[✔️] January 1, 2023- Global Warming News Digest - reviewing top climate stories

Sun Jan 1 08:56:28 EST 2023

/*January 1, 2023*/

/[ because warmer air holds more moisture, and snow is a form of moisture ]/
*Befuddled Trump Can't Figure Out How Global Warming Is A Thing If 
Buffalo Is Freezing*
Story by Mary Papenfuss  Dec 30, 2022

Former President Donald Trump yet again on Thursday completely dismissed 
global warming as a problem — because it’s been freezing in Buffalo, New 
York.

“What happened to global warming?” Trump asked dismissively on Truth 
Social in response to a story about the frozen homes in Buffalo and the 
city’s deadly blizzard conditions.

Trump, as always, confused climate trends with the weather and 
apparently views low temperatures in Buffalo (weather) as totally 
negating decades of an increasingly warming Earth (via climate) amid 
spiking carbon dioxide triggered by the use of fossil fuels. But 
scientists say that deadly storm surges and other extreme weather, like 
in Buffalo that has killed dozens of people, are more evidence of damage 
wreaked by climate change...
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Trump also accused President Joe Biden in the interview of perpetrating 
a climate change “hoax” to avoid increasing oil production.

Trump laughed during his campaign for the 2020 election that a rise in 
sea levels as the polar ice caps melt will result in “more beachfront 
property.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/befuddled-trump-cant-figure-out-how-global-warming-is-a-thing-if-buffalo-is-freezing/ar-AA15N6kU?li=BBnb7Kz

/[ climate one report - text and audio reading  ]/
*REVISITING THE ENABLERS: THE FIRMS BEHIND FOSSIL FUEL FALSEHOODS*
December 30th, 2022
For years, fossil fuel companies have claimed to support climate science 
and policy. Many have recently pledged to hit net zero emissions by 
midcentury. Yet behind the scenes, they fight those very same policies 
through industry associations, shadow groups, and lobbying – all while 
spending vast sums on advertising and PR campaigns touting their climate 
commitments. And they don’t do it alone. They’re aided and abetted by PR 
firms, ad agencies and business consultancies like McKinsey & Company.

Michael Forsythe, New York Times investigative reporter and co-author of 
the book “When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the 
World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm” says this one global consultancy 
wields far greater influence than more public-facing corporate giants 
like Amazon and Google. “McKinsey works with almost all the companies in 
the world and has influence on almost all the major companies in the 
world and many of the governments.”

Fossil fuel companies are McKinsey’s bread and butter. When pressed by a 
group of young employees to take real action on climate and push their 
clients to do the same, senior executives said they couldn't stop 
working with their fossil fuel clients and remain relevant.

  “No one is saying that McKinsey shouldn't work with these companies,” 
says Forsythe. “What we’re saying is and what the McKinsey employees 
were saying is that McKinsey should work to reduce the carbon emissions 
from these companies.”...
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“ExxonMobil just made record profits because of high gas prices,” says 
Henn. “And what are they doing with it?  They are telling their 
shareholders that they are going to increase oil and gas production, and 
they're doing a $10 billion stock buyback to reward their shareholders.  
In comparison ExxonMobil spent maybe upwards of about $300 million on 
algae research, which over the last 10 years, so that's about 30 million 
a year maybe. Yet that's the focus of all their advertising.”
Despite how much money these companies have to spend, they are still 
losing the battle of public perception. 60% of Americans say that fossil 
fuel companies are to blame for the climate crisis and about 50% of them 
want them to pay damages.

Christina Arena, former VP at the global PR firm Edelman, argues that 
proponents of clean energy can use this reality to help deal with the 
climate crisis: “I think that opens the door for clean tech marketers 
and clean energy marketers to come in with a more compelling narrative. 
Tell your story better be more creative. Capture America's hearts and 
minds.”
https://www.climateone.org/audio/revisiting-enablers-firms-behind-fossil-fuel-falsehoods

/[ Ca$h --  money is one reason people like Canada -- gasoline tax is 
rebated ]/
*Climate Action Incentive payment amounts for 2023-24*
The federal government applies a price on pollution in jurisdictions 
that do not have their own pollution pricing systems which meets the 
federal benchmark. Specifically, in 2023-24, the federal fuel charge 
will continue to apply in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario, 
and will come into effect as of July 1, 2023 in Newfoundland and 
Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.
www.canada.ca
https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2022/11/climate-action-incentive-payment-amounts-for-2023-24.html 

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////[ Climate One declares a top scientist - Dr Stefan Rahmstorf ]/
*STEFAN RAHMSTORF: 2022 SCHNEIDER AWARD WINNER*
December 16th, 2022
Every year, we grant an award in memory of pioneering climate scientist 
Steve Schneider, a who fiercely took on the denial machine from the 
1970s until his death in 2010. This year's recipient is German physicist 
and ocean expert Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf. Dr. Rahmstorf says we’re running 
toward a cliff in a fog. What can science tell us where that cliff is – 
and how to avoid it?...
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He also says that we may be past the tipping point for the West 
Antarctic ice sheet, “The tipping point is where the further 
deterioration and actually complete loss of the ice sheet is already 
programmed in by self-amplifying feedback even without further warming.”

On the other hand, Rahmstorf says, further warming itself is not 
inevitable. “The science suggests that once we have reached zero CO2 
emissions, the temperature will not rise further.” But he also 
recognizes that getting to net zero emissions won’t be easy, “With the 
politics we have now it is not possible of course, we have to be 
treating this problem as a top priority like a wartime situation.” ...
https://www.climateone.org/audio/stefan-rahmstorf-2022-schneider-award-winner

[ news busters, busted open the news ]
*CNN Ignores Deadly Blizzard in 'Top 10 Climate Stories of 2022'*
Brad Wilmouth
December 29th, 2022
In a pre-recorded segment aired on Tuesday and Wednesday, CNN climate 
correspondent Bill Weir demonstrated the tendency of journalists to 
ignore what contradicts a narrative they are trying to push as he 
omitted the current blizzard from the list of "Top 10 Climate Stories of 
2022."

After CNN repeatedly called it the "blizzard of the century," Weir 
ignored the superstorm and its record low temperatures even though it 
was more deadly than most of the other disasters he included in his list 
that promoted the global warming alarmist narrative.

On Tuesday afternoon at 3:51 p.m. Eastern, fill-in host Sara Sidner 
recalled "flooding, heat, and hurricanes" that "Mother Nature unleashed" 
in 2022.  Weir's piece not only included natural disasters like 
hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts, but also a volcanic eruption and 
political efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.  At one point, he 
promoted President Joe Biden's environmental agenda:
He then misleadingly hyped Hurricane Ian by recalling that it is the 
first hurricane known to have hit the Atlantic Coast the second week of 
November. He did not mention that there previously have been a couple of 
hurricanes which hit Florida in the first and third weeks of November 
(in 1935 and in 1985) so that hurricane activity in this month is not as 
unprecedented as he made it sound.

At no point in his top 10 list did he mention the snow storm that his 
own network had called the "blizzard of the century" earlier the same day.
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Correspondent Polo Sandoval eventually informed viewers that the death 
toll in Buffalo has surpassed that of the blizzard of 1977 (which 
notably led environmental alarmists to predict the coming of a new ice 
age at the time).
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/brad-wilmouth/2022/12/29/cnn-ignores-deadly-blizzard-top-10-climate-stories-2022

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/[ DW documentary 2 of 2  -   the Arctic Blue - Power games on the 
melting ice ]/
*The melting ice of the Arctic (2/2) | DW Documentary*
DW Documentary
111,136 views  Dec 30, 2022  #dwdocumentary #documentary #arctic
Soon the Arctic will be ice-free in summer. While many are concerned 
about the consequences for the global climate, countries like Russia and 
the US, as well as China and Canada see an ice-free Arctic as an 
opportunity, offering everything from new trade routes to mineral 
resources and tourism.

Part 1: https://youtu.be/GystZIxWQ3o

In two episodes, this documentary reports on a region of the world that 
is changing dramatically because of climate change. This change affects 
the lives of the people who make their home in the Arctic, of course. 
The film team experiences first-hand what it means to live at the mercy 
of the forces of nature in this inhospitable region, which makes for an 
adventurous and frightening journey.

But the ramifications of an Arctic thaw are felt around the globe. 
Climate change is progressing faster here than in the rest of the world, 
and it is moving the Arctic into the focus of global politics. Littoral 
states and world powers are fighting for influence, here. At the heart 
of their interest: access to mineral resources and new transport routes. 
Because, as the ice melts, new, shorter shipping routes are opening up. 
Is a new conflict looming at the North Pole?

And how do the people in the far north experience the change in their 
environment? The film team travels through the northern reaches of the 
US, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia. The journalists experience the 
wonder of nature in these regions and meet people who have adapted over 
centuries to life in these cold, inhospitable realms. Now, they face a 
new struggle, as global power players swoop in.

In the second part of the documentary, the film team boards a Norwegian 
frigate off Spitsbergen. There, they observe NATO’s response to the 
growing Russian influence in the region. This includes observation 
missions and an increased presence; there is even talk of bringing back 
submarines decommissioned since the end of the Cold War. Norway's 
intelligence service has clearly observed a more aggressive Russian 
military presence in the Arctic in recent years. Apparently, Russia 
wants to make it clear that it can dominate the Arctic.

Indeed, Russia identified the Arctic as an important sphere of influence 
following the end of the Cold War, especially with regard to the 
Northeast Passage. Alexei Chekunkov, Russia's Minister of Arctic 
Development, explains why: "The northern shipping route from China via 
Siberia and Scandinavia is 40 per cent shorter than the route via the 
Indian Ocean, the Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean." Climate change, he 
said, represents an opportunity for Russia. But how to get energy to 
where it’s needed in northern Siberia? The "Akademik Lomonosov," a 
floating nuclear power plant, may be one answer. Currently anchored in 
the port of Pevek, Russia's northernmost city, it can supply energy to 
some 100,000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz6xkR4mNlo

/[The news archive - Juridic means the law or jurisprudence ]/
/*January 1, 1999*/
January 1, 1999: In his World Day of Peace Message, Pope John Paul II 
declares:

    "The promotion of human dignity is linked to the right to a healthy
    environment, since this right highlights the dynamics of the
    relationship between the individual and society. A body of
    international, regional and national norms on the environment is
    gradually giving juridic form to this right. But juridic measures by
    themselves are not sufficient. The danger of serious damage to land
    and sea, and to the climate, flora and fauna, calls for a profound
    change in modern civilization's typical consumer life-style,
    particularly in the richer countries."

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_14121998_xxxii-world-day-for-peace_en.html

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