{"id":29219,"date":"2012-05-03T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/2012\/05\/03\/too-hot-not-notice-new-blog-bill-mckibben-tom-dispatchcom\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T15:00:01","slug":"too-hot-not-notice-new-blog-bill-mckibben-tom-dispatchcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/too-hot-not-notice-new-blog-bill-mckibben-tom-dispatchcom\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Hot Not to Notice–new blog by Bill McKibben on Tom Dispatch.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cross-posted from Tomdispatch.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By now, it\u2019s already deep election season, the beginning of the culmination of a cyclethat commenced the day after (or even the day before) the previous presidential election. In the meantime, the endless polls appear — you can check Obama\u2019s approval rating or the state of thepresidential horserace any time, night or day — and the media goes ballistic handicapping the odds or discussing the presidential cat fight.  Each side\u2019s handlers take out after the other’s, and increasingly, the corporate dollars pour in (another form of handicapping, or maybe just plain old knee-capping).  You know the routine.  These days, with the election a mere six months away, Romney\/Obama \u201canalysis\u201d and prediction is already in the stratosphere and no issue, from war to a blind self-taught Chinese lawyer escaping to the American embassy in Beijing, is election-proof.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all grist for the mill and who in Washington isn\u2019t reading the polls the way a New Ager might read Tarot cards?  So when President Obama suddenly starts talking — quite voluntarily — about global warming as a campaign issue, you know something\u2019s up.  What\u2019s up, it turns out, is public concern over climate change after years of polling in which Americans claimed to be ever less worried about the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

No one should be surprised, given this overheated year in North America, as Bill McKibben points out in today\u2019s post.  In fact, in the latest climate-change polling, 63% of respondents believe \u201cthe United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do.\u201d  In another recent poll, 65% of Americans backed the idea of \u201cimposing mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions\/other greenhouse gases\u201d (as75% now support regulating carbon dioxide as a \u201cpollutant\u201d).<\/p>\n

This is something new in America.  Times, like the weather, are evidently a-changin\u2019. And the president has noticed this, especially since he\u2019s facing an opponent who, last fall, went on the record this way: \u201cMy view is that we don\u2019t know what\u2019s causing climat<\/p>\n

e change on this planet.  And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.\u201d
So this may be a bullish campaign season for climate change.  “I suspect,\u201d said the president, \u201cthat over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we’re going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way.\u201d  It could even help win him the election, if this summer and fall prove just as weather-freaky as our North American winter and spring have been, leaving Republican climate-change deniers and prevaricators in the dust.<\/p>\n

If, in a far less propitious political moment, one person put climate change back on the White House agenda and made the president attend to it, that would be TomDispatch regular Bill McKibben.  The campaign of mass action he launched against the Keystone XL Pipeline and the particularly \u201cdirty\u201d form of energy it was slated to bring from Canada to the U.S. Gulf coast proved crucial. Let\u2019s hope, like the cavalry, that he arrived in the nick of time. Tom Engelhardt<\/p>\n

Too Hot Not to Notice? \u2028A Planet Connected by Wild Weather \u2028By Bill McKibben<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on August 28, 2011. And yet the evidence was all around: sand piled high on its banks, trees still scattered as if by a giant\u2019s fist, and most obvious of all, a utilitarian temporary bridge where for 140 years a graceful covered bridge had spanned the water.<\/p>\n


The YouTube video of that bridge crashing into the raging river was Vermont\u2019s iconic image from its worst disaster in memory, the record flooding that followed Hurricane Irene\u2019s rampage through the state in August 2011.  It claimed dozens of lives, as it cut more than a billion-dollar swath of destruction across the eastern United States.<\/p>\n

I watched it on TV in Washington just after emerging from jail, having beenarrested at the White House during mass protests of the Keystone XL pipeline.  Since Vermont\u2019s my home, it took the theoretical — the ever more turbulent, erratic, and dangerous weather that the tar sands pipeline from Canada would help ensure — and made it all too concrete. It shook me bad.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m not the only one.<\/p>\n

New data released last month by researchers at Yale and George Mason universities show that a lot of Americans are growing far more concerned about climate change, precisely because they\u2019re drawing the links between freaky weather, a climate kicked off-kilter by a fossil-fuel guzzling civilization, and their own lives. After a year with a record number of multi-billion dollar weather disasters, seven in ten Americans now believe that \u201cglobal warming is affecting the weather.\u201d No less striking, 35% of the respondents reported that extreme weather had affected them personally in 2011.  As Yale\u2019s Anthony Laiserowitz told the New York Times, \u201cPeople are starting to connect the dots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which is what we must do. As long as this remains one abstract problem in the long list of problems, we\u2019ll never get to it.  There will always be something going on each day that\u2019s more important, including, if you\u2019re facing flood or drought, the immediate danger.<\/p>\n

But in reality, climate change is actually the biggest thing that\u2019s going on every single day.  If we could only see that pattern we\u2019d have a fighting chance. It\u2019s like one of those trompe l\u2019oeil puzzles where you can only catch sight of the real picture by holding it a certain way. So this weekend we\u2019ll be doing our best to hold our planet a certain way so that the most essential pattern is evident. At 350.org, we\u2019re organizing a global day of action that\u2019s all about dot-connecting; in fact, you can follow the action at climatedots.org.<\/p>\n

The day will begin in the Marshall Islands of the far Pacific, where the sun first rises on our planet, and where locals will hold a daybreak underwater demonstration on their coral reef already threatened by rising seas. They\u2019ll hold, in essence, a giant dot — and so will our friends in Bujumbura, Burundi, where March flooding destroyed 500 homes. In Dakar, Senegal, they\u2019ll mark the tidal margins of recent storm surges.  In Adelaide, Australia, activists will host a \u201cdry creek regatta\u201d to highlight the spreading drought down under.<\/p>\n

Pakistani farmers — some of the millions driven from their homes by unprecedented flooding over the last two years — will mark the day on the banks of the Indus; in Ayuthaya, Thailand, Buddhist monks will protest next to a temple destroyed by December\u2019s epic deluges that also left the capital, Bangkok, awash.<\/p>\n

Activists in Ulanbataar will focus on the ongoing effects of drought in Mongolia.  In Daegu, South Korea, students will gather with bags of rice and umbrellas to connect the dots between climate change, heavy rains, and the damage caused to South Korea\u2019s rice crop in recent years. In Amman, Jordan, Friends of the Earth Middle East will be forming a climate dot on the shores of the Dead Sea to draw attention to how climate-change-induced drought has been shrinking that sea.
In Herzliya, Israel, people will form a dot on the beach to stand in solidarity with island nations and coastal communities around the world that are feeling the impact of climate change. I
\nn newly freed Libya, students will hold a teach-in.  In Oman, elders will explain how the weather along the Persian Gulf has shifted in their lifetimes. There will be actions in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, and in the highlands of Peru where drought has wrecked the lives of local farmers.  In Monterrey, Mexico, they\u2019ll recall last year\u2019s floods that did nearly $2 billion in damage. In Chamonix, France, climbers will put a giant red dot on the melting glaciers of the Alps.
And across North America, as the sun moves westward, activists in Halifax, Canada, will \u201cswim for survival\u201d across its bay to highlight rising sea levels, while high-school students in Nashville, Tennessee, will gather on a football field inundated by 2011\u2019s historic killer floods.<\/p>\n

In Portland, Oregon, city dwellers will hold an umbrella-decorating party to commemorate March\u2019s record rains. In Bandelier, New Mexico, firefighters in full uniform will remember last year\u2019s record forest fires and unveil the new solar panels on their fire station.  In Miami, Manhattan, and Maui, citizens will line streets that scientists say will eventually be underwater. In the high Sierra, on one of the glaciers steadily melting away, protesters will unveil a giant banner with just two words, a quote from that classic of western children\u2019s literature, The Wizard of Oz. \u201cI\u2019m Melting\u201d it will say, in letters three-stories high.<\/p>\n

This is a full-on fight between information and disinformation, between the urge to witness and the urge to cover-up. The fossil-fuel industry has fundedendless efforts to confuse people, to leave an impression that nothing much is going on.  But — as with the tobacco industry before them — the evidence has simply gotten too strong.<\/p>\n

Once you saw enough people die of lung cancer, you made the connection. The situation is the same today.  Now, it\u2019s not just the scientists and theinsurance industry; it\u2019s your neighbors. Even pleasant weather starts to seem weird.  Fifteen thousand U.S. temperature records were broken, mainly in the East and Midwest, in the month of March alone, as a completely unprecedented heat wave moved across the continent.  Most people I met enjoyed the rare experience of wearing shorts in winter, but they were still shaking their heads. Something was clearly wrong and they knew it.<\/p>\n

The one institution in our society that isn\u2019t likely to be much help in spreading the news is… the news. Studies show our papers and TV channels paying ever less attention to our shifting climate.  In fact, in 2011 ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox spent twice as much time discussing Donald Trump as global warming. Don\u2019t expect representatives from Saturday\u2019s Connect the Dots day to show up on Sunday\u2019s talk shows.  Over the last three years, those inside-the-Beltway extravaganzas have devoted 98 minutes total to the planet\u2019s biggest challenge. Last year, in fact, all the Sunday talk shows spent exactly nine minutes of Sunday talking time on climate change — and here\u2019s a shock: all of it was given over to Republican politicians in the great denial sweepstakes.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s a prediction: next Sunday, no matter how big and beautiful the demonstrations may be that we\u2019re mounting across the world, \u201cFace the Nation\u201d and \u201cMeet the Press\u201d won\u2019t be connecting the dots. They\u2019ll be gassing along about Newt Gingrich\u2019s retirement from the presidential race or Mitt Romney\u2019s coming nomination, and many of the commercials will come from oil companies lying about their environmental efforts. If we\u2019re going to tell this story — and it\u2019s the most important story of our time — we\u2019re going to have to tell it ourselves.  <\/p>\n

Bill McKibben, a TomDispatch regular, and the author, most recently, ofEaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, is the founder of 350.org, which is coordinating Saturday\u2019s Connect the Dots day.  You can find the event nearest you by checking climatedots.org.<\/p>\n

Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch and join us on Facebook.
Copyright 2012 Bill McKibben<\/p>\n

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Cross-posted from Tomdispatch.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

By now, it\u2019s already deep election season, the beginning of the culmination of a cyclethat commenced the day after (or even the day before) the previous presidential election. In the meantime, the endless polls appear — you can check Obama\u2019s approval rating or the state of thepresidential horserace any time, night or day — and the media goes ballistic handicapping the odds or discussing the presidential cat fight.  Each side\u2019s handlers take out after the other’s, and increasingly, the corporate dollars pour in (another form of handicapping, or maybe just plain old knee-capping).  You know the routine.  These days, with the election a mere six months away, Romney\/Obama \u201canalysis\u201d and prediction is already in the stratosphere and no issue, from war to a blind self-taught Chinese lawyer escaping to the American embassy in Beijing, is election-proof.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all grist for the mill and who in Washington isn\u2019t reading the polls the way a New Ager might read Tarot cards?  So when President Obama suddenly starts talking — quite voluntarily — about global warming as a campaign issue, you know something\u2019s up.  What\u2019s up, it turns out, is public concern over climate change after years of polling in which Americans claimed to be ever less worried about the phenomenon.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

No one should be surprised, given this overheated year in North America, as Bill McKibben points out in today\u2019s post.  In fact, in the latest climate-change polling, 63% of respondents believe \u201cthe United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do.\u201d  In another recent poll, 65% of Americans backed the idea of \u201cimposing mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions\/other greenhouse gases\u201d (as75% now support regulating carbon dioxide as a \u201cpollutant\u201d).<\/p>\n

This is something new in America.  Times, like the weather, are evidently a-changin\u2019. And the president has noticed this, especially since he\u2019s facing an opponent who, last fall, went on the record this way: \u201cMy view is that we don\u2019t know what\u2019s causing climat<\/p>\n

e change on this planet.  And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.\u201d
So this may be a bullish campaign season for climate change.  “I suspect,\u201d said the president, \u201cthat over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we’re going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way.\u201d  It could even help win him the election, if this summer and fall prove just as weather-freaky as our North American winter and spring have been, leaving Republican climate-change deniers and prevaricators in the dust.<\/p>\n

If, in a far less propitious political moment, one person put climate change back on the White House agenda and made the president attend to it, that would be TomDispatch regular Bill McKibben.  The campaign of mass action he launched against the Keystone XL Pipeline and the particularly \u201cdirty\u201d form of energy it was slated to bring from Canada to the U.S. Gulf coast proved crucial. Let\u2019s hope, like the cavalry, that he arrived in the nick of time. Tom Engelhardt<\/p>\n

Too Hot Not to Notice? \u2028A Planet Connected by Wild Weather \u2028By Bill McKibben<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on August 28, 2011. And yet the evidence was all around: sand piled high on its banks, trees still scattered as if by a giant\u2019s fist, and most obvious of all, a utilitarian temporary bridge where for 140 years a graceful covered bridge had spanned the water.<\/p>\n

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\u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/too-hot-not-notice-new-blog-bill-mckibben-tom-dispatchcom\/","og_locale":"ja_JP","og_type":"article","og_title":"Too Hot Not to Notice--new blog by Bill McKibben on Tom Dispatch.com | \u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 Japan","og_description":"Cross-posted from Tomdispatch.comBy now, it\u2019s already deep election season, the beginning of the culmination of a cyclethat commenced the day after (or even the day before) the previous presidential election. In the meantime, the endless polls appear -- you can check Obama\u2019s approval rating or the state of thepresidential horserace any time, night or day -- and the media goes ballistic handicapping the odds or discussing the presidential cat fight.  Each side\u2019s handlers take out after the other's, and increasingly, the corporate dollars pour in (another form of handicapping, or maybe just plain old knee-capping).  You know the routine.  These days, with the election a mere six months away, Romney\/Obama \u201canalysis\u201d and prediction is already in the stratosphere and no issue, from war to a blind self-taught Chinese lawyer escaping to the American embassy in Beijing, is election-proof.It\u2019s all grist for the mill and who in Washington isn\u2019t reading the polls the way a New Ager might read Tarot cards?  So when President Obama suddenly starts talking -- quite voluntarily -- about global warming as a campaign issue, you know something\u2019s up.  What\u2019s up, it turns out, is public concern over climate change after years of polling in which Americans claimed to be ever less worried about the phenomenon.No one should be surprised, given this overheated year in North America, as Bill McKibben points out in today\u2019s post.  In fact, in the latest climate-change polling, 63% of respondents believe \u201cthe United States should move forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, regardless of what other countries do.\u201d  In another recent poll, 65% of Americans backed the idea of \u201cimposing mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions\/other greenhouse gases\u201d (as75% now support regulating carbon dioxide as a \u201cpollutant\u201d).This is something new in America.  Times, like the weather, are evidently a-changin\u2019. And the president has noticed this, especially since he\u2019s facing an opponent who, last fall, went on the record this way: \u201cMy view is that we don\u2019t know what\u2019s causing climate change on this planet.  And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.\u201dSo this may be a bullish campaign season for climate change.  \"I suspect,\u201d said the president, \u201cthat over the next six months, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and I will be very clear in voicing my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to deal with climate change in a serious way.\u201d  It could even help win him the election, if this summer and fall prove just as weather-freaky as our North American winter and spring have been, leaving Republican climate-change deniers and prevaricators in the dust.If, in a far less propitious political moment, one person put climate change back on the White House agenda and made the president attend to it, that would be TomDispatch regular Bill McKibben.  The campaign of mass action he launched against the Keystone XL Pipeline and the particularly \u201cdirty\u201d form of energy it was slated to bring from Canada to the U.S. Gulf coast proved crucial. Let\u2019s hope, like the cavalry, that he arrived in the nick of time. Tom EngelhardtToo Hot Not to Notice? \u2028A Planet Connected by Wild Weather \u2028By Bill McKibbenThe Williams River was so languid and lovely last Saturday morning that it was almost impossible to imagine the violence with which it must have been running on August 28, 2011. And yet the evidence was all around: sand piled high on its banks, trees still scattered as if by a giant\u2019s fist, and most obvious of all, a utilitarian temporary bridge where for 140 years a graceful covered bridge had spanned the water.","og_url":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/ja\/too-hot-not-notice-new-blog-bill-mckibben-tom-dispatchcom\/","og_site_name":"\u56fd\u969b\u74b0\u5883NGO 350 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