[TheClimate.Vote] October 2, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

Mon Oct 2 11:37:16 EDT 2017

/October 2, 2017/

*Trump Administration Moves to Bail Out Coal & Nuclear: *The Department 
of Energy announced Friday it has requested that the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission enact changes that would ultimately boost 
compensation for coal and nuclear power--a move that could potentially 
create the biggest change to electricity markets in decades.
*Secretary Perry Urges FERC to Take Swift Action to Address Threats to 
Grid Resiliency 
<https://energy.gov/articles/secretary-perry-urges-ferc-take-swift-action-address-threats-grid-resiliency>*
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry formally 
proposed that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) take swift 
action to address threats to U.S. electrical grid resiliency.  Pursuant 
to his authority under Section 403 of the Department of Energy 
Organization Act, the Secretary urged the Commission to issue a final 
rule requiring its organized markets to develop and implement reforms 
that would fully price generation resources necessary to maintain the 
reliability and resiliency of our nation's grid.
https://energy.gov/articles/secretary-perry-urges-ferc-take-swift-action-address-threats-grid-resiliency

*Why extremes are expected to change with a global warming 
<http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/09/why-extremes-are-expected-to-change-with-a-global-warming/comment-page-5/>*
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/09/why-extremes-are-expected-to-change-with-a-global-warming/comment-page-5/

*Climate Change May Make Phoenix Uninhabitable By 2050 
<https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/29/climate-change-may-make-phoenix-uninhabitable-2050/>*
Phoenix requires two things not found naturally in the area - 
electricity and water. Without both, the Phoenix of today would never 
have happened. Despite its abundant sunshine, Arizona has depended for 
decades on electricity generated by burning coal. Utilities companies in 
Arizona have been slow to transition to renewables, although lower 
prices are driving them to look in that direction.
A study by Climate Central finds that Phoenix will likely be three to 
five degrees hotter in the summer months by 2050. The average number of 
100 degree days will increase from 40 a year today to more than 132 a 
year. To put that in some perspective, New York City currently 
experiences two 100 degree days a year. Climate Central 
<http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/hot-take-phoenix-summer-temps-could-approach-kuwait-citys-by-2100-new-study-says-8478722>expects 
that number to increase to 15 a year by 2050.
In 2012, the Department of the Interior released a climate change study 
that warns of a precipitous drop in the amount of water available from 
the Colorado River in coming years.
https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/29/climate-change-may-make-phoenix-uninhabitable-2050/

*OUR HYDRA-HEADED META-DELUSIONS... 
<http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/our_hydra_headed_meta_delusions>*
This second essay in a series introduces another key concept that 
explains why all of us in the USA are failing to address the climate 
crisis, ignoring ecological and population overshoot, shutting our eyes 
to the coming collapses attendant to massively excessive resource 
extractions, and related issues.
The reader is invited to answer to what extent delusions are operating 
in their own lives, and the lives of their families. Subsequent essays 
will examine the "Boomerang Effect" and related aspects of psychological 
reactance-additional individual responses to information that 
contradicts convenient world-views.
The premise of these essays is that the path we are now on - represented 
by our social, political, economic, and moral systems, both here in the 
USA and worldwide - will mean complete catastrophe. Our current pathways 
mean the end of civilization, the loss of most of the Tree-of-Life, and 
the elimination of most of the human population, if not the extinction 
of the human race. The exhaustive information that documents this series 
of looming catastrophes will not be presented at the outset, in the hope 
of making the information considered readable, and avoid the most 
extreme examples of the Boomerang Effect and psychological reactance for 
the reader.
...the necessary precondition to responding effectively to the coming 
catastrophes is understanding and accepting their inevitability.
http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/our_hydra_headed_meta_delusions
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*(video lecture) Gordon Goodman's Memory Lecture 2017 - Kevin Anderson 
<http://www.science.su.se/om-oss/nyheter/gordon-goodmans-minnesf%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning-2017-kevin-anderson-1.341328>*
Kevin Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate at the University of 
Manchester. He is one of Britain's most recognized and acclaimed climate 
researchers and has long experience of communicating climate science to 
decision makers, business, civil society and the media. He himself, for 
environmental reasons, has not flown in 12 years.
Kevin Anderson has paved the way for and established research on 
so-called carbon dioxide budgets and the conversion of different sectors 
of society to acceptable levels of emissions based on politically agreed 
targets.
http://www.science.su.se/om-oss/nyheter/gordon-goodmans-minnesf%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning-2017-kevin-anderson-1.341328

*Tropical forests used to protect us from climate change. Now, 
scientists say, they're making it worse 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/28/tropical-forests-used-to-protect-us-from-climate-change-a-new-study-says-theyre-now-making-it-worse/>*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/28/tropical-forests-used-to-protect-us-from-climate-change-a-new-study-says-theyre-now-making-it-worse/

*Poll: Majority Says Climate Change Responsible For Severity of 
Hurricanes 
<https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/poll-americans-climate-change-responsible-hurricanes>*
The Weather Channel
Researchers are still trying to understand the link between global 
warming and intense hurricanes, but the risk to low-lying areas and the 
deadly ...
Fifty-five percent of Americans say climate change impacted the 
intensity of hurricanes this season.
That's a significant departure from 2005, when only 39 percent believed 
there was a link.
Scientists maintain that finding a link between global warming and 
intense hurricanes is complicated.
https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/poll-americans-climate-change-responsible-hurricanes

*
SNL: Alec Baldwin Reveals Our Clown President’s Crisis Management Plan 
<http://www.nationalmemo.com/snl-alec-baldwin-reveals-clown-presidents-crisis-management-plan/>*
In yet another moment of crisis, Alec Baldwin returns to Saturday Night 
Live as the president whose incompetence and laziness - ordinarily a 
sort of blessing - has become a terrible curse on the suffering people 
of Puerto Rico. So learns San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz (Melissa 
Villasenor) when she places a desperate call for help to the Oval 
Office, only to have a whining Trump hang up on her.
Saturday Night Live   video <https://youtu.be/7e4vFMJmBIc> 
https://youtu.be/7e4vFMJmBIc
Published on Sep 30, 2017
President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) speaks with Sarah Huckabee Sanders 
(Aidy Bryant), Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (Melissa Villaseñor) of San Juan, 
Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) and Senator Chuck Schumer (Alex Moffat).
Sadly for Puerto Rico, the White House confusion is all part of his 
plan: "The more chaos I cause, the less people can focus." Trump’s 
chicken-fried press secretary, the durable Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Aidy 
Bryant), "no nonsense but all nonsense," is ever eager to amplify the 
deception. So is ultra-loyal Attorney General Jeff Sessions (Kate 
McKinnon), the country’s cutest white nationalist, who pleads: "Don’t 
tweet on me again!"
http://www.nationalmemo.com/snl-alec-baldwin-reveals-clown-presidents-crisis-management-plan/

*(video) Weekend Update on Hurricane Maria - SNL 
<https://youtu.be/X3ZCsFYE4Q8>*
Saturday Night Live  Published on Oct 1, 2017
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s 
biggest news, including President Donald Trump’s poor response to 
Hurricane Maria. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Kate McKinnon) stops by.
https://youtu.be/X3ZCsFYE4Q8

*(audio) Communicating climate change through poetry One poet is using 
metaphor to inspire reflection and action.* 
<https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/09/communicating-climate-change-through-poetry/>
In his new book, Hawk on Wire, several poems portray a world transformed 
by global warming, while others capture glimpses of nature that Starbuck 
hopes everyone can relate to and appreciat
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/09/communicating-climate-change-through-poetry/*
*

*(Video Satire) How to Science 
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/01/how-science-is-done/>*
How a hypotheses becomes a theory.  Required for new students.
Mr. Show - The Limits of Science <https://youtu.be/DQaF4YXCXsc> 
https://youtu.be/DQaF4YXCXsc
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/01/how-science-is-done/

**This Day in Climate History October 2, 2008 
<http://youtu.be/5qhox5P_jCg>  -  from D.R. Tucker**
October 2, 2008: Vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah
Palin spar over climate and energy issues in their lone debate,
moderated by Gwen Ifill.
http://youtu.be/5qhox5P_jCg

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