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<p><font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>February 10, 2023</b></i></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Part of a trend? ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Shell’s board of directors sued over
‘flawed’ climate strategy in first-of-its-kind lawsuit</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">By Rosie Frost</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">02/09/2023 - <br>
Shell’s board of directors are being personally sued over their
alleged failure to properly manage risks associated with the
climate crisis.<br>
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The lawsuit says the British oil giant’s 11 directors have
breached their legal duties under the UK’s Companies Act by
failing to bring their climate strategy in line with the Paris
Agreement.<br>
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Environmental law charity ClientEarth, which filed the lawsuit,
says it is the first case in the world that looks to hold
corporate directors personally responsible for failing to prepare
for the energy transition.<br>
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“Shell may be making record profits now due to the turmoil of the
global energy market, but the writing is on the wall for fossil
fuels long term,” says Paul Benson, a senior lawyer at
ClientEarth.<br>
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“The shift to a low-carbon economy is not just inevitable, it’s
already happening.”<i><br>
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<font face="Calibri">But the Shell board is persisting with a
transition strategy that is “fundamentally flawed,” Benson claims.
He says it leaves the company seriously exposed to the risks
climate change poses to their success in the future - “despite the
board’s legal duty to manage those risks”...<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/09/shells-board-of-directors-sued-over-flawed-climate-strategy-in-first-of-its-kind-lawsuit">https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/02/09/shells-board-of-directors-sued-over-flawed-climate-strategy-in-first-of-its-kind-lawsuit</a><i><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Harvard professor gives a great lecture -
most important - not to miss video ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Can Science Be Saved? | Naomi Oreskes</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Center for Inquiry</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">66.9K subscribers</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">161 views Feb 9, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Many people believe that science is in crisis.
In fact, the weight of evidence suggests that the scientific
enterprise in America is alive and well and thriving. </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">However, in recent years, public debates about
the validity of scientific findings and the value of science have
intensified, as some Americans have actively resisted and even
denied the legitimacy of scientific guidance about how to address
the disease. What are the social and psychological drivers of
public skepticism about science? </font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">How can skeptics be convinced otherwise? How do
we evaluate the role of facts, of political affinity, and of
personal identity in the rejection of scientific advice? According
to Naomi Oreskes, Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of
Science at Harvard University, most people who reject science
won’t be persuaded with more technical facts. They deny scientific
findings because they do not like the implications of their
veracity—what Oreskes terms implicatory denial. However,
addressing those perceived implications—and answering the concerns
or fear involved—can help us to make progress. This holds true in
a range of domains, from COVID-19 denial to climate change.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Naomi Oreskes is the Henry Charles Lea
Professor of the History of Science and affiliated professor of
earth and planetary sciences at Harvard University. She is an
internationally renowned earth scientist, historian, and author of
both scholarly and popular books and articles on the history of
earth and environmental science, including, most recently, Why
Trust Science? (2019) and Science on a Mission: How Military
Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean (2021).</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">This talk took place at the CSICon 2022 in Las
Vegas on October 21, 2022</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QydHsqH92r8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QydHsqH92r8</a></font><br>
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ a few Greta clips -- from an opinion by
David Wallace-Wells in the NYTimes ]</font></i><br>
<b>Greta Thunberg: ‘The World Is Getting More Grim by the Day’</b><br>
Feb. 8, 2023<br>
By David Wallace-Wells<br>
Opinion Writer<br>
There is genuinely no precedent in the modern history of geopolitics
for the climate activist Greta Thunberg.<br>
<br>
Four and a half years ago, she began “striking” outside of Swedish
parliament — a single teenager with a single sign. She was 15. In
just a few months, she had made her mark at the United Nations
climate conference in Poland: “You are not mature enough to tell it
like it is,” she told the assembled diplomats and negotiators, “even
that burden you leave to us children.”<br>
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By the time she spoke at Davos that January, excoriating the world —
“I want you to act as if the house is on fire, because it is” — she
had become the face of the global climate movement, giving it an
entirely new generational life and scale. She led weekly marches
across the globe that drew millions of people through 2019 and
helped force the world’s most powerful people to at least pay lip
service to what they now called a climate crisis.<br>
<br>
I first met Thunberg in the middle of that maelstrom, when she came
to New York in 2019 by boat to help stage two large climate strikes
as bookends to the U.N.’s climate week. A lot has changed since
then, and then again, a whole lot hasn’t. Thunberg is 20 now.
Countries accounting for almost 90 percent of the world’s emissions
and G.D.P. have made net-zero pledges. Renewable energy is
skyrocketing, though fossil fuel use has only plateaued — perhaps
even peaked — but it is a long way down from 40 gigatons (50 if you
include methane) to zero. Current policies still point to a global
average temperature rise above three degrees Celsius this century,
more than double the more ambitious goals enshrined by the Paris
agreement in 2015. And now Thunberg has published her third book,
called “The Climate Book,” a curated tour of the state of the
emergency and how to think about it from more than 100 contributors.
(I wrote an essay for it drawing lessons from the experience of the
pandemic.)...<br>
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In early February I spoke with Thunberg, who was in Sweden, over
Zoom, about why she believes it is now a trickier time to be a
climate activist than when she began, why it’s no longer sufficient
to listen to the scientists, the necessity of systems change and
whether she still believes in the basic goodness of people. The
conversation has been edited lightly for clarity and length.<br>
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We first met in 2019.<br>
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That was a time …<br>
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<b>What’s changed, if anything, since then?</b><br>
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It seems like the world is getting more and more grim every day. The
concentration of CO₂ is now higher in the atmosphere and causing
more and more extreme weather.<br>
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But there are also positive things that have changed. We have more
people now who are mobilized and who are in the climate movement, in
the fight for the climate and social justice.<br>
<p>So I guess that’s a good thing. But we have to be able to zoom
out and see that we are still moving in the wrong direction. The
things that people said back then that they were going to do, they
still haven’t done, which proves, or which shows us, that it was
just empty promises and really not taking it seriously,
unfortunately.</p>
<b>You say more people are mobilized. From where I sit, it felt like
there was a rising tide of public protest and awareness in 2019
into early 2020. But the energy also feels a little dissipated, a
little less front and center, after the pandemic...</b><br>
<p>Well, obviously, we had to stop doing everything that we did.
That halted the momentum. And as you say, we know now that people
are worried. It might not show on the streets because we still
have to regain that momentum. But there is a more common sort of
general level of concern among people. Of course, that doesn’t
really mean anything unless that is translated to concrete action.</p>
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<b>In the book, you wrote: “We still need to answer some fundamental
questions. What is it exactly we want to solve in the first place?
What is our goal?” How would you answer those questions now?</b><br>
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Right now it seems like the people in power just don’t want to solve
the climate crisis. They want to find “solutions,” whether they’re
good or not, that enable us to continue now as we have been, that
allow them to continue staying in power and to satisfy their greed.
That’s not what I think that we should be striving for. I think that
we need to make sure that no one’s well-being is at the expense of
someone else. But that’s not what our current people in power seem
to want.<br>
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<b>Can we limit damages without changing that fundamental dynamic of
exploitation, which predates the climate crisis?</b><br>
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I don’t think we can.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/opinion/greta-thunberg-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/opinion/greta-thunberg-climate-change.html</a><br>
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[ NYTimes full article]<br>
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<font face="Calibri">[ Our VP Harris says ...reports CNBC ]</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>VP Harris: Young people will ‘leapfrog’ this
generation in climate change work because they won’t face the
question: ‘Is this real?’</b><br>
FEB 9 2023<br>
Catherine Clifford<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">- -“Students who are here and those
who are thinking about their role in this: You are going to come
out and just leapfrog over all of us,” Vice President Kamala
Harris told an audience at Georgia Institute of Technology in
Atlanta.<br>
- -“Because, you know, especially for our younger leaders, the
benefit that you have is you’re not burdened by any question
about, ‘Is this real?’” Harris said.<br>
- -Climate is a pressing issue for young people: 59% of young
people around the globe are “very or extremely worried” about
climate change and 84% are at least “moderately worried,”
according to a 2021 survey of 10,000 people aged 16-25 years
around the globe...<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">“Because, you know, especially for our
younger leaders, the benefit that you have is you’re not burdened
by any question about, ‘Is this real?’” she said.<br>
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That’s not currently the case, Harris said. “That is great because
we’ve been having to deal with some folks who just literally ...
we’re kind of like, ‘Have you looked out the window?’”<br>
<br>
Harris made the comments at the end of a moderated conversation
about climate change with James Marshall Shepherd, a professor of
geography and atmospheric sciences at the University of Georgia,
the day after President Joe Biden delivered the state of the union
address.<br>
<br>
“Let’s all stay active in this and understand ... this is the
planet we’ve got. It is a precious place. It is — it is a place
that we have a responsibility for taking care of, and that there
is a whole lot of work that can be done,” Harris said. “But the
clock is not just ticking, it’s like banging. It is requiring us
to move quickly. But there is so much to be excited about in
terms of what we can do.” ...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Access to clean water is also an issue of
national security, Harris said.<br>
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“When we look at extreme climate, we see that we are experiencing
drought around the world,” Harris said. “If people don’t have
water where they live, they will leave where they live. If they
cannot grow food where they live, they will leave where they live,
and they will go to other places.”<br>
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That migration, forced by climate change, may lead to conflict,
she said.<br>
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“And if we think about this in the global perspective, and they
will invariably go to places that speak a different language and
pray to a different god. And what do you think might happen then?
You’re probably looking at the beginning of conflict,” Harris
said.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/vp-harris-young-people-will-leapfrog-older-people-in-climate-work.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/09/vp-harris-young-people-will-leapfrog-older-people-in-climate-work.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ was this Reuters news item widely
posted? ] <br>
</i></font><font face="Calibri"><b>Exclusive: Huge chunk of
plants, animals in U.S. at risk of extinction</b><br>
By Brad Brooks<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">February 6, 2023<br>
Exclusive: Huge chunk of plants, animals in U.S. at risk of
extinction<br>
By Brad Brooks<br>
Feb 6 (Reuters) - A leading conservation research group found that
40% of animals and 34% of plants in the United States are at risk
of extinction, while 41% of ecosystems are facing collapse.<br>
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Everything from crayfish and cacti to freshwater mussels and
iconic American species such as the Venus flytrap are in danger of
disappearing, a report released on Monday found.<br>
<br>
NatureServe, which analyzes data from its network of over 1,000
scientists across the United States and Canada, said the report
was its most comprehensive yet, synthesizing five decades' worth
of its own information on the health of animals, plants and
ecosystems.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Importantly, the report pinpoints the areas in
the United States where land is unprotected and where animals and
plants are facing the most threats.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Sean O'Brien, president of NatureServe, said
the conclusions of the report were "terrifying" and he hoped it
would help lawmakers understand the urgency of passing
protections, such as the Recovering America's Wildlife Act that
stalled out in Congress last year.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">"If we want to maintain the panoply of
biodiversity that we currently enjoy, we need to target the places
where the biodiversity is most threatened," O'Brien said. "This
report allows us to do that."<br>
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U.S. Representative Don Beyer, a Democrat who has proposed
legislation to create a wildlife corridor system to rebuild
threatened populations of fish, wildlife and plants, said
NatureServe's work would be critical to helping agencies identify
what areas to prioritize and where to establish migration routes.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The data reported by NatureServe is grim, a
harrowing sign of the very real problems our wildlife and
ecosystems are facing," Beyer told Reuters. "I am thankful for
their efforts, which will give a boost to efforts to protect
biodiversity."<br>
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HUMAN ENCROACHMENT<br>
Among the species at risk of disappearing are icons like the
carnivorous Venus flytrap, which is only found in the wild in a
few counties of North and South Carolina.<br>
<br>
Nearly half of all cacti species are at risk of extinction, while
200 species of trees, including a maple-leaf oak found in
Arkansas, are also at risk of disappearing. Among ecosystems,
America's expansive temperate and boreal grasslands are among the
most imperiled, with over half of 78 grassland types at risk of a
range-wide collapse.<br>
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The threats against plants, animals and ecosystems are varied, the
report found, but include "habitat degradation and land
conversion, invasive species, damming and polluting of rivers, and
climate change."<br>
<br>
California, Texas and the southeastern United States are where the
highest percentages of plants, animals and ecosystems are at risk,
the report found.<br>
<br>
Those areas are both the richest in terms of biodiversity in the
country, but also where population growth has boomed in recent
decades, and where human encroachment on nature has been harshest,
said Wesley Knapp, the chief botanist at NatureServe.<br>
<br>
Knapp highlighted the threats facing plants, which typically get
less conservation funding than animals. There are nearly 1,250
plants in NatureServe's "critically imperiled" category, the final
stage before extinction, meaning that conservationists have to
decide where to spend scant funds even among the most vulnerable
species to prevent extinctions.<br>
<br>
"Which means a lot of plants are not going to get conservation
attention. We're almost in triage mode trying to keep our natural
systems in place," Knapp said.<br>
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'NATURE SAVINGS ACCOUNT'<br>
Vivian Negron-Ortiz, the president of the Botanical Society of
America and a botanist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
who was not involved in the NatureServe report, said there is
still a lot scientists do not know and have not yet discovered
about biodiversity in the United States, and that NatureServe's
data helped illuminate that darkness.<br>
<br>
More than anything, she sees the new data as a call to action.<br>
<br>
"This report shows the need for the public to help prevent the
disappearance of many of our plant species," she said. "The public
can help by finding and engaging with local organizations that are
actively working to protect wild places and conserve rare
species."<br>
<br>
John Kanter, the senior wildlife biologist with the National
Wildlife Federation, said the data in the report, which he was not
involved with, was essential to guiding state and regional
officials in creating impactful State Wildlife Action Plans
(SWAPs), which they must do every 10 years to receive federal
funding to protect vulnerable species.<br>
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Currently $50 million in federal funding is divided up among all
states to carry out their SWAPs. The Recovering America's Wildlife
Act, whose congressional sponsors say will be reintroduced soon,
would have increased that to $1.4 billion, which would have a huge
impact on the state's abilities to protect animals and ecosystems,
Kanter said, and the NatureServe report can act as roadmap for
officials to best spend their money.<br>
<br>
"Our biodiversity and its conservation is like a 'nature savings
account' and if we don't have this kind of accounting of what's
out there and how's it doing, and what are the threats, there's no
way to prioritize action," Kanter said. "This new report is
critical for that."<br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/huge-chunk-plants-animals-us-risk-extinction-report-2023-02-06/">https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/huge-chunk-plants-animals-us-risk-extinction-report-2023-02-06/</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">{ see the interactive Reuters report }<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Why Plants Matter</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/PLANTS/jnpwyygywpw/index.html">https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/PLANTS/jnpwyygywpw/index.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ video discussion Monte Carlo
predictions, Navier-Stokes, weather and climates without math -
the interviewer talks too much, ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Tim Palmer: The Primacy of Doub</b>t<br>
The Origins Podcast<br>
125K subscribers<br>
5,354 views Premiered Feb 3, 2023 Full Video Episodes of The
Origins Podcast<br>
Tim Palmer graduated from Oxford with a PhD in mathematical
physics, working on general relativity, and got a postdoc to work
with Stephen Hawking. He turned it down and moved into the field
of meteorology, and then moved on to Climate Change studies, where
he pioneered the development of what is called ‘ensemble
forecasting’ to predict both long term climate change, as well as
short term weather predictions. This technique has now become a
standard in the field, and is necessary to properly account for
possible chaotic behavior in atmospheric systems.<br>
<br>
Even simple classical systems can be chaotic—implying that even
minute changes in initial conditions can sometimes produce
dramatic variations in their later evolution. The canonical
hyperbolic example is a butterfly flapping its wings in Kansas
might later cause a violent storm on the Eastern Seaboard.<br>
<br>
On first glance, it may seem that this would imply all
predictivity must go out the window, but over the past 40 years
techniques have been developed for dealing with the so-called
‘fractal’ distributions that often result from chaotic dynamics,
and as a result, it has become possible to constrain the range of
possible long term outcomes of chaotic behavior.<br>
<br>
Tim Palmer has recently written a new book, entitled The Primacy
of Doubt, which provides a wonderful discussion about the
importance of accounting for doubt and uncertainty in a wide
variety of systems, from weather to medicine, and even includes
discussions of there possible implications of his ideas for the
fundamentals of quantum mechanics and gravity. While I am more
skeptical of his nevertheless intriguing latter arguments, Tim and
I had a fascinating and informative discussion about his own
experiences as a scientist, and the importance of explicitly
incorporating a range of initial conditions when exploring weather
and climate predictions.<br>
<br>
For many people, uncertainty is something to be avoided, but in
physics, uncertainty is an inherent part of our understanding of
the world, and it must be faced head-on. Being able to make
quantitative predictions with likelihoods that have meaning
requires it, and science is the only area of human inquiry where
we can state with great quantitative accuracy what the likelihood
is that a given prediction will be correct. This is a triumph of
the scientific process and deserves to be better understood. In
this regard, there are fewer better guides than Tim Palmer, and it
was a delight to spend time with him on this podcast, which will
enlighten and entertain.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<i><font face="Calibri">[ Stupidity is not measurable, but
intelligence is. ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Are we getting dumber and dumber? | DW
Documentary</b><b><br>
</b>DW Documentary<br>
443,746 views Jan 15, 2023 #dwdocumentary #IQ #documentary<br>
For a long time, mankind was getting smarter and smarter. In fact,
our progress seemed unstoppable. Intelligence research actually
confirmed this. But a few years ago, IQ scores stagnated. What
could be the reason for this?<br>
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In 1984, the political scientist James Flynn, who lives in New
Zealand, discovered that the intelligence values measured in
numerous countries had been rising continuously since the
beginning of the 20th century. This became known as "the Flynn
effect”. The increase was attributed to things like better
nutrition and medical care. But above all, it was the result of
broader access to education.<br>
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Shortly after the turn of the millennium, however, Norwegian
statisticians discovered that the Flynn effect was no longer
working. On the contrary, some countries have even recorded
slightly declining IQ scores since then. To this day, researchers
are still puzzling over the question: Why are we getting dumber?<br>
<br>
Many neurobiologists and psychologists suspect that digitization
and changes in the media landscape could have a negative impact on
IQ scores. Increased screen time and constant accessibility via
smartphones have been proven to reduce our ability to concentrate.
Our brains are simply overtaxed. And external biological factors
could also have an impact on intelligence, such as the exponential
increase in fossil fuel production and the everyday use of
plastic.<br>
<br>
Shortly after the turn of the millennium, however, Norwegian
statisticians discovered that the Flynn effect was no longer
working. On the contrary, some countries have even recorded
slightly declining IQ scores since then. To this day, researchers
are still puzzling over the question: Why are we getting dumber?<br>
<br>
Many neurobiologists and psychologists suspect that digitization
and changes in the media landscape could have a negative impact on
IQ scores. Increased screen time and constant accessibility via
smartphones have been proven to reduce our ability to concentrate.
Our brains are simply overtaxed. And external biological factors
could also have an impact on intelligence, such as the exponential
increase in fossil fuel production and the everyday use of
plastic.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Fewer than one in 200 companies have
credible climate plans, says CDP</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">February 8, 2023 <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">LONDON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Fewer than one
in 200 companies who submit climate change-related data to a
leading environmental disclosure platform have credible climate
transition plans, the nonprofit platform CDP said on Wednesday in
its latest review of corporate submissions.<br>
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The data underlines the scale of the gap between company pledges
to transition to net-zero carbon emissions, and the detailed plans
that show how a firm will align its entire business model to
meeting those targets...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Of 18,600 companies which provided CDP with
data only 81 - or 0.4% - disclosed information against 21 key
indicators that CDP includes in a questionnaire and which it says
represents a credible plan.<br>
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The 81 companies was a lower number than the 135 which disclosed
against key indicators last year, which CDP said was down to the
platform "raising the bar, in accordance with latest science, on
what constitutes a credible climate transition plan".<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">CDP's key indicators include everything from
whether the company board has oversight of a climate plan to
financial planning.<br>
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"The need for companies to develop a credible climate transition
plan is not an additional element but an essential part of any
future planning," Amir Sokolowski, global director, climate, at
CDP said in a statement.<br>
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"Companies must evidence they are forward planning in order for us
to avert the worst impacts of climate change and to send the
correct signals to capital markets, that they will remain
profitable."<br>
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href="https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/fewer-than-one-200-companies-have-credible-climate-plans-says-cdp-2023-02-08/">https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/fewer-than-one-200-companies-have-credible-climate-plans-says-cdp-2023-02-08/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[The news archive - looking back]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>February 10, 2014</b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri">February 10, 2014: On CNN's "Amanpour," Rachel
Kyte, World Bank Special Envoy for Climate Change, discusses the
consequences of carbon.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Mary Bast</b></font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">Christian I just want to comment
Drastic Climate change conditions...I'm a christian and believe
in the prophecies of the Bible. The climate change and natural
disasters are predicted all the Bible everywhere. Mathew 24
chapter Luke 21 chapter. Where Jesus is tallking about His
return to the earth and the condition of the planet before His
return.Luke 21:11 'He said nations will rise against nations,
kingdoms against kingdoms. There willbe great earthquakes,
famines and pestilences in various places and fearful events and
great signs from heaven.' Luke 21:25-26 ' There will be signs in
the sun, moon and stars. On the earth nations will be in great
anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">sea. Men will faint from terror, apprehensive
of what is coming on the earth for the heavenly bodies will be
shaken. At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a
cloud with Power and Great glory.' These are just two verses
that i have mentioned. I know the world is crying shouting and
making big noises about global warming etc. but people are not
willing to accept the truth that its coming to an end, because
of its sinfulness. When i see the news i compare it to the
Bible's prophecies and I just marvel, how close we r!!!!! Have
you heard about the prophecy of 4 blood moons between this year
and next year? Four blood moons are NASA findings but they
coincide with today's Bible prophecies. Hear the message on 4
blood moons by Pastor John Hegge, on you tube. God bless with
the truth...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">February 10, 2014</font><br>
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