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350.org Responds to Lamar Smith Announcing Hearing to Defend
Exxon's*Climate*Lies
<http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2016/08/31/350org-responds-lamar-smith-announcing-hearing-defend-exxons-climate-lies>
Common Dreams (press release) -14 hours ago
350.org: "This hearing should take on ExxonMobil as a corporate
sponsor -- they're certainly the money and influence behind it. Rep.
Smith has zero authority or cause to subpoena us, the attorneys
general, or any other groups looking to uncover the truth about
Exxon's climate lies. Maybe instead of this buffoonery, the House
Science committee could call on, you know, a scientist, to
re-explain the threat of climate change and the role of the fossil
fuel industry in causing the crisis. Rep. Smith sounds like he could
use a refresher course."
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-climatechange-idUSKCN1161YL>
(YouTube video) Seth Meyers Explains Why We Need To Be Paying Closer
Attention To*Climate Change*
<http://uproxx.com/news/seth-meyers-climate-change/>
UPROXX -1 hour ago
...Seth Meyers explained in a "Closer Look" segment on Tuesday
night, 2016 has been one of the hottest years on record — with July
alone being the single hottest month in recorded history — and
things are only going to get worse. And with a presidential campaign
almost completely lacking in substance, climate change deserves to
be getting much, much more attention than it currently is....Hillary
Clinton may at least be pushing for clean energy, but on the other
side of the aisle, Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP are still
firmly taking a "Says Who Guy" stance on the subject. This is
despite the fact that parts of Louisiana are still underwater from
historic flooding, which was considered a "500 year event" — one of
eight of these types of events in the United States alone in the
last year....Trump's attitude about climate change may have been
best illustrated in his now infamous rant about not being able to
use the type of hairspray he likes, however, an application seeking
permission to build a sea wall at one his resorts in Ireland was
revealed to be specifically in response to predictions of a rising
sea wall due to global warming....Either way, whether Trump is
ultimately for or against global warming, it's more clear than ever
that this is something we all need to be paying more attention to
beyond the theatrics in this election season.... YouTube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i30pZSVuyv8
Are You a Millennial? Congratulations!*Climate Change*Will Cost Your
Generation $8.8 Trillion
<https://www.thenation.com/article/are-you-a-millennial-congratulations-climate-change-will-cost-your-generation-8-8-trillion/>
The Nation. -24 minutes ago
That is, unless real change comes to the economy, and
fast....Altogether, without action on*climate change*, Demos
projects a loss of $8.8 trillion in the lifetime income of the
rising generation—vastly overshadowing even the $1 trillion student
debt crisis...The millennials struggling with economic precarity
today are also best positioned to turn the disaster around tomorrow.
It all hinges, though, on whether the aging generation will finally
yield power to young people and let them start cleaning up the mess
they’ve been handed.
Obama to highlight*climate*issues at home before journey overseas
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obama-climatechange-idUSKCN1161YL>
Reuters -32 minutes ago
On Saturday, he will discuss further steps on*climate change*with
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is hosting the summit of the G20
group of leading economies, where*climate*is part of the agenda.
Obama and Xi worked together to secure a global deal*...
*
How does the ocean drive weather and*climate*extremes?
<http://phys.org/news/2016-08-ocean-weather-climate-extremes.html>
Phys.Org -3 hours ago
When ocean currents change, they modify the sea surface temperature
that the atmosphere sees, which drives anomalies in winds, weather
and climate across the planet. Such departures from average
conditions sometimes occur in predictable ways. For example, every
three to seven years, the sea surface temperature along the equator
in the Pacific Ocean warms by as much as 2 to 3 degrees Celsius. A
warm El Niño climate pattern results, which changes rainfall and
weather, from flooding in California to drought in
Australia....Abernathey and Seager are particularly interested in
how changes in the ocean cause sea surface temperature to vary, and
how these anomalies drive changes in atmospheric circulation to
create extreme weather and*climate*conditions over land*...*
*For-Profit Pipeline Company Claims "Public Benefit" in Seizing Private
Lands in Pennsylvania
<http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/08/31/profit-pipeline-company-claims-public-benefit-seizing-private-lands-pennsylvania>*
The potential windfall for Sunoco ...the reason for.. strong arm
tactics to seize private property in the path of the pipeline
extension, tactics that include invoking eminent domain, even though
it's a private, for-profit company rather than a government entity,
and even though, they say, it has not proven that the pipeline would
contribute a "public benefit." Both conditions are traditionally
required for landowners to forfeit property in eminent domain
disputes. .... Sunoco Logistics is not regulated nor held to the
standards of a utility.... The primary purpose of Mariner East II
is, one, to make money for a for-profit, private corporation, and
two, to export natural gas products overseas," ....The controversy
over whether a private company can take private land to build
pipelines is not settled
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/06/07/the-growing-battle-over-the-use-of-eminent-domain-to-take-property-for-pipelines/?utm_term=.a8525b0c310c>
- "The growing use of eminent domain to seize property for pipelines
has generated opposition from an unusual coalition of liberal
environmentalists and conservative and libertarian property rights
advocates" ....with oil and gas pipeline construction projects on
the rise across the nation, observers on both sides will eagerly
await the results.
*Thousands of Homes Keep Flooding, Yet They Keep Being Rebuilt Again
<http://e360.yale.edu/digest/thousands_of_us_homes_keep_flooding_and_being_rebuilt_fema_insurance_louisiana/4792/>*
The U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, which holds policies for
more than 5 million homes, is $23 billion in debt after a string of
natural disasters this century. As climate change further strains
the program, analysts say it is time to shift its focus from
rebuilding to mitigating risk.... More than 2,100 properties across
the U.S. enrolled in the National Flood Insurance Program have
flooded and been rebuilt more than 10 times since 1978, according to
a new analysis of insurance data by the Natural Resources Defense
Council (NRDC). One home in Batchelor, Louisiana has flooded 40
times over the past four decades, receiving $428,379 in insurance
payments. More than 30,000 properties in the program, run by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, have flooded multiple times
over the years. Those homes, known as "severe repetitive loss
properties," make up just 0.6 percent of federal flood insurance
policies. But they account for 10.6 percent of the program's claims
— totaling $5.5 billion in payments....the average cumulative payout
per property as a result of repeated flooding was $181,444. Nearly
half of these repetitive loss properties have been paid more in
flood insurance money than their houses are worth,
By Katherine Bagley http://e360.yale.edu/
*Harbinger of Climate Slums to Come
<https://www.thenation.com/article/low-water-mark/>*
Federal legislation is hastening the collapse of working class
neighborhoods near water... Rather than drawing lines of explicit
exclusion, climate redlining functions through predatory inclusion.
Here's how it works: In cities like Troy, governments underinvest in
poor neighborhoods because their residents lack the political power
to push for protection. ..Federal policies... encourage homeowners
to abandon flood-prone neighborhoods by raising insurance premiums
so high that they're impossible to pay. Those who can afford to
move get out. Those who can't are stuck without adequate
infrastructure or the security of attainable insurance....Finally,
real-estate capitalism kicks in. Filling the gap in affordable
housing in small historic cities facing gentrification pressures,
landlords buy up abandoned buildings in climate-vulnerable
neighborhoods for cash and offer them as low-cost rentals. Because
homes bought for cash carry no mortgages, there's no requirement
that they carry flood insurance. The result of this process are
hypervulnerable climate slums.....The vulnerability of poor and
working-class neighborhoods to natural disaster will worsen as
climate change advances. Environmental scientists caution that
what were once known as 100-year floods will become 10-year floods
by midcentury....Troy's poor and working-class neighborhoods came
within a hair's breadth of total disaster during Tropical Storm
Irene. There are hundreds of older cities and rural communities in
the United States built along waterways... How do we respond to the
reality of rising waters without encouraging climate
redlining?......the New York City Panel on Climate Change's 2015
report confirms that the old and the very young, women, the mentally
ill, those who lack physical mobility, and the poor all suffer from
climate-based trauma at higher rates than the general population.
The Black Lives Matter movement explicitly links racial justice and
climate justice, citing the fatalities of Hurricane Katrina and the
weeks of suffering in Red Hook, Brooklyn, after Superstorm
Sandy.....Climate redlining is not a problem that can be solved one
household at a time. The interlocking crises of climate change,
failing federal safety nets, and neglected infrastructure are the
result of shared political decision-making, not bad choices made by
people living in floodplains. Poor and working-class communities
aren't responsible for the changing climate, but we are being asked
to pay the price, with our money and our lives, when the waters rise.
"What can we do? ... the most important thing?*We can vote*." - Phli Plait
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