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To Adapt to*Climate Change*, Retreat Is Necessary
<https://www.thenation.com/article/to-adapt-to-climate-change-retreat-is-necessary/>
The Nation. -6 hours ago
Four years after Hurricane Sandy, many coastal communities recognize
that rising oceans mean relocating their residents. But there is no
consensus on how to do so....Across the globe, growing numbers of
people are being permanently displaced by*climate change*impacts -
the 1000-year floods and megadroughts and superstorms generated by
rising temperatures....While decisions to stay or leave are intended
by federal agencies to be voluntary, the deluge of funding and
flooding and pressure on all sides leave many residents in
situations where they feel they have no choice.
Climate Change Is Already Forcing Americans to Move - Bloomberg ...
<https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-31/climate-change-is-already-forcing-americans-to-move>
Bloomberg -9 hours ago
Climate displacement is real -- and it's hitting people in public
housing first....As global warming causes more extreme weather and
sea-level rise, coastal communities around the U.S. are starting to
think about whether, and how, to help people move away from the
water. But one group of Americans is already being displaced by
climate change -- not through innovative urban and land-use
planning, but official indifference.....Yet her agency, which in
January awarded $1 billion to states and cities for protecting homes
and infrastructure against climate change, including relocating a
town in Louisiana, has neither a plan for safeguarding the country's
stock of public housing from that threat, nor the funding to carry
out such a plan. It has yet to even compile a list of which
properties are at risk....The best-known example is New Orleans,
whose housing authority demolished four buildings after Hurricane
Katrina. The 4,534 apartments lost were replaced by just 706 units;
many of the former residents were instead given vouchers to rent
private apartments, sometimes far from their old homes.
FACT SHEET: Obama Admin. Highlights Opportunities for Climate
Resilience across Nation.
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/10/31/fact-sheet-obama-administration-highlights-opportunities-building>
Whitehouse.gov (press release) -16 hours ago
Today, the Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience released
its "Resilience Opportunities" report, describing key Administration
accomplishments and highlighting opportunities for Federal agencies
and stakeholders to work together on a shared climate resilience
agenda.....TheResilience Dialogues: Connecting Communities with
Scientists and Practitioners
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/10/31/resilience-dialogues-connecting-communities-scientists-and-practitioners>
- Summary: A new beta online consultative service will help
communities find, use, and understand information, tools, and
programs to support their climate-resilience needs.....In support of
this goal, today the Administration is announcing a coalition of 97
colleges, universities, associations, and academic centers
<https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/Resilient_Design_Schools_List_FINAL.pdf>around
the country that are committing to ensure that the next generation
of design professionals are prepared to design and build for extreme
weather events and the impacts of climate change.
This Election Has Exposed the Climate Movement's Lack of Political
Muscle
<https://www.thenation.com/article/this-election-has-exposed-the-climate-movements-lack-of-political-muscle/>
The Nation. -3 hours ago
The 2016 election should set off a huge alarm for anyone who cares
about the future of this planet. Its message? The climate movement's
political organizing strategies have failed to influence the
conversation. Three facets of the election season expose the climate
movement’s profound lack of political muscle. ... The climate
movement can pressure Clinton in a way that is impossible with
Trump. As Bill McKibben says: "Our job is to elect someone we can
effectively pressure." The climate movement has already shown that
it can influence Presidential politics. The climate movement
successfully pushed Obama to reject the Keystone XL and Dakota
Access Pipelines and pressured Clinton to make statements during her
campaign on Keystone XL, the TPP, and related issues. "We have seen
that, when we apply pressure, we have leverage over Clinton," writes
Becca Rast, an organizer with 350 Action....A new report from Oil
Change International concludes that to avert complete climate
catastrophe, the world must immediately cease all fossil fuel
extraction and transition to renewable energy by 2033. There’s no
wiggle room—no space for Clinton to reject one pipeline and approve
more offshore drilling. The climate movement has yet to build the
political power than can achieve these kinds of goals. If we want
Clinton to keep fossil fuels in the ground, we need fresh, creative,
influential tactics that can truly hold elected leaders accountable
to people and planet.
*Climate Deniers Road Tested the Alt-Right 7 Years Ago
<https://climatecrocks.com/author/greenman3610/>*
YouTube video 15 mins - Peter Sinclair of ClimateCrocks.com says
there's similar tactics in both the attempts to discredit climate
scientists and the culture of the Alt-Right... Shadowy hackers,
distorted, weaponized e-mails, veiled threats from White
Supremacists, possible Russian connections, …insane Alex Jones
rants…where have we seen this before?...Let me think… I was
reviewing the video below when it really hit me just how close the
parallels are between 2010’s "Climate gate" nonsense and the current
election cycle...
*Mediterranean Desert
<https://tamino.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/mediterranean-desert/>*
Reduce rainfall isn’t the only factor influencing drought and
desertification. So too is plain old heat; rising temperature
increases evaporation and dries out the land, making droughts which
come to pass more severe. When the two factors combine, less water
coming in and more evaporating away, desert can replace what was
once green.... Not only has the land area around the Mediterranean
been warming along with the rest of the globe, recently it has been
warming faster than average....A new paper in Science bears the
innocuous title "Climate change: The 2015 Paris Agreement thresholds
and Mediterranean basin ecosystems" [Guiot & Cramer, Science,
354(6311), 465-468, DOI:10.1126/science.aah5015], but comes to the
disturbing conclusion that if the world exceeds the 1.5°C threshold,
much of the Mediterranean region will not be able to sustain the
ecosystem in which it has thrived for 10,000 years. In particular,
it may suffer from reduced rainfall and see now-fertile land turn
into extensive desert....
(opinion) This Election Has Ignored*Climate Change*. That's a Good
Thing.
<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/future_tense/2016/10/this_election_has_ignored_climate_change_which_might_actually_be_a_good.html>
Slate Magazine -6 hours ago
It wasn’t really mentioned in the debates, and that might be a good
thing....The 2016 presidential election has largely ignored*climate
change*. During the three ... After all, prominent Republicans (such
as Henry Paulson and George Shultz) have acknowledged the reality
of*climate change*and have come out in favor of mitigation*.....
*
Mayday, Mayday: UN's shipping body needs a*climate*compass
<http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/10/31/mayday-mayday-uns-shipping-body-needs-a-climate-compass/>
Climate Home -6 hours ago
Last week the International Maritime Organization (IMO) released
what was billed as the UN body's "*climate*plan". On closer
examination it's more a plan to have more plans, but at least sets a
few deadlines: 2018 for an initial carbon cutting strategy*...*
(Opinion) We Don’t Need a ‘War’ on Climate Change, We Need a Revolution
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/opinion/we-dont-need-a-war-on-climate-change-we-need-a-revolution.html>
This year is on track to become the hottest ever recorded, and a
growing number of environmentalists are using a particular type of
language in response. Some are calling for a huge "mobilization" to
"combat" climate change. In an article in the New Republic in
August, Bill McKibben, the unofficial spokesperson of the climate
movement in the United States, insisted in very literal terms that,
we are at war with climate change.... In the United States, we are
familiar with war metaphors; and they are often politically useful.
We have been through wars on poverty, drugs, cancer and even
Christmas. In these cases, metaphors are understood as metaphors,
but when McKibben points to territory ceded, space invaded, cultural
loss and human suffering, he intends to be taken at face value:
"It’s not that global warming is like a world war," he writes. "It
is a world war.".... ....In this light, Exxon and its climate
science obfuscation is not so much an enemy as a paradigmatic
symptom of the worst kinds of behavior generated by profit-driven
systems. The enemy is the violence perpetrated by racial, gendered,
political, juridical and existing economic metabolisms with nature.
Their exploitative organizations would remain unconcerned with
climate justice even if the nation were mobilized to mass produce
solar panels and wind turbines. In other words, Climate change
demands not only a race to develop and deploy new energy
technologies, but a revolution to democratize all forms of power —
fossil fuels, wind, solar, but most important, economic and
political power.
also
https://newrepublic.com/article/135684/declare-war-climate-change-mobilize-wwii
- We’re under attack from climate change—and our only hope is to
mobilize like we did in WWII.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/opinion/we-dont-need-a-war-on-climate-change-we-need-a-revolution.html
*(video) This day in Climate History November 1, *
<http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir>*1987 :
<http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir> From D.R. Tucker
---------------------------*
November 1, 1987: At a Democratic presidential candidates' forum on
the environment in Manchester, New Hampshire, Boston Globe
environmental reporter Dianne Dumanoski asks Massachusetts Gov.
Michael Dukakis and Sen. Al Gore about their plans to address acid
rain and climate change. Dukakis and Gore note that the US must show
global leadership on both issues.
http://c-spanvideo.org/program/Envir (19:55-26:44)
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