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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 25, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[new horizon]</i><br>
<b>World's youth return to the streets to fight climate change</b><br>
By Kate Abnett<br>
-- Largest global climate protest planned since pandemic<br>
-- Strike takes place weeks before COP26 summit<br>
-- Hundreds of thousands expected at German events<br>
Climate crisis worse now than before COVID: Thunberg<br>
BRUSSELS, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Young people around the world began
taking to the streets on Friday to demand urgent action to avert
disastrous climate change, in their largest protest since the start
of the COVID-19 pandemic.<br>
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The strike takes place five weeks before the U.N. COP26 summit,
which aims to secure more ambitious climate action from world
leaders to drastically cut the greenhouse gas emissions heating the
planet.<br>
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"Everyone is talking about making promises, but nobody keeps their
promise. We want more action," said Farzana Faruk Jhumu, 22, a youth
climate activist in Dhaka, Bangladesh. "We want the work, not just
the promises."<br>
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Demonstrations kicked off in Asia and were planned in more than
1,500 locations, according to youth movement Fridays for Future. In
Germany alone, organisers expected hundreds of thousands to attend
more than 400 protests...<br>
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"Last time it was digital and nobody was paying attention to us," he
said...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-youth-returns-streets-fight-climate-change-2021-09-24/">https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-youth-returns-streets-fight-climate-change-2021-09-24/</a><br>
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<i>[Greta on Friday]</i><br>
<b>Young climate activists join Greta Thunberg for first major
Fridays for Future strikes of pandemic</b><br>
LONDON — Young people around the world spilled into streets, city
squares and local parks on Friday, following the call of Swedish
teen Greta Thunberg, for the first big, in-person, coordinated
climate protests since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.<br>
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Thunberg, who started the Fridays for Future student movement in
2018, was in Berlin, where the turnout was especially high, and
where voters are gearing up to select a successor to Chancellor
Angela Merkel in national elections Sunday.<br>
<br>
“Yes, we must vote, you must vote, but remember that voting only
will not be enough. We must keep going into the streets,” she said
to a crowd outside the Reichstag parliament building.<br>
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“The government’s messaging has gotten better, but emissions are
still going up,” he said. “We want them to go down, and will keep
marching until they do.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/24/fridays-future-greta-climate-protests/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/24/fridays-future-greta-climate-protests/</a><br>
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<i>[prison or fine - no death penalty]</i><br>
<b>PG&E Is Charged With Manslaughter In A California Wildfire
That Killed 4</b><br>
September 24, 2021<br>
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If the utility is convicted of manslaughter, the punishment would be
a fine for each person killed in the Zogg Fire last year near the
city of Redding. A corporation "can't go to jail, so we're talking
fines, fees, the ability for the court to order remedial and
corrective measures," Bridgett said.<br>
<br>
"One of our primary functions here is to hold them responsible and
let the surviving families know that their loved one did not die in
vain," she added.<br>
<br>
PG&E CEO Patti Poppe said failing to prevent the fire was not a
crime....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040630538/pacific-gas-electric-manslaughter-charges-california-wildfire-zogg">https://www.npr.org/2021/09/24/1040630538/pacific-gas-electric-manslaughter-charges-california-wildfire-zogg</a><br>
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<i>[avoiding facing the truth]</i><br>
<b>Opinion: World leaders are not being honest about what it will
take to fight climate change</b><br>
Opinion by Henry Olsen - September 22, 2021 ...<br>
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Developing countries often turn to coal because it is a relatively
cheap fuel to burn for electricity. Coal is plentiful and easy to
mine in many parts of the world, and electricity from coal-fired
plants is available all the time, unlike electricity generated from
solar or wind power. China’s copious coal supply, for example, has
fueled its rise to become a global economic power. Moving away from
that would reduce the country’s competitiveness and burden it with
high transition costs to new power plants. So, seriously fighting
climate change now would dramatically reduce China’s economic growth
and that of other poor countries trying to catch up to the West.
Predictably, these countries are not willing to lock in Western
economic dominance...<br>
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Moreover, these countries don’t just need aid to battle the effects
of climate change; they need money enabling them to be economically
competitive in the carbon-neutral world the West wants to build.
That will take hundreds of billions annually from public and private
sources, with many investments hopelessly unable to earn a
reasonable rate of return. Wealthy climate activists such as
billionaire Bill Gates could pledge their entire fortunes to the
cause and still barely make a dent in the problem...<br>
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Climate activists have shied away from telling the world the truth.
Instead of selling sacrifice, they peddle exaggerated claims of job
growth and economic gains, conveniently omitting the pain that
shutting down fossil fuel plants and changing energy consumption for
billions of households will entail. Going green is cool — until you
start taking away people’s hamburgers and flights to the Bahamas.<br>
<br>
The iron law of scarcity applies as much to fighting climate change
as it does to all other areas of economic endeavor. We cannot have
limitless supplies of everything we want all the time. Actually
fighting climate change requires painful tradeoffs. Until leaders
such as Biden and Xi tell us that, all their words are merely hot
air.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/22/world-leaders-are-not-being-honest-about-what-it-will-take-fight-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/22/world-leaders-are-not-being-honest-about-what-it-will-take-fight-climate-change/</a><br>
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<i>[Yale talks economics in a video ]</i><br>
<b>Time to Reimagine Sustainable Development?</b><br>
Sep 21, 2021<br>
YaleUniversity<br>
Time to reimagine sustainable development? On the eve of the UN
General Assembly"<br>
Event description: The 76th session of the United Nations General
Assembly opened on Tuesday, September 14, for leaders from around
the world to discuss progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, the SDGs marked
a move away from traditional economic measures of development to
account for broader issues such as just human rights, gender, and
the environment. Today they serve not only as standards by which to
judge progress, but also as focal points for new ideas on how to
solve the world’s greatest challenges.<br>
The eighth Yale Development Dialogue focused on how the SDGs hold
up in today’s world and how some of the best new ideas in global
development might advance progress on the goals. Panelists:
Catherine Cheney, Stefan Dercon, Shanta Devarajan, and Rory Stewart<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRGt4QkVPc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNRGt4QkVPc</a><br>
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<i>[video talk -- "What a time to choose to be alive!"] </i><br>
<b>JOANNA MACY: Climate Crisis As Spiritual Path</b><br>
August 2021<br>
<br>
Old Dog Documentaries<br>
This 20 minute interview with Joanna Macy will help answer an
essential question: <br>
How we are going to live our lives fully, with inner peace and
courage (and even joy) as we confront a world that is destroying
itself?<br>
Joanna is also featured in our film THE WISDOM TO SURVIVE: Climate
Change, Capitalism & Community. Watch HERE:
vimeo.com/ondemand/wisdomtosurvive/<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/588455489">https://vimeo.com/588455489</a><br>
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<i>[Take a survey please]</i><br>
<b>Climate Research Survey</b><br>
<br>
Help KU Gain Insight on Community Priorities and Responses to
Climate Change<br>
<br>
The Department of Psychology at the University of Kansas is
hosting a public survey to shed light on people’s feelings about
the climate crisis and how communities are positioned to respond
to it.<br>
<br>
They aim to include as many participants as possible, regardless
of whether they have attended any of our True Power for Climate
Resilience and Recovery or Climate of Community programs.<br>
<br>
The survey takes about 10 minutes.<br>
<br>
Anyone offering their thoughts will be contributing to a larger
understanding of the relationship of emotions around climate
change and community resilience.<br>
<br>
This is a continuation of the research study conducted in
September 2020. Please feel free to forward this message to others
who might be interested in participating. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uKOhsuyXzwITFY">https://kusurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5uKOhsuyXzwITFY</a></p>
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<i>[Oh no, Salon reports]</i><br>
<b>Bleak as it seems, geoengineering may be the only way to save
Earth from climate change</b><br>
Could Earth be cooled by reflecting sunlight back into space? NYU's
Gernot Wagner talks with Salon<br>
By MATTHEW ROZSA<br>
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021<br>
Considering that Gernot Wagner is the founding executive director of
Harvard University's Solar Geoengineering Research Program, you
might imagine him as an archetypal detached scientist. Engineers,
after all, are a notoriously antisocial group, and one would hardly
imagine that tendency to soften when they hail from an Ivy League
school.<br>
<br>
This could not be further from the truth. Speaking to Wagner about
his upcoming book "Geoengineering: The Gamble," it is evident from
his tone that he is speaking not just as a scholar, but as a
passionately concerned citizen of Earth. The book reflects the real
man's attitude: Human beings have passed the point of no return when
it comes to climate change. We are not going to be able to stave off
all of the apocalyptic conditions brought on by a warming planet
(extreme weather events, droughts, heat waves, wildfires) without
removing some greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.<br>
<br>
This is a fact, Wagner argues. As a consequence, we need to look
into technology that can solve the problem for us — for instance,
projects which could reflect sunlight back into space. The idea is
controversial, however, with critics fearing that it is merely a
stopgap that doesn't solve the real problem of more carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere, and thus misleads the public into thinking we can
"reverse" climate change. They also point out that it wouldn't fix
other problems related to greenhouse gas emissions, like ocean
acidification, and that such a large-scale engineering project would
require costly regular maintenance. Plus, given the complexity of
our climate, it is almost certain that there would be drastic
unforeseen consequences in any solar geoengineering project, from
which groups of people are most impacted to flora and fauna that may
suffer due to changes in solar energy levels on the ground...<br>
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<b>Basically the thesis of geoengineering is that we may reach a
point where we have to use this kind of technology, but that there
are pros and cons. Does that sound about accurate?</b><b><br>
</b>In the broadest possible terms. I will immediately add a couple
more bits to this. For carbon removal, we have basically crossed
that threshold already. We cannot achieve climate goals — like
limiting global average warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade — without
sucking CO2 back out. For certain technologies we've crossed the
threshold.<br>
<br>
For solar geoengineering — which in many ways is the most
controversial, but also the most interesting and potentially most
impactful geoengineering technology — no, we haven't crossed that
threshold yet. I would go a step further and say that certain
properties of solar geoengineering — that it's fast and cheap, but
imperfect — all of them push us in the direction of: it's not a
question of if, it's a question of when...<br>
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<b>What are the implications of this inevitability in terms of what
we as a society need to do? How do we need to prepare?</b><br>
If you want the sort of highfalutin version, the sort of "ideally we
ought to," the best possible way to put this is we need to get ready
— and by "we" I mean the global climate-focused community — ought to
be ready to put governance provisions in place, or for that matter
to simply have the governance conversation.<br>
<br>
"Governance" is one of these loaded terms that means a lot of things
to different people. I would say governance in this case simply
means having the right people at the table to have these
conversations in the first place. Most people don't know what solar
geoengineering is. Some of the most tuned-in and most astute climate
policy leaders, or sort of political leaders writ large... they
don't know what it is. They really don't, most of them. So baby
steps toward having the conversations, or educating ourselves to be
able to have the conversations, at every possible level. The UN
security council, the general assembly, the UN environment assembly,
whatever it might be. And then of course at the national level,
state level and wherever else to have semi-rational conversations
about what potential future scenarios could happen around a
potential, I would say inevitable, but still potential deployment of
solar geoengineering technologies...<br>
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<b>My last question — and it's a bleak one, but I think it's also
important to ask — is what kind of future are we looking at if we
stay on the current path that we have embarked on as a species?</b><br>
I think you said it. That's a bleak one, right? I guess I'm
naturally an optimist. You sort of have to be when you work on
climate.<br>
<br>
I'm a journalist, which means I have to be a pessimist.<br>
<br>
Fair enough. I'll tell you that it's too late to put pessimism on
the climate front. It is so late in the game that in some sense, if
you don't think that there is some Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos/Bill Gates
or whatever invention, some sort of some miracle thing, unless you
believe in that miracle essentially, then it's very, very hard to
see how we can turn this around...<br>
<br>
What we know is bad enough. What we don't is potentially much, much
worse. There are lots of unknowns. There are lots of unquantified
costs here and the vast, vast majority — I might even go as far as
to say every one of these matters — points in one and only one
direction. And that means, s**t is hitting the fan...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/bleak-as-it-seems-geoengineering-may-now-be-the-only-way-to-save-earth-from-climate-change/">https://www.salon.com/2021/09/23/bleak-as-it-seems-geoengineering-may-now-be-the-only-way-to-save-earth-from-climate-change/</a>
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<i>[The book is $19 due out Oct 25th]</i><br>
<b>Geoengineering: The Gamble 1st Edition</b><br>
by Gernot Wagner (Author)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Geoengineering-Gamble-Gernot-Wagner/dp/1509543066">https://www.amazon.com/Geoengineering-Gamble-Gernot-Wagner/dp/1509543066</a><br>
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<i>[Personal commentary</i><i><b> Methane is gonna be horrific</b></i><i>.
I predict that we will be forced to launch sparker drones in order
to burn off the methane. Over the Arctic waters, expect to see
low flying drones that detect and then spit out sparks to ignite
the methane. Combusted methane is far less harmful -- and it
seems relatively safe to ignite it in the Arctic waters. Plus, it
would look amazing to see vast flames on the water. Probably the
only form of geoengineering I could get behind. (while it is small
enough to handle) - RP]</i><br>
<b>Esteemed climate blogger Tenney Naumer writes:</b><br>
Shakhova and her husband Igor have written extensively on the
various types of frozen methane in the Arctic. Her papers are dense
and information rich. She describes both biogenic and thermogenic
sources in the shelf of the coast of eastern Siberia. The sea is
very shallow there, which is why it pisses me off when they bring
out this old canard:<br>
<br>
As well as methane from thawing soils and fossil gas, there is a
very large reservoir of methane frozen with water in some parts of
the world’s oceans. However, scientists believe it will take a long
time for global heating to warm up these deeper waters. Even if this
happened, they expect much of the released methane to be dissolved
into sea water and broken down into CO2 by ocean bacteria before it
reaches the atmosphere.<br>
<br>
No, it will not be dissolved in the sea water when the sea is
shallow nor will it be in the water long enough to be broken down by
bacteria. This is simply not happening in the region where she has
done most of her research. <br>
<br>
Gavin continues to downplay the situation. Igor made it clear that
the biogenic methane was created by the fine plants that grew on the
losse (damnit! I cannot remember how to spell that word - it means
the very fine powder that was laid down over the millennia)<br>
<br>
Anyway, here is a seminal paper:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2019/06/natalia-shakhova-igor-semiletov-evgeny.html">http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2019/06/natalia-shakhova-igor-semiletov-evgeny.html</a><br>
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More here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/search/label/Natalia%20Shakhova">http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/search/label/Natalia%20Shakhova</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back] </i><font size="+1"><b><br>
</b></font><font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global
warming September 25, 2005</b></font><br>
September 25, 2005: TIME Magazine releases the October 3, 2005<br>
cover-dated issue, with the cover story: <b>"Are We Making
Hurricanes Worse?"</b><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20051003,00.html">http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20051003,00.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109318,00.html">http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1109318,00.html</a><br>
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