[✔️] October 26 , 2022 - Global Warming News - daily selection
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Wed Oct 26 03:38:36 EDT 2022
/*October 26, 2022*/
/[ Medical profession now knows that human-caused climate
destabilization is deeply impacting global health BBC ] /
*Climate change is severely impacting people's health around the world,
a report by a leading medical publication has found.*
The Lancet Countdown report says the world's continued reliance on
fossil fuels increases the risk of food insecurity, infectious disease
and heat-related illness.
UN Secretary General António Guterres responded that global leaders must
match action to the size of the problem.
Leaders will meet for the major climate conference COP27 in Egypt next
month.
The report includes the work of 99 experts from organisations including
the World Health Organization (WHO) and led by University College London.
It describes how extreme weather has increased pressure on health
services globally already grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Heat-related deaths globally have increased by two thirds over the last
two decades, it finds.
Temperature records have been broken around the world in 2022, including
in the UK where 40C was recorded in July, as well as parts of Europe,
Pakistan and China.
The health impacts of extreme heat include exacerbating conditions such
as cardiovascular and respiratory disease, and causing heat stroke and
poor mental health...
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*Analysis By Justing Rowlatt Climate editor *
Today's Lancet report is a call to arms.
The authors hope the evidence it presents shows the need for urgent
action at the UN conference on climate in Egypt.
But the summit faces strong headwinds.
Developing countries will be demanding nations which grew rich using
fossil fuels cough up more cash to meet the costs of the loss and damage
our changing climate is causing.
And what about the $100bn a year for climate action developed countries
were supposed have made available from 2020, they will ask? We are still
billions of dollars short of the total.
The Egyptians hosts of COP27 have warned of a "crisis of trust"...
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A Unicef report, also published on Wednesday, warned urgent action is
needed to increase funding to protect children and vulnerable
communities from worsening heatwaves.
Researchers found that the change in climate has increased the spread of
infectious diseases. The number of months that facilitate malaria
transmission increased in the highland areas of the Americas and Africa
in the past 60 years.
Fossil fuel emissions are major contributors to air pollution. Data from
the Lancet Countdown estimates that exposure to air pollution
contributed to 4.7 million deaths globally in 2020, of which 1.3 million
(35%) directly related to fossil fuel combustion.
The impacts of climate change are also rapidly aggravating and worsening
the effects of other coexisting crises such as food insecurity, energy
poverty and increased air pollution, it says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63386814
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[ Source material]
*The Lancet Planetary Health *
Flood of injustice
The Lancet Planetary Health
Open Access
Published:October, 2022DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00221-2
Events like this exemplify the injustice of climate change being
driven primarily by high income nations emissions but having the
worst effects in low- and middle-income countries. That climate
change likely intensified these extreme monsoon rains should
reignite discussions over climate finance, the timely provision of
which could have helped minimise these floods and their impacts. It
will also likely reignite discussions about loss and damage and the
potential need for compensation mechanisms ahead of the next UN
climate Conference.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00221-2/fulltext
https://www.thelancet.com/issue/S2542-5196(22)X0010-7
/[ a very calm conversation about plans and actions ]/
*Climate Conversations: Extreme Heat*
Streamed live on Oct 20, 2022 You can sign up for our newsletter here:
https://www.nationalacademies.org/topics/climate
About this Event
Extreme heat is often not taken as seriously as other extreme weather,
yet it kills more people in the U.S. than any other weather-related
disaster. And because of climate change, extreme heat events are
becoming hotter, longer, and more common, including in new times of year
and in places not used to hot weather. Join us for a conversation about
how government and community leaders throughout the country are
developing approaches to reduce the risks people face from increasingly
extreme heat.
The conversation will be webcast on the Climate Conversations: Extreme
Heat webpage on Thursday, October 20, 2022 from 3-4pm ET. Closed
captioning will be provided. The conversation will include questions
from the audience and will be recorded and available to view on the page
after the event.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO179bI-btk&t=3s
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/[ resources from the National Academies ]/
*Climate Resources at the National Academies*
From more extreme weather to rising seas, the climate is changing in
ways that pose increasing risks to people and ecosystems. Building on
decades of work, the National Academies continue to provide objective
advice from top experts to help the nation better understand, prepare
for, and limit future climate change.
https://www.nationalacademies.org/topics/climate
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/[ serious government action in NYC - perhaps every community could
have this kind of organization.]/
*New York City Panel on Climate Change
*https://www1.nyc.gov/site/sustainability/index.page
About
The New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) is a 20-member
independent advisory body that synthesizes scientific information on
climate change and advises City policymakers on local resiliency and
adaptation strategies to protect against rising temperatures,
increased flooding, and other hazards.
The Panel is led by a team of five co-chairs who possess a broad
spectrum of disciplinary expertise including climate science,
demography, engineering, geography, vulnerability analysis, global
change, architecture, and urban planning. Both the full NPCC and its
leadership team were selected to ensure a diversity of backgrounds,
research disciplines, and fields of technical practice.
NPCC started in 2009 and was codified in Local Law 42 of 2012 with a
mandate to provide an authoritative and actionable source of
scientific information on future climate change and its potential
impacts. Past iterations of the NPCC have upheld this responsibility
by publishing assessment reports that synthesize several years of
research and analysis.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/sustainability/index.page
/[ article by UW Professor Dr Jennifer Atkinson ]/
*YOU ARE NOT SAFE: MY LIFE UNDER THE EXISTENTIAL DREAD OF CLIMATE CHANGE*
I’m tired of talking about climate change like it’s an abstract concept
that only exists in theory.
https://www.inverse.com/article/59595-climate-change-anxiety
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/[ posted audio podcasts by Jennifer Atkinson ]/
*Facing It - **a podcast about love, loss, and the natural world *
The age of climate crisis is upon us, and grief and anxiety are on the
rise. This podcast explores the emotional burden of climate change, and
why despair leaves so many people unable to respond to our existential
threat. Overcoming that paralysis is the first step in moving to action,
and yet official climate strategies rarely address the emotional toll of
climate grief and eco anxiety. Meanwhile, frontline communities —
particularly people of color, indigenous communities, and other
historically-marginalized groups — are experiencing the heaviest mental
health impacts of climate disruption and displacement. This series
introduces ways to move from despair to action by addressing the
psychological roots of our unprecedented ecological loss.
Written and narrated by Jennifer Atkinson
Music by Roberto David Rusconi
Produced by Intrasonus UK
https://www.drjenniferatkinson.com/facing-it
/[ the big question -- audio from Dave Roberts ]/
*Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult*
A chat with psychologist John Jost about system justification theory and
the differences between conservatives and liberals.
OCT 24, 2022
When looking over the course of human history, we tend to focus on times
of disruption, when the established order is crumbling and something new
is rising. But if we take a step back, something different strikes us:
the vast majority of human history is characterized by small groups of
people wielding often brutal power over massive numbers of others,
without substantial resistance. Most of the time, the masses accept
subjugation at the hands of a small cabal that they could, almost
definitionally, overwhelm if properly organized.
From this perspective, what's needed is not an explanation of why
people rebel against systems that are not in their self or group
interest, but why they so often — most often — do not. What demands
explanation is voluntary servitude. Why do people so often, rather than
organizing and rising up against injustice, internalize the ideology of
their oppressors and come to view themselves as naturally or fittingly
subjugated?
And it's not just history where such an explanation is demanded. It's
also current events. Why have the citizens of developed democracies
endured two decades of misbegotten wars, financial crises, and rising
authoritarianism with very little in the way of radical resistance?
Noted psychologist, researcher, and author John Jost of New York
University offers an explanation: people have very strong psychological
needs that weigh against thinking of themselves as subjugated victims;
they crave certitude, closure, safety, and predictability. They are
inclined, for these reasons, toward what is called “system
justification.” As Jost writes, “people are motivated (often
unconsciously, without deliberate intention or awareness) to defend,
justify, and bolster aspects of the status quo, including existing
social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements.”
The tendency to justify unjust systems is pervasive, even and especially
among the people those systems treat worst. This means that everyone
working for positive change is starting behind the eight ball, rolling a
rock up a hill.
I read Jost’s two recent books — A Theory of System Justification and
Left and Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political
Distinction — earlier this summer and I've been thinking about them ever
since, so I'm thrilled to talk to him about the evidence for system
justification theory, the way it is distributed among conservatives and
liberals, and ways those seeking change can work around it.
https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/193024/private/bc96fdaa-2ce1-4b71-8707-bb5f1dd458ce.rss
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/[ books ]/
*A Theory of System Justification Kindle Edition*
by John T. Jost (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Theory-System-Justification-John-Jost-ebook/dp/B082DKH5LT
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/[ Kindle version costs MORE than paperback ]/
*Left and Right: The Psychological Significance of a Political
Distinction Kindle Edition*
by John T. Jost (Author)
This book brings together for the first time an updated, revised
collection of influential essays and articles that capture some of the
most exciting scientific and scholarly contributions to the topic of
political ideology. John Jost tackles fundamental questions about how
psychology, neuroscience, and societal factors impact political
attitudes and group divisions. In what sense, if any, are ordinary
citizens "ideological"? Is it useful to locate political attitudes on a
single dimension of representation? Are there meaningful differences in
the beliefs, opinions, and values of leftists and rights-or liberals and
conservatives? How are personality traits related to ideological
preferences? What situational or contextual factors contribute to
liberal and conservative shifts in the general population? What are the
implications of ideological polarization for the future of democracy?
Drawing on Max Weber's concept of elective affinities, one of the
world's leading political psychologists discusses the myriad ways in
people choose ideas and ideas choose people.
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Right-Psychological-Significance-Distinction-ebook-dp-B099KF6BVN/dp/B099KF6BVN
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Right-Psychological-Significance-Distinction-ebook-dp-B099KF6BVN/dp/B099KF6BVN?asin=B099KF6BVN&revisionId=&format=2&depth=1
/[ The International Organization for Migration (IOM) ] /
*INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE ON MIGRATION 2022 – OVERLAPPING GLOBAL CRISES:
THE IMPACTS OF FOOD INSECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON MIGRATION AND
DISPLACEMENT**
*
Food security, water security, environmental security and livelihood
security are all affected by climate change and can influence mobility
patterns. In 2022, we have witnessed the combined impacts of climate
change and food insecurity, and the proliferation of acute situations
across the world, leading to disruption in food supply chain and rising
prices of grain, fertilizer and energy. This has resulted in compounded
risks for communities already under severe stress, especially in
low-income countries, and lead to protracted displacement and increased
humanitarian needs. These situations call for longer-term development,
adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies to avert and minimize
displacement, strengthen the resilience of migrants and communities and
promote sustainable societies and livelihoods.
The second session of the IDM 2022 will be timely, in the lead up to the
27th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (COP27), taking place in Egypt, and
building on the successful outcomes of the first International Migration
Review Forum. Under the title "Overlapping global crises: the impacts of
food insecurity and climate change on migration and displacement", the
second session of the IDM aims at strengthening action to address the
complex interlinkages between climate change, food security and human
mobility.
https://www.iom.int/international-dialogue-migration-2022-overlapping-global-crises-impacts-food-insecurity-and-climate-change-migration-and-displacement
/[ I thought we had this investment thing under control....]/
*With Fossil Fuel Companies Facing Pressure to Reduce Carbon Emissions,
Private Equity Is Buying Up Their Aging Oil, Gas and Coal Assets*
Environmentalists fear the sell-offs could keep those facilities
operating for years into the future, worsening climate change.
By Nicholas Kusnetz
October 24, 2022
When Continental Resources announced a deal last week to take the oil
company private, it joined a trend that has swept across the fossil fuel
sector in recent years. With investors agitating for energy companies to
lower their greenhouse gas emissions, many oil and gas drillers and
utilities have sold off wells and coal plants to private companies or
private equity firms, which have been eager to scoop up the industry’s
dirtier assets.
Now, some environmental advocates are warning that these transactions,
supposedly driven by an effort to reduce emissions and climate risks,
may instead do the opposite.
Privately held companies are exempt from many of the financial reporting
rules that publicly traded companies face, and they are more insulated
from the social and environmental pressures that investors have placed
on the fossil fuel sector in recent years. As the impacts of climate
change have worsened and more governments have acted to reduce
emissions, investors have increasingly pressed oil companies to prepare
for a pivot away from fossil fuels by scaling back drilling plans and
investing in alternatives like renewable energy or biofuels.
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According to the data compiled by the Clean Air Task Force and Ceres,
which was gathered before IKAV’s most recent purchase, the company had
the sixth-highest greenhouse gas emissions per barrel of oil among the
country’s top 100 oil and gas producers.
Data on private equity is limited, but according to a recent report by
the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial
Reform Education Fund, a coalition of advocacy groups, the 10 largest
private equity firms oversaw at least $216 billion in energy assets as
of October 2021. The largest energy investor was Brookfield Asset
Management, a Canadian multinational based in Toronto with $107 billion
invested in 40 fossil fuel companies and 35 renewable companies.
Brookfield is also a majority owner in another investment firm, Oaktree
Capital Management.
A spokesperson for Brookfield said the firm’s holdings in
carbon-intensive companies are meant to help finance their transition to
lowering emissions and that it is shifting its investments into
renewable energy.
Seth Feaster, an energy analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics
and Financial Analysis, said one of his biggest concerns with private
equity’s move into the energy sector is how it is continuing to expose
some public pension funds to the risks of investing in fossil fuels,
even as those same funds are supposedly divesting from oil, gas and coal.
The New York State Common Retirement Fund, for example, is in the
process of selling its stakes in fossil fuel companies that it
determines are not prepared for a transition to clean energy. But the
pension system has 10 percent of its money invested in private equity
funds. Feaster and his colleagues tracked some of these private equity
investments and found that the New York pension fund is a part-owner in
a large Ohio coal plant that is one of the most polluting plants in the
country....
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24102022/fossil-fuels-private-equity/
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/[ this started the mess ]/
*Founder Harold Hamm clinches deal to take shale producer Continental
private*
By Arunima Kumar and Ruhi Soni
Oct 17 (Reuters) - Continental Resources Inc (CLR.N) said on Monday it
had agreed to a sweetened offer from founder Harold Hamm to take the
U.S. shale oil producer private at a valuation of about $27 billion.
Hamm, a legendary oilman who once called the Organization of the
Petroleum Exporting Countries a "toothless tiger," said in June that he
wanted to take the company private because public markets have not
supported the oil and gas industry...
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Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, U.S. oil companies
have retrenched, pulling back on capital investment in response to
investor demands for better returns and as investment managers have
shifted to fast-growing renewable sectors. U.S. oil production is still
short of its all-time record set in 2019.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/continental-resources-be-bought-by-founder-hamms-family-deal-worth-27-bln-2022-10-17/
/[The news archive - looking back at the turn of the millennium ]/
/*October 26, 2000*/
October 26, 2000: At a campaign appearance in Davenport, Iowa,
Democratic candidate Al Gore declares:
"Now, I want to talk about the environment here today, because we have a
situation where the big polluters are supporting Governor Bush, and they
are wanting to be in control of the environmental policies.
"In his state of Texas -- Tom talked about some of the statistics there
-- here's another: They're No. 1 in something; they rank No. 1 out of
all 50 in industrial pollution. They rank No. 1 as the smoggiest state.
Houston's just solidified its title as the smoggiest city.
"He put a lobbyist for the chemical manufacturers in charge of enforcing
the environmental laws, made some of the environmental laws voluntary
and then the state sank in its ratings.
"Now, look, just today we are seeing on television the new study that
just comes out once every five years where the scientific community
around the world tells us what they've learned about this problem that
these kids are going to grow up with unless we do something, and that's
the problem of global warming. And I know a lot of people say that that
looks like it's off in the future.
"But let me tell what you this new study said: instead of just going up
a few degrees in the lifetimes of these kids, unless we act, the average
temperature is going to go up 10 or 11 degrees. The storms will get
stronger, the weather patterns will change. But it does not have to
happen, and it won't happen if we put our minds to solving this problem."
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/26/se.02.html
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