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<i><font size="+1"><b>June 11, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[64 photos from CBS News]<br>
<b>Stunning photos of climate change</b><br>
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[Flying industry refuses to die]<br>
<b>'Final blow' to aviation climate plan as EU agrees to weaken
rules</b><br>
09/06/2020<br>
EU member states will back an industry proposal to reduce airlines'
climate obligations in response to the coronavirus pandemic, at the
UN aviation forum<br>
By Chloe Farand<br>
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The climate plan for aviation is losing its last shred of
credibility, after the European Union confirmed it will back an
industry proposal to water down the rules, campaigners have warned.<br>
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In the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, the International
Air Transport Association (Iata), called on the UN body responsible
for aviation to ease airlines' obligations to offset their emissions
growth under a scheme known as Corsia...<br>
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Member states of Icao have agreed to offset all growth in aviation
emissions from 2020. With few technological solutions currently
available to reduce planes' pollution, airlines were expected to
fund emissions cuts in other sectors, under a carbon market called
Corsia.<br>
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The agreed baseline for measuring emissions was to be the two-year
average across 2019 and 2020. But with 2020 turning into a year of
anomalously low air travel because of restrictions to contain the
spread of Covid-19, airlines have proposed to measure from
pre-pandemic levels in 2019.<br>
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Analysis by the Oko-Institut in Germany found that changing the
baseline to 2019 could give airlines a free pass to pollute for the
next three to six years depending on the speed of the recovery. A
study by the US-based Environmental Defense Fund found similar
results.<br>
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Observers to the UN aviation talks argue the baseline change isn't
needed because offsets are already very cheap. An existing
flexibility provision built in Corsia could be used by airlines to
delay their offsetting obligations and limit additional financial
costs...<br>
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Airlines have managed to get what they wanted from governments,
Dufrasne added. Governments, including in the EU, are handing out
multi-billion relief packages to airlines "with virtually no climate
conditions while also agreeing to industry demands to weaken the
already insufficient climate policies in place," he said. "They are
exploiting the crisis."..<br>
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If a decision was taken by the council, "this will deal a triple
whammy" to Icao's climate credibility, she told CHN: airlines will
be given a free pass to pollute, the trust of countries that are not
part of Icao's council will be undermined as well as the public
trust in the credibility of airlines' environmental claims.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/06/09/final-blow-aviation-climate-plan-eu-agrees-weaken-rules/">https://www.climatechangenews.com/2020/06/09/final-blow-aviation-climate-plan-eu-agrees-weaken-rules/</a><br>
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[charged about electric cars - video 16 mins]<br>
<b>Top ten reasons NOT to buy an electric vehicle (and why each one
is wrong!)</b><br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Electric vehicles. To buy or not to buy? That is the question! Many
of us still labour under prejudices and misperceptions that are
years or even decades out of date. Misperceptions that are
enthusiastically reinforced by the fossil fuel industry! But with
battery prices tumbling and governments around the world now
beginning to enact legislation to ban the sale of internal
combustion engine cars in the next few years, all the major
manufacturers are investing billions in research and development to
bring us some spectacular electric choices. In fact there's never
been a better time to have a think about EVs. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZOLMeMYnI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyZOLMeMYnI</a><br>
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[Strong opinions from a military mindset]<br>
BY CAITLIN WERRELL AND FRANCESCO FEMIA IN CLIMATE AND SECURITY ON
JUNE 10, 2020<br>
<b>Climate Change Entails More Than Changing Temperatures: Disease
and Security Implications</b><br>
By Leah Emanuel<br>
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Matthew Vollrath, a
journalism Master's student at Stanford, has created a podcast
entitled "Life in the Coronaverse." This five-part series explores
the linkages between the coronavirus and climate change, how we
respond to both, the partisan divides impacting action, and more. In
the third episode, published on May 29, Vollrath spoke with Stanford
physician Desiree LaBeaud and Center for Climate and Security's
Senior Strategist Sherri Goodman about the global health and
security impacts that climate change can have.<br>
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While there are no known direct links between climate change and
COVID, LaBeaud said, we will like likely see an increase in the
spread of vector-borne diseases as climate change intensifies.
Vector-borne diseases are diseases that are transmitted to humans
through insects or animals, such as Malaria and Zika. As
temperatures increase, LaBeaud said, these species will be able to
survive in countries and regions in which they previously could not.
Since these places will have never seen diseases of this nature, the
populations are particularly susceptible. This will result in
outbreaks similar to that of COVID-19, which presents the risk of
overwhelming the healthcare system. There is a lot of potential for
a lot of future pandemics, LaBeaud said.<br>
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However, the spread of infectious diseases is far from the only
peripheral impact of climate change. Following LaBeaud, Vollrath
spoke with Goodman to understand the security impacts of climate
change. Goodman spoke about how climate change is a "threat
multiplier," a phrase that was first used by Goodman and her
colleagues in a 2007 report. This term directly references the
military term "force multiplier," which is something that makes
weapon systems more effective. As a "threat multiplier," climate
change can drastically increase the power of a range of dangers.
These threats, Goodman said, are already here. The largest United
States naval base located in Norfolk, Virginia, is not only sinking,
but is highly at risk for the next hurricane on the east coast.
Additionally, the melting of the arctic has created a whole new
avenue for geopolitical competition, with several countries already
competing for control over this new sea route.<br>
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However, an especially alarming past impact, Goodman said, is the
link between climate change and the Syrian conflict - an issue
analyzed by the Center for Climate and Security's Caitlin Werrell,
Francesco Femia and Troy Sterberg beginning in 2012. This conflict
was preceded by prolonged drought in Syria, considered to have been
made more likely by climate change, which forced many rural citizens
to migrate, including towards the cities. This placed strain on
available food, water, and jobs, which contributed to civil unrest.
Political forces then took advantage of this unrest, leading to the
deadliest modern conflict. Goodman said that political forces or
terrorist organizations taking advantage of vulnerable populations
due to climate impacts will likely become a pattern. Recognizing
these extreme effects, Goodman said the United States military
continues to take climate change very seriously despite the slow
action within other governmental sectors.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/06/10/climate-change-entails-more-than-changing-temperatures-disease-and-security-implications/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2020/06/10/climate-change-entails-more-than-changing-temperatures-disease-and-security-implications/</a><br>
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<p>[Two greats leave Weather Underground - head to Yale Climate
Connections]<br>
<b>Jeff Masters, Bob Henson to post regularly for YCC</b><br>
Two respected meteorologists to provide regular analyses,
commentary, insights on extreme weather and climate change issues.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/06/jeff-masters-bob-henson-to-post-regularly-for-ycc/">https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2020/06/jeff-masters-bob-henson-to-post-regularly-for-ycc/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/end-of-an-era-category-6-to-close-shop-this-month">https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/end-of-an-era-category-6-to-close-shop-this-month</a><br>
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[for a destabilizing world, all chaos is related - clips from a long
article]<br>
<b>The protests, the pandemic, and the planet: from systemic decline
to civilizational renewal</b><br>
Nafeez Ahmed<br>
Jun 5, 2020<br>
The US is on the brink of becoming a racist failed state. It is no
accident that this terrible moment arrives in the midst of a global
pandemic; an escalating economic crisis; an oil sector meltdown.
This is a perfect storm of simultaneous, complex crises. How did we
get here? How do we solve this?<br>
If we're not confused, perplexed and alarmed about this intensifying
sequence of overlapping crises, we are not paying attention.<br>
It's time to start paying attention. Right now: We, the human
species, stand at the dawn of a great civilizational inflection
point. This is the fork in the road. The decisions we, you, make in
this moment are about to make history.<br>
The convergence of events we are witnessing is a symptom of a wider
process of global systemic decline. This convergence is happening
due to the unsustainable nature of a system that can no longer keep
going in its current form without sparking further crisis. The
ultimate hidden driver is a way of living and being premised on
self-maximization through plunder of the 'Other': whether Others are
different humans, different species, or the planet itself...<br>
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The pandemic has wrought a perfect storm of disease, violence and
poverty onto Black and minority communities across the Western
world, amplifying problems they were already facing. In doing so,
the murder of George Floyd was a catalyst, a match to long-burning
flames, tipping over a declining system into a spiral of chaos.<br>
But this perfect storm of structural racism, effectively weaponized
by the COVID-19 pandemic, cannot simply be removed with platitudes
of support, affinity and allegiance, or goodwill gestures of
solidarity. We have to start by recognizing this structural racism
for what it is -- the extension and legacy of a global imperial
system, premised on ecological plunder: A system of accelerating
resource extraction and wealth centralization premised on imperial
violence that is literally destroying the ecosystems on which all
life on Earth depends.<br>
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The systemic enslavement of Africans was integral to the emergence
of the global economy as we know it. It was part of a trans-Atlantic
emerging capitalist world system, designed to establish a labour
force for the expansion of plantations across colonial America,
which fuelled Britain's industries and helped augment the processes
behind the Industrial Revolution.<br>
The acceleration of slavery also coincides with the dawn of the age
of the 'Anthropocene', what some scientists consider to be an
entirely new geological era characterized by the predominant impact
of human activities on the Earth's geological processes. British
geographers Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin put the pivotal date for the
onset of this new geological epoch at 1610. "This date marks the
irreversible exchange of species following the collision of the Old
and New worlds", which coincided with "an associated unusual drop in
atmospheric CO2 captured in Antarctic ice cores."...<br>
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The dawn of industrialization was, in turn, an inflection point for
the human species. It ushered in the age of fossil fuels -- oil, gas
and coal -- which enabled a bold new era of exponentially increasing
material throughput, fuelling a new paradigm of 'endless growth'
economics.<br>
This economic paradigm has widened income inequalities for more than
70 percent of the world population, even as it has also escalated
the destruction of natural ecosystems.<br>
We have produced and consumed at rates equivalent to the
exploitation of two whole planets.<br>
And worse, multiple warnings backed by a global consensus of climate
scientists have warned that human activities, through the escalating
consumption of fossil fuel resources, is destabilizing the Earth's
natural carbon cycle with potentially catastrophic consequences for
al life on the planet within our lifetimes...<br>
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But since the Industrial Revolution, built on the back of empires --
enabled by the sinews of slavery -- human civilization has
inexorably expanded, consuming greater quantities of fossil fuel
energy along the way, and exponentially increasing associated carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions -- overwhelming the planet's capacity for
absorption. The result has been a steady increase in global average
temperatures. Scientists warn that the extra addition of CO2 into
the atmosphere, capturing greater heat, is in turn playing havoc
with the Earth's climate, weather and ecological systems.<br>
As human civilization continues its expansion, burning up escalating
quantities of fossil fuels along the way, the climate science
community warns that above a certain level of CO2, planetary
ecosystems could shift passed a key tipping point into a new,
dangerous era -- one outside the stable boundaries of the preceding
hundreds of thousands of years, and certainly outside anything human
beings have ever experienced.<br>
Our civilization is on the brink, right now. A landmark study in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that at the
current level of an approximate 1C temperature rise above the
pre-industrial average, we are already breaching so many planetary
boundaries at such scale, that we could be at immediate risk of
triggering a cascade of runaway processes leading to an
uninhabitable planet. The complexity of these boundaries is such
that we may not even be able to detect whether these processes are
in play until after the fact. We just don't know...<br>
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What we do know for sure is that if we continue on this pathway of
business-as-usual, conservative projections suggest we are heading
toward a 3 to 6 degrees Celsius global average temperature rise
within 80 years. Even a 2C planet, to which at minimum we are
already heading within 16 years, should be considered "extremely
dangerous" for human societies; and a global average temperature
rise within the 3-4C threshold would probably create conditions that
make the core infrastructures of human civilization increasingly
unviable.<br>
The same process of relentless global industrial expansion laid the
conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic. As industrial activities have
grown exponentially, they have encroached increasingly onto wildlife
and natural habitats, forcing animals carrying tens of thousands of
unknown exotic diseases into closer interaction with human
settlements. That's why scientists have warned for decades that a
pandemic would be inevitable this century.<br>
<b>Yet this very expanding global industrial system which is
breaching planetary boundaries and triggering increasingly
dangerous disease outbreaks is the legacy of colonial racism...</b><br>
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As industrial civilization continues on its relentless path of
maximum extraction, exploitation and centralization of resources,
its power centers continue to invent and entrench multiple
ideological divides between human beings, and between human beings
and the natural world, to justify its unequal power relations. And
so, the devastating impacts of the Earth system crisis remain
racialized, with the worst consequences disproportionately affecting
poorer, darker peoples all over the world...<br>
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We need to break the cycle. But we can't break what we refuse to
see.<br>
It's only by facing up to the mistaken choices we've made as a
species, by taking responsibility for who we are and what we've
done, that we might be able to step-up together and make different
choices that can convert this trajectory of systemic decline into a
chance for civilizational renewal. But to do so we must accept some
humility, recognize that we didn't see this coming, and know that
this is because our current way of seeing the world largely misses
the true, interconnected complexity of what's really going on.<br>
The George Floyd protests follow on the back of a steady rise in the
frequency and intensity of protest events, political instability and
civil unrest, both in the US and around the world. They were
preceded by a rising tide of racism and white supremacism in the US,
and symbiotically interconnected with escalating political
instabilities in many other parts of the world, from the 2008 Occupy
movements to the 2011 and 2018 Arab uprisings.<br>
As I've shown in my scientific monograph, Failing States, Collapsing
Systems: Biophysical Triggers of Political Violence (Springer Energy
Briefs, 2017), this rising trend in political unrest correlates
intimately with the escalation in Earth system disruption: the
intensification of climate chaos, the diminishing returns from
ever-expanding resource extraction, the widening of structural
inequalities, and the increasingly complex intertwined impacts on
food, water, energy, and health systems.<br>
Failing States, Collapsing Systems: BioPhysical Triggers of
Political Violence (SPRINGER BRIEFS IN…<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.academia.edu/34816514/Failing_States_Collapsing_Systems_BioPhysical_Triggers_of_Political_Violence_SPRINGER_BRIEFS_IN_ENERGY_">https://www.academia.edu/34816514/Failing_States_Collapsing_Systems_BioPhysical_Triggers_of_Political_Violence_SPRINGER_BRIEFS_IN_ENERGY_</a><br>
Since the 2008 financial crash, the world has witnessed an
unprecedented outbreak of social unrest in every major…<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.academia.edu">www.academia.edu</a>...<br>
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As we move toward this fourth stage in the last stages of the life
cycle of industrial civilization, the choices each of us make during
the global phase shift play an integral role in determining the
structures, values, behavioural patterns, and relationships of an
emergent system, which will then form the basis of a new systemic
life cycle for human civilization.<br>
The decisions we make right now will plant the seeds for the task of
rebuilding, redesigning, and recreating the next life cycle for our
species.<br>
This has quite profound implications.<br>
It means that many structures we see around us at this moment are
destined to disappear, one way or another. Many of them are already
experiencing interlocking, cascading failures. We need to accept the
demise of those systems which, through their own brittleness,
stubbornness, and narcissism, are incapable of change. There will be
terrible fallout from this process and we need to do all we can to
mitigate the impacts.<br>
Simultaneously, we need to also cast our gaze ahead, toward what we
need to create, toward the new life-patterns we are being called to
bring into being, the new relationships, the new values.<br>
We will need to bring forth all our creativity and wisdom; we will
need to do our best to stop thinking in silos, and to see the world
in its complex intersectionality; we will need to integrate our
struggles in unfamiliar ways, not just through public statements,
but through new institution-changing actions; we will need to
reflect really deeply on how changing and upgrading our perceptions
translates into changing and upgrading who we are and how we are,
across all our relationships; and we will need to roll up our
sleeves and work together across multiple sectors and systems to
scale up how we can leverage that process to create transformative
conditions for the flourishing of life, by challenging ourselves as
well as challenging prevailing unequal, destructive, narcissistic
power structures, especially those within our reach.<br>
The Black Lives Matter eruption is the outcome of a civilizational
inflection point -- a point-of-no-return -- beyond which we face two
choices: escalating collapse, or systemic transformation. The
imperial system of structural racism and ecological plunder is
crumbling beneath the weight of its own diminishing returns. Where
does your allegiance belong? To that which is already doomed, or to
an emerging life-world of possibility?<br>
Published by Insurge Intelligence, crowdfunding systems journalism
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to tread.<br>
Dr Nafeez Ahmed is Executive Director of the System Shift Lab. He is
an award-winning investigative journalist, change strategist and
systems theorist. Nafeez is editor of the crowdfunded investigative
journalism platform, INSURGE intelligence, and 'system shift'
columnist at VICE where he reports on 'global system
transformation'. <br>
Published by Insurge Intelligence, crowdfunding systems journalism
for the planetary emergency.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/white-supremacism-and-the-earth-system-fa14e0ea6147">https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/white-supremacism-and-the-earth-system-fa14e0ea6147</a><br>
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[Digging back into the internet news archive]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming -
June 11, 2001 </b></font><br>
In a Rose Garden speech on climate change, President George W. Bush
repeatedly attacks the Kyoto Protocol.<br>
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href="http://c-spanvideo.org/program/GlobalClimateChang">http://c-spanvideo.org/program/GlobalClimateChang</a>
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href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html">http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/06/20010611-2.html</a>
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