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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>November 9, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<b>Countries’ climate pledges built on flawed data, </b><b>Post
investigation finds</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/greenhouse-gas-emissions-pledges-data/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/interactive/2021/greenhouse-gas-emissions-pledges-data/</a><br>
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<i>[ Big error - every country measures differently ]</i><br>
<b>Massive gap found between nations' reporting, actual emissions:
analysis</b><br>
A number of countries throughout the world are significantly
underreporting the amount of greenhouse gases they emit, according
to a new analysis from The Washington Post.<br>
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The Post, which examined United Nations reports from 196 countries,
reported on Sunday that large gaps exist between emissions that
nations report to the UN and the actual amount of greenhouse gases
they release into the atmosphere.<br>
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Those discrepancies reportedly range from 8.5 billion to 13.3
billion tons of underreported emissions, which the newspaper said is
a large enough statistic to have an impact on how warm the planet
will become.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/580504-massive-gap-found-between-nations-reporting-emissions-analysis">https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/580504-massive-gap-found-between-nations-reporting-emissions-analysis</a><br>
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<i>[ Ooops, forgot to report, policy suffers- says CBS WAPO video ]
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</i><b>Emissions drastically underreported, Washington Post
investigation finds</b><br>
Nov 8, 2021<br>
CBS News<br>
An investigation of 196 countries by the Washington Post found that
emissions are underreported by billions of tons. Stanford Earth
scientist and chair of the Global Carbon Project Rob Jackson joins
CBSN's Elaine Quijano to explain why.<i><br>
</i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqijrSEOcc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgqijrSEOcc</a><br>
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<p><i>[ Radio On Point, hear the voices -</i> 47:27<i> ] </i><br>
<b>The case for climate reparations</b><br>
Nov 8, 2021 - - Jonathan Chang & Meghna Chakrabarti<br>
Climate change has a disproportionate impact on the Global South.
So should the world's industrialized nations make reparations?<br>
There’s a tragic irony to climate change, according to New York
Magazine editor David Wallace-Wells:<br>
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“The rich countries of the world ... that have produced this
warming, they’re not in such hot parts of the world," he says.
"The Global South in particular are being hit much more intensely,
and they bare very little responsibility for the crisis.”<br>
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Wallace-Wells says the U.S. would not be where it is today if not
for a century spent burning fossil fuels.<br>
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"You could really closely correlate their economic and even
geopolitical standing with how much they’ve done to the planet,"
he adds.<br>
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So how can America grapple with the implications of climate
change? Wallace-Wells says only through an honest and moral
reckoning:<br>
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"[It] requires those of us in these rich and powerful countries to
leverage that wealth and that power towards helping those who are
suffering the most from our pollution," he says.<br>
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Today, On Point: David Wallace-Wells makes the case for climate
reparations.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/11/08/climate-change-reparations-environment-global-south">https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/11/08/climate-change-reparations-environment-global-south</a><br>
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<i>[ Intelligent commentary - audio podcast ~ 30 min ] </i><br>
<b>If We Can’t Stop Climate Change, We Must Get Better at Climate
Preparedness.</b><br>
JEFF SCHECHTMAN<br>
11/05/21<br>
With every new climate-induced disaster, we hear from politicians
and government officials that “nobody expected it.” Samantha Montano
calls BS on that tired refrain. <br>
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Montano, our guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, is a professor
of emergency management at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and
the author of Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the
Climate Crisis.<br>
<br>
If we are to relieve suffering, Montano says, we must focus larger
portions of our resources on disaster management and learn how to
better mitigate all but certain future disasters.<br>
<br>
She makes it clear that planning agencies like FEMA, first
responders like firefighters, and disaster cleanup technologists
will be far more important in surviving the consequences of climate
change than splashy international summits like COP26. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/if-we-cant-stop-climate-change-we-must-get-better-at-climate-preparedness/">https://whowhatwhy.org/podcast/if-we-cant-stop-climate-change-we-must-get-better-at-climate-preparedness/</a><br>
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<i>[ read her book or study the new field ]</i><br>
<b>Disasterology: Dispatches From The Frontlines of The Climate
Crisis </b><br>
Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and
personal account of a country in crisis—one unprepared to deal with
the disasters of today and those looming in our future.<br>
<br>
With temperatures rising and the risk of disasters growing, our
world is increasingly vulnerable. Most people see disasters as
freak, natural events that are unpredictable and unpreventable. But
that simply isn’t the case – disasters are avoidable, but when they
do strike, there are strategic ways to manage the fallout.<br>
<br>
In Disasterology, Dr. Montano, a disaster researcher, brings
readers with her on an eye-opening journey through some of our worst
disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened from
an emergency management perspective. She explains why we aren’t
doing enough to prevent or prepare for disasters, the critical role
of media, and how our approach to recovery was not designed to serve
marginalized communities. Now that climate change is contributing to
the disruption of ecosystems and worsening disasters, Dr. Montano
offers a preview of what will happen to our communities if we don’t
take aggressive, immediate action. In a section devoted to the
COVID-19 pandemic, what is thus far our generation’s most deadly
disaster, she casts light on the many decisions made behind closed
doors that failed to protect the public.<br>
<br>
A deeply moving and timely narrative that draws on Dr. Montano's
first-hand experience in emergency management, Disasterology is
essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how our country
handles disasters, and how we can better face them together.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.disaster-ology.com/">http://www.disaster-ology.com/</a><br>
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<i>[ $ Open up the wallet and step forward $ ]</i><br>
<b>Disaster Prep Kits Get a Makeover</b><br>
The climate crisis has spawned an unlikely new area of fashion
entrepreneurship.<br>
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There are companies in this category that have been around for
years, catering to survivalists and ex-military types, such as
Uncharted Supply Co. (which sells streamlined backpacks containing
small shovels, stormproof matches and water filters), and My Medic
(which sells extensive first aid supplies packaged in utilitarian
bags). But as far as Ms. McGuire was concerned, these brands target
“outdoorsy, cis white men,” with marketing materials that often
feature muscular white guys wearing flannel shirts in the forest.<br>
<br>
As a result, a new wave of emergency preparation companies has
arisen: ones that cater to a more style-conscious clientele.
Foremost among them are Preppi, a Goop-approved brand that sells
disaster supplies in minimalist backpacks, and Judy, which has
tapped celebrities like the Kardashians, Chrissy Teigen and TikTok
sensation Addison Rae to promote its portable generators and
waterproof supply packs...<br>
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Since its launch in January 2020, Judy has sold over 25,000 disaster
kits, accrued nearly 60,000 followers on its meme-strewn Instagram
page, and attracted 45,000 subscribers to its text-message service
that provides free emergency prep information. Mr. Huck said the
business is on track to double in month-over-month growth in 2021...<br>
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For Ms. McGuire, the price of Judy products ended up feeling
prohibitive, as did what she perceived to be a lack of interest on
the brand’s part in serving the working class people that tend to
most need disaster relief. She’s still interested in emergency
readiness for her own family, but she’s starting with prep that
doesn’t cost anything, like gathering important documents in
easy-to-grab, waterproof containers.<br>
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Even Mr. Huck can see the wisdom in that.<br>
<br>
“The number one thing you can do to save lives is make an emergency
plan, more so than actually having a physical product,” he said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/style/disaster-prep-kits.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/style/disaster-prep-kits.html</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://judy.co/">https://judy.co/</a>
<b>PREPARE NOW. </b><b>WORRY LESS LATER.</b><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.preppi.co/">https://www.preppi.co/</a>
<b>Be ready for anything !</b><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://unchartedsupplyco.com/">https://unchartedsupplyco.com/</a>
<b>Power Through Anything</b><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://mymedic.com/">https://mymedic.com/</a>
<b>EX[EXPERIENCE ELEVATED FIRST AID</b><br>
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<i>[ Return to building up the library ] </i><br>
<b>Titles for getting down to climate business now that children are
back to school</b><br>
A dozen books to help you go back to schooling on climate change.<br>
by MICHAEL SVOBODA - SEPTEMBER 21, 2021<br>
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<b>State of the Climate in 2020 (NOAA/Bulletin of the American
Meteorological Society 2021</b>, 481 pages, free download
available here/executive summary available here)<br>
<br>
This is the 31st issuance of the annual assessment now known as
State of the Climate, published in the Bulletin since 1996. As a
supplement to the Bulletin, its foremost function is to document the
status and trajectory of many components of the climate system.
However, as a series, the report also documents the status and
trajectory of our capacity and commitment to observe the climate
system. The report, compiled by NOAA’s National Centers for
Environmental Information, is based on contributions from scientists
from around the world. It provides a detailed update on global
climate indicators, notable weather events, and other data collected
by environmental monitoring stations and instruments located on
land, water, ice, and in space.<br>
<br>
Editor’s note: See also World Meteorological Organization’s State of
the Global Climate 2020.<br>
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<b>They Knew: The U.S. Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in
Causing the Climate Crisis,</b> by James Gustave Speth (The MIT
Press 2021, 304 pages, $27.95)<br>
<br>
In 2015, a group of 21 young people sued the federal government for
violating their constitutional rights by promoting climate
catastrophe and thereby depriving them of life, liberty, and
property without due process. Tapped by the plaintiffs in Juliana
vs United States, environmental lawyer James Gustave Speth analyzed
how administrations from Carter to Trump—despite having information
about the impending climate crisis and the connection to fossil
fuels – continued aggressive support of a fossil fuel based energy
system. What did the federal government know and when did it know
it? Speth asks, echoing another famous cover-up. They Knew (an
updated version of the report Speth prepared for the lawsuit)
presents the most definitive indictment yet of the US government’s
role in the climate crisis. <br>
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<b>Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis</b>,
by Alice Bell (Counterpoint 2021, 288 pages, $26.00)<br>
<br>
In Our Biggest Experiment, science communicator Alice Bell takes us
back to climate change science’s earliest steps in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries, through the point when concern started to
rise in the 1950s and right up to today, when the world is finally
starting to face up to the reality that things are going to get a
lot hotter, a lot drier (in some places), and a lot wetter (in
others), with catastrophic consequences. Our Biggest Experiment
recounts how the world became addicted to fossil fuels, how we
discovered that electricity could be a savior, and how renewable
energy is far from a twentieth-century discovery. The message she
relays is ultimately hopeful; harnessing the ingenuity and
intelligence that has driven the history of climate change research
can result in a more sustainable and bearable future for humanity.<br>
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<b>Disasterology: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Climate
Crisis,</b> by Samantha Montano (Park Row 2021, 384 pages, $28.99<br>
<br>
In Disasterology, Dr. Montano, a disaster researcher, brings readers
with her on an eye-opening journey through some of our worst
disasters. She explains why we aren’t doing enough to prevent or
prepare for disasters, the critical role of media, and how our
approach to recovery was not designed to serve marginalized
communities. Dr. Montano offers a preview of what will happen to our
communities if we don’t take aggressive, immediate action on climate
change. In a section devoted to the COVID-19 pandemic, she casts
light on the many decisions made behind closed doors that failed to
protect the public. A deeply moving and timely narrative that draws
on Dr. Montano’s first-hand experience in emergency management,
Disasterology is essential reading for anyone who wants to
understand how we can better face disasters together.<br>
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<b>Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to
Catastrophes</b>, by Chris Funk (Cambridge University Press 2021,
332 pages, $24.95)<br>
<br>
Every year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions
of people and cause massive economic losses. Climate change is
making these catastrophes more dangerous. Now. Not in the future:
NOW. Chris C. Funk’s book combines the latest science with
compelling stories to provide a timely, accessible, and
beautifully-written synopsis of how climate change is already
fomenting dire consequences, and will certainly make things worse in
the future. After describing our unique and fragile Earth system,
Funk examines recent climate-related disasters and their human
consequences. By calling attention to these already occurring
impacts, Funk delivers a clarion call for social change, yet also
convey hope for our collective future.<br>
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<b>Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate
Change Fail But Some Succeed</b>, by Gonzalo Lizarralde (Columbia
University Press 2021, 328 pages, $35.00) <br>
<br>
Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing
environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between
abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation
and the real-world experiences of people living at risk. Gonzalo
Lizarralde explains how the causes of disasters are not natural but
all too human: inequality, segregation, marginalization,
colonialism, neoliberalism, racism, and unrestrained capitalism. He
tells the stories of Latin American migrants, Haitian earthquake
survivors, Canadian climate activists, African slum dwellers, and
other people resisting social and environmental injustices around
the world. Lizarralde shows how disasters have become both the
causes and consequences of today’s most urgent challenges and
proposes achievable solutions to save a planet at risk.<br>
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<b>Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet – and How We Fight
Back</b>, by Kate Aronoff (Bold Type Books 2021, 432 pages,
$30.00) <br>
<br>
It has become impossible to deny that the planet is warming, and
that governments must act. But a new denialism is taking root in the
halls of power, shaped by decades of neoliberal policies and
centuries of anti-democratic thinking. Since the 1980s, Democrats
and Republicans have each granted enormous concessions to industries
hell bent on maintaining business as usual. This approach,
journalist Kate Aronoff makes clear, has only made things worse.
Drawing on years of reporting, Aronoff lays out an alternative
vision, detailing how democratic majorities can curb polluters’
power; create millions of well-paid, union jobs; enact climate
reparations; and trans-form the economy into a more leisurely and
sustainable one. The fate of our world is at stake.<br>
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<b>Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for
Climate Justice</b>, by Jeremy Williams (Icon Books 2021, 208
pages, $16.95 paperback) <br>
<br>
When we talk about racism, we often mean personal prejudice or
institutional biases. Climate change doesn’t work that way. It is
structurally racist, disproportionately caused by majority White
people in majority White countries, with the damage unleashed
overwhelmingly on people of color. In this eye-opening book, writer
and environmental activist Jeremy Williams takes us on a short,
urgent journey across the globe – from Kenya to India, the USA to
Australia – to understand how White privilege and climate change
overlap. We’ll look at the environmental facts, hear the experiences
of the people most affected on our planet and learn from the
activists leading the change. It’s time for each of us to find our
place in the global struggle for justice.<br>
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<b>Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States: A
Focus on Six Impacts</b>, by Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.
EPA 2021,101 pages, free download available here)<br>
<br>
Climate change affects all Americans – regardless of socioeconomic
status – and many impacts are projected to worsen. But individuals
will not equally experience these changes. The EPA’s new report,
Climate Change and Social Vulnerability in the United States,
improves our understanding of the degree to which four socially
vulnerable populations – defined based on income, educational
attainment, race and ethnicity, and age – may be more exposed to the
highest impacts of climate change. Understanding the comparative
risks to vulnerable populations is critical for developing effective
and equitable strategies for responding to climate change.<br>
<br>
Editor’s note: See also World Meteorological Organization’s Atlas of
Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate, and Water
Extremes, 1970–2019 (UN WMO 2021).<br>
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<b>Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a
Divided World</b>, by Katharine Hayhoe (Atria / Simon &
Schuster 2021, 320 pages, $27.00) <br>
<br>
Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate
change” by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to
navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. In
Saving Us, 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. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and
personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have
astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a
dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in
pushing past doomsday narratives about a planet on fire.<br>
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<b>1001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of Flood, Fire,
Drought, and Displacement from Around the World</b>, by Devi
Lockwood (Tiller Press / Simon & Schuster 2021, 352 pages,
$26.00)<br>
<br>
In 1,001 Voices on Climate Change, Lockwood travels the world, often
by bicycle, collecting first-person accounts of climate change. She
frequently carried with her a simple cardboard sign reading, “Tell
me a story about climate change.” Over five years, covering twenty
countries across six continents, Lockwood heard from thousands. From
Denmark to China, from Turkey to the Peruvian Amazon, she finds that
ordinary people sharing their stories does far more to advance
understanding and empathy than even the most alarming statistics and
studies. This book is a hopeful global listening tour for climate
change, channeling the urgency of those who have already glimpsed
the future to help us avoid the worst.<br>
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<b>Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World,</b> by Lisa
Wells (Farrar, Strau & Giroux 2021, 352 pages, $28.00) <br>
<br>
Like most of us, Lisa Wells has spent years overwhelmed by
increasingly urgent news of climate change on an apocalyptic scale.
She did not need to be convinced of the stakes, but she could not
find practical answers. So she embarked on a pilgrimage, tracking
down and meeting with people who are dedicated to repairing the
earth and seemingly undaunted by the task ahead. Through empathic
portraits, Wells shows that these trailblazers are not so far beyond
the rest of us. They have accepted that we are living through a
global catastrophe. But they are also trying to answer the next
question: How do you make a life at the end of the world? Believers
demands transformation. It will change how you think about your own
actions, about how you can still make an impact, and about how we
might yet reckon with our inheritance.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/09/titles-for-getting-down-to-climate-business-now-that-children-are-back-to-school/">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/09/titles-for-getting-down-to-climate-business-now-that-children-are-back-to-school/</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 9, 2011</b></font><br>
November 9, 2011: The Guardian reports:<br>
<blockquote>"The world is likely to build so many fossil-fuelled
power stations, energy-guzzling factories and inefficient
buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible to
hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of
combating dangerous climate change will be 'lost for ever,'
according to the most thorough analysis yet of world energy
infrastructure."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change">http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/nov/09/fossil-fuel-infrastructure-climate-change</a><br>
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