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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 4, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ PBS reports ] </i><br>
<b>UN chief says the world is in ‘life-or-death struggle’ for
survival</b><br>
World Oct 3, 2022 <br>
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned
Monday that the world is in “a life-or-death struggle” for survival
as “ climate chaos gallops ahead” and accused the world’s 20
wealthiest countries of failing to do enough to stop the planet from
overheating.<br>
<br>
The U.N. chief said emissions of global-warming greenhouse gases are
at an all-time high and rising, and it’s time for “a quantum level
compromise” between rich developed countries that emitted most of
the heat-trapping gases and emerging economies that often feel its
worst effects.<br>
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Guterres spoke as government representatives opened a meeting in
Congo’s capital Kinshasa to prepare for the major U.N.-led climate
conference in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in November.
It’s a time of immense climate impacts around the world — from
floods that put one-third of Pakistan under water and Europe’s
hottest summer in 500 years to hurricanes and typhoons that have
hammered the Philippines, Cuba and the U.S. state of Florida.<br>
<br>
In the last few weeks, Guterres has amped up a push for climate’s
version of asking polluters pay for what they’ve done, usually
called “loss and damage,” and he said Monday that people need action
now.<br>
<br>
“Failure to act on loss and damage will lead to more loss of trust
and more climate damage. This is a moral imperative that cannot be
ignored.”<br>
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Guterres said the COP27 meeting in Egypt “must be the place for
action on loss and damage.”<br>
<br>
In unusually critical language, he said commitments by the so-called
G20 group of the world’s 20 leading economies “are coming far too
little, and far too late.”<br>
<br>
Guterres warned that current pledges and policies “are shutting the
door on our chances to limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees
Celsius, let alone meet the 1.5 degree goal.”<br>
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“We are in a life-or-death struggle for our own safety today and our
survival tomorrow,” he said...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/un-chief-says-the-world-is-in-life-or-death-struggle-for-survival">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/un-chief-says-the-world-is-in-life-or-death-struggle-for-survival</a><br>
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<i>[ reaching the youngsters as soon as possible NYT article ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change for Preschoolers: A TV Show Explores Unmapped
Ground</b><br>
There are almost no books, TV shows or other tools to help parents
and teachers talk to preschoolers about climate change. “Octonauts:
Above and Beyond” is one of the first to try...<br>
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Instead, “Octonauts” is heavy on adventurous heroes. A pair of
pirate cats travel the world to rescue animals from islands that are
being swallowed by the rising seas. A macaque hydrologist delivers
water to a herd of elephants on the Namibian coast as worsening
drought dries up their drinking water.<br>
<br>
As the thawing permafrost of Siberia thwarts a canine scientist from
conducting her research, she observes; “Temperatures have been
rising all over the world. It may just not be cold enough for the
ground to stay frozen anymore” without explaining the connection to
greenhouse gases from fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
In a way, the series is part of a long tradition of children’s
programs that employ animal characters to teach about the natural
world.<br>
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“We feel pretty strongly that we don’t want kids to feel overwhelmed
and depressed,” said Sara DeWitt, the senior vice president and
general manager of PBS Kids. Ms. DeWitt said that, historically, PBS
has built its educational children’s shows around existing school
curriculums. But there is no agreement on the best way to teach the
youngest children about the more powerful storms, wildfires, rising
seas and extreme heat and drought that will shape their lives.<br>
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“Nobody really knows yet at what age kids can understand climate
change,” said Gary Evans, an environmental and developmental
psychologist at Cornell University who is conducting a study of
children in kindergarten through third grade to find out what they
know about climate change and how it makes them feel. “Anyone who
tells you that they know the best way to talk to young kids about
climate change is doing so without the guidance of data.”<br>
<br>
Climate scientists say that needs to change. Children born within
the last decade, sometimes known as “Generation Alpha,” will be
first to live their entire lives on a planet that has been
irrevocably altered by human-caused global warming.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/climate/octonauts-climate-change-preschool.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/climate/octonauts-climate-change-preschool.html</a><br>
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<i>[ visit this site if you are concerned about your children ]</i><br>
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teacher or a child at heart. When you hear the Native American
saying, “We don’t inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it
from our children”, it makes you stop for a moment and think. You
love nature, travel, adventure and believing in a world that is
special and unique. Climate change and global warming are words that
alarm you, that often seem too big to get your arms around. You care
about what’s happening to the world and notice small changes in your
own life that seem to point in the direction of a threatened
environment. But you wonder if these changes are real, and if they
are you can’t imagine what you can do to help change what is
happening.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatemama.com/">https://climatemama.com/</a><br>
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<i>[ Authors page - book for children ]</i><br>
<b>How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change: Turning Angst into
Action</b><br>
With catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate
system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their
parents. Yet how can we maintain hope and make a difference in the
face of overwhelming evidence of the climate crisis?<br>
<br>
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trusted advisor to parents – How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate
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<br>
The unvarnished realities of the climate emergency, where we are at,
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Strategies for talking to kids of different ages about the climate
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How to maintain our own hope and that of our children<br>
A list of practical actions families can take to tackle the climate
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Ideas for helping children follow their passions in pursuit of a
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<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://climatemama.com/author-page">https://climatemama.com/author-page</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Talk-Your-About-Climate-Change/dp/0865719365/ref=sr_1_1">https://www.amazon.com/Talk-Your-About-Climate-Change/dp/0865719365/ref=sr_1_1</a><br>
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<b>[ It may be important to carefully regard his words... text
from Heated podcast ]</b><br>
<b>The climate idiocy of Ron DeSantis</b><br>
Florida's governor is spending $1 billion to shield his constituents
from a crisis he's actively trying to make worse.<br>
Emily Atkin<br>
Oct 1<br>
As governor of the most climate-vulnerable state in the U.S., Ron
DeSantis has gone to great lengths to convince people that he is Not
Like Other Republicans.<br>
<br>
He created a chief resilience officer position for his
administration to "prepare Florida for the … impacts of climate
change.” He signed two bills to strengthen sea level rise
protections across the state. Overall, DeSantis has committed a
total investment of $1.2 billion in resilience projects to prepare
Florida for climate impacts.<br>
<br>
But as DeSantis invests all these taxpayer dollars protecting
Floridians from climate change, he is also enacting anti-climate
policies to ensure those investments will fail. It’s like spending a
bunch of money to buy new tires, while also installing a bunch of
spikes in your driveway. Stupid. Why would anyone do that?<br>
I don’t know, but DeSantis is doing it. The only explanation I can
think of is that he doesn’t think spikes cause holes in tires, or
that fossil fuels cause climate change. That is evidenced not only
by his rhetoric—he’s said he’s not ”concerned about what is the sole
cause” of climate change—but by two major policies he has recently
enacted to ensure fossil fuels keep burning as long as humanly
possible.<br>
<br>
These policies, if adopted on a national level, would all but doom
Florida and other climate-vulnerable states. Considering DeSantis is
widely considered a 2024 presidential contender, it’s worth taking a
look at how truly dangerous and financially irresponsible they
are—and how lots of other Republicans are adopting them, too...<br>
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Two recent policies to keep Florida underwater<br>
<br>
The first policy enacted by DeSantis in Florida is what Food &
Water Watch called “the most extreme energy preemption bills in the
nation.” Signed last year, these bills ban Florida cities and towns
from adopting 100 percent clean energy goals, reasoning that those
goals “discriminate” against fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
That means municipalities in the literal Sunshine State are being
forced to keep using fossil fuels even if they don’t want to. It
doesn’t matter if a climate change-fueled hurricane destroyed your
town and now you want to be part of the solution. Sorry, honey.
DeSantis said no.<br>
<br>
The second policy came about a month ago, when DeSantis adopted
measures to ban the state’s $186 billion pension fund from making
investment decisions that consider climate change. DeSantis did this
because he said such decisions constitute an “ideological agenda.” <br>
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Courting the oil industry for political gain<br>
<br>
For DeSantis to make a successful 2024 run, he needs to have the oil
industry on his side. To that end, there’s nothing better he can do
than push their priorities—which just so happen to be the two
policies described above.<br>
<br>
“DeSantis is following political trends,” said Dan Cohen, an energy
researcher for the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial
Analysis. “Republicans across the country are trying as hard as they
can to move the funds they have control over to stand against the
tide”—the tide being toward clean energy and a safe climate.<br>
<br>
Indeed, Florida is just one of 17 Republican-led states that have
proposed or adopted legislation limiting the ability of the state
government to do business with entities that are moving away from
fossil fuels. DeSantis is also part of a coalition of 19
Republican-led states that sent a strongly-worded letter to
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, threatening legal action against him for
investing with a clean energy future in mind. 19 other
Republican-led states have adopted laws that prohibit cities from
banning natural gas and other fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
If legislation like this were adopted nationally, effective action
to slow climate change would be near-impossible. Both governments
and financial institutions would be forced to fund fossil fuels,
financial risks of climate change be damned.<br>
<br>
“This is the Republican’s latest version of climate denial, where
all of a sudden climate science is out the window,” said Jackie
Fielder, co-director of the Stop the Money Pipeline coalition.
“Ultimately, the people who will pay for it are the folks in Florida
having to repair their homes, and so many other victims of climate
change.”<br>
So stupid that it probably won’t work — for now<br>
<br>
Republicans like DeSantis are trying their best to prevent financial
institutions from moving away from fossil fuels. But it turns out
that, at least for now, their best is not very good...<br>
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Of course, this could all change if Republicans continue their
coordinated drive to appoint judges that are against climate action.
And if a Republican like DeSantis wins the presidency, there’s no
telling how far these financially stupid actions could go.<br>
<br>
For now, though, some climate advocates are just taking it as a sign
that the tide is truly turning against fossil fuels.<br>
<br>
“I view this as a sign that the divestment movement is winning, the
fact that DeSantis and all these Republicans are suddenly engaged on
this topic,” said David Arkush, the policy director of Public
Citizen’s climate program. “Of course, I would like them to not do
these things, not hurt their own citizens … But these are ultimately
fossil fuel lobbying dollars that are behind this push. So if
they’re pushing money here, it's because they feel themselves
losing.” <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://heated.world/p/the-climate-idiocy-of-ron-desantis">https://heated.world/p/the-climate-idiocy-of-ron-desantis</a><br>
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<i>[ Tipping Points are not found in a restaurant ]</i><br>
<b>The scariest climate science paper I've ever read?</b><br>
Sep 19, 2022 <br>
This month a paper came out that honestly chilled me. It was about
tipping points in climate - a well-known concept that the climate
can change abruptly if certain conditions are met in certain
elements of the climate system, such as excess melting of the
Greenland ice sheet. That wasn't new. What was new was the threshold
these tipping elements could flip - according to this research, we
could be triggering some tipping elements already - and if we warm
the planet by just 1.5°C then we are likely to do so.<br>
<br>
The climate is still within our control. But if we keep emitting as
we are, that isn't always going to be the case.<br>
<br>
Every. Tenth. Of. A. Degree. Counts.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoyaCSWFGs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxoyaCSWFGs</a>
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[ Economic predictions given in May of this year video - book
authoring interview ]<br>
<b>Full Ep: What Will The World Look Like in Five Years?</b><br>
578,307 views Premiered Jul 7, 2022 <br>
<br>
Regionalization” is the transition from a world of stable prices and
consistent growth to one of rising costs of living where the threat
of global famine is real. <br>
<br>
The breakdown of an economic order framed by just-in-time supply
chains requires a rethink of trade networks and relationships.
Geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan addresses these issues and more
in his new book “The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping
the Collapse of Globalization.” <br>
<br>
Zeihan joins Real Vision’s Maggie Lake to talk about the
implications of this transition, including the end of China’s time
as a great power and the perpetuation of the U.S. dollar’s status as
the global reserve currency. <br>
<br>
Recorded on May 31, 2022.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzipwDQBUyc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzipwDQBUyc</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 4, 2014</b></i></font> <br>
<b>October 4, 2014: New York Times columnist Gail Collins observes:</b><br>
<br>
"There was a time when Republicans were leaders in the fight to slow
climate change — particularly for the concept called 'cap and
trade,' which had a marketplace-friendly tilt. Among the co-sponsors
of a cap-and-trade bill in 2007 was Senator Lisa Murkowski, a
Republican of Alaska. Murkoswki had to run for re-election as an
independent in 2010, having lost her party’s nomination to a Tea
Party favorite who complains about 'climate-change alarmists.'<br>
<br>
"These days, it takes courage for a Republican to acknowledge that
human beings have anything to do with climate change at all."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/opinion/gail-collins-the-walrus-and-the-politicians.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/04/opinion/gail-collins-the-walrus-and-the-politicians.html</a>
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