[✔️] January 21, 2023- Global Warming News Digest - money, activism, heated Greenland,

Sat Jan 21 10:54:03 EST 2023

/*January  21, 2023*/

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/[ clips from David Wallace-Wells OPINION ]/
*Is Peak Climate Alarmism Behind Us?*
Jan. 18, 2023
It wasn’t so long ago that the world was truly on fire with climate 
alarm. In September 2019, millions of people around the world 
participated in a global climate strike, the largest ever, calling for 
immediate World War II-scale mobilization against the climate crisis in 
more than 150 countries. A week later, several million marched again. 
The marches had been organized by Fridays for Future, the youth movement 
founded by Greta Thunberg, which had been striking every week all year 
and drawing tens or even hundreds of thousands of protests in a given city.

If Thunberg was the patron saint of this new global climate protest 
army, Extinction Rebellion was its radical flank. The group announced 
itself in the fall of 2018, as Thunberg was first gaining attention in 
Stockholm, with a series of protests in London designed to shut down the 
city center and force a frank conversation about the state of the 
climate crisis. “Tell the truth” was the group’s chief demand.

XR was a self-consciously radical outfit, decentralized in structure, 
and blockaded highways and stock exchanges and disrupted subway service, 
among other protests. The approach incurred a cost, and much of the 
British public turned against the group. But it also helped move the 
needle of public opinion on climate somewhat dramatically in Britain and 
generated a series of commitments from even the conservative governments 
under Prime Ministers Theresa May and Boris Johnson. More recently, its 
tactics have been embraced and replicated by a new suite of disruptive 
climate groups: Insulate Britain, Scientist Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, 
which has tossed soup onto museum canvases.

Then, on New Year’s Eve, XR U.K. made a surprise announcement: “We quit.”

“Despite the blaring alarm on the climate and ecological emergency 
ringing loud and clear, very little has changed,” the group declared in 
a statement. “As we ring in the New Year, we make a controversial 
resolution to temporarily shift away from public disruption as a primary 
tactic.” Instead, the group declared it was going to focus on mass 
mobilization to pressure those in power rather than shaming or 
inconveniencing everyday citizens.

In certain ways, the turn reflected debates that have preoccupied the 
group’s leadership for years. The former XR spokesperson Rupert Read has 
spent much of the last few years advocating for a “moderate flank” — a 
more broad-based climate movement less defined by its most radical 
members. But the XR co-founder Roger Hallam, who left the group to found 
Just Stop Oil, has been subtweeting the announcement from prison. 
(“Disruption is not a tactic,” he wrote recently, but “a way of being in 
the face of the infinity of evil.”) Elsewhere, other groups have staged 
disruptive protests, as in Germany, where police and protesters have 
clashed near an open-pit coal mine and Greta Thunberg has been arrested 
twice.

This month, I spoke to Clare Farrell, a co-founder of XR, and Alanna 
Byrne, who coordinates its press team, about the strategic turn and why 
the group believes the time for it is now. This conversation below has 
been edited and condensed.

Let’s just start narrowly with the statement itself. The headline is a 
little bit of a red herring. What are you quitting and where did that 
decision come from?
What are you quitting and where did that decision come from?

Climate change around the world: In “Postcards From a World on Fire,” 
193 stories from individual countries show how climate change is 
reshaping reality everywhere, from dying coral reefs in Fiji to 
disappearing oases in Morocco and far, far beyond.

The role of our leaders: Writing at the end of 2020, Al Gore, the 45th 
vice president of the United States, found reasons for optimism in the 
Biden presidency, a feeling perhaps borne out by the passing of major 
climate legislation. That doesn’t mean there haven’t been criticisms. 
For example, Charles Harvey and Kurt House argue that subsidies for 
climate capture technology will ultimately be a waste.

The worst climate risks, mapped: In this feature, select a country, and 
we'll break down the climate hazards it faces. In the case of America, 
our maps, developed with experts, show where extreme heat is causing the 
most deaths.

What people can do: Justin Gillis and Hal Harvey describe the types of 
local activism that might be needed, while Saul Griffith points to how 
Australia shows the way on rooftop solar. Meanwhile, small changes at 
the office might be one good way to cut significant emissions, writes 
Carlos Gamarra.

Alanna Byrne: The media have framed it as us saying we’re stopping 
disruption altogether, which isn’t exactly right. What we’re saying is 
that we’re going to take a step back from disrupting the public in the 
way that we have been — disrupting roads and bridges and getting in the 
way of people going about their day-to-day business — and instead going 
straight to government. Disrupting the perpetrators more. We’re working 
toward a big date in April where we’re aiming to get 100,000 people to 
come to Parliament.- -

But if there’s still so much misunderstanding, why is that then a moment 
to take a moderate turn, rather than calling out the hypocrisy and 
malfeasance a little bit more aggressively?

Farrell: I fully intend to carry on speaking about the crisis in that way.

Byrne: In all honesty, as much as people are becoming more aware here, 
there does feel like there’s a complacency where people still feel like 
someone else is going to do it for them. People are waiting for the next 
election as though that’s going to be the thing that’s going to fix 
everything. And I think part of our role right now is to say that’s not 
necessarily going to fix everything. We need you to fully engage with 
this and come out onto the street.

For me, the statement is quite clear that it’s a short time that we are 
saying that we’ll do this in order to build up to something in April and 
then reassess.

So your message to Parliament is, basically: There are many more people 
who have much greater demands on climate than you might think. Is that 
right?

Farrell: Completely. But in addition to pushing that Overton window 
about what’s a reasonable ask of a political system, there’s also 
pushing the conversation about the fact that the systematic problems of 
our politics as it is set up today. Our politics is completely incapable 
of doing anything about these problems in a short space of time, which 
is when it needs to happen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/opinion/climate-alarmism.html

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/[ Time to let gas stoves expire  - 5 min video ]/
*I Measured the Pollution From My Gas Stove. It Was Bad.*
Distilled
20,917 views  Jan 17, 2023
There's been a lot of news about gas stoves. At first, I was skeptical 
about the panic over these appliances. But then I measured the indoor 
air pollution from our stove and talked to public health experiments.
You can view all sources, learn more about my experiment, and listen to 
behind-the-scenes interviews on the Distilled website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEWP44eKIVw

/[  Mostly ice, but now it's warmer ice  ]/
*Parts of Greenland now hotter than at any time in the past 1,000 years, 
scientists say*
New research in the northern part of Greenland finds temperatures are 
already 2.7 degrees warmer than they were in the 20th century
By Chris Mooney
January 18, 2023
The coldest and highest parts of the Greenland ice sheet, nearly two 
miles above sea level in many locations, are warming rapidly and showing 
changes that are unprecedented in at least a millennium, scientists 
reported Wednesday.

That’s the finding from research that extracted multiple 100-foot or 
longer cores of ice from atop the world’s second-largest ice sheet. The 
samples allowed the researchers to construct a new temperature record 
based on the oxygen bubbles stored inside them, which reflect the 
temperatures at the time when the ice was originally laid down.

“We find the 2001-2011 decade the warmest of the whole period of 1,000 
years,” said Maria Hörhold, the study’s lead author and a scientist at 
the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.

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Because warming has only continued since that time, the finding is 
probably an underestimate of how much the climate in the high-altitude 
areas of northern and central Greenland has changed. That is bad news 
for the planet’s coastlines, because it suggests a long-term process of 
melting is being set in motion that could ultimately deliver some 
significant, if hard to quantify, fraction of Greenland’s total mass 
into the oceans. Overall, Greenland contains enough ice to raise sea 
levels by more than 20 feet.
- -
Recent research has also demonstrated that in past warm periods within 
Earth’s relatively recent history (i.e., the last 50,000 years or so), 
this part of Greenland has often held less ice than it does today. In 
other words, the ice stream might extend farther outward from the center 
of Greenland than can be sustained at current temperatures, and be 
strongly prone to moving backward and giving up a lot of ice.

“Paleoclimate and modeling studies suggest that northeast Greenland is 
especially vulnerable to climate warming,” said Beata Csatho, an ice 
sheet expert at the University at Buffalo.

In the same year when the researchers were drilling the ice cores on 
which the current work is based — 2012 — something striking happened in 
Greenland. That summer, in July, vast portions of the ice sheet saw 
surface-melt conditions, including in the cold and very high-elevation 
locations where the research took place.

“It was the first year it has been observed that you have melting in 
these elevations,” Hörhold said. “And now it continues.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/18/greenland-hotter-temperatures/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_energy_and_environment&wpisrc=nl_green
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/18/greenland-hotter-temperatures/

/[ Elon Musk pushes climate denial -- is this important?   Perhaps no 
one cares  Or maybe it's comical?  5 min video report ]/
*Climate misinformation increase on social media*
CP24
  Jan 19, 2023
New report has found climate change-related misinformation has sky 
rocketed on Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgJ-xwXZ0zA

/[ fair and intelligent report on DAVOS from Aljazeera Video 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CJFaJAicd8 ]/
*Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government. 
Wikipedia *
Is globalisation coming to end? | Inside Story
Al Jazeera English
98,359 views  Jan 16, 2023  #WorldEconomicForum2023 #Davos2023 #WEF2023
The richest and most influential leaders on the planet have kickstarted 
their annual World Economic Forum in Davos.
They began gathering this week.
And so did protesters.
They include a group of millionaires who want those who are attending to 
get serious about global wealth disparities.
Inside and sticking to tradition, the WEF's Founder and Executive 
Chairman - Klaus Schwab - gave the opening speech.
He said the world is stuck in a, quote 'crisis mindset'
But after Covid-19 and with the war in Ukraine ongoing, how can that be 
fixed?
And can the geopolitical challenges be overcome?

Presenter: Laura Kyle
Guests Max Lawson, head of inequality policy and advocacy at Oxfam 
International.
Shirley Yu, senior practitioner fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and 
member of the Davos Expert Network.

Inderjeet Parmar,  professor of International Politics at City 
University of London and author of 'Foundations of the American Century'.
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/[ economics of other nations -- Germany for instance ]/
*Varieties of the Rat Race: Conspicuous Consumption in the US & Germany*
New Economic Thinking
Jan 11, 2023
Why are we still in the rat race?

Till van Treeck (@unidue & @thenewschool) shares his insightful research 
on how Conspicuous Consumption, Working Hours, and Veblen Effects 
impacts income inequality in Advanced Economies.

Explore his role at the University of Duisberg-Essen
https://imprs.mpifg.de/48961/till-van...

Popular Publication: Varieties of Capitalism and growth regimes: the 
role of income distribution
https://academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

INET Blog Post on the Rate Race and Age of Leisure
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspec...

Check out his newest publication “Varieties of the rat race: Working 
hours in the age of abundance”
https://academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W03DMQ7uxY

/[ Looking back at the very first work by a brilliant communicator - 
Peter Sinclair.  His channel - 
-https://www.youtube.com/@greenman3610/videos - amounts to a full course 
for anyone to discover our predicament -- he delivers a persistent, 
polite counter attack on climate change deniers.  His work is 
foundational ] /
/*January 21, 2009
*/January 21, 2009: Peter Sinclair's "Climate Denial Crock of the Week" 
video series debuts.
Climate Denial Crock of the Week- "It's cold. So there's no Climate Change"
greenman3610
16.8K subscribers
45,270 views  Jan 21, 2009
"I looked outside, and it was snowing, therefore, there is no climate 
change."
If that's what passes for rational thought in your social group, you owe 
it to yourself to watch this edition of Climate Denial Crock of the Week.
http://youtu.be/l0JsdSDa_bM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0JsdSDa_bM

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