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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>December 8, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Children of Oil Executives interviewed ]</i><br>
<b>‘Your generation got us in this mess’: children of big oil
employees discuss the climate crisis with their parents</b><br>
Emma Pattee -- 7 Dec 2021 <br>
Two generations of energy workers discuss how their family has
responded to the climate emergency<br>
<b>Did you guys feel uncomfortable when you were younger telling
people your parents worked in fossil fuels?</b><b><br>
</b><b>Liz: </b>I don’t remember feeling a sense of shame then. But
I felt a very strong pull when I was in college to go into a career
where I could reverse the effects of climate change. I studied
environmental science at the University of Washington. And it was
also in college that I learned about how long Exxon had known about
climate change and had covered it up. I felt strongly that I don’t
want to purchase Exxon gas.<br>
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<b>James:</b> I was in high school at the time of the BP spill, the
Deepwater Horizon, and so being in Bellingham, which is such a
liberal area, obviously a lot of my peers were very upset about it.
I was upset about it. But at the same time, my mom was working for
BP.<br>
<p><b>[To Wendy]</b> You were wanting to defend your company. And so
there were a lot of words said: this could have happened to
anyone, there was a significant amount of risk getting taken in
the Gulf at the time, a lot of companies were cutting corners.
But, you know, you still have to hold people responsible for the
choices that they make...</p>
<b>Liz: </b>I was deeply disturbed by the incident, more so than
maybe anyone else in the family. What really aggrieved me was the
fact that people are still continuing to fill up their cars with gas
every day. And maybe they’re boycotting BP gas, but by continuing to
consume, people are contributing to the problem. And so there’s this
awful hypocrisy in that after each of these incidents. We can all
play the blame game and yet there hasn’t been any shift away from
consuming gasoline and diesel....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/07/conversation-between-big-oil-employees-kids">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/07/conversation-between-big-oil-employees-kids</a><br>
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<i>[ Hmm ... isn't The Fed made up of private money too? ] </i><br>
<b>John Kerry is counting on the private sector to help solve
climate change</b><br>
By Maxine Joselow - with research by Alexandra Ellerbeck<br>
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--“There are literally trillions of dollars under management,” Kerry
told CNBC at the Reuters Next conference. “There's a great deal of
money chasing good projects and good deals. I believe the private
sector has the ability to win this battle for us.”<br>
--Kerry added that private sector funding could support
technological breakthroughs in areas such as battery storage, green
hydrogen and direct air carbon capture, which could be “game
changers” for reaching net-zero emissions...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/07/john-kerry-is-counting-private-sector-help-solve-climate-change/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/12/07/john-kerry-is-counting-private-sector-help-solve-climate-change/</a><br>
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<i>[ DW documentary on European energy crisis ...]<br>
</i><b>Energy crisis: Will a green transition throw the global
economy into recession? | Business Beyond</b><br>
Dec 6, 2021<br>
DW News<br>
Energy prices have surged this year as countries and households
confront shortages of oil, gas and coal. In this episode of Business
Beyond we look at some of the major factors behind the energy
crunch, from the role of green policies to Russian gas maneuvering
to China. Who is to blame? And how will the crisis impact plans to
give up fossil fuels?<br>
<br>
0:00 Intro<br>
1:35 Pandemic demand bounceback<br>
2:52 Green ambitions<br>
4:22 China coal crisis<br>
5:16 China's gas switch<br>
7:18 Russian gas maneuvering<br>
8:57 Nord Stream 2<br>
10:28 Future of fossil fuel producers<br>
12:17 Renewables to blame?<br>
14:07 Fossil fuel redux<br>
15:15 Outlook<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0GT-oZD8nc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0GT-oZD8nc</a><i><br>
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<i>[ the biggest problem - deceit - text introduction to audio -
start 15 min in ] </i><br>
<b>An investigative reporter details the effects of climate change
disinformation in public education</b><br>
DEC 2, 2021 <br>
BY John O'Brien<br>
It may be tempting for some of us to think that a new generation —
young people brought up with existential concerns about the
sustainability of life on Earth in the face of climate change, eager
to enact remedies — will inspire the massive change necessary to
protect the planet.<br>
International figures such as Greta Thunberg and members of the
Sunrise Movement here in the U.S. demand and receive attention for
their climate activism. But many more young people aren’t learning
the science of climate change in school.<br>
Investigative reporter Katie Worth explores why that is in her new
book Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America. Her
research led her to build a database of science curriculum and
textbook standards in all fifty states.<br>
<br>
She traveled around the country to find out firsthand what children
are learning and how teachers approach the subject. She reports that
more than a third of young adults believe that climate change is not
man-made and that four out of five Americans don’t think there is a
scientific consensus on global warming.<br>
<br>
There are no nationwide curriculum standards in U.S. public schools,
in any concentration. States decide what is taught, and red-blue
political divides affect what version of science students learn.<br>
<br>
Worth explored the groups invested in influencing science education:
oil corporations, state legislatures, school boards, libertarian
think tanks, conservative lobbyists, and textbook publishers.<br>
<br>
She found that, just as the tobacco industry covered up facts about
the dangers of cigarette smoking, forces interested in keeping a lid
on the truth about climate change spread misinformation about its
dangers, perhaps most pointedly in public school classrooms in the
United States.<br>
<br>
Exceptional reporting undergirds the truly shocking facts in this
book: the fossil fuel industry is doing all that it can to undermine
education about climate change, which will be the most important
fact in the lifetimes of kids in school today. —Bill McKibben<br>
<blockquote><i>Katie Worth is an enterprise reporting fellow at
Frontline PBS. She talked about her findings with National
Center for Science Education deputy director Glenn Branch on
November 22, 2021. Third Place Books presented their talk.
Author events manager Spencer Ruchti introduced and moderated
the program.</i><i> <br>
<br>
If you have any feedback on this episode, you can email me at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jobrien@kuow.org">jobrien@kuow.org</a></i></blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://kuow.org/stories/the-science-isn-t-complicated-an-investigative-reporter-details-the-effects-of-climate-change-disinformation-in-public-education">https://kuow.org/stories/the-science-isn-t-complicated-an-investigative-reporter-details-the-effects-of-climate-change-disinformation-in-public-education</a><br>
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<i>[ The book is about $16 ]</i><br>
<b>Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America Paperback –
November 16, 2021</b><br>
by Katie Worth (Author)<br>
<b>Why are so many American children learning so much misinformation
about climate change?</b><br>
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Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks,
built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to
talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found
a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young
adults believe that climate change is not man-made, and science
instructors are being contradicted by history teachers who tell
children not to worry about it.<br>
<br>
Who has tried to influence what children learn, and how successful
have they been? Worth connects the dots on oil corporations, state
legislatures, school boards, libertarian thinktanks, conservative
lobbyists, and textbook publishers, all of whom have learned from
the fight over evolution and tobacco, and are now sowing
uncertainty, confusion, and distrust about climate science, with the
result that four in five Americans today don’t think there is a
scientific consensus on global warming. In the words of a top
climate educator, “We are the only country in the world that has had
a multi-decade, multi-billion dollar deny-delay-confuse campaign.”
Miseducation is the alarming story of how climate denialism was
implanted in millions of school children.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Miseducation-Climate-Change-Taught-America/dp/1735913642/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Miseducation-Climate-Change-Taught-America/dp/1735913642/ref=sr_1_1</a><br>
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<i>[ Clips...OK, I'll keep looking...(why is there no international
discussion??)... ] </i><br>
<b>Fleeing global warming? ‘Climate havens’ aren’t ready for you
yet.</b><br>
Climate migration is already underway. Here's how cities can
prepare.<br>
Kate Yoder -- Staff Writer-- Dec 7, 2021<br>
Forget the palm trees and warm ocean breeze. The upper Midwest could
soon be the most sought-after living destination in the United
States...<br>
See the map
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/temperature-suitability-change-colored-2.jpg">https://grist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/temperature-suitability-change-colored-2.jpg</a><br>
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<b>Step 1: Figure out what a ‘climate haven’ really is</b><br>
There is no escape from the effects of an overheating planet, even
in a so-called haven. The Great Lakes region is witnessing heavy
flooding: 11,000 people in central Michigan evacuated last year as
severe rains overwhelmed dams. This summer, wildfire smoke from
Canada blew into Minnesota, bringing an unprecedented haze and
making it hazardous to breathe...<br>
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<b>Step 2: Put people first</b><br>
Cities that want to attract climate migrants emphasize the
opportunities that come with people moving in, like economic growth
and attracting new, skilled workers. But it’s important to remember
that “migrants are not a tool to an end” and that they get the
support they need, said Susan Ekoh, an adaptation fellow at the
America Society of Adaptation Professionals, an organization
preparing towns in the Great Lakes for the expected waves of future
inhabitants....<br>
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<b>Step 3: Build smart</b><br>
The next step is to make the city an appealing place to live while
trimming emissions, using resources wisely, and keeping the dangers
of climate change at bay...<br>
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The Midwest is already prone to flooding, and climate change is
expected to make it worse. So building in floodplains is not ideal,
nor is covering everything in impermeable pavement. Cities should
also find ways to beat the heat — parks keep things cool, while
highways make it hot. Nothing here should come as a surprise to city
planners. “I mean, it’s not rocket science,” Shandas said. “We’ve
been doing this for a while.”<br>
<br>
Shandas said he’s heard people in Midwest cities get pretty excited
about their future. “I was in a couple of meetings with a group of
folks in the Great Lakes, and they were just like, ‘We are the
climate haven — we are going to be the best place in the country and
people are gonna flock to us,’” he said. While that kind of
enthusiasm is “fantastic,” Shandas said, if cities don’t start
preparing for the actual reality of thousands of people moving in,
“it’s going to be a hard sell.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/migration/fleeing-global-warming-climate-havens-arent-ready-for-you-yet/">https://grist.org/migration/fleeing-global-warming-climate-havens-arent-ready-for-you-yet/</a><br>
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<i>[ Carbon plus life forms made our geology - video ]</i><br>
<b>Ancient Life Helped Build Mountains on Earth For Billions of
Years</b><br>
Anton Petrov<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZmVxz4B">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZmVxz4B</a><i>Lo</i><br>
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<i>[ academic paper ]</i><br>
<b>Study reveals how explosion in ocean life built the first
mountains</b><br>
23 November 2021<br>
University of Aberdeen<br>
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An unprecedented abundance of oceanic life played a crucial role in
the creation of Earth's mountains, a landmark study led by
scientists at the University of Aberdeen has revealed.<br>
<br>
While the formation of mountains is usually associated with the
collision of tectonic plates causing huge slabs of rock to be thrust
skywards, the study has shown that this was triggered by an
abundance of nutrients in the oceans 2 billion years ago which
caused an explosion in planktonic life.<br>
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When the plankton died, they fell to the ocean floor, eventually
forming graphite which played a crucial role in lubricating the
breakage of rocks into slabs, enabling them to stack on top of each
other to make mountains.<br>
<br>
Research has revealed that the amount of planktonic life was
unusually high in this period, thus creating the necessary
conditions that were crucial to the emergence of mountains over
millions of years.<br>
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Professor John Parnell, from the University’s School of Geosciences,
led the research, which was funded by The Natural Environment
Research Council (NERC) and has been published in the Nature journal
Communications Earth and Environment.<br>
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He commented: “Mountains are an essential part of the landscape, but
big mountain chains only formed half-way through Earth’s history,
about two billion years ago...<br>
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“It’s interesting to think that this two-billion-year-old event
which was responsible for shaping our natural world now has the
potential to play a key role in its preservation for future
generations.”<br>
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Professor Parnell added: “Ultimately what our research has shown is
that the key to the formation of mountains was life, demonstrating
that the Earth and its biosphere are intimately linked in ways not
previously understood.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/15579/">https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/15579/</a><br>
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<i>[ Oops. Carbon is core to our existence ]</i><br>
<b>Increased biomass and carbon burial 2 billion years ago triggered
mountain building</b><br>
John Parnell & Connor Brolly <br>
Communications Earth & Environment volume 2, Article number: 238
(2021)<br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>The geological record following the c. 2.3 billion years
old Great Oxidation Event includes evidence for anomalously high
burial of organic carbon and the emergence of widespread mountain
building. Both carbon burial and orogeny occurred globally over
the period 2.1 to 1.8 billion years ago. Prolific cyanobacteria
were preserved as peak black shale sedimentation and abundant
graphite. In numerous orogens, the exceptionally carbonaceous
sediments were strongly deformed by thrusting, folding, and
shearing. Here an assessment of the timing of Palaeoproterozoic
carbon burial and peak deformation/metamorphism in 20 orogens
shows that orogeny consistently occurred less than 200 million
years after sedimentation, in a time frame comparable to that of
orogens through the Phanerozoic. This implies that the high carbon
burial played a critical role in reducing frictional strength and
lubricating compressive deformation, which allowed crustal
thickening to build Palaeoproterozoic mountain belts. Further,
this episode left a legacy of weakening and deformation in 2
billion year-old crust which has supported subsequent orogenies up
to the building of the Himalayas today. The link between
Palaeoproterozoic biomass and long-term deformation of the Earth’s
crust demonstrates the integral relationship between biosphere and
lithosphere.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00313-5">https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00313-5</a><br>
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<i>[ OK see the animations ]</i><br>
<b>Plate Tectonics</b><br>
Sample Learning Goals<br>
Describe the differences between oceanic and continental crust,
including their respective properties of density, composition,
temperature and thickness...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/plate-tectonics">https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/plate-tectonics</a>
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<i>[ some advanced geology ]</i><br>
<b>Reduction of friction on geological faults by weak-phase smearing</b><br>
Abstract<br>
<blockquote>Most common crustal rock types display friction
coefficients of 0.6 or higher, but some faults must be
frictionally weak as they slip when the stress state is
unfavourably-oriented (i.e. the resolved shear stress is low for a
given normal stress across the fault surface). A role for
low-friction minerals and high pore fluid pressures, either
separately or in combination, is frequently invoked to explain
such slip, but volume fractions of dispersed weak phases often
seem to be present in fault gouge in amounts too small to produce
significant mechanical weakening. By means of mechanical tests on
synthetic fault gouge and microstructural study of run products,
we show that the effective area of an embedded weak phase
(graphite) on a slip plane can be substantially increased by
mechanical smearing, and that the enlarged area of the weak phase
on the slip plane follows a linear mixing law. This allows a
relatively small volume fraction of the initially dispersed weak
phase to have a disproportionately large effect, provided the
smearing is concentrated into a narrow planar slip zone or into an
interconnected network of them.<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191814113000485">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191814113000485</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
December 8, 2014 </b></font><br>
<p>December 8, 2014 -- The Washington Post reports:<br>
"Oil, gas and coal interests that spent millions to help elect
Republicans this year are moving to take advantage of expanded GOP
power in Washington and state capitals to thwart Obama
administration environmental rules.<br>
<br>
"Industry lobbyists made their pitch in private meetings last week
with dozens of state legislators at a summit of the American
Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an industry-financed
conservative state policy group.<br>
<br>
"The lobbyists and legislators considered several model bills to
be introduced across the country next year, designed to give
states more power to block or delay new Obama administration
environmental standards, including new limits on power-plant
emissions.<br>
<br>
"The industry’s strategy aims to combat a renewed push by
President Obama to carve out climate change as a top priority for
his final two years in office. The White House has vowed to
continue using executive authority to enact more environmental
limits, and the issue is shaping up to be a major flash point
heading into the 2016 presidential election.<br>
<br>
"With support from industry lobbyists, many Republicans are
planning to make the Environmental Protection Agency a primary
political target, presenting it as a symbol of the kind of
big-government philosophy they think can unify social and economic
conservatives in opposition."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-bolstered-by-gop-wins-work-to-curb-environmental-rules/2014/12/07/3ef05bc0-79b9-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fossil-fuel-lobbyists-bolstered-by-gop-wins-work-to-curb-environmental-rules/2014/12/07/3ef05bc0-79b9-11e4-9a27-6fdbc612bff8_story.html</a>
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<br>
-- Think Progress reports:<br>
"On Monday, the Supreme Court rejected BP’s attempt at appealing
its own settlement with businesses and individuals that lost money
due to the massive 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The court’s
refusal to hear the appeal means BP will have to make payments to
those that it argues cannot tie their losses to the explosion of
the Deepwater Horizon platform and drilling rig, which killed 11
people and spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into
the Gulf. The Supreme Court justices did not comment on the case
in their refusal to hear it."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/08/3600671/supreme-court-rejects-bp-appeal-for-settlement/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/08/3600671/supreme-court-rejects-bp-appeal-for-settlement/</a>
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<br>
-- In the Huffington Post, Michael Mann responds to the suggestion
that climate change had nothing to do with the 2014 California
drought. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-and-the-re_b_6288402">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/climate-change-and-the-re_b_6288402</a>
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