[TheClimate.Vote] March 27, 2017 - Daily Global Warming - New cloud names, teenagers novel, local governements
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Mon Mar 27 11:27:02 EDT 2017
/March 27, 2017 XL Pipeline OK'ed, New cloud names, Novel for
teens, Local governments /
http://www.recorder.com/Workshop-looks-at-climate-change-8822444
*Climate change*for local governments
<http://www.recorder.com/Workshop-looks-at-climate-change-8822444>
The Recorder -1 hour ago
How can towns adapt in their decisions about roads and culverts, dams
and watersheds, well protection and other issues in the face of*climate
change*? A Thursday Franklin Regional Council of Governments workshop
on*climate change*adaptation is being ...
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15049766/undulatus-asperatus-asperitas-cloud-pattern-formation
*Earth's newest cloud is terrifying
<http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15049766/undulatus-asperatus-asperitas-cloud-pattern-formation>*
In 2014, I spoke with Gavin Pretor-Pinney, the founder of The Cloud
Appreciation Society, about his quixotic mission: to get recognition
for a new category of cloud called the "undulatus asperatus." For
years, individuals from across the world had been sending him
pictures of the unusual formations, trying to figure out what they
were. But they had no official name.
Yesterday, on World Meteorological Day - nine years after the
classification was first submitted - the World Meteorological
Organization finally recognized Pretor-Pinney's clouds in the
updated version of the International Cloud Atlas, though the name
has been tweaked to "asperitas." They're the first new addition to
the Atlas in over half a century.
Pretor-Pinney described the formations as "localized waves in the
cloud base, either smooth or dappled with smaller features,
sometimes descending into sharp points, as if viewing a roughened
sea surface from below. Varying levels of illumination and thickness
of cloud can lead to dramatic visual effects." Asperitas clouds tend
to be low-lying, and are caused by weather fronts that create
undulating waves in the atmosphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7BgxrVmiQ
Undulatus Asperatus <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7BgxrVmiQ>
video 1 minute
https://actionnetwork.org/events/peoples-climate-candidate-training
*People's Climate Candidate Training
<https://actionnetwork.org/events/peoples-climate-candidate-training>*
Start: April 30, 2017 8:00 AM
Washington, DC 20001
Host Contact Info: training at climatehawksvote.com
The climate movement is rooted in the pursuit of justice in a world
being torn apart by a global system of exploitation and oppression.
It's time for our politics to reflect our principles.
This training is for you if:
- you would consider running for office yourself in the next 1-3 years
- you want to help a friend run for office
- you want to learn how a local electoral strategy could help your
campaign
Working with our partners, Climate Hawks Vote and Lead Locally have
developed a curriculum to help climate activists launch the initial
framework of an electoral campaign. Featuring elected climate
champions and top progressive trainers, the training will help you
take the energy of the March for Jobs, Justice and the Climate and
turn it into real political power.
http://mashable.com/2017/03/26/scott-pruitt-paris-climate-agreement-bad-deal/
EPA chief calls historic climate treaty a 'bad deal' because this is
our life now
<http://mashable.com/2017/03/26/scott-pruitt-paris-climate-agreement-bad-deal/>
Mashable -3 hours ago
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
railed against the Paris Climate Agreement in an interview with ABC
News on Sunday.
The Trump administration has made no secret of its plans to
dismantle the climate policies of former President Barack Obama.
But what Trump officials bring in fervor, they sometimes lack in
understanding.
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
railed against the Paris Climate Agreement in an interview with ABC
News on Sunday. He called the landmark climate change accord a "bad
deal" that unfairly penalizes the United States, while giving a free
pass to other major polluting countries.
SEE ALSO: EPA chief denies carbon dioxide is main cause of global
warming and... wait, what!?
<http://mashable.com/2017/03/09/pruitt-carbon-dioxide-global-warming-denier/#yPpBd5m0TEq0>
"What was wrong with Paris was ... that China and India, the largest
producers of [carbon dioxide] internationally, got away scot free.
They didn't have to take steps until 2030," Pruitt told anchor
George Stephanopoulos.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/27/why-i-decided-to-write-a-novel-about-catastrophic-climate-change-for-teenagers
Why I decided to write a novel for teenagers about
catastrophic*climate change*
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/27/why-i-decided-to-write-a-novel-about-catastrophic-climate-change-for-teenagers>
The Guardian -4 hours ago
The writer Jeff VanderMeer has described climate change as a kind of
haunting. Drawing upon the philosopher Timothy Morton's notion of
climate change as a sort of hyperobject, a thing so large as to be
ungraspable in its totality.
A couple of weeks ago, my Facebook feed was invaded by spectral
images of the ocean off Tasmania's north-west coast, its waters lit
up by the blue glow of phosphorescent plankton. The images were
beautiful, haunting, but also ominous, because the organism involved
– the dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans – has only reached
Tasmania in recent years, borne south by warming waters.
The environmental catastrophe unfolding around us isn't news (the
plankton's appearance coincided with a report that carbon dioxide
levels had just risen at a record rate for the second year running,
despite global efforts to curb emissions). Yet its uncanny beauty
offered a reminder of something that is less often discussed – the
degree to which environmental change destabilises not just our
physical world, but also our psychic world, dislocating us from the
places and rhythms that we know and rendering the familiar strange,
even disturbing...
http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/GLrlVcd2W4w7WCpkQF8jNL/How-corruption-fuels-climate-change.html
How corruption fuels*climate change*
<http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/GLrlVcd2W4w7WCpkQF8jNL/How-corruption-fuels-climate-change.html>
Livemint -6 hours ago
To sustain progress in the fight against climate change and
corruption, environmental and anti-corruption movements will have to
work together..
Anti-corruption campaigners achieved a number of crucial victories
in 2016, not least by ensuring accountability for one of Big Oil's
most crooked deals: the acquisition of Nigerian offshore oil block
OPL 245 in 2011 by Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, Italy's largest
corporation. Last December, Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission indicted some of the Nigerians involved, and Italian
prosecutors then concluded their own investigation, bringing the
executives and the companies responsible for the deal closer to
standing trial.
Several months earlier, in June 2016, the US Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) published a rule, under Section 1504 of the 2010
Dodd-Frank Act, requiring oil, gas and mining companies to disclose
all payments made to governments on a project-by-project basis. If
the SEC had issued its rule earlier, Shell and Eni most likely would
not have gone ahead with the OPL 245 deal, because they would have
had to disclose their payment. But opposition from the oil industry
delayed the rule, so the companies were able to conceal their payment.
Anti-corruption campaigners achieved a number of crucial victories
in 2016, not least by ensuring accountability for one of Big Oil's
most crooked deals: the acquisition of Nigerian offshore oil block
OPL 245 in 2011 by Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, Italy ...
Public documents show that the $1.1 billion that Shell and Eni paid
to the Nigerian government for the deal was, in reality, being paid
to Malabu. Both companies knew that this payment method, through an
account created by JP Morgan in London, was in breach of the
Nigerian constitution, and that the funds would end up in private hands.
Shell, Exxon and most other major oil and gas companies knew decades
ago that their products were fuelling climate change. But instead of
acting on that knowledge, and changing their business model, they
embarked on a massive campaign to deceive the public and lure
policymakers into complacency. Not surprisingly, Shell is one of 47
major hydrocarbon producers now being investigated by the Filipino
government for its role in contributing to human-rights violations
stemming from climate change.
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-world-uncharted-territory-21274
*Climate Change*Pushes World Into 'Uncharted Territory'
<http://www.climatecentral.org/news/climate-change-world-uncharted-territory-21274>
Climate Central -15 hours ago
The WMO's assessment of the*climate*in 2016 reports unprecedented heat
across the globe, exceptionally low ice at both poles and surging
sea-level rise.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-presidential-approval-environment-a7647721.html
*Donald Trump gives presidential approval to Keystone XL oil pipeline
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-presidential-approval-environment-a7647721.html>*
Barack Obama's administration had opposed the project.
Donald Trump has given a presidential permit to the controversial
Keystone XL pipeline project – a major boost for Canada-based
developer TransCanada.
Environmentalists have objected to the construction of the 875 mile
line, which would carry up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day. It
requires presidential approval because the project will cross the
US's northern international border.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer tweeted that Mr Trump, who
claims the pipeline will create many thousands of jobs, would
discuss the pipeline later.
The State Department said it determined that building Keystone
served the US national interest. Under the Obama administration, the
same department reached the opposite conclusion.
It said it had considered foreign policy and energy security in
making the determination
https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/climate-change-and-mental-health-qa-lise-van-susteren-md
*Climate Change and Mental Health: Q&A with Lise Van Susteren, MD Part I
<https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/climate-change-and-mental-health-qa-lise-van-susteren-md>*
Global Health NOW is an initiative of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health.
"it is becoming clear that destructive inaction on climate will one
day be experienced as child abuse."
https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/americas-bubble-qa-lise-van-susteren-part-ii
*America's Bubble: Q&A with Lise Van Susteren, Part II
<https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/americas-bubble-qa-lise-van-susteren-part-ii>*
On messaging, I struggle with people who say don't depress
people—reassure them they can have green grass, blue skies, clear
water. But as Bob Cialdini said, people aren't motivated by what
they stand to gain, but what they stand to lose. We're loss averse.
We need to offer data, but also tell people here's what we stand to
lose—and here's what we can do to prevent that loss.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html
https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/next-up-the-peoples-climate-march/
*Ted Glick - Next Up: the Peoples Climate March
<https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/next-up-the-peoples-climate-march/>*
There are two major reasons why it is so important that the Peoples
Climate March April 29th in DC be a big success.
The main one is the desperate need for a massive showing of
opposition to the Trumpist Republican attacks, on every front,
against virtually all efforts to shift from fossil fuels to
renewables and energy efficiency. Our disrupted and destabilizing
climate needs just the opposite. We need a society-wide mobilization
to make that shift as if we were in great danger from a powerful
enemy, which of course we are.
The enemy isn't human beings using fossil fuels. The enemy is a
big-money dominated political and economic system in which fossil
fuel corporations have great power. Because of that power they have
obstructed for decades efforts to shift to a truly clean energy
economy, something that is totally feasible right now and will only
become more feasible and less expensive with each passing year. It
is also something that is and has been popular with a large majority
of the American people for many years.
The Peoples Climate March doesn't name "the system" as the enemy,
but it is building the effort in a way which moves us forward toward
the kind of alliance we need to succeed in the transformation of
that system into something much more just and healthy for the earth
and all of its life forms.
The PCM calls for: "solutions to the climate crisis rooted in
racial, social and economic justice; clean air, water, land, healthy
communities and a world at peace; stop attacks on immigrants,
communities of color, indigenous and tribal people and lands and
workers; public funds and investments in good paying jobs [and
benefits] that preserve workers' rights, including the right to
unionize; investments in our communities, people and environment to
transition to a new clean and renewable energy economy that works
for all; and protection of our basic rights to a free press, protest
and free speech." http://peoplesclimate.org/#sign-up
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20070422015640/http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/03/27/global-warming-phooey/
*This Day in Climate History March 27, 2007
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html> -
from D.R. Tucker*/
/
//In a post on CallingAllWingnuts.com
<http://web.archive.org/web/20070422015640/http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/03/27/global-warming-phooey/>
about a recent confrontation with Competitive Enterprise Institute
honcho Myron Ebell, blogger Mike Stark observes:
"Upon reflection, I really think there are a couple of lessons for
progressives to be found in this five minute exchange.
"First of all, when arguing with somebody that either has no
credibility or is not arguing a credible position, don't donate the
credibility they need to be seen as your equal."
"You see, by calling his credibility into question immediately - and
not letting him up for air - well, I've got no proof, but I really
think that everyone in the room knew that Mr. Ebell had been
bettered. When we ask policy or science questions of these
charlatans, we give the impression that we care what they think. We
don't. We know they are rank liars, we're just wondering if they'll
be able to spin a sufficient answer. But these guys get millions of
dollars a year from the largest corporate titans precisely because
they have the skill to ink up the issue. Why let them show off?
"Secondly, don't go out of your way to be nice or polite. Hell, I
won't afford these profit-gandists any respect on my blog, why the
hell should I do it face to face? A large part of their professional
career derives from their ability to mock me and the things I
believe in. The Competitive Enterprise Institute once liked global
warming to 'being invaded by space aliens' for example. By
addressing these people with the indignant scorn they deserve, you
project the moral superiority of your position. To many times it
seems that Democratic and progressive pundits are more interested in
being our opponents' friends than we are in vigorously arguing the
issues. In this media environment - when equal time is given to
global warming deniers... well, we just can't afford the small talk.
"In the end, these guys are not good people. This isn't a case of
principled people disagreeing. At this point in the global warming
debate, the only principled disagreements to be had revolve around
what we should be doing to address the crisis. The Myron Ebells of
the world - the die-hard denialists... well, we need to move them
off the stage by marginalizing them at every opportunity."
http://web.archive.org/web/20070422015640/http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/03/27/global-warming-phooey/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html
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