem to [make] a difference – it's trying to encourage a feeling
of empowerment, but I think it sometimes can actually be disempowering."
Keep America Beautiful reprised the "crying Indian" figure in later
adverts that repeated similar themes about indigenous people's
"reverence" for the land. While today these adverts look out of touch,
they created a narrative that lasted for decades that climate change
could be tackled from our own homes, concludes Dunaway.
While there is certainly more that we could all be doing, where should
we be looking for more action on the climate?
"An important question is who has the most power and agency for a change
that will bring sizable cuts to emissions quickly," explains the
University of Leeds's Diana Ivanova. "Which really points the finger
more to governments and corporations."
We have contacted Keep America Beautiful, BP, the WBCSD, the ICC and
American Beverage Association for comment. At present, we have not
received a reply.
William Park is a senior journalist at BBC Future. You can find him on
Twitter: @williamhpark
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220504-why-the-wrong-people-are-blamed-for-climate-change
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*Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr*
The billionaire venture capitalist said the study of climate change and
sustainability would be the “new computer science.”
By David Gelles
David Gelles writes about climate change and business, and has
interviewed hundreds of C.E.O.s in recent years.
May 4, 2022
John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the
history of Silicon Valley, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University
to fund a school focused on climate change and sustainability.
The gift, which Mr. Doerr is making with his wife Ann, is the largest
ever to a university for the establishment of a new school, and is the
second largest gift to an academic institution, according to the
Chronicle of Higher Education. Only Michael R. Bloomberg’s 2018 donation
of $1.8 billion to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, ranks higher.
The gift establishes the Doerrs as leading funders of climate change
research and scholarship, and will place Stanford at the center of
public and private efforts to wean the world off fossil fuels...
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Yet some question whether these philanthropic investments can make a
difference when it comes to a planetary crisis.
“I don’t see how giving a billion dollars to a rich university is going
to move the needle on this issue in a near-term time frame,” said David
Callahan, author of “The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a
New Gilded Age.” “It’s nice that he’s parting with his money, but that
billion dollars could be better spent trying to move this up on the
scale of public opinion. Until the public sees this as a top tier issue,
politicians are not going to act.”
Arun Majumdar, who was named as the school’s inaugural dean and has
advised the Obama and Biden administrations on energy issues, said the
school would provide context and analysis around climate change issues,
but would stop short of advocacy. “We will not go into the political
arena,” he said. “That’s a very slippery slope for us.”
Mr. Majumdar, who currently holds a chair at Stanford named for Jay
Precourt, a businessman who made his name in the oil business, also said
that the new school would work with and accept donations from fossil
fuel companies...
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“We’ve got to be clear about the problem,” he said. “I believe this is a
problem of scale that needs far greater ambition, urgency and excellence
deployed against it.”
Mr. Doerr and his wife are signatories to the Giving Pledge, the effort
founded by Mr. Gates, his ex-wife Melinda French Gates, and Warren
Buffett to persuade ultrawealthy individuals to give away the majority
of their fortunes during their lifetimes or in their wills. “Climate and
sustainability is the most important of our causes,” Mr. Doerr said of
his family’s philanthropic plans.
Other major universities, including Columbia, are establishing
interdisciplinary schools focused on climate change as well. Yet the
Doerr School for Sustainability, Stanford’s first new school in 70
years, will be among the largest and best funded. It will launch with 90
faculty members and add 60 more over the next 10 years. The university
said it had raised an additional $590 million alongside the gift from
the Doerrs, and that some of the funds would be used to construct two
new buildings.
Mr. Doerr said he hoped that the gift would inspire other wealthy
individuals to spend their fortunes combating climate change. “This is
going to take more than one institution,” Mr. Doerr said. “Just like we
have multiple medical schools, we need multiple sustainability schools
to get the job done.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/climate/john-doerr-stanford-climate.html
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MAY 3, 2022
*Stanford’s Britt Wray on the intersection of climate change and mental
health*
Planetary Postdoctoral Health Fellow Britt Wray discusses her recently
published book about dealing with climate anxiety and her own path to
finding purpose in a chaotic time.
BY JAMIE HANSEN
In 2017, author Britt Wray felt forced to confront the climate crisis on
a personal level when she and her husband began seriously discussing
having a baby. By then, Wray had been absorbing grim news of planetary
destruction for years as a biology student-turned science communicator.
The question of whether or not to bring a new life into a seemingly
doomed world caused the fear, frustration, and anger that had been
simmering below the surface to boil over.
A feeling of isolation deepened a deep sense of grief and despair, which
drove her to explore whether others were experiencing similar
existential fears and dilemmas. Through conversations and research, she
learned she was not alone and connected to a burgeoning community that
offered strength and resolve.
Over the last five years, Wray worked her way through this crucible of
emotion and forged a new sense of purpose – and a new livelihood. She
turned to research to explore the mental and emotional toll exacted by
the climate crisis and environmental destruction, using her storytelling
skills to relay her findings on “how to stay sane in the climate and
broader ecological crisis.”
In 2021, she became an inaugural Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow at
the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, the Stanford Woods
Institute for the Environment, and the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine. She helped lead a groundbreaking new study on climate
anxiety in 10,000 young people in over 10 countries, which underscored a
looming mental health crisis. Three-quarters of respondents felt that
the “future is frightening,” about half said climate anxiety affected
their daily lives, and about a quarter feared having children due to the
climate crisis.
Her recently published book, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age
of Climate Crisis explores how we as individuals – and as a community –
can build resilience and convert the feelings known as eco-anxiety into
a super-fuel to power our efforts to fight for a better world.
“Rather than bury our heads in the sand and suppress our discomfort, we
can harness and transform the distress we feel into meaningful actions
and forms of connection,” she writes.
In the following conversation, Wray offers hope and insight into how to
do just that.
*In your book, you describe holding a “balance between hope and fear”
without giving in to either extreme. These days, where do you find
yourself in this balance?**
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I find myself hopeful – in a gritty way. There is something about the
turbulence of these times which is causing a lot of distress for a lot
of people. But taking the time to really explore, reflect on, and
process one’s difficult, even existential feelings, can cause a personal
transformation that brings about resolve, courage, commitment, and moral
clarity. This, then, can translate to connecting with others and pushing
to create what you want to see more of in the world.
It’s not a fast process. There’s no guarantee that, if you feel
ecological distress, grief, or rage about the injustices of what’s
happening, it’s going to be this triumphant path towards personal
transformation or resolve to make the world a better place. It can be a
really difficult and harrowing place to be. It can have real negative
consequences for mental health. Nothing is guaranteed, but there are
ways through it.
At the same time that people are waking up to climate awareness and
feeling really rattled, there is also the rise of literacy, support,
research, and resources around what to do around these challenges. And
that is incredible because it wasn’t there before.
*Your uncertainty about whether or not to have a child in light of the
climate crisis led you to this work. Then, last fall, you and your
husband welcomed a baby into the world. Has having a child changed your
outlook and how you approach your work?**
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I think my outlook had to change before having a child, in order to have
a child. This happened through my research and the connections I gained
from interviewing lots of people, joining various community groups
focused on climate action, and processing my climate emotions. In doing
so, I stepped out of that isolating, alienating place where I felt as
though I was the only one with these experiences. All this helped me to
move through my feelings and use them in a nourishing way to ask, “Okay,
how am I going to be at this time? How do I want to use this one life
that I have?”
I got really honest with myself about who I would be if I clung to only
the most difficult, darkest emotions that are also alive in me. I began
to tap into a bigger meaning and purpose from all of this distress; I
quit my job and started a new career in climate and mental health. Those
emotions still get kicked up from time to time by world events, and they
are completely valid. But I found that I could accept things for being
as turbulent as they are and move towards them with a disposition of
joy. Once I made these shifts and devoted my life to working on
planetary health issues, then I finally felt like, “OK, all right, now I
can have a child.”
*This was your process, as you put it, for turning eco-anxiety into a
“super-fuel” to power positive change. How can others do the same?*
A lot of the despair becomes as strong as it does because people don’t
have another person who can validate and embrace their tough climate
emotions and have them know they’re not crazy.
There are lots of ways in which to start the emotional processing of
such feelings in a supportive way. That can be a climate cafe, an
activist group, friends who simply get it and are ready to talk in an
open non-judgmental way, a loved one in your family, or a climate
emotions processing program like what’s offered by the Good Grief
Network. The idea is for people to be able to show up authentically,
have their feelings validated, and engage in frank conversations about
what the climate crisis means in their life here and now. The support
that comes through legitimizing the emotions can be immediately
relieving in a really big way.
These feelings can change you as you move through them, learn to value
them as a sign of care or love for what’s being lost, and can help you
see how you can heal the problem with your talents, efforts, and
energies. And you can end up, after having a rattling climate wake-up
moment, coming out the other side with a fresh perspective on what you
can do and how you can be of service. In psychology speak, it’s called
meaning-focused coping.
* In your book, you explore the idea that eco-anxiety can be exacerbated
by privilege, felt most intensely by those not facing daily, systemic
threats to their health and well-being. How do race and class impact the
experience of climate change, which clearly impacts us all?*
Everyone is vulnerable to the distressing – and potentially revitalizing
– power of eco-anxiety if they recognize that their own health is tied
up with the health of their environment. But we don’t all have the same
resources, space, or interest to harness eco-anxiety when other
existential threats may be more immediate.
For instance, as a white, middle-class Canadian woman, I have basically
had the luxury of dreading the future, while others already acutely fear
the present, and have long been suffering for how they were treated by
dominant power systems in the past. For many, the climate crisis is a
double injustice, as the most marginalized, primarily poor people of
color are disproportionately harmed by a warming world. At the same
time, they had the least to do with causing this mess.
As climate writer Sarah Jaquette Ray notes, racial inequality and the
climate crisis need to be healed at the same time because they are
inextricably intertwined. And privileged anxiety about the climate, like
mine, must be harnessed and purposefully directed outward for
justice-oriented results if it’s going to be of help.
* Your research predicts a rising tide of mental health concerns as our
climate crisis worsens. How can society prepare to meet this growing need?*
For years, global health leaders have been looking at how we can get
mental health support into low-resource settings.
A very promising model has emerged: Turning specialists into supervisors
who train teams of community members interested in helping, but who
don’t have any psychological expertise. This is called task shifting.
Armed with interventions, these laypeople go out into the community,
working with their neighbors in a trusted social fabric. They’re in
community centers, grocery stores, schools, whatever it might be.
Clinical trials have shown this approach can sometimes be even more
effective than primary care with a specialist.
Something like this approach could be very effective in dealing with the
scope of psychic damage that the climate crisis will be causing at an
escalating rate. It’s time to be thinking about adapting these kinds of
programs and empowering people to take shared ownership over their
mental health as we adapt to our warming world.
https://news.stanford.edu/2022/05/03/climate-grief-researcher-britt-wray-discusses-new-book/
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*Man who died outside Supreme Court raises complicated questions, calls
attention to 'climate grief'*
The death of a climate activist by self-immolation outside of the
Supreme Court raises questions, debate over hopelessness and grief about
climate change...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/30/wynn-bruce-death-supreme-court-questions/9553124002/?gnt-cfr=1
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//*Volts podcast: Fran Moore on how to represent social change in
climate models*
Endogenizing the exogenous.
David Roberts - May 4, 2022
One of my long-time gripes about the climate-economic models that
outfits like the IPCC produce is that they ignore politics. More
broadly, they ignore social change and the way it can both drive and be
driven by technology and climate impacts.
This isn’t difficult to explain — unlike technology costs, biophysical
feedbacks, and other easily quantifiable variables, the dynamics of
social change seem fuzzy and qualitative, too soft and poorly understood
to include in a quantitative model. Consequently, those dynamics have
been treated as “exogenous” to models. Modelers simply determine those
values, feed in a set level of policy change, and the models react.
Parameters internal to the model can not affect policy and be affected
by it in turn; models do not capture socio-physical and socio-economic
feedback loops.
But we know those feedback loops exist. We know that falling costs of
technology can shift public sentiment which can lead to policy which can
further reduce the costs of technology. All kinds of loops like that
exist, among and between climate, technology, and human social
variables. Leaving them out entirely can produce misleading results.
At long last, a new research paper has tackled this problem head-on.
Fran Moore, an assistant professor at UC Davis working at the
intersection of climate science and economics, took a stab at it in a
recent Nature paper, “Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled
climate–social system.” Moore, along with several co-authors, attempted
to construct a climate model that includes social feedback loops, to
help determine what kinds of social conditions produce policy change and
how policy change helps change social conditions.
I am fascinated by this effort and by the larger questions of how to
integrate social-science dynamics into climate analysis, so I was eager
to talk to Moore about how she constructed her model, what kinds of data
she drew on, and how she views the dangers and opportunities of
quantifying social variables...
https://www.volts.wtf/p/volts-podcast-fran-moore-on-how-to?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNjgzNTA5LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo1MzA3OTM1MSwiXyI6ImNZaTJuIiwiaWF0IjoxNjUxNjg2OTM5LCJleHAiOjE2NTE2OTA1MzksImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xOTMwMjQiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.Jh14AOpamTu7qJn37KA1O8UOBAO68InTxsoftldVuhc&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&s=r#play/
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Published: 16 February 2022
*Determinants of emissions pathways in the coupled climate–social system*
Frances C. Moore, Katherine Lacasse, Katharine J. Mach, Yoon Ah Shin,
Louis J. Gross & Brian Beckage
Nature volume 603,
*Abstract*
The ambition and effectiveness of climate policies will be essential
in determining greenhouse gas emissions and, as a consequence, the
scale of climate change impacts1,2. However, the
socio-politico-technical processes that will determine climate
policy and emissions trajectories are treated as exogenous in almost
all climate change modelling3,4. Here we identify relevant feedback
processes documented across a range of disciplines and connect them
in a stylized model of the climate–social system. An analysis of
model behaviour reveals the potential for nonlinearities and tipping
points that are particularly associated with connections across the
individual, community, national and global scales represented. These
connections can be decisive for determining policy and emissions
outcomes. After partly constraining the model parameter space using
observations, we simulate 100,000 possible future policy and
emissions trajectories. These fall into 5 clusters with warming in
2100 ranging between 1.8 °C and 3.6 °C above the 1880–1910 average.
Public perceptions of climate change, the future cost and
effectiveness of mitigation technologies, and the responsiveness of
political institutions emerge as important in explaining variation
in emissions pathways and therefore the constraints on warming over
the twenty-first century.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04423-8/
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*Environmental Racism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)*
LastWeekTonight
John Oliver discusses environmental racism, how both government and
industry are failing people of color, and pandas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v0XiUQlRLw
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*Major Japanese Railway Now Powered Only by Renewable Energy*
Japanese railway company, Tokyu, says it now uses only renewable energy
to power its train operations. That means Tokyu’s huge network of train
lines in and around Tokyo do not produce any carbon dioxide emissions.
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Since Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, the country has shut
down most of its nuclear plants and increased use of coal-fired power
plants.
Japan aims to have 36 to 38 percent of its energy come from renewable
sources by 2030.
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/major-japanese-railway-now-powered-only-by-renewable-energy/6547696.html
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*Here’s the one word you can’t say in a room full of Republicans*
Elevating the conversation. Here’s how to bridge the political divide to
provide stewardship of the earth.
By Doug Wilks May 2, 2022...
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“If you say ‘climate’ to a room full of Republicans it is no different —
think about this — than saying ‘the wall’ to a room full of Democrats.
Their chest tightens up. All they hear is Donald Trump agenda. If you
say climate to a Republican all they hear is Green New Deal ... or Al
Gore. ... It is an off-ramp every time for people and that’s a very
important thing to change,” Curtis said...
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The question he asks is this: “Do you want to leave the Earth better
than you found it?”...
https://www.deseret.com/2022/5/2/23048659/climate-change-republican-democrats-earth-john-curtis-benji-backer-hannah-downey-environment
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/[ see the video ]/
*A Case for Conservative Conservation*
Deseret News
On April 27, 2022, the Deseret News hosted at the National Press Club in
Washington, D.C., a discussion with some leading thinkers on the
intersection of conservative ideals and environmental conservation ethics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbcas0KXN60
/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*May 5, 2013*/
May 5, 2013: New York magazine's Jon Chait declares that President Obama
doesn't get enough credit for being a climate hawk:
"The assumption that Obama’s climate-change record is essentially one
of failure is mainly an artifact of environmentalists’ understandably
frantic urgency. The sort of steady progress that would leave activists
on other issues giddy does not satisfy the sort of person whose waking
hours are spent watching the glaciers melt irreversibly. But there is a
difference between failing to do anything and failing to do enough, and
even those who criticize the president’s efforts as inadequate ought to
be clear-eyed about what has been accomplished. By the normal standards
of progress, Obama has amassed an impressive record so far on climate
change."
http://nymag.com/news/features/obama-climate-change-2013-5/
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