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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>May 24, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[hard to catch up]<br>
<b>‘War’ footing needed to correct economists’ miscalculations on
climate change, says professor</b><br>
PUBLISHED SUN, MAY 23 20219:55 PM EDT<br>
Karen Gilchrist<br>
<blockquote>-- Economic forecasts predicting the potential impact of
climate change grossly underestimate the reality and have delayed
global recovery efforts by decades, a leading professor has said.<br>
-- Mainstream economists “deliberately and completely” ignored
scientific data and instead “made up their own numbers,” Steve
Keen, a fellow at UCL, told CNBC.<br>
-- Now, a “war-level footing” is required to have any hope of
repairing the damage, he said.<br>
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Referring specifically to a report produced by economists at the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was
instrumental in outlining global climate targets including those
presented at the Paris Agreement COP21, Keen said even their most
severe estimates were a “trivial underestimate of the damage we
expect.”<br>
<br>
That is because they “completely and deliberately ignore the
possibility of tipping points,” a point at which climate change can
cause irreversible shifts in the environment.<br>
“I think we should throw the economists completely out of this
discussion and sit the politicians down with the scientists and say
these are the potential outcomes of that much of a change to the
biosphere; we are toying with forces far in excess of ones we can
actually address,” he said.<br>
<br>
Keen’s comments come as world leaders wrapped up their final day of
meetings at the Arctic Council — an intergovernmental forum covering
wide-ranging geopolitical issues from climate to trade.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/24/war-footing-needed-to-correct-economists-climate-change-failings.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/24/war-footing-needed-to-correct-economists-climate-change-failings.html</a><br>
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[big changes required]<br>
<b>Biden adviser says reducing red meat isn't sole climate change
solution</b><br>
The White House's national climate adviser, Gina McCarthy, responded
on Sunday to claims made by Republicans that President Biden’s
climate plan includes a ban on red meat, concluding that “we’re all
in a lotta trouble” if people think consuming less meat is the
“entire solution to climate change.”<br>
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The USDA called the claims made by Republicans “a fabrication.”<br>
<br>
“This is a fabrication. There is no such effort or policy that
exists by this Administration. It’s not a part of the climate plan
nor the emissions targets. It is not real,” a USDA spokesperson
previously told The Hill.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/554986-biden-advisor-says-reducing-red-meat-isnt-sole-climate-change">https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/554986-biden-advisor-says-reducing-red-meat-isnt-sole-climate-change</a><br>
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<p>[it's a giant Slip 'n Slide]<br>
<b>Airborne radar reveals groundwater beneath glacier</b><br>
by Stanford University<br>
MAY 20, 2021<br>
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<blockquote>"Based on the radar signal, the study team constructed
two possible models to describe Hiawatha Glacier's geology: Frozen
land with thawed ice below it or porous rock that enables
drainage, like when water flows to the bottom of a vase filled
with marbles. These hypotheses have different implications for how
Hiawatha Glacier may respond to a warming climate."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phys.org/news/2021-05-airborne-radar-reveals-groundwater-beneath.html">https://phys.org/news/2021-05-airborne-radar-reveals-groundwater-beneath.html</a>
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<p>[arriving by train or boat?]<br>
<b>UAE asks to host 2023 climate change conference</b><br>
ARAB NEWS - May 23, 2021<br>
DUBAI: The United Arab Emirates has asked to host the COP 28
international conference on climate change in its capital Abu
Dhabi in 2023, state news agency WAM reported on Sunday.<br>
<br>
The UAE is offering to host Conference of the Parties (COP 28) to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
with a focus on the economic case for inclusive climate action,
the statement said. <br>
<br>
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs
and International Cooperation, said, “COP 28 will represent a
pivotal moment to capitalize on this opportunity, and our vision
is to work with all countries to realize their net economic
benefits from accelerated action. “<br>
<br>
“As COP 28 host, the UAE would leverage its experience as a
regional and global convener to mobilize all actors in achieving
the Paris Agreement and reinforcing the compelling investment case
for raising ambitions,” Sheikh Abdullah added. <br>
<br>
The UAE is a permanent host country for the International
Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and is considered the first
country in the region to sign and ratify the Paris Agreement.<br>
<br>
“Climate impacts are already being acutely felt, but our
experience gives us optimism that we can meet global climate goals
while creating social and economic opportunities – with
contributions coming from all corners of the globe,” the minister
said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/1863176/middle-east">https://www.arabnews.com/node/1863176/middle-east</a> </p>
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[Leaving LA for Vermont ]<br>
Los Angeles Times Opinion<br>
<b>Op-Ed: Leaving California</b><br>
After more than four agreeable decades in California, my wife and I
became climate migrants — highly privileged ones, to be sure — and
moved to Vermont.<br>
<br>
Our life in Marin County had turned into a tightrope walk...<br>
- -<br>
We moved with more excitement than regret. We understand our
enormous good fortune: Most people can’t afford to pick up stakes,
no matter how dire the prognosis on home ground. We loved the Bay
Area, and now, most likely, we will love another place, too.<br>
<br>
We departed with gratitude for the kindnesses and thoughtfulness of
many people we’ve known, with pain over dear family members and
friends (and the neighbors’ dog we loved looking after) whom we are
leaving behind, and with grief for the suffering and chaos that
climate change has just begun to generate, emphatically in
California and eventually everywhere.<br>
<br>
We’re at the beginning of the diaspora, and we shudder at the
thought.<br>
<br>
Jacques Leslie is a contributing writer to Opinion.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-23/leaving-california-climate-change-wildfire">https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-05-23/leaving-california-climate-change-wildfire</a><br>
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[Inside Climate News]<br>
<b>Trees Fell Faster in the Years Since Companies and Governments
Promised to Stop Cutting Them Down</b><br>
The Forest Trends report shows a 50 percent increase in
deforestation of tropical woodlands, most of it for agriculture and
much of it illegal, since the 2014 New York Declaration on Forests.<br>
By Georgina Gustin -- May 19, 2021<br>
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The report, released Tuesday by the conservation group Forest
Trends, tracks deforestation, legal and illegal, in 23 countries
with large areas of tropical forests, including Brazil, home to most
of the Amazon rainforest. The research looks at the period, starting
in 2014, when dozens of governments, organizations and companies
signed onto the New York Declaration on Forests, a voluntary
agreement to halve deforestation by 2020 and stop it altogether by
2030.<br>
<br>
The researchers found that, since those commitments, an area nearly
twice the size of California has been cleared of trees, mostly for
commercial agriculture, which is the largest driver of deforestation
and the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions from land use.<br>
<br>
“The scale of the increase in deforestation is really huge, and
given all the commitments, is really disappointing and shocking,”
said Cassie Dummett, one of the report’s lead authors. “Every year
so much is being cleared, and when it’s for commodities, that means
that the world’s consumers and governments are complicit.”...<br>
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Most of that clearing was driven by a demand for exported
commodities. In addition to beef, the biggest culprit throughout
Latin America continues to be soy, largely for animal feed and
destined for overseas markets, especially China, which has seen a
surge in demand for meat. In Indonesia, the largest driver of
deforestation continues to be palm oil, which finds its way into a
wide array of commercial food and consumer products in markets
around the world...<br>
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“Behind a lot of this is land deals, land speculation and land
laundering, depending on the country,” Dummett said. “The legal
framework is often exploited, where a nexus of political and
business elites are using commercial agriculture as a means of
claiming ownership, and the land value increases massively when it’s
transformed from forest to agricultural land.”<br>
<br>
Dummett said that Forest Trends will follow up on the report with a
set of policy recommendations, but the authors intend it to inform a
handful of legislative proposals already in the works. <br>
<br>
Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are considering a law that would ban
the import of any product linked to illegal deforestation. In the
United States, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) has said he will
introduce legislation that would ban the import of products linked
to illegal deforestation, and has called consuming products
connected to such destruction of woodlands “immoral.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19052021/deforestation-climate-change-forest-trends-companies-governments/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=e64d690eb5-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-e64d690eb5-327495193">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19052021/deforestation-climate-change-forest-trends-companies-governments/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=e64d690eb5-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-e64d690eb5-327495193</a><br>
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[criticism from India]<br>
<b>Why to Avoid Reading a Book on Climate Change Written by a
Billionaire</b><br>
SIXDEGREES on 05/22/2021 <br>
NITIN SETHI<br>
I HARDLY WRITE OR REPORT THESE DAYS. A PUBLICATION ASKED FOR A BOOK
REVIEW. BUT, IT REJECTED THE REVIEW UPON READING THE DRAFT. NEEDLESS
TO SAY, ITS NOT A GENTEEL AND POLITE REVIEW. THOUGHT OF SHARING IT
FOR THOSE WHO MAY WANT TO READ IT ANYWAY. IT HAS NOT BEEN EDITED, SO
IT COMES WITH ALL THE TYPOS, ERRORS WITHOUT BEING SUBBED CLEAN.<br>
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Chapter by chapter Gates resolves it all for humanity. He tells you
how to have clean transportation, green heating and cooling systems
and adapt to inevitable climate change (this bit has a photo of him
standing with a few cows and farmers in Kenya to boot). Universal
truths are strewn across the pages as sub-heads: “Cities need to
change the way they grow, focus on the most vulnerable people,
factor climate change into policy decisions, help farmers manage the
risks from more chaotic weather.”<br>
<br>
Almost as if to ensure he is not blamed for missing out on it, there
is a sliver of a chapter on why government policies matter. A middle
on innovation and technology and then a chapter on what all good DIY
books must tell: “What each of us can do.”<br>
<br>
I read these chapters so you and your children do not have to. Stop
at the first half of the first chapter. Why, you may ask?<br>
<br>
Because, reading further you might get the impression all it takes
is a goofy, sweet and geeky globetrotting-self to become a genius
billionaire and some techno-interventions to save the planet.<br>
<br>
Neither is true. It takes a whole lot of business acumen to be the
first. Mr Gates prefers not to talk of the first. This is the kind
of book one writes after one has made his billions, poured his
billions into philanthropy that part-promotes investments to grow
yet more billions.<br>
<br>
It certainly takes more to resolve the biggest long-ranging
challenge humanity faces. Do not get me wrong. Mr Gates is right:
technology is a key. But, ask yourself this? If Mr Gates and many
like him have the technology list ready (or almost ready) why is it
taking the World, its most powerful nations and citizens heading
these nations, so long to fix the problem?<br>
<br>
I would recommend you read anything that answers to the above
question rather than Mr Gates, who is rather averse to corporates in
the global North relaxing their patents for manufacturers in the
global South to produce vaccines against Covid-19 pandemic.
Underneath the banality of his book lies such real-world challenges,
that Mr Gates has decided it’s best to avoid discussing.<br>
<br>
Nitin Sethi is a journalist with The Reporters’ Collective. Besides
other things, he has written on the intersections of climate change,
science, politics and governance for over a decade.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/30213/why-to-avoid-reading-a-book-on-climate-change-written-by-a-billionaire">https://www.sixdegreesnews.org/archives/30213/why-to-avoid-reading-a-book-on-climate-change-written-by-a-billionaire</a><br>
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[a classic audio talk from 6 years ago]<br>
<b>How Humanity Is Causing a 'Sixth Extinction' - Elizabeth Kolbert
Interview</b><br>
Aug 17, 2015<br>
The Elephant<br>
<br>
We typically think of climate change in terms of the consequences it
has for humanity. But it also has huge and troubling impacts on the
other species we share our planet with. In this episode we speak
with Elizabeth Kolbert about her Pulitzer Prize winning book the
Sixth Extinction, and discuss how, like the asteroid that killed the
dinosaurs, human beings are having an impact so disruptive on the
environment that a large proportion of the earth's species will have
likely gone extinct by the end of the century.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPdd8Sz2q8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPdd8Sz2q8</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
24, 2006 </b></font><br>
May 24, 2006: "An Inconvenient Truth" is released in the United
States. BoxOfficeGuru.com's Gitesh Pandya notes:<br>
<blockquote>"Setting the limited release box office on fire was the
global warming documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth' which opened in
only four theaters but grossed a hefty $367,311. That gave the Al
Gore pic a stunning average of $91,827 per location over four
days. Distributed by Paramount Vantage, the new incarnation of
Paramount Classics, Truth collected $281,330 over the
Friday-to-Sunday portion averaging a scorching $70,332. Total
since Wednesday stands at $490,860. Opening this weekend on
multiple screens at a pair of theaters in both New York and Los
Angeles, Truth will add about 60 more playdates on Friday and
expand throughout June hoping to become the dominant doc of the
summer."<br>
</blockquote>
(Al Gore and director Davis Guggenheim would appear on the June 2,
2006 edition of "EcoTalk" on Air America to discuss the film.)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0">http://youtu.be/8ZUoYGAI5i0</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.boxofficeguru.com/052906.htm">http://www.boxofficeguru.com/052906.htm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/al_gore_about_a.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/al_gore_about_a.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/davis_guggenhei.html">http://blogsofbainbridge.typepad.com/ecotalkblog/2006/06/davis_guggenhei.html</a><br>
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