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CLIMATE MEMO MONDAYS, #136, JULY 17,
2023
Art
Hobson, Leaving FF in the Ground.
Kenny Stancil. Methane Leaks As Bad as Coal.
Kendra Pierre-Louis. Hollywood Avoids CC.
Kyubin Kim. CC? Change? Catastrophe?
Chaos?
“Global warming credibility gap. Will the promised
goals be met?”
Art Hobson, ahobson@uark.edu NWADG, 11 July 2023.
Humankind
has finally achieved the first goal required to prevent disastrous global
warming: Civilized people finally
recognize this as a real threat caused by fossil fuels and deforestation. Just as the cigarette industry knew the danger of their product but lied about
it, the fossil fuel industry knew
the dangers of global warming by 1980 and devoted the next four decades to
denying it.
Because
it's an inherently international problem, it's appropriate that the United Nations has played a leading
role in scientifically understanding it and finding real-world solutions. As the UN's heroic Secretary-General Antonio Guterres knows, this is probably the
most difficult problem humankind has ever faced, more difficult and more
consequential than the World Wars.
Civilization
faced a similar problem, atmospheric ozone
depletion, during the 1980s. The
opposition was similar. It was labeled a
hoax. Industry said banning the products that destroyed ozone would sink the
economy. The world got together, enacted
a rational solution, and the atmosphere is now recovering.
As
Guterres put it, "The problem
is not simply fossil fuel emissions.
It's fossil fuels--period. The
world must phase out fossil fuels in a just and equitable way--moving to leave
oil, coal, and gas in the ground. Fossil
fuel industry transition plans must be transformation plans that chart a
company's move to clean energy and away from a product incompatible with human
survival." MORE
Kenny
Stancil. “Study
shows methane leaks put climate risk from gas ‘on par with coal’.” Editor. mronline.org
(7-16-23).
If
fracked gas leaks, even a little, "it's as bad as coal," said the
lead author. "It can't be considered a good bridge, or substitute."
Originally published: Common Dreams on July 13, 2023 (more by Common Dreams) | (Posted Jul
15, 2023). Climate Change, Environment, Health, StrategyGlobalNewswireFossil Fuel Industry, Methane
The fossil fuel
industry has long argued that fracked
gas can serve as a “bridge” to a renewable-powered future, but a new study confirms that uncontrolled leaks make it as
dangerous for the climate as coal. [What
have your gas and electric companies claimed?
Give them a call.]
Two Articles in Mother
Jones on CC. The
editor placed them back to back.
Kendra Pierre-Louis.
“Too Hot for Hollywood.” (July
August 2023).
Why, with climate change so palpably on, in, and all around
us do so few films take cc as their subject?
Kyubin Kim. “State of
Emergency.” Why is the label “disaster” so inadequate,
while calamity and catastrophe and emergency
are more accurate for the cc? Or
are they too already inadequate? [Climate
Chaos?]