[✔️] February 25, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Collapse acceptance

Sat Feb 25 06:32:12 EST 2023

/*February 25, 2023*/

/[No time for lunacy --  political, financial, environmental lunacy ]/
*Response: Biden has nominated a dangerous Wall Street executive for 
World Bank President*
FEBRUARY 23, 2023BY OCI TEAMBLOG POST, FEATURED, NEWS, PRESS RELEASES, 
STOP FUNDING FOSSILS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2023
Contact:
Bronwen Tucker, bronwen at priceofoil.org
Collin Rees, collin at priceofoil.org

Oil Change International response to Biden’s dangerous nomination of a 
Wall Street executive for World Bank President. He shouldn’t be allowed 
to name one in the first place.

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the Biden Administration announced its nominee 
for the next President of the World Bank, Ajay Banga. Banga is the 
former president and CEO of MasterCard and a former executive at 
CitiBank and Nestlé. In response, Oil Change International experts 
released the following statements:

Collin Rees, United States Program Co-Manager at Oil Change International:

“President Biden’s choice of Ajay Banga is deeply disappointing. This 
moment demands a World Bank leader who will prioritize the urgency of 
the climate crisis, not another Big Business executive with no 
experience in development, environmental work, or the public sector.

“Banga’s long career at predatory banks and corporations does not 
inspire confidence that he would transform the World Bank into an 
institution that can work for people and the planet. On the contrary, 
it’s sadly ironic that his past work as a Nestlé executive aligns with 
the World Bank’s damaging history of water privatization.”

Bronwen Tucker, Public Finance Campaign Co-Manager at Oil Change 
International:

“Biden has chosen a planet-wrecking CEO for World Bank President. He 
shouldn’t be allowed to name one in the first place. This isn’t over — 
the rest of the world’s governments still have the opportunity to step 
in. They can and should nominate their own candidates, vote freely, and 
demand a fair process.

“The rest of the World Bank shareholders’ to-do list is clear. The World 
Bank cannot be trusted with more money for anything, let alone climate 
finance, until it stops doing harm. When you are in a hole, the first 
step is to stop digging. This means governments must make sure the Bank 
stops funding all fossil fuels, passes democratic voting reforms, and 
pursues serious debt cancellation.”
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https://priceofoil.org/2023/02/23/biden-nominates-a-dangerous-wall-street-executive-for-world-bank-president/

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/[ more informed opinions ]/
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/biden-must-retract-world-bank-nomination-immediately/
https://foe.org/news/biden-world-bank-president/
https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/biden-must-retract-world-bank-nomination-immediately/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/business/world-bank-president-nomination.html

/[ Snow in Los Angeles? Explained 12 years ago, more heat, means more 
water vapor, means more precipitation, means more TV forecasters. Still 
works   ]/
*Get This: Warming Planet Can Mean More Snow*
February 15, 2010
Heard on Morning Edition
CHRISTOPHER JOYCE
"The fact that the oceans are warmer now than they were, say, 30 years 
ago means there's about on average 4 percent more water vapor lurking 
around over the oceans than there was, say, in the 1970s," he says.
https://www.npr.org/2010/02/15/123671588/get-this-warming-planet-can-mean-more-snow

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[ video report from more than 13 years ago ]
*Climate Science 1956: A Blast from the Past*
greenman3610
32,038 views  Nov 7, 2010
To support Climate Crocks: go to
http://www.climatecrocks.com
Many climate deniers still seem to think global warming was invented by 
Al Gore, in 2006.
As this recently uncovered recording from 1956 shows, the outlines of 
climate change science have been clear for many decades.

More Greenhouse history: "In the 70s, they said there'd be an Ice Age"
  • In the 70s, They ...
Excursions in Science, complete recording
  • Climate Change an...
The Discovery of Global Warming
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/in...
summary of climate science history
http://www.aip.org/history/climate/su...

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The last 55 million years - Hansen et al, Target CO2
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/2008/Ta...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdALFnlwV_o

/[ TV news asks: and yes it is a true threat, yes, yes it is ]/
*Is climate change truly a threat to humanity or are threats exaggerated?*
by: Jeff Berardelli
Posted: Feb 23, 2023
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) —
Through the millennia, Earth’s climate has gradually shifted from ice 
ages to periods even warmer than today due to natural cycles. But the 
current moment is different, the rate of warming is unprecedented in the 
history of modern human civilization – and it’s being forced by humans, 
due mainly to the burning of fossil fuels.

We know there’s danger ahead, but are these alarming headlines accurate? 
Or is the alarm, simply alarmist?...
WFLA’s Chief Meteorologist and Climate Specialist Jeff Berardelli spoke 
to Dr. Katharine Hayhoe, Chief Scientist from The Nature Conservancy and 
one of the World’s leading climate scientists to discuss just how 
concerned we should be.

Hayhoe says humans are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the 
only home we have, “When you look at plants and animals, people say well 
they have adapted to greater changes in the past, and they have, but not 
this fast. The changes that are happening are orders of magnitude faster 
than the warming between the last ice age and today. So what’s at stake 
is everything, everyone, every place, that we care about.”

For some, Hayhoe’s message will sound heavy, and hard to believe. But 
what science is telling us, as scary as it may sound, must not be 
sugar-coated...
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Progress is being made and Hayhoe says there’s a chance to not just 
avoid catastrophe, but to turn this climate challenge into an 
opportunity to make a better life for humanity. There’s just no time to 
waste.
Hayhoe stresses, “The bottom line is, Jeff, if we wait until the 
connection is evident and clear to everybody on the economic impacts and 
the personal impacts, it’s too late.”

"The Earth has already warmed by two degrees Fahrenheit and there are 
certain impacts that are now baked into our new climate – we will just 
have to adapt. But scientists incessantly stress that every sliver of a 
degree matters. Any progress we make towards limiting warming will make 
the outcome that much better for us."

https://www.wfla.com/weather/climate-classroom/is-climate-change-truly-a-threat-to-humanity-or-are-threats-exaggerated/

/[  Buy the new book ]/
*The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration 
Hardcover – February 21, 2023*
by Jake Bittle
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and 
far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under 
a White Sky

The untold story of climate migration in the United States—the personal 
stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities 
being torn apart by disaster, and the implications for all of us as we 
confront a changing future.

Even as climate change dominates the headlines, many of us still think 
about it in the future tense—we imagine that as global warming gets 
worse over the coming decades, millions of people will scatter around 
the world fleeing famine and rising seas. What we often don’t realize is 
that the consequences of climate change are already visible, right here 
in the United States. In communities across the country, climate 
disasters are pushing thousands of people away from their homes.

A human-centered narrative with national scope, The Great Displacement 
is “a vivid tour of the new human geography just coming into view” 
(David Wallace-Wells, New York Times bestselling author of The 
Uninhabitable Earth). From half-drowned Louisiana to fire-scorched 
California, from the dried-up cotton fields of Arizona to the soaked 
watersheds of inland North Carolina, people are moving. In the last few 
decades, the federal government has moved tens of thousands of families 
away from flood zones, and tens of thousands more have moved of their 
own accord in the aftermath of natural disasters. Insurance and mortgage 
markets are already shifting to reflect mounting climate risk, pricing 
people out of risky areas.

Over the next fifty years, millions of Americans will be caught up in 
this churn of displacement, forced inland and northward in what will be 
the largest migration in our country’s history. The Great Displacement 
compassionately tells the stories of those who are already experiencing 
life on the move, while detailing just how radically climate change will 
transform our lives—erasing historic towns and villages, pushing people 
toward new areas, and reshaping the geography of the United States.
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Displacement-Climate-American-Migration/dp/1982178256/ref=sr_1_1

/[  Post-Doom, no gloom  -  video 49 min - trust is more important than 
hope ]/
*Collapse Acceptance with Michael Dowd*
Andrii Zvorygin
Streamed live Jan 9, 2023
Interview with Michael Dowd on Collapse Acceptance, he is a pastor and 
hosts the Post-Doom podcast, very spiritual eco-theologian, lots of 
great suggestions on mentally coping with collapse, accepting it and 
transitioning to a joy filled life of service to the ecology and people.

    *Questions include:*
    Could you give us a brief introduction and your credentials?

    Could you summarize what you feel are the most important lessons of
    your favoured book "Overshoot"?

    Earlier you mentioned "Collapse Acceptance", can you tell us what
    was your epiphany journey
    from the time you learned about the possibility of collapse, to
    accepting it?

    What do you find are some of the most common stumbling blocks people
    have along the way to collapse acceptance?

    You mentioned that you no longer believe in a global "collective We"
    that is capable of mitigating collapse,
    Could you briefly explain to the audience why they can't relly on a
    saviour to transition on their behalf?

    What level of group action do you think is still viable at this time?

    Do you believe in reconstructionism, the idea that we can prepare to
    help people get through the seneca bottleneck and into the rebound?

    What do you think are some of the most important things for
    reconstructionists to be doing now
    to help get through the bottlneck and help future generations?

    When times are tough and the gloom is getting to you, what do you
    find the most helpful practices in getting back on the path of joy?

     From the Peak Oil Community:
    New kinds of religion post peak?

    How to explain post-doom to children?

    Simon Michaux's work about renewable inviability?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDPkhhVaKNw

/[ warnings on fossil-fascism and eco-fascism  video - 24 min ]/
*Why You Can't Ignore This Far-Right Trend*
Our Changing Climate
76,469 views  Feb 10, 2023  #fascism #climatechange #politics...
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at the 
rise of fossil fascism and ecofascism on the far right. As the world 
gets warmer and fossil fuels become increasingly untenable there are now 
glimpses of two trends within the far right that are a reaction to 
climate change. Ecofascism and fossil fascism.

I leaned heavily on the book White Skin, Black Fuel which you can find 
here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3812-white-skin-black-fuel

Help me make more videos like this via Patreon: 
https://www.patreon.com/OurChangingClimate
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OurClimateNow
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/occvideos/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/occ.climate/
Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/OurChangingClimate/
_______________________
Timestamps:

    0:00 - Intro
    1:23 - What is Fascism?
    6:09 - The Specter of Fossil Fascism
    11:51 - The Specter of Ecofascism
    18:14 - What We Shouldn't Be Doing
    19:56 - Snuffing the Flames of Fascism
    21:54 - Support OCC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGlrX6lA9O8

/[The news archive - looking back at the poor rate of progress ]/
/*February 25, 2005*/
February 25, 2005: In a piece on state-level efforts to address carbon 
pollution, the Boston Phoenix's Deirdre Fulton notes:

"Though the United States accounts for almost 25 percent — more than any 
other single country — of the world’s global-warming emissions, 
advocates say there’s been little federal action on this issue since at 
least 2001. That’s when George W. Bush, echoing concerns that had also 
been voiced by his predecessor Bill Clinton, opted out of Kyoto, citing 
national economic concerns and calling on developing nations to commit 
to greater sacrifices than they do under the current agreement. No 
wonder China, India, Mexico, and Brazil signed on, say US and Australian 
leaders. They have much less to lose as more stringent emissions 
regulations go into effect for other nations worldwide.

"The US position may or may not be fair, but we do know this much: it 
doesn’t move us very far toward addressing the looming problem of global 
warming. And that makes regional and state-level efforts all the more 
important."

http://web.archive.org/web/20050315235150/http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multi_3/documents/04495072.asp

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