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<p><i><font size="+1"><b>August 16, 2021</b></font></i></p>
[Yale video report]<br>
<b>Is Western U.S. experiencing a 'megadrought'?</b><br>
Aug 15, 2021<br>
YaleClimateConnections<br>
Intense, prolonged droughts called 'megadroughts’ occurred regularly
during the Middle Ages. Now the U.S. West may be in another
megadrought period, this one made even worse by climate change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIuLDrcT83A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIuLDrcT83A</a><br>
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[California Fire report daily video summary]<br>
<b>Update and Forecast for Dixie Fire, Monument Fire, River Complex,
and Other Western Wildfires</b><br>
August 15, 2021 - recording of a live event<br>
Holt Hanley Weather<br>
The Dixie Fire, River Complex, Monument Fire, Antelope Fire,
Mcfarland Fire, and a number of other wildfires continue to burn in
Northern California. <br>
Throughout this video, we'll dive into all the important updates, as
well as the fire weather forecast to predict how all these wildfires
may change in the coming days.<br>
You can subscribe to stay updated on all major wildfires throughout
the 2021 season.<br>
I hope this video was helpful, and thanks for watching.<br>
You can also check out Holt Hanley Weather on Twitter, where I post
more concise updates on the current wildfires:<br>
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Update and Forecast for Dixie Fire, Monument Fire, River Complex,
and Other Western Wildfires - Chapters:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWbkng9gvU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWbkng9gvU</a><br>
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[video review of the IPCC report in 14 mins
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zax9XTHUlo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zax9XTHUlo</a>]<br>
<b>IPCC Sixth Climate Assessment. Will this one make the blindest
bit of difference?</b><br>
Aug 15, 2021<br>
<b>Just Have a Think</b><br>
The IPCC has been publishing science based climate warning
assessments since 1990 and in those 30 odd years human beings have
released more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than we did in the
previous two centuries. That has to go down as a fail. This latest
report contains the starkest and bluntest language so far. So will
this one make any difference?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.justhaveathink.com">http://www.justhaveathink.com</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zax9XTHUlo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zax9XTHUlo</a><br>
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[Hear from a climate scientist video
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXkCvlznAw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXkCvlznAw</a>]<br>
<b>What Keeps a Climate Scientist Up at Night? Featuring Dr. Andrew
Dessler</b><br>
Aug 4, 2021<br>
The Climate Pod<br>
#climatechange #climatescience #climatemodels #heatwave #heatdome
#globalwarming #dessler<br>
<br>
Extreme weather events have devastated communities across the globe
in 2021. Wildfires, floods, and heatwaves have been made worse by
human-caused climate change, just as climate scientists have warned
us about for decades. This week, we talk to Dr. Andrew Dessler, one
of those climate scientists who has been heeding those warnings and
communicating the science and policy needed to address the climate
crisis. He discusses both the extreme weather he and many others
have predicted for decades and things he's seen in 2021 that he
didn't expect.<br>
<br>
Dr. Dessler is the Reta A. Haynes Chair in Geosciences at Texas
A&M University. He worked as the Senior Policy Analyst in the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President
Bill Clinton. He’s written books about both the science and the
politics behind global warming.<br>
<br>
Be sure to subscribe to The Climate Pod YouTube channel! <br>
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Listen to the full episode of The Climate Pod featuring Dr. Andrew
Dessler here:<br>
iTunes: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://apple.co/3Ce4BWK">https://apple.co/3Ce4BWK</a><br>
Spotify: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://spoti.fi/3yq9lX0">https://spoti.fi/3yq9lX0</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXkCvlznAw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiXkCvlznAw</a><br>
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[5 min video - Aug 12, 2021]<br>
<b>What to expect at COP26</b><br>
Following the latest IPCC release, what should we expect at the next
UN Climate Change conference in Glasgow in November? In five
minutes, Jennifer Bansard shares her predictions after covering
UNFCCC talks earlier this year. Watch<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/586007326">https://vimeo.com/586007326</a>
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[from the Bulletin]<br>
<b>Earth Negotiations Bulletin</b><br>
Earth Negotiations Bulleting provides a variety of multimedia
informational resources for environment and sustainable development
policymakers, including daily coverage of international
negotiations, analyses and photos. A division of the International
Institute for Sustainable Development, ENB is recognized for its
objectivity and issue expertise in the field of international
environment and sustainable development policy. ENB reports and
multimedia are an essential source of information for government
officials, policy and decision makers, UN staff, non-governmental
organizations, intergovernmental organizations, business, industry
and academia.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/iisdenb">https://vimeo.com/iisdenb</a><br>
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[Attribution science a few years ago]<br>
<b>Friederike Otto, Oxford University speaking at the Conference on
Loss and Damage 2019 in Lund</b><br>
Nov 15, 2019<br>
LUCSUS and LUMES<br>
Conference on Loss and Damage 2019 in Lund, Sweden<br>
Here we have gathered recordings from the opening session, 30th
October 2019, from the Conference on Loss and Damage 2019.<br>
<br>
Speakers at the opening session<br>
<br>
09.30 Opening welcome and short introduction to the conference
on L&D (Emily Boyd, Lund University Centre for Sustainability
Studies)<br>
10.00 Where is the international policy focus and what are
important research issues relevant to loss and damage? (Koko Warner,
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) <br>
10.30 Efforts to develop L&D research and practice?
(Reinhard Mechler, IIASA) <br>
11.00 What do we know about the science of attribution?
(Friederike Otto, Oxford University)<br>
11.30 Inspirational talk (Jonas Åkerman, Department of Physical
Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University)<br>
<br>
The conference was organised by Lund University Centre for
Sustainability Studies in partnership with the Centre for
Environmental and Climate Research (CEC) Lund University, Oxford
University, Met Office UK, International Institute for Applied
Systems Analysis, International Centre for Climate Change and
Development (ICCCAD), Munich Re Foundation and Copenhagen
University. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.lucsus.lu.se">www.lucsus.lu.se</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP2yxYBn_Ow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP2yxYBn_Ow</a><br>
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[the likely answer is "No"]<br>
<b>Financial sector risks repeating Global Financial Crisis mistakes
on climate change: new report</b><br>
Released today, a week after the IPCC warned time to act on
temperature rise is fast closing, Breakthough's latest report
Degrees of Risk: Can the banking system survive climate warming of
3°C? draws lessons from the Global Financial Crisis and urges the
financial sector to change its approach to climate risks to avoid
making the same mistakes.<br>
<br>
Download the full report<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://breakthroughonline.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a61106741e16151c30befba0&id=ed6d119d35&e=29f344a8e5">https://breakthroughonline.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4a61106741e16151c30befba0&id=ed6d119d35&e=29f344a8e5</a><br>
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<b>DEGREES OF RISK</b><br>
Written by: David Spratt & Ian Dunlop<br>
<b>Can the banking system survive climate warming of 3˚C?</b><br>
This latest Breakthrough report draws lessons from the Global
Financial Crisis and urges the financial sector to change its
approach to climate risks to avoid making the same mistakes.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/dor">https://www.breakthroughonline.org.au/dor</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
August 16, 2013</b></font><br>
<br>
August 16, 2013: The climate documentary "The Politics of Power"
airs for the first, last and only time on MSNBC.<br>
MSNBC's 'Power' Outage: Chris Hayes' Climate Change Documentary
STILL Unavailable Online<br>
The curious blackout of the cable net's one-hour 'Politics of Power'
special...<br>
By D.R. TUCKER on 8/29/2013, 10:05am PT <br>
If you missed the MSNBC/Chris Hayes documentary The Politics of
Power on August 16, you may never have the chance to see it again in
its entirety.<br>
<br>
Sure, you can watch the final fifty-nine seconds of the documentary
on MSNBC.com, and a four-minute clip from the program, plus a few
"web extras". But, for some reason, the rest of the special --- a
rare hour-long cable news documentary on the climate crisis and its
fossil fuel industry-funded deniers --- has yet to be posted online.
Anywhere. At least anywhere that we were able to find.<br>
<br>
The BRAD BLOG has made repeated inquires to MSNBC, as well as to
Chris Hayes and whoever monitors All In's Twitter feed, as to why
the documentary, which aired during Hayes' normal All in With Chris
Hayes time slot, has not been made available in full online. That,
despite the fact that Rachel Maddow's documentary, Hubris: Selling
the Iraq War, was posted on MSNBC.com almost immediately after it
first aired on February 18, 2013. As of this writing, we have yet to
receive a response from MSNBC or Hayes or All In as to whether or
when the doc might be made available online, or why it hasn't been
so far.<br>
<br>
Now, why would that be?...<br>
<br>
A week or so after it aired, we were able to find a transcript of
the August 16 documentary posted online. Reading through it, one can
appreciate why the piece received high praise from former Vice
President Al Gore --- and why certain entities might not be happy
with the prospect of the video being widely available and, who
knows, maybe even going viral.<br>
<br>
Consider these remarks from the film's transcript...:<br>
<br>
HAYES: What once seemed science fiction in the film "The Day After
Tomorrow", now, almost a decade later, is closer to reality. It's
the dangerous formula of fossil fuel economy and climate change
continues to play out.<br>
For the next hour, we'll show that climate change is happening, and
the root of the problem is our dependence on fossil fuels. The story
of our energy use is fascinating, where we get it, what type it is,
and how much we use. And that needs to change.<br>
...<br>
HAYES: "Bloomberg Businessweek" magazine puts it even more bluntly,
across the globe, a disturbing statistic. Carbon emissions from the
consumption of energy are up 48 percent since 1992.<br>
<br>
We`ve heard it many times before, but it bears repeating, because
some people still don`t get it. When coal, oil, and natural gas are
burned to create energy, the process pumps carbon dioxide and other
gases into the atmosphere. They don't dissipate. They stay there,
creating a sort of blanket that traps heat in.<br>
<br>
If the heat stays in, the planet gets warmer. If the planet gets
warmer, the ice caps melt. If the ice caps melt, they can no longer
reflect the sun's rays. That means the rays are absorbed by the dark
water. Warmer water means the seas expand, rise, and fuel super
storms, like Sandy.<br>
...<br>
HAYES: Not surprisingly, some of the funding for climate change
denial comes from the very industry with the most to lose, fossil
fuel companies. One of the largest financial backers of the climate
denial movement was ExxonMobil. Its annual reports show that from
1998 to 2007, ExxonMobil gave millions of dollars to organizations
that cast doubt on the scientific validity of climate change.<br>
<br>
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It`s obvious why they want climate change not to
be true. As long as climate change is not true, then we can keep
selling coal, natural gas, and oil. So, remove the cause and your
business is preserved.<br>
<br>
HAYES: In 2008, ExxonMobil announced they would discontinue
contributions to groups that could, quote, "divert attention in the
important discussions on how the world will secure the energy
required for economic growth in an environmentally responsible
manner. In fact, ExxonMobil is funding research devoted to
mitigating the increase in greenhouse gases.<br>
<br>
Yet there remain numerous deep-pocketed billionaires and
corporations still supporting climate change denial.<br>
<br>
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It`s really disheartening, as a climate
scientist to hear the misrepresentation of the science. And reminds
me of what happened with tobacco.<br>
<br>
HAYES: In 1994, they said their product was not addictive, despite
the evidence proving the opposite.<br>
<br>
JOSEPH TADDEO, U.S. TOBACCO: I don't believe that nicotine or our
products are addictive.<br>
<br>
ANDREW TISCH, LORILLARD TOBACCO: I believe that nicotine is not
addictive.<br>
<br>
EDWARD HORRIGAN, LIGGETT GROUP: I believe that nicotine is not
addictive.<br>
<br>
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The cigarette industry created 50 years of pseudo
science to convince legislators, regulators and smokers that smoking
was not harmful. Is the fossil fuel industry now paying for pseudo
science to convince policymakers they're not to blame for climate
change? Of course they are.<br>
<br>
MORGAN: There is a window of time where we need to act, and once you
go past that window, if the emissions keep going up, you lose the
Arctic. I have to hope that people think about how they're going to
protect their homes, their families, their kids, and get down to
business, because we don`t have that much time.<br>
...<br>
HAYES: It's hard to believe, but just 50 years ago, an oil company
ran an ad, actually boasting that each day it sold enough energy to
melt 7 million tons of glaciers. Today, those melting glaciers and
arctic ice no longer symbolize economic progress, but are the
proverbial canary in the coal mine of climate change.<br>
<br>
But why are we in this situation to begin with, and what`s keeping
us from taking the necessary option to solve it?<br>
<br>
It turns out the politics of power is really about the politics of
fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
HAYES (voice-over): In the United States, 80 percent of our energy
comes from fossil fuels --- coal, oil, natural gas. And which one do
we use the most? Oil.<br>
<br>
In 2012, we used almost 7 billion barrels of oil to fuel nearly all
of our transportation, provide half of our industrial energy needs,
and make chemicals, plastics, and synthetic materials found in
nearly everything we use today. In fact, the U.S. is the world`s top
energy consumer, and much of it is imported, often from volatile
nations.<br>
<br>
Not the sort of thing that might give comfort to the fossil fuel
companies that advertise --- a lot --- on MSNBC and MSNBC.com.<br>
<br>
To be fair, MSNBC.com did post a series of so-called "web extras"
related to the documentary, including extended interviews with
former EPA Administrator Carol Browner, as well as author Steve Coll
and solar-energy entrepreneur Jigar Shah. There's also a nice bit
about energy efficiency at One World Trade Center, the tower being
built at the site of the World Trade Center. Yet, the entire
documentary --- easier to take in via video, for those not inclined
to plow through text transcripts --- remains missing in action
nearly two weeks since its only airing...<br>
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The transcript indicates that The Politics of Power went further
than usual (by corporate-media standards) in pointing to the root
cause of the climate crisis: the burning of fossil fuels, and the
power of the fossil-fuel industry to stymie legislative and
executive action to reduce carbon emissions. It was, we concede, a
courageous decision to air the piece in the first place. However,
those who weren't able to watch on August 16 appear pretty much out
of luck. Rightly or wrongly, observers might well conclude that
MSNBC has invoked the first commandment of corporate media: Thou
shalt not offend advertisers.<br>
<br>
You may recall that in 2007, Michael Moore pointed out the role
pharmaceutical advertising plays in inducing corporate media to
avoid serious discussion of the problems facing the American
health-care system. The same could be said for Big Oil's heavy
advertising, and the role it clearly plays in inducing corporate
media to avoid serious discussion of the climate crisis. Is it
really too far-fetched to suggest that MSNBC.com might have made the
call not to post the full documentary online, so as to avoid any
(further?) backlash from the fossil fuel companies that advertise so
heavily on MSNBC and MSNBC.com?<br>
<br>
Granted, the newly launched Al Jazeera America is also keeping its
widely praised climate coverage offline. In fact, they're keeping
all of their coverage offline, as noted by environmental reporter
Todd Woody:<br>
<br>
The downside is that many US residents won't see that coverage. A
little under half the country's 100 million homes will be able to
get Al Jazeera America through their cable providers, and in order
to win deals with those carriers, the network has blocked Americans
from viewing its internet stream or videos on YouTube.<br>
That's a legitimate explanation. Or, at least it's an explanation,
which is more than we've been able to spark from MSNBC to date as to
why The Politics of Power is seemingly being blacked out... <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10284">http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10284</a><br>
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<b>MSNBC's 'Missing' Climate Change Documentary Finally Found! (Sort
Of)</b><br>
Chris Hayes' special quietly made available 'On Demand'...<br>
By BRAD FRIEDMAN on 10/2/2013, 12:04pm PT <br>
In late August, climate hawk and too-occasional BRAD BLOG
contributor D.R. Tucker reported how MSNBC's August 16th Chris Hayes
hosted documentary on climate change and the global warming denial
industry, was nowhere to be found online. Unlike previous docs from
the cable net, this one had not made available online after its
initial airing.<br>
<br>
Despite our best efforts at the time to receive an explanation from
MSNBC or Chris Hayes or the producers of his nightly prime-time
show, All In (which produced and presented the doc during their
normal hour), as to why the special had not been posted online,
several weeks went by and we received no response.<br>
<br>
The unexplained online "black out" of Politics of Power led Tucker
to wonder, by August 29th, if "certain entities" (such as ExxonMobil
and other fossil fuel industry corporations, global warming deniers
and other similarly big advertisers on MSNBC) "might not be happy
with the prospect of the video being widely available and, who
knows, maybe even going viral."<br>
<br>
Well, we've still received no direct response to our queries from
Hayes or anyone at MSNBC as to the whereabouts of the "missing"
documentary, or the explanation for it. But while browsing some
video clips recently at the MSNBC website, I just happened to come
across this graphic amongst a list of video clips available on the
site...<br>
<br>
Clicking on it brought me to a page with this explanation:<br>
<br>
A few of our viewers have been looking for the online clips to the
documentary Politics of Power.<br>
We’ve posted the first part of the documentary, above.<br>
<br>
The documentary can be found in its entirety on the following cable
providers’ websites (authentication required). Search "All In with
Chris Hayes 8.16."<br>
<br>
"A few of our viewers". :-)<br>
<br>
The page pointing to the "On Demand" version of the special looks to
have been created on September 10, about 12 days after our initial
article and persistent questioning about where the heck the
documentary was, and almost a full month after the film had aired on
MSNBC.<br>
<br>
Unfortunately, for me, I was in the mountains and off the grid when
it originally ran and still won't be able to see it in its entirely,
apparently. The "On Demand" providers listed (Comcast, Verizon,
Dish, Mediacom, Suddenlink) do not happen to include mine. But you
may be luckier.<br>
<br>
In the meantime, the following clip of the first 10 minutes of
Politics of Power was posted on the page cited above. So, mystery
partially solved. But the question as to why the documentary was not
made available in full online for all at the MSNBC site --- as, for
example, Rachel Maddow's Hubris: Selling the Iraq War had been,
immediately after its first airing --- remains unanswered.<br>
<br>
And, hey, MSNBC and/or All In With Chris Hayes, would it have killed
ya to respond to our very polite queries?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10284">http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10284</a><br>
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