[✔️] May 22, 2022 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sun May 22 08:37:47 EDT 2022
/*May 22, 2022*/
/[ Climate migrant and climate refugee ] /
*Climate Migrants Lack a Clear Path to Asylum in the US*
People displaced by climate change must show they face violence or
persecution in their home countries to enter the U.S. legally. Advocates
say it’s time to recognize climate as cause enough.
By Aydali Campa - - May 21, 2022...
- -
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has called climate change
a “threat multiplier” that puts compounding pressure on people to move
within or outside country borders, and the activists are calling on the
Biden administration and Congress to recognize this growing reality by
supporting legislation and other efforts to expand legal pathways for
climate-displaced people to migrate into the U.S.
Under current law, people impacted by climate may apply for asylum or
refugee status in the U.S. only if they can show that the central reason
they are fleeing their home country is that they faced or have reason to
fear future persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political
opinion or membership in a particular social group.
- -
*Who Is a Climate Migrant?*
The term “climate refugee” refers to those displaced by climate change
but isn’t recognized in international law. The U.N. Refugee Agency
refers to them as “persons displaced in the context of disasters and
climate change,” and the International Organization on Migration defines
them as “environmental migrants” or “environmentally displaced people.”
- -
Their numbers are vast and growing. An IPCC report released earlier this
year stated that more than 3.3 billion people live in areas highly
vulnerable to climate hazards. In the most extreme climate scenarios,
more than 30 million migrants would head toward the U.S. border over the
course of the next 30 years, according to a 2020 report by the New York
Times Magazine. East and Southeast Asia are seeing more tropical
cyclones, the Pacific Islands are quickly being submerged as sea level
rises and frequent, intensifying hurricanes are striking Central
America. About 21.5 million people relocate as a result of suddenly
onsetting weather hazards every year.
- -
In their letter to Biden, the 75 experts clearly focused on what the
U.S. should be doing for climate migrants, as opposed to adaptation and
mitigation efforts in their countries of origin. The experts called on
the Biden administration to put climate migrants among others with top
priority in the asylum process. And they recommended that the U.N.
revise its own resettlement criteria to also give higher priority to
climate migrants.
“These measures would not only signal to other nations that the United
States stands ready to do its part in the fight against climate change,”
they wrote, “but they would also improve our relationships with nations
disproportionately affected by climate change and related disasters.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21052022/climate-migrants-seeking-asylum-in-the-us-lack-a-clear-path-to-refugee-status/
/[ video interview ]/
*Sir David King on Heatwaves, Action, & Activism: "No one will escape.."*
Premiered 5-21-2022 The current heatwave in India and Pakistan sets the
scene for this ClimateGenn episode, speaking with Climate Crisis
Advisory Group Chair, Professor Sir David King about their new report on
what we must do to have the best chance of averting climate and
ecological collapse...
- -
Sir David makes it very clear that nobody will escape these impacts as
the climate emergency worsens and what we are seeing in India continues
to spread around the world.
Sir David emphasises the need for solidarity and pulling together to
meet the challenges at the global level. He also highlights that
wealthier countries must pay-up on adaptation costs for vulnerable and
poorer nations.
As someone with first hand experience of the climate negotiations, Sir
David points the finger at the United States for its lack of global
leadership on appropriate climate action at the political level.
Activism around the world is stepping up as people realise the failures
of governments to take appropriate action. Even the UN Secretary General
is calling out the failures of world leaders, declaring that activists
are rational actors compared to those entrusted with power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q012jgJzBn8
/
/
/[ book review on PBS video - positive exhortation. ]/
*Political scientist Ian Bremmer on the world's ability to address major
global crises*
May 19, 2022 With Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the pandemic, climate
crisis and extreme political polarization, the dangers currently facing
the world are stark. A new book, "_The Power of Crisis: How Three
Threats – and Our Response – Will Change the World_," delves into those
topics. Author Ian Bremmer, who runs the Eurasia Group, a global risk
research and consulting firm, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmS6J9TKe7o
/[ //advertising //as a major misinformation battlefield ] /
*Revealed: How Car and Airline Advertising ‘Misleads’ the Public and
Threatens Climate Action*
Industries make green claims while lobbying against climate targets and
promoting high-carbon travel.
Rachel Sherrington - - May 18, 2022
Major car and airline companies are using adverts that greenwash their
business while continuing to push highly polluting products that put the
world’s climate goals at risk, DeSmog can reveal.
A DeSmog investigation, commissioned by Greenpeace Netherlands, analysed
more than a thousand Facebook and Instagram adverts placed by ten
well-known European transport brands in the last year.
The analysis found that car companies – Peugeot, Renault, Citroën, Fiat
and Jeep – are touting “green” products and initiatives in the majority
of their advertising while simultaneously using ads to push highly
polluting vehicles such as SUVs.
The car firms promoted battery-powered cars and hybrids in over two
thirds of their adverts. This low-carbon image is out of step with the
reality of fleet production figures – both current and projected – which
reveal a business model wedded to sales of fossil-fuel powered vehicles.
The study revealed that airline companies, by contrast, mostly chose to
ignore the climate crisis altogether in their advertising.
“Lower-carbon” flights featured in less than ten percent of industry
ads, which chose instead to incentivise air travel with deals, low-cost
offers and promotions.
Despite green pledges, all the companies analysed – both cars and
airlines – have lobbied against measures to reduce emissions, either
directly or through industry groups.
“European car and airline companies are using PR strategies like these
to sell products that burn vast amounts of oil,” explains Silvia
Pastorelli from Greenpeace. “These adverts are dangerous because they
reassure consumers, when they are actually making choices that increase
the likelihood of devastating climate impacts,” she says...
- -
*'Misleading’ Car Adverts*
Car manufacturers are responsible for nine percent of global emissions,
according to recent analysis by Greenpeace that takes into account
vehicle manufacturing and disposal. And despite decades of warnings,
almost all car companies are moving far too slowly towards phasing out
conventional cars.
DeSmog’s research found that while a majority of companies’ adverts
promoted lower-carbon vehicles, this was out of proportion to companies’
actual sales.
The companies’ sales of lower-emissions vehicles ranged between 12.8 and
30 percent of overall vehicle sales in Europe, where the adverts
analysed were targeted. (Worldwide, sales of low-emission cars are even
lower.)
These sales fall far below the 70 percent of car adverts that promoted
lower-carbon electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles.
The high volume of company ads for greener cars risk “misleading” the
public, according to Robbie Gillett from the Ad Free Cities network.
“Car companies can hide behind these adverts for plug-in-hybrids and
fully electric vehicles, which actually don’t represent the majority of
sales,” he says. “It allows companies to present themselves as greener
than they are.”
- -
*SUVs Booming*
DeSmog’s analysis also found that a significant minority of adverts were
dedicated to promoting highly polluting vehicles. SUVs in particular
emit more than regular-sized cars and return higher profits. Petrol and
diesel cars are more profitable than electric equivalents as they are
cheaper to make.
One in four adverts promoted conventional cars that were entirely
powered by fossil fuels, while 41 percent promoted SUVs that were hybrid
or powered entirely by fossil-fuels.
Author and campaigner Andrew Simms said car firms’ continued push to
sell “the most road-hugging and energy-inefficient” car is an
“indictment of any sustainability claims” and takes away legitimacy from
low-carbon transition plans.
The growth of SUV production is identified as a key threat to
decarbonizing the transport sector. Sales of SUVs have more than doubled
in the last decade and risk canceling out much of the emissions
reductions gained from the uptake of electric vehicles. Taken together,
their combined emissions are greater than those of some major industrial
nations, including Germany.
“The companies are making a lot of money from SUVs so they continue to
market those but emphasize sales of EVs at the same time,” says Karen
Sokol, a professor at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. “The
danger is that company ads risk allowing them to continue business as
usual.”...
- -
*Airline Ads Ignore Climate Crisis*
The aviation industry is responsible for around 5 percent of global
heating. While lower than other sectors, aviation remains a sector of
particular concern to climate scientists. According to one industry
analysis, the number of passenger flights will more than double by the
year 2050 compared to 2019. Meanwhile, technologies to make flying more
sustainable remain in their infancy.
- -
Simms puts the lack of green ads to airlines down to successfully
staying out of the line of fire – and out of Paris climate agreements.
“They’ve played an incredibly clever game. I am not surprised [at the
lack of green ads] because from a public image and perception management
point of view, the aviation industry has been less subject to the kind
of pressure that the car industry is under,” he says.
Gillett believes that marketing that fails to mention the climate
crisis – given its urgency – is “grossly irresponsible” and requires us
to update our definition of greenwashing.
“The idea of greenwash is expanding to include the presentation of a
polluting product, such as an airline ticket, that does not mention the
need to cut down on that product in the short, medium and long term –
that’s a form of greenwash as well,” he says.
- -
*Pressure Grows on Fossil Fuel Advertising*
Research by Greenpeace has shown a direct link between car and airline
advertisements and increased greenhouse gas emissions. In 2019, car and
airline adverts are said to have led to additional emissions greater
than those of the Netherlands.
- -
Meanwhile a call to ban fossil fuel adverts is gathering support across
Europe. It’s championed by campaigners who point to the crackdown on
tobacco advertising – which faces a near total ban in the UK and Europe
– as an important precedent.
“Sometimes you’ll see those warnings about climate change and
advertising high carbon products on the same page in the same newspaper,
or on the same digital billboard,” says Gillet. “And that mismatch is
starting to be noticed by the public.”
Sokol said calls for a ban were justified: “That shift is important –
it’s like marketing deadly products,” she says. “This is something that
has to be banned: we can’t use fossil fuels anymore, and we’ve got to be
consistent with what the science tells us. We’ve got to start thinking
very differently.”
All the companies analysed in the research were contacted for comment.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/05/18/revealed-how-car-and-airline-advertising-misleads-the-public-and-threatens-climate-action/
/[ for example $]/
*Report: Car and airline adverts helped produce twice the emissions of
Spain in 2019*
Cecilia Keating - - 23 February 2022
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4045402/report-car-airline-adverts-helped-produce-twice-emissions-spain-2019
/[ new book says the wildfires are the metaphor ] /
*Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis 1st Edition*
by Eve Darian-Smith (Author)
How extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are
prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires,
and accelerating global climate change. Recent years have seen
out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests,
densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in
Australia. What connects these separate events is more than
immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve
Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal
thread connecting different places around the world allows us to
better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of
authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected
global consequences. Darian-Smith looks deeply into each of these
three cases of catastrophic wildfires and finds key similarities in
all of them. As political leaders and big business work together in
the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become
an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right
governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the
governments that deny climate science, reject environmental
protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate
climate injustice. The fires in Australia, Brazil and the United
States demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality
that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal
democracy with the corrosion of the environment. Darian-Smith argues
that these wildfires are closely linked through capitalism,
colonialism, industrialization, and resource extraction. In thinking
through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global
Burning challenges readers to confront the interlocking powers that
are ensuring our future ecological collapse.
https://www.amazon.com/Global-Burning-Rising-Antidemocracy-Climate/dp/1503631087/ref=sr_1_1//
/[ melting brings up more gasses - from The Atlantic ]/
*A Radioactive Gas Is Lurking Beneath the Permafrost*
Cancer-causing radon has been trapped beneath the frozen Arctic soil for
millennia. Climate change is setting it free.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/05/climate-change-permafrost-melt-radon-gas/629943/
/[ UCTV.TV Awareness of Death, Denial - video lecture ]/
*CARTA: Mortality: The Evolution of Mortality Denial; Mortality Denial
and Terror Management; Suicide*
Apr 10, 2017
1:46 START OF PRESENTATION
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv/) Ajit Varki explores the human capacity for
denial of reality and how that has shaped our evolution; Sheldon Solomon
different philosophies surrounding mortality; and Nicholas Humphrey
provides a comprehensive look at the motivations for, prevalence of and
reactions to the uniquely human act for suicide. Recorded on 03/03/2017.
Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in
Anthropogeny" [5/2017] [Humanities] [Science] [Show ID: 32048]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxSeLd5iKQ
/[The news archive - looking back ]/
/*May 22, 2015*/
Boston Globe columnist Scot Lehigh reports on Republican presidential
candidate Jeb Bush's devotion to denial and scorn of solutions:
"First he asserted that the government shouldn’t try to pick winners
and losers when it comes to energy sources, citing fracking as an
example of the market’s ability to find solutions.
"But as economists will tell you, for the market to work
efficiently, it’s important to get prices right. If the cost of
carbon-based fuels reflected the environmental harm caused, higher
prices would reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also rendering
cleaner energy more cost competitive. Bush didn’t do a media
availability, but afterward, I did squeeze in this query: Given his
belief in the market’s ability to find the best solution, does he
favor a tax on carbon emissions?
"His one-word answer corresponded with the quick shake of his head:
'No.'"
http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/05/21/jeb-bush-good-and-bad/IOe0h7GNuTWInlQuyz0iXM/story.html#
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/05/21/3661573/jeb-bush-climate-change-intellectual-arrogance/
=======================================
*Mass media is lacking, here are a few daily summariesof global warming
news - email delivered*
=========================================================
**Inside Climate News*
Newsletters
We deliver climate news to your inbox like nobody else. Every day or
once a week, our original stories and digest of the web’s top headlines
deliver the full story, for free.
https://insideclimatenews.org/
---------------------------------------
**Climate Nexus* https://climatenexus.org/hot-news/*
Delivered straight to your inbox every morning, Hot News summarizes the
most important climate and energy news of the day, delivering an
unmatched aggregation of timely, relevant reporting. It also provides
original reporting and commentary on climate denial and pro-polluter
activity that would otherwise remain largely unexposed. 5 weekday
=================================
*Carbon Brief Daily https://www.carbonbrief.org/newsletter-sign-up*
Every weekday morning, in time for your morning coffee, Carbon Brief
sends out a free email known as the “Daily Briefing” to thousands of
subscribers around the world. The email is a digest of the past 24 hours
of media coverage related to climate change and energy, as well as our
pick of the key studies published in the peer-reviewed journals.
more at https://www.getrevue.co/publisher/carbon-brief
==================================
*T*he Daily Climate *Subscribe https://ehsciences.activehosted.com/f/61*
Get The Daily Climate in your inbox - FREE! Top news on climate impacts,
solutions, politics, drivers. Delivered week days. Better than coffee.
Other newsletters at https://www.dailyclimate.org/originals/
/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------/
/Archive of Daily Global Warming News
<https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/2017-October/date.html>
/
https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote
/To receive daily mailings - click to Subscribe
<mailto:subscribe at theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request>
to news digest./
Privacy and Security:*This mailing is text-only. It does not carry
images or attachments which may originate from remote servers. A
text-only message can provide greater privacy to the receiver and
sender. This is a hobby production curated by Richard Pauli
By regulation, the .VOTE top-level domain cannot be used for commercial
purposes. Messages have no tracking software.
To subscribe, email: contact at theclimate.vote
<mailto:contact at theclimate.vote> with subject subscribe, To Unsubscribe,
subject: unsubscribe
Also you may subscribe/unsubscribe at
https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote
Links and headlines assembled and curated by Richard Pauli for
http://TheClimate.Vote <http://TheClimate.Vote/> delivering succinct
information for citizens and responsible governments of all levels. List
membership is confidential and records are scrupulously restricted to
this mailing list.
More information about the TheClimate.Vote
mailing list