[TheClimate.Vote] October 20, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Sat Oct 20 09:32:12 EDT 2018
/October 20, 2018/
[looking to the sky]
*Politicians say nothing, but US farmers are increasingly terrified by
it - climate change
<https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/19/politicians-say-nothing-but-us-farmers-are-increasingly-terrified-by-it-climate-change>*
Research forecasts Iowa corn yields could drop in half within the next
half-century thanks to extreme weather - yet it's not part of the
political conversation
- - - -
Farmers are taking action on their own, after losing money six straight
years in Iowa and wondering where the corn ethanol bubble of 2008 went.
They are starting to look into cover crops like rye to protect the soil
and hold nutrients in place during these increasingly harsh flushes.
They also can help store moisture by building soil tilth to ward off dry
spells, which could span decades. "You have flavors of the Dust Bowl,"
Takle said, sprinkled by torrents in the future.
Another soil scientist, Jerry Hatfield of the National Lab for
Agriculture and the Environment in Ames, told my reporter son Tom that
we can make agriculture resilient to a changing climate. But it will
take a transformation in thinking that is not yet reflected in the
political conversation.
Few politicians in the five states around here are talking about
regulating agriculture in an era of warmer and wetter nights and long
droughts. Yet farmers are paying attention. Hatfield says that
conventional producers in the Raccoon river watershed are starting to
focus on profitability reports from sustainable agriculture groups like
the Practical Farmers of Iowa. They advocate a rotating crop-livestock
land use with more diverse plantings that can restore soil and make
farmers more resilient - and get them off that expensive chemical jones.
Because, the government doesn't appear equipped to deal with it.
more at -
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/19/politicians-say-nothing-but-us-farmers-are-increasingly-terrified-by-it-climate-change
[disease vectors]
*47,000 Ticks on a Moose, and That's Just Average. Blame Climate Change.
<https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/climate/moose-ticks.html>*
Between 2014 and 2016, Dr. Pekins counted ticks on moose calves at two
locations in New Hampshire and Maine. He wanted to see how the moose
were faring, given that climate change has been delaying snow's arrival
in New England's winters.
The longer-lasting warmth gives the ticks a leg up as they glom onto the
moose, their preferred hosts, in the fall. They then feed through winter
and hop off in the spring to lay eggs.
more at - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/climate/moose-ticks.html
[A Climate and Security - a military point-of-view]
*A Security Analysis of the New IPCC Report: Prevent 2C, Prepare for
1.5, and Do So Responsibly
<https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/10/18/a-security-analysis-of-the-new-ipcc-report-prevent-2c-prepare-for-1-5-and-do-so-responsibly/>*
Cover Page 1.5 ReportBriefer No. 39: A Security Analysis of the New IPCC
Report: Prevent 2C, Prepare for 1.5, and Do So Responsibly (PDF)
By Caitlin Werrell, Francesco Femia, Shiloh Fetzek and John Conger
ITopline security takeaways
- -Our 1C world is already facing security challenges driven by
climate change. The 1.5C and 2C
worlds the IPCC envisions will magnify those risks significantly.
- -Unstable regions will face even greater challenges under these
scenarios, and we have already seen
that these local risks have global security implications.
- -Sea level rise will be a major security problem for both
populations and militaries.
- -Arctic melt will create a new and uncertain security environment,
including for great powers.
- -Risks to food, water and health security will likely increase
state fragility and conflict risk in strategically-significant
regions.
- -Keeping the world below 2C may drive the deployment of "negative
emissions technologies" (or
"geoengineering") for which there is currently no international
governance, and could pose security
risks if not adequately managed.
Topline security recommendation
- -Prevent the difficult-to-manage security future of a 2.0C world
and robustly prepare for the likely
unavoidable 1.5C world, doing both in a way that either improves or
does no harm to security
The report also implies that there is an increasingly narrowing window
of time to reduce the significant risks of a 2C/3.4F scenario. This is
true across a broad range of risks, including to national, regional and
international security. Overall, a security-focused read of this report
suggests that the serious security risks we face will only become more
serious as the global temperature increases. This informs our top-line
recommendation: prevent a difficult-to-manage security future of a
2.0C/3.4F world and robustly prepare for the likely unavoidable 1.5C/
2.7F world, doing both in a way that either improves or does no harm to
security...
more at -
https://climateandsecurity.org/2018/10/18/a-security-analysis-of-the-new-ipcc-report-prevent-2c-prepare-for-1-5-and-do-so-responsibly/
[Bernie Sanders speaks out]
*Message from Bernie: Urgent Warning on Climate Change
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KyXQxyd5g>*
Senator Bernie Sanders
Published on Oct 17, 2018
We have 12 years left to stop the worst consequences of climate change.
This is a crisis that cannot be ignored any longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4KyXQxyd5g
[Group Observation]
*The Bad News We Need
<https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-bad-news-we-need/>*
The IPCC's scary new report could finally stir us to take action on
climate change
By Alan Townsend, Katharine Hayhoe, Jacquelyn Gill, Marshall Shepherd,
Jonathan Foley, Dawn Wright on October 18, 2018
- - - -
The IPCC's latest report must shake us out of that complacency: in the
time it takes for a child in kindergarten today to graduate high school,
the future will be here.
And that's why the IPCC's latest news might also be a blessing in
disguise. Perhaps a seemingly insurmountable challenge is exactly what
we need.
Why? Because we must solve it. We can solve it. And by doing so, we will
heal not only our planet, but ourselves. Much as the basic facts of
science transcend partisan divides, so too can humanity come together,
across political, national and ideological barriers. We can unify, as we
have in crucial moments in the past, to respond to a crisis that touches
us all. We know what must be done. We merely require the will to act,
and the belief that our actions will matter.
In this hyper-partisan era, we forget humanity's astonishing capacity
for dramatic and purposeful change. When someone is gravely ill,
families and friends restructure their lives overnight. When a community
is under attack, heroes emerge from every corner, and nobody cares how
they voted in the last election. Every one of us has a story of how our
communities united in a difficult time, and how leadership, bravery and
compassion elevated our lives when things were at their darkest...
- - - -
We are climate scientists. We study the atmosphere, the ocean, the
biosphere--and what our human actions are doing to them. We look reality
in the face every day and we cannot indulge in utopian fantasies that
everything will be alright or that this will be easy to fix.
But we do see tendrils of hope, meaningful change beginning to grow.
Prices for clean energy are dropping - not just in the U.S. but in many
developing nations and emerging economies. In the U.S., communities and
corporations, universities and seminaries, states and cities are moving
us forward even in the absence of national leadership. Last month alone,
more than 70 major companies signed on for deep carbon cuts, with
independent verification. And California --the world's fifth largest
economy--committed to going carbon free within a generation. These are
actions that can unleash a transformation at the scales required.
That transformation will need technical innovations in every area, from
energy to agriculture to infrastructure and more. We will also need
communities of innovators that include marginalized voices, and to build
resiliency for those most vulnerable to the changes that are coming.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-bad-news-we-need/
[Dept of Idea Promotion - Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds ]
*Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds
<http://walker-foundation.org/net/org/project.aspx?projectid=107425>*
Summary
This Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds project is focused on tackling the
hidden subsidies we all pay in the externalized costs of fossil fuel
extraction, transport, storage and combustion. In line with the
internationally recognized "polluter pays" principal, our work on
fossil fuel risk bonds is an effort to get these costs borne by the
polluter.
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Public Citizen underscores the need
for mechanisms like fossil fuel risk bonds to internalize the costs
of climate change...
more at: http://walker-foundation.org/net/org/project.aspx?projectid=107425
- -
Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds
*Safeguarding public finances from product life cycle risks of oil, gas,
and coal
<https://sustainable-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fossil-Fuel-Risk-Bonds-May-25.pdf>*
John Talberth, Ph.D. and Daphne Wysham
+ Governments at every level face burgeoning economic and financial
risks from fossil fuel
extraction, storage, refining, transport, and combustion - including
risks associated with
climate change.
+ Sources of risk include explosions, spills, abandoned
infrastructure and mines, extractionrelated
earthquakes, toxic contamination, climate-induced natural disasters,
and the costs
of climate adaptation.
+ Insurance markets and existing financial assurance mechanisms,
including "self-bonding,"
are inadequate for protecting public finances from these risks.
Fossil fuel risk bond
programs offer a solution.
+ Fossil fuel risk bond programs are systematic efforts by state and
local governments to
evaluate and respond to the financial risks they face at each stage
of the fossil fuel product
life cycle in their jurisdictions.
+ Fossil fuel risk bond programs embody two major approaches for
internalizing risk. The
first involves expanding the scale and scope of conventional
financial assurance
mechanisms to safeguard public finances against risks associated
with extraction, refining,
storage, and transport.
+ The second approach includes surcharge-based trust funds that can
be tapped to cover
the costs of climate-related disasters, climate adaptation, air and
water pollution,
earthquakes, and other pervasive hazards associated with fossil fuels.
+ Fossil fuel risk bond programs work in tandem with other
market-based solutions for
internalizing the social costs of carbon. But unlike other
approaches, fossil fuel risk bond
programs are directly targeted at public financial risks.
https://sustainable-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fossil-Fuel-Risk-Bonds-May-25.pdf
- - - -
[For a copy of Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds: Safeguarding public finance from
product life cycle risks of oil, gas, and coal
<https://sustainable-economy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Fossil-Fuel-Risk-Bonds-May-25.pdf>,
click there.]
FOSSIL FUEL RISK BONDS: MAKING POLLUTERS PAY FOR THE CLIMATE CRISIS
<https://sustainable-economy.org/fossil-fuel-risk-bonds-making-polluters-pay-for-the-climate-crisis/>
https://sustainable-economy.org/fossil-fuel-risk-bonds-making-polluters-pay-for-the-climate-crisis/
[video explanation]
*IPCC's New Climate Report: We Could See Irreparable Damage by 2040
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Bz2RDzbgU>*
TheRealNews
Published on Oct 8, 2018
The IPCC climate report once said a 3.6 degree F rise from the
pre-industrial era could be disastrous. New research drops that
threshold to 2.7 degrees F and says that the point of no-return could be
as early as 2040
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Bz2RDzbgU
[CBS Sunday Morning gives us video amusement]
*The Flat Earth movement: People who ignore science
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-NSGFht9E>*
CBS Sunday Morning
Published on Oct 14, 2018
Flat-Earthers will tell you that not only is the Earth shaped like a
Frisbee, but also that Man has never gone to the Moon, that footage of
floating astronauts is faked, and the sun is tiny, hovering above our
disk-shaped planet. It's a sign of a lack of faith in science, by people
who only choose to believe what they can see for themselves.
Correspondent Brook Silva-Braga talks with YouTube host Patricia Steere
(who thinks NASA is part of a conspiracy); Thomas Nichols, author of
"The Death of Expertise" (who talks about a reverse-snobbery expressed
against the well-educated); and Flat Earther "Mad Mike" Hughes (who
ascended 1,800 feet in a self-built rocket to see if the Earth actually
curves.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q-NSGFht9E
[excellent briefing on the Koch brothers]
*This Day in Climate History - October 20, 2011
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8O7tZ2GD4> - from D.R. Tucker*
October 20, 2011: MSNBC host Rachel Maddow challenges Charles and David
Koch to come on to her show after repeated rhetorical attacks on the
program by Koch operatives. The challenge is never accepted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh8O7tZ2GD4
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