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<i>[ Military spending is missing from climate data... Video and
transcript ]</i><br>
<b>War Helps Fuel the Climate Crisis as U.S. Military Carbon
Emissions Exceed 140+ Nations</b><br>
NOVEMBER 09, 2021<br>
Transcript<br>
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AMY GOODMAN: Speakers at last week’s large Fridays for Future rally
in Glasgow also called out the U.S. military’s role in the climate
emergency.<br>
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<b>AYISHA SIDDIQA</b>: My name is Ayisha Siddiqa. I come from
northern region of Pakistan. … The U.S. Department of Defense has a
larger annual carbon footprint than most countries on Earth, and it
also is the single largest polluter on Earth. Its military presence
in my region has cost the United States over $8 trillion since 1976.
It has contributed to the destruction of environment in Afghanistan,
Iraq, Iran, the greater Persian Gulf and Pakistan. Not only have
Western-induced wars led to spikes in the carbon emissions, they
have led to use of depleted uranium, and they have caused poisoning
of air and water and have led to birth defects, cancer and suffering
of thousands of people.<br>
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<b>AMY GOODMAN: </b>The Costs of War project estimates the U.S.
military produced around 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon emissions
between 2001 and 2017, with nearly a third coming from U.S. wars
overseas, including in Afghanistan and Iraq. By one account, the
U.S. military is a larger polluter than 140 countries combined,
including numerous industrialized nations, such as Sweden, Denmark
and Portugal.<br>
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However, military carbon emissions have largely been exempted from
international climate treaties dating back to the 1997 Kyoto
Protocol, thanks to lobbying from the United States. At the time, a
group of neoconservatives, including future vice president and
then-Halliburton CEO Dick Cheney, argued in favor exempting all
military emissions...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/9/cop26_military_emissions_and_climate_change">https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/9/cop26_military_emissions_and_climate_change</a><br>
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<p><i>[ Future ponderings and predictions - book title "Move" -
video talk - recorded last night ]<br>
</i><b>Why Mobility is Destiny | Parag Khanna</b><br>
Nov 9, 2021<br>
Long Now Foundation<br>
The map of humanity isn’t settled -- not now, not ever.<br>
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In the 60,000 years since people began spreading across the
continents, a recurring feature of human civilization has been
mobility—the ever-constant search for resources, stability and
opportunity. Driven by global events from conflicts, famine,
repression and changing climates - to opportunities for trade,
social advancement and freedom of thought - humans have relocated
around the globe for millennia.<br>
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But what happens when billions of people are on the move? As
climate change tips toward full-blown crisis, economies collapse,
governments destabilize, and technology disrupts, we’re entering a
new age of mass migrations. Futurist Parag Khanna uncovers the
deep trends that are shaping the most likely scenarios for our
future and asks what map of human geography will emerge.<br>
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"Why Mobility is Destiny" was given on October 20, 02021 as part
of Long Now's Seminar series. The series was started in 02003 to
build a compelling body of ideas about long-term thinking from
some of the world's leading thinkers. The Seminars take place in
San Francisco and are curated and hosted by Stewart Brand. To
follow the talks, you can:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx57E9F00UA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx57E9F00UA</a><i><br>
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[ Greenpeace activists sail in ]<br>
<b>We are in Glasgow to demand justice for those most affected by
the climate crisis...</b><br>
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Today there are five times more extreme weather events – devastating
storms, floods, droughts, water scarcity and heatwaves – than 50
years ago, and they disproportionately affect those of us living in
the most vulnerable areas, especially in the global south. Last
year, climate disasters displaced more people from our communities
than war and violent conflict, again mostly from the global south.<br>
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Yet we are not the ones that have caused this crisis.<br>
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Since 1965, one-third of global emissions, driven by the relentless
exploitation of fossil fuels, have been caused by just 20 companies.
Rich nations are responsible for 92% of global emissions, with the
US and countries in Europe causing almost two-thirds of those. We’re
just the ones forced to live with, or sadly in many cases die
because of, its impacts. Yet our voices continue to be sidelined.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/02/glasgow-justice-climate-crisis-rainbow-warrior-cop26-global-south">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/02/glasgow-justice-climate-crisis-rainbow-warrior-cop26-global-south</a><br>
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<i>[ bogus data, heated air, warming waters, rising distrust ] </i><br>
<b>Report exposes the shaky data undermining the world’s progress on
climate change</b><br>
As world leaders gather for COP26, an investigation from the
Washington Post finds countries are seriously underreporting their
emissions.<br>
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“The plan to save the world from the worst of climate change is
built on data,” the report, which assessed the emissions numbers
that 196 countries reported to the U.N. against independent
scientific global emissions assessments, said. “But the data the
world is relying on is inaccurate.” ...<br>
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“I do think that civil society, nongovernmental organizations, like
the Washington Post itself with this report — that’s going to be a
powerful source of accountability,” Carlarne said. “Reputational
harm is one of the biggest tools that can be used against these big
state actors in this context.” <br>
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Schmidt, who is attending COP26 this week, told Grist that the
Washington Post’s report is already having an impact on negotiations
in Scotland. “I think it’s put increased pressure on what the actual
impact of these policies are,” he said. “We’ve got a growing number
of pledges and promises that put us within a closer reach of 1.5
degrees Celsius, but the reality is not yet delivering that.” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/cop26/report-exposes-the-shaky-data-undermining-the-worlds-progress-on-climate-change/">https://grist.org/cop26/report-exposes-the-shaky-data-undermining-the-worlds-progress-on-climate-change/</a>
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<i>[ Capture the eye at COP26 ]</i><br>
<b>Images of Tuvalu minister giving COP26 statement in the ocean go
viral on social media</b><br>
Foreign Minister Simon Kofe addressed cameras while knee-deep in the
ocean to highlight the sea level rises affecting his nation, drawing
plenty of attention and admiration on social media.<br>
With hundreds of speakers on the running order, it's going to take a
lot to make your message stand out at the United Nations' COP26
climate summit.<br>
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So the Pacific nation of Tuvalu took an innovative approach this
week to express the dangers it faces due to the effects of the
climate crisis - and it's gone viral on social media.<br>
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In a pre-recorded statement shot by public broadcaster TVBC, Foreign
Minister Simon Kofe addressed cameras while knee-deep in the ocean
to highlight the sea level rises affecting Pacific nations such as
his...<br>
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The video will be played on Tuesday in Glasgow as part of the
Pacific Climate Change Mobility and Human Security side event at
COP26.<br>
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href="https://www.cnet.com/news/5-facts-that-debunk-climate-change-misinformation/">https://www.cnet.com/news/5-facts-that-debunk-climate-change-misinformation/</a><i><br>
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<i>[ action and emotions ]</i><br>
<b>‘I get scared’: the young activists sounding the alarm from
climate tipping points</b><br>
From Philippines to Greenland, protecting dying coral reefs to
melting ice sheets, young people are fighting for their futures<br>
Mélissa Godin 7 Nov 2021<br>
For millions of young people around the world, climate breakdown is
something they have known their entire lives. Many live in regions
that are particularly at risk of being affected by tipping points -
parts of the Earth’s system where small changes, such as increased
temperatures, could lead to accelerated and irreversible impacts.<br>
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A landmark IPCC report earlier this year warned that tipping points
such as melting ice sheets or Amazon forest loss could soon be
triggered, with the potential to bring catastrophic change to
vulnerable areas.<br>
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But rather than be paralysed by fear, these young activists are
taking action. From protecting coral reefs to organising protests,
they are doing what they can to try to stop the tipping points from
being passed.<br>
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“They’re doing it right,” says Prof Tim Lenton, a leading expert on
climate tipping points from the University of Exeter. “[They are]
alerting the rest of the world from its slumber to tackle climate
change and to transform society.”...<br>
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Roseline Mansaray, 26, Freetown, Sierra Leone<br>
Roseline Mansaray has not slept in weeks. It is the rainy season in
Freetown, Sierra Leone and she is scared. “I am in panic, praying
for my country not to experience any more destructive flooding this
year,” she says...<br>
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“Some models say it will get wetter, others say it will get drier,”
says Prof Lenton. “But either way would be problematic.”<br>
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Already, Mansaray has watched increased rainfall during monsoon
season devastate her community. She used to live in Kroo Bay, an
informal housing settlement where floods destroyed homes in her
community, injured her neighbours, contaminated drinking water and
led to the spread of waterborne diseases including cholera,
diarrhoea and typhoid.<br>
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Then on 14 August 2017, Mansaray witnessed a hillside collapse after
heavy rains that killed an estimated 1,000 people and displaced
hundreds of families who were moved into temporary camps.<br>
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Then on 14 August 2017, Mansaray witnessed a hillside collapse after
heavy rains that killed an estimated 1,000 people and displaced
hundreds of families who were moved into temporary camps.<br>
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Mansaray is doing her part to address the climate crisis: she is one
of the main organisers for Friday for Futures in Sierra Leone,
planning local street protests as well as helping organise some
internationally. For her, activism is less a choice than a matter of
survival.<br>
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“I am no stranger to climate change,” she says. “I have tasted its
bitterness.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/young-activists-climate-tipping-points-coral-reefs-ice-sheets">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/07/young-activists-climate-tipping-points-coral-reefs-ice-sheets</a>
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<i>[ Blurb -- author rode bicycle gathering personal stories ]</i><br>
<i> </i><b>1,001 Voices on Climate Change: Everyday Stories of
Flood, Fire, Drought, and Displacement from Around the World </b>(Hardcover)<br>
Paperback (June 21st, 2022): $16.00<br>
Description<br>
Join journalist Devi Lockwood as she bikes around the world
collecting personal stories about how flood, fire, drought, and
rising seas are changing communities.<br>
<br>
It’s official: 2020 will be remembered as the year when apocalyptic
climate predictions finally came true. Catastrophic wildfires,
relentless hurricanes, melting permafrost, and coastal flooding have
given us a taste of what some communities have already been living
with for far too long. Yet we don’t often hear the voices of the
people most affected. Journalist Devi Lockwood set out to change
that.<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.”<br>
<br>
Over five years, covering twenty countries across six continents,
Lockwood hears from indigenous elders and youth in Fiji and Tuvalu
about drought and disappearing coastlines, attends the UN climate
conference in Morocco, and bikes the length of New Zealand and
Australia, interviewing the people she meets about retreating
glaciers, contaminated rivers, and wildfires. She rides through
Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to listen to marionette puppeteers and
novice Buddhist monks.<br>
<br>
From Denmark and Sweden to China, Turkey, the Canadian Arctic, and
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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"This is a great adventure story, but also a completely necessary
book—the climate crisis has reached the point where people around
the world feel it, understand it, and talk about it in ways that
everyone needs to hear."—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature<br>
<br>
"A hybrid of travel literature and oral history, Lockwood somehow
shrinks the ungraspably vast problem of climate change down to a
human scale, then, patiently, carefully, combines those individual
voices into a planetary chorus. A monumental achievement."—Robert
Moor, bestselling author of On Trails: An Exploration<br>
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"Devi Lockwood's luminous book, 1,001 Voices on Climate Change, is a
testament to the power of listening, and an amazing chance to let
yourself hear the symphony of grief and of courage that plays
through lives of people around the world, all trying to find their
way on a relentlessly changing planet." —Deborah Blum,
Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Poison Squad and The Poisoner's
Handbook <br>
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" "Tell me a story." Is there a more fundamentally human sentence
than that? Devi Lockwood circles the globe, seeking people’s
experiences with water and climate change, from cultural myths, to
rising seas’ impacts on daily life, to one woman’s pain, tuned to
the voices of the trees. Lockwood seeks and you, dear reader, shall
find." —Erica Gies, environmental journalist, science journalist,
and author of the upcoming book Water Always Wins: Going with the
Flow to Thrive in an Age of Droughts, Floods, and Climate Change.<br>
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“In a world that needs more listening and more storytelling, Devi
Lockwood covers the waterfront. This is an empathetic and beautiful
book.” —Richard Louv, author of The Nature Principle and Our Wild
Calling<br>
<br>
“In the spirit of Arabian Nights, Lockwood summons the power of
storytelling to cast a spell of empathy and understanding regarding
our world’s greatest existential threat. 1,001 Voices on Climate
Change takes readers on a global cycling journey, translating
science into stories, to chronicle the human toll of the climate
crisis.” —Mona Hanna-Attisha, Flint pediatrician and author of What
the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an
American City<br>
<br>
"This dazzling and significant collection captures the voices of
people around the world, from Tuvalu to Thailand, from Australia to
Kazakhstan, who are experiencing firsthand the life-altering effects
of climate change. Lockwood’s approach to recounting their stories
is compassionate and impassioned, focused as much on the tiny
details of life as the larger planetary changes afoot in her
interviewees’ own backyards. 1001 Voices on Climate Change is
beautiful and necessary reading." —Amy Brady, executive director of
Orion...<br>
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ISBN: 9781982146719<br>
ISBN-10: 1982146710<br>
Publisher: Tiller Press<br>
Publication Date: August 24th, 2021<br>
Pages: 352<br>
Language: English<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<i>[ Pretend we do data processing - and w</i><i>e want to know the
future, explain models - 40 min video lesson ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change 3 - future scenarios</b><br>
Nov 9, 2020<br>
HortiBonn<br>
This video was produced for the module ‘Tree phenology analysis with
R’, which is offered to MSc students in agricultural programs at the
University of Bonn in Germany. The materials are also accessible to
anyone not taking this class. The module revolves around functions
of the ‘chillR’ package for R, with the ambition that students of
this course will be able to conduct analyses of climate change
impacts on deciduous trees during their dormancy season.<br>
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This specific video is one of four contributions on climate change.
This is video 3, which discusses future climate scenarios.<br>
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<i>[ You know all this already anyway - text and audio ]</i><br>
<b>5 facts that debunk climate change misinformation</b><br>
From natural disasters to high carbon dioxide levels, climate change
is here.<br>
Oscar Gonzalez <br>
Nov. 8, 2021 ...<br>
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<blockquote><b>Fact: Climate change is real, and the evidence is
unequivocal ...</b><br>
<b>Fact: Weather and climate are separate entities...</b><br>
<b>Fact: Solar and wind energy are now cheaper to produce than
fossil fuel energy ...</b><br>
<b>Fact: Increased levels of carbon dioxide are bad for the
planet...</b><br>
<b>Fact: There are more extreme weather events happening now...</b><br>
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Warmer air also holds more water vapor resulting in more rain
causing increased flooding, Perron said. The warmer air with more
water also leads to surfaces becoming drier, which leads to more
wildfires. <br>
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href="https://www.cnet.com/news/5-facts-that-debunk-climate-change-misinformation/">https://www.cnet.com/news/5-facts-that-debunk-climate-change-misinformation/</a><br>
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<i>[ now is time to notice details ]</i><br>
<b>The 10 Weirdest Ways Climate Change Is Screwing With Our World</b><br>
Darker Earth? Bigger crabs? Shifting poles? Yup, they're all tied to
climate change.<br>
Brian Kahn - Nov 8, 2021<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://gizmodo.com/the-10-strangest-climate-change-impacts-1847875174">https://gizmodo.com/the-10-strangest-climate-change-impacts-1847875174</a><br>
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<i>[ Learning about the Electric Grid - a video lesson from John
Oliver ]</i><br>
<b>The Power Grid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)</b><br>
Nov 7, 2021<br>
LastWeekTonight<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBpiXcyB7wU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBpiXcyB7wU</a><br>
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<i>[ finally ]</i><br>
<b>Canadian doctor says patient is suffering from 'climate change'</b><br>
by JULIAN BARON | The National Desk - November 8th 2021<br>
WASHINGTON (TND) — Dr. Kyle Merritt, a Canadian emergency room
doctor, recently diagnosed a patient as suffering from "climate
change" after she came to the hospital experiencing breathing
problems, according to an interview with the Times Colonist.<br>
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The patient reportedly has a history of health problems, including
diabetes and heart failure. Merritt attributes the patient's
breathing problems to air pollution created by an active wildfire
season, which he further connects to climate change.<br>
<br>
"If we're not looking at the underlying cause, and we're just
treating the symptoms, we're just gonna keep falling further and
further behind," Merritt, who works in a small British Columbia
town, told the Times Colonist.<br>
In late June, the region experienced an extreme heatwave that
coincided with a dramatic increase in heat-related deaths, according
to the British Columbia Coroners Service, which has not attributed
the spike to climate change.<br>
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All of her health problems have all been worsened. And she's really
struggling to stay hydrated," Dr. Merritt said of the patient.<br>
The U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI) categorizes air quality depending
on how significantly it affects the public, including a category
titled "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups."<br>
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"When air quality is in this range, people who are in sensitive
groups, whether the increased risk is due to medical conditions,
exposure conditions, or innate susceptibility, may experience health
effects when engaged in outdoor activities. However, exposures to
ambient concentrations in this range are not likely to result in
effects in the general population," according to the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://local12.com/news/nation-world/canadian-doctor-says-patient-is-suffering-from-climate-change">https://local12.com/news/nation-world/canadian-doctor-says-patient-is-suffering-from-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 10, 2014</b></font><br>
The Boston Globe reports:<br>
"Professors at Boston-area colleges are adding their voices to a
student-led movement that is pressing higher education institutions
to shed investments in fossil fuel companies.<br>
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"The growing faculty involvement has not only galvanized the effort
with increased support but also added an important and unique
perspective, activists say."<br>
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href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/10/fuel-divestment-movement-grows-boston-campuses/uOKCKYo71b6QhMVaKmQQNK/story.html">http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/11/10/fuel-divestment-movement-grows-boston-campuses/uOKCKYo71b6QhMVaKmQQNK/story.html</a><br>
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