[✔️] October 22, 2021 - Daily Global Warming News Digest 👀

[👀 Richard Pauli]

/*October 22, 2021*/

/[ "If it's 25 years overdue, is it still intelligence? " - Ross Gelbspan ]/
*White House, intelligence agencies, Pentagon issue reports warning that 
climate change threatens global security**
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The Defense Department’s assessment of the strategic shifts forced by 
climate change goes well beyond previous public analysis at the 
Pentagon, which has more typically focused on immediate challenges such 
as preparing U.S. military bases for more frequent floods and rising sea 
levels.

“It looks at how the missions will be shaped by climate hazards in the 
years to come, which speaks to the strategic nature of the threat,” Erin 
Sikorsky, the director of the Center for Climate and Security and a 
former senior intelligence official focused on climate issues, said of 
the new report...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/intelligence-pentagon-climate-change-warnings/2021/10/21/ea3a2c84-31d3-11ec-a1e5-07223c50280a_story.html



/[ perhaps big money can make big change ]/
*U.S. Warns Climate Poses ‘Emerging Threat’ to Financial System*
A Financial Stability Oversight Council report could lead to more 
regulatory action and disclosure requirements for banks...
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    The report by the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which is
    led by the Treasury secretary and includes leaders from the major
    financial regulatory agencies, portrayed the financial threat of
    climate change in stark terms. Higher temperatures are leading to
    more natural disasters, such as hurricanes, wildfires and floods.
    These, in turn, are resulting in damaged property, lost income and
    disruptions to business activity that threaten to alter how assets,
    such as real estate, are valued.

    At the same time, the move away from fossil fuels could cause a
    sudden drop in the price of stocks and other assets tied to oil,
    gas, coal and other energy companies, or sectors that rely on them
    such as carmakers and heavy manufacturing. Such a shift could hurt
    the stock market, retirement savings and other parts of the
    financial sector...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/politics/climate-change-cost-us.html



/[ from Greta the Great ]/
*There are no real climate leaders yet – who will step up at Cop26?*
Greta Thunberg
Like other rich nations, the UK is more talk than action on the climate 
crisis. Something needs to change in Glasgow
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The climate and ecological emergency is, of course, only a symptom of a 
much larger sustainability crisis. A social crisis. A crisis of 
inequality that dates back to colonialism and beyond. A crisis based on 
the idea that some people are worth more than others and, therefore have 
the right to exploit and steal other people’s land and resources. It’s 
all interconnected. It’s a sustainability crisis that everyone would 
benefit from tackling. But it’s naive to think that we could solve this 
crisis without confronting the roots of it.
Things may look very dark and hopeless, and given the torrent of reports 
and escalating incidents, the feeling of despair is more than 
understandable. But we need to remind ourselves that we can still turn 
this around. It’s entirely possible if we are prepared to change.

Hope is all around us. Because all it would really take is one – one 
world leader or one high-income nation or one major TV station or 
leading newspaper who decides to be honest, to truly treat the climate 
crisis as the crisis that it is. One leader who counts all the numbers – 
and then takes brave action to reduce emissions at the pace and scale 
the science demands. Then everything could be set in motion towards 
action, hope, purpose and meaning.

The clock is ticking. Summits keep happening. Emissions keep growing. 
Who will that leader be?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/21/climate-leaders-cop26-uk-climate-crisis-glasgow



[ from the Lancet ]
*Inaction on climate change imperils millions of lives, doctors say*
Top medical journal warns that rising temperatures will worsen heat and 
respiratory illness and spread infectious disease..
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Yet the death toll from climate change will outstrip that of the 
coronavirus, the scientists warned — unless drastic action is taken to 
avert further warming and adapt to changes underway.

Already, climate change routinely threatens to overwhelm health systems’ 
capacity to respond. When record-high temperatures scorched the Pacific 
Northwest this summer, the rate of emergency room admissions spiked to 
69 times higher than the same period in 2019...
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But curbing emissions, investing in clean energy and funding adaptation 
efforts could save money as well as lives, the report says. The reduced 
air pollution that would result from eliminating fossil fuels alone 
could deliver global health benefits in the trillions of dollars. A 2019 
study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that 
deaths from fine-particle pollution cost the United States more than 
$800 billion per year; more than half of those costs were attributable 
to pollution from the energy and transportation sectors.

“We have an enormous opportunity to get to the root cause of health 
harms from the burning of fossil fuels,” Salas said. “To me there is no 
greater treatment that will have the widest health benefits for my 
patients than reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/10/20/lancet-climate-inaction-threatens-millions/



/[ Washington Post journalism with strong images and words ] /
*Climate change is turning the cradle of civilization into a grave*
Between the Tigris and Euphrates, intense heat and drought are poisoning 
the land and emptying the villages.
By Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim
HADDAM, Iraq

No one lives here anymore. The mud-brick buildings are empty, just husks 
of the human life that became impossible on this land. Wind whips 
through bone-dry reeds. For miles, there’s no water to be seen.
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Years of below-average rainfall have left Iraqi farmers more dependent 
than ever on the dwindling waters of the Tigris and Euphrates. But 
upstream, Turkey and Iran have dammed their own waterways in the past 
two years, further weakening the southern flow, so a salty current from 
the Persian Gulf now pushes northward and into Iraq’s rivers. The salt 
has reached as far as the northern edge of Basra, some 85 miles inland.
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Researchers say migration has sparked tensions with longtime residents, 
who blame the newcomers for shortages of water and electricity. Summer 
blackouts are already frequent.

And politicians use migration to deflect from their own failures. 
“There’s now a narrative that says people who are emigrated to the 
cities and living in unofficial neighborhoods are overburdening the 
local water and power supplies,” said Maha Yassin, a researcher at the 
Clingendael Institute’s Planetary Security Initiative.
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The intrusion of saltwater is poisoning lands that have been passed for 
generations from fathers to sons.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/iraq-climate-change-tigris-euphrates/


/ [ no mulligans allowed ]/
*Scottish Dunes Trump Promised To Protect On His Golf Course Are Ruined*
Before and after photos of the course reveal dramatic change.
By Mary Papenfuss
10/15/2021
Environmentally critical coastal sand dunes on Donald Trump’s Scottish 
golf course in Aberdeenshire have been ruined, even though Trump 
promised to protect them.

The dunes “will be there forever,” Trump vowed in 2008 to quell concerns 
about his new course. “This will be environmentally better after [the 
course] is built than it is before.”

But late last year officials announced that the dunes had lost their 
status as a protected environmental site because they had been partially 
destroyed.

Following construction of the Trump International Golf Links north of 
Aberdeen, the dunes no longer “merit being retained as part of the site 
of special scientific interest,” declared Scotland’s nature agency 
NatureScot.

“There is now no longer a reason to protect the dunes ... as they do not 
include enough of the special, natural features for which they were 
designated,” said the agency.

The drastic change was already vividly apparent in overhead photos of 
the Foveran Links dunes in 2019 (see clip above).

It’s even more dramatic in before and after photos of the dunes from 
2010 and 2021 obtained by Business Insider that can be seen here.

NatureScot once called the dunes “a very high-quality example of a sand 
dune system characteristic of northeast Scotland, and was of exceptional 
importance for the wide variety of coastal landforms and processes.”

When the dunes lost their special designation, Bob Ward, the policy and 
communications director at the London School of Economics’ Climate 
Change Research Institute, told The Guardian: “This is a bitterly 
disappointing decision, which shows that golf still trumps the 
environment when it comes to Scotland’s natural heritage.”

Trump claimed he would “stabilize” the dunes, which apparently meant 
building on them. But that stopped the natural movement of the dunes as 
they respond to environmental fluctuations, Ward told Business Insider. 
“Essentially what they’ve done is they’ve just killed it as a natural 
environment,” he said...
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Trump’s vow that his Aberdeenshire course and a second one at Turnberry 
would bring welcome economic benefits to the area have also fallen flat.

The Trump Organization’s financial filings early this year reported a 
$4.6 million annual loss at the Scottish courses, which boosted the 
total red ink for the operations over eight years to an eye-popping $75 
million. Trump hasn’t paid a penny in tax on the properties. In fact, 
the courses collected $800,000 in taxpayer subsidies during the COVID-19 
pandemic to protect jobs, then cut workers, union officials complained.

The filings, covering 2019, didn’t yet reflect the business-downturn 
toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite the losses, the Trump Organization has reported massive outlays 
at the properties over the years. It also has won approval to build a 
500-unit housing development at a cost of $185 million next to the club 
in Aberdeenshire, which it intended to pursue, according to the latest 
filing.

The resort losses are so astronomical that the operations have raised 
suspicions of money laundering. Those suspicions have landed the courses 
at the center of an ongoing Scottish legal battle.

Global activist organization Avaaz has filed a court action to press the 
Scottish government to wield its popularly known “McMafia” law to force 
Trump to reveal the mysterious sources for his all-cash purchases and 
development of his Scottish golf resorts. At the time of Trump’s 
purchases, he was heavily in debt and banks were reluctant to loan money 
to him.

Accounting for the president’s Scottish resorts is unusual because Trump 
is the creditor for his own businesses, which means payment for many of 
the resorts’ costs flow to the Trump Organization.

The circular flow of money in the Trump companies provides an 
opportunity for money laundering, The New Yorker business writer Adam 
Davidson has suggested. He called the resorts “money disappearing” 
operations.

Trump “owns the asset, lends the money, owes the money, is owed the 
money,” Davidson explained. “Every year, Trump lends millions to 
himself, spends all that money on something, and claims the asset is 
worth all the money he spent.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-scottish-coastal-dunes-golf-course_n_616a320ce4b005b245bd4da9



/[ Discussion Bee  ] /
*A progress report on saving the bees and how it connects with climate 
change*
Oct 13, 2021
Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
Keywords: climate, climate change, bees, wild bees
Summary:
For many people, campaigns to “save the bees” trigger thoughts of honey 
bees and what life would be like without their sweet products.  However, 
the most important pollinators are wild, native bees, with some 900 
species in Canada, and they are stressed by habitat loss, pesticide 
poisoning, disease, and climate change. Recent research is revealing 
that climate change is a significant threat to the welfare of wild 
bees.  This presentation provides an overview of work underway to 
protect wild, native bees and comment on action still needed to address 
the welfare of these important species.

Biography:
Bea has spent more than 40 years as an environmentalist and 25 years 
leading Friends of the Earth Canada.  The organization now works with 74 
other national Friends of the Earth groups around the world.  Bea 
develops and oversees delivery of Friends of the Earth’s campaigns and 
legal action currently addressing Climate, Environmental Justice, and 
Biodiversity, including Saving the Bees. Before joining Friends of the 
Earth, she worked with several international organizations on UN 
processes, such as the Earth Summit, environmentally sound technology, 
and citizen action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99t5cLUuNUw



/[ The answer is obvious, but new, and the details are not pleasant ] /
*Extreme heat can kill or cause long-term health problems – but for many 
unendurable temperatures are the new normal*
Harmed by heat is supported by Humanity United
Natalie Grover - @NatalieGrover  - Wed 20 Oct 2021

The impact of extreme heat on the human body is not unlike what happens 
when a car overheats. Failure starts in one or two systems, and 
eventually it takes over the whole engine until the car stops...
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  “When the body can no longer cool itself it immediately impacts the 
circulatory system. The heart, the kidneys, and the body become more and 
more heated and eventually our cognitive abilities begin to desert us – 
and that’s when people begin fainting, eventually going into a coma and 
dying.”...
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For many people, unendurable heat is becoming the new normal. It is most 
likely to disproportionately affect the poor, the sick – those with 
chronic conditions, or heart and kidney disease in particular – and 
older people.
Each organ responds differently to extreme heat exposure, with symptoms 
that quickly become fatal or cause lingering damage from which the body 
may never fully recover.

“Every human being is at risk from extreme heat – it’s a fact of life, 
your body needs to function in a certain environment,” says McGeehin. 
“And when that environment becomes extreme then you are at risk.”

*Heart*

To sweat and cool off, blood flow shifts from the central organs to the 
periphery of the body, causing a fall in blood pressure in these vital 
organs. The heart starts to beat faster to compensate, but if the person 
does not replenish their water reserves, blood pressure can drop 
dangerously and cause fainting, explains Dr Pieter Vancamp, 
post-doctoral researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche 
Scientifique in Paris. Vancamp published a book this year about how the 
human body deals with external challenges, such as extreme heat.

In the worst-case scenario, it can lead to heart failure if left 
untreated. In the last decade, 384 people died in the US while working 
in extreme heat, including farm workers and waste collectors, according 
to a recent investigation. University of Edinburgh researchers found 
exposure to extreme heat increases the risk of heart disease in 
firefighters.*
*

*Brain*

The hypothalamus is our in-house thermostat. Located in the brain, it 
regulates body temperature using information passed to it by temperature 
sensors in our skin, muscles, and other organs.

When high temperatures are detected, the brain initiates a cascade of 
responses to help us cool down, such as sweating, increased respiration 
and the impulse to seek water and cooler environments. But when the 
system overheats, these responses start to fail, and miscommunication 
can occur in the brain, contributing to confusion, dizziness and altered 
behaviour, says Vancamp.

“A normal cell works best at around 37C. When you increase the 
temperature even by a few degrees … the communication between nerve 
cells starts to malfunction. And that’s the moment when communication 
with the body starts to deteriorate,” he says.

In about 20% of people who survive heatstroke, the brain may never fully 
recover, “leaving a person with personality changes, clumsiness, or poor 
coordination”, according to research by UCLA’s School of Medicine.

*Kidneys*

Kidneys regulate blood concentrations of water and salt. So, the organs 
are the immediate interface between us and the climate crisis – because 
when it starts getting hot, we lose a lot of water and salt through 
sweat, says Dr Richard Johnson, professor of medicine and head of renal 
diseases and hypertension at the University of Colorado.

Hormones produced in the brain are required by the kidneys to do their 
job, but when the heat affects the brain and disrupts the normal level 
of these chemicals, the kidneys (and other organs) suffer, he says. 
Johnson says that his research and others also show that recurrent heat 
stress and dehydration could cause chronic kidney disease. A report last 
year described an “epidemic of chronic kidney disease as non-traditional 
origin in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Guatemala,” and that 
“chronic kidney disease has been reported on sugar cane farms as well as 
cotton, corn and rice farms,” in working-age people.

*Liver*

The liver is susceptible to extreme heat. During heatstroke – when the 
body’s internal temperature crosses 40C – damage to liver cells can be 
seen by the increased levels of liver enzymes in the blood, says Dr 
Edward Walter, a consultant and anaesthetist at the Royal Surrey county 
hospital.

“The liver requires highly regulated temperature – and we found that 
recurrent heat stress caused low-grade liver damage that was quite 
noticeable, but … it’s not known at this time is if that can lead to 
chronic liver disease,” adds Johnson. “But it’s an area that probably 
should be investigated.”*
*

*Gut*

As blood flows away from central organs to deal with heat, the limited 
oxygen can impede normal functioning. In the gastrointestinal tract this 
can cause inflammation and, in extreme cases, nausea and vomiting.

In 2013, researchers at University hospital Zurich found an increased 
risk of inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups during heatwaves, in what 
they described as the first study to link the climate crisis to bowel 
disease.

Extreme heat can also cause “leaky gut”, in which toxins and pathogenic 
bacteria to seep in to the blood, increasing the likelihood of 
infections, says Walter. It is almost possible to develop a kind of 
sepsis infection by being hot, he says. “Gut permeability seems to be a 
big, big problem.”
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/20/too-hot-to-handle-can-our-bodies-withstand-global-heating



/[ "because that's where the money is"] /
*The real reason Joe Manchin is sabotaging the US clean energy plan*
Michelle Lewis - Oct. 20th 2021
The real reason why Manchin won’t back clean energy?

Greed.

Manchin gets a lot of money from fossil fuel companies that aren’t even 
in West Virginia. They own him.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail sums it up:

Employees and political action committees for out-of-state oil and gas 
companies — most of which are based in Texas — dwarfed contributions 
from in-state [West Virginia] individuals and political action 
committees by more than tenfold, according to the senator’s newly filed 
quarterly campaign finance report.

You can read the full list of examples reported by energy and 
environment reporter Mike Tony of the Gazette-Mail, but here are a 
couple of standout examples:

Manchin for West Virginia, the senator’s campaign committee, reported 
drawing just under $1.6 million in contributions in the quarter, leaving 
it with $5.38 million in cash on hand.

More than a quarter of that roughly $1.6 million came from the oil and 
gas industry. Just over $30,000 came from individuals and political 
action committees in West Virginia.
…
Manchin has made $4.35 million since 2012 from stock he owns in 
Enersystems Inc., the Fairmont-based coal brokerage he founded in 1988, 
according to his U.S. Senate financial disclosures. He has denied that 
his vested coal interests have influenced his policymaking that affects 
the coal industry. But he has declined to divest his holdings, saying 
his ownership is held in a blind trust and, therefore, avoids a conflict 
of interest.

So, that’s $400,000 coming from fossil fuels in just one quarter. And 
guess who the top recipient is overall of oil and gas, mining, and coal 
money, not just in the Senate, but in all of Congress? Manchin. (He’s 
No. 2 for utilities.)

Electrek’s Take
I am mad as hell about this, and more than just a little bit scared. I 
don’t want to be dramatic, but it’s not good.

Let’s drill it down a bit (no pun intended): We are in the midst of a 
global climate emergency. China may be the No. 1 polluter overall, but 
the US is No. 2, and each person in America emits twice as much carbon 
as each person in China. Plus, the US has emitted more carbon than any 
other country – so this is the US’s problem to solve.

When Biden was elected, he immediately signed an executive order to have 
the US rejoin the Paris Agreement. He has stressed the importance of 
decarbonizing and has a plan. He vowed that the US will cut its 
emissions to 50% of 2005 levels by 2030.

Hope sprung from those declarations for those of us who know that the 
future of humanity is hanging in the balance. The infrastructure bill 
has me holding my breath. It’s hard for me to even look at the 
negotiation process.

The Biden clean energy program is fundamental to that plan. The whole 
world, not just the US, needs it. We can wait no longer.

And just weeks before the do-or-die COP26 summit in Glasgow, that plan 
is about to be derailed by one man.

One man’s greed is going to hurt the world’s entire population of 7.75 
billion people. That’s not hyperbole: The respected medical journal the 
Lancet says “climate change is the greatest global health threat facing 
the world in the 21st century.”

Hope for a miracle.
https://electrek.co/2021/10/20/the-real-reason-joe-manchin-is-sabotaging-the-us-clean-energy-plan/

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[Charlston newspaper spells it out]
*Manchin campaign finances show oil and gas industry dwarfing in-state 
and renewable energy contributions*
By Mike Tony mtony at hdmediallc.com Oct 19, 2021
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But a specific category of out-of-staters accounted for more than 10 
times as much in Manchin campaign contributions than in-state sources 
did from July 1 through Sept. 30.

Employees and political action committees for out-of-state oil and gas 
companies — most of which are based in Texas — dwarfed contributions 
from in-state individuals and political action committees by more than 
tenfold, according to the senator’s newly filed quarterly campaign 
finance report.
Manchin for West Virginia, the senator’s campaign committee, reported 
drawing just under $1.6 million in contributions in the quarter, leaving 
it with $5.38 million in cash on hand.

More than a quarter of that roughly $1.6 million came from the oil and 
gas industry. Just over $30,000 came from individuals and political 
action committees in West Virginia.

The quarterly campaign finance report lands with Manchin at the center 
of the national political universe for withholding a key vote in the 
evenly divided Senate for Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget bill, aimed at 
strengthening the nation’s social safety net.

Manchin has drawn intense scrutiny from climate advocates for his 
pushback against what they say is the most critical measure in the 
budget bill to address the climate crisis. That’s the Clean Electricity 
Performance Program, a $150 billion program that would authorize grants 
for electricity providers that increase clean electricity use by 4% or 
more annually from 2023 through 2030 and penalties for those that don’t.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee chairman has pushed an 
“innovation, not elimination” energy policy approach that keeps coal, 
oil and gas in the nation’s energy mix, even as scientists urge 
immediate and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed 
to avoid the most devastating, irreversible effects of climate change.

Manchin has made $4.35 million since 2012 from stock he owns in 
Enersystems Inc., the Fairmont-based coal brokerage he founded in 1988, 
according to his U.S. Senate financial disclosures. He has denied that 
his vested coal interests have influenced his policymaking that affects 
the coal industry. But he has declined to divest his holdings, saying 
his ownership is held in a blind trust and, therefore, avoids a conflict 
of interest.

The Manchin campaign’s more than $400,000 in campaign contributions from 
the oil and gas industry are nearly 10 times as much as the campaign 
received from renewable energy and conservation organizations.

Manchin’s campaign committee received $74,600 from employees and the 
political action committee for the Texas-based midstream energy company 
Energy Transfer, whose CEO, Kelcy Warren, contributed $10 million to 
Donald Trump super PAC America First Action in August 2020.

A super PAC is an independent political action committee that may raise 
unlimited amounts of money but is not permitted to contribute to a 
federal candidate or committee, whether directly or in kind.

Manchin’s campaign committee received $3,950 from Continental Resources 
CEO Harold Hamm, who contributed $500,000 to America First Action in 
January 2018 and $2,700 to West Virginia Attorney General Patrick 
Morrisey’s campaign committee during Morrisey’s failed 2018 bid to 
unseat Manchin as senator.

Many of the political action committees for the nation’s most prominent 
electric and gas utilities contributed to Manchin’s campaign committee, 
including Duke Energy Corp. ($5,000), Dominion Energy Inc. ($2,500) and 
Pacific Gas and Electric Corp. ($1,000).

The political action committee for American Electric Power, whose 
subsidiary, Appalachian Power, has 1 million customers in West Virginia, 
Virginia and Tennessee (as AEP Appalachian Power in the latter state), 
contributed $2,500 to Manchin’s campaign.

Manchin has been “listening closely” to American Electric Power CEO Nick 
Akins amid Congress’ infrastructure investment negotiations, according 
to a New York Times report from last month.

In a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, AEP Senior Vice 
President of Governmental Affairs Tony Kavanagh said the Clean 
Electricity Performance Program “is forcing clean energy development too 
rapidly.”

AEP subsidiaries Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power angered West 
Virginia clean energy and consumer advocates with their request for 
state ratepayers to pick up a burden of nearly $22 million a year from 
Virginia and Kentucky customers to pay for environmental upgrades 
federally required to keep three in-state coal-fired power plants open 
past 2028.

The West Virginia Public Service Commission approved that request last week.

Kentucky and Virginia state utility regulators, who share jurisdiction 
over the plants, already rejected the subsidiaries’ proposal as 
uneconomic. Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power previously estimated 
that shutting down the Mitchell plant in Marshall County in 2028 — 12 
years ahead of schedule — could save ratepayers more than $300 million.

Out-of-state contributions have become increasingly common for members 
of Congress.

Manchin’s in-state campaign contributors included former West Virginia 
Senate president Bill Cole, R-Mercer, the Republican nominee for 
governor in 2016 ($2,900), and Terrance Rusin, president and CEO of 
Charleston-based behavioral health management company PsiMed Inc. ($1,000).
https://www.wvgazettemail.com/news/energy_and_environment/manchin-campaign-finances-show-oil-and-gas-industry-dwarfing-in-state-and-renewable-energy-contributions/article_b91703bf-eeb6-5905-8494-5b1dabf7b237.html



[Some video humor from Samantha Bee  -  segments on global warming]
*Full Frontal Presents: Climate Night 2021*
Oct 21, 2021
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Did you know that we were proud participants in #ClimateNight? We care 
about the environment all the time—not just Wednesday nights at 10:30 
PM. To show we mean it, you can watch it right here!

Watch Full Frontal with Samantha Bee all new Wednesdays at 10:30/ 9:30c 
on TBS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plzIjmFfsZA




/[The news archive - looking back at apologies for a famous media mistake]/
*On this day in the history of global warming October 22, 2006*
October 22, 2006: Newsweek's Jerry Adler acknowledges that his magazine 
dropped the ball in April 1975 when it ran a story claiming that global 
cooling was on the horizon--a story that went against the scientific 
evidence of the era pointing to global warming.

    As late as 1992, in a story that for some reason has gotten far less
    attention, NEWSWEEK revisited the Ice Age threat, this time posing
    it as a perverse consequence of the greenhouse effect. Citing the
    theories of an "amateur scientist and professional prophet of doom
    named John Hamaker," the article raised the specter that a small
    increase in air temperature could cause more snow to fall in places
    like northern Greenland, where the ground is often bare. (Extremely
    cold air doesn't hold enough moisture for a good snowfall.)
    Increased snow cover, by reflecting more sunlight back into space,
    could trigger a return of the glaciers to North America. Although
    the intricate web of positive and negative feedbacks that control
    climate are still not fully understood, that particular scenario
    hasn't gotten much attention in the last decade.

    The point to remember, says Connolley, is that predictions of global
    cooling never approached the kind of widespread scientific consensus
    that supports the greenhouse effect today. And for good reason: the
    tools scientists have at their disposal now—vastly more data,
    incomparably faster computers and infinitely more sophisticated
    mathematical models—render any forecasts from 1975 as inoperative as
    the predictions being made around the same time about the inevitable
    triumph of communism. Astronomers have been warning for decades that
    life on Earth could be wiped out by a collision with a giant
    meteorite; it hasn't happened yet, but that doesn't mean that
    journalists have been dupes or alarmists for reporting this news.
    Citizens can judge for themselves what constitutes a prudent
    response-which, indeed, is what occurred 30 years ago. All in all,
    it's probably just as well that society elected not to follow one of
    the possible solutions mentioned in the NEWSWEEK article: to pour
    soot over the Arctic ice cap, to help it melt.

http://www.newsweek.com/climate-change-prediction-perils-111927

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB3S0fnOr0M

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/11/10/203320/killing-the-myth-of-the-1970s-global-cooling-scientific-consensus/


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