[✔️] Dec 22, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Words only, Jem Bendel book, Breaking Together, Long reach to Constitution, Shipping, Marine traffic, 2010 Keeling CO2 levels

[Richard Pauli]

/*December 22*//*, 2023*/

/[ good to hear, but so far, little or nothing is touching physical 
reality ]/
*There was some good climate news in 2023. Really.*
The technologies, policies, and commitments providing a glimmer of hope 
in an otherwise gloomy year.
By Casey Crownhart,  James Temple, June Kim
December 20, 2023...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/20/1085731/good-climate-change-news-2023/



/[ Jem Bendel discusses new book _Breaking Together _... asking "How are 
you going to experience collapse?" ]/
*Collapse of Society Discussed at a Book Fest in Asia, with Prof Bendell*
Jem Bendell
Nov 30, 2023
Q&A hosted by Tom Doig with the author of the book Breaking Together,  
at the 20th Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali, Indonesia, Oct 18th 
2023.
The book is available to order or download from http://www.jembendell.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYS_wqnsi1Q

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/[ attention-worthy explanation for collapse and how to respond ]/
*Introduction to Breaking Together by Jem Bendell*
Contents:

    Introduction
    1 Economic collapse
    2 Monetary collapse
    3 Energy collapse
    4 Biosphere collapse
    5 Climate collapse
    6 Food collapse
    7 Societal collapse
    8 Freedom to know
    9 Freedom from progress
    10 Freedom from banking
    11 Freedom in nature
    12 Freedom to collapse and grow
    13 Freedom from fake green globalists
    Conclusion

https://soundcloud.com/jem-bendell /[audio]/
https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/


/[ Progressive conjecture ]/
*Could U.S. Constitution Hold Key to Solving the Climate Crisis?*
Drawing from U.S. case law and legislation, an argument for climate 
action centered on birthright equity is building momentum.
TINA CASEY
12/20/2023
Planet Earth is in crisis. Climate change is accelerating, biodiversity 
is crumbling, and entire ecosystems are collapsing. Despite significant 
successes over the past 40 years, the animal rights, environmental 
conservation, and wildlife preservation movements of the past 40 years 
are all at a crossroads. The time calls for re-focusing these 
nature-based movements more effectively, and the United States 
Constitution can point the way.Misdirection and Missed Opportunities in 
Climate Action

Technology-based solutions to the climate crisis abound, but they have 
failed to prevail against a tide of misdirection and missed opportunities.

In the U.S., one well-documented obstacle is the countervailing force of 
fossil energy stakeholders. In 1984, for example, the Environmental 
Protection Agency collaborated with ICF, a global consulting and 
technology services provider, to produce a climate policy roadmap titled 
“Greenhouse Effect and Sea Level Rise: A Challenge for This Generation,” 
only to be met with a pervasive, industry-funded climate misinformation 
campaign.

In the following decades, the political water for this campaign has been 
carried mainly, though not exclusively, by members of the Republican party.

Concurrent with the emergence of the Republican-led Tea Party movement 
during the Obama administration, Republican officeholders and pundits 
stepped up their rejection of the sustainability solutions outlined in 
the United Nations Agenda 21 program. They also focused on public 
disapproval of specific technologies, including range anxiety over 
electric cars, the bankruptcy of the U.S. solar manufacturer Solyndra, 
and the replacement of the incandescent light bulb.

Against this backdrop, it is little wonder that the American electorate 
has consistently failed to prioritize a robust national policy on 
climate action. While Democratic presidents have taken some steps to 
address the climate crisis since the 1980s, the administrations of Bill 
Clinton and Barack Obama have been squeezed between two members of the 
Bush family with ties to fossil energy industries and Donald Trump, who 
campaigned on a fossil energy platform.

A clash of goals within the Democratic party has also clouded the 
conversation. The anti-corporate messaging of consumer advocate Ralph 
Nader arguably distracted attention from the climate-focused campaign of 
former Vice President Al Gore in 2000, and Vermont Senator Bernie 
Sanders’s charges of corporate coziness, corruption, and process rigging 
drew the public gaze away from the climate pillars in Hillary Clinton’s 
2016 campaign.

The 800-Pound Gorilla in the Climate Action Room
The election of President Joe Biden marked a turning point in the 
prioritization of climate action and social justice, capped by the 
passage of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on August 16, 2022.

Also known as the “Climate Bill,” the IRA is widely credited with 
stimulating public and private sector investment in clean technology to 
accelerate global decarbonization. However, a more profound challenge 
remains, and the Earth will continue to track toward biodiversity loss 
and climate crisis until it is confronted.

Primarily but not exclusively promoted by the fossil energy industry, 
the linear model requires a nonstop spiral of extraction, consumption, 
and waste predicated on a growing pool of workers and consumers.

The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the linear model of economic 
development that rose to prominence with the Industrial Age. Primarily 
but not exclusively promoted by the fossil energy industry, the linear 
model requires a nonstop spiral of extraction, consumption, and waste 
predicated on a growing pool of workers and consumers.

This linear model—in which growth is tied to boundlessly increasing 
gross domestic product (GDP) per capita—is in direct conflict with 
ecosystems and biodiversity, and it cannot be resolved by clean technology.

Electric vehicles, for example, resolve tailpipe emissions. However, 
without a holistic sustainability policy, they will continue 
contributing to the sprawling infrastructure of car ownership, including 
raw materials mining and processing, manufacturing facilities, roads, 
parking lots, and other elements of the built environment.
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“That we are even debating the value of women’s autonomy as an economic 
driver—as opposed to an inalienable human right—is exactly why our 
culture needs to think differently about women and children,” argues 
Blome...
https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/solving-the-climate-crisis


/[ deep discussion of shipping ]/
*Alice Larkin: Why and how shipping matters for climate change - 
interviewed by Kevin Anderson*
CEMUS
Dec 19, 2023
Interview with Alice Larkin December 12, 2023, by Kevin Anderson at 
CEMUS, Uppsala University.

    Blog in The Conversation on Wind Propulsion for Ships, published
    2023: https://tinyurl.com/shipwindblog

    Paper on Wind Propulsion behind the blog above, published 2023:
    https://tinyurl.com/Shipwindfull

    Improving shore power project economics: Aberdeen case-study,
    published 2023: https://tinyurl.com/SPAberdeen

    Summary of alternative fuel options for ships, published 2023:
    https://tinyurl.com/LCABTfull

    Barriers and solutions for UK shore-power, published 2023:
    https://tinyurl.com/UKshorepower

    Stronger climate targets for international shipping, published 2021:
    https://tinyurl.com/IMOclimate

    The need for action on existing fleet of ships this decade,
    published 2020: https://tinyurl.com/CommittedShips

Alice Larkin is a Professor in Climate Science & Energy Policy as part 
of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the School of 
Engineering. Alice trained as an astrophysicist at the University of 
Leeds, did her PhD in climate modelling at Imperial College, then worked 
in science communication. She returned to academia in 2003 joining the 
interdisciplinary Tyndall Centre to research conflicts between climate 
change and aviation. In 2008 she was appointed as a lecturer to direct 
projects on international transport and food supply scenarios within a 
climate change context, and was Director of Tyndall Manchester between 
2013 and 2016. In 2017 Alice became the Head of School of Mechanical, 
Aerospace and Civil Engineering, and then from 2019 to 2023, the 
Vice-Dean and Head of the newly formed School of Engineering. Alice has 
led numerous research projects, including the EPSRC funded High Seas 
project in 2010 and was the lead Manchester investigator on a large 
consortium project funded by the EPSRC entitled 'Shipping in Changing 
Climates'. She was also PI on a large EPSRC consortium project on the 
Water-Food-Energy Nexus, a Co-I on the UKERC project RACER and PI on a 
UKERC project on decarbonising shipping and aviation fuels. Her research 
interests continue to focus on the decarbonisation challenges 
surrounding aviation and shipping, and connections with carbon budgeting 
and the wider energy system more generally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-j5BhYeI4

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/[ live tracking of vessels world wide ]/
*Marinetraffic*
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-177.7/centery:26.7/zoom:2



/[The news archive - current CO2 levels are 420.46 ppm measured Nov 2023 ]/
/*December 22, 2010 */
December 22, 2010: The New York Times reports on the legacy of the late 
climate scientist Charles David Keeling...

    When Dr. Keeling, as a young researcher, became the first person in
    the world to develop an accurate technique for measuring carbon
    dioxide in the air, the amount he discovered was 310 parts per
    million. That means every million pints of air, for example,
    contained 310 pints of carbon dioxide.

    By 2005, the year he died, the number had risen to 380 parts per
    million. Sometime in the next few years it is expected to pass 400.
    Without stronger action to limit emissions, the number could pass
    560 before the end of the century, double what it was before the
    Industrial Revolution.

    The greatest question in climate science is: What will that do to
    the temperature of the earth?

    Scientists have long known that carbon dioxide traps heat at the
    surface of the planet. They cite growing evidence that the
    inexorable rise of the gas is altering the climate in ways that
    threaten human welfare.

    Fossil fuel emissions, they say, are like a runaway train, hurtling
    the world’s citizens toward a stone wall — a carbon dioxide level
    that, over time, will cause profound changes.

    The risks include melting ice sheets, rising seas, more droughts and
    heat waves, more flash floods, worse storms, extinction of many
    plants and animals, depletion of sea life and — perhaps most
    important — difficulty in producing an adequate supply of food. Many
    of these changes are taking place at a modest level already, the
    scientists say, but are expected to intensify...
    But the essence of his scientific legacy was his passion for doing
    things in a meticulous way. It explains why, even as challengers try
    to pick apart every other aspect of climate science, his
    half-century record of carbon dioxide measurements stands
    unchallenged...

    The earth’s history offers no exact parallel to the human combustion
    of fossil fuels, so scientists have struggled to calculate the effect.

    Their best estimate is that if the amount of carbon dioxide doubles,
    the temperature of the earth will rise about five or six degrees
    Fahrenheit. While that may sound small given the daily and seasonal
    variations in the weather, the number represents an annual global
    average, and therefore an immense addition of heat to the planet.

    The warming would be higher over land, and it would be greatly
    amplified at the poles, where a considerable amount of ice might
    melt, raising sea levels. The deep ocean would also absorb a
    tremendous amount of heat.

    Moreover, scientists say that an increase of five or six degrees is
    a mildly optimistic outlook. They cannot rule out an increase as
    high as 18 degrees Fahrenheit, which would transform the planet....

    As he watches these difficulties, Ralph Keeling contemplates the
    unbending math of carbon dioxide emissions first documented by his
    father more than a half-century ago and wonders about the future
    effects of that increase.

    “When I go see things with my children, I let them know they might
    not be around when they’re older,” he said. “ ‘Go enjoy these
    beautiful forests before they disappear. Go enjoy the glaciers in
    these parks because they won’t be around.’ It’s basically taking
    note of what we have, and appreciating it, and saying goodbye to it.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/science/earth/22carbon.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0




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