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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 24, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Superb talk of heroic activism -- George Monbiot interview on
YouTube ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change and Capitalism with George Monbiot | Penguin Talks</b><br>
Oct 13, 2021<br>
Penguin Platform<br>
Join author of <u>This Can't be Happening</u>, George Monbiot, and
co-Founder of 'Earthrise.studio', Alice Aedy, as they discuss the
impact of capitalism on the climate crisis, activism, the role of
storytelling and what we have to gain if we change our lifestyle.<br>
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This Can't be Happening: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/44284">https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/44284</a>...<br>
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<i>[ Deep science -- yet a plain-speaking academic assessment -
video lecture 75 minutes]</i><br>
<b>Day 9 - William E. Rees: The Enigma of Climate Inaction – On the
Human Nature of Policy Failure</b><br>
Oct 5, 2021<br>
Institut des sciences cognitives - UQAM<br>
ISC 2021 Summer School – Cognitive Challenges of Climate Change
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites">https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites</a>...) <br>
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Day 9<br>
Talk by William E. Rees: The Enigma of Climate Inaction – On the
Human Nature of Policy Failure<br>
MC: Alexia Ostrolenk, Ph.D Candidate in Psychiatric Science (UdeM);
Science Communicator (ComScicon-QC, BrainReach)<br>
<br>
Abstract:<br>
H. sapiens is a self-described intelligent species, yet seems
committed to destroying its own habitat. Human-induced climate
change, driven by carbon-dioxide and other GHG emissions, is one of
several well-known threats to global civilization. Nevertheless, 34
climate conferences and half a dozen major international agreements
in the past 50 years have failed to produce even a ripple in the
curve of exponentially increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations.
Climate change is accelerating. This presentation: 1) examines some
of the evolutionary, behavioural and cognitive impediments to
effective corrective action by governments and international
agencies and; 2) advances some ideological, political and
organizational changes that must be implemented at all levels of
society to avoid global climate catastrophe.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWhjSUu8UY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDWhjSUu8UY</a><br>
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<i>[ summer school on climate studies ]</i><br>
<b>ISC 2021 SUMMER SCHOOL COGNITION & CLIMATE</b><br>
Description: This course is offered as part of the cognitive
sciences summer school on cognitive challenges of climate change.
The goal is to make disciplines studying climate change interact
with the cognitive science approaches such as computation,
interpretation, situated cognition and macrocognition. This
intensive course, spread over two weeks, will bring together more
than thirty-five national and international experts, who will
present the results of their research on climate change. The course
will also include poster session. Contributions from various
disciplines, including neuroscience, psychology, philosophy,
linguistics, computer science and artificial intelligence,
education, communication, law, biology, environmental sciences and
climate sciences will be presented. Several dimensions of climate
change will be addressed, including reasoning and decision-making,
mental models and biases, behaviors and emotions, systemic modeling
of problems, risks and solutions, linguistic and pragmatic
determinations, etc.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/isc/en/iscuqam2021/schedule?date=2021-06-03">https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/isc/en/iscuqam2021/schedule?date=2021-06-03</a><br>
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<b>Institut des sciences cognitives - UQAM</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/c/InstitutdessciencescognitivesUQAM/videos">https://www.youtube.com/c/InstitutdessciencescognitivesUQAM/videos</a><br>
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<i>[ Should have been done -- in '71 ] </i><br>
<b>French Oil Company Total ‘Knew About Global Warming Impact in
1971’, Study Finds</b><br>
Campaigners say the research shows Total and other oil and gas
majors have “stolen the precious time of a generation to stem the
climate crisis”.<br>
Adam Barnett and Phoebe Cookeon - Oct 20, 2021 <br>
<br>
French oil giant Total knew that its fossil fuel extraction could
contribute to global warming as early as 1971 but stayed silent
about it until 1988, according to a new study. <br>
<br>
Research published today in the journal Global Environmental Change,
based on internal company documents and interviews with former
staff, found that personnel “received warnings of the potential for
catastrophic global warming from its products by 1971”. <br>
<br>
Total – which this year rebranded as TotalEnergies – “became more
fully informed” about climate change in the 1980s and “began
promoting doubt regarding the scientific basis for global warming by
the late 1980s”. The company publicly accepted climate science in
the 1990s but promoted “policy delay or policies peripheral to
fossil fuel control”, the authors found...<br>
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In a statement, a Total spokesperson said that “knowledge of climate
risk since the 1970s has been no different from that published in
scientific journals at the time, which the scientific paper
published today fully confirms”.<br>
<br>
He continued: “It is therefore wrong to claim that the climate risk
was concealed by Total or Elf, either in the 1970s or since.
TotalEnergies notes that the paper itself states that Elf and Total
already accepted the findings of climate science, publicly and
openly, as long as 25 years ago.<br>
<br>
“TotalEnergies regrets that it was never approached or consulted by
the authors of the paper, which TotalEnergies will study in detail.
TotalEnergies deplores the process of pointing up at a situation
from fifty years ago, without highlighting the efforts, changes,
progress and investments made since then.” <br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/20/french-oil-company-total-knew-about-global-warming-impact-in-1971-study-finds/">https://www.desmog.com/2021/10/20/french-oil-company-total-knew-about-global-warming-impact-in-1971-study-finds/</a></p>
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<i>[ link to source material]</i><br>
<b>Early warnings and emerging accountability: Total’s responses to
global warming, 1971–2021</b><br>
Christophe Bonneuila, Pierre-LouisChoquetb, BenjaminFrantac<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102386">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102386</a><br>
Highlights<br>
<blockquote>• Archives, interviews used to trace Total's engagement
with global warming since 1970s.<br>
• Total or predecessors aware of harmful global warming impacts
since at least 1971.<br>
• Total engaged in overt denial of climate science in late 1980s,
early 1990s.<br>
• Various postures and strategies pursued by Total other than
overt science denial.<br>
• IPIECA played key role in coordinating international oil
industry beginning in 1980s.<br>
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Abstract<br>
<blockquote>Building upon recent work on other major fossil fuel
companies, we report new archival research and primary source
interviews describing how Total responded to evolving climate
science and policy in the last 50 years. We show that Total
personnel received warnings of the potential for catastrophic
global warming from its products by 1971, became more fully
informed of the issue in the 1980s, began promoting doubt
regarding the scientific basis for global warming by the late
1980s, and ultimately settled on a position in the late 1990s of
publicly accepting climate science while promoting policy delay or
policies peripheral to fossil fuel control. Additionally, we find
that Exxon, through the International Petroleum Industry
Environmental Conservation Association (IPIECA), coordinated an
international campaign to dispute climate science and weaken
international climate policy, beginning in the 1980s. This
represents one of the first longitudinal studies of a major fossil
fuel company’s responses to global warming to the present,
describing historical stages of awareness, preparation, denial,
and delay.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378021001655">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378021001655</a><br>
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<i>[ take the polar route ] </i><br>
<b>How Russia Is Cashing In on Climate Change</b><br>
Global warming may pose grave dangers around the world, but as one
tiny Russian town on the Arctic Ocean shows, it can also be a ticket
to prosperity.<br>
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The trip from Busan, in South Korea, to Amsterdam, for example, is
13 days shorter over the Northern Sea Route — a significant savings
in time and fuel.<br>
<br>
Ship traffic in the Russian Arctic rose by about 50 percent last
year, though still amounting to just 3 percent of traffic through
the Suez Canal. But a test run last February with a specially
reinforced commercial vessel provided proof that the passage can be
traversed in winter, so traffic is expected to rise sharply when the
route opens year-round next year, Yuri Trutnev, a deputy prime
minister, told the Russian media.<br>
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“We will gradually take transport away from the Suez Canal,” Mr.
Trutnev said of the plan. “A second possibility for humanity
certainly won’t bother anybody.”<br>
<br>
Money has been pouring in for Arctic projects. Rosatom in July
signed a deal with DP World, the Dubai-based ports and logistics
company, to develop ports and a fleet of ice-class container ships
with specially reinforced hulls to navigate icy seas.<br>
<br>
The thawing ocean has also made oil, natural gas and mining ventures
more profitable, reducing the costs of shipping supplies in and
products out. A multi-billion-dollar joint venture of the Russian
company Novatek, Total of France, CNPC of China and other investors
now exports about 5 percent of all liquefied natural gas traded
globally over the thawing Arctic Ocean.<br>
<br>
Overall, analysts say, at least half a dozen large Russian companies
in energy, shipping and mining will benefit from global warming.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/world/europe/russia-arctic-climate-change-putin.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/22/world/europe/russia-arctic-climate-change-putin.html</a><br>
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<i>[NPR is trying to hide this shameful history. Especially now,
during pledge drive ]</i><br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
October 24, 2014</b></font><br>
InsideClimate News reports on NPR's abandonment of climate-change
coverage.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20141024/npr-reduces-its-environment-team-one-reporter">http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20141024/npr-reduces-its-environment-team-one-reporter</a><br>
<blockquote><b>NPR Guts Its Environment And Climate Reporting Team,
Becomes ‘Part Of The Problem’</b><br>
BY JOE ROMM POSTED ON OCTOBER 24, 2014 <br>
<br>
NPR has gutted its staff dedicated to covering environmental and
climate issues. Given the nation’s and world’s renewed focus on
the threat posed by unrestricted carbon pollution, this baffling
move is already receiving widespread criticism from scientists and
media watchers. It is “a sad commentary on the current state of
our media,” as one top climatologist told me.<br>
<br>
Katherine Bagley broke the story for InsideClimate News. She
reports that earlier in 2014, NPR “had three full-time reporters
and one editor dedicated” to cover environmental and climate
issues within NPR’s science desk. Now, shockingly, “One remains —
and he is covering it only part-time.”<br>
<br>
NPR’s climate coverage has been fairly stagnant for years, as this
graph shows (click to enlarge):<br>
<br>
BrulleNPR<br>
Climate communications expert Dr. Robert J. Brulle of Drexel
University is the source of that graph. He also emailed me a
comment on NPR’s move:<br>
<br>
The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 that led to the founding of
NPR had as one of its goals that public broadcasting would serve
as a “source of alternative telecommunications services” that
would serve to “address national concerns.” This latest
announcement illustrates how NPR has lost its way. The level of
coverage of climate change by NPR has not served to increase
public knowledge of climate change any more than any other
commercial news outlet. Its coverage has returned to the levels
seen around 2006. Reducing the environmental staff will further
decrease its coverage of climate change. I would have thought NPR
would take a proactive stance toward the coverage of climate
change, given its charter to address issues of national concern.
Sadly, it seems that instead of being part of the solution, NPR
has now become part of the problem.<br>
<br>
An InsideClimate News analysis of NPR pieces tagged “environment,”
found that the number “has declined since January … dropping from
the low 60s to mid-40s every month.”<br>
<br>
Journalists and scientists quickly criticized NPR’s move. The LA
Times energy and environment reporter in Washington, D.C., Neela
Banerjee, almost immediately tweeted out:<br>
<br>
@NPR dismantles its great environment desk because that worked so
well for @NYTimes a year ago: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://t.co/xwtApHigHr">http://t.co/xwtApHigHr</a> #climate
#science — Neela Banerjee (@neelaeast) October 24, 2014<br>
<br>
Last year, climate coverage at the New York Times dropped
following its closure of its own environmental desk. But the Times
recently reversed course and expanded its team.<br>
<br>
In an email to ClimateProgress, Bagley wrote “With the impacts of
climate change becoming more salient, this seems like the wrong
time for a news outlet to be reducing the resources or manpower it
dedicates to covering this issue.” She hopes NPR ultimately ends
up where the Times did: “It closed its desk, but after much
criticism and data showing that its coverage declined, the paper
made environment and climate a key priority again by assigning a
number of new reporters to the beat.”<br>
<br>
Michael Mann, director of the Penn State Earth System Science
Center and one of the country’s top climatologists, told
ClimateProgress, “This is a sad commentary on the current state of
our media and, in particular, environmental reporting. Climate
change is perhaps the greatest challenge we face as a
civilization. Yet NPR apparently feels that it only deserves a
fraction of one reporter.”<br>
<br>
How does NPR explain the shift?<br>
<br>
The move to shift reporters off the environment beat was driven by
an interest to cover other fields more in depth, said Anne
Gudenkauf, senior supervising editor of NPR’s science desk….<br>
<br>
Gudenkauf also said she doesn’t “feel like [the environment]
necessarily requires dedicated reporters” because so many other
staffers cover the subject, along with their other beats.<br>
<br>
Personally, I don’t know anyone in the media business who shares
that view. Indeed, one of the reasons that Climate Progress
greatly expanded its team of reporters dedicated to covering
climate change last year is precisely because major MSM outlets
like the Times were slashing coverage.<br>
<br>
Yet, ironically, at the same time that the New York Times has
figured out it made a mistake cutting dedicated climate reporters,
NPR has made the exact same mistake.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141102225133/https://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/24/3584246/npr-guts-climate-team">https://web.archive.org/web/20141102225133/https://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/24/3584246/npr-guts-climate-team</a><br>
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