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<font size="+2"><font face="Calibri"><i><b>December 22</b></i></font></font><font
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<p><i>[ good to hear, but so far, little or nothing is touching
physical reality ]</i><br>
<b>There was some good climate news in 2023. Really.</b><br>
The technologies, policies, and commitments providing a glimmer of
hope in an otherwise gloomy year.<br>
By Casey Crownhart, James Temple, June Kim<br>
December 20, 2023...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/20/1085731/good-climate-change-news-2023/">https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/20/1085731/good-climate-change-news-2023/</a><br>
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<i>[ Jem Bendel discusses new book <u>Breaking Together </u>...
asking "How are you going to experience collapse?" ]</i><br>
<b>Collapse of Society Discussed at a Book Fest in Asia, with Prof
Bendell</b><br>
Jem Bendell<br>
Nov 30, 2023<br>
Q&A hosted by Tom Doig with the author of the book Breaking
Together, at the 20th Ubud Writers and Readers Festival, Bali,
Indonesia, Oct 18th 2023. <br>
The book is available to order or download from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.jembendell.com">http://www.jembendell.com</a> <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYS_wqnsi1Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYS_wqnsi1Q</a>
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<i>[ attention-worthy explanation for collapse and how to respond ]</i><br>
<b>Introduction to Breaking Together by Jem Bendell</b><br>
Contents:<br>
<blockquote>
Introduction<br>
1 Economic collapse<br>
2 Monetary collapse<br>
3 Energy collapse<br>
4 Biosphere collapse<br>
5 Climate collapse<br>
6 Food collapse<br>
7 Societal collapse<br>
8 Freedom to know<br>
9 Freedom from progress<br>
10 Freedom from banking<br>
11 Freedom in nature<br>
12 Freedom to collapse and grow<br>
13 Freedom from fake green globalists<br>
Conclusion<br>
</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://soundcloud.com/jem-bendell">https://soundcloud.com/jem-bendell</a> <i> [audio]</i><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/">https://jembendell.com/2023/04/08/breaking-together-a-freedom-loving-response-to-collapse/</a><br>
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<p><i>[ Progressive conjecture ]</i><br>
<b>Could U.S. Constitution Hold Key to Solving the Climate Crisis?</b><br>
Drawing from U.S. case law and legislation, an argument for
climate action centered on birthright equity is building momentum.<br>
TINA CASEY<br>
12/20/2023<br>
Planet Earth is in crisis. Climate change is accelerating,
biodiversity is crumbling, and entire ecosystems are collapsing.
Despite significant successes over the past 40 years, the animal
rights, environmental conservation, and wildlife preservation
movements of the past 40 years are all at a crossroads. The time
calls for re-focusing these nature-based movements more
effectively, and the United States Constitution can point the
way.Misdirection and Missed Opportunities in Climate Action<br>
<br>
Technology-based solutions to the climate crisis abound, but they
have failed to prevail against a tide of misdirection and missed
opportunities.<br>
<br>
In the U.S., one well-documented obstacle is the countervailing
force of fossil energy stakeholders. In 1984, for example, the
Environmental Protection Agency collaborated with ICF, a global
consulting and technology services provider, to produce a climate
policy roadmap titled “Greenhouse Effect and Sea Level Rise: A
Challenge for This Generation,” only to be met with a pervasive,
industry-funded climate misinformation campaign.<br>
<br>
In the following decades, the political water for this campaign
has been carried mainly, though not exclusively, by members of the
Republican party.<br>
<br>
Concurrent with the emergence of the Republican-led Tea Party
movement during the Obama administration, Republican officeholders
and pundits stepped up their rejection of the sustainability
solutions outlined in the United Nations Agenda 21 program. They
also focused on public disapproval of specific technologies,
including range anxiety over electric cars, the bankruptcy of the
U.S. solar manufacturer Solyndra, and the replacement of the
incandescent light bulb.<br>
<br>
Against this backdrop, it is little wonder that the American
electorate has consistently failed to prioritize a robust national
policy on climate action. While Democratic presidents have taken
some steps to address the climate crisis since the 1980s, the
administrations of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama have been
squeezed between two members of the Bush family with ties to
fossil energy industries and Donald Trump, who campaigned on a
fossil energy platform.<br>
<br>
A clash of goals within the Democratic party has also clouded the
conversation. The anti-corporate messaging of consumer advocate
Ralph Nader arguably distracted attention from the climate-focused
campaign of former Vice President Al Gore in 2000, and Vermont
Senator Bernie Sanders’s charges of corporate coziness,
corruption, and process rigging drew the public gaze away from the
climate pillars in Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign.<br>
<br>
The 800-Pound Gorilla in the Climate Action Room<br>
The election of President Joe Biden marked a turning point in the
prioritization of climate action and social justice, capped by the
passage of the landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on August
16, 2022.<br>
<br>
Also known as the “Climate Bill,” the IRA is widely credited with
stimulating public and private sector investment in clean
technology to accelerate global decarbonization. However, a more
profound challenge remains, and the Earth will continue to track
toward biodiversity loss and climate crisis until it is
confronted.<br>
<br>
Primarily but not exclusively promoted by the fossil energy
industry, the linear model requires a nonstop spiral of
extraction, consumption, and waste predicated on a growing pool of
workers and consumers.<br>
<br>
The 800-pound gorilla in the room is the linear model of economic
development that rose to prominence with the Industrial Age.
Primarily but not exclusively promoted by the fossil energy
industry, the linear model requires a nonstop spiral of
extraction, consumption, and waste predicated on a growing pool of
workers and consumers.<br>
<br>
This linear model—in which growth is tied to boundlessly
increasing gross domestic product (GDP) per capita—is in direct
conflict with ecosystems and biodiversity, and it cannot be
resolved by clean technology.<br>
<br>
Electric vehicles, for example, resolve tailpipe emissions.
However, without a holistic sustainability policy, they will
continue contributing to the sprawling infrastructure of car
ownership, including raw materials mining and processing,
manufacturing facilities, roads, parking lots, and other elements
of the built environment.<br>
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“That we are even debating the value of women’s autonomy as an
economic driver—as opposed to an inalienable human right—is
exactly why our culture needs to think differently about women and
children,” argues Blome...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/solving-the-climate-crisis">https://www.laprogressive.com/climate-change-2/solving-the-climate-crisis</a><br>
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<i>[ deep discussion of shipping ]</i><br>
<b>Alice Larkin: Why and how shipping matters for climate change -
interviewed by Kevin Anderson</b><br>
CEMUS<br>
Dec 19, 2023<br>
Interview with Alice Larkin December 12, 2023, by Kevin Anderson at
CEMUS, Uppsala University.<br>
<blockquote> Blog in The Conversation on Wind Propulsion for Ships,
published 2023: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/shipwindblog">https://tinyurl.com/shipwindblog</a>
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Paper on Wind Propulsion behind the blog above, published 2023: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/Shipwindfull">https://tinyurl.com/Shipwindfull</a><br>
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Improving shore power project economics: Aberdeen case-study,
published 2023: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/SPAberdeen">https://tinyurl.com/SPAberdeen</a><br>
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Summary of alternative fuel options for ships, published 2023: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/LCABTfull">https://tinyurl.com/LCABTfull</a><br>
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Barriers and solutions for UK shore-power, published 2023: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/UKshorepower">https://tinyurl.com/UKshorepower</a><br>
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Stronger climate targets for international shipping, published
2021: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/IMOclimate">https://tinyurl.com/IMOclimate</a>
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The need for action on existing fleet of ships this decade,
published 2020: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tinyurl.com/CommittedShips">https://tinyurl.com/CommittedShips</a></blockquote>
Alice Larkin is a Professor in Climate Science & Energy Policy
as part of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the
School of Engineering. Alice trained as an astrophysicist at the
University of Leeds, did her PhD in climate modelling at Imperial
College, then worked in science communication. She returned to
academia in 2003 joining the interdisciplinary Tyndall Centre to
research conflicts between climate change and aviation. In 2008 she
was appointed as a lecturer to direct projects on international
transport and food supply scenarios within a climate change context,
and was Director of Tyndall Manchester between 2013 and 2016. In
2017 Alice became the Head of School of Mechanical, Aerospace and
Civil Engineering, and then from 2019 to 2023, the Vice-Dean and
Head of the newly formed School of Engineering. Alice has led
numerous research projects, including the EPSRC funded High Seas
project in 2010 and was the lead Manchester investigator on a large
consortium project funded by the EPSRC entitled 'Shipping in
Changing Climates'. She was also PI on a large EPSRC consortium
project on the Water-Food-Energy Nexus, a Co-I on the UKERC project
RACER and PI on a UKERC project on decarbonising shipping and
aviation fuels. Her research interests continue to focus on the
decarbonisation challenges surrounding aviation and shipping, and
connections with carbon budgeting and the wider energy system more
generally.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-j5BhYeI4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw-j5BhYeI4</a><br>
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<i>[ live tracking of vessels world wide ]</i><br>
<b>Marinetraffic</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-177.7/centery:26.7/zoom:2">https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-177.7/centery:26.7/zoom:2</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> December 22, 2010: The New York Times
reports on the legacy of the late climate scientist Charles David
Keeling...
<blockquote>When Dr. Keeling, as a young researcher, became the
first person in the world to develop an accurate technique for
measuring carbon dioxide in the air, the amount he discovered was
310 parts per million. That means every million pints of air, for
example, contained 310 pints of carbon dioxide.<br>
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By 2005, the year he died, the number had risen to 380 parts per
million. Sometime in the next few years it is expected to pass
400. Without stronger action to limit emissions, the number could
pass 560 before the end of the century, double what it was before
the Industrial Revolution.<br>
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The greatest question in climate science is: What will that do to
the temperature of the earth?<br>
<br>
Scientists have long known that carbon dioxide traps heat at the
surface of the planet. They cite growing evidence that the
inexorable rise of the gas is altering the climate in ways that
threaten human welfare.<br>
<br>
Fossil fuel emissions, they say, are like a runaway train,
hurtling the world’s citizens toward a stone wall — a carbon
dioxide level that, over time, will cause profound changes.<br>
<br>
The risks include melting ice sheets, rising seas, more droughts
and heat waves, more flash floods, worse storms, extinction of
many plants and animals, depletion of sea life and — perhaps most
important — difficulty in producing an adequate supply of food.
Many of these changes are taking place at a modest level already,
the scientists say, but are expected to intensify...<br>
But the essence of his scientific legacy was his passion for doing
things in a meticulous way. It explains why, even as challengers
try to pick apart every other aspect of climate science, his
half-century record of carbon dioxide measurements stands
unchallenged...<br>
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The earth’s history offers no exact parallel to the human
combustion of fossil fuels, so scientists have struggled to
calculate the effect.<br>
<br>
Their best estimate is that if the amount of carbon dioxide
doubles, the temperature of the earth will rise about five or six
degrees Fahrenheit. While that may sound small given the daily and
seasonal variations in the weather, the number represents an
annual global average, and therefore an immense addition of heat
to the planet.<br>
<br>
The warming would be higher over land, and it would be greatly
amplified at the poles, where a considerable amount of ice might
melt, raising sea levels. The deep ocean would also absorb a
tremendous amount of heat.<br>
<br>
Moreover, scientists say that an increase of five or six degrees
is a mildly optimistic outlook. They cannot rule out an increase
as high as 18 degrees Fahrenheit, which would transform the
planet....<br>
<br>
As he watches these difficulties, Ralph Keeling contemplates the
unbending math of carbon dioxide emissions first documented by his
father more than a half-century ago and wonders about the future
effects of that increase.<br>
<br>
“When I go see things with my children, I let them know they might
not be around when they’re older,” he said. “ ‘Go enjoy these
beautiful forests before they disappear. Go enjoy the glaciers in
these parks because they won’t be around.’ It’s basically taking
note of what we have, and appreciating it, and saying goodbye to
it.”...</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/science/earth/22carbon.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/science/earth/22carbon.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</a><br>
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