Pumpin' Up the Carbon

Join Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez as they discuss President Biden’s approval of ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project, a massive and decadeslong oil drilling venture on Alaska’s North Slope in the National Petroleum Reserve, which is owned by the federal government.

This video was recorded on March 15th, 2023, and published on April 1st, 2023.

Some of the topics discussed:

• Biden’s backing out of a promise made during the 2020 presidential campaign of “No more drilling on federal lands, period.”
• How there will be a need to build a whole infrastructure of roads in one of the largest remaining pristine areas in the USA.
• The studies in both Canada and globally of how young people say that climate change is affecting them day to day and in many cases resulting in the decision to not have children.
• How the International Energy Agency (IEA) provided the very grim news that fossil fuel CO2 emissions are now at a record high.
• How China is accelerating its coal mining by mining more coal than any other nation in the world and how the world economy is not working for our future on the planet.
• and much more . . .

Links

• Willow Project

• Biden’s approval of Wllow Project shows inconsistency of US’s First ‘climate president’

• Short Term Energy Outlook - STEO - March 2023 (pdf)

• China turns back to coal as record heatwave causes power shortages

• China permits two new coal power plants per week in 2022

• Superorganism or Super Predator? (CEF Video)

• The Effects of Global Warming in Alaska

• Arctic ice has seen an ‘irreversible’ thinning since 2007, study says

• Fossil Fuels

• Oil Production - Our World in Data

• CO2 Emissions in 2022

• Climate emotions and anxiety among young people in Canada: A national survey and call to action

• Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

• MEER Update - November 2022 (CEF Video)

• MEER

• Marine Cloud Brightening (CEF Video)

• Marine Cloud Brightening

• Prof. Stephen Salter

• A Plan for Climate Restoration (CEF Video)

Regular Panelists:

• Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire – Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP28 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: Free Music Archive
• License: BY-NC 4.0

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• Image and Video Attributions