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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 18, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Smart talk by Dr Katharine Hayhoe hour-long video ] </i><br>
<b>Talking Climate Action with Dr. Katharine Hayhoe</b><br>
Nov 17, 2021<br>
Oxford Climate Society<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ojEZ0o4B4k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ojEZ0o4B4k</a><br>
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<i>[ first some reality: "Don't despair, but get moving"
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/c2bLKzRFeQE">https://youtu.be/c2bLKzRFeQE</a> ] </i><br>
<b>Horace Albright Lecture in Conservation with Pulitzer
Prize-Winning Science Writer Elizabeth Kolbert</b><br>
Nov 17, 2021<br>
UC Berkeley Events<br>
Horace Albright Lecture in Conservation with Pulitzer Prize-Winning
Science Writer Elizabeth Kolbert in Conversation with Dean David
Ackerly, Rausser College & Dean Geeta Anand, Graduate School of
Journalism<br>
Elizabeth Kolbert is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe:
Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction, for which
she won the Pulitzer Prize. For her work at The New Yorker, where
she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards
and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters. In Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future, Kolbert now
asks the question: “After doing so much damage, can we change
nature, this time to save it?”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2bLKzRFeQE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2bLKzRFeQE</a><br>
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<i>[ now some fiction - see the 2:45 video trailer -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI">https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI</a> ]</i><br>
<b>DON'T LOOK UP | Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence | Official
Trailer | Netflix</b><br>
Nov 16, 2021<br>
Netflix<br>
Based on real events that haven’t happened - yet. Don’t Look Up in
select theaters December 10 and on Netflix December 24.<br>
DON’T LOOK UP tells the story of two low-level astronomers who must
go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet
that will destroy planet Earth. Written and Directed by Adam McKay.<br>
<b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI">https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI</a></b><br>
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<i>[ we are the asteroid, and now we are the comet ]</i><br>
<b>Don't Look Up Is a Climate Change Movie in Disguise</b><br>
The forthcoming Netflix movie is about an comet hitting Earth. We
are the freaking comet, people.<br>
ByBrian Kahn - Nov 17, 2021<br>
I don’t have to see more than the two-and-a-half-minute trailer for
Don’t Look Up to feel confident in saying that it will almost surely
be the best climate film made to date.<br>
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Netflix dropped the trailer on Tuesday that, on first blush, may
look like a standard disaster comedy. (Does this genre exist?)
Scientists played by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence raise
the alarm to the U.S. government about a comet headed for Earth. The
government’s response is to promptly ignore them to “sit tight and
assess.” The media doesn’t treat it seriously. An when the
government finally comes around to thinking about the comet, the
goal is to profit off of it.<br>
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“What do trillions of dollars matter if we’re all going to die?”
DiCaprio’s character asks, to immediate mockery.<br>
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The parallels with climate change are striking. Scientists have
known about the greenhouse effect for nearly two centuries. There’s
a newspaper article from 1912 linking burning coal to climate
change. Exxon’s own scientists perfectly predicted the current state
of climate change in 1982. There has been no shortage of alarm bells
that have been ringing, and they’ve reached a crescendo in the past
few years.<br>
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Yet the U.S. government—and indeed, basically every government in
the world—has essentially shrugged. Carbon dioxide emissions have
continued unabated. With a crisis point upon us now, governments
have turned to profit as a reason to address it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/dont-look-up-is-a-climate-change-movie-in-disguise-1848076905">https://gizmodo.com/dont-look-up-is-a-climate-change-movie-in-disguise-1848076905</a><br>
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<i>[ Huge river in the sky ]</i><br>
<b>Vancouver storm: A state of emergency has been declared in
British Columbia</b><br>
A state of emergency has been declared in the Canadian western
province of British Columbia after a major storm cut road and rail
links in the region.<br>
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The Canadian Armed Forces are being deployed to help thousands of
stranded residents who have been trapped since the storm hit
overnight on Sunday.<br>
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged assistance during a visit to
Washington DC and said troops would help rebuild.<br>
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One woman was killed in a landslide, and two people are missing.<br>
Thousands remain evacuated after an "atmospheric river" - a long
strip of moisture in the air that transports water from tropical
areas towards the poles - dumped the region's monthly rainfall
average in 24 hours.<br>
Officials in the region have attributed the natural disaster to the
effects of climate change...<br>
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Helicopters on Wednesday dropped food supplies to stranded mountain
communities after slides destroyed roads and floods submerged major
highways.<br>
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The town of Tulameen has about 400 people trapped there, according
to Reuters news agency.<br>
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Some communities at higher elevations have seen temperatures drop
below freezing. Farmers and ranchers at lower elevations have
struggled with widespread flooding and thousands of animals have
died.<br>
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Approximately 1,500 travellers became stranded in the town of Hope
after roads closed, Grace Baptist Church Pastor Jeff Kuhn told BBC
News in an email on Wednesday.<br>
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Premier Horgan has called on residents to stay at home, and to not
hoard items. "What you need your neighbours need as well," he said.<br>
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Residents of some neighbourhoods in the city of Abbotsford were told
on Tuesday to leave immediately as rising water levels posed "a
significant risk to life".<br>
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In a press conference on Wednesday, Mayor Henry Braun said water
levels in the nearby Fraser River were dropping but warned: "We're
not out of this yet.<br>
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"If we have another weather event like we just went through, we're
in deep doo-doo," he said.<br>
Rescue operations are still under way in the area, and aerial
assessments of the damage are being conducted.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59324764">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59324764</a><br>
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<i>[ the initial report to President Lyndon Johnson 1965 ]</i><br>
<b>1965 President’s Science Advisory Committee Report on Atmospheric
Carbon Dioxide</b><b><br>
</b><b>“Restoring the Quality of Our Environment” </b>is a
comprehensive report by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Science
Advisory Committee which warns of the impacts of pollution and
humanity’s role in addressing the future. The panel suggests
“economic incentives to discourage pollution” in which “special
taxes would be levied against polluters.” The Committee reports on a
wide range of pollution issues such as soil contamination, sewage,
agricultural waste, and solid waste. President Johnson found the
report to be pertinent enough to not only be distributed to
government agencies and officials, but also, due to its “general
interest,” the public. The selected excerpt below focuses on the
hazardous increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide due to humanity’s
production and combustion of fossil fuels.<br>
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The Committee begins the section by quickly acknowledging the
“measurable” effect that fossil fuel combustion has on the increase
in atmospheric carbon dioxide. Linking that increase directly to
humanity’s behavior, the Committee reports “[c]arbon dioxide is
being added to the earth’s atmosphere by the burning of coal, oil,
and natural gas at the rate of 6 billion tons a year.” They report
that fossil fuel combustion is the only major new producer of carbon
dioxide, increasing the quantity of CO2 in the atmosphere and ocean
from roughly 1860 to 1960 by 7%. Focusing on a smaller interval of
time, the Committee found a 1.36% increase in atmospheric carbon
dioxide from 1958 to 1963. Throughout the selected section, the
Committee makes forward-looking predictions, warning of melting ice
caps, rising sea levels, acidification of water sources, and more.
They conclude with a prediction and a warning of what could come:<br>
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“By the year 2000 the increase in atmospheric CO2 will be close to
25%. This may be sufficient to produce measurable and perhaps marked
changes in climate, and will almost certainly cause significant
changes in the temperature and other properties of the
stratosphere.”<i>...<br>
</i><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatefiles.com/climate-change-evidence/presidents-report-atmospher-carbon-dioxide/">https://www.climatefiles.com/climate-change-evidence/presidents-report-atmospher-carbon-dioxide/</a><br>
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<i>[ How Denmark is doing... video comments after COP26 ] </i><br>
<b>Jason Box Addendum | How is Denmark Doing ON Climate Pledges?</b><br>
Nov 17, 2017<br>
Nick Breeze ClimateGENN<br>
After filming the Greenland interview on the Denamrk pavilion in the
Blue Zone at COP26, we recorded this short segment on Jason's view
on how Denmark, his adopted country, is doing on their climate
pledges.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzLwNEHdZtk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzLwNEHdZtk</a><br>
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<i>[ Lewis Black humor about climate changes - 21 min video
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/-pUpVF1AlHQ">https://youtu.be/-pUpVF1AlHQ</a> ]</i><br>
<b>Lewis Black | The Rant Is Due best of Climate Change</b><br>
Nov 17, 2021<br>
Lewis Black<br>
As the COP26 meetings have ended, we look back on some rants about
climate change, global warming, and the end of the planet as we know
it. These submissions are timeless in their sense of urgency, that
something must be done to combat the very real issue of manmade
climate change, but tempered by a foreboding aura of apocryphal doom
and resigned helplessness. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pUpVF1AlHQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pUpVF1AlHQ</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
November 18, 2014</b></font><br>
November 18, 2014:<br>
In a 59-41 vote, the U.S. Senate rejects an effort to force the
expedited expansion of the Keystone XL pipeline. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/keystone-fails-senate-vote">http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/keystone-fails-senate-vote</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/18/3593489/keystone-xl-senate-vote/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/18/3593489/keystone-xl-senate-vote/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/politics/keystone-xl-pipeline.html?mwrsm=Email">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/us/politics/keystone-xl-pipeline.html?mwrsm=Email</a><br>
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