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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 16, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Today’s Indicator number is 15 ] </i><br>
<b>In the U.S., that’s the number of natural disasters so far this
year that have caused at least $1 billion in damage.</b> Hurricane
Ian, the most recent disaster to fall under this category, is
estimated to have caused between $53 billion and $74 billion in
damages.<br>
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“The year-to-date average temperature for the contiguous U.S. was
56.8 degrees F — 1.7 degrees above average — ranking in the warmest
third of the YTD record. California and Florida saw their third- and
fourth-warmest January-through-September periods on record,
respectively,” the NOAA stated on its website.<br>
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Across the West, nearly 1,000 heat records were broken in early
September, the NOAA said, a month that will go down as the
fifth-warmest on record. In all, the last seven years have been the
warmest on record, according to data from NASA, the NOAA and
Berkeley Earth...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://news.yahoo.com/climate-change-is-causing-more-billion-dollar-weather-disasters-191142055.html">https://news.yahoo.com/climate-change-is-causing-more-billion-dollar-weather-disasters-191142055.html</a><br>
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<i>[ LIsten to some Brian Eno ]</i><br>
<b>On ‘ForeverAndEverNoMore,’ Brian Eno Sings for the End of the
World</b><br>
The musician and producer’s new songs meditate on folly and
annihilation, playing like a far more fatalistic sequel to “Another
Day on Earth” from 2005.<br>
By Jon Pareles<br>
Oct. 13, 2022<br>
When you’re expecting extinction, it makes sense to record the
threnody in advance. That’s what Brian Eno has done on
“ForeverAndEverNoMore”: a mournful, contemplative album that stares
down humanity’s self-immolation in what he calls “the climate
emergency.”<br>
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“These billion years will end/They end in me,” he intones in “Garden
of Stars,” as electronic tones go whizzing by and distortion
flickers and crests around him like a cosmic radiation storm. It’s a
song that marvels at the mathematical improbability of human life —
“How then could it be that we appear at all?/In all this rock and
fire, in all this gas and dust,” he sings — while envisioning its
cessation...<br>
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<b>Brian Eno - Icarus or Blériot</b><br>
2,897 views Oct 14, 2022 Music video by Brian Eno performing
Icarus or Blériot. A UMC recording; © 2022 Opal Music Ltd., under
exclusive licence to Universal Music Operations Limited<br>
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On “ForeverAndEverNoMore,” Eno has traded percussiveness for
sustain. Long drones underlie most of the tracks, echoing ancient
traditions of mystical music; most of the instrumental sounds seem
to arrive from great echoey distances. Eno sings slow, chantlike
phrases, and his lyrics favor open vowels rather than crisp
consonants. His productions — with the guitarist Leo Abrahams often
credited as “post-producer” — open up vast perceived spaces in every
track, as if he’s already staring into the void.<br>
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The songs deliver indictments of human folly with measured calm.
Slow, deep breathing sets the rhythm of “We Let It In,” as Eno
sings, “We open to the blinding sky” to the soothing notes of a
major chord; his daughter Darla Eno quietly repeats the words “deep
sun.” In its reverberating solidity, the song makes global warming
sound encompassing and inevitable...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/arts/music/brian-eno-foreverandevernomore-review.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/13/arts/music/brian-eno-foreverandevernomore-review.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare</a><br>
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<i>[ clips from The Conversation ]</i><br>
<b>To address climate change, lifestyles must change – but the
government’s reluctance to help is holding us back</b><br>
Published: October 13, 2022 <br>
Christina Demski - Reader in Environmental Psychology, University of
Bath<br>
Stuart Capstick Senior Research Fellow in Psychology, Cardiff
University<br>
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Without changes to people’s behaviour and lifestyles, it will be
impossible for the UK to reach net zero emissions by 2050. But the
government is failing to put in place the conditions that would
enable this to happen – or even recognise its relevance in cutting
emissions and meeting climate targets. Its laissez-faire approach of
simply “going with the grain of consumer choice”, according to a
recent report, has no chance of bringing about the urgent changes
needed...<br>
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People will be more inclined to make changes if they feel policies
are applied fairly. The report is blunt in its assessment of what
this means, noting that “higher-income households which typically
have a larger carbon footprint must take correspondingly larger
steps to reduce their emissions”...<br>
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This goodwill and enthusiasm must be supported. That means
governments providing clear signals to the rest of society, like
setting a date for a ban on gas boilers or subsidising energy
efficiency improvements in people’s homes. We also need a national
conversation on how to reach net zero. A coherent public engagement
strategy would not only inform people of the changes that are
required but involve them in the process. For example, citizens’
assemblies, representative groups of people brought together to
deliberate on issues, can create a shared vision of the future.<br>
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Simply waiting for people to make low-carbon choices in a world that
doesn’t support those choices, and where people feel no stake in the
changes taking place, is unfair and irresponsible.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://theconversation.com/to-address-climate-change-lifestyles-must-change-but-the-governments-reluctance-to-help-is-holding-us-back-190300">https://theconversation.com/to-address-climate-change-lifestyles-must-change-but-the-governments-reluctance-to-help-is-holding-us-back-190300</a>
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<i>[ LeverNews.com is an independent news outlet - audio ]</i><br>
<b>Billionaires’ Doomsday Prep (w/ Douglas Rushkoff)</b><br>
On this week’s Lever Live on Tuesday 10/11, David Sirota is joined
by media theorist Douglas Rushkoff to discuss his new book,
"Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.
" Douglas’ book exposes the very real machinations of the
ultra-wealthy as they prepare for a “world-ending” event.
Unfortunately for us — they’re only planning on saving themselves.
Join us on Lever Live as David and Douglas take questions about the
End Times from the audience LIVE on-air.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.callin.com/episode/billionaires-doomsday-prep-w-douglas-rushkoff-EyrPjcDduO">https://www.callin.com/episode/billionaires-doomsday-prep-w-douglas-rushkoff-EyrPjcDduO</a><br>
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<i>[ Text is non-fiction - but with a tinge of amusing hubris ]</i><br>
<b>Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech
Billionaires Hardcover – September 6, 2022</b><br>
by Douglas Rushkoff (Author)<br>
Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2022 by Kirkus and
Literary Hub<br>
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The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to
leave us all behind.<br>
<br>
Five mysterious billionaires summoned theorist Douglas Rushkoff to a
desert resort for a private talk. The topic? How to survive the
“Event”: the societal catastrophe they know is coming. Rushkoff came
to understand that these men were under the influence of The
Mindset, a Silicon Valley–style certainty that they and their cohort
can break the laws of physics, economics, and morality to escape a
disaster of their own making―as long as they have enough money and
the right technology.<br>
<br>
In Survival of the Richest, Rushkoff traces the origins of The
Mindset in science and technology through its current expression in
missions to Mars, island bunkers, AI futurism, and the metaverse. In
a dozen urgent, electrifying chapters, he confronts tech utopianism,
the datafication of all human interaction, and the exploitation of
that data by corporations. Through fascinating characters―master
programmers who want to remake the world from scratch as if
redesigning a video game and bankers who return from Burning Man
convinced that incentivized capitalism is the solution to
environmental disasters―Rushkoff explains why those with the most
power to change our current trajectory have no interest in doing so.
And he shows how recent forms of anti-mainstream rebellion―QAnon,
for example, or meme stocks―reinforce the same destructive order.<br>
<br>
This mind-blowing work of social analysis shows us how to transcend
the landscape The Mindset created―a world alive with algorithms and
intelligences actively rewarding our most selfish tendencies―and
rediscover community, mutual aid, and human interdependency. In a
thundering conclusion, Survival of the Richest argues that the only
way to survive the coming catastrophe is to ensure it doesn’t happen
in the first place.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Richest-Escape-Fantasies-Billionaires/dp/0393881067">https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Richest-Escape-Fantasies-Billionaires/dp/0393881067</a><br>
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<i>[ Clips from this essay posted a few years ago. Audio available ]</i><br>
<b>Survival of the Richest</b><br>
The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind<br>
(This piece is now the basis of a new book, Survival of the Richest:
Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires.)<br>
Douglas Rushkoff<br>
Jul 5, 2018<br>
Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver
a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so
investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been
offered for a talk — about half my annual professor’s salary — all
to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of
technology.”<br>
<br>
I’ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions
always end up more like parlor games, where I’m asked to opine on
the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for
potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, CRISPR. The
audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies
or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or
not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig...<br>
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Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New
Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for
his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition,
or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of
a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building
his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain
authority over my security force after the event?”<br>
<b><br>
</b><b>For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can
affect the future.</b><br>
<br>
The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse,
social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot
hack that takes everything down.<br>
This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew
armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the
angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was
worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own
leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks
on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear
disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or
maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that
technology could be developed in time.<br>
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That’s when it hit me: At least as far as these gentlemen were
concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology...<br>
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There’s nothing wrong with madly optimistic appraisals of how
technology might benefit human society. But the current drive for a
post-human utopia is something else. It’s less a vision for the
wholesale migration of humanity to a new a state of being than a
quest to transcend all that is human: the body, interdependence,
compassion, vulnerability, and complexity. As technology
philosophers have been pointing out for years, now, the
transhumanist vision too easily reduces all of reality to data,
concluding that “humans are nothing but information-processing
objects.”<br>
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There’s nothing wrong with madly optimistic appraisals of how
technology might benefit human society. But the current drive for a
post-human utopia is something else. It’s less a vision for the
wholesale migration of humanity to a new a state of being than a
quest to transcend all that is human: the body, interdependence,
compassion, vulnerability, and complexity. As technology
philosophers have been pointing out for years, now, the
transhumanist vision too easily reduces all of reality to data,
concluding that “humans are nothing but information-processing
objects.”<br>
<br>
It’s a reduction of human evolution to a video game that someone
wins by finding the escape hatch and then letting a few of his BFFs
come along for the ride. Will it be Musk, Bezos, Thiel…Zuckerberg?
These billionaires are the presumptive winners of the digital
economy — the same survival-of-the-fittest business landscape that’s
fueling most of this speculation to begin with.<br>
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The future became less a thing we create through our present-day
choices or hopes for humankind than a predestined scenario we bet on
with our venture capital but arrive at passively.<br>
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This freed everyone from the moral implications of their activities.
Technology development became less a story of collective flourishing
than personal survival. Worse, as I learned, to call attention to
any of this was to unintentionally cast oneself as an enemy of the
market or an anti-technology curmudgeon.<br>
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So instead of considering the practical ethics of impoverishing and
exploiting the many in the name of the few, most academics,
journalists, and science-fiction writers instead considered much
more abstract and fanciful conundrums: Is it fair for a stock trader
to use smart drugs? Should children get implants for foreign
languages? Do we want autonomous vehicles to prioritize the lives of
pedestrians over those of its passengers? Should the first Mars
colonies be run as democracies? Does changing my DNA undermine my
identity? Should robots have rights?<br>
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Asking these sorts of questions, while philosophically entertaining,
is a poor substitute for wrestling with the real moral quandaries
associated with unbridled technological development in the name of
corporate capitalism. Digital platforms have turned an already
exploitative and extractive marketplace (think Walmart) into an even
more dehumanizing successor (think Amazon). Most of us became aware
of these downsides in the form of automated jobs, the gig economy,
and the demise of local retail...<br>
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If anything, the longer we ignore the social, economic, and
environmental repercussions, the more of a problem they become.
This, in turn, motivates even more withdrawal, more isolationism and
apocalyptic fantasy — and more desperately concocted technologies
and business plans. The cycle feeds itself.<br>
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The more committed we are to this view of the world, the more we
come to see human beings as the problem and technology as the
solution. The very essence of what it means to be human is treated
less as a feature than bug. No matter their embedded biases,
technologies are declared neutral. Any bad behaviors they induce in
us are just a reflection of our own corrupted core. It’s as if some
innate human savagery is to blame for our troubles. Just as the
inefficiency of a local taxi market can be “solved” with an app that
bankrupts human drivers, the vexing inconsistencies of the human
psyche can be corrected with a digital or genetic upgrade.<br>
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Ultimately, according to the technosolutionist orthodoxy, the human
future climaxes by uploading our consciousness to a computer or,
perhaps better, accepting that technology itself is our evolutionary
successor. Like members of a gnostic cult, we long to enter the next
transcendent phase of our development, shedding our bodies and
leaving them behind, along with our sins and troubles...<br>
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<b>The very essence of what it means to be human is treated less as
a feature than bug.</b><br>
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The mental gymnastics required for such a profound role reversal
between humans and machines all depend on the underlying assumption
that humans suck. Let’s either change them or get away from them,
forever.<br>
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Thus, we get tech billionaires launching electric cars into space —
as if this symbolizes something more than one billionaire’s capacity
for corporate promotion. And if a few people do reach escape
velocity and somehow survive in a bubble on Mars — despite our
inability to maintain such a bubble even here on Earth in either of
two multibillion-dollar Biosphere trials — the result will be less a
continuation of the human diaspora than a lifeboat for the elite..<br>
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When the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority
over their security forces after “the event,” I suggested that their
best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now. They
should be engaging with their security staffs as if they were
members of their own family. And the more they can expand this ethos
of inclusivity to the rest of their business practices, supply chain
management, sustainability efforts, and wealth distribution, the
less chance there will be of an “event” in the first place. All this
technological wizardry could be applied toward less romantic but
entirely more collective interests right now.<br>
<br>
They were amused by my optimism, but they didn’t really buy it. They
were not interested in how to avoid a calamity; they’re convinced we
are too far gone. For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe
they can affect the future. They are simply accepting the darkest of
all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they
can employ to insulate themselves — especially if they can’t get a
seat on the rocket to Mars.<br>
<br>
Luckily, those of us without the funding to consider disowning our
own humanity have much better options available to us. We don’t have
to use technology in such antisocial, atomizing ways. We can become
the individual consumers and profiles that our devices and platforms
want us to be, or we can remember that the truly evolved human
doesn’t go it alone.<br>
<br>
Being human is not about individual survival or escape. It’s a team
sport. Whatever future humans have, it will be together.<br>
Douglas Rushkoff - Author of Survival of the Richest, Team Human,
Program or Be Programmed, and host of the Team Human podcast
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://teamhuman.fm">http://teamhuman.fm</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1">https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1</a><br>
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<i>[ More references in publication Reason and Meaning -
Philosophical reflections on life, death, and the meaning of life
]</i><br>
<b>Survival of the Richest</b><br>
August 27, 2018<br>
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Reflections – I don’t doubt that many wealthy and powerful people
would willingly leave the rest of us behind, or enslave or kill us
all—a theme endorsed by Ted Kaczynski in The Unabomber Manifesto:
Industrial Society and Its Future. But notice that these tendencies
toward evil existed before advanced technology or transhumanist
philosophy—history is replete with examples of cruelty and genocide.<br>
<br>
So the question is whether we can create a better world without
radically transforming human beings. I doubt it. As I’ve said many
times our apelike brains—characterized by territoriality,
aggression, dominance hierarchies, irrationality, superstition, and
cognitive biases—combined with 21st-century technology is a lethal
combination. And that’s why, in order to survive the many
existential risks now confronting us and to have descendants who
flourish, we should embrace transhumanism.<br>
<br>
So while there are obvious risks associated with the power that
science and technology afford, they are our best hope as we approach
many of these “events.” If we don’t want our planet to circle our
sun lifeless for the next few billion years, if we believe that
conscious life is really worthwhile, then we must work quickly to
transform both our moral and intellectual natures. Otherwise at most
only a few will survive.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://reasonandmeaning.com/2018/08/27/survival-of-the-richest/">https://reasonandmeaning.com/2018/08/27/survival-of-the-richest/</a><br>
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<i>[ video conversation 30 min ]</i><br>
<b>Douglas Rushkoff: Survival of the Richest & "TEAM HUMAN"</b><br>
Jul 22, 2018 Subscribe to The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow for more:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.patreon.com/thezerohour">https://www.patreon.com/thezerohour</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0uevrkgy4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl0uevrkgy4</a><br>
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<i>[ Munich RE insurance drops investments in fossil fuels - a very
responsible act ]</i><br>
<b>New Oil & Gas investment / underwriting guidelines</b><br>
2022/10/06<br>
As an environmentally conscientious business, Munich Re aims to play
its part in meeting the targets of the Paris Climate Agreement. The
Group has therefore set itself ambitious decarbonisation targets for
its investments, its (re)insurance transactions and its own business
operations.<br>
<br>
Against this backdrop, as of 1 April 2023 Munich Re will no longer
invest in or insure contracts/projects exclusively covering the
planning, financing, construction or operation of<br>
<br>
new oil and gas fields, where as at 31 December 2022 no prior
production has taken place or<br>
new midstream infrastructure related to oil, which have not yet been
under construction or operation as at 31 December 2022 and<br>
new oil fired power plants, which have not yet been under
construction or operation as at 31 December 2022<br>
This applies to direct illiquid investments, our primary,
facultative and direct (re)insurance business. The same applies
where such risks are contained or bundled in one cover together with
other risks (e.g., existing oil or gas fields), when the cover is
mainly designed to protect one or more of such new risks.<br>
<br>
Furthermore, in its own listed equities & corporates portfolio,
as of 1 April 2023, Munich Re will cease to conduct new direct
investments in pure-play Oil & Gas companies. As of 1 January
2025, Munich Re will require a credible commitment to net-zero
greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 including corresponding short- and
mid-term milestones from listed integrated O&G companies with
the highest relative and absolute emissions.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.munichre.com/en/company/media-relations/statements/2022/new-oil-and-gas-investment-underwriting-guidelines.html">https://www.munichre.com/en/company/media-relations/statements/2022/new-oil-and-gas-investment-underwriting-guidelines.html</a><br>
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<i>[ more from Munich RE ]</i><br>
<b>Munich Re is a pioneer in analysing the impacts of anthropogenic
global warming and natural climatic variability on losses caused
by weather-related natural disasters.</b> For the past four
decades, we have researched risks, loss prevention measures and new
risk transfer solutions. In addition, we examine long-term data on
meteorology and losses to better understand changes in risk. <br>
<b>Climate crisis alters the risk landscape</b><br>
The consensus among scientists is that the emissions of
anthropogenic greenhouse gases since industrialisation began are the
main cause of rising temperatures in our planet’s atmosphere and
oceans. Global warming has various consequences. <br>
<br>
Sea ice and glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising, currently
at an annual average of some 3 mm. <br>
<br>
Higher temperatures – and the correspondingly higher energy content
in the atmosphere – change the probability distributions of
individual meteorological parameters and weather patterns. This is
especially significant from a risk perspective.<br>
<br>
If weather extremes occur more frequently and/or become more
intense, then there will be more losses – unless measures are
implemented to minimise losses. Construction engineering measures
come to mind, as do changes in land use. <br>
<br>
It is very probable that climate change has played a role in severe
hailstorms in North America and Europe, wildfires in California and
heatwaves in many places.<br>
<br>
Referred to as hurricanes, typhoons or cyclones in different parts
of the world, more and more tropical cyclones have brought extreme
precipitation in recent years. There are also signs that
particularly severe storms account for a rising percentage of all
storms. <br>
<br>
Individual loss events cannot be attributed directly to climate
change. Nevertheless, the analysis of long-term trends on the basis
of meteorological data – in combination with underwriting and
socio-economic data – provides key indications of the changing risk
from dangerous storms.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.munichre.com/en/risks/climate-change-a-challenge-for-humanity.html">https://www.munichre.com/en/risks/climate-change-a-challenge-for-humanity.html</a><br>
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<i>[ video trailer of movie ]</i><br>
<b> ... screen THE COST OF SILENCE,</b> nominated for Best
Documentary at Sundance, followed by a conversation with the
director and special guests on film and the technology and impact
campaign the team is launching to empower a just transition away
from toxic fossil fuels.<br>
Hosted by: New York City Climate Week<br>
NYC CLIMATE WEEK – SPECIAL FILM EVENT: Thursday, September 22nd - A
special screening of The Cost of Silence – followed by a panel
discussion on a groundbreaking Climate Impact Campaign launching
with the film. <br>
Film Website and Trailer:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.costofsilencefilm.com/about-the-film">https://www.costofsilencefilm.com/about-the-film</a><br>
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<i>[ Return to the Arctic - Just Have a Think video -- 13 mins--
from Sept ]</i><br>
<b>Arctic System Collapse? Devastating new research.</b><br>
251,524 views Sep 18, 2022 The arctic region is a key driver of
global climate patterns. In the summer of 2022, three peer reviewed
research papers were published, all of which showed the systems that
have kept the arctic stable for thousands of years are now
collapsing far more quickly than previous analysis and modelling had
suggested. A fourth paper, published at the same time, shows us what
the consequences are likely to be. This video assesses all four.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqRdu2riNlg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqRdu2riNlg</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 16, 1988</b></i></font> <br>
October 16, 1988: Discussing the role of global warming in the 1988
presidential election, Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman
observes:<br>
<blockquote>"Last summer, one of the hottest and driest on record,
the nation was roused by alarms about the 'greenhouse effect'--the
gradual warming of the globe that threatens to turn coastal cities
into underwater ruins and corn fields into salt flats. <br>
<br>
"The problem is that for the last century or so industrial
societies have been releasing substances into the air that capture
heat and erode the Earth`s shield against the sun. The villains?
Carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels, methane from
natural and man-made sources and aerosol propellants.<br>
<br>
"But as soon as the heat dissipated, so did interest in the issue.
In the campaign, the greenhouse effect has gone almost
unmentioned...<br>
<br>
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appealing ones.<br>
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treaty to reduce the use of aerosol propellants. But any serious
attempt to slow the warming of the Earth requires at least three
additional measures: discouraging the use of fossil fuels like
coal, oil and gas; big improvements in energy efficiency; and
greater reliance on nuclear power."<br>
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