Transcript How Humanity is at a Turning Point

Climate Change &
Sustainable
Development
Truth
Science
Lies
UNDERSTAND:
The REAL Scientific Facts
Science vs Science Denial
Politically-driven & Corporatebought resistance to Science
How to Effectively respond to
Science Denial propaganda
Best scientific projections of
the Dangers of climate change /
warming
Evidence of dire changes now
Tipping Points
SCIENTIFICALLY, WHY THIS IS A TURNING POINT
How Scientists Know: How Scientists Know
WHAT they know:
http://www.edf.org/article.cfm?contentID=11016
SEEING is Believing:
Data Trends
multiple Greenhouse Gas Trends
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/past-present-and-future.html#3
http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/greenhouse-gas.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9FbdqGRsg&feature=related
Video of Greenland melting TIME LAPSE ICE
LOSS NASA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hgvNO_WT9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jVQY_PmurY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpqnElX2RWU&feature=fvwrel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PTq9nSyros
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ3QUdIxvxg
CBS TV report
Russian Scientists discover disastrous METHANE RELEASE in Arctic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8WsIr7m-4w BRITISH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKJykIsarBw Americans
• How it is Human Caused:
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Richard Muller famous mathematician no longer "skeptic" 2011
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Basic Scientific Proof of Cause & Effect: 1. Correlation 2. Time – Order is Correct, Causes Come Before Effect
Tipping Points Research:
Allianz Ins. & WWF
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http://knowledge.allianz.com/search.cfm?519/climate-tipping-points-study
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42269650/ns/us_news-environment/
Average temperatures in a region (isotherms) are moving north or south 35 miles per
decade http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0902-our_changing_climate.htm
If carbon CO2 emissions increase at current rates, isotherm movement to the Poles will
double this century to at least 70 miles per decade
HOW SEVERE A THREAT IS CLIMATE CHANGE ?
MYTHS
* We can carry on as now. * We’ll adapt to climate change —
civilization has survived droughts and temperature shifts
before. * Inventions will save us.
FACTS
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We must REVERSE climate change. The best of Physical, and Social
sciences shows these hard scientific realities:
The current warming of our climate will bring major
hardships — untold human suffering, in the 21st century &
beyond for our children and grandchildren, and species
extinctions. Climate has changed in the past, humans survived,
but… *the climate changes are VASTLY greater and * they
are human induced
Today’s times are vastly different: huge population growth,
fossil-fuel based economic growth, and Carbon and
temperature increases are INTERCONNECTED, with
hazards that can produce Major Extinction Events in future
centuries, if trends are not stabilized in this century.
If current trends continue we face a warming trend
unseen since human civilization began 10,000 years ago.
(IPCC 2001) and unseen back 50 million years (IPCC
2007). Projected: + 2.0 - 4.0 degree C in this century.
According to best science, effects of current trends will
be dire by the end of the 21st century (IPCC, May 2007)
20-30 % plant & animal species will approach extinction
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Coasts eroded, then flooded by 2070s, hundreds of millions
inundated, esp. So. Asia, and the world’s big coastal cities
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Up to 40% melt of ice/snow at high altitudes, flooding & then loss
of water supply where 1 of 6 live in So. Asia, affecting 1 billion by
2050
Minus 10-30% precipitation in mid latitudes, eg Mediterranean,
Africa, S. Eur
Increased droughts, heat waves, floods, storms, scarcity of water
and food, spread of infections diseases
Latest data (2012) suggests some irreversible & connected tipping
point climate & eco- disasters could start after 2017, esp. artic
methane release, ocean acidification, and ice melt Methane Tipping
Point Soon Ocean & Ice Debate Favors Connected Tipping Points
Will increase: Vast Human, and species death; Economic depression
& collapse; Government breakdowns; civil wars & major conflicts
throughout the globe.
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The Really Bad NEWS: Methane
•At current rates of GHGas increase
We are about one century away from Extinction
Event GHGas levels higher than 900 ppm
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Pages, 3 scenarios.
•PROBLEM: the new Threat of Methane
Release as Permafrost zones thaw out &
undersea methane release may worsen.
•Methane release crisis, brief summary London Guardian
•Methane release crisis permafrost NBC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVwmi7HCmSI
•http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/sep/10/russia.climatechange
•http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hundreds-of-methane-plumes-discovered-941456.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42269650/ns/us_news-environment/
Video, scroll to pt. 3
How Humanity is at a Turning Point
Syllabus, Pg 14
Unchecked GHG induced Climate Change threatens a great loss of
human populations, similar to ancient plagues.
The developing vast changes in climates threaten established
human life, civilization, species & ecologies, including the degrading
of oceans eco-systems & life.
The potential for change is perhaps less than a massive Comet
impact, but greater than the Industrial Revolution, Colonialism & the
World Wars.
Human ability to adapt away from global fossil-fuel based Industrialurban growth capitalism, and toward sustainable, environmentally
balanced economies is actually possible. (Syllabus pg. 9)
http://www.globalpolicy.org/social-and-economic-policy/the-environment/climate-change/49860.html?itemid=986
But change in time to avert disaster is politically difficult,
apparently possible, but far from certain.
What Is Sustainable Development ?
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sustsci/ists/docs/whatisSD_env_kates_0504.pdf
Since 1972, SD attempts to reconcile development aspirations
with the need to preserve the basic ecological life support systems
of Earth. Examples of: http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/Slideshow:Examples_of_Sustainable_Development
The practice of SD is an ongoing dialogue and re-definition in 40
plus years of scientific work & political agreements
Originally it was defined as the “ability to make development
sustainable—to meet the needs of the present without
compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own
needs” 1987 UN Bruntland Commission, and Board on Sustainable Development of the U.S. National
Academy of Sciences
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brundtland_Commission
By 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development defined it as
“three pillars of sustainable development” economic development, human-social development and environmental protection &
preservation—at local, national, regional and global levels.”
Human-social development emphasizes “human well-being,”
“social justice,’’ “equity,” and “poverty & hunger alleviation.”
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Documents\Climate.Change.Policies.Major.Examples.docx
http://themilpaproject.com/folio_images/9.html
The Amazing Milpa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milpa
SCIENCE DENIERS – Bought & Paid For
Understanding The Science Deniers 101
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Global_warming_skeptics_(detail)
More Sources of Science Denial and political
disinformation follow
Global.Warming.ScienceDeniers.Rebuttals.docx
How to Talk to A Science Denier
http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2008/07/how_to_talk_to_a_sceptic.php
Cheney background 1 Philip Cooney background
Exxon & Koch Bros. Denial Campaign after 1997
See WebLinks & Lecture Files Below Titled:
At least $140 million for Science Denial from Koch Bros. & Exxon-Mobil
Koch Bros. Surpass Exxon, latest data
Leading World Science Group, the British Royal Society criticizes Exxon for funding
fake science denial 2006 Royal Society vs Exxon
http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/ExxonMobil-GlobalWarming-tobacco.html
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The Original 2007 Union of Concerned Scientists Report
http://www.exxposeexxon.com/facts/gwdeniers.html Brief description
Exxon Warming Deniers Network
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_warming/exxon_report.pdf
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Exxon Climate Denial Campaign
http://www.exxposeexxon.com/facts/globalwarming.html
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/exxon-secrets MAP FROM EXXON TO
PAID-FOR DENIERS
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British Royal Science Academy Protests Exxon’s Deceptions. British
Scientists
Exxon-Mobil & Koch Bros. (probably $200 million) Science Denial Campaign
was modeled after Tobacco denial of cancer, using the same bogus paid-for
“scientists”. This has been proven in the scientific work Merchants of Doubt
Create a vast echo chamber of false Front Organizations, seemingly
independent groups with the express purpose of spreading disinformation
Funnel $50 million direct to these organizations, and with the Koch Brothers
coordinate $200 million in a gigantic disinformation campaign since 1997
FUND ABOUT A DOZEN BOGUS SCIENTISTS N:\My
Documents\Global.Warming.ScienceDeniers.Rebuttals.docx
And CREATE BOGUS SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTES to help “launder information”
–eg, repeatedly publish false “information” articles with different titles
Publish faked scientific peer-reviewed articles and faked “Signed
Letters of Scientists” in bogus journals, only to have the named Scientists
refute that they signed the letter, and refute that they ever did the studies
(Scientific American itself testified to this deception).
Prop up discredited studies and misleading information through Bogus News
Services, and especially
use favorite paid-for “Big Mouth” science-lying conservative outlets like FOX
News, and Rush Limbaugh to spread false information, especially about the
bogus “Climate-gate” in 2009 (for the truth see Richard Muller, slide 7)
FactCheck.org on climategate lies
Bogus Climategate
THE DANGEROUS DECADE OF PAID-FOR LIES
• From 2000 – 2008 Get Dick Cheney as Vice President to place top industry
officials into highest government positions to actually suppress
government scientists, and alter official reports to Congress.
• Today, get the Republican party “bought & paid for” denier Congressmen
& Senators who in 2011 are now the new Chairmen of Congressional
Committees to start de-funding proposals, de-regulation and information
suppression campaigns against the EPA and other government agencies in
the 2011 and 2012 Congress , to strip their power to regulate and report true
science on Climate change and GHG http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/153089vitter-unveils-bill-to-expand-drilling-block-epa-climate-rules
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2wire/153299-chu-blasts-house-gop-efforts-to-slash-energy-research-funding
• From all these paid-for lies, keep Americans “in the dark” & the
Government from DOING ANYTHING for more than a decade
• Bogus-paid for Climate change denial in 2013 is not so “popular” in the
aftermath of the current terrible Hot Summers, the predicted terrible
Drought, Hurricane Sandy & strange tornadoes & winters, and the creeping
international news about huge Artic Methane Release & Ice Melt
REMEMBER
How to understand
Basic Lies & Propaganda
BIG Money is
BIG POWER
Propaganda & Lies
MAKE THE LIE BIG.
SIMPLE.
APPEALING.
KEEP SAYING IT,
And they’ll all believe it…
Adolph Hitler Joseph Goebbels