[TheClimate.Vote] October 25, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

[Richard Pauli]

/October 25, 2017/

<https://thinkprogress.org/criminalize-pipeline-resistance-sessions-40828c2cb1e6/>*Congressmen 
push Jeff Sessions to call environmentalists terrorists 
<https://thinkprogress.org/criminalize-pipeline-resistance-sessions-40828c2cb1e6/>
*Four Democrats join 80 Republicans on letter asking the Attorney 
General to treat pipeline sabotage as domestic terrorism.
Environmental activists who sabotage oil and gas pipelines to protect 
land, water, and the climate should be treated like out-and-out 
terrorists, according to 84 members of Congress who sent a letter to 
Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday.
The letter asks Sessions if he currently has enough power to treat 
pipeline sabotage as not only criminal but terrorist activity, 
encourages him to treat interference with pipeline systems as an assault 
on the United States' national security, and seeks to define pipeline 
"terrorism" as any act that knowingly damages oil and gas infrastructure.
Such a broad definition could, if adopted, allow prosecutors to treat 
people who chain themselves to pipelines or construction equipment 
involved in pipeline projects as terrorists.*
*https://thinkprogress.org/criminalize-pipeline-resistance-sessions-40828c2cb1e6/


*New York City could face damaging floods 'every five years' in a warmer 
climate 
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-york-city-could-face-damaing-floods-every-five-years-in-warmer-climate>*
New York City could be struck by severe flooding up to every five years 
by 2030-45 if no efforts are made to curb human-driven climate change, 
new research finds.
Floods that reach more 2.25m in height - enough to inundate the first 
story of a building - could dramatically increase in frequency as a 
result of future sea level rise and bigger storm surges, the study 
suggests. Such severe floods would be expected only around once in every 
25 years during 1970-2005.
The findings make it clear that "[flood] adaptation measures are 
critical to protect lives and infrastructure in a changing climate", the 
lead author tells Carbon Brief.
Flooding threat
Like many coastal cities in the US, New York is vulnerable to flooding 
driven by storm surges from tropical cyclones, as well as sea level 
rise. In 2012, Hurricane Sandy overwhelmed the city with floodwater, 
killing 43 people and causing close to $50bn in damages.
Storm surges occur when a storm weather system moves from the sea to the 
land. As the weather system moves over the sea surface, its low pressure 
centre pulls up the surface of the water. Then, as the storm blows 
towards land, wind pushes the sea towards the coast, hitting the shore 
with large waves.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-york-city-could-face-damaing-floods-every-five-years-in-warmer-climate


Video - plain talking explaination
*Katharine Hayhoe  National Biodiversity Teach-In 
<https://youtu.be/pYihQ01xi9w>*
/(This is a wonderful, gentle video message.  She thoughtfully 
introduces the topic in ways suitable for anyone - even young students.  
See it, save and share it.   With low bar requirements, viewers should 
be aware of how to see information on a simple graph.) /
https://youtu.be/pYihQ01xi9w


*US companies act on climate despite Trump: Survey 
<https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/24/us-companies-act-on-climate-despite-trump-survey.html>*
CNBC
Companies are still among the most ambitious in setting targets to 
combat global warming despite President Donald Trump's plans to quit the 
Paris climate agreement.
U.S.-based firms made up a fifth of those in a 2017 "A list" of 159 
companies judged to have ambitious policies on limiting climate change 
and protecting water resources and forests.
Overall, CDP said 89 percent of companies in a wider survey of more than 
1,000 companies had some form of carbon emissions targets, up from 85 
percent in 2016.
And 14 percent were committed to aligning their goals with climate 
science, which requires deep cuts in emissions to achieve Paris 
agreement goals, up from 9 percent last year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/24/us-companies-act-on-climate-despite-trump-survey.html


*Disaster Capitalism: Tiny Firm Lands Puerto Rico Power Contract 
<https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/24/disaster-capitalism-tiny-firm-lands-puerto-rico-power-contract/>*
(Washington Post)    For the sprawling effort to restore Puerto Rico's 
crippled electrical grid, the territory's state-owned utility has turned 
to a two-year-old company from Montana that had just two full-time 
employees on the day Hurricane Maria made landfall...
The company, Whitefish Energy, said last week that it had signed a $300 
million contract with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to repair 
and reconstruct large portions of the island's electrical 
infrastructure. The contract is the biggest yet issued in the troubled 
relief effort.
Whitefish Energy is based in Whitefish, Mont., the home town of Interior 
Secretary Ryan Zinke. Its chief executive, Andy Techmanski, and Zinke 
acknowledge knowing one another - but only, Zinke's office said in an 
email, because Whitefish is a small town where "everybody knows 
everybody." One of Zinke's sons "joined a friend who worked a summer 
job" at one of Techmanski's construction sites, the email said. 
Whitefish said he worked as a "flagger."
Zinke's office said he had no role in Whitefish securing the contract 
for work in Puerto Rico. Techmanski also said Zinke was not involved.
The scale of the disaster in Puerto Rico is far larger than anything 
Whitefish has handled. The company has won two contracts from the Energy 
Department, including $172,000 to replace a metal pole structure and 
splice in three miles of new conductor and overhead ground wire in Arizona.
Shortly before Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, Whitefish landed its largest 
federal contract, a $1.3 million deal to replace and upgrade parts of a 
4.8-mile transmission line in Arizona. The company - which was listed in 
procurement documents as having annual revenue of $1 million - was given 
11 months to complete the work, records show.
Under the contract, the hourly rate was set at $330 for a site 
supervisor, and at $227.88 for a "journeyman lineman." The cost for 
subcontractors, which make up the bulk of Whitefish's workforce, is $462 
per hour for a supervisor and $319.04 for a lineman. Whitefish also 
charges nightly accommodation fees of $332 per worker and almost $80 per 
day for food.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/small-montana-firm-lands-puerto-ricos-biggest-contract-to-get-the-power-back-on/2017/10/23/31cccc3e-b4d6-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/24/disaster-capitalism-tiny-firm-lands-puerto-rico-power-contract/


*Study: Ending extreme poverty and limiting warming to 2C still possible 
<https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-ending-extreme-poverty-limiting-warming-2c-still-possible>*
Bringing "extreme" poverty to an end will not jeopardise the chances of 
limiting global warming to 2C above pre-industrial levels, a new study says.
Pulling the 770 million people around the world out of extreme poverty - 
which is defined as living on less than $1.90 a day - would add a mere 
0.05C to global temperatures by 2100, the research shows.
However, eradicating poverty entirely by moving the world's poorest into 
a "global middle class" income group, which earns a modest $2.97-8.44 a 
day, could add 0.6C to global temperatures by 2100.
In order to end all forms of poverty without driving up global 
temperatures, world leaders will need to ramp up climate mitigation 
efforts by 27%, the lead author tells Carbon Brief.
'Climate-development conflict'
Ending extreme poverty for "all people everywhere" is the first of the 
United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, an internationally-agreed 
set of targets aimed to improve the global standard of living by 2030.
However, putting an end to extreme poverty could bring additional 
challenges to meeting the long-term goals of the Paris Agreement, which 
aims to limit global temperature rise to "well below" 2C.
In order to end global poverty without causing significant additional 
warming, global leaders will need to ramp up climate mitigation efforts 
by 27%, the research finds.
To do this, countries may need to adopt negative emissions technologies 
on a large scale, Hubacek explains. However, many of the negative 
emission techniques that were once hailed as "saviour technologies" have 
failed to live up to expectation. He adds:
"So far technology has not been able to keep up with additional 
emissions and our scenarios would require even more technological 
progress on top of what we would have otherwise."
Instead, people in wealthier countries should consider adopting 
"lifestyle and behavioural changes" to reduce the size of their carbon 
footprints, he adds, in order to offset the extra carbon cost of ending 
poverty.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/study-ending-extreme-poverty-limiting-warming-2c-still-possible

*
**How Climate Change Is Playing Havoc With Olive Oil (and Farmers) 
<https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/climate/olive-oil.html>*
Harvests have been bad three of the last five years, subject to what 
Vito Martielli, an analyst with Rabobank, based in Utrecht, the 
Netherlands, called weather-related "shocks." And with growing demand, 
wholesale prices have gone up.
No one will go hungry if there's not enough olive oil on the market. But 
the impact of climate change on such a hardy and high-end product is a 
measure of how global warming is beginning to challenge how we grow food.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/climate/olive-oil.html

*
**Seeing God's hand in the deadly floods, yet wondering about climate 
change. 
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102017/christianity-evangelical-climate-change-flooding-west-virginia>*
BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS
An evangelical mountain town lost eight people to flooding from an 
extreme rain storm. Many residents see the Biblical prophecy of the 
apocalypse, and welcome it.
Jake Dowdy is a police officer in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, 
where he lived a block from Howard Creek, a stream so inconsequential 
you could usually hop-skip across parts of it without wetting your toes.
It was the morning of June 23, 2016, and a heavy rain was falling as 
Jake went to the gym for a workout. He wasn't thinking much about the 
rain, other than that it'd be good for the garden. When he got home 
around noon, he had lunch and kicked up his feet in the living room, 
chilling out for a while before his 4 pm shift. He drifted off to sleep 
on the couch and awoke when his wife texted, confusing him for a moment; 
she was concerned about reports of flooding.
His disorientation turned to panic when he set his feet on the carpet 
and felt it squish soggily beneath his soles. He had just enough time to 
grab the cat and wade through thigh-high rushing water to his truck...
Meanwhile Jake's neighbor, Kathy Glover, was at her office job on Main 
Street. She was aware of the heavy rain but wasn't concerned about the 
safety of her house, the home she'd lived in since she was 2 years old. 
It was two long blocks from Howard Creek. But in the early afternoon, a 
neighbor called to tell her that water was lapping at her front steps 
and she ought to get home. It wasn't coming up from the creek, but 
pouring down from Greenbrier Mountain.
While they differ in how safe they felt returning to their flooded 
property, Kathy and Jake both speak of the White Sulphur Springs flood, 
along with other extreme weather events around the world, in terms of 
the Biblical prophecy of the apocalypse. Their religious reasoning 
stands in stark contrast to what climate scientists offer as explanation 
for record-breaking rain storms, but could anything reconcile the 
divergent views?
Between the renovated homes on the opposite side of Howard Creek are 
freshly seeded parks bursting with colorful flowers that memorialize the 
dead: The three members of the Nicely family who took refuge in their 
attic, only to have the house tear from the foundation and float away. 
Mykala Phillips, the 14-year-old girl whose father tried to save her 
with an extension cord that wasn't strong enough to serve as a lifeline; 
her body was found months later, miles down the creek and in the next 
town. Belinda Scott, who was catapulted from her home into a tree after 
a gas explosion, making it to the hospital but with injuries too severe 
to survive.
Eight people died in the town of 2,400, and there were 23 total 
fatalities across the state, with hundreds of houses damaged.
One narrative comes from scientists and large international 
organizations with unwieldy names like the Intergovernmental Panel on 
Climate Change (IPCC), who offer a lot of numbers and complicated 
science about a warming planet, right down to the dueling temperature 
markers of Fahrenheit and Celsius. There are also some uncontroversial 
bits of data based on the physical fact that warmer air holds more water...
The other narrative turns to a single book filled with parables of good 
versus evil and drama far more compelling than what the IPCC reports 
offer. The Bible explains tragedy and human suffering and redemption as 
being part of God's plan, giving meaning to natural disasters.
"It was astronomical compared to what we were used to, and totally out 
of the norm," Kathy Glover said of the flood, which she sees as a "sign 
of the times" as described in the Bible.
"I'm a firm believer that God tells us in the Bible that he will warn us 
through signs in the sky," Kathy told me when I visited her earlier this 
fall. "It's fitting in with the Book of Revelation. With the earthquakes 
and the devastation happening around the world, it's a wake-up call."
Sixty years old, Kathy has blond hair styled short and an easy smile 
that brings out her dimples. In addition to her job as office manager at 
Workers United Local 863, she sits on the city council as the recorder.
The flood is "a sign of the times," she said, and feels that her primary 
duty since the storm is to "share God's word with more people." In terms 
of actions to be taken in a post-flood town, "There's nothing really I 
can encourage or discourage, other than to encourage people to be ready 
for the Return."
There is another narrative to be found in the story of scripture. But it 
doesn't turn to the burning pages of Revelation at the end of the Good 
Book and what has been called "escapism theology," with a hyper focus on 
the world to come.
Instead, it highlights the origin story of Genesis at the book's 
beginning, when God created a world, this world, teeming with living 
creatures and birds flying in an expansive sky. There was a garden with 
rivers flowing from it, and the humans God had crafted were placed there 
to work it and take care of it.
Science is deepening our knowledge of the garden that is our planet, 
with scientists seeking understanding as urgently as pastors pouring 
over parables in the Bible, both hoping that come Sunday morning, 
listeners are ready to receive the message.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19102017/christianity-evangelical-climate-change-flooding-west-virginia


*Expanding Subsidies for CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Net Loss for 
Communities, Taxpayers, and the Climate 
<http://priceofoil.org/2017/10/24/expanding-subsidies-for-co2-enhanced-oil-recovery-analysis/>*
Janet Redman, October 24, 2017
Expanding Subsidies for CO2-Enhanced Oil Recovery: A Net Loss for 
Communities, Taxpayers, and the Climate Click to download the analysis
October 2017
Download the analysis. 
<http://priceofoil.org/content/uploads/2017/10/45q-analysis-oct-2017-final.pdf>
Legislation recently introduced in the U.S. House and Senate proposes to 
extend and expand the Section 45Q tax credit for carbon capture and 
sequestration (CCS) and carbon dioxide (CO2)-enhanced oil recovery (EOR).
Generally speaking, this tax credit benefits coal- and gas-fired power 
plants (and industrial facilities) that capture waste CO2 before it is 
emitted. The value of the tax credit that facilities receive depends on 
whether they decide to directly sequester the CO2 underground (CCS) or 
sell it to oil companies that will pump the gas into wells to recover 
hard-to-get oil (EOR). If the proposed bills become law, the expansion 
of the existing 45Q tax credit could be the largest subsidy given to the 
fossil fuel industry by the United States government.
http://priceofoil.org/2017/10/24/expanding-subsidies-for-co2-enhanced-oil-recovery-analysis/


*PHOENIX'S HEAT IS RISING - AND SO IS THE DANGER... 
<http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/phoenix_s_heat_is_rising_and_so_is_the_danger?>*
By the first day of fall, Arizona's notorious heat had contributed to 
more than 60 deaths in Maricopa County and was suspected in 119 more 
since the start of 2017.
"There's going to be more extreme heat waves - and there already are 
extreme heat waves," said Daniel Swain, a University of California, Los 
Angeles, climate scientist.
Unlike the intensity of any given hurricane or wildfire, he said, 
there's no debating the nuances of climate change's effect on the 
thermometer. Hotter is hotter.
Slight changes in yearly average temperatures, like the 2 degrees that 
the broader Southwest already has experienced, can lead to
Arizona climate researchers expect Phoenix's all-time high of 122 
degrees to look more like the typical yearly high later this century, 
and they say the city could see a new record over 130 degrees to rival 
Death Valley's world mark.
Already, the city's hot season - when temperatures exceed 100 degrees - 
starts an average of almost three weeks earlier than it did 100 years 
ago and lasts two to three weeks longer in the fall.
And heat kills the people the rest of the world tends to notice least.
Many of its victims live in poorer neighborhoods that lack shade and 
cooling grasses. Some, lacking the money for an air-conditioner, have 
only old-style evaporative coolers, or no home cooling at all. Others 
have air-conditioners but not the cash to pay hundreds of dollars a 
month to run them in summer.
As temperatures rise, Phoenix's widening concrete expanses soak up and 
hold heat into the night, heaping more stress on those same vulnerable 
residents whose health and housing protect them the least.
The rest of the desert city, made livable in the summer by chilled 
indoor air and lush outdoor landscaping, will watch the heat fade into 
the cool of fall, largely without noticing that those who have the least 
suffer the most.
Emma Cordova lives on the other side of the divide, with no air-conditioner.
The 70-year-old neighborhood activist from Sherman Park has complained 
for decades that Phoenix should plant and maintain more than the few 
trees that grow in a park strip under the power-line corridor that faces 
her home.
Interstate 17 cooks the air at the west end of her block, and rock cover 
at her end of the park strip absorbs heat, as do a row of warehouses 
with asphalt lots a block to the north.
Studies have shown that in neighborhoods like hers in south Phoenix, 
with little tree cover, temperatures average as much as 8 degrees hotter 
in summer than in lusher districts where residents with bigger water 
bills enjoy 25 percent tree coverage
Days spent at 110 or higher double the incidence of death in metro 
Phoenix. Maricopa County averaged about 1.3 deaths per day at such 
temperatures from 2010 to 2016, according to data from the county's 
Department of Public Health. There were 0.6 deaths per day when the high 
ranged from 100 to 109.
As temperatures in Phoenix climb, so do the number of deadly days. The 
city's all-time average is 12 days a year at 110 degrees or hotter, but 
the National Weather Service says recent warming pushed the 1981-2010 
average to 18 days.
http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/phoenix_s_heat_is_rising_and_so_is_the_danger
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*Union Workers at Sky Harbor Protest Lack of A/C in Trucks and Low Wages 
<http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/unite-here-union-workers-at-sky-harbor-airport-protest-lack-of-a-c-in-delivery-trucks-and-low-wages-9800331>*
MOLLY LONGMAN
We've all had that overly dramatic moment where we tell our moms or 
spouses about all the "blood, sweat, and tears" we've put in at the office.
But Maria Barraza can confirm she's put in a lot of sweat.
She's been working for the in-flight catering company LSG Sky Chefs for 
14 years, where she helps delivery truck drivers get food to planes.
But the mother of four says the company has cut air-conditioning to 
their delivery trucks, making working all day in the heat with no break 
a sweaty and tiring process, particularly in Phoenix's average 109 days 
over 100 degrees each summer.
"It gets really hot," Barraza told Phoenix New Times with the help of a 
translator. "You start falling asleep from the heat and you get headaches."
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/unite-here-union-workers-at-sky-harbor-airport-protest-lack-of-a-c-in-delivery-trucks-and-low-wages-9800331


(Book Preview)*
The Climate Apartheid: How Global Warming Affects the Rich and Poor 
<http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-climate-apartheid-how-global-warming-affects-the-rich-and-poor-w509956>*
A trip to Lagos, Nigeria to investigate the social consequences of 
climate change
Below excerpts from _The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, 
and the Remaking of the Civilized World, to be published by Little, 
Brown on Oct 24, 2017._
Avlessi sat on the other side of the couch and his two-year-old son 
crawled up into his lap, naked. Avlessi's 15-year-old daughter joined 
us, wearing a beautiful green dress. Through the spaces between the 
bamboo walls, I could see ripples of black water.
e. The room we were in was large, maybe 12 feet by 12 feet, with a 
seven-foot ceiling. There were other rooms above, and a workshop off to 
the side. He told me that 19 people lived in this house, including his 
wife and kids and apprentices. "Sometimes," he said, "50 people live here."
That was hard to imagine: The whole place, including his workshop and 
the porch, was not much bigger than a fort I built in my backyard as a kid.
"We are very comfortable here," he said.
"Did you build the house yourself?" I asked.
He smiled and said, "Yes, with some help from my family."
"How long does it take to build a house like this?"
"If the materials are available, it takes about a week."
Using hand motions, he pantomimed using a hammer to drive the poles into 
the sandy bottom of the lagoon. The poles are driven about nine feet 
into the sand, and he said they last about 15 years before they rot and 
need to be replaced.
"How high is your house above water?"
"About four feet," he said.
"Do you have any trouble with flooding?"
He shook his head. "No trouble with water," he said.
"Storms?"
He shook his head. "No problem."
Patrick pointed out that if a house was getting water in it, it was easy 
to just raise it higher. "It is very simple to do," he explained. "We 
can do it in a few days. We do it all the time."
"We are all worried about our future here," Avlessi told me. "But there 
is nothing we can do. In Lagos, after God, there is government." He 
bounced his young son on his knee and looked off into the distance. "If 
it were possible to take a boat to God, and report Lagos state 
government to God, I would have done that."
Avlessi looked grave when I asked him how he dealt with the threat of 
eviction. I looked at the furniture, images of Jesus on the wall, the 
white lace tablecloth one of his daughters had laid out on a table 
before she served me a Coke. Makoko might be a black-water slum, but it 
is also a blueprint for how to live in the age of rapidly rising seas. 
In a rational world, the city of Lagos or the government of Nigeria or 
some wealthy oil baron would see this, would invest a few hundred 
thousand dollars in improving sanitation for the people in Makoko and 
hold them up as model citizens of the future. Instead, their houses will 
be chain-sawed or burned and they will be forced to live on the streets 
or jam themselves into tiny rooms in shabby concrete-block buildings, 
which, like virtually all buildings in Lagos, have been built at sea 
level and are therefore doomed in the coming years, creating a new 
generation of refugees who may or may not turn to crime or terrorism, 
but who will surely contribute to the political instability of our world 
and strengthen the hand of authoritarian thugs like Nigerian President 
Mohammadu Buhari or Donald Trump, who use fear of refugees and displaced 
people to erect higher and higher walls.
Three weeks after I left Nigeria, police entered a nearby slum and 
burned it to the ground, leaving 30,000 people - mostly families with 
young children - homeless. A few months later, thousands more were 
displaced when police stormed another community, Otodo Gbame, firing 
bullets and tear gas and forcing residents to flee on boats. A 
20-year-old man named Daniel Aya was shot in the neck while he tried to 
rescue family belongings, and later died. The homes were all burned to 
the ground.
By the time you read this, Makoko will likely be gone too.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-climate-apartheid-how-global-warming-affects-the-rich-and-poor-w509956


*BBC apologises over interview with climate sceptic Lord Lawson 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/24/bbc-apologises-over-interview-climate-sceptic-lord-nigel-lawson>*
The BBC has apologised for an interview with the climate sceptic Lord 
Lawson after admitting it had breached its own editorial guidelines for 
allowing him to claim that global temperatures have not risen in the 
past decade.
BBC Radio 4's flagship news programme Today ran the item in August in 
which Lawson, interviewed by presenter Justin Webb, made the claim. The 
last three years have in fact seen successive global heat records broken.
The Today programme rejected initial complaints from listeners, arguing 
that Lawson's stance was "reflected by the current US administration" 
and that offering space to "dissenting voices" was an important aspect 
of impartiality.
However, some listeners escalated their complaint and, in a letter seen 
by the Guardian, the BBC's executive complaints unit now accepts the 
interview breached its guidelines on accuracy and impartiality.
"I really thought the climate change debate had finished and that these 
voices of the very rich and well connected had lost relevance in the 
whole argument," said Dr Tim Thornton, a recently retired GP from 
Yorkshire who made one of the complaints. "It's fine that they don't 
like the idea of climate change but they are on a par with flat-earthers."
Thornton highlighted the claim that global temperatures had not risen: 
"Even a sixth-former would be able to tell you that wasn't so. So the 
BBC interviewer, if they are talking about climate change, should have 
done a little bit of homework."
In his letter to Thornton, Colin Tregear, BBC complaints director, said: 
"I hope you'll accept my apologies, on behalf of the BBC, for the breach 
of editorial standards you identified."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/24/bbc-apologises-over-interview-climate-sceptic-lord-nigel-lawson


*Sustainable agriculture versus corporate greed 
<http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/10/24/sustainable-agriculture-versus-corporate-greed/>*
by Ian Angus
Fred Magdoff reviews a new book in which Australian activists explain 
what's wrong with corporate profit-centred agriculture and propose a 
manifesto for a people-centred alternative.
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2017/10/24/sustainable-agriculture-versus-corporate-greed/


*(Stepping Up Podcast)  Ep. 3 - Clowning Around 
<https://steppinguppodcast.org/clowning-around/>*
Climate change is serious business. But some climate clowns are donning 
red noses to get your attention. One seasoned street performer has sung 
and danced his way from Los Angeles to London, bringing a climate 
message through imaginative skits and wacky antics. His gang of merry 
pranksters have slipped into corporate board rooms and press 
conferences, posing as VPs and speaking truth disguised as power. On the 
streets he may play the priest or the pauper; with little regard to 
propriety. While the climate message is clear, the delivery often comes 
with a pratfall. And passersby who shirk from taking that political 
flier find themselves stopping to listen, laugh and join the conversation.
https://steppinguppodcast.org/clowning-around/


*This Day in Climate History October 25, 2013 
<http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/hurricane-sandy-one-year-later-56848963789#>  
-  from D.R. Tucker*
October 25, 2013: On MSNBC's "The Cycle," writer David Gessner
discusses the grotesque legacy of Superstorm Sandy.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/watch/hurricane-sandy-one-year-later-56848963789#
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