[TheClimate.Vote] July 11, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

[Richard Pauli]

/July 11, 2017/

*(video) Al Franken Says Climate Deniers Are Like Quack Doctors 
<http://www.nationalmemo.com/franken-climate-deniers-quack-doctors/>*
#EndorseThis:    Now that Senator Al Franken (D-MN) has decided that 
it's safe to be funny again, he's back with a vengeance. He's published 
a new book that's hilarious -- and he's making a series of videos on 
climate change. In the kickoff, he offers an insulting analogy between 
quack doctors and climate-denialists, both of whom would tell a very 
sick patient what he wants to hear instead of what he needs to hear.
With a weird David Letterman cameo as a bonus.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/franken-climate-deniers-quack-doctors/


*Conservatives are again denying the very existence of global warming 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jul/10/conservatives-are-again-denying-the-very-existence-of-global-warming>*
The best efforts to undermine the established climate science behind the 
Endangerment Finding are pathetically bad
As we well know, climate myths are like zombies that never seem to die. 
It's only a matter of time before they rise from the dead and threaten 
to eat our brains. And so here we go again - American conservatives are 
denying the very existence of global warming.
Working backwards from a politically-motivated conclusion
The claim is based on what can charitably be described as a white paper, 
written by fossil fuel-funded contrarians Joseph D'Aleo and Craig Idso 
along with James Wallace III. Two months ago, D'Aleo and Wallace 
published another error-riddled white paper on the same website with 
fellow contrarian John Christy; both papers aimed to undermine the EPA's 
Endangerment Finding.
The Endangerment Finding concluded that the scientific research clearly 
shows that carbon pollution endangers public health and welfare via 
climate change impacts, and therefore according to the US Supreme Court, 
the EPA must regulate carbon pollution under the Clean Air Act. 
Conservatives who benefit from the fossil fuel status quo and oppose all 
climate policies have urged the Trump administration to go after the 
Endangerment Finding.
Both papers are rife with flaws because they start from a desired 
conclusion - that the science underpinning Endangerment Finding is 
somehow wrong - and work backwards trying to support it. In this paper, 
the contrarians try to undermine the accuracy of the global surface 
temperature record, which has been validated time and time again. They 
don't bother trying to hide their bias - the paper refers to "Climate 
Alarmists" and speaks of invalidating the Endangerment Finding....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jul/10/conservatives-are-again-denying-the-very-existence-of-global-warming


*WATCH: The solution for reversing global warming is educating girls ... 
<http://www.salon.com/2017/07/09/watch-the-solution-for-reversing-global-warming-is-educating-girls-and-family-planning/>*
Project Drawdown examines 100 solutions to reverse global warming by 2050
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/09/watch-the-solution-for-reversing-global-warming-is-educating-girls-and-family-planning/
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**Just 100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study says 
<https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link>*
A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their investors 
could hold the key to tackling climate change
Just*100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the world's 
greenhouse gas emissions since 1988*, according to a new report.
The Carbon Majors Report (pdf) 
<https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1d.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1499691240>"pinpoints 
how a relatively small set of fossil fuel producers may hold the key to 
systemic change on carbon emissions," says Pedro Faria, technical 
director at environmental non-profit CDP, which published the report in 
collaboration with the Climate Accountability Institute.
Traditionally, large scale greenhouse gas emissions data is collected at 
a national level but this report focuses on fossil fuel producers. 
Compiled from a database of publicly available emissions figures, it is 
intended as the first in a series of publications to highlight the role 
companies and their investors could play in tackling climate change.
The report found that more than half of global industrial emissions 
since 1988 - the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was 
established - can be traced to just 25 corporate and state-owned 
entities. The scale of historical emissions associated with these fossil 
fuel producers is large enough to have contributed significantly to 
climate change, according to the report.
ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron are identified as among the highest 
emitting investor-owned companies since 1988. ..
A Carbon Tracker study 
<http://www.carbontracker.org/report/stranded-assets-danger-zone/> in 
2015 found that fossil fuel companies risked wasting more than $2tn over 
the coming decade by pursuing coal, oil and gas projects that could be 
worthless in the face of international action on climate change and 
advances in renewables - in turn posing substantial threats to investor 
returns....
But for many the sums involved and pace of change are nowhere near 
enough. A research paper published last year by Paul Stevens, an 
academic at think tank Chatham House, said international oil companies 
were no longer fit for purpose and warned these multinationals that they 
faced a "nasty, brutish and short 
<https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/05/oil-firms-environment-energy-climate-change>" 
end within the next 10 years if they did not completely change their 
business models.
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link


NY Magazine Publishes 7000 Words On How A Global Warming Apocalypse May 
Come 'Sooner Than You Think' 
<http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/10/ny-magazine-publishes-7000-words-on-how-a-global-warming-apocalypse-may-come-sooner-than-you-think/>
"It is, I promise, worse than you think," New York Magazine writer David 
Wallace-Wells began his more than 7,000-word article on how global 
warming could make Earth "uninhabitable," possibly by "the end of this 
century."
"If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level 
rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are 
possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today," Wallace-Wells 
wrote in his doomsday essay.
"Indeed, absent a significant adjustment to how billions of humans 
conduct their lives, parts of the Earth will likely become close to 
uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as the 
end of this century," Wallace-Wells wrote.
Wallace-Wells punctuates the urgency of his apocalyptic warning by 
giving sections of his essay titles, like "Doomsday," "Heat Death," 
"Climate Plagues," "Permanent Economic Collapse" and "Poisoned Oceans."
Of course, Wallace-Wells says this catastrophe can be mitigated by a 
societal overhaul away from current consumption patterns, namely 
ditching fossil fuels that make up 80 percent of world energy consumption.
Some climate scientists are optimistic this will happen, the essay 
argues. Wallace-Wells says "climate scientists have a strange kind of 
faith: We will find a way to forestall radical warming, they say, 
because we must."
Wallace-Wells's piece is just the latest in a recent string of dire 
predictions on global warming.
Former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres co-authored an 
article in late June calling for governments and businesses need to pony 
up $1.3 trillion a year by 2020 for "climate action."
Figueres and her co-authors warned that humanity only had three years 
left to stave off dangerous global warming.
A few days later, famed physicist Stephen Hawking told BBC News 
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris 
climate accord could doom civilization.
"We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes 
irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to 
become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty degrees, 
and raining sulphuric acid," Hawking said.
Climate scientists pushed back against Hawking's claims that Earth would 
become like Venus, but United Nations officials used it to push their 
case for keeping the Paris climate accord.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/10/ny-magazine-publishes-7000-words-on-how-a-global-warming-apocalypse-may-come-sooner-than-you-think/


*(video) A call to Life:  Variation on a theme of Extinction 
<http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html>*
Written and performed by  Kathleen Dean Moore and Rachelle McCabe
A powerful call to action on global warming and mass extinction, "A Call 
to Life" is a collaboration between concert pianist, Rachelle McCabe, 
and writer/philosopher, Kathleen Dean Moore. Harnessing a formidable 
piece of music to address formidable global issues, McCabe performs 
Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Variations on a Theme from Corelli," giving voice 
to humanity's grief and ferocious hope. Moore weaves words between the 
variations, creating a work of art that opens people's hearts without 
breaking them. Discussion Guide 
<http://www.riverwalking.com/images/call-to-life/Discussion%20Guide%20for%20A%20Call%20to%20Life.pdf>
http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html http://bit.ly/2sIfko9


*This Day in Climate History July 11, 1990 
<http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-224_1_global-warming-issue>  
-  from D.R. Tucker*

    July 11, 1990: The Los Angeles Times observes that President George
    H. W. Bush seems to have dissociative identity disorder when it
    comes to climate:
    "The tension is often explained as a dispute between Bush's
    strong-willed chief of staff, John H. Sununu, who is deeply
    suspicious of environmentalists, and his Environmental Protection
    Agency chief, William K. Reilly.
    "That explanation, however, is an inaccurate characterization,
    Administration officials say. Although Reilly has advocated a
    stronger environmental policy, he has neither the clout nor the
    access to Bush to challenge Sununu, the officials say. In fact,
    Reilly has been conspicuous by his absence from the economic summit,
    virtually the only senior Administration official with an interest
    in the summit issues whom Bush left in Washington.
    "Instead, the disputes within the Administration reflect Bush's own
    ambivalence about the issues. Throughout his Administration, he has
    been pulled in opposite directions on the environment, tugged
    between his desire to placate environmentally-conscious voters on
    the one side and his instinct to protect business people from
    government regulation on the other."
    The Times also notes:
    "Bush's top aides are unanimous in believing that the scientific
    evidence is shaky on all aspects of global warming--the problem's
    dimensions, its potential effects and its causes."
    http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-224_1_global-warming-issue

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