[✔️] November 18, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

[Richard Pauli]

/*November 18, 2022*/

/[ young people dealing with climate changes NPR audio and text clips ]/
*Coping with climate change: Advice for kids — from kids*
November 17, 2022
Heard on Morning Edition
LAUREN SOMMER
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https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2022/11/20221117_me_coping_with_climate_change_advice_for_kids_from_kids.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1167&d=422&p=3&story=1137156134&dl=1&sc=siteplayer&size=6760534&dl=1&aw_0_1st.playerid=siteplayer 
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Kids across the world are increasingly facing the impacts of climate 
change, from losing homes in disasters to having recess canceled due to 
extreme heat waves. Climate anxiety is on the rise, as a younger 
generation confronts inheriting a much hotter world.

"Many young people are experiencing grief and frustration and anxiety 
and elements of betrayal by adults and other generations," says Dr. 
Kelsey Hudson, a clinical psychologist who specializes in climate change.

In coping with those feelings, many young people are figuring out ways 
to find meaning and purpose. Here's some of their advice.

    *1. Talk to a friend about what's up...*
    "Being surrounded by people who are equally passionate and have the
    same amount of optimism about the future can be really uplifting and
    kind of motivating," he says.

    When he feels overwhelmed by the future of the planet, he meets up
    with a friend, Mariah Rosensweig, whom he got to know through the
    sustainability club. They go on walks and hikes together, venting
    about whatever is on their minds...
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    *2. Get out in nature*
    As a kid, Rosensweig's deep love of nature grew from being outdoors
    all the time.

    "I was always one of the few girls that would be dirtier than all
    the boys," Rosensweig says. "My grandpa nicknamed me the 'tree
    panther,' because I would always be in a tree and he wouldn't know
    where I was."
    "I'll sit myself down on the ground and really connect to my senses,
    especially breath," she says. "That will make you more aware of the
    world around you. And then the more that you're aware, the more
    you're going to care. The more you care, the more likely you are to
    do something about it."
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    *3. Join people doing something in your community...*
    "For me, advocacy and action has alleviated some of my climate
    anxiety because it shows me success is possible, right?" he says.
    "If a group of teenagers here in Tucson can have this success and if
    teenagers across the country are having similar success, that can
    really lead to reforms on the national level."

    Helping out in your community doesn't need to be a big project,
    psychologists like Hudson say. It can be as simple as planting a
    pollinator-friendly flower. The key thing is to find meaning in the
    action and build social connections in the process.

    "We can think about: what does it look like for young people to find
    a sense of meaning and purpose in this crisis?" Hudson says.
    "Connect with like-minded others and build some agency through
    connecting with climate engagement or action."...
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    *4. Don't be too intimidated to speak out...*
    "Last year, my climate anxiety started really getting to its peak,"
    he says. "It was just the feeling of not being able to do something."

Dangi, now 16, wasn't sure he knew enough about climate change to get 
involved. But after going to a few climate protests, he started a 
Fridays for Future chapter where he lives in Fresno, California. The 
youth-led movement has chapters around the world that lead climate 
strikes, where students walk out of school or protest after school.

At first, it was just Dangi and a couple friends, but the group grew in 
size the more he kept at it. Discussing and engaging people about 
climate issues has helped him feel more positive.

"You don't have to have a fancy degree or something to really speak out 
about the planet," Dangi says. "The world is everybody's home. It's 
everybody's future. And it's something everybody can really stand up for 
and speak out about."
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/17/1137156134/kids-youth-coping-climate-change
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[ Transcript ] https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1137156134



/[ Climate and Religion and Polling - from the Pew Research Center ]/
*How Religion Intersects With Americans’ Views on the Environment*
Responsibility for the Earth is part of many U.S. Christians’ beliefs, 
but so is skepticism about climate change
BY BECKA A. ALPER

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Most U.S. adults – including a solid majority of Christians and large 
numbers of people who identify with other religious traditions – 
consider the Earth sacred and believe God gave humans a duty to care for 
it, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

But the survey also finds that highly religious Americans (those who say 
they pray each day, regularly attend religious services and consider 
religion very important in their lives) are far less likely than other 
U.S. adults to express concern about warming temperatures around the globe.

The survey reveals several reasons why religious Americans tend to be 
less concerned about climate change. First and foremost is politics: The 
main driver of U.S. public opinion about the climate is political party, 
not religion. Highly religious Americans are more inclined than others 
to identify with or lean toward the Republican Party, and Republicans 
tend to be much less likely than Democrats to believe that human 
activity (such as burning fossil fuels) is warming the Earth or to 
consider climate change a serious problem.

Religious Americans who express little or no concern about climate 
change also give a variety of other explanations for their views, 
including that there are much bigger problems in the world today, that 
God is in control of the climate, and that they do not believe the 
climate actually is changing. In addition, many religious Americans 
voice concerns about the potential consequences of environmental 
regulations, such as a loss of individual freedoms, fewer jobs or higher 
energy prices.

Finally, climate change does not seem to be a topic discussed much in 
religious congregations, either from the pulpit or in the pews. And few 
Americans view efforts to conserve energy and limit carbon emissions as 
moral issues...

Among U.S. adults who attend religious services at least monthly, 46% 
say their congregation has recycling bins, 43% say their house of 
worship takes steps to be more energy efficient and 8% say it uses solar 
power.

Fully seven-in-ten Americans say they find meaning in nature (71%), 
including 38% who find a great deal of meaning from spending time 
outdoors. There is relatively little variation by religious affiliation 
on this question. For example, 74% of mainline Protestants, 71% of 
Catholics and religious “nones,” and 70% of evangelical Protestants say 
they draw meaning from nature and the outdoors. But members of 
historically Black Protestant churches, who are among the most concerned 
about climate change, are the least likely to derive at least quite a 
bit of meaning from spending time outside (56%)...

The new survey, conducted April 11-17, 2022, finds that about 
three-quarters of religiously affiliated Americans say the Earth is 
sacred. An even greater share (80%) express a sense of stewardship – 
completely or mostly agreeing with the idea that “God gave humans a duty 
to protect and care for the Earth, including the plants and animals.” 
Two-thirds of U.S. adults who identify with a religious group say their 
faith’s holy scriptures contain lessons about the environment, and about 
four-in-ten (42%) say they have prayed for the environment in the past year.

These views are common across a variety of religious traditions. For 
example, three-quarters of both evangelical Protestants and members of 
historically Black Protestant churches say the Bible contains lessons 
about the environment. Upward of eight-in-ten members of those two 
groups say God gave humans a duty to protect and care for the Earth. And 
about eight-in-ten U.S. Catholics and mainline Protestants, as well as 
77% of members of non-Christian religions, say the Earth is sacred.

But Christians, and religiously affiliated Americans more broadly, are 
not as united in their views about climate change. While majorities of 
all the large U.S. Christian subgroups say they think global climate 
change is at least a somewhat serious problem, there are substantial 
differences in the shares who consider it an extremely or very serious 
problem – ranging from 68% of adults who identify with the historically 
Black Protestant tradition to 34% of evangelical Protestants. And half 
or fewer people surveyed in all major Protestant traditions say the 
Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity, including 32% 
of evangelicals.

On average, people who are less religious tend to be more concerned 
about the consequences of global warming. For example, religiously 
unaffiliated adults – those who describe themselves as atheists, 
agnostics or “nothing in particular” – are much more likely to say 
climate change is an extremely or very serious problem (70%) than are 
religiously affiliated Americans as a whole (52%). And people who have a 
low level of religious commitment are much more likely than those with a 
medium or high level of religious commitment to be concerned about 
climate change.1 Most highly religious Americans see climate change as 
at least a somewhat serious problem, but fewer than half (42%) say it is 
an extremely or very serious problem, compared with 72% of the least 
religious adults.

Religious “nones” and Americans with low levels of religious commitment 
also are far more likely than their more religious counterparts to say 
the Earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity, such as 
burning fossil fuels. For instance, 70% of people in the low religious 
commitment category say the Earth is warming due to human behavior, 
compared with 39% of highly religious Americans. Religiously affiliated 
adults and those who are highly religious are more likely than those who 
are religiously unaffiliated or have lower levels of religious 
commitment to say that the Earth is getting warmer mostly due to natural 
patterns, or that there is no solid evidence the Earth is warming – 
though the latter is a less common viewpoint.

These patterns raise the question: If many religiously affiliated 
Americans, including most Christians, see a connection between care for 
the environment and their religious beliefs, then why are they less 
likely to be concerned about climate change than people with no religion?

There is no single, definitive answer to this question, but the new 
Center survey offers some clues. For one, climate change does not seem 
to be a major area of focus in U.S. congregations. Among all U.S. adults 
who say they attend religious services at least once or twice a month, 
just 8% say they hear a great deal or quite a bit about climate change 
in sermons. Another one-in-five say they hear some discussion of the 
topic from the pulpit, but seven-in-ten say they hear little or nothing 
about it. Similarly, just 6% of U.S. congregants say they talk about 
climate change with other people at their congregation a great deal or 
quite a bit...

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/11/17/how-religion-intersects-with-americans-views-on-the-environment/



/[ Professor Jem Bendel  video ]/
*Climate Honesty - Ending Climate Brightsiding*
Facing Future
Nov 13, 2022
Current data on emissions, atmospheric concentrations, global 
temperatures, and widening impacts are frightening.  Even so, some of 
the most worrying science has been downplayed, while the emissions curve 
continues to rise.  Clearly, such brightsiding, not only limits the 
climate agenda, but is neither scientific nor ethical.  Dr. Jem Bendell 
exposes the danger of imagining that we can ignore facts, playing games 
with nature, because nature always wins.

Dr. Ye Tao explains why efforts towards net zero, while essential, have 
the effect of reducing the global dimming that is the result of 
polluting particles, which is actually cooling the planet 
significantly:  a terrifying dilemma that has been largely ignored. Yet 
many influential organizations criticize people for being ‘too negative’ 
about the current and future impacts of #GlobalHeating.

Dr. Tao's #MEER framework turns plastic and aluminum waste as well as 
glass and bamboo into mirrors that can create significantly cooler 
temperatures, potentially saving millions from extreme heat events.

More honesty with the public can begin with professionals recognizing 
and ending their own cognitive dissonance.  Therefore, this session ends 
with the declaration of a new Scholars’ Oath to the Future.  This has 
already been endorsed by over 100 scholars from over 20 countries.
Others are welcome to add their names.
http://iflas.blogspot.com/2022/11/scholars-oath-to-future.html?m=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw85K7MjwYk



[ the Oath - initiative for Leadership and Sustainability ]
Saturday, 5 November 2022
*Scholars' Oath to the Future*
At the COP27 climate summit of the UNFCCC, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, 
the Scholars' Oath to the Future is launched. Within the oath, scholars 
apologise for their past caution and promise to all young people who 
face a climate-damaged future that they will be bolder and more engaging 
in future.

The text of the oath follows below. By the day of its launch, 165 
scholars from 34 countries had taken the oath. Over the coming months 
they will read it to their students or other young persons they work 
with and engage with the feedback. The list of those scholars, and who 
they work with, follows below.

    *Scholars' Oath to the Future *

    This is an apology and an oath of renewed commitment. It is an
    apology from me and my fellow scholars, to you, the younger
    generations whom we are meant to serve. It is also an oath to learn
    from our past mistakes as we seek to better contribute in future.

    That future is bleak. You, amongst the younger generations, are
    clearer on that than most older people. You know that the total
    pollution and devastation has exceeded the planet's capacity to
    cope. You know that today's dominant economies compel that
    destruction to continue. You have a clearer sight on the situation
    than most people older than you because you are less compromised in
    how you assess the bad news. You are less likely to assume the
    future will be like the past. You are less likely to keep quiet
    about uncomfortable ideas for fear of hurting your income,
    reputation, or influence. You are less likely to try to believe
    something because it might numb your own pain. That is because you
    must live in the future that will exist, not one that many older
    people prefer to imagine when they dismiss 'negative thinking'.

    Scholars from around the world in many disciplines have known for
    years that the trends are in the wrong direction for humanity and
    life on Earth. Whatever corner of the world we live in, we have seen
    how our efforts to reverse worrying trends have not been working. We
    ignored all of that to allow credible lies to be put to policy
    makers, senior leaders and the general public. We justified our
    complacency to ourselves with a variety of explanations that put our
    own needs, pleasures and fears first. We blamed powerful others,
    rather than our own part in the charade.

    Today, the rich countries, large corporations, elite institutions
    and mainstream media all support the credible lies that subdue us so
    that we do not rebel against the global economic system. These lies
    form the modern face of processes of domination and exploitation
    that have existed for centuries. But from today we promise not to
    compromise any more. When there is unsettling analysis, we will
    share it. When there is injustice, we will name it. When there is
    distortion by national or corporate interest, we will challenge it.
    If we fear a backlash, then we will both name that fear and overcome
    it. Then, if you within younger generations are critical of our
    efforts, we will respond with curiosity and seek to make amends.
    Because we recognise that our role is to contribute to your future.

    Myself and my fellow scholars are sorry for our own part in not
    helping enough in the past. We promise to learn with you about how
    to reduce harm, uphold universal values, and enable futures that may
    still be possible. Therefore, I will tell others of this apology and
    oath, and promote mutual support. Then every year I will publicly
    reconfirm this commitment to all of you.

    If you have a PhD you can take the oath here. People who take the
    oath will then be invited to participate in a video project and also
    to share their experiences of discussions with young people about
    making this commitment real.

http://iflas.blogspot.com/2022/11/scholars-oath-to-future.html?m=1


/[ Climate scientist rants with the birth of his new niece ]/
*Life & Climate || Past & Future*
ClimateAdam
Nov 17, 2022
My niece was just born. And her new life has made me reflect on old 
questions - what the past years of climate action and climate change 
teach us, and what the future might hold. I don't know the answers to 
these global warming we can only answer them together. For newborns and 
for ourselves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRkS9u-7FUc



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/[The news archive - looking back at shutting a pipeline ]/
/*November 18, 2014 */
November 18, 2014:

• In a 59-41 vote, the U.S. Senate rejects an effort to force the 
expedited expansion of the Keystone XL pipeline.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/keystone-fails-senate-vote

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/18/3593489/keystone-xl-senate-vote/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/politics/keystone-xl-pipeline.html?mwrsm=Email

• In the New York Times, Andrew Nikiforuk observes:

"The American social critic Lewis Mumford described mining as barbaric 
to land and soul. By any definition, Keystone XL grants license to an 
earth-destroying economy."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/18/opinion/a-forest-threatened-by-keystone-xl.html


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