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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 15, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ British Royalty speaks ]</i><br>
<b>Queen slams ‘irritating’ world leaders who talk but don’t deliver
on climate change</b><i><br>
</i>Queen Elizabeth II has been caught on a hot mic expressing her
annoyance at world leaders who grandstand but don't deliver on
climate change.<br>
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In a conversation with the Duchess of Cornwall and Elin Jones,
presiding officer of the Welsh parliament, the queen criticized
"irritating" leaders for not walking the talk on climate change
ahead of the imminent COP26 climate summit in Scotland.<br>
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“I’ve been hearing all about COP," the queen said. "Still don’t know
who is coming. No idea. It’s really irritating when they talk, but
they don’t do."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.politico.eu/article/queen-slams-world-leaders-climate-change-cop26-glasgow/">https://www.politico.eu/article/queen-slams-world-leaders-climate-change-cop26-glasgow/</a><br>
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<i>[ Biden speaks ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change poses systemic threat to entire economy, Biden
plan warns</b><br>
-- The roadmap accounts for how climate change will impact the
companies people are invested in and aims to protect the savings of
American families with retirement plans.<br>
-- The... also identifies how agencies can strengthen the resilience
of infrastructure in response to worsening climate disasters.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/biden-unveils-plan-to-address-climate-change-risks-to-economy.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/biden-unveils-plan-to-address-climate-change-risks-to-economy.html</a><br>
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<i>[Twitter activism, tell the NYTimes, WAPO and WSJ to stop
carrying fossil fuel ads]</i><br>
<b>End Climate Silence</b><br>
In collaboration with @YouGov, we asked @nytimes, @washingtonpost,
and @WSJ<br>
readers (who have not yet subscribed) about their views on
fossil-fuel advertising.<br>
<blockquote>- - Majorities of such readers say that these newspapers
should not be making ads for oil and gas companies. <br>
- - Majorities of such readers also report that fossil-fuel ads
make them trust a paper’s environmental journalism LESS, with WSJ
readers evenly split (52% NYT, 52% WaPo, 50% WSJ).<br>
- - Strong subsections of readers say they are less likely to
subscribe to the papers they read because those papers take
fossil-fuel advertising (43% NYT, 41% WaPo, 39% WSJ).<br>
- - In the age of climate change, fossil-fuel advertising is not
only a totally irresponsible and even dangerous business practice,
but also something that seems to make it *harder* not easier for
flagship newspapers to expand their subscription base. Just a bad
idea all around.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/EndClimtSilence/status/1448722564273029124?s=20">https://twitter.com/EndClimtSilence/status/1448722564273029124?s=20</a><i><br>
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<i>[tell advertiser funded news outlets, to let go of fossil fuel
ads]</i><br>
<b>EndClimateSilence.Org</b><br>
<b>this is an emergency. climate silence is climate denial.</b>
#EndClimateSilence now.<br>
climate change is not just a topic for the science or environment
section. it’s the essential context for stories about extreme
weather, energy, politics, business and finance, immigration, real
estate, travel, health, food, sports, and the arts.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b71db17365f0230bbf7aa7c/t/61687a1439ff8d58cddbbe01/1634236949009/Summary_+YouGov+polling+results.pdf">https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b71db17365f0230bbf7aa7c/t/61687a1439ff8d58cddbbe01/1634236949009/Summary_+YouGov+polling+results.pdf</a><br>
<i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.endclimatesilence.org/">https://www.endclimatesilence.org/</a></i><br>
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<i>[Earth's albedo has changed - 0=dark, 1 = bright white -- video]</i><br>
<b>Planet Earth Is Dimmer And Reflects Less Light Since The 1990s</b><i><br>
</i>Oct 14, 2021<br>
Anton Petrov<br>
Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk
about a new study that discovers the troublesome decrease of albedo
of planet Earth in last two decades <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD46hzShthI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD46hzShthI</a><i><br>
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<i>[More media "To Boldly Go.." where only information manipulation
can go - Shatner improvises] <br>
</i><b> "To Dirty it!" On how For-Profit News Obscured William
Shatner's Climate Emergency Warning after Suborbital Flight</b><br>
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - On Wednesday, pop culture icon
William Shatner, Star Trek's Captain James Tiberius Kirk, explained
the enormity of seeing the earth from a suborbital flight on Blue
Origin's New Shepherd space craft. Part of what he said when he
returned from 66 miles up got lost in all of the news reports I've
seen, and it is the most important part.<br>
Here’s a portion of what CNBC printed in what they alleged was the
complete transcript of Shatner’s remarks:<br>
<br>
“I mean, the little things, the weightlessness, and to see the blue
color whip by and now you’re staring into blackness. That’s the
thing. This covering of blue is this sheet, this blanket, this
comforter of blue around that we have around us. We think ‘oh,
that’s blue sky’ and suddenly you shoot through it all of a sudden,
like you whip a sheet off you when you’re asleep, and you’re looking
into blackness – into black ugliness. And you look down, there’s the
blue down there, and the black up there, and there is Mother Earth
and comfort and – is there death? Is that the way death is?”<br>
<blockquote>But here’s the crucial takeaway, the last phrase of
which is omitted by CNBC:<br>
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“What I would love to do is communicate as much as possible the
jeopardy, the moment you see how vuln– the vulnerability of
everything. It so small. This air which is keeping us alive is
thinner than your skin. It’s a sliver. It’s immeasurably small
when you think in terms of the universe. It’s negligible, this
air. Mars doesn’t have it. It’s so thin. And to dirty it…”<br>
“The jeopardy . . . And to dirty it!” To fill this precious
atmosphere, unique in our solar system, with clouds of burned coal
dust and with greenhouse gases, Shatner says, is . . . what?
Despicable. Unthinkable.<br>
<br>
Just when Shatner is getting on to the subject about how what he
saw reinforced his horror at the way we are polluting the
atmosphere and imperiling the earth with man-made global heating,
Bezos interrupts him: “It goes so fast.” Bezos doesn’t want
Captain Kirk expounding on the evils of climate change on his
promotional clip. He gets him talking about the experience again.
Not the conclusion he drew from that experience.<br>
<br>
But we know what Shatner thinks. He thinks that the sunny optimism
of the original 1960s Star Trek TV series, which reflected the
view of the future held by its creator, Gene Rodenberry, was
misplaced. Shatner as Capt. Kirk played a role in helping the
world imagine a better future.<br>
<br>
As Shatner lived through the succeeding decades, however, he
discovered the reality of the climate emergency and was filled
with alarm.<br>
In a 2016 interview with Brian Fung at the Washington Post,
Shatner said:<br>
<br>
“The biggest threat to our world today is climate change. The
future is exciting because the future is always hope … What seems
to be happening is that the future is filled with dread.”<br>
<br>
In the same interview, he said of the science fiction writers he
worked with in the 1960s, “There was all kinds of interest in
flying vehicles and health and the state of the world. That we
wouldn’t be melting away, into the sixth extinction. It would be a
much more pleasant. Peaceful. Humane world. Than it is.”<br>
<br>
Fung asked Shatner if any technologies scared him. The actor
replied,<br>
<br>
“The technology that worries me is the old technologies. The
technology of uses of energy and the spilling of toxins into
Mother Earth, and we’re killing our Earth and nobody is irate
about it enough. And not enough people are irate about it. People
like yourself — young people like yourself should be screaming at
the top of your lungs to the people who lead.”<br>
<br>
That’s what Shatner wanted to say on his return to earth. He
wanted to say that our thin, fragile, vulnerable, unique
atmosphere is in danger from petroleum, gas and coal, that this
mothering “blue blanket” of the earth is in danger of being
enveloped by the grim blackness of galactic emptiness because of
the way we are treating it.<br>
<br>
That is what for-profit news did not report about Shatner’s
profound experience and his articulation of it. He wants you
screaming at the top of your lungs that our pale blue dot is in
danger of being burned up and engulfed by an unfeeling, black
cosmos. And that only we can stop it from getting worse, because
we are the ones making it worse.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.juancole.com/2021/10/obscured-emergency-suborbital.html">https://www.juancole.com/2021/10/obscured-emergency-suborbital.html</a><br>
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[Today show video interview]<br>
<b>William Shatner Reacts To Seeing Earth From Space: ‘It’s So
Fragile’</b><br>
Oct 14, 2021<br>
TODAY<br>
At the age of 90, “Star Trek” actor William Shatner made history
Wednesday when he and three others were launched into space on a
Blue Origin rocket. “I was overwhelmed with the experience of
looking at death and looking at life,” he tells TODAY. “The whole
thing was indescribable.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_CdBcRexc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx_CdBcRexc</a><br>
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<i>[ ug, icky ]</i><br>
<b>Toxic algae blooms are multiplying. The government has no plan to
help.</b><br>
A new watchdog report shows the Environmental Protection Agency
doesn’t have a cohesive strategy for dealing with freshwater harmful
algal blooms.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/politics/toxic-algae-blooms-are-multiplying-the-government-has-no-plan-to-help/">https://grist.org/politics/toxic-algae-blooms-are-multiplying-the-government-has-no-plan-to-help/</a><i><br>
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<i>[ especially next summer ]</i><br>
<b>Human Health Effects Caused by the Most Common Toxin-producing
Cyanobacteria</b><br>
When people are exposed to cyanotoxins, adverse health effects may
range from a mild skin rash to serious illness or in rare
circumstances, death. Acute illnesses caused by short-term exposure
to cyanobacteria and cyanotoxins during recreational activities
include hay fever-like symptoms, skin rashes, respiratory and
gastrointestinal distress. Exposure to drinking water contaminated
with elevated concentrations of microcystin and cylindrospermopsin
could cause liver and kidney damage. The table below summarizes the
health effects caused by the most common toxin-producing
cyanobacteria...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.epa.gov/cyanohabs/health-effects-cyanotoxins">https://www.epa.gov/cyanohabs/health-effects-cyanotoxins</a><i><br>
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<i> </i><i>[ confirming common sense ]</i><br>
<b>Air conditioning in a changing climate: A growing rich-poor
divide</b><br>
by Edward Lempinen, University of California - Berkeley<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phys.org/news/2021-10-air-conditioning-climate-rich-poor.html">https://phys.org/news/2021-10-air-conditioning-climate-rich-poor.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Al Gore said it -- the news archive - looking back]</i> <font
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</b></font><font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global
warming October 15, 2007</b></font><br>
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman ridicules right-wing outrage
over Al Gore's Nobel Prize win.<br>
<blockquote><b>Gore Derangement Syndrome</b><br>
By Paul Krugman<br>
On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall
Street Journal’s editors couldn’t even bring themselves to mention
Mr. Gore’s name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long
list of people they thought deserved the prize more.<br>
<br>
And at National Review Online, Iain Murray suggested that the
prize should have been shared with “that well-known peace
campaigner Osama bin Laden, who implicitly endorsed Gore’s
stance.” You see, bin Laden once said something about climate
change — therefore, anyone who talks about climate change is a
friend of the terrorists.<br>
<br>
What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers insane?<br>
<br>
Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American
people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the
White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build
around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr.
Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge
the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.<br>
<br>
And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for
the job — to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda’s recruiters
could have hoped for — the symptoms of Gore derangement syndrome
have grown even more extreme.<br>
The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of
view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush
mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the
scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded
Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger
to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so
it has proved.<br>
But Gore hatred is more than personal. When National Review
decided to name its anti-environmental blog Planet Gore, it was
trying to discredit the message as well as the messenger. For the
truth Mr. Gore has been telling about how human activities are
changing the climate isn’t just inconvenient. For conservatives,
it’s deeply threatening.<br>
<br>
Consider the policy implications of taking climate change
seriously.<br>
<br>
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals,”
said F.D.R. “We know now that it is bad economics.” These words
apply perfectly to climate change. It’s in the interest of most
people (and especially their descendants) that somebody do
something to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases, but each individual would like that somebody to
be somebody else. Leave it up to the free market, and in a few
generations Florida will be underwater.<br>
<br>
The solution to such conflicts between self-interest and the
common good is to provide individuals with an incentive to do the
right thing. In this case, people have to be given a reason to cut
back on greenhouse gas emissions, either by requiring that they
pay a tax on emissions or by requiring that they buy emission
permits, which has pretty much the same effects as an emissions
tax. We know that such policies work: the U.S. “cap and trade”
system of emission permits on sulfur dioxide has been highly
successful at reducing acid rain.<br>
Climate change is, however, harder to deal with than acid rain,
because the causes are global. The sulfuric acid in America’s
lakes mainly comes from coal burned in U.S. power plants, but the
carbon dioxide in America’s air comes from coal and oil burned
around the planet — and a ton of coal burned in China has the same
effect on the future climate as a ton of coal burned here. So
dealing with climate change not only requires new taxes or their
equivalent; it also requires international negotiations in which
the United States will have to give as well as get.<br>
<br>
Everything I’ve just said should be uncontroversial — but imagine
the reception a Republican candidate for president would receive
if he acknowledged these truths at the next debate. Today, being a
good Republican means believing that taxes should always be cut,
never raised. It also means believing that we should bomb and
bully foreigners, not negotiate with them.<br>
<br>
So if science says that we have a big problem that can’t be solved
with tax cuts or bombs — well, the science must be rejected, and
the scientists must be slimed. For example, Investor’s Business
Daily recently declared that the prominence of James Hansen, the
NASA researcher who first made climate change a national issue two
decades ago, is actually due to the nefarious schemes of — who
else? — George Soros.<br>
<br>
Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in
his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they
could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible,
than ever. And it drives them crazy.</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?_r=0</a><br>
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