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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 15, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ from GRIST - the big issue of the new COP ]</i><br>
<b>Climate reparations are on the agenda at COP27 — whether wealthy
nations like it or not</b><br>
“A bunch of countries and corporations are responsible for the mess.
They have to bloody clean it up. As simple as that.”<br>
Naveena Sadasivam<br>
Oct 11, 2022<br>
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The planet has warmed by an average 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees
Fahrenheit) since preindustrial times, enough to accelerate or
intensify an onslaught of cyclones, heatwaves, droughts, sea-level
rise, and other natural disasters. The countries most vulnerable to
climate change claim they have lost a fifth of their wealth due to
climate change-driven increases in temperature and inconsistent
rainfall patterns over the last 20 years.<br>
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Loss and damage is expected to take center stage at the 27th United
Nations climate change conference, or COP27, in Egypt next month.
Famine-level drought in Somalia and devastating floods that left
one-third of Pakistan, a country responsible for less than 1 percent
of the world’s carbon emissions, underwater have only added urgency
to the issue.<br>
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Activists and developing nations hope to leave COP27 with a
sustainable system for funding loss and damage restitution over the
long term. In the past, countries have pledged funds to pay for
climate projects in poor countries, with the assistance of the
United Nations. <br>
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And since the conference is being held in a developing country for
the first time in six years, advocates hope to leverage media
attention to make the moral case for loss and damage funding. In a
recent interview with Bloomberg, India’s environment minister
Bhupender Yadav said that the focus on mitigation at last year’s COP
“caused disappointment among the smaller countries over the lack of
discussion on loss and damages.” He noted that India is working with
other industrializing nations to demand compensation. <br>
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“You can’t just hide under the carpet,” said Singh, of the Climate
Action Network. “If they really want to avoid litigation and
unlimited liability, they should come to the table and find ways of
supporting communities who are facing this crisis. That’s the only
way.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/international/cop27-loss-and-damage-climate-reparations/">https://grist.org/international/cop27-loss-and-damage-climate-reparations/</a><br>
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<b>Virtual National Letter Writing Training & Party</b><br>
Time Monday, October 17 – Wednesday, October 19<br>
9pm EDT +<br>
Location Virtual event- Join from anywhere<br>
<b>About this event</b><br>
Writing letters to get climate voters to the polls is one of the
impactful things you can do right now for the climate. We’ll be
sending these letters to voters in key districts in the midterm
general — helping turn them out to vote for climate justice
candidates. Learn more about our races here: voteclimate2022.org<br>
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Join fellow volunteers on Zoom for a quick training, then we'll jump
into writing letters together! Please look for your confirmation
email with further instructions.<br>
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<i>[ read more about why climate voted matter ]</i><br>
<b>Build the Climate Vote</b><br>
We need champions in Congress who will fight for us – and we need to
hold politicians accountable to putting people and the planet over
corporate profit. Continuing to show up for elections will prove
that our movement cannot be ignored.<br>
<br>
Fossil fuel executives and other powerful corporate interests depend
on voters staying home and have funded voter suppression efforts to
discourage us from taking part in our democracy. We are fighting
back against their underhanded tactics and driving turnout to ensure
that people do not sit this election out.<br>
<br>
We have identified key races where climate justice candidates are
running, and we’re organizing to get climate voters informed and out
to the polls. Check out below to find out more about the key races
in the 2022 midterm elections and where candidates stand on climate.<br>
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How you can help<br>
Greenpeace USA volunteers all over the country are writing and
sending personalized letters to climate voters in key races to help
turn them out to vote for climate justice candidates. Personalized
letters have been shown to be one of the most effective ways to help
get voters to the polls. And, it’s fun and easy to do.<br>
<br>
Key races where CLIMATE is on the ballot<br>
We have identified key races where climate justice candidates are
running, and we’re organizing to get climate voters informed and out
to the polls.<br>
<br>
These races are more than just elections between two candidates.
These races are a referendum on the future we want. We have the
chance to prove that we can build enough people power to beat fossil
fuel funded politicians and elect a Congress that delivers a livable
future that works for all of us.<br>
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We are writing letters to climate concerned voters in these
districts because they deserve to know that there is a difference
between the candidates when it comes to climate, environmental
justice, and protecting our communities – and how important it is to
get out to the poll<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/voteclimate2022/">https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/voteclimate2022/</a><br>
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<i>[ An interactive display showing heat shifts -- also increases in
low temperatures -- Bookmark this site - the Climate Shift Index
map. ] </i><br>
<b>Climate Shift Index</b><br>
What's the CSI scale?<br>
The CSI is a categorical scale, with the categories defined by the
ratio of how common (or likely) a temperature is in today's altered
climate vs. how common it would be in a climate without human-caused
climate change. For the positive CSI conditions (which occur much
more often than the negative), we assigned a simple descriptor to
these events (see table).<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatecentral.org/tools/climate-shift-index?dmid=61216103940218736296">https://www.climatecentral.org/tools/climate-shift-index?dmid=61216103940218736296</a>
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<i>[For instance -- enter a location. Select a day like yesterday,
today, tomorrow or the next day. Choose to see the high or low
temperature increases - press the Anomaly button ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Shift Index</b><br>
Night time conditions in Seattle are expected to be unusually warm.
The Climate Shift Index on the minimum temperature for tomorrow is
expected to reach level 2. Events reaching Climate Shift Index level
2 indicate a strong climate-related event and show that climate
change is having a measurable impact on conditions in Seattle.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.climatecentral.org/tools/climate-shift-index?dmid=61216103940218736296">https://www.climatecentral.org/tools/climate-shift-index?dmid=61216103940218736296</a>
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<i>[ Link to view the sarcastic cartoon ]</i><br>
<b>Why didn’t they call the carbon safeguard mechanism ‘Let’s
Actually Reduce Pollution lol’?</b><br>
First Dog on the Moon<br>
Fri 14 Oct 2022<br>
Nobody knows what this critical piece of climate policy is because
it is BORING<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2022/oct/14/why-didnt-they-call-the-carbon-safeguard-mechanism-lets-actually-reduce-pollution-lol">https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2022/oct/14/why-didnt-they-call-the-carbon-safeguard-mechanism-lets-actually-reduce-pollution-lol</a>
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<i>[ The news archive - looking back at Al Gore's inconvenient
disruption ]</i><font size="+2"><i><b> <br>
</b></i></font><i><font size="+2"><b>October 15, 2007</b></font></i>
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October 15, 2007: New York Times columnist Paul Krugman ridicules
right-wing outrage over Al Gore's Nobel Prize win. <br>
<blockquote>Opinion<br>
<b>Gore Derangement Syndrome</b><br>
By Paul Krugman<br>
Oct. 15, 2007<br>
<br>
On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall
Street Journal’s editors couldn’t even bring themselves to mention
Mr. Gore’s name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long
list of people they thought deserved the prize more.<br>
<br>
And at National Review Online, Iain Murray suggested that the
prize should have been shared with “that well-known peace
campaigner Osama bin Laden, who implicitly endorsed Gore’s
stance.” You see, bin Laden once said something about climate
change — therefore, anyone who talks about climate change is a
friend of the terrorists.<br>
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What is it about Mr. Gore that drives right-wingers insane?<br>
<br>
Partly it’s a reaction to what happened in 2000, when the American
people chose Mr. Gore but his opponent somehow ended up in the
White House. Both the personality cult the right tried to build
around President Bush and the often hysterical denigration of Mr.
Gore were, I believe, largely motivated by the desire to expunge
the stain of illegitimacy from the Bush administration.<br>
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And now that Mr. Bush has proved himself utterly the wrong man for
the job — to be, in fact, the best president Al Qaeda’s recruiters
could have hoped for — the symptoms of Gore derangement syndrome
have grown even more extreme.<br>
The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of
view, is that he keeps being right. In 1992, George H. W. Bush
mocked him as the “ozone man,” but three years later the
scientists who discovered the threat to the ozone layer won the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2002 he warned that if we invaded
Iraq, “the resulting chaos could easily pose a far greater danger
to the United States than we presently face from Saddam.” And so
it has proved.<br>
But Gore hatred is more than personal. When National Review
decided to name its anti-environmental blog Planet Gore, it was
trying to discredit the message as well as the messenger. For the
truth Mr. Gore has been telling about how human activities are
changing the climate isn’t just inconvenient. For conservatives,
it’s deeply threatening.<br>
<br>
Consider the policy implications of taking climate change
seriously.<br>
<br>
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals,”
said F.D.R. “We know now that it is bad economics.” These words
apply perfectly to climate change. It’s in the interest of most
people (and especially their descendants) that somebody do
something to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases, but each individual would like that somebody to
be somebody else. Leave it up to the free market, and in a few
generations Florida will be underwater.<br>
<br>
The solution to such conflicts between self-interest and the
common good is to provide individuals with an incentive to do the
right thing. In this case, people have to be given a reason to cut
back on greenhouse gas emissions, either by requiring that they
pay a tax on emissions or by requiring that they buy emission
permits, which has pretty much the same effects as an emissions
tax. We know that such policies work: the U.S. “cap and trade”
system of emission permits on sulfur dioxide has been highly
successful at reducing acid rain.<br>
Climate change is, however, harder to deal with than acid rain,
because the causes are global. The sulfuric acid in America’s
lakes mainly comes from coal burned in U.S. power plants, but the
carbon dioxide in America’s air comes from coal and oil burned
around the planet — and a ton of coal burned in China has the same
effect on the future climate as a ton of coal burned here. So
dealing with climate change not only requires new taxes or their
equivalent; it also requires international negotiations in which
the United States will have to give as well as get.<br>
<br>
Everything I’ve just said should be uncontroversial — but imagine
the reception a Republican candidate for president would receive
if he acknowledged these truths at the next debate. Today, being a
good Republican means believing that taxes should always be cut,
never raised. It also means believing that we should bomb and
bully foreigners, not negotiate with them.<br>
<br>
So if science says that we have a big problem that can’t be solved
with tax cuts or bombs — well, the science must be rejected, and
the scientists must be slimed. For example, Investor’s Business
Daily recently declared that the prominence of James Hansen, the
NASA researcher who first made climate change a national issue two
decades ago, is actually due to the nefarious schemes of — who
else? — George Soros.<br>
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Which brings us to the biggest reason the right hates Mr. Gore: in
his case the smear campaign has failed. He’s taken everything they
could throw at him, and emerged more respected, and more credible,
than ever. And it drives them crazy.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/opinion/15krugman.html?_r=0</a>
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