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<i>[ 2 minute YouTube video... Greta Rick Rolling the Internet -
beginning to shine like a star ]</i><br>
<b>Greta Thunberg Dance Off | Fridays for Future | Never Gonna Give
You Up -Singing Climate Live 2021❤️</b><br>
Oct 16, 2021<br>
DadinSweden<br>
Greta Thunberg sings from the heart! For the climate and for you ❤️
The climate crisis is Real! From the live event in Stockholm, Sweden
🇸🇪 tonight. 🎤💃 The crowd go crazy 😃 Join the Fight for the
Climate right Now: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fridaysforfuture.org">https://fridaysforfuture.org</a><br>
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<i>[ YouTube 15 minute video ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change Survival: How New Orleans Planned for the Next Big
Hurricane | Amanpour and Company</b><br>
Oct 18, 2021<br>
Amanpour and Company<br>
Ramsey Green is New Orleans' chief resilience officer, tasked with
creating sustainable solutions to climate-related threats facing the
city. Green speaks with Walter Isaacson about lessons learned after
Hurricane Katrina in redefining the way cities respond to extreme
weather. The interview is part of The WNET Group’s second annual
virtual conversation series American Cities Rebuilding, devoted to
the reimagining and redeveloping of our cities in a post-pandemic
world.<br>
Originally aired on October 18, 2021.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRuYe_hxWI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocRuYe_hxWI</a><br>
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<i>[ video explanation of IPCC 6th Assessment ]</i><br>
<b>GISS Lunch Seminar, 2021-09-15: Alex Ruane</b><br>
Sep 21, 2021<br>
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies<br>
GISS Lunch Seminar, 2021-09-15<br>
Speaker: Alexander Ruane (NASA/GISS)<br>
Topic: Assessing regional changes in multiple climatic
impact-drivers to inform regional adaptation and risk management --
IPCC AR6 WGI Chapter 12<br>
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its
latest Working Group I Report on August 9th, 2021, providing an
assessment of Physical Climate Science with inputs from 100s of
international scientists and an open review process that
incorporated more than 14000 review comments. In this talk I will
summarize the main findings of the report relating to regional
climate information that informs impact and risk planning, drawing
largely from WGI Chapter 12 (for which I served as Coordinating Lead
Author). A key element of this report is the introduction of a
Climatic Impact-Driver (CID) framework that helps focus planning on
climatic changes connected to responses in society and ecosystems,
helping stakeholders identify which indices and thresholds are
important and then evaluating changes across time, space, and
scenario. Chapter 12 develops an inventory of 33 climatic
impact-drivers, identifies important CIDs and related indices for
each sector (e.g., agriculture, water resources, cities, ecosystems,
health), assesses CID changes for a comprehensive set of 51 land
regions, and evaluates the general response of each CID to global
warming levels. The process of CID assessment is built around
multiple lines of evidence connecting physical understanding,
observed trends, attribution of human influence on changes, and
projections for the future. Together, this information responds to
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
policymakers’ requests for more actionable climate
information to inform adaptation, mitigation and risk planning. This
focus on impact- and risk-relevant regional changes in mean and
extreme conditions also sheds light on model uncertainty across
CMIP6 (which includes GISS Model-E simulations) and downscaling
efforts like CORDEX-CORE and ISIMIP.<br>
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<b>Extreme Weather and the Climate Crisis with Dr. Jennifer Francis</b><br>
Mar 3, 2021<br>
Woodwell Climate Research Center<br>
Meteorologist Chris Gloninger of NBC10 Boston interviewed Woodwell
Climate's Dr. Jennifer Francis on how climate change is impacting
extreme weather trends around the globe.<br>
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href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odm0RcMQ2IQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odm0RcMQ2IQ</a><br>
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<i>[methane is the worst]</i><br>
<b>An Empire of Dying Wells</b><b><br>
</b><b>Old oil and gas sites are a climate menace. Meet the company
that owns more of America’s decaying wells than any other.</b><b><br>
</b>By Zachary R. Mider and Rachel Adams-Heard<br>
October 12, 2021<br>
Outside of hunting season, few people visit the Tri-Valley Wildlife
Area in the rolling hills of southeast Ohio. When a couple of
Bloomberg Green reporters showed up on a muggy June morning, the
only sounds were birdsongs and the whirring of our infrared camera.
We set out on foot and soon spotted the first of several rusty
natural gas wells scattered across a broad meadow. Their storage
tanks, half-covered with vines and brush, looked like the forgotten
monuments of some lost civilization.<br>
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From Bloomberg Green Issue Five. <br>
There are hundreds of thousands of such decrepit oil and gas wells
across the U.S., and for a long time few people paid them much mind.
That changed over the past decade as scientists discovered the
surprisingly large role they play in the climate crisis. Old wells
tend to leak, and raw natural gas consists mostly of methane, which
has far more planet-warming power than carbon dioxide. That morning
in Ohio we pointed our camera at busted pipes, rusted joints, and
broken valves, and we saw the otherwise invisible greenhouse gas
jetting out. A sour smell lingered in the air...<br>
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Researchers around the world are racing to reexamine the world’s
energy supply chain, finding where gas is leaking and showing what
can be done about it. Scientists are training infrared cameras on
methane emissions in Texas oil fields, using satellites to spot them
in Turkmenistan, and driving sensor-laden vehicles around city
streets in the Netherlands. One problem area they’ve identified: old
wells that produce little or no salable gas.<br>
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Only about 3% of gas needs to escape on its journey from wellhead to
power plant to make it worse for the planet than coal. If a well is
producing next to nothing, even a small leak can put it over that
threshold. “Marginal wells are emitting a very large proportion of
the natural gas that they produce,” says Amy Townsend-Small, an
associate professor of environmental science at the University of
Cincinnati. “Some marginal wells are emitting more natural gas than
they produce.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/diversified-energy-natural-gas-wells-methane-leaks-2021/">https://www.bloomberg.com/features/diversified-energy-natural-gas-wells-methane-leaks-2021/</a><br>
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<i>[ An important question - YouTube] </i><br>
<b>Beyond 1.5 Series | Tipping points: Is there a point of no
return?</b><br>
Oct 12, 2021<br>
Woodwell Climate Research Center<br>
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Arctic permafrost and tropical forests are two of the most powerful
natural drivers of our climate system, and both are approaching the
point of tipping from carbon sinks to carbon sources–with
potentially catastrophic consequences. At the same time, the ice
sheets of Greenland and Antarctica are nearing points of no return,
beyond which they may be committed to complete melting that would
cause massive sea-level rise. Continuing to emit greenhouse gases
without knowing where these tipping points lie is like driving
toward a cliff in the fog. This gripping event will explore what we
know–and need to know–to avoid going over the cliff.<br>
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<i>[ Potholer is a YouTube lecturer pondering information science ]</i><br>
<b>Do you get it now? Why scientific reality doesn't care about your
politics</b><br>
Oct 20, 2021<br>
potholer54<br>
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<p><i>[ fiction influences better than fact ] <br>
</i><b>We Need More Radical Climate Fiction</b><br>
BY LIZA FEATHERSTONE<br>
Literature has seen an uptick in "cli-fi," fiction about possible
climate dystopias and utopias. But too much of that
climate-change-related fiction lacks any kind of radical political
imagination.<br>
10.17.2021<br>
It will take imagination and vision for humans to survive the
climate crisis — a willingness to believe in things that seem
impossible. Most climate-focused art emphasizes the urgency of the
crisis, which is needed, but it’s more compelling to see artists
imagining our survival, even how we might thrive. To that end,
early this year, Grist magazine announced a climate fiction
contest, Imagine 2200, and published the winning stories as an
online collection last month. Most of the stories that were
selected are compelling, intimate, and surprisingly hopeful, and
they’re often brilliantly specific in imagining yet-unrealized
technology and innovation, as well as human societies that are
more harmonious with nature. They are, however, light on the
political backstory of how these better worlds emerged and what
kinds of economic and social arrangements sustain them.<br>
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In literary terms, the sensibility of Imagine 2200 can be traced
to several artistic movements. “Futurism” originated as an
early-twentieth-century Italian visual art movement preoccupied —
and excited — by technology, and the term has referred ever since
to creative efforts to imagine the future. One of the most dynamic
of these has been Afrofuturism (which imagines, often playfully, a
sci-fi-themed future infused by black culture and centering black
people).<br>
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These imaginings haven’t always been leftist: though their
aesthetic was cool, many of the Italian futurists later became
fascists. (Some of the Russian futurists welcomed the Bolshevik
Revolution as a step away from the aristocratic and peasant
traditions they deplored, but for the most part, the Soviet
Communist leadership did not welcome the movement, and Russian
futurism fizzled out in the 1920s.)<br>
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When futurism has emerged from the Left, it has often been
dystopian. (I was born in 1969, and I grew up consuming the
environmental propaganda of Ranger Rick magazine, which at that
time included apocalyptic treeless renderings of the distant year
2000.) With Imagine 2200, Grist wanted to highlight a different
tendency — most fully realized in solarpunk, which celebrates
rebellion against the fossil fuel industry — imagining green
futures, generally along DIY lines, usually in the wake of a
climate apocalypse.<br>
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The mission of the contest, then, was to get beyond the dystopian
and imagine worlds in which humans have found — or are finding —
solutions to the climate crisis.<br>
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One of the more powerful stories fails this test miserably. Mike
McClelland’s “The Secrets of the Last Greenland Shark” is told
from the point of view of Earth’s last human, although it has a
surprisingly uplifting ending (which I won’t spoil). But most of
the stories are more hopeful than that, showing a better world,
often alluding to a traumatic time in which many people died and
species were lost, after which human societies made major changes.<br>
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My favorites among these stories take pleasure in the futurist
imaginary. In Renan Bernardo’s “When it’s Time to Harvest,” an
elderly couple in Rio de Janeiro, saving their community from
starvation after massive crop failure, run a farm that they’ve
invented elaborate technology in order to operate: much of the
labor is performed by bees. While the husband is ready to retire,
convinced the technology they’ve devised will allow the farm to
run by itself, the wife can’t let go — she fears that, without
them, the farm will fail and the community will starve. But it’s
also clear that she loves the work of inventing and can’t stop
trying new things.<br>
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Within the genre, the woman — or even young girl — scientist who
loves and dedicates herself to life-giving innovation is perhaps
becoming a cliché, but it’s a delightful one nevertheless. One of
the most deliciously imagined futures powered by such protagonists
is Rich Larson’s “Tidings,” a series of vignettes offering
glimpses of life around the world. A Nigerian girl in 2038 breeds
a creature that will eat the plastic out of the ocean. A
nine-year-old First Nations girl in the Arctic Circle figures out
how to use technology to communicate with a moose; she and her
parent are surprised and amused when the animal, annoyed and in
the middle of rutting season, curses at them. A young woman in
Thailand in 2132, accompanied by 308 friends through VR
technology, blissfully swims with dolphins, recalling the era of
gas-guzzling and plastic as a long-ago mythic time.<br>
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Most of these stories bring a vivid level of descriptive detail to
the project of envisioning a world in which humans are far more
aligned with nature, but they’re vague when it comes to what the
new arrangements look like economically and socially, as well as
on the political processes that brought these new worlds about. In
Abigail Larkin’s “A Séance in the Anthropocene,” a Cherokee
student seeks to interview the people who lived during the time of
fossil fuels and finds a man who worked for a coal company. She
wants to understand how he could have done that, as a moral
question, knowing the damage it was doing to the planet, but both
the student protagonist and the author seem less curious about how
the fossil fuel titans themselves were ultimately deposed from
power. It’s not clear whether it took violence, whether elites saw
the error of their ways, or whether fossil fuel and other
destructive interests were defeated through some peaceful
democratic process. In Savitri Horrigan’s “The Case of the Turned
Tide,” capitalism still exists, albeit in a far greener form, but
most of the stories are less clear on that point.<br>
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Questions of class struggle are mostly elided in Imagine 2200, but
there are several exceptions. In Lindsey Brodeck’s “Afterglow,”
the rich are fleeing a ruined planet for a new one, and a woman
must decide whether to join them (and her girlfriend) or to stay
and join the hippies attempting to revive and rewild the Earth.
The exodus of the ruling class offers hope, but those who remain
seem like passive beneficiaries of their departure, at best a band
of DIY weirdos engaged in a noble salvage effort. In Horrigan’s
story, a Balinese mother-daughter pair of detectives face a
dilemma when they find themselves with a complicated client: an
environmentally friendly company whose plans haven’t adequately
considered the island communities.<br>
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One of the few Imagine 2200 stories that spells out some kind of
alternative economic organization is Tehnuka Ilanko’s “El, the
Plastotrophs, and Me,” describing a world where, because of
climate crisis, some humans have begun pioneering a system of
cooperatives in which sustainability is carefully practiced. The
co-ops face many practical problems. Only a certain number of
babies can be born into each community at a time, for example, a
rule that might have some environmental arguments in its favor,
but that inevitably creates personal conflicts and tensions.
Ilanko does a beautiful job of helping us to imagine how humans,
full of doubts and questions, would navigate a world that required
more collective action and collective planning even in such
intimate aspects of our lives, showing that these new systems
would still have problems, and that we would still be human within
them, full of petty resentments and big desires.<br>
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For the most part, though, the stories eschew political economy,
leaving us wondering how this more harmonious relationship with
nature came about and how it is sustained. The contest was
sponsored by the liberal Natural Resources Defense Council, which
in turn gets money from the Ford Foundation and billionaires like
Tom Steyer, so maybe that’s part of the problem. It would be
interesting to see what kinds of stories a socialist climate
fiction contest would produce.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/climate-fiction-imagine-2200-grist-review-futurism">https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/climate-fiction-imagine-2200-grist-review-futurism</a><i><br>
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<i>[ save these free links to the book] </i><br>
<b>Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement </b><br>
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<i>[Chomsky on Oct 12, 2021 - hour long video]</i><br>
<b>Noam Chomsky - Tipping Points: Environmental & Political
(interviewed by David Barsamian)</b><br>
Oct 12, 2021<br>
Alternative Radio<br>
Tipping points are in the air. And with good reason. A planetary
emergency looms in the not-too-distant future. This isn’t alarmist
talk but the best judgment of our leading scientists. The
prestigious International Union for Conservation of Nature has just
issued its starkest warning to date: “Humanity has reached a tipping
point. Our window of opportunity to respond is narrowing quickly.”
Imagine if we had paid attention to Lyndon Johnson’s science
advisory committee in 1965 when it noted in their report entitled
Restoring the Quality of Our Environment, that “Pollutants have
altered on a global scale the carbon dioxide content of the air and
the lead concentrations in ocean waters and human populations.” That
was 56 years ago. Today, Noam Chomsky warns, “The world is hurtling
toward disaster.” And we have a segment of the political class that
is in denial.<br>
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Alternative Radio provides information, analyses and views that are
frequently ignored or distorted in other media. Visit our website
for hundreds of audio programs at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.alternativeradio.org">http://www.alternativeradio.org</a>.<br>
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<i>[ The news archive - "excavated from the ruins of a destroyed
civilization ]</i><br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
October 20, 2012</b></font><br>
October 20, 2012: On MSNBC's "Up," Chris Hayes condemns President
Obama, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and CNN's Candy
Crowley for remaining silent on climate in the most recent
presidential debate.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/BUBbLbMbvfc">http://youtu.be/BUBbLbMbvfc</a><br>
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