Team 1: Climate Change
What is Climate Change?
A change in global or regional climate patterns, caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide from the use of fossil fuels.
Global warming vs Climate change
Global warming refers to the Earth’s rising temperature, while climate change includes warming and the effects of warming - like melting glaciers, extreme weather: heavier rainstorms, frequent droughts, etc.
Global warming is one symptom of the much larger problem of climate change.
Stanford Researchers Have a Plan to Tackle Climate Emergency Worldwide
“We have 95% of the technology we need already, with only solutions for long distance and ocean travel still to be commercialized.” Mark Z. Jacobson, Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University
Renewable energy isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than fossil fuels
Getting to Net Zero, Even Net Negative, is Surprisingly Feasible and Affordable
Indicators of Climate Change in California
Fossil Fuels: The Dirty Facts
“Following public concern about smog blanketing Los Angeles in the 1940s and 50s, the Western States Petroleum Association (WSPA)…created and funded a research front group called the Air Pollution Foundation, which in turn funded a Caltech study about the sources of Los Angeles’s air pollution. The $1.3 million in funding …came from WSPA’s members including Shell and gas companies later bought by or merged with ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Sunoco, and ConocoPhillips. “
“The 1954 Caltech study determined that “a changing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere with reference to climate” may “ultimately prove of considerable significance to civilization,” citing coal, oil, and gas as CO2 sources. WSPA and its members were formally alerted to the study findings in March 1955, archival documents show.”
“…the Air Pollution Foundation and WSPA — along with its members — publicly downplayed the harms of fossil fuels as part of the industry’s decades-long climate disinformation campaign.”
“The vast total captured by petrostates and fossil fuel companies since 1970 is $52tn, providing the power to “buy every politician, every system” and delay action on the climate crisis, says Prof Aviel Verbruggen, the author of the analysis. The huge profits were inflated by cartels of countries artificially restricting supply.”
“The IMF found the production and burning of coal, oil and gas was subsidized by $5.9tn in 2020, with not a single country pricing all its fuels sufficiently to reflect their full supply and environmental costs.”
“Today’s documents reveal that the industry has no real plans to clean up its act and is barreling ahead with plans to pump more dirty fuels for decades to come,” House Oversight Committee Chair Carolyn Maloney”
“Now, the first-ever climate change Rico case alleges that international oil and coal companies, their trade associations, and a network of paid thinktanks, scientists and other operatives conspired to deceive the public – specifically residents of Puerto Rico – about the direct link between their greenhouse gas-emitting products and climate change.”
“Global public subsidies for fossil fuels almost doubled to $700bn in 2021, analysis has shown, representing a “roadblock” to tackling the climate crisis.”
Click here for Dr. Nan Greer‘s 2021 forensic report on Chevron’s Global crimes
“Climate change, air pollution, deforestation and desertification, ocean and sea health, the loss of biodiversity or microplastics are some of the greatest challenges we face in relation to the health of the planet, but especially to the health and well-being of children and adolescents.”
“According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 88% of the burden of disease attributable to climate change will correspond to children under 5 years, despite the fact that this group only constitutes 12% of the global human population.
· Is the Era of Gas Stoves Burning Out? The New York Times.
· Gas Stoves Have a Pollution Problem. Bloomberg.
· What to Know About the Risks of Gas Stoves and Appliances. ProPublica.
Carbon dioxide levels have skyrocketed since the industrial revolution
Carbon dioxide levels 1960 to 2019
