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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>September 25, 2022</b></i></font><i><br>
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<i>[ Street demonstration activism ]</i><b><br>
</b><b>Thousands call for ‘climate reparations and justice’ in
global protests</b><br>
Fridays for Future ‘strikes’ in about 450 places demanded rich
countries pay for damage from global heating <br>
Damien Gayle and agencies<br>
Fri 23 Sep 2022 13.23 EDT<br>
Thousands of young people have staged a coordinated “global climate
strike” across Asia, Africa and Europe in a call for reparations for
those worst affected by climate breakdown.<br>
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From New Zealand and Japan to Germany and the Democratic Republic of
Congo, activists walked out of schools, universities and jobs to
demand rich countries pay for the damage global heating is
inflicting on the poor.<br>
<br>
In the latest day of action by the Fridays For Future movement,
strikes “for climate reparations and justice” were planned in about
450 locations worldwide.<br>
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The protests take place six weeks before the Cop27 climate summit,
where developing countries plan to push for compensation for
climate-related destruction to homes, infrastructure and
livelihoods.<br>
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Recent months have seen deadly floods engulfing large parts of
Pakistan, wildfires ravaging north Africa, Europe and North America,
and record-breaking heatwaves in Britain and India.<br>
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“We’re striking all over the world because the governments in charge
are still doing too little for climate justice,” said Darya
Sotoodeh, a spokesperson for the group’s chapter in Germany.<br>
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Denmark is the only rich country that has so far stepped up with
funding for the problem of “loss and damage” due to climate-related
disasters, announcing at the UN assembly this week it would provide
DKK 100m (£12m) to address it.<br>
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A statement on the Fridays For Future website said: “Colonisers and
capitalists are at the core of every system of oppression that has
caused the climate crisis, and decolonisation, using the tool of
climate reparations, is the best kind of climate action.”<br>
<br>
The Fridays For Future youth movement began in 2018, inspired by
Greta Thunberg’s solitary protests outside the Swedish parliament.
It reached a high point in November 2019, when 4 million people took
part in 4,500 actions worldwide on one Friday.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/thousands-call-for-climate-reparations-and-justice-in-global-protests">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/thousands-call-for-climate-reparations-and-justice-in-global-protests</a><br>
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<i>[ Who was paying attention back then ?? ]</i><br>
<b>Exxon Could Have Helped Stop Climate Change 30 Years Ago,
‘Proprietary’ Docs Show</b><br>
Instead the company’s Canadian arm developed a communications plan
to make climate solutions like carbon taxes look economically
reckless.<br>
Geoff Dembickion Sep 20, 2022 <br>
Exxon figured out a solution that could have helped achieve
“stabilization” of the climate emergency back in the early 1990s,
and then came up with a communication strategy to make sure that
solution wouldn’t happen. <br>
<br>
That’s according to a newly reviewed 1993 document labeled
“proprietary” that was written by the company’s Canadian subsidiary
Imperial Oil, one of the top producers in a heavily polluting oil
deposit known as the Alberta tar sands.<br>
<br>
The document directed leaders at the company to stress the “many
uncertainties” of implementing a national tax on greenhouse gas
emissions when talking with journalists and politicians, even though
Imperial Oil had privately studied the policy and learned that it
could cause national emissions to plateau and then shrink without
doing significant damage to the economy. <br>
<br>
If Exxon had back then used its vast political and financial power
to aggressively push for a national carbon tax to be adopted in
major economies around the world, global emissions might have
already peaked by now. “We’d be headed down the backside,”
environmental writer and 350.org founder Bill McKibben argues in my
new book entitled The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right
Conspiracy To Cover Up Climate Change. <br>
Enrique Rosero, a scientist who spent 10 years working for Exxon
before being pushed out for questioning its opposition to climate
solutions, agrees his former employer could have made a huge early
impact in the climate fight by pushing for a carbon tax.<br>
<br>
“That would have significantly changed incentives for everything,”
he says in The Petroleum Papers. “It would have been so much easier
to address the crisis if we’d started then.” <br>
<br>
The main problem with a carbon tax from Imperial Oil’s perspective
was that it would drastically harm the company’s sizable investments
in Canada’s massive oil patch. “Imposition of increased taxes to
dampen demand and influence supply mix could increase the relative
supply costs of energy intensive/higher carbon content fossil fuels
such as oil sands,” the 1993 document says. <br>
<br>
This could potentially “result in a 12% reduction in downstream
revenue” for Imperial Oil, the document warned, equivalent to losses
of 940 million Canadian dollars...<br>
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“That would have significantly changed incentives for everything,”
he says in The Petroleum Papers. “It would have been so much easier
to address the crisis if we’d started then.”... <br>
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Armed with this knowledge, Imperial then created a “well developed
and broadly communicated position aimed at limiting non
market-driven response steps” to climate change. That is the
strategy laid out in the “proprietary” 1993 document. <br>
<br>
Thus, at a crucial early moment when the world could have gotten the
climate emergency under control, Exxon and its Canadian subsidiary
chose to sabotage what they knew to be the most effective solution,
McKibben argues. <br>
<br>
“I think that’s the part that’s sometimes hard for people to
understand,” he said. During the early 1990s when this research was
being conducted, “we had a variety of options that were fairly
modest.” But with each wasted year since then, he explains, the
climate emergency, and the solutions at hand to fix it, have become
more and more dire. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/20/exxon-imperial-oil-climate-change-proprietary-docs/">https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/20/exxon-imperial-oil-climate-change-proprietary-docs/</a><br>
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<i>[ blunder in 1990 brings doom to current world ]</i><br>
<b>Imperial Oil Files: How a Canadian Oil Giant Followed Exxon into
Climate Denial</b><br>
Imperial Oil Limited, Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary, took a very
different path from Exxon in the U.S. 30 years ago, revealing the
vulnerabilities and strategies of being an oil company in the age of
climate crisis. While Exxon was laying low in the late 1980s and
early 1990s, biding time in the U.S. during the George H.W. Bush
administration, Imperial was forced to react to urgent policy
initiatives on climate change being forwarded by the Canadian
government.<br>
<br>
The digital release and analysis of Imperial Oil documents obtained
by DeSmog and the Climate Investigations Center from a Canadian
archive offers a window into the company’s work to undermine the
Canadian government and stop measures that would impact the company
economically, while appearing to be a thoughtful participant in the
dialogue around climate change.<br>
<br>
This new collection of over 300 documents, which includes numerous
documents never before published online, marks the most in-depth
look at Imperial’s climate science and policy history to date,
helping to shed new light and add context to previous reporting on
Exxon’s and Imperial’s climate change legacy and documents by
InsideClimate News and the Los Angeles Times with the Columbia
Journalism School in 2015 and 2016...<br>
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Armed with this knowledge, Imperial then created a “well developed
and broadly communicated position aimed at limiting non
market-driven response steps” to climate change. That is the
strategy laid out in the “proprietary” 1993 document. <br>
<br>
Thus, at a crucial early moment when the world could have gotten the
climate emergency under control, Exxon and its Canadian subsidiary
chose to sabotage what they knew to be the most effective solution,
McKibben argues. <br>
<br>
“I think that’s the part that’s sometimes hard for people to
understand,” he said. During the early 1990s when this research was
being conducted, “we had a variety of options that were fairly
modest.” But with each wasted year since then, he explains, the
climate emergency, and the solutions at hand to fix it, have become
more and more dire. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/20/exxon-imperial-oil-climate-change-proprietary-docs/">https://www.desmog.com/2022/09/20/exxon-imperial-oil-climate-change-proprietary-docs/</a><br>
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<i>[ Politico reports]</i><br>
<b>World Bank president says he will not resign, apologizes for
remarks on climate science</b><br>
“When asked, ‘Are you a climate denier?’ I should’ve said no,”
Malpass said.<br>
By KELLY GARRITY<br>
09/23/2022 <br>
World Bank President David Malpass will not resign, he said Friday
during a virtual conversation with Global Insider author Ryan Heath.
NGOs and leading climate activists have been calling for Malpass to
step down after he repeatedly dodged questions about the science
behind climate change at a New York Times event Tuesday.<br>
<br>
“I don’t even know — I’m not a scientist,” he said at the event.<br>
<br>
On Friday, Malpass apologized for those remarks.<br>
<br>
“When asked, ‘Are you a climate denier?’ I should’ve said no,”
Malpass said, adding later, “It was a poorly chosen line, I regret
that, because we as an organization are using the science every
day.”<br>
<br>
None of the 187 countries that are members of the World Bank have
asked him to resign, Malpass said, and shareholders have voiced
“strong support, for me, for the World Bank,” he told Heath.<br>
<br>
Malpass also said he would “absolutely” accept training from climate
scientists to improve his knowledge of the science behind climate
change.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/23/world-bank-president-not-resigning-apologizes-for-climate-science-remarks-00058612">https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/23/world-bank-president-not-resigning-apologizes-for-climate-science-remarks-00058612</a><br>
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<i>[ Pew Research Center - poses an important question -- checking
validity. ]</i><br>
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022<br>
<b>Does public opinion polling about issues still work?</b><br>
BY COURTNEY KENNEDY, ANDREW MERCER, NICK HATLEY AND ARNOLD LAU<br>
The 2016 and 2020 presidential elections left many Americans
wondering whether polling still works. Pre-election polls in both
years struggled to capture the strength of support for former
President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates.<br>
<br>
But elections are just one of many topics that polls are used to
understand. A new analysis from Pew Research Center examines the
accuracy of polling on more than 20 topics, ranging from Americans’
employment and vaccination status to whether they’ve served in the
military or experienced financial hardship. The analysis shows that,
despite low response rates, national polls like the Center’s come
within a few percentage points, on average, of benchmarks from high
response rate federal surveys. The closer a poll estimate is to the
benchmark, the more accurate it is considered to be. Consistent with
past research, polling errors are larger for some topics – like
political engagement – that may be related to a person’s willingness
to take surveys.<br>
<br>
Across the 26 topics asked about in the Center’s new analysis, the
poll estimates differed from the U.S. government benchmark by an
average of 4 percentage points. Polling was particularly accurate
for certain topics like employment, marital status and
homeownership. For example, the share of U.S. adults who said they
had received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose by June 2021 was
roughly two-thirds based on data from both the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (66%) and Center polling (67%)...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/09/21/does-public-opinion-polling-about-issues-still-work">https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/09/21/does-public-opinion-polling-about-issues-still-work</a><br>
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<i>[ "...he already knew" -- most important now is to listen --
start 20 mins in the video if you like ]</i><br>
<b>Dahr Jamail Interview in full</b><br>
Aug 1, 2020 Interviews from the documentary, Living in the Time of
Dying. <br>
To find out more or support our work: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.livinginthetimeofdying.com">www.livinginthetimeofdying.com</a><br>
<br>
Dahr Jamail in his usual forthright manner explores the research and
science behind his groundbreaking book, The End of Ice. In this
interview Dahr goes on to talk about grief, finding meaning and the
importance of the indigenous perspective at this time.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEbegILo1A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyEbegILo1A</a><br>
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<i>[ fire season, no longer and active season, we have to take on
fire..in a thousand year time scale. Watch the video </i>]<br>
<b>In California, a Race to Save the World’s Largest Trees From
Megafires</b><br>
Wildfires killed up to a fifth of the world’s giant sequoias in just
two years, but stopping the devastation requires lighting even more
fires in their groves.<br>
By Twilight Greenaway<br>
September 23, 2022<br>
When the Washburn Fire burned through part of Yosemite’s iconic
Mariposa Grove in July, photos of its famed giant sequoias steeped
in smoke and surrounded by automated sprinklers to shelter them from
the flames shocked viewers around the globe. <br>
<br>
Less than a year earlier, similar photos showed the trunk of the
sequoia known as General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, wrapped
in a tinfoil-like material to repel the flames of the KNP Complex
Fire. Yet, while those efforts helped save the celebrity trees from
the infernos, the annihilation elsewhere in California’s Sierra
Nevada mountains is difficult to grasp: The U.S. Forest Service
estimates that, in 2020 and 2021 alone, wildfires killed 13 percent
to 19 percent of the world’s giant sequoias...<br>
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Scientists now estimate that giant sequoia groves used to experience
an average of 31 fires per century—either through Indigenous burns
or wildfires. Those blazes would consume smaller trees from around
the feet of the giants and give new sequoias a place to take root.<br>
<br>
But the fires around the sequoias are changing. Scientists first
noticed the impacts of increasingly severe conflagrations after the
Rough Fire in 2015. Then, three massive wildfires—the 2020 Castle
Fire and the 2021 Windy and KNP Complex fires—swept through the
region in an 18-month period.<br>
<br>
The growing number of dead and dried-out trees below the giants
allowed fires to ignite easier and burn hotter, while the increasing
density and height of the woods around the sequoias provided ladder
fuels that allowed flames to climb into the forest canopy. <br>
<br>
A recent study looking at the high-intensity fires that took place
in the Sierras from 2015 to 2017 found that numerous sequoias
suffered from severe burn scars and many of their crowns went up in
flames, ultimately leading to their deaths. In areas where fires
burned at high severity, 84 percent of the towering trees died—a
proportion that was essentially unheard of just a few years earlier.<br>
<br>
Brigham and members of Save the Redwoods League suspected the
long-established pattern of fire in the sequoia groves was shifting.
Then the 2020 Castle Fire burned a dozen sequoia groves in the
national park alone.<br>
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“A handful of them burned way outside what we call the natural range
of variation,” Brigham said. The National Park Service estimated
that between 7,500 to 10,600 giant sequoias were killed in that one
fire.<br>
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“Some part of my brain was like, ‘There is no possible way that fire
could have gotten up into those canopies and torched those trees,’”
said Linnea Hardlund, a wildland firefighter and Save the Redwoods
League’s forest ecologist. “‘They’re so tall!’” But when she entered
the grove shortly after the fire, “it completely took my breath
away, in a similar but very different way from the first time I saw
a giant sequoia. And it rocked the foundation of knowledge I had
started building from field experience.” <br>
<br>
In July 2021, the existential threat to sequoias began to come into
focus across the forestry world. The National Park Service, the U.S.
Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, which oversee much
of the land where the trees reside—joined eight other entities
responsible for stewarding groves of the giant trees, including the
State of California, the University of California, Berkeley and the
Tule River Indian Tribe to form the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition to
respond to the disaster. <br>
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A forest restoration crew made up of young Tule River tribal members
takes a break from the physically demanding work of post-fire clean
up beneath a giant sequoia in the Black Mountain grove. Photo by
Twilight Greenaway.<br>
A forest restoration crew made up of young Tule River tribal members
takes a break from the physically demanding work of post-fire clean
up beneath a giant sequoia in the Black Mountain grove. Credit:
Twilight Greenaway<br>
Among the numerous politicians and scientists who toured the charred
groves in Sequoia National Forest were members of Congress led by
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).<br>
<br>
“After seeing the Giant Sequoias first-hand and understanding the
damage fires have caused to our communities, it’s clear there is an
urgent need to address this crisis through fire prevention and
better forest management,” McCarthy said.<br>
<br>
Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), a ranking member of the House Committee on
Natural Resources, called the devastation he witnessed “a clear sign
that we have to dramatically and rapidly change our strategy to
prevent any more loss.”<br>
<br>
In late June, McCarthy and 44 bipartisan co-sponsors introduced the
Save Our Sequoias Act, which—if passed—would declare the situation
an emergency, assess the damage for Congress, codify the existence
of the Sequoia Land Coalition and provide a pathway for federal
funding to “support the implementation of hazardous fuels reduction
treatments in and around Giant Sequoia groves,” which includes a
grant program for forest stewards, among other things. <br>
<br>
The bill would allow the members of the coalition, scientists and
land managers to carry out “special projects” to protect the
sequoias as they see fit, without undertaking reviews of the
potential impacts of the proposed work that are typically required
under National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the National
Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) or the Endangered Species Act
(ESA). But those shortcuts so alarmed some critics that more than 80
environmental groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity,
Earthjustice and the Natural Resources Defense Council—organizations
that would normally support government efforts to protect
significant stands of trees—penned a public letter opposing the
bill. The groups expressed concern about “rushed and poorly planned
logging projects,” harm to imperiled species and a lack of
transparency at a time when conservative lawmakers have often sought
to weaken NEPA and other environmental review processes. <br>
<br>
“Those environmental laws were put into place to ensure that when
federal agencies like the Forest Service undertake land management
decisions, they do that in a way that not only follows the best
available science, but also conserves listed species, and provides a
public opportunity to comment and be involved in those decisions,”
said Susan Jane Brown, the wildlands program director and a staff
attorney with the Western Environmental Law Center, who spoke for
the groups opposing the bill. “In our view, even though the purpose
of the legislation is a good one—we want to protect sequoias—we
don’t believe that waiving environmental laws is necessary in order
to get there.” <br>
<br>
Earth Justice’s Blaine Miller-McCafee called the bill a “Trojan
horse to diminish important environmental reviews and cut science
and communities out of the decision-making process.”<br>
<br>
Other environmental groups, such as the Nature Conservancy, are
behind the bill. Save the Redwoods League, which wants to see 2,000
acres treated in the most at-risk groves before the 2023 fire
season, supports the bill, and even contributed language to it. Sam
Hodder, the League’s president, said that the act provides what the
stewards on the ground say they need. “The specifics don’t in any
way change those bedrock environmental laws,” he adds. “They
exercise the flexibility that’s built into those laws to allow
stewardship and response to emergency.” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092022/california-sequioa-wildfires/">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23092022/california-sequioa-wildfires/</a><br>
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<font size="+2"><i><b>September 25, 2005</b></i></font> <br>
September 25, 2005: TIME Magazine releases the October 3, 2005<br>
cover-dated issue, with the cover story: "Are We Making Hurricanes<br>
Worse?"<br>
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