[TheClimate.Vote] May 27, 2019 - Daily Global Warming News Digest

Mon May 27 08:49:22 EDT 2019

/May 27, 2019/

[sue the bastards]
*Carbon Tax Should Not Shield the Oil Industry From Climate Suits, 
Cities Argue*
A carbon dividend plan proposed by the Climate Leadership Council (CLC) 
is little more than a green-washed attempt to prevent local communities 
from holding fossil fuel companies accountable for damages they have 
done to the climate, leaders of six California municipalities wrote in a 
letter sent to Sen. Kamala Harris...
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"Their aggressive, well-financed campaign is built around a provision 
buried inside a carbon tax Trojan Horse proposal that attempts to 
prevent cities, counties, states, or others from holding fossil fuel 
companies accountable for climate change-related damages they knowingly 
caused," Butts said. ...
https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2019/05/25/climate-liability-waiver-carbon-tax/

[Tesla tale video - global battery installations]
*TESLA batteries : Are they the Holy Grail of Climate Change?*
Just Have a Think
Published on May 26, 2019
Solar and wind power are both blighted by unreliability, reliant as they 
are on sunshine and wind that isn't always available.  But huge advances 
in battery technology now mean that energy can be stored as it's 
generated, giving national grid operators an instant solution for 
smoothing demand and bringing domestic micro-generation to hundreds of 
millions of people who have never had electricity in their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KmhOL_nlXA

[modern tale of the Great Plains]
*For the Midwest, Epic Flooding Is the Face of Climate Change*
Fierce storms lashed across the central US this week, unleashing 
hundreds of powerful tornadoes that carved a path of destruction through 
parts of Missouri and Oklahoma Wednesday night, and left at least three 
dead. While the worst of the violent winds has passed, the region is now 
bracing for massive flooding, following record amounts of rain brought 
by the severe weather system and with more expected over the weekend. 
And it's coming on the heels of the wettest 12 months the US has seen 
since record-keeping began in 1895.

That's according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
which earlier this year predicted that two-thirds of the states in the 
lower 48 would risk major or moderate flooding between March and May. 
"This is shaping up to be a potentially unprecedented flood season, with 
more than 200 million people at risk for flooding in their communities," 
Ed Clark, director of NOAA's National Water Center said in the agency's 
spring outlook report.

So far, it's proven prescient--with rivers from North Dakota east to 
Ohio and south to Louisiana all overflowing their banks in recent weeks. 
The damage to homes, businesses, and farms is likely to rise into the 
hundreds of millions of dollars...
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Soggy weather and uncertainty over President Trump's trade war have 
combined this year to keep farmers out of their fields. According to the 
US Department of Agriculture's latest crop progress report, farmers have 
planted just 49 percent of their intended corn acres for 2019, nearly 
half the amount they usually average at this time of year. Soybean 
plantings are down to just 19 percent of acres, compared with the 47 
percent average. In Illinois, which is the second-biggest producer of 
both corn and soy, the soil is so saturated that moisture levels are 
approaching the 99th percentile statewide. Farmer there have planted 
just 24 percent of corn acres, and 11 percent of soy. Super-soaked 
spring soils, unplanted fields, record-rising rivers, runaway 
barges--this is in all likelihood what climate change looks like for the 
middle of the country.
https://www.wired.com/story/for-the-midwest-epic-flooding-is-the-face-of-climate-change/

[Bill Nye interviewed]
*Bill Nye Has a Plan to Solve Climate Change - Klepper Podcast*
Klepper
Published on May 20, 2019
Bill Nye joins Jordan to talk about what kind of actions will actually 
slow climate change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuDqOxyuetY

[number 5 in serious videos]
*Humanities Tombstone Inscription: Acted Slower Than Expected as Climate 
Changed Faster Than Expected*
Paul Beckwith
Published on May 26, 2019
This video is the 4th of 6 in my synopsis of recent significant abrupt 
climate change induced, "faster than expected" events occurring around 
our planet under siege. We tickle tipping points, hurtling towards a 
highly nonlinear rewiring of our planetary heat distribution, which 
includes a greatly warmed Arctic and cascading food shortages. As 
climate changes much "faster than expected", humanities response 
continuous to be ineffectual and much "slower than expected". We wallow 
at the beck and call, and in the throes of climate and science denial 
political leaders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocGWsGO_DPA
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[Number 6]
*Smorgasbord of Scariness on our Crazy Climate Disrupted Home Planet: 
Houston, We have A PROBLEM.*
Paul Beckwith
Published on May 26, 2019
This video is the 5th of 6 in my smorgasbord of scariness on our recent 
crazy climate disruption happenings on our home planet. I endeavour to 
use the clearest, easy-for-anybody to understand, state-of-the-art gifs 
and illustrations to drive home the latest science on our (Earth's) 
climate and weather realities. Clearly, climate deniers have long-ago 
fallen down the rabbit hole of fantasy land, worthy of resurrection of 
the old TV show known as the Twilight Zone. Reality really does bite, 
and right-wing ideological denial is clearly exposed, and doubling down 
on nuttiness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyzEBv3N2EU
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[Last in series 6 of 6]
*Earth Life Support Systems Undergoing Wrenching Climate Change Paroxysms*
Paul Beckwith
Published on May 26, 2019
This video is the 6th of 6 in my motley collection of recent highly 
significant, profoundly important abrupt climate destabilization 
occurrences. Our life systems that support all plants and animals are 
undergoing wrenching paroxysms that are totally reconfiguring 
atmospheric and oceanic circulatory systems vital for transferring heat 
around the planet to maintain stability in our weather and climate 
systems. Thus far, humanity is floundering with feeble and ineffectual 
gestures to address, let alone even recognize and acknowledge the 
existential crisis that is upon us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mZFN9JJt5s

*This Day in Climate History - May 27, 2014 - from D.R. Tucker*
MSNBC's Chris Hayes, Michael Mann and Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) discuss what 
Chris Mooney once called "The Republican War on Science." [video]
Part 1:
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/if-it-seems-backwards-then-so-be-it-267969603785 

Part 2:
http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-to-pentagon-ignore-climate-change-267968579982# 

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