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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 17, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Asia action ]</i><br>
<b>Protesters disrupt the world’s largest coal port: ‘This is us
responding to the climate crisis’</b><br>
By Rachel Pannett<br>
Nov 17. 2021<br>
Two young women scaled a huge coal handling machine shortly before
dawn on Wednesday, disrupting operations at the world’s largest coal
port for several hours to protest what they say is Australia’s lack
of action on climate change.<br>
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Complete coverage from the COP26 U.N. climate summit<br>
“My name is Hannah, and I am here abseiled off the world’s largest
coal port,” 21-year-old Hannah Doole declared on a live-streamed
video as she hovered high over massive piles of coal bound for
export. “I’m here with my friend Zianna, and we’re stopping this
coal terminal from loading all coal into ships and stopping all coal
trains.”<br>
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Since officials met in Glasgow, Scotland, earlier this month to plot
the planet’s path away from fossil fuels, Australia, the world’s
second-biggest coal exporter, has showed little sign of changing
course. Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday said the coal
industry will be operating in the country for “decades to come.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/17/coal-protesters-shut-down-australia-port-abseil/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/17/coal-protesters-shut-down-australia-port-abseil/</a>
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<i>[ cough, cough coal ]</i><br>
<b>India temporarily shuts five coal-fired power plants around New
Delhi</b><br>
-- India has temporarily shut down five coal-fired power plants
around the capital New Delhi as part of its drive to combat air
pollution, according to an order from the federal environment
ministry panel on air pollution.<br>
-- The Commission for Air Quality Management has also banned trucks
carrying non-essential goods and stopped construction in Delhi and
its neighboring cities.<br>
-- Pollution levels surged to “severe” levels this month, with the
Air Quality Index in Delhi going as high as 499 on a scale of 500,
indicating healthy people were also at risk.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/india-temporarily-shuts-five-coal-fired-power-plants-around-new-delhi.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/india-temporarily-shuts-five-coal-fired-power-plants-around-new-delhi.html</a><br>
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<i>[ News Misdirection Malfeasance -- audio, transcript and book
excerpt ]</i><br>
<b>'Miseducation': Journalist Katie Worth on climate education and
corporate influences</b><br>
November 16, 2021 - 47min<br>
Jonathan Chang and Meghna Chakrabarti <br>
What are kids learning about climate change in schools?<br>
<br>
Journalist Katie Worth pored over curriculum and visited classrooms
across the country and found that students' climate education was
often being hindered by corporate and political influences.<br>
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"We would like to think that schools are kind of some ideologically
neutral place where kids just learn the facts about the world,"
Worth says. "And that's just not true."<br>
<br>
Today, On Point: Corporate influence and climate change, in the
classroom.<br>
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Guests<br>
Katie Worth, reporter covering science, politics and their
intersections. Author of "Miseducation: How Climate Change is Taught
in America." (@katieworth)<br>
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Kristen Del Real, science teacher at Chico Junior High School in
Chico, California.<br>
Deb Morrison, learning scientist working in areas of climate and
anti-oppression design based research at the University of
Washington. (@educatordeb)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/11/16/miseducation-journalist-katie-worth-on-the-corporate-influences-on-climate-education">https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2021/11/16/miseducation-journalist-katie-worth-on-the-corporate-influences-on-climate-education</a><br>
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<i>[ Classic report from 2017 ]</i><br>
<b>Pipeline to the classroom: how big oil promotes fossil fuels to
America's children</b><br>
Documents show how tightly woven group of pro-industry organizations
target impressionable schoolchildren and teachers desperate for
resources<br>
by Jie Jenny Zou 15 June, 2007<br>
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Jennifer Merritt’s first graders at Jefferson elementary school in
Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Sitting cross-legged on the
floor, the students gathered for story time with two special guests,
Republican lawmakers Tom Gann and Marty Quinn.<br>
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Dressed in suits, the two men read aloud from “Petro Pete’s Big Bad
Dream,” a parable in which a Bob the Builder-lookalike awakens to
find his toothbrush, hard hat and even the tires on his bike
missing.<br>
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Abandoned by the school bus, Pete walks to Petroville elementary in
his pajamas.<br>
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“It sounds like you’re missing all of your petroleum by-products
today!” Pete’s teacher, Mrs Rigwell, exclaims, extolling oil’s
benefits to Pete and fellow students like Sammy Shale. Before long,
Pete decides that “having no petroleum is like a nightmare!”<br>
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The tale is the latest in an illustrated series by the Oklahoma
Energy Resources Board, a state agency funded by oil and gas
producers. The board has spent upwards of $40m over the past two
decades on providing education with a pro-industry bent, including
hundreds of pages of curriculums, a speaker series and an
after-school program – all at no cost to educators of children from
kindergarten to high school...<br>
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A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “frack” Twinkies
using straws to pump for cream to emulate shale drilling. A national
program sponsored by companies including BP and Shell claims it’s
too soon to tell if the earth is heating up, but “a little warming
might be a good thing”.<br>
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Decades of documents reviewed by the Center for Public Integrity
reveal a tightly woven network of organizations that works in
concert with the oil and gas industry to paint a rosy picture of
fossil fuels in America’s classrooms. Led by advertising and
public-relations strategists, the groups have long plied the tools
of their trade on impressionable children and teachers desperate for
resources...<br>
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Proponents of programs like the one in Oklahoma say they help the
oil and gas industry replenish its aging workforce by stirring early
interest in science, technology, engineering and math. But some
experts question the educational value and ethics of lessons touting
an industry that plays a central role in climate change and air
pollution.<br>
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Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change
Communication, likened industry-sponsored curriculums that ignore
climate science to advertising. “You’re exploiting that trusted
relationship between the student and the teacher,” he said.
Leiserowitz – whose research has focused on how culture, politics
and psychology impact public perception of the environment – said
fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil
dependency.<br>
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As early as the 1940s, the industry’s largest and most powerful
lobby group targeted schoolchildren as a key element of its
fledgling marketing strategy. By the 1960s, the American Petroleum
Institute was looking to shake its reputation as a “monopoly which
reaped excessive profits” and set out to cultivate a network of
“thought leaders” that included educators, journalists, politicians
and even clergy, according to an organizational history copyrighted
by API in 1990.<br>
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The idea caught on. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are
now available online, walking a blurry line between corporate
sponsorship and promotion at a time when climate science has
increasingly come under siege at the highest levels of government.<br>
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On 1 June, Donald Trump, flanked by EPA administrator – and former
Oklahoma attorney general – Scott Pruitt, announced that the United
States would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.<br>
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Oklahoma is among a dozen states that have opted for watered-down
versions of Next Generation Science Standards, a joint effort by
states and educational organizations to revamp science teaching that
has met with political backlash since 2013. The Oklahoma version
strips provisions on evolution and the human causes of global
warming. Along with Colorado, Kansas and Montana, Oklahoma
legislators have also championed bills requiring educators teach
“both sides” of those scientific concepts...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://apps.publicintegrity.org/oil-education/">https://apps.publicintegrity.org/oil-education/</a>
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<i>[ a little too much energy put into producing the content ]</i><br>
<b>‘We need oil. We need gas.’</b><br>
Brothers & Company, an advertising firm, explains how “Lab Time
with Leo” was developed in this behind-the-scenes look. The firm is
contracted by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board to create both
commercials and educational materials. Brothers & Company<br>
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Carla Schaeperkoetter, the energy resources board’s education
director, is the creator of “Big Bad Dream” and “Lab Time with Leo”—
a video series featuring a bowtie-wearing scientist not unlike Bill
Nye the Science Guy. Instead of exploring fundamentals like the
solar system, Leo delves into the nuances of oil refining, teaching
kids as young as 8 about “fractional distillation” and “residuals.”<br>
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Like her predecessor, Schaeperkoetter doesn’t have any teaching
experience and isn’t a state employee. Board staff — including
Schaeperkoetter — are consultants hired by a private foundation
affiliated with the Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Association. The
state trade group is listed as a partner of the Independent
Petroleum Association of America, a lobbying organization that
worked closely with API to roll back federal rules on fracking.<br>
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Schaeperkoetter’s name appears on curricula reassuring teachers that
“companies are spending more dollars protecting the environment than
drilling new wells.” A jump-rope rhyme reads, “We need oil. We need
gas. Where are the oil products in our class?” And a high school
guide asks students to create 30-second commercials on how “new
technologies to find oil and natural gas will help America be energy
independent.”<br>
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Charles W. Anderson — a professor at Michigan State University who
studies environmental literacy and develops curricula — said the
board materials are upfront about their pro-industry agenda but only
tell “half the story” by omitting global issues like climate change
in favor of niche oil knowledge. “The children of Oklahoma are
getting a raw deal — they are getting educationally ineffective
materials teaching content that will be of little use to them if
they want to leave the state,” Anderson said.<br>
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Students also are being sold short in more immediate ways: an
increasing number of Oklahoma districts are adopting four-day school
weeks amid budget cuts due partly to tax breaks for the petroleum
industry. “The state government of Oklahoma, in its wisdom, has
decided that oil and gas companies should have a whole lot of money
and schools should have hardly any money,” Anderson said. “That’s a
social decision that values oil and gas extraction over the public
good of public schools.”<br>
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<i>[ shifts and changes in media battlefields ] </i><br>
<b>The Far-Right’s Shift from Climate Denial to Ecofascism</b><br>
Thomas Perrett - 17 August 2021<br>
As the climate emergency escalates, sparking a new migration crisis,
ethno-nationalist forms of politics could undergo a revival, reports
Thomas Perrett<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://bylinetimes.com/2021/08/17/the-far-rights-shift-from-climate-denial-to-ecofascism/">https://bylinetimes.com/2021/08/17/the-far-rights-shift-from-climate-denial-to-ecofascism/</a><br>
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<i>[ Classic 1977 video lecture on scientific modeling - we are not
in equilibrium ]</i><br>
<b>Systems: Overshoot and Collapse</b><br>
Aug 11, 2017<br>
Donella Meadows<br>
In this lecture given at Dartmouth College in the Spring of 1977,
Donella Meadows uses two examples of socioecological systems to
convey concepts of overshoot and collapse. <br>
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Youtube videos covered by CCBY license and uploaded with permission
from the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.<br>
<i> </i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9g4-5-GKBc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9g4-5-GKBc</a>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
November 17, 2010<br>
</b></font><font size="+1">Outgoing Rep. Inglis Blasts GOP
Skepticism on Global Warming</font><br>
<font size="+1"> By LAUREN MORELLO of ClimateWire</font><br>
<font size="+1"> Published: November 17, 2010</font><br>
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<font size="+1"> Outgoing Republican Rep. Bob Inglis (S.C.) broke
with his party today and publicly vented his frustration about the
apparent turn toward climate skepticism in the next Congress, when
Republicans will take control of the House.</font><br>
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<font size="+1"> Inglis, who has served six terms in the House, was
soundly defeated by a more conservative opponent in a Republican
primary this year and has blamed the loss in part on his belief in
climate science, which hurt him with voters. Inglis made his
frustration clear this morning at a House Science subcommittee
hearing on the science of climate change.</font><br>
<font size="+1"> </font><br>
<font size="+1"> "To my free enterprise colleagues, whether you
think it's all a bunch of hooey, what we talk about in this
committee -- the Chinese don't, and they plan on eating our lunch
in the next century, working on these problems," Inglis said. "We
may press the pause button for a few years, but China is pressing
the fast-forward button."</font><br>
<font size="+1"> </font><br>
<font size="+1"> Inglis, ranking member of the House Energy and
Environment Subcommittee, also took aim at "people who make a lot
of money on talk radio and talk TV saying a lot of things. They
slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night, and they're experts on
climate change. They substitute their judgment for people who have
Ph.D.s and work tirelessly" on climate change.</font><br>
<font size="+1"> </font><br>
<font size="+1"> Inglis' remarks stood in stark contrast to those of
87-year-old Texas Republican Rep. Ralph Hall, the leading
candidate to take the House Science and Technology gavel in the
next Congress, who took a potshot at the White House's use of the
term "global climate disruption" and said that "reasonable people
have serious questions about our knowledge of the state of the
science."</font><br>
<font size="+1"> </font><br>
<font size="+1"> In light of those comments and pledges by other
incoming committee chairmen to probe the science of climate
change, Inglis had pointed advice for climate scientists.</font><br>
<font size="+1"> </font><br>
<font size="+1"> "I encourage the scientists that are listening out
there to get ready for the hearings that are coming up in the next
Congress," he said. "Those will be difficult hearings for climate
scientists. But I would encourage you to welcome those as fabulous
opportunities to teach. Don't come here defensively. Say, 'I'm
glad to have an opportunity to explain the science.'"</font><br>
<font size="+1"> </font><br>
<font size="+1"> Inglis said that advice was informed by his
experience on a congressional delegation to Antarctica a few years
ago, where he encountered "master teacher" Donal Manahan, a marine
biologist at the University of Southern California.</font><br>
<font size="+1"> </font><br>
<font size="+1"> Correction: Inglis has said his belief in climate
science was partly responsible for his defeat in the Republican
primary; an earlier version incorrectly stated that he had voted
for Democrats' cap-and-trade legislation.</font> <br>
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href="https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/17/17climatewire-outgoing-rep-inglis-blasts-gop-skepticism-on-51296.html">https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/11/17/17climatewire-outgoing-rep-inglis-blasts-gop-skepticism-on-51296.html</a><br>
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