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<p><font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>January 25, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Disinformation danger report</i><i> ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Deny, Deceive, Delay (Vol 2)</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">19 JANUARY 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">This new report from the Climate Action Against
Disinformation (CAAD) coalition reveals the rampant disinformation
present at last year’s COP27 climate summit in Sharm el Sheikh,
and uncovers how some of the dangerous falsehoods spread can be
tied back to fossil fuel actors. This is the second volume of
Deny, Deceive, Delay, the first volume, which includes analysis on
the disinformation around COP26 in 2021, can be accessed here.<br>
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The report reflects the efforts of the coalition’s COP27
Intelligence Unit, with analysts from 18 organisations and led by
the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD).<br>
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Key findings from the report include:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">-- A sample of fossil fuel
sector-linked entities spent approximately 4 million USD on Meta
for paid advertisements to spread false, misleading claims on
climate crisis, net-zero targets and necessity of fossil fuels
prior to and during COP27.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">--The analysis identified 3,781 ads and the
majority of these were from Energy Citizens (a PR group of the
American Petroleum Institute) while America’s Plastic Makers
alone spent over $1 million and the Saudi Green Initiative ran
13 ads.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- Analysts detected a surprising increase in
content related to outright climate denial, including a spike on
Twitter for the hashtag #ClimateScam since July 2022.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">In addition, the report unveils the “narrative
playbook” of disinformation claims prominent at the summit, these
include:</font><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">-- Exploiting the cost of living
crisis and sidestepping concerns regarding the climate crisis or
greenhouse gas emissions</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">-- False doubt about the reliability of green
technology and false promotion of fossil fuels as necessary and
reliable</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">--A misleading framing of loss and damage
discussions as “climate reparations,”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">--A broader connection between climate
skepticism or denialism and the current culture wars, tying
climate change concerns to “wokeness” (and, sometimes, using
wokeness as a means to argue for fossil fuel development via
“wokewashing”).</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The report follows the announcement of oil
executive Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber as the COP28 President, and newly
revealed analysis that Exxon – one of the world’s largest oil
companies – accurately predicted climate projections in the 1970s,
despite publicly denying the link between fossil fuels and planet
warming for decades.</font><br>
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CAAD calls on the US government, EU, UN, IPCC and Big Tech
companies companies to acknowledge the climate disinformation
threat and take immediate steps to improve transparency and data
access to quantify disinformation trends, to stop misleading
fossil fuel advocacy in paid ad content, enforce policies against
repeat offenders spreading disinformation on platforms, and to
adopt a standardized and comprehensive definition of climate
disinformation.</font><br>
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The Press Release </font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Press-Release_COP27-Disinfo-Report-1.pdf">https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Press-Release_COP27-Disinfo-Report-1.pdf</a></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The Full Report
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DDD_ExposingClimateDisinfo-COP27.pdf">https://caad.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/DDD_ExposingClimateDisinfo-COP27.pdf</a></font><br>
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</font><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://caad.info/report/deny-deceive-delay-vol-2/">https://caad.info/report/deny-deceive-delay-vol-2/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ In Southern California ! 8 min video ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Salton Sea lithium deposits could help EV
transition, support economically devastated area</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">PBS NewsHour</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">6,422 views Jan 24, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The demand for electric vehicles is surging in
the U.S., sparked in part by the Biden administration’s Inflation
Reduction Act and the subsidies it offers. But a looming supply
shortage of lithium threatens to stall the EV transition.
Stephanie Sy traveled to California's Salton Sea where lithium
deposits could help meet the country’s energy needs and support an
economically devastated region.</font><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ US Politics opinion ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>A Plan for Blowing Up U.S. Climate Politics</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">An Australian consultant tells his U.S.
counterparts that conservative voters will respond to climate
messages — as long as they aren’t pushed by liberals.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">By ALEXANDER BURNS</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">01/24/2023</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">A small band of political strategists gathered
last September in a restaurant near Dupont Circle to meet a
visitor from the other side of the world. Everyone at the table
was immersed in the battle against climate change; nearly all had
been involved in passing the Inflation Reduction Act, the
clean-energy law Democrats enacted over the summer.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Their guest was Byron Fay, an Australian
operative who had arrived in Washington with an exotic political
scheme in mind. Over dinner, Fay shared it: American climate
campaigners should enlist independent candidates to run for
Congress in conservative areas, brandishing climate action as a
signature issue but shedding the label of the Democratic Party.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Polling showed a large majority of voters care
about the climate, Fay said, including some right-leaning voters
who view Democrats with suspicion. Perhaps by detaching their
cause from partisan politics, American climate advocates could
gain a foothold in areas currently closed to them.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Fay pointed to Evan McMullin, the former
intelligence officer then mounting an independent campaign in Utah
against Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican. McMullin’s signature issue
was defending democracy against the extreme right; Democrats had
made way for his candidacy by declining to field a nominee of
their own. Could there not be an Evan McMullin for the cause of
planetary survival?</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">It was a provocative idea, even an outlandish
one. Nothing in recent American history suggests a plan like that
would have a fair chance of working.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Australian politics tells a different story...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">For the first time in memory, green forces in
different countries have as much to learn from each others’
breakaway successes as they do from studying their noble failures.
They are no longer engaged in a long, tired struggle to make
voters care about global warming. They have real momentum on
multiple continents, manifested in election results from
Washington to Warringah.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Their task now is to drive the planet’s
clean-energy transition faster and faster. It is a moment that
calls for a spirit of experimentation and a willingness to test
the assumed boundaries of electoral politics at home.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">In some quarters that process is already
underway. A political feedback loop has been developing between
environmentalists in the United States and Australia, as well as
the United Kingdom — a kind of informal distance-learning program
for climate campaigners.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Watching Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, leaders of
the Australian Labor Party absorbed how Biden talked about climate
change not just as an environmental crisis but also as an economic
opportunity. In Australia’s next election, Labor leader Anthony
Albanese promised to make his country a “clean energy superpower”
and accused the right-wing Liberal Party of clinging to old
thinking and squandering a prosperous future. The message helped
make Albanese prime minister, with the teal independents playing a
dramatic supporting role in the campaign.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Last October, weeks after Fay’s meeting in
Washington, senior officials of Albanese’s Labor Party, including
the national secretary Paul Erickson and Wayne Swan, a former
deputy prime minister, visited Liverpool for the British Labour
Party’s annual conference. Meeting with advisers to Keir Starmer,
Britain’s opposition party leader, the Australians outlined their
winning blueprint, including a climate message that put
conservatives on defense and blunted the usual claims that
progressives wanted to gut Australia’s mining economy to save the
trees.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Caroline Spears, the San Francisco-based
director of the environmental group Climate Cabinet, said
Australia offered lessons for other democracies where right-wing
factions reject climate science.</font><font face="Calibri"><br>
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<font face="Calibri">“We share a lot with Australia, in climate
denial and the Murdoch media,” she said, referring to the
Australian-born, U.S.-naturalized Rupert Murdoch, whose media
empire has demonized environmentalism...</font>- -<br>
<font face="Calibri">“It’s a much riskier proposition in the
States,” said Ed Coper, an Australian strategist deeply involved
in the teal campaigns. He said Australia helped show how to punish
politicians for “treating climate as a culture-war issue.” But the
independent model might be tough to transplant.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Then there is the matter of campaign finance.
Climate 200 spent $13 million in Australia’s elections, to
explosive effect. In America that sum would not cover the cost of
one pitched Senate race. The social divisions are different, too.
Many of the voters who powered Australia’s teal surge were upscale
residents of cities and suburbs, left-leaning on cultural and
environmental issues but less so on matters of taxes and spending.
In the United States, those people are called centrist Democrats.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">In September, Fay’s idea earned a skeptical
reception from American environmentalists. The 36-year-old
Australian left undeterred; he understood why it might sound
far-fetched to people hardened in the brutal machinery of American
elections. Several of the Americans wondered if he grasped how
rigidly partisan our electoral system is. Besides, they had just
won a generational triumph in climate policy through their usual
method of supporting Democrats. The need for a wily new approach
was not immediately apparent.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Yet it might be a bad reflex to shrug off a
political innovation in an advanced democracy merely because its
institutions do not mirror ours.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">When I spoke to Fay recently, he conceded there
were enormous structural distinctions between Australian and
American politics. Indeed, he joined our Zoom call from a locale
that underscored our divergent circumstances: I was at home in
America’s frigid capital, while he was under a startling blue sky
on the coast of New South Wales. He told me later he went surfing
afterward.</font><font face="Calibri"><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Fay insisted the detailed asymmetries of
Australian and American politics should not obscure the big,
thematic similarities. The core of the teal model, Fay said, is
bringing the climate fight to conservative areas showing some
signs of political restlessness. It is a way of testing the
loyalty of right-leaning constituencies and giving a new option to
voters who care about climate but do not identify as progressives.</font><br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">Of course, he said, Democrats would
probably have to abandon these races for an independent to have a
shot.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">“If you can find two states and 20 House races
in which this can work, you change the country,” Fay said. “If I
was a Democratic strategist, I would be thinking: Where has
potential for us in ten years’ time? And maybe now it could be
competitive for an independent.”</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">It is a question worth engaging. If the most
literal version of the teal strategy is ill-matched to American
elections, is there a looser adaptation that could leave a mark?</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Try this one: What if, rather than fielding a
set of independents in affluent suburbs with the teal message — a
blend of support for climate action, gender equality and clean
government — a climate-minded American billionaire funded rural
independents with a common platform of unleashing a clean energy
revolution, imposing term limits on federal legislators and ending
illegal immigration?</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Would unaffiliated candidates with that profile
do better or worse than a typical Democrat in a place like Utah or
Idaho or Alaska? Who would do more to inflict political pain on an
incumbent with reactionary views on climate?</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The McMullin campaign last fall furnished a
hint of an answer. The Utah independent lost to Lee by ten
percentage points. But that was a leaping improvement on the last
challenge to Lee in 2016, when the Republican beat his Democratic
opponent by 41 points. In the midterms another political
independent, Cara Mund, who ran for Congress in North Dakota on a
message anchored in support for abortion rights, lost by a wide
margin but did 10 points better than the previous Democratic
nominee for the seat. There does seem to be some value in shedding
a party label and brandishing a cause that confounds entrenched
definitions of left and right.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">That way of doing politics is alien to the
United States. But with a consuming issue like the climate crisis,
there is no reason to expect the cleverest political solutions
will be made in America.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/24/green-independents-democrats-climate-00079076">https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/24/green-independents-democrats-climate-00079076</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ The RIG - New Sci-Fi terror series show
-- survival on a drilling platform - in English - but sometimes
needs captioning - amazing special effects. -- Grist reviews
what is </i><i> a metaphor for our current plight</i></font><font
face="Calibri"><i>- Amazon Prime Video - </i></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><b>Amazon’s ‘The
Rig’ brings new energy to old eco terrors</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The binge-worthy thriller views economic
anxiety and the green transition through the eyes of North Sea oil
workers</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">John McCracken</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Published Jan 24, 2023</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">What’s scarier: being stranded at sea, stuck in
an ominous fog, or forced to confront the monstrous motives of the
fossil fuel industry? Well thanks to The Rig, the highly bingeable
new sci-fi series from Amazon Prime Video, you don’t have to
choose.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Rather than using sci-fi tropes such as of a
giant sea monster or a devastating natural disaster acting as a
stand-in for climate change, The Rig is a contemporary thriller
rooted in the interpersonal conflicts that arise when a group of
people learn their future has been uprooted due to forces beyond
their control.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The series focuses on a crew of North Sea oil
workers who discover their offshore drilling platform is about to
be decommissioned by its owner Pictor Energy, a (fictional) major
player in the United Kingdom’s energy market. Soon, a mysterious
fog engulfs the operation, making it impossible for the crew to
return to the nearby Scottish mainland. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">---- [ See the YouTube trailer
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/sKf09DckhmY">https://youtu.be/sKf09DckhmY</a> ]</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">John Carpenter fans will recognize where the
show must go from here, albeit with a Build Back Better twist:
Workers begin to spiral into madness, be it from contact with
supernatural forces buried deep beneath them, or upon learning
that their oil industry employer is not coming to save them. Talk
of retraining workers into green-based jobs creates added division
between the blue- and white-collar ranks, with seasoned workers
calling plans to send grown men back to school “embarrassing.”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Calls for industry retraining, of course,
aren’t merely a work of fiction; they’ve been sweeping the oil and
gas fields in Europe and the United States for years as
governments and the private sector attempt to quell global
emissions. Many oil workers know that a transition in the field is
underway, though unlike in The Rig, a majority may already have
skills that could translate to other energy sectors. And according
to one survey, half of the rig workers in the North Sea, a region
that supports over 200,000 jobs, want to be retained for work in
offshore wind. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">But despite calls for increased transitions to
wind and other renewables in the region, the United Kingdom
recently announced more drilling in the North Sea, mostly in the
name of domestic energy production. Climate groups have called the
decision unlawful, and the Scottish government recently announced
that they do not support the expansion of oil and gas in the area.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Throughout writing and shooting the series,
series creator David Macpherson said he was inspired by the
decommissioning of oil rigs and the energy transition. He wanted
the show to speak to the stories of the people who work on the
rigs, from old rig workers to green management with new ideas. “As
much as we want to transition away from fossil fuels as quickly as
possible, industrial decline is a process that often isn’t managed
very well, particularly in the United Kingdom,” Macpherson told
Grist. “We have a long history of not looking after workers when
these big industrial changes come about.”</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Macpherson, a former environmental policy
worker for the Scottish government and the son of a North Sea oil
worker, said he wanted the series to act as a way of bringing the
interpersonal conflict to the discussions of climate change and
energy transition, but through an entertaining medium. “I’ve got a
great deal of respect for the people who work in these places and
these industries,” he said. “We get pushed into false dichotomies
and I wanted to use the show to hopefully bring a bit more nuance
to these discussions.”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Though the series is currently streaming
globally, Macpherson said he wanted it to feel like a Scottish
show in its origin and location, with North Sea oil acting as a
microcosm for the rest of the world’s energy industry disputes.
“We get a lot of post-apocalyptic dramas where the climate
disaster has happened in the past and we’re in a sort of a
different Earth, but I really wanted to focus on the here and
now,” Macpherson said. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The Rig comes at a moment when talks of a
global fuel transition, unstable economies, and energy scarcity
are more prevalent than ever. Premiering at the beginning of the
year, moments in the series nod to workers who have already gone
through a global pandemic; some workers pontificate that their
underwater woes may be caused by the Russian military as opposed
to a supernatural aquatic nemesis.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">At times, the heavy-handed talk of energy,
climate, transition, and environmental harm reminds viewers of
what it is, an action, sci-fi, thriller, trying to fit a lot of
drama, knowledge, global issues, and supernatural elements into
six episodes. From a horror perspective, there’s plenty of
real-life source material. Oil rig workers have died, been
stranded for days, and face grueling conditions to maintain energy
needs and record profits for oil companies. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Throughout the series, which is growing in
popularity with American streamers and already receiving praise
from horror icons like Stephen King, talk of both a once and
future wave hangs heavy. Even the subject of a changing tide
causes workers to tense up and brush off the unknown future with
playful, pointed banter of “going green.”</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Taking a page out of Ridley Scott’s Alien
trilogy, the real villain of The Rig isn’t apparent until the end,
when more information about Pictor Energy comes to light. In a
not-so-subtle nod to the Exxon internal memos, it turns out the
company knew about the underwater organism and its effects the
whole time. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">But don’t let the spoilers deter you: Whether
you’re a fan of supernatural suspense films, a rapid environmental
news reader, or both, The Rig is worth a watch. The themes of
climate disaster, or as the rig’s foreman puts it, “punching the
Earth until it punches back” might not be new to the genre, but
the series takes the audience deeper. With talks of renewable
energy, carbon capture, and sea monsters rising from the deep, The
Rig is able to compress energy headlines and modern sci-fi into a
mostly digestible thriller worth exploring. </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://grist.org/culture/amazon-prime-video-the-rig-review-fog-series-oil-worker/">https://grist.org/culture/amazon-prime-video-the-rig-review-fog-series-oil-worker/</a>?</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ before you go ice climbing ]</i><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Ice climbers and mountain adventurers fear
climate change creates new unpredictable risks</b><br>
Rock falls have climbing community on alert, perhaps more careful,
but still keen to hit the peaks<br>
Yvette Brend · CBC News · Posted: Jan 22, 2023<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">As a pro athlete, William Gadd has
climbed the ice of Niagara Falls, Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro and
Greenland glaciers. But he says now climbing routes are changing
or crumbling.<br>
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Living in Canmore, Alta., Gadd spends more than 200 days a year in
the wilderness, and says glacial melt, forest fires, rock falls
and wilder weather all have a visceral effect on him.<br>
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"This is where I live and work and my office is falling apart,"
said Gadd.<br>
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"Imagine if you showed up in downtown Calgary, Vancouver, Toronto,
and your office building either wasn't there or was on fire."<br>
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Climate change has already begun to change high elevation areas of
the world. Researchers say that's expected to continue and at
times be dramatic, as mountain faces and riverways are redrawn by
the geological forces at play — at times creating sudden
unexpected hazards for the people who adventure in remote mountain
zones.<br>
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Extreme weather, floods, fires and landslides linked to climate
change are shifting the way Canadian adventure sports enthusiasts
approach the back country — as risks get harder to predict.<br>
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"The hard part for me now is figuring out what the new risks are,"
said Gadd.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">The 'glue' holding rock walls together is
melting<br>
Geomorphologist Dan Shugar from the University of Calgary confirms
Gadd's observations. He says that as glaciers along steep rock
walls thaw, the stuff that cements much of the high mountain areas
together turns to liquid.<br>
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"Frozen water or ice that's contained in the rock permanently,
begins to melt," explained Shugar. <br>
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"The glue that's holding the cracked rock together is then liquid
water. So those rocks can fall apart."<br>
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Large rockfall found on Snowpatch Spire in southeast B.C. will
change park forever: climber<br>
VIDEORock slides that shook Squamish linked to climate change,
expert says<br>
Glaciated rock has already been under excruciating pressures from
the grinding and weight of ice over time. As that ice retreats —
releasing its grip on the rock — the pressure release creates
cracks, layering the rock with fault lines parallel to the surface
like the layers of an onion.<br>
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When this rock is then subsequently frozen, thawed, flooded or hit
with summer heat, this spreads cracks which then join, causing
chunks to sometimes shear off.<br>
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Climate change researchers say this is just one of the processes
beginning to cause massive change in mountain areas.<br>
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A study published this month by Shugar and John Clague of Simon
Fraser University forecasts a reshaping of mountain faces and
river routes in more dramatic shifts than have been seen in 11,700
years, since woolly mammoths roamed the earth.<br>
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They outline change already occurring in the Yukon and British
Columbia. Their paper was inspired after observing how the
Kaskawulsh Glacier, one of the largest in the St. Elias Range,
began to divert the Ä'äy Chú (formerly known as Slims River), the
Alsek and Yukon Rivers.<br>
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They also show similar shifts happening near the Bering, Grand
Pacific and Melbern glaciers along the Alaska/Yukon border. They
say large river systems will continue to reorganize as glaciers
vanish and allow them to flow in more direct routes to the sea —
changing water paths, altering ecosystms and even creating more
coastal fjords. <br>
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B.C. landslide triggered 100-metre tall lake tsunami, study shows<br>
VIDEOLandslide triggers massive debris cascade in remote part of
B.C. coast<br>
Shughar, 43, says he's expecting a lot of change to iconic spots
in his life. He says even the signature turquoise colour of
Alberta's lakes — like Peyto and Moraine — may change.<br>
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"I expect I'll still see glaciated mountains as an old man. But
they'll be different."<br>
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Peyto Lake in Alberta's Banff National Park. As climate change
reshapes mountains, the iconic turquoise of lakes like this may
change, says geologist Dan Shugar.<br>
Uptick of fatal slides worldwide<br>
Internationally, studies show rock-slope failures already
accelerating.<br>
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Slumping slopes have killed people in Europe and Asia, where
slides have been triggered by monsoons and cyclones. In July 2022,
seven people were killed when an Alpine glacier collapsed in the
northern Italian Alps. Video showed a cascade of snow, ice and
rock down the slopes of Marmolada, the highest Dolomite peak. <br>
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The Himalayan expedition gateway town of Joshimath is sinking
where two valleys meet. More than 670 buildings in the
20,000-person community in northern India have formed cracks,
according to the BBC.<br>
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A 3rd landslide could happen at any time on Joffre Peak, scientist
says<br>
1 Nelson police officer dead, 1 critically injured in avalanche
near Kaslo<br>
Back in Canada, slides have also been on the rise. But, for the
most part, they have happened in remote areas with few people.
"It's still not a huge risk when you consider the total area of
landscape is still pretty low," said Shugar.<br>
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Paul Adam, manager of citizen science for the Centre for Natural
Hazards Research at Simon Fraser University, says climate change
is playing a role in recent slide events.<br>
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"It's getting wetter, getting drier, it's getting hotter, it's
getting colder. It definitely plays a role," said Adam, a 40-year
climber who says he will avoid certain areas, but won't stop
climbing.<br>
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"[Slides] are occurring more often. You require a bit more care.
But I wouldn't say it's making any riskier on a day-to-day basis."<br>
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Climbing community rocked by recent rock falls<br>
But recent slides that erased popular climbs have shaken the
climbing community.<br>
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In late December, guide James Madden noticed a cloud of dust as he
was scoping weather conditions in the Purcell Mountains near
Snowpatch Spire, a 3,000-metre-high rock tower in Bugaboo
Provincial Park in southeast B.C.<br>
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The slide sheered off a mass of rock and turned one of the world's
hardest alpine climbs into a 50-thousand-cubic-metre rubble pile.<br>
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"This really has changed the face, literally the rock face, of
that spot," said Shugar.<br>
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While this event was relatively small, and hurt nobody, other
slides have been fatal, like one that hit a highway during the
November floods of 2021 when a debris slide swept across Highway
99, killing five people southwest of Lillooet.<br>
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A year before that a catastrophic slide on the central coast of
B.C. in November 2020 touched off a tsunami in a glacial lake that
devastated Elliot Creek and Southgate River with a slide of
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WATCH | Massive 2020 landslide on B.C. central coast seen by
helicopter: </font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> Helicopter pilot discovers ‘massive’ landslide
on B.C.'s Central Coast</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">2 years ago Duration 0:53</font><br>
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Helicopter pilot Bastian Fleury flew to B.C.'s Southgate River on
Dec. 10, 2020, to investigate why trees and logs were floating
down the nearby Bute Inlet. The pilot found evidence of a massive
landslide that had carved the creek bed into a canyon.<br>
Researchers determined that the slide hit a glacial lake with such
force it triggered a 100-metre-high wave that devastated a
10-kilometre stretch of river and touched off a massive underwater
avalanche.<br>
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In 2019, east of Pemberton, B.C., a large chunk of Joffre Peak
split off, spreading a debris pile over five kilometres.<br>
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The debris trail from landslides on Joffre Peak as seen from an
airplane on May 18, 2019. (Gerry Kollmuss)<br>
Mountaineer Drew Brayshaw, a hydrologist and geoscientist with
Statlu Environmental Consulting, fears forest fires more than
rockfall.<br>
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He's spent years studying the changing climate, watching glaciers
retreat and worked as an undergraduate with geohazard researcher
Matthias Jakob, assessing the massive Mount Meager slide in 2010.
Brayshaw lost his mentor in a paragliding accident.<br>
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Brayshaw says it's important to gauge risks, but not let them
paralyze you; perhaps don't pose for selfies beneath a large rock
that could fall. But he points out that driving a car is also
dangerous.<br>
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"I don't want to scare people away. I love the outdoors."<br>
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