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*Climate*liabilities may drive big oil to advocate carbon taxes
<http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/energy-environment/294473-climate-liabilities-may-drive-big-oil-to-advocate>
The Hill (blog) -11 hours ago
Economists in both parties,*climate change*activists, and many
nations, including China, support taxing carbon dioxide emissions as
the most efficient way to fight the increasingly serious problem
of*climate change*. But US oil giants, led by Exxon-Mobil, have
backed a carbon tax in name only. They feature it on their websites
or when asked about climate change by shareholders or journalists,
then have their lobbyist work against it in the halls of Congress.
Yet if oil companies were to genuinely advocate carbon taxes, the
policy implications could be immense, enabling not just more
effective, efficient climate policy, but likely tax reform, as
well....Until now, the industry’s lobbying arm, the American
Petroleum Institute, has assiduously led efforts to undermine any
attempt to tax oil, natural gas, gasoline or carbon emissions. API,
widely viewed as the most powerful trade association in Washington,
has teamed with Republicans in Congress to prevent increases in the
long-stagnant federal gasoline tax, or efforts to impose taxes on
oil or pricing policies like cap and trade carbon markets. *...But
now that might be changing. Exxon, the world’s largest non-state
oil and gas corporation, has been discussing details of carbon tax
proposals with key staff on Capitol Hill, and in meetings with other
oil companies, according to the Wall Street Journal. Additional
news sources have reported that API has created a special committee
to study climate change policy. While healthy skepticism about the
industry’s eagerness to tax its own products remains justified,
profound new vulnerabilities related to climate change suggest that
carbon pricing may now be in the long-term business interests of oil
and gas giants....*
TPP Would Make*Climate*Goals 'Nearly Impossible' to Reach: Report
<http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/06/tpp-would-make-climate-goals-nearly-impossible-reach-report>
Common Dreams (press release) -9 hours ago
Conflicts between environmentalists and trade advocates will become
more frequent, the report warns—and more often than not, trade will
win out ..In unsurprising news, a report has found that so-called
free trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) would make
it nearly impossible to reach the goals set out by the
Paris*climate*agreement. ... With more and more nations and
lawmakers*...*"*Trade deals are driving a form of corporate-led
globalization that is highly extractive of natural resources and
completely ignores the damage it does to the climate,*"* said report
author Ben Lilliston, IATP's director of climate strategies. *"*If
we don't reform our trade agreements and reject the TPP, it will be
nearly impossible to reach our climate goals agreed to in Paris.*"
**
*Company Led by Donald Trump's Energy Aide Says Its Oil Will Flow
Through Dakota Access Pipeline
<http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/09/06/harold-hamm-donald-trump-dakota-access-pipeline>*
Continental Resources
<http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/15658> — the company
founded and led byCEOHarold Hamm,energy adviser
<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/trumps-energy-whisperer-225877> to Donald
Trump's presidential campaign andpotentialU.S.Secretary of Energy
<http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-hamm-exclusive-idUSKCN10100Z>under
a Trump presidency — has announced to investors that oil it obtains
viahydraulic fracturing ("fracking")
<http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/>from North
Dakota'sBakken Shale
<http://www.desmogblog.com/directory/vocabulary/7174>basin is
destined for transport through the hotly-contestedDakota Access
pipeline
<http://www.desmogblog.com/energy-transfer-partners-bakken-oil-pipeline-through-iowa>.
The company's 37-page September 2016 Investor Update
<http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/InvestorUpdate_September%202016.pdf>presentation walks
investors in the publicly-traded company through various capital
expenditure and profit-margin earning scenarios. It also features
five slides on the Bakken Shale, with the fifth one named "CLRBakken
Differentials Decreasing Through Increased Pipeline Capacity" honing
in on Dakota Access,ETCOPand how the interconnected lines relate to
Continental's marketing plans going forward...In a section of that
slide titled, "Bakken Takeaway Capacity" a bar graph points out that
the opening of Dakota Access would allow more barrels of
Continental's Bakken fracked oil to flow through pipelines. ..Dakota
Access isslated to carry
<http://www.daplpipelinefacts.com/docs-dapl/DAPL_States_Counties.pdf>the
fracked Bakken oil across South Dakota, Iowa and into Patoka,
Illinois. From there, it will connect to the company's Energy
Transfer Crude Oil Pipeline (
<http://www.energytransfer.com/documents/ETCOP_FactSheet10.pdf>ETCOP
<http://www.energytransfer.com/documents/ETCOP_FactSheet10.pdf>)
line
<http://www.energytransfer.com/documents/ETCOP_FactSheet10.pdf>,
which terminates in Nederland, Texas at the Sunoco
Logistics-owned refinery. DeSmogBlog <http://www.desmogblog.com/>
*
****Conservative media bias is inflating American climate denial and
polarization
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/sep/06/conservative-media-bias-is-inflating-american-climate-denial-and-polarization>*
New studies show that climate polarization is on the rise in the US;
WSJ climate coverage is full of denial...A new study by a team of
sociologists at Oklahoma State University has found political
polarization on climate change is growing in the United States.
Today’s Republicans are less likely than they were a decade ago to
accept that the effects of global warming have begun, that humans
are responsible, and that there is a scientific consensus on these
questions. Democrats and independents are slightly more likely to
answer these questions correctly today than a decade ago....Climate
change is now more polarizing in the US than abortion or gay
marriage. At the same time, climate denial has become the norm among
Republican policymakers, as they’ve grown increasingly
anti-environment. As the study notes: What was once a modest
tendency for Congressional Republicans to be less pro-environmental
than their Democratic counterparts has become a chasm—with
Republicans taking near-unanimous anti-environmental stances on
relevant legislation in recent years, especially 2015.
BlackRock Says Investors Need to Assess*Climate Change*When
Investing <http://fortune.com/2016/09/06/blackrock-climate-change/>
Fortune -4 hours ago
BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, said all investors
should factor*climate change*into their decision-making and doing so
would not mean having to accept lower returns...Global moves to
coordinate a response to climate change took a big step forward on
Saturday when both China and the United States ratified a 2015 plan
to curb climate-warming emissions, raising chances it will enter
into law this year....BlackRock BLK -0.83% said it is
strengthening its data and analytical processes to reflect changes
to the environment — and political responses to them....In a 16-page
report released after the G20 meeting in China, BlackRock, which
manages more than $4.9 trillion in assets, said risks and
opportunities would come through the physical effects of climate
change, technological change, as well as the regulatory and social
response.
*
EXPOSED: Fox News Scrubs Climate Change Mention From Article About
Tropical Storm Hermine
<http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/09/06/exposed-fox-news-scrubs-climate-change-mention-article-about-tropical-storm-hermine/212858>*
MediaMattersFor one brief moment over the weekend, Fox News did the
unthinkable: acknowledge some of the real-world impacts of climate
change in an online article about Tropical Storm Hermine. Soon
afterward, though, Fox got back on message, erasing all mentions of
global warming from the piece....The Fox News article, which was
initially attributed to The Associated Press and published on
FoxNews.com on September 4, reported that climate scientists say
"the storm surges pushed by Hermine could be even more damaging"
because "sea levels have risen up to a foot due to global warming."
The article cited Penn State University scientist Michael Mann and
Princeton University scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who each stated
that warming-induced sea level rise has already significantly
worsened flooding from major storms...In other words, Fox indicated
that while The Associated Press may choose to report on the impacts
of climate change, Fox News will most certainly not. Or, as Sen.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT) coincidentally put it on September 5, the
debate over climate change is over, "Except on Fox."
*Meet the woman who first identified the greenhouse effect
<http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/09/02/the-woman-who-identified-the-greenhouse-effect-years-before-tyndall/>*
Eunice Foote demonstrated the heat-trapping properties of carbon
dioxide at a scientific conference in 1856, newly digitised records
show...Irish physicist John Tyndall is commonly credited with
discovering the greenhouse effect, which underpins the science of
climate change....Starting in 1859, he published a series of studies
on the way greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide trapped heat in
the Earth’s atmosphere....A recently digitised copy of The American
Journal of Science and Arts suggests a woman beat him to it,
however....it includes a presentation by Eunice Foote to a top US
science conference in 1856. She describes filling glass jars with
water vapour, carbon dioxide and air, and comparing how much they
heated up in the sun..."The highest effect of the sun’s rays I have
found to be in carbonic acid gas," she writes, using the
contemporary term for carbon dioxide..."The receiver containing the
gas became itself much heated – very sensibly more so than the other
– and on being removed, it was many times as long in cooling."
*(YouTube video) Climate & Extreme Weather News #4 (August 28th-Sept 5th
2016) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvjoKI3kBPQ>*
Climate and Extreme Weather news clips for the week - a video
summary of the top international climate news stories. YouTube
video news https://youtu.be/EvjoKI3kBPQ
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