Planet of the Humans : Let's just have a think...

A well researched rebuttal of the leading arguments in the film Planet of the Humans.



On the 50th Anniversary of the first ever Earth Day, Jeff Gibbs and Michael Moore released a documentary film free on You Tube. The film is called Planet of the Humans, and it proved quite popular. This week we review the movie and consider its implications for climate activism. Read Bill McKibben's full response to the original film in Rolling Stone here : https://www.rollingstone.com/politics...

See a full bibliography of rebuttal articles here: http://getenergysmartnow.com/2020/04/... JHAT on Population Growth https://youtu.be/kVLp4-27LQw JHAT on Renewables Recycling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLTJZ... JHAT on Palm Oil https://youtu.be/KTbPMODTey8 JHAT on BioMass https://youtu.be/6RP-jYDgiMg Help support and influence the growth of the Just Have a Think initiative here: http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Extra information received 11th May 2020 from Mike Bailey, one of the trustees of Solar Fest http://www.SolarFest.org "For accuracy, Roy Butler was slightly off in the date he suggested to you. Based on the music being performed, this was shot in 2006, not 2005. In 2006, and every year, power was banked to the grid for weeks prior to the festival, with the surplus contributed to the farm. For the ten years SolarFest was at Forget Me Not Farm, we ran a surplus covering all of our usage on a net meter basis. By 2008 the festival was run entirely on solar, including a permanent array with battery backup. Also we shifted to LEDs for the light show to reduce consumption and no longer relied on the grid." View research links from this video here: FILMS FOR ACTION STATEMENT https://www.filmsforaction.org/articl... KETAN JOSHI https://ketanjoshi.co/2020/04/29/this... https://ketanjoshi.co/2020/04/24/plan... ZEKE HAUSFATHER https://twitter.com/hausfath/status/1... CATHY COWAN BECKER https://medium.com/@cathycowanbecker/... LEAH STOKES https://www.vox.com/2020/4/28/2123859... https://twitter.com/leahstokes?ref_sr... GREG ALAVAREZ - American Wind Energy Council https://www.aweablog.org/fact-check-n... PFPI http://www.pfpi.net/the-eu-wants-to-k... SIERRA CLUB https://www.sierraclub.org/press-rele... https://addup.sierraclub.org IRENA https://www.irena.org/newsroom/pressr... https://www.irena.org/-/media/Files/I... RICHARD YORK https://www.sciencedirect.com/science... UNITED NATIONS https://www.unenvironment.org/news-an... OUR WORLD IN DATA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/sh... PROJECT DRAWDOWN https://www.drawdown.org/the-book TOM ATHANASIOU https://www.earthisland.org/journal/i... ELECTRIC VEHICLES https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyin... ADDENDUM: I said in the video "Forbes conceded ..." I have now learnt from another climate communicator, Adam Siegel, that this statement is a misleading representation of the motivation of the report's author. The cited/shown article was from one of Forbes online contributors called Silvio Marcacci. Silvio is a clean-energy communicator. His piece was spot on but it was not written in an attempt to 'represent' Forbes and I should not have used the phrase 'Forbes conceded'. Apologies to Silvio for this misrepresentation. https://www.nimblefins.co.uk/average-mpg https://www.eea.europa.eu/highlights/... #planetofthehumans  #michaelmoore #jeffgibbs

A First Dog on the Moon live action cartoon! Will the coronavirus save us from climate change?: Guardian Australia

Europe’s Recovery Plan Has Green Strings Attached: Bloomberg

By

Ewa Krukowska

and

Laura Millan Lombrana

Covid-19

May 28, 2020

• Green Deal to become motor for growth in EU recovery effort
• Access to EU funds will require alignment with green goals
   

Meeting the climate-neutrality goal is a key pillar of a 750 billion-euro ($824 billion) economic recovery plan unveiled by the European Commission, one of the Brussels-based executive’s top officials said.

Read more at Bloomberg

'Some things were out of bounds': Fire chiefs 'gagged' on climate change warnings to government, inquiry told: SMH

LINK

Decorated former firefighter and climate action advocate Greg Mullins says current fire chiefs have been effectively gagged from raising the bushfire risks created by global warming with politicians.

Mr Mullins said he had "deep concerns over climate change", which was fuelling "unprecedented" bushfires in evidence to a Senate inquiry into the 2019-20 bushfire season on Wednesday.

Asked by Victorian Liberal senator James Paterson if he thought

Climate change key to cause of wildfires

"the current serving fire chiefs are gagged in some way", Mr Mullins replied: "yes".

Mr Mullins, a former Fire and Rescue NSW commissioner, said when he was in the role "some things were out of bounds and often climate change was one of those issues, even to the point of having to work around it when preparing documents, and I think that is a tragedy".

Greens senator Janet Rice asked Mr Mullins if it was "still the case" that fire chiefs were discouraged from raising the effect of climate change on bushfire risks with politicians.


"I know it's the case," Mr Mullins said. "I’ve had a number of discussions and it's clear."

Mr Mullins had a 39-year career in NSW Fire and Rescue, and was appointed commissioner in 2003. He retired in 2017.

Mr Mullins was representing the Emergency Leaders for Climate Action group, which comprises 33 former fire and emergency service leaders from around the country.

Mr Mullins said he was pressured not to speak out on climate change when he was a public servant.

"We self-censored because we knew what would be acceptable, and what would not, for certain political masters and if you went outside those bounds life could be made very unpleasant for you," he said.

The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action unsuccessfully sought meetings with Prime Minister Scott Morrison in April and again in May last year, ahead of the long 2019-20 summer bushfire season about the looming "catastrophic" fire season.

Significantly less property may be have been lost to the fires if the government had heeded their warnings, and moved to secure lease agreements for an expanded fleet of water bombing aircraft ahead of the most recent fire season, Mr Mullins said.

"These aircraft weren’t available and arrived too late," he said.

Read the complete SMH article

Ex-fire bosses say climate change must be key in bushfire royal commission: SBS

wildfire

Australia's alliance of former emergency services chiefs has warned Prime Minister Scott Morrison that a bushfires royal commission will fail unless it focuses on climate change.

The Emergency Leaders for Climate Action group has written to Mr Morrison noting that it sees "little value" in a federal inquiry but concedes one will likely go ahead.

Former Fire and Rescue NSW Commissioner Greg Mullins says it is abundantly clear increased temperatures and extreme weather driven by climate change set the scene for NSW and Queensland's "worst fires" in history.

READ MORE

#jailclimatecriminals #climatechange  #globalwarming

Greenland shed ice at unprecedented rate in 2019; Antarctica continues to lose mass: EurekAlert

Greenland Ice Melt

Irvine, Calif., March 18, 2020 - During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons of ice, enough to raise global sea levels by 2.2 millimeters in two months. On the opposite pole, Antarctica continued to lose mass in the Amundsen Sea Embayment and Antarctic Peninsula but saw some relief in the form of increased snowfall in Queen Maud Land, in the eastern part of the continent.
 
These new findings and others by glaciologists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are the subject of a paper published today in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.

"We knew this past summer had been particularly warm in Greenland, melting every corner of the ice sheet, but the numbers are enormous," said lead author Isabella Velicogna, UCI professor of Earth system science and JPL senior scientist.

Between 2002 and 2019, Greenland lost 4,550 billion tons of ice, an average of 268 billion tons annually - less than half what was shed last summer. To put that in perspective, Los Angeles County residents consume 1 billion tons of water per year.

Read the EurekAlert story

Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players: Youtube

The web of global corruption supports the climate criminals raping the Earth and your children's future.



"When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture. In a blistering, eye-opening talk (and through several specific examples), she details how global corruption trackers follow the money -- to some surprisingly familiar faces."


#jail-climate-criminals   #criminales-climáticos-de-la-cárcel    #cambio-climatico  #repercusiones-climatico