[TheClimate.Vote] October 27, 2018 - Daily Global Warming News Digest
Richard Pauli
richard at theclimate.vote
Sat Oct 27 12:35:02 EDT 2018
/October 27, 2018/
[Voting carbon tax]
*Today Climate Hawks Vote announcing our final endorsement of 2018: the
carbon fee initiative in Washington state, I-1631
<http://climatehawksvote.com/candidate/i-1631/>*
(Initiative) I-1631 would place a $15 per ton fee on greenhouse gas
pollution, raising over $800 million a year for investments in the clean
energy economy. It's backed by the largest coalition in Washington
history. Unions, tribes, communities of color, faith groups, health
professionals, businesses like Microsoft and REI all support I-1631.
However, the oil companies have poured in $26 million and counting to
defeat it.
"Normally when announcing an endorsement, we ask the national climate
hawk community to do some small dollar fundraising. But the I-1631
organizers need one-on-one conversations for people power to defeat Big
Oil lies. So instead we've asked climate hawks to give some time to
I-1631," says RL Miller, president of Climate Hawks Vote.
To view this endorsement on the web:
http://climatehawksvote.com/candidate/i-1631/
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[Big enemy]
*Big Oil Really Wants to Kill Washington's Green New Deal
<https://www.thenation.com/article/washington-carbon-emissions-tax-initiative-1631/>*
Will a record $28 million war chest sway Evergreen State voters?
By KC Golden
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Now, voters in Washington State can take the offensive against the
climate-wrecking industry by passing ballot initiative 1631. This "Green
New Deal" would fund public investments to tackle climate disruption and
economic inequality, using proceeds from carbon pollution fees starting
at $15 per metric ton.
The best indication of the potency of I-1631 may be the fury with which
Big Oil is attacking it. Petroleum companies have amassed a war chest of
$28 million to defeat 1631--the largest ever for a Washington ballot
measure. With BP and Phillips 66 leading the way, 99.5 percent of the No
campaign budget is from Big Oil, according to the Washington state
public-disclosure commission. What's more, Big Oil's lavish spending
against 1631 climbed steeply after the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change's recent report calling for urgent climate action. In
other words, Big Oil's answer to the global alarm was to pour more fuel
on the fire.
"The campaign opposing 1631 is the biggest political oil spill in state
history," Washington governor Jay Inslee told The Nation. "These
companies have a permit for infinite pollution at zero cost. But
Washingtonians can revoke that permit and take control of our energy
future by approving 1631."...
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The oil-i-garchs are clearly worried about I-1631, and they should be.
Any effective climate policy must keep fossil fuels in the ground. But
their reserves of coal, oil, and gas are exactly what make fossil-fuel
companies valuable. If their underground assets can't be drilled, mined,
monetized, and combusted, then Big Oil and King Coal are toast. But if
even half of these reserves are burned, then everything else is toast.
We can have a viable fossil-fuel industry or a decent future. Not both...
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The burning question is: Will we act fast enough?
That question is on the ballot in the Evergreen State. Washingtonians
can stand up to the abusive power of the oil industry and strike a blow
for freedom from fossil fuels, right now.
The future is unwritten, Rebecca Solnit observed, responding to the fear
and fatalism that wafted thick behind the IPCC report. As ballots arrive
in their mailboxes, Washington's voters have the pen.
more at -
https://www.thenation.com/article/washington-carbon-emissions-tax-initiative-1631/
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[Time to Vote]
*Campus Election Engagement Project
<http://campuselect.org/voter-education/candidate-issue-guides/>*
CEEP creates nonpartisan, state-specific candidate & issue guides to
help students navigate candidate stands. We research salient votes &
what candidates say to different groups, not just how they spin their
positions. Our research team includes a former Encyclopaedia Britannica
senior editor & veteran New York Times & Los Angeles Times reporters.
Use our guide distribution resource to help share them across your campus.
more at - http://campuselect.org/voter-education/candidate-issue-guides/
[Paul Beckwith video plays with data displays]
*Freakishly Slow Sea Ice Regrowth: 1 of 2
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeB9vFozk4>*
Paul Beckwith
Published on Oct 26, 2018
Arctic sea ice regrowth in October is freakishly slow. We are at record
low ice extent for late October; even lower than the 2012 minimum. In
this video, and the next, I chat about Beaufort Gyre stalling and
reversal, atmospheric and ocean circulation changes, sea-surface and
water column temperatures, salinities, heat transport, and much more.
Since formation in 2015, there have been two permanent hot spots in the
oceans off Svalbard, with water temperatures at 78 degrees latitude
North of 18.5 degrees Celsius in late October. /[temperatures of 18
degrees C is about 64 degrees Fahrenheit]/
Please donate at http://paulbeckwith.net to get the unvarnished science
on our climate. Thanks
see the video at - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKeB9vFozk4
*Freakishly Low Sea Ice Regrowth: 2 of 2
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDDRo-N8SzA>*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDDRo-N8SzA
[Really?, must we ASK for this?]
*UN Urged to Recognize Healthy Climate As a Human Right
<https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/10/26/un-climate-human-rights-david-boyd/>*
By Ucilia Wang
David Boyd stood in front of the United Nations General Assembly in New
York City on Thursday as the new special rapporteur on human rights and
the environment and he argued the global organization should recognize
the right of people to live in a healthy environment.
"Climate change is one of the top priorities because it threatens the
human rights of billions of people in the world, because of declining
water supplies and changing agricultural production patterns and
increasing storms throughout," said Boyd, who is also law professor at
the University of British Columbia in Canada.
The idea that everyone deserves a clean and safe environment may seem
lofty, but many argue that a formal resolution from the U.N., 193-member
assembly of virtually every nation in the world, would produce concrete
results, swaying policies and legal opinions on a wide range of
environmental issues, including climate change...
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He's also come across lawsuits in 50 countries so far, including Costa
Rica, Argentina and the Philippines, that seek to enforce the right to a
healthy environment. One suit in the U.S., Juliana v. United States,
features 21 young people suing the government for fostering an energy
system that exacerbates climate change and has led to a U.S. District
Court judge declaring a safe climate as a Constitutional right. It was
stayed by the Supreme Court before the trial even began.
The Commission on Human Rights in the Philippines is currently
investigating whether 47 fossil fuel, cement and coal companies violated
the human rights of Filipinos.
Lawsuits have also emerged in recent years to hold governments
responsible for addressing climate change as a human right. One of them
is the landmark Urgenda case in the Netherlands, where an appeals court
recently upheld the ruling the government must cut emissions more
aggressively...
more at -
https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2018/10/26/un-climate-human-rights-david-boyd/
[Adaptation]
*They Know Seas Are Rising, but They're Not Abandoning Their Beloved
Cape Cod
<https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23102018/cape-cod-sea-level-rise-trump-voters-climate-change-questions-science-based-coastal-building-codes>*
Lifelong residents are building higher with each flood. But while they
deal with climate change, some say they aren't sure what to believe
about the cause.
BY MEERA SUBRAMANIAN, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS
OCT 26, 2018
"It flooded in early January, and then it happened again two or three
months later," says Matt Teague of Barnstable, Mass., about the slew of
storms that hit Cape Cod in the winter of 2017. "We're like, what are we
doing here?" he says, opening his arms skyward.
- - -
The 2018 hurricane season so far has been quiet around the Cape, but
farther south, the Carolinas are reeling from an estimated $1 billion in
damage from storm surge and flooding from Hurricane Florence.
During one of my conversations with Matt, I ask what he'll do if the
1-foot-above-flood-plain level that he chose for his foundation's height
proves insufficient. "I designed it so I can jack it up again!" he says.
He laughs, then pauses, becoming more reflective. "People are adaptive.
Humans have always figured out a way to live where they live," he says.
Consider the desert. The Arctic. Coastal areas. "The problem in the past
was that people had to learn the hard way." Losing homes to floods is
pretty hard, but New Englanders are used to hardship and hard weather
and cleaning up after storms. Now they're getting used to building their
homes higher and higher, hoping to reach themselves out of harm's
way--and keep the view.
"The fact that there's enough science out there to provide some
predictability for that and to provide for some policy--that makes
sense," Matt says returning to the hope for smart policy based on solid
science. "I think that's as good as you're going to get."
more at -
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23102018/cape-cod-sea-level-rise-trump-voters-climate-change-questions-science-based-coastal-building-codes
[VICE video news segment a few minutes duration]
*Melting Ground Crisis & Arctic Journey VICE News Tonight Full Episode
(HBO) <https://youtu.be/J0-qgA3lIvw?t=1018>*
VICE News
Published on Oct 24, 2018
This s the October 17, 2018 FULL EPISODE of VICE News Tonight on HBO.
[also] 17:00 VICE News joined NASA for their annual flight to study
thing thawing permafrost in the Arctic.
https://youtu.be/J0-qgA3lIvw?t=1018
[Business Insider]
*We're altering the climate so severely that we'll soon face apocalyptic
repercussions. Sucking carbon dioxide out of the air could save us.
<https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-gobal-warming-plan-carbon-capture-2018-10>*
Dana Varinsky
*The Earth is warming so rapidly that most experts agree we'll need
to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in order to avoid the
worst consequences of climate change.*
*A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,
and Medicine lays out a range of options for how to do that.*
*But the authors say developing these negative-emissions
technologies requires large-scale investment from the government --
and the funding has to come immediately.*
A recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) predicts that just another half-degree temperature rise -- which
is predicted to happen by the year 2040 -- will lead to severe drought,
even more intense hurricanes, and the death of most coral reefs. These
changes could trigger huge migrations of people and mass extinctions of
animals.
There are two ways to deal with this problem. The first is to make big
changes to the ways we power our lives and grow food in order to stop
putting greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. The second is to suck carbon
dioxide back out of the air then store it away or turn it into new
products or fuels.
A comprehensive new report looks at that second approach.
The study, written by scientists from the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), suggests a plan for
developing so-called "negative-emissions technologies" (a term for ways
to remove CO2 from the atmosphere) and highlights options that have
essentially unlimited capacity for reducing carbon levels in the
atmosphere, but aren't yet ready for prime time.
Researching and developing those technologies requires substantial
investment from the US government -- and the report's authors say that
money needs to start flowing soon, or we could soon cross dangerous
climate tipping points...
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But according to the new report -- funded by the US Department of
Energy, EPA, NOAA, and the US Geological Survey, along with several
foundations -- those approaches require a lot more research to be scaled
up, and there's no way those methods alone could ever capture enough
carbon to keep Earth's temperature from rising another degree.
"Uncertain research breakthroughs will be required before those NETs
[negative emissions technologies] can provide even the minority share of
the solution," the authors wrote.
A more promising option, they said, is to invest in technologies that
essentially filter out CO2 molecules from the air around us. These
technologies are still in early development stages, but usually involve
materials that naturally attract and bind with carbon.
"It's like draining a bathtub -- like pulling the plug and letting a
little bit of the water out. It's actually not that sophisticated or
crazy," Gordon told Business Insider.
That carbon would then get concentrated and stored, perhaps by injecting
it into pores in deep underground rock, which is essentially where it
came from in the first place. There's not much limit to how much CO2
these potential technologies could capture and store.
We need this kind of intervention immediately, according to the authors.
more at -
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-gobal-warming-plan-carbon-capture-2018-10
[RT America]
*"America: The Farewell Tour" & Climate Change: What's at Stake?
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gVRE35AnBk>*
The Big Picture RT video 28 minutes
Published on Oct 19, 2018
Holland Cooke speaks with Dr. Gregg Marland from the Department of
Geological and Environmental Sciences at Appalachian State University
and Marc Morano, former Republican political aide, founder of
ClimateDepot.com, and Climate Change skeptic about the UN Climate
Report, which highlights extreme risks to regions around the world. Then
a discussion with Chris Hedges on his latest book, "America: The
Farewell Tour".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gVRE35AnBk
[Activism on October 29th]
*Trial of the Century <https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/trial/>*
21 YOUTH ARE SUING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR CAUSING CLIMATE CHANGE.
BUT THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO TRY TO SILENCE THEM.
[video https://youtu.be/6bBFeHwYmVc ]
Join us for the rally at the federal courthouse in your state (see
below) to be a part of the #TrialoftheCentury and support these young
climate warriors in Juliana v United States who are fighting for their
right to be heard in court.
Our freedom depends on a climate system that will sustain human life.
Let's show the government that it has a duty to listen to our country's
youngest citizens, and to prepare and implement a Climate Recovery Plan
to protect our basic and most fundamental rights!
These brave youth need you to stand with them!
https://www.ourchildrenstrust.org/trial/
[Lewis Black rants on global warming science]
Lewis Black & Friends - A Night to Let Freedom Laugh (Live In Washington
D.C.) <https://youtu.be/SsM44DGmc7M?t=5746>
https://youtu.be/SsM44DGmc7M?t=5746
*This Day in Climate History - October 27, 2006
<http://web.archive.org/web/20130303200905/http://www.rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=87f3ae3b-0f0d-44ee-af03-9080592901a4>
- from D.R. Tucker*
October 27, 2006: Senators Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Olympia Snowe
(R-ME) urge ExxonMobil to stop funding climate-change-denying think tanks.
Press Releases
*Oct 27 2006*
ROCKEFELLER AND SNOWE DEMAND THAT EXXONMOBIL END FUNDING OF CAMPAIGN
THAT DENIES GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
*-Senators Demand that the World's Largest Oil Maker Make Public Its
History of Funding Climate Change "Skeptics"-*
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In an effort to call attention to the detrimental
effects of industry-funded, so-called "research" in the debate on
global climate change, Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller IV (D-WV) and
Olympia Snowe (R-ME) today called on the world's largest oil company
to end its funding of a climate change denial campaign. Rockefeller
and Snowe's effort would also reassert the leading role of the
United States in addressing important global issues that demand the
world's collective attention.
Rockefeller and Snowe said that ExxonMobil's extensive funding of an
"echo chamber" of non-peer reviewed pseudo-science had unfortunately
succeeded in raising questions about the legitimate scientific
community's virtually universal findings on the detrimental effects
of global warming. This ongoing "debate" has also damaged America's
reputation as a leader in global affairs.
"American companies have every right to engage in important public
debates, but these discussions should neither serve as a license to
obscure credible data and research nor impede domestic and
international actions based on that data," said Rockefeller.
"Climate change is one of the most serious environmental and
economic issues facing the United States and our partners in the
international community. It is absolutely irresponsible for any
entity to try to influence our government's involvement in such an
important debate in any way that is not scrupulously accurate and
honest."
"The institutions that ExxonMobil is supporting are producing very
questionable data. The company's support for a small, but
influential, group of climate skeptics has damaged the United
States' reputation by making our government appear to ignore
conclusive data on climate change and the disastrous effects climate
change could have."
"ExxonMobil - which recorded $10.5 billion in third quarter profits
this year - has an obligation and a responsibility to the global
community to refrain from lending their support, financial and
otherwise, to bogus, non substantiated articles and publications on
climate change that serve only to cloud the important global debate
of rigorous peer-reviewed research and writings," Snowe said. "The
efforts of those supported by ExxonMobil foster the false belief
among the international community that the United States is
insensitive to global warming and unwilling to engage in forthright
discussion on what many consider to be one of the most important
economic and environmental issues of the 21st century."
"Rather than continue to damage our credibility abroad, I urge
ExxonMobil, under its new leadership, to work with those of us in
Congress who are committed to moving our nation back to the
negotiating table and leading the way toward greater energy
efficiencies, and clean alternative and renewable fuels. ExxonMobil
has the tremendous opportunity to employ its significant resources
and assist the United States and the world by promoting the
technological innovations necessary to address climate change and
develop a global solution to this undeniably global problem."
According to reports, in 2004 alone, ExxonMobil was the primary
funder of more than 29 climate change denial front groups. Since the
late 1990s, ExxonMobil has spent more than $19 million on a strategy
of "information laundering," enabling a small number of professional
skeptics, working through so-called scientific organizations, to
funnel their viewpoints through non-peer-reviewed websites, such as
www.techcentralstation.com.
"Climate change denial has been so effective because the 'denial
community' has mischaracterized the necessarily guarded language of
serious scientific dialogue as vagueness and uncertainty,"
Rockefeller and Snowe wrote ExxonMobil Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer Rex Tillerson. "ExxonMobil is responsible for much of this
scientific data debate and support of global warming deniers."
Rockefeller and Snowe insisted that ExxonMobil end its funding of
the climate change denial campaign by the Competitive Enterprise
Institute (CEI) and other organizations with similar purposes. The
two Senators also encouraged ExxonMobil and Tillerson to make its
history of funding public and acknowledge the dangers and realities
of climate change.
Finally, Rockefeller and Snowe suggested that Tillerson, as the
company's new CEO, has a unique opportunity to change the culture of
the company: "You will become the public face of an undisputed
leader in the world energy industry and a company that plays a vital
role in our national economy. As that public face, you will have
the ability and responsibility to lead ExxonMobil toward its
rightful place as a good corporate and global citizen."
http://web.archive.org/web/20130303200905/http://www.rockefeller.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=87f3ae3b-0f0d-44ee-af03-9080592901a4
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