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<font size="+1"><i>Stay well-informed about global warming - Please
forward this email. February 13, 2017</i></font><br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/12/humans-causing-climate-to-change-170-times-faster-than-natural-forces">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/12/humans-causing-climate-to-change-170-times-faster-than-natural-forces</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/12/humans-causing-climate-to-change-170-times-faster-than-natural-forces">Humans
causing climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>Researchers behind 'Anthropocene equation' say impact of
people's intense activity on Earth far exceeds that of natural
events spread across millennia...<br>
For the first time, researchers have developed a mathematical
equation to describe the impact of human activity on the earth,
finding people are causing the climate to change 170 times faster
than natural forces...<br>
The equation was developed in conjunction with Professor Will
Steffen, a climate change expert and researcher at the Australian
National University, and was published in the journal The
Anthropocene Review...<br>
The authors of the paper wrote that for the past 4.5bn years
astronomical and geophysical factors have been the dominating
influences on the Earth system. The Earth system is defined by the
researchers as the biosphere, including interactions and feedbacks
with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and upper
lithosphere.<br>
But over the past six decades human forces "have driven
exceptionally rapid rates of change in the Earth system," the
authors wrote, giving rise to a period known as the Anthropocene.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120951-simple-equation-shows-how-human-activity-is-trashing-the-planet/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120951-simple-equation-shows-how-human-activity-is-trashing-the-planet/</a></font><br>
<a
href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120951-simple-equation-shows-how-human-activity-is-trashing-the-planet/">Simple
equation shows how human activity is trashing the planet</a><br>
If we take a baseline of the last 7000 years, until recently,
global temperature decreased at a rate of 0.01 °C per century. The
current rate (last 45 years) is a rise of 1.7 °C per century – 170
times the baseline and in the opposite direction. The warmest 12
years since records began have all occurred since 1998...<br>
The rate of carbon emissions to the atmosphere is arguably the
highest in 66 million years, when the (non-avian) dinosaurs
slipped off this mortal coil. The staggering loss of biodiversity
in recent decades prompted researchers in 2015 to argue that the
Anthropocene marks the third stage in the evolution of Earth's
biosphere, following on from the microbial stage 3.5 billion years
ago and the Cambrian explosion 650 million years ago...<br>
Pulling this together, we conclude that the rate of change of the
Earth system over the last 40 to 50 years is a purely a function
of industrialised societies (H)...<br>
In the equation, astronomical and geophysical forces tend to zero
because of their slow nature or rarity, as do internal dynamics,
for now. All these forces still exert pressure, but currently on
orders of magnitude less than human impact.<br>
Journal reference: The Anthropocene Review, doi:
10.1177/2053019616688022<br>
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href="http://harvardheatweek.org/alumni-letter-from-kc-golden-mpp-88/">http://harvardheatweek.org/alumni-letter-from-kc-golden-mpp-88/</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://harvardheatweek.org/alumni-letter-from-kc-golden-mpp-88/">Divest
Harvard, Alumni Letter from KC Golden, MPP '88</a></b></font><br>
March 16, 2015<br>
<blockquote>Today we feature a brilliant letter from Harvard alum KC
Golden. KC is a leader in the national climate movement, serving
as Senior Policy Advisor for Climate Solutions, in the leadership
of several national climate organizations, and as Board Chair of
350.org. <br>
His letter is directed at Dean David Ellwood, Dean of Harvard's
JFK School of Government, where KC studied as a Kennedy Fellow.
Read on below for a powerful message from one of Harvard's many,
many distinguished alumni/ae who are calling for divestment, and
for their classmates to join in Harvard Heat Week April 12-17th. <br>
Dean David Ellwood John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA<br>
<b>"Invest: to furnish with power, authority; to infuse or belong
to"</b><br>
Dear Dean Ellwood,...<br>
...experience leaves me absolutely confident that we can do what
is right and necessary to respond to the climate challenge. The
technologies, the policy tools, the economic models for a
transition from fossil fuels to a healthy clean energy economy are
within reach. The transition won't be easy or cost-free, but it
can clearly be done at a small fraction of the cost of failing to
make it.<br>
...As proud as I am of my education and my accomplishments, my
faith in the whole underlying proposition is deeply shaken...<br>
How can this be? If both civilization-threatening catastrophe and
solutions are truly at hand, why don't we rise to the challenge? A
somewhat simplistic but not inaccurate answer would emphasize the
unbridled economic and political power of the fossil fuel
industry. Astonishingly, they have purchased a majority position
in the US Congress for the view that human-caused climate change
doesn't exist or warrant action, and cowed much of the minority
into acquiescence.<br>
.. we can take one clear, hopeful step forward right now. We can
start winding down our investments in companies that block
solutions, fund climate denial, and continue to explore for new
fossil fuel reserves when most of their existing reserves must
remain unburned. We can and must stop investing in making climate
disruption worse, knowing as we do that continuing capital
investment in fossil fuels will lock us in to catastrophic
emission levels. Should we decline to take this step because we
are not in position to completely leap past fossil fuel dependence
immediately? We'll never get very far that way...<br>
...Truth, "Veritas," is Harvard's purpose. And applying truth to
effectuate collective action through public institutions is KSG's.
The opposition to responsible climate policy, spearheaded by the
fossil fuel industry, is a direct threat to both. Divestment is an
opportunity to withdraw support from that opposition...<br>
...Harvard should not plead impotence, or limit its influence to
lighting retrofits and energy research. Our responsibility and our
opportunity to lead are much greater.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/charges-re-filed-in-pipeline-facility-break-in/article_04f086b1-8e2a-56fa-94e1-d49407cd00fa.html">http://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/charges-re-filed-in-pipeline-facility-break-in/article_04f086b1-8e2a-56fa-94e1-d49407cd00fa.html</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/charges-re-filed-in-pipeline-facility-break-in/article_04f086b1-8e2a-56fa-94e1-d49407cd00fa.html">Charges
re-filed in pipeline facility break-in</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>
By KIMBERLY CAUVEL @Kimberly_SVH Feb 11, 2017 (…) <br>
Charges were re-filed Wednesday against Kenneth Ward, the Oregon
man who in October broke into a Kinder Morgan oil pipeline
facility west of Burlington.<br>
Ward’s first trial on felony charges of burglary and criminal
sabotage ended in a mistrial Feb. 1 after jurors failed to reach a
verdict.<br>
The re-filing of the charges in Skagit County Superior Court
include a third felony charge for possession of a controlled
substance.<br>
According to court records, Skagit County sheriff’s deputies found
prescription drugs on Ward during his arrest Oct. 11. Ward did not
have a prescription for those drugs.
<div class="subscriber-only">Ward was arrested after breaking into
a facility that is part of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain
Pipeline.</div>
<div class="subscriber-only">That pipeline carries crude oil from
Canadian tar sands to the oil refineries in Washington,
including the two at March Point.</div>
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<div class="subscriber-only">During his trial, Ward admitted to
breaking into the facility and turning a valve on the pipeline.</div>
<div class="subscriber-only">He said he did it to make a statement
about climate change and the need to transition off fossil
fuels.</div>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ecowatch.com/ken-ward-hung-jury-2249998346.html">http://www.ecowatch.com/ken-ward-hung-jury-2249998346.html</a><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.ecowatch.com/ken-ward-hung-jury-2249998346.html">The
Climate Data That Led to a Hung Jury</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> Last week, a Skagit County, Washington jury failed to
reach a verdict in my trial on charges of burglary and sabotage
for closing the TransMountain pipeline as part of the ShutItDown
climate direct action, which disrupted all five pipelines carrying
Canadian tar sands oil into the U.S. last October.<br>
On the stand, I told the jury my own story, about working for
decades on the staff of public interest and environmental
organizations where we treated climate change as merely one among
many policy issues and about the rude awakening I received after
reading two seminal papers, Bill Hare's, 1997 Greenpeace
International report <a
href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257381319_Fossil_Fuels_and_Climate_Protection_The_Carbon_Logic">The
Carbon Logic</a> and Dr. James Hansen's 2005 <a
href="https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha08010f.html">A Slippery
Slope</a>.<br>
For some time, I have argued that emphasizing the complexity of
climate science does us no service in a public debate where our
opponents ridicule and warp scientific approaches and where even
climate activists are befuddled by the complexity of the problem.
In my defense, truncated as it was, I was able to present the
barest minimum of information outlining and supporting the
simplest and direst aspect of the climate emergency: catastrophic
sea level rise and why my action can be considered appropriate in
the circumstances.<br>
For some number of the Skagit County jury, this limited data set
on climate change impacts proved more persuasive that the graphic
depiction of my actions.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257381319_Fossil_Fuels_and_Climate_Protection_The_Carbon_Logic">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257381319_Fossil_Fuels_and_Climate_Protection_The_Carbon_Logic</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257381319_Fossil_Fuels_and_Climate_Protection_The_Carbon_Logic">Fossil
Fuels and Climate Protection: The Carbon Logic</a></b><br>
Abstract<br>
Preventing dangerous climate change will involve limiting both the
rate and magnitude of climate change over the next century to
levels that natural and human systems can tolerate without
significant damage. This report shows the implications for overall
fossil fuel use, in the form of a 'carbon budget', over the next
century if the global community is to prevent dangerous climate
change. It is demonstrated that it is only possible to burn a
small fraction of the total oil, coal and gas that has already
been discovered, if such dangerous changes are to be avoided. Even
the reserves of fossil fuels that are considered economic to
recover now, with no advances in technology, are far greater than
the total allowable 'carbon budget'.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha08010f.html">https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/abs/ha08010f.html</a>
</font><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2005/2005_Hansen_ha08010f.pdf">https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2005/2005_Hansen_ha08010f.pdf</a>
<i>(a NASA document - you may want to download and save)</i></font><br>
Hansen, J.E., 2005: <b><a
href="https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2005/2005_Hansen_ha08010f.pdf">A
slippery slope: How much global warming constitutes "dangerous
anthropogenic interference"?</a></b> An editorial essay.
Climatic Change, 68, 269-279, doi:10.1007/s10584-005-4135-0.<br>
Publication Abstract<br>
Are we on a slippery slope now? Can human-made global warming
cause ice sheet melting measured in meters of sea level rise, not
centimeters, and can this occur in centuries, not millennia? Can
the very inertia of the ice sheets, which protects us from rapid
sea level change now, become our bêete noire as portions of the
ice sheet begin to accelerate, making it practically impossible to
avoid disaster for coastal regions?<br>
Get PDF (253 kB) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2005/2005_Hansen_ha08010f.pdf">https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2005/2005_Hansen_ha08010f.pdf</a><br>
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<b><a
href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-kids-climate-lawsuit-2250707551.html">Kids
Name Trump as Defendant in Landmark Climate Case</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States filed a
notice Thursday with a federal court in Oregon, naming Donald J.
Trump as a defendant in their landmark climate case on pace for
trial this fall. Plaintiffs have substituted President Trump as a
named party in place of former President Barack Obama under the
Federal Rules...<br>
In Juliana v. United States, 21 young plaintiffs sued the federal
government for violating their constitutional rights and their
rights to vital public trust resources. The complaint alleges the
government locked in a fossil-fuel based national energy system
for more than five decades with full knowledge of the extreme
dangers it posed. The plaintiffs have been further emboldened by
President Trump's blatant climate denial, inspiring them in their
fight to secure climate justice and a safe future...<br>
"I look forward to taking on the Trump administration, as I think
our new president, of all people, needs to have his power
checked," said Kiran Ooommen, 20-year-old plaintiff from Eugene,
Oregon. "President Trump benefits financially from the fossil fuel
industry, but his benefit comes at a heavy cost for the rest of
us. The policies of the U.S. government that ignore the threat of
climate change are only going to get worse under the new
presidency, based on Trump's apparent lack of understanding of
climate science and his plans to invest further in the fossil fuel
industry."<br>
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<a
href="http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/2/10/14579380/senator-jason-chaffetz-town-hall-science-question-boos-watch"><font
color="#666666" size="-1">http://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/2/10/14579380/senator-jason-chaffetz-town-hall-science-question-boos-watch</font><br>
<b>Congressman is righteously booed after dodging a young girl's
simple question about science</b></a><br>
Not your average town hall meeting <i>(video on site)</i><br>
<blockquote>One hour into a loud, contentious town hall meeting in
his home state of Utah, Congressman Jason Chaffetz was asked two
simple questions by a young girl named Hannah Bradshaw. The first
was about the environment: "What are you doing to help protect our
water and air for our generations and my kids' generations?" The
second was just a bit more broad: "Do you believe in science?"..<br>
Asking the sitting congressman if he believes in science is sadly
a relevant question. Chaffetz has called global warming "a farce,"
and just this week co-sponsored a bill to abolish the Department
of Education. He also recently proposed a bill that would have
transferred ownership of federal public lands to the states,
making them easier to sell. (He swiftly withdrew that bill after
it sparked public outrage.)...<br>
... Chaffetz deflected hard enough to cause whiplash. Luckily, the
crowd wasn't having it. One woman in particular can be heard
loudly repeating the words "ANSWER THE QUESTION," and so Chaffetz
was goaded into responding to Bradshaw...<br>
Chaffetz started with an empty statement that only a career
politician could think would play well in front of a high school
auditorium packed to the brim with frothing citizens: "What is
thrown into our air, what is thrown into our water, obviously has
an effect on our environment." He was then met with a holy chorus
of boos when he said he supported an "all of the above energy
strategy" that includes coal as "an important part of that
future."..<br>
The Salt Lake Tribune live-streamed the entire event on Facebook,
and if you pick up the exchange over there you'll be treated to
Chaffetz continuing to ignore Bradshaw's questions while propping
up muddy arguments like electric cars being dirty — "There's a lot
of people who want to move to electricity. Well how in the world
do you think electricity is generated?" — and how solar farms are
destroying wildlife...<br>
Chaffetz endured another 15 minutes of the town hall before
literally being booed off the stage.<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865673055/Chaffetz-faces-harsh-criticism-during-packed-town-hall.html">http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865673055/Chaffetz-faces-harsh-criticism-during-packed-town-hall.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865673055/Chaffetz-faces-harsh-criticism-during-packed-town-hall.html">'Do
your job': Angry town hall crowd jeers Chaffetz in packed
auditorium</a></b><br>
COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — In an electric town hall meeting filled with
angry rebukes thrown at Rep. Jason Chaffetz, it was perhaps the
soft spoken but pointed question from a young girl that drew the
loudest standing ovation.<br>
"Do you believe in science?" asked Hannah Bradshaw. "Because I
do."<br>
The frustration of some Utah voters upset with the president —
roughly 1,000 of them inside the Brighton High School auditorium,
and well over 1,000 people protesting outside the school — reached
a fever pitch from the very start of the Utah Republican's
question-and-answer session Thursday.<br>
"So, President Trump," Chaffetz began, a minute or two into the
meeting, before being immediately drowned out by loud boos.<br>
"If you want me to answer the question, please give me more than
five seconds to answer it, OK?" Chaffetz asked a few minutes later
after several people heckled him, claiming he hadn't adequately
answered an audience member's question about investigating
Trump....<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865673195/Utah-Democrats-hit-Chaffetz-for-dismissing-town-hall-crowd-as-paid-protesters.html">http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865673195/Utah-Democrats-hit-Chaffetz-for-dismissing-town-hall-crowd-as-paid-protesters.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865673195/Utah-Democrats-hit-Chaffetz-for-dismissing-town-hall-crowd-as-paid-protesters.html">Utah
Democrats hit Chaffetz for dismissing town hall crowd as paid
protesters</a></b><br>
SALT LAKE CITY — A top Utah Democrat ripped Rep. Jason Chaffetz on
Saturday for dismissing Thursday night's raucous town hall meeting
as being fueled by paid protesters from out of state, not
representative of his 3rd District constituents.<br>
"He's out of touch with reality. He's out of touch with the
political reality on the ground," said House Minority Leader Rep.
Brian King.<br>
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255);">Roads leading out of Oroville, Calif., were jammed with
traffic Sunday evening as people evacuated the area due to the
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<i><font size="-1"><b>Water began flowing over the emergency
spillway at the Oroville Dam in Northern California on
Saturday for the first time in its nearly 50-year history
after heavy rainfall.</b> </font></i><i><a
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href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/water-flow-slowing-emergency-spillway-tallest-us-dam-45442749">http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/water-flow-slowing-emergency-spillway-tallest-us-dam-45442749</a></i><br>
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href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago/">http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago/</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/12/oroville-dam-feds-and-state-officials-ignored-warnings-12-years-ago/">Oroville
Dam: Feds and state officials ignored warnings 12 years ago </a></b></font><br>
<blockquote><font size="-1">"Three environmental groups — the
Friends of the River, the Sierra Club and the South Yuba
Citizens League — filed a motion with the federal government on
Oct. 17, 2005, as part of Oroville Dam’s relicensing process,
urging federal officials to require that the <a
href="http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/11/emergency-spillway-used-at-oroville-dam-for-first-time/">dam’s
emergency spillway</a> be armored with concrete, rather than
remain as an earthen hillside."<br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWBqPh1lrt0">This Day in
Climate History February 13, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote>In his "Bushed" segment, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann
observes:<br>
"Number two: Global warming denier-gate. Singer Sheryl Crow
reveals that her new album, 'Detours,' filled with political
protest songs, was inspired by her visit last year to the White
House Correspondents Dinner and the rage she felt after her
encounter with Karl Rove. She tried to talk to him about global
warming and she says his response was: 'I don‘t work for you, I
work for the American people.' No, you worked for George Bush and
now you work for Rupert Murdoch. That is two American people, not
THE American people."<br>
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