[✔️] Jan 19. 2024 Global Warming News | Manchin driven out of restaurant, Republican conundrum, Naomi Oreskes, 1999 when Clinton knew.

[Richard Pauli]

/*January*//*19, 2024*/

/[ Joe wilts when election politics heat up ]/
*Climate activists swarm Joe Manchin in restaurant before senator forced 
to leave through kitchen*
Climate protesters disrupted Joe Manchin’s speech at a diner in New 
Hampshire on Tuesday (16 January).

Activists from the Climate Defiance group, who previously shut down the 
senator’s keynote speech at a Semafor event, chanted “Off fossil fuels 
Manchin” at the Democrat.

The chanting appeared to begin after Mr Manchin said his greatest 
concern is the “border crisis,” a video consisting of different clips 
stitched together shows.

The group says they aim to use peaceful civil disobedience to call for 
the end of fossil fuels and to elevate climate change to the top of the 
political agenda.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/joe-manchin-climate-protest-fossil-fuel-b2480232.html

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/[ The Guardian covers the presidential campaign ]/
*Climate crisis ignored by Republicans as Trump vows to ‘drill, baby, 
drill’*
The freezing temperatures in Iowa – fuelled by global heating – have not 
dampened Republican enthusiasm for oil and gas
Oliver Milman  @olliemilman
Thu 18 Jan 2024
In the wake of an Iowa primary election chilled in a record blast of 
cold weather – which scientists say may, counterintuitively, have been 
worsened by global heating – Republican presidential candidates are 
embracing the fossil fuel industry tighter than ever, with little to say 
about the growing toll the climate crisis is taking upon Americans.

The remaining contenders for the US presidential nomination – 
frontrunner Donald Trump, along with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis – all 
used the Iowa caucus to promise surging levels of oil and gas drilling 
if elected, along with the wholesale abolition of Joe Biden’s climate 
change policies.

Trump, who comfortably won the Iowa poll, said “we are going to drill, 
baby, drill” once elected, in a Fox News town hall on the eve of the 
primary. “We have more liquid gold under our feet; energy, oil and gas 
than any other country in the world,” the multiply indicted former 
president said. “We have a lot of potential income.”

Trump also called clean energy a “new scam business” and went on a 
lengthy digression on how energy is important in the making of donuts 
and hamburgers. The Trump campaign has accused Biden of trying to 
prevent Americans from buying non-electric cars – no such prohibition 
exists – and even for causing people’s dishes to be dirty by imposing 
new efficiency standards for dishwashers.

Haley, meanwhile, has called the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s 
signature climate bill that provides tax credits for renewable energy 
production and electric car purchases, a “communist manifesto” and used 
the Iowa election to promise to “roll back all of Biden’s green 
subsidies because they’re misplaced”. DeSantis, who came second in Iowa, 
said that on his first day as president he would “take Biden’s Green New 
Deal, we tear it up and we throw it in the trash can. It is bad for this 
country.”

Last year was, globally, the hottest ever recorded, and scientists have 
warned of mounting calamities as the world barrels through agreed 
temperature limits. Last year, the US suffered a record number of 
disasters costing at least $1bn in damages, with the climate crisis 
spurring fiercer wildfires, storms and extreme heat.

Such concerns were largely unvoiced in frigid Iowa, however, apart from 
by young climate activists who disrupted rallies held by Trump, Haley 
and DeSantis. On Sunday, a 17-year-old activist from the Sunrise climate 
group interrupted a Trump speech to shout: “Mr Trump your campaign is 
funded by fossil fuel millionaires. Do you represent them, or ordinary 
people like me?”

She was drowned out by boos from Trump supporters, and then scolded from 
the stage by the former president, who told the activist to “go home to 
mommy.” He then said the protester was “young and immature”.

The continued championing of fossil fuels, and dismissal of young 
people’s worries about climate change, shows that the Republican 
candidates are “determined to drag us into a chaotic world just to make 
a bit more money”, said Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director of Sunrise.

“Not a single Republican is addressing root causes of the climate 
crisis. They’ve been bought out by oil and gas billionaires,” said 
Shiney-Ajay, who added that young climate activists were also dismayed 
at Biden, who has overseen a record glut of oil and gas drilling, 
despite Republican claims he has hindered US energy production.
“The reality is that every presidential candidate, including Joe Biden, 
is falling so far short of the climate ambition we need, despite there 
being millions of lives at stake,” she said.

Some Republicans have warned that the party must take climate change 
seriously if it is to remain viable electorally, with increasing numbers 
of Americans alarmed about the impacts of global heating. “If 
conservatives are scared to talk about the climate, then we’re not going 
to have a seat at the table when decisions are made,” said Buddy Carter, 
a Republican congressman from Georgia. “We are right on policy, so we 
need a seat at the table.”

Still, polling has shown that the climate crisis remains of minor 
importance to Republican voters, compared to issues such as the economy 
and inflation, with just 13% of them saying it is a top priority in a 
Pew survey last year. None of the party’s leading presidential 
candidates have sought to significantly change this dynamic, to the 
frustration of some climate-conscious conservatives.

“Republican candidates can’t lose sight of the big picture amid the 
primary season,” said Danielle Butcher Franz, the chief executive of the 
advocacy arm of the American Conservation Coalition, a conservative 
climate group.

“Beyond the primary, the next Republican nominee must win over the 
hearts and minds of young Americans by speaking to the issue they care 
most about: climate change.”

Butcher Franz said there must be “more productive rhetoric and real 
policy solutions from Republicans. The race for 2024 is an opportunity 
to do so that no candidate has fully seized.”

Even if the candidates aren’t talking much about climate change, its 
effects are still being directly felt as the Republican primary field 
moves on to New Hampshire. Icily cold temperatures have gripped much of 
the US – the Iowa caucus was the coldest on record – due to a blast of 
Arctic-like weather that has triggered power blackouts, halted flights 
and caused schools to shut in parts of the country.

The Arctic is heating up at four times the rate of the global average, 
and scientists think this is affecting the jet stream, a river of strong 
winds that steers weather across the northern hemisphere, and the polar 
vortex, another current of winds that usually keeps frigid Arctic air 
over the polar region. Both these systems risk becoming “wavier”, recent 
research has found, meaning Arctic-like conditions can meander far 
further south than normal.

The current blast of cold weather is “certainly much more likely given 
how much the planet is warming” said Judah Cohen, a meteorologist at 
Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental who has studied the phenomenon. 
“There is scientific evidence that makes severe winter weather 
consistent or explainable in a warming world. One does not negate the 
other.”

Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Woods Hole Research Center, 
said that while it seems counterintuitive, the science was “becoming 
clear” that extreme cold spells will be a consequence of global heating.

“The irony is pretty rich” that Iowa has experienced such conditions 
during a Republican presidential primary, Francis added. “Of course, the 
deniers won’t see it that way, and won’t listen to any science that says 
otherwise.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/trump-republican-rivals-climate-crisis



/[ Conversation by two wise women talking climate destabilization - 40 
min video ]/
*Climate is a Justice Issue | Naomi Oreskes*
Planet: Critical - Rachel Donald
Jan 17, 2024
Neoliberalism is the disease which keeps on killing.
But did you know the neoliberal economic gospel we live under today is a 
deliberate misinterpretation of the original theory?

In her new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe 
Government and Love the Free Market, historian of science Naomi Oreskes 
shows how a group of American plutocrats distorted the the conservative 
teachings of Friedrich van Hayek’s theory of neoliberalism in order to 
plunder the world’s resource, unleash the markets, and undermine federal 
power.

She joins me today to give a incisive and brutal summary of why our 
world is in crisis, detailing the criminal avarice of these plutocrats; 
how institutions, lobbyists and corporations continue to undermine 
democracy; and why a renewable world threatens the powers that be. This 
phenomenal explanation shows why the climate crisis is not a scientific 
problem, but a political, economic and social issue, with Naomi 
revealing tactics civilians used throughout history against the 
destructive elite.

🔴 Naomi's Harvard profile: 
https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/naomi-oreskes
🔴 The Big Myth: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/
🔴 Naomi's Twitter: https://twitter.com/naomioreskes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZk4Xjn6tEY



/[The news archive - and the previous year was a record-breaker  ]/
/*January 19, 1999 */
January 19, 1999: In his State of the Union address, President Clinton 
declares, "But our most fateful new challenge is the threat of global 
warming; 1998 was the warmest year ever recorded. Last year’s heat 
waves, floods, and storms are but a hint of what future generations may 
endure if we do not act now."
http://youtu.be/v3bZwSXjtCM




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