[✔️] Jan 11, 2024 Global Warming News | No Coal in Calif, England beach erosion, Plastics. Economists gets degrowth, Meadway's podcast Macrodose, 2013 Rush brushed extreme cold

[Richard Pauli]

/*January*//*11, 2024*/

/[ important progress milestone -]/
*California's Great Battery Revolution Allows Closure of Peaker Gas 
Plants and move to 100% Wind, Solar, Water*
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The renewables revolution around the 
world has depended primarily on wind, hydro, and solar. A fourth factor 
is now swiftly emerging as essential, that is, mega-battery storage. 
Batteries store energy when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining, 
to release it when those sources decline.
California has so much solar energy that it faces a difficulty in the 
late afternoon when commuters get home from work and turn up the air 
conditioning and start cooking supper.
- -
California now uses almost no coal. It clearly can cut fossil gas use 
substantially in the coming decade. And electric vehicles are cutting 
petroleum use. Fossil fuels are on their way out, and California, the 
world’s fifth largest economy, is showing the way to 100% renewables.
https://www.juancole.com/2024/01/californias-battery-revolution.html



/[ short video documentary shows coastline washout in England -]/
*Why UK Towns are Being Erased From the Map*
Faultline
Dec 5, 2023  #geography #UK #coastline..
- -
The village of Hemsby on the east coast of England could be the latest 
in a line of settlements that have been lost to the sea. Andy and Mack 
travelled here to spend time with residents who are literally living on 
the edge and believe that they and their homes have been abandoned by 
the authorities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPy7JiZC9b0



/[ video interview - "technological lock in" ]/
*Jane Muncke: "Perils of Plastic Packaging” | The Great Simplification #104*
Nate Hagens
Jan 10, 2024  The Great Simplification - with Nate Hagens
On this episode, toxicology scientist Dr. Jane Muncke joins Nate to 
discuss the current state of food production and the effects of ultra 
processed foods and their packaging on our health. Over the last century 
processed food has taken over our supermarkets and our diets, and at the 
same time the containers they’re sold in have evolved as well - to be 
more eye-catching and keep food ‘good’ for longer. But what have we 
sacrificed in exchange for efficiency, ease, and convenience? How do the 
chemicals used in packaging and processing transfer into the food we eat 
and subsequently end up in our bodies? Will switching away from these 
toxic food practices require more local food supply chains - and 
correspondingly simpler diets and lifestyles?

About Jane Muncke:
Jane Muncke holds a doctorate degree in environmental toxicology and a 
MSc in environmental science from the ETH Zurich. Since 2012 she has 
been working as Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the 
charitable Food Packaging Forum Foundation (FPF) in Zurich, Switzerland. 
FPF is a research and science communication organization focusing on 
chemicals in all types of food contact materials. She is a full 
scientific member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT), the Society for 
Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology (SETAC), the American Chemical 
Society (ACS) and the Endocrine Society. Since 2019, she has been an 
elected expert member of the Swiss Organic Farming Association Bio 
Suisse’s committee on trade and processing where she contributes to 
further developing the standards for processing and packaging of organic 
food. She is a director of the FAN initiative, a collective of experts 
warning about resource overshoot, the polycrisis, and related societal 
collapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2-roqSWjFo



/[/Interview o/ne economist who understands the fundamentals (tnx SC) ]/
*‘We can’t pretend the ecological crisis is separate’: the economist 
thinking differently about climate breakdown*
Maya Goodfellow
James Meadway, once a Labour adviser and now a podcast host, says the 
separation between climate and economy has to end
-- 
“We cannot simply pretend that … the entire ecological crisis is a 
separate and distinct thing from what’s happening in the economy,” says 
Meadway, who now works on climate finance. And yet that is precisely 
what happens.
- -
Meadway has a matter-of-fact tone that makes him sound pretty 
convincing, and the podcast has had close to 200,000 listens across more 
than 60 countries, with an average audience of roughly 7,000 a week. So 
suited is his voice for the disembodied world of podcasting that it’s a 
little odd to sit in the offices of Planet B – the company that produces 
the podcast – and listen to him speak in person.

Meadway gives numerous examples of the disconnect between economics and 
the environment in popular discourse. For example, a large part of the 
recent surge in inflation was the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he says, 
but it was also “pretty insistently, certainly over the last summer, 
things like various major water transport riverways in Europe drying up 
because it was so hot”. He points to the Panama Canal, where a drought 
means fewer ships can use it, so they either have to wait or go all the 
way round South America. This drives up the cost of transporting goods 
and this has a knock-on effect on prices in the shops. We can expect 
more of this, he warns.
-
Meadway is not just telling listeners that industrial capitalism is 
responsible for anthropogenic climate breakdown – he describes this as 
accepted by “pretty much everyone” – but on focusing on the feedback 
this produces. What happens after we’ve “merrily burned” huge amounts of 
coal and oil and polluted every river and sea on the planet, he asks.

This doesn’t just puncture economic orthodoxy – Meadway’s critique is 
also aimed at parts of the left that are committed to maintaining 
current levels of consumption, just in a supposedly environmentally 
sound way.

The idea that we can all have an electric car is, according to him, just 
not possible: “There is not enough copper on the planet … We can’t get 
the lithium to produce the batteries, these things can’t actually 
happen.”...
- -
Radicals as well as the mainstream need to accept “the relationship of 
humanity to nature isn’t a simple hierarchy”, he says. What we are 
seeing is “the effects of environmental crisis” being “mediated through 
the structures of capitalism”.
- -
Does he, then, think degrowth, which argues for reducing and changing 
current forms of production and consumption in a way that lessens 
environmental destruction and minimises inequality, is the way forward? 
Almost before I’ve finished asking the question, he wryly replies that 
it needs a rebrand – it’s a “terrible name”, he says – but he does think 
the movement and the people around it are thinking in the “right way”.

“We actually have to deal with this now,” he says, adding that we have 
to do that in a way that is just and protects most people from the worst 
effects of what is happening. That is what we should all be focused on.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/10/we-cant-pretend-the-ecological-crisis-is-separate-the-economist-thinking-differently-about-climate-breakdown?utm_

- -

/[ 13 min Podcast from the economist James Meadway -- how interest rates 
impact emissions and over-heating ]/
*How Interest Hikes Fuel Climate Change*
 From the Macrodose podcast
https://www.everand.com/listen/podcast/692118450



/[The news archive - Rush brush ]/
/*January 11, 2013 */
January 11, 2013:
 From Media Matters
*Conservatives Once Again Cite Extreme Cold To Deny Climate Change*
WRITTEN BY THOMAS BISHOP

    After ignoring reports that 2012 was the hottest year on record in
    the U.S., Rush Limbaugh and Fox Business host Stuart Varney tried to
    push back against well-established evidence of climate change by
    citing instances of cold weather.

    On the January 11 edition of his radio show, Limbaugh said,
    “Twenty-seven degrees outside San Diego right now, 27 degrees, and
    they're talking about global warming” :
    Similarly, Varney cited examples of “snow in Jerusalem” and “a deep
    freeze in China and in Europe,” then said that “the green is
    demanding a carbon tax to prevent global warming.” Varney  added,
    “Climate's always changing, isn't it?”
    In addition to the fact that scientists have found enormous evidence
    of climate change and the human causes behind it, the existence of
    cold weather does not disprove global warming. Despite the
    right-wing media regularly claiming that cold or snowy weather is
    evidence that global warming isn't happening, climate scientists --
    including at least one who has disputed aspects of the scientific
    consensus on global warming -- reject the notion that a short-term
    change in weather, let alone an individual storm, can prove or
    disprove the existence of manmade climate change.

    The National Climate Data Center reported this week that 2012 was
    the warmest and second most extreme year on record for the
    contiguous U.S. Fox News largely ignored the story, which runs
    contrary to its narrative of denying climate change. When
    liberal-leaning Fox co-host Bob Beckel made the channel's first
    reference to the record heat, fellow co-host Greg Gutfeld shouted
    him down.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/11/conservatives-once-again-cite-extreme-cold-to-d/192202



=== Other climate news sources ===========================================
**Inside Climate News*
Newsletters
We deliver climate news to your inbox like nobody else. Every day or 
once a week, our original stories and digest of the web’s top headlines 
deliver the full story, for free.
https://insideclimatenews.org/
---------------------------------------
**Climate Nexus* https://climatenexus.org/hot-news/*
Delivered straight to your inbox every morning, Hot News summarizes the 
most important climate and energy news of the day, delivering an 
unmatched aggregation of timely, relevant reporting. It also provides 
original reporting and commentary on climate denial and pro-polluter 
activity that would otherwise remain largely unexposed.    5 weekday
=================================
*Carbon Brief Daily https://www.carbonbrief.org/newsletter-sign-up*
Every weekday morning, in time for your morning coffee, Carbon Brief 
sends out a free email known as the “Daily Briefing” to thousands of 
subscribers around the world. The email is a digest of the past 24 hours 
of media coverage related to climate change and energy, as well as our 
pick of the key studies published in the peer-reviewed journals.
more at https://www.getrevue.co/publisher/carbon-brief
==================================
*T*he Daily Climate *Subscribe https://ehsciences.activehosted.com/f/61*
Get The Daily Climate in your inbox - FREE! Top news on climate impacts, 
solutions, politics, drivers. Delivered week days. Better than coffee.
Other newsletters  at https://www.dailyclimate.org/originals/

/-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------/ 

/Archive of Daily Global Warming News 
https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/


/To receive daily mailings - click to Subscribe 
<mailto:subscribe at theClimate.Vote?subject=Click%20SEND%20to%20process%20your%20request> 
to news digest./

Privacy and Security:*This mailing is text-only -- and carries no images 
or attachments which may originate from remote servers. Text-only 
messages provide greater privacy to the receiver and sender. This is a 
personal hobby production curated by Richard Pauli
By regulation, the .VOTE top-level domain cannot be used for commercial 
purposes. Messages have no tracking software.
To subscribe, email: contact at theclimate.vote 
<mailto:contact at theclimate.vote> with subject subscribe, To Unsubscribe, 
subject: unsubscribe
Also you may subscribe/unsubscribe at 
https://pairlist10.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/theclimate.vote
Links and headlines assembled and curated by Richard Pauli for 
http://TheClimate.Vote <http://TheClimate.Vote/> delivering succinct 
information for citizens and responsible governments of all levels. List 
membership is confidential and records are scrupulously restricted to 
this mailing list.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://pairlist10.pair.net/pipermail/theclimate.vote/attachments/20240111/7ad10191/attachment.htm>