[✔️] November 1, 2023- Global Warming News Digest | Rad politics, Weather extremes reported, Rahmstorf, Students complain, Mikey Johnson cuts funding, 2012 Romney interrupted

[Richard Pauli]

/*November *//*1, 2023*/

/[ Out of control -- says famous radical -  be sure to hear the last 15 
mins of video ]/
*Andreas Malm: "Overshoot: Climate Politics When It's Too Late"*
Futures of Sustainability, Universität Hamburg
Oct 25, 2023
Annual Conference 2023 "THE FAILURE OF GREEN CAPITALISM: FINDINGS, 
OBJECTIONS, ALTERNATIVES"
15 September 2023
Chair: Sighard Neckel (Spokesperson DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced 
Studies "Futures of Sustainability")
Keynote Lecture by Andreas Malm (Lund University): "Overshoot: Climate 
Politics When It's Too Late"



/[ Beckwith reads and comments on a 3 page letter of where our climate 
is now ]/
*Role of Thermodynamic and Dynamic Effects in Weather Extremes within 
our Climate System: Review*
Paul Beckwith
Oct 30, 2023
A few weeks ago Stefan Rahmstorf who heads the very famous “Potsdam 
Institute for Climate Impacts” co-authored a letter of weather extremes: 
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23

The main point is that extreme weather is greatly increasing in our 
climate system and is due to both thermodynamic effects AND dynamic 
effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-By5xQ1di0

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/[ Highly respected climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf recent 
Environmental Research Letters ]/
*Extreme weather in a changing climate*
Giorgia Di Capua3,1,2 and Stefan Rahmstorf2

Published 6 October 2023 • © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP 
Publishing Ltd
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 18, Number 10
15 years of Environmental Research Letters
Citation Giorgia Di Capua and Stefan Rahmstorf 2023 Environ. Res. Lett. 
18 102001
DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23
Abstract

    Extreme weather events are rising at a pace which exceeds
    expectations based on thermodynamic arguments only, changing the way
    we perceive our climate system and climate change issues. Every
    year, heatwaves, floods and wildfires, bring death and devastation
    worldwide, increasing the evidence about the role of anthropogenic
    climate change in the increase of extremes. In this viewpoint
    article, we summarize some of the most recent extremes and put them
    in the context of the most recent research on atmospheric and
    climate sciences, especially focusing on changes in thermodynamics
    and dynamics of the atmosphere. While some changes in extremes are
    to be expected and are clearly attributable to rising greenhouse gas
    emissions, other seem counterintuitive, highlighting the need for
    further research in the field. In this context, research on changes
    in atmospheric dynamics plays a crucial role in explaining some of
    these extremes and more needs to be done to improve our
    understanding of the physical mechanisms involved.

[ a 3 page PDF file 
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23/pdf ]
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acfb23



/[ Activism reported in the Guardian ]/
*US students file complaints against six universities over fossil fuel 
investments*
Students say that by investing in fossil fuels their schools are 
violating commitments to the public interest
Dharna Noor
Mon 30 Oct 2023
Students at six universities filed legal complaints on Monday accusing 
their colleges of breaking a little-known law by investing in 
planet-heating fossil fuels, the Guardian has learned.

Campus organizers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of 
Chicago, Tufts University, Pomona College, Washington University in St 
Louis and Pennsylvania State University wrote to the attorneys general 
of their respective states to ask officials to scrutinize their 
universities’ investments. Each filing elicited signatures of support 
from dozens of faculty and staff members, alumni and local, national and 
international climate-focused groups.

The students argue that by investing in coal, oil and gas, the schools 
are violating their obligations as non-profit organizations to 
prioritize the public interest.

“Fossil fuel companies have long engaged in a well-documented campaign 
to undermine climate science and distort public debate about how to deal 
with the climate crisis – including through efforts targeting Penn 
scientists and researchers,” University of Pennsylvania students wrote 
in their filing. “The industry’s spread of scientific misinformation 
undermines the work of Penn faculty and students who are researching and 
designing solutions for a sustainable future.”

The filings estimate that each of the schools has tens or even hundreds 
of millions of dollars invested in fossil fuels.

“If universities say, ‘We’re climate leaders, we stand for justice,’ but 
then on the other hand financially contribute to the climate crisis, we 
just see that as unacceptable,” said Moli Ma, an undergraduate student 
at Tufts, who helped lead the complaint against her university. “There’s 
an incongruence there. It doesn’t match up.”

The six complaints follow more than a dozen similar initiatives at 
colleges around the US, beginning with Boston College in 2020. The 
filings were written with help from the Climate Defense Project, a 
non-profit environmental law organization.

State officials have not affirmed any of the legal filings, but several 
schools – including Harvard, Cornell and Stanford – said they would 
divest from fossil fuels shortly after complaints against them were filed.

“We feel like this might have been the last straw that really pushed 
Harvard’s administration over the edge on divestment,” said Ma, who is 
part of the Tufts Climate Action student group. “We wanted to replicate 
the success that happened there.”

Four of Monday’s filings allege that schools breached the Uniform 
Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, a law adopted by 49 
states requiring non-profit institutions to consider their “charitable 
purposes” in their investments and to do so with “prudence” and “loyalty”.

Pennsylvania has not passed such a law, so students’ legal complaints 
against the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania State 
University are based on similar regulations that fall under the state’s 
Decedents, Estates, and Fiduciary Code.

In interviews, the student organizers noted that the climate crisis had 
wreaked havoc on each of their universities’ home states, whether 
through more frequent and severe wildfires in Pomona College’s 
California or more devastating heatwaves in Washington University in St 
Louis’s Missouri. Those disasters often disproportionately harm youth, 
poor communities and people of color, the complaints note.

Another key argument in each complaint: investing in fossil fuel stocks 
not only harms the climate and threatens human health, but also creates 
financial risk.

“We make the case that fossil fuels from a purely financial point of 
view are a very bad investment,” said Ted Hamilton, a lawyer with the 
Climate Defense Project who has worked on each of the legal filings. 
“This sector is very volatile. It’s been underperforming lately, and 
especially for long-term institutional investors like universities, it 
has a very bad value thesis [for] the coming decades.”

The complaints build on pre-existing fossil fuel divestment efforts at 
each of the six universities. Students said they had heard college 
officials defend their continued financial backing of fossil fuels in 
various ways, from touting their existing efforts to clean up 
investments to arguing that investment should not be governed by 
specific political agendas.

“Investing in fossil fuels is a political statement,” said Clara Dutton, 
a student organizer at Washington University in St Louis. “And it’s a 
hypocritical one.”

Bill McKibben, the veteran environmental activist and author, supports 
the students’ efforts.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/30/us-universities-fossil-fuel-investments-students-complaints 




/[ politics  ]/
*House Speaker Mike Johnson’s First Big Bill Cuts Biden’s Climate Change 
Funding*
-- Measure would end rebates for energy-efficient appliances
-- Slashes funds for other programs to counter climate change
The first major legislation House Republicans passed under newly 
installed Speaker Mike Johnson would cut billions of dollars in consumer 
rebates for energy efficiency upgrades included in President Joe Biden’s 
signature climate law.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-26/speaker-mike-johnson-s-first-big-bill-cuts-biden-climate-change-funding#xj4y7vzkg



/[The news archive -  manipulation from audience boos (not booze)  ]/
/*November 1, 2012*/
November 1, 2012:  At a campaign rally in Virginia, Republican 
presidential contender Mitt Romney is interrupted by a protester who 
faults him for not addressing climate change. The right-wing audience 
boos the protester.
http://youtu.be/SGxSnaC1qcU



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