[TheClimate.Vote] May 11, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Thu May 11 08:59:31 EDT 2017
/May 11, 2017/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/10/senates-poised-to-repeal-a-final-obama-era-rule-as-soon-as-wednesday/
Senate unexpectedly rejects bid to repeal a key Obama-era
environmental regulation
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/10/senates-poised-to-repeal-a-final-obama-era-rule-as-soon-as-wednesday/>
Washington Post -3 hours ago
This story has been updated. The Senate on Wednesday narrowly voted down
a resolution to repeal an Obama-era rule restricting methane emissions
from drilling operations on public lands - with three Republicans
joining every Democrat to preserve the ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/regulations-methane-climate-change.html
In Win for Environmentalists, Senate Keeps an Obama-Era*Climate
Change*Rule
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/us/politics/regulations-methane-climate-change.html>
New York Times -11 hours ago
WASHINGTON - In a surprising victory for President Barack Obama's
environmental legacy, the Senate voted on Wednesday to uphold an
Obama-era*climate change*regulation to control the release of methane
from oil and gas wells on public land.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjMNFd3w5mE
*(video) Global Warming Hot Topic at Congressional Town Halls
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjMNFd3w5mE>*
At Town Hall meetings across America, climate change is bubbling up to
the top of the agenda.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-nations-may-confront-u-s-on-climate-change/
Arctic Nations May Confront U.S. on*Climate Change*
<https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arctic-nations-may-confront-u-s-on-climate-change/>
Scientific American -7 hours ago
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Leaders of the Arctic Council could rebuff U.S.
position
Diplomats from eight Arctic nations are facing a standoff today over
the Trump administration's efforts to downplay the importance of
climate change in an Arctic Council ministerial statement marking
the end of the United States' two ...
The five Nordic countries recently issued a statement strongly
affirming the Paris accord and vowing to take the lead on climate
and energy policies. At the same time, Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau supported the Paris Agreement on the floor of the
Parliament in Ottawa, Ontario, and called climate action
"particularly important amongst Arctic nations."
It's not clear whether Canada and the Nordic countries are likely to
issue a joint informal statement on Paris if Tillerson and Trump
insist on dropping it from the formal declaration. The Arctic
Council has a history of friendly cooperation, and observers say
such a move would be a noted departure.
State Department Ambassador David Balton conceded yesterday that the
Arctic Council ministerial statement was still a work in progress,
though he wouldn't confirm that climate change is at the center of
the dispute.
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-final-rule-reduce-methane-emissions-wasted-gas-public
*Interior Department Announces Final Rule to Reduce Methane Emissions &
Wasted Gas on Public, Tribal Lands
<https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-final-rule-reduce-methane-emissions-wasted-gas-public>*
US Department of the Interior
Final Rule Limits Venting, Flaring and Leaking from Oil & Gas
Operations to Reduce Waste and Harmful Emissions, Provide Fair
Return to Taxpayers
WASHINGTON - As part of the Interior Department's reform agenda to
create a cleaner and more sustainable energy future, and in
furtherance of the Obama Administration's Climate Action Plan, U.S.
Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the Methane
and Waste Prevention Rule - a final rule that will reduce the
wasteful release of natural gas into the atmosphere from oil and gas
operations on public and Indian lands. The rule updates 30-year old
regulations governing venting, flaring, and leaks of natural gas,
and will help curb waste of public resources, reduce harmful methane
emissions, and provide a fair return on public resources for federal
taxpayers, tribes and states. ...
In addition, venting and leaks during oil and gas operations lead to
significant emissions of harmful methane - a greenhouse gas at least
25 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
The rule, which will be phased in over time, requires oil and gas
producers to use currently available technologies and processes to
cut flaring in half at oil wells on public and tribal lands.
Operators also must periodically inspect their operations for leaks,
and replace outdated equipment that vents large quantities of gas
into the air. Other parts of the rule require operators to limit
venting from storage tanks and to use best practices to limit gas
losses when removing liquids from wells. To ensure a fair return to
the American taxpayer, the rule also clarifies when operators owe
royalties on flared gas, and restores the government's
congressionally authorized flexibility to set royalty rates at or
above 12.5 percent of the value of production.
Tesla releases details of its solar roof tiles: cheaper than regular
roof with 'infinity warranty' and 30 yrs of solar power
<https://electrek.co/2017/05/10/tesla-solar-roof-tiles-price-warranty/>
Electrek -1 hour ago
Tesla released today all the information to order its new solar roof
tiles products - starting with the smooth black glass tiles and the
textured glass tiles, ...
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/anti-climate-change-booklets-landing-mailboxes-thousands-teachers/
Anti-*climate change* booklets are landing in the mailboxes of
thousands of teachers
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/anti-climate-change-booklets-landing-mailboxes-thousands-teachers/>
PBS NewsHour -4 hours ago
Science teacher Matthew Fox approached the*climate change*materials he
had received in his school mailbox in the same way he had taught his
students to think like scientists - with an objective frame of mind.
Fox was part of the first wave of 25,000 science teachers in March
who received an unsolicited package from the Heartland Institute, a
libertarian think tank, which casts doubt on the role humans play in
climate change. The package contains a booklet,
<https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/publications/12-04-15_why_scientists_disagree.pdf>
'Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming,' a DVD
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3bRZl8Xmk&feature=youtu.be>, and
a cover letter
<https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3526415-Heartland-Institute-letter-to-educators.html>,
which encourages educators to teach their students that a lively
debate over climate change continues to take place among scientists.
"None of my colleagues were fooled. I think we are all very aware of
the limitations of what we know now, because it obviously is a
relatively new subject," said Fox, an oceanography and earth science
teacher at Troy High School in Fullerton, California. "But what they
are proposing in this is just ludicrous."
The booklet states that a scientific consensus-the often cited 97
percent of climate scientists who say humans are the primary cause
of climate change-does not exist. It also cites multiple climate
change studies pointing out their flaws....
"It's a nefarious act to try to slip this kind of politically
motivated attack on science into the science classroom," said Ann
Reid, National Center of Science Education's executive director. "It
is the same old tired arguments suggesting that the climate science
is unsettled that they've been pushing for a long time."
See also video of DVD :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP3bRZl8Xmk&feature=youtu.be
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/climate/arctic-nations-to-meet-amid-unsettled-us-stance-on-climate-change.html
Arctic Nations to Meet Amid Unsettled US Stance on *Climate Change*
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/climate/arctic-nations-to-meet-amid-unsettled-us-stance-on-climate-change.html>
New York Times -May 9, 2017
The meeting comes at a time of rapid and extensive environmental change
in the region, which scientists say is largely linked to*climate
change*. Arctic temperatures are rising twice as fast as elsewhere, sea
ice is hitting record lows and permafrost is*...*
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/soft-climate-denial-at-the-new-york-times/
*Soft Climate Denial at The New York Times
<https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/soft-climate-denial-at-the-new-york-times/>*
The naming of a "climate agnostic" as a regular columnist risks
turning the newspaper of record into a vehicle for the spread of
ignorance
Stephens's editorial has generated a firestorm of responses from The
Times' readership, including thousands of letters to the editor and
escalating calls to boycott the paper until Stephens is dismissed.
This week, an array of prominent climate scientists released an open
letter picking apart the questionable logic and bad science woven
into Stephens's editorial.
As often as not, modern science denialism is not overt but rather
indirect, with a qualification. Stephens himself admits there is
some evidence for global warming, but also claims that we need more
research—there is room for doubt, we shouldn't rush to judgement or
start taking precautions that may prove "costly."
That was precisely the strategy taken by the tobacco industry for so
many years: the effort was not so much to deny outright that
cigarettes cause cancer, but rather to claim that we need more
research, that mice are not men, that the facts are not all in, that
"you can prove anything with statistics." This was the "open-minded
approach" taken by the Tobacco Institute, which managed to
simultaneously capture liberal rhetorics of tolerance while casting
public health advocates as closed-minded tyrants. It was a stroke of
rhetorical genius, harnessing the very skepticism of science itself.
http://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-warming-could-smash-paris-agreement-target-of-15c-in-just-9-years/
*Global Warming*Could Smash Paris Agreement Target Of 1.5°C In Just
9 Years
<http://www.iflscience.com/environment/global-warming-could-smash-paris-agreement-target-of-15c-in-just-9-years/>
IFLScience -12 minutes ago
Under the Paris agreement, 196 countries agreed to limit the*global
warming*rise to no more than 1.5°C above pre-Industrial levels.
http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/82563-generation-green/#ixzz2kqi0L9hP
*This Day in Climate History May 11, 2009
<http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/82563-generation-green/#ixzz2kqi0L9hP>
- from D.R. Tucker*
Boston Phoenix writer David Bernstein notes that the GOP's rejection of
climate science will eventually cost the party votes:
Generation Green
Once derided as tree huggers, eco-friendly youth are now the
nation's most powerful (and feared) voting bloc. So why isn't the
GOP listening?
"Republicans have a lot to say about the immorality of saddling the
next generation with our national debt. But when it comes to leaving
them a wrecked, depleted, and rapidly warming planet, they are
taking the exact opposite line. That's especially odd when you
consider how important that next generation is to the faltering GOP
- and how broadly united those voters, known as Millennials, are in
their concern over global warming and other energy and environment
issues.
"GOP leaders claim to be courting these young adults, but that
apparently extends only to their use of Twitter and promises of a
"hip-hop" party makeover. Meanwhile, they seem intent on not just
opposing but wildly denouncing and denigrating this generation's
most unifying issue.
he most senior Republican leaders, and the top GOP lawmakers on
energy and environment committees, keep shooting themselves in the
foot by spewing antiquated, anti-science nonsense.
"If they continue this type of Neanderthal posturing, the GOP is
going to lose something a lot more valuable than its old moderates,
like Pennsylvania senator Arlen Specter, who last week switched
parties to become a Democrat.
"Those who study Millennial politics say that the Republican Party
is on the verge of completely alienating the coming generation -
just as previous controversial platforms it has endorsed ensured
that the party kissed off such huge demographic swaths as
African-Americans, single women, and Hispanics, who at present vote
overwhelmingly Democratic."
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