Climate Change

South Asia's Floods Show Clear and Present Danger of Climate Change  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQtbYF70y9U  Sep 10, 2022

D. Raghunandan of the Delhi Science Forum talks about the recent incidents of flooding and extreme weather events in various parts of south Asia. He describes various incidents over the past few years, this year's massive flooding in Pakistan, and why our cities are especially vulnerable. He also talks about the kind of steps countries in south Asia can take to deal with such disasters.

https://countercurrents.org/2022/08/scientists-petition-epa-to-take-bold-steps/ 

Scientists are working on a plan to go beyond the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) recently signed by President Biden, which is supposed to tackle global warming, which, in turn, is tearing the planet apart, piece-by-piece. There’s more info on this very important petition filed by scientists to follow below, including a request for supporting signatures.

The planet has turned into a heat machine. It’s not only America that’s sweltering. According to NASA and the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, the planet as a whole is trapping heat twice as fast as 15 years ago. That’s more than threatening; it’s an outright emergency requiring the big guns.

Of even more immediate concern, as the planet dries out, major reservoirs fail, power outages hit, rivers run dry, and tens of thousands of people scramble for water. This is happening right now well ahead of several years build-out of the Inflation Reduction Act.

The vastness and reach of this existential climate threat is finally sinking in with the public as developed mature countries are reduced to third-world status, people standing in line with bottles and jugs waiting for water trucks, for example, more than 200 towns and villages in France and Italy have run out of water. Local reservoirs are dry. They’re gone!

This dystopian illustration is spreading across the globe. The real question is whether there’s enough time to press ahead with the Inflation Reduction Act. It needs to be rapidly accelerated with considerably more funding. Plus, this same climate bill also promotes fossil fuels. There’s something unsettling and untenable about that.

Robert Hunziker

10/08/1022

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DECADE OF CHANGE: India in the Climate Challenged World (Climate Conference 2022) Apr , 2022 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF-zP31hsPw0mhZPn_xpWLMkIm5ckQFhK 

Mr Ravi Pandit, Chairman, KPIT Technologies and Trustee, PIC, Pune -

Prof Amitav Mallik, Conference Convenerand Trustee, PIC -
Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, Scientist, IITM, Pune

Dr Priyadarshini Karve, National Convener, INECC, Visakhapatnam

Ms Archana Soreng, Research Officer, TISS, India

Mr Yash Agrawal, Assistant Professor,Somaiya College, Mumbai

Mr Prithviraj Lingayat, Climate Collective Pune, Pune

Mr Aaditya Thackeray, MOECC, Government of Maharashtra Dr Vijay Kelkar, Vice President, PIC, Pune

Mr Siddharth Bhagwat, EECC Researcher, PIC,
Panel Talk by Dr Deepa Badrinarayana, Professor, Chapman University, California
Panel Talk by Dr Gurudas Nulkar, Trustee, Ecological Society, Pune

Mr Gagan Sidhu, Director, CEEW- CEF, Delhi - Session 3
Climate Collective Pune

Episode 29 - Communicating Climate: Demystifying vs Greenwashing The India Energy Hour  https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/episode-29-communicating-climate-demystifying-vs-greenwashing/id1549673056?i=1000575732757 ..Aarti Khosla launched what can be said to be India's first dedicated climate communication platform Climate Trends. Khosla is also Director, CarbonCopy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w8-M0jJhrA

Response by Leo Saldanha

Aarti Khosla of Climate Trends & Carbon Copy makes the case here that India requires fundamental education on climate change, & the pathway to it is by addressing “influencers” & not the “bottom of the pit”, i.e., the wide public. This phrasing might attract attention; particular of “influencers”, who I have begun to notice of late include a variety of international foundations that are keen to pushing India’s mature Envtl jurisprudence to subordinate to market forces.

Aarti’s narrative here does more disservice to multiple efforts that have been underway to ensure there are fundamental transformations that the country will adopt to not contribute to global warming, as AKN Reddy, Anil Agarwal, Vandana Shiva, etc. have eloquently argued already in the 1980s, and I fear mocks the extraordinary struggles Medha Patkar, Vimal Bhai, Dr. G D Agarwal, Sundarlal BAHUGUNA, Madhav Gadgil, etc. have initiated based on a deep understanding of the short term and long term implications of extractivist, capitalised & hegemonic developmental choices.

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