[✔️] September 25, 2022 - Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
Richard at CredoandScreed.com
Sun Sep 25 23:32:14 EDT 2022
/*September 25, 2022*//
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/[ Street demonstration activism ]/*
**Thousands call for ‘climate reparations and justice’ in global protests*
Fridays for Future ‘strikes’ in about 450 places demanded rich countries
pay for damage from global heating
Damien Gayle and agencies
Fri 23 Sep 2022 13.23 EDT
Thousands of young people have staged a coordinated “global climate
strike” across Asia, Africa and Europe in a call for reparations for
those worst affected by climate breakdown.
From New Zealand and Japan to Germany and the Democratic Republic of
Congo, activists walked out of schools, universities and jobs to demand
rich countries pay for the damage global heating is inflicting on the poor.
In the latest day of action by the Fridays For Future movement, strikes
“for climate reparations and justice” were planned in about 450
locations worldwide.
The protests take place six weeks before the Cop27 climate summit, where
developing countries plan to push for compensation for climate-related
destruction to homes, infrastructure and livelihoods.
Recent months have seen deadly floods engulfing large parts of Pakistan,
wildfires ravaging north Africa, Europe and North America, and
record-breaking heatwaves in Britain and India.
“We’re striking all over the world because the governments in charge are
still doing too little for climate justice,” said Darya Sotoodeh, a
spokesperson for the group’s chapter in Germany.
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Denmark is the only rich country that has so far stepped up with funding
for the problem of “loss and damage” due to climate-related disasters,
announcing at the UN assembly this week it would provide DKK 100m (£12m)
to address it.
A statement on the Fridays For Future website said: “Colonisers and
capitalists are at the core of every system of oppression that has
caused the climate crisis, and decolonisation, using the tool of climate
reparations, is the best kind of climate action.”
The Fridays For Future youth movement began in 2018, inspired by Greta
Thunberg’s solitary protests outside the Swedish parliament. It reached
a high point in November 2019, when 4 million people took part in 4,500
actions worldwide on one Friday.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/thousands-call-for-climate-reparations-and-justice-in-global-protests
/[ Who was paying attention back then ?? ]/
*Exxon Could Have Helped Stop Climate Change 30 Years Ago, ‘Proprietary’
Docs Show*
Instead the company’s Canadian arm developed a communications plan to
make climate solutions like carbon taxes look economically reckless.
Geoff Dembickion Sep 20, 2022
Exxon figured out a solution that could have helped achieve
“stabilization” of the climate emergency back in the early 1990s, and
then came up with a communication strategy to make sure that solution
wouldn’t happen.
That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled “proprietary”
that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary Imperial Oil, one
of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil deposit known as the
Alberta tar sands.
The document directed leaders at the company to stress the “many
uncertainties” of implementing a national tax on greenhouse gas
emissions when talking with journalists and politicians, even though
Imperial Oil had privately studied the policy and learned that it could
cause national emissions to plateau and then shrink without doing
significant damage to the economy.
If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power to
aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in major
economies around the world, global emissions might have already peaked
by now. “We’d be headed down the backside,” environmental writer and
350.org founder Bill McKibben argues in my new book entitled The
Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy To Cover Up Climate
Change.
Enrique Rosero, a scientist who spent 10 years working for Exxon before
being pushed out for questioning its opposition to climate solutions,
agrees his former employer could have made a huge early impact in the
climate fight by pushing for a carbon tax.
“That would have significantly changed incentives for everything,” he
says in The Petroleum Papers. “It would have been so much easier to
address the crisis if we’d started then.”
The main problem with a carbon tax from Imperial Oil’s perspective was
that it would drastically harm the company’s sizable investments in
Canada’s massive oil patch. “Imposition of increased taxes to dampen
demand and influence supply mix could increase the relative supply costs
of energy intensive/higher carbon content fossil fuels such as oil
sands,” the 1993 document says.
This could potentially “result in a 12% reduction in downstream revenue”
for Imperial Oil, the document warned, equivalent to losses of 940
million Canadian dollars...
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“That would have significantly changed incentives for everything,” he
says in The Petroleum Papers. “It would have been so much easier to
address the crisis if we’d started then.”...
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Armed with this knowledge, Imperial then created a “well developed and
broadly communicated position aimed at limiting non market-driven
response steps” to climate change. That is the strategy laid out in the
“proprietary” 1993 document.
Thus, at a crucial early moment when the world could have gotten the
climate emergency under control, Exxon and its Canadian subsidiary chose
to sabotage what they knew to be the most effective solution, McKibben
argues.
“I think that’s the part that’s sometimes hard for people to
understand,” he said. During the early 1990s when this research was
being conducted, “we had a variety of options that were fairly modest.”
But with each wasted year since then, he explains, the climate
emergency, and the solutions at hand to fix it, have become more and
more dire.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/20/exxon-imperial-oil-climate-change-proprietary-docs/
/[ blunder in 1990 brings doom to current world ]/
*Imperial Oil Files: How a Canadian Oil Giant Followed Exxon into
Climate Denial*
Imperial Oil Limited, Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary, took a very different
path from Exxon in the U.S. 30 years ago, revealing the vulnerabilities
and strategies of being an oil company in the age of climate crisis.
While Exxon was laying low in the late 1980s and early 1990s, biding
time in the U.S. during the George H.W. Bush administration, Imperial
was forced to react to urgent policy initiatives on climate change being
forwarded by the Canadian government.
The digital release and analysis of Imperial Oil documents obtained by
DeSmog and the Climate Investigations Center from a Canadian archive
offers a window into the company’s work to undermine the Canadian
government and stop measures that would impact the company economically,
while appearing to be a thoughtful participant in the dialogue around
climate change.
This new collection of over 300 documents, which includes numerous
documents never before published online, marks the most in-depth look at
Imperial’s climate science and policy history to date, helping to shed
new light and add context to previous reporting on Exxon’s and
Imperial’s climate change legacy and documents by InsideClimate News and
the Los Angeles Times with the Columbia Journalism School in 2015 and
2016...
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Armed with this knowledge, Imperial then created a “well developed and
broadly communicated position aimed at limiting non market-driven
response steps” to climate change. That is the strategy laid out in the
“proprietary” 1993 document.
Thus, at a crucial early moment when the world could have gotten the
climate emergency under control, Exxon and its Canadian subsidiary chose
to sabotage what they knew to be the most effective solution, McKibben
argues.
“I think that’s the part that’s sometimes hard for people to
understand,” he said. During the early 1990s when this research was
being conducted, “we had a variety of options that were fairly modest.”
But with each wasted year since then, he explains, the climate
emergency, and the solutions at hand to fix it, have become more and
more dire.
https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/20/exxon-imperial-oil-climate-change-proprietary-docs/
/[ Politico reports]/
*World Bank president says he will not resign, apologizes for remarks on
climate science*
“When asked, ‘Are you a climate denier?’ I should’ve said no,” Malpass said.
By KELLY GARRITY
09/23/2022
World Bank President David Malpass will not resign, he said Friday
during a virtual conversation with Global Insider author Ryan Heath.
NGOs and leading climate activists have been calling for Malpass to step
down after he repeatedly dodged questions about the science behind
climate change at a New York Times event Tuesday.
“I don’t even know — I’m not a scientist,” he said at the event.
On Friday, Malpass apologized for those remarks.
“When asked, ‘Are you a climate denier?’ I should’ve said no,” Malpass
said, adding later, “It was a poorly chosen line, I regret that, because
we as an organization are using the science every day.”
None of the 187 countries that are members of the World Bank have asked
him to resign, Malpass said, and shareholders have voiced “strong
support, for me, for the World Bank,” he told Heath.
Malpass also said he would “absolutely” accept training from climate
scientists to improve his knowledge of the science behind climate change.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/23/world-bank-president-not-resigning-apologizes-for-climate-science-remarks-00058612
/[ Pew Research Center - poses an important question -- checking
validity. ]/
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
*Does public opinion polling about issues still work?*
BY COURTNEY KENNEDY, ANDREW MERCER, NICK HATLEY AND ARNOLD LAU
The 2016 and 2020 presidential elections left many Americans wondering
whether polling still works. Pre-election polls in both years struggled
to capture the strength of support for former President Donald Trump and
other Republican candidates.
But elections are just one of many topics that polls are used to
understand. A new analysis from Pew Research Center examines the
accuracy of polling on more than 20 topics, ranging from Americans’
employment and vaccination status to whether they’ve served in the
military or experienced financial hardship. The analysis shows that,
despite low response rates, national polls like the Center’s come within
a few percentage points, on average, of benchmarks from high response
rate federal surveys. The closer a poll estimate is to the benchmark,
the more accurate it is considered to be. Consistent with past research,
polling errors are larger for some topics – like political engagement –
that may be related to a person’s willingness to take surveys.
Across the 26 topics asked about in the Center’s new analysis, the poll
estimates differed from the U.S. government benchmark by an average of 4
percentage points. Polling was particularly accurate for certain topics
like employment, marital status and homeownership. For example, the
share of U.S. adults who said they had received at least one COVID-19
vaccine dose by June 2021 was roughly two-thirds based on data from both
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (66%) and Center polling
(67%)...
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/09/21/does-public-opinion-polling-about-issues-still-work
/[ "...he already knew" -- most important now is to listen -- start 20
mins in the video if you like ]/
*Dahr Jamail Interview in full*
Aug 1, 2020 Interviews from the documentary, Living in the Time of Dying.
To find out more or support our work: www.livinginthetimeofdying.com
Dahr Jamail in his usual forthright manner explores the research and
science behind his groundbreaking book, The End of Ice. In this
interview Dahr goes on to talk about grief, finding meaning and the
importance of the indigenous perspective at this time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEbegILo1A
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/[ fire season, no longer and active season, we have to take on fire..in
a thousand year time scale. Watch the video /]
*In California, a Race to Save the World’s Largest Trees From Megafires*
Wildfires killed up to a fifth of the world’s giant sequoias in just two
years, but stopping the devastation requires lighting even more fires in
their groves.
By Twilight Greenaway
September 23, 2022
When the Washburn Fire burned through part of Yosemite’s iconic Mariposa
Grove in July, photos of its famed giant sequoias steeped in smoke and
surrounded by automated sprinklers to shelter them from the flames
shocked viewers around the globe.
Less than a year earlier, similar photos showed the trunk of the sequoia
known as General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, wrapped in a
tinfoil-like material to repel the flames of the KNP Complex Fire. Yet,
while those efforts helped save the celebrity trees from the infernos,
the annihilation elsewhere in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains is
difficult to grasp: The U.S. Forest Service estimates that, in 2020 and
2021 alone, wildfires killed 13 percent to 19 percent of the world’s
giant sequoias...
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Scientists now estimate that giant sequoia groves used to experience an
average of 31 fires per century—either through Indigenous burns or
wildfires. Those blazes would consume smaller trees from around the feet
of the giants and give new sequoias a place to take root.
But the fires around the sequoias are changing. Scientists first noticed
the impacts of increasingly severe conflagrations after the Rough Fire
in 2015. Then, three massive wildfires—the 2020 Castle Fire and the 2021
Windy and KNP Complex fires—swept through the region in an 18-month period.
The growing number of dead and dried-out trees below the giants allowed
fires to ignite easier and burn hotter, while the increasing density and
height of the woods around the sequoias provided ladder fuels that
allowed flames to climb into the forest canopy.
A recent study looking at the high-intensity fires that took place in
the Sierras from 2015 to 2017 found that numerous sequoias suffered from
severe burn scars and many of their crowns went up in flames, ultimately
leading to their deaths. In areas where fires burned at high severity,
84 percent of the towering trees died—a proportion that was essentially
unheard of just a few years earlier.
Brigham and members of Save the Redwoods League suspected the
long-established pattern of fire in the sequoia groves was shifting.
Then the 2020 Castle Fire burned a dozen sequoia groves in the national
park alone.
“A handful of them burned way outside what we call the natural range of
variation,” Brigham said. The National Park Service estimated that
between 7,500 to 10,600 giant sequoias were killed in that one fire.
“Some part of my brain was like, ‘There is no possible way that fire
could have gotten up into those canopies and torched those trees,’” said
Linnea Hardlund, a wildland firefighter and Save the Redwoods League’s
forest ecologist. “‘They’re so tall!’” But when she entered the grove
shortly after the fire, “it completely took my breath away, in a similar
but very different way from the first time I saw a giant sequoia. And it
rocked the foundation of knowledge I had started building from field
experience.”
In July 2021, the existential threat to sequoias began to come into
focus across the forestry world. The National Park Service, the U.S.
Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, which oversee much of
the land where the trees reside—joined eight other entities responsible
for stewarding groves of the giant trees, including the State of
California, the University of California, Berkeley and the Tule River
Indian Tribe to form the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition to respond to the
disaster.
A forest restoration crew made up of young Tule River tribal members
takes a break from the physically demanding work of post-fire clean up
beneath a giant sequoia in the Black Mountain grove. Photo by Twilight
Greenaway.
A forest restoration crew made up of young Tule River tribal members
takes a break from the physically demanding work of post-fire clean up
beneath a giant sequoia in the Black Mountain grove. Credit: Twilight
Greenaway
Among the numerous politicians and scientists who toured the charred
groves in Sequoia National Forest were members of Congress led by House
Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
“After seeing the Giant Sequoias first-hand and understanding the damage
fires have caused to our communities, it’s clear there is an urgent need
to address this crisis through fire prevention and better forest
management,” McCarthy said.
Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), a ranking member of the House Committee on
Natural Resources, called the devastation he witnessed “a clear sign
that we have to dramatically and rapidly change our strategy to prevent
any more loss.”
In late June, McCarthy and 44 bipartisan co-sponsors introduced the Save
Our Sequoias Act, which—if passed—would declare the situation an
emergency, assess the damage for Congress, codify the existence of the
Sequoia Land Coalition and provide a pathway for federal funding to
“support the implementation of hazardous fuels reduction treatments in
and around Giant Sequoia groves,” which includes a grant program for
forest stewards, among other things.
The bill would allow the members of the coalition, scientists and land
managers to carry out “special projects” to protect the sequoias as they
see fit, without undertaking reviews of the potential impacts of the
proposed work that are typically required under National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA), the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) or the
Endangered Species Act (ESA). But those shortcuts so alarmed some
critics that more than 80 environmental groups, including the Center for
Biological Diversity, Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense
Council—organizations that would normally support government efforts to
protect significant stands of trees—penned a public letter opposing the
bill. The groups expressed concern about “rushed and poorly planned
logging projects,” harm to imperiled species and a lack of transparency
at a time when conservative lawmakers have often sought to weaken NEPA
and other environmental review processes.
“Those environmental laws were put into place to ensure that when
federal agencies like the Forest Service undertake land management
decisions, they do that in a way that not only follows the best
available science, but also conserves listed species, and provides a
public opportunity to comment and be involved in those decisions,” said
Susan Jane Brown, the wildlands program director and a staff attorney
with the Western Environmental Law Center, who spoke for the groups
opposing the bill. “In our view, even though the purpose of the
legislation is a good one—we want to protect sequoias—we don’t believe
that waiving environmental laws is necessary in order to get there.”
Earth Justice’s Blaine Miller-McCafee called the bill a “Trojan horse to
diminish important environmental reviews and cut science and communities
out of the decision-making process.”
Other environmental groups, such as the Nature Conservancy, are behind
the bill. Save the Redwoods League, which wants to see 2,000 acres
treated in the most at-risk groves before the 2023 fire season, supports
the bill, and even contributed language to it. Sam Hodder, the League’s
president, said that the act provides what the stewards on the ground
say they need. “The specifics don’t in any way change those bedrock
environmental laws,” he adds. “They exercise the flexibility that’s
built into those laws to allow stewardship and response to emergency.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092022/california-sequioa-wildfires/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5pBZqnh2Xo
/[The news archive - looking back at our thinking ]/
/*September 25, 2005*/
September 25, 2005: TIME Magazine releases the October 3, 2005
cover-dated issue, with the cover story: "Are We Making Hurricanes
Worse?"
http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20051003,00.html
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109318,00.html
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