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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>October 26, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Driving the money forward - -100,000 Teslas in the Hertz deal.]<br>
</i><b>Tesla-Hertz EV deal is climate change tipping point for
national car rental fleets</b><br>
OCT 25 2021<br>
KEY POINTS<br>
-- The rental car industry’s major players have not made major
commitments to electric vehicles as part of their fleets to date.<br>
-- The Hertz deal with Tesla will pressure its competitors like Avis
Budget Group and Enterprise Holdings to more seriously consider
adoption of EVs.<br>
-- Government scrutiny of rental car emissions and consumer interest
in EVs will continue to grow, says Northcoast Research analyst John
Healy.<br>
<i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/tesla-hertz-ev-deal-signal-to-rental-car-fleets-its-time-for-electric.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/25/tesla-hertz-ev-deal-signal-to-rental-car-fleets-its-time-for-electric.html</a><br>
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<i>[ follow the money that may take a serious path ]</i><br>
<b>U.S. Warns Climate Poses ‘Emerging Threat’ to Financial System</b><br>
A Financial Stability Oversight Council report could lead to more
regulatory action and disclosure requirements for banks.<br>
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Ms. Yellen, who will travel to Glasgow for the U.N. conference next
month, hailed the significance of the report at the council’s
meeting on Thursday.<br>
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“It’s a critical first step forward in addressing the threat of
climate change and it will by no means be the end of this work,” she
said.<br>
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Ben Cushing, manager of the Sierra Club’s Fossil-Free Finance
campaign, said that the report was a step in the right direction but
that it needed to be more bold. He said that Wall Street firms were
contributing to the climate crisis and that regulators must rein
them in.<br>
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“Secretary Yellen’s report lays out preliminary steps to make the
financial industry more transparent and accountable for their
growing climate risks, but it’s also a missed opportunity to
recommend actions that actually reduce climate risk and limit Wall
Street’s toxic investments in the fossil fuels that are driving the
crisis,” Mr. Cushing said.<br>
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The next step is for the various financial regulators to act on the
warnings in the report, said Steven M. Rothstein, managing director
of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, which
works with investors to address climate risks.<br>
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“Banks, insurance and fossil fuel companies should be on notice,”
Mr. Rothstein said. “Each agency must now provide specific timelines
when they plan to put in place measures to protect the safety and
soundness of our financial system, our institutions, our savings and
our communities.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/climate-change-cost-us.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/climate-change-cost-us.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Cli-Migrants ]</i><br>
<b>‘Disappointing’: The US’s first climate migration report falls
flat</b><br>
“We went from a bold call and vision to, well, nothing.”<br>
María Paula Rubiano A. & Adam Mahoney<br>
Oct 25, 2021<br>
On Thursday, the National Security Council released a
long-anticipated report on what environmental advocates are calling
one the most pressing issues of our time: climate change-induced
migration. The report is the first U.S. government report on the
effects of climate on migration and arrives right as President Biden
is slated to attend a major United Nations climate conference in
Glasgow, Scotland known as COP26.<br>
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The 37-page report, which was commissioned by President Joe Biden in
February with an August deadline, notes that climate migration, both
within countries and between them, is already here, but is set to
get a lot worse. Climate change is expected to displace as many as
143 million people, nearly three percent of the populations of Latin
America, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, by 2050. Roughly a
quarter of those are expected to migrate internationally as a result
of their displacement. The sheer mass of migrants will have
“significant implications for international security, instability,
conflict, and geopolitics,” the report says. This includes climate
change-induced wars and conflicts over natural resources, namely
water. ..<br>
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Yayboke says he understands why many groups may be disappointed with
the report, but notes it an important step forward — especially
given the country’s documented inability to pass climate
legislation. “Very few people would say with a straight face that
our current protections are sufficient — but this document is just
meant to be a report,” he said. “Some of this may take congressional
action, which we can all agree is really hard in today’s climate and
the administration needs to take its time to make sure that their
plans are durable from rollbacks from future administrations.”<br>
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While that may be true, the report made one thing clear about the
country’s role in protecting climate migrants — despite being the
largest greenhouse gas emitter in history: the country has no
obligation to support climate migrants. “The United States does not
consider its international human rights obligations to require
extending international protection to individuals fleeing the
impacts of climate change,” the report states. <br>
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Climate Refugees’ Amali Tower believes that’s a mistake, since
“climate change destabilizes entire existences, it marginalizes
people who are already oppressed, and it erodes their rights, their
abilities to feed themselves, to work, to withstand disasters, to
survive increasing costs of living,” she said. “This is a failure to
not recognize all of that in your policy prescription.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/climate/disappointing-the-uss-first-climate-migration-report-falls-flat/">https://grist.org/climate/disappointing-the-uss-first-climate-migration-report-falls-flat/</a><br>
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<i>[ From the master of climate communications -- aimed at
scientists, suitable for anyone, hear experts speaking -
succinctly - Yale School of the Environment YouTube 90 min video
] </i><br>
<b>Climate Communications</b><br>
Oct. 25, 2021<br>
Oxford Climate Society<br>
"so here we go." Scientists agree:<br>
<blockquote><b>it's real</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><b>it's us</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><b>it's bad</b><b><br>
</b><b><br>
</b><b>but there's hope</b><br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDvbPMxoPo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBDvbPMxoPo</a> <br>
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<p><i>[ Congressional hearings begin on Thursday ]</i><br>
<b>Fueling the Climate Crisis: Exposing Big Oil’s Disinformation
Campaign to Prevent Climate Action</b><br>
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On Thursday, October 28, 2021, at 9:00 a.m. ET, Rep. Carolyn B.
Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform,
and Rep. Ro Khanna, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the
Environment, will hold a hearing to examine the fossil fuel
industry’s long-running, industry-wide campaign to spread
disinformation about the role of fossil fuels in causing global
warming.<br>
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The fossil fuel industry has had scientific evidence about the
dangers of climate change since at least 1977. Yet for decades,
the industry spread denial and doubt about the harm of its
products—undermining the science and preventing meaningful action
on climate change even as the global climate crisis became
increasingly dire, and its deadly impact on Americans increased.<br>
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More recently, some large fossil fuel companies took public
stances in support of climate actions while privately continuing
to block reforms, invest overwhelmingly in fossil fuel extraction,
and support efforts to extend the life of fossil fuel
investments. The industry reportedly spends billions to promote
climate disinformation through branding and lobbying. Moreover,
they increasingly outsource lobbying to trade groups, obscuring
their own roles in disinformation efforts.<br>
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On September 16, 2021, the Chairs sent letters to top fossil fuel
executives requesting documents and communications related to
their organization’s role in supporting disinformation and
misleading the public to prevent action on the climate crisis. To
date, all the fossil fuel entities have failed to adequately
comply with the Committee’s request.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/fueling-the-climate-crisis-exposing-big-oil-s-disinformation-campaign-to">https://oversight.house.gov/legislation/hearings/fueling-the-climate-crisis-exposing-big-oil-s-disinformation-campaign-to</a><br>
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<i>[ Academic YouTube 53 min ] </i><br>
<b>Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2021-09-21: Ronja Reese</b><br>
Oct 23, 2021<br>
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies<br>
Sea Level Rise Seminar, 2021-09-21<br>
Speaker: Ronja Reese<br>
Title: The role of ice shelves for sea-level rise from Antarctica<br>
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Abstract: The Antarctic Ice Sheet’s contribution to global sea level
rise has increased in the past decade and might rise further in the
future, with implications for coastal regions worldwide. At present,
its mass loss is mainly driven through the interaction with the
surrounding Southern Ocean: at the fringes of the ice sheet,
enhanced melting and calving of the ice shelves reduces their
“buttressing” and thereby cause glaciers to accelerate and retreat.<br>
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The underlying processes and their influence on future mass losses
can be examined with numerical models that encompass the dynamics of
the ice sheet as well as melting physics at the ice-ocean interface.
Understanding these processes is particularly important as they are
key to understanding uncertainties in future sea-level projections.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejM4KhqmhWc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejM4KhqmhWc</a><br>
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<i>[ looking forward ] <br>
</i><b>Major economies plan to extract more fossil
fuels—incompatible with keeping global temps at safe levels</b><br>
Oil and gas recovery is set to rise sharply with only a modest
decrease in coal<br>
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Large economies will produce more than double the amount of fossil
fuels in 2030—than is consistent with meeting climate change goals
set under the Paris Agreement.<br>
These findings come from the United Nations Environment Program’s
(UNEP) annual production gap report.<br>
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The report assesses the difference between governments’ planned
production of coal, oil and gas and production levels that are
consistent with meeting Paris temperature limits.<br>
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The report concludes that of the 15 major fossil fuel producers
assessed, they plan to produce around 110% more fossil fuels in 2030
than would be consistent with limiting the degree of warming to
1.5C, and 45% more than is consistent with 2C.<br>
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“Governments continue to plan for and support levels of fossil fuel
production that are vastly in excess of what we can safely burn,”
says Ploy Achakulwisut, a lead author on the report from the
Stockholm Environment Institute.<br>
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The countries analyzed in the report were Australia, Brazil, Canada,
China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi
Arabia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom,
and the United States.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://pvbuzz.com/major-economies-plan-to-extract-more-fossil-fuels/">https://pvbuzz.com/major-economies-plan-to-extract-more-fossil-fuels/</a><i><br>
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<i>[ addiction to growth ]</i><br>
<b>Day 9 - Robert Costanza: Overcoming our societal addiction to
growth</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 Robert Costanza: Overcoming our societal addiction to growth<br>
MC: Alexia Ostrolenk, Ph.D Candidate in Psychiatric Science (UdeM);
Science Communicator (ComScicon-QC, BrainReach)<br>
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Bio:<br>
Professor Robert Costanza is a Vice-Chancellor’s Chair in Public
Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian
National University. He is also currently a Senior Fellow at the
Stockholm Resilience Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, an Affiliate
Fellow at the Gund Institute at the University of Vermont, and a
deTao Master of Ecological Economics at the deTao Masters Academy in
Shanghai, China. He is a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences in
Australia (ASSA) and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in the UK, and
is an Overseas Expert in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).<br>
<br>
Professor Costanza’s transdisciplinary research integrates the study
of humans and the rest of nature to address research, policy and
management issues at multiple time and space scales, from small
watersheds to the global system. His specialties include:
transdisciplinary integration, systems ecology, ecological
economics, ecosystem services, landscape ecology, integrated
socio-ecological modeling, ecological design, energy analysis,
environmental policy, social traps and addictions, incentive
structures, and institutions.<br>
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He is co-founder and past-president of the International Society for
Ecological Economics and was founding chief editor of the society’s
journal Ecological Economics. He currently serves on the editorial
board of ten other international academic journals. He is also
founding co-editor in chief of Solutions a unique hybrid
academic/popular journal and editor in chief of the Anthropocene
Review.] <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QCuNLh2Wss">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QCuNLh2Wss</a><br>
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<i>[ notice the secondary damage to infrastructure. ]</i><br>
<b>Naomi Klein Hopes This Is the Stage Before the Breakthrough</b><br>
The author activist on overcoming defeats, her new role at UBC, the
future of climate justice and more.<br>
Olamide Olaniyan -- 22 Oct 2021 | TheTyee.ca<br>
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And the reason why I emphasize the importance of the investments in
the social sphere — affordable housing, the infrastructure of care,
valuing care workers, recognizing that care work is climate work,
that affordable housing is climate policy — is that when we make
these investments in our societies that build schools that value
everyone, where people have the basics taken care of, “Yes, you will
have a home. Yes, you will have food. Yes, there will be water.”
This will serve us extremely well as these shocks hit.<br>
<br>
It isn’t only that we can do these things in a way that bring down
emissions. And we can: When we invest in the care sector as opposed
to the extractive sector, we are enacting climate policy, we are
changing our economy in a way that’s going to lower emissions if we
do it well and we do it smartly. But from what I’ve seen from
covering disasters now — since Katrina, but including Hurricane
Maria, including Hurricane Sandy and the fire that burned down
Paradise, California — what I know is that what makes these
disasters really cataclysmic and what is responsible for the highest
death toll, is very rarely the disasters themselves.<br>
<br>
Like Maria, it was less than 50 people who died as a direct result
of falling debris in the storm. But 3,000 people died because of a
failed health-care system and a failed electricity system and a
failure of care in the months that followed. More than 1,000 people
died in New Orleans after [Hurricane] Katrina. Also, it was not
because of the force of that storm. The reason people died was
because of systemic racism, it was because of a government that just
abandoned the city.<br>
<br>
And so these investments in what I’m broadly calling the
“infrastructure of care” are going to save lives in the millions in
the rocky future that is headed our way and these shifts in values,
and you could call it eco-socialism, you could call it whatever you
want, are going to be what keep us from turning on each other when
things get stressful, when we’re tested by shocks. So it’s not that
I’m rosy and hopeful and optimistic. It’s just that I think that
this is how we hold on to our humanity in the future to come. And
that this is not a luxury. [Tyee] <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/10/22/Naomi-Klein-Stage-Before-Breakthrough/">https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/10/22/Naomi-Klein-Stage-Before-Breakthrough/</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 26, 2000</b></font><br>
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October 26, 2000: At a campaign appearance in Davenport, Iowa,
Democratic candidate Al Gore declares:<br>
<br>
"Now, I want to talk about the environment here today, because we
have a situation where the big polluters are supporting Governor
Bush, and they are wanting to be in control of the environmental
policies. <br>
<br>
"In his state of Texas -- Tom talked about some of the statistics
there -- here's another: They're No. 1 in something; they rank No. 1
out of all 50 in industrial pollution. They rank No. 1 as the
smoggiest state. Houston's just solidified its title as the
smoggiest city.<br>
<br>
"He put a lobbyist for the chemical manufacturers in charge of
enforcing the environmental laws, made some of the environmental
laws voluntary and then the state sank in its ratings.<br>
<br>
"Now, look, just today we are seeing on television the new study
that just comes out once every five years where the scientific
community around the world tells us what they've learned about this
problem that these kids are going to grow up with unless we do
something, and that's the problem of global warming. And I know a
lot of people say that that looks like it's off in the future.<br>
<br>
"But let me tell what you this new study said: instead of just going
up a few degrees in the lifetimes of these kids, unless we act, the
average temperature is going to go up 10 or 11 degrees. The storms
will get stronger, the weather patterns will change. But it does not
have to happen, and it won't happen if we put our minds to solving
this problem."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/26/se.02.html">http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0010/26/se.02.html</a><br>
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