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*People are worried Trump will stop climate progress. The numbers
suggest he can’t
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/21/people-are-worried-trump-will-stop-climate-progress-the-numbers-suggest-he-cant/>*
...The United States must aggressively reduce its emissions for
global climate change mitigation to be successful, and should
contribute its fair share to clean energy research – but over the
course of one or two terms, a Trump administration alone cannot halt
global progress....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/21/people-are-worried-trump-will-stop-climate-progress-the-numbers-suggest-he-cant/
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/11/21/people-are-worried-trump-will-stop-climate-progress-the-numbers-suggest-he-cant/?utm_term=.b5702f4476f9>
Class-Action Lawsuit Adds to ExxonMobil's*Climate Change*Woes
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18112016/exxon-climate-change-research-oil-reserves-stranded-assets-lawsuit>
InsideClimate News -3 hours ago
Investors allege Exxon should have adjusted its accounting of oil
reserves based on what it knows about climate change and coming
climate action....shareholders have filed a class-action lawsuit ...
alleging it misled its investors and the public by failing to
disclose the risks posed to its business by*climate change. The
alleged deception resulted in stockholders paying inflated prices
for Exxon stock and subjected them to financial losses because the
company knew the value of its oil reserves was less than what it was
telling investors, according to the lawsuit filed in Texas federal
court earlier this month.
"Exxon has long understood the negative effects of climate change
and global warning and their relation to the worldwide use of
hydrocarbons," according to the lawsuit.
"Exxon understood and appreciated that it was highly likely that it
would not be able to extract all of its hydrocarbon reserves and
that certain of those assets were 'stranded.' Yet Exxon publicly
represented that none of its assets were 'stranded' because the
impacts of climate change, if any, were uncertain and far off in the
future."...The SEC also has reportedly opened an investigation into
Exxon to determine whether the company has been forthcoming with
investors about climate risks and accounting issues concerning its
reserves.
Among the cautionary signs that Exxon concealed from investors was
the company's own internal reports from the 1970s concerning climate
change, which recognized the environmental risks caused by global
warming, according to the lawsuit.
"Given the risks associated with global warming and climate change,
the Company would not be able to extract the existing hydrocarbon
reserves Exxon claimed to have," according to the lawsuit.
As a result, the suit says, a significant portion of Exxon's
reserves should already have been written down; that's a bookkeeping
function that reduces the value of an asset because it has been
overvalued.
*
UN plans early warning network as*climate*risks soar
<http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/11/21/un-plans-early-warning-network-as-climate-risks-soar/>
Climate Home -3 hours ago
As summers get hotter, seas get warmer and extreme wind and
rainstorms inflict ever-greater loss of human life and property, the
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) is trying to develop and
early warning system for vulnerable countries and regions.
*102 million dead California trees 'unprecedented in our modern
history,' officials say*
<http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-dead-trees-20161118-story.html>
The number of dead trees in California’s drought-stricken forests
has risen dramatically to more than 102 million in what officials
described as an unparalleled ecological disaster that heightens the
danger of massive wildfires and damaging erosion....The majority of
the dead trees are in the southern and central Sierra Nevada region,
officials said, though they warned that high mortality levels are
also creeping into forests in Northern California, notably Siskiyou,
Modoc, Plumas and Lassen counties. ..When a lot of dead fuel remains
on the ground, fires burn hotter and damage the soil, experts said.
Whenever rain eventually arrives, the water cannot filter through
the soil as easily, so it moves the top layer, creating the
potential for mudslides and destroying root systems.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-dead-trees-20161118-story.html
Meet Donald the*Climate*Clown
<http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/21/meet-donald-climate-clown>
Common Dreams (press release) -2 hours ago
Later today in Stockholm, a conference organized by the business
group, the International Chamber of Commerce, examines “Bridging
the*Climate Change*Policy Gap.” The conference flier asks the
question, that post the historic Paris*climate change* ...
*How to stay sane in the face of climate change
<https://thinkprogress.org/how-to-stay-sane-in-the-face-of-climate-change-1fadca65c49#.xklrfqyb9>*
Physical consequences aren’t the only danger of the climate
crisis....Climate change, like a lot of things, is scary. But if
mental health professionals a tip for coping, it seems to be this:
Talk about it. Share your feelings. And remember that we are all in
this together....But talking about climate change — about the fears
and stress that come with the understanding that mankind is, perhaps
irreversibly, altering the planet — does more than help people feel
less alone. It also helps create stronger bonds to community, which
is something that studies have shown can help people bounce back
quicker when a devastating climate event, like a major flood or a
crippling drought, takes place.
https://thinkprogress.org/how-to-stay-sane-in-the-face-of-climate-change-1fadca65c49#.xklrfqyb9
*Obama Halts Arctic Oil Leases and Undoing It Won't Be Simple for Trump
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18112016/barack-obama-arctic-oil-drilling-natural-gas-donald-trump>*
By writing a five-year plan with no leases for oil drilling in the
Alaskan Arctic, President Obama—and market forces—provide roadblocks
for Trump to change....No new offshore oil and gas leases will be
offered in the Alaskan Arctic through 2022, according to a new
five-year plan for offshore drilling released Friday by the Obama
administration. President-elect Donald Trump could overturn the ban,
but that could take years and may not draw much industry interest if
oil prices stay low... The Interior Department's five-year plan
laid out all of the proposed auctions for drilling rights on the
outer continental shelf of the United States. It allowed for no
leases between 2017 and 2022 in the Beaufort or Chukchi seas, Arctic
waters north and west of Alaska.
..https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18112016/barack-obama-arctic-oil-drilling-natural-gas-donald-trump
U.S. Record Highs Will Far Outpace Lows With Warming
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/record-highs-could-outpace-lows-with-warming-20901>
Climate Central -6 hours ago
Over the first decade of this century, record high daily
temperatures in the U.S. were registered twice as often as record
lows, a clear sign of*global warming*. If emissions of heat-trapping
greenhouse gases continue on their current track, that ratio could
become even more skewed, potentially reaching 15-to-1 by midcentury,
a new study finds.*...this shift started happening in the late 1970s
and that the ratio of record highs to lows had reached 2-to-1 over
the first decade of this century. (So far this year, the ratio is
6-to-1, and the U.S. is on pace for its second-hottest year on
record.) ... In particular, overnight lows have been hitting record
high levels.*
*No global warming in Siberia, Donald Trump?
<http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/news/n0793-no-global-warming-in-siberia-donald-trump/>*
The Arctic district of Verkhoyansk, one of the coldest in habited
places in the world, recorded a temperature of 19.2C on 18 November,
some 19C above average. ..
The district is in Yakutia, also known as the Sakha Republic, and in
parts of the Arctic north of this region temperatures are even more
surprising...
In the village of Olenek on the same day weathermen recorded minus
5.1C, a record warm. In the remote port of Tiksi, it was only minus
3C. ..
In Chukotka, on the Arctic shore, a November record was registered
of a remarkable 4C, with a daily average of 20C milder than usual...
the latest weather is not consistent with Western Siberia and the
Urals facing extreme cold.
http://siberiantimes.com/ecology/casestudy/news/n0793-no-global-warming-in-siberia-donald-trump/
*(Opinion) Global warming: where the arc of the moral universe stops
<http://religionnews.com/2016/11/21/global-warming-where-the-arc-of-the-moral-universe-stops/>*
Since the election, some Americans have found consolation in the
line that Martin Luther King, Jr. adapted from the 19th-century
Unitarian divine Theodore Parker: “The arc of the moral universe is
long but it bends toward justice.”
So maybe the arc just got longer. So maybe justice for the poor, the
sick, and the stranger among us is farther off. We’re still headed
in the right direction.
But what if time runs out?
It is running out. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — famine,
pestilence, war, and death — are saddled up. Greenhouse gas
emissions are raising the temperature of the Earth to a point of no
return.
Global warming — let’s stop calling it “climate change” — is more
important than immigration, manufacturing jobs, Obamacare, ISIS,
financial regulation, religious liberty, abortion, Medicare, black
lives matter, and the white working class. It will destroy the moral
universe itself, so far as it exists on this planet.
http://religionnews.com/2016/11/21/global-warming-where-the-arc-of-the-moral-universe-stops/
*YouTube: Watch Bernie Sanders slam USA Today reporter for inappropriate
question <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwn7Kko8ERo>*
1:30 Transcript:
"Sir looking forward to 2020," USA Today reporter Herb Jackson
asked. "Could you give us your thoughts about who you think might be
the Democratic standard bearer? And do you have any thoughts on Cory
Booker?"
"I am reading the last chapter of my book on corporate media,"
said Bernie Sanders. "I think this is incredible. And I have to say
this in all due respect. Are we? Already? We haven’t inaugurated
this president and we're talking about 2020 because it's easy to
write about. What about talking about climate change and whether the
planet survives. What about talking about income and wealth
inequality in medical. What about talking about youth unemployment
in African American communities up 30, 40 percent. What about
talking about immigration reform criminal justice reform. Those are
the issues that the American people need to be engaged in; to start
talking about who's gonna be running in 2080... And look at you. You
look like a good candidate. I mean how much money do you have. Maybe
we will run you. ...I mean, I don't mean to be rude. But the
American people are tired of that. They really are. They would like
to hear serious discussion on serious issues. Who is running in
2020, what 2090 is of concern? And I got to tell, people are turning
off their TVs. They are tired of, you know, all of that stuff. So in
all due respect. We got serious problems in this country. And let's
talk about the serious issues and not worry who's going to be
running in 4 years when we haven't even inaugurated the president
who just won." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwn7Kko8ERo
*This Day in Climate History November 22, 2009
<http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/> -
from D.R. Tucker *
CNN reports on the disproportionate toll climate change takes on women.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/18/climate.change.women/
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