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<font size="+2"><i><b>December 16, 2021</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Weather Channel ]</i><br>
<b>Widespread, Damaging, Unusual December Storm to Spawn Derecho,
Tornadoes in the Plains, Midwest</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://weather.com/safety/tornado/news/2021-12-15-severe-weather-forecast-damaging-winds-tornadoes-midwest">https://weather.com/safety/tornado/news/2021-12-15-severe-weather-forecast-damaging-winds-tornadoes-midwest</a><br>
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<i>[ wildfire watch ]</i><br>
<b>Very strong winds spread fires in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/12/15/very-strong-winds-spread-fires-in-texas-oklahoma-and-kansas/">https://wildfiretoday.com/2021/12/15/very-strong-winds-spread-fires-in-texas-oklahoma-and-kansas/</a><br>
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<i>[ Opinion NYT slams us with global headline news ]</i><br>
<b>POSTCARDS FROM A WORLD </b><b>ON FIRE</b><br>
Cities swallowed by dust.<br>
Human history drowned by the sea.<br>
Economies devastated, lives ruined.<br>
These 193 stories show the reality of climate change. In every
country in the world.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/opinion/climate-change-effects-countries.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Science briefing AGU press conference on Arctic and NOAA
research - </i><br>
<b>Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and
weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially
the burning of fossil fuels.</b><br>
#AGU21 Press conference: NOAA Arctic Report Card 2021<br>
Dec 14, 2021<br>
AGU<br>
Now in its 16th year, NOAA’s 2021 Arctic Report Card catalogs the
numerous ways that climate change continues to transform and disrupt
the polar region, with impacts on weather, climate, fisheries,
indigenous communities and national security. Arctic environmental
change does not stay in the Arctic: it impacts weather, climate and
ocean resources far beyond the region. The rapid changes in the
Arctic, many of which are occurring faster than anticipated,
heighten the importance of improved observations to inform decisions
and forecast future change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQBKoQ5vZqg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQBKoQ5vZqg</a>
[starts about 4 min in ]<br>
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<i>[ "All In" with Chris Hayes -- beware "Critical Energy Theory"
video ] </i><br>
<b>‘Critical energy theory’: Right wing declares war on ‘woke’
climate policy</b><br>
The right wing thinks they have found success with their critical
race theory fear-mongering, so now they're trying to copy-paste that
strategy onto a new target: “critical energy theory.”<br>
Dec. 8, 2021 -Right Wing declares ware on "Wokeness" of climate
policy <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-critical-energy-theory-right-wing-declares-war-on-woke-climate-policy-128253509763">https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-critical-energy-theory-right-wing-declares-war-on-woke-climate-policy-128253509763</a><br>
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<i>[ A few other stories ] </i><br>
<b>9 Environmental Crimes That Would Make Great Movies</b><br>
Don't Look Up shows you can make a compelling climate change movie.
Here's some more fodder for Hollywood to keep the ball rolling.<br>
Molly Taft - Dec 15, 2021<br>
<b>The new dark comedy Don’t Look Up</b> shakes up the idea of what
makes a good climate movie. Rather than focusing purely on weird
science or Al Gore, it tells a great story by highlighting the
criminal inaction on climate change. (Well, technically it’s about a
comet headed for Earth, but it’s a clear stand-in for our real-world
crisis.)<br>
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While Don’t Look Up is pure fiction, there’s no shortage of
real-world examples of climate fuckery to highlight on the silver
screen. In the spirit of giving Hollywood some story fodder to keep
the momentum going, we’ve compiled a list of environmental crimes
and criminals (in both the letter of the law and court of public
opinion) that would be great fodder for the next blockbuster. Have
at it, movie producers!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905</a><br>
<b>2 The Steven Donziger Case</b><br>
If screenwriters are looking for some easy material, the case of
Steven Donziger basically writes itself. Donziger led a case against
Chevron on behalf of 30,000 Indigenous people and farmers in the
Amazon for widespread pollution of local water and environment.
What’s more, he won the Ecuadorian court battle in a dramatic
fashion: it was the biggest environmental human rights judgment in
history.<br>
Since the ruling, Chevron has refused to pay the ordered fine.
Instead, it used the U.S. court system in unprecedented and
troubling ways to come after Donziger, using a network of
hand-picked and industry-friendly attorneys and judges.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/2">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/2</a><br>
<b>3 Deepwater Horizon (Better This Time)</b><br>
There was already a (pretty well-received) movie released in 2016
about the Deepwater Horizon disaster itself, starring Mark Wahlberg
as a worker aboard the Transocean drilling rig that suffered a
catastrophic explosion on April 20, 2010.<br>
However, that movie only covers the blow-by-blow of the day of the
explosion on the rig, relegating the aftermath—how only two people
were prosecuted, and how the 87-day blowout spilled 210 million
gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico—to a quick postscript. The
film also doesn’t touch the safety shortcuts BP took that federal
officials later found contributed to the disaster, nor how the
company eventually paid only a fraction of the settlement for the
damage it caused thanks to tax writeoffs. There’s room for a lot
more dramatic storytelling for one of the biggest environmental
disasters in U.S. history.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/3">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/3</a><br>
<b>4 Scott Pruitt and His Fancy Lotions</b><br>
Former Environmental Protection Agency chief and big coal fanboy
Scott Pruitt served barely a year and a half in the Trump
administration, but his time there was marked by outrageous moves
that ripped apart the government’s ability to protect the
environment and handed polluters dozens of primo free passes. The
end of his tenure featured some of the most unforgettably bizarre
political scandals in a presidency that featured some notably weird
shit, including a few particularly... gross?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/4">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/4</a><br>
<b>5 A Koch Brothers Biopic</b><br>
Dark money has played a crucial role in perpetuating climate denial,
and there’s perhaps no more powerful dark money influence on climate
policies than the Koch family, most notably brothers Charles and
David. The brothers started out as managers at their family’s oil
refining business and went on to become billionaires. Their
corrosive influence on the climate discourse includes being some of
the most important funders of denial through their contributions to
conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation, the Cato
Institute, and Americans for Prosperity.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/5">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/5</a><br>
<b>6 Exxon’s PR Wizard</b><br>
Herbert Schmertz was the head of Exxon’s PR operations from the
early 1970s to the late 1980s, as the company was moving through the
energy crisis of that era—and overlapping to when Exxon was
beginning to do its own scientific work around climate change. What
makes Schmertz, who died in 2018, such a good candidate for a movie
is how he ruthlessly deployed new tactics to keep Big Oil in
business...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/6">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/6</a><br>
<b>7 The Colonial Pipeline Hack</b><br>
This year’s hack of one of the biggest pipelines in the U.S. has all
the makings of a great cyber-comedy/thriller. (Yes, this is a new
genre we just made up.) The hack shut down the pipeline for six days
and sparked a gasoline shortage along the East Coast. It carried out
by a hacker or hackers who demanded a ransom in bitcoin. And the
pipeline’s security system was so easy to breach, one expert
described it as readily hackable by someone “working at an
eighth-grade level.” The fact that the hack happened to a company
that was in the middle of cleaning up the largest gasoline spill in
decades only adds dramatic (and absurd) icing to the cake.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/7">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/7</a><br>
<b>8 The Massey Energy Mine Explosion</b><br>
In April 2010, just days before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, an
explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners. The
disaster was partially as a result of high methane levels in the
unventilated mine. In the years after the explosion, a state
investigation said the owner of the mine, Massey Energy, squarely to
blame, alleging that the company “operated its mines in a profoundly
reckless manner, and 29 coal miners paid with their lives for the
corporate risk taking.”...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/8">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905/slides/8</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905">https://gizmodo.com/9-environmental-crimes-that-would-make-great-movies-1848186905</a><br>
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[The news archive - looking back on an old PR campaign]<br>
<font size="+1"><b>On this day in the history of global warming
December 16, 2014 </b></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b> </b></font> In the Washington Post, Dana
Milbank observes:<br>
<blockquote> "For years, the fossil-fuel industries have been
telling us that global warming is a hoax based on junk science.<br>
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"But now these industries are floating an intriguing new argument:
They’re admitting that human use of coal, oil and gas is causing
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to rise — but they’re saying this
is a good thing. We need more CO2 in our lives, not less...<br>
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"This was some creative thinking, and it took a page from the gun
lobby, which argues that the way to curb firearm violence is for
more people to be armed."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-new-climate-denialism-carbon-dioxide-is-good-for-you/2014/12/15/beaafc72-8499-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-new-climate-denialism-carbon-dioxide-is-good-for-you/2014/12/15/beaafc72-8499-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html</a>
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