[TheClimate.Vote] September 6, 2017 - Daily Global Warming News

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/*Before a Hurricane 
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CDC.gov *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Natural Disasters 
and Severe Weather 
<https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/social_media.html>*
Social Media
Podcasts  Beat the Heat <http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/player.asp?f=9889>
Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
Keeping Cool in a Heat Wave 
<http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/heatwave.asp> 
http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/heatwave.asp
Stay Healthy and Safe in Hot Weather 
<http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/outdoorheat.asp> 
http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/outdoorheat.asp
Videos
How to Stay Cool in Extreme Heat 
<https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/how_to_stay_cool_video.html>
A message from Robin M. Ikeda, MD, MPH, (RADM, USPHS), CDC Director of 
the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, and Environmental Health 
(ONDIEH) on how you can prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths by 
staying cool, hydrated and informed.
CDC's Tracking Program: Making Missouri Cooling Centers Easy to Find 
<https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/cooling_centers_video.html> 
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/cooling_centers_video.html
CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network connects people with 
vital public health information. See how the Missouri Tracking Program 
worked with local health officials to create an interactive, dynamic 
online map that makes cooling centers easy to find.
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/social_media.html

Globalchange.gov
*(Interactive) Heavy Downpours Increasing 
<http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/heavy-downpours-increasing>*
Heavy downpours are increasing nationally, especially over the last 
three to five decades, with the largest increases in the Midwest and 
Northeast. Increases in extreme precipitation are projected for all U.S. 
regions.
Explore extreme precipitation.
The chapter presents 12 key messages about our changing climate, 
together with supporting evidence for those messages. The discussion of 
each key message begins with a summary of recent variations or trends, 
followed by projections of the corresponding changes for the future.
http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/heavy-downpours-increasing

Elizabeth Kolbert
*Hurricane Harvey and the Storms to Come 
<https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/hurricane-harvey-and-the-storms-to-come>*
In the leadup to the historic flood, Texas Republicans abetted Trump's 
climate-change delusions.
Politicians from New York and New Jersey have been quick to say that 
they will not mess with Texas the way that Texans messed with them. 
"I'll vote 4 Harvey aid," Representative Peter King, a Republican from 
Long Island, tweeted during the storm. Lawmakers from the Northeast 
should vote for aid to Houston, but with conditions. In the place of 
spending cuts, they should demand that Texas lawmakers and the President 
face up to the facts. The earth is warming, fossil-fuel emissions are 
the major cause, and the results are going to be far from "beneficial." 
The U.S. needs to radically reduce its carbon emissions and, at the same 
time, prepare for a future in which storms like Harvey, Sandy, and 
Katrina increasingly become the norm.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/hurricane-harvey-and-the-storms-to-come

*Coal Giant Says Bankruptcy Shields It From California Climate Suit 
<https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/05/peabody-coal-california-climate-change-lawsuit/>*
The coal giant Peabody did not dispute its product's impact on the 
environment in its court filing, just that its bankruptcy deal precludes 
them being held accountable.
Three coastal California communities suing fossil fuel companies over 
their role in climate change are now heading to a bankruptcy court to 
stop the largest coal producer in the country from claiming it can't be 
held accountable.
Peabody Energy emerged from bankruptcy on April 3 with a court-approved 
plan to reorganize the company. In a motion filed last week, the company 
argued that the plan protects it from lawsuits that deal with its 
operations before April 3.
"They are trying to avoid responsibility for their action by hiding 
behind the bankruptcy," said Vic Sher, a partner in Sher Edling, the San 
Francisco law firm representing the three communities
The California lawsuits 
<https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SMC-Endorsed6_2017-07-17-SMCO-Complaint-5bFINAL-ENDORSED5d.pdf>said 
Peabody and other companies were negligent in their business practices 
by generating an enormous amount of emissions and failing to disclose 
the risks and impacts.
The California plaintiffs haven't specified how much money they are 
seeking through the lawsuits. They will be asking for compensations to 
deal with the impacts of climate change from the past and into the 
future, Sher said.
"The key concept is that even if the emissions ended now, the impacts 
from the emissions that already occurred will continue to be severe and 
in fact will grow," he said. 
https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/05/peabody-coal-california-climate-change-lawsuit/
*(PDF of filing) FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION 
<https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SMC-Endorsed6_2017-07-17-SMCO-Complaint-5bFINAL-ENDORSED5d.pdf>*
(Public Nuisance on Behalf of the People of the State of California)
(Against All Defendants)
https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SMC-Endorsed6_2017-07-17-SMCO-Complaint-5bFINAL-ENDORSED5d.pdf

*Here's why climate change is dividing the highly educated 
<http://ewn.co.za/2017/09/05/here-s-why-climate-change-is-dividing-the-highly-educated>*
New research shows that education and facts don't prevent climate change 
deniers from cherry picking evidence to support their own beliefs.
  World Economic Forum
Many people concerned about climate change assume that eventually, the 
growing weight of facts will persuade those who dismiss humans' role in 
the problem to think again. Surely, the theory goes, the plentiful 
evidence will eventually make any naysayer understand the severity of 
the situation.
But political ideology has a powerful effect, and new research shows 
that education and facts don't prevent climate change deniers from 
cherry picking evidence to support their own beliefs.
A study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of 
Sciences showed that among the most educated, there's actually a deep 
divide in beliefs about controversial scientific issues.
The researchers analyzed public opinions on six topics, stem cell 
research, the big bang, human evolution, climate change, nanotechnology, 
and genetically modified foods, based on more than 6,500 responses from 
the General Social Survey (a national survey conducted once every two 
years). Overall, they found that education level was "at best weakly 
related" to acceptance of the scientific consensus.
http://ewn.co.za/2017/09/05/here-s-why-climate-change-is-dividing-the-highly-educated
.
*5 things we learned from one of the world's biggest surveys of young people
<https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/global-shapers-survey-2017-5-things-we-learned>*https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/global-shapers-survey-2017-5-things-we-learned

*Global warming doubles growth rates of Antarctic seabed's marine fauna 
– study 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/31/global-warming-doubles-growth-rates-of-antarctic-seabeds-marine-fauna-study>*
Experiment in the Bellingshuan Sea reveals temperature rise has more 
alarming implications for biodiversity in polar waters than previously 
thought
Until recently, most of the coverage of temperature rises has focused on 
the north pole, where the shrinking of arctic ice has been most visibly 
dramatic. But concerns are growing about the impact of global warming on 
the far bigger southern ice cap.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/31/global-warming-doubles-growth-rates-of-antarctic-seabeds-marine-fauna-study

*Can business save the world from climate change?
<https://www.greenbiz.com/article/can-business-save-world-climate-change>*In 
recent years, a number of initiatives and collaborations have sprung up 
around the world focused on private sector action on climate change. 
With Trump's withdrawal from the Paris agreement, these initiatives have 
raised an intriguing question: In the absence of political action, can 
business save the world from devastating climate change?
"While many of the oil majors are publicly supportive of climate action 
and the Paris agreement, some of them are still proposing future energy 
and emissions scenarios in which there are very high levels of carbon 
capture and storage deployment - levels way higher than the current 
level of investment suggests is plausible," Topping said.
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/can-business-save-world-climate-change

*How I learned to stop worrying and deal with climate change 
<http://grist.org/article/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-deal-with-climate-change/>*
By Eve Andrews    "A reader recently wrote me to say she has given up. 
She is done."
How do you keep from being driven to despair when the ones you are 
disagreeing with are the ones you're trying, specifically, to protect? 
How do you deal with resistance to a threat that, to you, is urgent?
His answer surprised me, honestly: He's patient. The projects he's 
developing - a food-sovereignty initiative, a land-grant system - will 
be entrusted to younger members of the tribe, those who understand 
climate change and are passionate about fighting it.
"I've accepted the fact that some of these ideas may not come into 
fruition in my lifetime," he says. "But we've got to plant these seeds, 
and some of them will sprout. They need to be watered and nourished.
"That's my hope in my work.
You feel what you feel, you do what you can, and you try not to carry 
the weight of every errant carbon molecule on your shoulders. Everyone 
else is carrying that weight, too, whether they've dealt with it or not 
- and most are just as lost as you are. You help them figure out their 
thing that they can do, rather than tell them what they should be doing. 
You try to be patient.
http://grist.org/article/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-deal-with-climate-change/

* Denying Hurricane Harvey's climate links only worsens future suffering 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/sep/05/denying-hurricane-harveys-climate-links-only-worsens-future-suffering>*
The variables in the climate change formula are *mitigation, adaptation, 
and suffering*. Denying the problem loads up on the suffering.
There will be some of each, but the more we mitigate the problem by 
cutting carbon pollution, the less we will have to adapt to and suffer 
from the consequences of climate change. However, even adaptation takes 
action. We can take some steps to adapt to rising sea levels, but 
denying the problem by rolling back regulations aimed at doing just that 
shifts us further toward the suffering part of the equation. Economic 
growth has many benefits, but by itself does not move us in the 
direction of climate mitigation or adaptation.
In short, to minimize the suffering caused by climate change, we need to 
be smarter about addressing the problem and adapting its consequences. 
Right now we're instead becoming stupider, and that will only lead to 
increased suffering. If we want to minimize the suffering caused by 
future Harveys, we need to talk about how climate change is making them 
worse, and we need to do something about it.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/sep/05/denying-hurricane-harveys-climate-links-only-worsens-future-suffering

*
A two-decade crusade by conservative charities fueled Trump's exit from 
Paris climate accord 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-two-decade-crusade-by-conservative-charities-fueled-trumps-exit-from-paris-climate-accord/2017/09/05/fcb8d9fe-6726-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html>*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-two-decade-crusade-by-conservative-charities-fueled-trumps-exit-from-paris-climate-accord/2017/09/05/fcb8d9fe-6726-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html

*Washington Post: Exxon, Koch, and Big Coal Cash Begat Trump Climate 
Denial 
<http://climateinvestigations.org/washington-post-exxon-koch-big-coal-cash-begat-trump-climate-denial/>*
Q: What does spending tens of millions of dollars supporting climate 
denial organizations over a twenty year period buy you?
A: Donald Trump, abdication of U.S. leadership on climate and increased 
risk of damage from climate change.
The Washington Post's Bob O'Harrow just penned the most complete 
treatment to date on what has happened over the past year and the past 
twenty years starting in 1997, resulting in the June 2017 Rose Garden 
party to ditch the Paris Climate Agreement. This story contains a 
sequence of key events and history, ending in the Trump Whitehouse.
This story boils down to the legacy of climate denial funding by 
ExxonMobil, the Koch brothers, coal companies and conservative 
foundations, which has supported and paid for the salaries, campaigns, 
programs and rent at dozens of non-profit organizations who have opposed 
sensible climate policy.
http://climateinvestigations.org/washington-post-exxon-koch-big-coal-cash-begat-trump-climate-denial/

*Predatory Delay is the blocking or slowing of needed change, in order 
to make money off unsustainable, unjust system in the meantime. 
<https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/902164491651006464>*
https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/902164491651006464

*Debate Trolling and Predatory Delay – Alex Steffen – Medium 
<https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/debate-trolling-and-predatory-delay-47881ea6c6b7>*
https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/debate-trolling-and-predatory-delay-47881ea6c6b7
May 3, 2016 - Debate Trolling and Predatory Delay. Ten years ago this 
month I wrote a piece, "The Debate Is Over" (you can read it below). It 
caused a stir.

https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/debate-trolling-and-predatory-delay-47881ea6c6b7

*(video) How to Deal With A Crisis of Meaning 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8d3iW2yxM>*
Many of us are regularly thrown off course by what we might term 'crises 
of meaning'; periods when what we are up to seems not to connect up with 
anything purposeful or properly dignified. It's at such moments that we 
need to lean on a  bigger theory of what meaning is, where it comes 
from, and how our lives relate to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8d3iW2yxM

Assessing the damage: How @GOP looks at 
<https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/905070513961271296/photo/1> 
#HoustonFloods, #climate, and disasters 
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/9/5/1696029/-Cartoon-Assessing-the-damage 
… @JenSorensen #SciComm #Cartoons
https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/905070513961271296/photo/1

<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes/>*This 
Day in Climate History September 6, 2011 
<http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes/>- 
(+ video) <http://youtu.be/7qLiEB4Ed_E> from D.R. Tucker*
September 6, 2011: On MotherJones.com, investigative journalist Brad 
Friedman posts audio from a secretive June 2011 conference in Colorado 
hosted by climate-change-denying libertarian billionaires Charles and 
David Koch. In one clip, Charles Koch compares President Obama to Saddam 
Hussein. That evening, Friedman discusses the conference on MSNBC's "The 
Ed Show."
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes/ 

http://youtu.be/7qLiEB4Ed_E
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