Conference Call Tuesday, February 5, 2019
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ScientistsWarning.org will have a
Team SW Meeting on
Tuesday February 5
Please call-in or computer link-in 15 minutes before the top of the hour for the following start times:
8 am in Hawaii;
10 am in California;
1 pm US East Coast/Ottawa;
6 pm in UK/Portugal;
7 pm in Spain/Denmark
(Calls are welcome from Australia, but don't ask me to figure the time)
AGENDA
Social Networking Team (SW is on Facebook) - Eoin
Video Editing Team (Report on YouTube Channel views) - Stuart
Translators Team - Antonio and Heidi
SW Website - Charles
Upcoming Travels and Speaker Bureau - Stuart
Deep Adaption Video Project - Stuart
SW Fund at the Ocean River Institute – Rob
New Business:
Additions? Write to Rob at Rob@oceanriver.org.
Keep doing whatever you can to slow the release of greenhouse gasses and increase the capture of carbon.
Different steps of differing magnitude are all for the better.
Your actions, our collective efforts, are vital for the future of us all
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people, plants, wildlife, ecosystems, the planet, our home.
Though the path before us may be daunting, thank you for steady- on tackling of the Climate Crisis. Keep trekking!
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That’s right, the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP-24) was held on top of one of Poland’s largest coal mines. The Silesian mines in and around Katowice are legendary. At one time the mines were responsible for almost a quarter of Germany’s annual output of coal, 81 percent of its zinc and 34 percent of lead. The uprising and resistance of Silesian miners, including the Battle of Annaberg, inspired and informed Tolkien’s writing on dwarfs and Gandalf.
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Following marching performance by the Polish Coal Miners Band dressed all in black except for red pennants flying instead of plumes from their shakos, the president of Poland welcomed thousands of delegates and observers to the conference. “The use of one’s own resources, in Poland’s case – coal – and basing energy security on them is not in conflict with climate protection.”
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Days before the UN conference, to add emphasis to his position (“As long as I am the president, I won’t allow anyone to murder the Polish mining,”) a new coal mine was opened to the south of Katowice. The Jastrzebie Coal Company added a new shaft to extract coal from a seam at Bzie-Debina. They are in talks for extracting more coal from the Debiensko mine. Poland had already the highest domestic coal production in Europe. Nearly 80 percent of Poland’s energy is from coal. No surprise, Poland also has 33 of the 50 most polluted cities.
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The U.S. negotiators, mostly a lone individual, having been instructed by the White House were mostly silent, neither strong supporter or openly blocking negotiations. Mum’s the word because all the hullabaloo over Poland’s coal pales in comparison to America’s filthy, mountain-top-removing industry.
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America, more the problem
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In 2012, Poland produced 159 US tons of coal employing more than 100,000. Employing about 50,000 miners, U.S. coal production in 2012 was 1,016 tons. 2017 marked improvements for the US with a reduction to 774.6 tons of cal. Significant, yes. But don’t call the kettle black when the U.S. produce five Polands worth of coal. Forty-two percent of America’s coal is from Wyoming, that’s 396 tons of coal or 2.5 Polands.
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Stuart Scott talks with Rob on Moir's Environmental Dialogues Internet Talk Radio about making the arrangements so that Greta Thunberg and her Dad, Svante, could attend the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP-24) in Katowice Poland. Hear what Greta said when granted a private audience with the UN Secretary. This is followed by Greta addressing the UN Delegation. Stuart and Rob talk about hosting Greta and Svante over four days of half hour SW panel presentations.
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Greta Thunberg
School Strike for Climate
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15-year-old Greta Thunberg is inspiring kids all over the world to save their future from the rampant double-speak of their political leaders. Her one-woman *School Strike for the Climate* has become an international civil disobedience movement.
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Greta and Svante Thunberg
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Greta Thunberg, is joined by her father, Svante to talk about her path from an unknown Swedish school girl to an internationally recognized climate leader. If governments don't give a damn about her future, why should she give a damn about their laws! Svante discusses how Greta's passion for the truth about climate has changed the family's lives.
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The Extinction Rebellion began in the UK this year. We appear to be past the threshold into 'runaway climate change'. We are in extreme danger, and our governments and media are not getting it.
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Basically, we are out of time to 'fix' the climate problem.
WeDontHaveTime.org
is an effort out of Sweden trying to rally grass roots support to pressure governments to act in the interests of their people.
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Dr. Peter Wadhams nails the problem squarely on the head. The IPCC continues to famously underestimate the problem, even in its most recent 'urgent' report, and the politicians remain cowards, self-serving & and 'corrupt,' serving first the 'fictitious persons' (corporations) on a daily basis.
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Dan Galpern, who serves as legal adviser to renowned climate scientist James E. Hansen, and Sara Mead speak about some of the cases being brought in the US, Canada and Europe, including the successful decision on the 2015 Urgenda Climate Case against the Dutch Government.
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Hugh Hunt & Kevin Anderson
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Hugh and Kevin discuss the new 'climate glitterati' that come annually to Davos to feign concern about the climate change, while they discuss techno-fixes that might allow them (in their minds at least) to continue their excessive lifestyle.
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Bruce Phillips, Alina Runk, Leonie Brockmann, Victoria Bederov
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Three millennial women from International Schule Berlin with their teacher and classmates discover just how inept climate education is when they evaluate ten textbooks on climate change.
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Tony Juniper
WWF UK Outreach Director
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Tony Juniper joins us to discuss the threat of our destructive model of economic development upon the web of life itself. The outcome will not just be a dramatic loss of species, also an enormous economic burden without the assistance given us by wildlife diversity and healthy predators. Restoring nature is restoring humanity, our health and prosperity.
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If we do not do something about how we manage our agriculture soils, it could be gone in fifty or seventy years. David Beerling describes how adding volcanic rock to soil, discarded rocks from mines, massively increases the amount of carbon capture drawn out of the air.
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Cathy Orlando of the Citizen's Climate Lobby tells of Canada’s recent adoption of the right way to price carbon, a 'fee and dividend' approach that shares the funds raised with this carbon fee with those who will need it most, the people with the least wealth.
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Noam Chomsky is one of the most cited scholars in history and is known as “The Conscience of America.” He answers Stuart's Climate Change questions in a video feed from his office in Arizona, one week after celebrating his 90th birthday.
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Stuart Scott & Victoria Hurth
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Stuart Scott and Victoria Hurth teamed up to discuss the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity (
http://ScientistsWarning.org/
) and then the part that business can and must play to reverse disastrous current ecological and climate trends that threaten life on Earth.
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Wanted COP-24 Sweepers to Clean-up Our Atmosphere
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Are you ready to act?
Climate Change Activists,
Earth Stewards,
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Extra! Extra! Let's give Greta the last word.
Greta Thunberg
speech to UN Climate Change Conference after being made to wait up from 8 p.m. until midnight due to alterations in the Agenda.
The video
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