WHITE HOUSE: Every president since JFK was warned about climate change. John F.
Kennedy was warned about "climate control" in February 1961, becoming perhaps the first American president to learn about people's impact on planetary temperatures. The warnings never stopped. Every president since then has been exposed to similar scientific findings. Sometimes it was called "climatic change," other times it was "air pollution. " The history of cautionary messages with the West Wing is documented in hundreds of records submitted in Juliana v.
Below are excerpts of documents received by the past 11 U.S. presidents. John F. Former Sen. 2Doc: KRO-NCRV : Beerput Nederland - Neelie Smit-Kroes , Ivo Opstelten , Rutte waarom kunnen frauduleuze afvalverwerkers al decennialang vrijwel ongestoord milieuregels en -wetten overtreden? Reconstructie: Zo kwam Shell erachter dat klimaatverandering levensgevaarlijk is (en ondermijnde het alle serieuze oplossingen) Abnormaal weer zou de nieuwe norm kunnen worden.
Alle landen zouden worden getroffen. Tropische eilanden zouden worden verzwolgen door de stijgende zeespiegel. Reconstructie: Zo kwam Shell erachter dat klimaatverandering levensgevaarlijk is (en ondermijnde het alle serieuze oplossingen) Abnormaal weer zou de nieuwe norm kunnen worden.
Alle landen zouden worden getroffen. Tropische eilanden zouden worden verzwolgen door de stijgende zeespiegel. Climate of Concern: de verontrustende klimaatfilm van oliegigant Shell uit 1991. Shell's 1991 warning: climate changing ‘at faster rate than at any time since end of ice age’ Climate change “at a rate faster than at any time since the end of the ice age – change too fast perhaps for life to adapt, without severe dislocation”.
Jelmer Mommers (@jhmommers) Vandaag verschijnt mijn onderzoek naar Shell in 6 kranten in 4 landen. Het volledige verhaal lees je alleen hier. Shell's 1991 warning: climate changing ‘at faster rate than at any time since end of ice age’ Climate change “at a rate faster than at any time since the end of the ice age – change too fast perhaps for life to adapt, without severe dislocation”.
That was the startling warning issued by the oil giant Shell more than a quarter of a century ago. The company’s farsighted 1991 film, titled Climate of Concern, set out with crystal clarity how the world was warming and that serious consequences could well result. “Tropical islands barely afloat even now, first made inhabitable, and then obliterated beneath the waves … coastal lowlands everywhere suffering pollution of precious groundwater, on which so much farming and so many cities depend,” says the film’s narrator, over disturbing images of people affected by natural disasters and famine.
“In a crowded world subject to such adverse shifts of climate, who would take care of such greenhouse refugees?” The film was made for public viewing, particularly in schools and universities, but is believed to have been unseen for many years. What Shell knew about climate change in 1991 – video explainer. Damian Carrington (@dpcarrington) Shuchen Tan over Big Data: de Shell search. VPRO Tegenlicht Big data: De Shell search 21 okt 2013 21:02. Big Data: de Shell search - VPRO Tegenlicht. Tegenlicht Powermap - VPRO Tegenlicht. Dus hoe zou zoiets in de praktijk kunnen werken?
Tegenlicht Meet Up #4 : Big Data. Reacties op Big data: de Shell search - VPRO Tegenlicht. Tegenlicht: Big data - De Shell search. In deze actuele Tegenlicht documentaire wordt onderzocht hoe je met behulp van big data kunt doordringen in gesloten bolwerken.
En welke rol speelt Den Haag als het gaat om de belangen van Shell in het buitenland en hoe ver gaat deze delfstoffendiplomatie? Sinds de onthullingen over de snuffelpraktijken van de Amerikaanse en Nederlandse inlichtingendiensten zijn we ons steeds meer bewust van de enorme hoeveelheid digitale gegevens die over ons zijn opgeslagen op het net, in de matrix. Maar niet alleen data van burgers, ook informatie over overheden en multinationals wordt op die manier verzameld. Dit resulteert in bestanden van vele terabytes groot: big data. Het goede nieuws is dat een groot deel van deze informatie toegankelijk is voor ons allemaal. In de documentaire Big data: de Shell search onderzoekt Tegenlicht hoe deze enorme databronnen nieuwe manieren van journalistiek mogelijk maken.
Buitenhof 7 februari: Journalist Ben Judah, Shell en de lage olieprijs, Brexit: UK versus EU - Buitenhof. Journalist Ben Judah: 'Er zijn steeds minder reportages, en te veel columns.'
Promotie: De invloed van gevestigde energiebedrijven op de energietransitie. In haar proefschrift laat promovenda Magda Smink zien hoe gevestigde organisaties met fossiele belangen de Nederlandse energietransitie beïnvloeden.
Hiervoor bestudeerde zij het gedrag van de gassector ten aanzien van groen gas, en het gedrag van de olie-industrie ten aanzien van biobrandstoffen. Why are so many Americans skeptical about climate change? A study offers a surprising answer. Emissions spew from the smokestacks at Westar Energy’s Jeffrey Energy Center coal-fired power plant near St.
Mary’s, Kan. (AP) Climate change has long been a highly polarizing topic in the United States, with Americans lining up on opposite sides depending on their politics and worldview. Now a scientific study sheds new light on the role played by corporate money in creating that divide. Here's How You Buy a Professor's Academic Credibility. Cambridge University will hire a LEGO Professor to research play in education, development & learning. Prestigious Cambridge University, where brilliant minds including Stephen Hawking, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin all studied, may soon see a heavy uptick in applications, perhaps filled out by slightly younger than average students: the university announced that it would establish a LEGO Professorship, hiring a Director of the Research Center on Play in Education Development and Learning. The LEGO Foundation has given Cambridge £2.5 million to set up the professorship as well as an additional £1.5 million to develop the corresponding research center.
There aren’t many details on this awesome new position, although we imagine there’s likely more to it than simply building impressive LEGO structures all day long. Both the person who obtains the professorship and the Cambridge students who get to explore how children learn through play are sure to be the envy of LEGO aficionados worldwide. We hope whatever they learn trickles down to primary and secondary schools.
Via Mashable. 'Everything is awesome': Cambridge University will get a Lego professor. Everything is awesome, including this hiring news from one of the UK's most prestigious institutions: Cambridge University is getting a Lego professor. The university announced on Tuesday the school had accepted £2.5 million from the Lego Foundation to set up a Lego Professorship of Play in Education, Development and Learning, the Cambridge University Reporter wrote. The foundation also gifted the school an additional £1.5 million to set up a Research Centre on Play in Education, Development, and Learning within its Faculty of Education.
One lucky professor will start the new role on October 1, 2015. IMF - How Large are Global Energy Subsidies - wp15105.pdf. Stephan Okhuijsen sur Twitter : "$5.000.000.000.000 (5 biljoen) subsidie op energie in 2015 wereldwijd. 95% direct op Fossiel. How Large Are Global Energy Subsidies? CAN Phase out 2020 Climate Action Network. Phase-out 2020: monitoring Europe's fossil fuel subsidies. Nederland steunt de fossiele industrie met 7,6 miljard euro per jaar - FTM. Fossiele industrie kan rekenen op een gigantische lappendeken aan belastingvrijstellingen, subsidies en overgenomen ondernemersrisico. Ook in Nederland. Iedere minuut krijgt de fossiele industrie in Nederland ruim 14 duizend euro staatssteun. Ook in andere Europese landen staat de subsidiekraan fors open, waardoor fossiele brandstof in elf Europese landen jaarlijks met 112 miljard euro gesubsidieerd wordt. Warwick for Free Education.
This is the text of a speech given by Sophie Monk at Fossil Free Warwick’s demo on Thursday 12th. A few days ago, audio emerged from negotiations between university management and members of the Free Education occupation of Rootes Building from last term. The recording features our Academic Registrar Mike Glover and head of security Mark Kennel telling students that the only way to make their complaint heard is through something called the ‘democratic channels’ of the university.
In other words, if you have a problem, it can only be mediated through the student’s union. BP dropped green energy projects worth billions to focus on fossil fuels. BP pumped billions of pounds into low-carbon technology and green energy over a number of decades but gradually retired the programme to focus almost exclusively on its fossil fuel business, the Guardian has established.
New Internationalist. European oil companies made headlines in June 2015 when they came out in favour of a global climate deal. ‘We want to be a part of the solution,’ wrote BP, Shell, Total, Statoil, BG and Eni, in a letter to UN climate chief Christiana Figueres. The solution, as they see it, revolves around carbon pricing and a shift from coal to gas. However, this was not the ‘man bites dog’ story some newspaper editors perhaps imagined. To anyone who has watched the companies’ disruptive tactics over the past 20 years, it was more one of ‘dog is still biting man’. Funding obstruction The only reason these companies won any plaudits is in contrast with their US cousins, typified by ExxonMobil. Conflict of interest. The presence of a conflict of interest is independent of the occurrence of impropriety. Therefore, a conflict of interest can be discovered and voluntarily defused before any corruption occurs. The Story of Shell FAIL.
UT samen met BP in olieonderzoek. De UT gaat minimaal vijf jaar lang samen met oliemaatschappij BP onderzoek doen naar een efficiëntere oliewinning. BP investeert 2 miljoen in UT-onderzoek. The scientists agree. The climate is changing, it’s caused by human behavior, and the risks ahead are real. Learn about the consensus.
Hit the Fossil Fuel Industry Where it Hurts: Science. There was another one of those International Panel on Climate Change reports published last weekend. Having already outlined the physical science basis back in September (i.e. it is happening, yes, really, we triple-checked, sorry), and then a report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability at the end of last month (i.e. it’s going to get really shit), we had a third on mitigation (i.e. there’s stuff we can do to stop it being really, really, really shit). WWF’s Leo Hickman summarised the reports neatly with the simple nugget: "Climate change is real.
We are to blame. It will get worse if we fail to act. Time for climate scientists to go on strike. Late last night Yokohama time, the world’s scientists did once more what they’ve done so many times in the past: issued a thumping big report demonstrating that climate change poses the greatest danger our civilization has ever faced. These regular analyses have been conducted since 1995 under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – by now the papers, indexes, footnotes and drafts would fill the Superdome. They’ve said it with graphs, they’ve said it with tables. They’ve offered color-coded guides to future decades. They’ve told us about basic science and, when that didn’t work, they’ve tried to explain it in terms anyone could understand.
The latest summary, for instance, shows that most studies of food production in a warming world forecast dire trouble – some, by century’s end, show a 50% reduction in crop yields. We need an apartheid-style boycott to save the planet. 'The negative impacts of Keystone XL will affect the whole world, our shared world, the only world we have.' Photograph: Sue Ogrocki/AP Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.
(pdf)big_oil Jennifer Washburn. Jennifer Washburn: Big Oil Goes to College. SOURCE: iStockphoto Highly profitable oil and other large corporations are increasingly turning to U.S. universities to perform their commercial research and development. By Jennifer Washburn | October 14, 2010 Updated October 16, 2010. OccupyCalCampus : #OccupyCal #CalOpenU teach-in... Peerderijk : In 2012 is wereldwijd 544 miljard... Fossil-fuel subsidies worldwide $544 billion in 2012. The IEA, within the framework of the World Energy Outlook, has been measuring fossil-fuel subsidies in a systematic and regular fashion for more than a decade. Its analysis is aimed at demonstrating the impact of fossil-fuel subsidy removal for energy markets, climate change and government budgets. The IEA’s latest estimates indicate that fossil-fuel consumption subsidies worldwide amounted to $544 billion in 2012, slightly up from 2011 as moderately higher international prices and increased consumption offset some notable progress that is being made to rein in subsidies.
The Energy Crisis. Platform London - Arts. Activism. Education. Research. Knowledge And Power - Fossil Free Universities by Platform London. New research reveals extensive links between fossil fuel industry and UK universities. New research reveals extensive links between fossil fuel industry and UK universities. WARNING: CARBON BUBBLES running around Oxford. Hoe SBM Offshore betrokken raakte bij 's werelds grootste oliecorruptieschandaal. Ministerie vraagt om ‘ongepaste en onwettelijke’ inzage in onderzoeksopzet Shell Papers.
UCL - Shell // BHP Billiton. Imperial College London - BP / Shell. Edinburgh University - Total, Shell and BHP Billiton. University of Bergen - Statoil. Education, research and innovation for a sustainable energy future. Google Maps. How green is black? RUG Groningen - Shell. Erasmus University Rotterdam - Shell. UTwente - BP. UTwente - Shell. Counter-initiatives. The Secret World of Oil. NPO Geschiedenis - NAM weet sinds 1963 van bodemverzakkingen in Groningen. NPO Geschiedenis - NAM weet sinds 1963 van bodemverzakkingen in Groningen.
Sweet! Scientists developing sugar-filled batteries - CNET. Batterij op suiker - ScienceGuide. Shell accused of strategy risking catastrophic climate change. Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change. Cartoon: universiteit niet fossielvrij. Cartoon: strategisch plan. Shell zet de Nam op afstand. Wie draait er straks op voor de schade in Groningen? Verbijstering in Tweede Kamer over Shell. Deskundigen twijfelen aan de woorden van #Shell over de betaling van de #schade door de #gaswinning. #Groningen #aardbevingen. Woedende reacties na aansprakelijkheidsactie Shell * Twijfels aan woorden Shell-topvrouw. #Shell-topvrouw: Alle rekeningen die te maken hebben met de #aardbevingsschade zullen gewoon betaald worden. Daar is de #NAM financieel robuust genoeg voor. "#Shell neemt geen afstand van zijn #aansprakelijkheid voor de schulden van de #NAM met een financiële truc.
Sandra Beckerman sur Twitter : "Shell verdubbelt jaarwinst. 15,7 miljard dollar. Laat zich door Rutte III fêteren met afschaffing dividendbelasting. Laat Groningen stikken door NAM op afstand te zetten en mogelijk verantwoordelijkheid te ontlopen voor sch. Het Essay van het nieuwste themanummer Energie. Het Essay van het nieuwste themanummer Energie. Ik schreef een essay: Platform Authentieke Journalistiek. Mega-WOB-procedure bij overheden over Shell. Dit is het platform dat inzicht wil krijgen in relatie Shell en overheid. Interessant: mega-wob naar banden tussen Shell en overheid. Waarbij ook de behandeling van het verzoek zelf onderdeel is van de speurtocht.… Alexander Beunder (@AlexanderBndr) Martien Visser sur Twitter : "U kent de term 'big oil'. Dat zijn de 5-7 grootste private olie- en gasproductiebedrijven ter wereld. Ooit speelden ze eerste viool. Die rol is overgenomen door staatsbedrijven en dat proces gaat door (China). De 'seven siste. Martien Visser на Твитеру: "U kent de term 'big oil'. Dat zijn de 5-7 grootste private olie- en gasproductiebedrijven ter wereld. Ooit speelden ze eerste viool. Die rol is overgenomen door staatsbedrijven en dat proces gaat door (China). De 'seven sisters.
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