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2022 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #26
Posted on 3 July 2022 by BaerbelW
Listing of articles linked to on the Skeptical Science Facebook Page during the past week: Sun, June 26, 2022 through Sat, July 2, 2022.
The following articles sparked above average interest during the week (bolded articles are from SkS authors): Greta Thunberg makes surprise appearance at Glastonbury festival, Climate Confusion, Exxon CEO says no new gas cars globally by 2040, goes wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing about CO2, Public hugely underestimate scientific consensus on climate change, and Skeptical Science New Research for Week #26 2022.
Articles Linked to on Facebook
- Greta Thunberg makes surprise appearance at Glastonbury festival by Josh Halliday, The Guardian, June 25, 2022
- Exxon CEO says no new gas cars globally by 2040, goes wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing about CO2 by Jameson Dow, Electrek, June 26, 2022
- Climate Confusion by Evan, Skeptical Science, June 27, 2022
- Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom by Katie Worth, Scientific American, Jul 01, 2022
- Public hugely underestimate scientific consensus on climate change by News Centre, King's College London, Jun 29, 2022
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #26 2022 by Doug Bostrom & Marc Kodack, Skeptical Science, June 30, 2022
- Every heatwave occurring today is more intense due to climate change by Adam Vaughn, NewScientist, June 28, 2022
- Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to combat climate change by Robert Barnes and Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, June 30, 2022
- Climate Change: We Were Warned! by Adam Levy, ClimateAdam on Youtube, June 30, 2022
- The Supreme Court’s EPA Ruling: A Loss of Authority for Federal Agencies or a Lesson for Conservatives in ‘Be Careful What You Wish For’? by Marianne Lavelle, Inside Climate News, June 30, 2022
Thanks for the ‘continuing to be’ well-curated collection of news items.
"Exxon CEO says no new gas cars globally by 2040, goes wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing about CO2" was particularly interesting. It contains many examples of ‘discourses of climate (action) delay’. And a particularly annoying one is presented in the following quote about continued fossil fuel production and use:
“Exxon, in this case, was only responding to “consumer demand” and still responds to consumer demand, selling oil because there are buyers for it. Woods foresees continuing to meet that demand and considers Exxon the savior for people around the world who are “living in energy poverty.”
The “energy poverty” term was also recently used by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. See the last part of the following CTV Calgary News video where Kenney accuses politicians who would maintain and increase carbon fees at this time are ‘driving Canadians into energy poverty to forcing them to use less’.
CTV Calgary News video “Albertans to get more inflation belief”.
I am developing a more detailed comment about this for the SkS item “Skeptical Science tackles 'discourses of climate delay' and 'solutions denial'”. The main point of my comment will be that the reality is that many 'higher-status supposedly superior people' have over-developed hedonistic gluttonous desires for energy consumption. Their energy use far exceeds what 'people in poverty' need to develop to live a basic decent life.