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<font size="+1"><i>April 2, 2017 Chilean calamity, Climate
history, Russia and Exxon pacts</i></font><br>
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<font color="#999999" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/a-message-from-the-end-of-the-world.html?_r=0">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/a-message-from-the-end-of-the-world.html?_r=0</a></font><br>
<font color="#000099"><b><a
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/opinion/a-message-from-the-end-of-the-world.html?_r=0">(NYTimes
opinion) A Message From the End of the World</a></b></font><br>
SANTIAGO, Chile - by ARIEL DORFMAN <br>
<blockquote> Here in Chile, in the far south of the Southern
Hemisphere, it has been the summer of our discontent. Never have
so many natural catastrophes in a row hit this country at the end
of the world. For once, it is not the earthquakes that have
assailed us since time immemorial or the tsunamis that often
follow, devastating land and coast, mountainscapes and ocean. This
time, our unprecedented woes have all been man-made.<br>
It is hardly strange, therefore, that Chile does not close its
eyes to what is happening to our water, forests and coastline.
Everyone here - and I mean everyone, from extreme right to extreme
left - understands that in this land, whose name comes from the
Aymara language for the place where the earth ends, we are
witnessing a cataclysm of epic proportions that presages another
sort of end, the end of the world as we know it. And so we all are
conscious that something just as epic must be done to change
course before it is too late....<br>
We also understand, of course, that such a change depends on what
other international actors do elsewhere.<br>
What is truly intolerable, what enrages and saddens me - as the
fires rage in the forests and the rain falls when and where it
should not and the rivers are choked with mudslides and the fish
disappear from the ocean and the Antarctic breaks up - is what is
transpiring simultaneously in the remote United States. Precisely
at this dire moment in Chile's natural history, precisely now I am
forced to watch how the government of the powerful country that my
wife and I have adopted as our home is gutting the very
environmental policies that, even if insufficient, were at least
steps in the right direction.<br>
As we get ready to return to the United States, our friends and
relatives ask, over and over, can it be true? Can President Trump
be beset with such suicidal stupidity as to deny climate change
and install an enemy of the earth as his environmental czar? Can
he be so beholden to the blind greed of the mineral extraction
industry, so ignorant of science, so monumentally arrogant, not to
realize that he is inviting apocalypse? Can it be, they ask.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/06/11/environment/waves-dead-sea-creatures-hit-chile-beaches/#.WN_g9FXsJph">http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/06/11/environment/waves-dead-sea-creatures-hit-chile-beaches/#.WN_g9FXsJph</a><br>
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</font><font color="#666666" size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.voanews.com/a/chile-climate-change-defense/3788381.html">https://www.voanews.com/a/chile-climate-change-defense/3788381.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://www.voanews.com/a/chile-climate-change-defense/3788381.html">Chile
to Shore Up Capital's Climate-Change Defenses</a></b><br>
Voice of America-Mar 29, 2017<br>
<blockquote>Reducing inequality, securing water supplies and
strengthening disaster prevention is crucial to bolster Chile's
quake-prone capital against climate change and ...<br>
Reducing inequality, securing water supplies and strengthening
disaster prevention is crucial to bolster Chile's quake-prone
capital against climate change and other hazards, Santiago's
authorities said...<br>
In a new strategy to make the city more resilient, they laid out
plans this week to cut congestion and air pollution, improve
public transport and build more parks in low-income areas...<br>
But better governance is essential to the strategy, said Claudio
Orrego, governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, which has 34
municipal districts and mayors...<br>
"Santiago is a city of disasters - we have had in the last year
the worst fires ever, we had two floods in the city [and] two
important water supply cuts," said Orrego by telephone from
Santiago, which is home to more than 6.1 million people.<br>
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</font><a
href="http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/03/30/climate-change-managed-retreat"><font
color="#666666" size="-1">http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/03/30/climate-change-managed-retreat</font><br>
<b>Climate Change Threats, Managed Retreats</b></a><b> </b> 47:55<br>
March 30, 2017Share<br>
<blockquote> As President Trump dismantles climate change
protections, some coastal communities are now planning a "managed
retreat" from sea rise. We'll look at what that means.<br>
American efforts to help stall climate change, thrown into reverse
this week as President Trump went to the EPA to announce a new way
ahead. Communities on the front lines of climate change are
watching. On the coasts, with sea level rise already an issue,
some are now talking about "managed retreat." An orderly surrender
to rising oceans. A new study looks at how that works. This hour
On Point, if we don't stop the change, the realities of "managed
retreat" from the sea. - Tom Ashbrook<br>
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<font color="#999999" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW08t9fwmbI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW08t9fwmbI</a></font><br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW08t9fwmbI">(YouTube)
Glacier Change & Sea Level Rise: Dr Alex Gardner (February
2017)</a></b><br>
<blockquote>JPL-NASA - Lecture and slides of fundamental and current
climate science.<br>
Our group develops and uses the remotely sensed data products
and measurements for sea level change analysis as well as Earth
system models for ocean and ice...<br>
How fast is sea level rising and how large are the different
contributions (ocean heat vs. water mass flux)?<br>
What are the processes forcing the regional distribution of sea
level change and water mass contributions from land hydrology and
melting ice?<br>
How do the ocean and ice sheets interact to drive sea level
change?</blockquote>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/04/uw-professor-information-war-is-real.html">http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/04/uw-professor-information-war-is-real.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2017/04/uw-professor-information-war-is-real.html">UW
professor: The information war is real, and we're losing it</a></b><br>
<blockquote>It started with the Boston marathon bombing, four years
ago. University of Washington professor Kate Starbird was sifting
through thousands of tweets sent in the aftermath and noticed
something strange.<br>
Too strange for a university professor to take seriously.<br>
"There was a significant volume of social-media traffic that
blamed the Navy SEALs for the bombing," Starbird told me the other
day in her office. "It was real tinfoil-hat stuff. So we ignored
it."<br>
"After every mass shooting, dozens of them, there would be these
strange clusters of activity," Starbird says. "It was so fringe we
kind of laughed at it.<br>
"That was a terrible mistake. We should have been studying it."<br>
Starbird is in the field of "crisis informatics," or how
information flows after a disaster. She got into it to see how
social media might be used for the public good, such as to aid
emergency responders.<br>
Instead she's gone down a dark rabbit hole, one that wends through
the back warrens of the web and all the way up to the White House.<br>
Starbird argues in a new paper, set to be presented at a
computational social-science conference in May, that these
"strange clusters" of wild conspiracy talk, when mapped, point to
an emerging alternative media ecosystem on the web of surprising
power and reach.<br>
It features sites such as Infowars.com, hosted by informal
President Donald Trump adviser Alex Jones, which has pushed a
range of conspiracies, including that the Sandy Hook school
shooting was a staged fake...<br>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Alt_Narratives_ICWSM17-CameraReady.pdf">http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Alt_Narratives_ICWSM17-CameraReady.pdf</a></font><b><br>
<a
href="http://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Alt_Narratives_ICWSM17-CameraReady.pdf">Examining
the Alternative Media Ecosystem through the Production of
Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter</a><br>
</b>
<blockquote><font size="-1">ABSTRACT: This research explores the
alternative media ecosystem through a Twitter lens. Over a
ten-month period, we collected tweets related to alternative
narratives-e.g. conspiracy theories-of mass shooting events. We
utilized tweeted URLs to generate a domain network, connecting
domains shared by the same user, then conducted qualitative
analysis to understand the nature of different domains and how
they connect to each other. Our findings demonstrate how
alternative news sites propagate and shape alternative
narratives, while mainstream media deny them. We explain how
political leanings of alternative news sites do not align well
with a U.S. left-right spectrum, but instead feature an
antiglobalist (vs. globalist) orientation where U.S. Alt-Right
sites look similar to U.S. Alt-Left sites. Our findings describe
a subsection of the emerging alternative media ecosystem and
provide insight in how websites that promote conspiracy theories
and pseudo-science may function to conduct underlying political
agendas.</font></blockquote>
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<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://skepticalscience.com/scientists-understood-climate-150-yr-ago-better-than-pruitt.html">https://skepticalscience.com/scientists-understood-climate-150-yr-ago-better-than-pruitt.html</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="https://skepticalscience.com/scientists-understood-climate-150-yr-ago-better-than-pruitt.html">Scientists
understood the climate 150 years ago better than the EPA head
today</a></b><br>
<blockquote>Posted on 31 March 2017 by John Abraham<br>
The current head of the US Environmental Protection Agency Scott
Pruitt does not believe or understand long-known principles of
climate science and basic physics. Recently he claimed on CNBC
that carbon dioxide is not a primary contributor to global
warming:<br>
I think that measuring with precision human activity on the
climate is something very challenging to do, and there's
tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So, no, I
would not agree that's a primary contributor to the global warming
that we see. But we don't know that yet. We need to continue the
debate and continue the review and the analysis...<br>
There are two undeniable ironies in this statement. First, taken
at face value it would suggest that we actually need to do more
analysis – but the current administration is proposing draconian
cuts in our climate science research budget. They are doing just
the opposite of what he recommends...<br>
The second irony is that scientists have known about the
importance of carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas for well over 100
years. There is no debate among any reputable scientists that
carbon dioxide is the most important human emitted greenhouse gas.
Furthermore, humans have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in
the atmosphere by 43%. These are facts....<br>
Arrhenius also noted that humans were increasing the amount of
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. One significant part of his work
is that he was able to make predictions without the use of
high-power supercomputers. In fact, there are many ways to make
climate predictions – using techniques like those from the 1800s,
using the history of temperature changes of the Earth to predict
the future, using computer climate models, and others. It is a
fallacy to say that our current predictions rely totally upon
computer models. Of course, during his age, the rate of increase
of carbon dioxide was very very slow. Shockingly, Arrhenius knew
more about climate change than does the current head of the EPA.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.dailyimpact.net/2017/03/31/lets-watch-50-minutes">http://www.dailyimpact.net/2017/03/31/lets-watch-50-minutes</a><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.dailyimpact.net/2017/03/31/lets-watch-50-minutes">(audio+text)
Let's Watch 50 Minutes</a></b><br>
Posted: 31 Mar 2017 07:20 AM PDT<br>
On their evening and Sunday news programs during 2016, the four
major American television networks devoted 50 minutes of their
airtime to covering climate change. No, that's not 50 minutes a
week, or each, it's all of them combined for the whole year. 50
minutes (according to a study by … <br>
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<font color="#999999" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com/exxon_mobil_rosneft_russia_partnership_video">http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com/exxon_mobil_rosneft_russia_partnership_video</a></font><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com/exxon_mobil_rosneft_russia_partnership_video">Exxon
Mobil - Rosneft - Russia Strategic Partnership [2012 lost
VIDEO recovered]</a></b></font><br>
<div id="AppleMailSignature"><a
href="http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com/exxon_mobil_rosneft_russia_partnership_video">http://climateinvestigations.nationbuilder.com</a><br>
Does Exxon have a "strategic partnership" with the United States?<br>
Not according to Exxon. They have no political allegiance to
their home country...<br>
But they do have one with Russia, at least according to Rosneft, a
company 70 percent owned by the Russian government.<br>
The slick promotional voice-over narrative is bold, unapologetic,
unguarded, lacking the PR greenwash we are used to in the United
States. ..<br>
Give it a look and let us know what you think.<br>
e<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120503222549/http://rosneft.com/news/video/exmvideo/">http://web.archive.org/web/20120503222549/http://rosneft.com/news/video/exmvideo/</a>
4Min</font><br>
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<a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120503222549/http://rosneft.com/news/video/exmvideo/">*(lost
video- taken down)unvarnished Russian PR, zero green washing, zero
spin, straight up domination.</a> It was taken down on Rosneft's
site so mine links to WayBackMachine now.<br>
<br>
<font color="#666666" size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY">http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY</a><br>
</font><font size="+1"><b><a href="http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY">This
Day in Climate History April 2, 2007 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
The US Supreme Court rules 5-4 in Massachusetts v. EPA that the EPA
has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant. <br>
(Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, 549 U.S. 497
(2007),[1] is a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court case in which twelve states
and several cities of the United States brought suit against the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force that federal agency
to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) as
pollutants.)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY">http://youtu.be/6NcSOUJUBfY</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/car-emissions-to-be-reviewed/">http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/car-emissions-to-be-reviewed/</a><br>
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