[TheClimate.Vote] May15 , 2019 - Daily Global Warming News Digest.

[Richard Pauli]

/May 15, 2019/

[correction: CO2 levels just exceeded 415 ppm, not 425.26 ppm as 
mis-reported yesterday]


[debate heats up as candidates scramble for top]
*Jay Inslee on Beto O'Rourke's Climate Plan*
Climate One
Published on May 14, 2019
"I appreciate anybody following my [climate] leadership," says 
Democratic candidate and Washington Governor Jay Inslee.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-WHS0bunyY
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*Jay Inslee: Donald Trump is "Too Insecure" To Understand the Innovative 
Capabilities of Americans*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA-RyCvFGBE



[cough,cough]
*Researchers Now Have Even More Proof That Air Pollution Can Cause Dementia*
A Mother Jones investigation prompted the study that turned up the most 
convincing evidence to date.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/05/researchers-now-have-even-more-proof-that-air-pollution-can-cause-dementia/



[Ugo Bardi Opinion]
*Human Extinction: An Idea Whose Time had to Come.*
A few years ago, a political movement taking the name of "extinction 
rebellion" would have been wholly unthinkable. On the other hand, after 
more than forty years of warnings on climate change and ecosystem 
collapse from the world's best scientists, the message had to start 
going through, somehow. And it does.

One consequence is the appearance on the social media of a crowd of 
deranged, depressed, misanthropic, and generally nasty people who have 
decided that the extinction of humankind is what's going to happen, no 
matter what we do, and they even seem to like the idea. Others, 
fortunately, seem to think that we can still do something to avoid this 
manifest destiny and the consequence is the birth of the extinction 
rebellion movement. Can it accomplish anything? Hard to say, it sounds a 
little like an "asteroid rebellion" movement that dinosaurs could have 
created just before the end of the Cretaceous era.

These openly declared attitudes may be just the tip of the iceberg, 
others may well have decided that, if overpopulation is the problem, 
then there are quick and very dirty ways to solve it. They may be 
concocting dark and dire things and they won't care too much about who 
thinks exactly what about the likelyhood of a coming human extinction. 
Their only concern would be that THEY won't go extinct. But, as usual, 
we see the future darkly, as in a mirror, and the time when we'll see it 
face to face has not come, yet...
https://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2019/05/human-extinction-idea-whose-time-had-to.html



[Atmospheric panic]
*The Methane Detectives: On the Trail of a Global Warming Mystery*
The amount of heat-trapping methane in the atmosphere seemed to be 
leveling off when, in 2007, it began rising again quickly. Nobody yet 
knows why.
https://undark.org/article/methane-global-warming-climate-change-mystery/



[Positive changes]
*These Are the Cities Doing the Most to Combat Global Warming*
Cities, which are home to more than half the world's population, are 
stepping up efforts to slash pollution, often wresting the fight against 
climate change away from national governments.

That's the conclusion of CDP, a non-profit group that pushes 
institutions to detail their greenhouse-gas emissions. Often able to 
move faster than their national counterparts, metropolitan authorities 
from London to Sydney and Boston are among a group of 15 setting out the 
most rigorous plans to achieve carbon or climate neutrality by 2050.
- - -
A smaller group consisting of five cities including Paris and San 
Francisco have set themselves 100% renewable energy targets. Reykjavik, 
population 123,000, says it already uses 100% renewable power. How fast 
other cities get to that point is largely down to the policies they enact.

Paris gets 35% of its energy from clean sources, and San Francisco gets 
almost 60% of its power from renewables, CDP said.

Almost 7% of the 625 cities that took part in the report were given the 
highest rating -- joining the CDP "A-list." Among the top scoring, only 
28 have set goals for carbon neutrality (balancing emissions of 
greenhouse gases), climate neutrality (designing wider policies to 
reduce the overall impact of human activity to the environment) or 
cutting emissions by half or more.

More than 20 U.S. cities got the highest rating showing how mayors and 
city level lawmakers can take the initiative on climate change in spite 
of a president who has repeatedly played down the effects of global 
warming...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-15/these-are-the-14-cities-doing-the-most-to-combat-global-warming


*This Day in Climate History - May 15, 2013 - from D.R. Tucker*
In a courageous act of civil disobedience that calls attention to coal's 
contamination of the climate, activists Ken Ward and Jay O'Hara 
forestall a coal shipment headed for the Brayton Point Power Plant in 
Somerset, Massachusetts.
http://lobsterboatblockade.org/
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/15-2
http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/lobster-boat-successfully-blockades-40000-ton-coal-shipment.html
http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/15/climate-change-activists-say-they-blocked-freighter-from-delivering-coal-mass-power-plant/gjnEb86grXDaFflJPVynTI/story.html
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