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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>March 26, 2023</b></i></font><font
face="Calibri"><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Author Rebecca Solnit speaks from the
Guardian ] </i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Forget geoengineering. We need to
stop burning fossil fuels. Right now</b><br>
Rebecca Solnit<br>
Pie-in-the-sky fantasies of carbon capture and geoengineering are
a way for decision-makers to delay taking real action</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Fri 24 Mar 2023</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) reports, one of which dropped this week, are formidably
researched and profoundly important, but they mostly reinforce
what we already know: human-produced greenhouse gases are rapidly
and disastrously changing the planet, and unless we rapidly taper
off burning fossil fuels, a dire future awaits.<br>
<br>
The message is far from hopeless – “Mainstreaming effective and
equitable climate action will not only reduce losses and damages
for nature and people, it will also provide wider benefits,” said
the IPCC chair, Hoesung Lee, in the press release. “This Synthesis
Report underscores the urgency of taking more ambitious action and
shows that, if we act now, we can still secure a liveable
sustainable future for all.”</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">But “act now” means taking dramatic measures to
change how we do most things, especially produce energy. The
people who should be treating this like the colossal emergency it
is keep finding ways to delay and dilute a meaningful response.
Fossil fuel is hugely profitable to some of the most powerful
individuals and institutions on Earth, and they influence and even
control a lot of other people.<br>
<br>
To say that is grim, but there’s also a kind of comedy in the ways
they keep trying to come up with rationales to not do the one key
thing that climate organizers, policy experts, activists and
scientists have long told them they must do: stop funding fossil
fuels, stop their extraction, stop their burning and speed the
transition away from their use.<br>
<br>
As perhaps the most powerful person to swim against their tide,
the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, said
yesterday, we must move toward “net-zero electricity generation by
2035 for all developed economies and 2040 for the rest of the
world” and establish “a global phase-down of existing oil and gas
production compatible with the 2050 global net-zero target”. All
the other actions that help the climate – including protecting
forests and wild lands, rethinking farming, food, transportation
and urban design – matter, but there is no substitute or
workaround for exiting the age of fossil fuel.<br>
<br>
The IPCC tells us that “[e]very increment of global warming will
intensify multiple and concurrent hazards. Deep, rapid, and
sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions would lead to a
discernible slowdown in global warming within about two decades,
and also to discernible changes in atmospheric composition within
a few years.” Later in the report, the scientists declare,
“Projected CO2 emissions from existing fossil fuel infrastructure
without additional abatement would exceed the remaining carbon
budget for 1.5C.” That translates to: what we’re already
extracting and using is already too much to keep to the
temperature threshold set in Paris.</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">As climate communicator Ketan Joshi put it on
Twitter, “People who make decisions about the pace of climate
action and fossil fuel reliance are not behaving like they’re
pulling the lever on the next few thousand years of Earth.”...</font><br>
<br>
<font face="Calibri">They come up with endlessly creative ways to
continue extracting and using fossil fuel. One of their favorites
is to make commitments that can be punted off to the future, which
is why one recent climate slogan is “delay is the new denial”.
Another is to pretend that they are somehow still looking for a
good solution and once they find it they will be very happy to use
it. A holy grail, a hail Mary pass, a magic bullet, a miracle cure
– or just a distracting tennis ball that too many journalists,
like golden retrievers, are happy to chase.<br>
<br>
That was clear when Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
announced its nuclear-weapons-related fusion breakthrough last
winter, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Physicists noted had “at
best, a distant and tangential connection to power production”.
But many news stories latched on to it as if we were waiting for
some miraculous solution when the solutions already exist and just
need to be scaled up. It was as if they were selling us a dream of
a lifeboat eventually reaching our shipwreck when viable lifeboats
are all around us.<br>
<br>
Dr Jonathan Foley, who heads Project Drawdown, joked that “fusion
is here now. Look up in the sky.” The sun gives us far more energy
than we can ever possibly use, now that solar panels let us
convert some of that to electricity.<br>
<br>
Among the worst of the excuses for not doing the one thing we must
do is carbon capture, which has absolutely not worked at any scale
that means anything and shows no sign of so doing on a meaningful
scale in the near future. But while it is dangled as a
possibility, it creates a justification to keep burning fossil
fuel. So does geoengineering, which along with posing many kinds
of disruptions is a way to compensate for continued emissions from
burning things rather than stop burning them. These centralized
hi-tech solutions seem to appeal to technocrats and beneficiaries
of large corporations and centralized power, who perhaps don’t
like or don’t comprehend the decentralization of power coming from
sun and wind.<br>
<br>
The decision-makers here often seem like a patient who, when told
by a doctor to stop doing something (smoking, say, or maybe
mainlining drain cleaner), tries to bargain. All the vitamins and
wheatgrass juice on Earth won’t make toxic waste into something
nontoxic, and all these excuses and delays and workarounds and
nonexistent solutions don’t replace what the IPCC tells us: stop
burning fossil fuel.<br>
<br>
Move fast. Step it up. Now. Which brings us back to something that
climate organizers have told us for a long time and the new report
brings home. We know what to do, and we have the solutions we need
to do it, so the biggest problems are political. They’re banks,
politicians, financiers and the fossil fuel industry itself. We
don’t need any magic technology to defeat them, just massive civil
society willpower set in motion.<br>
<br>
Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. Her latest book, edited
with Thelma Young Lutunatabua, is Not Too Late: Changing the
Climate Story from Despair to Possibility<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/24/ipcc-report-we-must-stop-burning-fossil-fuels">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/24/ipcc-report-we-must-stop-burning-fossil-fuels</a><br>
</font><br>
<p><font face="Calibri"><br>
</font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Beckwith reviews the next 80 pages of the
IPCC report - video 50 min ]</i></font><br>
<b>Delving into the Nitty Gritty in the Latest Climate Change
Science Update: IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report</b><br>
<font face="Calibri">Mar 25, 2023<br>
Earlier in the week, I posted a video chatting about the latest
IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, based on the short version of the
released report.<br>
<br>
A few days ago, a longer version of the report was released, and I
chat about it in this video. There are a lot more details within,
but there is still more to come soon after the finalized full
report is released. When that comes out, I’ll be sure to dissect
it in a video at that time.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VEiN-H9mAU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VEiN-H9mAU</a><br>
</font>
<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ This report is open source ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>AR6 Synthesis Report </b><b>Climate
Change 2023</b><br>
Click the Longer Report</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC_AR6_SYR_LongerReport.pdf">https://report.ipcc.ch/ar6syr/pdf/IPCC_AR6_SYR_LongerReport.pdf</a><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/">https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Philosophers and our children should
decide how this is an immoral act ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>The meat industry blocked the IPCC’s
attempt to recommend a plant-based diet</b><br>
A leaked draft revealed how the meat industry is obstructing
efforts to curb climate change<br>
By Aurora Almendral<br>
March 24, 2023<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">It’s no secret that climate change discourse is
shrouded in obfuscation, disinformation, greenwashing and lies,
both outright and of omission. But a recent leak of a draft of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released
on March 20 has been particularly enlightening when it comes to
just how much how delegations negotiate, watered down, and delete
scientists’ findings.<br>
<br>
Micheal Thomas, who writes the climate newsletter Distilled,
outlined the shift in wording driven by Brazil and Argentina,
countries with large and influential beef industries. As Thomas
points out, the IPCC report’s authors initially recommended a
shift to plant-based diets, stating that “plant-based diets can
reduce GHG emissions by up to 50% compared to the average
emission-intensive Western diet,” according to a draft leaked by
Scientist Rebellion.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">In the published report, the line was changed
to “balanced, sustainable healthy diets acknowledging nutritional
needs,” skirting a direct mention of beef and dairy, what a
sustainable diet actually looks like, or any reference to the
Western and largely wealthy countries that should most urgently
start eating less meat.<br>
<br>
While Monday’s IPCC report was the result of synthesizing years of
research, Brazil and Argentina have been diligently pushing to
delete references to “plant-based diets,” meat as a “high-carbon”
food, and “Meatless Mondays” for years, according to a previous
draft leaked in 2021 and analyzed by Unearthed, Greenpeace’s
investigative outlet.<br>
<br>
<b>The money and the future at stake</b><br>
Climate action within the meat and dairy industries faces
substantial economic and political headwinds. The global beef
industry was estimated at about $400 billion in 2022, and Brazil
and Argentina both have long-standing, powerful beef lobbies who
have held positions in government and influenced important climate
policy.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">The meat and dairy industry produces 14.5%
(pdf) of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to the UN’s
Food and Agriculture Organization—more than half of the
environmental impact of food production as a whole.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Beef's emissions far exceed all other food
products<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://qz.com/ipcc-report-on-climate-change-meat-industry-1850261179">https://qz.com/ipcc-report-on-climate-change-meat-industry-1850261179</a><br>
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<p><font face="Calibri">- -</font></p>
<i><font face="Calibri">[ scientist rebellion ]</font></i><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>We are scientists, calling for a climate
revolution</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">"We are currently heading directly
towards civilizational collapse.<br>
We need to switch into climate emergency mode as a society."<br>
Dr. Peter Kalmus<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">As scientists, we have tried writing reports
and giving presentations about the climate and ecological crisis
to those in power. We must now have the humility to accept these
attempts have not worked. Now is the time for us to take action,
so that we show how seriously we take our warnings.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">"There is a very big risk that we will just end
our civilisation. The human species will survive somehow but we
will destroy almost everything we have built up over the last 2000
years" -<br>
Prof. Hans Schellnhuber, director emeritus of the Potsdam
Institute.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Why We Rebel</b><br>
<br>
Scientists have spent decades writing papers, advising government,
briefing the press: all have failed. What is the point in
documenting in ever greater detail the catastrophe we face, if we
are not willing to do anything about it? <br>
<br>
Academics are perfectly placed to wage a rebellion: we exist in
rich hubs of knowledge and expertise; we are well connected across
the world, and to decision-makers; we have large platforms from
which to inform, educate and rally others all over the world; and
we have implicit authority and legitimacy, which is the basis of
political power. We can make a difference. We must do what we can
to halt the greatest destruction in human history.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://scientistrebellion.com/">https://scientistrebellion.com/</a><br>
</font>
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<p><font face="Calibri"><br>
</font> </p>
<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ a great, deep and important discussion -
video 71 mins ]</i></font><br>
<b>A new clear and strong voice in the doomosphere. Eliot Jacobson.</b><br>
The Poetry of Predicament<br>
1,465 views Jan 31, 2022<br>
This was a great interview with Eliot. And, he didn't talk at all
about the books he has written about how to beat the house in
gambling. (remember the Phd in mathematics?)<br>
<br>
All of his contact info is below.<br>
Another warm welcome to Eliot to the Doomer community.<br>
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Eliot's links as mentioned in this conversation:<br>
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My gambling: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.advancedadvantageplay.com">www.advancedadvantageplay.com</a><br>
My poetry: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.totallydisconnected.com">www.totallydisconnected.com</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2021/12/07/youtube-is-serving-up-climate-misinformation-this-top-scientist-says-google-should-ban-it/?sh=5a4527bae365">https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2021/12/07/youtube-is-serving-up-climate-misinformation-this-top-scientist-says-google-should-ban-it/?sh=5a4527bae365</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOIFs4B6mpE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOIFs4B6mpE</a><br>
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<i>[ two year old video 24 min ]</i><br>
<b>Who We Really Are... When Everything Goes Wrong</b><br>
Like Stories of Old<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_sKGbP1yY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vT_sKGbP1yY</a><font face="Calibri"><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <br>
<i>[The news archive - looking back - at an echo from 17 years ago
]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>March 26, 2006</b></i></font> <br>
</font>
<p><font face="Calibri"> March 26, 2006: TIME Magazine releases its
April 3, 2006 cover-dated issue, with the cover story: "Be
Worried. Be Very Worried."</font></p>
<blockquote>
<p><font face="Calibri">"There are a whole series of things that
demonstrate that people want to act and want their government
to act," says Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense.
Krupp and others believe that we should probably accept that
it's too late to prevent CO2 concentrations from climbing to
450 p.p.m. (or 70 p.p.m. higher than where they are now). From
there, however, we should be able to stabilize them and start
to dial them back down.<br>
<br>
That goal should be attainable. Curbing global warming may be
an order of magnitude harder than, say, eradicating smallpox
or putting a man on the moon. But is it moral not to try? We
did not so much march toward the environmental precipice as
drunkenly reel there, snapping at the scientific scolds who
told us we had a problem.<br>
<br>
The scolds, however, knew what they were talking about. In a
solar system crowded with sister worlds that either emerged
stillborn like Mercury and Venus or died in infancy like Mars,
we're finally coming to appreciate the knife-blade margins
within which life can thrive. For more than a century we've
been monkeying with those margins. It's long past time we set
them right.</font></p>
</blockquote>
<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<br>
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href="http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html">http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1176980,00.html</a>
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