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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 14, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[DW news ]</i><br>
<b>Pandemic, climate change and conflict fuel sharp rise in global
hunger</b><br>
Nearly 50 countries are dealing with serious hunger levels as 320
million people lost access to adequate food last year, a newly
released index shows.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dw.com/en/pandemic-climate-change-and-conflict-fuel-sharp-rise-in-global-hunger/a-59488549">https://www.dw.com/en/pandemic-climate-change-and-conflict-fuel-sharp-rise-in-global-hunger/a-59488549</a><br>
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[BBC says]<br>
<b>Climate change: Carbon emissions from rich countries rose rapidly
in 2021</b><br>
Carbon emissions are rebounding strongly and are rising across the
world's 20 richest nations, according to a new study.<br>
<b>The Climate Transparency Report </b>says that CO2 will go up by
4% across the G20 group this year, having dropped 6% in 2020 due to
the pandemic.<br>
<br>
China, India and Argentina are set to exceed their 2019 emissions
levels.<br>
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The authors say that the continued use of fossil fuels is
undermining efforts to rein in temperatures.<br>
<blockquote>'Adapt or die' warning over UK climate change<br>
Facebook to act on illegal sale of Amazon rainforest<br>
UK public now eating significantly less meat<br>
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With just two weeks left until the critical COP26 climate conference
opens in Glasgow, the task facing negotiators is stark....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58897805">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58897805</a>
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<i>[here's the report]</i><br>
<b>The Climate Transparency Report 2021</b><br>
The Climate Transparency Report is the world’s most comprehensive
annual review of G20 countries’ climate action and their transition
to a net-zero emissions economy.<br>
<br>
Developed by experts from 16 partner organisations from the majority
of the G20 countries, the report informs policy makers and
stimulates national debates. Thanks to comparable and concise
information presented in a visually attractive form, the Climate
Transparency Report serves as a useful reference for decision makers
and actors, and also for those central for climate for whom climate
is not central.<br>
<br>
The review is based on 100 indicators for adaptation, mitigation and
finance and aims to make good practices and gaps transparent. The
summary report and 20 country profiles allow the report to be a
clear reference tool for decision makers...<br>
more at --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climate-transparency.org/g20-climate-performance/g20report2021">https://www.climate-transparency.org/g20-climate-performance/g20report2021</a><br>
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<i>[ follow the money ]</i><br>
<b>The Firms That Help Keep Oil Flowing</b><br>
Secretive investment funds are putting billions into fossil fuel
projects, buying up offshore platforms and building new pipelines.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-investment-funds.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/13/climate/nyt-climate-newsletter-investment-funds.html</a><br>
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<i>[ promoting the Net Zero fantasy] </i><br>
<b>Climate Science Denial Group Rebrands as ‘Net Zero Watch’</b><br>
The former Global Warming Policy Forum URL now re-directs to the Net
Zero Watch website and the group’s Twitter account has been renamed.<br>
Climate Science Denial Group Rebrands as ‘Net Zero Watch’<br>
Adam Barnetton - Oct 11, 2021...<br>
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“Net Zero Watch is clearly just the latest tactic by the Global
Warming Policy Foundation to promote lukewarmer propaganda”, said
Bob Ward, policy and communications director at the Grantham
Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the
London School of Economics. <br>
<br>
“It will continue to spread false claims about the implications of
reaching net zero emissions while also denying the risks of climate
change. Same old climate change deniers, same old climate change
denial.” <br>
<br>
He added: “I hope nobody will be fooled and that journalists in
particular quiz them about their secret sources of funding in this
country and abroad.”<br>
<br>
A Greenpeace UK spokesperson said: “The people who spent the last
twenty years campaigning to preserve our addiction to fossil fuels
are transforming themselves into a radical new campaign to prolong
our use of gas and petrol. <br>
<br>
“Presumably in the hope that this sophisticated rebranding will fool
the media into forgetting their history of being relentlessly wrong
about everything climate-related. <br>
<br>
“It’ll be interesting to see whether there’s anyone out there with a
memory short enough to fall for this ruse.”<br>
<br>
Richard Black, senior associate at the Energy and Climate
Intelligence Unit, said: “Anyone who’s familiar with GWPF’s
assembled body of flawed analysis won’t be surprised to see that the
new organisation’s first offering is to claim to care about energy
bills while promoting policy options that would increase bills for
decades, namely nuclear and fracking.<br>
<br>
“Nevertheless it is encouraging to find GWPF has given up on pretty
much all of its other canonical arguments – climate change won’t be
that bad, adapting to impacts is better than trying to cut
emissions, no other nation but Britain is decarbonising – an
effective admission that it has lost on all of them.”<br>
<br>
He added: “Given the escalating cost of climate impacts and the
tumbling cost of zero-carbon, plus the constant public support for
climate solutions, GWPF will inevitably lose on this one, too: you
can rebrand, but lipstick on a pig will always be obvious.”<br>
<br>
The Global Warming Policy Forum has been contacted for comment. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/11/climate-science-denial-group-rebrands-as-net-zero-watch/">https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/11/climate-science-denial-group-rebrands-as-net-zero-watch/</a><br>
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<i>[ really? No. Really?? ] <br>
</i><b>Pro-Trump candidate suggests taking all boats out of the
water to lower sea levels</b><br>
‘When you take things out of bath water, the bath water decreases,
does it not?’<br>
<br>
A Republican state legislative candidate in Virginia is being mocked
on Twitter for suggesting an unscientific potential solution to
rising sea levels.<br>
<br>
“I’m curious, do you think the sea level would lower, if we just
took all the boats out of the water? Just a thought, not a
statement," said Scott Pio, as he shared an image of the Pacific
Ocean swarming with thousands of icons seemingly representing boats.
The tweet has since been deleted.<br>
<br>
Mr Pio is in a race with Delaware Democrat David Reid in Loudoun
County in Virginia. He has worked as an organiser in former
president Donald Trump’s International Rapid Response Team, a force
tasked with mobilising support for the Republican leader when he
golfs in Virginia...<br>
Mr Pio was mocked by several social media users and his Democrat
competitors. “This guy’s an actual candidate for the VA House of
Delegates. Yes, this is today’s Republican Party for ya,” said
Democratic camp’s news curator Blue Virginia.<br>
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Mr Pio defended himself: “When you take things out of bath water,
the bath water decreases, does it not? Got a lot of hate from your
group for asking a question about taking things out of the water.
Curious when you stopped believing in pure physics? I guess you
don’t believe in science experiments?”...<br>
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The answer is “about six microns, which is slightly more than the
diameter of a strand of spider silk”, said Randall Munroe, an
engineer and an award winning comic artist whose work majorly
revolves around science, according to Raw Story. “But you don’t have
to worry about that six-micron sea level drop.”<br>
<br>
Mr Munroe explained that the oceans are currently rising at about
3.3mm per year due to global warming. In such a situation, if one is
to remove every ship from the ocean, the water would rise back to
its original average level in under a day, or 16 hours to be
precise, Mr Munroe said.<br>
<br>
According to NASA, global sea levels are rising as a result of
human-caused global warming, with recent rates being unprecedented
over the past 2,000 years. The surging sea levels, potentially
threatening human life in the form of natural disasters, can be
traced back to primarily two factors related to global warming — the
added water from melting ice sheets and glaciers, and the expansion
of seawater as it warms.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/virginia-scott-pio-sea-levels-b1937355.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/virginia-scott-pio-sea-levels-b1937355.html</a><br>
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<i>[Technically an opinion - but it has lots of information. Mostly
graphics with text useful for discussions ]</i><br>
<b>The climate disaster is here</b><br>
Earth is already becoming unlivable. Will governments act to stop
this disaster from getting worse?<br>
by Oliver Milman, Andrew Witherspoon, Rita Liu, and Alvin Chang<br>
Thu 14 Oct 2021<br>
The enormous, unprecedented pain and turmoil caused by the climate
crisis is often discussed alongside what can seem like surprisingly
small temperature increases – 1.5C or 2C hotter than it was in the
era just before the car replaced the horse and cart. <br>
<br>
These temperature thresholds will again be the focus of upcoming UN
climate talks at the COP26 summit in Scotland as countries variously
dawdle or scramble to avert climate catastrophe. But the single
digit numbers obscure huge ramifications at stake. “We have built a
civilization based on a world that doesn’t exist anymore,” as
Katherine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, puts
it.<br>
<br>
The world has already heated up by around 1.2C, on average, since
the preindustrial era, pushing humanity beyond almost all historical
boundaries. Cranking up the temperature of the entire globe this
much within little more than a century is, in fact, extraordinary,
with the oceans alone absorbing the heat equivalent of five
Hiroshima atomic bombs dropping into the water every second.<br>
<br>
When global temperatures are projected to hit key benchmarksthis
century<br>
Average global surface temperature relative to a 1850-1900 baseline<br>
Worst-case scenario<br>
<i>[- see visualizations ...]</i><br>
Every decision – every oil drilling lease, every acre of the Amazon
rainforest torched for livestock pasture, every new gas-guzzling SUV
that rolls onto the road – will decide how far we tumble down the
hill. In Glasgow, governments will be challenged to show they will
fight every fraction of temperature rise, or else, in the words of
Greta Thunberg, this pivotal gathering is at risk of being dismissed
as “blah, blah, blah”.<br>
<br>
“We’ve run down the clock but it’s never too late,” said Rogelj.
“1.7C is better than 1.9C which is better than 3C. Cutting emissions
tomorrow is better than the day after, because we can always avoid
worse happening. The action is far too slow at the moment, but we
can still act.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/oct/14/climate-change-happening-now-stats-graphs-maps-cop26">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2021/oct/14/climate-change-happening-now-stats-graphs-maps-cop26</a><br>
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<i>[Action steps now ]</i><br>
<b>Why You Should Talk About Climate Change Right Now</b><br>
In an excerpt from Saving Us, The Nature Conservancy chief scientist
Katharine Hayhoe explains how the simple act of talking can be a big
climate benefit.<br>
By Katharine Hayhoe Oct 13, 2021<br>
Climate solutions are complex and multifaceted. Our response to the
challenges climate change poses to our world, our identity, and our
way of life are even more so. It’s taken a whole book even to begin
to untangle them. But the first, crucial step forward is simple. For
you, for me, for every single person reading or listening to this
book, there is one simple thing that we can all do:<br>
<br>
<b>Talk about it.</b><br>
<br>
A year or so ago I was reminded of how powerful this can be. I’d
just finished a talk at the London School of Economics and was
heading up the aisle of the underground lecture hall when an older
man named Glyn approached me. He said that he lived in Wandsworth, a
borough of London, and had taken the train in specifically to hear
me speak. He’d watched my TED Talk called The Most Important Thing
You Can Do to Fight Climate Change Is Talk About It, and it had
inspired him to have conversations about climate change with people
in the borough where he lived.<br>
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I was amazed. Hearing that something I’ve done has made a
difference—even just to one person—is why I do what I do. I
sometimes get discouraged, and his words meant more to me than he
knew. But Glyn wasn’t done yet.<br>
He’d started keeping a record of all the people who’d joined in with
these conversations, he said. “Would you like to see the list?” he
asked. “Of course!” I said, surprised. I’d never heard anything like
that before.<br>
<br>
He reached in his leather satchel and pulled out a stack of papers.<br>
<p>I’d been expecting about seventy or eighty names. But his list
recorded over ten thousand names. Now it’s upwards of twelve
thousand (I checked back in with him before writing this). Twelve
thousand conversations about climate change in a single English
city borough, all because of one man watching one TED Talk about
how important it is that we talk about why climate change matters
to us and what we can do about it.</p>
<p>And that wasn’t all. His borough had just voted to declare a
climate emergency, he said—because of the conversations they’d
had. Now, two years on, they’ve also divested from fossil fuels,
invested in renewables, and just before COVID they announced
they’d be spending £20 million on their new environment and
sustainability strategy.<b><br>
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<p><b>What Happens When We Don’t Talk</b></p>
You can do what Glyn did: use your voice to talk about why climate
change matters to you, here and now. Use it to share what you are
doing, what others are doing, what they can do. Use it to advocate
for change at every level—in your family, your school, your
organization, your place of work or worship, your city or your town,
your state or your province. Use it to vote and to inform decisions
your school, your business, your city, and your country can make.
Talk about it in every community that you are part of and whose
values and interests you share.<br>
Talking may sound simple, almost too simple. But here’s the thing:
most of us are not doing it. Even people who are alarmed and
concerned about climate change tend to “self-silence” on the topic,
says Nathan Geiger, a communications researcher. They want to speak
up, and they know it’s important, but they can’t get the words out
of their mouths.<br>
<br>
Nathan decided to study environmental educators. These are people
who are trained in communication and whose job it is to talk to the
public. He found even they often hesitate to talk about climate
change. And not doing so has repercussions for them; serious ones,
he discovered. Many of them say they suffer from “severe
psychological distress,” he writes, “as a result of not being able
to connect with others by discussing a topic about which they report
concern.”<br>
<br>
How do the rest of us compare? According to polling data from the
Yale Climate Communication Program, when people across the U.S. are
asked, “Do you discuss global warming at least occasionally?” the
answer was mostly no. Only 35 percent of people discuss it even once
in a while.<br>
<br>
What do we talk about? Things we care about. Our speech is the
television screen of our mind, so to speak. It displays what we’re
thinking about to others, which in turn connects us to their minds
and thoughts. So if we don’t talk about climate change, why would
anyone around us know that we care—or begin to care themselves if
they don’t already? And if they don’t care, why would they act?<br>
<br>
Don’t be afraid of sounding like a broken record. We learn things
from hearing them, again and again. As health and communication
researcher Ed Maibach has been saying to anyone who will listen for
the last twenty years, “the most effective communication strategies
are based on simple messages, repeated often, by many trusted
messengers.” In other words, the eighth time you’ve said something,
people will just be paying attention. What do people pay attention
to most? In general, we tend to favor personal stories and
experiences over reams of data or facts. In fact, when you hear a
story, neuroscientists have found, your brain waves start to
synchronize with those of the storyteller. Your emotions follow. And
that’s how change happens.<br>
<br>
Excerpted from “Saving Us,” published by One Signal/Atria Books, a
division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Copyright © 2021 by Katharine
Hayhoe.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/the-single-biggest-way-you-can-address-climate-change-i-1847849240">https://gizmodo.com/the-single-biggest-way-you-can-address-climate-change-i-1847849240</a><br>
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<i>[What ? is this true?]</i><br>
<b>How broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2020</b><i><br>
</i>Climate coverage has decreased, getting a whopping 112
cumulative minutes of airtime in 2020...<br>
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The volume of corporate broadcast TV news coverage of climate change
-- nightly news shows and Sunday morning political shows on ABC,
CBS, and NBC -- plummeted from 238 minutes in 2019 to just 112
minutes in 2020, constituting a 53% decrease.<i><br>
</i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2020">https://www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-networks/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2020</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
October 14, 2013</b></font><br>
<br>
October 14, 2013: In an editorial, the Baltimore Sun declares:<br>
<br>
"The latest analysis produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), compiled by hundreds of scientists and dozens
of authors from around the globe, shows that climate change is real,
it's largely caused by man, and it's the greatest environmental
threat we face.<br>
<br>
"That's not alarmism, it's reality. Of course, know-nothing deniers
will be as dismissive of the IPCC findings as they've been of
similar reports in the past. That the IPCC is under the auspices of
the United Nations will be used to stir up nationalistic suspicions.
That climate change policy is highly inconvenient for the fossil
fuel industries will cause the big coal and oil companies to
continue their disinformation campaigns.<br>
<br>
"None of which changes the reality that climate change poses a
serious threat, and as the evidence mounts, it's actually become
easier to distinguish these basic changes in the ecosystem from the
normal ups and downs of weather. No one super storm or drought or
tornado is traceable to global warming, of course, but the data are
simply too overwhelming to ignore. Each of the last three decades
has proven successively warmer than the previous. Any recent slowing
of that trend or plateau, as the report notes, has more to do with
variables such as volcanic activity and the solar cycle over the
last five years than it does the build-up of greenhouse gases in the
atmosphere."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-10-14/news/bs-ed-climate-20131014_1_ipcc-report-climate-change-intergovernmental-panel">http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-10-14/news/bs-ed-climate-20131014_1_ipcc-report-climate-change-intergovernmental-panel</a><br>
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