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Beacon Hill Seminars – Spring 2018
Climate Vulnerability: Responding to the Physical, Economic & Social
Challenges of Earth's Changing Climate
Tim Weiskel Cambridge Climate Research Associates
Spring Semester 2018
2 May 2018
Session 9 How to Keep Track of the Coming Trends +
+ Some Thoughts about the concept of a
“Boston Climate Institute”
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Eight Reasons for Our Collective Myopia
1) Scientists have not always been the best communicators.
2) There has been a deliberate “smog machine” at work.
3) The “culture of consumption” does not want to listen.
4) The corporatization of media communications has
muffled the message + current struggle for the internet.
5) Universities have become corporatized and are often of
little help. (Focused on data manipulation + “techno-
scientific salvationism” & grants than simple truths).
6) The apparatus of government has been “captured.”
7) There is an institutional core contradiction at work.
8) “I’m not a climate scientist…”
DON”T BLAME YOURSELF… There are
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Eight Reasons for Our Collective Myopia
1) Scientists have not always been the best communicators.
2) There has been a deliberate “smog machine” at work.
3) The “culture of consumption” does not want to listen.
4) The corporatization of media communications has
muffled the message + current struggle for the internet.
5) Universities have become corporatized and are often of
little help. (Focused on data manipulation + “techno-
scientific salvationism” & grants than simple truths).
6) The apparatus of government has been “captured.”
7) There is an institutional core contradiction at work.
8) “I’m not a climate scientist – neither are you, so…”
DON”T BLAME YOURSELF… There are
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Eight Reasons for Our Collective Myopia
1) Scientists have not always been the best communicators.
2) There has been a deliberate “smog machine” at work.
3) The “culture of consumption” does not want to listen.
4) The corporatization of media communications has
muffled the message + current struggle for the internet.
5) Universities have become corporatized and are often of
little help. (More focused complicated data + “techno-
scientific salvationism” & grants than simple truths).
6) The apparatus of government has been “captured.”
7) There is an institutional core contradiction at work.
8) “I’m not a climate scientist – neither are you, so…”
DON”T BLAME YOURSELF… There are
Reasons mentioned 25 April
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Eight Reasons for Our Collective Myopia
1) Scientists have not always been the best communicators.
2) There has been a deliberate “smog machine” at work.
3) The “culture of consumption” does not want to listen.
4) The corporatization of media communications has
muffled the message + current struggle for the internet.
5) Universities have become corporatized and are often of
little help. (Focused on data manipulation + “techno-
scientific salvationism” & grants than simple truths).
6) The apparatus of government has been “captured.”
7) There is an institutional core contradiction at work.
8) “I’m not a climate scientist – neither are you, so…”
DON”T BLAME YOURSELF… There are
Reasons to come on 2 May
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Reason 3
The “culture of consumption”
does not want to listen and
will not hear or see
what is obvious.
Tim Weiskel - 6
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Reason 3
The “culture of consumption”
does not want to listen and
will not hear or see
what is obvious. [We don’t see it because we are
“fish in water.”]
Tim Weiskel - 7
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Why is there such public ignorance
in America about such a massively
important topic -- climate change?
Tim Weiskel - 8
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Why haven’t we been told the story of Earth’s
changing climate ever since scientists began to
discover it in the 18th century?
Tim Weiskel - 9
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We may not like the story but there is no
getting around the fact that “…advertising is
the dominant story-telling force of our time.”
Tim Weiskel - 10
Sut Jhally
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Tim Weiskel - 12
"Its like a fish in the water. We don't know who
discovered water, but we know it wasn't a fish.
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Tim Weiskel - 13
"Its like a fish in the water. We don't know who
discovered water, but we know it wasn't a fish.
A pervasive medium, a pervasive environment is
always beyond perception."
Marshall McCluhan
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Reason 4
The corporatization of media
communications has muffled the
message + current struggle for
the internet.
Tim Weiskel - 14
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Tim Weiskel - 15
https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/who-
rules-america-the-power-of-the-media/
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Tim Weiskel 16 https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.co
m/2017/03/12/noam-chomsky-
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2016/05/05/manu
facturing-consent-noam-chomsky-and-the-media-1992-4/
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Tim Weiskel - 20
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Tim Weiskel - 21
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Reason 4
The corporatization of media
communications has muffled the
message + current struggle for
the internet.
Tim Weiskel - 22
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Tim Weiskel - 23
https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/who
-owns-the-media-5/
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Tim Weiskel - 24
https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2018/04/2
7/who-owns-the-media-3/
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Tim Weiskel - 25
https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com
/2017/10/26/fcc-enables-faster-media-
consolidation-as-pro-trump-sinclair-group-
seizes-even-more-local-stations/
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Special interests may have captured
the press BUT we always have the
internet will save us…, right?
Tim Weiskel - 26 https://environmentaljusticetv.wordp
ress.com/2018/05/01/how-the-end-
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Tim Weiskel - 27
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Reason 4
The corporatization of media
communications has muffled the
message + current struggle for
the internet.
Tim Weiskel - 28
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Reason 4
The corporatization of media
communications has muffled the
message + current struggle for
the internet.
[What has happened to the flow of
“news” in our culture?]
Tim Weiskel - 29
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Reason 5
Universities have become corporatized
and are often of little help. (Focused
more on data manipulation +
“techno-scientific salvationism”
& grants than simple truths).
Tim Weiskel - 30
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Reason 5
Universities have become corporatized
and are often of little help. (Focused
more on data manipulation +
“techno-scientific salvationism”
& grants than simple truths).
[What happened to the “liberal arts”?]
Tim Weiskel - 31
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Tim Weiskel - 32 https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpr
ess.com/2017/03/05/education-is-a-
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.co
m/2017/03/25/the-plan-to-spray-the-skies-
spraying-event-announced/
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d-scientists-moving-ahead-on-plans-for-atmospheric-
geoengineering-experiments-mit-technology-review/
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/d
avid-keith-shaking-the-establishment/
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/d
avid-keith-shaking-the-establishment/
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/d
avid-keith-shaking-the-establishment/
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/d
avid-keith-shaking-the-establishment/
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2015/06/11/d
avid-keith-shaking-the-establishment/
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Largest gift in
Harvard’s
History
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/noam-
chomsky-july-2013-the-corporatization-of-the-university/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/david-keith-
geoengineering/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/david-
keith-introduction-by-daniel-schrag/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/can-
hacking-the-stratosphere-solve-climate-change-npr/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/201
3/01/09/rogue-geoengineering-could-hijack-
worlds-climate/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/201
3/01/09/rogue-geoengineering-could-hijack-
worlds-climate/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/the-
ethics-of-geoengineering-1/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/the-
ethics-of-geoengineering-1/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/05/24
/from-bill-gates-to-oil-giants-who-stands-to-profit-from-
geoengineering-nature-2/
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/05/24
/from-bill-gates-to-oil-giants-who-stands-to-profit-from-
geoengineering-nature-2/
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“Had we but world enough and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down, and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love’s day. …”
Andrew Marvell, 1621-1678
BUT, do we now have
“world enough and time”…?
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http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/first-
person-john-holdren-on-global-warming/
What does the former
Science Advisor to the
President think about geo-
engineering?
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Who is “we”? Where’s the “table?”
http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/first-
person-john-holdren-on-global-warming/
What does the former
Science Advisor to the
President think about geo-
engineering?
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Who is “we”? Where’s the “table?”
http://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/08/05/first-
person-john-holdren-on-global-warming/
What does the former
Science Advisor to the
President think about geo-
engineering?
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Who needs “the liberal arts” (any
more) in higher education?
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Tim Weiskel - 68
Who needs “the liberal arts” (any
more) in higher education?
“Had we but
world enough
and time…”
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Tim Weiskel - 69
Who needs “the liberal arts” (any
more) in higher education?
https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.
com/2016/03/22/bill-mckibben-caution-
the-link-between-climate-change-and-
the-joplin-tornadoes-never-2011/
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Basic understandings of science have been
abandoned…
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Basic understandings of science have been
abandoned…
NOW – more than ever -- Americans must demand a
sober and accurate “cost-benefit” analysis
of carbon combustion….
https://
youtu.b
e/if0_0
eelCY0
?t=17m
47s
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Reason 6
The apparatus of government
has been “captured” by wealthy
special interests
(within this country or from abroad).
Tim Weiskel - 73
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Tim Weiskel - 74
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Tim Weiskel - 75
https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/?s=pruitt
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Tim Weiskel - 76
https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/201
7/10/14/how-the-war-on-the-epa-was-waged-
frontline/
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Tim Weiskel - 77
https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2018/05/01/o
bama-criticizes-supreme-court-in-state-of-the-union-
address-justice-alito-shakes-his-head-in/
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Reason 6
The apparatus of government
has been “captured” by wealthy
special interests
(within this country or from abroad).
[“Citizen’s United” has changed the nature of
“voice” in American politics]
Tim Weiskel - 78
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Tim Weiskel - 79 https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpres
s.com/2018/05/01/overturn-citizens-
united/
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Tim Weiskel - 80 https://environmentaljusticetv.word
press.com/2018/05/01/mccain-on-
citizens-united/
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Reason 7
There is a fundamental contradiction
at the core of the institutions that
dominate our society.
Tim Weiskel - 81
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Chomsky Interview, The Nation,
January 2011
Effort from big oil lobbyist to “Manufacture
Consent” has been successful.
https://envi
ronmentalj
usticetv.wo
rdpress.co
m/2012/10
/24/noam-
chomsky-
how-
climate-
change-
became-a-
liberal-
hoax/
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Why have we not learned how
to count past 2?
What is the ‘third side?’
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Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a
‘Liberal Hoax’
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Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a
‘Liberal Hoax’
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Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a
‘Liberal Hoax’
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Noam Chomsky: How Climate Change Became a
‘Liberal Hoax’
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Tim Weiskel - 95
Professor Chomsky has alerted us to the
ecological vulnerability and dominant
myths at the core of our industrial
civilization for decades.
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Tim Weiskel - 98
There is a further contradiction
in our “metrics of success.”
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Tim Weiskel - 99
There is a further contradiction
in our “metrics of success.” We are looking for technological breakthroughs in
efficiency, not a change in direction
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Tim Weiskel - 100
There is a further contradiction
in our “metrics of success.” We are looking for technological breakthroughs in
efficiency, not a change in direction
In short….
…. We are looking for – and
our culture is rewarding – the
wrong thing.
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Tim Weiskel - 101
There is a further contradiction
in our “metrics of success.” We are looking for technological breakthroughs in
efficiency, not a change in direction
In short….
…. We are looking for – and
our culture is rewarding – the
wrong thing.
It is no wonder, really, that we
cannot help but be disappointed.
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/a-new-
paradigm-for-environmental-protection-for-the-21st-century/
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/a-
new-paradigm-for-environmental-protection-for-the-21st-
century/
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https://environmentaljusticetv.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/a-
new-paradigm-for-environmental-protection-for-the-21st-
century/
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Reason 7
There is a fundamental contradiction
at the core of the institutions that
dominate our society.
[All corporations and virtually all other
institutions are built upon the
expectation of continuous
growth and expansion]
Tim Weiskel - 105
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Reason 8
“I’m not a climate scientist …
– neither are you, so…”
[…shut up!]
Tim Weiskel - 106
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Now…
Where can we go from here?
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The Coming Climate
Challenges for the
Post-Columbian
World
Tim Weiskel - 110
OR another
Possible course for
next year…
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The Prophet, the Wizard
and the Human
Prospect: Science and Salvation
in the 21st Century
Tim Weiskel - 111
Or… another
possible course for
next year…
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Or …another
possible course for
next year…
Or both The Prophet, the Wizard
and the Human
Prospect: Science and Salvation
in the 21st Century
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Beacon Hill Seminars – Spring 2018
Climate Vulnerability: Responding to the Physical, Economic & Social
Challenges of Earth's Changing Climate
Tim Weiskel Cambridge Climate Research Associates
Spring Semester 2018
2 May 2018
Session 9 How to Keep Track of the Coming Trends +
+ Some Thoughts about the concept of a
“Boston Climate Institute”