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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>June</b></i></font></font><font
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> <font face="Calibri"><i>[ NY catches
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</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Wildfire smoke hits New York again:
‘We are truly the first generation to feel the real effects of
climate change,’ Gov. Hochul says</b><br>
UPDATED WED, JUN 28 2023<br>
Catherine Clifford<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">KEY POINTS<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">- - Smoke from the wildfires
burning in Canada is blowing south and causing dangerous air
quality in New York state for the second time in a month.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- - “This is not something that we’re talking
about future generations dealing with,” New York Gov. Kathy
Hochul said. “We are truly the first generation to feel the real
effects of climate change.”</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">- - Steve Pyne, a historian with a special
focus on fire, told CNBC that wildfires in Canada have been
serious before but climate change is “a performance enhancer.”</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/28/canadian-wildfire-smoke-is-impacting-air-quality-in-new-york-again.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/28/canadian-wildfire-smoke-is-impacting-air-quality-in-new-york-again.html</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ um, duh ]</i></font><br>
<b>US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn’t like the
options</b><br>
People want both action and to keep using fossil fuels.<br>
JOHN TIMMER - 6/28/2023<br>
- -<br>
<b>And by we, I mean you</b><br>
Americans have mixed views of the renewable energy transition,
expecting both benefits and costs.<br>
<br>
All that said, there was a remarkable ambivalence about taking some
actions to limit climate change, with the key determinant seemingly
being how directly affected people would be by the policy. You can
see a bit of that in the above; people were optimistic about
abstractions like job opportunities in the energy sector but
pessimistic about things that have a direct impact, like the price
of everyday goods. Similarly, a majority supported many policies
that put the burden on corporations but couldn't reach
majority-level support for blocking newly constructed buildings from
having gas lines, which could potentially affect them.<br>
<br>
Along the same lines, a strong majority was against doing away with
gasoline-powered vehicles, with 59 percent opposing that as policy.
And opposition has risen by nearly eight points over the past two
years.<br>
<br>
In general, the survey showed a general lack of understanding about
everything that would need to be done to get off fossil fuels.
Majorities of those responding haven't even considered getting a
heat pump or electric hot water heater. The only reason a majority
hadn't thought about installing an electric stove is that they're
common enough that nearly a third of those polled already had one.<br>
<br>
A more general finding is that a full 35 percent of those
polled—again, mostly Republicans—say the US should never move off
fossil fuels. Although the question was somewhat confusing, in that
those who said we should not transition away from fossil fuels were
then given the option to agree with eliminating their use
eventually. It's unclear how those two options differed or why
nearly two-thirds of the US failed to recognize that the transition
is already in progress.<br>
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If there's some reason for optimism about the partisan gap, it's
that younger Republicans appear to be far more willing to act on the
climate. It may take them until the US hits net-zero to become the
majority, but there's definitely a chance that opposition will
slacken over time.<br>
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The second thing is that, while Republicans were less likely to
report their community had experienced extreme weather or fires,
most of those who did correctly associated those with climate
change. The US is currently experiencing a severe heat wave focused
on the South and wildfire smoke has been spreading across most of
the Northeast and Midwest, another sign that these events are
becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Ultimately, that bit of
reality might help break down at least some of the partisan
differences.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/us-public-wants-climate-change-dealt-with-but-doesnt-like-the-options/">https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/06/us-public-wants-climate-change-dealt-with-but-doesnt-like-the-options/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[ Salon history blames Dick Cheney ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"><b>Climate change denial hit its stride in the
Bush-Cheney era, precipitating today's climate disaster</b><br>
Republicans didn't always deny the reality of climate change.
Then, George W. Bush took office<br>
By MATTHEW ROZSA<br>
</font><font face="Calibri">Once upon a time, the mainstream
Republican Party did not deny the reality of climate science and
even saw the environment as something to be valued and protected,
not exploited...<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">This can be difficult to believe, much as it is
hard to imagine that environmentalist presidents like Theodore
Roosevelt (who conserved over 230 million acres of wilderness, at
least for white people) and Richard Nixon (who originated the
Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA) actually identified as
Republicans. As recently as the early 1990s, a Republican
president (George H. W. Bush) was willing to sign landmark
environmental legislation to clean up acid rain and amend the
Clean Air Act...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Yet today more than three out of four
Republicans deny that climate change is a major threat to
America's well-being. When Donald Trump was president, he gutted
the EPA at every turn and yanked America out of the Paris climate
accord. Although Joe Biden reversed some, but not all of Trump's
policies after taking office, it is clear today that one of
America's two major political parties denies objective reality
when it comes to basic scientific fact.<br>
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According to many experts, it all traces back to the early 2000s —
and the regime of America's most powerful Vice President, Dick
Cheney.<br>
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<font face="Calibri">"In terms of like the party's official stance
being the rejection of environmental science — climate science,
ozone depletion, what have you — that really hit its stride during
the George W. Bush years," Dr. Michael E. Mann, a professor of
Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania
and author of "The New Climate War," told Salon. "That is the
transition when Dick Cheney and the energy industry took over
energy and environmental policy for the George W. Bush presidency.
That's where they really veered sharply in the direction" of
outright denialism...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">Even at the time that this was happening,
astute observers picked up on it. American science journalist
Chris Mooney wrote the classic warning "The Republican War on
Science" in 2005, smack dab in the middle of the Bush era, and
dedicated his tome to exposing the deliberate efforts to conceal
scientific facts from the public.<br>
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Notably, it was not limited to climate change: Fundamentalist
Christian organizations opposed the scientific consensus on issues
like evolution and bioethics, while private businesses opposed a
wide range of environmental protection measures. Working together
with the Republican Party — and particularly under the watchful,
highly involved leadership of Vice President Cheney – the White
House worked with Congress and the legislature to erode public
trust in scientific research.<br>
<br>
Years later, it has been confirmed that one of the chief policies
of Bush's entire administration — that the United States needed to
conquer Iraq because dictator Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction — was, in fact, also a lie. In a sense, the entire
notion that one can replace reality with "alternative facts" began
during this time...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">"It was a harbinger of things to come because,
of course, after this the bad faith attack by Republicans on
climate science has now metastasized to our entire body politic
and to the very notion of fact-based discourse," Mann told Salon.<br>
<br>
A cottage industry has since emerged, best profiled by Naomi
Oreskes and Erik M. Conway in their book "Merchants of Doubt," in
which right-wing, free-market foundations and institutions pay
scientists to undermine confidence in scientific fact. The
strategy is simple and effective: With enough money pumped into
talking heads who will say whatever special interests want the
public to believe, you can make necessary reforms difficult, if
not impossible. In addition to convincing millions that
pseudoscience is the real deal, these interest groups confuse the
issue for millions of other well-intentioned but scientifically
illiterate Americans...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">"The industry had realized you could create the
impression of controversy simply by asking questions," Oreskes and
Conway explain at one point. On another occasion, they point out
that the American public's tendency to want to "look at both
sides" creates a logical trap that conservatives can exploit:
"While the idea of equal time for opposing opinions makes sense in
a two-party political system, it does not work for science,
because science is not about opinion," they write. "It is about
evidence."<br>
<br>
The evidence strongly indicates that global heating and climate
change are real and are principally caused by humans. Since the
late 19th century, the average global temperature has risen by 2
degrees Fahrenheit (1 degrees Celsius). Glaciers are retreating
all over the world and the ice sheets on Greenland and the
Antarctic are shrinking. All over the planet sea levels have risen
by roughly 8 inches (20 centimeters) over the last 100 years — and
that rate has picked up pace in the past two decades, which was
nearly double that of previous last century and continues to
accelerate.<br>
<br>
If these trends are not stopped and reversed, conditions will
become apocalyptic — a trend that is becoming more apparent across
the globe. As sea levels continue to inch upward, hundreds of
millions of people will be displaced from coastal regions,
especially cities. There will be regular occurrences of extreme
weather events like wildfires, droughts and heatwaves, as well as
more hurricanes and thunderstorms. Cities like Phoenix will become
uninhabitable as their water disappears while much of New York
City will be underwater.</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">And it all kicked into overdrive when Cheney
decided to take over White House environmental policy. (Cheney was
the former chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company from 1995 to
2000, a fossil fuel corporation that was handed numerous
billion-dollar contracts during the Iraq Invasion.) If there was a
single transformative moment, it occurred 20 years ago, after the
fossil fuel industry had had enough of Bush's first pick for EPA
administration, Christine Todd Whitman. They were particularly
displeased when she declared that CO2 should be regulated as a
pollutant under the Clean Air Act — a move that may have helped
save the planet, had it been implemented.<br>
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"Midway through that first term, when the fossil fuel industry
didn't like what was going on, they worked with front groups like
the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which is a bad faith fossil
fuel industry front group, and with Dick Cheney, who had close
ties to the energy industry, and other energy companies — and they
staged a coup," Mann recalled. "They literally came in, got rid of
Christine Todd Whitman, and Dick Cheney took over energy policy in
that administration. They basically shoved her aside. And the fox
was now guarding the hen house from that point forward. Energy and
environmental policy, and the Republican Party, was controlled by
polluters and they would not look back. That has remained true
ever since."<br>
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<font face="Calibri">Nor has this legacy been limited to the
environment: Mann noted that as recently as the COVID pandemic,
the same network of right-wing groups acted in concert to
discredit science when they worried that Trump's failure to
effectively address it would hurt his reelection chances. It can
even be seen outside the realm of science, such as in how Trump
has convinced millions of Americans to believe a Big Lie that
solely serves his narcissistic pride — namely, the idea that he
didn't actually lose the 2020 presidential election.<br>
<br>
While it would be a stretch to say that any single event caused
all of this, certainly climate change is one of the most serious
existential threats to humanity. Being able to trick a critical
mass of the population into not recognizing that fact is,
undeniably, a major feat of political manipulation — and
consequently a milestone in human history, even if reams of other
lies later were born from the same process.<br>
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"You probably saw the review that I wrote of 'Vice,'" Mann told
Salon, referring to the 2018 biopic about Cheney. He referenced
the "unmistakable montage at the end of that film. It probably
goes over the heads of just about every viewer, but you and I and
those of us who follow this closely could clearly recognize what
the message was at the end of the film. This disaster that we have
now is because of what transpired at that time."...</font><br>
<font face="Calibri">"Specifically because of the actions of a
Wyoming opportunist named Dick Cheney?" Salon asked Mann for
clarification.<br>
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"Exactly!" Mann exclaimed. "I couldn't say it better myself."<br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.salon.com/2023/06/19/climate-change-denial-hit-its-stride-in-the-bush-cheney-era-precipitating-todays-climate-disaster/">https://www.salon.com/2023/06/19/climate-change-denial-hit-its-stride-in-the-bush-cheney-era-precipitating-todays-climate-disaster/</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ video lecture ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Re-Thinking Sustainability and the
Green Transition</b><br>
Just Collapse<br>
Apr 27, 2023<br>
Associate Professor of geometallurgy, Simon Michaux of the
Geological Survey of Finland, gets real about our predicament and
challenges preconceptions around the viability of a "green"
transition. Hosted by associate professor Kate Booth, and the
University of Tasmania.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULNEB1fkQDU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULNEB1fkQDU</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ the older I get, the less I understand ]</i><br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><b>Immanentize the eschaton</b><br>
</font><font face="Calibri">In political theory and theology, to
immanentize the eschaton is a generally pejorative term referring
to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world, and to
effectively create heaven on earth. Theologically, the belief is
akin to postmillennialism as reflected in the Social Gospel of the
1880–1930 era, as well as Protestant reform movements during the
Second Great Awakening in the 1830s and 1840s such as
abolitionism.<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton</a></font>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ a clip from the NewYorker - </i><i>An
awareness that the air around you isn’t fit to breathe can be a
uniquely alarming sensation. It is also likely to become more
common.]</i><br>
By Dhruv Khullar<br>
June 25, 2023<br>
<b>The Hazy Days of Summer</b><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">When it comes to our health,
wildfire smoke may be the most injurious form of air pollution;
according to one study, it can be ten times as toxic as other
forms of pollution, including car exhaust. Wildfires release
enormous amounts of fine particulate matter known as
PM2.5—toxins up to 2.5 microns in size, or roughly one-twentieth
the diameter of a human hair. These particles travel long
distances and are readily inhaled into the lungs; from there,
they can slip into the bloodstream, lodge in organs, and even
enter the brain. Their effects may be especially damaging to
children, whose bodies are rapidly developing and whose immune
defenses haven’t fully matured...</font><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/the-hazy-days-of-summer">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/the-hazy-days-of-summer</a>?<br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - looking back at
disinformation battles ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>June 29, 2011</b></i></font> <br>
June 29, 2011: Entercom Communications, the radio conglomerate
perhaps best known for running right-wing talk radio stations
whose hosts regularly promote climate-change denial, announces
that it will run a 350.org PSA featuring actor Ellen Page on its
stations.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://350.org/about/blogs/ellen-page-records-psa-350org">http://350.org/about/blogs/ellen-page-records-psa-350org</a> <br>
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