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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>January</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Rapid conversion to clean energy - opinion - 13 min video ]</i><br>
<b>How to fix the climate by 2030?</b><br>
Just Have a Think<br>
Jan 7, 2024<br>
Global leaders recently agreed to triple renewables capacity by 2030
while doubling energy efficiency. That'll solve all our problems,
they tell us. And it will ensure the world gets to the apparent Holy
Grail of 'Net Zero' by 2050. But is any of what they say really
achievable?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqtpsTlTU0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSqtpsTlTU0</a><br>
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<i>[ BBC reports on preparations for next meeting ]</i><br>
<b>Climate change: Former oil executive Mukhtar Babayev to lead
COP29 talks in Azerbaijan</b><br>
5th January 2024<br>
By Matt McGrath<br>
Environment correspondent<br>
For the second year in a row, a minister with vast experience of the
oil industry will be in charge of global climate negotiations.<br>
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Azerbaijan's Mukhtar Babayev has been named as the
president-designate of the COP29 talks in Baku next November.<br>
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Mr Babayev spent decades working at the national oil company before
becoming environment minister in 2018.<br>
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He takes over from Sultan al-Jaber who presided over COP28 in Dubai
last year.<br>
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Little is known about Mr Babayev, who is currently serving as
minister for ecology and natural resources in the Azerbaijan
government.<br>
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There's a sense of déjà vu setting in - we now have a former oil
executive from an authoritarian petrostate in charge of the world's
response to the crisis that fossil fuel firms created," said Alice
Harrison from Global Witness.<br>
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"We again call for the UNFCCC [United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change] to urgently intervene and kick big polluters out
of climate talks, to ensure the talks are held in good faith, and to
remove those people who want to make a profit at the expense of the
world's most vulnerable people."<br>
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Azerbaijan has been ruled by President Ilham Aliyev since 2003. He
secured his latest term in 2018 in an election which Western
observers said fell short of democratic standards.<br>
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Under his rule, Azerbaijan has increased its international profile,
including hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, the Baku
European Games in 2015 and is now set for COP29 this year.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67895068">https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67895068</a>
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<i>[ visualizing change ]</i><br>
<b>Climate stripes: Dark red line added after 2023 smashed
temperature records</b><br>
‘I think I need a new colour’: Climate stripes creator reacts to
2023's record-smashing temperatures.<br>
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Temperatures were so high in 2023 that a new colour could be needed
to show it on the climate stripes image.<br>
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The series of vertical coloured bars offers a visual representation
of how our planet is progressively heating up.<br>
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It was created by climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins at the
University of Reading, UK, in 2018.<br>
Running from blue to a deep red, the striking image hammers home the
extreme warming driven by human-caused emissions in recent years.<br>
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With global temperatures soaring to the highest level ever recorded
last year, a line of the darkest red has been added to the scale. <br>
But Professor Hawkins says that following official confirmation of
2023’s temperatures a new colour might be needed to represent the
rise.<br>
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What do the climate stripes mean?<br>
The chart runs from 1850 - when temperature records began - to 2023.
It draws on billions of pieces of scientific data on our climate.<br>
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Each stripe signifies the average temperature for a single year,
relative to the average temperature over the 1971-2000 period.<br>
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“The colours used in the climate stripes are based on a scale
designed to show which years are warmer and cooler than the
average,” explains Professor Hawkins.<br>
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Blue shades indicate cooler-than-average years whereas red
represents hotter than average years.<br>
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The scale grows rapidly red towards the right hand side of the
image, showing a spike in global warming in recent decades.<br>
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Climate change in pictures: 2023 was a year of deadly weather,
protest crackdowns and historic deals<br>
2023 was the hottest year on record. How are Europe’s cities
planning to adapt for even warmer 2024?<br>
‘2023 was off the end of the scale’<br>
This week, the UK’s Met Office confirmed 2023 as the hottest year on
record for Wales and Northern Ireland and the second warmest on
record for the UK overall, just behind 2022.<br>
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Europe's Climate Change Service Copernicus already indicated in
December that 2023 would be the hottest recorded year in human
history. Some official records, when released, are expected to show
that 2023 was more than 1.5C above pre-industrial records.<br>
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“2023 was off the end of the scale,” says Professor Hawkins.<br>
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“This was always going to happen at some point, given the continued
increase in global greenhouse gases… But the margin of record
breaking in 2023 has still been a surprise,” he adds.<br>
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But this is a time for action, not despair...<br>
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“2024 has to be the year we turn conversations into faster action,”
urges Professor Ed Hawkins.<br>
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“The good news is that we already have many of the solutions we
need,” he adds. “We now need bold, transformative change across all
parts of society to make our planet’s climate safer for current and
future generations.”<br>
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You can view stripes for more than 200 countries, cities, regions,
and the oceans at showyourstripes.info.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/01/04/climate-stripes-dark-red-line-added-after-2023-smashed-temperature-records">https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/01/04/climate-stripes-dark-red-line-added-after-2023-smashed-temperature-records</a><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://showyourstripes.info./">https://showyourstripes.info./</a><br>
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<i>[ great graphics in persuasion ]</i><br>
<b>Told Ya So: The Prescient Posters of the Environmental Movement</b><br>
Graphic artists have been helping call attention to climate change
for decades, and a new exhibition charts the evolution of their
pleas.<br>
By Travis Diehl<br>
Published Jan. 4, 2024<br>
Last year was the warmest in recorded history. The graphic artists
of the environmental movement tried to warn us. Their posters aimed
to scare people straight with pictures of ecological ruin, or
glorified nature, clean air and water, sunshine and verdure. Some
offered earworm-y slogans and haunting visuals. Whatever their
approach — bright, witty, somber, blunt, even sexy — they sought an
image, a phrase, that could change enough minds to literally save
the world.<br>
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Through Feb. 25, an exhibition at Poster House in Manhattan
demonstrates these visual and rhetorical styles, and how they
reflect the evolving movement’s shifting strategies. There are 33
posters on view, along with dozens of postage stamps and a pair of
socks by Vivienne Westwood.<br>
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Environmentalism began honing its voice in the 1970s, with roots in
the counterculture and protests against the Vietnam War. Robert
Rauschenberg designed the official poster for the first Earth Day,
in 1970. In a deadpan appeal to patriotism, grim scenes of spoiled
ecologies frame a bald eagle. The earliest work in the show, a call
for clean water from 1961 by Hans Erni, features a ghastly skull in
a drinking glass. The choice, the artists argued, was between peace
and poison.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/arts/design/review-poster-house-climate.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/arts/design/review-poster-house-climate.html</a><br>
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<i>[ see images in the archives ]</i><br>
<b>Featured Document: First Earth Day Poster</b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/earth-day-50-featured-document">https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/earth-day-50-featured-document</a><br>
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<i>[ PhD student teaching rock records and index fossils - dating as
proxy -- explaining much ]</i><br>
<b>How We Know What Happened in Earth's Past, like Ancient Climate,
Geology, & Extinctions | GEO GIRL</b><br>
GEO GIRL<br>
Jul 9, 2023<br>
We reconstruct Earth's ancient past using physical, chemical, and/or
biological signatures preserved in rocks, called proxies. From such
proxies, we are able to reconstruct ancient climate trends, like
temperature, atmospheric composition, ocean chemistry, oxygen
levels, carbon dioxide levels, mountain chain positions, elevations,
plate tectonic events, volanic eruption events, earthquakes,
wildfires, ocean anoxic events, impact events, glacial expansions
and contractions, sea level rise and fall, etc. as well as
biological events, like evolutionary and extinction events. In the
many Earth history videos on my channel, I go over such events, but
in this video, I go over what kind of proxies we use to reconstruct
such ancient events and conditions! I know this video is long, so I
broke it into sections, which cover physical proxies, chemical
proxies, & biological proxies, respectively. I also included
chapters listed below and on the timebar of the video for you to use
if you'd like to skip to a specific section. Hope you enjoy! ;)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Te_sGZ_c0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9Te_sGZ_c0</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>January 8, 2003 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> January 8, 2003: Senators John McCain
(R-AZ) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduce the bipartisan Climate
Stewardship Act of 2003, which would establish a federal
cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (The bill
would be defeated in the Senate in October 2003.)<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/us/politics-economy-environment-mccain-lieberman-offer-bill-require-cuts-gases.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/09/us/politics-economy-environment-mccain-lieberman-offer-bill-require-cuts-gases.html</a>
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