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<font size="+2"><i><b>November 23, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ Royalty of climate journalism, Elizabeth Kolbert scrolls
through the alphabet of global warming items -- in the New
Yorker - text and listen-to-the-story audio ]</i><br>
<b>CLIMATE CHANGE FROM A TO Z</b><br>
The stories we tell ourselves about the future.<br>
by Elizabeth Kolbert<br>
November 21, 2022<br>
<i>[it concludes] </i>Climate change isn’t a problem that can be
solved by summoning the “will.” It isn’t a problem that can be
“fixed” or “conquered,” though these words are often used. It isn’t
going to have a happy ending, or a win-win ending, or, on a human
timescale, any ending at all. Whatever we might want to believe
about our future, there are limits, and we are up against them. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z</a><br>
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<i>[ Now Bill McKibben warns us off geo-engineering -- also in the
New Yorker ]</i><br>
<b>Dimming the Sun to Cool the Planet Is a Desperate Idea, Yet We’re
Inching Toward It</b><br>
The scientists who study solar geoengineering don’t want anyone to
try it. But climate inaction is making it more likely.<br>
By Bill McKibben<br>
November 22, 2022<br>
But there’s no denying the author’s prescience: this spring saw the
most dire pre-monsoon heat wave in Indian history; only a slightly
lower humidity prevented a real-life reprise of the mass death in
the book. It will take such an event to trigger something as
powerful as geoengineering, Robinson said, when we talked this
summer. Countries and individuals probably won’t be spurred to
preëmptively geoengineer the atmosphere “by the sense of a coming
crisis,” he told me, “nor by sea level rise or habitat loss or
anything else that is an indirect effect of rising global
temperatures. It will be the direct consequence—deaths by way of
extreme heat wave—that will do it.” He pointed out that, as we
spoke, China was undergoing a heat wave even more anomalous than the
one in South Asia, and, as a result, had deployed fleets of planes
to seed clouds with silver iodide in hopes of inducing rain—not a
huge step from sending those same fleets into the stratosphere with
sulphur. I think Robinson’s analysis is likely correct; there will
come a point when the sheer impossible horror of what we’re doing to
the planet, and what we have already done, may make geoengineering
seem irresistible.<br>
<br>
But there’s another plot device that has emerged, this one in real
life: the dramatic drop in the price of renewable energy. We’ve long
imagined that dealing with global warming requires moving from cheap
fossil fuels to expensive renewable energy, but, in the past few
years, oil, gas, and coal have grown more expensive, and sun and
wind power have plummeted in price. Suddenly, we have the power to
deal with global warming by transitioning, very rapidly, from
expensive fossil fuels to cheap sources of renewable energy.<br>
<p>The transition to clean energy should keep getting easier in the
next few years, both because the price of clean energy keeps
dropping as we get more experienced at using it, and because the
political power of the fossil-fuel industry to slow down the
transition should wane, as solar and wind builds its own muscular
constituency. And it needs to happen if we are to halve emissions
by 2030 and so have a decent chance of meeting the targets set in
Paris. Perhaps we’d take that deadline more seriously if we saw it
as our best shot at avoiding a planet wrecked by carbon and also
put at risk by sulphur. Solar panels and wind turbines are our
best vaccine against high temperatures, but also against the
hubris of one more giant gamble. ♦</p>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/dimming-the-sun-to-cool-the-planet-is-a-desperate-idea-yet-were-inching-toward-it?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_McKibben_11222022&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0ea53f92a404695c0198&user_id=29625806&hasha=a0e71543f9768904d435122e83356d30&hashb=d79260b0c8ea3be054ef3d9538ec6d6ef33c0123&hashc=076065f74a4a4ceff0e349bf1785280ac9e39c12b83e63c5f22c6f6c42fba23e&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_ClimateCrisis">https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/dimming-the-sun-to-cool-the-planet-is-a-desperate-idea-yet-were-inching-toward-it?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_McKibben_11222022&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea0ea53f92a404695c0198&user_id=29625806&hasha=a0e71543f9768904d435122e83356d30&hashb=d79260b0c8ea3be054ef3d9538ec6d6ef33c0123&hashc=076065f74a4a4ceff0e349bf1785280ac9e39c12b83e63c5f22c6f6c42fba23e&esrc=&utm_term=TNY_ClimateCrisis</a><br>
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<i>[ Aljazeera - Opinion from outside the Western hemisphere ]</i><i><br>
</i><i> </i><b>The West will not act on climate change until it
feels its pain</b><br>
Pleas from the Global South will not stir Western government into
action. Only Western suffering will.<br>
Patrick Gathara<br>
Communications consultant, writer, and award-winning political
cartoonist based in Nairobi.<br>
Published On 19 Nov 2022<br>
<br>
If there is anything that has been true in the history of the world,
it is that states, and especially Western states, rarely if ever act
out of a sense of moral compulsion, when such acts could impose
hardships back home. Look at the rhetoric around support for Ukraine
following the Russian invasion as an example.<br>
<br>
While the conflict has been presented in starkly moralistic terms,
as the West helping brave Ukraine stand up to Russian bullies, it
has been clear that moralism can be quickly discarded in the face of
discomfort for their citizens. The prospect of cold European homes
and high prices motivated the European Union to leave a myriad of
loopholes in its sanctions to allow for the flow of Russian gas and
oil to continue. When Russian gas was cut off, European governments
did not hesitate to reach out to various fossil fuel-rich autocrats
they otherwise regularly criticise for their dismal human rights
record.<br>
<br>
The same dynamic is evident in the narratives and proposals that
were tabled at the latest United Nations Climate Change Conference
in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Lots of the talk was about helping the
unfortunately-situated “Global South” cope with the ravages of
extreme weather events such as droughts and floods, and helping them
transition into greener sources of energy.<br>
<br>
Like during the Cold War, the West is actively theatre-shopping,
recruiting countries to serve as arenas for its climate fight.
Switzerland, for example, plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions
in half by 2030, not by actually reducing them, which might require
inconveniencing its citizens, but by paying countries like Ghana to
reduce its emissions and give it credit.<br>
<br>
The idea would be for the Swiss government to pay for efficient
lighting and cleaner stoves to be installed in Ghanaian households
and claim the resulting reduction in emissions as its own.
Switzerland is not the only Western nation to use such
carbon-offsetting schemes, which displace climate action from rich
polluting nations and frame poorer nations that have contributed
little to the crisis as the ones that need to change the most.<br>
<br>
They were very much present at COP 27, too. The United States, for
example, unveiled a new carbon trading scheme that supposedly would
help poorer nations transition to cleaner energy. In it, large
Western companies would invest in renewable energy projects in the
Global South in exchange for being allowed to continue emitting
large quantities of greenhouse gases. As environmentalists have
pointed out, this is little more than another scheme allowing
Western Big Business to continue polluting and reaping large
profits.<br>
<br>
However, Western talk about transition by poorer countries is not
only about deflecting from a focus on their reluctance to
decarbonise their own economies and shifting the blame for the
climate problems to those least responsible for them. It is also an
example of what 19th-century German economist Friedrich List called
“kicking away the ladder”.<br>
<br>
“It is a very common clever device that when anyone has attained the
summit of greatness, he kicks away the ladder by which he has
climbed up, in order to deprive others of the means of climbing up
after him,” he wrote in 1841.<br>
<br>
While List applied this to the familiar prescriptions of free trade
by the British who had themselves clambered up the ladder of
mercantilism, it is just as applicable to today’s push by the West
to have others not follow their energy path to the top, while they
keep the advantages of such ascension – an approach they have also
applied to nuclear weapons technology.<br>
<br>
In response, many non-Western countries have been keen to either
highlight the injustice of having to bear the cost of mitigating
extreme weather events caused by others. They have also appealed to
the Western sense of self-preservation by arguing, as the prime
minister of the Bahamas has, that climate change would send hordes
of refugees to Europe, overwhelming the systems of privilege the
West has built to insulate itself from the problems it has caused in
the rest of the world.<br>
<br>
However, both these approaches accept a faulty premise: that climate
change is primarily a problem for the Global South, with the West
escaping largely unscathed, yet again managing to outsource the pain
to the rest of the globe.<br>
<br>
Yet, a report from the World Meteorological Organization released on
November 2 said “temperatures in Europe have increased at more than
twice the global average over the past 30 years – the highest of any
continent in the world” and predicted “exceptional heat, wildfires,
floods and other climate change impacts will affect society,
economies and ecosystems”.<br>
<br>
Just this year, the effects of this have been startlingly visible.
The region suffered extreme heatwaves that caused the worst drought
in half a millennium, dried up rivers and reservoirs, fuelled
wildfires that destroyed more than 660,000 hectares (1.63 million
acres) of land and killed at least 15,000 people. Further west,
states in the US are battling a 22-year megadrought, the worst in a
millennium, and across North America, water levels in rivers, lakes
and reservoirs are dropping.<br>
<br>
Rather than appealing to the West’s conscience or pushing the tale
that they will only be indirectly affected by the folly of their
actions, the world should borrow the language of JRR Tolkien in The
Hobbit: “If this is to end in fire, then we should all burn
together.”<br>
<br>
The fact is, the West has just as much to lose, if not more, than
the rest of us, from the climate crisis. Using the tropes of the
1990s’ humanitarian appeals that portray Global South folk as
helpless victims will only inspire the same superficial, charitable
responses that are designed to make the giver look and feel good,
rather than address the problem – as Switzerland has demonstrated.<br>
<p> [ see the political cartoon
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/COP27.jpg?resize=770%2C513">https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/COP27.jpg?resize=770%2C513</a>
]</p>
Rather than saving Brazilian rainforests, maybe a better and more
impactful discussion would be what to do about the drying Seine.
Rather than the image of climate change being floods in Pakistan,
perhaps it should be the thousands dying in heatwaves in the United
Kingdom.<br>
<br>
In the end, it is not our pain and suffering that will move the West
in any meaningful way. It is a recognition of their own. And only
when we change the conversation can we expect that to happen.<br>
<br>
<i>The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do
not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/11/19/global-south-pleas-wont-get-the-west-to-act-on-climate-change">https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/11/19/global-south-pleas-wont-get-the-west-to-act-on-climate-change</a><br>
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<i>[ Every person and living being in the world is connected to
climates destabilizing ]</i><br>
<b>Live from #COP27: Katharine Hayhoe & Bernadette Woods Placky
| UN Climate Change</b><br>
UN Climate Change<br>
1,290 views Streamed live on Nov 10, 2022<br>
At COP 27, countries come together to take action towards achieving
the world’s collective climate goals as agreed under the Paris
Agreement and the Convention. Building on the outcomes and momentum
of COP 26 in Glasgow last year, nations are expected to demonstrate
at COP 27 that they are in a new era of implementation by turning
their commitments under The Paris Agreement into action. The
conference will take place from 6-18 November 2022 in Sharm
el-Sheikh, Egypt. Heads of State and Government will attend the
Sharm el-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit on 7 and 8 November. A
high-level segment primarily attended by Ministers will take place
from 15-18 November. <br>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/Kf3QR7-Jfig?t=167">https://youtu.be/Kf3QR7-Jfig?t=167</a></p>
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<i>[ voice of expertise ]</i><br>
<b>How Long Would Society Last During a Total Grid Collapse?</b><br>
Practical Engineering<br>
2.99M subscribers<br>
Nov 22, 2022<br>
A summary of how other systems of infrastructure (like roadways,
water, sewer, and telecommunications) depend on electricity and how
long each system could last under total blackout conditions.<br>
<br>
This video was guest produced by my editor, Wesley, who is also the
actor in the blackout scenes ;)<br>
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<i>[ Nice to see that the EPA regards climate change as risk - two
videos ]</i><br>
<b>See risk-based climate change planning in action</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.epa.gov/cre/risk-based-adaptation">https://www.epa.gov/cre/risk-based-adaptation</a><br>
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<i>[ standard definitions of risk - video 13 mins ]</i><br>
<b>ISO 31000 Risk Definition, Principles, Framework and Processes,
and how they effect Objectives</b><br>
PCR Global<br>
632 views Sep 6, 2022<br>
Video: ISO 31000 Risk Definition, Principles, Framework and
Processes, and how they effect Objectives<br>
If you are new to risk management or in particular have an interest
in ISO 31000 this video may be of interest.<br>
<br>
Despite there being no universal definition, having a 'go to'
definition of risk which we can explain amongst peers, colleagues
and articulate to clients is really important if we are to embed
risk management into organisations, programs and projects.<br>
<br>
This video is on the definition of risk and how both it, the
principles, framework and risk management process can effect
objectives is an element taken from the wider PCR Global ISO
31000:2018 training course.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K85qXpu0y9E">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K85qXpu0y9E</a><br>
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<i>[ The news archive - looking back at early awareness ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>November 23, 2014 </b></i></font> <br>
November 23, 2014: The New York Times reports:<br>
<br>
"A warming climate is melting [Glacier National Park's] glaciers, an
icy retreat that promises to change not just tourists’ vistas, but
also the mountains and everything around them.<br>
<br>
"Streams fed by snowmelt are reaching peak spring flows weeks
earlier than in the past, and low summer flows weeks before they
used to. Some farmers who depend on irrigation in the parched days
of late summer are no longer sure that enough water will be there.
Bull trout, once pan-fried over anglers’ campfires, are now caught
and released to protect a population that is shrinking as water
temperatures rise."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/us/climate-change-threatens-to-strip-the-identity-of-glacier-national-park.html?mwrsm=Email">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/us/climate-change-threatens-to-strip-the-identity-of-glacier-national-park.html?mwrsm=Email</a><br>
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