"That's a lot of people…"
What decision-makers think they know of climate change impacts
versus what the IPCC has published about it.
Climate refugees 2050 at 2C and at 3C
IPCC SR15 in 2018: 500mio and 1.2 billion
Obama in 2023 : only a few and 100 million
I saw an entertaining talkshow with Germany's previous Green vice chancellor Robert Habeck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je1DwIDPdcE
He acts as talk master and his guests are Anders Levermann, complexity researcher at PIK Potsdam, and Florence Gaub, scenario researcher with NATO.
The narrative arc spanned climate change impacts and security.
Florence was particularly fascinating and fun. Anders too, ofc.
However. Several moments had me despair over what little grasp even well-meaning decision-makers have of climate change impacts. Habeck's knowledge gaps in only these 90 minutes are merely the tip of the ice berg. And he, a long-time Greens member. What do other politicians and CEOs think they know about climate change impacts – compared to what has been published by the IPCC?
Habeck's fails weren't as staggering as Obama's in this clip. But if we dug deeper, which other misconceptions would we find in Habeck's mind that make hims such an avid proponent of utterly inadequate approaches to climate protection like price signals, incrementalism and such neoliberal concepts?
Trump’s offshore wind opposition was never really…
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/trumps-offshore-wind-opposition-whales
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The New Republic | Kathy Hochul Has One Last Chance to Do the Right Thing on Climate by Ilana Cohen
In recent weeks, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has indicated that she wants to roll back the state’s landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act—to the horror of everyday New Yorkers and civil society organizations, who have called to keep the act intact. But by passing a second extension to budget negotiations this week, New York lawmakers have given Hochul a little more time to reconsider.
The CLCPA passed in 2019 amid global climate strikes and the determined efforts of local advocacy groups like NY Renews. Enacting the CLCPA put New York on track to significantly curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and align itself with environmental justice. Setting legally binding emissions reductions targets, the CLCPA upon passage was celebrated as the strongest climate law in the nation, and a mark of New York’s commitment to climate leadership. Now, amid unprecedented environmental deregulation—including the rollback of the Endangerment Finding, which allowed the federal government to regulate greenhouse gases, and a second withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement—the CLCPA is one of the last serious U.S. climate policies left standing.
Yet over the last few months, the CLCPA has fallen subject to an extremely high-stakes and last-minute attempt to substantially alter its core provisions.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208715/hochul-clcpa-budget-extension
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The New Republic | What Bernie and AOC Get Wrong About Data Centers by David R. Tillman
Grassroots rebellions against AI data centers are sweeping the country. The backlash cuts across partisan lines, and the political class is scrambling to catch up. As politicians rush to stake out positions, though, they risk obliterating a crucial component of the movement’s strength. These local coalitions’ holds aren’t succeeding because they’re progressive or conservative. They’re succeeding because they draw on a political grammar that predates and exceeds the progressive tradition. And progressives might do well not to squander this rare opportunity by branding it.
Last week, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez formally introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act. The bill would halt new data center construction until Congress enacts federal protections for workers, consumers, and the environment. The impulse is sound, and the national attention is welcome. But the legislative language leans heavily on wealth redistribution, labor displacement, and climate justice.
While that’s one way to argue for a pause, it’s not the argument that’s actually winning in the places where data centers get built. The bill frames the moratorium in terms of national priorities, including worker protections, environmental safeguards, and distributive fairness. Local opponents usually frame it more plainly, focusing on water, land, electricity, and control. The contrast is not ideological but procedural; less a dispute about values than about who gets to decide.
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/208392/data-centers-aoc-sanders
#alexandriaocasio-cortez #climatepolitics #data-centers #aidatacentermoratoriumact
The New Republic | Blue Governors Are Tacking Rightward on Fossil Fuels by Will Peischel
Last week, Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey held a press conference to address concerns around spiking utility bills. She touted growing wind and solar industries as crucial solutions to the affordability crisis, but also importing more fracked gas from out of state.
“We have gas pipeline expansion on the Algonquin—that’s good!” she said from her podium, referencing a $300 million project to beef up natural gas infrastructure in the state via Enbridge’s Algonquin Gas Transmission Pipeline. “We need to continue to find more ways to bring energy in, and anything around gas pipelines that works out well with the ratepayers and is consistent with our regulations we’ll welcome.”
Not long ago, this cozying up to fossil fuel in the state would have bewildered constituents of most political shades. After all, it was Republican Governor Charlie Baker who signed the 2021 law directing Massachusetts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, pivoting away from fossil fuels. One year later, Healey, then the state’s attorney general, bragged about sinking proposed pipeline expansion plans. “Remember,” she reminded her audience, “I stopped two gas pipelines from coming into this state.” (Governor Healey’s office didn’t respond to a list of questions sent over email.)
Read more: https://newrepublic.com/article/207632/healey-hochul-lamont-gas-climate
The Flamethrower Strategy: How America Plans to Win Climate Change
READ NOW 👉 https://alimcforever.substack.com/p/the-flamethrower-strategy-how-america
New from @alimcforever: how Alberta, Alaska and Greenland fit into America’s plan to win climate change – not stop it. Fossil power, Arctic maps, separatists, and short‑term extractive greed.
#alberta #albertaseparatism #canadapolitics #climatepolitics #arcticpolitics
How a Small Group of Wealthy People Shapes What You Think.
Senate hearing exposes how mining billionaire Gina Rinehart's $4.5 million funded the IPA think tank, revealing Australia's billionaire propaganda network that shapes public opinion on climate, energy, and policy.
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