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<font size="+1"><i>February 24, 2017 Considering climate change
ethical conundrums </i></font><br>
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255);">"We often have debates in<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style="font-weight:
normal;">climate change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about
how to trade off benefits and burdens without adequately
considering what constitutes benefits and burdens - and whether
all burdens are of the same kind," said Debra Satz, a professor of
philosophy and ...</div>
<blockquote> Through his research, he aims to create a framework
that governments could use to evaluate the moral implications of
their energy, transportation and other climate change policies in
order to consider when it is morally justified for them to emit
greenhouse gases...<br>
"We often have debates in climate change about how to trade off
benefits and burdens without adequately considering what
constitutes benefits and burdens – and whether all burdens are of
the same kind," said Debra Satz, a professor of philosophy and
senior associate dean for the humanities and arts. "Blake's
approach introduces an important dimension – not all burdens to
people count as harms."..<br>
For example, a wealthy company losing a small portion of its
assets is less harmful than a person losing his or her subsistence
– even if the dollar amount of the company's loss is greater than
the individual's loss, said Satz, who is also Francis' advisor...<br>
"This research is poised to make a significant contribution to our
obligations to others in the context of the differential
consequences of climate change," she said. "It's political
philosophy at its best – illuminating, deep and
action-guiding."...<br>
..."Americans aren't paying the true price of gasoline," Francis
said. "And I think there is something very worrying about the fact
that because of government subsidies we are not paying that true
cost. But it's complicated because we know that keeping gas prices
low is really good for the poor and the middle class."...<br>
In addition to examining specific cases, Francis is studying
climate change policies and their evolution on the national and
international level to determine the current moral assessment the
public has about actions that lead to global warming. He is also
researching the rules of organizations, such as the World Bank and
the World Health Organization, regarding climate change, the
restrictions they put on projects they help finance and how those
policies were decided...<br>
The information and insight Francis gains will be used to help
create the moral framework so that nations can choose wisely when
it comes to climate change policy. But that framework will require
a long time and an effort from experts of all disciplines...<br>
"Ultimately, it's a big interdisciplinary task that philosophers
by themselves won't be able to accomplish," Francis said. "But I
think there is a big chunk of it having to do with what counts as
a harm, how to trade off benefits and harms and when emitting is
wrong that I could have a say in."<br>
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<blockquote>The weather is nice, but it reminds us of the problems
to come.<br>
Most people handle this weather as the gift it is: an opportunity
to get outside, run or bike or play catch, and get an early jump
on the spring. But for the two-thirds of Americans who are at
least fairly worried about global warming, the weather can also
prompt anxiety and unease. As one woman told the Chicago Tribune:
"It's scary, that's my first thing. Because in all my life I've
never seen a February this warm." Or as one viral tweet put it:
"Me enjoying this weather but knowing our Earth is danger"<br>
Katherine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech
University, told me that people shouldn't hesitate to enjoy
unseasonably warm days, whether or not they are caused by climate
change...<br>
"It's a good example of how all of the symptoms of a changing
climate are not negative. And if there is something good, then
enjoying it doesn't make [climate change] any better or worse than
it would be otherwise," she said...<br>
Rather, the warm days might prepare people to notice other shifts
in how they experience the weather. "As it gets warmer, the
negative impacts outweigh the positive impacts," she said. "This
will first look like hotter summers, pests moving northward, and
our air-conditioning and water bill going up. Having these unusual
days that we really notice, it makes us more aware of how other
things are changing, too."<br>
But a study published last year in Nature should make advocates
pause. It found that, for the vast majority of Americans, the
weather became more favorable and pleasant from 1974 to 2013. Over
all, winters have gotten generally warmer and more pleasant for
"virtually all Americans," while summers have not yet become
scorching and oppressively humid.<br>
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<blockquote> No stock you can buy today is more closely tied to the
fate of the Trump Administration than Exxon Mobil Corporation
(NYSE:XOM).<br>
"It is hard to imagine a better scenario" for Exxon than a Trump
administration, writes Martin Tiller of Oilprice. If Tiller is
right, XOM stock is a bargain at below $83 per share, its opening
price on Feb. 15...<br>
The company is also moving ahead globally, benefiting from the end
of a rule that made companies disclose foreign bribes.<br>
Exxon is a big player in Iraq, and Tillerson may be the only
person alive who can make that work, getting around the
Administration's travel ban and Trump's comments that the U.S.
should have seized the country's oil in 2003 when it had the
chance.<br>
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<blockquote><font size="-1">The size and scope of climate change is
mind bogging. While its impact is already being felt locally and
globally, our warming planet is expected to inflict vastly
greater damage on the built and natural environment for decades
and centuries to come.. </font><br>
<font size="-1">...Already, climate refugees are taking flight as
parts of the planet become uninhabitable. Prolonged conflicts,
like the war in Syria, are partly blamed on intense weather
events such as drought, flooding and forest fires...</font><br>
<font size="-1">For some, contemplating this current and future
dystopia — combined with reluctant leaders to confront it —
induces a great deal of anxiety. The prospects are especially
daunting for anyone weighing life-changing decisions, such as
parenting. In particular, the dilemma is very real for many 20-
and 30-somethings who grew up only knowing the threat of climate
change...</font><br>
<font size="-1">This trepidation is akin to the distress and
uncertainty Baby Boomers endured from the threat of nuclear
annihilation during the Cold War, according to the co-founder of
a project that confronts parenting in the era of climate
change...</font><br>
<font size="-1">"History is full of examples of people wondering
if the world is safe for their children," said Meghan Kallman, a
Pawtucket, R.I., resident and co-founder of Conceivable Future,
a project centered on the principal of reproductive justice...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli created
Conceivable Future as a platform for anyone conflicted about
raising children in world that is growing more perilous. Both
have a wide range of experience and expertise to draw from.
Kallman is a Brown University-trained sociologist. She teaches
sociology at Brown and at the state prison, the Adult
Correctional Institutions...</font><br>
<font size="-1">In November, Kallman was elected to the Pawtucket
City Council. She said her know-how as a sociologist and
community organizer helped her connect with voters and empathize
with constituents since she's been elected...</font><br>
<font size="-1">The election of President Donald Trump has
intensified the need for civil disobedience, according to both
Kallman and Ferorelli. Trump opposes reproductive rights; he's a
climate-change denier; a staunch advocate for the fossil-fuel
extraction industry. Kallman and Ferorelli say the uncertainty
posed by Trump has heightened the anxiety about climate change
and led to an increase in people reaching out to Conceivable
Future for help...</font><br>
<font size="-1">"Trump is a wild card. He's done a lot of things
to suggest the world is going to be less safe for everybody's
children," Kallman said...</font><br>
<font size="-1">Soon after launching their website, Kallman and
Ferorelli discovered the benefit of the video testimonial. The
confessions allow people to articulate their feelings and put
them on a path to resolve or at least improve the moral quandary
posed by climate change and parenting...</font><br>
<font size="-1">The video "does very important work in humanizing
the climate crisis," Ferorelli said. "The testimony is about
saying to the world, 'This is my truth and I'm going to share it
with people.'"..</font><br>
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<font size="-1"><br>
<font color="#666666" size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/22/uk-climate-deniers-take-anti-science-message-trump-administration-cpac-2017">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/22/uk-climate-deniers-take-anti-science-message-trump-administration-cpac-2017</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/22/uk-climate-deniers-take-anti-science-message-trump-administration-cpac-2017">UK
Climate Deniers Take Anti-Science Message to Trump
Administration at CPAC 2017</a></b></font><br>
By Mat Hope • Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 06:09<br>
</font>
<blockquote><font size="-1"> Two fringe British climate science
deniers are heading to Maryland to see Donald Trump and his tea
party pals this week, taking their Brexit-inflected anti-science
agenda with them...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> Trump's golden elevator buddy and UKIP MEP, Nigel
Farage, and far-right Breitbart London commentator, James
Delingpole, are both due to appear at the American Conservative
Union's annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC),
starting today...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> CPAC claims to be the "birthplace of modern
conservatism", and aims to "break through the resistance of
Washington's powerful elites" via four-days of talks and
activist training. In recent years it has been seen as a
breeding ground for Tea Party ideas and activism...</font><br>
<font size="-1"> The conference will offer Farage and Delingpole
an opportunity to network with other members of a US-UK climate
science denial network linked to Brexit and Trump, previously
mapped by DeSmog UK.</font><br>
<font size="-1"> <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/22/uk-climate-deniers-take-anti-science-message-trump-administration-cpac-2017">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/22/uk-climate-deniers-take-anti-science-message-trump-administration-cpac-2017</a></font></font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/02/22/uk-climate-deniers-take-anti-science-message-trump-administration-cpac-2017">Special
Relationship: The US-UK Climate Science Denier Network</a></font><br>
<font size="-1"> <font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://littlesis.org/maps/1866-special-relationship-the-us-uk-climate-science-denier-network">https://littlesis.org/maps/1866-special-relationship-the-us-uk-climate-science-denier-network</a></font></font><br>
<font size="-1"> <a href="view%20this%20map%20on%20LittleSis">view
this map on LittleSis</a></font><br>
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-likelihood-dangerous-climate-thresholds.html">https://phys.org/news/2017-02-likelihood-dangerous-climate-thresholds.html</a></font><br>
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<div class="_cnc"> <b><a class="l _HId"
href="https://phys.org/news/2017-02-likelihood-dangerous-climate-thresholds.html"
onmousedown="return
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+ video) Computer model predicts the likelihood of crossing
several dangerous climate change thresholds</a></b><br>
<div class="slp"><span class="_tQb _IId">Phys.Org</span><span
class="_v5">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb">Feb 22, 2017</span></div>
<blockquote>
<div class="st">A new computer model of accumulated carbon
emissions predicts the likelihood of crossing several
dangerous climate change thresholds. These include global
temperature rise sufficient to lose the Greenland Ice Sheet
and generate seven meters of long-term sea level rise, or
tropical region warming to a level that is deadly to humans
and other mammals....<br>
These include <em>global</em> temperature rise sufficient to
lose the Greenland Ice ... and generate seven meters of
long-term sea level rise, or tropical region <em>warming</em>
to ...</div>
A unique part of the study is that it's timing-agnostic.
"Basically, think of the climate system as a 'carbon bathtub,'"
said Fyke. "What this study mainly does is assess how full the
bathtub might get. It could get to the same level at different
times. For example, the tap could go full-out for 20 years, or a
drip for 100 years, but the end result—net warming—is
essentially the same, and only depends on the level the 'carbon
bathtub' gets to, before we turn off the tap completely."<br>
The issues with green house gases are extraordinary and complex
and the consequences of rising green houses gases will have
global impacts. "Of course, our results are model dependent and,
as with any model, could certainly change as the model design or
input parameters evolve," said Fyke. "However, demonstration of
a risk-based assessment of climate change due to cumulative
emissions is important, because such assessments are needed by
policy-makers and planners involved in large-scale climate
change mitigation and adaptation efforts."<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.readingeagle.com/life/article/commentary-john-olivers-plan-to-reach-donald-trump">http://www.readingeagle.com/life/article/commentary-john-olivers-plan-to-reach-donald-trump</a></font><br>
<div class="_cnc">
<div class="slp"> <font size="+1"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.readingeagle.com/life/article/commentary-john-olivers-plan-to-reach-donald-trump"
onmousedown="return
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John Oliver's plan to reach Donald Trump</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> <span class="_tQb _IId">Reading Eagle</span><span
class="_v5">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb">8 hours ago</span>
<div class="st">The cowboy didn't just explain <em>global
warming</em>. He also enlightened viewers - and one in
particular - that killing a terrorist's family is a
violation of the Geneva ...<br>
<font color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xecEV4dSAXE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xecEV4dSAXE</a></font><br>
</div>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xecEV4dSAXE">Trump
vs. Truth: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) </a><br>
Donald Trump spreads a lot of false information thanks to his
daily consumption of morning cable news. If only we could
sneak some facts into the president's media diet.<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_8494fbf4-f919-11e6-8621-17ddf3e0fa05.html">http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_8494fbf4-f919-11e6-8621-17ddf3e0fa05.html</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a class="l _HId"
href="http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_8494fbf4-f919-11e6-8621-17ddf3e0fa05.html"
onmousedown="return
rwt(this,'','','','32','AFQjCNGraXLY4_szP0K4hkWmtFAfGFfHrA','','0ahUKEwjs6tOSqabSAhUB5WMKHc9EBKg4HhCpAggcKAAwAQ','','',event)">Guest
column: Trump and Putin's dangerous embrace of fossil fuels</a></b></font><br>
<div class="slp"><span class="_tQb _IId">The Advocate</span><span
class="_v5">-</span><span class="f nsa _uQb"></span></div>
<blockquote>
<div class="st">Trump's plans, including coal and more pipelines,
put <em>global warming</em> on steroids. It's threatening
enough that the industrial revolution, powered by fossil fuel
...</div>
Trump's plans, including coal and more pipelines, put global
warming on steroids. It's threatening enough that the industrial
revolution, powered by fossil fuel combustion, spewed far more CO2
into the atmosphere than the Earth could absorb, strengthening the
greenhouse effect, which acts like a blanket, warming the planet
beneath. While still ice-covered, the Arctic Ocean once cooled the
planet by reflecting summer sunlight. As more water becomes
ice-free, the sun heats those areas instead. Warmer water causes
more melting, thus strengthening the warming force, like a runaway
train. Humans amplify this effect by accessing more and more
fossil fuels the more the Arctic melts, thereby putting ever more
greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. ...<br>
It gets worse. Methane, a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2,
belches from melting arctic permafrost and warming oceans — and
from rice fields and cattle — throwing on more blankets. ...<br>
Geopolitical and climate threats are terrifying enough. Combine
them with two ambitious men scorning limits to power, and they're
downright terrifying. What we should be doing for our survival,
but aren't, is strengthening science, government protections of
the environment, a free and independent press, sustainable energy
and its infrastructure; we should also be implementing a carbon
fee to incentivize innovation, and sustainable energy production
that creates far safer jobs — and way more of them — than fossil
fuels.<br>
Meanwhile, Trump and Putin are advocating a planetary fire-sale
(pun intended), using the proceeds to advance vast wealth and
political hegemony for the privileged few. It's high time to
investigate and resist, regardless of one's ideology or politics.
Nature makes no such distinctions, and neither will our kids and
grandkids, agonizing over their stark choices on a deteriorating
planet.</blockquote>
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class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/21/conflicts-of-interest-could-possibly-trump-climate-change-denial/">http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/21/conflicts-of-interest-could-possibly-trump-climate-change-denial/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/21/conflicts-of-interest-could-possibly-trump-climate-change-denial/">Conflicts
of interest could, possibly, trump climate change denial</a></b><br>
<blockquote>As a government executive, Trump wants to move quickly
to roll back regulations that would slow down climate change. He
is preparing executive orders to rewrite regulations on
greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants and end a moratorium on
leasing coal mines on federal lands. He signed legislation last
week that rolled back regulations on how coal mines dispose of
waste. And his new administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, has been at the vanguard of lawsuits
challenging EPA's pollution regulations...<br>
It's fairly obvious that Trump has not considered the
climate-change risk to his real estate holdings in Florida and
elsewhere, even though 13 of his 17 golf resorts and associated
real estate developments and four additional hotels are on or near
the ocean. But perhaps he should. At least his peers are starting
to do so...<br>
Two thirds of real estate developers in South Florida surveyed in
2016 by the Miami Herald were concerned about climate change and
sea-level rise, a 10 percent increase from the 2015 survey despite
an exceptionally weak hurricane season between the two surveys.
And then, after the 2016 survey, the 2016 hurricane season
featured several strong storms that pummeled Central
Florida—including Orlando, where he held a campaign-style rally
over the weekend...<br>
Even though they may be worried about sea-level rise, however,
many developers will not change their business practices until
government regulations compel them to, according to one developer
I spoke with. The real estate industry, he told me, is like any
other sector in that it depends on the government to set up a
level playing field in which they compete...<br>
Trump is, of course, in the rare position of establishing
regulations that impact his businesses. He can certainly push for
weaker rules that allow more flood-prone developments to be built.
And he has already shown an eagerness to weaken regulations that
restrict greenhouse gas emissions...<br>
But what will happen when the 2017 hurricane season hits? And, if
2017 is a dud like 2015—which forecasters are starting to predict
already—what about 2018? Or 2019 or 2020? Can a major hurricane
cause major damage to Mar-a-Lago and then, amidst the resulting
media storm, finally turn on the switch that compels Trump to
protect his real estate holdings?<br>
</blockquote>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://poststar.com/opinion/commentary/u-s-energy-policy-is-virtually-a-love-letter-to/article_96e64abb-1f47-5064-82ff-19bd8ea3c8db.html">http://poststar.com/opinion/commentary/u-s-energy-policy-is-virtually-a-love-letter-to/article_96e64abb-1f47-5064-82ff-19bd8ea3c8db.html</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><i><font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://poststar.com/opinion/commentary/u-s-energy-policy-is-virtually-a-love-letter-to/article_96e64abb-1f47-5064-82ff-19bd8ea3c8db.html">This
Day in Climate History February 24, 2002 </a> - from
D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
</i></font>Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory observes:<br>
<font size="+1"><b>U.S. energy policy is virtually a love letter to
oil interests </b></font><br>
"In George Bush's Texas, for instance, in a program signed into law
by him, 800 megawatts of wind energy have been installed. Low-tech
windmills generate electrical power for some 200,000 homes.
Environmentalists say that there is enough wind and solar energy to
be caught in Kansas and North Dakota to meet the region's electrical
power needs. To hear them talk, you would think that the country
could keep itself warm in winter and cool in summer if we just
accepted the resources lying all around us.<br>
"What they say sounds good, but not to Wall Street and the buddies
of the two oilmen who run the country: the president and the vice
president. That's why the White House doesn't want us to know who
the administration talked to before it fashioned the love letter to
the oil, coal and nuclear interests that it calls an energy policy."<br>
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