[✔️] March 14, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Drilling breaks a promise, McKibben, electric grid and batteries, radical actions.

[R.Pauli]

/*March 14, 2023*/

/[  NYTimes ]/
*Biden Administration Approves Huge Alaska Oil Project*
The administration also announced new limits on Arctic drilling in an 
apparent effort to temper criticism over the $8 billion Willow oil 
project, which has faced sharp opposition...
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Oil industry officials criticized the planned Arctic protections.

“In the current energy crisis, the Biden administration should be 
focused on strengthening U.S. energy security and standing with the 
working families of Alaska by supporting the responsible development of 
federal lands and waters — not acting to restrict it,” said Frank 
Macchiarola, senior vice president of policy at the American Petroleum 
Institute, a trade organization.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/12/climate/biden-willow-arctic-drilling-restrictions.html

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/[ McKibben slams Biden ]/
*A Run on the Planet*
There's more ways than one for a bank to fail
Bill McKibben
Mar 13
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To give just the most timely example, Conoco Phillips, which has 
received $10 billion from those four banks since the Paris climate 
accords were signed, won federal approval today for a vast new oil 
complex in the Alaska wilderness. This was a savage mistake by the Biden 
administration, which hopes for a small political boost as it mulls a 
re-election bid. But it was also a mistake by the banks, though they win 
a not-insubstantial profit on such loans.

That’s because the very slightly longer-term cost is enormous. For 
Biden, he’s diminished dramatically his standing as a climate champion, 
because the Willow project will pour carbon into the air for many 
decades to come.  Here’s Ellen Montgomery of Environment America:

The Willow Project would extract 500 million barrels of petroleum and 
release annual emissions equivalent of 76 new coal fired power plants 
operating in a single year.

And the banks? Well, they further undermine the planet’s environment, 
upon which all else depends. Including the economy—which is a subset of 
the earth, and not the other way around.
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-run-on-the-planet

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/[ Biden broke a serious promise - video report and clear record  ]/
*Climate & Indigenous Activists Decry Reports Biden Will Approve Willow 
Oil Drilling Arctic Project*
Democracy Now!
Mar 13, 2023  Latest Shows
The Biden administration is reportedly set to approve a massive oil and 
gas development in Alaska known as the Willow project, despite 
widespread opposition from environmental and conservation groups that 
argue Willow will amount to a carbon bomb. The administration also 
announced Sunday it will ban future oil and gas leasing for 3 million 
acres of federal waters in the Arctic Ocean and will limit drilling in a 
further 13 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska’s 
North Slope. For more, we speak with Siqiñiq Maupin, executive director 
of Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic, who says Willow would 
undermine Biden’s larger climate goals. “This project would emit so much 
carbon, it would actually double the amount that Biden had promised he 
would reduce,” they say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VonJfBgHUSA

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/[ and not very smart  ]/
*Drilling for Alaskan Oil May Be Good Politics, But It Still Ends Badly 
for Everyone*
The ocean, the storms, the droughts—none of that cares about your 
political prowess.
By Charles P. Pierce
MAR 13, 2023

It is axiomatic here at the shebeen that the ocean doesn't give a damn 
who wins the political debate over whether the climate crisis exists or 
what steps should be taken to mitigate it. The ocean doesn't give a damn 
about rich or poor. It will find a luxury beach house as tasty as a 
fishing shack.

A decade or so ago, I spent a week in Shishmaref, the barrier island in 
Alaska that is slowly being eroded into an inlet or bay in the Chukchi 
Sea. There are famous pictures of buildings there that are hanging over 
the edge of cliffs that were not cliffs 50 years ago.
The ocean doesn't give a damn, and that village of indigenous 
subsistence hunters are finding it difficult to…well, subsist amid what 
the climate crisis is doing to them. In that, there is no difference in 
the fishing shacks of Shishmaref and the luxurious vacation homes along 
Cape Hatteras. The ocean doesn't care. From the Washington Post:

    Wave after wave, the ocean had clawed away at the beach until the
    stilted homes finally gave way. The collapses spread debris — and
    anxiety — for more than a dozen miles along the Cape Hatteras
    National Seashore. A video that captured one house surrendering to
    the surf in May went viral, bringing national attention to the
    urgency of the problem along this scenic stretch of coast[...]At
    least a dozen more houses in Rodanthe remain in serious danger of
    falling into the ocean. Faced with shrinking options, numerous
    homeowners are scrambling to move their homes — at a cost of
    hundreds of thousands of dollars — further from the tides that seem
    to creep ever closer. They have filed permits, lined up contractors
    and teamed up with neighbors, all in a bid to buy more time from the
    encroaching sea.

Good luck with that. The beach in Shishmaref is littered with the 
wreckage of generations of failed seawalls, like military equipment 
abandoned in the field by a retreating army. The pictures that accompany 
the Post story look exactly like the famous pictures from Shishmaref, 
except the imperiled houses are bigger and fancier. The ocean doesn't care.

There is one reason—and one reason alone—why all this is occurring: our 
continued reliance on fossil fuels. Which is why the president's latest 
energy tradeoff bill seems so predictably awful. From The New York Times:

    The Biden administration gave formal approval Monday for a huge oil
    drilling project in Alaska known as Willow, despite widespread
    opposition because of its likely environmental and climate impacts.
    The president is also expected to announce sweeping restrictions on
    offshore oil leasing in the Arctic Ocean and across Alaska’s North
    Slope in an apparent effort to temper criticism over the Willow
    decision and, as one administration official put it, to form a
    “firewall” to limit future oil leases in the region. The Interior
    Department said it would issue new rules to block oil and gas leases
    on more than 13 million of the 23 million acres that form the
    National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska.

I'm sure this is a shrewd political maneuver, and more than a few folks 
in the White House Office of Political Affairs have earned their pay 
this week. The problem is that the magnitude of the crisis makes 
political skill completely irrelevant. I increasingly wonder if our 
political system can handle what's coming. Because the ocean doesn't care.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a43298261/biden-alaska-drilling-climate-change/


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/[  Just have a think - tech commentary  12 min video ] /
*Can the electric grid ruin your EV battery?*
Just Have a Think
32,356 views  Mar 12, 2023
Electric vehicles are apparently on the cusp of an exponential growth 
curve that will see hundreds of millions of them on our roads by 
mid-century. But how will our electricity grids cope? Will EVs cause 
regular meltdowns? Will the constant sharing of electrons wreck your 
very expensive battery? Or, could they actually be a beneficial addition?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMeIWGTIXsg



/[ Radical action - and property violence - and the language of politics ]/
*What It Really Takes To Save the Planet*
Our Changing Climate
40,557 views  Mar 10, 2023  #globalwarming #climatechange #protest
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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at what 
it really takes to save the planet. Specifically, I look at the role of 
fossil fuel infrastructure sabotage in the climate movement. I weigh 
whether property destruction and sabotage are useful strategies for the 
broader climate action movement. The video lends some historical context 
to a possible climate sabotage wing and examines the radical flank effect.

For this video, I leaned heavily on Andreas Malm's "How To Blow Up A 
Pipeline": https://www.versobooks.com/books/3665...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu_mUYi9Ptk

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[ radical book]
*How to Blow Up a Pipeline *Paperback –
by Andreas Malm  (Author)
4.4 out of 5 stars    295 ratings
Property will cost us the earth

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. 
Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition 
campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming 
fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising 
temperature. With the stakes so high, why haven't we moved beyond 
peaceful protest?

In this lyrical manifesto, noted climate scholar (and saboteur of SUV 
tires and coal mines) Andreas Malm makes an impassioned call for the 
climate movement to escalate its tactics in the face of ecological 
collapse. We need, he argues, to force fossil fuel extraction to 
stop--with our actions, with our bodies, and by defusing and destroying 
its tools. We need, in short, to start blowing up some oil pipelines.

Offering a counter-history of how mass popular change has occurred, from 
the democratic revolutions overthrowing dictators to the movement 
against apartheid and for women's suffrage, Malm argues that the 
strategic acceptance of property destruction and violence has been the 
only route for revolutionary change. In a braided narrative that moves 
from the forests of Germany and the streets of London to the deserts of 
Iraq, Malm offers us an incisive discussion of the politics and ethics 
of pacifism and violence, democracy and social change, strategy and 
tactics, and a movement compelled by both the heart and the mind. Here 
is how we fight in a world on fire.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Blow-Pipeline-Andreas-Malm/dp/1839760257/ref=sr_1_1 


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/[ _White Skin, Black Fuel _-- Andre Malm et al, video interviews ]/
*On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism, w Andreas Malm, Laudy van den Heuvel, 
Anoushka Carter, Ash Sarkar*
housmansbookshop
Jun 7, 2021
White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Dangers of Fossil Fascism  – with Andreas 
Malm, Laudy van den Heuvel and Anoushka Zoob Carter in conversation with 
Ash Sarkar

What does the rise of the far right mean for the battle against climate 
change?

Housmans is pleased to welcome Andreas Malm and Laudy van den Heuvel and 
Anoushka Zoob Carter from the Zetkin Collective to discuss White Skin, 
Black Fuel, the first study of the far right’s role in the climate crisis.

Fossil-fuelled technologies were born steeped in racism. White Skin, 
Black Fuel presents an eye-opening sweep of a novel political 
constellation, revealing its deep historical roots. No one loved them 
more passionately than the classical fascists. Now right-wing forces 
have risen to the surface, some professing to have the solution—closing 
borders to save the nation as the climate breaks down.

Andreas, Laudy and Anoushka will be in conversation with Ash Sarkar, 
senior editor at Novara Media.

Speakers  Andreas Malm is a scholar of human ecology, and the author of 
The Progress of this Storm and of Fossil Capital, which won the Isaac 
and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Laudy van den Heuvel is a Dutch investigative journalist focusing on 
conspirituality, libertarianism and health.

Anoushka Zoob Carter is a researcher based at the University of Sussex, 
exploring the nexus between land, food and right-wing politics.

Laudy and Anoushka are part of the Zetkin Collective, a group of 
scholars, activists and students working on the political ecology of the 
far right.

Ash Sarkar is a senior editor at Novara Media, and lectures in political 
theory at the Sandberg Instituut.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV4ytAGmpDE



/[The news archive - looking back at a projection learned 11 years ago]/
/*March 14, 2012*/
March 14, 2012: "NBC Nightly News" reports on the risk of rising sea 
levels.

Nightly News - Rising Sea Levels Could Put Millions At Risk By 2030 
3-14-2012

showmethetruth74
Mar 14, 2012

http://youtu.be/DSy2UCNwchM


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