[✔️] December 3, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | COP summary, Wellbeing and Dignity, Opinion Mad Max or Star Trek?,

[Richard Pauli]

/*December 3*//*, 2023*/

/[ Summary of COP news ]/
*COP 28 - UN Climate Change Conference*
30 November - 12 December 2023, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
UN Climate Change news
Browse all news, articles and press releases
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/[ philosophical and ethical perspective - eloquently spoken - video]/
*"Redefining Wellbeing and Human Dignity in the Anthropocene"*
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
Nov 29, 2023
Presentation: "Redefining Wellbeing and Human Dignity in the Anthropocene"
Speaker: Dr. Luis R. Fernández-Carril, Sustainability Officer, 
Tecnológico de Monterrey

Dr. Luis R. Fernández Carril is a researcher in environmental ethics and 
climate change policy. He has been a professor at Tecnológico de 
Monterrey since August 2014. He currently serves as Sustainability 
Officer within the Vice- Presidency of Inclusion, Social Impact and 
Sustainability at Tecnológico de Monterrey. He recently participated as 
lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate 
Change (IPCC), Working Group II, for the 6th Assessment Report in the 
chapter dedicated to "Climate Resilient Development Pathways." He served 
as legislative advisor and later as Chief of Staff of the Special 
Commission on Climate Change of the Senate of the Republic, LXIII 
Legislature from 2015-2018. His research focuses on environmental 
governance and international climate negotiations, adaptation and 
resilience to climate change, environmental ethics, climate justice and 
education for sustainable development.

The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health utilizes research, 
education, and public health practice to help safeguard the health of 
human populations from adverse impacts of climate change and human 
activities that cause climate change. To learn more about our work, 
please visit: https://bit.ly/YCCCH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nGoPLqnPdg



/[ a positive opinion from the Mayo Clinic Platform ]/
*Does the Future Belong to Mad Max or Star Trek?*
July 26, 2022
The daily headlines may suggest a dystopian future, but the evidence 
shows the world is actually becoming a healthier, safer place to live. 
Such evidence-based optimism is on full display during this week’s Mayo 
Clinic Platform Conference.

By Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, 
Mayo Clinic Platform and John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic 
Platform.

Science fiction fans will no doubt remember the Mad Max series of 
movies, which depicted a post-apocalyptic future in which war and 
shortages of life’s necessities created a wasteland of survivalists and 
biker gangs. In sharp contrast, the Star Trek franchise of movies and TV 
series paints a hopeful future in which poverty has been eliminated, 
humanity focuses on self-improvement, and most conflicts are resolved 
with reasoned debate and compromise. Several social critics have pointed 
out that popular media, with its constant focus on bad news, bloodshed, 
and hatred, are encouraging the public to believe that the world of Max 
Rockatansky is inevitable.

No doubt, the world is facing unprecedented challenges, including a 
lingering pandemic, war in Ukraine, and a polarized populace. But what 
newspapers, social media, and online news channels fail to do is put 
these events into historical context. As one commentator points out: 
“War is rarer today, by some measures, than it has been for most of the 
past 50 years — and, when it does occur, is significantly less deadly. 
Genocides and mass atrocities are less common all the time, too. Life 
expectancy, literacy and standards of living have all risen to historic 
highs. Also steadily declining in recent decades: hunger, child 
mortality, and extreme poverty, liberating hundreds of millions from 
what are, by sheer numbers, among the pre-eminent threats facing humanity.”

No doubt, there are many legitimate stories about society’s shortcomings 
that need to reach the public, but in our view, today’s culture has 
become too pessimistic, rewarding a cynicism that goes beyond reason. 
The comedian Stephen Colbert, in one of his more serious moments, 
described the problem: “Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the 
farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because 
cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because 
we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. 
But saying ‘yes’ begins things. Saying ‘yes’ is how things grow.”

What does all this have to do with the digital health frontier, the 
theme of our weekly blog? In  health care IT, there are Mad Max and Star 
Trek versions of the future too. There are concerns about the overreach 
of facial recognition software, remote patient monitoring, impersonal 
robotic care, and ransomware attacks on hospitals. But there are also 
many positive developments that need attention as well. This week, Mayo 
Clinic Platform is hosting its first major conference to emphasize these 
developments. Our theme, “Exploring and Implementing New Ideas, New 
Technologies for a Healthier World” reflects our evidence-based optimism 
about the future of digital health care and its impact of patient care. 
While the conference will address the challenges of digitally 
transforming health care, it will also feature the value of using data 
to improve diagnostics and therapeutics, the power of data networks, and 
how AI is being used to improve clinical care for patients with 
cardiovascular disease. It will also highlight the MCP Accelerate 
Program, which is giving voice to innovative start ups that can take us 
into a Star Trek-like future.

Dr Leonard McCoy’s medical tricorder may not be in every physician’s 
black bag quite yet, but it’s coming.

But, can we also read the digital health headlines and envision how a 
tricorder might become reality? We're seeing early examples of how 
sensors and algorithms derived at population scale will result in an 
evolution of the EHR, making it more of a clinicians sidekick and less 
of an empty container for gathering data, which it is today.

Organizations will work together in a "federation" to develop and test 
new algorithms, then make them available on any tricorder.
The future will be Star Trek.
https://www.mayoclinicplatform.org/2022/07/26/does-the-future-belong-to-mad-max-or-star-trek/



/[The news archive of disinformation ]/
/*December 3, 2009
*/December 3, 2009: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann calls out the hosts of 
the Fox News Channel program "Fox and Friends" for selectively editing a 
segment of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to imply that host Jon 
Stewart rejected the evidence of human-caused climate change.
Olbermann Names "Fox & Friends" 'Worst Persons In The World'(VIDEO)
By Danny Shea
Mar 18, 2010,
|Updated Dec 6, 2017

Keith Olbermann named the hosts of Fox News' morning show, "Fox & 
Friends," his "Worst Persons in the World" Thursday — with co-host 
Gretchen Carlson getting a special individual double-billing as the 
second-worst person in the world.

Carlson received "Worse" honors for her interview with Derek Jeter, in 
which she failed to disclose that her husband is his agent.

"How much money she and her family has is largely dependent on people 
thinking Jeter... I don't know, what would you call it? The last pure 
athlete or he does everything right or he's perfect," Olbermann said. 
"Second biggest conflict of interest imaginable and she never mentions it."

Carlson and her co-hosts, Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, were named 
"Worst" for a "Fox & Friends" segment featuring a Jon Stewart clip taken 
out of context to malign Al Gore.

"And today, as part of their made-up story they call 'Climategate,' they 
had a scoop," Olbermann said of the co-hosts. "Jon Stewart was denying 
global warming. 'Extraordinarily,' Doocy said, 'take a look at this, Jon 
Stewart of "The Daily Show" which has historically bashed Republicans, 
and you know, not bashed Democrats, really took a shot at Al Gore. Look 
at this.'"

Olbermann showed that they took Stewart's clip out of context, ignoring 
the portion where he said, "Now, does it disprove global warming? No, of 
course not."

"So, Fox, which has twice showed the wrong video to make it seem like a 
poorly attended event that had drawn a much larger crowd, attributed 
this to on-screen errors, no doubt, this example of using a tenth of the 
Jon Stewart sound bite, completely out of context, this was made by an 
office assistant or a temp or possibly some homeless person who wandered 
into the control room and took over the show," he said. "Couldn't 
possibly be another example of Rupert Murdoch's moral sellouts 
completing journalistic three-card Monty to advance a fraudulent 
political agenda. Of course not. Just the fault of Carlson, Doocy, and 
Kilmeade. But, even if they're just the paid to play patsies, they're 
still today's 'Worst Persons in the World.'"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/olbermann-names-fox-frien_n_380473
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/olbermann-names-fox-frien_n_380473




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