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<font size="+2"><i><b>December 13, 2022</b></i></font><br>
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<i>[ top opinion of this day ] </i><br>
Professor Mark Maslin<br>
@ProfMarkMaslin<br>
<b>Setting climate deadlines could be counterproductive</b><b><br>
</b>@RobbieMallett and my letter in @Nature<br>
today - was written at #COP27 but has only just come out.<br>
So we must be clear about the urgency of #climatechange action but
not keep setting deadlines we miss<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://twitter.com/ProfMarkMaslin/status/1602616321153404928">https://twitter.com/ProfMarkMaslin/status/1602616321153404928</a><br>
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<i>[ in the Journal nature ]</i><br>
<b>Setting climate deadlines could be counterproductive</b><br>
Robbie Mallett & Mark Maslin<br>
13 December 2022<br>
According to the Global Carbon Budget 2022 published last month,
emissions from fossil fuels and industry have continued to rise
since 2021 and have now hit record levels (P. Friedlingstein et al.
Earth Syst. Sci. Data 14, 4811–4900; 2022). The study makes clear
that urgent cuts in carbon emissions are required if we are to limit
the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C, the target of the 2015
Paris climate agreement.<br>
<br>
The year 2020 was once identified as a turning point for cutting
carbon emissions, beyond which the goal of realizing the 1.5 °C
limit would be “almost unattainable” (see C. Figueres et al. Nature
546, 593–595; 2017). The deadline passed without being met.<br>
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The upside of such deadlines is that they encourage decision makers
to act urgently. But missing them puts climate communicators in a
difficult position. The 1.5 °C limit remains attainable and it
warrants our advocacy. At November’s United Nations COP27 climate
summit, many felt pressured to set a new and more pressing deadline,
but this could diminish the field’s credibility in the eyes of the
public.<br>
<br>
Making the case for the 1.5 °C limit will get harder if scientists
seem to contradict previous expert messaging on deadlines.<br>
Nature 612, 404 (2022)<br>
doi: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04405-w">https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-04405-w</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04405-w">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04405-w</a><br>
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<b>UK opens a coal mine, LA bans new oil wells, EU tackles
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<blockquote>Timestamps-<br>
00:00 Intro<br>
00:19 Renewable electricity projections<br>
02:11 US battery storage projections<br>
02:53 UK coal mines<br>
05:20 Portugal air pollution<br>
06:37 Rue break!<br>
06:55 EU tackles deforestation<br>
09:59 Fuel contamination in Alberta<br>
11:59 Kansas Keystone oil spill<br>
13:54 LA bans new oil wells<br>
15:05 LA and SD ban polystyrene<br>
16:00 Personal ad<br>
16:42 Vanguard back-tracks<br>
19:24 Aussie activist imprisoned<br>
21:02 Queensland Indigenous rangers<br>
22:06 Closing notes<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ1GmoNK8w8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ1GmoNK8w8</a><br>
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<i>[ Positive change ]</i><br>
<b>The world just got serious about dealing with climate damage</b><br>
By Taylor Dimsdale | December 12, 2022<br>
If you had polled a random sample of climate experts and insiders
ahead of COP27 on which issue was most likely to bring the
negotiations crashing down, most would have given the same answer:
the plan to raise money to address climate impacts in developing
countries, otherwise known as loss and damage.<br>
<br>
Instead, it was the crowning achievement in Sharm el-Sheikh.<br>
<br>
After more than two weeks of fraught meetings and late nights,
countries reached an agreement to establish a new fund designed to
help developing countries cover the cost of climate impacts, like
extreme weather events, sea level rise, and desertification. Less
surprising but also important was the agreement to set up a new
institution, called the Santiago Network, which will provide
technical assistance to vulnerable countries. Several factors came
to bear on COP27’s big success story..<br>
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First, loss and damage received newfound attention in the past two
years as impacts around the world have become more frequent and more
severe. Put plainly, the suffering of frontline communities and
countries has become impossible to ignore. See any number of recent
examples, from massive flooding in Nigeria, to a record-breaking
spring heatwave in Pakistan, followed by devastating summer floods
that displaced 33 million people and left one third of the country
underwater.<br>
<br>
In the run up to the summit, there was a flurry of behind-the-scenes
diplomacy between a small group of developed and developing
countries. Developed countries, which had been unified in their
opposition to any discussion on loss and damage, started to break
ranks. Before the conference, Denmark followed Scotland and
Wallonia, a region in Belgium, in announcing they would earmark some
development assistance for loss and damage. The United States and
European Union softened their positions and allowed it to be
included on the formal agenda for the first time at the start of the
summit.<br>
<br>
Once things kicked off in Sharm el-Sheikh, it quickly became clear
that loss and damage would indeed be the decisive issue in the
negotiations. Developing countries decided that the measure of
success was the establishment of a new fund and demonstrated a
remarkable degree of unity in their messaging. Several developed
countries including Austria, Germany, and Ireland announced pledges
for loss and damage finance. New Zealand was among the first to
indicate that they were open to a new fund...<br>
- -<br>
In the final hours, the United States and European Union blinked.
Whereas in Glasgow it had been the developing countries accepting
what they viewed as a disappointing outcome in order to keep the
show on the road, in Egypt it was developed countries that
ultimately relented on loss and damage finance, despite not getting
much in return on their wish list, the top item of which was
securing new mitigation pledges to increase the chances of meeting
the 1.5-degree Celsius temperature target. While the world is off
track for keeping temperature rise below that threshold, scientists
say the worst-case scenarios can still be avoided. The best-case
right now would be 1.8 degrees Celsius, with something like 2.6
degrees Celsius far more likely. In either case, impacts will get
worse before they get better. And it will be difficult to maintain
international cooperation, trade and security in a world of
relentless storms, droughts, and floods. Vulnerable countries are
already facing debt distress due in part to paying so much to
recover from disasters, not to mention rising food and water
insecurity.<br>
<br>
The agreement on a fund was a sign of political goodwill. But even
when the fund is operational, the resources that individual
countries can contribute will pale in comparison to the cost of
climate impacts in developing countries. That’s why there was
something equally important baked into the decision texts in Egypt:
a serious discussion about how to reform the global financial
architecture in a way that dramatically expands the pool of
resources and finance for addressing climate change...<br>
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Multilateral and international financial institutions like the World
Bank and International Monetary Fund have been asked to consider how
they could fast-track and scale up finance for loss and damage, and
the cover decision calls for multilateral development bank reform to
make them “fit for adequately addressing the global climate
emergency.” International financial institutions are to report back
at the spring meetings in April 2023.<br>
<br>
This breakthrough was the result of a few factors, including
lobbying from the United States to better deploy multilateral
development banks, as well as the Bridgetown Initiative, a set of
proposals put forward by Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados and
supported by President Macron of France that would, among other
things, significantly increase the amount of finance available for
climate action and provide debt relief to vulnerable countries
facing climate disasters. The agreement in Sharm el-Sheikh was
closer to the end of the beginning of efforts to address climate
risk than to the beginning of the end. The hard work now begins, and
many questions remain to be answered. A Transitional Committee, made
up of 24 country representatives, has been tasked with figuring out
the details, including where the money will come from, who will pay
it, and who will receive it. The committee will report back with
recommendations in a year, at COP28 in Dubai. In the context of
climate negotiations, that’s the blink of an eye.<br>
<br>
What is clear however is that for the first time a serious, global
discussion has been launched on how to establish a new international
framework on climate resilience. The level of mitigation needed to
ensure a safe climate won’t be possible without better climate risk
management. Now, there’s a fighting chance...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://thebulletin.org/2022/12/the-world-just-got-serious-about-dealing-with-climate-damage/">https://thebulletin.org/2022/12/the-world-just-got-serious-about-dealing-with-climate-damage/</a><br>
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<i>[ radical speech mixes with climate destabilization - so revise
thinking - a YouTube rant 34 mins ]</i><br>
<b>Inflation, Europe's energy crisis, and the Fed with Richard Wolff
| The Chris Hedges Report</b><br>
The Real News Network<br>
177,671 views Premiered Dec 2, 2022<br>
Read the transcript of this interview:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://therealnews.com/richard-wolff-the-feds-response-to-inflation-is-another-upward-transfer-of-wealth">https://therealnews.com/richard-wolff-the-feds-response-to-inflation-is-another-upward-transfer-of-wealth</a><br>
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The Federal Reserve has responded to runaway inflation by hiking up
interest rates at the same time that Americans are drowning in
historic levels of personal debt. With interest rates up, prices
will only rise faster than wages, hitting the vast majority of
people with stagnant or declining wages in real terms. The result is
yet another upward transfer of wealth to the minority of capitalists
responsible for the crisis in the first place. Economist Richard
Wolff joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss the origins of the
inflation crisis, the Fed's response, and what this all means for
working people.<br>
<br>
Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor in the
Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School. He is
the host of the weekly program Economic Update, and the author of
several books, including his most recent title, The Sickness in the
System: When Capitalism Fails To Save Us From Pandemics or Itself.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43uC1mfHKc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I43uC1mfHKc</a><br>
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<i>[ from the Dept of Cute and Clever - and NPR - text and audio ]</i><br>
<b>Gingerbread houses brace for climate change at Boston
architecture exhibition</b><br>
December 12, 2022<br>
Barbara Moran<br>
<br>
What happens when you give heaps of sugar to a bunch of architects
(and a few civilians) and ask them to solve climate change? You get
the Boston Society for Architecture's annual gingerbread
competition, and a lot of whimsical creations — from a gingerbread
brownstone perched on Toblerone pylons, to a frosted duck boat
rescuing Boston landmarks from rising seas.<br>
<br>
"We have everything from silly and creative ones, such as the duck
boat over there with the city landmarks kind of toppling off it, to
more realistic ones," said Maia Erslev, gallery manager at the
Boston Society for Architecture (BSA), who's running the show.
"There's been lots of creativity there."<br>
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Erslev came up with the theme of "climate-ready Boston" — or
"climate ginger-ready Boston," as they like to say — for this year's
competition. It's a topic on everyone's mind, Erslev said, and it
aligns with the BSA's work.<br>
<br>
"The BSA has been particularly focused in the last few years around
climate and equity as the two big systemic problems that architects
need to face," said Andrea Love, director of building science at the
Boston-based architecture firm Payette, and president of the BSA.<br>
<br>
"There are a lot of strategies, particularly around resiliency and
climate change, that buildings have — whether they're gingerbreads
or actual buildings — to deal with those challenges. And so I think
the structures are highlighting the strategies that we have."<br>
<br>
The gingerbread structures hit all the climate-ready talking points
— bike-friendly roads, green roofs and living shorelines. There are
lots of berms holding back rising seas of blue frosting; a park with
marsh grass made of shredded wheat; and a dizzying array of solar
panels, made from chocolate, pretzels and cookies.<br>
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One multi-family, solar-paneled gingerbread house has a wall cut
away so you can see the holiday scene inside: "A happy family
celebrating Hanukkah on one floor and Christmas on another," said
Erslev. "I love that touch."<br>
<br>
The duck boat is probably the most creative entry, if the least
scalable. As the entry explains, the sculpture represents a giant
version of a duck boat, built to salvage Boston’s most prized
landmarks, like the Prudential Center and the State House, as the
waters rise.<br>
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<br>
That's a lot to ask of a duck boat, and, unfortunately, the Custom
House tower has tumbled into the sugary sea. The pretzel rod
supporting the building cracked; crumbling, perhaps, beneath the
existential weight of the climate crisis.<br>
<br>
Or maybe it just needed a second pretzel.<br>
<br>
But even if pretzel rebar and chocolate solar panels aren’t the
answer to climate change — at least not the whole answer — the
exhibit shows off a lot of hopeful adaptations. And it offers a
refreshing take on on a weighty subject.<br>
<br>
"Climate change is often a scary topic for many people," said
Erslev. "But I think that this theme, the way that the submitters
took it and flipped it on its head, has turned it into more of a
hopeful and playful interpretation."<br>
<br>
The 16 gingerbread structures are on display in the atrium of the
BSA's office on Congress Street — and you can vote online for your
favorite — through noon on December 20.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/12/gingerbread-climate-change-boston-society-architecture-bsa">https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/12/12/gingerbread-climate-change-boston-society-architecture-bsa</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back at promising promises ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>December 13, 2007</b></i></font> <br>
December 13, 2007: At a Democratic presidential debate in Iowa,
Illinois Senator Barack Obama declares that the need to address
human-caused climate change "is a moral imperative. I've got a
9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old daughter. And I want to make
sure that the planet is as beautiful for them as it was for me.<br>
<br>
"Now, what that means is, there are going to be some increases
initially, in electricity prices, for example, if we have a
cap-and-trade system.<br>
<br>
"Over time, technology will adapt because investors and people who
are looking to make money will see that they can make money through
green technologies...but, in order for this to happen, we've got to
be courageous enough to not just talk about it in front of the
Sierra Club, or organizations that are already sympathetic to
us...part of what the next president has to do is not just tell the
American people what they want to hear; has to tell them what they
need to hear."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/bMVlhPIH_04">http://youtu.be/bMVlhPIH_04</a><br>
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