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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 11, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Top story ]</i><br>
<b>Major Climate Action at Stake in Fight Over Twin Bills Pending in
Congress</b><br>
Legislation aimed at infrastructure and social programs also
includes big changes in energy, transportation and disaster
preparation. They would amount to the most significant climate
action ever taken by the United States...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/climate/climate-action-congress.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/climate/climate-action-congress.html</a><br>
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<i>[ check weather and no smoking ]</i><br>
<b>Critical fire weather and Red Flag Warnings predicted for much of
California Monday and Tuesday</b><br>
Bill Gabbert - - October 10, 2021<br>
Critical fire weather and Red Flag Warnings predicted for much of
California Monday and Tuesday...<br>
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Much of California between Los Angeles and Redding will be under
elevated fire danger or Red Flag Warnings Monday and Tuesday. Strong
north winds are predicted to begin Sunday night, peak on Monday, and
last through Tuesday. Temperatures will not be as high as is seen in
typical Santa Ana wind events, but they will be higher than normal
and relative humidities will be low.<br>
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In the North Bay, for example, winds will develop late Sunday
evening from the north at 30 to 40 mph, and will be locally higher
near favored gaps, canyons, and in the Valley. Minimum humidity will
drop to 10 to 25 percent Monday and slightly lower on Tuesday.
Overnight recovery will be 25 to 50 percent.<br>
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Any fires that develop could spread rapidly.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1447328756687785989?ref_src=twsrc">https://twitter.com/CAL_FIRE/status/1447328756687785989?ref_src=twsrc</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/10/10/critical-fire-weather-and-red-flag-warnings-predicted-for-much-of-california-monday-and-tuesday/">https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/10/10/critical-fire-weather-and-red-flag-warnings-predicted-for-much-of-california-monday-and-tuesday/</a><br>
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<i>[ Video news from DW ]</i><br>
<b>India faces power outages as coal supplies dwindle | DW News</b><br>
Oct 11,2021<br>
DW News<br>
India is facing major power shortage, as the country's coal supplies
dwindle. Electricity demand has surged since 2019, while the price
of coal has also rocketed to near record highs. Now several states
are looking at introducing mass blackouts to save energy reserves. <br>
Meanwhile, the Modi government is insisting the country has enough
coal to supply its power plants. Coal prices shot up after heavy
monsoon rains closed mines and disrupted transport networks.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAU6ub1nyNk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAU6ub1nyNk</a><br>
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<i>[ incomprehensible conundrum ] </i><br>
<b>How culturally deranged is our climate today?</b><br>
Danny Crichton@dannycrichton - October 10, 2021<br>
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In his profound and engrossing book The Great Derangement,
celebrated Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh trains his sharply
analytical and observant mind on the interconnections between humans
and the planet, discovering counter-intuitive relationships wherever
he roams. An edited collection of a series of lectures he delivered
at the University of Chicago in 2015, it’s a taut and provocative
meditation, and one of the best I have read in recent years...<br>
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Ghosh’s main argument centers on the role of culture, and
particularly literary culture, in contextualizing the climate
crisis. He’s all but astonished to find it completely absent, which
leads to the book’s title of the great derangement: that climate
change is all but incidental to culture, a fact that’s insane in a
world increasingly trembling from the daily crises of a planet under
stress. In fact, “it could even be said that fiction that deals with
climate change is almost by definition not of the kind that is taken
seriously by serious literary journals: the mere mention of the
subject is often enough to relegate a novel or a short story to the
genre of science fiction.”<br>
<br>
He narrates his own brush with climate change: a freak urban cyclone
that nearly killed him when he was younger. Yet, as he reminisces on
this incident, he realizes that his random brush with death would be
impossible in the context of a plot. Too arbitrary, a narrative
device that would seem hackneyed to even the most open-minded
reader. His own lived experience — an authentic, real experience —
impossible to write down since it seems almost impossible to have
happened.<br>
<br>
The likelihood of any individual catastrophe emanating from climate
change is unlikely, but the totality of each of those many rolls of
the dice all but guarantees frequent disasters. That leads Ghosh
into a meditation on the history of probability. “Probability and
the modern novel are in fact twins, born at about the same time,
among the same people, under a shared star that destined them to
work as vessels for the containment of the same kind of experience,”
he writes. The randomness of life that was a feature of humanity for
millennia became regularized with the rise of the industrial era —
we took control of our environments, our destinies after struggling
to hold back the chaos of our world. Probability thus became less
relevant in the modern age.<br>
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Of course, it was precisely that penchant for control that has led
to our current climate rupture. Our upgraded standard of living
simultaneously cost us the very quality of regularity that we
demand. The idyllic nature of the San Francisco Bay Area is now
punctuated by successive climate crises, from droughts to wildfires.
Our interwoven global community now stutters with supply-chain
disruptions, travel cancelations, border closures and policy
changes. Our system of regularity has become a system at war with
itself...<br>
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Part of the challenge in Ghosh’s mind is that culture has become
centered on narrations of individuals, who are hopelessly outmatched
today by Earth’s forces. He borrows from John Updike the phrase
“individual moral adventure” to describe much of modern literature,
particularly that produced in the West. We want a hero, a
protagonist, someone we can viscerally connect with and understand
their tribulations as they embark on a quest against challenges they
eventually overcome.<br>
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The climate is a system though, and thus, practically impervious to
individual action. As I pointed out in my review of Kim Stanley
Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future today, it’s nearly impossible
to engage a reader on the bureaucratic struggles that form the basis
for any change around climate. There is no villain but all of us,
and that just doesn’t match the kind of narrative readers and
viewers expect.<br>
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Worse, the narrative needs of “individual moral adventure” leads us
to a world in which the substance of the matter isn’t even the heart
of the story. Ghosh decries where this leads, writing that “Fiction,
for one, comes to be reimagined in such a way that it becomes a form
of bearing witness, of testifying, and of charting the career of the
conscience. Thus do sincerity and authenticity become, in politics
as in literature, the greatest of virtues.” That leads to a
declining level of agency for individuals and also for groups. “As
the public sphere grows ever more performative, at every level from
presidential campaigns to online petitions, its ability to influence
the actual exercise of power becomes increasingly attenuated,” he
writes.<br>
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While systems thinking can easily get truncated to just technical
and scientific relationships, Ghosh has successfully expanded the
bounds to include culture in the equations as well (his three parts
in this volume are entitled “Stories,” “History” and “Politics,”
which gives some idea of his intended contributions). It’s not
enough to just peer into our natural ecosystems and see what’s going
on, but we also have to understand how humans conceive and connect
with these systems in the first place. His analysis offers another
critical stratum on an already deeply-layered problem.<br>
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So where does this foray into culture, power and politics lead us?
Ultimately, Ghosh sees an important place for traditional religious
authorities to take charge on climate. As he writes:<br>
<blockquote>Religious worldviews are not subject to the limitations
that have made climate change such a challenge for our existing
institutions of governance: they transcend nation-states, and they
all acknowledge intergenerational, long-term responsibilities;
they do not partake of economistic ways of thinking and are
therefore capable of imagining nonlinear change — catastrophe, in
other words — in ways that are perhaps closed to the forms of
reason deployed by contemporary nation-states.<br>
</blockquote>
Ghosh touches on a myriad of other subjects across this slim book,
but his erudite and at times contrarian thinking successfully
reframes many of the debates and points of reference around climate
and future governance. As with all good systems thinking, his
analysis ultimately others something synthetic: different lenses by
which to understand a wicked problem. We should be fortunate that
there is perhaps a path out of the morass.<br>
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Or not. For it’s clear that while debates around the climate have
gone on for decades, we’re still doing little to actually solve the
fundamentals. Ghosh quotes U Thant, the third secretary-general of
the United States and the first from Asia, back in 1971:<br>
<blockquote>As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening,
through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth,
we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future
universal historian on another planet to say about us: “With all
their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight
and air and food and water and ideas,” or, “They went on playing
politics until their world collapsed around them.”<br>
</blockquote>
That history is being written now, and while the puzzle in front of
us is indeed vexing, it’s neither impossible to comprehend not
impossible to solve.<br>
<br>
<u>The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable</u> by
Amitav Ghosh<br>
The University of Chicago Press, 2016, 176 pages<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/10/how-culturally-deranged-is-our-climate-today/">https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/10/how-culturally-deranged-is-our-climate-today/</a><br>
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<i>[Mindfully important thinking] </i><br>
<b>Reducing Eco-Anxiety</b><br>
Jay Michaelson<br>
September 23, 2021<br>
There are days when I feel that climate change is the only thing
that matters and that the tragedy of it is unbearable. I feel
simultaneously like screaming on the street and hiding under the
covers.<br>
<br>
At least I know that I’m not alone. According to a 2020 study by the
American Psychiatric Association, over half of Americans said they
were somewhat or extremely anxious about the impact of climate
change.<br>
<br>
And they – we – are right. There aren’t enough words in this
newsletter to describe the scope of this tragedy, which has just
begun to unfold. Massive species and habitat loss. At least 250,000
deaths each year from 2030-2050, according to WHO projections. Up to
a billion climate and food refugees, with attendant conflicts and
disasters. Increased wildfires, floods, hurricanes, and pandemics.
Covid-19 is a picnic compared to what’s in store for our children.<br>
<br>
So what can we do?<br>
<br>
I used to think that meditation could be part of the solution by
helping us to consume less and live more sustainable lives. But to
be honest, I don’t feel that way anymore. As is now very well
documented, individual behavior change will not stop or slow climate
change, and even if it could, it’s unrealistic to imagine a billion
people meditating their way to sustainability. <br>
<br>
Where meditation and mindfulness do have a role, however, is
enabling us to be part of the actions that do make a difference.
Here are two ways that can happen.<br>
<br>
<b>1. Reducing Eco-Anxiety</b><br>
First, it can help with what is now called “eco-anxiety.” To
repeat, eco-anxiety is entirely justified. This isn’t like that old
Buddhist story about being afraid of a snake that turns out to just
be some rope. No, climate change is a real snake. <br>
<br>
But our reactions are still up to us. With mindfulness, we can see
when anxiety, fear, rage, or a sense of helplessness are paralyzing
us – when they’re preventing us from taking action, rather than
inspiring us to do so. <br>
<br>
Try this the next time you read (or don’t read) a news story about
climate change: check out the mind, heart, and body. Just note
whatever’s going on, without judgment: fear, dread, anger, whatever.
Then, try coexisting with that feeling, rather than trying to push
it away. Okay, you might say, right now, it’s like this.<br>
<br>
And if the feeling is too strong to simply “be with,” you can
consider an antidote, which can be as simple as taking a deep breath
or remembering people who bring you joy. Or try one of the many
anxiety meditations in the app. <br>
<br>
The point of doing this isn’t just to feel better, although that
certainly helps. Often, as pioneering meditation teacher and climate
activist Joanna Macy has written, the pain of climate change is so
great that we feel we have no choice but to retreat into denial or
apathy. It hurts too much to care. <br>
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Sometimes, the sense of helplessness which many of us feel can also
cause us to take individual actions which may give us an illusion of
power but which don’t actually make a difference. Which leads to the
second point…<br>
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<b>2. Politics</b><br>
Climate change is a collective problem. There aren’t enough virtuous
people in the world to make a difference through reducing their
carbon footprints, and studies have shown it’s exceedingly hard to
get the “non-virtuous” to change their behavior. Your individual
choices may reflect your ethical values, and communicate those
values to others. Those are good things. But in terms of actually
mitigating climate change, they simply don’t make a difference.<br>
<br>
To address those factors requires politics, and politics is often
nasty. Believe me, having worked as a political columnist for eight
years now, I can speak firsthand to its corrosive effects on one’s
mental health and love of humanity.<br>
<br>
But it’s the only way forward. Want to feel less helpless about
climate change? Register people to vote. This year, persuade
centrist senators (if one represents you) to get on board with
meaningful climate action. Donate to political causes. Get involved
in local politics, where meaningful collective actions are possible.
Find the Venn diagram overlap of what needs doing, what you’re good
at, and what brings you joy.<br>
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And that is where meditation can help. <br>
<br>
First, it can help us rest, relax, and restore. We get mentally
messy, and then we wash off. That is of enormous value. <br>
<br>
But more importantly, meditation trains the mind to be with
difficult emotions so that you don’t have to freak out when you
experience them. By learning to coexist with anger, frustration,
fear, and despair in meditation, you don’t get triggered by them for
the rest of your life. <br>
<br>
So, yes, I’m suggesting you bring climate change, and politics, into
your meditation time, to allow whatever emotions they bring up to
unfold. Because learning not to be controlled by them is how you
actually grow happier.<br>
<br>
Building mindfulness in this way can also help you practice
“pendulation,” engaging with the challenging material, and then
backing away from it to restore. It’s like a cycle: do your activist
work, notice when you get stuck, restore, and return. Remember,
fighting climate change is a marathon, not a sprint. And being
frozen by anxiety, anger, or burnout is not helping anyone. <br>
<br>
These, at least, are some of the tools that have helped me. None of
them will, themselves, reduce the impact of climate change – but I
do find they make me more able to do so. Truthfully, I don’t know if
that will be enough. But a wise Jewish adage says, you are not
required to complete the work, but you are also not free to desist
from it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/eco-anxiety">https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/eco-anxiety</a><br>
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<i>[ Foreign Policy book review opinion ] </i><br>
<b>Humanity’s Unhappy Experiment</b><br>
Understanding how the climate crisis unfolded can help us reverse
course.<br>
By Christina Lu, an editorial fellow at Foreign Policy.<br>
OCTOBER 10, 2021<br>
Long before anyone understood how the climate worked, a little—yet
devastating—ice age enveloped the Earth beginning around the 14th
century and reaching its chilly nadir in the mid-17th century.
Expanding glaciers demolished entire villages while people starved
and shivered to death. Frozen birds fell from the sky; empires
collapsed.<br>
<br>
Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis, Alice
Bell, Counterpoint, 384 pp., $27, September 2021<br>
<br>
As terrible as the little ice age was, it was just a harbinger for
how humans would radically transform the climate in the years to
come, Alice Bell writes in her new book, Our Biggest Experiment.
Just as human forces are fueling unprecedented levels of warming
today, they may have also helped usher in earlier freezing
temperatures. (While aided by a decline in solar radiation, the
little ice age also had roots in colonization, which took the lives
of 50 million Indigenous people in the Americas. That loss of life
likely sent atmospheric carbon dioxide levels—and
temperatures—plummeting.)<br>
<br>
Centuries later, we still haven’t learned our lesson. As people
continue to tamper with the environment, the world is heating
up—with dangerous results. In recent months, countries have been
buckling under extreme droughts, torrential rain, and searing heat
waves, all clear indicators of our changing climate. Humans are the
unequivocal perpetrators, particularly by burning fossil fuels that
release copious quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.<br>
<br>
How did we find ourselves in this mess? Our Biggest Experiment
charts the history of the climate crisis, highlighting the people
who began connecting the dots—and those who stymied their efforts.
Bell, a climate campaigner and writer, takes us back to the 18th
century, when the little ice age was winding down and the quest for
industrialization began. <br>
<br>
Bell traces those critical centuries in astonishing—almost
exhausting—detail. She shows how the world got hooked on fossil
fuels, how scientists began to grapple with the weather and
understand the climate, how Big Oil undermined climate science, and,
perhaps most importantly, what we can learn from the past. <br>
<br>
Bell dashes through centuries of science with vivid, fluid writing,
enlisting a sprawling cast of characters to shed light on topics
including the creation of the world’s modern energy mix and the
birth of atmospheric understanding. The realization that filling the
atmosphere with carbon dioxide could send temperatures soaring came
surprisingly early, in the mid-19th century. By the dawn of the next
century, there was little doubt what ever-growing emissions would
do. What was missing was much concern.<br>
<br>
The climate crisis “doesn’t hit people with a clearly identifiable
thud,” nor does it arrive in a “single ‘eureka’ moment,” Bell
writes. There were other factors in play. Scientists for decades
feared global cooling more than warming. In the early 1900s, gently
rising temperatures were welcomed as a boon to agriculture. And then
some powerful corporations actively cast doubt on climate change to
protect their businesses. The oil industry led the charge for
climate change skepticism, pushing a position that emphasized
“uncertainty” despite all evidence to the contrary.<br>
<br>
A recurring theme in Our Biggest Experiment is that climate issues
have always been inextricably tied to class, race, and gender.
Progress was made off the backs of suffering communities, whether
through the slave trade or workers operating in squalid
conditions—and they also bore the brunt of the environmental
impacts. When pollution became unbearable, Bell writes, the “rich
could move, or simply found it was never built near them in the
first place.” The poor weren’t as lucky. They still aren’t. The
global south, responsible for only around 10 percent of cumulative
global emissions, are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate
change. Richer countries such as Britain, where Bell lives, have
merely outsourced their use of coal and other dirty fuels, and by so
doing, such a nation is “able to dress itself up as a climate leader
for quitting the stuff in ways other countries simply don’t have the
means to,” Bell writes. <br>
<br>
Our Biggest Experiment is not a quick read. Meticulously researched,
the book covers so much ground, and so many people, that at times
the story can feel tangled and convoluted. In covering the entirety
of the climate crisis—a laudable feat—Bell risks losing sight of the
larger picture. But she makes up for it with a wealth of nuggets of
environmental history. Ever curious about the history behind the
phrase “tree huggers”? They were real—and dedicated. In 1730, when
villagers in Khejarli, in northwestern India, learned that their
culturally important khejri trees were set to be chopped down for a
new palace, they defended them to the death, literally: In exchange
for one villager’s life, one tree would be spared. One by one,
villagers wrapped their arms around the trees and lost their heads.
After hundreds of people were killed in the effort, the palace’s
ruler finally promised to leave them—and their trees—alone.<br>
<br>
In Our Biggest Experiment, Bell paints a dark picture of the world
but not one without hope. “The story of the climate crisis has
always been a choose your own adventure,” she writes. “We’ve
inherited an almighty mess, but we’ve also inherited a lot of tools
that could, if we choose wisely and make the most of them, help us
and others survive.” Some people already are: On Tuesday, three
scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for their work in
understanding how human behavior drives climate change. And as
almost 200 world leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, Scotland, this
fall for international climate talks, it’s imperative for
policymakers to prioritize the same issues.<br>
<br>
Bell acknowledges that the task seems daunting. “Most of us are
pretty clueless about how we built this world in the first place,
and so struggle to work out where to start rebuilding it,” she
writes. For curious readers, this book is a great place to start.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/10/climate-change-crisis-experiment-warming-history-environment-review-alice-bell/">https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/10/climate-change-crisis-experiment-warming-history-environment-review-alice-bell/</a><br>
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[ book blurb]<br>
<b>Traversing science, politics, and technology, </b><b><u>Our
Biggest Experiment</u></b><b> shines a spotlight on the
little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the
history behind the defining story of our age: the climate crisis.</b><br>
<br>
Our understanding of the Earth's fluctuating environment is an
extraordinary story of human perception and scientific endeavor. It
also began much earlier than we might think. In <u>Our Biggest
Experiment</u>, Alice Bell takes us back to climate change
science's earliest steps in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries,
through the point when concern started to rise in the 1950s and
right up to today, where the “debate” is over and the world is
finally starting to face up to the reality that things are going to
get a lot hotter, a lot drier (in some places), and a lot wetter (in
others), with catastrophic consequences for most of Earth's biomes.<br>
<br>
Our Biggest Experiment recounts how the world became addicted to
fossil fuels, how we discovered that electricity could be a savior,
and how renewable energy is far from a twentieth-century discovery.
Bell cuts through complicated jargon and jumbles of numbers to show
how we're getting to grips with what is now the defining issue of
our time. The message she relays is ultimately hopeful; harnessing
the ingenuity and intelligence that has driven the history of
climate change research can result in a more sustainable and
bearable future for humanity.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.amazon.com/Our-Biggest-Experiment-History-Climate/dp/1640094334/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Our-Biggest-Experiment-History-Climate/dp/1640094334/ref=sr_1_1</a><br>
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<i>[ historic skirmish of science denial ] <br>
</i><b>‘This is a story that needs to be told’: BBC film tackles
Climategate scandal</b><br>
Scientist Philip Jones is resigned, but ready for a fresh wave of
abuse when drama The Trick tries to put the record straight on
accusations that he falsified data on global heating<br>
Robin McKie and Vanessa Thorpe<br>
Sun 10 Oct 2021<br>
Twelve years ago, Professor Philip Jones was subject to a barrage of
hate mail and death threats that pushed him close to suicide.
Emails, hacked from his laboratory, proved climate change research
was a fraud, it was claimed.<br>
<br>
Now Jones faces a repeat of that grim onslaught when the BBC One
film, The Trick, is screened on 18 October. It will tell the story,
sympathetically, of his tribulations at the hands of climate change
deniers.<br>
<br>
“At the time, the mail was awful. Everyone was attacking me and I
couldn’t deal with it. I got Christmas cards filled with obscenities
and, to this day – on the November anniversary of the hacking – I
still get a couple of offensive messages,” Jones told the Observer
last week.<br>
<br>
“After The Trick is screened I expect there will be a new wave of
abuse. However, I accept the risk because this is a story that needs
to be told.”<br>
<br>
Jones was head of the Climactic Research Unit at East Anglia
University in Norwich in 2009 when hackers stole thousands of
documents and emails from its computers. Their contents were then
carefully selected and used by climate change deniers to promote the
idea that scientists were falsely alleging fossil fuel emissions
were warming the planet. Subsequent inquiries rejected all these
allegations.<br>
<br>
“It was a manufactured controversy,” said Owen Sheers, screenwriter
of The Trick. “There was a definite strategy at work and a massive
disinformation campaign. Yet, when I talk to those who remember any
of it now, most still think a scientist really did get caught
tweaking the figures...<br>
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“In fact, thousands of documents were stolen and a few extracts were
pulled out in an expert way that became the bullets that did the
damage,” added Sheers, who is known for books such as The Dust
Diaries. Some experts even claim the furore triggered by Climategate
– as the hacking affair was later dubbed – played a key role in the
failure of the Copenhagen climate talks in December that year.<br>
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It is a complex argument but Jones was satisfied with the results.
“The film is not heavy on the science, and I think that is fine.
This is a drama and you cannot go into the minutiae or you will get
bogged down.”<br>
<br>
Broughton and Sheers believe the drama may correct faulty memories
of the scandal, as reports of the findings that exonerated Jones and
his team were not as prominent as the original claims made against
them. “The intellectual defence for Jones has been out there from
almost the first, but it did not get the coverage,” said Sheers.<br>
<br>
Sheers also revealed that many of the international news networks
that once denounced Jones and others for faking global warming
figures have now refused to allow their footage to be used by the
BBC. Requests to use clips were turned down by ABC and CBS. “The way
it was covered back then is extraordinary, in the light of
everything we know now, but our requests for news archive were
refused,” he said, though he added that the American networks NBC
and Fox did give permission.<br>
<br>
“The science was strong then but it is even stronger now,” said
Jones. “And in terms of covering climate change, much of the UK
media has improved. So there is some cheer to be had in our story.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/10/this-is-a-story-that-needs-to-be-told-bbc-film-tackles-climategate-scandal">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/10/this-is-a-story-that-needs-to-be-told-bbc-film-tackles-climategate-scandal</a><br>
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[conversation with author]<br>
<b>Richard Wrangham: Role of Violence, Sex, and Fire in Human
Evolution | Lex Fridman </b>Podcast #229<br>
Oct 10, 2021<br>
Lex Fridman<br>
Richard Wrangham is a biological anthropologist at Harvard,
specializing in the study of primates and the evolution of violence,
sex, cooking, culture, and other aspects of ape and human behavior.
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[The news archive - looking back - "Could'a, Would'a, Should'a "]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
October 11, 2000</b></font><br>
October 11, 2000: In the second Presidential debate between Vice
President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush, Gore says the
US needs to take the lead in confronting the climate crisis and
embracing clean energy. Bush claims that his environmental record as
governor of Texas is not as bad as has been alleged; Bush also
attacks the concept of a carbon tax and endorses "clean coal" and
natural gas as energy solutions. Gore denies that he supports a
carbon tax, but endorses clean-energy tax incentives. Bush tries to
suggest that there's still a dispute in the scientific community
about the causes and severity of climate change, and denounces the
Kyoto Protocol. Gore defends the scientific consensus on climate,
and points out that we need to do right by future generations; in
response, Bush again suggests that there isn't a real consensus. <br>
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