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<font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>January</b></i></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 19, 2024</b></i></font><font
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<i>[ Joe wilts when election politics heat up ]</i><br>
<b>Climate activists swarm Joe Manchin in restaurant before senator
forced to leave through kitchen</b><br>
Climate protesters disrupted Joe Manchin’s speech at a diner in New
Hampshire on Tuesday (16 January).<br>
<br>
Activists from the Climate Defiance group, who previously shut down
the senator’s keynote speech at a Semafor event, chanted “Off fossil
fuels Manchin” at the Democrat.<br>
<br>
The chanting appeared to begin after Mr Manchin said his greatest
concern is the “border crisis,” a video consisting of different
clips stitched together shows.<br>
<br>
The group says they aim to use peaceful civil disobedience to call
for the end of fossil fuels and to elevate climate change to the top
of the political agenda.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/joe-manchin-climate-protest-fossil-fuel-b2480232.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/joe-manchin-climate-protest-fossil-fuel-b2480232.html</a><br>
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<i>[ The Guardian covers the presidential campaign ]</i><br>
<b>Climate crisis ignored by Republicans as Trump vows to ‘drill,
baby, drill’</b><br>
The freezing temperatures in Iowa – fuelled by global heating – have
not dampened Republican enthusiasm for oil and gas<br>
Oliver Milman @olliemilman<br>
Thu 18 Jan 2024<br>
In the wake of an Iowa primary election chilled in a record blast of
cold weather – which scientists say may, counterintuitively, have
been worsened by global heating – Republican presidential candidates
are embracing the fossil fuel industry tighter than ever, with
little to say about the growing toll the climate crisis is taking
upon Americans.<br>
<p>The remaining contenders for the US presidential nomination –
frontrunner Donald Trump, along with Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis
– all used the Iowa caucus to promise surging levels of oil and
gas drilling if elected, along with the wholesale abolition of Joe
Biden’s climate change policies.</p>
Trump, who comfortably won the Iowa poll, said “we are going to
drill, baby, drill” once elected, in a Fox News town hall on the eve
of the primary. “We have more liquid gold under our feet; energy,
oil and gas than any other country in the world,” the multiply
indicted former president said. “We have a lot of potential income.”<br>
<br>
Trump also called clean energy a “new scam business” and went on a
lengthy digression on how energy is important in the making of
donuts and hamburgers. The Trump campaign has accused Biden of
trying to prevent Americans from buying non-electric cars – no such
prohibition exists – and even for causing people’s dishes to be
dirty by imposing new efficiency standards for dishwashers.<br>
<p>Haley, meanwhile, has called the Inflation Reduction Act, Biden’s
signature climate bill that provides tax credits for renewable
energy production and electric car purchases, a “communist
manifesto” and used the Iowa election to promise to “roll back all
of Biden’s green subsidies because they’re misplaced”. DeSantis,
who came second in Iowa, said that on his first day as president
he would “take Biden’s Green New Deal, we tear it up and we throw
it in the trash can. It is bad for this country.”</p>
Last year was, globally, the hottest ever recorded, and scientists
have warned of mounting calamities as the world barrels through
agreed temperature limits. Last year, the US suffered a record
number of disasters costing at least $1bn in damages, with the
climate crisis spurring fiercer wildfires, storms and extreme heat.<br>
<br>
Such concerns were largely unvoiced in frigid Iowa, however, apart
from by young climate activists who disrupted rallies held by Trump,
Haley and DeSantis. On Sunday, a 17-year-old activist from the
Sunrise climate group interrupted a Trump speech to shout: “Mr Trump
your campaign is funded by fossil fuel millionaires. Do you
represent them, or ordinary people like me?”<br>
<p>She was drowned out by boos from Trump supporters, and then
scolded from the stage by the former president, who told the
activist to “go home to mommy.” He then said the protester was
“young and immature”.</p>
<p>The continued championing of fossil fuels, and dismissal of young
people’s worries about climate change, shows that the Republican
candidates are “determined to drag us into a chaotic world just to
make a bit more money”, said Aru Shiney-Ajay, executive director
of Sunrise.</p>
“Not a single Republican is addressing root causes of the climate
crisis. They’ve been bought out by oil and gas billionaires,” said
Shiney-Ajay, who added that young climate activists were also
dismayed at Biden, who has overseen a record glut of oil and gas
drilling, despite Republican claims he has hindered US energy
production.<br>
“The reality is that every presidential candidate, including Joe
Biden, is falling so far short of the climate ambition we need,
despite there being millions of lives at stake,” she said.<br>
<br>
Some Republicans have warned that the party must take climate change
seriously if it is to remain viable electorally, with increasing
numbers of Americans alarmed about the impacts of global heating.
“If conservatives are scared to talk about the climate, then we’re
not going to have a seat at the table when decisions are made,” said
Buddy Carter, a Republican congressman from Georgia. “We are right
on policy, so we need a seat at the table.”<br>
<p>Still, polling has shown that the climate crisis remains of minor
importance to Republican voters, compared to issues such as the
economy and inflation, with just 13% of them saying it is a top
priority in a Pew survey last year. None of the party’s leading
presidential candidates have sought to significantly change this
dynamic, to the frustration of some climate-conscious
conservatives.</p>
“Republican candidates can’t lose sight of the big picture amid the
primary season,” said Danielle Butcher Franz, the chief executive of
the advocacy arm of the American Conservation Coalition, a
conservative climate group.<br>
<br>
“Beyond the primary, the next Republican nominee must win over the
hearts and minds of young Americans by speaking to the issue they
care most about: climate change.”<br>
<br>
Butcher Franz said there must be “more productive rhetoric and real
policy solutions from Republicans. The race for 2024 is an
opportunity to do so that no candidate has fully seized.”<br>
<p>Even if the candidates aren’t talking much about climate change,
its effects are still being directly felt as the Republican
primary field moves on to New Hampshire. Icily cold temperatures
have gripped much of the US – the Iowa caucus was the coldest on
record – due to a blast of Arctic-like weather that has triggered
power blackouts, halted flights and caused schools to shut in
parts of the country.</p>
The Arctic is heating up at four times the rate of the global
average, and scientists think this is affecting the jet stream, a
river of strong winds that steers weather across the northern
hemisphere, and the polar vortex, another current of winds that
usually keeps frigid Arctic air over the polar region. Both these
systems risk becoming “wavier”, recent research has found, meaning
Arctic-like conditions can meander far further south than normal.<br>
<br>
The current blast of cold weather is “certainly much more likely
given how much the planet is warming” said Judah Cohen, a
meteorologist at Verisk Atmospheric and Environmental who has
studied the phenomenon. “There is scientific evidence that makes
severe winter weather consistent or explainable in a warming world.
One does not negate the other.”<br>
<br>
Jennifer Francis, a climate scientist at Woods Hole Research Center,
said that while it seems counterintuitive, the science was “becoming
clear” that extreme cold spells will be a consequence of global
heating.<br>
<br>
“The irony is pretty rich” that Iowa has experienced such conditions
during a Republican presidential primary, Francis added. “Of course,
the deniers won’t see it that way, and won’t listen to any science
that says otherwise.”<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/trump-republican-rivals-climate-crisis">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/18/trump-republican-rivals-climate-crisis</a><br>
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<i>[ Conversation by two wise women talking climate destabilization
- 40 min video ]</i><br>
<b>Climate is a Justice Issue | Naomi Oreskes</b><br>
Planet: Critical - Rachel Donald<br>
Jan 17, 2024<br>
Neoliberalism is the disease which keeps on killing.<br>
But did you know the neoliberal economic gospel we live under today
is a deliberate misinterpretation of the original theory? <br>
<br>
In her new book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to
Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, historian of science
Naomi Oreskes shows how a group of American plutocrats distorted the
the conservative teachings of Friedrich van Hayek’s theory of
neoliberalism in order to plunder the world’s resource, unleash the
markets, and undermine federal power. <br>
<br>
She joins me today to give a incisive and brutal summary of why our
world is in crisis, detailing the criminal avarice of these
plutocrats; how institutions, lobbyists and corporations continue to
undermine democracy; and why a renewable world threatens the powers
that be. This phenomenal explanation shows why the climate crisis is
not a scientific problem, but a political, economic and social
issue, with Naomi revealing tactics civilians used throughout
history against the destructive elite.<br>
<br>
🔴 Naomi's Harvard profile: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/naomi-oreskes">https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/naomi-oreskes</a><br>
🔴 The Big Myth: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/">https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/</a><br>
🔴 Naomi's Twitter: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/naomioreskes">https://twitter.com/naomioreskes</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZk4Xjn6tEY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZk4Xjn6tEY</a>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[The news archive - and the previous year
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>January 19, 1999 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> January 19, 1999: In his State of the
Union address, President Clinton declares, "But our most fateful new
challenge is the threat of global warming; 1998 was the warmest year
ever recorded. Last year’s heat waves, floods, and storms are but a
hint of what future generations may endure if we do not act now."<br>
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