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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>March 11, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Perhaps a coal-powered automobile? ] </i><br>
<b>As War Rages, a Struggle to Balance Energy Crunch and Climate
Crisis</b><br>
Rising oil prices and increased demand for expanded production come
at a time when scientists say nations must sharply cut the use of
fossil fuels.<br>
By Brad Plumer, Lisa Friedman and David Gelles<br>
March 10, 2022<br>
As the world reels from spikes in oil and gas prices, the fallout
from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has laid bare a dilemma: Nations
remain extraordinarily dependent on fossil fuels and are struggling
to shore up supplies precisely at a moment when scientists say the
world must slash its use of oil, gas and coal to avert irrevocable
damage to the planet.<br>
<br>
While countries could greatly reduce their vulnerability to wild
swings in the oil and gas markets by shifting to cleaner sources of
energy such as wind or solar power and electric vehicles — which is
also the playbook for fighting climate change — that transition will
take years.<br>
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It remains uncertain how much the United States will actually do to
curb its dependence on fossil fuels in the years ahead. In its most
recent annual outlook, the U.S. Energy Information Administration
said that oil and gas were expected to remain the nation’s leading
energy sources through 2050 without a major shift in policy. That is
the same year by which, scientists say, nations need to largely
eliminate fossil fuel emissions if they want to prevent the most
catastrophic effects of global warming.<br>
<br>
The administration’s main legislative proposal for speeding up the
transition to cleaner energy, the Build Back Better Act, remains in
limbo. That bill includes $555 billion in spending to deploy
low-carbon technologies like wind, solar, geothermal and nuclear
power. Buyers of electric vehicles would receive up to $12,500 in
tax credits. The bill also has billions of dollars to make buildings
more energy efficient and replace gas-powered furnaces with electric
versions...<br>
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“If it’s six, seven months now that we’re trying to adjust to
volatility, we can still move forward,” he said. “We’re not talking
about unabated burning for the next 10 years. That would be absurd
and unacceptable.”<br>
<br>
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February came just as the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a body of scientists
convened by the United Nations, published an exhaustive report
finding that the dangers from climate change are bigger and
unfolding faster than previously expected and that humanity may
struggle to adapt to the consequences unless greenhouse gas
emissions are quickly reduced in the next few decades.<br>
<br>
“They are two sides of the same coin,” John Doerr, a venture
capitalist now focused on the energy transition, said in an
interview. “We need energy security because we’ve got an energy
crisis. We’ve also got a climate crisis. The same week that Putin
unleashed his army, the I.P.C.C. put out yet another report that
mounted even more evidence that we are out of time.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/climate/climate-oil-crisis-global.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/climate/climate-oil-crisis-global.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Financial Times will tell you - after you subscribe ]</i><br>
<b>Will the Ukraine war derail the green energy transition?</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/93eb06ec-ba6c-4ad2-8fae-5b66235632b2">https://www.ft.com/content/93eb06ec-ba6c-4ad2-8fae-5b66235632b2</a><br>
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<i>[ so says WAPO ]</i><br>
<b>Heat pumps can counter Putin and the climate crisis, advocates
say</b><br>
By Maxine Joselow - with research by Vanessa Montalbano<br>
March 10, 2022<br>
Last month, author and climate activist Bill McKibben proposed an
unusual way that President Biden could simultaneously combat climate
change and the war in Ukraine. <br>
<br>
It all came down to heat pumps.<br>
<br>
At the time, McKibben's musings largely flew under the radar. But
today, the White House is seriously considering his plan, which
would involve scaling up U.S. manufacturing of heat pumps and
sending them overseas to counter Europe's reliance on Russian gas...<br>
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<b>Heat pumps for peace</b><br>
In a Feb. 27 Substack piece, McKibben argued that Biden should
invoke the Defense Production Act, an emergency national defense
law, “to get American manufacturers to start producing electric heat
pumps in quantity, so we can ship them to Europe where they can be
installed in time to dramatically lessen Putin’s power.”<br>
<br>
McKibben compared the effort to the program established by the
Lend-Lease Act of 1941, in which the United States sent critical
supplies to Allied nations that had been invaded by Germany in World
War II.<br>
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<b>Heating up</b><br>
The idea got another boost when more than 200 groups released a
letter yesterday urging Biden to invoke the Defense Production Act
to turbocharge deployment of clean energy technologies, including
heat pumps and battery storage.<br>
- <br>
Ladislaw pointed to a recent International Energy Agency report,
which found that doubling current E.U. installation rates of heat
pumps would save 2 billion cubic meters of gas use within the first
year. But if everyone in a European building turned down the
thermostat by 1 degree Celsius, they would save around 10 billion
cubic meters.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/10/heat-pumps-can-counter-putin-climate-crisis-advocates-say/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/10/heat-pumps-can-counter-putin-climate-crisis-advocates-say/</a><br>
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<i>[ High Aspirations is a digital paradigm ] </i><br>
<b>Microsoft’s Pursuit of Climate Goals Runs Into Headwinds</b><br>
The company aims to be “carbon negative” by the end of the decade,
but its emissions rose sharply in the most recent year measured....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/business/microsoft-climate-carbon-emissions.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/business/microsoft-climate-carbon-emissions.html</a><br>
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[ green goals aplenty in corporate message ]<br>
<b>An update on Microsoft’s sustainability commitments: Building a
foundation for 2030</b><br>
Mar 10, 2022 <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2022/03/10/an-update-on-microsofts-sustainability-commitments-building-a-foundation-for-2030/">https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2022/03/10/an-update-on-microsofts-sustainability-commitments-building-a-foundation-for-2030/</a><br>
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[ Women in the future of global warming ]<br>
<b>Women and Climate Change: Leading the way to a more sustainable
and equitable world</b><br>
Mar 9, 2022<br>
Grantham Imperial<br>
As part of Women in Imperial Week (7-11th March 2022), Grantham
Institute organised this panel discussion on the 8th of March 2022,
on International Women’s Day.<br>
Each speaker reflects on their experience, and their observation of
the contribution that women have made to the climate change
narrative (in science, policy, business, education, innovation and
science communication). They discuss the positive steps taken by
scientists/academics, funding organisations/donors, and local
governments to bring women’s skills and knowledge to the forefront
of climate change adaptation and mitigation; How COP26 framed and
tackled vulnerability in relation to gender-bias and the
recommendations set forth in the Glasgow Pact that recognise the
role of women, with a focus on what we need to see more of moving
forward. <br>
<br>
- Chair: Ms Karen Makuch, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law in
Centre for Environmental Polict at Imperial College London<br>
- Dr Courtnae Bailey, PhD Scholar at Imperial College London's
Centre for Environmental Policy<br>
- Dr Friederike Otto, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science at the
Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at
Imperial College London<br>
- Dr Mirabelle Muuls, Assistant Professor in Economics at the
Imperial College Business School and programme director of the MSc
Climate Change, Management and Finance.<br>
- Dr Florence Gschwend, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at
Lixea<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGzsk3xbXcQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGzsk3xbXcQ</a><br>
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[ legal question ]<br>
<b>Limiting the National Right to Exclude </b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4529&context=umlr">https://repository.law.miami.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4529&context=umlr</a><br>
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[ right to compel to degrowth ]<br>
<b>Climate Justice and Degrowth</b><br>
Jan 10, 2022<br>
Global Health<br>
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Department of Global Health
and Social Medicine, we continue our symposia series with, "Climate
Justice and Degrowth." Dr. Eugene Richardson, Dr. Maxine Burkett,
Dr. Jason Hickel, and Dr. Paul Farmer.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1hF9XeM5MM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1hF9XeM5MM</a><br>
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<i>[ South of me about 30 miles ] </i><br>
<b>Tacoma methane storage stirs conflict over climate, health and
tribal rights</b><br>
The 14-story tank on the Tideflats holds 8 million gallons of
liquefied natural gas and it is compounding human rights and climate
crises, opponents say.<br>
by Rico Moore High Country News / March 9, 2022<br>
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“The salmon are sick in the water because of facilities like [PSE’s]
that continue to pollute us and dump these toxic chemicals on top of
us, day in and day out,” Puyallup member Dakota Case told High
Country News in January.<br>
<br>
The subsequent fight against the tank illustrates the critical place
Indigenous sovereignty holds at the intersection of human rights and
climate change. On Nov. 19, 2021, the state’s Pollution Control
Hearings Board affirmed the issuance of the necessary final permits,
which require PSE to monitor sulfur dioxide and volatile organic
compound emissions. The Puyallup Tribe and a coalition of
environmental groups represented by EarthJustice immediately
appealed, arguing that the facility and its associated operations
would hamper decarbonization at a life-or-death moment for the
planet. They were joined by some unlikely allies: immigration
advocates, who fear that it would endanger detainees in the nearby
Northwest ICE Processing Center, and pensioners from Canada, who
object to having their retirement funds used to help pay for the
tank. The opposition, like the tank itself, is both unique and
common, normal but not. Given the kind of climate solutions likely
to be offered by settler-colonial institutions, it might be a
glimpse of the future.<br>
<br>
Since time immemorial, the Tideflats have been the Puyallup’s home.
The tribe came to the water to fish, traveling by canoe to gather
plants for food and medicine. Prior to colonization and
industrialization, shellfish were abundant at low tide. “When the
tide was out, the table was set,” said Puyallup Tribal Councilmember
Annette Bryan. “So you can imagine all of the tidelands without any
industry as just very, very beautiful.” ..<br>
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“The salmon are sick in the water because of facilities like [PSE’s]
that continue to pollute us and dump these toxic chemicals on top of
us, day in and day out,” Puyallup member Dakota Case told High
Country News in January.<br>
<br>
The subsequent fight against the tank illustrates the critical place
Indigenous sovereignty holds at the intersection of human rights and
climate change. On Nov. 19, 2021, the state’s Pollution Control
Hearings Board affirmed the issuance of the necessary final permits,
which require PSE to monitor sulfur dioxide and volatile organic
compound emissions. The Puyallup Tribe and a coalition of
environmental groups represented by EarthJustice immediately
appealed, arguing that the facility and its associated operations
would hamper decarbonization at a life-or-death moment for the
planet. They were joined by some unlikely allies: immigration
advocates, who fear that it would endanger detainees in the nearby
Northwest ICE Processing Center, and pensioners from Canada, who
object to having their retirement funds used to help pay for the
tank. The opposition, like the tank itself, is both unique and
common, normal but not. Given the kind of climate solutions likely
to be offered by settler-colonial institutions, it might be a
glimpse of the future.<br>
<br>
Since time immemorial, the Tideflats have been the Puyallup’s home.
The tribe came to the water to fish, traveling by canoe to gather
plants for food and medicine. Prior to colonization and
industrialization, shellfish were abundant at low tide. “When the
tide was out, the table was set,” said Puyallup Tribal Councilmember
Annette Bryan. “So you can imagine all of the tidelands without any
industry as just very, very beautiful.” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://crosscut.com/environment/2022/03/tacoma-methane-storage-stirs-conflict-over-climate-health-and-tribal-rights">https://crosscut.com/environment/2022/03/tacoma-methane-storage-stirs-conflict-over-climate-health-and-tribal-rights</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at digital media that is
disappearing ]</i><br>
<font size="5"><b>March 11, 2009</b></font><br>
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann rips Paul Dellegatto, meteorologist for
Tampa, Florida Fox affiliate WTVT, for failing to forecast the facts
about human-caused climate change:<br>
<br>
"[I]n the middle of a forecast [Dellegatto] declared global warming
was no longer a threat. [Dellegatto stated,] 'Athens, Georgia, just
about a week ago, and they had up to half a foot of snow. Las Vegas
got snow. It actually snowed in New Orleans this winter.'
Dellegatto went on to say the current warming trend peaked in 1998
and, quote, 'I just think the whole global warming doomsayer theory
is tough to see, based on recent calculations.'<br>
<br>
"Once again, this is science‘s fault. Never should have used the
phrase 'global warming.' 'Weather disaster' would have worked. The
mistake was they thought even the dimmer folks would realize during
global warming, it could get colder from time to time, especially in
the places where it‘s not supposed to, like Tampa last month, when
it got down to 28 here. This guy missed it, obviously because he
was more worried about putting in global warming denial propaganda
into the local freaking weather forecast on the local freaking Fox
station!"<br>
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</strike><strike><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nbcnews.com/video/countdown/29645384#29645384">http://www.nbcnews.com/video/countdown/29645384#29645384</a>
</strike> <i> [ NBCnews decided to drop this video]</i><br>
<i>[denialist warning]</i>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/13/heres-what-happens-when-a-tv-meteorologist-speaks-his-mind/">https://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/03/13/heres-what-happens-when-a-tv-meteorologist-speaks-his-mind/</a>
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