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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>December 28, 2021</b></i></font></p>
<i>[ weathers derived from a destabilizing climate ]</i><br>
<b>Snow blasts California and freezes Pacific Northwest</b><br>
Severe weather sweeping parts of the U.S. has brought frigid
temperatures to the Pacific Northwest, heavy snow to mountains in
Northern California and Nevada, and unseasonable warmth to Texas and
the Southeast<br>
By MANUEL VALDES Associated Press - - December 27, 2021<br>
The National Weather Service said Seattle’s low Sunday was 20
degrees F (-6.7 C), breaking a mark set in 1948. Bellingham was 9
degrees F (-12. 8C), three degrees colder than the previous record
set in 1971.<br>
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State officials in Oregon have declared an emergency. In Multnomah
County – home to Portland — about a half dozen weather shelters were
open. Seattle city leaders also opened at least six severe weather
shelters starting Saturday through at least Wednesday.<br>
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In West Seattle, Keith Hughes of the American Legion Hall Post 160,
said his warming center can welcome about a dozen people — its
capacity limited by lack of volunteer staff.<br>
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“Volunteers, this is a problem for myself as well as everyone else
in town, it’s really hard to get with COVID going on,” he said.<br>
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Winter weather led to canceled flights in Seattle, Minneapolis, Salt
Lake City and elsewhere...<br>
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Temperatures in western Washington and Oregon aren’t forecast to
rise above freezing until at least Thursday, and possibly not until
the weekend, forecasters said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/snow-blasts-california-freezes-pacific-northwest-81958014">https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/snow-blasts-california-freezes-pacific-northwest-81958014</a><br>
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<i>[ this is the one to watch <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/pSWOQS1twOU">https://youtu.be/pSWOQS1twOU</a>]</i><i><br>
</i><i>[ a 24 min video summary of the climate science and our
political situation - for a new year]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change 2021: Denial and Consequences</b><br>
Dec 27, 2021<br>
The Climate Pod<br>
After decades of denial and delay tactics by the fossil fuel
industry, in 2021, America was largely unprepared for multiple
climate-fueled extreme weather disasters. Wildfires. Heatwaves.
Hurricanes. Droughts. Floods. Tornadoes.<br>
<br>
How did a warming planet impact these weather events? Why haven't
America's leaders done more to combat the climate crisis? What are
fossil fuel companies still doing to delay action?<br>
<br>
We answer all of those questions and more in Part One of The Climate
Pod's 2021 Year in Review: Denial and Consequences, featuring clips
from interviews we've conducted with guests like Dr. Katharine
Hayhoe, Dr. Ed Hawkins, Dr. Michael Mann, Dr. Jane Goodall, Dr.
Andrew Dessler, David Wallace-Wells, Dr. Maria Neira, Dr. Peter
Hotez, Dr. Naomi Oreskes, Ben Franta, Kathy Baughman-McLeod, Alex
Steffen, Scott Kelly, Jeff Berardelli, Dr. Park Williams, and Tim
Jackson.<br>
<br>
The Climate Pod is a weekly conversation on the latest climate
issues with the journalists, activists, academics, and artists at
the center of the story.<br>
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Subscribe to The Climate Pod and make sure you listen to Part Two
next week!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWOQS1twOU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWOQS1twOU</a><br>
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<b>Dr Jane Goodall said:</b><br>
Hope is all about actions -- as far as I'm concerned .<br>
You know, it's like we're in a very dark tunnel right now.<br>
We really are and right at the end of that tunnel<br>
is a little star of light. that's hope. <br>
<br>
But to get there we've got to climb over, crawl under,<br>
work our way around -- all these obstacles.<br>
And if we don't act now because time's running out --<br>
then it may well be too late.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWOQS1twOU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWOQS1twOU</a>
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<i>[ Greta speaks - Washington Post listens ]</i><br>
<b>Greta Thunberg on the State of the Climate Movement</b><br>
... and the roots of her power as an activist<br>
Interview by KK Ottesen - DECEMBER 27, 2021<br>
Student and climate activist Greta Thunberg, 18, burst improbably
onto the world stage in late 2018 when what began as a one-person
school strike outside the Swedish parliament ended up galvanizing a
global climate movement to demand immediate action to prevent
environmental catastrophe.<br>
<br>
Thunberg’s school strike spread in Sweden and around the world,
inspiring a youth-led global climate strike movement, Fridays for
Future, which urged cuts in carbon emissions. Her speeches at major
political gatherings, including the World Economic Forum, the
British Parliament, the U.S. Congress and, most recently, the United
Nations climate summit known as COP26, have castigated leaders for
failing future generations with their “fairy tales of eternal
economic growth.” Or, as she said in one speech, “How dare you! You
have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.”<br>
<br>
Thunberg credits her Asperger’s syndrome, which is considered part
of the autism spectrum, for her truth-telling and focus as a climate
activist. She lives in Stockholm...<br>
- -<br>
Are you inspired by any of the world leaders, by President Biden?<br>
If you call him a leader — I mean, it’s strange that people think of
Joe Biden as a leader for the climate when you see what his
administration is doing. The U.S. is actually expanding fossil fuel
infrastructure. Why is the U.S. doing that? It should not fall on us
activists and teenagers who just want to go to school to raise this
awareness and to inform people that we are actually facing an
emergency...<br>
- -<br>
As somebody who had been living in social isolation before speaking
out, how did you handle both the positive adulation and the
sometimes very personal negative criticism, even from world leaders,
on Twitter and other places?<br>
I don’t know. I didn’t think too much about it. I just thought: I’m
doing what is right, and as long as I’m doing what’s right, what I
think is right, it doesn’t matter what others think. But of course
it was a huge shift from never talking to anyone whatsoever — in
those days, I only spoke to my parents and my teacher and my sister.
So to then be speaking, more or less, to the whole world, it was a
very big shift. I don’t think anyone in the world could have
expected anything like that, no matter who you are or what you do.
It just blew up completely in a way that is very hard to understand
if you haven’t experienced it yourself. But I think just the fact
that I was so different before made it easier to stay grounded and
not to listen too much to what other people were saying, both
positively and negatively.<br>
Can you get to the place in your mind where you say, Okay, it’s 30
years hence, and we were successful? What does that look like? And
then what do you get to focus on in your life?<br>
I have no idea. I try not to think about that too much. I try to
rather do as much as I can in the now and change the future instead
of overthinking the future. Hopefully we will take care of this,
however that would look. But no matter what happens, if we continue
to ignore it, the consequences are going to be much, much worse.<br>
<br>
What do you do when you need a break?<br>
I take occasional breaks. Like, this is my life all day, every day,
but that doesn’t mean I cannot focus on other things. I can focus on
several things. For example, school. Although now we’re actually
talking about the climate. So I can’t get away there, either!<br>
<br>
So does the teacher just turn it over to you: “Greta …”?<br>
[Laughs.] We’re in climate role play. We’re going to represent
different countries, and then we’re going to reenact a climate
conference, make speeches and be delegates, try to come up with a
resolution. And I’m going to be Saudi Arabia.<br>
<br>
Perfect.<br>
I’m going to block everything. Yeah, I’m going to make sure that
they don’t come up with a resolution.<br>
<br>
After the experience of the last few years, its roller-coaster up
and down, do you find yourself more or less hopeful than when you
first sat out in front of the Swedish parliament with your
[“SKOLSTREJK FOR KLIMATET”] sign?<br>
I don’t know. In one sense, we’re in a much worse place than we were
then because the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are higher and the
global emissions are still rising at almost record speed. And we
have wasted several years of blah, blah, blah.<br>
<br>
But then, on another note, we have seen what people can do when we
actually come together. And I’ve met so many people who give me very
much hope and just the possibility that we can actually change
things. That we can treat a crisis like a crisis. So I think I’m
more hopeful now.<br>
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What can we learn from the pandemic about what can be accomplished
when people do, in fact, treat a crisis like a crisis?<br>
I think many people have realized how important science is. Because
we saw how, when we really wanted to find a vaccine, we could do
that in, like, no time. Which just shows that, if we actually focus
on something, if we actually want something, we can accomplish
almost anything.<br>
<br>
Right now, what’s holding us back is that we lack that political
will. We don’t prioritize the climate today. Our goal is not to
lower emissions. Our goal is to find solutions that allow us to
continue life [as it is] today. And, of course, you can ask, “Can’t
we have both?” But the uncomfortable truth is that we have left it
too late for that. Or the world leaders have left it too late for
that. We need to fundamentally change our societies now. If we would
have started 30 years ago, it would have been much smoother. But now
it’s a different situation.<br>
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But also, it has just shown how fast social norms can change. And I
think that can be something that we can learn from it. If I would
have gone up to someone and shaken hands with them during the worst
part of the pandemic, that would have been totally unacceptable. But
just before the pandemic, everyone did that. It changed, basically
overnight, people’s mindsets. And that just shows the possibilities.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/12/27/greta-thunberg-state-climate-movement-roots-her-power-an-activist/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/12/27/greta-thunberg-state-climate-movement-roots-her-power-an-activist/</a><br>
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<i>[ 34 min video from World Economic Forum - discussion ] </i><br>
<b>Stakeholder Capitalism</b><br>
Robin Pomeroy, Digital Editor, World Economic Forum<br>
Stakeholder Capitalism is a series of videos and podcasts that looks
at how economies can be transformed to serve people and the planet.<br>
In this episode, we ask if a healthy planet can co-exist with the
economic growth required to raise living standards, especially in
developing countries.<br>
The episode features insights from climate activist Risalat Khan,
Lord Nicholas Stern from the London School of Economics and Mariana
Mazzucato from University College London.<br>
27 Dec 2021 - -<br>
Robin Pomeroy - Digital Editor, World Economic Forum<br>
Since the first industrial revolution, economic development has been
powered by fossil fuels. But for decades we have known that the
greenhouse gases from these fuels are building up in the atmosphere,
causing climate change.<br>
<br>
The latest UN climate science report says there is no longer any
doubt. To prevent climate catastrophe, we need to switch away from
fossil fuels fast.<br>
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But what about those parts of the world that, while sharing the
perils of climate change, have not enjoyed the increased wealth or
living standards that come with economic development?...<br>
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Natalie Pierce: ... we've been exploring how we can pursue economic
growth without harming the planet for future generations. Peter,
what did you hear in today's episode that you think presents a
better way forward?<br>
Peter Vanham: Well, first of all, we heard from Risalat about how
not to do it. He joined us, talking about his country, Bangladesh,
which is clearly on the road to economic development. And you would
expect they would follow the template that has been set before them
by all other industrialised nations, which is to built factories, to
build energy plants and therefore also continue to or start to emit
more CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions. But he said, I don't
want that - if this is the price we have to pay for economic
development, I don't I don't like that option. And so that's the
first thing I think we have to remember is that that way forward is
not one we can continue to follow.<br>
<br>
Natalie Pierce: Lord Nicholas Stern agreed with Risalat. But he said
climate action is possible. We can revert this crisis. It's not
going to be easy, but we do have options. What were the options that
stood out to you?<br>
<br>
Peter Vanham: What was very surprising, I think, - and he's been
looking at this issue for decades - he said the solutions are there
and many of them come from the last two to three years -
technological solutions to make sure you can decouple economic
development from CO2 emissions. And I think that's very striking to
note that this option is now there. It wasn't there before. It is
now here, but it's very recent.<br>
<br>
Natalie Pierce: He also highlighted, though, that industrialised
nations need to have a disproportionate impact on finding solutions
and scaling those solutions around the world. What did you think
about what he said around international responses and working
together across countries to find solutions and scale them?<br>
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Peter Vanham: Well, it makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? Because if
you look at how much greenhouse gases we have historically emitted,
which is the right way to look at it, of course, because they remain
in the atmosphere for a very long time, it's only right that those
countries that have admitted the most over the life ordered the
lifetime, let's say, would bear the biggest burden. So that implies
that if the edge is there, if new technological solutions are there,
that those countries would implement them first straight away and
would also try to help in implementing them elsewhere as well as
soon as possible. And I think that brings us to what Mariana said at
the end - that change has to happen now.<br>
<br>
Natalie Pierce: I think Mariana was one of the most inspiring guests
we've had on the show so far. And when she says we need a moonshot
approach to solving the climate crisis, it's now it's not in decades
in the future, it's this decade. And she also said all stakeholders,
government, society, business, they all have a role to play in
challenging the climate crisis, taking climate action, but also
rethinking capitalism. And what a powerful message to end on.<br>
- - <br>
That brings us to the end of this episode. The next episode will
focus on the role of technology and our ever growing dependence on
it. And we'll particularly ask the question: Is Big Tech too big?...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/stakeholder-capitalism-profit-planet-nicholas-stern-risalat-khan/">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/12/stakeholder-capitalism-profit-planet-nicholas-stern-risalat-khan/</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 28, 2007</b></font><br>
<blockquote> December 28, 2007: In a Washington Post op-ed, Bill
McKibben, citing a recent speech by NASA scientist James Hansen,
states that the worldwide CO2 level must remain below 350 parts
per million to avoid catastrophic global warming. Further,
McKibben writes: "Hansen [has] called for an immediate ban on new
coal-fired power plants that don't capture carbon, the phaseout of
old coal-fired generators, and a tax on carbon high enough to make
sure that we leave tar sands and oil shale in the ground. To use
the medical analogy, we're not talking statins to drop your
cholesterol; we're talking huge changes in every aspect of your
daily life."<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701942.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/27/AR2007122701942.html</a><br>
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