[✔️] September 21, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest

Wed Sep 21 05:58:38 EDT 2022

/*September 21, 2022*/

/[ it is time to tax harm ]/
*UN chief: 'Tax fossil fuel profits for climate damage'*
By Matt McGrath
Environment correspondent
Windfall profits made by fossil fuel companies should be taxed to pay 
for climate damage, according to the UN Secretary General.

Antonio Guterres told the General Assembly that polluters should pay for 
the impact of climate-related events.
This question of who funds these losses has long dogged international 
negotiations.
Poor countries say the rich should pay because of their historic carbon 
emissions.
But richer nations reject any calls for compensation.

Arguments over this question are likely to dominate discussions at the 
forthcoming COP27 summit in Egypt...
rom the war in Ukraine, to food and energy shortages and cost-of-living 
crises, "a global winter of discontent" is on the horizon, according to 
Mr Guterres.

Central to that is the question of climate change, which the Secretary 
General believes to be the defining issue of our time. It is a case 
study in moral and economic justice, he says.

Having recently seen the devastating flooding in Pakistan for himself, 
Mr Guterres is now doubling down on the need for the rich world to 
urgently address the demands of the poor...
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Developing countries will continue to push strongly for faster progress 
on finance for loss and damage, and they will at least have moral 
support from the UN Secretary General.

At COP26 in Glasgow, all countries agreed that there should be a new 
framework on this issue, but there was no agreement on how it should be 
funded.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62970887

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/[ Ooops.  Wrong move for a World leader ]/
*Biden to Skip UN Meeting as Climate Change Moves to ‘Back Burner’*/
/The US president’s decision to skip informal talks in New York comes as 
global turmoil threatens to overshadow climate disasters at this week’s 
United Nations meeting...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-20/biden-to-skip-united-nations-meeting-as-climate-change-moves-to-back-burner

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/[ familiar political voice - perhaps he should run for public office ]/
*Al Gore sees the world at 'tipping point' for climate action*
The world is at a "positive tipping point" in the fight against climate 
change as surging oil and gas costs spur governments to decarbonise 
faster, former U.S. Vice President and co-founder of Generation 
Investment Management Al Gore told Reuters...
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"There is no such thing as a clean fossil fuel, just as there is no such 
thing as a healthy cigarette," Gore stated. "We don't want to see 
investments in fossil fuel infrastructure of the sort that A/ will not 
alleviate the short-term problem and B/ will guarantee higher emission 
levels for decades to come."

"There are signs absolutely everywhere around the world" of the pace of 
change picking up, he noted, adding that the need to act was also being 
driven by worsening weather events...
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"Mother Nature has joined the discussion about the climate crisis," Gore 
said, citing heatwaves in China, floods in Pakistan and drought in Europe.

Gore, U.S. vice president from 1993 to 2001, became known for climate 
change advocacy with his 2006 Oscar-winning documentary "An Inconvenient 
Truth", and its 2017 sequel, arguing the climate change struggle is a 
moral fight...
https://www.reuters.com/world/al-gore-sees-world-tipping-point-climate-action-2022-09-20/

/[  "We are witnessing climate change now, right now - this isn't rocket 
science" interview at Democracy Now - video  ] /
*Stronger & Wetter: Michael Mann on How Climate Change Makes Storms 
Worse & Why We Must Cut Emissions*
Sep 19, 2022  Climate Week kicks off this week in New York City as more 
than 150 world leaders gather for the U.N. General Assembly and as 
Hurricane Fiona rips through Puerto Rico, Typhoon Nanmadol slams 
southern Japan, and Typhoon Merbok floods parts of western Alaska. We 
speak to climate scientist Michael Mann about how climate change has 
changed the pattern of tropical storms, and what needs to happen to 
address the crisis. He says rising global temperatures have worsened the 
effects of storms like these, and more aggressive climate legislation 
from Congress is needed. "We are experiencing devastating consequences 
of past climate inaction, and it really drives home the importance of 
taking action now," says Mann.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smD-fkleQEc

/[ Understanding carbon -- a superb 'What-If' explanation and 
high-science history - 60 min YouTube   ]/
*What Would The Earth Be Like Without Photosynthesis?*
232,901 views  Jan 31, 2021  Written & Researched by Leila Battison.
Script & video edited & by Pete Kelly.
Narrated by David Kelly.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqoG...

/[ 2 part video presentation discussion YouTube  ]/
*Planet: Critical Roundtable, July 17 2022 (1/2)*
Sep 20, 2022  The inaugural Planet: Critical roundtable. This conference 
presents six former podcast guests in dialogue with each other, 
proposing solutions to various elements of the climate crisis. Guests 
are: Steve Keen, Ye Tao, Henrik Nordborg, Sally Goerner, Carey King and 
Chris Cook.
Second half of the conference: https://youtu.be/6fdtFQ3ODuU

    00:00  Intro
    01:27 Maximum Power Principle in Biology & Economics (Carey King)
    24:50 Questions on Maximum Power Principle
    35:31 Global Climate Compensation (Henrik Nordborg)
    56:11 Questions on Global Climate Compensation
    01:10:57 MEER & Warming Mitigation (Ye Tao)
    01:33:35 Questions on MEER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AtgSgj92IM

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/[ second half of the conference ]/
*Planet: Critical Roundtable, July 17 2022 (2/2)*
Sep 20, 2022  The inaugural Planet: Critical roundtable. This conference 
presents six former podcast guests in dialogue with each other, 
proposing solutions to various elements of the climate crisis. Guests 
are: Steve Keen, Ye Tao, Henrik Nordborg, Sally Goerner, Carey King and 
Chris Cook.
First half of the conference: https://youtu.be/6fdtFQ3ODuU

    00:00 Roundtable 2
    00:16 Carbon Credit Currency (Steve Keen)
    17:46 Questions on Carbon Credit Currency
    33:20 Economy 3.0: Networked Societies & Energy Standard (Chris Cook)
    54:55 Questions on Economy 3.0
    01:05:56 Oligarchy & Energy Systems Principles (Sally Goerner)
    01:28:03 Questions on Oligarchy & Energy Systems Principles
    01:45:28 Final Discussion

Podcast episodes:
Steve Keen: https://youtu.be/sK12oB90zeQ
Ye Tao: https://youtu.be/RiTDDejKqA0
Henrik Nordborg: https://youtu.be/7_KLpVYgrpA
Sally Goerner: https://youtu.be/-oswca4GoGo
Carey King: https://youtu.be/GCPu9D7G-h4
Chris Cook: https://youtu.be/0ZPylk26d0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fdtFQ3ODuU

/[ nice to know information is moving appropriately ]/
*Rising Tides*
Extreme weather events are growing in frequency and severity, but 
architects are prepared.
By KATHERINE FLYNN FOR AIA ARCHITECT - September 13, 2022...
“All the clients that you help, you hope that you don’t have to help 
them again, because their home was able to withstand,” she says.

De Leon is passionate about emphasizing equity—the people she is doing 
the work for—at every turn.

“Communities of color are always disproportionally affected by 
disasters,” says De Leon, who is first-generation Mexican American. 
Disinvestment in these communities can often lead to homes with deferred 
maintenance, causing a cascade of problems from an extreme weather event.

In her work, De Leon sees a gap that she wishes would be addressed by 
lawmakers and policymakers: When disasters happen, there are fewer 
financial resources for renters or residents of multifamily housing 
versus those who own their homes.

“Philanthropic funding is flexible. At least in [Hurricane] Sandy, they 
were able to help renters, but here we can only work with homeowners,” 
she says. “Unless you have a good landlord or somebody who is really 
invested, they have to sometimes wait for those CDBGDR dollars to come 
down. It can take years.”

When it comes to issues of resilience and disaster management, De Leon 
says she would like to see more architects at the decision-making table 
acting as community-building stewards, especially ones who understand 
the intricacies of federal funding.

“I see the research, I see the patterns, I think resiliency is only 
going to become more necessary and imperative,” she says.
https://www.architectmagazine.com/aia-architect/aiafeature/rising-tides_o

/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*September 21, 1998*/
September 21, 1998: In an anecdote that explains the mainstream media's 
skittishness about covering climate change, TIME's international editor, 
Charles Alexander, is asked by the Wall Street Journal if TIME's "Heroes 
for the Planet" series, which is sponsored by Ford, will cover 
environmentalists critical of the automobile industry's role in 
furthering climate change. Alexander responds that those 
environmentalists won't be covered, noting, "We don't run airline ads 
next to stories about airline crashes."

In this our first annual Fear & Favor report, FAIR takes note of some of 
the instances from the past year when pressure from powerful interests 
influenced the news. This report should by no means be considered a 
comprehensive catalog, but we have collected some of the most outrageous 
and instructive examples. We hope it will serve to support working 
journalists who struggle to do their jobs well, and encourage them and 
the public to continue to demand truly independent reporting.

http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/fear-amp-favor-2000-the-first-annual-report/

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