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<i><font size="+1"><b>April 2, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[April Fools jab scores point]<br>
<b>An April Fools climate hoax in the middle of a pandemic</b><br>
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Published: April 1, 2020<br>
By Rachel Koning Beals<br>
New release stating Google would no longer support think tanks that
deny climate-change science, pledges zero emissions by 2025 was a
parody<br>
MarketWatch and other technology and investing sites misreported
earlier Wednesday that Google parent Alphabet would cut ties with
lobbyists and think tanks that deny accelerating man-made climate
change.<br>
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The search giant GOOGL, -5.15% GOOG, -4.91% also reportedly had
announced plans to cut ties with fossil-fuel sources. Except it did
not make that announcement.<br>
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The posting was a prank put out by the New York City arm of a
climate protest group, which has called out Google's practices
before.<br>
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News sites generally believed that, amid the coronavirus pandemic,
April Fools Day parody releases, for which media outlets are on
alert at this time of year, would be rare or nonexistent this year
given the rising U.S. death toll...<br>
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Late last year, more than 1,000 Google workers signed a public
letter calling on their employer to commit to an aggressive
"company-wide climate plan" that includes canceling contracts with
the fossil fuel industry and halting its donations to climate-change
deniers, including those in Wednesday's protest release. That letter
had urged neutral emissions by 2030.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-will-no-longer-pay-lobbyists-that-deny-climate-change-pledges-zero-emissions-by-2025-2020-04-01">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/google-will-no-longer-pay-lobbyists-that-deny-climate-change-pledges-zero-emissions-by-2025-2020-04-01</a><br>
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[now is change]<br>
<b>Will the coronavirus kill the oil industry and help save the
climate?</b><br>
Analysts say the coronavirus and a savage price war means the oil
and gas sector will never be the same again<br>
Damian Carrington, Jillian Ambrose and Matthew Taylor<br>
Wed 1 Apr 2020 <br>
The plunging demand for oil wrought by the coronavirus pandemic
combined with a savage price war has left the fossil fuel industry
broken and in survival mode, according to analysts. It faces the
gravest challenge in its 100-year history, they say, one that will
permanently alter the industry. With some calling the scene a
"hellscape", the least lurid description is "unprecedented".<br>
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A key question is whether this will permanently alter the course of
the climate crisis. Many experts think it might well do so, pulling
forward the date at which demand for oil and gas peaks, never to
recover, and allowing the atmosphere to gradually heal.<br>
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The boldest say peak fossil fuel demand may have been dragged into
the here and now, and that 2019 will go down in history as the peak
year for carbon emissions. But some take an opposing view: the
fossil fuel industry will bounce back as it always has, and bargain
basement oil prices will slow the much-needed transition to green
energy...<br>
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However, not all experts think the oil industry's loss is
necessarily a gain for green energy and the climate. "If anything it
may hold up the share of oil for longer, because it's cheaper. It
could be bad news from a climate point of view," said Dieter Helm,
professor of energy policy at the University of Oxford.<br>
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He said securing a green economic recovery from the coronavirus
crisis will require deliberate policy measures from governments:
"This is where the carbon tax comes in. Now is the moment."<br>
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'Historic opportunity'<br>
Governments are deploying stupendous sums to stimulate the
coronavirus-wracked global economy - $5 trillion from the G20
nations alone - but how it is disbursed remains uncertain. European
Union leaders have promised to make their emergency measures align
with their Green Deal programme and Fatih Birol, executive director
at the International Energy Agency, has said there is an "historic
opportunity" to pour investment into energy technologies that cut
greenhouse gas emissions.<br>
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But the $2tn US coronavirus relief package is doling out $60bn to
struggling airlines and offering low-interest loans that are
available to fossil fuel companies, without requiring any action to
stem the climate emergency. The Canadian government has said it will
give loans to its oil companies, who say they are on "life
support"...<br>
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The lasting impact of the price war depends on how long Saudi Arabia
and Russia can keep pumping cheap oil. While their production costs
are very low, they depend on high revenues to balance their national
budgets.<br>
<br>
Michael Liebreich, at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, said the fiscal
break-even for Saudi Arabia is around $80 per barrel, meaning its
foreign exchange reserves might sustain rock-bottom oil prices for
only two or three years. "Russia, with a $40 a barrel fiscal
break-even and much more diversified economy, can survive low oil
prices for a decade," he said.<br>
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Whatever happens, the industry will never be the same again after
the double whammy of the pandemic and price war. "The companies that
emerge from the crisis will not be the ones that went into it," said
Carbon Tracker's Bond. "We will see write-downs, restructuring and
radical change."<br>
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Experts, including Currie at Goldman Sachs, say the climate change
debate will almost certainly take a difference course after the
crisis. But exactly what that looks like remains to be seen. "The
question is how long this is all going to last, and no one really
knows," said Kretzschmar.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/01/the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-broken-will-a-cleaner-climate-be-the-result">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/01/the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-broken-will-a-cleaner-climate-be-the-result</a><br>
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[Proposal for climate refugees]<br>
Article from the journal Climate Change proposing a Climate
Humanitarian Visa based on the climate visas issued by the US and
Canada to typhoon victims in the Philippines.<br>
<b>Climate humanitarian visa: international migration opportunities
as post-disaster humanitarian intervention </b><br>
<p>Denise Margaret S. Matias</p>
<b>Abstract <br>
</b>With global action being outpaced by climate change impacts,
communities in climate-vulnerable countries are at increased risk of
incurring climate-induced losses and damages. In the last few years,
disasters from extreme weather events such as typhoons have
increased and have breached records, with typhoon Haiyan being the
strongest ever typhoon to make landfall. Such an event solicited
global compassion and altruism where Canada and the USA, apart from
doling out traditional humanitarian aid, also offered immigration
relief opportunities to typhoon Haiyan victims who have familial
connections to their residents. Drawing from these immigration
relief interventions, this paper uses a sociopolitical approach in
proposing a climate humanitarian visa that would be offered to
climate change victims on the basis of transnational family networks
and skilled labor. Noting that several countries such as in Europe
have demographic deficits and labor shortages, such a scheme would
benefit both climate change victims and receiving countries. To
counter the risk of selective compassion against economically
trapped populations, potential receiving countries could provide
skills upgrading geared toward addressing their labor shortages
through their existing development programs. While migration is only
one strategy in a spectrum of responses to climate change impacts, a
climate humanitarian visa could provide climate change victims a
legal choice for mobility while invoking altruism, hospitality, and
compassion from potential receiving countries, whether or not they
historically cause climate change.<br>
The article is fully accessible here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://rdcu.be/b3eNH">https://rdcu.be/b3eNH</a><br>
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[Check on Exxon - video]<br>
<b>How ExxonMobil Controls Our Lives</b><br>
Mar 13, 2020<br>
Our Changing Climate<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiPWKHBR9wI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiPWKHBR9wI</a><br>
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<br>
[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
April 2, 2002 </b></font><br>
The New York Times reports:<br>
"After a year of urging from energy industry lobbyists, the Bush
administration is seeking the ouster of an American scientist who
for nearly six years has directed an international panel of hundreds
of experts assessing global warming, several government officials
have said.<br>
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"The specialist, Dr. Robert T. Watson, chief scientist of the World
Bank, is highly regarded as an atmospheric chemist by many climate
experts. He has held the unpaid position of chairman of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change since the fall of 1996.
Now his term is expiring and the State Department has chosen not to
renominate him to head the panel, which is run under the auspices of
the United Nations and the World Meteorological Organization.<br>
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"Dr. Watson is an outspoken advocate of the idea that human actions
— mainly burning oil and coal — are contributing to global warming
and must be changed to avert environmental upheavals.<br>
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"Last night, a State Department official said the administration was
leaning toward endorsing a scientist from India, which along with
other developing countries has been eager for a stronger role in the
climate assessments.<br>
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"But many influential climate experts say they have written to the
department supporting Dr. Watson."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/02/science/02CLIM.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/02/science/02CLIM.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY">http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY</a><br>
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