[✔️] July 12, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Heat dangers, why denial persists, Geology cram course, Cosmos summary James Webb telescope, Societal collapse book, 2013 USA Today

Wed Jul 12 08:52:44 EDT 2023

/*July*//*12, 2023*/

/[ PBS on heat dangers -  it would be smart to view this //6 minute 
video//]/
*Why extreme heat is more dangerous than many realize*
PBS NewsHour
Jul 11, 2023
Tens of millions of people living in the Southwest are dealing with what 
the National Weather Service says it's one of the longest heat waves in 
modern record. That extreme heat is even more dangerous than some might 
realize. Geoff Bennett discussed that with Jeff Goodell, a climate 
journalist and author of "The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death 
on a Scorched Planet."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoROem_vKA

/[  DW News ]/
*Why is climate denial still thriving online?*
Stuart Braun
July 11, 2023
An extreme global heatwave has been blamed on climate change, yet online 
misinformation has evolved to counter the facts — despite platforms like 
TikTok banning climate denial.

Record global temperatures on July 3 kicked off the hottest week ever 
recorded as intense heatwaves gripped the planet. Climate scientist 
Friederike Otto of London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change and 
the Environment called the heat "a death sentence for people and 
ecosystems."

Yet the next day, a political journalist in the UK, Isabel Oakeshott, 
tweeted that "climate change headbangers panicking about a few hot days 
last month can calm down … It's 13 degrees and pouring." She added that 
she was "about to light the woodburner." Within a day, over 2.2 million 
people had seen the tweet.

Oakeshott, a presenter on the conservative TalkTV news channel and 
former editor of the Sunday Times, often comments on Twitter about 
"climate change nuts." On July 5, she asked "where's Greta when it's 
woolly jumpers in July?"

Amid the worst heatwaves ever recorded in the US, China, Mexico, Siberia 
and beyond, and near-unanimous scientific consensus that humans have 
induced global heating — in large part by burning fossil fuels — how 
does such denial continue to flourish?

The largest global survey on climate change opinion published in 2021 
showed that nearly 65% of people across diverse age ranges in over 50 
countries believe this crisis is a "global emergency," yet researchers 
have shown a recent resurgence in skepticism and denial...
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*Casting doubt on climate solutions*
An anecdotal look at DW's own Planet A TikTok channel shows comments 
that peddle outright denial, but also question solutions such as the 
transition to clean energy.

"Climate change is not real. It's just about the money. This is sad that 
you scared children. You should be ashamed of yourself," wrote one user 
after DW posted a video about young activists suing the state of Montana 
for not doing enough about the climate crisis.

"So how are they going to charge their EVs when there is no 
electricity?" another wrote, implying that renewable energy is not a 
reliable power source — despite wind and solar being the cheapest and 
fastest-growing forms of energy.

These are old rhetorical tricks that today are targeted less at climate 
science than solutions, says John Cook, a climatologist and senior 
research fellow at the University of Melbourne, and author of the 
Skeptical Science blog that has long debunked climate misinformation. 
The idea that "solutions will be harmful" or "solutions won't work" is a 
repackaging of old attacks on the cost of climate action from the 1990s, 
he added.

"The goal posts have moved," said Callum Hood, head of research at the 
global Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). Climate denial now 
employs deflection and "sows doubt" to ultimately delay the energy 
transition. The logic runs that "doing something is worse than doing 
nothing," Hood explained, referring also to the notion of "climate 
inactivism" coined by climate researcher and author Michael Mann.
*
**Amplifying climate misinformation online*
"There are clear vulnerabilities in the way social media platforms are 
designed and governed at present which allows such content to rise to 
the surface," said Jennie King, head of climate research & policy at the 
Institute of Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a global think tank researching 
extremism and disinformation.

These platforms have been constructed with a "algorithmic bias" that 
create "echo chambers" to make users "susceptible to consume, accept and 
spread misinformation," explained Kathie Treen of the University of 
Exeter, and co-author of a 2020 article on online misinformation and 
climate change.

But what is the source of this misinformation? Ten "superpolluter” 
publishers, among them Russian state media and right wing US news site, 
Breitbart, are the source of 69% of interactions with climate denial 
content on Facebook. according to a study by the CCDH. These "toxic ten" 
publish overt climate denial and amplifies it on Facebook to "prevent 
consensus on facts and solutions," noted the report.

This is possible because Facebook has failed to enforce a 2021 promise 
to label posts featuring climate denial with links to correct 
information, notes the report's co-author Callum Hood. Just 8% of the 
most popular posts on Facebook containing the toxic ten's misinformation 
carried labels.

And Google further amplifies this content.

"Google promised it would not monetize climate denial," Hood said. 
However, the big tech company paid out $3.6 million in ad revenue to the 
"toxic ten" over six months as they peddled climate denial.

Meanwhile, researchers have revealed that "fossil fuel sector-linked 
entities" paid Meta (which owns social media platforms Facebook, 
Instagram and WhatsApp) around $4 million for ads in the lead-up to the 
COP 27 UN climate talks.

The goal was "to spread false, misleading claims on the climate crisis, 
net-zero targets and necessity of fossil fuels prior to and during 
COP27," noted a report by the Climate Action Against Disinformation 
(CAAD), a global research coalition. A majority of these were from 
Energy Citizens, a PR group of peak oil lobby, the American Petroleum 
Institute.

*COVID-19 and Ukraine war drive climate misinformation*
"Misinformation thrives in moments of crisis," said Jennie King of 
intersecting health, cost of living, energy and inflation crises in 
recent years.

What she has called "a global ecosystem for disinformation" has been 
exacerbated by "historic wealth inequality" and an "historic erosion of 
trust in institutions.”

The weaponization of "genuine trauma" was evident in the first waves of 
the pandemic when the term "climate lockdown” emerged across social 
media, promotors claiming the lockdown was a dress rehearsal for a 
coming wave of "green tyranny," King explained.

Typical of an online climate denial resurgence, she added, is the 
hashtag #ClimateScam, which inexplicably became the top result when 
users searched for climate on Twitter in mid-2022 — owner Elon Musk has 
since been implicated in climate misinformation.

Exploiting the cost of living and energy crisis linked to Russia's 
invasion of Ukraine, while de-prioritizing concerns regarding the 
climate crisis, has been a tried and tested strategy of pro-fossil fuel 
political parties, including Germany's far right AfD (Alternative for 
Germany).

On July 3, the co-chairwoman of the party that has risen sharply in 
national polls, Alice Wiedel, said the German government's energy 
transition plans will cause widespread poverty, and that converting home 
heating from gas to renewable energy was equivalent to a "massacre."
*Fighting online climate denial*
Like Facebook, TikTok promised to ban climate denial content in April. 
But Jennie King says such attempts at content moderation are "crude" and 
"unenforceable," adding that "it is not criminal to deny climate change."

The ultimate solution would be to "demonetize" climate denial, she 
believes, something big tech companies have so far largely failed to do.

John Cook, meanwhile, has long advocated for "pre-emptive inoculating 
messages" that neutralize what he calls "climate disbeliefs" by 
explaining "the flawed argumentation technique used in the 
misinformation," and that reinforce the scientific consensus on climate 
change.

"There is no silver bullet when it comes to the fight against climate 
misinformation, and a multi-faceted approach is needed, including 
education, inoculation, correction, and actions by the platforms," said 
Kathie Treen.

https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-climate-denial-still-thriving-online/a-66159857

/[ This is a Geo-Glorious passel of college courses skillfully presented 
by the queen of geology - a crash course on global warming science -- 
Planet Earth as chemical experiment -- 50 min video 
https://youtu.be/J9Te_sGZ_c0 ]/
*How We Know What Happened in Earth's Past, like Ancient Climate, 
Geology, & Extinctions | GEO GIRL*
GEO GIRL
Jul 9, 2023
We reconstruct Earth's ancient past using physical, chemical, and/or 
biological signatures preserved in rocks, called proxies. From such 
proxies, we are able to reconstruct ancient climate trends, like 
temperature, atmospheric composition, ocean chemistry, oxygen levels, 
carbon dioxide levels, mountain chain positions, elevations, plate 
tectonic events, volanic eruption events, earthquakes, wildfires, ocean 
anoxic events, impact events, glacial expansions and contractions, sea 
level rise and fall, etc. as well as biological events, like 
evolutionary and extinction events. In the many Earth history videos on 
my channel, I go over such events, but in this video, I go over what 
kind of proxies we use to reconstruct such ancient events and 
conditions! I know this video is long, so I broke it into sections, 
which cover physical proxies, chemical proxies, & biological proxies, 
respectively. I also included chapters listed below and on the timebar 
of the video for you to use if you'd like to skip to a specific section. 
Hope you enjoy! ;)

References:
Zachos et al., 2001- Trends, rhythms, and aberrations in global climate 
65 Ma to present: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1059412
McElwain & Punyasena, 2007- Mass extinction events and the plant fossil 
record: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2007.0...
Falkowski et al., 2005- The rise of oxygen over the past 205 million 
years and the evolution of large placental mammals: 
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1116047
Hayes, 2001- Fractionation of the isotopes of carbon and hydrogen in 
biosynthetic processes. Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry: 
https://doi.org/10.2138/gsrmg.43.1.225
Delano, 2001- Redox history of the Earth's interior since ∼ 3900 Ma: 
Implications for prebiotic molecules: 
https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011895600380
USGS Article: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/climate....

    0:00 How we reconstruct Earth’s past
    5:22 Why we study Earth’s past
    7:17 How paleoclimate proxies work
    9:09 Physical proxies
    17:18 Chemical proxies
    18:02 Stable isotope chemical proxies
    20:53 Carbon isotope example
    24:29 Oxygen isotope example
    29:27 Sulfur isotope example
    33:49 Trace element chemical proxies
    38:01 Biochemical proxies (biomarkers)
    40:23 Biological proxies (fossils)
    41:07 Terrestrial biological proxies
    42:48 Aquatic biological proxies
    48:10 Honorable mention proxies

GEO GIRL Website: https://www.geogirlscience.com/ (visit my website to 
see all my courses, shop merch, learn more about me, & donate to support 
the channel if you'd like!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Te_sGZ_c0

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/[ Learning more about planets ]/
*Revealing the Cosmos: A Startling New View from the James Webb Space 
Telescope*
World Science Festival
Jul 7, 2023  #Telescope #BrianGreene #JWST
#JWST #Telescope #BrianGreene
Breathtaking images from the James Webb Space Telescope are providing 
new clues about the formation of stars, galaxies, and even the universe 
itself, while also raising tantalizing mysteries. Nobel Laureate John 
Mather, the Webb Telescope's chief scientist, joins Brian Greene and 
other leading astronomers and astrophysicists to discuss the latest 
findings and grapple with some of the deep puzzles that are emerging 
from the telescope's remarkable new images.

This program is part of the Big Ideas series, supported by the John 
Templeton Foundation.

The live program was presented at the 2023 World Science Festival 
Brisbane, hosted by the Queensland Museum.

    Panelists:
    Michele Bannister
    Jessie Christiansen
    Karl Glazebrook
    John Mather
    Stefanie Milam
    Benjamin Pope
    Moderator:
    Brian Greene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcWEYDddJ7Q

/[ new book predicts centuries of disintegration and integration - see 
the video interview with author 
//https://www.youtube.com/live/XGhBTKzrJEY ]/
*Understanding Societal Collapse with Complexity Scientist Peter Turchin*
The Conduit
Streamed live on Jun 7, 2023 #SocietalCollapse #PoliticalTurbulence
What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? Is there any 
way to stop history repeating itself today? Peter Turchin has mined 
10,000 years of data to find the answer.

Peter Turchin has pioneered a new science of making history predictable 
- by applying methods that had already succeeded in other complex 
fields. You'll want to know what he sees lying ahead, and what we can do 
about it.

In this live event, he will present a ground-breaking account of how 
human societies work, explaining how, when the shifting balance of power 
between the ruling class and the majority tips too far in favour of 
elites, elite overproduction leads to state breakdown. It happened in 
imperial China, in medieval France, in the American Civil War - and it 
is happening now.
https://www.youtube.com/live/XGhBTKzrJEY

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

/[The news archive - looking back]/
/*July 12, 2013 */
July 12, 2013: USA Today reports:

    "U.S. energy supplies will likely face more severe disruptions
    because of climate change and extreme weather, which have already
    caused blackouts and lowered production at power plants, a
    government report warned Thursday.

    "What's driving these vulnerabilities? Rising temperatures, up 1.5
    degrees Fahrenheit in the last century, and the resulting sea level
    rise, which are accompanied by drought, heat waves, storms and
    wildfires, according to the U.S. Department of Energy."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/11/climate-change-energy-disruptions/2508789/

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