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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 6, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ many excellent BBC reports ]</i><br>
<b>COP26: Greta Thunberg tells protest that COP26 has been a
'failure'</b><br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59165781">https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-59165781</a></p>
<p>Pages of reports and video links:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56837908">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56837908</a></p>
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<i>[ young people inherit the future ] </i><br>
<b>Teens and Unions Take Over Glasgow as Greta Thunberg Declares UN
Climate Talks a 'Failure'</b><br>
As week one of United Nations climate talks comes to a close,
strikers took to the streets to show the movement to protect the
planet is growing.<br>
Brian Kahn - Nov 5, 2021<br>
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND — The leaves of Kelvingrove Park are a patchwork
of yellow and green, caught between summer and fall, life and death.
A stiff wind stirred the boughs above a throng of strikers who
gathered there on Friday to send a message to negotiators in the
conference rooms at United Nations climate talks a mile (1.6
kilometers) away: The time for promises is over. The era of climate
action has to begin...<br>
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Cries of “climate justice” echoed off the city’s buildings as police
cleared a path from Kelvingrove to George Square at the heart of the
city’s downtown...<br>
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Unions and the climate movement have increasingly become aligned
around the world, including in the U.S. The Texas AFL-CIO voted
earlier this year to endorse a green jobs plan and just transition.
The International Trade Union Confederation also endorsed a major
global climate strike in 2019. But seeing the flags of GMB flying
next to climate groups like Fridays for Future and Extinction
Rebellion represents an even closer alignment that could be a potent
political force...<br>
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Other workers also took time off to show up and support the young
adults. Helena Clements, a pediatrician, came to highlight the grave
health crisis climate change poses to kids. Indeed, climate change
is already making people sick and causing death now. A recent report
from the Lancet, a premier medical journal, underscored just how bad
things are for the present, let alone the risk future generations
will face.<br>
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“This was the first year where I can say confidently that I and my
patients very clearly experienced the impacts of climate change,”
Jeremy Hess, co-author of the U.S. policy brief, emergency medicine
physician, and director of the Center for Health and the Global
Environment at the University of Washington, told Earther at the
time the report came out.<br>
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“There’s no point in me looking after the health of children if we
don’t look after the planet,” Clements said of why she made the
six-plus hour trip to Glasgow from Nottingham. “We’re here as
Doctors for XR raising the role of financiers in funding climate
change.”...<br>
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“The voices of young people must be heard and reflected in these
negotiations here at COP.”<br>
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What those voices are calling for is more action that backs up
promises. They’re also calling for a system change, one that doesn’t
rely on the goodwill of capitalist overlords to address the climate
crisis. On that front, COP26 has been a bit of a mixed bag so far. A
contingent of countries has committed to no longer funding fossil
fuels abroad, a concrete plan that brings public finance to bear on
the clean energy transition. (There are still some loopholes, but
it’s a good step.)<br>
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However, major private financial institutions have mostly made a
splashy-sounding pledge about firms with $130 trillion in assets
going on a net zero pathway that’s been panned as greenwashing by
the likes of Greta Thunberg and the Financial Times alike. U.S.
leaders at the talks, including John Kerry, have also a very
business-oriented approach to the crisis given Congress’ inability
to pass strong climate provisions to date...<br>
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“It is not a secret that COP26 is a failure,” Greta Thunberg told
the group after a string of other speeches in George Square. “It
should be obvious that this crisis cannot be solved with the same
methods that got us into it in the first place.”...<br>
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“It’s important to have our voices heard and let everybody know that
we want a change,” said Kortney Brooks, a 16-year-old who was on the
same class trip. “We want justice. There’s a lot of young people
here who want them to hear our voices. And hopefully, we get that
change.”...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/teens-and-unions-take-over-glasgow-as-greta-thunberg-de-1848005350">https://gizmodo.com/teens-and-unions-take-over-glasgow-as-greta-thunberg-de-1848005350</a>
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<i>[ a bit of atmosphere science: heat rises ]</i><br>
<b>Earth’s lower atmosphere is rising due to climate change</b><br>
Higher temperatures are forcing the upper boundary of the
troposphere to expand upward<br>
Atmosphere readings collected by weather balloons in the Northern
Hemisphere over the last 40 years reveal that climate change is
pushing the upper boundary of the troposphere — the slice of sky
closest to the ground — steadily upward at a rate of 50 to 60 meters
per decade, researchers report November 5 in Science Advances.<br>
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Temperature is the driving force behind this change, says Jane Liu,
an environmental scientist at the University of Toronto. The
troposphere varies in height around the world, reaching as high as
20 kilometers in the tropics and as low as seven kilometers near the
poles. During the year, the upper boundary of the troposphere —
called the tropopause — naturally rises and falls with the seasons
as air expands in the heat and contracts in the cold. But as
greenhouse gases trap more and more heat in the atmosphere, the
troposphere is expanding higher into the atmosphere (SN: 10/26/21).<br>
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Liu and her colleagues found that the tropopause rose an average of
about 200 meters in height from 1980 to 2020. Nearly all weather
occurs in the troposphere, but it’s unlikely that this shift will
have on a big effect on weather, the researchers say. Still, this
research is an important reminder of the impact of climate change on
our world, Liu says.<br>
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“We see signs of global warming around us, in retreating glaciers
and rising sea levels,” she says. “Now, we see it in the height of
the troposphere.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-lower-atmosphere-rising-climate-change-troposphere">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-lower-atmosphere-rising-climate-change-troposphere</a><br>
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<i>[ Hayhoe notes that scientists have been underestimating... ] </i><br>
<b>Climate One TV: Katharine Hayhoe</b><br>
Nov 4, 2021<br>
Climate One<br>
Despite her identity as an evangelical, climate scientist Katharine
Hayhoe doesn't accept global warming on faith; she crunches the
data, analyzes the models, and helps engineers, city managers and
ecologists quantify the impacts. In her new book, Saving Us: A
Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World,
Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts
are only one part of the equation; we need to find shared values in
order to connect our unique identities to collective action. Yet in
light of the latest, bleakest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change report — which has been called a “code red for humanity” —
where does Hayhoe still manage to find hope? Join us for a
conversation with this United Nations Champion of the Earth and one
of Time ’s 100 Most Influential People.<br>
#letstalkclimate<br>
<blockquote>3:00 Glasgow<br>
8:21 Climate Conflict<br>
16:20 Late night talk shows talk climate<br>
21:35 Ten Climate Commandments<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climateone.org/">https://www.climateone.org/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sinKAmrNF5g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sinKAmrNF5g</a><br>
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<i>[ The founder of <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://skepticalscience.com/">https://skepticalscience.com/</a> 4 min video ]</i><br>
<b>John Cook: Solutions Help Change Minds About Climate</b><br>
Nov 4, 2021<br>
greenmanbucket<br>
John Cook PhD, of Monash University in Melbourne Australia, on the
dynamics of behavior change and opinion change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igHc0PqfdNs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igHc0PqfdNs</a><br>
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<i>[ Is it crucial to experience nature? ] </i><br>
<b>Rebecca Solnit on the Politics of Pleasure</b><br>
The author discusses her new book, “<u>Orwell’s Roses</u>,” and the
role of art and beauty as forms of resistance.<br>
By Helen Rosner Nov 5, 2021...<br>
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Solnit’s most recent book, “<u>Orwell’s Roses,</u>” is, depending on
how the light hits, a natural history of gardening, a dissection of
the rose as capitalist metaphor, or a defense of art and beauty as a
bulwark against the annihilating forces of totalitarianism. At its
core, it is an intimate recounting of the life and politics of
George Orwell, who planted the roses of Solnit’s title in the spring
of 1936, when he was living at a cottage in Wallington,
Hertfordshire, about thirty miles north of London. That year,
between reporting on labor conditions in Manchester coal mines and
travelling to the Continent to fight in the Spanish Civil War,
Orwell found time to get his hands in the soil, and over the
following years he took great pleasure in cultivation. When Solnit
visited his cottage in person, in 2017, she found that the fruit
trees he had planted were decades gone, but two tremendous
rosebushes—likely Orwell’s own—were in bloom. I recently spoke to
Solnit by phone; in our conversation, which has been edited for
length and clarity, we discussed pleasure as a form of resistance,
the horrors of modern commercial rose farms, and why she doesn’t
consider “Orwell’s Roses” a biography.<br>
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<b>Is it actually the case that cultivating a rose garden can be an
act of resistance, or is it just a line that we tell ourselves to
stave off despair?</b><br>
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There are a lot of ways in which the destructive forces around us
want us to be consumers, want us to be malleable and gullible.
Anything that makes us something else—somebody with a robust sense
of self, somebody with a sense of pleasure, somebody with
independence of thought—is not the revolution itself, but it might
help reinforce the character who can resist. This touches on
something else that was really important to me in the book: we often
have a sense that the only stuff that makes us people who can resist
is, you know, the propaganda telling us that bad people are doing
bad things, and it’s bad, and we should stop it. But there’s also a
question of who is capable of independent thought, who resists the
lies, the propaganda, the totalitarianism, who has the courage to
stand up—and what might instill that in you?<br>
<br>
Various people—including, I think, Orwell—argue that this is often a
much more complex and subtle process. Rereading “1984” in the course
of writing this, I was surprised to find a book that felt very
different than it had all the other times I’d read it over the forty
or so previous years. Winston Smith, in rebelling against Big
Brother—his very first act is to pull out a beautiful blank book
he’s bought, and Orwell describes the sensuousness of the paper, the
act of writing with pen and ink. He’s not only cultivating an
independence of thought but he’s appreciating the sensuality of the
materials and the act. He goes on from there to listen to birds
singing, to have a love affair, to eat forbidden chocolate, to
acquire a paperweight with a bit of coral that becomes a symbol for
this private world he’s created with his love affair, to admire the
washerwoman hanging up diapers and singing in a beautiful contralto
voice out the window. This itself becomes his reclaiming of all the
things he’s not supposed to have and see and be and enjoy. When I
understood that, the book took a really different shape: it’s not
just about the need to destroy or resist Big Brother, but to do it
in these very indirect ways, by being who they don’t want you to be.<br>
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More broadly, we still haven’t fully accepted the question of how
the personal and the political connect. It was a great feminist
rallying cry, but we’re still not done doing that work. And we’re
still not done thinking about what an activist life, an engaged
life, can look like. We’re still not done connecting the natural
world to the political world. It’s an ongoing project, and it felt
like this book was an eclectic way to come at some of that stuff
from an unfamiliar angle.<br>
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<b>Roses have such a rich history as a metaphorical vehicle that
they’re almost a cliché—Robert Burns, Gertrude Stein, Shakespeare.
But in this book you take them to places that feel very new:
capitalism, colonialism, climate change.</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/rebecca-solnit-on-the-politics-of-pleasure">https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/rebecca-solnit-on-the-politics-of-pleasure</a><br>
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[ one more important essay ]<br>
<b>Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap</b><br>
April 22, 2021 <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368">https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368</a>
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<i>[ on fiction in text and audio ]</i><br>
<b>Novelists illustrate the climate futures that could await us</b><br>
November 5, 2021<br>
Peter O'Dowd<br>
Politicians and scientists gathered in Scotland this week to set
goals to roll back emissions and save the planet from catastrophic
climate change at COP26. It’s a task so daunting it’s even hard to
imagine.<br>
<br>
But fiction writers are trying to do just that...<br>
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Science-fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson has also been writing
about the climate futures that may await us.<br>
<br>
In books like “New York 2140,” “Red Mars,” and most recently “The
Ministry for the Future,” he’s explored how a changing climate would
change humanity. He’s also proposed solutions: “The Ministry for the
Future” is about a UN agency that takes great risks to solve the
crisis.<br>
<br>
Robinson is so well-regarded that the real-life, non-fiction, UN
invited him to COP26 this week.<br>
<br>
Kim Stanley Robinson: “Well, I'm a science fiction writer, and so
what I mean by that is I like to set my stories in the future
because it makes for interesting stories. So you set a story in the
future. Well, it could be 5 million years in the future, and that's
what we think of as space opera. A lot of people think science
fiction is just that, but there's near-future science fiction. And
what I'm going to say is that all near future science fiction has
now become climate fiction because it's an over determining
situation that you can't escape. So if you're going to write about
the near future, suddenly you're writing climate fiction now.”<br>
<br>
On whether something like the massive disasters he writes about in
“Ministry for the Future” could spur climate action<br>
<br>
Robinson: “I'm not so sure about that to tell you the truth. And my
working method was that if I could tell people about it in fiction,
they might become aware that it's going to happen and it could
happen almost anywhere. And this wet bulb temperature that is a
combination of heat and humidity, which is what I described in my
novel, one of the hottest wet bulb temperatures ever was recorded
outside of Chicago. And the scientific community, warning us of that
kind of coalesced about two or three or four years ago, and when I
read about it, I thought, I have to take this on. It's not well
enough known that we cannot adapt to higher global average
temperatures because we don't even survive without air conditioning
in wet bulb 35 temperature and we're already hitting wet bulb 34. It
could happen anywhere, any time. Most of the human world is in
danger of heat waves of this sort, and so that really drove this
particular book.”<br>
<br>
On what innovations are needed to combat the climate crisis<br>
<br>
Robinson: “The crucial one is finance, which is to say the software
of civilization. How do we pay ourselves to quickly do the right
things to decarbonize, as opposed to continuing to pay ourselves to
exploit and destroy the Earth for the generations to come and drive
ourselves into a mass extinction event merely because it seems to be
profitable by the current system. So a new political economy, a new
sense of what money is and how we create it and what we spend it on.
This is the crucial technology.”<br>
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On the “economy 2.0” that could stave off disaster<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/05/kim-stanley-robinson-climate-change">https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2021/11/05/kim-stanley-robinson-climate-change</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
November 6, 1990</b></font><br>
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November 6, 1990: In a speech to the 2nd World Climate Conference in
Geneva, Margaret Thatcher declares, "The danger of global warming is
as yet unseen, but real enough for us to make changes and
sacrifices, so that we do not live at the expense of future
generations."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108237">http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108237</a><br>
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