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<font size="+1"><i>October 17, 2019</i></font><br>
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[Ellen edges out extinction]<br>
<b>CNN and the New York Times skip climate change in the fourth
Democratic debate</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://grist.org/article/cnn-and-the-new-york-times-skip-climate-change-in-the-fourth-democratic-debate/">https://grist.org/article/cnn-and-the-new-york-times-skip-climate-change-in-the-fourth-democratic-debate/</a><br>
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[Breastfeeding Moms nurse-in] <b><br>
</b><b>Extinction Rebellion protesters barricade Google and
YouTube's offices James Hockaday - Wednesday 16 Oct 2019</b><br>
Breastfeeding mothers and their babies blockaded Google's London HQ
today, calling for the tech giant to stop funding climate change
deniers. <br>
Extinction Rebellion activists also stood outside YouTube's nearby
Kings Cross offices in protest against them giving a platform to
people who reject science on global warming. <br>
Meanwhile some 1,000 protesters sat down in Trafalgar Square in
defiance of controversial Metropolitan Police ban on all of the
group's demonstrations in the capital. <br>
Activists have turned their sights on Google over donations to
organisations who have campaigned against environmental legislation
and question the science of climate change. <br>
The group of around 100 mums taking part in the 'nurse-in' wore
white sashes emblazoned with the words 'their future' and held up a
banner with the company's motto 'do the right thing'...<br>
more -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/16/extinction-rebellion-protesters-barricade-google-youtubes-offices-10930257/?ito=cbshare">https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/16/extinction-rebellion-protesters-barricade-google-youtubes-offices-10930257/?ito=cbshare</a><br>
Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/MetroUK">https://twitter.com/MetroUK</a>
| Facebook: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/">https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/</a><br>
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<p>[The Guardian Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington - Wed 16 Oct
2019]<br>
<b>Democrat calls on Google to stop funding climate crisis deniers</b><br>
A Democratic lawmaker has called on Google CEO Sundar Pichai to
stop investing in organizations that deny the existence of the
climate crisis, saying it was hard to overstate how detrimental
the impact of such groups had been on the US climate debate.<br>
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Kathy Castor's letter to Pichai followed a report in the Guardian
last week that revealed Google had made “substantial” contributions
to some of the most notorious climate deniers in Washington, despite
the internet giant's insistence it supports political action to
combat the crisis.<br>
<br>
The groups included the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which has
actively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections and
helped convince Donald Trump, the US president, to abandon the Paris
Agreement.<br>
<br>
Google has said it supported the climate accord, but continued to
offer financial backing to CEI and similarly-minded groups.<br>
<br>
“It is hard to overstate the detrimental impact groups like CEI have
had on the climate debate in the United States since the early days
of the Kyoto Protocol,” Castor, a Democratic representative from
Florida, said. “Because of their public and behind-the-scenes
efforts to obfuscate and obstruct, we have lost critical time to cut
greenhouse gas pollution and now face a shrinking window of
opportunity to avert the worst impacts of climate change.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/16/democrat-letter-google-stop-funding-climate-change-deniers">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/16/democrat-letter-google-stop-funding-climate-change-deniers</a><br>
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[Study released 2 months ago]<br>
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE<br>
Frontiers in Communication, 25 July 2019 | <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00036">https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00036</a><br>
<b>Science and Environmental Communication on YouTube: Strategically
Distorted Communications in Online Videos on Climate Change and
Climate Engineering</b><br>
Joachim Allgaier<br>
<blockquote>The online video-sharing website YouTube is extremely
popular globally, also as a tool for information on science and
environmental topics. However, only little is known about what
kind of information users find when they are searching for
information about climate science, climate change, and climate
engineering on YouTube. This contribution presents results from an
exploratory research project that investigates whether videos
found on YouTube adhere to or challenge scientific consensus
views. Ten search terms were employed to search for and analyze
200 videos about climate and climate modification topics, which
are contested topics in online media. The online anonymization
tool Tor has been used for the randomization of the sample and to
avoid personalization of the results. A heuristic qualitative
classification tool was set up to categorize the videos in the
sample. Eighty-nine videos of the 200 videos in the sample are
supporting scientific consensus views about anthropogenic climate
change, and climate scientists are discussing climate topics with
deniers of climate change in four videos in the sample.
Unexpectedly, the majority of the videos in the sample (107
videos) supports worldviews that are opposing scientific consensus
views: 16 videos deny anthropogenic climate change and 91 videos
in the sample propagate straightforward conspiracy theories about
climate engineering and climate change. Videos supporting the
scientific mainstream view received only slightly more views
(16,941,949 views in total) than those opposing the mainstream
scientific position (16,939,655 views in total). Consequences for
the public communication of climate change and climate engineering
are discussed in the second part of the article. The research
presented in this contribution is particularly interested in
finding out more about strategically distorted communications
about climate change and climate engineering in online
environments and in critically analyzing them.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00036/full">https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00036/full</a><br>
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[XR makes its own video news reports]<br>
<b>XR TV 16 October 2019</b><br>
Extinction Rebellion<br>
Day 10 round up of London's Extinction Rebellion. Journalist George
Monbiot arrest, XR Youth telling YouTube what's what, and a glimpse
into the emotional rollercoaster that Rebels are experiencing. <br>
Can't get enough of XR.TV? We can help. Check out Monday's broadcast
(14 October) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/JXMxLeF63-Y">https://youtu.be/JXMxLeF63-Y</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/ILBHx-rAXfk?t=121">https://youtu.be/ILBHx-rAXfk?t=121</a><br>
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[follow the money]<br>
<b>As The Climate Warms, Companies Scramble To Calculate The Risk To
Their Profits</b><br>
Audio and TRANSCRIPT<br>
October 16, 2019<br>
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The tool they've built is called HazAtlas. Kaity Lieschke, a
consultant at Ramboll who helped create it, says their sales pitch
is pretty simple. "It's really easy to make the point that as our
climate changes, we're getting increased damages from events like
flooding and wildfire," she says. "This tool helps people prepare
for that future."<br>
<br>
But the HazAtlas team still has to convince businesses that the tool
can deliver information that's specific and accurate enough to help
those companies make decisions -- and that might be more difficult.<br>
<br>
The problem is, climate models paint the future with a very broad
brush. They show general trends for the future planet, but they're
not very good with specifics. Some models, for instance, show
rainfall increasing in parts of the Midwestern corn belt; others
show rainfall decreasing in the same areas.<br>
<br>
Ingredion, the Illinois-based company that turns corn into food
ingredients, worked with Ramboll to see what the models might reveal
about risks to its supply of corn. So far, Ingredion says it hasn't
found the information very useful.<br>
<br>
But Ingredion's executives also say that if these tools for
predicting climate risk become more specific and reliable, there
will be a huge demand for them.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/16/770066763/as-the-climate-warms-companies-are-scrambling-to-calculate-the-risk-to-their-pro">https://www.npr.org/2019/10/16/770066763/as-the-climate-warms-companies-are-scrambling-to-calculate-the-risk-to-their-pro</a><br>
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[Changes baselined]<br>
<b>Scientists Want to Make a 3D Map of the Entire World Before
Climate Change Ruins It</b><br>
By Brandon Specktor - Senior Writer 18 hours ago Planet Earth <br>
<p> To record the world's most vulnerable places before they
disappear, we're going to need a lot of lasers.</p>
<p>Earth is changing faster than anyone can comprehend. Every day,
more forests burn, more glaciers melt and more evidence of the
world's ancient cultures slips away. Change of some kind is, of
course, inevitable -- but it is happening more quickly and more
severely because of the effects of human-caused climate change.
And that has some scientists worried: The quicker Earth
changes,the less time there is to learn from its past and
understand its mysteries.<br>
<br>
Recently, two researchers proposed a way to preserve a record of
our planet in its present state: use lasers to create a
high-resolution, 3D map of the entire world. It's now the mission
of a new nonprofit project called The Earth Archive, which is
spearheaded by archaeologist Chris Fisher and geographer Steve
Leisz, both of Colorado State University.<br>
<br>
"The climate crisis threatens to destroy our cultural and
ecological patrimony within decades," Fisher said earlier this
year in a TEDx talk. "How can we document everything before it's
too late?"</p>
<p>The answer, Fisher said, is light detection and ranging, or lidar
-- a method of remote scanning that uses aircraft to shower a
landscape with a dense net of laser beams. From this bombardment
of light, researchers can create high-resolution, 3D maps of a
given area and then digitally edit out foliage and other features
that might be concealing hard-to-spot secrets near Earth's
surface. <br>
<br>
The technique has become more prominent in archaeological surveys
in the past decade, helping researchers uncover lost cities in
heavily forested parts of Africa and South America, buried roads
in ancient Rome and previously undiscovered cityscapes in
Cambodia. In 2007, Fisher was part of a team that used lidar to
uncover traces of a lost metropolis in the Honduran rainforest.
These scans, Fisher said in his TEDx talk, revealed more details
about the city's ruins in 10 minutes than he and his colleagues
could have found in 10 years of research on the ground. <br>
<br>
The experience convinced Fisher that scientists need to "scan,
scan, scan" to capture the world's most vulnerable places before
they disappear. The Earth Archive's efforts would focus on
scanning the planet's entire land area, which encompasses about
29% of the planet's surface, beginning with the most threatened
regions, such as the Amazon rainforest and coastal regions at risk
of being washed away by rising sea levels. The project would
likely take decades, Fisher said, but the resulting snapshot of
Earth would be "the ultimate gift to future generations."<br>
<br>
Doing this, of course, will require lots of funding; the project
needs about $10 million just to scan most of the Amazon within the
next three years, Fisher told The Guardian. That price tag has
some other researchers worried about The Earth Archive's
tenability. Mat Disney, a professor in the University College
London Department of Geography, told The Guardian that such a
project would inevitably draw funding away from other research
projects. Even with proper funding, he added, getting permission
to fly a research aircraft over restricted airspaces would prove
to be a logistical hurdle.</p>
<p> "Who is going to give them permission to fly over Brazil? The
Brazilian government aren't," Disney said, referring to Brazilian
President Jair Bolsonaro's ongoing efforts to undermine science
and open parts of the protected rainforest to commercial
interests.<br>
</p>
To learn more about the project or to donate, visit The Earth
Archive's website. <a href="https://www.theeartharchive.com/donate">https://www.theeartharchive.com/donate</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.livescience.com/map-the-earth-with-lasers.html">https://www.livescience.com/map-the-earth-with-lasers.html</a><br>
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<br>
[Susan Moser is great]<br>
<b>Hope in the face of climate change - Dr. Susanne Moser</b><br>
Sep 7, 2019 - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPp2jVlsSg8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPp2jVlsSg8</a><br>
Those about to watch this video are unique people, willing to
unflinchingly consider the portends of climate change eyeball to
eyeball. But this subculture has developed a severe aversion to the
term 'hope' which could used to be rectified. This talk by Dr.
Susanne Moser, presented on June 12, 2015, takes a look at climate
and hope different than usually. The word has a diverse meaning and
integral relationship with the human psyche. To 'abandon all hope'
we risk painting ourselves into a dark, dark corner when in fact we
need to be coming from the light more now than ever. Hope is more
complex than that. There is no doubt we live at an apocalyptic
moment in time. Remaining intent upon making personal and political
change within our sphere is a self-reinforcing function coupled with
hope. We cannot afford to bar 'hope' as one of the many responses
upon which we can draw. <br>
<br>
Dr. Moser gave this keynote speech about the importance of 'active
hope' in the face of climate disruption at the 2015 Conference on
Communication and Environment (COCE) in Boulder, Colorado on June
12th, 2015 . We are republishing the presentation here with her
permission.<br>
<br>
You can read in depth about Dr. Moser at <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.susannemoser.com/about.php">http://www.susannemoser.com/about.php</a>.
This is the draft of her paper underlying this presentation: "Hope
in the face of climate change: A bridge without railing" <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/2JMPXgA">https://bit.ly/2JMPXgA</a><br>
<br>
She will also be appearing in the movie "Once You Know" by Emmanuel
Cappellin, which is currently in post-production. You can see a
trailer here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://vimeo.com/238828549">https://vimeo.com/238828549</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPp2jVlsSg8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPp2jVlsSg8</a><br>
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[Activism: Thursday beforeFriday]<br>
<b>Fire Drill Fridays</b><br>
In this Thursday Teach-In, our focus will be a Green New Deal.
There's a lot of talk today about a Green New Deal (GND) and that's
because this exciting and ambitious idea is the first attempt we've
seen to address the climate crisis in a big way - commensurate with
the scale of the problem. A GND can offer us a path to build a more
fair, inclusive, prosperous and sustainable economy and society
powered by clean renewable energy with good union jobs. It invests
in public infrastructure, ensures a just transition for communities
and workers, protects our environment and promotes environmental
health and justice. That's exactly what we need! It's the most
ambitious and transformative national project taken on since
Franklin Roosevelt's original New Deal and World War II economic
mobilizations - but it has learned from those past experiences which
exacerbated inequality in the U.S. and has put equity at its core.
To make a GND real, we need government, businesses, workers, and
communities to all join in. And we need all of you to demand that
candidates and elected officials - from local electeds all the way
to the President - support and work to advance this bold and
promising vision by saying “YES” to a Green New Deal an “NO” to
continued investment in fossil fuels.<br>
For more information on the GND, see: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://newconsensus.com/green-new-deal/">https://newconsensus.com/green-new-deal/</a><br>
Join Jane Fonda, Rhiana Gunn-Wright, and Sam Waterston to talk about
why a Green New Deal is so critical if we stand any chance to
protect our climate.<br>
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[Activism: Tomorrow is Friday]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://firedrillfridays.com/events/green-new-deal">https://firedrillfridays.com/events/green-new-deal</a><br>
<b>Jane Fonda is launching an exciting new project, Fire Drill
Fridays, inspired by, and in collaboration with, the youth climate
strikers. </b><br>
Here's the FDF website: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://firedrillfridays.com/">https://firedrillfridays.com/</a>
(not quite done - we'll be adding much much more content to it in
the coming days)<br>
All of the handles are @FireDrillFriday and use #FireDrillFriday.
Please follow and share if you're up for it.<br>
Facebook: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.facebook.com/firedrillfriday/">https://www.facebook.com/firedrillfriday/</a><br>
Instagram: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.instagram.com/firedrillfriday/">https://www.instagram.com/firedrillfriday/</a><br>
Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/FireDrillFriday">https://twitter.com/FireDrillFriday</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History - October 17, 2000 -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
October 17, 2000: In the third presidential debate, Vice President
Al Gore declares:<br>
<blockquote>"I spend a good deal of time talking to young people,
and in my standard speech out there on the stump, I usually end my
speech by saying, 'I want to ask you for something, and I want to
direct it especially to the young people in the audience,' and I
want to tell you what I tell them. Sometimes people who are very
idealistic and have great dreams, as young people do, are apt to
stay at arm's length from the political process, because they
think their good hearts might be brittle, and if they invest their
hopes and allow themselves to believe, then they're going to be
let down and disappointed. But thank goodness, we've always had
enough people who have been willing in every generation to push
past the fear of a broken heart and become deeply involved in
forming a more perfect union. We're America, and -- and we believe
in our future, and we know we have the ability to shape our
future.<br>
<br>
"Now, we've got to address one of the biggest threats to our
democracy, and that is the current campaign financing system. And
I know they say it doesn't rank anywhere on the polls. I don't
believe -- I don't believe that's a fair measure. I'm telling you,
I will make it -- I will make the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance
Reform bill the very first measure that I send to the Congress as
president. Governor Bush opposes it. I wish that he would consider
changing his mind on that, because I think that the special
interests have too much power and we need to give our democracy
back to the American people.<br>
<br>
"Let me tell you why. Those issues you mentioned, Social Security,
prescription drugs--the big drug companies are against the
prescription drug proposal that I've made. The HMOs are against
the patients' rights bill, the Dingell-Norwood bill, that I
support and that Governor Bush does not support. The big oil
companies are against the measures to get more energy independence
and renewable fuels. They ought to have their voices heard, but
they shouldn't have a big megaphone that drowns out the American
people. We need campaign finance reform, and we need to shoot
straight with young and old alike and tell them what the real
choices are. And we can renew and rekindle the American spirit and
make our future what our founders dreamed it could be. We can."<br>
</blockquote>
(64:40--67:22)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PresidentialCandidatesDebate">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PresidentialCandidatesDebate</a><br>
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