[TheClimate.Vote] April 10, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Tue Apr 10 10:27:59 EDT 2018
/April 10, 2018/
[Shipping emissions excluded from Paris Agreement]*
**Shipping industry faces calls to clean up emissions*
<http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43696900>
The global shipping industry is facing calls to follow the example of
the car industry and cut its carbon emissions.
The International Maritime Organisation's environment committee is
meeting in London this week to try to agree a global plan for reducing
emissions levels.
Without a clean-up there are warnings that shipping could account for
almost a fifth of carbon emissions by 2050.
Container ships use fuel that has 3,500 times more sulphur than car diesel.
International shipping carries about 90% of world trade but there has
been no regulation of carbon emissions.
This is despite a provision under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that gave
responsibility for handling carbon emissions from marine fuels to the
International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the United Nations division
responsible for global shipping.
It has proposed a 50% cut in emissions by 2050, a move that is backed by
Norway, but that does not go far enough for certain Pacific island
nations that are most threatened by rising sea levels.
Monday's meeting of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee
will hear a proposal that emissions should be cut by as much as 70% to
100% by that time.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-43696900
[SEC as ostrich]
*The SEC is blunting investor activism over climate, K-Cups and gay
rights*
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-sec-is-blunting-investor-activism-over-climate-k-cups-and-gay-rights/2018/04/06/5d5c1d16-38e1-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html?utm_term=.453396bcb7ae>
Steven Mufson - April 9
Shareholders battling corporate management over everything from
greenhouse gas emissions to discrimination to wasteful K-Cups are
finding it more difficult to put their proposed proxy resolutions to
votes as a result of new guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange
Commission.
The SEC has widened the definition of "micromanaging" and business
relevance, and on five occasions this year sided with companies that
have refused to put proposals on shareholder proxy ballots.
Campaign groups say the guidelines, issued in response to urgings from
business lobbying groups, could undermine one way for putting pressure
on companies.
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Last year, a resolution calling on ExxonMobil to disclose how it is
preparing for the transition to a low-carbon future won votes from
investors holding 62 percent of shares
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/31/exxonmobil-is-trying-to-fend-off-a-shareholder-rebellion-over-climate-change/?utm_term=.ff7f0ac73c60>,
including giant investment firms BlackRock and Vanguard. After
ExxonMobil issued the report in February, Tom Sanzillo, who advises big
pension funds on social investing, called it "defective and
unresponsive" and said that it did not address how actions to limit
global warming would affect the marketability of ExxonMobil's reserves.
Sanzillo, director of finance at the Institute for Energy Economics and
Financial Analysis, urged shareholders to vote against one or all of the
board's directors.
Last year, shareholder resolutions opposed by management also garnered
majorities at Occidental Petroleum and PPL, a utility...
more at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-sec-is-blunting-investor-activism-over-climate-k-cups-and-gay-rights/2018/04/06/5d5c1d16-38e1-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html?utm_term=.453396bcb7ae
[Another daily mailing - this one with pictures]
*Environmental Health News Daily <http://www.ehn.org>*
http://www.ehn.org/
[Massachusetts wind harvesting]
*To See Offshore Wind Energy's Future, Look on Shore - in Massachusetts
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09042018/offshore-wind-renewable-energy-massachusetts-manufacturing-jobs-mandate-new-bedford-port-boston>*
A former whaling port has been retrofitted to serve the wind industry, a
blade-testing center is up and running, and the state has an offshore
wind power mandate.
BY JAN ELLEN SPIEGEL, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS
In a few weeks, the state will announce which among three proposed
offshore wind projects it wants to move ahead. No matter which are
chosen, Massachusetts wins.
That's because more than a decade ago, the state began developing the
onshore components for offshore wind, including a major offshore
wind-ready port in New Bedford, a wind turbine blade testing center in
Charlestown and workforce training initiatives. Officials envisioned
Massachusetts as the hub for an entire future East Coast wind industry.
In 2006, with a proposal for offshore wind power in the region under
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Pike believes Massachusetts has the early edge to get some manufacturing
providing jobs for welders, electricians, carpenters. "The big kahuna is
manufacturing turbines," he said.
The tricky part is convincing states to spend money now to get offshore
wind installation to a level that warrants development of a U.S. supply
chain to bring costs down.
University of Delaware's McClellan offers elements of how to do that:
First is training a workforce. Another is structuring timing so there
are not more simultaneous projects than there are workers or facilities
to handle.
"This is going to be a U.S. industry. This isn't going to be a little
blip on the radar screen of a global industry that's going to be looked
at as kind of the orphan," she said. The states may be in competition,
but "the more that they see themselves as 'all ships float or sink' is a
way that we need to move in this sector on the East Coast."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09042018/offshore-wind-renewable-energy-massachusetts-manufacturing-jobs-mandate-new-bedford-port-boston
[video 5 min]
*A primer on resilience
<https://thebulletin.org/multimedia/primer-resilience>*
A quick look at the rising use of the term "resilience" with Alice Hill,
research fellow at the Hoover Institution and guest editor of the
March/April 2018 <https://thebulletin.org/2018/march> Bulletin magazine.
Vimeo video https://vimeo.com/263892384
https://thebulletin.org/multimedia/primer-resilience
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[Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists]
*An overview of "resilience" and climate change
<http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2016.1208995>*
Alice C. Hill - W. Kakenmaster
What do we mean when we speak in terms of "resilience?" Why has
"resilience" become the hot buzzword, and why is it useful for political
leaders who want to avoid saying the words "climate change?" Will the
choice of words make a difference when it comes to the need to design
infrastructure - roads, bridges, tunnels, houses, factories, power
plants, airports, railroads - with rising sea levels, increased storms,
and hotter temperatures in mind?
Read this free-access article in the March/April digital Journal.
Article Abstract
Of all the divisive issues in the United States, climate change ranks
high. During the past presidential election cycle, Republican candidate
Donald Trump expressed serious skepticism about the phenomenon, having
famously tweeted that it was a "hoax." Democratic candidate Hillary
Clinton, on the other hand, championed the issue, promising to build
upon the climate change policies of then-President Barack Obama. In both
chambers of Congress, the voting records of Democrats and Republicans
dramatically diverge on the topic (Dunlap, McCright, and Yarosh 2016
Dunlap, R., A. McCright, and J. Yarosh. 2016. "The Political Divide on
Climate Change: Partisan Polarization Widens in the US." Environment:
Science and Policy for Sustainable Development.
Disagreements about the issue infect nearly every dimension of the
climate debate (Funk and Kennedy 2016 Funk, C., and B. Kennedy. 2016.
"The Politics of Climate." Pew Research Center, Internet and Technology,
October from what might be causing climate change to the role of
scientists in informing government policy, to scientists' very
understanding of whether climate change is even occurring. In recent
years, against this deep divide, one climate-related topic has gained
precious common ground: resilience - a term which can mean everything
from the ability to bounce back from increasingly frequent natural
disasters to building infrastructure that continues to function even in
the face of accelerating impacts from climate change.
Speaking in terms of "resilience" has allowed communities to skirt
political land mines and get down to the business of adapting to the
climate change impacts they are already experiencing. An emphasis on
resilience gives city planners, utility owners, emergency personnel, and
other local officials a way to address the effects of climate change -
sea level rise, more intense storms, extended droughts, extreme
precipitation and heat events, and more frequent wildfires - without
getting drawn into the debate over what causes climate change. Reliance
on the term resilience, as opposed to "adaptation" or even "climate
resilience," carries important consequences for the choices we make. If
we are not willing to consider climate change projections in our
resilience planning, those plans may not prove resilient in the long
run. After all, how much the seas will rise matters when it comes to
whether and how high we build any sea walls.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00139157.2016.1208995
https://thebulletin.org/2018/march/overview-%E2%80%9Cresilience%E2%80%9D-and-climate-change11572
[Book release today - early blurb]
*No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
<https://www.amazon.com/No-Immediate-Danger-Carbon-Ideologies/dp/0399563490>*
by William T. Vollmann (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/No-Immediate-Danger-Carbon-Ideologies/dp/0399563490
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[WAPO]
*Why have we done so little to tackle climate change?
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-have-we-done-so-little-to-tackle-climate-change/2018/04/06/d62710dc-2baf-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html>*
By Meara Sharma April 6
Meara Sharma writes about culture and the environment.
A decade ago, the environmental philosopher Timothy Morton invented a
new word: hyperobject. It describes something so "massively distributed
in time and space relative to humans" that it eludes our understanding.
The best example of a hyperobject is climate change. Its scale confounds
our perception. It is everywhere—"viscous," as Morton has it — and yet
it is hard to see directly. Its implications are so great that they
verge on unthinkable.
William T. Vollmann's new book, "No Immediate Danger," tussles with the
comprehension-defying nature of climate change. It is a 600-page amalgam
of scientific history, cultural criticism, mathematical experiments,
risk-benefit analyses of energy production and consumption, and
diaristic meanderings through radiation-festooned landscapes after the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. The effect is bewildering...
The first of two volumes, jointly called "The Carbon Ideologies," the
whole book is written as a letter to the future. "Someday," it begins,
"perhaps not long from now, the inhabitants of a hotter, more dangerous
and biologically diminished planet than the one on which I lived may
wonder what you and I were thinking, or whether we thought at all. This
book is for them." We know more today about the effects of climate
change than ever before (although, as Vollmann and others have noted,
we've really known for a half a century). We are experiencing heightened
storms, record droughts, rising seas and temperatures, increased
pollution. And yet we have done little to reduce global greenhouse gas
emissions, which are at record highs. The concentration of carbon
dioxide in the atmosphere is at a level not seen since the Pliocene era
— more than 3 million years ago. Why so little action? Is it because
many of us don't care about some "ecosystem somewhere"? Because the
science lacks certainty? Because of companies' concerns about their
profits? Because of data suppression? Because it is easier not to act?
These questions course through the book...
More at:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-have-we-done-so-little-to-tackle-climate-change/2018/04/06/d62710dc-2baf-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html
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[Buy the book]*
No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies
<https://www.amazon.com/No-Immediate-Danger-Carbon-Ideologies/dp/0399563490>*
https://www.amazon.com/No-Immediate-Danger-Carbon-Ideologies/dp/0399563490
[no such rules for US media]
*BBC Radio 4 broke accuracy rules in Nigel Lawson climate change
interview
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/09/bbc-radio-4-broke-impartiality-rules-in-nigel-lawson-climate-change-interview?CMP=share_btn_link>*
Ofcom says controversial claims, including on the frequency of extreme
weather events, went unchallenged
Mark Sweney
BBC Radio 4 broke accuracy rules by failing to sufficiently challenge
the climate change denier Nigel Lawson's controversial claims in an
interview
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/aug/11/the-bbc-needs-to-accept-that-nigel-lawson-doesnt-exist-climate-change>,
the broadcasting watchdog has ruled.
Lord Lawson appeared on a Radio 4 programme last summer denying the
concept of climate change, which prompted complaints from the Green
party and the prominent scientists Brian Cox and Jim Al-Khalili, who
said it was "irresponsible and highly misleading" to imply there was
still a debate around the science supporting it.
The Today programme featured five interviews on climate change prompted
by the release of the film An Inconvenient Sequel, the former US
vice-president Al Gore's follow-up to 2006's An Inconvenient Truth. Each
interview was conducted by the presenter Justin Webb.
Lawson, a former chancellor of the exchequer in Margaret Thatcher's
government, made claims including that "all the experts say there hasn't
been" an increase in extreme weather events. He said the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "concedes" this, and that,
according to official figures, "during this past 10 years … average
world temperature has slightly declined".
Ofcom received two complaints that the interview broke the UK
broadcasting rule 5.1, which states that "news, in whatever form, must
be reported with due accuracy and presented with due impartiality".
"Neither statement was correct, or sufficiently challenged during the
interview or subsequently during the programme," said the Ofcom ruling.
The BBC said it had publicly acknowledged that "some of Lord Lawson's
statements went beyond the intended scope of the interview and he was
allowed to make inaccurate assertions which should have been challenged".
Ofcom was not impressed that a previous appearance on the Today
programme in 2014 by Lawson, who founded the Global Warming Policy
Foundation, resulted in an internal BBC investigation and ruling that
found the same failure to properly challenge his views.
read more at:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/09/bbc-radio-4-broke-impartiality-rules-in-nigel-lawson-climate-change-interview?CMP=share_btn_link
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[apology not enough in Oct 2017]
*BBC apologises over interview with climate denier Lord Lawson
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/24/bbc-apologises-over-interview-climate-sceptic-lord-nigel-lawson>*
Exclusive: Lawson's claim that global temperatures are not rising went
unchallenged, breaching guidelines on accuracy and impartiality
The BBC has apologised for an interview with the climate change denier
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
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/aug/11/the-bbc-needs-to-accept-that-nigel-lawson-doesnt-exist-climate-change>.
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
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/18/2016-hottest-year-ever-recorded-and-scientists-say-human-activity-to-blame>.
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.
more at:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/24/bbc-apologises-over-interview-climate-sceptic-lord-nigel-lawson
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[Early in the controversy Aug 2017]
*The BBC needs to accept that Nigel Lawson doesn't exist*
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/aug/11/the-bbc-needs-to-accept-that-nigel-lawson-doesnt-exist-climate-change>
Climate change is serious: the BBC needs to stop this obsession with
'balance' and reject the scientifically-discredited argument that Nigel
Lawson exists
The BBC has recently come under fire for a Radio 4 programme which
featured Nigel Lawson criticising the concept of climate change. This
has drawn the ire of many scientists, and rightly so. The science on
this matter is settled, there is no meaningful debate to be had, and the
evidence is there for all to see should they choose to go and look for
it. Basically, Nigel Lawson isn't real.
It's all very well putting forward opposing views in the name of
"balance", although it's worth noting that the importance of "balance"
at the BBC seems to differ wildly depending on the subject matter. You
seldom get Flat Earth proponents giving contrasting weather forecasts to
combat the globular bias in meteorology, and it seems the BBC is
perfectly happy broadcasting debates about whether the Welsh language
deserves to exist which feature, you know, NOBODY WHO ACTUALLY SPEAKS
IT. Balance isn't a priority in these instances, clearly. But the
increasingly-unhinged and militant types who insist that Nigel Lawson
exists, they must be given airtime apparently. It boggles the mind.
more at:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2017/aug/11/the-bbc-needs-to-accept-that-nigel-lawson-doesnt-exist-climate-change
[One Activism Calendar]
*Beyond Extreme Energy is publishing a calendar of actions being
planned,* in the works or on-going. We will publish it at least every
two weeks. It is available at www.beyondextremeenergy.org
<http://www.beyondextremeenergy.org>, and it is also distributed via
email and social media. It is a calendar primarily for actions aimed at
stopping the building of any new fossil fuel infrastructure. Submissions
for this listing should be sent to actions at beyondextremeenergy.org
<mailto:actions at beyondextremeenergy.org>and should include location,
date(s), description (short) and contact info.
/_Actions to stop fossil fuel expansion:_/
*April 12 and 14, Raleigh and Charlotte, NC*: Southeastern US Justice
Tour Launch: "To solve the climate crisis we need to put justice first."
https://www.dogwoodalliance.org/
*April 13, 11:30 am-1 pm, Harrisburg, Pa*: We Choose a Better Path
Rally, Main Rotunda, State Capitol. "We don't just have a fracking
problem or a climate problem; we have a democracy problem."
https://www.facebook.com/events/2064542067148632??ti=ia
*April 18, 5 pm, Baltimore, Md.:*Rally to Keep Maryland Frack Free,
https://www.facebook.com/events/134042544101144/
*April 22-23, Albany, NY*: Cuomowalkthetalk action including civil
disobedience (23^rd ), with prior preparation. cuomowalkthetalk.org
<http://cuomowalkthetalk.org>. Direct action trainings in April info can
be found at https://www.stopnyinfrackstructure.org/news
*April 22, Buckingham County, Va*.: statewide action against Atlantic
Coast Pipeline and planned local compressor station.
https://www.friendsofbuckinghamva.org
*April 22, nationally and internationally*: Earth Day!
https://www.earthday.org/
*April 26-29, Western North Carolina: *Southeast Trans and/or Women
Action camp.**. Workshops and discussions on: urban and rural direct
action, art & activism, anti-fascist and anti-racist organizing, DIY
medicine and first-aid, herbalism, caucuses and much more. More info
here
<http://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2018/03/17/updates-on-the-southeast-trans-and-or-womens-action-camp-in-north-carolina/>.
*April 28, Lore City, Oh.:*Fracking: Your Health and Industry Liability
all-day event. https://www.facebook.com/frackingliability/
*May 12, Hammond, IN:*"Walk the Line" Pipeline Walk: March against
Enbridge Line 6. https://walkthelinenwi.com*_
_**May 19, worldwide:*Hands Across the Sand, "Say NO to dirty fuels and
YES to clean energy." www.handsacrossthesand.com
<http://www.handsacrossthesand.com>*_
_**June 9, Washington DC and elsewhere*: March for the Ocean. "*NO to
offshore oil*testing, leasing, drilling and spilling, *NO to plastic*
and other forms of Ocean pollution and *YES to protecting our coasts* at
risk. YES to a Healthy Ocean and Clean Water for
All.*https://marchfortheocean.org/**_
_June 23-25, Washington, DC:* Beyond Extreme Energy convergence and
actions, with Poor Peoples Campaign on June 23 and at FERC (and
elsewhere)**on June 25: "There are cracks appearing at FERC; it is time
to escalate." http://beyondextremeenergy.org
*July 21, Washington, D.C*: This is Zero Hour march. A youth-led call
for climate action. "Center the voices of diverse youth in the
conversation around climate and environmental justice."
http://thisiszerohour.org
/_On-going:_/
*Vancouver, British Columbia: Stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain
Pipeline*, Protect the Water, Land and Climate. https://protecttheinlet.ca
*Mahwah, NJ: Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp*. Support the Ramapough
Lenape Nation in defending their right to pray and speak out against new
pipelines on their ancestral lands in New
Jersey.**https://www.facebook.com/splitrockprayercamp**
*Annapolis, Md: Every Thursday at noon*, 110 State Circle calling on
Governor Hogan to support a safety study on Dominion's LNG export
terminal being built in Cove Point. https://www.Facebook.com/WeAreCovePoint
*Middletown, NY, every Saturday 11 am-noon*: Shut Down CPV gas-fired
power plant on Route 6. www.blog.protectorangecounty.org
<http://www.blog.protectorangecounty.org>
*Giles County, WV: Tree-sit* to prevent cutting down of trees for
Mountain Valley Pipeline:
https://www.facebook.com/appalachiansagainstpipelines/*
Southern Louisiana, L'eau Est La Vie Camp. *No Bayou Bridge pipeline*.
*https://www.facebook.com/LeauEstLaVie/
*Camp White Pine, Huntington County, Pennsylvania: *Stop the Mariner
East 2 pipeline. https://www.facebook.com/CampWhitePinePA/
*Lancaster Against Pipelines, Lancaster, Pa.: *Stop the Atlantic Sunrise
pipeline. **www.wearelancastercounty.org
<http://www.wearelancastercounty.org>
*Virginia: Three Sisters Resistance Camp: *More info here.
<https://www.facebook.com/Three-Sisters-Resistance-Camp-2007001136291201/>
*Cloquet, Minnesota: Resistance to Enbridge Line 3: *More info here
<https://www.facebook.com/makwainitiative/?fref=mentions>
*Southeastern Justice First Tour, April 12 to June 23:
*https://www.dogwoodalliance.org
*This Day in Climate History - April 10, 1998
<http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/bpercival/casebook/documents/epaco2memo1.pdf>
- from D.R. Tucker*
April 10, 1998: EPA general counsel Jonathan Cannon writes a memo to EPA
Administrator Carol Browner clarifying the EPA's ability to regulate CO2
as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.
PDF
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/bpercival/casebook/documents/epaco2memo1.pdf
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