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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>December 3, 2020</b></font></i></p>
[fossil fuel strong]<br>
<b>World is 'doubling down' on fossil fuels despite climate crisis -
UN report</b><br>
Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid 'severe climate
disruption' but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases<br>
The world's governments are "doubling down" on fossil fuels despite
the urgent need for cuts in carbon emissions to tackle the climate
crisis, a report by the UN and partners has found.<br>
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The researchers say production of coal, oil and gas must fall by 6%
a year until 2030 to keep global heating under the 1.5C target
agreed in the Paris accord and avoid "severe climate disruption".
But nations are planning production increases of 2% a year and G20
countries are giving 50% more coronavirus recovery funding to fossil
fuels than to clean energy...<br>
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"The research is abundantly clear that we face severe climate
disruption if countries continue to produce fossil fuels at current
levels, let alone at their planned increases," said Michael Lazarus,
at the Stockholm Environment Institute and another author of the
report...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/world-is-doubling-down-on-fossil-fuels-despite-climate-crisis-un-report">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/02/world-is-doubling-down-on-fossil-fuels-despite-climate-crisis-un-report</a><br>
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[New Yorker]<br>
<b>The Climate Crisis</b><br>
Interview: Lynne Quarmby is a professor of molecular biology at
Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia. She is also a veteran
of many environmental campaigns, and the author, most recently, of
"Watermelon Snow: Science, Art, and a Lone Polar Bear." The title
refers to the way that algal blooms can tint a snowpack pink..<br>
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(clips)<br>
<b>You've been watching the Arctic, where the temperature is rising
faster than anywhere else. What lessons should the world to the
south be taking in?</b><br>
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Warm temperatures in the Arctic are disrupting the atmospheric and
oceanic currents, which for ten thousand years reliably drove stable
climate patterns. Driven by temperature differentials, atmospheric
currents with altered speed and patterns impact climate—for example,
the duration and intensity of droughts in North America. At the same
time, the influx of cold freshwater from melting glaciers and ice
caps is changing ocean currents in complex ways. In some cases,
altered ocean currents are predicted to cause counterintuitive
outcomes—for example, the cooling of northern Europe.<br>
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Changing ocean currents not only affect our climate but also impact
the previously predictable circulation of nutrients. Organisms
across the food web are facing increasing temperatures and changing
patterns of nutrient availability throughout the world's oceans.
Finally, beyond the loss of habitat for ice algae and walruses, the
shrinking of Arctic sea ice reduces the reflection of solar
radiation and amplifies global warming.<br>
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<b>And how do you keep from unproductive despair?</b><br>
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I have direct experience with unproductive despair. After several
years of climate activism driven by fear, panic, and anger—two
arrests, being sued by a pipeline giant, and a run for a seat in the
Canadian Parliament—I was exhausted. After getting my job back on
track, I found myself rested but still irritable, angry, and unable
to engage with environmental issues. Finally, I recognized that I
was suffering from a failure to grieve—a failure to acknowledge
that, for many things I love, it is too late. By slowly opening
myself to grief, I began to find some peace. The question became:
How to live in this world with this knowledge? For me, living a
fulfilling, satisfying life means engaging with others on issues
that matter. I work on letting go of the old life—the decadence of a
fossil-fuel-driven world—and embracing my personal vision of a
better future. I sit with the grief, vigorously defend the truth,
and engage in politics. It's a good life.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-climate-debt-the-us-owes-the-world">https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-climate-debt-the-us-owes-the-world</a>
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[clips from commentary]<br>
<b>The Climate Debt the U.S. Owes the World</b><br>
By Bill McKibben<br>
Dec 3, 2020<br>
And it goes without saying that Honduras will now have an even
harder time paying for a changed energy system to help it convert to
clean energy, as its commitments set in the Paris climate accord
envision—its cobbled-together reconstruction plan is unsurprisingly
focussed on rebuilding the bridges and roads that the storms
destroyed.<br>
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Such intuitions about blame and responsibility have usually been
offered in airy moral terms, but a new report released on Wednesday
puts them into numbers. The analysis, from the activist group U.S.
Climate Action Network, draws on the work of Tom Athanasiou, at a
California-based nonprofit called EcoEquity, and his colleagues at
the Climate Equity Reference Project. It tries to calculate how much
of the burden each country should be bearing, based on its
historical contribution to the cloud of greenhouse gases and its
"capacity to pay"—a reflection of how rich the nation became during
the fossil-fuel era. The report finds "that the US fair share of the
global mitigation effort in 2030 is equivalent to a reduction of
195% below its 2005 emissions levels, reflecting a fair share range
of 173-229%." That is, we can't meet our moral and practical burdens
simply by reducing our own emissions; we've already put so much
carbon into the air (and hence reduced the space that should rightly
go to others) that we need to make amends. Of this
hundred-and-ninety-five-per-cent reduction, Athanasiou says, seventy
per cent would be made domestically, by building solar panels,
rolling out electric cars, and insulating buildings. "This is about
the maximum achievable by 2030, though cuts of this magnitude would
require a full Green New Deal war footing," he notes. "The rest—the
other 125%—would come by way of financial and tech support for
adaptation and rapid decarbonization in poor and developing
countries."<br>
For the past year, nations (and companies) have been announcing
plans to reduce their emission levels to zero by mid-century. As
Athanasiou says, that's a welcome development, but, he adds, "Not
one of these countries has made anything like an adequate move to
support ambitious decarbonization and adaptation plans in the
developing world. Or even, despite lots of talk, to significantly
cut fossil subsidies. In fact, as I'm sure you know, a lot of the
covid recovery money has gone to the fossils."...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-climate-debt-the-us-owes-the-world">https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/the-climate-debt-the-us-owes-the-world</a><br>
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<b>ABOUT THE US CLIMATE FAIR SHARE</b><br>
The US Climate Fair Share Infographic is also available as a pdf
file.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://usfairshare.org/files/US_Climate_Fair_Share_Infographic.pdf">https://usfairshare.org/files/US_Climate_Fair_Share_Infographic.pdf</a><br>
We all accept the idea that different countries have different
responsibilities for causing climate change, and therefore also
different responsibilities for solving climate change. Generally, in
the US we are aware that our status as a wealthy, industrialized,
powerful country should mean that our country has a particularly
large responsibility for fixing the climate crisis.<br>
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The US Climate Fair Share project aims to turn this feeling into
something more concrete. By quantifying the US "fair share" of
climate action, compared to the fair shares of other countries, we
can create much more specific, concrete demands around which to
campaign and organize.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://usfairshare.org/">https://usfairshare.org/</a><br>
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[Equity]<br>
<b>The Climate Equity Reference Project</b><br>
The Climate Equity Reference Project (CERP) is a long-term
initiative designed to provide scholarship, tools, and analysis to
advance global climate equity - as a value in itself and as a
realist path towards an ambitious global climate regime. The CERP is
strongly rooted in current climate science, in particular the IPCC's
estimates of the remaining global carbon budget. It is also
consistent with the UN Framework Convention's core equity
principles, which can be concisely stated as "a precautionary
approach to adequacy," "common but differentiated responsibilities
and respective capabilities," and "equitable access to sustainable
development."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateequityreference.org/">https://climateequityreference.org/</a><br>
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[Calculator equity]<br>
<b>The Climate Equity Reference Calculator</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://calculator.climateequityreference.org/">https://calculator.climateequityreference.org/</a><br>
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[YouTube video conjecture]<b><br>
</b> <b>Lands That Will FLOOD in Our Lifetime</b><br>
Nov 20, 2020<br>
Atlas Pro<br>
Some places are more threatened by rising sea levels than others,
but in the end we'll all be paying a price. Alternate titles
include: "Where You Shouldn't Invest in Real Estate," "Places You
Should Vacation to Before They're Gone," and "Oh Man We're In A Lot
Of Trouble On This One Aren't We?"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CurmnLKikyI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CurmnLKikyI</a><br>
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[Another down under]<br>
<b>New Zealand declares a climate change emergency</b><br>
Jacinda Ardern calls climate change 'one of the greatest challenges
of our time' and pledges carbon-neutral government by 2025<br>
Phil Taylor in Auckland - 1 Dec 2020 21.42 EST<br>
New Zealand has declared a climate change emergency and committed to
a carbon-neutral government by 2025, in what the prime minister
Jacinda Ardern called "one of the greatest challenges of our time".<br>
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A motion tabled in parliament on Wednesday recognised "the
devastating impact that volatile and extreme weather will have on
New Zealand and the wellbeing of New Zealanders, on our primary
industries, water availability, and public health through flooding,
sea level rise, and wildfire".<br>
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Thirty-two other nations have formally acknowledged the global
crisis by declaring a climate emergency.<br>
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The motion acknowledged the "alarming trend in species decline and
global biodiversity" including the decline in New Zealand's
indigenous biodiversity.<br>
The declaration of a climate emergency was supported by the Green
Party and Māori Party and opposed by the National and Act parties.<br>
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Speaking in parliament after its introduction, Ardern said the
country must "act with urgency".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/02/new-zealand-declares-a-climate-change-emergency">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/02/new-zealand-declares-a-climate-change-emergency</a>
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[video declaration]<br>
<b>Jacinda Ardern declares 'climate emergency' in New Zealand</b><br>
Dec 2, 2020<br>
Guardian News<br>
New Zealand has declared a climate change emergency and committed to
a carbon-neutral government by 2025, in what the prime minister,
Jacinda Ardern, called "one of the greatest challenges of our time".<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/RNJNcavSM_8">https://youtu.be/RNJNcavSM_8</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 -
December 3, 2009 </b></font><br>
<p>MSNBC host Keith Olbermann calls out the hosts of the Fox News
Channel program "Fox and Friends" for selectively editing a
segment of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" to imply that host
Jon Stewart rejected the evidence of human-caused climate change.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/olbermann-names-fox-frien_n_380473">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/olbermann-names-fox-frien_n_380473</a>
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