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Lärarkvall En hållbar framtid / Teacher’s Evening A Sustainable Future Organized by the Nobel Museum and NIES’s project Bifrost in partnership with The Stockholm Act festival, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden 22 August 2017 En Bifrost | The Future is Now A response to the Orwellian rebranding of science in the age of Trump built on border-crossing public interventions linking science, education, arts and civil society En hållbar framtid Steven Hartman Studion Humanities for the Environment (HfE) Kulturhuset Circumpolar Observatory The Stockholm Act Stefansson Arctic Institute 22 August 2017 Mittuniversitetet This talk will present NIES’s project Bifrost | The Future is Now (oddly) by not talking about it much at all… Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 This talk will present NIES’s project Bifrost | The Future is Now (oddly) by not talking about it much at all …but by presenting the remarkable context which makes a project of its nature —a collaborative border-crossing public intervention linking science, education, arts and civil society— more necessary than ever. Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 SIGNS OF THE TIMES Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 https://www.ecowatch.com/millennial s-trump-climate-change- 1976368422.html Source: Pitts, Khalid. “Millennials Ditch Trump Over His Stance on Climate Change,” EcoWatch. Published 17 August 2016. https://www.ecowatch.com/millennials-trump-climate-change-1976368422.html Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 From Merchants of Doubt website: www.merchantsofdoubt.org “The U.S. scientific community has Historians Naomi Oreskes and long led the world in research on Erik Conway explain how a public health, environmental science, loose–knit group of high-level and other issues affecting the quality scientists, with extensive political of life. Our scientists have produced connections, ran effective landmark studies on the dangers of campaigns to mislead the public DDT, tobacco smoke, acid rain, and and deny well-established global warming. But at the same time, scientific knowledge over four a small yet potent subset of this decades. community leads the world in vehement denial of these dangers. ” Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Promotion and coordination of climate change denial has long been a corporate public relations and lobbying strategy for the fossil fuel industry because… Widespread recognition of the harmful effects of fossil fuel burning on the global climate system threatens continued profits and the viability of the entire industry. Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Source: Supran, Geoffrey and Naomi Oreskes, Assessing ExxonMobil’s climate change communications (1977–2014), Environmental Research Letters, published 23 August 2017. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa815f AGW = Anthropogenic Global Warming ------------------------ The authors conclude that ExxonMobil contributed to advancing climate science—by way of its scientists’ = Anthropogenic Global Warming academic publications—but promoted doubt about it in advertorials. Given this discrepancy, the study concludes that ExxonMobil misled the public. Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Climate Denial “Think Tanks” funded by fossil-full industry money include*: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Americans for Prosperity (AFP) (AFP has its origins in a group founded in 1984 by fossil fuel billionaires Charles and David Koch--Richard Fink, executive vice president of Koch Industries, also serves as a director for both AFP and AFP Foundation.) The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University Cato Institute Competitive Enterprise Institute Heartland Institute Heritage Foundation Institute for Energy Research Manhattan Institute for Policy Research * Source: Union of Concerned Scientists ( http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/global-warming-skeptic.html#.WYV37q2B2YU ) Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Fossil-Fuel Funders of Climate Science Denial include: Koch Family Foundations Donors Trust Donors Capital Fund ExxonMobil * Source: Union of Concerned Scientists ( http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/global-warming-skeptic.html#.WYV37q2B2YU ) Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 The Faces of Climate Change Denial in the administration of Donald Trump Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 The Faces of Climate Change Denial in the administration of Donald Trump Sources clockwise from upper left: Sheppard, Kate. Mike Pence’s Kinder, Gentler Climate Change Denial, Huffington Post. Published 28 Sept 2016 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mike-pence-climate-change_us_57ec12bde4b082aad9b8b8f1 ); Levine, Daniel S. Rex Tillerson…5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Heavy (http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/rex-tillerson-net-worth-salary-bio-exxon-mobil-2016-donald-trump-cabinet-russia-secretary-of-state-wife/); Muffson, Steven. Trump’s Energy Secretary just denied that humans are main cause of climate change. The Toronto Star. Published 19 June 2017 (https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/06/19/trumps-energy-secretary-just-denied-that-humans-are-behind-climate- change.html ); Untitled. Video posted by Washington Post, Youtube. Published 2 June 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ogZEGSbQg ) . Meet Scott Pruitt —Former Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma — Current head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency under the Trump Administration Photo source: https://www.mediamatters.org/r esearch/2016/12/08/what- media-should-know-about-scott- pruitt-trump-s-pick-head- epa/214763 Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 “We won’t be joining this coalition, and we hope that those attorneys general who have joined will disavow it. Healthy debate is the lifeblood of American democracy, and global warming has inspired one of the major policy debates of our time. That debate is far from settled. Scientists continue to disagree about the degree and extent of global warming and its connection to the actions of mankind. That debate should be encouraged — in classrooms, public forums, and the halls of Congress. It should not be silenced with threats of prosecution. Dissent is not a crime.” Source: Pruitt, Scott & Luther Strange. “The Climate-Change Gang,” National Review, 17 May 2016. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/435470/climate-change-attorneys-general Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 From the article: “The emails also show that American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, an oil and gas lobby group, provided Pruitt’s office with template language to oppose ozone limits and the renewable fuel standard program in 2013. AFPM encouraged Oklahoma to challenge the rules, noting: ‘This argument is more credible coming from a state.’ Later that year, Pruitt did file opposition to both of these regulations. The letters also show the cosy relationship between Pruitt and the American Legislative Exchange Council (Alec), the influential US lobbying network of Republican politicians and big business, and other lobby groups sonsored by the Koch brothers, the billionaire energy investors who have spent decades fighting against environmental regulation.” Source: Milman, Oliver & Dominic Rushe, New EPA head Scott Pruitt's emails reveal close ties with fossil fuel interests, The Guardian. Published 22 February 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/environme nt/2017/feb/22/scott-pruitt-emails- oklahoma-fossil-fuels-koch-brothers Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Climate Denial “Think Tanks” funded by fossil-full industry money include*: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Americans for Prosperity (AFP) (AFP has its origins in a group founded in 1984 by fossil fuel billionaires Charles and David Koch--Richard Fink, executive vice president of Koch Industries, also serves as a director for both AFP and AFP Foundation.) The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University Cato Institute Competitive Enterprise Institute Heartland Institute Heritage Foundation Institute for Energy Research Manhattan Institute for Policy Research * Source: Union of Concerned Scientists ( http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/solutions/fight-misinformation/global-warming-skeptic.html#.WYV37q2B2YU ) Steven Hartman Bifrost Kulturhuset En hållbar framtid 22 August 2017 Climate Denial “Think Tanks” funded by fossil-full industry money include*: The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Americans for Prosperity (AFP) (AFP has its origins in a group founded in 1984 by fossil fuel billionaires Charles and David Koch--Richard Fink, executive vice president of Koch Industries, also serves as a director for both AFP and AFP Foundation.) The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University Cato Institute Competitive Enterprise Institute Heartland Institute Heritage Foundation Institute for Energy Research Manhattan Institute for Policy Research