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2021

 

Mark today, December 19, 2021

One Senator today, a Senator elected by 290,000 voters in one of the least populous states, goes on the Fox channel to announce, suddenly, that he's 'done everything humanly possible' and as 'swing vote' in the U.S. Senate, he will kill the Build Back Better Act and all its climate provisions that are at the heart of Economic Revival and #EnvironmentalProtection.

'Senator Manchin's Surprise' swept across U.S. and world media. The Office of the President reacted to Manchin's news with an immediate, and harsh Jen Psaki press office statement ending with a promise to continue trying for passage 'next year'.

• https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/12/19/statement-from-press-secretary-jen-psaki-4/

Across the globe, the U.S. is now again seen as failing by world governments and citizens across the globe. The costs of this failure will be extensive, as the U.S. comes across as untrustworthy and dysfunctional as some 200 nations nation attempt to put forward their own climate plans after the Glasgow Climate Summit. Calls for action, real climate action beyond promises, are a highest priority. Now is the time for #ClimateAction Governments are attempting to step up and confront the clear and present danger of the #ClimateCrisis, the U.S., after 4 years of Trump administration climate change denial, attacks on environmental science and retreat from global and national environmental protection, now faces another profound national security challenge. -- GreenPolicy360 #StrategicDemands #NewDefinitionsofNationalSecurity

Press Secretary Jen Psaki:

"... Sudden and inexplicable reversal"

"Breach of his commitments to the President and the Senator’s colleagues in the House and Senate"

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“Senator Manchin’s comments this morning on FOX are at odds with his discussions this week with the President, with White House staff, and with his own public utterances.”

“Weeks ago, Senator Manchin committed to the President, at his home in Wilmington, to support the Build Back Better framework that the President then subsequently announced. Senator Manchin pledged repeatedly to negotiate on finalizing that framework ‘in good faith.'”

"Senator Manchin’s statement about the climate provisions in Build Back Better are wrong. Build Back Better will produce a job-creating clean energy future for this country — including West Virginia.

• https://ijr.com/white-house-manchin-bbb-betrayed-commitments-biden-colleagues/

• https://www.politicususa.com/2021/12/19/jen-psaki-statement-suggests-joe-manchin-stabbed-biden-in-the-back.html

• https://www.eenews.net/articles/dems-scramble-seethe-after-manchin-kills-climate-bill/

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Glasgow Climate Summit - Pledges, Promises, Declarations - What's Next Up

Climate Pledges Must Be Enforced

How to turn each nation's climate pledges into 'effective climate action'

Promises of international climate summits in Paris (2015) & Glasgow (2021) now require 'effective climate action follow on'

Measuring & monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with satellite missions can become -- 'Our climate tool working nation-by-nation'

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner - SJS / December 2021: Looking back to the 1960s and 70s to the beginnings of the Earth Science from Space missions of NASA and affiliated U.S. agencies, in association with higher education and aerospace business, the vision statements of Congressional leaders, recalling Rep. George E. Brown (D-Los Angeles), setting in motion the measuring and monitoring programs that have led to decades of atmospheric and earth systems data. This constellation of new space technology -- digital imaging, Earth 360° remote viewing, scientific observations, changes over time, trend lines, all can come into our hands. 'Drilling down', not for gas and oil, but in the parsing of data, now has the promise to provide essential ways and means to deliver a real- and extended-time knowledge base which can be used, effectively and we propose legally, to deliver on pledges and promises made at international climate change conferences and summits.

Let us do our part in continuing to expand this first-generation earth science vision -- space-based cooperative missions, initiatives and ventures -- that makes it possible to turn database tracking of emissions (externalities) -- CO2, methane, CFCs and other gases -- nation-by-nation into Climate Plan Enforcement (CPEs).

It is time to move from distant pledges to coordinated nation-by-nation climate action. Using best practices, effective nationally determined, and legally enforced operational plans, we can become agents of change making a positive real-world difference. As it is said -- "Earth Is In Our Hands", let us turn science and knowledge into climate action now.

The strategic demands for international cooperation and action is our generations greatest task and our legacy. Let us take up our climate challenge. Our time is today to enforce well intended, but extremely hard to achieve climate pledges.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Methods_to_enforce_climate_pledges-NDCs_-_Dec_2021.png

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Summit for Democracy

As the data comes in: 'Democracy is backsliding across the globe'

United States Department of State Organizes 'Summit for Democracy' - December 9-10, 2021

• https://www.state.gov/summit-for-democracy/

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Democracy

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Remembering the First Earth Summit

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Summit_1992.jpg

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Thirty years ago and now I'm older and looking back at the first "Earth Summit" that led to the first global climate 'Conference of the Parties'. My reports to the Environmental News Service (ENS) picked up on the green, environmental platform planks I was also adding to the Platform in Progress for California Governor Jerry Brown's presidential campaign. The first Earth Summit and Governor Brown's energetic efforts both moved a vital, forward-looking vision and both encountered myriad obstacles from powers-that-be and business-as-usual. The obstacles didn't stop before or after 1992. The work continued on and continues to today... November 2021, fifty years on...

I'm now remembering and picking up and continuing the threads of Representative George E. Brown's work to advance climate science, beginning in earnest with the first National Climate Act of 1978 and establishment of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to push what was called a "big science, earth science" agenda with the first generation of focused earth studies and science, measuring and monitoring 'the Commons' , earth's atmosphere, natural resources (e.g., Landsat's start up and a deep, multi-decade array of NASA/NOAA/USGS missions that have now continued for half a century.

A tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to #PlanetCitizens and #PlanetCitizensPlanetScientists.

Here's to Opportunities for Citizen Activism

FB post from GreenPolicy360's siterunner

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Our_Biggest_Experiment

"We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe... The greater the change to the chemical composition of the physical, chemical makeup of the oceans and atmosphere [due to increased carbon emissions], the greater the long-term effect will be... [W]hy would you run this crazy experiment to see how bad it'll be? We know it's at least some bad, and the overwhelming scientific consensus is that it'll be 'really bad'." -- Elon Musk

"We are beginning to realize the extent of an existential experiment humanity is conducting in the atmosphere of the planet, the "Thin Blue Layer". The Anthropocene era is a gathering storm that is changing 'nature' as nature used to be... Our challenge is to use our native intelligence to protect the life-enabling atmosphere, to make decisions that sustain and benefit life today and for future generations." -- Steven Schmidt

• Green Quotes * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Quotes

Our Biggest Experiment

by Alice Bell

Publication scheduled for September 2021

Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight

on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the

defining story of our age: the climate crisis.

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This Is 'Code Red'

"We've got to listen to the scientists and the economists, and the national security experts, they all tell us this is code red," Biden said... "The nation and the world are in peril. That's not hyperbole. That is a fact."

• https://www.axios.com/biden-extreme-weather-this-code-red-e8fa9294-6b3c-4720-abac-1a4f94a3d7a3.html

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As climate pledges fall short, U.N. predicts globe could warm by catastrophic 2.7 degrees Celsius

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/09/17/un-climate-2030-biden/

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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

• https://www.ipcc.ch/

• https://bit.ly/IPCCLIVE

• https://www.ipcc.ch/2021/08/05/press-conference-details-wgi-ar6/

• https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-working-group-i/

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Climate in the Infrastructure Bill: A substantial investment in resilience

Infrastructure Bill Passes in Senate: Next Up, 3.5T Resolution

Follow-on reconciliation package of legislation essential to address green policy, energy, climate

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31 Vital Earth Signs

'Virtual signs' worsening

Tipping points, deepening disaster

• https://phys.org/news/2021-07-earth-vital-worsening-humanity-impact.html

• https://www.dw.com/en/climate-tipping-points-are-now-imminent-scientists-warn/a-58665256

Researchers, part of a group of more than 14,000 scientists who have signed on to an initiative declaring a worldwide climate emergency, said that governments had consistently failed to address the root cause of climate change: "the overexploitation of the Earth".

Of 31 "vital signs"—key metrics of planetary health that include greenhouse gas emissions, glacier thickness, sea-ice extent and deforestation—they found that 18 hit record highs or lows.

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🥵 When it gets too hot....

Surface temperatures in Siberia heat up to a mind-boggling 118 degrees

Climate change is behind record-breaking heat waves

From heating human bodies to baking the Earth

Via Climate.gov

From Portland, Oregon, to Vancouver, Canada, the heat during the end of June didn't just break records; it buried them. Learn more in this Event Tracker post.

Astounding heat obliterates all-time records across the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada in June 2021

Devastating News: Climate Change Impacts to Hit Sooner than Predicted

• https://phys.org/news/2021-06-climate-impacts-sooner.html

Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.

Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas—these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.

The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.

But dangerous thresholds are closer than once thought, and dire consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the short term.

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Intergenerational

"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own."

"Yes, It's Time to be Extremely Concerned"

Don't Look Up