[MCN] Assorted climate stuff

[Lance Olsen]

”Someday I must tell my son what I have done. My comfortable, safe life is in large part a product of the internal combustion engine <https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/page5.php>. Fossil fuels power the trains that take us to the beach, the factories that make his plastic bucket and spade, the lights I switch off when I kiss him good night. We can make small adjustments: recycling, buying reusable bottles for our water and ice coffee, foregoing the occasional plastic bag. But these small things, even multiplied by a large population, are still small in the end.

"I cannot deny my son or myself the ease of modern life, and I have no wish to isolate him from friends and family by insisting on radical changes. A carbon-free life seems a solitary one: no travel to see grandparents, awkward refusals of invitations, precious time with friends replaced by gardening, canning, mending, building, working. I search for political solutions, an advocacy muted by the cowardice of my personal choices. In the end, I am responsible for the gases that are changing the climate and, in raising my son in comfort and convenience, and am passing on that responsibility and guilt to him.”

Kate Marvel, physicist, climate scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and Columbia University’s Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics

<<https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/ <https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/>>>

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Increased Awareness Of Home Energy Usage & Emissions Is A Must <https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiYmh0dHBzOi8vY2xlYW50ZWNobmljYS5jb20vMjAyMC8xMS8wOC9pbmNyZWFzZWQtYXdhcmVuZXNzLW9mLWhvbWUtZW5lcmd5LXVzYWdlLWVtaXNzaW9ucy1pcy1hLW11c3Qv0gFmaHR0cHM6Ly9jbGVhbnRlY2huaWNhLmNvbS8yMDIwLzExLzA4L2luY3JlYXNlZC1hd2FyZW5lc3Mtb2YtaG9tZS1lbmVyZ3ktdXNhZ2UtZW1pc3Npb25zLWlzLWEtbXVzdC9hbXAv?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Research suggests new approaches are necessary to control home energy emissions.
CleanTechnica

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News Release 29-Oct-2020 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php>
Resistance and challenges to Green Deals should not be underestimated <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php>
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php>
EUROPEAN ACADEMIES' SCIENCE ADVISORY COUNCIL <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php>
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php>
A Perspective by the EASAC Environment Steering Panel <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php>
 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php>
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/easa-rac102820.php>

Excerpts : Demand for energy and resources has been growing as a result of population growth and increased consumption, to the point where all the scientific evidence shows we are bumping up against fundamental planetary boundaries on which our civilizations depend. 

EASAC summarises this evidence with a focus on climate and biodiversity, describing what many international scientists have been thinking since the 1970s - that current unsustainable trajectories are built into our economic theories and our political reward systems. 

The short-term perspective of many vested interests in continuing the status quo (whether in fossil fuels, resources extraction, high consumption in the linear economy, overfishing, conversion of forests and so on) is a formidable barrier to change.

Climate warming is proceeding too fast to meet the Paris Agreement objective of avoiding dangerous climate change. Positive feedback effects that accelerate warming are already occurring.

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"The big challenge is still to deliver emissions reductions at the pace and scale needed, especially in a world where economies are driven by consumption.”

Sonja van Renssen.The inconvenient truth of failed climate policies. Nature Climate Change  MAY 2018

Published online: 27 April 2018 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0155-4 

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“What we are witnessing is a temper tantrum against the mere suggestion that there are limits to what we can consume.” 

Naomi Klein
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/15/trump-straws-plastic/

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CNN Oct 8, 2018 - A stark new report from the global scientific authority on climate ... But to do that, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says, would ... change their lifestyle and consumption patterns to more sustainable ...

What the new report on climate change expects from you - CNN <https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/world/ipcc-climate-change-consumer-actions-intl/index.html>
https://www.cnn.com › world › ipcc-climate-change-consumer-actions-intl <https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/world/ipcc-climate-change-consumer-actions-intl/index.html>

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"Direct effects of climatic warming can be understood through fatal decrements in an organism's performance in growth, reproduction, foraging, immune competence, behaviors and competitiveness."

Portner and Farrell. Physiology and Climate Change. Science  October 31 2008

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Kate Marvel, physicist, climate scientist

”Someday I must tell my son what I have done." …. "In the end, I am responsible for the gases that are changing the climate and, in raising my son in comfort and convenience, am passing on that responsibility and guilt to him."

https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/ <https://onbeing.org/blog/kate-marvel-we-should-never-have-called-it-earth/>


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