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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March 2, 2023</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Sort of links between climate and weather.]</i><br>
<b>The "triple-dip" La Niña may give way to an El Niño</b><br>
Andrew Freedman, author of Axios Generate<br>
The first "triple-dip" La Niña event of the 21st century is waning,
and the odds of an El Niño in the tropical Pacific Ocean are rising,
the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Wednesday.<br>
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</b><b>Why it matters: </b>El Niño events release a tremendous
amount of ocean heat into the atmosphere and would increase the odds
for a new record warm year in 2024.<br>
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<b>State of play: </b>These events require a complex series of
coordinated moves to take place between the waters of the equatorial
tropical Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere, with each responding to
the other as if in a complex dance number.<br>
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It can be difficult to predict the evolution of a switch from one
side of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) to another. But
forecasters are confident that the La Niña will soon be over after
lasting through three straight winters in the Northern Hemisphere
(hence the term "triple dip").<br>
<b>The chances of El Niño </b>in WMO's outlook gradually rise from
15% during the April through June period, to 35% in May to July, and
top out at 55% by June through August.<br>
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But such predictions are known to be less reliable when made leading
into the spring, rather than coming out of the summer months.<br>
The Climate Prediction Center, part of NOAA, projects increasing
odds of an El Niño event going into mid-to-late 2023, supported by a
variety of computer model simulations.<br>
<b>Zoom in: </b>La Niña conditions are characterized by cooler than
average ocean temperatures in the equatorial tropical Pacific Ocean,
causing a series of weather pattern shifts globally.<br>
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For example, La Niña is blamed for setting in motion the failed
rainy seasons and dire famine in the Horn of Africa, which is
expected to worsen.<br>
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<b>The big picture:</b> Importantly for global warming, the cool
phase of ENSO tends to put a temporary brake on the increase in
global average surface temperatures, preventing a new record-setting
warm year.<br>
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Yet each La Niña year has tended to be the warmest La Niña year on
record, as human-emitted greenhouse gases influence the natural ENSO
cycle.<br>
<b>The intrigue: </b>If and when an El Niño arrives, there may be a
slight delay in its effects on global average surface temperatures.<br>
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It is likely that the effects of the La Niña event will linger
longer than usual, leading to continued dryness in the Horn of
Africa and elevated risks of flooding in Australia and Southeast
Asia.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/01/triple-dip-la-nina-followed-by-el-nino-wmo">https://www.axios.com/2023/03/01/triple-dip-la-nina-followed-by-el-nino-wmo</a><br>
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<i>[ new book - the economy should give attention to climate change
- video 84 mins <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/7FqXDJkko_I">https://youtu.be/7FqXDJkko_I</a> ]</i><br>
<b>Bernie Sanders Meets Frankie Boyle | It’s OK To Be Angry About
Capitalism</b><br>
How To Academy Mindset<br>
23,608 views Feb 27, 2023<br>
Filmed February 24th 2023 at Brighton Dome. The longest-serving
independent in Congress, the leader of democratic socialism in
America, and a hero to progressives across the globe, Bernie Sanders
joined the comedian Frankie Boyle to take on the 1%.<br>
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Senator Sanders has a vision of what would be possible if the
political revolution took place. If we would finally recognize that
economic rights are human rights, and work to create a society that
provides them. This isn’t some utopian fantasy; this is democracy as
we should know it. Is it really too much to ask?<br>
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Frankie Boyle is one of The UK’s premier comedians and writers.
Known for his shows New World Order (BBC2), Tramadol Nights (Ch4)
and his best selling DVD’s and Netflix Special. Frankie has penned 3
best selling books. In 2018 Frankie wrote and presented the highly
acclaimed documentary Frankie Goes To Russia for the BBC previewing
the forthcoming Russian World Cup. Frankie also regularly
contributes articles for the broadsheet press. He has topped the
podcast charts with the first three volumes of his eight volume
Promethiad sequence.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FqXDJkko_I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FqXDJkko_I</a><br>
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<i>[ PBS News audio 7 mins and transcript ]</i><br>
<b>Is climate change accelerating the risk of disease spreading from
animals to humans?</b><br>
Mar 1, 2023 <br>
Scientists researching the aftermath of California wildfires say
they are finding evidence that climate change is accelerating the
risk of disease spreading from animals to humans. Science
correspondent Miles O'Brien reports...<br>
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Miles O’Brien:<br>
She is collaborating with the engineering department, seeking ways
to monitor and test bat populations remotely.<br>
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Christine Johnson:<br>
And so that's what we're seeking is, with the innovative technology
that we're using to try to bring much more feasibility to wildlife
surveillance.<br>
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Miles O’Brien:<br>
There are more and more zoonotic diseases coming. The climate crisis
makes it unavoidable. A greater investment to protect public health
with some 21st century tools, along with the risky, laborious field
work, might be the only way to stop a spillover from boiling over,
shutting down the world once again.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/is-climate-change-accelerating-the-risk-of-disease-spreading-from-animals-to-humans">https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/is-climate-change-accelerating-the-risk-of-disease-spreading-from-animals-to-humans</a><br>
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face="Calibri"><i>[ "make it efficient" - video explaining a
claimed innovation ] </i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>New breakthrough claims 90% reduction in
Steelmaking emissions.</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Just Have a Think</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">55,213 views Feb 26, 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Steel making accounts for about 8% of all
global emissions, and that's rising quickly as urbanisation
accelerates around the world. So we need to decarbonise the
steelmaking process NOW! Here's a great new solution for how to
achieve that goal.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Main Paper citation</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Harriet Kildahl, Li Wang, Lige Tong, Yulong
Ding,</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Cost effective decarbonisation of blast furnace
– basic oxygen furnace steel production through thermochemical
sector coupling,</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Journal of Cleaner Production,</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Volume 389, 2023,135963,</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">ISSN 0959-6526,</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262300121X?via%3Dihub">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262300121X?via%3Dihub</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ From the Journal of Cleaner Production ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Cost effective decarbonisation of
blast furnace – basic oxygen furnace steel production through
thermochemical sector coupling</b><br>
Harriet Kildahl, Li Wang, Lige Tong, Yulong Ding <br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Highlights<br>
• Decarbonisation of BF-BOF through thermochemical closed carbon
looping.<br>
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• Demonstration of mass and energy flows of thermochemical BF-BOF
system.<br>
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• 88% emissions reduction of UK steel industry through £720
million investment.<br>
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• Decarbonisation without retiring of existing BF-BOF, reducing
stranded assets.<br>
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• After 5 years, £1.28 billion savings and total UK-wide
emissions reduction of 2.9%.</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri"><b>Abstract</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">We present here a first-principles study of
the sector coupling between a thermochemical carbon dioxide
(CO2) splitting cycle and existing blast furnace – basic oxygen
furnace (BF-BOF) steel making for cost-effective
decarbonisation. A double perovskite, Ba2Ca0.66Nb0.34FeO6, is
proposed for the thermochemical splitting of CO2, a viable
candidate due to its low reaction temperatures, high carbon
monoxide (CO) yields, and 100% selectivity towards CO. The CO
produced by the TC cycle replaces expensive metallurgical coke
for the reduction of iron ore to metallic iron in the blast
furnace (BF). The CO2 produced from the BF is used in the TC
cycle to produce more CO, therefore creating a closed carbon
loop, allowing for the decoupling of steel production from
greenhouse gas emissions. Techno-economic analysis of the
implementation of this system in UK BF-BOFs could reduce steel
sector emissions by 88% while increasing the
cost-competitiveness of UK steel on the global market through
cost reduction. After five years, this system would save the UK
steel industry £1.28 billion while reducing UK-wide emissions by
2.9%. Implementation of this system in the world's BF-BOFs could
allow the steel sector to decarbonise in line with the Paris
Climate Agreement to limit warming to 1.5 °C.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262300121X?via%3Dihub">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095965262300121X?via%3Dihub</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Annual study by Media Matters ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <b>How broadcast TV networks covered climate
change in 2022</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">BY TED MACDONALD</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">PUBLISHED 2/28/23</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri">Breaking a
decade-long trend of year-to-year fluctuation, corporate broadcast
TV networks' climate coverage increased for the second consecutive
year. However, climate coverage still accounted for just around 1%
of all corporate broadcast programming in 2022, a figure that is
woefully inadequate in the face of a worsening climate crisis.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">In our annual analysis of broadcast news
climate coverage, Media Matters found that morning, evening, and
Sunday morning political shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox
Broadcasting Co. spent approximately 1,374 minutes — nearly 23
hours — discussing climate change. This is roughly equivalent to
the high-water mark of nearly 22 hours that networks achieved in
2021...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The coverage was largely driven by another year
of apocalyptic extreme weather events including brutal,
record-shattering heat across Europe and Asia, famine exacerbated
by both flooding and drought in East Africa, and historic flooding
in Pakistan. In the U.S., extreme weather has exposed the
vulnerability of our power system and its aging infrastructure and
threatened water supplies for communities across the Southwest.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">The consistent volume of coverage from 2021
through 2022 — after years of advocacy by climate journalists,
activists, and researchers pushing for more and better climate
coverage by TV news shows — was supported by commitments from
corporate broadcast networks to cover climate through
collaborative initiatives like Covering Climate Now and dedicated
reporting during key climate events.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">However, some problematic trends continued to
materialize in the quality of corporate broadcast news coverage of
climate change, including, for at least the sixth year in a row,
an overwhelming proportion of non-Hispanic white men featured as
guests in climate coverage, despite the disproportionate harm
people of color suffer from climate change. Additionally, while
broadcast networks are increasingly covering the impacts of, and
potential solutions to, the climate crisis, they largely fail to
explicitly name the primary drivers of global warming or the main
impediments to climate action.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Top trends from climate coverage on broadcast
TV news in 2022</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri"><b>Key Findings:</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>-- In 2022, total corporate broadcast news
climate coverage slightly exceeded the high water mark set in
2021:</b> Morning news shows, evening news shows, and Sunday
morning shows on corporate broadcast TV networks aired nearly 23
hours of combined climate coverage in 2022 — a total of 1,374
minutes across 554 segments. This is roughly the same amount
aired in 2021 (1,316 minutes across 604 segments) and more than
triple the amount of climate coverage in 2020, when these
networks aired just 380 minutes across 221 segments.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>-- ABC and NBC exceeded their peak
coverage records set in 2021. </b>While CBS aired the most
coverage across its morning, nightly, and Sunday programming
with over 8.5 hours of coverage in 2022, it fell short of its
peak in 2021 (just under 9.5 hours of coverage). NBC aired just
over 7.5 hours, while ABC aired over 6 hours of climate coverage
— both network records.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>-- Nightly news had its highest
volume of climate coverage since Media Matters began tracking
this information in 2011. </b>Nightly news shows on ABC, CBS,
and NBC aired nearly 7 hours of climate coverage (404 minutes)
across 195 segments in 2022, which is approximately 1 more hour
of coverage than in 2021.</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">- PBS NewsHour’s volume of
climate segments decreased slightly to 147 segments from its
peak of 151 climate segments in 2021. The program still is a
media leader in the depth and quality of coverage and <b>its
147 segments in 2022 are approximately twice the amount
aired by any of its corporate network counterparts</b>. PBS
NewsHour, however, is not included in the full data set as it
is publicly funded and the format of the program is different
than that of its corporate network counterparts.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>-- Morning news shows maintained their
volume of coverage from the previous year.</b> ABC, CBS, and
NBC aired nearly 14 hours of climate coverage (821 minutes)
across 363 segments on morning shows in 2021, which increased to
just over 14.5 hours (871 minutes) across 322 segments in 2022.<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">-- With 36 climate segments in 2022, <b>Sunday
political shows</b> on ABC, CBS, Fox Broadcasting Co., and NBC
<b>saw their combined climate coverage drop by nearly half</b>
from its zenith of 60 climate segments in 2021. However, they
still aired more than twice the amount of segments they did in
2020 (14).<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>-- Global extreme weather was the
biggest driver of climate coverage. Discussion of extreme
weather events appeared in 41% of coverage</b>, or 225 out of
the 554 climate segments.</font><br>
<blockquote><font face="Calibri">- The months from July through
September, which represent peak extreme weather season,
accounted for 48% of climate-related segments across morning,
nightly, and Sunday programming.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- July had the most coverage of any month
with 134 segments, or nearly a quarter of all segments.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- Climate change’s impact on infrastructure
(including power grids) and on resources (specifically water)
represented an emerging trend in coverage in 2022. Impacts
related to our power system were mentioned 25 times, while
impacts on water were mentioned 39 times.</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>-- Other major climate stories, including
the war in Ukraine (which rolled back global climate efforts),
the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, and COP27 did not
garner adequate coverage.</b> Climate was mentioned in
relation to the war in Ukraine in only 20 segments; the vast
majority of coverage of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act
failed to detail the climate implications of the historic $369
billion allocated for climate action within the law, and overall
the coverage accounted for 6% of network climate coverage; and
coverage of the United Nations’ annual global climate
negotiations decreased from 11% in 2021 to 2% of climate
coverage in 2022.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>-- For at least the sixth year in a
row, non-Hispanic white men dominated guests featured in
climate segments. </b>A whopping 57% of guest appearances on
morning news, evening news, and Sunday morning shows — 374 out
of 657 guest appearances — were made by non-Hispanic white men.
Only 9% of guest appearances were made by women of color.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>-- In 2022, appearances by those
most impacted by climate change rose to 201 from 107 guests in
2021</b> across morning news, evening news, and Sunday morning
shows, which suggests that broadcast TV news is beginning to
cover the climate crisis as a current rather than a future
event.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri"><b>-- Despite the high volume of
coverage, climate accountability and justice discussions were
mostly lacking from TV news coverage. </b>The term “fossil
fuels” to describe what is driving planetary warming appeared in
only 8% of climate segments.<br>
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</font><font face="Calibri">--The humanitarian crisis in West
Africa, resulting from a climate-induced famine, and inclusion
of “loss and damage” at the COP27 negotiations prompted a
limited discussion of climate justice across TV news programs.<b>
“Climate justice,” which refers in part to the fact that those
most impacted by the climate crisis have historically
contributed the least to it, was mentioned in just 18 of the
554 total segments.</b></font><br>
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<b><font face="Calibri">The volume of corporate broadcast TV climate
coverage increased slightly from 2021 to 2022, breaking a trend
of falling coverage every other year</font></b><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.mediamatters.org/abc/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2022">https://www.mediamatters.org/abc/how-broadcast-tv-networks-covered-climate-change-2022</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Opinion -- A key question for our
morality ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Fossil fuels
kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of
oil and gas?</b></font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Rebecca Solnit</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Tue 28 Feb 2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Were we able to perceive afresh the sheer scale
of fossil fuel impact we might be horrified, but because this is
an old problem too many don’t see it as a problem<br>
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<font face="Calibri">f fossil fuel use and impact had suddenly
appeared overnight, their catastrophic poisonousness and
destructiveness would be obvious. But they have so incrementally
become part of everyday life nearly everywhere on Earth that those
impacts are largely accepted or ignored (that they’ve also
corroded our politics helps this lack of alarm). This has real
consequences for the climate crisis. Were we able to perceive
afresh the sheer scale of fossil fuel impact we might be
horrified. But because this is an old problem too many don’t see
it as a problem.<br>
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Human beings are good at regarding new and unfamiliar phenomena as
dangerous or unacceptable. But long-term phenomena become
acceptable merely because of our capacity to adjust. Violence
against women (the leading form of violence worldwide) and slower
forms of environmental destruction have been going on so long that
they’re easy to overlook and hard to get people to regard as a
crisis. We saw this with Covid-19, where in the first months most
people were fearful and eager to do what it took to avoid
contracting or spreading the disease, and then grew increasingly
casual about the risks and apparently oblivious to the impacts
(the WHO charts almost 7 million deaths in little over three
years).<br>
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To normalize is to turn something into the status quo, into
something no longer seen as a problem, and this in turn undermines
the impetus to pursue a solution. The very term crisis often
implies a turning point or a decisive moment; these are problems
with no turning point in sight, a long succession of indecisive
moments as the damage mounts. Often what activists need to do is
turn the status quo back into a crisis, as US Civil Rights
Movement organizers so ably did in the 1960s by making racial
inequality, exclusion and violence more dramatically visible and
more unacceptable, as well as insisting that the world could be
different, that change was possible.<br>
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The fossil fuel industry through airborne particulate matter alone
annually kills far more people every year than Covid-19 has in
three years. Recent studies conclude that nearly 9 million people
a year die from inhaling these particulates produced by burning
fossil fuel. It’s only one of the many ways fossil fuel is deadly,
from black lung among coal miners and cancer and respiratory
problems among those near refineries to fatalities from
climate-driven catastrophes such as wildfire, extreme heat and
floods.<br>
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The way we befouled our water, air and land, allowed manufacturers
to introduce dangerous materials – lead, PCBs, PFAs (sometimes
called “forever chemicals”), dioxin, high-level radioactive waste,
microplastics, pesticides and herbicides – may seem to later
generations shocking, stupid and amoral. Often the deployment of
these substances offered short-term and specific advantages while
leaving long-term and widespread damage; often the few benefited
and the many paid. But all this was normalized.<br>
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One consequence of these habits of mind is the hostile reaction to
the impact of renewables. Renewables require mining; the total
amount of mining they require is far less than the fossil-fuel
mining that goes on all around us and has for a long time. As a
scientific paper put it in 2021: “The transition from fossil fuels
to renewable energy systems involves enormous decreases in
materials, mining, and political risk. Since renewable systems
need no fuel, they depend on trade only for the acquisition of
materials and components during construction. Once the system is
operating, no trade is required to sustain it. Therefore renewable
energy production is not exposed to the political risks that
plague fossil fuel production.” That is, you don’t have to cozy up
to Russia or Saudi Arabia to keep going.<br>
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The climate movement has spent decades trying to stop one kind of
extraction; I wish I could say that we could end the age of
extraction altogether, but the billions of people on Earth cannot
all revert to a pre-industrial state. With renewables the
materials need to be extracted once and then are used for many
years and are thereafter, in many cases, recyclable; with fossil
fuel we burn it up as we go, so constant new interjections of
coal, oil or gas are needed. They literally go up in smoke.<br>
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Battery technology is rapidly advancing, and much research on
making batteries from more readily available materials than
lithium is under way. Just last week came the announcement that
“Volkswagen’s joint venture with JAC in China has produced the
first electric car powered by the nascent sodium-ion battery
technology.” So while it is urgent to pursue existing means for
electrifying everything, it also seems clear that we are early in
a technological revolution likely to provide new and better ways
of doing what needs to be done. Or as Greta Thunberg once put it:
“Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We
must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build
the ceiling.”<br>
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Obviously it matters where materials are extracted. Endangered
species, significant habitat, local communities and indigenous
sovereignty should be respected. They are not respected by fossil
fuel extraction – just think of the gigantic festering expanse of
Alberta’s tar sands, which have hugely impacted wildlife and
encroached on traditional lands of several First Nations groups.
As Inside Climate News put it: “Oil and gas companies like
ExxonMobil and the Canadian giant Suncor have transformed
Alberta’s tar sands – also called oil sands – into one of the
world’s largest industrial developments. They have built sprawling
waste ponds that leach heavy metals into groundwater, and
processing plants that spew nitrogen and sulfur oxides into the
air, sending a sour stench for miles.” To consider another
example, a report in Bloomberg News stated last fall, “A roughly
Taiwan-sized area of Alaska’s Arctic will be auctioned for oil and
gas development …”<br>
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Astroturf organizations backed by conservatives and fossil-fuel
interests have pushed false claims about health threats and
organized locals against both wind turbines and solar
installations. But the space they take up can be far less than
that occupied by fossil fuel, and many turbines and solar panels
coexist with agriculture. (Studies shows that sheep and solar
panels can be mutually beneficial; elsewhere farmers adding
turbines to their farms reap good income.) Bloomberg News recently
published a piece mismeasuring the scale of renewables versus
fossils: “A 200-megawatt wind farm, for instance, might require
spreading turbines over 13 sq miles (36 sq km). A natural-gas
power plant with that same generating capacity could fit onto a
single city block.” But the wind farm is actually generating the
energy it uses, and quite possibly coexisting with other land
uses, while the gas plant depends on ceaseless mining for methane
elsewhere that may permanently damage and poison the land. The way
we have long operated was always destructive, and it’s now a
crisis larger than any in human history. Change needs to come,
swiftly, and though practical change is crucial, so are changes in
imagination, perception and values. The two go together, and they
always have.<br>
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Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. Her most recent books
are Recollections of My Nonexistence and Orwell’s Roses<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ A different Rebecca handles this
disinformation salvo - skillfully counter-attacked - YouTube
video ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Republicans: Save the Whales, Kill
the Wind Farms</b><br>
Rebecca Watson<br>
Mar 1, 2023<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>March 2, 2005 </b></i></font>
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March 2, 2005: Rick Piltz resigns from the US Climate Change Science
Program after relentless, extensive efforts by Bush White House
officials to censor scientific reports on climate change.<br>
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