[✔️] January 31, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Troll Army of Big Oil | $ investing in climate, Kim Stanley Robinson,

[Richard Pauli]

/*January 31, 2023*/

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/[  NYT says to $ follow the money ] /
*‘Recession Resilient’ Climate Start-Ups Shine in Tech Downturn*
Tech workers and investors are flocking to start-ups that aim to combat 
climate change.
By Erin Griffithth, who is based in San Francisco, has been reporting on 
start-ups since 2008.
Jan. 30, 2023
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As tech companies slash perks and cut jobs, the downturn has spurred a 
wake-up call among many workers, causing them to question whether their 
company’s role in society — selling ads or selling stuff, often — was 
actually making the world a better place. The result? More are now 
flocking to climate start-ups, just as investors pour money into the field.

Last year, climate start-ups in the United States raised nearly $20 
billion, topping 2021’s high of $18 billion and nearly tripling 2020’s 
$7 billion, according to Crunchbase, a data provider. At least 83 
climate-focused companies around the world are worth more than $1 
billion, according to HolonIQ, a research firm.
Despite worries of a recession, enthusiasm about climate start-ups is 
undimmed. Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of the investment firm 
BlackRock, recently declared that 1,000 more $1 billion so-called 
climate unicorns were on the way.

“There is no line of business that will not be impacted by climate,” 
said Chris Sacca, one of the founders of Lowercarbon Capital, a 
climate-focused venture capital firm, at a conference run by Axios in 
October. “That’s also the opportunity.”

The momentum and excitement, investors said, are different from the 
cleantech boom of the mid-2000s, when investors poured money into a 
cohort of clean energy companies that were reliant on government 
subsidies. Many of those start-ups eventually went under.

“There were a lot of lessons learned from the first cleantech wave,” 
said Ben Marcus, an investor at the venture capital firm UP.Partners. 
“Investors are not just looking to invest in science projects but in 
real companies.”
Now broader economic trends have coalesced to bolster the market. The 
cost of renewable energy has fallen over the last decade. The Securities 
and Exchange Commission last year proposed a rule that would require 
companies to report their emissions, creating demand for tools to 
measure them. The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last year, dedicated 
$370 billion to climate-related spending.

Large corporations have also elevated climate-focused initiatives to the 
boardroom, with 91 percent of the global economy now covered by “net 
zero” pledges of some sort, according to Net Zero Tracker, a nonprofit site.

Climate tech is “one of the few bright spots in the economy and one of 
the few industries that tend to be extremely recession-resilient,” said 
Rick Zullo, an investor at the venture capital firm Equal Ventures.

At least 135 funds focused on climate investing, with $94 billion under 
management, have been created since 2021, according to the newsletter 
Climate Tech VC. The largest tech investment firms — including Sequoia 
Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Atlantic and TPG — have increased 
their investments in climate-tech companies, as have corporate investors 
like Salesforce and United Airlines.

Lila Preston, an investor at Generation Investment Management, the 
investment firm that Al Gore helped found in 2004, said the momentum was 
welcome and “absolutely needed.”

“You want the very best investors around the table with you when you are 
disrupting industries,” she said.
Still, with Silicon Valley-style growth comes Silicon Valley-style hype. 
Many in the industry are wary of the risks of too much money flowing 
into climate start-ups at inflated valuations. Some fear that the 
excitement will lead to more “greenwashing” — when businesses make 
“green” marketing a priority over actual impact — and infighting over 
which solution is best, ultimately damaging the industry’s credibility.
But the stakes are too high to be cynical, climate entrepreneurs and 
investors said...
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  “We’re well beyond the point of having to prove climate change, or 
that it’s a big market,” said Ms. Collins, who no longer uses the 
dramatic slide in her pitches.

Some of the new climate start-ups are already increasing in value, at 
least on paper, fueled by the floods of cash. Josh Felser, an investor 
at Climactic, a venture capital firm, said the 11 climate companies that 
he and a partner had backed over the last two years were now worth two 
and a half times what they had been at the time of investment because 
other investors had put more money in at higher valuations.

“It’s not because we’re that good,” he said. “It’s because the market is 
so hot.”

Founders said business was booming because potential customers faced 
more outside pressure to become environmentally friendly, pushing them 
to spend money on things like emissions trackers and carbon offsets. 
Infogrid, a start-up that provides tools to make buildings operate and 
use energy more efficiently, previously had a hard time selling its 
products to customers, said William Cowell de Gruchy, the company’s 
chief executive.

“Now they’re like: ‘We’ve got to do this. Our shareholders are making 
us. Our boardroom is making us. Regulators are making us,’” he said.

Many tech workers have gone through a similar climate awakening. Olya 
Irzak, one of the founders of Frost Methane Labs, which helps reduce 
methane seeps from coal mines and other natural sources, has mentored 
people who want to work at climate companies for almost a decade. But 
during the pandemic, more people began reaching out to her and taking an 
interest in her annual list of climate start-ups, she said...
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One effort, Climate Draft, aims to help climate start-ups find advisers, 
investors and employees from the tech industry. More than 3,000 recently 
laid-off tech workers have signed up to learn about jobs at climate 
companies, the company said. Another online community, Work on Climate, 
has ballooned to 16,000 members since it began in 2020. People use it to 
network and learn about jobs.

“Rebuilding every single industry we have is going to require the 
participation of everybody who is in the work force,” said Eugene 
Kirpichov, a former engineer at Google who helped found Work on Climate.

Diego Saez Gil, a founder of Pachama, a company that funds reforestation 
and sells carbon credits, said he had recently hired people from Meta, 
Google, Amazon, Airbnb and Tesla, with some even taking pay cuts to 
join. That’s a change from his past start-ups, where he found it tough 
to recruit people from big tech companies who would take pay cuts.

“The people coming to climate are missionaries,” he said. “They had some 
kind of awakening. They came to realize, ‘The planet is falling apart, 
and I’m working on making people click on ads.’”
That was what happened to Bryan Nella, 47, an account manager who has 
worked in tech for more than two decades. When pandemic shutdowns 
briefly cleared the skies of plane and car pollution, he reflected on 
his impact on society and the environment.

Last year, Mr. Nella joined SemiCab, a start-up that helps trucking 
companies eliminate miles driven with no cargo. He usually ignored calls 
from recruiters, he said, but felt inspired by SemiCab’s mission to 
reduce trucking emissions.

“There’s a lot more to feel good about,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/technology/recession-resilient-climate-start-ups-shine-in-tech-downturn.html



/[  author Kim Stanley Robinson 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBu89-vrdEU ]/
*How Things Could Go Right | Kim Stanley Robinson*
Planet: Critical
2.31K subscribers
Jan 25, 2023  #climatecrisis #economiccrisis #politicalcrisis
Kim Stanley Robinson is a science fiction writer and author of the 
acclaimed novel, The Ministry for the Future. Set in the near future, 
this work of climate fiction explores the geopolitical, technological, 
political and economic demands of the climate crisis, imagining how 
nations around the world will respond to its impacts—resulting in the 
destruction and reimagining of the world order.

Stan joins me to discuss the role of writing, of art, of fiction in 
particular in the face of a crisis. He gives a fascinating overview of 
science fiction’s response to the world over the past few decades, 
exploring the role of stories, narrative, and how citizens can both 
grapple with and demand change in their societies.

    00:00 Teaser
    00:23 Intro
    02:50 Why science fiction?
    09:02 Utopias
    11:43 Eco-Fascism
    16:14 Deconstructing Power
    25:18 Story-telling
    33:33 Novel Form
    38:36 The Ministry For The Future
    47:41 The Role of Art
    54:34 Platform
    55:27 Outro

The Ministry for the Future: 
https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBu89-vrdEU

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/[ 30 min audio report -- explained well -- Paul Jay journalism ]/
*Exposing Apocalyptic Economics with Steve Keen*
January 30, 2023
Steve Keen has been exposing the ways mainstream neoclassical 
economists—including winners of the so-called Nobel Prize in Economics— 
have been arriving at their absurdly optimistic numbers regarding 
climate change, and they’re terrifying. In this interview with Colin 
Bruce Anthes, Keen goes through prevalent examples in detail and argues 
that these numbers and the methods behind them must simply be thrown in 
the garbage.
https://blubrry.com/theanalysisnews/93487771/exposing-apocalyptic-economics-with-steve-keen/ 




/[  Oil industry propaganda ]/
*Climate Change Debate is Toxic: Let's listen to the oil companies.*
Transport Evolved
222 views  Jan 30, 2023
Climate change science has been around since the 19th century, and yet 
in the US we're still having a debate about the accuracy of the science. 
Where did that uncertainty come from? And should we believe the oil 
companies when they talk about climate change?
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00:00 - Introduction
00:52 - Support the channel
00:55 - The history of the science
03:09 - Where does the uncertainty come from?
05:48 - The Smoke and Fumes Committee
06:49 - The Executives...and the early results
09:20 - The science really crystalizes
11:07 - The Global Climate Coalition
14:40 - So where does the uncertainty come from?
19:14 - What impacts does uncertainty and disinformation have?
20:23 - The TLDR;
21:52 - Thanks and Credits
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Selected sources
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox....
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/zei...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climat...

The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up 
Climate Change, by Geoff Dembicki
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Presenters: Kate Walton-Elliott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO7KviuUh0Y



/[The news archive - looking back - Baker could have pushed harder from 
within his Republican Party ]/
/*January 31, 1989*/
January 31, 1989: The Los Angeles Times reports:

"Secretary of State James A. Baker III, emphasizing the Bush 
Administration's concern about global environmental problems, said 
Monday that the nations of the world cannot wait for solid scientific 
confirmation of global warming before taking action.

"In the first remarks on global environmental issues by a senior Bush 
Administration official since the inauguration, Baker said that the 
United States and the world must 'focus immediately' on energy 
conservation, reforestation and reductions in harmful chemical emissions.

"'We can probably not afford to wait until all the uncertainties have 
been resolved before we do act. Time will not make the problem go away,' 
Baker told delegates from more than 40 nations to the newly formed 
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."

http://articles.latimes.com/1989-01-31/news/mn-1251_1_global-warming

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/science/joint-effort-urged-to-guard-climate.html 



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