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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>December 11, 2021</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ Public Relations requires some opinion manipulation ] </i><br>
<b>A P. R. Giant Is Caught Between Climate Pledges and Fossil Fuel
Clients</b><br>
Edelman has worked for Exxon Mobil and Shell while making strong
public statements in favor of environmental sustainability. At a
recent companywide meeting, employees had some sharp questions.<br>
Tiffany Hsu - Dec. 10, 2021,<br>
Public relations companies are nothing if not image conscious, and
the petition prompted the company to schedule a video conference for
its employees on Nov. 15 to address the issue.<br>
<br>
Richard Edelman, the chief executive and the son of the company’s
founder, led the meeting, which was attended by thousands of
employees. On the call, he described climate change as the greatest
threat facing humanity and said that business leaders should take
the lead in trying to solve it, according to three employees who
described the meeting on the condition of anonymity to discuss
internal conversations. He also said Edelman had started a 60-day
review of the companies it represents to make sure they are
environmentally responsible, according to the people.<br>
<br>
One employee posed a question: Would Edelman potentially walk away
from its fossil fuel clients? According to the three employees, Mr.
Edelman’s answer was blunt: “No.”<br>
<br>
He added that the energy industry was in transition and needed
Edelman’s services. He went on to say that Edelman will reject
projects that delay progress toward a future with net-zero
greenhouse gas emissions...<br>
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Debbie Davis, an assistant dean at the college of media and
communication at Texas Tech University, said that many public
relations companies remain eager to work with all kinds of clients,
even if it means criticism.<br>
<br>
“There are still agencies that work with casinos and tobacco
companies — those are the choices made through capitalism,” she
said. “Edelman has multiple choices. They can choose to take a
stand, they might go more middle of the road, or they might decide
not to change at all.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/business/media/a-p-r-giant-is-caught-between-climate-pledges-and-fossil-fuel-clients.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/10/business/media/a-p-r-giant-is-caught-between-climate-pledges-and-fossil-fuel-clients.html</a>
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<i>[ PR business also samples public opinions ]</i><br>
<b>More than half of young people surveyed think ‘humanity is
doomed’ due to climate change</b><br>
By Rachel Koning Beals -- Dec. 10, 2021<br>
Three-quarters of respondents under age 25 said they believe ‘the
future is frightening’ in Lancet-published global survey...<br>
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Nearly two-thirds of young people said their governments were not
doing enough to avoid a climate catastrophe, and 58% felt
governments were “betraying me and/or future generations.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-half-of-young-people-surveyed-think-humanity-is-doomed-due-to-climate-change-11639160312">https://www.marketwatch.com/story/more-than-half-of-young-people-surveyed-think-humanity-is-doomed-due-to-climate-change-11639160312</a><br>
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<i>[ climate change means destabilizing weather ]</i><br>
<b>An extreme cold is raging through the world's quickest warming
region</b><br>
The port town of Dudinka reports about minus 39 °C and winds up to
25 meter per second, and a north Siberian town records a day with
minus 57 °C.<br>
Atle Staalesen - -December 09, 2021<br>
...<br>
The freeze was even more severe a bit further east. Across the coast
of northern Siberia, the temperatures dropped to below minus 40 °C.
And in the village of Oymyakom, locals on the 7th December woke up
to temperatures down to minus 56,7, maps from the Russian
meteorological institute Roshydromet show..<br>
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The situation was even more extraordinary in 2020, which was the
warmest year in Russia in 130 years of measurements. Across major
parts of the country’s Arctic, average temperatures were between 5-7
degrees higher than norma, and the absolute warmest area was the
peninsula of Taymyr where the temperature deviation was more than 7
degrees.<br>
<br>
According to a recent Russian climate report , no other place in the
country is experiencing a quicker warming than Taymyr and the coast
of the East Siberian Sea. In the period 1976-2020, the warming per
decade in the area amounted to 1,2℃.<br>
<br>
That means that the average temperature in Taymyr today is about 5℃
higher than in the 1970s.<br>
<br>
The average global warming per decade is 0,18°С, while Russia as
such in the same period has experienced a warming per decade of
0,51°С, the report reads.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/12/extreme-cold-raging-through-worlds-quickest-warming-region">https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/climate-crisis/2021/12/extreme-cold-raging-through-worlds-quickest-warming-region</a><br>
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<i>[ Movie review - see it, or see the trailer right now --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI">https://youtu.be/RbIxYm3mKzI</a> ]</i><br>
<b>Don't Look Up: the first good movie about climate change</b><br>
Because it isn't about climate change.<br>
David Roberts - Dec 10. 2021<br>
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One reason it’s so good is that it isn’t really about climate change
at all. It’s about a pair of scientists, played by Leo DiCaprio and
Jennifer Lawrence, who discover that a large comet is heading
directly toward Earth and will strike, and wipe out all life on the
planet, in just over six months. They try to tell people. It does
not go well...<br>
- -<br>
The movie is about having knowledge but being unable to make the
knowledge matter, being unable to make anyone hear or act on it. By
compressing the timeline to six months and making the threat a
singular force, visible in the sky, it brings the absurdity of the
situation to the surface. It’s hilarious, and if you’ve spent years
banging your head against a wall trying to get people to pay
attention to climate change, you will find a great deal of catharsis
in the laughter...<br>
- -<br>
Still, we know that, in some sense, the comet has already begun
striking. We’ve already lost some stability, some biodiversity, some
lands and lives, and we will lose more, no matter what we do. It’s
baked in at this point. We are living in the most stable climate we
will ever experience. Every decade from now on will get warmer —
more of the comet will strike. We can only control the scale of the
damage.<br>
<br>
After I watched Don’t Look Up (thank you Netflix), as I was eating
dinner with my family, I couldn’t stop thinking about DiCaprio’s
final words in the movie, as he is surrounded at the dinner table by
family and friends: “We really did have everything, didn’t we?”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.volts.wtf/p/dont-look-up-the-first-good-movie?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDUxNTUyOTUsIl8iOiJpb2Z2MyIsImlhdCI6MTYzOTE3MzgxNiwiZXhwIjoxNjM5MTc3NDE2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.RDFoKP_VrgQ_--VUuQptOjpPnL8FtA_mzrylGO1Xyv8">https://www.volts.wtf/p/dont-look-up-the-first-good-movie?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMzY4NzE5OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6NDUxNTUyOTUsIl8iOiJpb2Z2MyIsImlhdCI6MTYzOTE3MzgxNiwiZXhwIjoxNjM5MTc3NDE2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMTkzMDI0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.RDFoKP_VrgQ_--VUuQptOjpPnL8FtA_mzrylGO1Xyv8</a><br>
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<i>[ revealing plot and scenes, but still pretty smart comments ]</i><br>
<b>DON'T LOOK UP Movie Review **SPOILER ALERT**</b> trailer --
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/CkB1uvGt-Xw">https://youtu.be/CkB1uvGt-Xw</a><br>
Fish Jelly Film Reviews<br>
Gay homosexuals Nick and Joseph spoil Don't Look Up - a 2021
American satirical science fiction black comedy film written,
produced, and directed by Adam McKay.<br>
<br>
Premise: Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to
warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.<br>
<br>
Find their podcast at the following:<br>
Anchor: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://anchor.fm/fish-jelly">https://anchor.fm/fish-jelly</a><br>
Spotify: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://open.spotify.com/show/388hcJA">https://open.spotify.com/show/388hcJA</a>...<br>
Apple Podcasts: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast</a>...<br>
<br>
Nick is also the Lead Film Critic at Ioncinema
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ioncinema.com/author/nich">https://www.ioncinema.com/author/nich</a>...) and a
Tomatometer-approved critic on Rotten Tomatoes
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic">https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic</a>...).<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkB1uvGt-Xw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkB1uvGt-Xw</a>
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<i>[ “to such a degree that it was considered reckless” -- could
just as well apply to pumping up and selling too much carbon fuel.
] </i><br>
<b>Father and son arrested on suspicion of starting California
wildfire</b><br>
Pair accused of reckless arson in warrant over Caldor fire, which
destroyed over 1,000 homes and buildings<br>
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...the attorney for both men, said they were arrested Wednesday
afternoon and that reckless arson means starting a blaze by accident
but “to such a degree that it was considered reckless”...<br>
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Reichel, the men’s lawyer, said: “They are absolutely 100%
innocent.”<br>
<br>
Reichel said he did not know details of the accusation, such as how
authorities allege the fire was set.<br>
<br>
He said Travis Smith is an electrician and was with his father near
where the fire started. The son called 911 to report seeing flames,
Reichel said.<br>
<br>
The son made several 911 calls because the calls kept dropping in
the rugged area, and both men also warned campers about the fire,
Reichel said.<br>
<br>
“Neither one has ever been in trouble with the law in their life.
They’re very law-abiding people,” he said.<br>
<br>
The pair have a scheduled court appearance on Friday, Reichel said.<br>
<br>
“There has been no evidence submitted into a court subject to my
cross-examination ... that proves any of the prosecution’s evidence
yet. So I urge everyone to wait and hear what really happened before
they form any opinions,” Reichel added.<br>
<br>
The district attorney’s office said the case was developed with the
US Forest Service, California’s firefighting agency and the
California department of justice, with help from the Sacramento
county district attorney’s crime lab.<br>
<br>
The arrests of the alleged arsonists has attracted widespread
attention this year as California endured another destructive fire
season, however arson isn’t all that common.<br>
<br>
Arson was found to be the cause of about 9% of the 3,086 fires the
state’s firefighting agency responded to in 2019. Arrests for arson
have doubled from 70 in 2019 to 140 this year, which officials
attribute to law enforcement investigations rather than a
significant increase in the number of incidents.<br>
<br>
“We’ve had some more success with the number of arrests we’ve made,
but we haven’t seen a significant jump in the number of arson
fires,” Gianni Muschetto, the staff chief of Cal Fire’s law
enforcement division, said in October.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/09/california-caldor-fire-father-son-arrested">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/09/california-caldor-fire-father-son-arrested</a><br>
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<i>[ </i>Thesis -- an <i>important opinion published in 'Nature
Physics' ] </i><br>
Published: 07 December 2021<br>
<b>The danger of climate change complacency</b><br>
Mark Buchanan <br>
Nature Physics volume 17, page 1280 <br>
Last month, world leaders met in Glasgow on 1–12 November for the UN
Climate Change Conference (COP26), aiming to agree on further
concrete steps to address global warming. There were (as of 5
November) no dramatic breakthroughs, but perhaps minor progress on
matters such as reducing the global destruction of rainforests and
taking steps to phase out coal power stations, although significant
coal burning looks likely still for another decade or so. Emissions
will keep growing for the foreseeable future.<br>
<br>
As perhaps most observers expected — based on past meetings — talk
still runs far ahead of action on global warming. That’s partly the
fault of politicians, of course, who find it easier to make bold
verbal commitments to long-term goals than to follow through with
the investments required to realize those goals. But there’s also a
worrying disconnect between reality and some of the more optimistic
visions expressed about how easy it might be to solve global warming
if we just put our minds to it.<br>
<br>
Optimism is certainly better than defeatism when facing a problem
with existential consequences; it spurs action rather than inaction,
which we can ill-afford. Yet over-optimism can also lead to
complacency.<br>
<br>
I’ve sensed this recently in reports about how far we’ve come in
building capacity for generating renewable energy, especially
through solar or wind power. Numerous press articles have marvelled
about the speed with which renewable energy had come into wider use.
The industry, one article put it, now sees renewable energy
beginning to “elbow out” fossil fuels, and asserts that
“exceptionally high growth” of renewables is now “the new normal”.
Trends, this article suggested, fall directly “in line with many
countries’ goals on climate change” (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://go.nature.com/3koFTvD">https://go.nature.com/3koFTvD</a>).<br>
<br>
This sounds great — as if solving the warming problem ought to be
easy. Just keep doing what we’re already doing, get the fossil fuel
companies and climate-change deniers out of the way, and
technological advance will transport us to a new world. In part,
this rosy view may be motivated by a desire to compensate for
countervailing negative articles, which argue that we can never make
a shift to renewables — and probably shouldn’t try — because it
would, for example, be too costly in lost economic growth.<br>
<br>
A more realistic view ought to be based on what has actually
happened — and here things look to be both encouraging and
discouraging at the same time. In a recent study, researchers looked
at the progress on renewable energy growth in some 60 countries
accounting for more than 95% of global electricity production (A.
Cherp et al. Nat. Energy 6, 742–754; 2021). They compared what has
happened with the projected requirements as envisioned in scenarios
in which we manage to limit warming to less than 1.5 °C over
pre-industrial temperatures. What the study found is that, in all of
these nations, the maximum growth rates achieved were 0.8% (of the
total electricity supply) for onshore wind and 0.6% for solar. This
may appear to be good progress, and exciting, but by comparison,
half of the scenarios compatible with 1.5 °C require global growth
of wind power above 1.3% and of solar power above 1.4%, while
one-quarter of such scenarios require growth of solar more than 3.3%
per year. We’re doing well — but still not well enough.<br>
<br>
This implies that the path forward isn’t easy. It might be possible,
but we’ve only begun making the required changes, and it’s going to
take a lot more. That’s a hopeful view — but it’s also grounded and
sets out clear expectations for a lot more work in the future.<br>
<br>
A similar disconnect occurs over the role of financial markets in
directing the shift to a new era of clean energy. Five years ago,
Bank of England governor Mark Carney warned of the risks associated
with financial institutions’ exposure to climate risks, and kicked
off a global push to make financial firms disclose these risks. This
idea followed the belief that transparency on potential financial
impacts would enable markets to steer investments wisely to meet the
climate challenge. Yet a review of developments in finance over the
past few years suggest the markets have other interests — profits
may still be more important than saving the planet — and that it’s
going to take a lot more than effective risk disclosure to make
financial markets play a useful role.<br>
<br>
As Nadia Ameli and colleagues note in a recent short review (Nat.
Clim. Change 11, 917–924; 2021), a number of limitations undermine
this somewhat naïve view. A first issue is that these risk
disclosures are mostly voluntary, and reporting standards lack
clarity. Some insider reports suggest financial firms have very
little idea of the risks they face, or how to assess them. A second
issue is the inherent short-termism of finance, as investors tend to
think over a horizon of no more than five years, with finance
managers even assessed on performance over months. Climate-related
risks come into view well beyond these periods. One survey the
authors mention had climate risks ranked far below other investment
risks on priority.<br>
<br>
These are some technical issues linked to risk assessment, but other
more general factors may be far more important in undermining the
‘disclosure’ approach to guiding markets. The risks linked to
climate inevitably have a political element, as a changing political
scene could completely alter the prospects for strong action. Hence,
financial firms may plan more based on the reading of political
trends. Or, some of them may well hold out hope for future
technologies — such as negative-emission technologies — which could
let them enjoy the fruits of fossil fuel assets.<br>
<br>
Overall conclusion — it’s too early to become complacent. Our early
progress is encouraging, and ought to be celebrated, yet it isn’t
even close to being enough. Optimism is good. It has to be backed up
and reinforced with determined realism.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01455-1">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-021-01455-1</a>
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<p><i>[ Techno - fides -- or faith in technology -- a video litany
of positive changes -- speaking for the future in Canada - video
from one year ago ] </i><br>
<b>What Will Happen If Earth Keeps Getting Warmer? | Avoiding
Apocalypse | Spark</b><br>
Spark<br>
The Earth is heating up and this climate change will have
cataclysmic consequences for humanity - namely the desertification
of agricultural lands and submersion of some of the planet's most
populated zones. This episode explores the best scientific
solutions to rescue the climate and humanity, including carbon
capture, artificial trees, production of Earth-cooling clouds, and
many more.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Q5OEfD9u8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3Q5OEfD9u8</a></p>
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[The news archive - looking back]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
December 11, 1985 </b></font><br>
<p>December 11, 1985: The New York Times reports:<br>
"A group of senators and scientists today called for national and
international action to avert a predicted warming of the earth's
climate resulting from a buildup of carbon dioxide and other
man-made gases in the atmosphere.<br>
<br>
"They warned at a Senate hearing that such an effect, like that of
a greenhouse, would produce radical climate changes and a
subsequent rise in ocean levels that could have catastrophic
results in the next century unless steps were taken now to deal
with the problem.<br>
<br>
"Senator Albert Gore Jr., Democrat of Tennessee, said he would
introduce legislation to expand and focus scientific efforts on
this greenhouse effect.<br>
<br>
"At a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Toxic Substances and
Environmental Oversight, Mr. Gore said his bill would call for 'an
international year of scientific study of the greenhouse effect
and would request that the President take steps to begin this
worldwide cooperative investigation.'"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/11/us/action-is-urged-to-avert-global-climate-shift.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/11/us/action-is-urged-to-avert-global-climate-shift.html</a>
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