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This is shocking!

They try to mold our opinions so we are more amenable to their agendas.

Interesting, especially point re climate change.

I would go further into the ontological sources of these issues e.g. attachment to views, and how we can address that.

Notice the subtle othering: it's not "us" who have been doing this but the "governments, banks and big corporations" ... But who are their shareholders, who are their citizens, staff, customers etc? Us ...

Note this is a comment on Attenborough's book. I do wonder what his recommendations are...

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Many believe models predict the future. Exhibit A: Climate change

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The "above things" being:

1. Vote for elected officials who prioritize smart climate policy; join climate action or political groups to support pro-climat candidates and non-profits.
2. Use only electric vehicles. Your next car [and this right here is a measure of how very car-dependent Americans as a whole are] needs to be electric. [AND you also need to press your power companies and government for clean electricity; lots of electricity comes from coal!]
3. Electrify your house. There's a reason California's no longer permitting gas in new construction. Induction has vastly improved!
4. Switch to all-green electricity. See my note on #2.

There's a racial divide here, too. With harassment and violence on the rise against Black and Asian Americans, moving anywhere where there are fewer of us is another dimension of precarity.

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration

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would be interesting to understand more about their budget, philosophy and approach.

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IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C - Table 2.2: The assessed remaining carbon budget and its uncertainties

a hypothesized cycle of solar radiation

Yes: there are tipping points.

97% consensus is not a "divided" unless one wishes to make it a controversy.

Manufactured controversy - Wikipedia

Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming - IOPscience

For an update supporting the "97%" figure, see Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming - IOPscience

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Wikipedia resource

since 1991, less than two per cent of all peer-reviewed studies say climate change is caused by something other than human activities (that's burning fossil fuels and digging up forests, to you and me).

source

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have all struck lucrative arrangements—collectively worth billions of dollars—to provide automation, cloud, and AI services to some of the world’s biggest oil companies, and they are actively pursuing more.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/silicon-valley-courts-a-wary-oil-patch-1532424600

You can learn more about Santiago and tips for exploring it here.

Do these still qualify as public goods? I would argue that our use of air and water has started diminishing these goods' availability—and quality—for others.

This is interesting!

this is fucked up.

supports: climate change leads to global physical and biological change

Wow. Really alarming.

This is an annotation!

Here's what's been happening with winter storms in early 2018.

This is interesting.

This is interesting!

this is interesting!

A study from Finland's Leppeenranta University of Technology and Berlin-based Energy Watch Group claims that the entire world could transition to 100% renewable electric power by 2050.

We invite all scientists to endorse this global environmental article and engage with a new alliance concerned about global climate and environmental trends

Climate Science Special Report Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), Volume 1

While the thought of this is incredibly depressing, it does open up questions as to the place of DH. Personally, I think the DH community's most significant responsibilities are to record life on earth as we know it now, how we as humans are endangering it and suggesting ways to actively preserve it. I believe keeping a record or an archive of plants and animals that are in danger of becoming extinct (for example) is incredibly important for future generations to come and this is who DH must aim to speak to: future generations.

CO2 atmospheric concentration used as simple indicator for many years to track great acceleration / progression in Anthropocence, this now joined by long list of other indicators, escalating at an alarming rate, population, water use/ shortage, paper consumption, global warming, increase in number and ferocity of storms .......

Ted Talk by Will Steffen . Journey through science measuring humanity effect on the planet. important for me, while i had heard and read about debate on climate change, Anthropocene is a new concept for me. Irrefutable change, cannot be ignored.

This seems optimistic based on climate research.

Why aren't we talking about this?

This is a double-edged sword in traditional media - the need to get both sides of the argument. It is important for balanced and factual reporting, but it can also be problematic as it frames both sides as having equal importance in an issue. Think of the debate about climate change. In the name of journalistic fairness, a mainstream reporter may often feel obliged to get the opinion of a climate change denier to balance the story. This often gives the impression that the deniers are of equal weight on the issue. Could lead the general public to believe that climate change is a devisive issue since there are 2 sides, despite the fact that 99% of the science and research is weighted towards climate change. Should both sides be given equal weight in journalism? Could this actually help to create an environment of skepticism about facts? Making all facts seem debatable?

This is scary!

For me, this is not surprising, but rather a beautiful example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. (Graph)

They know the amount of uncertainty and lack of predictability of the severity. And they are equally sure of the trajectory of failure.

The Beaufort Sea Project for Climate Change began as a research project in Canada in 2002. The project was started by Magdalena A.K. Muir and Geographic Information System (GIS) specialists with support from the Fisheries and Joint Management Committee and governmental organizations. The focus of the project from 2002 to 2007 was to study the effects of climate change on marine mammals and fish in the Beaufort Sea. In conjunction, the research studied the effects of using, managing, and allocating marine resources. After 2008, the research has focused on identifying species of marine wildlife that could be at risk in the future due to overfishing and climate change related effects. This research continues to study the effects of climate change on the health of marine species and management of marine resources. The management of these resources includes gaining species knowledge, setting limits on the number of marine mammals and fish that are allowed to be captured and killed per year, and enforcing legislature about managing marine resources. Specifically, researchers are studying the effects of climate change in marine mammal migrations patterns. The specific environmental effects are changes in the fresh water Mackenzie River inputs, sea and land ice, and water circulation. Researchers plan to use these changes to catalogue direct effects of climate change on migration. Sea and land ice changes will be detrimental to ice dependent animals. This research will provide information for scientists, researchers, organizations, charities, and government officials so that appropriate laws and regulations can be established (Muir n.d.).

Source:

Muir, Magdalena A.K. "Beaufort Sea Project for Climate Change." Arctic Institute of North America. Accessed March 05, 2017. http://arctic.ucalgary.ca/beaufort-sea-project-climate-change.

Did they not ask for lists of scientists working on climate change during transition? Did they not wipe any mention of climate change from whitehouse.gov on a day one? Did they not put a gag order on science?

Not a real thing, see: http://e360.yale.edu/features/the_myth_of_clean_coal http://www.livescience.com/56474-clean-coal-presidential-debates.html http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/coal/nijhuis-text http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a4947/4339171/