[✔️] April 23, 2024 Global Warming News | New Footprints, Water temps, Mass immiseration, Behavioral economics, Sport floodings, 2007 McCain

Tue Apr 23 09:06:44 EDT 2024

/*April *//*23, 2024*/

/[ revise the carbon footprint - helpful tier list - new  ]/
*The ULTIMATE Carbon Footprint Tier List*
Planet Zero - Climate Change
Apr 22, 2024  #carbonfootprint #earthday #tierlist

The looming presence of climate change has led many people to ask 
themselves if there are ways to reduce their personal emissions to help 
fight the problem. While the entire concept of blaming consumers for the 
climate crisis was started by British Petroleum in 2004 to shift the 
blame from corporations to individuals, our daily choices still have an 
impact on the climate. However, some choices are more carbon-intensive 
than others. What changes are actually worth making? To answer this 
loaded question, we now have the ULTIMATE Carbon Footprint Tier List!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAol5ARQVPc

/[ Main concern is water temperature  -- from independent journalist 
//Nick Breeze //]/
*Massive Marine Ecosystem Crash Along Galicia’s Coast Due To Prolonged 
Atlantic Heatwave #climate
*Nick Breeze ClimateGenn
Premiere in progress. Started 15 minutes ago  ClimateGenn #podcast 
produced by Nick Breeze
In this first published ClimateGenn episode for a couple of months, I 
want to thank subscribers for your patience. I have not been sitting 
idle but much more trying to digest the appalling consequences of 
climate heating that we are now experiencing.
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         [Order COPOUT by Nick Breeze - https://amzn.to/4boQfnl ]
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Everyday on social media, climate graphs and charts are posted with 
varying degrees of deep red and other markers of urgency. Yet, nothing 
happens except the posts become more shrill and the problem of climate 
disaster becomes more irreversible.

As someone who engages a lot with climate science and scientists, 
somehow I had fallen into a space whereby the actual meaning of these 
charts had become abstract. Codified and filed away in my mind to avoid 
real exposure to true meaning.

Then something happened. I arranged to meet with Guillermo Díaz Agras at 
the marine biology research station in La Grana in Galicia. The research 
station is a satellite of Santiago University and the team here conduct 
extensive research along the coast and in the river valley’s, called rias.

What I expected to be an introductory overview of the research station 
turned into a horrifying cerebral experience; an awakening if you like.

Guillermo showed me a long stream of images of dead dolphins, turtles 
and otters, saying simply: ‘That was just last week!’. He then explained 
how much of the indigenous shellfish are dying. The mussels no longer 
forming in this stretch of coast, the seaweed that bound the mussels to 
the rocks and the floating platforms, no longer there. The ecosystems 
that were embedded within them, gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE5V4l_JaAs

/[ restoring a forgotten term - mass immiseration ]/
Apr 22, 2024  #109 #thegreatsimplification #natehagens
*Excerpted from The Great Simplification Episode #109 aired on February 
14th, 2024*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQhxpzkT72A

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/[ full interview ]/
*Ashley Hodgson: "The New Enlightenment and Behavioral Economics” | The 
Great Simplification #109*
Nate Hagens
  Feb 14, 2024  The Great Simplification - with Nate Hagens
On this episode, Nate is joined by Ashley Hodgson, a professor in 
behavioral economics, where she offers a perspective on the 
superorganism and what she calls ‘The New Enlightenment’. By taking a 
wide-lens look at the way our human systems work, we can see the 
incentives and structures that push power towards consumptive, 
short-sighted, and destructive pathways. How could we ‘rejigger’ these 
systems to be more aligned with values and goals conducive to supporting 
humans long into the future? What are the natural laws that inherently 
depreciate systems - and how might we think about counteracting them? As 
we enter a world where the perpetual growth we’ve come to expect is no 
longer possible, how can we lean into the creativity and ingenuity 
required when thinking about new economic paradigms?

About Ashley Hodgson
Ashley Hodgson is an Associate Professor of Economics and a YouTuber.  
She teaches Behavioral Economics, Digital Industries, Health Care 
Economics, and Blockchain Economics.  Her YouTube channel, The New 
Enlightenment, explores topics related to economics, governance, and 
epistemics – that is, the determination of truth and validity – in a 
world of social media and increasing power concentration.
Her channel is 
https://www.youtube.com/@thenewenlightenmentwithash8465/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEUhSSl83-Y&t=0s

/[  AKA Soccer, penalty kick. ]/
*Football's climate change threat: Flooded stadiums, too hot to train*
Tom Chambers
Apr 22, 2024
"God blessed Fulham with great geography," the Premier League club's 
owner Shahid Khan said in 2021 as he discussed his vision for Craven 
Cottage's new £80 million stand on the north bank of the River Thames.

Once it is finally completed next season, the Riverside Stand and its 
eye-catching Sky Deck will offer fans rooftop views of the London 
skyline and "experiential food and drink pop-ups." Images of the lavish 
construction released by the club in March also depict a rooftop 
swimming pool. There is, though, one glaring issue with the development: 
the stadium is predicted to be underwater by 2050.

Fulham are by no means the only team predicted to suffer as sea levels 
rise in line with global temperatures because of climate change. Almost 
one in four stadiums in the top four divisions of English football will 
experience total or partial flooding within the next quarter of a 
century, according to the report "Playing Against the Clock: Global 
Sport, the Climate Emergency and the Case for Rapid Change," published 
by the Rapid Transition Alliance in 2020.
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Premier League clubs, despite their riches, will not be exempt, with the 
likes of Chelsea and West Ham United likely to face annual flooding, as 
will U.S. sports teams including the Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Heat 
and New York Mets. The New York Giants and the New York Jets' MetLife 
Stadium is also predicted to be submerged every year.

It's not just rising sea levels that pose a problem: heatwaves, drought, 
fires and air pollution are all set to disrupt a multitude of sports in 
the coming decades, from surfing in California to rugby in Samoa. 
Scotland's Montrose golf course lost 23 feet to coastal erosion last 
year, while Donald Trump's Doonbeg course in Ireland has attempted to 
build a seawall to hold back the rising tide.

"Nothing I've ever written has ever brought so much stuff to my door," 
the report's author, David Goldblatt, tells ESPN. The causes and effects 
of climate change can often be hard to grasp, but by applying real-world 
sporting examples, the leading academic and co-founder of the nonprofit 
environmental charity Football For Future forced people to sit up and 
take notice. Despite its considerable media traction, Goldblatt's work 
has a complicated legacy.

"That document I would say has kind of set the agenda for a lot of 
folks, [but] in terms of official response; f--- sake man, nothing," he 
says. "Of course, football clubs, they never, ever, ever respond, 
certainly not proactively. I wrote to a couple of clubs, emailed local 
journalists; Scunthorpe, Grimsby, places that are really in a lot of 
trouble and... zilch, nothing, zero. And in fact, no club that I talk 
about in that document that is in trouble has ever responded. I have 
never seen a public response or a statement from them on the issue at all."
The 2023-24 football season in the UK has already been hit by 10 named 
storms including Babet, which cancelled all but two matches in the 
Scottish Premier League and several more throughout the English football 
league between Oct. 18 and Oct. 21. At a global level, the World 
Meteorological Organization has confirmed that 2023 was the warmest year 
ever recorded. A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, leading to 
more intense and prolonged periods of rainfall, which, along with higher 
temperatures melting polar ice, causes sea levels to rise.

"At least a third of all clubs [in the UK] have got serious 
climate-related issues coming their way," Goldblatt says. "Like Norwich: 
East Anglia is looking at a lot of drought over the next 30 years. I 
thought it was really interesting that a lot of clubs in the northwest 
of England near the coast are going to be facing some serious Atlantic 
storms, and we know that in 2022, ADO Den Haag's stadium had the roof 
blown off by a storm and it wasn't like it was a crap stadium, it was 
like a proper modern stadium and it had its roof blown off. Barrow, 
Fleetwood, Blackpool, Burnley, Preston, there's a lot of Atlantic storms 
coming their way. I don't see anybody responding in public. I don't see 
anyone. It's absolutely hopeless and gutless. It's like, come on, what 
are you waiting for?

"I'm just beginning to hear in the lower levels of football more 
grumbling and more explicit connection being made between extreme 
weather events and all of the flooding that's been going on in 
lower-league football and it's creeping up the pyramid, basically. The 
bottom line is not very much [has changed.] That's the response. So the 
response to 'Playing Against the Clock' on the one hand has been 
completely amazing and then completely meaningless as well."

The popularity and international nature of modern football means it is a 
significant emitter of carbon dioxide -- the greenhouse gas primarily 
responsible for global warming. A combination of private jet usage, 
stadium construction, fan travel and above all the carbon footprint of 
sportswear production contribute to Goldblatt's estimation that football 
is responsible for nearly 1% of carbon emissions in the UK. That pales 
in comparison to some other industry sectors, but football is 
nevertheless capable of significant environmental harm.

"People often, with climate, think: energy production, agriculture, 
belching industrial chimneys, et cetera, not 22 people running around on 
a piece of grass," Goldblatt says.
While on a broader level we are seeing the environmentally problematic 
expansion of World Cups and other tournaments, some organisations are 
leading the way with innovative schemes and policies. Tottenham 
Hotspur's stadium and training ground run on 100% renewable energy and 
the club is working to reduce single-use plastics in its operations. 
Manchester City have introduced free shirt return points for fans, using 
depolymerisation technology that allows kits featuring transfers and 
embroideries to be recycled. UEFA has recently launched a carbon 
footprint calculator that allows organisations to assess and understand 
their emissions.

"There are obviously enthusiasts within the industry," Goldblatt says. 
"[Tottenham chairman] Daniel Levy takes this stuff pretty seriously. 
Tottenham's commitment is quite serious; I mean we can make all sorts of 
criticisms, but no, there's real executive energy and money and the same 
I would say is true of City and Liverpool, Southampton. It's 
interesting. I wonder how things are faring outside the Premier League 
[for other clubs] as budgets squeeze, but there's been some good stuff 
there."

In recent years, several leagues, governing bodies and clubs have become 
signatories of the UN's Sports for Climate Action Framework which 
commits them to halving emissions by 2030 and becoming net zero by 2040.

There are a growing number of players taking an active role in tackling 
climate change. Footballers, and athletes more generally, are 
increasingly prepared to use their platform to champion causes close to 
their hearts. Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford's successful 
campaign to pressure the UK government into continuing to provide free 
school meals to vulnerable children in 2020 was a particularly striking 
example.

"The players have an extraordinary opportunity," Goldblatt argues. "I 
mean Rashford has sort of set the bar high and obviously that's a very 
particular story where his own personal experience, his own lived 
experience, made him essentially invulnerable to the trolls and gave him 
the power to really cut through. There's no one quite in that position 
in the climate debate. But again, I often think with these things that 
it's no point waiting for a single messiah. This is a collective issue. 
It can't be just down to a Marcus Rashford of climate."
One individual attempting to play his part in contributing to football's 
climate debate is David Wheeler. Appointed the first sustainability 
champion of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) in February 
2023, the Wycombe Wanderers midfielder has campaigned for change in the 
sport during events at Oxford University and even the Glastonbury music 
festival. Wheeler, along with Football For Future and the PFA, has also 
organised workshops to educate fellow players about the effects of 
climate change.

"They were basically to get current professional footballers and 
ex-professional footballers and people that work within football 
together to have a crash course of what climate change is and how it 
affects football and how football affects it," Wheeler says. "And so a 
few things in one go: it was kind of to increase that educational 
awareness but also to bring out people from the woodwork that maybe have 
been passionate about these issues for a while but haven't had an outlet 
for it. And also, it's hopefully offered a safe space for footballers to 
speak about it and their concerns."

The vision of footballers meeting up to discuss societal issues flies in 
the face of traditional notions of what players get up to in their spare 
time. Are footballers really having conversations about climate change 
within changing rooms?

"Yeah, definitely," Wheeler says. "Especially because of my role and how 
much I'm vocal about it. Obviously you can imagine I get a lot of banter 
about it, but I feel like it does nudge the dial a little bit and it 
brings it into the changing room. It brings it into conversations a lot 
more because of that."

Wheeler's work has resulted in Wycombe introducing electric car charging 
facilities at both their training ground and stadium, as well as 
striving to reduce energy consumption on matchdays. Despite his efforts, 
Wheeler, who has said that he would not play for a team that had a 
fossil fuel company as its shirt sponsor, is used to being labelled a 
hypocrite. The accusation is a common one aimed at athletes who have 
spoken out about a need to care for the environment because of their 
careers in the carbon-intensive sports industry.

"It is kind of impossible to rid yourself of some kind of hypocrisy in 
your life," he says. "I think that's probably the main point is that you 
wouldn't necessarily want someone to be perfect because then they'd be 
unrelatable. And I think that's the irony is that if someone was 
perfect, then that's probably the argument that would be flipped to: 
'They're unrelatable' or 'they're a hippie' or 'they're an extremist' or 
something like that."
England has just experienced its wettest 18 months since records began 
in 1836, with football matches outside the top two tiers experiencing 
regular postponements. It is an issue that is having an increasing 
effect for a number of teams.

"I think to be honest, in the five years I've been at Wycombe we've been 
at the same training ground and this year has probably been the 
worst-ever year for the state of the pitch," Wheeler says. "It's just 
been waterlogged for a large chunk of the season, and it's never been 
perfect.

"You're not getting sustained cold weather you used to get, it has been 
raining a hell of a lot this year and that's obviously affected our 
ability to train on a regular basis, but also in the summer as well with 
the extreme heat, the sort of 40-plus degree heat, it's just impossible 
really to train in. It's just pretty unbearable just to be in."

Despite what appears to be a fairly bleak outlook, football's capacity 
to foster community, spark collective action and resonate with the wider 
public mean it is unique in its ability to drive social change and 
perhaps spearhead positive climate action.

"Football, for whatever reason, has always been popular, always 
symbolic," Goldblatt says. "I now believe that football is the most 
important space for collective storytelling and collective imagining -- 
it now exceeds the soaps by a very long way.

"So football is not only uniquely poised [to combat climate change] 
because of its position in popular culture generally, but it has a 
longstanding deep culture that predisposes it to being an effective 
advocate. I mean it remains one of the very few spaces in which people 
really believe that collective action works.

"Obviously climate change is a collective action issue, and people for 
all sorts of reasons -- good, bad -- that space has diminished and 
football people really believe that. And so I think that's very 
powerful. I think football's also a space of hope."
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/39975010/footballs-climate-change-threat-flooded-stadiums-too-hot-train

/[The news archive -  How Senator John McCain was labeled a "Maverick" ]/
/*April 23, 2007 */
April 23, 2007:
In a speech on climate change and energy at the Center for Strategic and 
International Studies in Washington, D.C., Senator John McCain (R-AZ) notes:

"The burning of oil and other fossil fuels is contributing to the 
dangerous accumulation of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere, 
altering our climate with the potential for major social, economic and 
political upheaval. The world is already feeling the powerful effects of 
global warming, and far more dire consequences are predicted if we let 
the growing deluge of greenhouse gas emissions continue, and wreak havoc 
with God's creation. A group of senior retired military officers 
recently warned about the potential upheaval caused by conflicts over 
water, arable land and other natural resources under strain from a 
warming planet. The problem isn't a Hollywood invention nor is doing 
something about it a vanity of Cassandra like hysterics. It is a serious 
and urgent economic, environmental and national security challenge.

"National security depends on energy security, which we cannot achieve 
if we remain dependent on imported oil from Middle Eastern governments 
who support or foment by their own inattention and inequities the rise 
of terrorists or on swaggering demagogues and would be dictators in our 
hemisphere.

"There's no doubt it's an enormous challenge. But is it too big a 
challenge for America to tackle; this great country that has never 
before confronted a problem it couldn't solve? No, it is not. No people 
have ever been better innovators and problem solvers than Americans. It 
is in our national DNA to see challenges as opportunities; to conquer 
problems beyond the expectation of an admiring world. America, relying 
as always on the industry and imagination of a free people, and the 
power and innovation of free markets, is capable of overcoming any 
challenge from within and without our borders. Our enemies believe we're 
too weak to overcome our dependence on foreign oil. Even some of our 
allies think we're no longer the world's most visionary, most capable 
country or committed to the advancement of mankind. I think we know 
better than that. I think we know who we are and what we can do. Now, 
let's remind the world."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca-82G-mEvs
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77106
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/23/AR2007042301763.html

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