Amazon Indians in Venezuela Report Gold Miner Attack

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The human rights group Survival International says it has received reports, not yet independently verified, of a massacre of a Yanomami Indian community by gold miners in the Venezuelan portion of the Amazon rain forest. Here's the (Spanish language) appeal for an investigation. The release from Survival International is here: http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/8626

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Amazon Indians in Venezuela Report Gold Miner Attack

The Medium-term Coal Market Report from the International Energy Agency makes for sobering -- if not surprising -- reading for anyone concerned about greenhouse-driven climate change. Presentation made in Paris, Dec. 18, 2012, by Keisuke Sadamori. Director, Energy Markets and Security. More on coal at Dot Earth: http://bit.ly/dotCoal More from IEA: http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2012/december/name,34441,en.html

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Digital and Social Media in the West - Andrew Revkin The prepared text of a talk given by Revkin at Climate Change Communication: Research and Practice – a Beijing conference (Oct 12-13) co-organized by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication and the China Center for Climate Change Communication (a partnership of Oxfam Hong Kong and the Research Center for Journalism and Social Development at Renmin University). Links were added to provide context. More from Yale: http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/about/inaugural-international-climate-communication-conference-2013

Four Seasoned Nuclear Scientists Endorse Nuclear Energy Push by Four Climate ...

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Four senior figures in nuclear physics and energy distributed this letter aimed at buttressing the recent call by four climate scientists to pursue nuclear power as an affordable and relatively safe large-scale energy source with limited climate impact. The letter from the climate scientists is here: 'To Those Influencing Environmental Policy But Opposed to Nuclear Power': http://nyti.ms/1iEGeR3 The signatories on the new letter are: Andrew C. Kadak Former President of the American Nuclear Society and Member of the US Nuclear Waste Technology Review Board http://www.nwtrb.gov/board/kadak.html Richard A. Meserve President of the Carnegie Institution for Science and a former Chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission http://carnegiescience.edu/president_richard_meserve Neil E. Todreas Korea Electric Power Company Professor (emeritus) and a former Chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/todreas.html Richard Wilson Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics (emeritus) and a former Chairman of the Harvard University Department of Physics http://users.physics.harvard.edu/~wilson/

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From news release: A new study by the Harvard Environmental Law Program’s Policy Initiative reveals serious deficiencies in the disclosure practices of FracFocus, a widely-used website that allows companies to voluntarily disclose the hydraulic fracturing chemicals they use in the process of natural gas drilling known as “fracking.” Currently, 18 states require some amount of fracturing chemicals disclosure. Of those, 11 direct or allow companies to report chemical use on FracFocus. The report found that the dependence on FracFocus as a regulatory compliance tool is misplaced or premature. More on fracking data bases here: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=fracfocus

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This is a fantastic case study and overview showing how businesses can prepare for the hazards around them to cut the scope of impacts - preventing a natural hazard from becoming an unnatural disaster. It centers on the experience and work of Parsons Manufacturing, a company that suffered a direct hit from an EF-4 tornado in 2004 but avoided any deaths. Learn more at the company website: https://www.parsonscompany.com/about/

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A #COP26 presentation by Zainab Usman of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Katie Auth of Energy for Development, building on this paper: September 28, 2021 REFRAMING CLIMATE JUSTICE FOR DEVELOPMENT: SIX PRINCIPLES FOR SUPPORTING INCLUSIVE AND EQUITABLE ENERGY TRANSITIONS IN LOW-EMITTING ENERGY-POOR AFRICAN COUNTRIES By Mimi Alemayehou, Katie Auth, Murefu Barasa, Morgan Bazilian, Brad Handler, Uzo Iweala, Todd Moss, Rose Mutiso, Zainab Usman Advancing inclusive and equitable energy transitions is one of this century’s most vital global challenges, and one in which development finance will play a crucial role. References to justice and equity are widespread in international climate policy, and are increasingly being used by development organizations to guide their own work, including support for energy transitions. But prevailing definitions of climate justice rarely fully capture the priorities, challenges and perspectives of low-emitting energy-poor countries, the vast majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. When applied to development policy, this gap risks prioritizing near-term emissions reductions over broader support for economic development and energy transformation, with comparatively little climate benefit. This could severely hinder poverty alleviation, development, and climate resilience — the very opposite of justice. We need energy transitions that are truly ‘just and inclusive.’ What does this mean for development funders and financiers, and how should it drive their approach to supporting energy transitions in the lowest-income countries?

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A 1974 CIA Study of Climate Disruption Saw Cooling, Omitted CO2

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Alice Bell's new book on the history of climate change knowledge and inaction is fantastic. Some have missed what is NOT in the CIA's 1974 assessment of climate change and security risk. There's no mention of global warming from carbon dioxide. Here's a Guardian excerpt from Alice's book: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored Here's the original CIA document without text recognition: https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=725433

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Supercomputers, Science and Spies - A. Revkin in Tech Review 8/86

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A deep early look at how supercomputer security became a prime concern of the Reagan administration - with climate science in the mix. More context in Andrew Revkin's prize-winning March 1985 Science Digest article on nuclear winter: https://www.slideshare.net/Revkin/hard-facts-about-nuclear-winter-1985 And Revkin's investigative report on the vanishing of Vladimir Alexandrov, a high-profile Soviet atmospheric scientist who'd become a fan of American cars and cuisine while visiting NCAR, a mountainside supercomputer lab in Colorado: http://j.mp/alexandrovmissing

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Here are emails showing exchanges between Dr. Will Happer, a senior Trump Administration science and security adviser, and the Heartland Institute -- which has long sought to cast doubt on the enormous body of science pointing to rising dangers from human emissions of climate-warming gases. The emails were released under a Freedom of Information Act request by the Environmental Defense Fund: http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/files/2019/03/Climate-Review-FOIA-CEQ.pdf Here's an Associated Press story: https://www.apnews.com/4ec9affd55a345d582a4cc810686137e EDF provided this copy to Andrew Revkin. Here's an excerpt from a 2017 interview Revkin did with Happer for ProPublica: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSpL5dziylo A Physicist and Possible Adviser to Trump Describes His Love of Science, and CO2 https://www.propublica.org/article/a-physicist-and-possible-adviser-to-trump-describes-his-love-of-science-co2 More on Happer in National Geographic: Does the U.S. need a ‘presidential climate security committee’? A Trump adviser who sees rising CO2 as a good thing wants a panel to review government findings that climate change is a security threat.... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/02/trump-presidential-climate-security-committee/

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When Global Warming Became News: 1988

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This cover story on climate change by Andrew Revkin was published in Discover Magazine in October, 1988. For more on the article visit this Dot Earth post: 1988-2008: Climate Then and Now http://nyti.ms/WIvLbH via @dotearth Make sure to click to the last page, which was the back-cover advertisement that month - for cigarettes. Shows things can change, sometimes slowly. And read Andy's reflection on lessons learned in 30 years of climate coverage: http://j.mp/revkin30yearsclimate

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Lewis Reznik, who spent his adult life as a dentist in Westchester County, New York, had a very different adolescence - on the run between Nazis and Russian troops in Poland as the Holocaust unfolded. This is is remarkable memoir. Lew died in 2013. I edited the manuscript and helped Lew publish the book. Please purchase a copy at j.mp/boysholocaust Share and discuss the book on Facebook: j.mp/boysholocaustFB

Shell's 1997-8 Public Relations Strategy for Nigeria Troubles

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Context: "Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria: Where Do Responsibilities End?" Journal of Business Ethics, 2015 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10551-014-2142-7 Shell's plans for Nigeria (SPDC subsidiary), 2013: http://www.shell.com/media/news-and-media-releases/2013/spdc-sets-out-its-future-intent-for-nigeria.html Business & Human Rights Resource Center on two landmark lawsuits: https://business-humanrights.org/en/shell-lawsuit-re-nigeria-kiobel-wiwa

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"Anthropocene" is Too Modest to Describe Human Earth Impact

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Jay Quade, a veteran geologist at the University of Arizona, gave a remarkable talk at the American Quaternary Association meeting in Santa Fe this year proposing that an Anthropocene Epoch is way too small a designation for what we're doing to the Earth Ssytem #AMQUA2016 This is posted with Dr. Quade's permission for Dot Earth. His views are faetured in my article making sense of the #Anthropocene, in the new magazine of that name: http://j.mp/revkinanthropocene Links: Quade home page http://www.geo.arizona.edu/Quade AMQUA 2016 meeting http://amqua2016santafe.com Anthropocene posts on the Dot Earth blog of Andrew Revkin: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/?s=anthropocene+epoch

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Humanity's Role in Creating a "Post-Holocene" Chapter of Earth History

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In Andrew Revkin's 1992 book on global warming, written for the American Museum of Natural History, he essentially predicted scientists would identify a "post-Holocene" period of Earth history and possibly name it for "its causative element." He mused on whether this era might be called, "say, the Anthrocene." The full text of the book is here: Views of Global Warming in 1992 and Now http://nyti.ms/TZH98r via @dotearth

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