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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 20, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[something amiss in the land of Oz]</i><br>
<b>This Powerful Democrat Linked to Fossil Fuels Will Craft the U.S.
Climate Plan</b><br>
Senator Joe Manchin is already a crucial swing vote in the
Democrats’ sweeping budget bill. But he will also write the details
of its climate change program.<br>
By Coral Davenport - - Sept. 19, 2021<br>
WASHINGTON — Joe Manchin, the powerful West Virginia Democrat who
chairs the Senate energy panel and earned half a million dollars
last year from coal production, is preparing to remake President
Biden’s climate legislation in a way that tosses a lifeline to the
fossil fuel industry — despite urgent calls from scientists that
countries need to quickly pivot away from coal, gas and oil to avoid
a climate catastrophe.<br>
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Mr. Manchin has already emerged as the crucial up-or-down vote in a
sharply divided Senate when it comes to Mr. Biden’s push to pass a
$3.5 trillion budget bill that could reshape the nation’s social
welfare network. But Mr. Biden also wants the bill to include an
aggressive climate policy that would compel utilities to stop
burning fossil fuels and switch to wind, solar or nuclear energy,
sources that do not emit the greenhouse gases that are heating the
planet.<br>
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As chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources,
Mr. Manchin holds the pen and the gavel of the congressional panel,
with the authority to shape Mr. Biden’s ambitions.<br>
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But Mr. Manchin is also closely associated with the fossil fuel
industry. His beloved West Virginia is second in coal and seventh in
natural gas production among the 50 states. In the current election
cycle, Mr. Manchin has received more campaign donations from the
oil, coal and gas industries than any other senator, according to
data compiled by OpenSecrets, a research organization that tracks
political spending.<br>
He profits personally from polluting industries: He owns stock
valued at between $1 million and $5 million in Enersystems Inc., a
coal brokerage firm which he founded in 1988. He gave control of the
firm to his son, Joseph, after he was elected West Virginia
secretary of state in 2000. Last year, Mr. Manchin made $491,949 in
dividends from his Enersystems stock, according to his Senate
financial disclosure report.<br>
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“It says something fascinating about our politics that we’re going
to have a representative of fossil fuel interests crafting the
policy that reduces our emissions from fossil fuels,” said Joseph
Aldy, who helped craft former President Barack Obama’s climate
change bill and now teaches at Harvard...<br>
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Mr. Manchin’s version is widely expected to have less ambitious
renewable energy requirements for electric power companies. His
version could also reward utilities that build new power plants
designed to burn natural gas. While it emits about half the carbon
dioxide of coal, natural gas is still a major contributor to global
warming...<br>
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Mr. Aldy said removing fines would drastically weaken the bill. “The
penalty on pollution is really important,” he said. “All the
analyses show that you get big reductions in carbon emissions if you
have a penalty on polluting. Take that away, and all you have is
another government subsidy for renewable energy.”...<br>
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The proposals now being weighed by Mr. Manchin “would keep fossil
fuels as a major engine of the economy for longer than the climate
can bear it,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences
at Princeton University.<br>
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When Mr. Biden was asked last week if he would sign a budget package
with slimmed-down climate measures, he responded, “I’m for more
climate measures.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/climate/manchin-climate-biden.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/19/climate/manchin-climate-biden.html</a><i><br>
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<i>[great minds in video discussion]</i><br>
The Climate Psychology Alliance of North America presents<br>
<b>A CONVERSATION ABOUT CLIMATE: "HOW WE GOT HERE, AND WHERE TO
NOW?"</b><br>
With Bill McKibben and Sally Weintrobe<br>
20th September 2021 at 2:00pm EST/ 11am PST<br>
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*This event is free of charge*<br>
Join us for a not-to-be-missed conversation between American
environmentalist Bill McKibben and<br>
British psychoanalyst Sally Weintrobe about her brilliant new book,
Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis: Neoliberal Exceptionalism
and the Culture of Uncare, in which she explores the psychological
and cultural forces behind the rise of the climate bubble, inside of
which people ignore the climate crisis. She reveals the paradigm
shift necessary to move from the current dysfunctional culture of
uncare toward a culture of care necessary for a sustainable world.<br>
<br>
**This will be a 30-minute conversation followed by a 30-minute
Q&A with a select group of journalists **<br>
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Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, has written extensively on the
climate crisis, from his prophetic “The End of Nature” (1989) to
“Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?” (2019).<br>
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Sally Weintrobe, psychoanalyst and longstanding member of Climate
Psychology Alliance UK, writes about the mental health dimensions of
the climate crisis. She edited and contributed to the book Engaging
with Climate Change (2013).<br>
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Registration at: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https:/www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-about-climate-how-did-we-get-here-and-where-to-now-tickets-167954700029">https:/www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversation-about-climate-how-did-we-get-here-and-where-to-now-tickets-167954700029</a><br>
This event will be recorded and accessible post-event at <a
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href="http://www.climatepsychology.us">www.climatepsychology.us</a><br>
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<i>[News 6 min video update from the Climate Pod]</i><br>
<b>UN Report: The World's Catastrophic Pathway to 2.7 Degrees
Warming</b><br>
Sep 19, 2021<br>
The Climate Pod<br>
#unitednations #synthesis #NDCs #2.7degrees<br>
On September 17th, The United Nations released its Synthesis Report
by the Secretariat on the Nationally Determined Contributions
available today. Based on these NDCs, The United Nations forecasts
the planet will be 2.7 degrees warmer than pre-industrial levels by
the end of this century. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
called the report "catastrophic".<br>
We've read the report and provided a summary of what it says and
what it means.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJz9GltHg54">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJz9GltHg54</a><i><br>
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<i>[battery innovation]</i><br>
<b>Has Henrik Stiesdal nailed yet another market disruptor?</b><br>
Sep 19, 2021<br>
Just Have a Think<br>
<b>Gridscale </b>is a long duration energy storage solution
developed by Stiesdal Storage Technologies in Denmark. The company
founder, Henirk Stiesdal invented the modern wind turbine and has
decades of experience in the industry. This new modular storage
system sits alongside utility scale lithium-ion batteries and
provides constant power for up to 7 days.<br>
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Video Transcripts available at our website<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=6tEkRRec3NE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tEkRRec3NE</a><i><br>
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<i>[Video visit to the company 60% efficiency - optimized to 90%]</i><br>
<b>Thermal Energy Storage Tour with Stiesdal Gridscale Battery</b><br>
Feb 24, 2021<br>
Engineering with Rosie<br>
Solving climate change means an energy transition to renewables, and
having a lot of variable renewable electricity in the grid means
we'll need a lot more energy storage. Lithium-ion batteries are
great for short term storage, and we have heard a lot about the
potential to use hydrogen for long term storage, but what about in
between?<br>
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In today's video, I got a tour of Stiesdal Gridscale Battery by COO
Bo Birkemose. He explained their thermal energy storage product that
they are developing, and showed me the three small-scale units they
have been testing their design on, on the way to developing their
first grid-scale system.<br>
<br>
Bo explains the product philosophy, the operating principles of the
heat battery, what time scale their battery will be suited to, the
development process, the biggest design challenges and shows me the
thermal battery up close. <br>
<blockquote>00:28 How does the thermal energy storage system work?<br>
02:31 How efficient is the thermal battery?<br>
03:20 Product goals - fast development, reduce cost<br>
03:50 What are the design challenges?<br>
04:59 Challenges associated with installation in remote locations<br>
06:06 Keeping the turbomachinery clean is another challenge<br>
06:40 What material is the heat stored in?<br>
07:26 Choosing the rock size: a tradeoff between heat transfer and
pressure drop<br>
07:46 How big is the system?<br>
09:15 Energy storage duration and how heat batteries compare to
lithium-ion batteries<br>
10:09 Tour of the 3 small-scale test units and what they learn
from each step<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wkuIvUISs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72wkuIvUISs</a><i><br>
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<i>[CBS says]</i><br>
<b>"Nothing is moving": Only one country in the world has submitted
plans that will mitigate climate change by 2030, watchdog finds</b><br>
BY LI COHEN -- SEPTEMBER 16, 2021 CBS NEWS<br>
A recent report from the United Nations found that the world risks
soon hitting 1.5°C of global warming in the 2030s, a threshold that
would ignite "extreme events unprecedented in the observational
record." Despite the dire warning, a new analysis has found that
none of the world's major economic countries have sufficient plans
to combat climate change. <br>
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The goal of the Paris Climate Agreement is to maintain that 1.5
threshold. But last month's report said that without "deep
reductions in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions,"
the world will surpass it within 80 years.<br>
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If dramatic reductions were made quickly, it would put the world
closer to that goal; however, experts have said that such a scenario
is unlikely. And Wednesday's analysis of 37 countries by watchdog
organization Climate Action Tracker (CAT) seems to echo that
assessment...<br>
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Only Gambia has a plan "compatible" with the Paris agreement, CAT
said, and the United Kingdom is the only one of the G20 countries
among those with "almost sufficient" plans. CAT determined its
rankings based on countries' mitigation targets, policies and
action, and climate action...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-2030-gambia/">https://www.cbsnews.com/news/climate-change-2030-gambia/</a><br>
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<i>[Visualize the data]</i><br>
<b>About Climate Action Tracker (CAT)</b><br>
The Climate Action Tracker (CAT) is an independent scientific
analysis produced by two research organisations tracking climate
action since 2009. We track progress towards the globally agreed aim
of holding warming well below 2°C, and pursuing efforts to limit
warming to 1.5°C.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateactiontracker.org/">https://climateactiontracker.org/</a><br>
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<b>Analysis: Despite “Code Red” on climate, target update momentum
at a standstill</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climateactiontracker.org/press/analysis-despite-code-red-on-climate-target-update-momentum-at-a-standstill/">https://climateactiontracker.org/press/analysis-despite-code-red-on-climate-target-update-momentum-at-a-standstill/</a><br>
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[TP -- think of it every day]<br>
<b>Major toilet paper brands are flushing our forests down the drain</b><br>
By Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin | News | September 17th 2021<br>
Companies like Proctor & Gamble are deforesting areas that act
as carbon sinks.<br>
What runs through your mind when you’re deciding which toilet paper
to buy? Sale price, roll size, pitiful single-ply or luxurious
triple? Climate change might not make your list of considerations,
but it should.<br>
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According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the
toilet paper industry is among the most egregious climate offenders
in Canada.<br>
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In its latest report on tissue products, the NRDC evaluated the
sustainability of 44 toilet paper brands, giving each product a
score from A+ to F. Who Gives a Crap, 100% Recycled and Green Forest
were ranked highest, while Angel Soft and Charmin brought up the
rear with critically low scores....<br>
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As with cars and straws and single-use grocery bags, the
responsibility and cost of sustainable choices fall first to the
consumer.<br>
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Alternatives to the “tree-to-toilet” pipeline are highlighted in the
report, such as bamboo-based and recycled products. There’s a bevy
of choices, if you’re willing to look for them.<br>
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“Finally, both large and small companies are offering tissue
products that don’t flush our forests down the drain,” said Vinyard.
“Now it’s time for the laggards like P&G to catch up to the
quickly shifting market trends.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/09/17/news/major-toilet-paper-brands-flushing-forests-down-drain">https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/09/17/news/major-toilet-paper-brands-flushing-forests-down-drain</a><br>
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<p><i>[The Queen]</i><br>
<b>Prof. Katharine Hayhoe</b><br>
@KHayhoe<br>
Climate change isn't only an environmental issue: it's a health
issue, and economic issue, a humanitarian issue... and a security
issue. That's why the US National Academies are establishing a
Climate Security Roundtable. Please submit nominations here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/climate-security-roundtable">https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/climate-security-roundtable</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1439393741979144198">https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/1439393741979144198</a><br>
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<br>
<i>[Radical notion of Agnotology]</i><br>
<b>The Age of Manufactured Ignorance</b><br>
Sep 9, 2021<br>
RT America<br>
On the show Chris Hedges discusses the age of manufactured ignorance
with the scholar Professor Henry A. Giroux. <br>
<br>
Education, the scholar Henry Giroux writes, has increasingly become
a tool of domination as right-wing pedagogical apparatuses
controlled by the entrepreneurs of hate, attack workers, the poor,
people of color, refugees, immigrants from the south and others
considered disposable. A Republican Party dominated by the far right
believes education should function as a tool of propaganda and
pedagogy of oppression, rightly named ""patriotic education.""
Dissent is defiled as corrupting American values and any classroom
that addresses racial injustice is viewed as antithetical to ""a
Christian and white supremacist world where Black people 'know their
place'."" Banning instruction on ""critical race theory"" has become
the new McCarthyism. Noam Chomsky argues that any reference to the
history of slavery, systemic racism or racial injustice now replaces
""Communism and Islamic terror as the plague of the modern age.""
Chomsky, Giroux argues, may not have gone far enough, since GOP
extremists argue that the threat of communism has simply been
expanded to include Critical Race Theory, Black Lives Movement and
other emerging protest groups, all connected and viewed as updated
forms of Marxism and part of an international communist-global
conspiracy. The Red Scare, Giroux warns, is alive and well in
America. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wf4rY963FY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wf4rY963FY</a><br>
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<p><i>[YouTube video with transcript ]</i><br>
<b>The end of globalisation and the return of localisation -
Rupert Read's keynote lecture</b><br>
Oct 30, 2019<br>
Rupert Read<br>
The end of globalisation and the return of localisation: How
climate change breakdown terminates developmentality.<br>
This is the 2019 Mahbub ul-Haq Lecture at the Human Development
& Capability Association's conference held at Univesity
College London.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxIdhv2KHb8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxIdhv2KHb8</a><br>
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<p>'[One man voice - on video ]<br>
<b>2021 Unprecedented Government Climate Crime</b><br>
Peter Carter<br>
2.87K subscribers<br>
Explains recent big reports on the climate emergency response,
being ignored by governments, with the UN COP 26 climate
conference coming up soon.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrXw2xuKUw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrXw2xuKUw</a><i><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
September 20, 2013</b></font><br>
<p>September 20, 2013: The Obama administration proposes new EPA
regulations intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new
power plants in the US.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/13/epa-to-announce-carbonlimitsonnewpowerplants.html">http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/13/epa-to-announce-carbonlimitsonnewpowerplants.html</a><br>
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