[TheClimate.Vote] January 5, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Fri Jan 5 11:16:00 EST 2018
/January 5, 2018/
[BostonGlobe]
*Here's how bad the flooding was during Thursday's storm
<https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/04/here-how-bad-coastal-flooding-was-during-thursday-storm/HCU6EZbtcN94FfScmuGM3M/story.html>*
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/01/04/here-how-bad-coastal-flooding-was-during-thursday-storm/HCU6EZbtcN94FfScmuGM3M/story.html
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[Investors]
*A "CLARION CALL" FROM INDUSTRY ON #CLIMATECHANGE #AUSPOL #QLDPOL
#STOPADANI
<https://jpratt27.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/a-clarion-call-from-industry-on-climatechange-auspol-qldpol-stopadani/>*
A clarion call from within the industry, and a costly taste of climate
reality, saw investors finally wake up to global warming in 2017.
Aside from the principle that the owners of the economy should shoulder
some responsibility for its outcomes, a far more compelling argument to
investors took hold in 2017: climate risk.Whether for moral reasons or
sheer self-interest, investors have every reason to kick climate risk
out of the economy as quickly as possible.
Julien Vincent is the executive director of Market Forces
<https://www.marketforces.org.au/about-us/>.
https://jpratt27.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/a-clarion-call-from-industry-on-climatechange-auspol-qldpol-stopadani/
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**Lizard blizzard: iguanas rain from trees as animals struggle with US
cold snap
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/04/cold-weather-us-how-are-animals-coping-frozen-iguana-florida>*
Extreme temperatures across the east coast are causing cold-blooded
reptiles to 'shut down' in Florida, while elsewhere sharks and penguins
are feeling the chill
That's the situation in Florida, where unusually cold temperatures have
sent the green lizards tumbling from their perches on trees - a result
of the cold-blooded creatures basically shutting down when it gets too
chilly. The iguanas are likely not dead, experts say
<http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/local/cold-florida-iguanas-are-falling-from-trees/cYvpBvawrh3iwntMANHR2I/>,
but merely stunned and will reanimate when they warm up.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/04/cold-weather-us-how-are-animals-coping-frozen-iguana-florida
[VICE News]
*Scientists can now quickly link extreme weather events to climate
change
<https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjpgdm/scientists-can-now-quickly-link-extreme-weather-events-to-climate-change>*
But beyond the misguided social media jabs lies a serious and ongoing
discussion about how scientists can connect individual extreme weather
events to underlying climate change, and more importantly, how fast they
can make now those connections.
For example, a 2004 study on a 2003 European heat wave took a year and a
half to complete. In contrast, just three months after Hurricane Harvey,
scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were able to publish
a study showing that Harvey dropped 38 percent more rain than it would
have without underlying climate change. In the same time, another group
called World Weather Attribution found that hurricanes that size have
become three times more probable
VICE News spoke with Myles Allen, a climate scientist at the University
of Oxford and one of the researchers behind the first climate
attribution study, who explained why scientists are now able to rapidly
figure out if an event like Hurricane Harvey was more devastating than
it otherwise would have been because of climate change. (Answer: it was.)
"We are now looking at accelerating that whole process because once
you've agreed on the method you're using, you don't need to reinvent the
wheel every time you do a new study," Allen told VICE News. "The actual
time it takes to actually do the calculations is not that long."
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/wjpgdm/scientists-can-now-quickly-link-extreme-weather-events-to-climate-change
*An Oregon court just dealt local climate action a huge win
<https://thinkprogress.org/portland-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-ban-appeals-win-fd7fe4c758cd/>*
The Oregon Court of Appeals found that Portland's groundbreaking fossil
fuel infrastructure ban does not violate the Constitution.
The ruling overturns an earlier decision
<https://thinkprogress.org/portland-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-ban-ruling-265dbc5e8052/>
by the state's Land Use Board of Appeals - an administrative body
charged with deciding land use conflicts - which found
<http://columbiariverkeeper.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-001-Columbia-Pacific-BTC-v.-City-of-Portland.pdf>
that the ban on new fossil fuel infrastructure within city limits
violated the Interstate Commerce Clause of the Constitution.
"We're thrilled," Regna Merritt, director of the Healthy Climate Program
at Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility, said in a statement.
"Today's decision affirms that Portland and other communities can
implement innovative protections to counter threats to human health and
safety from dangerous fossil fuel infrastructure."..
https://thinkprogress.org/portland-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-ban-appeals-win-fd7fe4c758cd/
*Portland's Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Restrictions Do Not Violate the
US Constitution*
<http://sustainable-economy.org/portlands-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-restrictions-not-violate-us-constitution/>
Oregon Court of Appeals Reverses Lower Court's Decision
January 4, 2017 (Salem, OR) - Today, the Oregon Court of Appeals
reversed, in large part, a Land Use Board of Appeals (LUBA) decision
that invalidated Portland's landmark Fossil Fuel Terminal Zoning
Amendments, passed unanimously in December 2016. The Court ruled that
Portland did not violate the Dormant Commerce Clause of the U.S.
Constitution...
"This is an important signal to other local governments that they can
protect their residents from the many dangers of the fossil fuel
industry," said Nicholas Caleb, the Staff Attorney at the Center for
Sustainable Economy. "Many other municipal governments were waiting on
this decision to follow Portland’s lead and continue to fight together
for a healthy climate system and truly sustainable economy."...
http://sustainable-economy.org/portlands-fossil-fuel-infrastructure-restrictions-not-violate-us-constitution/
Read the opinion here -
http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/docs/A165618.pdf
[Fear or Hope?]
*Which works better: climate fear, or climate hope? Well, it's
complicated
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/04/climate-fear-or-hope-change-debate>*
There's a debate in climate circles about whether you should try to
scare the living daylights out of people, or give them hope - think
images of starving polar bears on melting ice caps on the one hand, and
happy families on their bikes lined with flowers and solar-powered
lights on the other.
The debate came to something of a head this year, after David
Wallace-Wells lit up the internet with his 7,000-word, worst-case
scenario
<http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html>
published in New York magazine. It went viral almost instantly, and soon
was the best-read story in the magazine's history. A writer in Slate
called it "the Silent Spring of our time
<http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2017/07/we_are_not_alarmed_enough_about_climate_change.html>".
But it also garnered
<http://mashable.com/2017/07/10/new-york-mag-climate-story-inaccurate-doomsday-scenario/#y1.Qoyqp2Pqn>
tremendous
<http://grist.org/climate-energy/stop-scaring-people-about-climate-change-it-doesnt-work/>
criticism and from more than the usual denier set.
Beyond quibbles with the science, critics including the illustrious
climate scientist Michael Mann took issue with the piece's "doomist
framing" because, as he wrote at the time, there's "a danger in
overstating the science in a way that presents the problem as
unsolvable, and feeds a sense of doom, inevitability and hopelessness".
To attempt to either scare or inspire people "simultaneously
oversimplifies the rich base of research on emotion while
overcomplicating the very real communications challenge advocates face
by demanding that each message have the right 'emotional recipe' to
maximize effectiveness", they write....
Like a patient who's given both a diagnosis and a course of treatment,
people respond better to risks when given both a reason and a way to
act. In this sense, it seems the hope and fear camps of the climate
debate are each seeing only part of the puzzle...
The overwhelming problem in climate communication, after all, isn't how
it's talked about so much as whether it's being talked about at all. A
2016 report
<http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-spiral-silence-america/>
from Yale's programme on climate communication found one in four
Americans say they "never" hear someone discussing it.
Looked at that way, David Wallace-Wells' apocalyptic horror story cum
viral sensation is the best thing that's happened in climate
communication some time.
Lucia Graves is a Guardian US columnist
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/04/climate-fear-or-hope-change-debate
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[Nature $]
*Reassessing emotion in climate change communication
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-017-0021-9.epdf>*
Debate over effective climate change communication must be grounded in
rigorous affective science. Rather than treating emotions as simple
levers to be pulled to promote desired outcomes, emotions should be
viewed as one integral component of a cognitive feedback system guiding
responses to challenging decision-making problems.Daniel A. Chapman,
Brian Lickel and Ezra M. Markowitz
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-017-0021-9.epdf
[National Geographic]
*Climate Change Is Suffocating Large Parts of the Ocean
<https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/climate-change-suffocating-low-oxygen-zones-ocean/>*
A new study says warming has reduced the oxygen levels in large swaths
of the deep ocean, threatening marine life around the world.
One day more than a decade ago, Eric Prince was studying the tracks of
tagged fish when he noticed something odd. Blue marlin off the
southeastern United States would dive a half-mile deep chasing prey. The
same species off Costa Rica and Guatemala stayed near the surface,
rarely dropping more than a few hundred feet.
The billfish, it turns out, were trying to avoid suffocation. The marlin
near Guatemala and Costa Rica wouldn't plunge into the murky depths
because they were avoiding a deep, gigantic and expanding swath of water
that contained too little oxygen.
"Loss of oxygen in many ways is the destruction of an ecosystem,"
Breitburg says. "If we were creating vast areas on land that were
uninhabitable by most animals, we'd notice. But we don't always see
things like this when they are happening in the water."
Of course, declining oxygen isn't happening in isolation, Breitburg
says. Warming itself threatens marine food webs, as does the
acidification caused by increased carbon dioxide in the water. But the
threats are worse when combined
<https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/oceans-warming-global-environment-climate/>.
"We've been doing work in Chesapeake Bay and we've found that
acidification actually makes some fish more sensitive to low oxygen,"
she says.
What's more, areas with extremely low oxygen also seem to produce their
own greenhouse gas, which could further worsen climate change.
"There's potential for a feedback, where warming increases low-oxygen
areas which produce nitrous oxide, which then causes more warming,"
Breitburg says. "That's a real concern."
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/climate-change-suffocating-low-oxygen-zones-ocean/
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[Science]
*Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters
<http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/eaam7240>**
<http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/eaam7240>**Structured
Abstract*
*BACKGROUND*
Oxygen concentrations in both the open ocean and coastal waters have
been declining since at least the middle of the 20th century. This
oxygen loss, or deoxygenation, is one of the most important changes
occurring in an ocean increasingly modified by human activities that
have raised temperatures, CO2 levels, and nutrient inputs and have
altered the abundances and distributions of marine species. Oxygen
is fundamental to biological and biogeochemical processes in the
ocean. Its decline can cause major changes in ocean productivity,
biodiversity, and biogeochemical cycles. Analyses of direct
measurements at sites around the world indicate that oxygen-minimum
zones in the open ocean have expanded by several million square
kilometers and that hundreds of coastal sites now have oxygen
concentrations low enough to limit the distribution and abundance of
animal populations and alter the cycling of important nutrients.
*ADVANCES*
In the open ocean, global warming, which is primarily caused by
increased greenhouse gas emissions, is considered the primary cause
of ongoing deoxygenation. Numerical models project further oxygen
declines during the 21st century, even with ambitious emission
reductions. Rising global temperatures decrease oxygen solubility in
water, increase the rate of oxygen consumption via respiration, and
are predicted to reduce the introduction of oxygen from the
atmosphere and surface waters into the ocean interior by increasing
stratification and weakening ocean overturning circulation.
In estuaries and other coastal systems strongly influenced by their
watershed, oxygen declines have been caused by increased loadings of
nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) and organic matter, primarily
from agriculture; sewage; and the combustion of fossil fuels. In
many regions, further increases in nitrogen discharges to coastal
waters are projected as human populations and agricultural
production rise. Climate change exacerbates oxygen decline in
coastal systems through similar mechanisms as those in the open
ocean, as well as by increasing nutrient delivery from watersheds
that will experience increased precipitation.
Expansion of low-oxygen zones can increase production of N2O, a
potent greenhouse gas; reduce eukaryote biodiversity; alter the
structure of food webs; and negatively affect food security and
livelihoods. Both acidification and increasing temperature are
mechanistically linked with the process of deoxygenation and combine
with low-oxygen conditions to affect biogeochemical, physiological,
and ecological processes. However, an important paradox to consider
in predicting large-scale effects of future deoxygenation is that
high levels of productivity in nutrient-enriched coastal systems and
upwelling areas associated with oxygen-minimum zones also support
some of the world's most prolific fisheries.
*OUTLOOK*
Major advances have been made toward understanding patterns,
drivers, and consequences of ocean deoxygenation, but there is a
need to improve predictions at large spatial and temporal scales
important to ecosystem services provided by the ocean. Improved
numerical models of oceanographic processes that control oxygen
depletion and the large-scale influence of altered biogeochemical
cycles are needed to better predict the magnitude and spatial
patterns of deoxygenation in the open ocean, as well as feedbacks to
climate. Developing and verifying the next generation of these
models will require increased in situ observations and improved
mechanistic understanding on a variety of scales. Models useful for
managing nutrient loads can simulate oxygen loss in coastal waters
with some skill, but their ability to project future oxygen loss is
often hampered by insufficient data and climate model projections on
drivers at appropriate temporal and spatial scales. Predicting
deoxygenation-induced changes in ecosystem services and human
welfare requires scaling effects that are measured on individual
organisms to populations, food webs, and fisheries stocks;
considering combined effects of deoxygenation and other ocean
stressors; and placing an increased research emphasis on developing
nations. Reducing the impacts of other stressors may provide some
protection to species negatively affected by low-oxygen conditions.
Ultimately, though, limiting deoxygenation and its negative effects
will necessitate a substantial global decrease in greenhouse gas
emissions, as well as reductions in nutrient discharges to coastal
waters.
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/359/6371/eaam7240
[MIT Technology Review]
*The Year Climate Change Began to Spin Out of Control
<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609642/the-year-climate-change-began-to-spin-out-of-control/>*
After three relatively flat years, greenhouse-gas emissions from fossil
fuels and industry picked up again in 2017, rising an estimated 2
percent, according to the Global Carbon Project...
<https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-017-0013-9.epdf?referrer_access_token=cIvITR7fMhcwgE0bx8PB7NRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MPTCfJUE3ksFmZmzoQEYcQk-1mQqwS7BiPlUuAOmIcmWrf4Loxm_sqSthlI7wnuZT3tBaPiMLg_hIXEbcChC614jflyI-jR8pr0erVruunVyBRj5r6KtGAd6xIbEEBQmmx-DBYsgbv1xKaUHTGvXDforC0xAi3q2rlTm7L3n3BzRi1I3OszqqgWK244uO3GpEtebT5xE1EtBrdUV_H8A2-_1r40VNnfEIzlReWbcY_lP-bw5fn7TUapKGDqyS2xrs%3D&tracking_referrer=www.technologyreview.com>
The most alarming projections for global warming this century also seem
to be the most reliable, according to a December study in Nature that
compared climate models against what’s already happening in the
atmosphere (see "Global Warming’s Worst-Case Projections Look
Increasingly Likely
<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609620/global-warmings-worst-case-projections-look-increasingly-likely/>")...
Hurricane Harvey crossed the shorelines of southern Texas on August 25,
marking the first major hurricane to make landfall in the United States
in a dozen years. The storm hovered over the coast for days, dumping
more than 60 inches of rain in some areas, killing more than 80 people
and displacing thousands (see "Our Hurricane Risk Models Are Dangerously
Out of Date
<https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608800/our-hurricane-risk-models-are-dangerously-out-of-date/>").
In December, NOAA released an unsettling Arctic report card declaring
that the North Pole had reached a "new normal," with no sign of
returning to a "reliably frozen region." Rising temperatures have locked
in a long-term trend of shrinking glaciers, receding sea ice, and
warming permafrost...
...another cause for concern is that permafrost is warming, approaching
thawing temperatures in parts of the Alaskan interior. The problem there
is that permafrost traps massive amounts of greenhouse gases beneath the
surface. As it melts, those gases are released, forming a separate
self-reinforcing cycle...
In early December, Lawrence Livermore National Lab researchers
highlighted
<https://www.llnl.gov/news/arctic-sea-ice-loss-could-dry-out-california>
yet another potential effect of declining Arctic sea ice, concluding it
may have played a crucial role in California's extended drought this
decade and could exacerbate future ones. Finally, though it seems
counterintuitive, the warming Arctic could also amplify cold spells
<https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609881/the-science-linking-arctic-warming-to-this-crazy-cold-winter/>,
much like the winter storm now enveloping the East Coast...
Human-influenced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest
fires during the last 30 years across the American West, scorching an
additional 16,000 square miles, according to a 2016 study in Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences...
Higher temperatures suck moisture out of soil, trees, and plants,
turning forests into tinderboxes. In California, the added heat has been
compounded by the prolonged drought from 2012 to 2016, which dried out
vast swaths of wilderness and opened the door to a devastating beetle
bark infestation. The twin forces have killed some 129 million trees
across nearly nine million acres, building up a massive amount of fuel
and significantly raising wildfire risks, according to the state fire
department...
The added danger of wildfires is that they can convert forests from
sponges to sources of carbon dioxide, forming yet another climate
feedback cycle. In fact, California's forests emitted more carbon than
they absorbed between 2001 and 2010, and two-thirds of the loss was
attributable to wildfires, according to a 2015 study
<http://www.patrickgonzalez.net/images/Gonzalez_et_al_2015.pdf>by
researchers at the National Park Service and the University of
California, Berkeley.
Tracing through this list, it becomes increasingly clear how the links
between distant events lock into self-reinforcing loops: rising
emissions, higher temperatures, shrinking sea ice, additional warming,
extended droughts, bigger wildfires, and higher emissions still. That
means it will become increasingly difficult to pull out of this spiral,
making it increasingly urgent that we begin serious efforts to do so soon.
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609642/the-year-climate-change-began-to-spin-out-of-control/
[Running for Governor MA]*
**Candidate Bob Massie policy statement - Our Common Future Energy
<https://www.bobmassie2018.com/policy/>*
https://twitter.com/wenstephenson/status/948967647064088578
Wen Stephenson @wenstephenson
For context on the @bobmass <https://twitter.com/bobmass> energy plan,
and the centrality of #climatejustice
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/climatejustice?src=hash> and
just-transition to Bob's thinking, read my interview with him for
@thenation <https://twitter.com/thenation> back in June:
https://issuu.com/bobmassie2018/docs/bobmassieforgovernor_energyplan/28
https://www.bobmassie2018.com/policy/
*THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL ENVIRONMENTAL STORIES OF 2017
<THE%20MOST%20CONSEQUENTIAL%20ENVIRONMENTAL%20STORIES%20OF%202017..>*
Meanwhile, extreme weather nationwide wrought devastation. Hurricanes
leveled homes, triggered floods and upended lives from Puerto Rico to
Texas. Wildfires ravaged California, burning entire neighborhoods to
ashes. It was a tumultuous year. Here are some of the most consequential
environmental stories we covered along the way.
*1. Withdrawal from the Paris climate accord. *"I was elected to
represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris," Trump proclaimed from
the Rose Garden in June. ..
*2. A sea change at the Environmental Protection Agency.* "The future
ain't what it used to be at the EPA," the agency's administrator, Scott
Pruitt, is fond of saying. That's certainly true. In nominating Pruitt
to head the agency that Trump once promised to reduce to "little
tidbits," the president chose a man who had long been one of its most
outspoken adversaries. As Oklahoma attorney general, Pruitt sued the EPA
14 times, challenging its authority to regulate toxic mercury pollution,
smog, carbon emissions from power plants and the quality of wetlands and
other waters....
*3. The fight over national monuments.* Trump issued an executive order
in April to review 27 land and marine monuments. But it was clear that
two particular monuments were in his crosshairs: Bears Ears and Grand
Staircase-Escalante. Utah's congressional delegation and its governor
had lobbied Trump's inner circle to reverse the monument designations of
these parks in their state even before he was elected...
Native American groups that had requested a Bears Ears designation are
leading a wave of lawsuits against the Trump administration's decision.
*4. Drill, baby, drill.* Drilling platforms already dot the Gulf of
Mexico, where the fossil fuel industry has extracted oil and gas for
decades. But the Trump administration wanted to make history. In early
November, it did so by announcing the largest gulf lease offering for
oil and gas exploration in U.S. history: 77 million acres.... But let
the buyer beware. Royal Dutch Shell drilled a $7 billion hole in the
Chukchi Sea in 2014 and has nothing to show for it.
*5. Action on the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines.* As winter
began to fade, it became clear that camps of protesters in Canon Ball,
N.D., who for months had fought a pipeline that they argued could
threaten the drinking water and cultural sites of the Standing Rock
Sioux tribe, had lost this particular battle. Days after Trump took
office, he signed executive orders to revive two controversial pipelines
that the Obama administration had put on hold - the 1,172-mile Dakota
Access and the 1,700-mile Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would extend
from the Canadian tar sands region to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.
*6. Attacks on the Endangered Species Act. *It is arguably one of the
most powerful environmental laws in the world, credited with saving at
least a dozen animal and plant species from extinction. But who will
save the Endangered Species Act, which is under attack by political
conservatives inside and outside Washington? Led by Rep. Rob Bishop
(R-Utah), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, who said he
wants to "invalidate" the 44-year-old act, some Republicans say the law
interferes with commercial development, private landowner rights and
excavation of natural resources such as coal and natural gas...
*7. Epic hurricanes and wildfires.* Last year around this time, a
strange wildfire rushed through the Tennessee mountains, killing 14
people, destroying homes and apartment buildings, and threatening a
major recreation area in Gatlinburg. The 2017 fire disasters, some of
which are still burning, were much more monstrous than that Great Smoky
Mountain inferno. Two California fires, the Sonoma fire that burned
north of San Francisco and the Thomas fire that burned north of Los
Angeles, driven by fierce Santa Ana winds, have combined to kill 45
people, burn more than a half-million acres, destroy nearly 2,000
structures and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fight. The Thomas
fire appears to be finally contained near Santa Barbara after burning
the second-most acreage in state history...
*8. Criminal charges mount in the Flint water crisis.* In June, Michigan
Attorney General Bill Schuette charged the director of the state's
health department and four other public officials with involuntary
manslaughter for their roles in the Flint water crisis, which has
stretched into its fourth year.
*9. Climate march on Washington*. It didn't draw nearly the crowd that
the Women's March did in January. And it didn't get as much national
attention as the March for Science that came only a week earlier. Even
so, on a sweltering Saturday in April, tens of thousands of
demonstrators descended on Washington to mark Trump's first 100 days in
office. Their plea: Stop the rollback of environmental protections and
take climate change seriously...
By Brady Dennis and Darryl Fears
Brady Dennis is a national reporter for The Washington Post, focusing on
the environment and public health issues.
Follow @brady_dennis
Darryl Fears has worked at The Washington Post for more than a decade,
mostly as a reporter on the National staff. He currently covers the
environment, focusing on the Chesapeake Bay and issues affecting wildlife.
Follow @bydarrylfears
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_most_consequential_environmental_stories_of_2017
*This Day in Climate History January 5, 2009
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIXbdd1yOQ> - from D.R. Tucker*
January 5, 2009: In his segment on scandals involving the outgoing
George W. Bush administration, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann observes:
"...John Bolton and John Yoo, two of the architects of Mr. Bush‘s
foreign policy of shoot first, ask questions second, mention it to
Congress last...have written an op-ed for the New York Times titled
'Restore the Senate‘s Treaty Power.' They are arguing that now the
Senate needs to reassert its right to slam the brakes on unilateral
international actions by the President. Their concern: that Obama may
go for a Kyoto-style climate accord without Senate ratification.
"[Attacking] the closest thing to an innocent bystander nation and
getting 4,000 of our troops killed without Senate consent, that‘s
fine. Try to save the atmosphere, and suddenly John freaking Bolton
is demanding checks and balances.
"To Mr. Yoo and Mr. Bolton, this question: do you take your hypocrisy
orally or intravenously?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWIXbdd1yOQ
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/opinion/05bolton.html
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