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*Climate Change*Got Exactly 2 Seconds of Time in the Final Debate
<http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/climate-change-got-exactly-2-seconds-time-final-debate>
Mother Jones -10 hours ago
Five minutes and twenty-seven seconds were spent on*climate
change*and other environmental issues in the three presidential
debates, 2 percent of the total time—and that was pretty much all
Hillary Clinton talking.
Criminally irresponsible' media avoid*climate*debate questions
<https://thinkprogress.org/media-avoid-climate-debate-questions-again-d820db6daff7>
*Climate*silence lives. Despite pleas from editorial writers,
columnists, and scientists, Chris Wallace, the moderator of the
third and final presidential debate ignored arguably the most
important issue facing the next president -*climate change*. Thus*..***
Editorial Cartoon <Philly.com:Signe%20Wilkinson>
****Philly.com:Signe Wilkinson
<http://cdn.app.theweek.com/editions/com.dennis.theweek.issue.issue794/data/47155_82eced2bcc3ee5b77aa99e78648296ec/web.html>**
Ice Detectives Scramble before*Climate Change*Destroys Evidence of
Itself
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ice-detectives-scramble-before-climate-change-destroys-evidence-of-itself/>
Scientific American -7 hours ago
Late this past summer researchers and engineers from France, Italy
and Russia extracted three ice cores from France's Col du Dôme
Glacier in a race to preserve valuable information about*climate
change*before rising temperatures wash it away. There is*...
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*Study: Human-Caused Climate Change Has Doubled Western U.S. Forest Fire
Area
<http://www.uidaho.edu/news/news-articles/news-releases/2016-october/101016-forestfires>*
...unmitigated human-caused climate change will likely have a
growing effect on fire seasons — like the drum section of the
orchestra growing louder and louder...."We expect that the effects
of human-caused climate change will intensify over the next several
decades. So long as there are trees in our forests, climate change
will continue to set the table for large fire seasons."
*Exclusive: Q&A with Filmmaker Deia Schlosberg on Her Arrest While
Filming an Activist Shutting Down a Tar Sands Pipeline
<http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/10/19/exclusive-qa-deia-schlosberg-her-arrest-while-filming-activist-shutting-down-tar-sands-pipeline>*
DeSmogBlog: On October 11, 2016, award-winning documentary
filmmaker Deia Schlosberg was arrested in North Dakota while filming
an activist with Climate Direct Action as he turned off a
TransCanada oil sands pipeline crossing from Canada into the United
States. It was one of five actions that shut down all pipelines
carrying tar sands into the U.S. from Canada that day....In an
exclusive interview with DeSmog, Schlosberg shares her experience,
including what it's like being a reporter facing felony accounts
with a potential maximum sentence of 45 years, her reaction when
Edward Snowden tweeted about her, and a message for other
journalists covering climate change and the oil and gas industry.
..."I did not ever intend to be the story. It's safe on this side of
the camera usually," Schlosberg told DeSmog. .
http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/10/19/exclusive-qa-deia-schlosberg-her-arrest-while-filming-activist-shutting-down-tar-sands-pipeline
'I Was Doing My Job': Climate Reporter Facing 45 Years Speaks Out -
https://www.mintpressnews.com/job-climate-reporter-facing-45-years-speaks/221584/
Journalists Risk Legal Battles & Prison Time For Covering Dakota
Access Pipeline Protests -
http://www.mintpressnews.com/journalists-risk-legal-battles-prison-time-covering-dakota-access-pipeline-protests/221612/
https://www.mintpressnews.com/job-climate-reporter-facing-45-years-speaks/221584/
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Judge: EPA must analyze jobs lost in coal industry
<http://powersource.post-gazette.com/powersource/policy-powersource/2016/10/19/Judge-EPA-must-analyze-jobs-lost-in-coal-industry-Murray-Energy/stories/201610190154>*
BECKLEY, W.Va. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must begin
evaluating how many power plants and coal mining jobs are lost
because of air pollution regulations, an analysis it hasn't done in
decades, a federal judge in West Virginia on Monday
ordered....Murray Energy Corporation brought the challenge years ago
and was joined by most of the companies mining coal underground.
Thirteen states support the suit, which blames the EPA for the coal
industry's declining fortunes....The most that the EPA does is
"conduct proactive analysis of the employment effects of our
rulemaking actions," but that has not included investigating power
plant and mine closures and worker dislocations on an ongoing basis,
the judge wrote.
Arctic Cities Crumble as*Climate Change*Thaws Permafrost
<https://www.wired.com/2016/10/thawing-permafrost-destroying-arctic-cities/>
WIRED -3 hours ago
Cracking and collapsing structures are a growing problem in cities
like Norilsk—a nickel-producing centre of 177,000 people located 180
miles above the Arctic Circle—as*climate change*thaws the
perennially frozen soil and increases precipitation*...
*More at:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/oct/14/thawing-permafrost-destroying-arctic-cities-norilsk-russia,
The attack on the permafrost. MOE creates Arctic rescue centers
<The%20attack%20on%20the%20permafrost.%20MOE%20creates%20Arctic%20rescue%20centers>(Translate
w Google) *,
Russia significantly under-reporting wildfires, figures show
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/16/russia-significantly-under-reporting-wildfires-figures-show>
*Changes in the 1963–2013 shallow ground thermal regime in Russian
permafrost regions*
<http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/10/12/125005/meta;jsessionid=988198CE07A3443E077F281ED3228354.c2.iopscience.cld.iop.org>
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US health insurers are in a state of denial about*climate change*
<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-health-insurers-are-paying-little-heed-to-climate-change-2016-10-20>
MarketWatch -1 hour ago
Ceres found that while property and casualty insurers and life and
annuity insurers have made some progress in engaging with*climate
change*and attempting to evaluate the risks to their business,
health insurers appear to be in a state of denial*...*
*9 cities to live in if you're worried about climate change
<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/science/9-cities-to-live-in-if-youre-worried-about-climate-change.html?_r=0>*
It's hard to imagine that any city in North America will escape the
effects of climate change within the next 25 years.
... But some will be better positioned than others ....advice: If
you're looking for a place to live, pay attention to the qualities
of the cities more than the specific locations..."I don't care if
you found the safest place in the U.S.," .... "We're all going to
pay, we're all going to suffer that economic disruption, we're all
going to pay for that relocation."
*Portland, Me.*
Midwestern trifecta: *Detroit, Chicago and Madison, Wis. *
*San Francisco**
**Boise, Idaho**
**New York City**
**State College, Pa.**
**Toronto*
*This day in Climate History **October 21, 2001:*
<http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/21/opinion/op-59754> From D.R.
Tucker ---------------------------
October 21, 2001: In the Los Angeles Times, Bill McKibben notes that
in the aftermath of 9/11, the George W. Bush administration might
want to consider "[taking] the money now used to subsidize fossil
fuels and nuclear power and [using] it instead to jump-start the
conversion to renewable energy sources, which by their nature are
decentralized, flexible and unappealing to terrorists. Take, for
example, wind power. It is already the fastest-growing power source
on Earth, mostly because it's environmentally benign. But now we
know it's a security asset as well. An enemy could knock out one
windmill, but it wouldn't spew radioactivity and it wouldn't damage
all the other windmills. No one is standing guard around the clock
on their rooftop solar panel."....It's hard enough to defend our oil
supplies in the Mideast. It is impossible to imagine a fatter, or
less defensible, terrorist target than the Alaska
pipeline....Unless, that is, one looks at the handful of natural gas
pipelines that serve our East Coast. Or the two dozen refineries
concentrated in Texas, Louisiana and California that process a huge
percentage of the oil we use....It's a happy coincidence that clean
power is also secure power. The sooner we get to work on it, the
sooner we'll be able to cross one item off our list of
worries.http://articles.latimes.com/
<http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/21/opinion/op-59754>2001/oct/21/opinion/op-59754
<http://articles.latimes.com/2001/oct/21/opinion/op-59754>
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