[✔️] May 3, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Disinformation revealed, profit from disinformation, SCOTUS Chevron deference, renewable economy very difficult, John Green hopeful, Eco-Apocalypticism, James Hansen 1999

Wed May 3 08:25:22 EDT 2023

/*May*//*3, 2023*/

/[ YouTube still carries climate disinformation -  says CAAD 
https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/YouTubes-Climate-Denial-Dollars.pdf 
]/
*Climate Action Against Disinformation*
The Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) coalition is a growing 
and unprecedented effort of over 50 organizations committed to 
addressing one of the largest barriers to addressing climate change: 
misleading and false content that perpetuates false narratives on our 
environment and dilutes productive conversations on the climate. 
Executive Summary:
*YouTube profits from ads on climate disinformation videos with tens of 
millions of views*
· Researchers identified 200 YouTube videos containing climate 
misinformation and
disinformation with 73.8 million views in total as of April 17th, 2023.
·The videos have all featured ads, and contained either outright denial 
of climate science
that violates YouTube’s existing policies or other forms of climate 
disinformation.
*YouTube is breaking its promise not to profit from ads on climate 
denial content*·

    - YouTube’s policies state that ads are not permitted on videos
    “contradicting authoritative
    scientific consensus on the existence of and causes behind climate
    change”.
    · Researchers identified 100 videos breaching this policy that have
    carried ads, with videos
    amassing a total of 18.8 million views. They included claims that:
      - “Every single model [the IPCC] ever have put out is wrong”.
      - “In summary, there is no link between CO2 and temperature”.
      - “Climate hysteria is just another rebrand, a Trojan horse for
    anti-white
      anti- Western communist tyranny”.
    · Videos carried ads for brands including Costco, Politico and Tommy
    Hilfiger.

*YouTube profits from more climate disinformation falling outside its 
narrow definition*

    · Researchers identified a further 100 YouTube videos that meet the
    Climate Action Against
    Disinformation coalition’s definition of climate misinformation and
    disinformation.
    ·
    These videos have amassed a total of 55 million views and carried
    ads from brands
    including Nike, Hyundai and Emirates.

*Google must stop profiting from climate disinformation on YouTube and 
elsewhere*

    · Repeated research projects by the Center for Countering Digital
    Hate show that Google
    has repeatedly broken its promise not to profit from ads on climate
    denial content:
      - Tests indicate that 63% of popular climate denial articles still
    carry Google ads.
      - Google allowed Daily Wire to run ads on searches for “climate
    change is a hoax”.
      - YouTube videos promoting climate denial with millions of views
    still have ads.
    · Google must start enforcing its promise not to profit from climate
    denial, on YouTube
    and on its other advertising platforms.
    · Google should expand its policy to cover other prevalent forms of
    climate disinformation...

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Researchers identified 100 videos that carry ads and contain climate 
disinformation that
breaches YouTube’s existing policies. In total, the videos have amassed 
18.8 million views
and include ad-supported videos such as: /( warning -- disinformation 
videos )/

    · - A video from the Timcast IRL channel that promotes false claims
    that “The IPCC is just a
    corrupt industry, every single model they ever have put out is
    wrong”. https://youtu.be/TUlud5hVQg8
    · -  A video from the The Heartland Institute channel that promotes
    claims that “climate
    change science really isn’t a science at all”.
    https://youtu.be/v8dXpe1Pp6Q
    · - A video titled “Introduction to Climate Science” from the
    Cutting Through The Noise
    channel, promotes the false claim that “there is no link between CO2
    and temperature”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Ln3Ou6jnc&t=2204s
    · - A video from the Paul Joseph Watson channel that claims “Climate
    hysteria is just another
    rebrand, a Trojan horse for anti-white anti-Western communist
    tyranny”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtqrBu7oaoU&t=349s

Some of America’s biggest brands were found to be running on the videos, 
including Costco, Politico, and Calvin Klein.
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*Recommendations:*
*YouTube must stop profiting from climate disinformation*
This research shows that YouTube is failing to keep its promise to stop 
profiting from climate
denial, and is profiting from a wider range of climate disinformation 
that falls outside of its
existing, narrowly-defined policy.
This is part of a broader failing on the part of YouTube’s owner Google, 
which promised in
October 2021 that it would no longer profit from ads containing climate 
denial or from ads
running on climate denial content.
Existing research from the Center for Countering Digital Hate shows that 
Google is also
failing to keep this promise with respect to ads running on popular 
climate denial articles.
Analysis of widely-shared climate denial articles shows that 63% still 
carry Google ads.
Nor has Google kept its promise to stop running ads that directly 
promote climate denial.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate has found that Google accepted 
$421,000 to run ads
from the Competitive Enterprise Institute making claims that “climate 
campaigners hype
the risks of global warming”.
The Center’s research has also revealed that Google allowed the Daily 
Wire to run ads
targeting users searching for phrases like “climate change is a hoax” 
and “the climate
change scam”.
*1. Google must start enforcing its promise not to profit from climate 
denial*
Every time Google is tested on its promise not to profit from climate 
denial, it is found
wanting. Whether it is ads on Google Search, Google ads embedded in 
climate denial
articles, or now ads running on climate denial videos on YouTube, this 
promise is just not
being kept.
On hate, misinformation, and harms to children, we see tech platforms 
repeatedly making
promises that they do not keep. Platform policies only have meaning if 
they are enforced.
One year on from making its promise not to profit from climate denial, 
Google must start
enforcing it in a proactive and systemic manner reflective of its size 
and available resources.
If we can find this content, so can Google.
*2. Google’s policy should cover the most popular forms of climate 
disinformation*
Even if Google were adequately enforcing its policy on climate denial, 
this covers just part of
the broader category of climate disinformation. Our research shows that 
videos promoting
climate disinformation are racking up tens of millions of views which 
are monetised with
ads.
To follow through on its ambition not to profit from content that 
distorts public perceptions
of climate science and undermines action on climate change, Google 
should incorporate
the full Climate Action Against Disinformation (CAAD) definition of 
climate misinformation
and disinformation into its policies.
*3. YouTube splits ad revenue with many channels hosting climate denial 
content*
In some cases, YouTube splits revenue from ads displayed on a video with 
the channel that
posted it, reportedly handing 55 percent of revenue to the content 
creator while retaining
the remaining 45 percent.
Analysis of code on YouTube’s website suggests that ad revenue raised by 
158 of the
climate denial videos analyzed by this report were shared with the 
channels that posted
them. Further detail on our methodology for this finding is available at 
the end of this report.
While all videos analyzed by this report have at some time carried ads, 
YouTube removed
ads from just eight videos during the period in which our research was 
conducted. This
included two videos that were flagged with YouTube directly, and another 
six videos that
the platform acted on independently
https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/YouTubes-Climate-Denial-Dollars.pdf

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/[note]/
“Google is supporting the climate disinformation they say they want to 
stop,” Friends of the Earth Climate Disinformation Spokesperson Erika 
Seiber added. “Disinformation persists because it’s profitable, and Big 
Tech needs to remove that incentive. Their business model relies on user 
engagement at the expense of the truth. Since Big Tech can’t answer the 
call from researchers and advocates for full transparency and 
accountability, lawmakers need to mandate it.”

Google’s failure to demonetize climate disinformation is not just an 
issue of corporate hypocrisy: It undermines the very future of human 
civilization on this planet. Climate disinformation is a direct threat 
to climate action, and Google must do its part to stop making it 
profitable to spread false claims about climate change."
https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/YouTubes-Climate-Denial-Dollars.pdf 

/[ opinion -- SCOTUS  playing with fire ] /
*Supreme Court move could spell doom for power of federal regulators*
Conservatives get the chance to use a dispute over fisheries to deliver 
the final blow to Chevron deference.
By JOSH GERSTEIN and ALEX GUILLÉN
05/01/2023
A legal doctrine long despised by conservatives for giving federal 
regulators wide-ranging power is making yet another march to the gallows 
at the Supreme Court.

The high court announced Monday that it is taking up a case squarely 
aimed at killing off the nearly-four-decade-old precedent that has come 
to be known as Chevron deference: the principle that courts should defer 
to reasonable agency interpretations of ambiguous provisions in 
congressional statutes and judges should refrain from crafting their own 
reading of the laws.

Overturning the doctrine would have major implications for the Biden 
administration’s climate agenda. It would complicate the 
administration’s efforts to tackle major issues such as climate change 
via regulation, including possibly derailing the Environmental 
Protection Agency’s push to mitigate carbon emissions from the 
electricity and transportation sectors — the two highest polluting 
industries in the United States.

The Supreme Court’s move is another signal that the court’s 
conservatives have not tired in their efforts to weaken the 
administrative state. The top target is the case that played a pivotal 
role in expanding the powers of federal agencies after it was handed 
down in 1984: Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Chevron doctrine has “been in a coma for a while, so we’ll see 
whether they want to revive it or take it off life support,” said David 
Doniger, who in 1984 argued that case before the Supreme Court for the 
NRDC...
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https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/01/supreme-court-chevron-doctrine-climate-change-00094670 

/[ Planet Critical -- the future will be far more difficult  - make a 
different plan ]/
*The Unsustainable Green Transition | Simon Michaux*
Planet: Critical
Apr 19, 2023  #climatecrisis #minerals #politicalcrisis
You can’t go green without going small.

Our fossil-fuelled economy is destabilising the planet. But a renewable 
economy might not be much better. Simon Michaux and his team at the 
Geological Survey of Finland have been researching how much minerals and 
materials we have on earth to build our renewable energy. They’ve found 
that we simply do not have enough—and mining for those materials would 
bears a huge environmental cost.

On this episode, Simon walks us through the research, the possible 
outcomes from calculated energy contraction to collapse, what 
policymakers are doing with this information, and how the geopolitics of 
the US-China proxy war could make the green transition impossible for 
the West.
00:00 Intro
02:25 The Minerals Shortage
06:24 Ideology vs Reality
07:59 The Mining Problem
13:10 The Energy Problem
19:54 Are policy makers listening?
23:34 Renewables are Underperforming
32:40 The Energy Storage Problem
37:53 The Battery Problem
43:20 Engineering society to cope with variable power
48:08 Dangerous dependence on US and China
52:06 Who blew up the Nord Stream pipeline?
58:35 The Currency War
01:00:34 US vs EU
01:06:56 The Resource Balanced Economy
01:15:19 Shaping Reality With Stories
01:19:02 Four Paradigms of Future Society
01:24:39 Shrinking the Technosphere
01:29:32 Who would you like to platform?
🔴 Simon Michaux: https://www.simonmichaux.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwmygkdoGgc

/[ Respected older folks, hold forth in discussion in a long established 
YouTube program  ]/
*Episode 555 Global Town Hall Apr 2023*
ToSaveTheWorld
Peter Wadhams describes the extraordinary heating of the Arctic ocean 
now -- up by 13 degrees! -- and the fact that the scientists cannot 
explain it, so they tend not to talk about it as much as the shocking 
facts would seem to require. For the video, audio podcast, transcript, 
summary, and comments: 
https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-555-global-town-hall-apr-2023/
https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-555-global-town-hall-apr-2023/
https://youtu.be/SXYdMorfNwM?t=3252

/[ Blogger John Green promotes hope. Tells-all interview ]/
*John Green Doesn’t Think the World is Ending (Yet) | Offline With Jon 
Favreau*
Pod Save America
Apr 16, 2023  Offline with Jon Favreau
John Green (@crashcourse & @vlogbrothers), bestselling author and 
YouTuber, joins Offline to share lessons from his most recent book, The 
Anthropocene Reviewed. His collection of essays rates historical events, 
philosophical musings and personal anecdotes on a 5-star scale that, 
these days, feels both inescapable and indispensable. The Jo(h)ns talk 
through the faults in these stars, and the importance of finding ways to 
live meaningfully and hopefully in a world of mixed reviews.

    CHAPTERS
    0:00 - Intro
    1:40 - John Green joins!
    6:40 - The dangers of the internet
    19:48 - Ad Break
    22:38 - Doomerism online
    33:20 - Ad Break
    33:40 - Why John writes for younger audiences
    44:57 - Why is Twitter tanking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjAUhgDMNT4

/[ Anthropology reading - "Shamans are the last to go" ]/
*Monika Kaup: Indigenous Eco-Apocalypticism - The Falling Sky by Davi 
Kopenawa and Bruce Albert*
Centre for Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic Studies
May 2, 2023
Monika Kaup: Indigenous Eco-Apocalypticism - The Falling Sky by Davi 
Kopenawa and Bruce Albert
CAPAS - Lecture Series Summer 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=306X9S61-hU

/[The news archive - looking back at disinformation attacks]/
/*May 3, 1999*/
May 3, 1999: Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler debunks an April 15, 1999 
column by  Washington Times columnist Ben Wattenberg falsely suggesting 
that NASA scientist James Hansen viewed Vice President Al Gore as an 
alarmist on climate change. In addition, Somerby notes:

"Of course, if spinners like Wattenberg get their way--and the larger 
press corps never speaks up--those common sense steps [to reduce carbon 
pollution] may never be taken. And reasoned debate, in the coming 
campaign, could give way to a lot of hot air. So that’s why we offer a 
global *warning*, against believing facile spin from these types. 
There’s a whole lot of hoo-hah floating around concerning Gore and [his 
views on] global warming. And we hope that the press corps will get off 
its duffs, and bring some clarity to the whole sorry mess."

http://www.dailyhowler.com/h050399_1.shtml

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