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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>January</b></i></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 11, 2024</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ important progress milestone -]</i> <br>
<b>California's Great Battery Revolution Allows Closure of Peaker
Gas Plants and move to 100% Wind, Solar, Water</b><br>
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - The renewables revolution around the
world has depended primarily on wind, hydro, and solar. A fourth
factor is now swiftly emerging as essential, that is, mega-battery
storage. Batteries store energy when the wind is blowing or the sun
is shining, to release it when those sources decline. <br>
California has so much solar energy that it faces a difficulty in
the late afternoon when commuters get home from work and turn up the
air conditioning and start cooking supper.<br>
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California now uses almost no coal. It clearly can cut fossil gas
use substantially in the coming decade. And electric vehicles are
cutting petroleum use. Fossil fuels are on their way out, and
California, the world’s fifth largest economy, is showing the way to
100% renewables.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.juancole.com/2024/01/californias-battery-revolution.html">https://www.juancole.com/2024/01/californias-battery-revolution.html</a><br>
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<i>[ short video documentary shows coastline washout in England -]</i><br>
<b>Why UK Towns are Being Erased From the Map</b><br>
Faultline<br>
Dec 5, 2023 #geography #UK #coastline..<br>
- -<br>
The village of Hemsby on the east coast of England could be the
latest in a line of settlements that have been lost to the sea. Andy
and Mack travelled here to spend time with residents who are
literally living on the edge and believe that they and their homes
have been abandoned by the authorities.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPy7JiZC9b0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPy7JiZC9b0</a><br>
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<i>[ video interview - "technological lock in" ]</i><br>
<b>Jane Muncke: "Perils of Plastic Packaging” | The Great
Simplification #104</b><br>
Nate Hagens<br>
Jan 10, 2024 The Great Simplification - with Nate Hagens<br>
On this episode, toxicology scientist Dr. Jane Muncke joins Nate to
discuss the current state of food production and the effects of
ultra processed foods and their packaging on our health. Over the
last century processed food has taken over our supermarkets and our
diets, and at the same time the containers they’re sold in have
evolved as well - to be more eye-catching and keep food ‘good’ for
longer. But what have we sacrificed in exchange for efficiency,
ease, and convenience? How do the chemicals used in packaging and
processing transfer into the food we eat and subsequently end up in
our bodies? Will switching away from these toxic food practices
require more local food supply chains - and correspondingly simpler
diets and lifestyles? <br>
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About Jane Muncke:<br>
Jane Muncke holds a doctorate degree in environmental toxicology and
a MSc in environmental science from the ETH Zurich. Since 2012 she
has been working as Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer
at the charitable Food Packaging Forum Foundation (FPF) in Zurich,
Switzerland. FPF is a research and science communication
organization focusing on chemicals in all types of food contact
materials. She is a full scientific member of the Society of
Toxicology (SOT), the Society for Environmental Chemistry and
Toxicology (SETAC), the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the
Endocrine Society. Since 2019, she has been an elected expert member
of the Swiss Organic Farming Association Bio Suisse’s committee on
trade and processing where she contributes to further developing the
standards for processing and packaging of organic food. She is a
director of the FAN initiative, a collective of experts warning
about resource overshoot, the polycrisis, and related societal
collapse.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2-roqSWjFo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2-roqSWjFo</a><br>
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<i>[</i>Interview o<i>ne economist who understands the fundamentals
(tnx SC) ]</i><br>
<b>‘We can’t pretend the ecological crisis is separate’: the
economist thinking differently about climate breakdown</b><br>
Maya Goodfellow<br>
James Meadway, once a Labour adviser and now a podcast host, says
the separation between climate and economy has to end<br>
-- <br>
“We cannot simply pretend that … the entire ecological crisis is a
separate and distinct thing from what’s happening in the economy,”
says Meadway, who now works on climate finance. And yet that is
precisely what happens.<br>
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Meadway has a matter-of-fact tone that makes him sound pretty
convincing, and the podcast has had close to 200,000 listens across
more than 60 countries, with an average audience of roughly 7,000 a
week. So suited is his voice for the disembodied world of podcasting
that it’s a little odd to sit in the offices of Planet B – the
company that produces the podcast – and listen to him speak in
person.<br>
<br>
Meadway gives numerous examples of the disconnect between economics
and the environment in popular discourse. For example, a large part
of the recent surge in inflation was the Russian invasion of
Ukraine, he says, but it was also “pretty insistently, certainly
over the last summer, things like various major water transport
riverways in Europe drying up because it was so hot”. He points to
the Panama Canal, where a drought means fewer ships can use it, so
they either have to wait or go all the way round South America. This
drives up the cost of transporting goods and this has a knock-on
effect on prices in the shops. We can expect more of this, he warns.<br>
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Meadway is not just telling listeners that industrial capitalism is
responsible for anthropogenic climate breakdown – he describes this
as accepted by “pretty much everyone” – but on focusing on the
feedback this produces. What happens after we’ve “merrily burned”
huge amounts of coal and oil and polluted every river and sea on the
planet, he asks.<br>
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This doesn’t just puncture economic orthodoxy – Meadway’s critique
is also aimed at parts of the left that are committed to maintaining
current levels of consumption, just in a supposedly environmentally
sound way.<br>
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The idea that we can all have an electric car is, according to him,
just not possible: “There is not enough copper on the planet … We
can’t get the lithium to produce the batteries, these things can’t
actually happen.”...<br>
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Radicals as well as the mainstream need to accept “the relationship
of humanity to nature isn’t a simple hierarchy”, he says. What we
are seeing is “the effects of environmental crisis” being “mediated
through the structures of capitalism”.<br>
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Does he, then, think degrowth, which argues for reducing and
changing current forms of production and consumption in a way that
lessens environmental destruction and minimises inequality, is the
way forward? Almost before I’ve finished asking the question, he
wryly replies that it needs a rebrand – it’s a “terrible name”, he
says – but he does think the movement and the people around it are
thinking in the “right way”.<br>
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“We actually have to deal with this now,” he says, adding that we
have to do that in a way that is just and protects most people from
the worst effects of what is happening. That is what we should all
be focused on.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/10/we-cant-pretend-the-ecological-crisis-is-separate-the-economist-thinking-differently-about-climate-breakdown?utm_">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/10/we-cant-pretend-the-ecological-crisis-is-separate-the-economist-thinking-differently-about-climate-breakdown?utm_</a><br>
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<i>[ 13 min Podcast from the economist James Meadway -- how interest
rates impact emissions and over-heating ]</i><br>
<b>How Interest Hikes Fuel Climate Change</b><br>
From the Macrodose podcast<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.everand.com/listen/podcast/692118450">https://www.everand.com/listen/podcast/692118450</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>January 11, 2013 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> January 11, 2013: <br>
From Media Matters <br>
<b>Conservatives Once Again Cite Extreme Cold To Deny Climate Change</b><br>
WRITTEN BY THOMAS BISHOP<br>
<blockquote>After ignoring reports that 2012 was the hottest year on
record in the U.S., Rush Limbaugh and Fox Business host Stuart
Varney tried to push back against well-established evidence of
climate change by citing instances of cold weather.<br>
<br>
On the January 11 edition of his radio show, Limbaugh said,
“Twenty-seven degrees outside San Diego right now, 27 degrees, and
they're talking about global warming” :<br>
Similarly, Varney cited examples of “snow in Jerusalem” and “a
deep freeze in China and in Europe,” then said that “the green is
demanding a carbon tax to prevent global warming.” Varney added,
“Climate's always changing, isn't it?”<br>
In addition to the fact that scientists have found enormous
evidence of climate change and the human causes behind it, the
existence of cold weather does not disprove global warming.
Despite the right-wing media regularly claiming that cold or snowy
weather is evidence that global warming isn't happening, climate
scientists -- including at least one who has disputed aspects of
the scientific consensus on global warming -- reject the notion
that a short-term change in weather, let alone an individual
storm, can prove or disprove the existence of manmade climate
change.<br>
<br>
The National Climate Data Center reported this week that 2012 was
the warmest and second most extreme year on record for the
contiguous U.S. Fox News largely ignored the story, which runs
contrary to its narrative of denying climate change. When
liberal-leaning Fox co-host Bob Beckel made the channel's first
reference to the record heat, fellow co-host Greg Gutfeld shouted
him down.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/11/conservatives-once-again-cite-extreme-cold-to-d/192202">http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/11/conservatives-once-again-cite-extreme-cold-to-d/192202</a><br>
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