[✔️] March 3, 2023- Global Warming News Digest |

Fri Mar 3 05:50:05 EST 2023

/*March 3, 2023*/

/[  a major disinformation army ]/
*FOX Doesn’t Just Lie About Elections*
When it comes to disinformation, from elections to climate, arguably no 
megaphone has been louder and more influential than FOX, owned by Rupert 
Murdoch.
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The network’s strategic spread of misinformation isn’t isolated to 
elections. Nearly every day FOX and the climate deniers it platforms 
spread “misinformation and false narratives aimed at tanking efforts to 
address the climate crisis,” writes Allison Fisher at Media Matters. 
This ranges from the broad lie that human-caused climate change is not 
heating our planet to the specific conspiracy theory that wind turbines 
are killing whales.

While FOX is a primary driver of climate disinformation, it’s not alone. 
Over the last year, the use of terms like “climate hoax” and “climate 
scam” has surged online. The language and tactics are reminiscent of Big 
Oil’s early propaganda campaigns decades ago to deny the reality of 
climate change and “reposition global warming as theory (not fact).”

FOX’s spread of these lies undermines legitimate news organization’s 
efforts to inform the public on the scientifically agreed upon facts of 
climate change. It also leads news organizations to spend precious 
resources chasing false narratives, including the recent fake 
controversy that the US government planned to ban gas stoves. This is 
not journalism, but it’s what journalism is up against in the 
disinformation age, and it’s confusing audiences and damaging society’s 
ability to act on climate change in time. Research shows that the more 
we hear something, the more likely we are to think it’s true, even if 
we’re presented with facts that correct the record.

While the problem is titanic, journalists are not without the tools to 
do something about it. This includes employing a few common sense 
journalistic practices to avoid spreading dis- and misinformation: Avoid 
false equivalences. Be skeptical of fishy claims and sources. If you 
must report on a lie, don’t repeat it in the headline. And always check 
your facts. When you absolutely must report on a lie, serve up a “truth 
sandwich,” a strategy proposed by UC Berkeley linguistics professor 
George Lakoff, who studies propaganda. The recipe: To counter 
disinformation, state the truth; then refer to the lie, including that 
it’s untrue, and finally, repeat the truth.

Tackling disinformation will take major effort on the part of 
governments, companies, and citizens, but journalism also has a critical 
role to play in stopping its spread. Let’s stay up-to-date on the 
disinformation being rampantly circulated so we can warn audiences 
against it and set the record straight.
https://mailchi.mp/coveringclimatenow/fox-doesnt-just-lie-about-elections?e=d61cfe5aa4

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/[  Disinfo and opinion manipulation battle report  ] /
*Climate disinfo surges in denial, conspiracy comeback*
by Roland LLOYD PARRY
JANUARY 31, 2023
Watchdogs are urging social media platforms to tackle climate 
disinformation.
False information about climate change flourished online over the past 
year, researchers say, with denialist social media posts and conspiracy 
theories surging after US environmental reforms and Elon Musk's Twitter 
takeover.

"What really surprised us this year was to see a resurgence in language 
that is reminiscent of the 1980s: phrases like 'climate hoax' and 
'climate scam' that deny the phenomenon of climate change," said Jennie 
King, head of civic action at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a 
London-based digital research group.
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*Blue-tick deniers*
A quarter of all the strongly climate-sceptic tweets came from just 10 
accounts, including Canadian right-wing populist party leader Maxime 
Bernier and Paul Joseph Watson, editor of conspiracy-theory website 
InfoWars, the City research showed.

CCDH pointed the finger at Musk, who reinstated numerous banned Twitter 
accounts and allowed users to pay for a blue tick—a mark previously 
reserved for accredited "verified" users in the public eye.

"Elon Musk's decision to open up his platform for hate and 
disinformation has led to an explosion in climate disinformation on the 
platform," said Callum Hood, CCDH's head of research.

Musk himself tweeted in August 2022: "I do think global warming is a 
major risk."
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*Conspiracy theories*
An analysis by Advance Democracy seen by AFP found the number of Twitter 
posts "using climate change denialism terms" more than tripled from 2021 
to 2022, reaching over 900,000.

https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2023/climate-sceptic-tweets.jpg
On TikTok, views of videos using hashtags associated with climate change 
denialism increased by 4.9 million, it said.

On YouTube, climate change denial videos got hundreds of thousands of 
views, with searches for them bringing up adverts for climate-denial 
products.
YouTube spokesperson Elena Hernandez told AFP that in response to the 
claim, certain climate-denial ads had been taken down.
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-climate-disinfo-surges-denial-conspiracy.html

/[  David Roberts interview -- 
https://www.volts.wtf/p/taking-carbon-out-of-the-air-and#details ]/
*Taking carbon out of the air and putting it into concrete*
A conversation with Shashank Samala, CEO of Heirloom, and Robert Niven, 
CEO of CarbonCure.
Let me know what you think, and what you’d like to see more of, at 
david at volts.wtf.
Mar 1
A conversation with Shashank Samala, CEO of Heirloom, and Robert Niven, 
CEO of CarbonCure.

Last month saw the announcement of a pioneering project: a company 
called Heirloom Carbon Technologies will capture carbon dioxide from the 
ambient air and then hand it off to a company called CarbonCure 
Technologies, which will inject the CO2 into concrete made by a company 
called Central Concrete. It will mark the first time ever that carbon 
from the air is permanently sequestered in concrete.

Heirloom, with runs the US’s only operating direct air capture (DAC) 
facility, does not use the familiar capture technique that involves 
giant fans. Instead, it binds carbon to exposed rock and then cooks it 
out using electric kilns — and then binds more carbon to the rock, in a 
circular process. It claims the capture is cheaper and more efficient 
than previous methods.

CarbonCure injects the CO2 into a concrete mixer, where it mineralizes, 
becoming permanently captured even if the building using the concrete is 
demolished. In the process, it strengthens the mix, requiring less 
cement and cutting costs.

Direct air capture (DAC) has faced a great deal of skepticism, and 
concrete has the reputation as one of the worst carbon offenders, so 
this project — one of the first that can fairly be called carbon removal 
— could go a long way toward convincing investors that the former can 
help the latter change its ways, with a technology that is, at least 
some day, commercializable.

I talked with Heirloom CEO Shashank Samala and CarbonCure CEO Robert 
Niven about their respective processes, how they work together, and what 
the project says about the future of carbon removal.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/taking-carbon-out-of-the-air-and#details

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/[  their web site ]/
*CarbonCure - **Cleaner Concrete, Better Business*
CarbonCure creates carbon removal technologies to help the concrete 
industry build more efficient businesses and produce cleaner concrete.

    The Mission
    CarbonCure’s vision is to make its concrete technology standard for
    all concrete production across the globe. By realizing the full
    potential of CarbonCure’s portfolio of carbon utilization
    technologies, the goal of saving 500 million tonnes of embodied
    carbon emissions every year could be met—which would be equivalent
    to taking 100 million cars off the road.

https://www.carboncure.com/

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/[ See a brief video  ]/
*“CarbonCure Explainer Video for US Producers” from CarbonCure on Vimeo.*
The video is available for your viewing pleasure at 
https://vimeo.com/545545190

/[ interesting to see this on FOX first   "I planned every day very 
thoroughly to find the next place with electricity." ] /
*Solo woman first to ride across Africa on an electric motorcycle*
Sinje Gottwald had previously circumnavigated the globe
By Gary Gastelu | Fox News

A lot of people are still wary about taking a long trip with an electric 
vehicle, but Sinje Gottwald isn’t one of them.
Last month, the German adventurer completed a 124-day solo ride across 
the length of Africa on an electric motorcycle.
And you might say it was a piece of … cake.
https://www.foxnews.com/auto/solo-woman-first-ride-africa-electric-motorcycle

/[ philosophy "Hydrocarbon Oligarchy" global warming video   ]/
*Is Democracy Doomed? The Global Fight for Our Future | Timothy Snyder | 
TED*
TED
Feb 8, 2023  #TEDTalks #TED #democracy
If you think democracy is some kind of inevitable, default setting for 
the world, then you aren't going to have it for very long, says 
historian and author Timothy Snyder. From World War I to the Russian 
invasion of Ukraine, Snyder dives into the structures that uplift and 
tear down political systems, offering a historical perspective on the 
current state of democracy around the world as well as the patterns of 
thought that lead to tyranny. Learn more about a new approach to 
democracy that could help create and protect a future of freedom.

This conversation, hosted by TED current affairs curator Whitney 
Pennington Rodgers, was part of an exclusive TED Membership event. Visit 
http://www.ted.com/membership to become a TED Member.
https://youtu.be/YY6LCOJbve8?t=1422
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY6LCOJbve8

/[ Inside Climate News  ]/
*As Emissions From Agriculture Rise and Climate Change Batters American 
Farms, Congress Tackles the Farm Bill*
The legislation represents a major chance to tackle emissions, but some 
lawmakers vow to keep climate measures out. Advocates call for more 
climate-focused conservation.
By Georgina Gustin
March 1, 2023
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On Wednesday, the Senate Agriculture committee is holding a hearing on 
the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) conservation programs, which 
advocacy groups say represent agriculture’s best hope for tackling 
climate change. In advance of the hearing, nearly 650 farm, 
environmental and policy groups called for Congressional leaders to 
focus on conservation funding.
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In the five years since the last Farm Bill was signed by then President 
Donald Trump, a lot has changed. The country’s farmers have been 
battered by a series of major storms, floods and droughts, and have 
watched as growing seasons have become longer, hotter and wetter.

After all the extreme weather, more farmers have come to accept that 
climate change is, indeed, real, despite long-standing convictions to 
the contrary. The American Farm Bureau Federation, the country’s most 
powerful agribusiness lobbying group, had formally rejected the science 
on climate change in its policy positions.

But even the Farm Bureau has pivoted, most notably in its embrace of 
voluntary carbon trading markets, in which farmers are being paid to 
sequester carbon in their soils.

“This is very different from the 2018 Farm Bill. Since then, Congress 
has, by and large, admitted that climate change is real and it’s 
affecting farmers,” Lavender said. “We’re in a vastly different 
political moment.”

Some left-leaning and environmentally focused farm advocacy groups, 
including NSAC and its members, say their biggest priority for the 
legislation is to boost funding for the USDA’s existing conservation 
programs. The two most popular are the Environmental Quality Incentives 
Program and the Conservation Stewardship Program, both of which are 
oversubscribed year after year. Advocates say these represent the best 
opportunity for farmers to control greenhouse gas emissions...
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The “Food Not Feed Summit” in Washington, where Booker spoke, was 
organized by Farm Action, a relatively new advocacy group that’s pushing 
against increasing consolidation in the agriculture industry.

Taxpayer-funded subsidies for crop insurance, they argue, are one of the 
biggest drivers of that concentration. From a climate perspective, they 
say, these larger, consolidated players farm in more emissions-intensive 
ways, but also make it increasingly difficult for smaller-scale growers 
to thrive—or exist at all. ...
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The current farm bill expires at the end of September. Until then the 
agriculture committees will wrangle over the legislation, with some 
Republicans calling for broad cuts to a number of programs and vowing to 
ensure that the “farm bill doesn’t become the climate bill,” while 
Democrats push to make bolster farm programs that address the climate 
crisis.

The usually bipartisan bill faces a potentially bumpy passage in a 
divided Congress, with roughly 40 percent of House members new and 
unfamiliar with farm policy.

Next week, though, small farm groups, led by NSAC, will head to the Hill 
after their march on the mall to educate them.

“Farming has changed dramatically in the last 50 years and how we farm 
in the next 50 years will change even more dramatically as farmers adapt 
to extreme weather,” Faber said. “Booker is right. The moment is right.”
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01032023/farm-bill-climate-change/

/[  Common Sense opinion  ]/
*Overconsumption by the rich must be tackled, says acting UN 
biodiversity chief*
Wealthy countries and businesses should act now to ensure success of 
historic nature agreement signed at Cop15 in Montreal
Patrick Greenfield
@pgreenfielduk
Thu 2 Mar 2023
Governments and businesses must start implementing this decade’s deal to 
halt the destruction of Earth’s ecosystems as soon as possible, the 
acting UN biodiversity chief has said, urging rich nations to tackle 
overconsumption of the planet’s resources...
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Some scientists believe humans are causing Earth’s sixth mass extinction 
event due to overconsumption and pollution, driving the largest loss of 
life since the time of the dinosaurs. Despite the scientific warnings, 
governments have never met a UN biodiversity target they have set for 
themselves and there is a major effort to make sure this decade is 
different...
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“Businesses, particularly large and transnational businesses, need to 
properly account for their impacts on biodiversity, as well as their 
dependency on it. Having to disclose those impacts obviously puts 
pressure internally and externally on them. It’s potentially really 
important,” said Cooper, who added that rich countries and wealthy 
people had a special responsibility to make the deal a success.

“Those of us in richer countries, especially richer people in rich 
countries, need to be looking at their own footprint. On a planet with 
limited resources, excess overconsumption by the rich in particular has 
to be limited, otherwise it just doesn’t add up,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/02/overconsumption-by-rich-must-be-tackled-says-acting-un-biodiversity-chief-aoe

/[The news archive - looking back at one of the biggest opinion 
manipulation scams - many sources of this information taken down ]/
/*March 3, 2003*/
March 3, 2003: The Guardian reports on GOP operative Frank Luntz's 
infamous memo urging Republicans to place renewed emphasis on alleged 
"uncertainties" in climate science, to dull public support for efforts 
to stem carbon pollution.

    *Memo exposes Bush's new green strategy*
    Oliver Burkeman in Washington
    @oliverburkeman
    Mon 3 Mar 2003

    The US Republican party is changing tactics on the environment,
    avoiding "frightening" phrases such as global warming, after a
    confidential party memo warned that it is the domestic issue on
    which George Bush is most vulnerable.

    The memo, by the leading Republican consultant Frank Luntz, concedes
    the party has "lost the environmental communications battle" and
    urges its politicians to encourage the public in the view that there
    is no scientific consensus on the dangers of greenhouse gases.

    "The scientific debate is closing [against us] but not yet closed.
    There is still a window of opportunity to challenge the science," Mr
    Luntz writes in the memo, obtained by the Environmental Working
    Group, a Washington-based campaigning organisation.

    "Voters believe that there is no consensus about global warming
    within the scientific community. Should the public come to believe
    that the scientific issues are settled, their views about global
    warming will change accordingly.

    "Therefore, you need to continue to make the lack of scientific
    certainty a primary issue in the debate."

    The phrase "global warming" should be abandoned in favour of
    "climate change", Mr Luntz says, and the party should describe its
    policies as "conservationist" instead of "environmentalist", because
    "most people" think environmentalists are "extremists" who indulge
    in "some pretty bizarre behaviour... that turns off many voters".

    Words such as "common sense" should be used, with pro-business
    arguments avoided wherever possible.

    The environment, the memo says, "is probably the single issue on
    which Republicans in general - and President Bush in particular -
    are most vulnerable".

    A Republican source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said party
    strategists agreed with Mr Luntz's conclusion that "many Americans
    believe Republicans do not care about the environment".

    The popular image is that they are "in the pockets of corporate fat
    cats who rub their hands together and chuckle manically [sic] as
    they plot to pollute America for fun and profit", Mr Luntz adds.

    The phrase "global warming" appeared frequently in President Bush's
    speeches in 2001, but decreased to almost nothing during 2002, when
    the memo was produced.

    Environmentalists have accused the party and oil companies of
    helping to promulgate the view that serious doubt remains about the
    effects of global warming.

    Last week, a panel of experts appointed at the Bush administration's
    request to analyse the president's climate change strategy found
    that it lacked "vision, executable goals, clear timetables and
    criteria for measuring progress".

    "Rather than focusing on the things we don't know, it's almost as if
    parts of the plan were written by people who are totally unfamiliar
    with where ecosystems science is coming from," panel member William
    Schlesinger told the Guardian.

    Mr Luntz urges Republicans to "emphasise the importance of 'acting
    only with all the facts in hand'", in line with the White House
    position that mandatory restrictions on emissions, as required by
    the Kyoto protocol, should not be countenanced until further
    research is undertaken.

    The memo singles out as a major strategic failure the incoming Bush
    administration's response to Bill Clinton's last-minute executive
    order reducing the permitted level of arsenic in drinking water from
    50 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion.

    The new administration put the plan on hold, prompting "the biggest
    public relations misfire of President Bush's first year in office",
    Mr Luntz writes. The perception was that Mr Bush "was actively
    putting in more arsenic in the water".

    "A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more
    emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth," Mr Luntz
    notes in the memo.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2003/mar/04/usnews.climatechange

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