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<i><font size="+1"><b>June 18, 2020</b></font></i><br>
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[revised science timing]<br>
<b>World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert</b><br>
International Energy Agency chief warns of need to prevent
post-lockdown surge in emissions<br>
The world has only six months in which to change the course of the
climate crisis and prevent a post-lockdown rebound in greenhouse gas
emissions that would overwhelm efforts to stave off climate
catastrophe, one of the world's foremost energy experts has warned.<br>
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"This year is the last time we have, if we are not to see a carbon
rebound," said Fatih Birol, executive director of the International
Energy Agency...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/18/world-has-six-months-to-avert-climate-crisis-says-energy-expert</a><br>
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[Heatwave]<br>
<b>Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia</b><br>
Unusually high temperatures in region linked to wildfires, oil spill
and moth swarms...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/17/climate-crisis-alarm-at-record-breaking-heatwave-in-siberia">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/17/climate-crisis-alarm-at-record-breaking-heatwave-in-siberia</a><br>
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[Survey Says!]<br>
<b>Massive Survey Reveals The Places Where People Care Most About
Climate Change</b><br>
SIMGE ANDı & JAMES PAINTER, THE CONVERSATION17 JUNE 2020<br>
New survey results from 40 countries shows that climate change
matters to most people. In the vast majority of countries, fewer
than 3 percent said climate change was not serious at all.<br>
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We carried out this research as part of the University of Oxford's
Reuters Institute annual Digital News Reports. More than 80,000
people were surveyed online in January and February of this year.<br>
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Almost seven in ten think climate change is "a very, or extremely
serious, problem", but the results show notable country differences.
Lack of concern is far higher in the US (12 percent) as well as in
Sweden (9 percent), Greta Thunberg's home country...<br>
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So it looks like concern for climate change may be rising globally.
There is certainly strong evidence that it is increasing in some
countries. In the US, in November 2019 two in three Americans (66
percent) said they were at least "somewhat worried" about global
warming, an increase of 10 percentage points over the past five
years...<br>
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Across all countries, people say they pay most attention to climate
news on television (35 percent). Online news sites of major news
organisations are the second most popular news source (15 percent),
followed by specialised outlets covering climate issues (13
percent), then alternative sources such as social media and blogs (9
percent)...<br>
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Respondents from both sides of the political spectrum criticise the
media for either being too doom-laden, or not bold enough, in their
coverage of climate change. That said, our survey shows that almost
half of our respondents (47 percent) think that news media generally
do a good job of informing them about climate change, and 19 percent
think that they do a bad job...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencealert.com/how-much-do-people-around-the-world-care-about-climate-change">https://www.sciencealert.com/how-much-do-people-around-the-world-care-about-climate-change</a><br>
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[discussions]<br>
<b>Climate Ethics Session 3 with Henry Shue</b><br>
June 17, 2020<br>
Oxford Climate Society<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDAzuYSzk4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDAzuYSzk4</a><br>
Join us for the third session in this series with Professor Henry
Shue on "Are There Second Chances in Climate Change? Carbon Dioxide
Removal and Intergenerational Risk Transfer"<br>
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This University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy series brings
together some of the world's leading experts in climate ethics --
John Broome, Megan Blomfield, Henry Shue and Simon Caney -- to
showcase the latest and cutting edge work in the area.<br>
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Abstract: Almost all the policies toward climate change that are
currently under consideration in order to enable the earth to reach
2100 with an increase in average global temperature of no more than
2C depend to some extent on carbon dioxide removal [CDR], because it
is already impossible today to restrict cumulative CO2 emissions to
a quantity that will not force temperature to go higher at least
temporarily, which scientists call an emissions 'overshoot'. The
complementary good news is that CO2 can be extracted from the
atmosphere, as is done by trees and other plant life engaged in
photosynthesis. Several technologies for anthropogenic CDR are now
in some stage of development. Does this mean that what appear to be
dates-of-last-opportunity for climate action are not in fact last
chances to prevent climate change from leading to disastrous
outcomes? That the answer is no is the thesis of this talk.<br>
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I will highlight two of the reasons. First, CDR mobilized now to
supplement ambitious emissions reductions now could be valuable,
depending on whether it required too much land, water, or other
scarce resources. But relaxed emissions reductions now, seemingly
invited by hopes of CDR in later decades, would amount to coercive
transfers of costs and risks from present generations to future
generations. This is worse than an ordinary situation of 'moral
hazard'. Second, even reversible emissions 'overshoots' can force
irreversible changes to the planet, such as sea-level rises from ice
sheets driven past critical melting points that would continue for
centuries after cumulative emissions were lowered by CDR. Dreams of
CDR ought not to be allowed to motivate reductions of emissions at
anything less than the most ambitious rate possible.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDAzuYSzk4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKDAzuYSzk4</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 18, 2005 </b></font><br>
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Investigative journalist Brad Friedman interviews White House
whistleblower Rick Piltz regarding the Bush Administration's assault
on science.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bradshow.com/Archives/BradShow_061805_Hour1_24k.mp3">http://www.bradshow.com/Archives/BradShow_061805_Hour1_24k.mp3</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bradshow.com/Archives/BradShow_061805_Hour4_24k.mp3">http://www.bradshow.com/Archives/BradShow_061805_Hour4_24k.mp3</a> <br>
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