[TheClimate.Vote] November 3, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Sat Nov 3 08:47:11 EDT 2018
/November 3, 2018/
[Climate Liability News]
*Supreme Court Lifts Stay, Allows Kids Climate Case to Proceed
<https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/11/02/supreme-court-stay-juliana-climate-case/>*
By Karen Savage - Nov 2, 2018
The landmark youth-led climate lawsuit, Juliana v. United States,
overcame what could be the final two hurdles before trial when both the
Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals refused Trump
administration appeals on Friday to halt the case.
The Supreme Court vacated a stay issued two weeks ago by Chief Justice
John Roberts and ruled that the trial should proceed. In separate
ruling, the Ninth Circuit denied the Trump administration's third writ
of mandamus petition to that court.
The trial had been scheduled to begin Oct. 29 in U.S. District Court in
Eugene, Ore., until the Supreme Court issued its delay.*Now, Julia
Olson, co-counsel for the youth plaintiffs, said they have asked the
district court for an immediate status conference and hope to get the
trial rescheduled in the next week*.
"The youth of our nation won an important decision today from the
Supreme Court that shows even the most powerful government in the world
must follow the rules and process of litigation in our democracy," Olson
said.
Roberts granted a request two weeks ago by the Trump administration to
stay discovery and trial pending review of its latest petition to the
Supreme Court for writ of mandamus--a rarely used extraordinary appeal
that asks a higher court to overrule a lower court before a trial has
concluded.
After the plaintiffs filed their response, Roberts referred the matter
to the full court, which issued Friday's ruling. Only justices Clarence
Thomas and Neil Gorsuch would have granted the government's request to
stop the trial, far short of the majority needed.
In the ruling, the court vacated Roberts' order, writing that the
government's petition does not have a "fair prospect of success." The
court also said "adequate relief may be available in the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Ninth District."
The Ninth Circuit issued its ruling shortly thereafter.
The Trump administration has repeatedly asked both the Supreme Court and
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the trial via writ of
mandamus. The Ninth Circuit turned down three requests for mandamus and
the Supreme Court has turned down one.
The suit has survived numerous attempts by the government to dismiss the
case since it was originally filed in 2015. The 21 young plaintiffs from
around the country argue that the federal government is violating their
Constitutional rights to life, liberty and property by promoting an
energy system that exacerbates climate change. They are asking for a
science-based program to reduce carbon emissions and protect the climate
for future generations.
Kelsey Juliana, a 22-year-old plaintiff from Eugene, Ore., said while
the Trump administration's attempts to deny her and her co-plaintiffs
their day in court have been exhausting, they are ready for a trial.
"Today we move forward. I want to trust that we are truly on track for
trial without having further delays, but these defendants are treating
this case, our democracy, and the security of mine and future
generations like it's a game," Juliana said.
"I'm tired of playing this game."
https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/11/02/supreme-court-stay-juliana-climate-case/
[Dems optimism too much perhaps]
*'Precious little': Democrats lack robust climate change plan despite
global crisis
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/climate-change-democrats-house-midterms-pollution-plan>*
Party wary of wading into tough political fight on environment even
though Democrats could retake House in midterms
Democrats don't have a plan to address climate change comprehensively -
or even to a significant degree - if they regain control of the US
government in the near future, despite criticizing Republicans as the
party of pollution.
After failing to get conservatives on board to limit planet-warming
gases through legislation or regulation, Democratic leaders in
Washington are now wary of wading into another tough political fight,
despite an intensifying environmental crisis...
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Elan Strait, the World Wildlife Fund's US climate campaigns director,
argued the action just isn't in Washington.
"There's no cigar back room where people are hammering out a climate
deal because that's not where the movement is right now…the movement
really is at the city and state level," he said, despite reports that
local action isn't enough.
The carbon tax method, to charge businesses and their customers for
greenhouse gas pollution, recently won a Nobel prize but currently has
limited support in Washington, despite multiple proposals from some
Democrats and Republicans.
For now, the US policies under discussion do not come close to matching
what science requires.
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, said she
is "not aware of any comprehensive plan that would accomplish what the
US needs to do" to meet the commitments it made to other countries in
the Paris climate agreement, which is meant to keep warming to 2C but is
not on track to succeed.
"I want to see action, and so far there has been precious little of it,"
Hayhoe said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/31/climate-change-democrats-house-midterms-pollution-plan
[activism]
*How the Extinction Rebellion system works
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3kNkq64d8>*
RisingUp!
Published on Oct 3, 2018
Roger describes how the Extinction Rebellion system works and explains
some of the basic principles.
For more information on this system check out our rebellion overview
document- https://goo.gl/91cFn4
This is a first draft of an explanation video- if you can make a better
video with the same info, please reach out to
extinctionrebellion at risingup.org.uk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3kNkq64d8
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[see also]
*Rising Up! How Things Change: The Duty to Disobey
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_r-Q6OfAo>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU_r-Q6OfAo
[Check the map]
*FEMA Flood Maps Ignore Climate Change, and Homeowners Are Paying the
Price
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01112018/fema-flood-map-climate-change-hurricane-mexico-beach-florida-sea-level-rise>*
The flood maps don't factor in sea level rise or changes in extreme
weather, and many are years out of date. In Mexico Beach, 'minimal-risk'
homes were swept away.
By James Bruggers - NOV 1, 2018
The official map laid it out for more than 200 homes within the
community of Mexico Beach, Florida: the federal government had
characterized their flooding risks as minimal, despite their
near-beachfront locations.
That meant for them there were no requirements to buy flood insurance,
and local residents say many did not.
When Hurricane Michael and its 155-mile-per-hour winds slammed into the
town on Oct. 10, with a storm surge of perhaps 19 feet, the result was
devastation. An analysis by coastal geologists from Western Carolina
University has found that 70 percent of the homes were demolished.
Another 10 percent were severely damaged.
Mexico Beach turns out to be a vivid example of how FEMA's flood
maps--part of the troubled National Flood Insurance Program--are failing
millions of Americans who own property in low-lying areas along coastal
zones, rivers or streams. The problems are made worse as more people
build in risky areas and as FEMA fails to factor in how global warming
is changing the climate.
"There is tremendous uncertainty in the accuracy of the mapping of these
areas," said Andy Coburn, the associate director of the Program for the
Study of Developed Shorelines at Western Carolina University. "It almost
provides a false sense of security in terms of allowing people to
understand what their flood vulnerability is."...
- - -
FEMA did not answer why it fails to consider climate change in
developing its flood maps.
Instead, the agency said people can find information on how "flood risks
may change in the future" from local and regional planners, state
agencies and other federal agencies.
But by ignoring climate change, Larson said, "the day you issue the
maps, they're obsolete."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01112018/fema-flood-map-climate-change-hurricane-mexico-beach-florida-sea-level-rise
[Hot longer]
*UK heatwaves lasting twice as long as 50 years ago - Met Office
<https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/02/uk-heatwaves-lasting-twice-as-long-as-50-years-ago-met-office>*
Tropical nights starting to be recorded and ice days becoming less frequent
Heatwaves in the UK are lasting twice as long as they did 50 years ago,
ice days are disappearing and tropical nights are starting to occur as
far north as Middlesbrough, according to a Met Office report.
The first study of climate extremes in the UK by the government agency
shows the longer-term trend behind this summer's prolonged spell of high
temperatures and the weakening of winter frosts.
In line with numerous other research papers on the rise in global
temperatures, it also highlights how weather patterns are being pushed
off a normal path as a result of human emissions of carbon dioxide and
other greenhouse gases...
- - -
which is not included in these statistics, was even longer at 17 days.
The south-east has seen an especially striking increase over the same
period, up from an average of 6.1 days to 18.3 days.
Tropical nights - when minimum nighttime temperatures remain above 20C -
are being measured for the first time. They were almost unheard of until
a couple of decades ago. Even the famous hot summer of 1976 never saw
any of these nights, which are particularly gruelling for the elderly
and infirm because they provide no respite from the heat. Since 1995
they have started to be recorded in London, Kent, the Isle of Wight and
even occasionally in Wales and the north-east.
McCarthy said tropical nights were still very rare but he expected them
to occur more frequently in the future. "With projections in climate
suggesting warmer temperatures, it is useful to have this metric in
place so that future changes can be monitored."...
- - -
The weather is becoming a little wetter and more dreary. The maximum
daily deluge each year has risen by 17% from 64mm to 75mm, while the
longest wet spell has increased from an average of 12.4 days to 12.9 days.
The longest dry spell has become shorter, falling from 20.5 days with
less than 1mm of rain to 18 days, though this year has brought such
severe droughts that many farmers have had poor harvests. Many have
already had to feed their winter food stocks to their animals and face
increased costs as a result. In August the government was forced to
relax rules on how much groundwater farmers were allowed to use after
agriculture bodies warned continued dry weather could lead to food
shortages and increased prices.
Last month the UN's top climate body warned that unless global
temperature rises are held to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, the
world is likely to face catastrophic impacts from climate change, with
flooding, droughts and extreme heat all more prevalent. Governments will
meet in Poland in December for the latest round of negotiations over how
to implement and strengthen the recommendations of the 2015 Paris agreement.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/02/uk-heatwaves-lasting-twice-as-long-as-50-years-ago-met-office
[Commentary / WritePeace blog]
STOCKHOLM INTERNATIONAL PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
*Towards climate resilient peacebuilding: Understanding the complexities
<https://www.sipri.org/commentary/blog/2018/towards-climate-resilient-peacebuilding-understanding-complexities>*
Karolina Eklöw and Dr Florian Krampe - 18 October 2018
In 2017 there were 63 peace operations active--of which 13 were UN
Peacekeeping operations. Many of these have been in place for decades,
some even half a century, like those missions in Israel and Palestine or
in Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Of course, the challenge of such
peacebuilding missions is not only to stop violence and prevent a
rekindling of conflict, but moreover to help societies and governments
reset their internal relations on a peaceful path towards sustaining peace.
In the short run, considering many interacting processes seems
exhausting and admittedly complicated. It might be tempting to dismiss
environmental issues when considering the seemingly insurmountable task
of building peace after armed conflict. Yet, it is increasingly clear
that the interaction between social, political and ecological processes
decisively shape the post-conflict landscape. Often, the capacity of
peace operations and post-conflict states to navigate the impacts of war
and simultaneously govern natural resources is limited. But, an
increasing body of research and policy experiences shows that in the
long run it can be rewarding. Actually, there appear to be ecological
foundations for a socially, economically, and politically resilient
peace, although too often this potential remains unrealized in most
peacebuilding processes...
- - -
*Water supply in post-conflict transitions*
While land issues often receive some attention, few people are aware
that peacebuilding missions are often directly involved in the
management of water and sanitation. Recent research of water supply
issues in Kosovo and East Timor shows that in fact, many peacebuilding
missions have dedicated units dealing with water supply as well as with
foul and waste water.
- - -
Now if managing natural resources in peacebuilding is complicated, just
imagine how the impacts of climate change impede efforts to sustain peace...
- - -
*Towards climate resilient peacebuilding*
Colombia, East Timor, Iraq--building peace is rarely, if ever, straight
forward. International efforts to build peace underwent substantial
changes since the first missions following World War II. The UN
Secretary General's emphasis on conflict prevention and institutional
reform of the peacebuilding infrastructure is an important pathway to
learn from past failures and refocus and reinvigorate international
peacebuilding efforts. Still, the management of natural resources is a
critical challenge that remains overlooked--and, things will get even
more complicated with the increasing impacts of climate change. Recovery
plans to sustain peace can no longer exclude the management of the
environment, natural resources, and strengthening societies' resilience
to climate impacts. What is necessary is recognizing that bolstering
environmental matters and sustaining ecosystems is a matter of conflict
prevention. With the right support, it may even be an opportunity to
build a socially, economically, and politically resilient peace.
https://www.sipri.org/commentary/blog/2018/towards-climate-resilient-peacebuilding-understanding-complexities
[video 110 mins]
*Could Permafrost Unleash a Neanderthal Killer Virus?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8S7T6bBZlI>*
Climate State
Published on Oct 24, 2018
Support Climate State on Patreon http://patreon.com/ClimateState
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Zero Hour with RJ Eskow: Dr. Katey Walter Anthony: What's Happening
to the Permafrost? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fetZb...
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fetZbsIH_yk>France 24: Could
thawing permafrost unleash long-gone ...
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<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8pSo3_0gkk>Yale Climate
Connections: Permafrost: The Tipping ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgy...
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLCgybStZ4g>Neanderthal extinction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neander...
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reading Neanderthals Could Have Been Killed Off By Diseases Carried
By Migrating Humans https://www.iflscience.com/health-and...
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Elements - the Achilles Heels of the Earth System
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Viruses That Neanderthals Spread to Humans
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/a...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8S7T6bBZlI
[Africa drought]
*Dryness strengthens in the Greater Horn of Africa, and early season
dryness develops in South Africa
<http://fews.net/global/global-weather-hazards/november-2-2018>*
November 2, 2018 to November 8, 2018
About Weather Hazards
The Global Weather Hazards report anticipates severe weather or climate
events in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central Asia.
This product provides maps with current weather and climate information;
short and medium range weather forecasts (up to one week); and the
potential impact on crop and pasture conditions. It does not reflect
long range forecasts or food security conditions.
http://fews.net/global/global-weather-hazards/november-2-2018
[Erase key=purge key]
*'It's a ghost page': EPA site's climate change section may be gone for
good
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/01/epa-website-climate-change-trump-administration>*
Material that said humans were warming the planet was taken down last
year for an 'update'
More than a year after the US Environmental Protection Agency took down
information on climate change from its website for an "update", it now
seems uncertain whether it will ever reappear.
In April last year, the EPA replaced its online climate change section
with a holding page that said the content was being updated to "reflect
the agency's new direction under President Donald Trump".
Information previously found at epa.gov/climatechange made it clear that
human activity was warming the planet, resulting in harm to Americans'
health as well as crucial ecosystems on which humans depend.
The "update" page has now given way to a page that simply states: "We
want to help you find what you are looking for." Below, there are links
to search other areas of the EPA website, as well as to an archived
"snapshot" of the site from the day before Trump became president in
January 2017. The switch was observed by the Environmental Data &
Governance Initiative, which tracks changes in government websites.
"It's an embarrassment. It is a ghost page," said Judith Enck, who was
EPA regional administrator during Barack Obama's presidency. "It's a bit
like Amazon not allowing the public to order books via its website -
it's that fundamental. There's no other issue at the EPA more important
than climate change; it affects air, water, health and whether large
parts of the world will survive."
Scott Pruitt, a climate change skeptic who was Trump's pick as EPA
administrator until he resigned in July amid a long-running ethics
scandal, repeatedly questioned basic scientific understanding of climate
change while he headed the agency, such as whether carbon dioxide is a
primary driver of planetary warming.
The EPA under the Trump administration has attempted to roll back all
key measures designed to address climate change, such as limits on
pollution from coal plants, rules to prevent methane emissions from oil
and gas drilling and tighter fuel efficiency standards for cars. Andrew
Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist who is now acting EPA administrator, has
said "federal regulations are not necessary to drive greenhouse gas
reductions".
A senior EPA official, who asked not to be named, said: "Wheeler has
been somewhat meticulously going through the mess Pruitt left behind and
I think is finally getting to the place of making some decisions on
stuff." The official added: "I've been surprised that we are still even
talking about climate change and that there are still people nominally
assigned to that beat in the air office."
Enck said that EPA career staff are "frustrated" and "ashamed" about the
new stance on climate change and urged her former colleagues to speak out.
The administration also began taking the ax to climate change language
across other government websites in the spring of 2017.
"The EPA website is used by decision and policy makers, not just for
high school student assignments," she said. "The lack of timely,
accurate information is part of a much deeper problem that the agency is
on the sidelines of the most urgent environment issue of our time."
The EPA was contacted for comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/01/epa-website-climate-change-trump-administration
[Buy a house]
*Wildfires don't hurt hot real estate markets
<https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildfire-wildfires-dont-hurt-hot-real-estate-markets>*
Our love for nature causes more homes to be built in the path of
destructive wildfires and leads to more blazes.
Paige Blankenbuehler NEWS Oct. 4, 2018
More people than ever want to live on the wild edges of Western cities,
despite the risk wildfires pose to their homes. A recent study by
researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, found that wildfires
drive down real estate prices only in the immediate aftermath of a
disaster. Home prices in burned areas typically rebound to pre-fire
levels within one to two years...
https://www.hcn.org/articles/wildfire-wildfires-dont-hurt-hot-real-estate-markets
[observation]
*Eating Pizza While Venice Sinks
<https://slate.com/business/2018/11/venice-floods-climate-change-mose-surge-barrier.html>*
By HENRY GRABAR - NOV 01, 2018
A powerful storm and high tides sent the Adriatic Sea surging into
Venice this week, yielding the city's fourth-highest water level on
record. The lagoon rose more than five feet above sea level and
three-quarters of the city flooded; police even had to briefly close the
Piazza San Marco, the iconic, pigeon-flocked central square. Saint
Mark's Basilica took on nearly three feet of water, inundating its
mosaic floor for just the fifth time since the church was consecrated 10
centuries ago. "The basilica has aged 20 years in just one day, and
perhaps I am being overly optimistic about that," Carlo Tesserin, the
church's chief administrator, told the Italian media. When salt water
from the lagoon creeps into the buildings bricks, it weakens the lower
stretches of the church's 91,000 square feet of tiny tiles, church
officials said.
With its famous network of canals, Venice is sometimes invoked as a
one-word warning for cities in the age of climate change--a future to
avoid. But seasonal floods known as acqua alta have been a regular
feature of the city's off-seasons for decades, and flooding has been
common since its days as a powerful city-state. The flooding didn't even
dissuade many tourists, who donned brightly colored plastic booties to
shuffle through knee-deep water on sidewalks as merchants threw up
barricades to keep their shops dry...
- - -
As Jeff Goodell observes in his climate-change book The Water Will Come,
MOSE--which spans more than 50 years from precipitating event to
operation--may be yet another mega-project planned for a world that no
longer exists. Once running, the project is supposed to close less than
a dozen times a year, for just a few hours at the time, an important
constraint for both the health of the lagoon and the wear and tear of
the mechanical system. But throw in 1.5 feet of sea level rise, and the
barrier might have to close once a day. A little more sea level rise and
it might have to closed more than it's open. Perhaps the city should
have just built a wall.
https://slate.com/business/2018/11/venice-floods-climate-change-mose-surge-barrier.html
[gentle sarcasm and video humor]
*WARNING: We're Saving Small Talk | The Weather Channel
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOy95AifK3U>*
The Weather Channel
Published on Apr 24, 2017
Small Talk is in DANGER! We can save it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOy95AifK3U
[Some history heard - video ]
*Climate Science 1956: A Blast from the Past
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdALFnlwV_o>*
greenman3610
Published on Nov 7, 2010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdALFnlwV_o
*This Day in Climate History - November 3, 2012
<http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2012/11/chris-hayes-whats-at-stake-with-climate.html>
- from D.R. Tucker*
On MSNBC's "Up," Chris Hayes lays out the moral case for action on
climate change.
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The state cannot eliminate senseless death, but it is its duty to reduce
its likelihood. It's a conservative insight, really, the idea that
government's job before all else is to keep its citizens secure, to
protect them. Everything else comes after. Lefty that I am, I'm reminded
in this moment that it contains an undeniable core truth.
And yet here we sit with a political system that can barely bring itself
to acknowledge or discuss the tangible danger climate change poses to
us, never mind undertake the massive, sustained effort necessary to
combat and adapt to it.
Andrew Cuomo, as careful a politician as you'll see, tried to note the
elephant in the room without ever naming it.
"There has been a series of extreme weather incidents, anyone,
that's not a political statement, that is a factual statement.
Anyone who says there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns I
think is denying reality."
In his endorsement of President Obama this week, New York Mayor Michael
Bloomberg wrote,
"In just 14 months, two hurricanes have forced us to evacuate
neighborhoods – something our city government had never done before.
If this is a trend, it is simply not sustainable."
No, it's not sustainable. Things that can't go on, don't. It's true that
Sandy was a freak storm, a bad-luck confluence of a number of low
probability events that could conceivably have happened in some
alternate climate that wasn't warming. But this climate, our climate, is
warming, and as it does, low probability events like this will become
more probable, and more intense.
Carbon emissions are trapping extra energy in our atmosphere, and with
extra energy come more extremes: higher sea levels, dryer droughts,
hotter heat waves, and heavier, wetter storms.
We need a crash program in this country right now to re-engineer the
nation's infrastructure to cope with and prepare for the climate
disruptions that we have already ensured with the carbon we've already
put into the atmosphere, as well as an immediate, aggressive
transformation of our energy production, economy and society to reduce
the amount of carbon we'll put into the atmosphere in the future.
This is as fundamental, as elemental as human endeavors get. The story
of civilization is the long tale of crusaders for order battling the
unceasing reality of chaos. And it is a kind of miracle that we have
succeeded as much as we have, that airplanes fly through the air, and
roads plunge beneath the water and the entire teeming latticework of
human life exists in the manifold improbable places it does. But it is
the grand irony that in imposing this improbable order on the world,
we've released millions of years of stored up carbon into the
atmosphere, which is now altering the climate and threatening the very
monuments of civilization that we so cherish.
We absolutely have it within us, collectively, to beat back the forces
of chaos once again. But we must choose to do so. And the time for
choosing is now. You are either on the side of your fellow citizens and
residents of this planet, or you are on the side of the storms as yet
unnamed.
You cannot be neutral.
Which side are you on?
http://tv.msnbc.com/2012/11/03/whats-at-stake-with-climate-change/
http://climatechangepsychology.blogspot.com/2012/11/chris-hayes-whats-at-stake-with-climate.html
Posted by Tenney Naumer at Sunday, November 11, 2012
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