[✔️] August 28, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Hayhoe convinces, Kalmus climate scientist, Retraction from science journal, Reich's opinion on GOP, Rees Overshoot, IPCC, 2017 states action

Mon Aug 28 09:19:53 EDT 2023

/*August 28*//*, 2023*/

/[ Christian Climate Scientist Dr Katharine Hayhoe ]/
The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe
@KHayhoe
*Every "but what about...?" argument against human-caused climate change 
is already covered by @skepticscience's handy list; so why won't it 
convince people? *

Because it's never been about science or facts. It's solution aversion 
so any excuse that justifies that position will do.
https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1695887319822176568

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The Real Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe
Here is the list: https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php
And here's my Global Weirding episode on why facts are (very sadly) not 
enough to catalyze climate action:
youtube.com
*If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right?*
Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkMIjbDtdo0

/[ not gentle activism - how do we stay calm? ]/
*Peter Kalmus, Climate Scientist *
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Moby and Lindsay talk to Peter about the state of our climate reality, 
the science behind it, and what we can do to help our planet survive. In 
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/[ tiny victory reported from the misinformation battleground - the 
attack was started in 2014 ]/
*Scientific journal retracts article that claimed no evidence of climate 
crisis*
Publisher Springer Nature says 2022 article ‘not supported by available 
evidence’ as editors launch investigation
Graham Readfearn
@readfearn
Fri 25 Aug 2023
One of the world’s biggest scientific publishers has retracted a journal 
article that claimed to have found no evidence of a climate crisis.

Springer Nature said it had retracted the article, by four Italian 
physicists, after an internal investigation found the conclusions were 
“not supported by available evidence or data provided by the authors”.

Climate sceptic groups widely publicised the article, which appeared in 
the European Physical Journal Plus in January 2022 – a journal not known 
for publishing climate change science.

Nine months later the article was reported uncritically in a page one 
story in the Australian newspaper and promoted in two segments on Sky 
News Australia – a channel that has been described as a global hub for 
climate science misinformation. The segments were viewed more than 
500,000 times on YouTube.
The article claimed to have analysed data to find no trend in rainfall 
extremes, floods, droughts and food productivity.

“In conclusion on the basis of observational data, the climate crisis 
that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, is not 
evident yet,” the article said.

Several climate scientists told the Guardian and later the news agency 
AFP that the article had misrepresented some scientific articles, was 
“selective and biased” and had “cherrypicked” information.

After those concerns were raised, Springer Nature announced in October 
it was investigating the article.

In a statement Springer Nature said its editors had launched a “thorough 
investigation”, which included a post-publication review by subject 
matter experts.

The authors of the article also submitted an addendum to their original 
work during the course of the investigation, the statement said.

“After careful consideration and consultation with all parties involved, 
the editors and publishers concluded that they no longer had confidence 
in the results and conclusions of the article,” the journal said.

“The addendum was not considered suitable for publication and retraction 
was the most appropriate course of action in order to maintain the 
validity of the scientific record.”

A retraction note appearing on the article says concerns were raised 
“regarding the selection of the data, the analysis and the resulting 
conclusions of the article”.

The note says the article’s conclusions “were not supported by available 
evidence or data provided by the authors”.

“In light of these concerns and based on the outcome of the post 
publication review, the editors-in-chief no longer have confidence in 
the results and conclusions reported in this article,” the note adds.

The article is still available for download, but the manuscript now has 
the words “RETRACTED ARTICLE” stamped over each page. According to the 
journal’s website, the article was accessed 92,000 times.

The Guardian asked why the issues with the paper were not picked up 
before publication. Springer Nature said it could not discuss “the 
specific history or peer review process of a paper with anyone other 
than the authors”.

The publisher and editors were “committed to maintaining the highest 
possible levels of integrity in the content published in the journal, 
and we are taking steps to ensure that similar issues do not occur in 
the future”.

“For example, we are supporting our editors-in-chief in increasing 
oversight of editors and guest editors to ensure that our policies and 
best practice are adhered to,” a statement added.
Prof Steven Sherwood, a climate scientist at the University of New South 
Wales who was among those critical of the article, said it was important 
the journal had allowed the authors to defend their work.

“This shows the journal did not rush to judgment against the paper,” he 
said.

“I commend the journal, both for giving this initial benefit of the 
doubt to the authors and for having the resolve to retract the paper 
when the authors could not justify their claims.”

Two of the study’s four authors, retired nuclear physicist Renato Ricci 
and known climate science sceptic Franco Prodi, signed a declaration in 
early 2022 that there was “no climate emergency” and that “enriching the 
atmosphere with CO2 is beneficial”.

The study’s lead author, nuclear physicist Prof Gianluca Alimonti, 
argued in 2014 that there was no consensus among climate scientists that 
global warming was caused by human activity. At least six separate 
studies have shown that between 90% and 100% of climate scientists agree 
warming is caused by humans.

The Guardian emailed Alimonti for comment but did not receive a reply. 
The Australian newspaper and Sky News Australia were also approached for 
comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/scientific-journal-retracts-article-that-claimed-no-evidence-of-climate-crisis

/[  from a radical critic and former Secretary of Labor in the Clinton 
administration ]/
*The GOP and the crises of climate change and democracy*
The lowest point of last night’s debate
ROBERT REICH
AUG 24, 2023

Friends,

I wasn’t planning to say anything more about last night’s Republican 
debate (minus Trump), but I can’t resist pointing to what I considered 
the lowest point out of many low points.

It came when the candidates fielded a pre-taped question by a young 
person named Alexander Diaz, who spoke about how the climate crisis is 
“young people’s number one issue,” and asked, “How will you as both 
president and leader of the Republican Party calm the fear that the 
Republican Party doesn’t care about climate change?”

Before turning the question over to the candidates, Bret Baier, one of 
the moderators of the debate, asked the candidates to raise their hands 
if they believe “human behavior is causing climate change.”

Almost immediately, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis shot back: “We’re not 
schoolchildren, let’s have the debate.” Then, instead of talking about 
climate change, DeSantis lashed out at Joe Biden for his response to the 
deadly Maui fires. (DeSantis’s criticism was utter rubbish, of course. 
Biden has been very much involved in the aftermath of the Maui fires, 
with federal disaster assistance and ongoing briefings, culminating in 
his visit several days ago.)

DeSantis later insisted he never raised his hand in affirmation.

As Florida faces increasingly powerful hurricanes and storm surges, as 
well as threats from sea level rise, DeSantis has supported projects to 
build seawalls and improve drainage systems. But he has refused to 
acknowledge the role of global heating on these disasters, scoffing at 
the “politicization of the weather” and pushing bills banning Florida 
cities from adopting 100% clean energy goals. He also barred the state’s 
pension fund from considering the climate crisis when making investment 
decisions.

After DeSantis’s attempt to avoid talking about climate change last 
night, Vivek Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old entrepreneur who presents himself 
as a nonpolitical outsider who can tell the truth, then piped up: “The 
climate-change agenda,” he declared, “is a hoax.”

Hello?

Donald Trump, who did not attend the debate, has done whatever he could 
to impede climate action. As president, he rolled back nearly 100 
climate regulations, according to a New York Times tally, and backed out 
of the Paris Accord.

Meanwhile, right-wing groups have been working with the Republican Party 
to boost the fossil fuel industry while undermining the energy 
transition. Project 2025, a $22 million endeavor by the climate 
change-denying think tank The Heritage Foundation, has developed a 
proposal that lays out how a Republican president could dismantle U.S. 
climate policy within their first 180 days in office. The proposal was 
made in collaboration with several former Trump officials.

Friends, the twin crises of the climate and democracy are intertwined. 
Climate change threatens life on Earth. But without a working democracy, 
there’s little we can hope to do about it. The Republican Party — with 
Trump in the lead, and DeSantis and others trailing behind in the GOP 
presidential primaries — seems dedicated to destroying both.

    /Robert B. Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the
    University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum
    Center for Developing Economies, and writes at
    robertreich.substack.com. Reich served as Secretary of Labor in the
    Clinton administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the
    ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He
    has written fifteen books, including the best sellers "Aftershock",
    "The Work of Nations," and"Beyond Outrage," and, his most recent,
    "The Common Good," which is available in bookstores now. He is also
    a founding editor of the American Prospect magazine, chairman of
    Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
    and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, "Inequality For
    All." He's co-creator of the Netflix original documentary "Saving
    Capitalism," which is streaming now./

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-gop-and-the-crises-of-climate?r=kv56u&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

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/[ Comment - without the 40 years of intense disinformation and 
misinformation from the fossil fuel industry - we maybe could have 
avoided the inevitable heat that we now face.//]/
*The Human Ecology of Overshoot: Why a Major ‘Population Correction’ Is 
Inevitable*
by William E. Rees
https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/4/3/32

/[ Conversation IPCC ]/
@IPCC_CH
*🔹#Climatechange is a threat to human well-being & planetary health.*
🔹There is a rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable 
& sustainable future for all.
🔹The solution lies in climate-resilient development.
#IPCC's Synthesis Report ➡️ https://bit.ly/SRYRpt23
https://twitter.com/IPCC_CH/status/1695056519329632496/photo/1
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/

/[The news archive - looking back at positive action by individual states ]/
/*August 28, 2017*/
August 28, 2017:
The New York Times editorial page observes:

    “The one bright spot amid the generally gloomy news about climate
    change, and the Trump administration’s resistance to doing anything
    about it, is the determination of a number of state governments to
    take action on their own.

    “California, as usual, has commanded the headlines on this score,
    having just strengthened its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas
    emissions. Now the nine Northeastern states that form the Regional
    Greenhouse Gas Initiative have done much the same, in a further
    rebuke to the know-littles and do-nothings like Scott Pruitt, the
    administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, who are now
    calling the shots on climate policy in Washington.

    “The nine states, including Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York,
    last week agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power
    plants an additional 30 percent by 2030, on top of the 40 percent
    cut they have already achieved since the program began in 2009.
    R.G.G.I., as the initiative is known, was the nation’s first
    multistate greenhouse gas initiative. From the beginning (and
    despite the defection of New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie), it has
    had the backing of governors from both parties. More important, it
    has quietly achieved substantial emissions reductions at little cost
    to the states’ economies or to their consumers.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/opinion/climate-change-states-trump.html

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