15: Does Petrograd Translate to ‘Oil City’?

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Robot F. Kennedy

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This is the third of a multi-part series on climate change, the President’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, and the politics and rhetoric that surround it. This week: where are we headed? What scenarios are likely to play out in the decades ahead, as the climate becomes the arch-issue of the future? In this episode we talk about body heat, globalism, the Cretaceous coastline, healthy debt-to-GDP ratios, and Apple CEO Tim Cook. This is Robot F. Kennedy. SHOW NOTES Paper: “Global risk of deadly heat”, NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3322.html Right now, about 30 percent of the world’s population is exposed to deadly temperatures at least 20 days out of the year. By 2100, that number could reach 74 percent if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, or 48 percent with drastic cuts to global emissions. Articles ”A new book ranks the top 100 solutions to climate change. The results are surprising.”, Vox.com https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/5/10/15589038/top-100-solutions-climate-change-ranked Kottke.org, http://kottke.org/17/06/the-100-best-solutions-to-reverse-climate-change-ranked If, somehow, we could get to a place where we are talking about dealing with climate change not as “saving the planet” (which it isn’t) but as “improving humanity” (which it is), we might actually be able to accomplish something. The Cretaceous Coastline: http://kottke.org/16/10/how-the-cretaceous-coastline-of-north-america-affects-us-presidential-elections “A Republican group is framing its proposed carbon tax as “environmental insurance,” not a tax”. Quartz https://qz.com/905688/a-republican-group-making-the-case-for-a-carbon-tax-to-donald-trumps-administration-needs-to-just-look-at-what-happened-in-australia/ “California, at Forefront of Climate Fight, Won’t Back Down to Trump”, the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/26/us/california-climate-change-jerry-brown-donald-trump.html?_r=0 —— Paul Hawken: And not only that, they’re about energy — they’re all energy models. There’s an assumption that if you get 100 percent renewable [energy], you basically have a hall pass to the 22nd century. That’s simply not true. It’s a scientific howler. It’s extremely important that we [get to 100 percent renewables], but to put all of it on energy ... Malcom Harris’s tweet: I don't think we're all going to die because of climate change, this is what I think is going to happen https://twitter.com/BigMeanInternet/status/870415818378670080/photo/1 “New Simulations Predict the United States' Coming Climate Change Mass Migration,” VICE | Motherboard: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/new-simulations-predict-the-united-states-coming-climate-change-mass-migration —— What the Earth would look like if all the ice melted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbiRNT_gWUQ Animations Show the Melting Arctic Sea Ice, and What the Earth Would Look Like When All of the Ice Melts https://youtu.be/Vj1G9gqhkYA —— Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms Video Abstract, published in the Journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP-cRqCQRc8 —— Want to Fight Climate Change? Move to a City https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/want-to-fight-climate-change-move-to-a-city —— Exiting Paris “probably our most consequential error since the Iraq War,” economist says https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/5/15739792/exiting-paris-most-consequential-error-iraq-war-economist —— Fighting climate change isn’t a ‘waste of money’ — it’s a good investment, the Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/16/14951398/trump-mick-mulvaney-climate-change-epa-budget-cuts