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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>June 15, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Yes]<br>
<b>Google, Facebook, Amazon and more urge SEC to mandate regular
climate reports</b><br>
JUN 14 2021<br>
In a letter to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler on Friday, Google-parent
Alphabet, Amazon, Autodesk, eBay, Facebook, Intel and Salesforce
shared their view in response to a request for public input on such
disclosures.<br>
The tech industry has been vocal on climate issues in the past, even
as employees have pressed the companies themselves to do better.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/google-facebook-amazon-and-more-urge-sec-to-mandate-regular-climate-reports.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/google-facebook-amazon-and-more-urge-sec-to-mandate-regular-climate-reports.html</a><br>
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[video explanation]<br>
<b>WATCH: Why climate change could lead to a financial crisis (and
what we can do about it</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/05/06/why-climate-change-is-a-ticking-economic-time-bomb-and-what-we-can-do-about-it.html">https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/05/06/why-climate-change-is-a-ticking-economic-time-bomb-and-what-we-can-do-about-it.html</a><br>
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[remember snow]<br>
<b>Remember snow days? Today’s kids get heat days.</b><br>
America’s schools are underprepared for the worst impacts of climate
change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/extreme-weather/remember-snow-days-todays-kids-get-heat-days/">https://grist.org/extreme-weather/remember-snow-days-todays-kids-get-heat-days/</a><br>
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[duh - information battle]<br>
<b>Weather Channel’s New Forecast: More Viewers Want Climate Change
News (EXCLUSIVE)</b><br>
By Brian Steinberg - Jun 14, 2021<br>
Accelerating climate change and its far-flung effects have fast
become the most important story in the news cycle. But that isn’t
always the stuff that gets talked about or tweeted — or the biggest
ratings.<br>
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Part of the issue? Shifts in the environment happen gradually over
time, not usually in a violent, shocking moment that can be captured
by cameras. Increasingly frequent bursts of severe weather are
changing that dynamic, but most news outlets have tried to address
the story with special reports and new teams of reporters that are
add-ons to their journalism infrastructure.<br>
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Now the Weather Channel is making climate change a bigger part of
its overall focus. The cable network over the next several months
plans to infuse climate coverage into its morning, afternoon and
even entertainment programs in a way that Nora Zimmett, the
outlet’s chief content officer, believes will make for reports that
audiences won’t be able to ignore...<br>
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Like forecasting the weather, predicting what audiences want is
never easy, she adds “We always want to make sure we are programing
to our viewers and not to ourselves.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/weather-channel-climate-change-coverage-1234995741/">https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/weather-channel-climate-change-coverage-1234995741/</a><br>
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[G7 - cops out]<br>
<b>G7 Nations Take Aggressive Climate Action but Hold Back on Coal</b><br>
President Biden pushed climate action after four years in which
Donald Trump rejected cooperation with allies. But leaders failed to
set an expiration date for burning coal...<br>
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Because the world’s remaining intact ecosystems and biodiversity hot
spots are unevenly distributed, scientists emphasize that it’s not
enough for each country to carve out its own 30 percent. Rather,
countries should work together to maximize the protection of areas
that will yield the best returns on reversing the interdependent
biodiversity and climate crises. Researchers have mapped
suggestions.<br>
<br>
The rights of local communities, including Indigenous peoples who
have been better stewards of biodiversity, must be valued, advocates
said. Protecting nature does not mean kicking people out, but rather
ensuring that wild areas are used sustainably.<br>
<br>
Robert Watson, a former chairman of two leading intergovernmental
panels on climate change and biodiversity, praised the agreement for
linking the two crises. But he said it needs to address the factors
that are driving species loss, including agriculture, logging and
mining.<br>
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“I do not see what actions will be taken to stop the causes,” Dr.
Watson said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/us/politics/G7-climate-Biden.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/us/politics/G7-climate-Biden.html</a><br>
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[Modern Diplomacy]<br>
<b>A Threat to Global Security: Climate Change</b><b><br>
</b>June 14, 2021 -- Amra Ashiq<br>
Climate change has become a real concern and a challenge to the
global security of world and hence falls under the category of
global issues. Its impact is now being percept and discern by many
states. Now the policy formulators and strategic intellectuals have
recognized the climate change as serious and even multidimensional
global issue. The climate change possess potential of altering the
life of individuals as the issue not only has impact on one sector
of individual’s life but also produce challenges in different
sectors of human life like environment, economic, political and
social. Hence the climate change affects the human life in
miscellaneous ways.<br>
<br>
Climate change include the events like extreme weather conditions
such as floods, storms, and heat waves, as well as migration and
depopulation in the areas that become uninhabitable and can even
cause migration and depopulation in regions that become
uninhabitable due to the threats posed by climate change. These
threats include rise in sea level, drought, water scarcity, food
insecurity, and even bio security menaces. Side by side complexity
of the issue is that warming and acidification of the oceans is also
happening, sea levels are rising and glaciers are melting at the
same time. These shifts become more common in the coming decades,
they will undoubtedly pose challenges to our climate and community.
Human activities are increasingly influencing the climate and
causing prompt changes in earth’s climate on regular accounts in
number of ways by consuming fossil fuels, removing trees, and also
through livestock farming. This drastically raises the emissions of
greenhouse gases hitherto evident in the environment; as a result,
the greenhouse impact is exacerbated, resulting in global warming.
It is being witnessed that day by day these threats are rising in
great number and these climate changes are posing serious challenges
to global security.<br>
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Exquisitely expounding how the climate change is becoming a global
security issue because its dynamics have an impact on all levels and
in different dimensions. Climate change is also having profound
influence on governance, conflict and crime as when the degree of
any global issue exacerbates, it also leads to the rise in conflict
and crime, as well as weakening of state governance over its
subjects. Taking into account the climate conflict nexus, which
arises as a result of the severity of climate change, resulting in
state fragility, resource wars, insurgency, and terrorism,
corruption is just another stumbling block to addressing climate
insecurity and conflict. This climate insecurity allows criminal
organizations to thrive on climate insecurity, and as a result, they
commit corruption, worsening the situation. This climate related
corruption will not only result in climate conflict but also fuel
terrorism. Consequently it can even trigger instability in societies
and states and can even act as threat multiplier and vivify the rise
of militant or insurgent groups. Therefore making the situation
deadly for states as it may challenge the writ of government and at
individual level it threatens the human security. The climate change
has become global issue and a concern for global security as the
issue has multidimensional repercussions for human life. In addition
to the article explains the climate- conflict nexus and
climate-terror nexus and hence make the reader to ponder on the
severity of situation. Considering the example of Covid-19 pandemic,
in which a variety of criminal organizations, such as gangs and
cartels, snatched up the opportunities in response and state
instability in the challenged pandemic space to impose criminal rule
in some regions. Conflict, violence, and alternative governance
arose as a result of the pandemic. A similar impact is expected as a
result of climate change.<br>
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As a result of drastic climate change, there will be massive
migrations in the future, and one country will overtake another in
the pursuit of a better climate. Witnessing the devastation of world
wars another major war that erupts in the near future will be
“Climate War”. The dilemma that this future climate war is going to
create should have havoc effects. It is very possible that new
threats will be caused by climate change, which will put nations in
a position of limited natural resources. Nations will certainly
suffer as a result; however, it is difficult for people to
comprehend what is the root cause of this destruction.<br>
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In a nut-shell it must be focused that what measures and strategies
must be adopted by states at domestic level and at international
level to meet the challenge of climate change, what should sates
do and how should they cooperate among themselves in order to combat
the challenge of climate change and how should states lessens
climate change adverse repercussions for human life. There is an
urge to make the scholars, researches and policy makers to realize
and think on the issue so to bring the discussion of climate
security forward. It also encourages increased debate and research
climate change, its repercussions on individual life and
climate-related conflict and crime. The crux of the matter is that
states should join hands together in order to meet the challenge of
climate change as global issue before we run of time and things get
of control and unmanageable. It is the need of hour that we must
collaborate and work to mitigate the impact of climate change. The
sphere would be a safer place to inhabit unless everyone took action
and attempted to halt any of the current climate change. Otherwise
the impacts of climate change would be catastrophic.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/06/14/a-threat-to-global-security-climate-change/">https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/06/14/a-threat-to-global-security-climate-change/</a><br>
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[see much more]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://moderndiplomacy.eu/category/topics/environment/">https://moderndiplomacy.eu/category/topics/environment/</a><br>
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[old fellow optimism]<br>
<b>Nobel winner’s evolution from ‘dark realist’ to just plain
realist on climate change</b><br>
In new book, <b>William Nordhaus</b> says there’s a better way to
frame the challenges posed by global warming and find solutions<br>
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<b>Mufson: One thing that struck me was the emphasis your book
places on the responsibility of government when it comes to
climate change.</b><br>
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Nordhaus: One of the big themes of the book is that we have over the
last 200 or so years developed elegant and powerful theories about
how the private sector works — its strengths, its weakness. We see
all around us the miracles of the marketplace. But this does not
apply to public goods. The book explains that in a well-managed
society we must recognize the need for collective actions as well as
actions of the private sector.<br>
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To deal with collective action when it comes to public goods will
require some kind of government intervention. I don’t think of it as
big government but as collective action.<br>
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Contagions are, in a way, the most obvious example. Like carbon
dioxide, you can’t smell them or see them or taste them but they’re
very dangerous. In the olden days they would kill, in the case of
the black death, a quarter of the population. We can’t say, “Let the
private sector handle it.” It just won’t work...<br>
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I’m hopeful that over the next couple of decades we’ll see a
breakthrough.<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>Mufson: What’s your view of the international side?</b><br>
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Nordhaus: I want to put in a plug for the carbon club or compact.
Global warming is not a national problem but a global one. It is
analogous to a pandemic. For the climate problem we need to get
countries together. There are some proposals about how to change our
current approach [seen in the Paris accord] from a voluntary one to
one that has some teeth. An agreement with incentives to participate
is the only way to get strong agreements to slow warming.<br>
<br>
Even if everyone meets the Paris objective, it’s not going to get
you anywhere near carbon neutrality by mid-century. So as a final
word, I would say we need innovation for international institutions,
in this case an international climate club.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/06/14/qa-william-nordhaus-interview-carbon-pricing/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2021/06/14/qa-william-nordhaus-interview-carbon-pricing/</a><br>
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[Daily activism ]<br>
<b>Change the Chamber or QUIT the Chamber. I stand with the students
from across the country who demand that corporations leave the </b><b>@USChamber</b><br>
over its decades of climate denial and obstruction. We need climate
action NOW.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1402992421697310728">https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1402992421697310728</a><br>
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[Public Citizen]<br>
<b>Student-Led Coalition Calls on Corporations to Quit U.S. Chamber
Over Climate Inaction</b><br>
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Change the Chamber, a coalition of over
100+ student groups from across the country, supported by over 25
organizations including Public Citizen, the League of Conservation
Voters (LCV) and the Sierra Club, sent a letter calling on
corporations to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce unless the
nation’s largest business lobbying group takes meaningful steps to
end their climate hypocrisy and cease their destructive pro-fossil
fuel lobbying...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.citizen.org/news/student-led-coalition-calls-on-corporations-to-quit-u-s-chamber-over-climate-inaction/">https://www.citizen.org/news/student-led-coalition-calls-on-corporations-to-quit-u-s-chamber-over-climate-inaction/</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
June 15, 2010</b></font><br>
In an address from the Oval Office, President Obama declares: <br>
<blockquote>"For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily
accessible oil were numbered. For decades, we’ve talked and
talked about the need to end America’s century-long addiction to
fossil fuels. And for decades, we have failed to act with the
sense of urgency that this challenge requires. Time and again,
the path forward has been blocked -- not only by oil industry
lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor. <br>
<br>
"The consequences of our inaction are now in plain sight.
Countries like China are investing in clean energy jobs and
industries that should be right here in America. Each day, we
send nearly $1 billion of our wealth to foreign countries for
their oil. And today, as we look to the Gulf, we see an entire
way of life being threatened by a menacing cloud of black crude.<br>
<br>
"We cannot consign our children to this future. The tragedy
unfolding on our coast is the most painful and powerful reminder
yet that the time to embrace a clean energy future is now. Now is
the moment for this generation to embark on a national mission to
unleash America’s innovation and seize control of our own destiny.<br>
<br>
"This is not some distant vision for America. The transition away
from fossil fuels is going to take some time, but over the last
year and a half, we’ve already taken unprecedented action to
jumpstart the clean energy industry. As we speak, old factories
are reopening to produce wind turbines, people are going back to
work installing energy-efficient windows, and small businesses are
making solar panels. <br>
<br>
"Consumers are buying more efficient cars and trucks, and families
are making their homes more energy-efficient. Scientists and
researchers are discovering clean energy technologies that someday
will lead to entire new industries. <br>
<br>
"Each of us has a part to play in a new future that will benefit
all of us. As we recover from this recession, the transition to
clean energy has the potential to grow our economy and create
millions of jobs -– but only if we accelerate that transition.
Only if we seize the moment. And only if we rally together and
act as one nation –- workers and entrepreneurs; scientists and
citizens; the public and private sectors. <br>
<br>
"When I was a candidate for this office, I laid out a set of
principles that would move our country towards energy
independence. Last year, the House of Representatives acted on
these principles by passing a strong and comprehensive energy and
climate bill –- a bill that finally makes clean energy the
profitable kind of energy for America’s businesses. <br>
<br>
"Now, there are costs associated with this transition. And there
are some who believe that we can’t afford those costs right now.
I say we can’t afford not to change how we produce and use energy
-– because the long-term costs to our economy, our national
security, and our environment are far greater. <br>
<br>
"So I’m happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either
party -– as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil
fuels. Some have suggested raising efficiency standards in our
buildings like we did in our cars and trucks. Some believe we
should set standards to ensure that more of our electricity comes
from wind and solar power. Others wonder why the energy industry
only spends a fraction of what the high-tech industry does on
research and development -– and want to rapidly boost our
investments in such research and development. <br>
<br>
"All of these approaches have merit, and deserve a fair hearing in
the months ahead. But the one approach I will not accept is
inaction. The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that
this challenge is somehow too big and too difficult to meet. You
know, the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough
planes and tanks in World War II. The same thing was said about
our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man
safely on the surface of the moon. And yet, time and again, we
have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional
wisdom. Instead, what has defined us as a nation since our
founding is the capacity to shape our destiny -– our determination
to fight for the America we want for our children. Even if we’re
unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don’t yet know
precisely how we’re going to get there. We know we’ll get there."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJW4_FvVKo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJW4_FvVKo</a> <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/us/politics/16obama.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/us/politics/16obama.html?pagewanted=all</a>
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