[TheClimate.Vote] June 27, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Richard Pauli richard at theclimate.vote
Wed Jun 27 10:25:44 EDT 2018


/June 27, 2018/

[New Gojira, let's listen to some heavy metal music]
*Watch Gojira deliver stunning studio version of Global Warming 
<https://www.loudersound.com/news/watch-gojira-deliver-stunning-studio-version-of-global-warming>*
By Scott Munro
Gojira release studio version of their 2005 track Global Warming to 
raise awareness of "one of the most important challenges of our time"
Gojira have released a live studio video showcasing their track Global 
Warming.
The song originally appeared on their 2005 album From Mars To Sirius, 
with the band recording the new take on the song at Silver Cord Studio, 
New York, in April this year.
Gojira say in a statement: "A few weeks ago, we played Global Warming 
together for the first time since the recording of From Mars To Sirius. 
We never played it live before, as it is a challenging one to play and 
place in a set list.
"It's emotionally heavy, and would almost 'hurt' the rest of the songs 
in a way. We just really wanted to do this on camera for our fans.
"Global warming is a reality and a relevant topic - we feel it's good to 
be reminded of one of the most important challenges of our time: How to 
grow as a species without being a parasite to our planet, the only home 
we have.
"'We will see our children growing' is a mantra for future generations, 
and in a figurative way we hope the children in all of us will grow, 
evolve, and take action for a more compassionate and meaningful world."
Watch the video below.
*Gojira - Global Warming [Live at the Silver Cord Studio May 2018] 
<https://youtu.be/8DiWzvE52ZY>*
https://youtu.be/8DiWzvE52ZY


[future analysis from Bloomberg: ]
*New Energy Outlook 2018 
<https://about.bnef.com/new-energy-outlook/#toc-download>*
NEO is our annual long-term economic analysis of the world's power 
sector out to 2050.
Focused on the electricity system, our New Energy Outlook (NEO) combines 
the expertise of over 65 market and technology specialists in 12 
countries to provide a unique view of how the market will evolve.
What's new in the 2018 NEO?
What sets NEO apart is that we focus on technology that is driving 
change in markets and business models across the sector, such as solar 
PV, onshore and offshore wind and battery technology. In addition, we 
put special focus on changing electricity demand, electric vehicles, 
air-conditioning, and the growing role of consumers. NEO includes our 
price forecasts for coal, oil and gas around the world, and assesses the 
impact of the energy transition on fossil fuel demand and materials.
Each year we aim to make a number of changes to NEO to continuously 
improve the completeness and complexity of our analysis. In 2018, we 
have included the following in the client report:
Extended our outlook from 2040 to 2050.
Expanded our new-build algorithm to include utility-scale lithium-ion 
batteries - both stand-alone and paired with renewables - for energy 
arbitrage as well as peaking capacity.
Expanded our assessment of new air-conditioning load to include Brazil, 
Indonesia, India, Mexico, Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand.
Added chapters on materials demand, market design and coal phase-out 
scenarios.
Updated our PV and wind cost and lithium-ion battery cost curves with 
2017 data.
Updated our comparative cost of energy analysis to better capture 
difference between technologies and the cost of bulk electricity and 
flexibility, and enhanced the digital experience when interacting with 
our data models.
In addition, we have updated a number of the proprietary models central 
to this forecast, including: our EV and small-scale solar PV and storage 
consumer uptake models, and our electricity demand fundamentals model.
While BNEF clients get access to the full NEO report including the 
content above, an excerpt of the findings in a free public report.
"Wind and solar are set to surge to almost "50 by 50" - 50% of world 
generation by 2050 - on the back of precipitous reductions in cost, and 
the advent of cheaper and cheaper batteries that will enable electricity 
to be stored and discharged to meet shifts in demand and supply. Coal 
shrinks to just 11% of global electricity generation by 2050."

    1 - "50 by 50"
    Cheap renewable energy and batteries fundamentally reshape the
    electricity system. Batteries boom means that half of the world's
    electricity by 2050 will be generated from wind and solar.

    2 - PV, wind and batteries trifecta.
    The cost of an average PV plant falls 71% by 2050. Wind energy is
    getting cheaper too, and we expect it to drop 58% by 2050. PV and
    wind are already cheaper than building new large-scale coal and gas
    plants. Batteries are also dropping dramatically in cost. Cheap
    batteries enable wind and solar to run when the wind isn't blowing
    and the sun isn't shining.

    3 - Coal is the biggest loser in this outlook.
    Coal will shrink to just 11% of global electricity generation by
    2050, from 38% currently.

    4 - Gas consumption for power generation increases only modestly out
    to 2050
    despite growing capacity, as more and more gas-fired facilities are
    either dedicated peakers or run at lower capacity factors helping to
    balance variable renewables, rather than run flat-out
    around-the-clock. Gas use declines dramatically in Europe, grows in
    China and picks up materially in India beyond 2040.

    5 - Electric vehicles add around 3,461TWh of new electricity demand
    globally by 2050, equal to 9% of total demand.
    Time-of-use tariffs and dynamic charging further support renewables
    integration: they allow vehicle owners to choose to charge during
    high-supply, low-cost periods, and so help to shift demand to
    periods when cheap renewables are running.

High-level findings of NEO 2018 are available in a free public report: 
https://about.bnef.com/new-energy-outlook/#toc-download


[A superb essay in The Guardian - clips:]
*Rising seas: 'Florida is about to be wiped off the map' 
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/26/rising-seas-florida-climate-change-elizabeth-rush>*
Harold Wanless, or Hal, chair of the geology department, speak about sea 
level rise. "Only 7% of the heat being trapped by greenhouse gases is 
stored in the atmosphere," Hal begins. "Do you know where the other 93% 
lives?"
A teenager, wrists lined in aquamarine beaded bracelets, rubs sleep from 
her eyes. Returns her head to its resting position in her palm. The man 
seated behind me roots around in his briefcase for a breakfast bar. No 
one raises a hand.
"In the ocean," Hal continues. "That heat is expanding the ocean, which 
is contributing to sea level rise, and it is also, more importantly, 
creating the setting for something we really don't want to have happen: 
rapid melt of ice."...
- - - - -
But Hal says it doesn't matter whether you live six feet above sea level 
or sixty-five, because he, like James Hansen, believes that all of these 
predictions are, to put it mildly, very, very low. "The rate of sea 
level rise is currently doubling every seven years, and if it were to 
continue in this manner, Ponzi scheme style, we would have 205 feet of 
sea level rise by 2095," he says. "And while I don't think we are going 
to get that much water by the end of the century, I do think we have to 
take seriously the possibility that we could have something like 15 feet 
by then."...
- - - -
But Hal says it doesn't matter whether you live six feet above sea level 
or sixty-five, because he, like James Hansen, believes that all of these 
predictions are, to put it mildly, very, very low. "The rate of sea 
level rise is currently doubling every seven years, and if it were to 
continue in this manner, Ponzi scheme style, we would have 205 feet of 
sea level rise by 2095," he says. "And while I don't think we are going 
to get that much water by the end of the century, I do think we have to 
take seriously the possibility that we could have something like 15 feet 
by then."
It's a little after nine o'clock. Hal's sons stop sipping their lattes 
and the oceanographic scientist behind me puts down his handful of 
M&M's. If Hal Wanless is right, every single object I have seen over the 
past 72 hours - the periodic table of elements hanging above his left 
shoulder, the buffet currently loaded with refreshments, the smoothie 
stand at my seaside hotel, the beach umbrellas and oxygen bars, the 
Johnny Rockets and seashell shop, the lecture hall with its hundreds of 
mostly empty teal swivel chairs - will all be underwater in the 
not-so-distant future...
- - - -
It's a little after nine o'clock. Hal's sons stop sipping their lattes 
and the oceanographic scientist behind me puts down his handful of 
M&M's. If Hal Wanless is right, every single object I have seen over the 
past 72 hours - the periodic table of elements hanging above his left 
shoulder, the buffet currently loaded with refreshments, the smoothie 
stand at my seaside hotel, the beach umbrellas and oxygen bars, the 
Johnny Rockets and seashell shop, the lecture hall with its hundreds of 
mostly empty teal swivel chairs - will all be underwater in the 
not-so-distant future...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/26/rising-seas-florida-climate-change-elizabeth-rush
- - - - -
[videos of Dr Hal Wanless - this one is 30 seconds]
*UM Professor, Dr. Wanless on Sea Level Rise 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJijb_tdbA>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwJijb_tdbA
- - -
[This community meeting may be the 2015 presentation mentioned in the 
article]
*Sea Level Rise: What's Our Next Move? Day 1: Debate 1- Dr. Harold R. 
Wanless <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8KDL1TSKg>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8KDL1TSKg
- - - - - -
[Book Review]
*RISING: DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE 
<https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/rising-9781571313676/>*
Elizabeth Rush - Milkweed Editions (Jun 12, 2018)
Hardcover $26.00 (320pp) 978-1-57131-367-6
Obsessed with the rate of sea-level rise, environmental writer Elizabeth 
Rush traveled extensively along the US coasts and as far afield as 
Bangladesh, interviewing concerned scientists and coastal dwellers 
directly affected by devastating floods and catastrophic storms.
Her conclusion: the future we feared is already here. In the time it has 
taken to write this book, the sea level's predicted end-of-century rise 
has doubled. "If sea level rise continues to accelerate at even half 
this speed we are looking at a rise of well over ten feet in the next 
eighty years," she writes.
Scientists have found that Earth's climate doesn't change slowly and 
steadily. Instead, the transition from ice age to greenhouse conditions 
and back again is often rapid and dramatic. It has happened before, but 
this is the first time that humans will be here to see it. And it won't 
be pretty.
The prediction is that by 2050 there will be two hundred million 
refugees worldwide due to climate change that has been exacerbated by 
human intervention in the landscape. Of these, two million will be from 
the state of Louisiana, whose southern edge is eroding at a rate that's 
among the fastest on the planet.
Rush explains the role of thriving wetlands and tidal marshes in 
securing coastal land and in providing habitat for threatened or 
endangered species, and how short-sighted laws have allowed filling and 
hardscaping them for economic gain. In response, coastal animals and 
insects are relocating, and even plants are moving inland, slowly 
stretching their rhizomes away from the sea.
What Rush lays before us in her book is extremely disturbing: that our 
only hope appears to be retreat - evacuation of the coasts and 
relocation of the things we value - and that we must take radical, even 
unthinkable, action at once.
Reviewed by Kristine Morris - May/June 2018
https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/rising-9781571313676/


[facing danger]
*Silencing Climate Science 
<http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/silencing-climate-science/>* 

http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/silencing-climate-science/
This page lists government actions targeting scientific research and 
education on climate change. The listed actions are also included in the 
table on the SST home page, along with actions targeting other 
(non-climate) environmental science fields.
Agency: EPA
http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/silencing-science-tracker/agency/us-epa/


[Planetary Security Conference]
*New analysis on how climate change reinforces nuclear threats 
<https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/>*
PSI consortium partner CCS just released a new report and briefers that 
address the various ways that climate change effects, nuclear trends, 
and security challenges are combining around the world. Many countries 
such as Nigeria, Jordan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia are dealing 
with numerous internal climatic, economic, security, demographic, and 
environmental pressures as they pursue nuclear energy. Concerns are also 
growing that Russia may become a dominant nuclear supplier to these 
countries. Where nuclear and climate issues are combining in specific 
countries with other issues such as terrorism, nation-state competition, 
weak institutions, and mass movement of people, the international 
community must understand how this nexus of challenges could affect 
stability and security. Moreover, these issues together stand to affect 
geopolitics and the strength of global governance institutions in 
profound ways.

Building on the success of their first groundbreaking report from 2017, 
today the Working Group on Climate Nuclear, and Security Affairs, a 
cross-sectoral group of distinguished nuclear affairs, climate and 
security experts chaired by the Center for Climate and Security, 
released a second report and series of briefers based on its 2018 
deliberations. These papers outline the challenges the world is facing 
as well as practical recommendations for how addressing them as nexus 
threats could provide efficient and effective ways of reducing security 
risks.

*The report:*
This report provides summaries of the insights produced via breakout 
sessions the Working Group held during its January 2018 meeting to focus 
on three questions:  "First, can we devise a flexible policy toolkit to 
allow public and private actors to address the nexus of climate, nuclear 
and security challenges? Second, for high-priority regions in which 
these trends are present, how might we reduce the odds they will combine 
in destabilizing ways? Finally, how can we begin to improve how we 
communicate with the public and policymakers regarding these types of 
complex yet existential risks?" It then briefly describes select themes 
that emerged from the Working Group's deliberations and highlights 
specific recommendations.

A critical task of the Working Group was to explore policy tools that 
could be used to mitigate the grave concerns stemming from nuclear, 
climate, and security risks interacting. As John Conger and Shiloh 
Fetzek describe in their report of this discussion, "Multilateral 
regimes have been created, on the one hand, to address nuclear safety 
and proliferation, and climate risks on another, but they don't 
interact. Building this bridge would go a long way toward continuing to 
identify and mitigate risks at the climate-nuclear-security nexus." 
Analytical tools could be used to "combine climate, nuclear, and 
security data into risk assessments that would help define priorities 
and push for early responses to prevent grave threats in areas where 
nuclear materials and facilities reside."

The Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction allows for a strong 
platform for increasing resilience as the world faces mounting costs of 
natural disasters. However, it could go further to "explicitly explore 
what these disasters could mean around nuclear facilities.", according 
to the report.

Currently, effective communication on the risks of the 
nuclear-security-climate nexus is lacking. Indeed, improving 
communication regarding this nexus will require continuing processes to 
identify shared values, especially when power politics and 
climate-sensitive regions are concerned. We can think of "Russia's 
dominance in securing deals to build and operate nuclear reactors in 
regions such as the Middle East" for example.

*The briefers:*
The briefers show the importance of collaboration between security 
experts in the nuclear affairs and climate security spheres (as well as 
in other security disciplines) to support common interests like 
strengthening international security institutions and norms. The reports 
also conclude that communities must also collaborate in pushing for the 
sustainment of critical scientific and technical work that can provide 
the data, information, and solutions needed to navigate complex risks, 
including robust monitoring and modelling systems and the wide-ranging 
capabilities of U.S. National Laboratories.

These short papers mark the first-ever step in exploring how to reduce 
emerging threats as nuclear trends, the effects of climate change, and 
underlying security dynamics collide in regions such as South Asia and 
the Middle East. Amidst growing nuclear and climate threats, this 
pioneering collaborative group has identified potential new and 
unexplored risks where these issues collide and anticipatory solutions 
to those risks.

First, "the complexity of the climate change-nuclear-security nexus 
requires new tools for monitoring hotspots and testing government 
responses. Building that baseline knowledge would inform policy-makers 
on the nature of these intersecting threats. Stress tests and climate 
and nuclear crisis scenario exercises will be important inputs into 
understanding the nature of climate-nuclear-security risks."

Unfortunately, inadequate funding limits the development of new tools, 
intensifying competition for a finite pool of funds. With greater 
financing, the public and private sectors could bolster the development 
and implementation of risk management measures and transnational 
mechanisms such as the UNFCCC Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss 
and Damage, which was designed to track and compensate losses from 
climate change. It should include nuclear facilities since they fall 
under the energy security category and are sensitive to climate-related 
threats.
*The report and two briefers are available online at:*
Working Group on Climate, Nuclear and Security Affairs - "Report Two: A 
Clear Path for Complex Threats 
<https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs-report-two_2018_05.pdf>"**
Breakout Briefer 1: "Stability At Stake: Addressing Critical Regions 
Facing Complex Climate, Security, and Nuclear Risks 
<https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs_breakout-briefer_crisis-regions_2018_05.pdf>"
Breakout Briefer 2:  "Expanding The Climate-Nuclear-Security Toolkit 
<https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/working-group-on-climate-nuclear-security-affairs_breakout-briefer_toolkit_2018_05.pdf>"
https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/
- - - - -
*The Hague Declaration on Planetary Security 
<https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/signees>*
PDF The Hague Declaration.pdf 
<https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/The_Hague_Declaration.pdf>
https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/sites/default/files/2017-12/The_Hague_Declaration.pdf
https://www.planetarysecurityinitiative.org/signees


[video questions of risk]
*How Much Climate Change is too Much? The "Reasons for Concern" about 
Climate Change <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvnQo0wZ4c>*
Atkinson Center
Published on Mar 19, 2018
Cornell University - 2018 Climate Change Seminar by Brian O'Neill
http://www.atkinson.cornell.edu/events/ClimateChangeSem.php
Recorded at Cornell University - March 12, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIvnQo0wZ4c


[Washington Post reports...]
*Climate change is a top spiritual priority for these religious leaders 
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/>*
  ABOARD THE SHIP MORE SPACIOUS THAN THE HEAVENS  -  Off the island of 
Spetses, the leader of 300 million Christians worldwide told a group of 
nearly 200 religious leaders, academics and activists that they needed 
to move beyond intellectualism when it came to the environment.
"What remains for us is to preach what we practice," said Orthodox 
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople. "Now we must begin 
the long and difficult way from the mind to the heart . . . May God 
guide you in your service to his people and the care of his creation."...
- - - -
"For humans to cause species to become extinct and to destroy the 
biological diversity of God's creation; for humans to degrade the 
integrity of Earth by causing changes in its climate, by stripping the 
Earth of its natural forests, or destroying its wetlands; for humans to 
injure other humans with disease, for humans to contaminate the Earth's 
waters, its land, its air, and its life, with poisonous substances," he 
told a crowd that included ­then-Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. 
"These are sins."
Pope Francis has likewise drawn global attention to environmental 
activism: On the same day Bartholomew was concluding his conference in 
Greece, the pope brought the leaders of multinational energy and 
investment firms to the Vatican to discuss the path forward on climate 
change.
At a time when some political leaders have become more cautious about  
-  or have outright rejected  -  policies aimed at curbing greenhouse 
gas emissions, several major faith leaders are making environmental care 
a top spiritual priority.
But they have also struggled to inspire some of their congregants to action.
"Even when there's a will, there is not always a willingness to act," 
said Ni­ger­ian Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan, one of two cardinals 
who traveled to the patriarch's conference. "The spirit is willing, but 
very often, the flesh is weak."
Still, Onaiyekan and others who had journeyed to Greece for the 
three-day "Green Attica" conference emphasized that they would persist 
in raising the moral and ethical dimensions of climate change.
In Nigeria, Onaiyekan said in an interview that "there is a kind of 
ambiguity about climate change" because it is "a nation largely 
dependent on oil revenue." But those living on the Niger Delta have 
experienced the damage associated with oil production firsthand, he 
said. It would be naive, he said, to expect oil companies and 
governments to shift their practices on their own.
"If you are waiting for them to change, you will wait till Jesus comes 
back again," he said. "We feel the only area where we can actually make 
an impact is to constantly keep challenging our leaders to stop killing 
us. Stop killing your people."
Francis  -  who issued the first papal encyclical focused solely on the 
environment, "Laudato Si," in 2015  -  pressed this message during his 
private audience this month with executives from ExxonMobil, Eni, BP, 
Royal Dutch Shell, Equinor and Pemex.
Calling climate change "a challenge of epochal proportions," the pope 
said that the private sector had taken modest steps toward incorporating 
climate risks into its business models and funding renewable energy.
"Progress has indeed been made," he told the group as he wrapped up the 
two-day session. "But is it enough?"...
- - - - -
This month's gathering  -  which included stops on the islands of 
Spetses and Hydra  -  included similarly dire warnings from researchers. 
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, who directs the Potsdam Institute for Climate 
Impact Research, described the current changes arising from fossil-fuel 
burning as "disruption on a global scale."
Without a sharp reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, Schellnhuber told 
the audience, large swaths of Nigeria, the Philippines and elsewhere 
"will become uninhabitable" because they will be too hot for humans to 
live in.
Some of the most fiery rhetoric came from Columbia University Earth 
Institute director Jeffrey Sachs, who spoke to the group in Greece 
before departing for the Vatican to participate in the papal climate 
conference. In an impassioned speech, Sachs charted the historic 
development of the global capitalist economy, arguing that its 
foundation upon the idea of "limited liability" has meant that 
corporations will not take responsibility for the economic damage they 
have caused.
- - - - - -
"What we've proved is greed unleashed has no boundaries at all," Sachs 
said. "That is the modern economy: Unleash the greed."
The patriarch, who sat in the front row for the entirety of the 
conference, opened and closed the proceedings. Speaking in English, he 
framed conservation as a cause inextricably linked to both his faith and 
the broader cause of social justice.
"Any kind of alienation between human beings and nature is a distortion 
of Christian theology and anthropology," he said.
Even small details of Bartholomew's itinerary carried symbolic 
significance. His top environmental adviser, the Rev. John Chryssavgis, 
asked the conference hotels to avoid plastic straws and nixed a planned 
blessing for Hydra's fishing fleet that was sponsored by an oil company...
Magda Jean-Louis contributed to this report.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-change-is-a-top-spiritual-priority-for-these-religious-leaders/2018/06/26/d5e06fd2-749e-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.852f7ad9fd0b 



*This Day in Climate History - June 27, 2006 - from D.R. Tucker*
*June 27, 2006: On MSNBC's "Countdown," Keith Olbermann interviews 
Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker on the Supreme Court's decision to 
hear the Massachusetts v. EPA case. *

    *OLBERMANN: Apart from the end there, where we‘re flash back to the
    Lyndon Johnson “Daisy Ad” and we‘re expecting this little girl to
    start counting backwards from 10, is that the thrust of the
    arrangement being made against doing anything about CO2, that if we
    do there‘ll be no more electricity and we‘ll have to live in caves
    at the outskirts of town and pound ground with rocks for energy or
    something? *
    **
    *KOLBERT: Yeah, exactly. George Bush has said, you know, that if we
    regulate CO2 it would ruin our economy and that‘s an argument that
    you hear all the time. Unfortunately, it is probably just not true
    and in the meantime we‘re just wasting a lot of time, because I
    think everyone acknowledges eventually we are going to have to do
    that. *
    **
    *OLBERMANN: Give me the political playing field on this. We know,
    obviously, where Mr. Gore stands. Who are the other, if any,
    political figures who are picking up the global warming cajole (ph). *
    **
    *KOLBERT: Well, John McCain has been very outspoken. He has a bill,
    the McCain-Lieberman Bill, that‘s been brought up twice, but
    unfortunately both times it‘s been defeated, that would regulate CO2
    emissions.*
    **
    *OLBERMANN: Is there anybody else or does it boil down to him and
    Gore? *
    **
    *KOLBERT: Well, there are—when McCain has brought his bill up, he‘s
    gotten a lot of democratic votes, he hasn‘t gotten a lot of
    republican votes. He‘s gotten Hillary Clinton‘s vote, for example.
    Hillary Clinton has been very outspoken. I know she and John McCain
    have actually taken trips together to the Arctic, to view where you
    can see the affects of climate change very, very dramatically up in
    places like Alaska and northern Canada. *
    **
    *OLBERMANN: Is there any hope to be drawn out of the news that the
    Supreme Court‘s going to hear arguments on the Bush administration
    and the need to regulate carbon emissions. Can you describe what
    this case is and what implications might be of it? *
    **
    *KOLBERT: Sure, 12 states, including New York, where I‘m sitting
    now, and Massachusetts, where I live, have brought to the Supreme
    Court a case that demands, basically that the EPA regulates CO2
    under the Clean Air Act, classify it as a pollutant, a harmful
    pollutant, and therefore they‘d have to regulate it. And then
    whether or not there‘s any chance that this could succeed is a
    really good question. I don‘t think that anyone who watches the
    court carefully could say there‘s a terribly good chance, but on the
    other hand, you have to hope that the court took it—it was a divided
    lower court decision, and you have to hope the court took it in good
    faith and is really going to listen to the arguments on both sides. *
    **
    *OLBERMANN: Elizabeth Kolbert of the “New Yorker” magazine, and
    author of “Field Notes from a Catastrophe.” Great thanks for your
    time. *
    **

*http://www.nbcnews.com/id/9354636/ns/msnbc-countdown_with_keith_olbermann/t/countdown-keith-olbermann-june/*

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