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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>May 3, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Positive Opinion from Rebecca Solnit]<br>
<b>Dare we hope? Here’s my cautious case for climate optimism</b><br>
Rebecca Solnit<br>
The Green New Deal, formerly seen as radical, is now in mainstream
debate. And renewable energy becomes more efficient every day<br>
<br>
That we are living in science fiction was brought home to me last
week when I put down Kim Stanley Robinson’s superb climate-futures
novel The Ministry for the Future and picked up Bill McKibben’s New
Yorker letter on climate, warning of the melting of the Thwaites
Glacier, “already known as the ‘doomsday glacier’ because its
collapse could raise global sea levels by as much as three feet”.
Where we are now would have seemed like science fiction itself 20
years ago; where we need to be will take us deeper into that
territory.<br>
<br>
Three things matter for climate chaos and our response to it – the
science reporting on current and potential conditions, the
technology offering solutions, and the organizing which is shifting
perspectives and policy. Each is advancing rapidly. The science
mostly gives us terrifying news of more melting, more storms, more
droughts, more fires, more famines. But the technological solutions
and the success of the organizing to address this largest of all
crises have likewise grown by leaps and bounds. For example, ideas
put forth in the Green New Deal in 2019, seen as radical at the
time, are now the kind of stuff President Biden routinely proposes
in his infrastructure and jobs plans.<br>
<br>
It’s not easy to see all the changes – you have to be a wonk to
follow the details on new battery storage solutions or the growth of
solar power in cheapness, proliferation, efficiency and possibility,
or new understanding about agriculture and soil management to
enhance carbon sequestration. You have to be a policy nerd to keep
track of the countless new initiatives around the world. They
include, recently, the UK committing to end overseas fossil fuel
finance in December, the EU in January deciding to “discourage all
further investments into fossil-fuel-based energy infrastructure
projects in third countries”, and the US making a less comprehensive
but meaningful effort this spring to curtail funding for overseas
extraction. In April, oil-rich California made a commitment to end
fossil fuel extraction altogether – if by a too-generous deadline. A
lot of these policies have been deemed both good and not good
enough. They do not get us to where we need to be, but they lay the
foundation for further shifts, and like the Green New Deal many of
them seemed unlikely a few years ago.<br>
<br>
We have crossed barriers that seemed insurmountable at the end of
the last millennium<br>
The US itself has, of course, made a huge U-turn with a presidency
that has begun by undoing much of what the previous administration
did, reregulating what was deregulated, restarting support for
research, and rejoining the Paris climate accords. The Biden
administration is regularly doing things that would have been all
but inconceivable in previous administrations, and while it deserves
credit, more credit should go to the organizers who have redefined
what is necessary, reasonable and possible. Both technologically and
politically far more is possible. There are so many moving parts.
The dire straits of the fossil fuel industry is one of them – as the
climate journalist Antonia Juhasz put it recently: “The end of oil
is near.”<br>
<br>
The organization Carbon Tracker, whose reports are usually somber
reading, just put out a report so stunning the word encouraging is
hardly adequate. In sum, current technology could produce a hundred
times as much electricity from solar and wind as current global
demand; prices on solar continue to drop rapidly and dramatically;
and the land required to produce all this energy would take less
than is currently given over to fossil fuels. It is a vision of a
completely different planet, because if you change how we produce
energy you change our geopolitics – for the better – and clean our
air and renew our future. The report concludes: “The technical and
economic barriers have been crossed and the only impediment to
change is political.” Those barriers seemed insurmountable at the
end of the last millennium.<br>
<br>
One of the things that’s long been curious about this crisis is that
the amateurs and newcomers tend to be more alarmist and defeatist
than the insiders and experts. What the climate journalist Emily
Atkin calls “first-time climate dudes” put forth long, breathless
magazine articles, bestselling books and films announcing that it’s
too late and we’re doomed, which is another way to say we don’t have
to do a damned thing, which is a way to undermine the people who are
doing those things and those who might be moved to do them.<br>
<br>
‘Organizers have redefined what is necessary, reasonable and
possible.’ Photograph: Sumaya Hisham/Reuters<br>
The climate scientist Michael Mann takes these people on – he calls
them inactivists and doomists – in his recent book The New Climate
Wars, which describes the defeatism that has succeeded outright
climate denial as the great obstacle to addressing the crisis. He
echoes what Carbon Tracker asserted, writing: “The solution is
already here. We just need to deploy it rapidly and at a massive
scale. It all comes down to political will and economic incentives.”
The climate scientist Diana Liverman shares Mann’s frustration. She
was part of the international team of scientists who authored the
2018 “hothouse Earth” study whose conclusions were boiled down, by
the media, into “we have 12 years”.<br>
<br>
The report, she regularly points out, also described what we can and
must do “to steer the Earth System away from a potential threshold
and stabilize it in a habitable interglacial-like state. Such action
entails stewardship of the entire Earth System – biosphere, climate,
and societies – and could include decarbonization of the global
economy, enhancement of biosphere carbon sinks, behavioral changes,
technological innovations, new governance arrangements, and
transformed social values.” It was a warning but also a promise that
if we did what science tells us we must, we would not preserve the
current order but form a better one.<br>
<br>
Another expert voice for hope is Christiana Figueres, who as
executive secretary of the United Nations framework convention on
climate change negotiated the Paris climate accords in 2015. As she
recently declared: “This decade is a moment of choice unlike any we
have ever lived. All of us alive right now share that responsibility
and that opportunity. The optimism I’m speaking of is not the result
of an achievement, it is the necessary input to meeting a challenge.
Many now believe it is impossible to cut global emissions in half in
this decade. I say, we don’t have the right to give up or let up.”
She speaks of how impossible a treaty like the one she negotiated
seemed after the shambles at the end of the 2009 Copenhagen meeting.<br>
<br>
Each shift makes more shifts possible. But only if we go actively
toward the possibilities rather than passively into the collapse<br>
The visionary organizer Adrienne Maree Brown wrote not long ago: “I
believe that all organizing is science fiction – that we are shaping
the future we long for and have not yet experienced. I believe that
we are in an imagination battle …” All these voices have taken the
side of hope in the imagination battle, offering choices and
possibilities and the responsibilities that come with those things,
as does the actual science fiction in The Ministry for the Future,
which takes a turn for the utopian by the end. When I began reading
it, apocalyptic news seemed to chime in with the novel. But as I
finished it I ran across stories about Scotland’s plans to rewild
much of its land, which could have come from the book. And I saw the
astonishing news that on the afternoon of Saturday 24 April,
California got more than 90% of its energy from renewables.<br>
<br>
That we cannot see all the way to the transformed society we need
does not mean it is impossible. We will reach it by not one great
leap but a long journey, step by step. If we see how impossible our
current reality might have seemed 20 years ago – that solar would be
so cheap, that Scotland would get 97% of its electricity from
renewables, that fossil fuel corporations would be in freefall – we
can trust that we could be moving toward an even more transformed
and transformative future, and that it is not a set destination but,
for better or worse, what we are making up as we go. Each shift
makes more shifts possible. But only if we go actively toward the
possibilities rather than passively into the collapse.<br>
<br>
Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/01/climate-change-environment-hope-future-optimism-success">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/01/climate-change-environment-hope-future-optimism-success</a><br>
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[Ice loss opinion]<br>
<b>‘It’s like a rotting carcass of its former self’: funeral for an
Oregon glacier</b><br>
Worried researchers hold ceremony for Clark glacier to illustrate
how climate crisis is eroding icepacks<br>
Oliver Milman - Sun 2 May 2021<br>
The funeral was a suitably solemn affair. The small casket was
placed on a table covered in a black drape, a maudlin yet defiant
speech quoted a Dylan Thomas poem, a moment’s silence was held.<br>
<br>
Inside the casket, however, was not a body, but a vial of meltwater
from Clark glacier in Oregon, once an imposing body of ice but now a
shrivelled remnant.<br>
<br>
The funeral, a stunt held by worried glacier researchers on the
steps of the state capitol in Salem, illustrated how the climate
crisis is rapidly gnawing away at the majestic icepacks that used to
throng the mountains of the northwestern US, potentially posing a
threat to the region’s water supplies.<br>
<br>
“There is just this immense sadness because we all knew it was going
to be bad, but didn’t think it would be this bad,” said Anders
Carlson, president of the Oregon Glacier Institute, who read the
eulogy for Clark glacier at the “funeral” in October.<br>
<br>
Clark glacier is, or was, found if you took a moderately strenuous
hike amid the Cascade mountains, a range that stretches from British
Columbia in Canada down to the northern reaches of California.<br>
<br>
Once spanning about 46 football pitches in size, the Clark glacier
is now about three football pitches in area, or what Carlson calls a
“stagnant scrap of ice”.<br>
<br>
“It’s like a rotting carcass of its former self,” said Carlson.
Glaciers move via gravity under their own vast weight, but once they
have lost a certain amount of volume, they become dormant patches of
ice. Other nearby glaciers found on the three sisters, a chain of
volcanic peaks, and Mount Hood have similarly “died” in this way.<br>
<br>
“You go back through old photographs and glaciers have disappeared
just in the last 20 years – it’s really dramatic,” said Carlson, who
has calculated that at least a third of the state’s glaciers named
by the US government in the 1950s are now gone.<br>
<br>
Among their other benefits, the meltwater from glaciers each spring
feeds streams and rivers that supply a water source for apple and
pear orchards, vineyards and even some drinking water for towns
situated in the shadows of the mountains.<br>
<br>
Researchers have estimated that river volumes in the late summer
could drop by 80% by the end of the century due to decreases in
glacier and snow melt. These huge losses raise tough questions over
how to replace the water.<br>
<br>
“These glaciers are not just nice to look at – they are our water
towers, where we store our water,” said Carlson.<br>
<br>
“Places like Hood River and Eugene are drinking and growing crops
with water from glaciers. If you like Oregon wine, the chances are
it was grown with glacier water. If you lose that, it’s not going to
be a pretty picture. You either try to get groundwater or build new
dams, which is not popular with anyone.”<br>
<br>
The decline of glaciers is part of a broader trend that has seen
vast bodies of ice wither away from the Himalayas to Switzerland as
global temperatures climb. The glaciers of America’s Pacific
north-west aren’t as well known as those overseas, but they play an
important role in the local environment and are suffering stunning
losses.<br>
<br>
Since the mock funeral, researchers have found that the Cascades are
particularly vulnerable to the melting of glaciers, which can cause
maladies ranging from increased wildfire risk to the loss of species
such as steelhead trout that rely on the frigid cold of glacier-fed
streams. In the longer term, the glaciers of the American west face
almost complete obliteration.<br>
<br>
“The glaciers in the western US continue to shrink and will largely
disappear by the end of the century,” said Andrew Fountain, a
geologist at Portland State University who has submitted new
research that found the glaciers of the Olympic Mountains, in the
state of Washington, will probably vanish by 2070.<br>
<br>
“You might get icy remnants on the peaks of tall mountains like
Mount Rainier or Mount Baker, but they will be pretty small. Rising
temperatures are doing this, without a doubt.”<br>
<br>
Beyond drastically cutting planet-warming emissions, there is little
that can be done to salvage the glaciers, a sobering reality for
those who have long hiked and climbed the peaks of the US
north-west.<br>
<br>
“It’s really hard to stop the decline,” said Carlson. “People don’t
realise we are a glacierised country – we rely upon them, like the
Swiss and Norwegians do. They are important and we need them.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/02/its-like-a-rotting-carcass-of-its-former-self-funeral-for-an-oregon-glacier">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/02/its-like-a-rotting-carcass-of-its-former-self-funeral-for-an-oregon-glacier</a><br>
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[Democratized-state as protagonist]<br>
<b>Kate Aronoff with Bill McKibben: How Capitalism Broke the Planet
and How We Fight Back</b><br>
Apr 27, 2021 - Town Hall Seattle<br>
It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and
that governments must act. But some believe that a new denialism is
taking root in the halls of power, shaped by decades of neoliberal
policies and centuries of anti-democratic thinking. One such is
journalist Kate Aronoff, who has written about the climate change
fight in her book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet and
How We Fight Back.<br>
<br>
Aronoff joins us to explore her account that examines the forces
that she contends have hijacked progress on climate change. Since
the 1980s, Democrats and Republicans have each granted enormous
concessions to industries bent on maintaining business as usual. And
worse, Aronoff says, policymakers have given oil and gas executives
a seat at the table designing policies that should instead be the
end of their business model. Aronoff argues that this approach will
only drive the planet further into emergency. Drawing on years of
reporting, she lays out an alternative vision, detailing how
democratic majorities can curb pollutors’ power; create millions of
well-paid, union jobs; enact climate reparations; and transform the
economy into a more leisurely and sustainable one. Our future,
Aronoff, challenges, will require a radical reimagining of
politics--with the world at stake.<br>
<br>
Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic, and a former
fellow at the Type Media Center. Her work has appeared in The
Intercept, The New York Times, The Nation, Dissent, Rolling Stone,
and The Guardian, among other outlets. Aronoff is the co-editor of
We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism, American Style and the
co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.<br>
<br>
It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and
that governments must act. But some believe that a new denialism is
taking root in the halls of power, shaped by decades of neoliberal
policies and centuries of anti-democratic thinking. One such is
journalist Kate Aronoff, who has written about the climate change
fight in her book Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet and
How We Fight Back.<br>
<br>
Aronoff joins us, in conversation with author and environmentalist
Bill McKibben, to explore her account that examines the forces that
she contends have hijacked progress on climate change. Since the
1980s, Democrats and Republicans have each granted enormous
concessions to industries bent on maintaining business as usual. And
worse, Aronoff says, policymakers have given oil and gas executives
a seat at the table designing policies that should instead be the
end of their business model. Aronoff argues that this approach will
only drive the planet further into emergency. Drawing on years of
reporting, she lays out an alternative vision, detailing how
democratic majorities can curb pollutors’ power; create millions of
well-paid, union jobs; enact climate reparations; and transform the
economy into a more leisurely and sustainable one. Our future,
Aronoff, challenges, will require a radical reimagining of
politics--with the world at stake.<br>
<br>
Kate Aronoff is a staff writer at The New Republic, and a former
fellow at the Type Media Center. Her work has appeared in The
Intercept, The New York Times, The Nation, Dissent, Rolling Stone,
and The Guardian, among other outlets. Aronoff is the co-editor of
We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism, American Style and the
co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal.<br>
<br>
Bill McKibben is an award-winning author and environmentalist. His
1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a
general audience about climate change. He is a founder of 350.org,
the first planet-wide, grassroots climate change movement. A former
staff writer for the New Yorker, he writes frequently for a wide
variety of publications around the world, including the New York
Review of Books, National Geographic, and Rolling Stone. In 2014,
biologists named a species of woodland gnat—megophthalmidia
mckibbeni—after him.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp11KZ91NzI&t=403s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp11KZ91NzI&t=403s</a><br>
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[interplay of light and ice]<br>
Mother Jones<br>
<b>As Alaska’s Glaciers Disappear, So Goes the Rest of the Planet’s
Ice</b><br>
What is happening “is far more catastrophic than a recession or
pandemic.”<br>
- -<br>
After advancing throughout the 20th century, this vast glacier
seemed immune to climate change. But around 2013, it paused, and
then began to reverse in 2018 during a record heatwave in Alaska.
For Peito, who had personally worked on 250 glaciers, the fall of
the last hold-out against global warming was a sobering moment.
“That makes the score climate change 250, alpine glaciers 0,” he
wrote in a blogpost announcing the news.<br>
<br>
The uniformity of the pattern alarms him. “They are not normally
synchronized. But now, it doesn’t matter where glaciers are in the
cycle, they are all in retreat. Climate change dominates far more
than it did in the past. At no point in the 20th century did we see
such a ubiquitous retreat of glaciers.”<br>
<br>
He compares the situation to a devastating financial collapse. “In a
pandemic or recession, lots of companies have trouble but some
thrive. Normally, it is the same with glaciers. Even when there is a
climate fluctuation, some do well. But what is happening now is on a
scale that is far more catastrophic than a recession or pandemic.
There is just no escape. There is no secret. Even having a high mean
elevation cannot protect glaciers.”<br>
<br>
To varying degrees, the story is the same across the world. Recent
satellite observations have found rapid glacial thinning across
every high altitude and high latitude region with the exception of
the north-east Atlantic. Worst affected are low altitude mountains
such as the European Alps, where 80-90% of the ice is expected to
disappear by mid century.<br>
<br>
In Africa, the first glaciers to disappear were reported last year:
The Rwenzori Mountains—which are a source of the Nile—have no
glaciers for the first time in at least 10,000 years. Ice on the
continent’s loftiest peak, Kilimanjaro, is expected to follow soon.
Asia, which is home to a cluster of the highest ranges in the
world—Himalayas, Kunlun, Karakoram, Altai, Pamir, Tien Shan and
Hindu Kush—had been relatively resistant, but this “Karakoram
anomaly” now appears to be over. Even Everest is not immune.<br>
<br>
The pressure has steadily grown across geographies and ideologies.
During the cold war, at around the same time as the US Humble Oil
company was boasting that it produced enough petroleum to melt Taku,
China’s Communist party was dispatching military engineers to the
Tian Shan range to coat glaciers with coal dust so they would absorb
more sunlight and produce more meltwater for downstream cotton
plantations.<br>
More recently, the burning of the Amazon rainforest discharged a
cloud of soot that accelerated the melting of 5,000 meter-high
glaciers in the Bolivian Andes. Even the remote Antarctic is not
immune. In January 2020, scientists at a polar research base
detected black carbon that had floated across the Pacific from the
record bushfires in Australia. This, however, pales into
insignificance compared to the impact of warming air and oceans,
which is eroding giant southern glaciers, such as Thwaites.<br>
<br>
If Thwaites and other Antarctic glaciers break into the ocean, sea
levels would rise rapidly. Similar long-term fears focus on
Greenland’s glaciers and ice sheet. But today, the melting of
mountain glaciers is the bigger problem, contributing more than a
quarter of the extra volume being added to the world’s oceans. Much
of it comes from Alaska, where glaciers are thinning by a meter
every year—double the world average.<br>
<br>
The risks are not just to coastlines, but in the possibility that
ancient cycles of creation may have been broken, that harbor seals
and other wildlife may have permanently lost their nurseries, that a
rich source of joy and inspiration may be drying up. For Peito, the
picture is dismal: “We keep updating the data, and the story keeps
getting worse. The big, high-altitude glaciers will be around for a
while yet, but many low-altitude glaciers will disappear by the time
my grandchildren grow up. That’s hard to take.”<br>
<br>
For city residents who have never seen a glacier up close, that may
seem a remote concern, but distance can be misleading as Muir
observed in perhaps his most famous line: “When we try to pick out
anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the
Universe.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/05/alaska-glaciers-melting-ice-climate-change/">https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/05/alaska-glaciers-melting-ice-climate-change/</a><br>
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[Physical science predicted long ago. Now it is measured]<br>
<b>Climate change: Amazon may be turning from friend to foe</b><br>
by Marlowe Hood, Amélie Bottollier-Depois<br>
<p>The Brazilian Amazon released nearly 20 percent more carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere over the last decade than it absorbed,
according to a stunning report that shows humanity can no longer
depend on the world's largest tropical forest to help absorb
manmade carbon pollution.<br>
<br>
From 2010 through 2019, Brazil's Amazon basin gave off 16.6
billion tonnes of CO2, while drawing down only 13.9 billion
tonnes, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Nature
Climate Change.<br>
<br>
The study looked at the volume of CO2 absorbed and stored as the
forest grows, versus the amounts released back into the atmosphere
as it has been burned down or destroyed.<br>
<br>
"We half-expected it, but it is the first time that we have
figures showing that the Brazilian Amazon has flipped, and is now
a net emitter," said co-author Jean-Pierre Wigneron, a scientist
at France's National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA).<br>
<br>
"We don't know at what point the changeover could become
irreversible," he told AFP in an interview.<br>
<br>
The study also showed that deforestation—through fires and
clear-cutting—increased nearly four-fold in 2019 compared to
either of the two previous years, from about one million hectares
(2.5 million acres) to 3.9 million hectares, an area the size of
the Netherlands.<br>
<br>
"Brazil saw a sharp decline in the application of environmental
protection policies after the change of government in 2019," the
INRA said in a statement.<br>
<br>
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was sworn into office on
January 1, 2019.<br>
<br>
Terrestrial ecosystems worldwide have been a crucial ally as the
world struggles to curb CO2 emissions, which topped 40 billion
tonnes in 2019.<br>
<br>
Over the last half century, plants and soil have consistently
absorbed about 30 percent of those emissions, even as those
emissions increased by 50 percent over than period.<br>
<br>
Oceans have also helped, soaking up more than 20 percent.<br>
<br>
The Amazon basin contains about half of the world's tropical
rainforests, which are more effective at soaking up and storing
carbon that other types of vegetation.<br>
<br>
If the region were to be come a net source rather than a "sink" of
CO2, tackling the climate crisis will be that much harder.<br>
<br>
Using new methods of analysing satellite data developed at the
University of Oklahoma, the international team of researchers also
showed for the first time that degraded forests were a more
significant source of planet-warming CO2 emissions that outright
deforestation.<br>
<br>
Over the same 10-year period, degradation—caused by fragmentation,
selective cutting, or fires that damage but do not destroy
trees—caused three times more emissions that outright destruction
of forests.<br>
<br>
The data examined in the study only covers Brazil, which holds
some 60 percent of the Amazonian rainforest.<br>
<br>
Taking the rest of region into account, "the Amazon basin as a
whole is probably (carbon) neutral," said Wigneron.<br>
<br>
"But in the other countries with Amazon rainforest, deforestation
is on the rise too, and drought has become more intense."<br>
<br>
Climate change looms as a major threat, and could—above a certain
threshold of global warming—see the continent's rainforest tip
into a much drier savannah state, recent studies have shown.<br>
<br>
This would have devastating consequences not only to the region,
which currently harbours a significant percentage of the world's
biodiversity, but globally as well.<br>
<br>
The Amazon rainforest is one of a dozen so-called "tipping points"
in the climate system.<br>
<br>
Ice sheets atop Greenland and the West Antarctic, Siberian
permafrost loaded with CO2 and methane, monsoon rains in South
Asia, coral reef ecosystems, the jet stream—all are vulnerable to
point-of-no-return transitions that would radically alter the
world as we know it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phys.org/news/2021-04-climate-amazon-friend-foe.html">https://phys.org/news/2021-04-climate-amazon-friend-foe.html</a><br>
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[liquid air as portable power source]<br>
<b>Portable Liquid Air Power. A new boost for electric vehicles.</b><br>
May 2, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Cryogenic air cooling is an invention that's been used in industry
for well over a hundred years. Recently the process was put to use
as an energy storage system for electricity grids. Now the benefits
of liquid air have been exploited in a gas expander that can add
range to electric vehicles.<br>
Cryomatiks Website<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cryomatiks.com/">https://cryomatiks.com/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Fpb7D5vm1vA">https://youtu.be/Fpb7D5vm1vA</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 May
3, 1999 </b></font><br>
<p>Bob Somerby of the Daily Howler debunks an April 15, 1999 column
by Washington Times columnist Ben Wattenberg falsely suggesting
that NASA scientist James Hansen viewed Vice President Al Gore as
an alarmist on climate change. In addition, Somerby notes:</p>
Of course, if spinners like Wattenberg get their way--and the larger
press corps never speaks up--those common sense steps [to reduce
carbon pollution] may never be taken. And reasoned debate, in the
coming campaign, could give way to a lot of hot air. So that’s why
we offer a global *warning*, against believing facile spin from
these types. There’s a whole lot of hoo-hah floating around
concerning Gore and [his views on] global warming. And we hope that
the press corps will get off its duffs, and bring some clarity to
the whole sorry mess."<br>
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