[TheClimate.Vote] August 28, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Tue Aug 28 11:11:43 EDT 2018

/August 28, 2018/

[Oh no, Space Weather too?]
*NOAA Issues Geomagnetic Storm Warning: "A Crack Opened In Earth's 
Magnetic Field & Plasma Started Pouring In" 
<https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/noaa-issues-geomagnetic-storm-warning-crack-opened-earths-magnetic-field-plasma>*
by Tyler Durden - 8/27/2018
According to NOAA Space Weather forecasters, a powerful G3-class 
geomagnetic storm is in progress on August 26th as Earth passes through 
the wake of a coronal mass ejection (CME) that arrived with little 
notice approximately 24 hours ago. Strong magnetic fields in the CME's 
wake have cracked into Earth's magnetosphere, allowing solar wind to 
enter. So far auroras have been sighted in Scandinavia, Canada, and 
northern-tier US states such as Michigan and New York.

    Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude.
    Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible,
    false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices.
    Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag
    on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may occur.
    Navigation - Intermittent satellite navigation (GPS) problems,
    including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur.
    Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent. Aurora -
    Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.
    - - http://services.swpc.noaa.gov/text/discussion.txt

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-26/noaa-issues-geomagnetic-storm-warning-crack-opened-earths-magnetic-field-plasma
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[Senator John McCain obits - (Hagiography = writing about Saints)]
*ThreadReader on John McCain - by David Roberts 
<https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034132463289683970.html>* - @drvox
*1. All right. I am declaring the period of Enforced McCain Hagiography 
over.* I think every "objective" political journalist has had a chance 
to give his legacy a tongue bath by now, no? If non-worshipful McCain 
thoughts hurt your feelings, you might wanna mute this thread.
2. I could tweet about McCain forever, eventually angering & alienating 
everyone, but instead I'll just focus on the area I know best: climate 
politics. McCain's adventures there, and the press's reaction, are a 
perfect distillation of the larger McCain Dynamic.
3. To see the way McCain's climate politics are typically covered, check 
out this embarrassingly uncritical bit of Hallmark devotional from Holthaus:
John McCain was a climate hero, too
The Arizona senator leaves a complicated legacy -- but for much of the 
past two decades, the GOP's maverick was outspoken about saving the planet
https://grist.org/article/john-mccain-was-an-american-climate-hero-too/
4. That is a particularly maudlin bit of fanfic, but it's not rare. The 
standard line is that McCain's work on climate demonstrated his courage, 
independence, and general brave heroic wonderfulness. But let's think 
about this a little harder, shall we?
5. In the early 2000s, Bush was in power, having defeated McCain in a 
nasty primary, and McCain's ego was wounded. He *hated* Bush. And so he 
spent the early 2000s setting himself up as Bush's nemesis, blocking his 
efforts & ostentatiously taking "maverick" positions.
6. Also in the early 2000s, climate change policy was off the table. 
Bush had made clear he wouldn't do anything about it. So had Congress. 
It was seen as one of those niche liberal feel-good issues. So that made 
it perfect for McCain...
  - see 29 more at:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1034132463289683970.html*

*
[Canada Adaptation Preparation]*
Climate change impact study coming for East Coast ferry ports, airports, 
bridge 
<https://calgaryherald.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/climate-change-impact-study-coming-for-east-coast-ferry-ports-airports-bridge-2/wcm/6908ddc6-497d-4428-86b9-12d6ebd7122c>*
THE CANADIAN PRESS - August 27, 2018
HALIFAX - Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to assess 
how climate change and extreme weather will affect some of Atlantic 
Canada's major ferry terminals, airports and the Confederation Bridge.
The tender posted last week seeks analysis on the vulnerability of the 
infrastructure to rising sea levels, harsher storms and changing waves.
It says the federal government wants to know how the sites may be at 
risk of “failure, damage and loss of service,” due to the climate events 
that could hit the region.
The report will look at six ferry terminals, including Nova Scotia 
facilities at Digby and Caribou; the Saint John, N.B., terminal, and the 
Prince Edward Island terminals in Wood Islands and Souris, along with 
the Cap-Aux-Meules terminal on the Magdalene Islands.
It will also examine the impact of climate change on the airports at 
Wabush and St. Anthony's in Newfoundland and Labrador.
The federal advisory panel on climate change adaptation recently noted 
that average temperatures in Canada have increased by 1.5 C between 1950 
and 2010, with higher rises in the north.
Average precipitation has also been rising, and both heavy precipitation 
and extreme precipitation events are projected to become more frequent.
https://calgaryherald.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/climate-change-impact-study-coming-for-east-coast-ferry-ports-airports-bridge-2/wcm/6908ddc6-497d-4428-86b9-12d6ebd7122c

[Senator Elizabeth Warren reforms the world]
*Senator Elizabeth Warren Introduces Accountable Capitalism Act 
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/off/senator-elizabeth-warren-introduces-accountable-capitalism-act/vp-BBMoUYF>*
Duration: 02:08
https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/off/senator-elizabeth-warren-introduces-accountable-capitalism-act/vp-BBMoUYF
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[VOX]
*Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism 
<https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-corporations>*
She's unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again.
By Matthew Yglesias
The Accountable Capitalism Act - real citizenship for corporate persons
The conceit tying together Warren's ideas is that if corporations are 
going to have the legal rights of persons, they should be expected to 
act like decent citizens who uphold their fair share of the social 
contract and not act like sociopaths whose sole obligation is 
profitability - as is currently conventional in American business 
thinking.,,
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/15/17683022/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-corporations
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[Fast Company]
*Elizabeth Warren's bold new plan to give corporate wealth back to 
workers 
<https://www.fastcompany.com/90223130/how-elizabeth-warrens-accountable-capitalism-act-works>*
With her new Accountable Capitalism Act, Senator Warren wants to widen 
the pool of stakeholders to whom big companies are accountable, and 
ensure that the workers at those companies have a voice in how corporate 
decisions are made.
BY EILLIE ANZILOTT
The largest companies in the U.S., from Amazon to Wells Fargo to 
Walmart, impact the lives of millions of people across the U.S. Amazon, 
for instance, employees over 560,000 people; Wells Fargo reaches 70 
million customers. These corporations sit in the middle of a massive web 
of stakeholders, from workers to managers to customers to executives to 
shareholders. And yet, only those last two-executives and people who own 
stock in the company-have any substantive say in how these businesses 
are actually run...
- - - - -
The bill would require corporations with more than $1 billion in annual 
revenue to get a new federal corporate charter (currently, all 
businesses are chartered by the states). The charter would require 
corporate directors to consider the interests of all major corporate 
stakeholders-like workers, their communities, in addition to 
stockholders-in company decisions. Shareholders could sue if they 
believed directors weren't fulfilling those obligations, and companies 
would be protected from shareholder lawsuits claiming the companies were 
violating a fiduciary obligation to increase stock prices at all costs...
https://www.fastcompany.com/90223130/how-elizabeth-warrens-accountable-capitalism-act-works

[Reuters news]
*Climate fund snags threaten opportunity to fight warming - Ban Ki-moon 
<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climatechange-politics/climate-fund-snags-threaten-opportunity-to-fight-warming-ban-ki-moon-idUSKCN1LC01T>*
Megan Rowling
BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Insufficient cash is hampering 
a flagship international fund to help poor nations combat climate 
change, which is not working as fast and efficiently as the urgency of 
global warming requires, said former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) was established at U.N. climate talks in 
2010 to channel a substantial portion of the $100 billion per year 
wealthy nations had pledged to mobilize by 2020 for developing-world 
efforts to curb carbon emissions and weather the impacts of climate change.
Ban told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that decisions by U.S. President 
Donald Trump to withdraw his country from the 2015 Paris Agreement on 
global warming, and to walk away from promises on climate finance 
jeopardized global commitments...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-climatechange-politics/climate-fund-snags-threaten-opportunity-to-fight-warming-ban-ki-moon-idUSKCN1LC01T

[from The Trouble mailing list]
*The Climate Movement at-large 
<https://mailchi.mp/447a7a4f9a9f/troubleshoot?e=036bc54c16>*
In-depth analysis from other outlets

    Will California's Dirty Oil Business Soil Governor Jerry Brown's
    Climate Legacy
    <https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=788bdc5fb5&e=036bc54c16>There's
    something hinky about Brown's climate leadership, an inconsistency
    that environmentalists caution will threaten his legacy. Despite a
    reputation for being tough on climate, the governor has not done
    much to keep California's reserves in the ground. From Newsweek's
    Judith Lewis Mernit

    The 1.5 Generation
    <https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=82e23f15d1&e=036bc54c16>Courage
    and bolt cutters define the millennial generation's revolutionary
    approach to climate action, but will it suffice to reverse the
    course of climate change? From Grist's Eric Holthaus

    The Victims of Climate Change Are Already Here
    <https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=43c2b4f1e6&e=036bc54c16>
    With a new global summit approaching, communities in the southern
    United States are calling attention to the disaster scenarios they
    currently face. From the Atlantic's Vann R Newkirk II

    John McCain's Climate Change Legacy
    <https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=9602dbd41d&e=036bc54c16>He
    wrote legislation that failed. He built a bipartisan coalition that
    crumbled. And when Congress came closest to passing a bill that
    embraced his central idea-a market-based cap-and-trade system-McCain
    turned his back. From Insideclimate News' Marianne Lavelle

    Climate Change Policy Toppled Australia's Leader. Here's What It
    Means for Others.
    <https://the-trouble.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d8a297daee46cb5ac738d6061&id=a77192a4a1&e=036bc54c16>
    Fossil fuel regimes from a few key polluting economies threatens
    global climate strategy. If emissions targets continue to stagnate,
    the worst effects of climate change may come to pass. From the NYT's
    Somini Sengupta

https://mailchi.mp/447a7a4f9a9f/troubleshoot?e=036bc54c16

*This Day in Climate History - August 28, 2008 
<http://youtu.be/nmEI9Doctqs> - from D.R. Tucker*
August 28, 2008: Al Gore and Barack Obama address the Democratic 
National Convention, with Gore denouncing the Bush administration for 
denying the climate crisis and Obama promising to make clean energy a 
priority in his administration.
http://youtu.be/dYdV1wszqhM (Gore)
http://youtu.be/nmEI9Doctqs (Obama)

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