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You are invited to CCL's monthly meetings
Saturday, March 8 at 10 AM
First, at 10 AM, join CCL National from D.C. at the Conservative Conference here.
CCL’s VP of Government Affairs, its Conservative Action Team Director, and CCL’s Liaison Program Manager will share key takeaways from CCL's Conservative Conference. They’ll provide an inside look at who they met with on Capitol Hill, the focus of their asks and what they learned from those conservations. Most importantly, they’ll explore how these insights can help build momentum in our districts and states. Considering what's going on, it should be very interesting.
Then, at 11 AM, join Marin and Sonoma
on Zoom or in person at
Sonoma Clean Power Customer Care Center, 741 4th St, Santa Rosa
Doors open 9:30 for coffee, tea & snacks
Oceanographer Dr. Tessa Hill, professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at U.C. Davis, will share a story from her recent book, At Every Depth, then talk about policy opportunities. Her research interests include climate change, both past and present, and understanding the response of marine species to environmental perturbation. She is part of the Bodega Ocean Acidification Research (BOAR) group at Bodega Marine Laboratory, which aims to understand the impact of ocean acidification on native species.
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ENSO, NOAA, DOGE, Hansen, 450 ppm, wildfires, Permafrost melt, and has the Arctic become a CO2 Source?
There's a lot of info packed into this episode of Just Have a Think. And no, that's not a mushroom cloud rising above some hapless Pacific atoll. It's a representation of rising warm, moist air from the last El Niño, which drove earth's surface temps to their highest ever seen. It then gave way to an El Niña, which was expected to cool things off, but that didn't happen. Temps rose this past year, shocking scientists. Find out what they're thinking in this video, narrated with a voice so calming that one might be lulled into the blissful assumption that all will be okay. It's not. As emissions rise and feedback loops kick in, we find ourselves in a "catastrophic predicament." Then consider what the US economics profession recommends as part of the solution. (Hint: a refunded carbon tax.)
Watch here -- 11 minutes
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From Australia's National Centre for Climate Restoration
3-degrees of warming & humanity's future
We’re on track for a 3°C hotter world—unprecedented heat, rising seas drowning cities, food system collapse, and societal instability. This future is fast approaching, with catastrophic risks beyond anything humanity has faced.
This 40 page walk through the Book of Revelation describes humanity's current complex predicament in stark terms, best not read before bedtime.
And here's the alarming 17 minute movie from the same organization, the first of a 4-part series. It's centered on Australia but applies equally well to us. Also not bedtime viewing.
We face an existential emergency to which civilization is responding inappropriately. If you are reading this, you're trying to be part of the solution. What ever way you do that, keep doing it, while remembering that the final common pathway will be through political and economic processes. The climate movement needs to stay focused and energized.
Explore Collision Course
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Words matter.
Let's stop describing increasingly frequent, violent storms, wildfires and droughts as "natural" disasters. That obscures what's actually happening. They may be familiar but their amplitudes are not "natural." They are the result of humans burning fossil fuels.
Watch this 1.5 minute CCL video here.
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Despite the political noise and chaos, if we want to survive as an intact civilization, we're going to have to harness the enormous power of money and markets to reduce demand for dirty energy, and thus supply and emissions. It won't be easy or quick and will require massive investment, but it's impossible to imagine solving the global warming problem as long as fossil fuels remain artificially "cheap," their true social costs divorced from their prices. When the price is zero, demand is infinite, and supply may be plentiful as long as we're willing to dig deep enough.
Jonathan Marshall, former economics editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, has collected his essays written for CCL addressing many of the myths about carbon pricing. Read them to deepen your understanding of this essential tool, which is needed now more than ever.
Download here
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The Tipping Points of Climate Change — and Where We Stand | Johan Rockström | TED
Should your climate anxiety level need to be further jolted into the stratosphere, tolerate 18 minutes with this world renowned scientist, who explains why earth scientists are "getting nervous" to say the least.
He demonstrates that climate and other environmental tipping points are already here, that the changes are accelerating, buffering systems are weakening, we are way behind and about to lose control....
But there is still hope that if we act really fast we might be able to stabilize Earth's climate in a habitable zone, a great reason to finally harness the enormous power of the global energy economy by deploying CCL's (and the US economics profession's) proposed carbon fee, dividend and border carbon policy to forcibly apply the brakes on fossil fuel demand -- thus supply and emissions -- before it's too late. It's not the only thing we must do, but it's essential. Focus on demand reduction by raising the price in a way people will tolerate --by governments not keeping the revenue -- rather than focusing on throttling supply, which may be inexhaustible if we drill deep enough.
Watch it here
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Do Not Miss This Series!
If you've already seen it, watch it again. You'll then understand how we got into this mess -- Denial, Doubt and Delay -- and what it will take to get us out: Massive popular political pressure supporting robust solutions that this industry and their agents will inevitably oppose.
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You're invited, but...
This is how one behaves inside The Capitol:
Make an appointment. Business attire recommended. Bring nothing that even looks like a weapon.
Long live Democracy.
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Prepared by Peter G. Joseph, M.D.
Peter.Joseph@cclvolunteer.org
Apologies for cross postings.
If you know someone who would like to be added to this distribution list, please suggest they join CCL.
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