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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>September 16, 2022</b></i></font></p>
<i>[powerful revealing report - a PDF 100 pages - yesterday ]</i><br>
<b>Today the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight
released a report on misinformation by ad and PR companies on
behalf of fossil fuels.</b><br>
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It includes never before seen documents describing the strategy of
these campaigns submitted to award shows:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cleancreatives.org/s/20220914-Hearing-Report_PR-Firms-Preventing-Action-on-Climate-Change.pdf">https://cleancreatives.org/s/20220914-Hearing-Report_PR-Firms-Preventing-Action-on-Climate-Change.pdf</a><br>
<b>The Role of Public Relations Firms in Preventing Action on
Climate Change</b><br>
NOTE: THIS REPORT WAS PREPARED BY THE MAJORITY STAFF OF THE HOUSE<br>
COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES. IT HAS NOT BEEN OFFICIALLY ADOPTED
BY THE<br>
COMMITTEE AND MAY NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF ITS MEMBERS.<br>
September 14, 2022<br>
The oil and gas industry’s role in spreading climate misinformation
to prevent action on climate<br>
change has been extensively studied, but less is known about the
critical role of public relations<br>
(PR) firms in that process. The House Natural Resources Committee
(Committee) has been<br>
investigating the sophisticated and varied ways in which some PR
firms use their considerable<br>
public-influence expertise to help industry mislead the public and
block climate change policy<br>
proposals. This report summarizes the investigative findings to
date.<br>
The Committee has jurisdiction over management of federal fossil
fuel resources with the potential<br>
to drive climate change, and conservation of public lands, public
waters, and species harmed by<br>
climate change. Public perception of climate change influences
implementation of current federal<br>
policy and informs development of potential legislation within the
Committee’s authority.<br>
PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRMS’ DISINFORMATION AND OBSTRUCTION TACTICS<br>
PR firms go far beyond typical marketing techniques to get results
for the fossil fuel industry.<br>
These tactics are misleading or deceptive by design, often making it
difficult for outsiders to<br>
discern the full breadth of a PR firm’s campaign.<br>
The Committee’s ongoing investigation into the role of PR firms has
uncovered new details about<br>
the inner workings of their campaigns. Documents obtained by the
Committee (attached as<br>
appendices) detail a sampling of the strategies and techniques PR
firms use to successfully sway<br>
public opinion and stymie climate action. The documents show in raw,
clinical detail how the firms<br>
evaluate whether they were successful in helping oil and gas
companies avoid having to take real<br>
action on the climate crisis, or stop others from doing so. Their
strategies fall into three major<br>
categories: 1) corporate image promotion, 2) third-party
mobilization, and 3) delegitimization of<br>
opposition.1<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://cleancreatives.org/s/20220914-Hearing-Report_PR-Firms-Preventing-Action-on-Climate-Change.pdf">https://cleancreatives.org/s/20220914-Hearing-Report_PR-Firms-Preventing-Action-on-Climate-Change.pdf</a><br>
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<i>[ Video interviews from Democracy Now - - video ]</i><br>
<b>“Infuriating”: A Third of Pakistan Is Underwater. Calls Grow for
Climate Reparations and Debt Cancellation</b><br>
SEPTEMBER 15, 2022<br>
Nearly 1,500 people have died and tens of millions have been
displaced in Pakistan, where catastrophic flooding has left a third
of the country underwater, washing away homes, farmlands, bridges,
hospitals and schools. “People have lost everything,” says Zulfikar
Ali Bhutto, a Pakistani artist and the grandson of Pakistan’s former
Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto says the flooding has
caused an epidemic of malaria and dengue fever, and calls on the
International Monetary Fund to cancel the country’s debts and commit
to climate reparations...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/15/pakistan_catastrophic_flooding_climate_change_flood">https://www.democracynow.org/2022/9/15/pakistan_catastrophic_flooding_climate_change_flood</a><br>
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<i>[New King of a Carbon Empire ]</i><br>
<b>Stop calling Charles the "climate king"</b><br>
The new British monarch has not earned such a title, say climate
activists from colonized nations<br>
Emily Atkin - Sep 14<br>
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We’ll also discuss the inseparable link between British colonialism
and climate change, and the tragic irony of Charles’ ascension
coinciding with climate devastation in Pakistan, a former British
colony...<br>
- -<br>
“Regardless of what King Charles may have done for the environment
in his personal capacity, he is an inheritor of the legacy of the
British monarchy and the British empire.”...<br>
- -<br>
Not only was the British empire an oppressive colonial entity, it
was also quite literally the one political power that started the
fossil-fueled Industrial Revolution, the driving force behind
climate change.<br>
<br>
The fact that the Industrial Revolution originated in Britain is not
merely an accident of circumstances, or because of some uniquely
British inventiveness. It was, above all, attributable to the
colonial plunder of other parts of the world, which provided much of
the capital investment for the large-scale buildout of manufacturing
facilities and machinery.<br>
<br>
In other words, the only reason the monarchy had the money to kick
off the Industrial Revolution was because it took that money from
other countries through colonization. And while that revolution
continued, and carbon started pouring into the atmosphere, the
monarchy grew its wealth, while the countries it colonized were left
destabilized.<br>
<br>
The destabilization from colonization is a big reason why today, so
many current and former British colonies do not have the resources
for mitigating, adapting to, or recovering from the effects of
climate change, advocates say. The present-day apocalyptic flooding
in Pakistan is a prime example...<br>
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Indeed, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has explicitly
named colonialism as a past and present driver of climate injustice.
In its last report, the international consortium of the world’s top
climate scientists said that high vulnerability is driven by
“historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism,
especially for many Indigenous Peoples and local communities.”<br>
<br>
In addition, research published in the journal PNAS in 2020 found
that colonization “disrupted livelihoods, reshaped land- and
seascapes, threatened intergenerational ecological knowledge
transfer, and led to increased inequality and climate vulnerability”
on islands in the Caribbean and southwestern Indian Ocean...<br>
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There’s also the fact that the King is traditionally a non-political
figure. The main purpose of his position is to defend and uphold the
monarchy. He’s now expected to bite his tongue far more than he did
as Prince. If he were ever going to criticize the monarchy—and, on
top of that, call for its partial dissolution—the time has probably
passed.<br>
<br>
But the biggest indicator that Charles will never earn the title of
“climate king” is the nature of monarchy itself. The fact is, kings
are not in the business of giving power back to the people they rule
over. The business of kings amounts to hoarding power; to hoarding
wealth; and to believing that you know what is best for the poor.
Monarchy itself is antithetical to climate justice, which calls for
giving power back to the people most harmed by the climate crisis.<br>
<br>
Anthony Rogers-Wright, a Sierra Leonean and environmental justice
director at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, puts it this
way:<br>
<br>
The idea of a ‘climate king’ reinforces the idea that only people
with immense power can create change. And that’s just false. Greta
Thunberg was just a teenager, but she had more impact on the global
climate discussion than King Charles ever had. People have to know
they have that power too, and that this movement has to be
grassroots, and bottom-up. So I think it's harmful, actually, to
continue this narrative. Not only wealthy, rich white men can get us
out of this crisis.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://heated.world/p/stop-calling-charles-the-climate">https://heated.world/p/stop-calling-charles-the-climate</a><br>
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<i>[ watch out for a disappearing tax base
CC_Sinking_Tax_Base_20220908a.pdf ]</i><br>
<b>Sinking Tax Base</b><b><br>
</b><b>Land & Property at Risk from Rising Seas</b><br>
A new analysis by Climate Central delivers an assessment of sea
level rise<br>
impact on the tax base of hundreds of coastal U.S.
counties—specifically,<br>
the potential loss of taxable properties caused by shifting tidal
boundaries.<br>
Publish Date: 9/8/2022<br>
<blockquote>Summary<br>
A new analysis by Climate Central delivers an assessment of sea
level rise impact on the tax base of hundreds of<br>
coastal U.S. counties—specifically, the potential loss of taxable
properties caused by shifting tidal boundaries.<br>
Coastal flooding caused by sea level rise is shifting the tide
lines that many coastal states use to delineate<br>
boundaries between public and private property. Changes in
property boundaries can have significant<br>
implications for both property owners and local property tax
revenues—a primary source of funding for<br>
schools and services provided by local governments.<br>
<br>
The analysis takes into account the state-specific boundary
definitions, allowing for a clearer assessment of<br>
the potential loss of private (taxable) property in the coastal
U.S. Climate Central generated this national-level<br>
report as well as more than 250 individual county-level reports
providing data on the acreage, improvements,<br>
and number of parcels potentially affected by rising seas.<br>
This summary of key findings reveals what’s at risk for coastal
counties and their tax bases:<br>
<br>
- By mid-century, more than 648,000 individual tax parcels,
totaling as many as 4.4 million acres, are<br>
projected to be at least partly below the relevant tidal boundary
level. Of those, more than 48,000<br>
properties may be entirely below the relevant boundary level.
Florida, Louisiana, and Texas have the<br>
largest number of affected parcels.<br>
<br>
-- Buildings may be concentrated at historically-safe elevations
along the coast; when rising seas breach<br>
a certain threshold, these densely-developed elevation bands reach
a tipping point and the number of<br>
affected buildings sharply increases.<br>
<br>
-- At least $108 billion of assessed value is at risk from rising
seas by 2100, and because complete values<br>
were not available for all counties, the actual total is likely to
be far higher.<br>
Coastal flooding is an increasingly severe problem in much of the
United States, with consequences for the<br>
value of coastal properties–and on the local property tax base
that funds schools, emergency services, and<br>
more. Property lost to coastal flooding also risks the tax revenue
it represents.<br>
<br>
Flooding is worsened by climate change, which is accelerating the
rates of sea level rise as ocean waters warm<br>
(warmer water occupies more volume) and as melting glaciers and
ice sheets flow into the sea. Major floods,<br>
such as those resulting from hurricanes, and smaller ones that
occur more frequently are occurring on top of<br>
the rising sea.<br>
As a result, properties and buildings that experienced floods in
the past are likely to experience more severe<br>
floods in the future. It also means that higher flood waters are
reaching further inland, flooding properties and<br>
buildings that have never flooded before.<br>
Coastal flooding can be devastating to homeowners, particularly
where homes represent a significant fraction<br>
of their net worth. As sea level rise accelerates the increase in
coastal floods, property values are impacted–<br>
exposing homeowners and businesses to financial risk from eroding
property values.1 That risk extends to the<br>
cities, counties, and school systems that rely on property taxes
for funding.<br>
This report summarizes the risks for individual coastal properties
in the U.S.–and to the local tax base that<br>
those properties comprise—due to essentially permanent coastal
floodings.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://assets.ctfassets.net/cxgxgstp8r5d/2KKeTjnqbFelWrZalnPeRR/9a28719038f3a1dddbdd2e8b78b8455b/CC_Sinking_Tax_Base_20220908a.pdf">https://assets.ctfassets.net/cxgxgstp8r5d/2KKeTjnqbFelWrZalnPeRR/9a28719038f3a1dddbdd2e8b78b8455b/CC_Sinking_Tax_Base_20220908a.pdf</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at a good idea that will never
happen ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>September 16, 2007</b></i></font> <br>
September 16, 2007: In a New York Times article, economist and GOP
advisor Gregory Mankiw advocates a federal carbon tax as the best
way to stem emissions.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/business/16view.html?_r=1&">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/business/16view.html?_r=1&</a><br>
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