[✔️] October 1, 2022 - Global Warming News - daily selection

[Richard Pauli]

/*October 1, 2022*/

/[ satire delivers truth with advertisement 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XTGteritE ] /
*Chevron’s commercials just got the ‘Don’t Look Up’ treatment*
What do cooing babies and frolicking elephants have to do with oil 
companies? Exactly.
Kate Yoder - Staff Writer  - -  Sep 30, 2022
The fake commercial cycles through cheesy stock footage of newborn 
babies, frolicking elephants, and wind-turbine-filled mountainscapes. 
Meanwhile, the voiceover savagely explains that Chevron’s products are 
“transforming the planet right this second into a hellish George Miller 
film” — a reference to the post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies.

McKay posted the video, created by his company Hyperobject Industries, 
on Twitter Thursday with the innocuous question, “Has anyone seen this 
Chevron commercial?” A day later, it had already been viewed more than 4 
million times. McKay recently donated $4 million to the Climate 
Emergency Fund, which trains and mobilizes climate activists, and joined 
its board of directors...
The narrator of the fake Chevron ad makes clear that showing footage of 
happy people and their families doesn’t do anything to clean up an oil 
company’s emissions: “At the end of the day, we at Chevron don’t give a 
single f*ck about you, your weird children, or your ratty ass dog.”

https://grist.org/culture/dont-look-up-director-adam-mckay-made-a-chevron-parody-commercial/

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/[ biting satire derived from many Chevron video commercials - see it 
now 99 seconds - before it is taken down  ] /
*Chevron Ad*
Sep 29, 2022  Nothing is more precious than life.
CREDITS:

    Writer Adam McKay
    Voice Steven San Miguel
    Editor Bruce Herrman
    Producer Staci Roberts-Steele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XTGteritE


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/[ Yoder at Grist tells us about innovative legislation]/
*‘It makes climate change real’: How carbon emissions got rebranded as 
‘pollution’*
California activists paved the way for defining climate change as an air 
pollution problem. Now it's federal law.
Kate Yoder
Published Sep 29, 2022
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The Inflation Reduction Act, the landmark climate legislation signed by 
President Joe Biden in August, amends the 1970 Clean Air Act to clearly 
identify greenhouse gas emissions as a form of air pollution. When it 
comes to the law, definitions mean everything...
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“People understand intuitively what pollution means — it’s something 
that’s harmful that you’re introducing unnaturally into the environment. 
And so this perfectly fits that definition.” To describe greenhouse gas 
emissions, Hassol likes the phrase “heat-trapping pollution,” since 
people don’t need special background knowledge to comprehend it.

People have deep anxieties about a poisoned environment: The pollution 
of rivers, oceans, and lakes has consistently numbered among Americans’ 
top 10 fears, whereas climate change didn’t make the cut in the most 
recent survey. Research has shown that framing climate change as a 
danger to public health increased people’s support for taking action on 
emissions and made them feel more hopeful. A paper in 2010 found that 
people considered the potential health benefits of reducing emissions 
“particularly compelling.” More recent research suggests that talking 
about air pollution rather than climate change increases people’s 
support for regulating power plant emissions, especially among Republicans.

“No matter where you are on the political spectrum, Democrat, 
Republican, progressive, conservative, there’s not a person out there 
that doesn’t care about the health and well-being of their children and 
the people they care about,” said Molly Kawahata, a former climate 
advisor to the Obama White House who now advises organizations on how to 
reframe the climate crisis. “Nothing is more personal to us than our 
personal health.”...
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This new emphasis is reflected in the language people are using, too: 
Google Ngram, which tracks how frequently words are used in books, shows 
a clear increase in both “climate pollution” and “carbon pollution” over 
the last decade.

“There has been a shift from opposing such approaches to embracing them 
now because they understand that it brings more people under the tent, 
and it makes the movement more powerful,” Méndez said. “It motivates 
people and energizes people because it makes climate change real.”
https://grist.org/health/how-carbon-emissions-got-rebranded-climate-pollution-ira/ 




/[ Pacific Surfliner  - the ocean and sands will flow and shift so "do 
not build your rail track on a house of sand" ]/
*Track Closures**
**Rail Closure Due to Emergency Track Work in San Clemente *
Effective September 30 until further notice

Safety concerns to the right-of-way in San Clemente have made it 
necessary to suspend train service through the area. Pacific Surfliner 
trains will not operate between Irvine and San Diego until further 
notice. We are working with our partners to set up train service between 
Oceanside and San Diego, as well as bus connections to/from Irvine and 
Oceanside. We will share updates as soon as details are available.

The service suspension is effective Friday, September 30, out of an 
abundance of caution to ensure the safety of our passengers and crews. 
Regular service will resume once the repairs are completed.

We understand that closures will result in disruptions and sincerely 
apologize for any inconveniences it causes our riders. We’ll continue to 
look for ways to minimize the impact of these closures as this critical 
work continues.

We’ll continue to share updates here and on our Twitter account.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evRyjKWsVLI

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/[ Opinion -- why not take the train?   Because the track has washed away ]/
*Horrible news:   between LA & San Diego has been suspended indefinitely 
due to coastal erosion. *
@Amtrak
   @PacSurfliners
The route was the 2nd busiest intercity rail corridor in the US, w/ 26 
daily trains & ~3M riders per year.
Climate change is here, and we are totally unprepared
https://twitter.com/TallDarknJewish/status/1575923438748827727



/[ innovation discussion ]/
*The extraordinary potential value of enhanced geothermal power*
A chat with Wilson Ricks about the role EGS could play in a decarbonized 
system.
David Roberts     Sep 30

In recent years, excitement has been growing about the potential of 
geothermal energy, which draws heat from the Earth’s crust to generate 
electricity. I wrote a couple of introductory pieces on it for Vox a few 
years ago (one, two) and they remain some of the most popular things I 
ever published there.

To date, geothermal has largely been viewed as an always-on (“baseload”) 
resource, like nuclear power, that needs to maximize its running time 
(“capacity factor”) in order to maximize its revenue. Basically, it has 
been seen as a clean substitute for coal and nuclear power plants.

However, new research from Princeton University's Zero Lab suggests that 
enhanced geothermal systems (EGS), which fracture underground rock to 
create their own reservoirs rather than relying on natural ones, can 
play a much more dynamic and valuable role — a role more like the one 
fast, flexible natural gas plants play today.

In a paper published in May, researchers show how EGS plants can store 
energy (for up to 100 hours or more!) and rapidly ramp their output up 
or down, allowing them to act as both storage and flexible “clean firm” 
generation in a decarbonized electricity system.

If an EGS plant can store large amounts of energy for long periods of 
time and crank up its output when it is most needed, its value exceeds 
previous estimates by as much as 60 percent. And if EGS plants are more 
valuable than previously recognized, a follow-up paper from the same 
team shows, it could end up playing a much larger role in a decarbonized 
energy system than previously envisioned.

I contacted one of the authors of both papers, PhD candidate Wilson 
Ricks, to discuss what the research found, what EGS plants can and can’t 
do, and the expanded role they might play in clean energy going forward.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-extraordinary-potential-value#details



/[The news archive - looking back at some of the odd in the climate game ] /
/*October 1, 2013*/
October 1, 2013: Syndicated columnist Eugene Robinson writes:

    "Skeptics and deniers can make all the noise they want, but a
    landmark new report is unequivocal: There is a 95 percent chance
    that human-generated emissions of carbon dioxide and other
    greenhouse gases are changing the climate in ways that court disaster.

    "That's the bottom line from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
    Change, which Monday released the latest of its comprehensive,
    every-six-years assessments of the scientific consensus about
    climate change. According to the IPCC, there is only a 1-in-20
    chance that human activity is not causing dangerous warming.

    "You may like those betting odds. If so, let's get together for a
    friendly game of poker, and please don't forget to bring cash."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/10/01/warm_enough_for_you_120159.html


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