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Jenseits aller Twists und Tech-Spielereien ist das hier vor allem ein popkultureller Stresstest: Was passiert, wenn eine Frau in einem erotischen Thriller nicht das Objekt, sondern tatsächlich der Motor der Handlung ist? Halle Berry zeigt sich hier in einem Genre, das jahrzehntelang weibliches Begehren nur unter einer Bedingung zugelassen hat: Es musste bestraft werden. Das hier ist wohl kein besonders guter Film, aber eben der Moment, in dem eine schwarze Frau das alte Spiel tatsächlich einmal umdrehen konnte. Mit Bruce Willis (und Heidi Klum). (ZDFneo, Wh.)

Jenseits aller Twists und Tech-Spielereien ist das hier vor allem ein popkultureller Stresstest: Was passiert, wenn eine Frau in einem erotischen Thriller nicht das Objekt, sondern tatsächlich der Motor der Handlung ist? Halle Berry zeigt sich hier in einem Genre, das jahrzehntelang weibliches Begehren nur unter einer Bedingung zugelassen hat: Es musste bestraft werden. Das hier ist wohl kein besonders guter Film, aber eben der Moment, in dem eine schwarze Frau das alte Spiel tatsächlich einmal umdrehen konnte. Mit Bruce Willis (und Heidi Klum). (ZDFneo, Wh.)

Jenseits aller Twists und Tech-Spielereien ist das hier vor allem ein popkultureller Stresstest: Was passiert, wenn eine Frau in einem erotischen Thriller nicht das Objekt, sondern tatsächlich der Motor der Handlung ist? Halle Berry zeigt sich hier in einem Genre, das jahrzehntelang weibliches Begehren nur unter einer Bedingung zugelassen hat: Es musste bestraft werden. Das hier ist wohl kein besonders guter Film, aber eben der Moment, in dem eine schwarze Frau das alte Spiel tatsächlich einmal umdrehen konnte. Mit Bruce Willis (und Heidi Klum). (ZDFneo, Wh.)

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)

In August 1974, the CIA produced a study on “climatological research as it pertains to intelligence problems”. The diagnosis was dramatic. It warned of the emergence of a new era of weird weather, leading to political unrest and mass migration (which, in turn, would cause more unrest). The new era the agency imagined wasn’t necessarily one of hotter temperatures; the CIA had heard from scientists warning of global cooling as well as warming. But the direction in which the thermometer was travelling wasn’t their immediate concern; it was the political impact. They knew that the so-called “little ice age”, a series of cold snaps between, roughly, 1350 and 1850, had brought not only drought and famine, but also war – and so could these new climatic changes.

“The climate change began in 1960,” the report’s first page informs us, “but no one, including the climatologists, recognised it.” Crop failures in the Soviet Union and India in the early 1960s had been attributed to standard unlucky weather. The US shipped grain to India and the Soviets killed off livestock to eat, “and premier Nikita Khrushchev was quietly deposed”. ...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored

This is a long-form piece with captivating detail of earlly recognition, and dismissal, of the risks of climate change and its potential for global destabilisation, dating to the 1960s. It's very much about 60 years of lost time in tackling the challenge. It covers the CIA, Stephen Schneider, Helmut Landsberg, Rafe Pomerance, Gordan MacDonald, The Jasons, Exxon, James G. Watt, and more.

The article itself is an except of a book just published by Alice Bell, Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis (the Guardian's bookshop link, purchases support The Guardian newspaper.)

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #BookExceprts #AliceBell #StephenSchneider #GordonMacDonald #RafePomerance #TheJasons

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)

In August 1974, the CIA produced a study on “climatological research as it pertains to intelligence problems”. The diagnosis was dramatic. It warned of the emergence of a new era of weird weather, leading to political unrest and mass migration (which, in turn, would cause more unrest). The new era the agency imagined wasn’t necessarily one of hotter temperatures; the CIA had heard from scientists warning of global cooling as well as warming. But the direction in which the thermometer was travelling wasn’t their immediate concern; it was the political impact. They knew that the so-called “little ice age”, a series of cold snaps between, roughly, 1350 and 1850, had brought not only drought and famine, but also war – and so could these new climatic changes.

“The climate change began in 1960,” the report’s first page informs us, “but no one, including the climatologists, recognised it.” Crop failures in the Soviet Union and India in the early 1960s had been attributed to standard unlucky weather. The US shipped grain to India and the Soviets killed off livestock to eat, “and premier Nikita Khrushchev was quietly deposed”. ...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored

This is a long-form piece with captivating detail of earlly recognition, and dismissal, of the risks of climate change and its potential for global destabilisation, dating to the 1960s. It's very much about 60 years of lost time in tackling the challenge. It covers the CIA, Stephen Schneider, Helmut Landsberg, Rafe Pomerance, Gordan MacDonald, The Jasons, Exxon, James G. Watt, and more.

The article itself is an except of a book just published by Alice Bell, Our Biggest Experiment: An Epic History of the Climate Crisis (the Guardian's bookshop link, purchases support The Guardian newspaper.)

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #BookExceprts #AliceBell #StephenSchneider #GordonMacDonald #RafePomerance #TheJasons