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http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/02/13/pay-now-fight-global-warming-pay-later-say/97872228/
(letter) Pay now to fight*global warming*, or pay more later: Your
Say
<http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/02/13/pay-now-fight-global-warming-pay-later-say/97872228/>
USA TODAY -2 hours ago
Betting against the statistics and scientists on climate change is
gambling on high stakes. If the peril of global warming is a myth,
then the scientific community will eat crow and life will go on.
However, if the experts are right, and global warming is really a
problem of the scale and severity that they tell us, think of the
eventual cost to the U.S. alone: rising seas displacing huge numbers
of people, massive infrastructure repairs on short notice and an
agricultural model that must be overhauled to compensate for a
warmer climate...
We can pay now and step away from fossil fuels in a measured and
controlled way, or pay later as we struggle to handle multiple
emergencies at once. For goodness’ sake, let’s pay now!
https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-disobedience-in-the-time-of-trump/
*Climate Disobedience in the Time of Trump
<https://www.thenation.com/article/climate-disobedience-in-the-time-of-trump/>*
Ken Ward and Emily Johnston are willing to spend decades in prison for
shutting down tar-sands oil pipelines.
They want you to understand why.
By Wen Stephenson
Unexpected things tend to happen when Ken Ward goes to trial...
Though he faced up to 20 years in prison, Ward did not contest the
facts of his case..
...the jury was unable to reach a verdict, and a mistrial was
declared. It was a stunning outcome, hailed by Ward’s supporters far
and wide as a victory of conscience. The prosecutors have decided
that Ward will be retried, with the new trial date to be determined.
"Bottom line is, there were three things we sent them back to the
jury room with. First, we offered, and the prosecution accepted, our
seven-minute highlight video of the action, showing me doing it. So
they have that. There’s no question about what I did. Second, they
have the NASA chart of CO2 concentrations going back 400,000 years,
all the peaks and valleys showing it never even reaches 300 [parts
per million], and the current concentration at 404 ppm. And third,
they have the sea-level map [using the Climate Central online
mapping tool] of Skagit County in 2050, with five feet of sea-level
rise. And that’s a conservative number. It shows all the low-lying
lands in Skagit, which are tulip fields—the biggest agricultural
product around there is tulips—and all the tulips are underwater,
and it shows all the refineries becoming islands. And that’s it.
They had those three visuals: me doing it, the CO2, and sea-level
rise."...
"If necessity had been included in the jury instructions, then it
would have been a very different conversation in the jury room.
Here, they had to assert a thing that they had some idea was the
right and the fair thing to do, without any backing from the judge
and the courts. I think it’s far more powerful."...
"Presidents come and go, but the physics are the same. It’s
necessary. Might we pay a higher price for it than we expected? Yes,
we might. But it is absolutely necessary. "...
" One might ponder what it meant before the election, and what it
means now, but one of the immediate effects of the election was to
send a chill through a lot of activists. "...
"There is a world of people out there who, even though they don’t
read about climate obsessively, really suspect in their bones that
it’s catastrophic, and they feel paralyzed by that knowledge and
therefore just look away. Because for a long time nobody was
providing them a legitimate alternative to looking away. I think
people had an instinct that this incremental stuff wasn’t going to
work. "...
" ...we really ought to shut all of our environmental organizations’
offices, hold a press conference on the steps of Congress, and
announce that we can’t possibly do anything in Washington since the
fossil-fuel companies own the government, and then march away, into
the center of the country, and debate the question there."...
" You just have to, in good faith and in as careful and considered a
fashion as you can, you have to be willing to take the risks—and
think, well, what’s going on now is not working, so let’s try this.
And you can’t know in advance."...
" We need to elect somebody in four years who is elected on
climate—to do what is necessary. And I don’t see how we do that by
just being one of the various things in response to what Trump does.
That’s the question we have to ask. How do we make that happen? It’s
really, really easy to see us electing a Democrat who has climate
just exactly where, or maybe one notch up from where, Clinton had
it."...
"You remain engaged with the reality of what is happening, you don’t
hide yourself from the pain and the suffering of it, and you do the
best you can to address it. And living in that way is really what
we’re called to do."
/Wen Stephenson is a frequent Nation contributor and the author of
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other: Dispatches from the Front
Lines of Climate Justice./
Weather whiplash in California, amplified by #climatechange, threatening
Oroville dam. Science details here: https://t.co/hiP51F9DvU #CAwx
https://t.co/uyiEHCoNbW
http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IDITAROD
*Low snow prompts Iditarod to move race's start to Fairbanks
<http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_IDITAROD>* (AP
<http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=6a5459eb20&e=95b355344d>)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Low-snow conditions in the Alaska Range
have forced officials with the world's most famous sled dog race to
move its official start from the Anchorage area to Fairbanks...
It's the second time in three years, and the third time in the last
14, that there hasn't been enough snow south of the Alaska Range to
start the race from the Anchorage area. Last year, the ceremonial
start in Anchorage was almost moved because of a lack of snow...
"We're just not feeling that it's safe enough to run a competitive
dog race over this year,"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/12/plan-to-refreeze-arctic-before-ice-goes-for-good-climate-change
*Could a £400bn plan to refreeze the Arctic before the ice melts really
work?
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/12/plan-to-refreeze-arctic-before-ice-goes-for-good-climate-change>*
Temperatures are now so high at the north pole that scientists are
contemplating radical schemes to avoid catastrophe
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/13/act-before-entire-species-lost-global-warming-say-scientists
Act now before entire species are lost to*global warming*, say
scientists
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/13/act-before-entire-species-lost-global-warming-say-scientists>
The Guardian -8 hours ago
With the IUCN red list the "*global*standard" by which every nation
assessed its progress towards saving threatened species, Watson said
he and his co-authors were hopeful that their analysis would
influence intergovernmental policy as well as upcoming ...
http://www.marketplace.org/2017/02/13/world/fashion-and-weather
*Climate change*puts weather on fashion students' radar
<http://www.marketplace.org/2017/02/13/world/fashion-and-weather>
Marketplace.org -1 hour ago
The weather can be a little unpredictable these days, to put in
mildly, and unseasonal weather can have an adverse affect on sales
of all kinds, from coats to boots to bathing suits
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/marine-ecosystems-are-preparing-for-climate-change/
Marine Ecosystems Are Preparing for*Climate Change*
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/marine-ecosystems-are-preparing-for-climate-change/>
Scientific American -3 hours ago
While countless scientific reports have documented the ravages
of*climate change*on oceanic life, a survey of the researchers who
wrote them provides a silver lining: An overwhelming majority
noticed examples of sea life withstanding*climate change*.
https://mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/02/13/52260/cbs-cbsthismorning-20170213-antarcticaiceshelf
*CBS News is airing stories on climate change all week
<https://mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2017/02/13/52260/cbs-cbsthismorning-20170213-antarcticaiceshelf>*
as part of its "Climate Diaries" series. ..posting all of the video
clips as they happen here:
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/02/13/cbs-news-antarctica-series-reports-climate-change/215325
https://twitter.com/aseifter/status/831197674711941121
http://wxxinews.org/post/climate-change-activists-urge-cuomo-go-further
*Climate change*activists urge Cuomo to go further
<http://wxxinews.org/post/climate-change-activists-urge-cuomo-go-further>
WXXI News -5 hours ago
Environmental groups are pushing Governor Cuomo to codify into law
some of the steps he's taken to protect the environment and cut down
on pollution related to*climate change*. At a budget hearing,
lawmakers were focused on a more immediate concern- ...
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60716FD3A5D12728DDDAD0994DA405B898BF1D3
*This Day in Climate History February 14, 1979
<http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60716FD3A5D12728DDDAD0994DA405B898BF1D3>
- from D.R. Tucker*
*Walter Sullivan* in The New York Times reports: *Climatologists Are
Warned North Pole Might Melt*
"There is a real possibility that some people now in their infancy
will live to a time when the ice at the North Pole will have melted,
a change that would cause swift and perhaps catastrophic changes in
climate."
The world is faced with a "Faustian bargain," Dr. Roger Revelle,
chairman of tomorrow morning's session, told a press conference
today, adding, “Whatever you do is bad.” Dr. Revelle, who formerly
headed the population center at Harvard University, noted that
population growth had already tapered off in Europe, including
European Russia and Japan...
There is "real hope," he said, that in the next century world
population may level off at eight billion — roughly double the
present level. But to raise the living standards of such a
population to advanced levels will place formidable demands on
energy production.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60716FD3A5D12728DDDAD0994DA405B898BF1D3
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