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<font size="+2"><i><b>October 27, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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[ from The Lancet ]<br>
<b>The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate
change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels</b><br>
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Published:October 25, 2022
DOI:<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01540-9">https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)01540-9</a><br>
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The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown is published as the world
confronts profound and concurrent systemic shocks. Countries and
health systems continue to contend with the health, social, and
economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, while Russia's invasion
of Ukraine and a persistent fossil fuel over dependence has pushed
the world into global energy and cost-of-living crises. As these
crises unfold, climate change escalates unabated. Its worsening
impacts are increasingly affecting the foundations of human health
and wellbeing, exacerbating the vulnerability of the world's
populations to concurrent health threats.<br>
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Through multiple and interconnected pathways, every dimension of
food security is being affected by climate change, aggravating the
impacts of other coexisting crises. The higher temperatures threaten
crop yields directly, with the growth seasons of maize on average 9
days shorter in 2020, and the growth seasons of winter wheat and
spring wheat 6 days shorter than for 1981–2010 globally. The threat
to crop yields adds to the rising impact of extreme weather on
supply chains, socioeconomic pressures, and the risk of infectious
disease transmission, undermining food availability, access,
stability, and utilisation. New analysis suggests that extreme heat
was associated with 98 million more people reporting moderate to
severe food insecurity in 2020 than annually in 1981–2010, in 103
countries analysed<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736(22)01540-9">https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736(22)01540-9</a><br>
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<i>[ McKibben's opinion on The Lancet article above ] </i><br>
<b>Big Oil is addicted, but it's killing the rest of us</b><br>
A shocking new summary of fossil fuel's assault on public health<br>
Bill McKibben<br>
Oct 26, 2022<br>
<blockquote>I’ve rarely read a more comprehensive, or more
devastating report on the effect of global warming. And its
authors are pulling no punches. As one told the Associated Press,
what we’re looking at is a clear case of “fossil fuel addiction.”
Marina Romanello, executive director of the research effort, said
“We’re seeing a persistent addiction to fossil fuels that is not
only amplifying the health impacts of climate change, but which is
also now at this point compounding with other concurrent crises
that we’re globally facing, including the ongoing COVID-19
pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis, energy crisis and food crisis
that were triggered after the war in Ukraine.”<br>
<br>
She is right. My only quibble is that when one says “fossil fuel
addiction,” it might summon up an image of the wrong culprit.
Humans aren’t addicted to fossil fuels—we’re just as happy getting
our power from solar panels or wind turbines. Happier, even. And
since these are now the cheapest sources of power in the world
there’s no reason we shouldn’t have them.<br>
<br>
Except that the fossil fuel industry has spent decades blocking
the way—a massive three-decade campaign of deceit, denial and
disinformation; an ongoing lobbying effort against renewables that
the industry boasts will get even more powerful if the GOP wins
the midterms; endless support for rightwing lawmakers to make sure
that lobbying will work.<br>
<br>
I think the question I get asked the most may be: why do these
vast oil companies not simply convert to energy companies? Why
don’t Exxon and Chevron decide to own the renewable future,
instead of investing at most a few percent of their research
budgets on clean tech?<br>
<br>
And the answer is, if you think about it, sadly logical. You can
make some money putting solar panels on people’s roofs—there will
be solar billionaires. But you can’t make Exxon money, because
once the panel is up there, the sun delivers the energy for free
every day when it rises above the horizon. From Exxon’s point of
view, this is the stupidest business model ever: they made their
fortune by selling you more energy, every week for your entire
life. They are hooked...<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-is-addicted-but-its-killing">https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/big-oil-is-addicted-but-its-killing</a><br>
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<i>[ on the horizon, is this a universal attitude? ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Pledges Are Falling Short, and a Chaotic Future Looks
More Like Reality</b><br>
With an annual summit next month, the United Nations assessed
progress on countries’ past emissions commitments. Severe disruption
would be hard to avoid on the current trajectory.<br>
Max Bearak<br>
Oct. 26, 2022<br>
Countries around the world are failing to live up to their
commitments to fight climate change, pointing Earth toward a future
marked by more intense flooding, wildfires, drought, heat waves and
species extinction, according to a report issued Wednesday by the
United Nations...<br>
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“The latest U.N. report once again shows that those most responsible
for the climate crisis remain unwilling to face up to their
responsibilities,” said Mo Ibrahim, a Sudanese-British businessman
turned philanthropist who has convened African leaders to discuss
the climate crisis ahead of the summit in Egypt. “Unless urgent
action is taken to hold richer countries to account, the developing
world will continue to foot the bill, at the cost of numerous
lives.”...<br>
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“We all know the top 20 economies are responsible for 80 percent of
emissions,” Mr. Kerry said during a speech Tuesday at the Council on
Foreign Relations. Their pledges should be strengthened this year,
he said.<br>
<br>
“That’s what people agreed to do,” he said. “It takes all to get the
job done.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/climate/un-climate-pledges-warming.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/climate/un-climate-pledges-warming.html</a><br>
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<i>[ student activism ]</i><br>
<b>Harvard and MIT students shut down Exxon recruiting event</b><br>
By Dharna Noor - Globe Staff - October 24, 2022,<br>
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Activists say that by allowing major polluters to recruit students
on campus, schools are implicitly endorsing them, despite their
massive role in the climate crisis and problematic practices like
Exxon’s well-documented history of sowing doubt about climate
science.<br>
<br>
“It makes no sense that the university dedicated to truth and the
pursuit of knowledge would host in good standing an oil company that
stands against all of that,” said Isaac Slevin, an undergraduate
student at Brown who leads the school’s chapter of the Sunrise
Movement, an activist group advocating for political climate action,
and organized the disruption at Brown.<br>
The disruptions come as young people appear increasingly reticent to
work for fossil fuel companies. In a 2020 survey by the
international professional services company PwC, a majority of
millennials said they would avoid working in industries that have a
negative image and saw fossil fuels as the most unappealing sector.
Another survey, conducted by consulting firm EY in 2017, found that
among 1,200 American millennials aged 20 to 35, 44 percent were not
interested in careers in the industry.<br>
<br>
Such attitudes seem to be taking a toll on the sector. Eighty
percent of oil and gas industry recruiters reported that at least 10
percent of open jobs went unfilled for more than three months,
according to a survey conducted by recruitment firm Brunel and
Oilandgasjobsearch.com last year. Drilling and geoscience roles were
the most difficult to fill, according to the survey.<br>
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Thom Hersbach, an electrochemistry researcher at Stanford
University, understands why climate-concerned scientists would want
to work for oil companies and change them from the inside. Many of
his friends work in the sector, and just three years ago, he was
considering taking a job at Shell. But he says he’s seen no proof
that well-intentioned people have been able to shift Big Oil’s
behavior, so he decided against it.<br>
<br>
“They’re still lobbying for looser environmental regulations.
They’re still expanding oil,” he said. “As a scientist, I would say,
look at the evidence ... and I have yet to see any compelling
evidence that these companies are changing overall.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/24/science/student-activists-shut-down-exxon-recruiting-events/">https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/24/science/student-activists-shut-down-exxon-recruiting-events/</a><br>
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<i>[Dave Roberts opinion podcast ]</i><br>
<b>What to think about deep-sea mining for clean-energy minerals</b><br>
A conversation with journalist Daniel Ackerman.<br>
OCT 26, 2022<br>
As Volts subscribers are aware, the transition to clean energy is
going have the effect of radically raising demand for a key set of
minerals used to make batteries, solar panels, and electric
vehicles. Currently, those minerals are mined in often
environmentally and socially destructive ways, using exploited or
even child labor.<br>
<br>
In recent years, more attention has turned to an alternative place
to find those minerals: the ocean floor. It turns out that huge
caches of these minerals are simply lying on the seabed of the
Pacific Ocean, waiting to be plucked up and processed.<br>
<br>
Of course, the idea of mining the seafloor raises all kinds of
sensitive questions about feasibility, sustainability, and
affordability.<br>
<br>
Recently, journalist Daniel Ackerman dug into all those questions
for a story on the podcast How to Save a Planet. Shortly after it
aired, he found out that Spotify was shutting the podcast down and
laying off its staff.<br>
<br>
That’s a bummer — it was a great podcast and Spotify's decision has
left several talented journalists, including Ackerman, jobless.<br>
<br>
So I thought, in the name of highlighting both this subject and
Ackerman's work, I would get in touch with him to talk it through.
We discuss how deep-sea mining works, the size of the resource
available, the environmental concerns it has raised, and
cutting-edge technologies that promise to reduce its impact...<br>
Volts is a podcast about leaving fossil fuels behind. I've been
reporting on and explaining clean-energy topics for almost 20 years,
and I love talking to politicians, analysts, innovators, and
activists about the latest progress in the world's most important
fight. (Volts is entirely subscriber-supported. Sign up!)<br>
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<i>[ Paleo-climatology gives insight into present risks -- 32 min
video]</i><br>
<b>Underwater Melting of Greenland Glaciers Amplified by BOTH Ocean
Variability and Surface Meltwater</b><br>
Oct 24, 2022 Please donate to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://PaulBeckwith.net">http://PaulBeckwith.net</a> <br>
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In the last few videos I discussed new research showing how rapid
intermediate depth warming after AMOC slowdown triggered Heinrich
Events with large volumes of Ice Rafted Debris (IRD), and also
caused rapid ocean floor sediment embedded methane clathrate thawing
with large methane release.<br>
<br>
Here I chat about a new study looking at essentially all the marine
terminating glaciers in Greenland and how submarine (underwater)
melting rates are not only dependent on ocean warming amounts, but
are also highly dependent on Greenland surface melt, forming
meltwater ponds that drain via fractures and crevices and moulins in
the ice sheet to the bottom of the glacier, where the meltwater
combines with friction melted water to exit the glacier at the
bottom between the ice and bedrock. Once exiting, this cold fresh
water (lower density than warmer salty ocean water) rises in plumes,
causing turbulent flow next to the edge of the ice/water interface
greatly increasing underwater ice melting rates.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfs6e0stl1A">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfs6e0stl1A</a><br>
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<i>[ Koch - in the Daily Beast ]</i><br>
<b>How Charles Koch Successfully Peddled the Snake Oil of Climate
Change Denial</b><br>
‘A MOOCHER AND A LOOTER’<br>
The billionaire casts himself as a public-spirited libertarian, but
when it comes to climate change, the fossil-fuel magnate has always
had his thumb on the scale.<br>
Andrew Koppelman<br>
Oct. 24, 2022 <br>
The ongoing climate catastrophe was brought about by idealism. It is
commonly blamed on the greed of the petroleum industry, but the most
effective source of climate denial has been a single determined
libertarian who thought that he was creating a better world.<br>
<br>
To understand what has happened, you need to understand this man’s
idealism: where he got it from, the moral vision that animates it,
and how, in his hands, it has been betrayed and corrupted.<br>
<br>
The man is the billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, the world’s
leading donor to libertarian causes. He has been a leader of the
relentless effort to shrink government, which led to the disbanding
of the federal pandemic response team. He was an early and generous
funder of fake science denying climate change. He wants to destroy
most of the government’s functions—medical care, Social Security,
public education, roads and bridges. He has been trying to privatize
mail delivery since the 1970s. He believes that government “is to
serve as a night watchman, to protect individuals and property from
outside threat, including fraud. That is the maximum.”<br>
But it has turned out that he is so antistatist that he has even
blocked efforts to prevent people from hurting others. The mass
production of greenhouse gases is obviously a kind of harm,
condemned by libertarianism for the same reason that it condemns
factories that poison the drinking water. There is a variety of
libertarianism that would protect this kind of predation, and it
happens to be the kind that he has embraced for decades. It may also
be relevant that the fossil fuel industry is the source of his
massive wealth...<br>
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So we return to the issue of climate change. The denialist movement
reached its peak with the election of Donald Trump. Trump, the
protectionist who aims to promote favored industries, is obviously
no libertarian. His climate denialism probably reflects political
opportunism: the notion of a conspiracy of lying scientists, which
Koch did so much to promote for years before the 2016 election, fits
nicely into the paranoid narrative Trump relies upon. Trump is
notoriously indifferent to truth and science, but he has a good nose
for what sells, and Koch had succeeded in making denialism part of
the right-wing package. Trump’s deregulatory agenda, which rolled
back climate change efforts across nearly every federal department,
was an echo of Koch’s years of work politicizing the issue.<br>
<br>
Koch has written that his aspiration is “to create a harmony of
interest in society. For business to survive and prosper, it must
create real long-term value in society through principled behavior.”
Whatever long-term value Koch has created is swamped by the
catastrophe he has bequeathed to us.<br>
<br>
Economists Sutirtha Bagchi and Jan Švejnar compared the relationship
between wealth and corruption in different countries. Using the
Forbes list, they sorted the world’s richest people into those who
had or had not made their wealth from political connections. Two
Cato Institute scholars have suggested that we “call those bad and
good billionaires, respectively.” They summarized the data: “Outside
the United States, 17 percent of billionaires were bad and 83
percent were good. In the United States, just 1 percent were bad and
99 percent were good. Thus, American billionaires overwhelmingly
earned their wealth in productive and noncorrupt ways, according to
this metric.” This is Hayek’s point restated: in a free economy,
there will be opportunities to become spectacularly rich by creating
immense value for consumers. That is what Koch keeps saying in his
Freakonomics interview. The wealth kept by the entrepreneur is a
tiny fraction of the wealth he has created.<br>
<br>
But this argument does Koch himself no good. He points us to the
promised land, but he cannot enter. For he is one of the bad 1
percent. This is the irony of Charles Koch’s life—an irony that can
only be seen if we understand the ideals to which he has been
dedicated. He began by fighting those who become rich and powerful
through political connections. Now he has become what he was
fighting. His story is not simply one of evil and greed. It is a
tale of betrayal and corruption. His wealth comes from a government
monopoly, whose value is enhanced by his capacity to deploy his
wealth in order to harm people. He has used his influence skillfully
to prevent the law from protecting his victims. Those victims now
include everyone on the planet. To borrow some terminology from Ayn
Rand, he is a moocher and a looter.<br>
<br>
From BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: How Libertarian Philosophy Was
Corrupted by Delusion and Greed by Andrew Koppelman. Copyright ©
2022 by the author and reprinted with permission of St. Martin's
Publishing Group.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-charles-koch-successfully-peddled-the-snake-oil-of-climate-change-denial">https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-charles-koch-successfully-peddled-the-snake-oil-of-climate-change-denial</a><br>
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<i>[ video on the denialism ]</i><br>
<b>The New Denialism | Chapter from The Climate Book</b><br>
Oct 25, 2022 Greta Thunberg reads from her essay in The Climate
Book, followed by a reading of Kevin Anderson's chapter on 'The New
Denialism', explaining how 'net zero' and techno-optimism have paved
the way for mitigation denial. <br>
<br>
This exerpt was originally part of an episode of Book of the Week,
broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on 27 October 2022, available (with an
account) through the BBC Sounds app at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001df4d">https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001df4d</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5UzdDc5EAc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5UzdDc5EAc</a><br>
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<i>[ BBC recording of the Climate Book ]</i><br>
<b>The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg</b><br>
Book of the Week: Ep 4 - Action Taken<br>
Released On: 27 Oct 2022Available for 29 days<br>
Greta Thunberg reads from her essay, and then we turn to Kevin
Anderson, the Professor of Energy and Climate Change at the
Universities of Manchester, Uppsala and Bergen, and Amitav Ghosh,
the award winning author of sixteen books of fiction and
non-fiction, look at the actions taken so far to limit change. Read
by David Hounslow and Vincent Ebrahim.<br>
<br>
Greta Thunberg’s school strikes and speeches shook the world and
inspired leaders and people around the world address the urgency of
climate change.<br>
<br>
Now, with The Climate Book she has created a deep understanding of
how the problems we face are all interconnected and what’s at stake,
by partnering with more than a hundred scientists, engineers,
philosophers, journalists, activists and writers. Alongside them
Greta shares her own views on what she’s learned and what’s next.<br>
<br>
The Climate Book is a portrait of a planet on the brink of a climate
catastrophe. It shows us what needs to be done so that our world can
remain habitable for all of humanity for generations to come.<br>
<br>
You can watch Amol Rajan interview Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, 18th
October on BBC2.<br>
Abridged by Katrin Williams<br>
Produced by Elizabeth Allard Read less<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001df4d">https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001df4d</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at the historical events and
fantasies ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>October 27, 2006 and 2007</b></i></font> <br>
October 27, 2006: <b>Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia
Snowe (R-ME) urge ExxonMobil to stop funding
climate-change-denying think tan</b>ks.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20130303200905/http://www.rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=87f3ae3b-0f0d-44ee-af03-9080592901a4">http://web.archive.org/web/20130303200905/http://www.rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=87f3ae3b-0f0d-44ee-af03-9080592901a4</a><br>
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October 27, 2008: <b>Greenpeace launches an ad campaign in which
President Kennedy is depicted as calling for action on
human-caused climate change.</b><br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/J8dLHZ6jKFc">http://youtu.be/J8dLHZ6jKFc</a><br>
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