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The Social Cost of Carbon Is the Most Historic*Climate
Change*Decision Yet
<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/30/the-social-cost-of-carbon-is-the-most-historic-climate-change-decision-yet.html>
Daily Beast -16 hours ago
One of the most significant court cases about*climate change*was
decided earlier this month by a federal appeals court in
Chicago....It all comes down to a new phrase: the Social Cost of
Carbon.... By law, government agencies—in this case, the Department
of Energy—are often required to show that the benefits of a proposed
regulation exceed the costs....But what about climate change? The
costs of a particular regulation—in this case, covering
refrigerators—are sometimes easy to assess. But how do you capture
the “benefits” of preventing cataclysmic climate change?...Beginning
in 2010, a group of economists and scientists set about answering
that question. They tried to calculate the likely future costs of
shifting climate zones, agricultural disruptions, more extreme
events like Superstorm Sandy, more outbreaks of disease, and the
many other effects of climate change....The result is the Social
Cost of Carbon (SCC), which, long story short, was calculated to be
$36 per ton. That figure, while admittedly an approximation, is the
best estimate that the government has put forward so far...
*The Toughest Question in Climate Change: Who Gets Saved?
<https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-29/the-toughest-question-in-climate-change-who-gets-saved>*
... two towns at opposite ends of the country entered a new kind
of contest run by the federal government. At stake was their
survival: Each is being consumed by the rising ocean, and winning
money from Washington would mean the chance to move to higher
ground....The contest, called the National Disaster Resilience
Competition, was the first large-scale federal effort to highlight
and support local solutions for coping with climate change. It
wound up demonstrating something decidedly less upbeat: The federal
government is still struggling to figure out which communities
should be moved, and when, and how to pay for it. ...answering
those questions is shifting from hypothetical to urgent. ..Figuring
out who most deserves money to move will only get more contentious
as more places raise their hand. If cutting emissions seems like a
political nightmare, just wait....Geologists warning of erosion had
recommended relocating the town as far back as 1984. Newtok has
received seven disaster declarations, according to local officials.
The Government Accountability Office determined the town to be “in
imminent danger." And that was 13 years ago....The inane bureaucracy
of funding climate adaptation may not seem like a big deal when the
towns competing for money are places few people have ever heard
of. But once sea levels rise another foot, the federal government
may have to choose between funding the relocation of entire
neighborhoods in Galveston, Texas; Hilton Head, South Carolina;
Savannah, Georgia; and even Miami. Two feet, and swaths of Boston
and Charleston, South Carolina, could be underwater. According to an
official with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, sea levels could rise nine feet by 2050....There
will almost certainly not be enough money to dyke, pump out or
elevate every community that needs it. Nor will there be enough to
provide every community the kind of thoughtful, orderly and
expensive relocation that HUD has promised Isle de Jean Charles. The
federal government will need to choose. .... there’s no response
to climate change that can possibly make everybody happy; we’ve
waited too long to cut emissions, and many more Americans will be
forced from their homes.
WHY IT MATTERS:*Climate Change*
<https://apnews.com/4bc63552952c450eb13454f29663c674/WHY-IT-MATTERS:-Climate-Change>
Associated Press -17 hours ago
It's as if Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump live on two entirely
different Earths: one warming, one not... Clinton says*climate
change*“threatens us all,” while Trump tweets that*global warming*is
“mythical” and repeatedly refers to it as a “hoax" Measurements and
scientists say Clinton's Earth is much closer to reality. *...As
heat-trapping gases in the air intensify and hot temperature records
shatter, global warming is taking a toll on Americans' everyday life
: their gardens, air, water, seasons, insurance rates and
more....Changing the world's economy from burning fossil fuel, which
causes global warming, has a huge price tag. So does not doing
anything. The world's average income will shrivel 23 percent by the
year 2100 if carbon dioxide pollution continues at the current pace,
according to a 2015 study out of Stanford and the University of
California Berkeley....https://apnews.com/tag/Climate*
*Climate change*mother of all risks: Aviva CEO
<http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/30/climate-change-mother-of-all-risks-says-aviva-ceo-amid-calls-to-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies.html>
CNBC -6 hours ago
A group of international insurers with over $1.2 trillion in assets
under management have urged the world's governments to commit to the
phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies by 2020. ..."*Climate change*in
particular represents the mother of all risks - to business and to
society as a whole," ..."Making a profit is essential in
business,...But we will only be in business in the future if we act
sustainably and create wider long term social value. That's just
good business – and not acting sustainably is very bad business
indeed."..."Climate change in particular represents the mother of
all risks – to business and to society as a whole," Wilson added.
"And that risk is magnified by the way in which fossil fuel
subsidies distort the energy market. These subsidies are simply
unsustainable."...
*Climate Change*Is Destroying Monarch Butterflies' Habitat In Mexico
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/monarch-butterfly-habitat-damage-in-mexico_us_57c09f18e4b085c1ff295bd1>
Huffington Post -6 hours ago
In the winter months of 2015-2016, monarch butterflies had their
best migration in years, arriving in record numbers to the Central
Mexico forests where they hibernate.
*Welcome to the Age of Anthropocene: * <http://www.anthropocene.info/>
The Earth has entered a new geological epoch “defined by human
impact,” an expert group of scientists said in a presentation to the
International Geological Congress. The group proposed that the
Anthropocene epoch began sometime in the 1950s, as evidenced by
unprecedented levels of carbon dioxide, plastic pollution, nuclear
tests and widespread deforestation. The recommendation needs more
specific geologic data to be submitted to “stratigraphic
authorities” for official approval. (*News: *Guardian
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=af0e4e31ae&e=95b355344d>,
Washington Post
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=2a854b0cf9&e=95b355344d>
$, Independent
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=101ba12733&e=95b355344d>,
Phys.org
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=feaafea0d7&e=95b355344d>,
TIME
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=8727ebfd17&e=95b355344d>,
Scientific American
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=b73ed0f429&e=95b355344d>
$, Fusion
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=0839cca531&e=95b355344d>,
BBC
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=412feb9eb9&e=95b355344d>,
Huffington Post
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=606ea172aa&e=95b355344d>.
*Commentary: *Guardian, Martin Rees op-ed
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=3d870fe351&e=95b355344d>),
*Wikipedia:* Anthropocene <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene>
Chicago architects join up for*climate change*advocacy campaign
<http://www.curbed.com/2016/8/30/12704508/architecture-climate-change-architects-advocate-action>
Curbed -8 hours ago
Aiming to "give voice to an important issue that affects healthy and
livable communities and cities," Architects Advocate Action
on*Climate Change*, a new, industry-focused public outreach
campaign, will officially launch on September 1. "There's such*...*
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