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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>November 14, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[continuing assault]<br>
<b>White House taps second controversial scientist to steer major
U.S. climate change report</b><br>
NOAA chief scientist Ryan Maue joins climate skeptic David Legates<br>
By Andrew Freedman, Juliet Eilperin and Jason Samenow<br>
November 13, 2020 <br>
A second Trump political appointee who questions the seriousness of
global warming has been assigned a key role in the program that
oversees the federal government's definitive report on climate
change.<br>
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Ryan Maue, the newly installed chief scientist at the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has been detailed to
the White House where he will have an oversight role at the U.S.
Global Change Research Program, which carries out the climate
report.<br>
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Maue's move was confirmed by two NOAA officials who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on
personnel matters.<br>
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Maue joins climate skeptic David Legates, a meteorologist who claims
that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for plants and
that global warming is harmless. Earlier this week, Legates was
moved from NOAA to the White House Office of Science and Technology
Policy as executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research
Program, overseeing 13 federal agencies that study global warming.<br>
The two men will oversee the program to run the congressionally
mandated National Climate Assessment, a report that is issued every
five years. Last week, the White House abruptly removed the career
climate scientist who ran the climate assessment for the past five
years, Michael Kuperberg.<br>
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Both Legates and Maue joined NOAA in September. Each is keeping his
NOAA title while working on the climate report. According to one of
the NOAA officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, it is
generally understood that Legates and Maue will help select authors
for the next edition of the National Climate Assessment, which
examines climate change damage and includes projections for the
United States, down to regional and local levels.<br>
<br>
The report provides information to those navigating the rapidly
changing climate, from city officials seeking to build new sewage
treatment plants to farmers gauging how shifting rains could affect
which crops to plant...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/11/13/national-climate-assessment-ryan-maue-noaa/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/11/13/national-climate-assessment-ryan-maue-noaa/</a><br>
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[Two researchers say]<br>
<b>'We packed long underwear and never wore it': Arctic scientists
shocked at warming</b><br>
Couple finds areas that once required ice-breaking ship have become
open water<br>
<br>
Emily Holden in Washington<br>
Fri 13 Nov 2020 <br>
When the Arctic researchers Jacqueline Grebmeier and Lee Cooper made
their annual scientific pilgrimage to frigid seas off Alaska last
month, what they found was startling.<br>
<br>
Areas that were previously accessible at that time of the year only
with an ice-breaking ship had become open, wavy water.<br>
<br>
"We packed our long underwear, and we never put it on," Cooper
said...<br>
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Cooper said the changes were particularly sad for indigenous
communities that have been in Alaska for thousands of years and are
now coping with unstable sea ice and trying to hunt animals that are
moving.<br>
<br>
"Not in our lifetimes is it going back to the way it was when we
first started out working in Alaska in the late 1980s," Cooper said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/13/arctic-melting-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/nov/13/arctic-melting-climate-change</a><br>
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[saint, hero]<br>
<b>'I Am Greta' Review: Birth of a Climate Warrior</b><br>
Nathan Grossman alternates truth-to-power moments with quiet ones in
his documentary about the young Greta Thunberg.<br>
<br>
<u>I Am Greta</u> Directed by Nathan Grossman Documentary, Biography
1h 37m<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.imdb.com/showtimes/title/tt10394738?ref_=ref_ext_NYT">https://www.imdb.com/showtimes/title/tt10394738?ref_=ref_ext_NYT</a> <br>
<p>In September 2019 at the United Nations Climate Action Summit,
Greta Thunberg made headlines by condemning world leaders for
abandoning today's children to the ravages of climate change. "How
dare you?" she asked, her voice shaking with anger. Truth-to-power
moments like this alternate with quiet ones in "I Am Greta," a
documentary about Thunberg's meteoric rise that suggests a new
kind of hero.</p>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/movies/i-am-greta-review.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/movies/i-am-greta-review.html</a><br>
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[information battleground commentary with Renee DiResta]<br>
<b>Disinformation Expert Renee DiResta: We Have No Common Sense of
Facts | Amanpour and Company</b><br>
Nov 13, 2020<br>
Amanpour and Company<br>
Conspiracy theories and misinformation about coronavirus and the
recent election are spreading like wildfire online. These are the
sort of phenomena Renee DiResta has been studying for years. She is
a disinformation expert and technical research manager at the
Stanford Internet Observatory, and she speaks with Hari Sreenivasan
about what can happen when false narratives go viral, and what can
be done to break the cycle. <br>
Originally aired on November 13, 2020.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGe7cbC7dN0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGe7cbC7dN0</a><br>
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[important thinking]<br>
JASON HICKEL<br>
<b>A RESPONSE TO POLLIN AND CHOMSKY: WE NEED A GREEN NEW DEAL
WITHOUT GROWTH</b><br>
November 2, 2020...<br>
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We need to reject the ideology that conflates growth with progress
and well-being. Growth is ultimately a kind of propaganda term; it
takes processes of extraction, commodification and elite
accumulation, which are quite often destructive to human communities
and to ecology, and sells them as natural, good and common-sense
(who could possibly be against growth?). The language of growth is
the bedrock of capitalism's cultural hegemony. <br>
<br>
We must reject this trick. We cannot let ourselves be dragged into
framing our aspirations for a better world in the language of
growth, for it immediately traps us within the logic of capital; and
on that terrain we will lose. We need to be smarter than that. We
need to call for a different kind of economy altogether: one that is
organized around the interests of human well-being and ecology,
rather than around the interests of capital.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2020/10/19/we-need-a-green-new-deal-without-growth">https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2020/10/19/we-need-a-green-new-deal-without-growth</a><br>
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[Predictions - audio reading and text in The Atlantic ]<br>
<b>The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse</b><br>
A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the
rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.<br>
DECEMBER 2020...<br>
The year 2020 has been kind to Turchin, for many of the same reasons
it has been hell for the rest of us. Cities on fire, elected leaders
endorsing violence, homicides surging--to a normal American, these
are apocalyptic signs. To Turchin, they indicate that his models,
which incorporate thousands of years of data about human history,
are working. ("Not all of human history," he corrected me once.
"Just the last 10,000 years.") He has been warning for a decade that
a few key social and political trends portend an "age of discord,"
civil unrest and carnage worse than most Americans have
experienced...<br>
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The fundamental problems, he says, are a dark triad of social
maladies: a bloated elite class, with too few elite jobs to go
around; declining living standards among the general population; and
a government that can't cover its financial positions. His models,
which track these factors in other societies across history, are too
complicated to explain in a nontechnical publication. But they've
succeeded in impressing writers for nontechnical publications, and
have won him comparisons to other authors of "megahistories," such
as Jared Diamond and Yuval Noah Harari. The New York Times columnist
Ross Douthat had once found Turchin's historical modeling
unpersuasive, but 2020 made him a believer: "At this point," Douthat
recently admitted on a podcast, "I feel like you have to pay a
little more attention to him."...<br>
more at -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/</a>
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[Video lecture by Peter Turchin]<br>
<b>This View of History: A Conversation With Peter Turchin</b><br>
Jul 10, 2018<br>
The Evolution Institute<br>
This webinar features evolutionary anthropologist and author Peter
Turchin discussing his new book "Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of
War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hTYBDjeUUU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hTYBDjeUUU</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 -
November 14, 2012 </b></font><br>
At a post-election press conference, President Obama declares:<br>
<blockquote>"I think the American people right now have been so
focused, and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs
and growth, that if the message is somehow we're going to ignore
jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think
anybody is going to go for that. I won't go for that. If, on the
other hand, we can shape an agenda that says we can create jobs,
advance growth, and make a serious dent in climate change and be
an international leader, I think that's something that the
American people would support."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlF6ikIbjGU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlF6ikIbjGU</a><br>
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