TUHO:

In China, when the party line cohered around the greener path in 2012, the space for that debate disappeared. The leadership in the state-run energy companies was largely purged during a recent anti-corruption campaign and now they would have very clear incentives not to promote denial, even if state-owned fossil fuel companies like Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp. wanted to question the existence of climate change. “Top [oil and gas] executives have always been very much aware of the fact that their promotion depends on the Party,” a report from the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies stated.

In the years leading up to the 2015 climate change negotiations in Paris, China’s government made low-carbon growth one of its top priorities. “It’s a totally different situation in China than the U.S.,” Wang said.

Another reason China’s skepticism receded is that climate change stopped serving the same ideological purpose. In Copenhagen, China felt attacked and humiliated by the United States and Europe. But in Paris, China worked closely with the United States to negotiate the world’s first comprehensive climate agreement. Obama phoned Chinese President Xi Jinping shortly after the talks “to express appreciation for the important role China played,” the White House said in December 2015. Climate change no longer made China look weak. It was now a story of China’s strength. “

#China

Low carbon plot: climate change skepticism with Chinese characteristics
Current sociological literature on climate change skepticism almost exclusively focuses on the discourses in the Western World. This paper seeks to broaden the scholarship by examining the Chinese case, and to bridge this body of literature with nationalism. Through critical discourse analysis of Chinese publications, I demonstrate the existence of an undercurrent of climate change skepticism in China. The main discursive patterns follow a conspiracy theory that sees climate change as a western plot to constrain China’s development space and to create a new site for financial accumulation. The result suggests that Chinese climate change skepticism stems from identity politics and mistrust towards Western countries. In China’s climate skepticism discourse, science also becomes a subject of national identity politics. This paper calls for a sociology of climate change ‘knowledge’ to move forward the study of climate change skepticism and denialism.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281197442_Low_carbon_plot_climate_change_skepticism_with_Chinese_characteristics

Proc v Cine chciplo klima-dezinformacni hnuti?

On Jan. 17, 2010, a highly popular — and provocative — television host named Larry Hsien Ping Lang devoted an entire episode of his current affairs talk show, Larry’s Eyes on Finance, to the “great swindle” of global warming. Lang, a University of Pennsylvania-educated economist who was once described as China’s version of Larry King, told his millions of viewers that the goal of Europe and the United States at the Copenhagen negotiations was to prevent China from being a global leader.

“The Western countries manufactured the climate myth without any scientific integrity,” and they have proceeded to “demonize and constrain China in the name of climate,” Lang said. Clips of the episode were viewed tens of millions of times on Youku, China’s YouTube.

Lang’s worldview seemed to resonate. “[The weather] is obviously getting colder and colder, but they are still lying through their teeth. These disgusting Westerners never stop trying to topple China,” argued one online commenter in response to Lang’s show. “These foreign bastards are so worried that China will rise and surpass the United States. Because they are jealous of China, they even made up lies about China … the scientists are all puppets controlled by politics,” read another. The commenter continued: “Copenhagen liars! American liars!”

Over the next year, more than a half-dozen books on the West’s climate conspiracy were published in China. Social media posts theorizing an American conspiracy proliferated.

Then something strange happened. After 2011, no more climate skeptic books were published. China’s state leaders stopped their skeptical statements, and the intense online discussions diminished. Just as it was gaining steam, the conspiracy theory seemed to disappear. And along with it, any public mention of climate change denial. As climate skeptics were gaining a steady foothold in U.S. politics, why did China’s suddenly vanish?

The Convenient Disappearance of Climate Change Denial in China – Foreign Policy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/31/the-convenient-disappearance-of-climate-change-denial-in-china/

Neni to primo o klimtau, ale ty dezinformacni sceny se prolinaj. Tady databaze internich dokumentu o toxickych substancich a dukazy o manipulovani chemickym prumyslem - napr kolem PCB a azbestu.

TOXIC DOCS
Columbia University and the City University of New York
Millions of Pages of Previously Classified Documents on Industrial Poisons (and Counting)
Free of Charge. Open to All.

Blazingly fast searches of once-secret industry documents
Columbia University's Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health, located at its Mailman School of Public Health, and the City University of New York's Graduate Center are proud to jointly present ToxicDocs. This dataset and website contain millions of pages of previously secret documents about toxic substances. They include secret internal memoranda, emails, slides, board minutes, unpublished scientific studies, and expert witness reports -- among other kinds of documents -- that emerged in recent toxic tort litigation.

We’re constantly adding material from lawsuits involving lead, asbestos, silica, and PCBs, among other dangerous substances. Innovations in parallel and cloud computing have made conversion of these documents into machine-readable, searchable text a far faster process than would have been the case just a decade ago.

Toxic Docs
https://www.toxicdocs.org/

A pro Tadeas podcast .)

Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3OlsyYkpugb5NwRpRhCI5a?si=x057Yg9ST4Ok5_AdXZa8oQ

DARK PR: How Corporate Disinformation Harms Our Health and the Environment
“Think global, act local!” “Be the change you want to see in the world!” “Every little bit counts!” We can all get on board with such sentiments, right? That, of course, is exactly what corporate spin-masters across the world are banking on. By weaponizing such seemingly innocuous yet powerful narratives, change becomes a matter of personal choice, something each of us must slave away at day by day: switching off lightbulbs to save the environment or exercising to shed the weight we’ve gained from consuming junk food. All the while, the corporate welfare tap continues to flow, with over $6 trillion worth of annual subsidies dished out to industries that directly contribute to the deaths of over 5.5 million people each year through diabetes, road deaths, global warming, and other crises. But such framing is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the corporate disinformation playbook. This playbook is the dark matter of activist work: the unseeable element shaping harmful spin across all issues. It has never been reverse engineered – until now. In Dark PR, Grant Ennis – drawing on his decades of experience working in the environmental, philanthropy, and public health sectors – reveals exactly how multinationals go about hoodwinking and manipulating us. In doing so, he lifts the lid on the nine devious frames contained within the cross-industry corporate disinformation playbook: through denialism, normalization, victim-blaming, multifactorialism, and a variety of other tried-and-tested tactics, corporations divert citizens’ attention away from the real causes of global problems, leading them into counter-productive blind-alley “solutions” like ethical consumerism and divestment. Sadly, though, buying Fair Trade chocolate has not and never will save the world. Only by collectively organizing to lobby our governments can we break this destructive cycle of lies and deadly incentives and reclaim control of our lives.

https://www.amazon.com/DARK-PR-Corporate-Disinformation-Environment/dp/1990263488

Likewise, a working group at Shell warned that, if we waited for global warming to be easily detectable before we acted, “it could be too late.” In the 1990s, British Petroleum produced a series of documentaries that predicted “devastating consequences” from rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, including sea level rise that would render low-lying countries like Bangladesh defenseless against floods.

Fossil fuel companies didn’t limit themselves to studying the mayhem that their products were poised to unleash. They also investigated potential solutions. A carbon tax and emissions trading scheme could be effective in helping to stabilize climate change, Imperial Oil (a subsidiary of Exxon) concluded in a 1991 report.

The companies knew that “stopping climate change was not only possible, but economically feasible,” Dembicki concludes. Nevertheless, they did everything in their power to make sure that “this climate solution never happened.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/06/petroleum-papers-dembicki-review/

Damning new leaked docs & whistleblowers show McKinsey is "best understood as possibly the most powerful oil & gas consulting firm on the planet posturing as a sustainability firm, advising polluting clients on any opportunity to preserve the status quo."

McKinsey & Company pushes fossil fuel interests as advisor to UN climate talks, whistleblowers say
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231107-top-consultancy-undermining-climate-change-fight-whistleblowers?

Odhaleno: Křetínského EPH deklaruje méně než polovinu emisí C02, které vypouští
Daniel Kotecký
Investigace DR ukazuje, jak se největší česká korporace EPH pokouší „kreativním“ účetnictvím svých emisí skleníkových plynů zkreslit obraz o svém reálném dopadu na klima. Vyvracíme také tvrzení, že EPH je „evropským lídrem dekarbonizace“.

Odhaleno: Křetínského EPH deklaruje méně než polovinu emisí C02, které vypouští
https://denikreferendum.cz/clanek/35803-odhaleno-kretinskeho-eph-deklaruje-mene-nez-polovinu-emisi-c02-ktere-vypousti

Co na to rict. Prohravame. Akorat cumim na Amazonu na nejaky knihy o dezinformacnich kampanich o klimatu a v recommended je kdo? Dezinformacni guru Marc Morano s number 1 bestsellerem v "Environmental Policy" s nazvem Green Fraud - Why the Green New Deal is Even Worse Than You Think

No a sem se to hodi taky. Musim rict, ze jsem dlouho nemel takovou depku jako pri cteni tohodle textu.

Sbornik o existencnich rizicich - vystup konference ze Stanfordu. Prispevek tam ma i kral historie klimatologie Paul N. Edwards (na strane 133), ale je to temnota.

Is Climate Change Ungovernable?
Abstract: This paper reviews the potential for catastrophic, civilization-threatening climate change
within the next 2-3 centuries if climate sensitivity is on the high end of IPCC estimates and the
thresholds of various tipping points are crossed. I argue that empirical evidence supports a
substantial likelihood of future climate policy reversals by major emitters, resulting in continuing
accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. On high-end sensitivity estimates, Paris
Agreement pledges to date are insufficient even if fully implemented. Policy is always reversible,
and major reversals have already occurred. Climate denialism and misdirection can, and probably
will, be amplified by artificial intelligence and social media. Finally, the focus on international
governance mechanisms obscures the many levels of jurisdiction that must be engaged for strong
climate policy to take effect. The paper concludes that while renewable energy progress presents a
hopeful note, chances are high that current structu

Intersections, Reinforcements, Cascades
Proceedings of the 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:pn116pv4512/Intersections%2C%20Reinforcements%2C%20Cascades_Proceedings%20of%20the%202023%20Stanford%20Existential%20Risks%20Conference.pdf#page=133

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has assumed Nordhaus is to be trusted. The integrated assessment models used at the IPCC are based on Nordhausian visions of adaptation to warming that only marginally reduces global gross domestic product. If future GDP is barely affected by rising temperatures, there’s less incentive for world governments to act now to reduce emissions.

Nordhaus’s models tell us that at a temperature rise somewhere between 2.7 and 3.5 degrees Celsius, the global economy reaches “optimal” adaptation. What’s optimal in this scenario is that fossil fuels can continue to be burned late into the 21st century, powering economic growth, jobs, and innovation. Humanity, asserts Nordhaus, can adapt to such warming with modest infrastructure investments, gradual social change, and, in wealthy developed countries, little sacrifice. All the while, the world economy expands with the spewing of more carbon.

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/

Petr Macinka z Insitutu Václava Klause se rozhodl, že vstoupí do klimatické debaty. Veřejnou debatu o klimatu určitě potřebujeme, ale podrobnější pohled na jeho argumentaci ukazuje omyly v podstatě ve všech oblastech, o kterých se vyjadřuje včetně naprostých základů.


Realita vypověděla Institutu Václava Klause spolupráci. Klimaskeptici žonglují s vědeckými fakty – A2larm
https://a2larm.cz/2023/10/realita-vypovedela-institutu-vaclava-klause-spolupraci-klimaskeptici-zongluji-s-vedeckymi-fakty/

A mozna je na rade pripomenout si Kremlikovi predikce z roku 2009 na vyvoj klimatu

Pro nás klimaskeptiky to není žádné překvapení. My víme už půl století, že po roce 2000 má přijít ochlazení. Slyšeli jste o tzv. Suessově cyklu? Každých 150-200 let sluneční aktivita poklesne, což na Zemi způsobuje ochlazení teplot. Naposledy k tomu došlo kolem roku 1800 (tzv. Daltonovo minimum). Předchozí minima bylo Maunderovo (kolem 1650), Spoererovo (kolem 1500) atd.

(Graf: Teploty v posledních 10 letech stagnují. V rozporu s předpovědí oteplovačů.)

Jestli mám pravdu, na vlastní kůži všichni poznáte, že pozemské teploty jsou i dnes stále řízeny solárními cykly. Klesající sluneční činnost ochladí Zemi navzdory všemu CO2, které vypouštíme do atmosféry. Svým ekologickým kolegům musím říci jedno – doufám, že jste si užili svoje oblíbené globální oteplování z 90. let, protože už ho neuvidíte do konce života!!

Zdroj: https://kremlik.blog.idnes.cz/blog.aspx?c=103593