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Beacon Hill Seminars 2016 Session 7 Climate Change, the News Media and Information Flow in a Free Society? Why have Americans been so blindsided by climate change? Tim Weiskel 17 November 2016 Transition-Studies

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Beacon Hill Seminars – 2016 “ Tim Weiskel

Transition-Studies Cambridge Climate Research Associates Fall Semester 2016

17 November 2016

Session 7– Climate Change, the “News” Media and Information Flow in a “Free” Society?

Why have Americans been so “blindsided” by climate change?

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What is the perception of the climate issue worldwide?

Let’s look briefly at the “climate” of the climate COP meetings in: Bali, Indonesia (2007)

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What is the perception of the climate issue worldwide?

Let’s look briefly at the “climate” of the climate COP meetings in: Bali, Indonesia (2007) Copenhagen, Denmark (2009)

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What is the perception of the climate issue worldwide?

Let’s look briefly at the “climate” of the climate COP meetings in: Bali, Indonesia (2007) Copenhagen, Denmark (2009) and Durban, South Africa (2011)

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What is the perception of the climate issue worldwide?

BUT LETS REMEMBER the larger trajectory: Bush & Katrina (2005)… & (1938) Bali, Indonesia (2007) Copenhagen, Denmark (2009) and Durban, South Africa (2011)

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Bush & Katrina (…and the Wider World)

What about Katrina? * * Different version…

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What about Katrina? * * Different version… And its local impact… Rapper’s Version…

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Bush & Katrina (…and the Wider World)

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What about Katrina? * * Different version… And its local impact… Rapper’s Version… Katrina’s Hidden Race War

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Bush & Katrina (…and the Wider World)

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What about Katrina? * * Different version… And its local impact… Rapper’s Version… Katrina’s Hidden Race War Trouble the Water

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Bush & Katrina (…and the Wider World)

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What about Katrina? * * Different version… And its local impact… Rapper’s Version… Katrina’s Hidden Race War Trouble the Water In what ways was Katrina different from the Hurricane of 1938

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Bush & Katrina (…and the Wider World)

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What about Katrina? * * Different version… And its local impact… Rapper’s Version… Katrina’s Hidden Race War Trouble the Water In what ways was Katrina different from the Hurricane of 1938

Is the U.S. more vulnerable than it was in 1938? Is it more “resilient?”

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Bush & Katrina (…and the Wider World)

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What about Katrina? * * Different version… And its local impact… Rapper’s Version… Katrina’s Hidden Race War Trouble the Water In what ways was Katrina different from the Hurricane of 1938

Is the U.S. more vulnerable than it was in 1938? Is it more “resilient?”

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Bush & Katrina (…and the Wider World)

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What is the perception of the climate issue worldwide?

BUT LETS REMEMBER the larger trajectory: Bush & Katrina (2005)… & (1938) Bali, Indonesia (2007) Copenhagen, Denmark (2009) and Durban, South Africa (2011)

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What is the perception of the climate issue worldwide?

BUT LETS REMEMBER the larger trajectory: Bush & Katrina (2005)… & (1938) Bali, Indonesia (2007) Copenhagen, Denmark (2009) and Durban, South Africa (2011)

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Especially 1:12:32 to 1:34:00

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Bali, 2007

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“If for some reason, you are not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us. Please, get out of the way….”

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“We will go forward and join consensus in this today.”

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The next day, as delegates headed home, the White House issued a “clarification” of Ambassador Dobriansky’s statement….

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Statement about “market solutions” to climate problems…

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Bali 2007  Copenhagen 2009

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What Do We Know About China and Climate?

(…not much.)

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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/chinas-national-peoples-congress-

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Let’s take another look at the global atmospheric carbon issue…

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Let’s take another look at the global atmospheric carbon issue… Here’s what it looks like from space

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Durban COP - 2011 The case for intergenerational equity and fairness.

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Anjali Appadurai College of the Atlantic (2011)

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The case for international equity and fairness.

“This is not about India. It is about the entire world. Does climate change mean that you give up equity?…”

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You will remember that an international group of NGOs asked the American delegation to leave the talks….

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EV&N - 79

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EV&N - 78

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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/a-new-paradigm-for- environmental-protection-for-the-21st-century/

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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/a-new-paradigm-for- environmental-protection-for-the-21st-century/

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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/a-new-paradigm-for- environmental-protection-for-the-21st-century/

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“It is just like apartheid,” Nozipho Joyce Mxakato-Diseko, South African leader of the G77 group of 132 poor countries, complained bitterly in October. “We find ourselves in a position where, in essence, we are disenfranchised.” Other observers said the talks had always been slanted against poor countries, with US corporate muscle setting the agenda and making it hard for poor countries to negotiate other than under extreme pressure near the end of the summit, when their meagre resources would disadvantage them.

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Asad Rahman of Friends of the Earth added: “We had a string of unbalanced texts and drafts before Paris. The result was that we reached a place at the end of the first week where we should have been nearly a year ago, so this week there have had to be trade-

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sufficient or fair.”

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But what do we really know about China’s position and reaction to COP21?

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What pressures will emerge from this on the world’s terrestrial carbon?

https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2016/03/09/chinas-national-peoples-congress-

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We do know that there has been an amazing depth to China’s history…

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What Do We Know About China and Climate?

(…not much.)

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Beacon Hill Seminars – 2016 “ Tim Weiskel

Transition-Studies Cambridge Climate Research Associates Fall Semester 2016

17 November 2016

Session 7– Climate Change, the “News” Media and Information Flow in a “Free” Society?

Why have Americans been so “blindsided” by climate change?