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<font size="+1"><i>March 27, 2017 XL Pipeline OK'ed, New cloud
names, Novel for teens, Local governments </i></font><br>
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style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Climate
change</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for
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255);">How can towns adapt in their decisions about roads and
culverts, dams and watersheds, well protection and other issues in
the face of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: normal;">climate change</b>? A Thursday
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href="http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15049766/undulatus-asperatus-asperitas-cloud-pattern-formation">http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15049766/undulatus-asperatus-asperitas-cloud-pattern-formation</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099" size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/24/15049766/undulatus-asperatus-asperitas-cloud-pattern-formation">Earth<font
color="#000099">'</font>s newest cloud is terrifying</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote> In 2014, I spoke with Gavin Pretor-Pinney, the founder
of The Cloud Appreciation Society, about his quixotic mission: to
get recognition for a new category of cloud called the "undulatus
asperatus." For years, individuals from across the world had been
sending him pictures of the unusual formations, trying to figure
out what they were. But they had no official name.<br>
Yesterday, on World Meteorological Day - nine years after the
classification was first submitted - the World Meteorological
Organization finally recognized Pretor-Pinney's clouds in the
updated version of the International Cloud Atlas, though the name
has been tweaked to "asperitas." They're the first new addition to
the Atlas in over half a century.<br>
Pretor-Pinney described the formations as "localized waves in the
cloud base, either smooth or dappled with smaller features,
sometimes descending into sharp points, as if viewing a roughened
sea surface from below. Varying levels of illumination and
thickness of cloud can lead to dramatic visual effects." Asperitas
clouds tend to be low-lying, and are caused by weather fronts that
create undulating waves in the atmosphere.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz7BgxrVmiQ">Undulatus
Asperatus</a> video 1 minute<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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chief calls historic climate treaty a 'bad deal' because
this is our life now</span></a></h2>
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<blockquote>Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), railed against the Paris Climate Agreement in an
interview with ABC News on Sunday.<br>
The Trump administration has made no secret of its plans to
dismantle the climate policies of former President Barack Obama.<br>
But what Trump officials bring in fervor, they sometimes lack in
understanding.<br>
Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
railed against the Paris Climate Agreement in an interview with
ABC News on Sunday. He called the landmark climate change accord a
"bad deal" that unfairly penalizes the United States, while giving
a free pass to other major polluting countries.<br>
<a
href="http://mashable.com/2017/03/09/pruitt-carbon-dioxide-global-warming-denier/#yPpBd5m0TEq0">SEE
ALSO: EPA chief denies carbon dioxide is main cause of global
warming and... wait, what!?</a><br>
"What was wrong with Paris was ... that China and India, the
largest producers of [carbon dioxide] internationally, got away
scot free. They didn't have to take steps until 2030," Pruitt told
anchor George Stephanopoulos.<br>
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<blockquote>The writer Jeff VanderMeer has described climate change
as a kind of haunting. Drawing upon the philosopher Timothy
Morton's notion of climate change as a sort of hyperobject, a
thing so large as to be ungraspable in its totality.<br>
A couple of weeks ago, my Facebook feed was invaded by spectral
images of the ocean off Tasmania's north-west coast, its waters
lit up by the blue glow of phosphorescent plankton. The images
were beautiful, haunting, but also ominous, because the organism
involved – the dinoflagellate Noctiluca scintillans – has only
reached Tasmania in recent years, borne south by warming waters.<br>
The environmental catastrophe unfolding around us isn't news (the
plankton's appearance coincided with a report that carbon dioxide
levels had just risen at a record rate for the second year
running, despite global efforts to curb emissions). Yet its
uncanny beauty offered a reminder of something that is less often
discussed – the degree to which environmental change destabilises
not just our physical world, but also our psychic world,
dislocating us from the places and rhythms that we know and
rendering the familiar strange, even disturbing...<br>
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<blockquote> To sustain progress in the fight against climate change
and corruption, environmental and anti-corruption movements will
have to work together..<br>
Anti-corruption campaigners achieved a number of crucial victories
in 2016, not least by ensuring accountability for one of Big Oil's
most crooked deals: the acquisition of Nigerian offshore oil block
OPL 245 in 2011 by Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, Italy's largest
corporation. Last December, Nigeria's Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission indicted some of the Nigerians involved, and
Italian prosecutors then concluded their own investigation,
bringing the executives and the companies responsible for the deal
closer to standing trial.<br>
Several months earlier, in June 2016, the US Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) published a rule, under Section 1504 of
the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, requiring oil, gas and mining companies
to disclose all payments made to governments on a
project-by-project basis. If the SEC had issued its rule earlier,
Shell and Eni most likely would not have gone ahead with the OPL
245 deal, because they would have had to disclose their payment.
But opposition from the oil industry delayed the rule, so the
companies were able to conceal their payment.<br>
Anti-corruption campaigners achieved a number of crucial victories
in 2016, not least by ensuring accountability for one of Big Oil's
most crooked deals: the acquisition of Nigerian offshore oil block
OPL 245 in 2011 by Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, Italy ...<br>
Public documents show that the $1.1 billion that Shell and Eni
paid to the Nigerian government for the deal was, in reality,
being paid to Malabu. Both companies knew that this payment
method, through an account created by JP Morgan in London, was in
breach of the Nigerian constitution, and that the funds would end
up in private hands.<br>
Shell, Exxon and most other major oil and gas companies knew
decades ago that their products were fuelling climate change. But
instead of acting on that knowledge, and changing their business
model, they embarked on a massive campaign to deceive the public
and lure policymakers into complacency. Not surprisingly, Shell is
one of 47 major hydrocarbon producers now being investigated by
the Filipino government for its role in contributing to
human-rights violations stemming from climate change.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-presidential-approval-environment-a7647721.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-presidential-approval-environment-a7647721.html</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline-presidential-approval-environment-a7647721.html">Donald
Trump gives presidential approval to Keystone XL oil pipeline</a></b></font><br>
<blockquote>Barack Obama's administration had opposed the project.<br>
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Trump has given a presidential permit to the controversial
Keystone XL pipeline project – a major boost for Canada-based
developer TransCanada.<br>
Environmentalists have objected to the construction of the 875
mile line, which would carry up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day.
It requires presidential approval because the project will cross
the US's northern international border.<br>
White House press secretary Sean Spicer tweeted that Mr Trump, who
claims the pipeline will create many thousands of jobs, would
discuss the pipeline later.<br>
The State Department said it determined that building Keystone
served the US national interest. Under the Obama administration,
the same department reached the opposite conclusion.<br>
It said it had considered foreign policy and energy security in
making the determination<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/climate-change-and-mental-health-qa-lise-van-susteren-md">https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/climate-change-and-mental-health-qa-lise-van-susteren-md</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/climate-change-and-mental-health-qa-lise-van-susteren-md">Climate
Change and Mental Health: Q&A with Lise Van Susteren, MD
Part I</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Global Health NOW is an initiative of the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health. <br>
"it is becoming clear that destructive inaction on climate will
one day be experienced as child abuse."<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/americas-bubble-qa-lise-van-susteren-part-ii">https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/americas-bubble-qa-lise-van-susteren-part-ii</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2017-03/americas-bubble-qa-lise-van-susteren-part-ii">America's
Bubble: Q&A with Lise Van Susteren, Part II</a></b><br>
On messaging, I struggle with people who say don't depress
people—reassure them they can have green grass, blue skies, clear
water. But as Bob Cialdini said, people aren't motivated by what
they stand to gain, but what they stand to lose. We're loss
averse. We need to offer data, but also tell people here's what we
stand to lose—and here's what we can do to prevent that loss.<br>
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<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/next-up-the-peoples-climate-march/">https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/next-up-the-peoples-climate-march/</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://tedglick.com/future-hope-columns/next-up-the-peoples-climate-march/">Ted
Glick - Next Up: the Peoples Climate March</a></b><br>
<blockquote>There are two major reasons why it is so important that
the Peoples Climate March April 29th in DC be a big success.<br>
The main one is the desperate need for a massive showing of
opposition to the Trumpist Republican attacks, on every front,
against virtually all efforts to shift from fossil fuels to
renewables and energy efficiency. Our disrupted and destabilizing
climate needs just the opposite. We need a society-wide
mobilization to make that shift as if we were in great danger from
a powerful enemy, which of course we are.<br>
The enemy isn't human beings using fossil fuels. The enemy is a
big-money dominated political and economic system in which fossil
fuel corporations have great power. Because of that power they
have obstructed for decades efforts to shift to a truly clean
energy economy, something that is totally feasible right now and
will only become more feasible and less expensive with each
passing year. It is also something that is and has been popular
with a large majority of the American people for many years.<br>
The Peoples Climate March doesn't name "the system" as the enemy,
but it is building the effort in a way which moves us forward
toward the kind of alliance we need to succeed in the
transformation of that system into something much more just and
healthy for the earth and all of its life forms.<br>
The PCM calls for: "solutions to the climate crisis rooted in
racial, social and economic justice; clean air, water, land,
healthy communities and a world at peace; stop attacks on
immigrants, communities of color, indigenous and tribal people and
lands and workers; public funds and investments in good paying
jobs [and benefits] that preserve workers' rights, including the
right to unionize; investments in our communities, people and
environment to transition to a new clean and renewable energy
economy that works for all; and protection of our basic rights to
a free press, protest and free speech." <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://peoplesclimate.org/#sign-up">http://peoplesclimate.org/#sign-up</a><br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070422015640/http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/03/27/global-warming-phooey/">http://web.archive.org/web/20070422015640/http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/03/27/global-warming-phooey/</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20998-2004Dec22.html">This
Day in Climate History March 27, 2007</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><font
size="+1"><i><br>
</i></font>
<blockquote><font size="+1"><i> </i></font>In a post on <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070422015640/http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/03/27/global-warming-phooey/">CallingAllWingnuts.com</a>
about a recent confrontation with Competitive Enterprise Institute
honcho Myron Ebell, blogger Mike Stark observes:<br>
"Upon reflection, I really think there are a couple of lessons for
progressives to be found in this five minute exchange.<br>
"First of all, when arguing with somebody that either has no
credibility or is not arguing a credible position, don't donate
the credibility they need to be seen as your equal."<br>
"You see, by calling his credibility into question immediately -
and not letting him up for air - well, I've got no proof, but I
really think that everyone in the room knew that Mr. Ebell had
been bettered. When we ask policy or science questions of these
charlatans, we give the impression that we care what they think.
We don't. We know they are rank liars, we're just wondering if
they'll be able to spin a sufficient answer. But these guys get
millions of dollars a year from the largest corporate titans
precisely because they have the skill to ink up the issue. Why let
them show off?<br>
"Secondly, don't go out of your way to be nice or polite. Hell, I
won't afford these profit-gandists any respect on my blog, why the
hell should I do it face to face? A large part of their
professional career derives from their ability to mock me and the
things I believe in. The Competitive Enterprise Institute once
liked global warming to 'being invaded by space aliens' for
example. By addressing these people with the indignant scorn they
deserve, you project the moral superiority of your position. To
many times it seems that Democratic and progressive pundits are
more interested in being our opponents' friends than we are in
vigorously arguing the issues. In this media environment - when
equal time is given to global warming deniers... well, we just
can't afford the small talk.<br>
"In the end, these guys are not good people. This isn't a case of
principled people disagreeing. At this point in the global warming
debate, the only principled disagreements to be had revolve around
what we should be doing to address the crisis. The Myron Ebells of
the world - the die-hard denialists... well, we need to move them
off the stage by marginalizing them at every opportunity."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070422015640/http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/03/27/global-warming-phooey/">http://web.archive.org/web/20070422015640/http://www.callingallwingnuts.com/2007/03/27/global-warming-phooey/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/global-warming-phooey_b_44407.html</a><br>
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