[✔️] September 14, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Wed Sep 14 10:27:41 EDT 2022
/*September 14, 2022*/
/[ NYT newsletter from David Wallace-Wells - in talks with Bill Gates ]/
*Bill Gates: ‘We’re in a Worse Place Than I Expected’*
Sept. 13, 2022...
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To me, the severe tone is illuminating. However Bill Gates may seem in
caricature — a big believer in the possibility of innovation and
progress and of the kind of philanthropy-powered development embodied by
the foundation — he nevertheless slips often into pretty stark
descriptions of the state of the world and vertiginous assessments of
how much more needs to be done to help those with the least. I spoke
with him on Sept. 6...
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[ Gates ] But we’ve underinvested in agricultural innovation. The Green
Revolution was one of the greatest things that ever happened. But then
we lost track. And the funding for public-domain seed systems has gone
down. We’re trying to get that back up. The world has a goal to get that
back up to like a little over $2 billion. I don’t know if we’ll get there...
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The world actually gets a very good grade on the global health stuff.
The progress since the year 2000 on those interventions, which save
lives for less than a thousand dollars per life saved — the world did a
great job on that. On the agricultural side, we haven’t seen it. Despite
all these climate conferences, including this next one that says
adaptation is one of the big feature themes, we really haven’t seen that
shifting of R. & D. priorities and increase that we expected to see. And
with the war in Ukraine, it’s even tougher than before.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/opinion/environment/bill-gates-climate-change-report.html
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/[ Book from Gallup Research - asking citizens to donate opinions, but
the book is $22.+ ] /
*Blind Spot: The Global Rise of Unhappiness and How Leaders Missed It
Hardcover – *September 13, 2022
by Jon Clifton (Author)
$22.49
The rising unhappiness that leaders didn’t see
That’s because while leaders pay close attention to measures like GDP or
unemployment, almost none of them track their citizens’ wellbeing.
The implications of this blind spot are significant and far-reaching —
leaders missed the citizen unhappiness that triggered events ranging
from the Arab uprisings to Brexit to the election of Donald Trump.
What are they going to miss next?
Grounded in Gallup’s global research, Blind Spot makes the urgent case
that leaders should measure and quantify wellbeing and happiness — how
citizens’ lives are going — and shows them how. It also discusses the
five key elements of a great life and where the world needs to improve
in each of them to better the lives of people everywhere.
https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Spot-Global-Unhappiness-Leaders/dp/1595622454/ref=sr_1_1
/[ audio interview -- Dave Roberts has "been reporting on and explaining
clean-energy topics for almost 20 years, and I love talking to
politicians, analysts, innovators, and activists about the latest
progress in the world's most important fight. "]/
*Focusing on the climate actions that can make a real difference*
A new book from Hal Harvey and Justin Gillis tries to clarify the choices.
David Roberts
Sept 13, 2022
One of the more daunting aspects of climate policy is the sheer
profusion of choices. Federal, state, local; this sector or that sector;
targeting consumption vs. targeting production; changing consumer
choices vs. changing infrastructure. It is easy to get overwhelmed, and
worse, it is easy for political energy to be diffused into a thousand
strands that don't add up to more than the sum of their parts.
A new book seeks to address that problem by boiling down the climate
policy options to the handful that really matter — the ones where
minimum effort can generate maximum results. It's called The Big Fix: 7
Practical Steps to Save Our Planet, written by two people who have spent
years in the climate trenches: Hal Harvey, founder of the Energy
Foundation and numerous other climate-focused nonprofits, currently CEO
of research firm Energy Innovation, and Justin Gillis, a longtime
journalist who spent the last several years reporting on climate change
for The New York Times, now a fellow at the Harvard University Center
for the Environment.
We talked about learning curves, performance standards, and good
old-fashioned industrial policy, among many other things. It's a real
feast for all you policy wonks.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/focusing-on-the-climate-actions-that?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&utm_medium=email#details
/[ fascinating conjecture - paper authored by Gavin - top climate
scientist ]/
*Did Advanced Civilizations Exist Before Humans? Silurian Hypothesis
Explored*
Sep 13, 2022...
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk
about the Silurian Hypothesis, the idea of whether any intelligent
civilization existed before humans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAF8ns-d4rc
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/[ Silurian Hypothesis ]/
*The Silurian Hypothesis: Would it be possible to detect**
**an industrial civilization in the geological record?*
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.03748.pdf
/[ Climate Journalist declares doom ]/
*Watching the world burn*
Marlowe Hood -- 5 September 2022
With climate disasters piling up, global warming is getting worse –
fast. We had better learn to embrace our despair, argues AFP’s
environmental editor Marlowe Hood
As the planet reels from unprecedented heatwaves, floods, wildfires and
droughts, you may be feeling a rising sense of unease or even panic.
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My own “Oh Shit!” moment came in early 2009, two years after I began
writing on the science and geopolitics of climate change for Agence
France-Presse. I had reported on scores of peer-reviewed studies,
talked to scientists, attended UN climate summits, and interviewed
Pacific islanders whose tiny nations were sinking beneath the waves.
But the knee-buckling realisation that unchecked global warming would
upend civilisation had not yet hit me in the gut and left me gasping for
air.
https://correspondent.afp.com/watching-world-burn
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/[ AFP Environmental Journalist, Marlowe Hood, video reading ]/
*Environmental Journalist calls it quits. We are at the end of the road.
Watching the World Burn.*
Sep 13, 2022 Long-standing AFP Environmental Journalist, Marlowe Hood,
is ending his formidable career by articulating just how dark our
collective future looks.
True to his hard-won journalistic integrity and obvious personal love of
life he articulates his pessimistic view and still includes many voices
from more optimistic: scientists, science communicators, climate-anxiety
specialists and theorists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rewUvpItHVs
/[ video presentation and interview ]/
*Finding Hope with Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe*
Author: Cristine Russell | Mar. 24, 2022..
“Climate change is not a standalone issue,” says Hayhoe, chief scientist
for The Nature Conservancy and a distinguished professor at Texas Tech
University. “We need to weave it into everyday conversations,” she said,
because “climate change affects every aspect of our lives,” including
the economy, infrastructure, energy, water, natural resources, health,
food, biodiversity, political conflicts, and justice...
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In addition to individual actions, she emphasized that supporting
systemic change is key. This includes starting a conversation about
climate change; joining a climate group; pushing elected officials to
put a price on carbon; finding out what your financial institutions are
doing with your money; promoting change at work; encouraging divestment
from fossil fuel companies; and promoting clean energy. She noted that
only 0.5 percent of elected officials are at the federal level and that
state and city officials can be nimbler in taking climate action.
“Our job is to help connect the dots,” she said, to tell people how
climate change affects them personally, how climate action benefits
them, and “to figure out what we have in common.”
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/finding-hope-climate-scientist-katharine-hayhoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6rpiwwsHk ( start about 6:30 )
/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*September 14, 2004*/
September 14, 2004: British Prime Minister Tony Blair declares that
climate change is "...a challenge so far-reaching in its impact and
irreversible in its destructive power, that it alters radically human
existence." He further notes:
"The problem...is that the challenge is complicated politically by two
factors. First, its likely effect will not be felt to its full extent
until after the time for the political decisions that need to be taken,
has passed. In other words, there is a mismatch in timing between the
environmental and electoral impact. Secondly, no one nation alone can
resolve it. It has no definable boundaries. Short of international
action commonly agreed and commonly followed through, it is hard even
for a large country to make a difference on its own.
"But there is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that
timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will
such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of
life, by adjusting behaviour not altering it entirely."
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2004/sep/15/greenpolitics.uk
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