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With No Illusions, Says*Climate*Leader, Clinton Must Be Elected—Then
Fiercely Confronted
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/10/18/no-illusions-says-climate-leader-clinton-must-be-elected-then-fiercely-confronted>
Common Dreams (press release) -3 hours ago
The day after the election, the climate movement will 'need to press
harder than ever for real progress on the biggest crisis the world
has ever faced.'.. And when faced with the choice between a
"horror," and a politician who—through growing pressure from
concerned citizens—has shown she can be pushed on issues related
to*climate*, McKibben reasons, he'll take the latter.... Those
feelings... were compounded after WikiLeaks revealed this weekend
that behind closed doors Clinton defended natural gas and fracking,
and said that environmental activists should "get a life."...Those
damning email leaks only further underscored what McKibben describes
as Clinton's "craven" silence over the Dakota Access Pipeline
fight...."Even the sight of attack dogs being used on peaceful
Native American protesters didn't move her to break ranks with her
industry allies and that fraction of the labor movement that still
wants to build pipelines," he writes. "That's craven on her part,
pure and simple."...The "good news," McKibben concludes, "is that
when she wins, none of us will be under the slightest illusion about
who she is." ...And the day after she's elected, he says, that's
when the environmental movement will truly need to kick into
gear...."The honeymoon won't last 10 minutes," he says, "on November
9 we'll be organizing for science and human rights and against the
timid incrementalism that marks her approach. It's clear that we
need to beat the creepy perv she's running against. It's also clear
that we then need to press harder than ever for real progress on the
biggest crisis the world has ever faced."...Bill McKibben, author
and co-founder of 350.org, minces no words addressing those
environmentally-minded voters who are fretting over the mixed record
of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton: Elect her, "and
then give her hell."
Hottest Months on Record Have Something in Common
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/hottest-months-global-warming-20797>
Climate Central -7 hours ago
The global average temperature is the clearest indicator of*climate
change*and each month on record is a testament to what's happening
to the planet because of human carbon pollution.
*It could be the nation's first carbon tax. And environmentalists are
fighting over it
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/10/17/it-could-be-the-nations-first-carbon-tax-and-environmentalists-are-fighting-over-it/?postshare=6311476715239575&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.4b104ba8548a>*
A new initiative slated for the ballot in Washington state next
month would create the first-ever carbon tax to be implemented in
the United States. But while the initiative promises to fight
climate change by making it more expensive to emit greenhouse gases,
it's caused an unexpected controversy among
environmentalists....Despite the endorsement of dozens of climate
scientists and economists, many environmental groups have refused to
support it at all, citing concerns about the proposal's revenue
projections, its approach to the involvement of disadvantaged
communities, and a lack of true investment in clean
energy....Initiative 732 began as a grassroots campaign known as
Carbon Washington, founded by environmental economist and stand-up
comedian Yoram Bauman. If successful, it would become one of just a
few ever to be implemented in North America and the first in the
United States.
*The left vs. a carbon tax
<http://www.vox.com/2016/10/18/13012394/i-732-carbon-tax-washington>*
Dave Roberts: .... carbon tax on the ballot ... meant not just to
put the state on the path to its climate targets but to serve as an
example to other states. ... I-732 .. would do four things:
*Impose a tax on carbon emissions,*
*Reduce the state sales tax by 1 percentage point.*
*Fund the working families tax rebate (WFTR),*
*Eliminate the business and occupation tax on manufacturing.*
First is the large, predictable, and steadily rising price on
carbon, something climate policy analysts have been advocating for
decades as the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions...
liberal groups in Washington believe ...that its policy is fatally
incomplete and insufficient.... it's worse than incomplete — they
think it would set back climate progress. They really, really hate
it, perhaps more than can be fully explained through policy
disagreements....Talks between Washington's environmental groups
reach a standoff...The left in Washington state has largely
abandoned I-732
The Missing*Climate Change*Debate
<https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-18/climate-change-belongs-in-the-next-presidential-debate>
Bloomberg -7 hours ago
For a presidential campaign notable for dark warnings of the coming
apocalypse, the one thing that actually could bring about an
apocalypse --*climate change*-- has been conspicuously absent from
the debates. A final chance to raise the issue will come ...
Stop waiting for a big breakthrough on*climate change*. This is what
we'll get instead.
<http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13304052/climate-policy-aviation-paris-hfcs>
Vox -16 hours ago
Global warming can sometimes feel like this big, hopelessly
intractable problem that no one's doing much about. But the first
two weeks of October have seen a genuinely impressive barrage of
climate action around the world.... 1) Canada got a carbon tax., 2)
The Paris climate deal went into effect.,3) A new global deal on
aviation emissions.,4) A new global deal to phase out HFCs.....Not
bad for half a month! Gernot Wagner, an economist at Harvard's
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, called it a “masterclass
in climate policy.” You've got carbon pricing, international
agreements, offsets ... all the stuff environmental wonks have been
suggesting for years....*Of course, we're still not close to
stopping global warming*...
Now, if you wanted to inject some pessimism here, you could point
out the very real limitations of all these moves. Even added
together, they don't get us anywhere close to keeping global warming
below 2°C (or 3.6°F) — the level governments all agree is
unacceptable....Nor are we yet on a trajectory to do so. If you take
all the policy promises that nations proposed at Paris last year
(which included reducing HFCs), they still put us on pace for 2.5°C
or 3°C or more of warming. And that's assuming countries actually
hit their pledges, which they may not. Case in point: A recent study
in Nature Climate Change warned that the US could miss its targets
due to excess methane emissions....I'm deeply skeptical that
countries can achieve their goal of keeping global warming below
2°C. The math is too brutal, the momentum too sluggish. But that
doesn't mean it's time to give up. Even keeping global warming at
2.5°C or 3°C is vastly preferable to 4°C or 5°C. Every additional
degree means more coastal area lost to the sea, more crop failures,
more deadly heat waves, more human misery. There's always reason to
push harder.
*Show this cartoon to anyone who doubts we need huge action on climate
change
<http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/10/17/13190036/global-climate-change-facts-effects-cartoon>*
It's a crisp fall day. So why would you believe Earth is in a dire
situation?...all the fossil fuels — oil, coal, and natural gas —
that humans have identified as recoverable with current technology.
The black spot is what we're currently harvesting with mines and
wells...So what if, tomorrow, all the world leaders got together and
decided to stop building new mines and wells?...if we were able to
keep it at that amount, what would happen?...The kicker is that even
in this crazily ambitious scenario, we have to rely on "negative
emissions" technologies that pull carbon out of the air and bury
it....The problem: We have no clue if that's even
possible....Negative emissions technologies have not been tested or
proven at any scale. We are literally gambling our species' future
on the idea that we're going to be able to invent it and scale it up
to enormous size ... by 2065...No country is taking this long shot
seriously. This means Earth will probably warm past 2 degrees. It's
terrifying.
*The West Is Burning, And Climate Change Is Partly To Blame
<http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-west-is-burning-and-climate-change-is-partly-to-blame/>*
California's Soberanes Fire, which was sparked by an illegal
campfire in July, is still smoldering. The effort it took to contain
that blaze is believed to be one of the most expensive — if not the
most expensive — wildfire-fighting operations ever....With wildfire,
such superlatives have, paradoxically, become normal. Records are
routinely smashed — for acreage burned, homes destroyed, firefighter
lives lost and money spent fighting back flames. A study published
earlier this year found that, between 2003 and 2012, the average
area burned each year in Western national forests was 1,271 percent
greater than it was in the 1970s and early 1980s....Abatzoglou and
his co-author, Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia
University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, estimate that
human-caused climate change was responsible for nearly doubling the
area burned in the West between 1984 and 2015. If the last few
decades had been simply dry, instead of some of the hottest and
driest on record, perhaps 10.4 million fewer acres would have
burned, they say.
*This day in Climate History **October 19, 1992:*
<https://youtu.be/jCGtHqIwKek?t=27m25s> From D.R. Tucker
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In the third presidential debate
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGtHqIwKekhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGtHqIwKek>,
President George H. W. Bush accuses Democratic challenger Bill
Clinton and his running mate, Senator Al Gore, of pandering to "the
spotted owl crowd or the extremes in the environmental movement" by
supporting an increase in fuel efficiency standards. Clinton defends
the idea of raising fuel efficiency standards; in addition, he
states, "We also ought to convert more vehicles to compressed
natural gas. That's another way to improve the environment."
(26:30-29:00)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGtHqIwKek>=jCGtHqIwKek
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCGtHqIwKek>
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