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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>January</b></i></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 14, 2024</b></i></font><font
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[ video clips of early greetings from our new planet ]</i><br>
<b>Maine under WATER Again ! Huge waves and flooding hit maine , new
hampshire , USA.</b><br>
EARTH - EV<br>
Jan 13, 2024 #Maine #flooding #usa<br>
Maine under WATER Again ! Huge waves and flooding hit maine , new
hampshire , USA.<br>
massive waves hit portland maine and new hampshire again Maine saw
record-breaking water levels in the state on Saturday.<br>
As high-tide came in, towns and cities on Maine's coastline began
to see historic flooding Many areas including Wells Portland and the
Midcoast saw waves over 16 feet.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UnMvLbkXk0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UnMvLbkXk0</a>
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<i>[ TV News of our predicament in one region, today ]</i><br>
<b>Extreme cold grips much of U.S.</b><br>
CBS Evening News<br>
Jan 13, 2024<br>
More than 30 million people are under winter weather advisories,
with freezing temperatures expanding across the country this
weekend. Charlie De Mar has the latest.<br>
<br>
"CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell" delivers the latest news and
original reporting, and goes beyond the headlines with context and
depth. Catch the CBS Evening News every weekday night at 6:30 p.m.
ET on the CBS Television Network and at 12 a.m. ET on the CBS News
app.<br>
Subscribe to the "CBS Evening News" YouTube channel:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtube.com/CBSEveningNews">https://youtube.com/CBSEveningNews</a><br>
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<i>[ video clips of the new uncommon ]</i><br>
<b>01-13-2024 Hampton Beach, NH - Major Flooding - 14+ Feet Flood
Stage-Powerful Winter Storm-High Tide</b><br>
Live Storms Media<br>
Jan 13, 2024<br>
***NOT FOR BROADCAST***<br>
Contact Brett Adair with Live Storms Media to license.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:brett@livestormsmedia.com">brett@livestormsmedia.com</a><br>
*AERIAL & GROUND WEATHER VIDEO* Major Flooding - 14+ Feet Flood
Stage- Powerful Winter Storm - Hampton Beach, New Hampshire- High
Tide (12:19 PM 01-13-24).<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PDPPQXFM8Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PDPPQXFM8Q</a><br>
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<i>[ more - from weather reporter ]</i><br>
<b>Storm surge, flooding cause major home damage in North Shore town</b><br>
WCVB Channel 5 Boston<br>
Jan 13, 2024<br>
Residents say major erosion from an overnight rain storm, along with
tidal flooding and powerful waves, are undermining the structural
integrity of their beachside homes.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaxrEI4Miyk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaxrEI4Miyk</a><i><br>
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<i>[ NYT - Opinion - activists prevail - a great divestment victory
]</i><br>
<b>Harvard and Other Schools Make a Choice on Fossil Fuels</b><br>
Oct. 2, 2021<br>
By Naomi Oreskes and Sofia Andrade<br>
<br>
Dr. Oreskes is a professor of the history of science at Harvard. Ms.
Andrade is a sophomore at Harvard and an organizer with Fossil Fuel
Divest Harvard.<br>
This month, the University of Minnesota, Boston University and
Harvard, our institution, announced that they’ll divest from the
fossil fuel industry.<br>
<br>
These decisions are the latest wins for both the planet and for
activism against the industry most responsible for the climate
crisis. The three universities join over 1,300 schools and
institutions — including foundations, pension funds, institutional
investors and others — that have divested or announced plans to
divest, at least in part, from fossil fuels. In doing so, they have
affirmed that continued investment in fossil fuels is neither
financially responsible nor morally defensible.<br>
<br>
The corporations that make up the fossil fuel industry know that
these divestment decisions are catalysts for further action against
their increasingly dangerous and irresponsible business models. As
such, they have used their financial resources and outsize influence
to undermine grass-roots climate movements, having deployed
consulting apparatuses to generate complex anti-divestment schemes
run through obscure websites and corporate influence campaigns.<br>
<br>
Though the greater community at Harvard, for example, had been in
favor of divestment — a faculty resolution in February of 2020
proved overwhelming support for divestment, as did the alumni
majority that has elected four pro-divestment candidates to
Harvard’s Board of Overseers since last year — Harvard didn’t
listen.<br>
<br>
Years of organizing went into persuading Harvard’s governing body to
contend with its role in fueling climate change and the destruction
of its students’ futures. That organizing included community rallies
and demonstrations, a protest that led to arrests at the 2019
Harvard-Yale football game and a legal complaint challenging the
school’s investments. Now Harvard, the oldest institution of higher
learning in the United States and one of the world’s richest, will
allow its current investments in the fossil fuel industry to expire.
It will divest an estimated $838 million of its $42 billion
endowment from fossil fuels and take the first step toward a just
transition to a greener future.<br>
Despite these recent victories, the fossil fuel industry shows no
sign of relenting in its campaign against divestment. After
Harvard’s announcement, the American Petroleum Institute stepped in
to urge against divestment and to work with the industry on
“tackling the climate challenge.” The Independent Petroleum
Institute of America got to work making its own case against
divestment. The industry seems unwilling — and perhaps unable — to
change.<br>
<br>
But the fact remains: Momentum is now against the fossil fuel
disinformation and for divestment. Soon after Harvard’s
announcement, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial
Analysis released a report that outlined how Harvard’s divestment
can serve as a model for institutions globally.<br>
<br>
Thirteen days after the Harvard announcement, the MacArthur
Foundation announced that it would divest its $8 billion endowment.
The next day, Boston University followed suit. The school had voted
in 2016 to divest its holding of coal and tar sands; now it will
divest from fossil fuels entirely, starting immediately. In making
the announcement, Boston University’s president, Robert A. Brown,
acknowledged the role of on-campus activism, saying, “Advocates here
have been very influential” in talking with the school’s trustees
“and swaying their opinion.” One of those trustees, Richard Reidy,
said, “Divestment is one vehicle to hasten fossil fuel extractors to
transition to renewable energy.”<br>
<br>
The University of Minnesota said in a statement concerning its
fossil-fuel-related investments, it “continues to work more closely
to align its portfolios with mission-based objectives and
priorities.”<br>
<br>
Divestment isn’t a panacea for the climate crisis. But it is an
important step in breaking the stranglehold that the fossil fuel
industry has on politics, on economics and on the planet. The
Harvard divestment decision reflects a broad recognition among
students, faculty, alumni and other community members that the
fossil fuel industry’s business model is incompatible with a just
and stable future.<br>
<br>
It is also incompatible with financial stability — a point Harvard’s
president, Lawrence Bacow, acknowledged in a letter to the
university community. “Given the need to decarbonize the economy and
our responsibility as fiduciaries to make long-term investment
decisions that support our teaching and research mission, we do not
believe such investments are prudent,” he wrote. This, of course,
was part of the argument that students and faculty had long been
making.<br>
<br>
Harvard’s divestment is a signal to other investors that as the
planet burns, finance must not stand with the arsonists.<br>
<br>
Some people will dismiss divestment as merely symbolic. Even if that
were true, symbols matter. They signal our values and intentions.
But divestment is more than that. Where investors put their money
reflects their expectations of how the future will unfold, and those
expectations, when acted upon, shape our future.<br>
<br>
We are confident that Harvard’s example will inspire still more
colleges and universities to invest in the future that their
students — and all young people — deserve.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opinion/divestment-fossil-fuels-harvard.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opinion/divestment-fossil-fuels-harvard.html</a><br>
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<i>[ Perhaps COP28 was not the best place for him ]</i><br>
<b>John Kerry Bows Out as U.S. Climate Envoy</b><br>
By Lisa Friedman<br>
Jan. 13, 2024<br>
John Kerry, President Biden’s special envoy for climate, plans to
step down by spring, ending a three-year run in a major diplomatic
role that was created especially for him and which will face an
uncertain future with his departure.<br>
<br>
Mr. Kerry, 80, has served as the president’s top diplomat on climate
change since early 2021, working to cajole governments around the
world to aggressively cut their planet-warming greenhouse gas
emissions.<br>
<br>
He led the U.S. negotiating team through three United Nations
climate summits, reasserting American leadership after the country
withdrew from the Paris climate agreement during the Trump
administration. Mr. Kerry championed cooperation on global warming
between the United States and China, the world’s two largest
polluters, during times of tension.<br>
<p>On Wednesday, Mr. Kerry met with Mr. Biden in the White House to
inform the president of his intention to resign, according to one
person familiar with the meeting. On Saturday, his staff learned
of his decision at a hastily arranged meeting, said the person,
who asked to remain anonymous in order to discuss personnel
matters...</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/climate/john-kerry-climate-envoy.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/climate/john-kerry-climate-envoy.html</a><br>
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<i>[ pay attention, discuss, retain, repeat, learn, devote and vote
]</i><br>
<b>Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say
scientists</b><br>
New paper claims unless demand for resources is reduced, many other
innovations are just a sticking plaster<br>
Rachel Donald<br>
Sat 13 Jan 2024<br>
Record heat, record emissions, record fossil fuel consumption. One
month out from Cop28, the world is further than ever from reaching
its collective climate goals. At the root of all these problems,
according to recent research, is the human “behavioural crisis”, a
term coined by an interdisciplinary team of scientists.<br>
<br>
“We’ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the
planet,” says Joseph Merz, lead author of a new paper which proposes
that climate breakdown is a symptom of ecological overshoot, which
in turn is caused by the deliberate exploitation of human behaviour.<br>
<br>
“We need to become mindful of the way we’re being manipulated,” says
Merz, who is co-founder of the Merz Institute, an organisation that
researches the systemic causes of the climate crisis and how to
tackle them.<br>
<br>
Merz and colleagues believe that most climate “solutions” proposed
so far only tackle symptoms rather than the root cause of the
crisis. This, they say, leads to increasing levels of the three
“levers” of overshoot: consumption, waste and population.<br>
<br>
They claim that unless demand for resources is reduced, many other
innovations are just a sticking plaster. “We can deal with climate
change and worsen overshoot,” says Merz. “The material footprint of
renewable energy is dangerously underdiscussed. These energy farms
have to be rebuilt every few decades – they’re not going to solve
the bigger problem unless we tackle demand.”<br>
<br>
“Overshoot” refers to how many Earths human society is using up to
sustain – or grow – itself. Humanity would currently need 1.7 Earths
to maintain consumption of resources at a level the planet’s
biocapacity can regenerate.<br>
<br>
Where discussion of climate often centres on carbon emissions, a
focus on overshoot highlights the materials usage, waste output and
growth of human society, all of which affect the Earth’s biosphere.<br>
<br>
“Essentially, overshoot is a crisis of human behaviour,” says Merz.
“For decades we’ve been telling people to change their behaviour
without saying: ‘Change your behaviour.’ We’ve been saying ‘be more
green’ or ‘fly less’, but meanwhile all of the things that drive
behaviour have been pushing the other way. All of these subtle cues
and not so subtle cues have literally been pushing the opposite
direction – and we’ve been wondering why nothing’s changing.”<br>
The paper explores how neuropsychology, social signalling and norms
have been exploited to drive human behaviours which grow the
economy, from consuming goods to having large families. The authors
suggest that ancient drives to belong in a tribe or signal one’s
status or attract a mate have been co-opted by marketing
strategiesto create behaviours incompatible with a sustainable
world.<br>
<br>
“People are the victims – we have been exploited to the point we are
in crisis. These tools are being used to drive us to extinction,”
says the evolutionary behavioural ecologist and study co-author
Phoebe Barnard. “Why not use them to build a genuinely sustainable
world?”<br>
<br>
Just one-quarter of the world population is responsible for nearly
three-quarters of emissions. The authors suggest the best strategy
to counter overshoot would be to use the tools of the marketing,
media and entertainment industries in a campaign to redefine our
material-intensive socially accepted norms.<br>
<br>
“We’re talking about replacing what people are trying to signal,
what they’re trying to say about themselves. Right now, our signals
have a really high material footprint –our clothes are linked to
status and wealth, their materials sourced from all over the world,
shipped to south-east Asia most often and then shipped here, only to
be replaced by next season’s trends. The things that humans can
attach status to are so fluid, we could be replacing all of it with
things that essentially have no material footprint – or even better,
have an ecologically positive one.”<br>
The Merz Institute runs an overshoot behaviour lab where they work
on interventions to address overshoot. One of these identifies
“behavioural influencers” such as screenwriters, web developers and
algorithm engineers, all of whom are promoting certain social norms
and could be working to rewire society relatively quickly and
harmlessly by promoting a new set of behaviours.<br>
<br>
The paper discusses the enormous success of the work of the
Population Media Center, an initiative that creates mainstream
entertainment to drive behaviour change on population growth and
even gender violence. Fertility rates have declined in the countries
in which the centre’s telenovelas and radionovelas have aired.<br>
<br>
Population growth is a difficult topic to broach given the
not-too-distant history of eugenics and ethnic cleansing practised
in many nations around the world. However, Merz and colleagues
insist it is important to confront the issue as population growth
has cancelled out most climate gains from renewables and efficiency
over the past three decades.<br>
<br>
“It’s a question of women’s liberation, frankly,” says Barnard.
“Higher levels of education lead to lower fertility rates. Who could
possibly claim to be against educating girls – and if they are,
why?”<br>
<br>
The team calls for more interdisciplinary research into what they
have dubbed the “human behavioural crisis” and concerted efforts to
redefine our social norms and desires that are driving
overconsumption. When asked about the ethics of such a campaign,
Merz and Barnard point out that corporations fight for consumers’
attention every second of every day.<br>
<br>
“Is it ethical to exploit our psychology to benefit an economic
system destroying the planet?” asks Barnard. “Creativity and
innovation are driving overconsumption. The system is driving us to
suicide. It’s conquest, entitlement, misogyny, arrogance and it
comes in a fetid package driving us to the abyss.”<br>
<br>
The team is adamant that solutions that do not tackle the underlying
drivers of our growth-based economies will only exacerbate the
overshoot crisis.<br>
<br>
“Everything we know and love is at stake,” says Barnard. “A
habitable planet and a peaceful civilisation both have value, and we
need to be conscious about using tools in ethical and justice-based
ways. This is not just about humanity. This is about every other
species on this planet. This is about the future generations.”<br>
<br>
“I do get frustrated that people sit in paralysis thinking, what do
I do? Or what must we do? There are moral hazards everywhere. We
have to choose how to intervene to keep us working on a path forward
as humanity, because everything right now is set up to strip us of
our humanity.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/13/human-behavioural-crisis-at-root-of-climate-breakdown-say-scientists</a><br>
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<i>[ Simpler times - a magazine draws a MAP ]</i><br>
<b>Power Before Petroleum</b><br>
Wind, bones, and other historical energy sources<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/energy/maps/power-petroleum">https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/energy/maps/power-petroleum</a><br>
see also <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/energy">https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/energy</a>
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</font><font face="Calibri"> <i>[The news archive - resetting
history by Keith Olberman ]</i></font><br>
<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>January 14, 2009 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> January 14, 2009: MSNBC host Keith
Olbermann denounces Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) for his rhetorical
assault on former EPA Administrator Carol Browner:<br>
<br>
"But our winner, climate change denier Senator James Inhofe of
Oklahoma, desperate to capsize the incoming energy and climate
adviser, Carol Browner, branding her a secret socialist. Sounds
like a Christmas thing, secret socialist. And saying, 'There is
another organization that a lot of people don‘t realize. It‘s
called the Center for American Progress. This report that came out,
this is the group that is trying for the Fairness Doctrine, trying
to, I think, dramatically upend the First Amendment. She, Carol
Browner, was a member of that group.' <br>
<br>
"As he fulminated, Senator Inhofe even held up a copy of a Center
for American Progress report called 'The Structural Imbalance of
Political Talk Radio.' There's only one problem: in that report,
the Center for American Progress specifically concludes, quote,
'There is no need to return to the fairness doctrine. Increasing
ownership diversity will lead to more diverse programming.'<br>
<br>
"So Senator, thanks for pointing out that Carol Browner belongs to a
group that specifically opposes reinstating the Fairness Doctrine
you‘re so scared of. Senator James 'Maybe next time I‘ll remember
to read the damn thing first' Inhofe, today‘s worst person in the
world!"<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0tbsps_KOA#t=73">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0tbsps_KOA#t=73</a><br>
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