[✔️] May 1, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Historic disinformation battle

Mon May 1 09:57:23 EDT 2023

/*May*//*1, 2023*/

/[ Everywhere there are noisy and polluting nemesis machines ]/
*Gas leaf blowers and lawn mowers are shockingly bad for the planet. 
Bans are beginning to spread.*
Advocates say using a commercial gas leaf blower for an hour produces 
emissions equal to driving from Denver to Los Angeles.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/04/30/gas-leaf-blower-mower-bans-spread-us-fight-climate-change/11746893002/

/[ Author Mark Lynas talks about the impact of each degree 1-6 C]/
*Mark Lynas: Don't Look Up: Is Climate Change an Extinction-Level Event?*
CSER Cambridge
Feb 4, 2022
Mark Lynas - "Don't Look Up: Is Climate Change an Extinction-Level 
Event?" (1 February 2022, CSER Public Lecture, University of Cambridge)

In the movie Don't Look Up, humanity dithers when faced with an 
extinction-level threat from a comet and is wiped out. Designed 
explicitly as an analogy for what the moviemakers see as our collective 
lack of response to the existential risk of climate change, how accurate 
is this comparison? Mark Lynas, the climate author who has recently 
released an updated version of his award-winning book Six Degrees, 
reviews the latest evidence as to whether climate breakdown can be 
considered a planetary-scale extinction threat and whether human 
civilisation or even humanity as a species it significantly at risk this 
century.

Mark Lynas is the author of several books on the environment, including 
High Tide, Six Degrees, The God Species, Nuclear 2.0 and Seeds of 
Science. His most recent publication, in June 2020, was ‘Our Final 
Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency’. This is an entirely new 
update of the original 2007 Six Degrees which won the prestigious Royal 
Society science books prize. The original Six Degrees was translated 
into 22 languages and was also adapted into a documentary broadcast on 
the National Geographic Channel. He also received the Breakthrough 
Paradigm Award in 2012.
He advises former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed on climate, and 
works with the 48-member Climate Vulnerable Forum in this capacity.  
Mark is currently a visiting fellow with the Cornell Alliance for 
Science at Cornell University, which engages in pro-science advocacy and 
research around the world on issues ranging from GMOs to vaccines to 
climate. He has written for numerous publications, including the New 
York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian 
and CNN.com.

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) is an 
interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Cambridge 
dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human 
extinction or civilisational collapse. For more information, please 
visit our website:
https://www.cser.ac.uk
https://twitter.com/CSERCambridge
https://www.facebook.com/CSERCambridge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gc3GHDJM9Q

/[The news archive - looking back at two famous disinformation battles]/
/*May 1, 1998*/
May 1, 1998: The AP reports on a bogus petition allegedly claiming that 
15,000 scientists reject the evidence of human-caused climate change.
http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?slug=2748308&date=19980501

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/[ Key video shows the information deception - report from Peter Sinclair]/
*32000 Scientists *
greenman3610 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2XVILHUjQ

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/[ In all the historical battles of misinformation - t//his is a great 
//one]/
*Jokers Add Fake Names To Warming Petition*
May 1, 1998
H. Josef Hebert
AP
WASHINGTON - It was touted as a collection of thousands of scientists 
debunking global warming. So was that Perry Mason on the list? And John 
Grisham? What about that Spice Girl?

The petition with 15,000 signatures surfaced shortly before the April 22 
Earth Day and quickly became music to global warming's critics. They 
highlighted it in news releases, at congressional hearings, even on the 
Senate floor.

The work of a chemist at a small research institute in Oregon, the 
petition of scientists - and some nonscientists, it turned out - has 
become the center of the latest furor in a contentious debate over 
whether human activity is changing the earth's climate.

Arthur Robinson, a physical chemist from Cave Junction, Ore., who 
circulated the petition by mail among scientists, said questionable 
names were added to the petition by pranksters.

The petition urges rejection of the accord signed last year in Kyoto, 
Japan, which sets procedures for dramatically lowering carbon dioxide 
emissions - the principal greenhouse gas. The petition maintains the 
growth of carbon-dioxide emissions, in fact, may be beneficial to plants 
and humans.

While the petition has been portrayed by global-warming skeptics as 
authoritative evidence that many scientists reject the catastrophic 
scenario of global climate change, Robinson acknowledged that little 
attempt was done to verify credentials of those who responded.

Several environmental groups questioned dozens of the names: "Perry S. 
Mason" (the fictitious lawyer?), "Michael J. Fox" (the actor?), "Robert 
C. Byrd" (the senator?), "John C. Grisham" (the lawyer-author?). And 
then there's the Spice Girl, a k a. Geraldine Halliwell: The petition 
listed "Dr. Geri Halliwell" and "Dr. Halliwell."

Asked about the pop singer, Robinson said he was duped. The returned 
petition, one of thousands of mailings he sent out, identified her as 
having a degree in microbiology and living in Boston. "It's fake," he said.

"When we're getting thousands of signatures there's no way of filtering 
out a fake," Robinson, 56, said in a telephone interview from Oregon.

Robinson, who acknowledges he has done no direct research into global 
warming, said the petition includes thousands of people "qualified to 
speak on this subject" including biochemists, geophysicists and 
climatologists.
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?slug=2748308&date=19980501

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