Greta Thunberg edits this news we don’t get in the U.S. Here's her wide-ranging BBC 4 Radio program 12-30-19. ~~~ At 1:31:30 Greta’s father, Svante, discusses causes and consequences for her family fully supporting Greta’s work. Listen (has control button jump rewind or fast forward) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000cn3h .
Greta’s Ice-themed edit 1st hour Features: ~~~ At 15:42 airline impacts on climate chaos; ~~~ At 43:00 the sleeping giant at the bottom of the world that’s awakening; ~~~ At 49:45 interviewing Kevin Anderson, Energy and Climate Change prof., School of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering, Manchester U. & former Director, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research (9-20-19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na1aHtv0OKI ) who engages widely across all tiers of government on issues of shale gas, aviation & shipping to the role of climate modeling (IAMs), carbon budgets & so-called ‘negative emission technologies; ~~~ At 54:55 Biodiversity impact of Climate chaos.
At 2:10:30 Mark Carney, Brexit and Trump foe exiting Bank of England‘s Governorship to become U.N. as Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, declares that we are not on the path to climate stabilization. Companies’ combined assets are $120 Trillion and the “Law of the Land” is to change to carbon net-zero by 2050. Carney calls companies to account for risks climate chaos puts into their operations, meaning the companies are required to disclose their present & future carbon-footprints as well as “What’s Your Plan? … It’s not moving fast enough.” The UK will chair COP 25 9-19 Nov 2020 in Glasgow, Scotland. Carney wants action on the finance side, assign a degree-warming potential to their assets. “If you look at the financial markets as a whole, the judgement of some of the leading pension funds is that, if you add up the plans of all the companies out there, their consistent with degree warming on the order of 3.7 or 3.8 degrees, far above that 1.5 degrees that governments say they want and that people are demanding. We can’t afford to have selective information, spin.” ~~~
At 2:23:30 Greta, aged 16 climate chaos opponent, meets & talks with Sir David Attenborough, aged 93 climate chaos opponent.
At 2:37:15 Shell gas director & new energies spokesman gets hard questioning on it’s $ 25 Billion investment in oil & gas last year with $ 2 Billion invested in low-carbon energy. Responding to Joanna Sustento’s reality and Greta’s direct action, Shell says it can’t draw causal relationships between itself and those who have been affected by climate chaos. Shell deflects questioning on it being part of the problem saying it’s part of the solution while largely blaming consumers….
At 2:47:13 Greta (her 17th birthday on 3 Jan.) reveals her take on “a very strange year” in a thoughtful extended interview.
Interspersed in Greta’s editing of the program are news reports on Brexit and Trump foe, the Bank of England‘s departing Governor, Mark Joseph Carney (who urges central banks to work together to a replace the US dollar as reserve currency) is today warning on financial consequences of carbon-economy dependence as he enters the U.N. as Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance; there are also news updates on Australian wildfires.
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