[MCN] Climate & the tribes, getting real about conservation, underestimates by climate models, et al

[Lance Olsen]

First, this :

Heading 'into a buzzsaw': Why extremism experts fear the Capitol attack is just the beginning <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEMIKuQRNQdhPVLJPQUCFXQ8qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowocv1CjCSptoCMPrTpgU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Protests planned for this weekend and inauguration are only the start. But experts worry the real threat may be what the Capitol attack unleashed long term.
CNN <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMKHL9QowkqbaAg?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>

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North Central CASC Affiliated Researchers Awarded Rising Voices Funding to Enable Tribal Data Sovereignty
The Rising Voices program awarded funding to North Central Climate Adaptation Science Centerresearchers to support the data needs of Great Plains and Northern Rockies Tribes. The Rising Voices program facilitates intercultural, relational-based approaches for understanding and adapting to extreme weather and climate events, climate variability, and climate change. This project was one of three projects that received seed funding to catalyze their projects and advance the ethos of the Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences. Learn more>> <https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/north-central-casc-affiliated-researchers-awarded-seed-funding-catalyzing-research-and>

National Tribal Leadership Climate Change Virtual Summit
Session II of the National Tribal Leadership Climate Change Virtual Summit will take place on January 12 with a focus on "Promoting Tribal Climate Resiliency". The summit is meant to engage leadership and staff in building resilience to meet pressing, complex challenges Indigenous communities must face through leadership engagement and increased familiarity with successful examples, tools, and technologies. U.S. Representative Debra Haaland will be among the guest speakers. The Northwest CASC is a sponsor of the event. Learn more>> <http://atnitribes.org/climatechange/ts/>  

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“How can scientists protect biodiversity? In the wake of August’s Great Elephant Census, which revealed a precipitous decline in numbers throughout Africa, there were the usual calls from researchers for more and better data. Only if we know where and how many of each species there are, this argument goes, can we hope to conserve them. 

“This is nonsense.

“Better data will not save elephants, rhinos or any other species. An enormous number of individuals, academic institutions, local, state and national governments, and multinational and non-governmental organizations have been collecting, assimilating and organizing such data for decades, essentially fiddling while our biological heritage burns.”

Aaron M. Ellison. It’s time to get real about conservation. Nature  13 OCTOBER 2016

https://www.nature.com/news/it-s-time-to-get-real-about-conservation-1.20773

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Michael Schlesinger, a climate scientist at the University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, points to another example.

“Things are happening right now with the ice sheets that were not predicted to happen until 2100,” Schlesinger says. 

“My worry is that we may have passed the window of opportunity where learning is still useful.” 

John Bohannan, Trying to Lasso Climate Uncertainty, Science October 13, 2006
DOI: 10.1126/science.314.5797.243

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A 'ghastly future' unless extraordinary action is taken soon on sustainability <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php>
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php>
RESEARCH NEWS RELEASE  <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php>
News Release 13-Jan-2021 <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php>
Without immediate, drastic intervention, humans face a "ghastly future" -- including declining health, climate devastation, tens of millions of environmental migrants and more pandemics -- in the next several decades, according to an international team of 17 prominent scientists.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php <https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/uoc--af011221.php>

JOURNAL
Frontiers in Conservation Science
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full>

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 “I just want it to be clear that the mainstream environmental movement has been asking very little of people for decades.”

“There’s no element of, ‘We are in an emergency. We all need to do more than what we’re doing.” 

Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy
July 22 2019
https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/

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It's too easy to blame the corporations for the climate crisis, when we subsidize them every time we buy what they’re selling. 

Corporate policy does matter. At the same time, corporations are totally dependent on the spending by their customers. 

"This buck stops everywhere."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/25/caught-in-a-trap-of-our-own-making-climate-change-blame-and-denialnial/>>

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