‘Paul Beckwith, an Ottawa climate change researcher, snapped this shot with Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and Jane McDonald (left), his sister-in-law and McKenna’s advisor, after the agreement was signed. (Submitted by Paul Beckwith)’
‘Environmental advocates in Ottawa say this weekend’s Paris climate change agreement is a game changer, but “stronger actions” and “stronger commitments” are needed.
On Saturday, nearly 200 countries signed an agreement to collectively cut greenhouse gas emissions. But while the historic event drew loud applause in the conference hall, some are concerned about a lack of sanctions for countries which don’t comply.
“This changes everything,” Mitchell Beer, an observer for the Sierra Club of Canada, told CBC’s Ottawa Morning on Monday. “Yes, it’s a limited agreement,” he said. “It was the most anyone could agree on with 195 countries and multiple negotiating blocks at the table.”‘
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Keeping temperature rises below 1.5C, Article 2. Pledges to curb emissions Long-term global goal for net zero emissions, Article 4. Loss and damage, mechanisms for. Money, help for developing countries:
Topic Abrupt Change: Ecological and Economic Change. As Stuart Scott frames it, a ‘flood of changes’. He asks, ‘why did you come to the COP21?‘ Here I am also with Baba Brinkman [1].
‘Longer’ version from VICE on HBO, here, 2:12 long. The best two minutes in Climate change. Bone chilling. The truth as I know it: ‘We are not ready for this’.
Published on Dec 9, 2015 // Published on Dec 9, 2015
Earthworks, ‘Infrared video making visible the Aliso Canyon leak from Southern California Gas (Sempra) natural gas storage field that threatens the Porter Ranch community in Los Angeles County.’
‘What does a pipe spewing 50,000 kilograms of methane per hour look like? You’d never know, as the highly flammable gas is invisible to the naked eye. But in the northern San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, where a ruptured pipe has been pluming natural gas for nearly two months, residents finally have their chance to see.’
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Paul already shared this, but seems an appropriate juncture to share his video again here, for a second time. from his remarkable, nine part Hansen series, here). While at first pass to some, land and methane, and C02 and surface water from my lay perspective (dk) might not seem to directly correlate, its really about dumping and excess, in a big way:
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Top Climate Expert: Crisis is Worse Than We Think & Scientists Are Self-Censoring to Downplay Risk, on Amy Goodman, of Democracy Now. Another ht by Harold (15:38 long) // Published on Dec 8, 2015:
‘Ahead of the U.N. climate change summit in Paris, France, more than 180 nations pledged to voluntarily reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but many climate justice groups say far more needs to be done to keep global warming in check. We speak with one of the world’s leading climate scientists who has come to the Paris talks with a shocking message:
‘The climate crisis is more severe than even many scientists have acknowledged. Kevin Anderson is deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and professor of energy and climate change at the University of Manchester in Britain. He has said many scientists are self-censoring their work to downplay the severity of the climate crisis.‘
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Lord Nicholas Stern was too quick for me to get a selfie with him. I have not even had a chance yet to have my morning coffee. Still half asleep and moving very slowly. Maybe I can catch up with him later.
I did talk with Kevin Anderson from the Tyndall Center and met his colleague Alice Bows-Larkin from the Tyndall on the bus to the COP21 convention center. Will attend a seminar shortly with Anderson and Schellenhuber (sp?) who is a well known European climate scientist. Will be a busy day for sure. I will be speaking on abrupt climate disruption at a press conference in the early evening…
Host Stuart Scott presents, Climate Matters – Moral Obligation Scientific Imperative // Published on Dec 10, 2015
Joining this show were Rev. Sally Bingham of Interfaith Power & Light and Prof. Paul Beckwith of University of Ottawa. Baba Brickman did a powerful ‘climate rap‘ on Pope Francis’ Encyclical, Laudato Si. A must watch!
Baba Brinkman, Stuart Scott and myself after our press conference. Stuart and Baba at R.
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[Increased awareness shown by simple demographics and view count: increased awareness on the part of four Scandinavian countries. As I said a few weeks back, as many as eleven major European Countries does not even equal the number of views from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark combined in the last week.
And this accounts for the marked increase in France at this juncture, otherwise it would be more like fifteen or sixteen countries approaching those four alone. Evidence from the last month or two at Paul’s site, show they clearly have more interest and, on the margin probably much greater concern per capita. This has been a consistent pattern day after day and week after week in the last two months here.
That is to say:
one view per 446,000 Americans this week,
one view per 330,000 Canada/UK/Australia/NZ,
one view per 286,000 combined eleven European Countries: Fran/Neth/Germ/Belg (4), and: Port/Irl/Ita/Swit/Rom/Slv/Aus (7) = 11, and
one view per 23,800 persons in Norway/Sweden/Finland/Denmark!
Considering that most in groups one and two get to read Paul in their mother tongue, and groups three and four mostly will have English as a second language, makes this all the more notable. Awareness coefficient indeed.
dk: The work of the esteemed Nick Breeze of Envisionation is universally excellent. He is no fool. Besides filmmaking, he is robust in communications and culture and does a ton of work involving a lot of people He is the consummate pros pro.
It is not who does Nick know, but who does he NOT know? He know 98% of all the major players in climate in the English speaking world–Peter Wadhams, Natalia Shakhova, David Wasdell to name but a few. And this includes the spiritual dimension, such as Lord Martin Rees. And now Paul again:
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Paul Beckwith Interview – COP21 – Paris 2015 // Published on Dec 7 (14:26)
‘Paul Beckwith, climate scientist and communicator speaks at COP21 about how it is too late to hold global heating to within 2C. Arctic feedbacks, he says, are already taking over.’
Here I discuss as many ask, ‘What will happen if we do it?’ The big question is, ‘What will happen if we don’t do it’
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Alex Smith’s, The Radio Ecoshock Show, hosts, Kevin Anderson: Untold Climate Truth (1:00:00 long):
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Great news. I was able to get a badge for the rest of the conference.I will be doing social media coordination (Tweets, Facebook posts, Filming, etc.) for the movie “Climate-Matters for the next 3 days” or so, helping Stuart Scott and Green Planet Films.
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Nick Breeze: ‘Breakfast to go… Canadian style!‘
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[dk: Thank you to the excellent Donna Fry-Reeves (FB) for the continued, consistent support of Paul’s work. A good person!]
KKRN.FM of Round Mountain California’s “Unspun, An Experiment in Truth-Telling” Doug Bennett conducted a particularly well done, professional quality interview with me in Paris Saturday night (Weekly Saturdays at 9 am PST):
‘Unspun attempts to cut through all the media spin by featuring some of the greatest Truth-tellers of our time and asking the questions that need to be asked, while taking listener call-ins.’
[Immediate below is Paul’s 100th video. That it occurred so proximate to his recent and most epic Climate Matters video is a great boon, and thus worthy of celebration… FYI, for those sorts who feel compelled to check such things, 21 of those are hidden. dk]
Climate Change and Financial Markets: Carney & Bloomberg // Published on Dec 4, 2015 (7:11 long. Click Title at top, left of clock icon at R, to expand)
‘A clip on how risky climate change is to global financial markets, views from Mark Carney and Michael Bloomberg at COP21 in Paris’. ———- ———-
Great news: ‘PARIS — Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has been named to a group of 14 international ministers who will serve as facilitators of the COP21 climate conference in Paris’.
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‘Environmental campaigners say Storm Desmond is a sign of things to come‘ (Guardian): ‘Ground already saturated by rain could not cope with the downpour of Friday and Saturday. The Environment Agency’s rain gauge in Honister showed 341 mm (13.4″) of rain fell in 24 hours from Friday evening at 6.30pm to the same time on Saturday.’
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‘The Chennai Floods Are a Devastating Preview of Unnatural Disasters to Come‘ (Slate): ‘Right now, Chennai—India’s fourth-largest city with a metro area the size of Chicago—is paralyzed. Flooding from record rainfall—the heaviest in more than a hundred years—has cut off more than 3 million people from basic services for days. At least 270 people have died, and what’s happening should provide a cautionary tale to the world: Chennai is a new type of “natural” disaster, a preview of the Anthropocene, the idea that humans have become a geological-scale force of nature.’ ———- ———-
My Sunday in Paris! And the old of history meets the urgency of vitally needed transformation Its now or never for humanity.
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The City of Paris has gone all out to be a climate change place, not just near the COP21 site. On the walls of the underground metro (subway) system I came across the physical equations for AO-GCMs (Atmosphere Ocean Global Circulation Models). Very unexpected!
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‘Canada shocks COP21 with big new climate commitment‘: ‘Sunday night, Canada surprised a world of nations and negotiators in closed-door climate talks in Paris by endorsing a bolder, more ambitious target for cutting greenhouse gases than the UN climate change summit is officially aiming for.
‘Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna told a stunned crowd that she wants the Paris agreement to restrict planetary warming to just 1.5 Celsius warming —not two degrees. It was the first time she has made such a statement.’
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[Something right is happening here–23.5% of all of the 15,898 views at this site (two months) have occurred in the last seven days. Based on growth and adoption, attaining 100,000 views gets moved closer to eight months forward–not in a year or thirteen months as was previously thought.
Great commitment on the part of Paul and his supporters generates this. Thank you. Paul, his major sponsors and constituencies, donors, and website, all combine to make this happen. Thank you. dk]
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Beyond Crisis // Published on Dec 4, 2015 (9:33 long)
Paul speaks with Beyond Crisis in Ottawa on abrupt climate change; the earth’s warming creating dramatic loss of sea ice in the Arctic; and the urgent need to act NOW to reduce emissions, cool the Arctic and slow the warming trend. This piece gives a detailed analysis on the risks we face from Arctic warming to the overall climate system.
“We’re an innovative, intelligent species but we’re total idiots on the climate change issue.”
“I think we’re in trouble NOW… The world will wake up one morning and they’ll be no sea ice in the Arctic – the weather will be unrecognizable. Will that wake people up? Do we have to reach that point?”
Paul is a well-known climate science educator, and part-time Geography professor in climatology, oceanography, and environmental issues at the University of Ottawa. For more content from Climate Matters, follow Beyond Crisis through our YouTube channel or on our blog at BeyondCrisisBlog.com’ ———- ———-
[Something right is happening here–20.8% of all of the 15,350 views at this site (seven weeks) have occurred in the last 5.8 days. Based on growth and adoption, attaining 100,000 views gets moved closer to eight months forward–not in a year or thirteen months as was previously thought.
Great commitment on the part of Paul and his supporters generates this. Thank you. Paul, his major sponsors and constituencies, donors, and website, all combine to make this happen. Thank you. dk]
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From the NY Times image, the article continues: ‘World leaders have 12 days to agree on plans to slow global warming. We’re weighing in with insights and analysis. Dr. Hansen, who retired in 2013 after decades in charge of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, was making his first appearance at one of the annual U.N. climate conferences. He was introduced as “the Paul Revere of the climate-change movement” before anpublic interview for a video program.
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Summary
Well known and respected creator of entertaining and comprehensible videos of sometimes daunting subjects, especially in climate system science, meteorology, oceanography and Earth Sciences at YouTube.
Frequently called upon for commentary by fellow educators, activists, and public. Physicist, Engineer, and part-time professor at the University of Ottawa. His primary interest is joining-the-dots on Abrupt Climate System Change to determine where we are heading, and how fast, and what it all means for us and our amazing planet.
Paul Beckwith, Climate System Scientist 