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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 12, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Climate disasters are not changing minds ]</i><i><br>
</i><b>The strong winds of climate change have failed to move the
opinions of many Americans</b><br>
Most believe global warming is a problem, but the partisan divide is
growing<br>
American views about the threat of global warming over the past few
years remain largely unchanged, a Washington Post-ABC News poll
finds.<br>
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A clear majority of adults say that warming is a serious problem,
but the share — 67 percent — is about the same as it was seven years
ago, when alarms raised by climate scientists were less pronounced
than they are now....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/12/strong-winds-climate-change-have-failed-move-opinions-many-americans/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/12/strong-winds-climate-change-have-failed-move-opinions-many-americans/</a><br>
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<i>[ see the poll ]</i><br>
<b>Nov. 7-10, 2021, Washington Post-ABC News poll</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/nov-7-10-2021-washington-post-abc-news-poll/160508a9-cea2-4433-92c8-6dc51838721e/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2">https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/nov-7-10-2021-washington-post-abc-news-poll/160508a9-cea2-4433-92c8-6dc51838721e/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2</a><br>
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<i>[PBS video - 8+ mins and transcript ]</i><br>
<b>Growing number of young Americans feel climate anxiety. Here’s
what they need to cope</b><br>
Nov 10, 2021 ...<br>
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<blockquote><b>Lise Van Susteren:</b><br>
Kids have told me that they don't want to pursue a secondary
education. What's the point? Kids have said, of course, that they
don't want to have children because they don't want to bring a
child into the chaos.<br>
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And then there are other kids who have just become anxious by
themselves and might take all sorts of responses, maybe eating
disorders, some people, or just a general feeling of apathy....<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/growing-number-of-young-americans-feel-climate-anxiety-heres-what-they-need-to-cope">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/growing-number-of-young-americans-feel-climate-anxiety-heres-what-they-need-to-cope</a><br>
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<i>[ Find their web site - Youth Organization ]</i><br>
<b>YOUTH VS APOCALYPSE</b><br>
YVA About<br>
Youth Vs. Apocalypse is a diverse group of young climate justice
activists working together to lift the voices of youth, in
particular youth of color and working class youth. Their collective
action aims to fight for a livable climate and an equitable,
sustainable, and just world. <br>
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YVA started as a group of Oakland youth, supported by adults in
their community, using direct action and lobbying to fight a
proposed coal terminal in their city, then expanded its focus to
other climate justice issues. After a video with youth from YVA
pushing Senator Feinstein to support the Green New Deal went viral,
YVA students organized press conferences, gave interviews, wrote Op
Eds, and developed a website. By September 2019, YVA organized a
crowd of 30,000, after working as a group to develop an
intersectional set of targets and demands, organizing transportation
for thousands of students from around the Bay Area, and connecting
with dozens of labor and community groups, many of whom took climate
action for the first time. YVA youth have supported climate actions
across the state, taken leadership on local and statewide campaigns,
and continued their presence in national media. YVA was recently
named by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as one of (and the only
youth-led) the YBCA 100. YVA is now a local group of young people
who are impacting national conversations on climate...<br>
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YVA approaches the climate crisis as a symptom of the same system
that has impacted frontline youth and their communities in so many
ways...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/">https://www.youthvsapocalypse.org/</a><br>
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<i>[ COP26 activity ]</i><br>
<b>Calls for Climate Reparations Reach Boiling Point in Glasgow
Talks</b><br>
For decades, vulnerable countries and activist groups have demanded
that rich polluter countries pay for irreparable damage from climate
change. This year, there may be a breakthrough.<br>
By Somini Sengupta - Nov. 11, 2021<br>
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Year after year, calls have steadily grown louder for industrialized
nations responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions already heating
up the planet to own up to the problem — and pay for the damage.<br>
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This year, demands for redress have sharpened as climate justice has
become a rallying cry, not just from countries in the global south,
like Mr. Huq’s, but from a broad range of activists, especially
young people, in the United States and Europe. They have peaked in
Glasgow: As negotiations close this week, a major point of
contention between rich and poor countries is whether the final
summit document will acknowledge the need for a separate pool of
money to address historic harms.<br>
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Known by sterile code words crafted to avoid blame, “loss and
damage,” that fund would be separate from money to help poor
countries adapt to a changing climate, its proponents have argued.
Loss and damage is a matter of historic responsibility and would pay
for irreparable losses, such as the disappearance of national
territory, culture and ecosystems, they said...<br>
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Year after year, calls have steadily grown louder for industrialized
nations responsible for the greenhouse gas emissions already heating
up the planet to own up to the problem — and pay for the damage.<br>
<br>
This year, demands for redress have sharpened as climate justice has
become a rallying cry, not just from countries in the global south,
like Mr. Huq’s, but from a broad range of activists, especially
young people, in the United States and Europe. They have peaked in
Glasgow: As negotiations close this week, a major point of
contention between rich and poor countries is whether the final
summit document will acknowledge the need for a separate pool of
money to address historic harms.<br>
<br>
Known by sterile code words crafted to avoid blame, “loss and
damage,” that fund would be separate from money to help poor
countries adapt to a changing climate, its proponents have argued.
Loss and damage is a matter of historic responsibility and would pay
for irreparable losses, such as the disappearance of national
territory, culture and ecosystems, they said.<br>
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“We have entered what I call the era of loss and damage,” Mr. Huq
said...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/climate/climate-glasgow-cop26-loss-damage.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/climate/climate-glasgow-cop26-loss-damage.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Sure, give it a try. ]</i><br>
<b>Governments and Big Oil were first. The next wave of climate
lawsuits will target banks and boards</b><br>
Sam Meredith - NOV 11 2021<br>
KEY POINTS<br>
-- “I think that the next step is to start also litigating against
financial institutions who make these emissions and fossil fuel
projects possible,” said Roger Cox, lawyer for Milieudefensie, an
environmental campaign group and the Dutch branch of Friends of the
Earth.<br>
-- The Hague District Court on May. 26 ordered the Anglo-Dutch oil
giant to reduce its global carbon emissions by 45% by the end of
2030, compared with 2019 levels.<br>
-- The ruling marked the first time in history that a company had
been legally obliged to align its policies with the Paris Agreement
and reflected a watershed moment in the climate battle.<br>
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A report from a coalition of NGOs, published in March, found the
world’s largest 60 banks had provided $3.8 trillion of financing for
fossil fuel companies since the Paris accord was signed in 2015. The
authors of the report described the findings as “shocking” and
warned runaway funding for the extraction of fossil fuels and
infrastructure threatened the lives of millions worldwide.<br>
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To be sure, burning fossil fuels is the chief driver of the climate
emergency. Climate scientists have repeatedly stressed that the best
weapon to tackle rising global temperatures is to cut greenhouse gas
emissions as quickly as possible.<br>
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Nine de Pater, researcher and campaigner at Milieudefensie, said
Tuesday that the campaign group initially sought to persuade Shell
to take meaningful climate action with protests and direct talks
with both the company and politicians....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/11/cop26-climate-campaigners-to-target-banks-after-shell-court-ruling.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/11/cop26-climate-campaigners-to-target-banks-after-shell-court-ruling.html</a>
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<i>[ COP26 -twitter video - emotional ] <br>
</i><b>In emotional video at U.N. climate summit, Ireland’s former
president slams Saudi Arabia and world leaders</b><i><br>
</i>An emotional Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland,
called out Saudi Arabia at a United Nations climate forum this week
for "playing dirty games” in allegedly taking out crucial language
from the text that will emerge from the meetings.<br>
<br>
Complete coverage from the COP26 U.N. climate summit<br>
Speaking on the sidelines of the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland,
Robinson’s voice wavered as she described her disappointment at a
perceived lack of urgency among world leaders to slow the rise in
the Earth’s temperature, even as the often destructive impact of
climate change becomes increasingly apparent. It is rare for
international leaders, even when retired, to criticize their
counterparts so directly.<br>
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“We are literally talking about having a safe future … You can’t
negotiate with science. You can’t talk about a glass being half
full. We have to get it down. We have to be on track for 1.5
[degrees of global warming],” she told Britain’s Sky News. (The
COP21 Paris agreement included language that suggested countries
should aim to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees
Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.)<i><br>
</i><i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/11/mary-robinson-ireland-emotional-saudi-arabia/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/11/mary-robinson-ireland-emotional-saudi-arabia/</a><br>
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<i>[ hear her simple answer - twitter video 3 mins]</i><br>
<b>An emotional Mary Robinson, Chair of @TheElders and former
President of Ireland slams leaders for not being in crisis mode
and blames Saudi Arabia for blocking </b><br>
@skynews<br>
#COP26 Today will be very important.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1458425470584860678">https://twitter.com/i/status/1458425470584860678</a><br>
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<i>[ Why COP26 allows military to keep secret their emissions -
video explains ]</i><br>
<b>Key polluter exempt from CO2 targets - Militaries lag in green
technologies | DW News</b><br>
Nov 11, 2021<br>
DW News<br>
Despite the desperation to reduce global warming by cutting carbon
emissions, one huge polluter is completely exempt from joining that
effort. But maybe, not for long. DW's Teri Schultz takes a look at
who’s getting off the hook. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFv7imUcifE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFv7imUcifE</a><br>
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<i>[ TheGuardian explains ]</i><br>
<b>World’s militaries avoiding scrutiny over emissions, scientists
say</b><br>
Countries do not have to include armed forces’ emissions in their
targets despite estimates sector creates 6% of greenhouse gases<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/11/worlds-militaries-avoiding-scrutiny-over-emissions">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/11/worlds-militaries-avoiding-scrutiny-over-emissions</a><br>
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<i>[ Military emissions tracking ]</i><br>
<b>Mind The Military Emissions Gap</b><br>
11.11.21 - Glasgow, Scotland - Rick Wayman<br>
For the past nine days at COP26, governments have been releasing
information about what they will do – or will not do, as the case
may be – to meet the targets of the Paris Climate Accord.<br>
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According to a new website published this week,
militaryemissions.org, one significant piece of the puzzle that
continues to be hidden relates to many governments refusing to
publish the carbon emissions caused by their military activities...<br>
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The organizers of this new project are calling for three commitments
from governments around the world:<br>
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Developed industrialised countries to undertake mandatory and
independently verified reporting of the greenhouse gas emissions of
their militaries, making the information transparent, accessible and
distinct from emissions from other parts of the economy;<br>
Developing countries should begin annual voluntary reporting of
their military’s emissions;<br>
All governments to set clear targets for militaries to conserve
energy, reduce reliance on fossil fuels and switch to
environmentally responsible renewable energy, making genuine cuts to
emissions and not relying on offsets.<br>
Compliance with these three requests will certainly not solve the
global climate crisis. But citizens deserve to understand the full
scope of how their militaries are contributing to the climate
crisis. The organizers of Military Emissions Gap caution against
military-grade greenwashing, calling for a specific list of
requirements so that their reporting is credible and meaningful in
the overall movement for massive emissions reduction.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pressenza.com/2021/11/mind-the-military-emissions-gap/">https://www.pressenza.com/2021/11/mind-the-military-emissions-gap/</a><br>
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<i>[ Look up The Military Emissions Gap for yourself ]</i><br>
<b>View your government’s military emissions data</b><br>
Militaries are huge energy users whose greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions are making a significant contribution to the climate
crisis.<br>
Military GHG emissions data reported by Parties to the UNFCCC has
been examined to gauge its status, transparency and consistency.<br>
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Under guidelines published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), military fuel use should be reported under IPCC
category 1.A.5 (Other, not elsewhere specified). This category
includes all mobile fuel consumption, such as ships, aircraft and
road vehicles. It also includes all stationary fuel consumption,
such as heating buildings on military bases...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://militaryemissions.org/">https://militaryemissions.org/</a><br>
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<i>[ Details, how it is done ]</i><br>
<b>How the world’s militaries hide their huge carbon emissions</b><br>
November 9, 2021...<br>
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Which emissions should militaries count? Should such accounting
exercises focus exclusively on fuel use and energy consumption? Or
should the operation of the massive, global supply chains – like
those run by the US government’s Defense Logistics Agency – also be
included? Emissions from supply chains can be 5.5 times higher than
an organisation’s own operational emissions.<br>
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And what about overseas operations, whether overt or covert, or the
wider climatic costs of war and peace, such as landscape
degradation, deforestation or rebuilding?<br>
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Western governments, including institutions like NATO, are busy
positioning themselves as leaders on the security implications of
the climate crisis. Their credibility on climate security, and on
climate action more broadly, will be contingent on their willingness
to first face up to some difficult truths about their own
contribution to climate change. It will also require far more
openness and transparency. Both will be vital for delivering real
change, rather than more weapons-grade greenwash...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/how-the-worlds-militaries-hide-their-huge-carbon-emissions-171466">https://theconversation.com/how-the-worlds-militaries-hide-their-huge-carbon-emissions-171466</a><br>
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<i>[ misinformation propagandist knows what he is doing ]</i><br>
<b>As the window for meaningful climate action closes, climate
change skeptic Bjorn Lomborg tells right-wing media everything’s
going to be all right</b><br>
WRITTEN BY EVLONDO COOPER<br>
RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM TED MACDONALD<br>
11/10/21<br>
Around the early days of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change
Conference (COP26) on November 1, climate change contrarian Bjorn
Lomborg was near ubiquitous in right-wing media. He appeared on Fox
News and Fox Business a combined seven times, published an opinion
piece in the New York Post, and wrote a series of op-eds in the Wall
Street Journal since September. Washington Post columnist Marc
Thiessen even published an opinion piece on November 2 that drew
heavily on Lomborg’s writings and statements. <br>
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This campaign fits a familiar pattern of right-wing and even
mainstream news outlets promoting Lomborg to downplay the
seriousness of climate change during a time when the world is
focused on the need for climate action. Lomborg’s true value for the
polluter industry and its fellow travelers in right-wing media is
that he provides a thin veneer of seriousness and sincerity about
climate change on one hand, while advocating climate inaction on the
other. This cynical stance mirrors that taken by the fossil fuel
industry, which has shifted tactics away from outright denial toward
subtler forms of climate delay...<br>
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With this backing, Lomborg became a media darling, given ample space
in both mainstream and right-wing news outlets to promote his brand
of climate skepticism. For example, to promote the release of his
book last July, Lomborg was able to publish op-eds in the New York
Post and The Wall Street Journal, while getting favorable profiles
in The Epoch Times and Climate Depot. He was also interviewed by
fellow climate misinformer Dennis Prager. No climate-denier press
run would be complete without stops on Fox. During this same period,
Lomborg appeared on Fox Business’ Varney & Co. and Making Money
with Charles Payne.<br>
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When he isn’t promoting a book, Lomborg often receives airtime and
print coverage to downplay the seriousness of climate change when an
important climate story makes headlines. At the beginning of the
year, after President Joe Biden announced the United States’ reentry
into the Paris climate accord, Lomborg was invited on Fox &
Friends and asserted that rejoining the Paris agreement would “cost
a fortune and cut almost nothing, so basically achieve almost
nothing to fix climate change,” before downplaying both the severity
of future climate impacts and the record-breaking 2020 hurricane
season. He appeared on Fox News again in February to falsely blame
the Texas blackouts on renewable energy. <br>
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More recently, Lomborg published an op-ed in the New York Post in
August downplaying the urgency of the United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report
and accused the media of “hyperventilating” about its finding that
climate change is a “code red for humanity.” Ahead of COP26, Lomborg
once again made the rounds on Fox News and Fox Business to claim
climate change isn’t driving wildfires, even as new research finds a
direct connection, and to downplay the need for global climate
action.<br>
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Why Lomborg’s climate skepticism is so valuable to the polluter
industry and its right-wing media allies<br>
Even though Lomborg is “spectacularly wrong” about nearly
everything, he’s the perfect poster child for an industry that
knowingly drove climate change, engaged in a campaign to hide this
fact, and is currently funding sophisticated greenwashing campaigns
to fool the public about its meager efforts to mitigate a crisis it
is primarily responsible for.<br>
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His faux-serious dismissal of the climate crisis allows companies
such as News Corp. and Fox News Media, for example, to pretend to be
serious about climate change, via a net-zero campaign and weather
app, while their core news media property continues coverage that
denies or mocks the reality of climate change. As long as climate
deniers and skeptics such as Lomborg are given space to promote soft
climate denial and climate inaction, one should not take
conservative news outlets’ public statements about their supposed
commitment to cover climate change seriously. <br>
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Lomborg’s siren song would lull us into a sense of complacency --
especially during pivotal moments such as COP26, which represents
one of the few remaining chances to advance a framework that could
stave off the worst climate consequences. And that's precisely why
the polluter lobby and its right-wing media allies are singing his
tune.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/window-meaningful-climate-action-closes-climate-change-skeptic-bjorn-lomborg-tells-right#comments">https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/window-meaningful-climate-action-closes-climate-change-skeptic-bjorn-lomborg-tells-right#comments</a>
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[Famous database of dis-informers is at DeSmogBlog ]<br>
<b>Bjørn Lomborg</b><br>
<blockquote>Credentials<br>
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
(1994).1<br>
M.A., political science (1991).-<br>
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Lomborg is best known as the author of The Skeptical
Environmentalist and Cool It, two books that downplay the risks of
global warming. Lomborg does not have a background in climate
science and has published no peer-reviewed articles in journals
devoted to climate change research. He has, however, authored policy
studies arguing against climate change prevention measures. He wrote
a similar article in the peer-reviewed journal Technological
Forecasting and Social Change where he claimed, “Climate policies
also have costs that often vastly outweigh their climate
benefits.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/">https://www.desmog.com/bjorn-lomborg/</a><br>
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<i>[ visualize the solution]</i><br>
<b>Stocks and Flows [The Climate Leader]</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlYGDBGcRA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlYGDBGcRA</a>
<p>see also
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climateinteractive.org/ci-topics/systems-thinking/the-climate-leader/">https://www.climateinteractive.org/ci-topics/systems-thinking/the-climate-leader/</a><br>
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<i>[ What did we know back then? - A classic 1977 video lecture on
systems dynamics - Dartmouth ]</i><br>
<b>A Philosophical Look at System Dynamics</b><br>
Aug 11, 2017<br>
Donella Meadows<br>
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Spring of 1977. In this
lecture, Donella Meadows takes on a more philosophical concept. How
can we bring ourselves to be aware of the assumptions we make as
systems thinkers? She asserts that models are a set of assumptions.
Donella Meadows defines some of these system dynamics assumptions
(such as causal relationships and feedback loops) in this video.<br>
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Youtube videos covered by CCBY license and<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_lOoomRTA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL_lOoomRTA</a><br>
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<i>[ vs 2014 MIT Systems Dynamics video starts about 2:45]</i><br>
<b>Introduction to System Dynamics: Overview</b><br>
Jul 28, 2014<br>
MIT OpenCourseWare<br>
MIT 15.871 Introduction to System Dynamics, Fall 2013<br>
View the complete course: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/15-871F13">http://ocw.mit.edu/15-871F13</a><br>
Instructor: John Sterman<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnTwZVviXyY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnTwZVviXyY</a><br>
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<i>[from 2015 new understanding of climate systems - with a simple
video animation ]</i><br>
<b>Introduction to System Dynamics: Overview</b><br>
Jul 28, 2014<br>
MIT OpenCourseWare<br>
MIT 15.871 Introduction to System Dynamics, Fall 2013<br>
View the complete course: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ocw.mit.edu/15-871F13">http://ocw.mit.edu/15-871F13</a><br>
Instructor: John Sterman<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlYGDBGcRA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRlYGDBGcRA</a><br>
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<i>[ Text - Sometimes we need cute ]</i><br>
<b>The Cutest Way to Fight Climate Change? Send in the Otters</b><br>
Saving California's adorable (and very hungry) sea otters helps
control other species, leading to the growth of more
carbon-sequestering vegetation...<br>
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So since 2002, the aquarium has been on a mission to bring back the
otters with the cutest adoption program in the world. Sea otter moms
in captivity take in orphaned pups—often left parentless thanks to
great white sharks, which bite but don’t actually eat otters, since
sharks prefer blubber to fur. The new moms teach the pups how to do
sea otter things—like clean themselves, float on their backs, and
use rocks to crack open sea urchins on their bellies. “We're not
hand-feeding them and imprinting them on humans—they're learning how
to be an otter from an otter,” says Fujii. “Some of these animals
come in when they're only a day old. They don't have any notion of
what home used to be.” <br>
<br>
When the adoptees are ready, Fujii’s team sets them loose in the
coastal habitats of California. Each is tagged and monitored closely
for the first two weeks to make sure they’re getting along fine.
(Along with observational surveys in Monterey Bay, tagging helps
scientists conduct censuses of the otter population.) If not,
they’re brought back in and returned to otter school. But the team
found that the 37 adopted otters released between 2002 and 2016 have
survived just as well as if they’d grown up fully in the wild. The
reintroduced otters go on to reproduce and make more otters. Thanks
in part to this first-of-its-kind program, the sea otter population
along the California coast has swelled to 3,000...<br>
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Healthy ecosystems also support sustainable fisheries, providing
livelihoods for community members. And the sea otters in Monterey
have the added benefit of being very cute, which brings in tourists
and their money. These kinds of knock-on benefits are why
conservationists are increasingly campaigning for blue
carbon-related nature-based solutions: restoring ecosystems to fight
climate change. Everyone wins—the locals, the climate, the
ecosystem. Well, maybe not the sea urchins and crabs. But they won’t
be missed.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-cutest-way-to-fight-climate-change-send-in-the-otters/">https://www.wired.com/story/the-cutest-way-to-fight-climate-change-send-in-the-otters/</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 12, 2012</b></font><br>
November 12, 2012: Powerful conservative activist Grover Norquist is
quoted in the National Journal as saying that a federal
revenue-neutral carbon tax would not violate the Republican Party's
"no new taxes" position. After being viciously criticized by
representatives from Koch Industries, Norquist abruptly flip-flops.<br>
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