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<font size="+1"><i>May 29, 2017</i></font><br>
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sig2-DNz0eiqT--PucrG9iA4FCQ did-3982847219000136952"
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/climate-change-global-warming-drawdown-hawken/"
id="MAA4DEgAUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">100 Practical Ways to Reverse<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change (National
Geographic)<br>
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Some cheering news occurred last month: A book about climate change
became a New York Times bestseller in its first week of publication.<br>
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse
Global Warming, edited by environmentalist Paul Hawken, is the first
environmental book to make such a splashy debut since Elizabeth
Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe in 2006.<br>
Kolbert's book warned of cataclysm; Hawken's tries to prevent it.
Bringing together geologists, engineers, agronomists,
climatologists, biologists, botanists, economists, financial
analysts, architects, NGOs, activists, and other experts, Drawdown
offers 100 solutions to reverse global warming.<br>
When National Geographic caught up with Hawken at his home in San
Francisco, he explained why climate change is a gift, not a curse;
why empowering girls and women is the number one solution; and what
role musk ox, reindeer, and wolves have to play.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/climate-change-global-warming-drawdown-hawken/">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/05/climate-change-global-warming-drawdown-hawken/</a></font><br>
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sig2--66CjnkFUkV5nFm0TYJtLg did-6151414347684239702"
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text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Wildfires on the rise due to
drought and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b
style="font-weight: bold;">climate change - (CBS 60
Minutes)<br>
</b></span></a></h2>
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More than 100M Americans live in or near forests and grasslands that
can erupt in flames. Steve Inskeep reports on fighting wildfires,
which cost federal agencies almost $2B last year<br>
"Fires in a lot of those forests are burning differently than they
did before. There are really two reasons for that. One is climate
change. We're seeing weather patterns and extreme weather events,
drought and other things that are causing those fires to burn
differently."<br>
Fighting wildfires in America cost federal agencies almost $2
billion last year including more than half the budget of the U.S.
Forest Service. Wildland fires are growing worse in a time of
drought and climate change, and the biggest and most destructive
fires can't be stopped. They are a force of nature: imagine trying
to stop a hurricane. Yet the government has to try, because more
than a 100 million Americans now live in -- or near -- forests and
grasslands that can erupt in flames....<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-on-the-rise-due-to-drought-and-climate-change/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wildfires-on-the-rise-due-to-drought-and-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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sig2-RAvR7dWaI3XjKioPivrsFA did-5530670262062449545"
href="http://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-says-trump-must-sign-paris-deal-climate-change-616951"
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text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Graham Says Calling <b
style="font-weight: bold;">Climate Change</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>'Hoax' Bad for GOP,
Thinks Trump Should Sign Paris Deal</span></a></h2>
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(Newsweek) Republican senator Lindsey Graham has questioned Donald
Trump's views on climate change being a hoax, and suggested the
president should commit to the Paris climate deal.<br>
The senator said during an interview with CNN's State of the Union
on Sunday that it would be an issue for the U.S. if Trump did not
reaffirm the country's previous commitment to the accord, made under
former president Barack Obama in 2015.<br>
"If he does withdraw, that would be a definitive statement from the
president that he believes climate change is a hoax," Graham said in
the interview, referring to a comment made by Trump in 2012.<br>
Graham added a refusal by Trump to commit to the Paris climate deal
would suggest he had not moved past his previous assertion that
climate change was a hoax.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-says-trump-must-sign-paris-deal-climate-change-616951">http://www.newsweek.com/republican-senator-says-trump-must-sign-paris-deal-climate-change-616951</a></font><br>
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sig2-08M3MufWH5u04Ul225RtEA did-6125122239603546366"
href="https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/05/how-familiar-will-your-climate-be-in-a-few-decades/"
id="MAA4BUgEUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">Calculating when your climate
will start to seem weird</span></a></font></h2>
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One way to think about climate change, as explored in a new study
led by Victoria University of Wellington's Dave Frame, is that
temperature patterns eventually move out of the range you're
accustomed to. Weather and climate are naturally variable, but if
the climate shifts, unusual conditions can become the new normal.
The "unusual" end of the spectrum gets replaced with more extreme
conditions than before.<br>
Notably, slicing up the analysis into different groups of countries
- small island nations, southeast Asian nations, and the least and
most economically developed countries - highlights the fact that the
effects of climate change are not equally distributed. Many poorer
and more vulnerable nations would see the greatest shifts in climate
familiarity. Emissions cuts that slow climate change would have the
most noticeable (by this measure) stabilizing effect in these areas.<br>
The researchers write, "Our analysis shows that near-term mitigation
initiatives can prevent many climates from becoming radically
different from those experienced in the recent past, that such
effects happen well within a human lifetime, and that this is
especially true for those whose communities would otherwise change
fastest. In other words, many of the long-term benefits of
mitigation can be internalized by many people alive today."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/05/how-familiar-will-your-climate-be-in-a-few-decades/">https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/05/how-familiar-will-your-climate-be-in-a-few-decades/</a><br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3297.html">Population-based
emergence of unfamiliar climates</a></b></font><br>
Time of emergence, which characterizes when significant signals of
climate change will emerge from existing variability, is a useful
and increasingly common metric1, 2, 3. However, a more useful metric
for understanding future climate change in the context of past
experience may be the ratio of climate signal to noise (S/N) - a
measure of the amplitude of change expressed in terms of units of
existing variability3. Here, we present S/N projections in the
context of emergent climates (termed 'unusual', 'unfamiliar' and
'unknown' by reference to an individual's lifetime), highlighting
sensitivity to future emissions scenarios and geographical and human
groupings. We show how for large sections of the world's population,
and for several geopolitical international groupings, mitigation can
delay the onset of 'unknown' or 'unfamiliar' climates by decades,
and perhaps even beyond 2100. Our results demonstrate that the
benefits of mitigation accumulate over several decades, a key metric
of which is reducing S/N, or keeping climate as familiar as
possible. A relationship is also identified between cumulative
emissions and patterns of emergent climate signals. Timely
mitigation will therefore provide the greatest benefits to those
facing the earliest impacts, many of whom are alive now.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3297.html">https://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nclimate3297.html</a><br>
Nature Climate Change, 2017. DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE3297 </font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLmCbBVq0xM">(video
lectures) CARTA: Human-Climate Interactions and Evolution:
Past and Future</a></b></font><br>
(Visit: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.uctv.tv">http://www.uctv.tv</a>)
This symposium presents varied perspectives from earth scientists,
ecologists, and paleoanthropologists on how climate may have shaped
human evolution, as well as the prospects for the future of world
climate, ecosystems, and our species with Peter deMenocal on African
Climate Change and Human Evolution, followed by Jean-Jacques Hublin
on The Climatic Framework of Neandertal Evolution, and Rick Potts on
Climate Instability and the Evolution of Human Adaptability.
Recorded on 05/15/2015. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic
Research and Training <br>
in Anthropogeny" [7/2015] [Science] [Show ID: 29683]<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLmCbBVq0xM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLmCbBVq0xM</a><br>
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</b><b><a
href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/">LEAKED
DOCUMENTS REVEAL COUNTER-TERRORISM TACTICS USED AT STANDING
ROCK TO "DEFEAT PIPELINE INSURGENCIES"</a></b><br>
</font><font size="-1">A SHADOWY INTERNATIONAL mercenary and
security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to
the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism
measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five
states, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept.
The documents provide the first detailed picture of how TigerSwan,
which originated as a U.S. military and State Department
contractor helping to execute the global war on terror, worked at
the behest of its client Energy Transfer Partners, the company
building the Dakota Access Pipeline, to respond to the
indigenous-led movement that sought to stop the project.<br>
"More than 100 internal documents leaked to The Intercept by a
TigerSwan contractor, as well as a set of over 1,000 documents
obtained via public records requests, reveal that TigerSwan
spearheaded a multifaceted private security operation
characterized by sweeping and invasive surveillance of protesters"<br>
As policing continues to be militarized and state legislatures
around the country pass laws criminalizing protest, the fact that
a private security firm retained by a Fortune 500 oil and gas
company coordinated its efforts with local, state, and federal law
enforcement to undermine the protest movement has profoundly
anti-democratic implications. The leaked materials not only
highlight TigerSwan's militaristic approach to protecting its
client's interests but also the company's profit-driven imperative
to portray the nonviolent water protector movement as
unpredictable and menacing enough to justify the continued need
for extraordinary security measures. Energy Transfer Partners has
continued to retain TigerSwan long after most of the anti-pipeline
campers left North Dakota, and the most recent TigerSwan reports
emphasize the threat of growing activism around other pipeline
projects across the country....<br>
In one report, TigerSwan discusses meeting with investigators
from North Dakota's Attorney General's Office....<br>
Perhaps one of the most striking revelations of the documents is
the level of hostility displayed by TigerSwan toward the water
protectors. TigerSwan consistently describes the peaceful
demonstrators using military and tactical language more
appropriate for counterterrorism operations in an armed conflict
zone. At times, the military language verges on parody, as when
agents write of protesters "stockpiling signs" or when they
discuss the "caliber" of paintball pellets. More often, however,
the way TigerSwan discusses protesters as "terrorists," their
direct actions as "attacks," and the camps as a "battlefield,"
reveals how the protesters' dissent was not only criminalized but
treated as a national security threat. A March 1 report states
that protesters' "operational weakness allows TS elements to
further develop and dictate the battlespace."..<br>
In one internal report dated May 4, a TigerSwan operative
describes an effort to amass digital and ground intelligence that
would allow the company to "find, fix, and eliminate" threats to
the pipeline - an eerie echo of "find, fix, finish," a military
term used by special forces in the U.S. government's assassination
campaign against terrorist targets...<br>
TigerSwan agents also regularly tracked individuals' movements
across state lines...<br>
On numerous occasions, TigerSwan agents stressed the need to
change the public narrative established by protestors and to swing
public support in favor of the pipeline. As accounts of protest
repression garnered nationwide support for the NoDAPL movement,
the firm's agents painstakingly collected and analyzed media
coverage, warning their client about how certain incidents might
be received by the public...<br>
In recent weeks, the company's role has expanded to include the
surveillance of activist networks marginally related to the
pipeline, with TigerSwan agents monitoring "anti-Trump" protests
from Chicago to Washington, D.C., as well as warning its client of
growing dissent around other pipelines across the country.<br>
In a March 24 report discussing the likely revival of protests as
summer approaches, TigerSwan writes, "Much like Afghanistan and
Iraq, the 'Fighting Season' will soon be here with the coming
warming temperatures."<br>
North Dakota's Attorney General's Office declined to comment.</font><br>
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href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/">https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/leaked-documents-reveal-security-firms-counterterrorism-tactics-at-standing-rock-to-defeat-pipeline-insurgencies/</a></font><font
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sig2-ir6x1_9Ni7nxpRfTpz9hVA did--6815503162949418698"
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id="MAA4DEgFUABgAWoCdXM" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: none;"><span class="titletext"
style="font-weight: bold;">From Body-Language to<b
style="font-weight: bold;"> Climate Change</b>, Europe
Left Uneasy by Trump</span></a></h2>
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European officials say the transatlantic allies are no more united
now than they were before Trump came and that they now are convinced
Europe will have to go it alone more - something they expected
would be the case after Trump was elected.<br>
For them, Washington is no longer the dependable ally. And that
broadly has been the view of Europe's press. Headlines all week have
been providing a counterpoint to the White House version of
meetings. Belgium's Le Soir headlined one front-page story: "Trump
shoves his allies."<br>
European newspapers have now taken to dubbing the G-7 as "G-6 plus
one" - a characterization prompted partly by German Chancellor
Angela Merkel's remarks on the summit deadlock over climate change.<br>
"The whole discussion on the topic of climate was very difficult,
not to say very unsatisfactory," Merkel said as the summit of the
leaders of the world's most economically advanced nations was
drawing to a close. "Here we have a situation of six against one,
meaning there is still no sign of whether the U.S. will remain in
the Paris accord or not," she added.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/from-body-language-to-climate-change-europe-left-uneasy-by-trump/">https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/from-body-language-to-climate-change-europe-left-uneasy-by-trump/</a>
</font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb-uKbJ9gDE"
moz-do-not-send="true">This Day in Climate History May 29,
2007 </a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<font size="+1">On MSNBC's "Countdown," Al Gore observes:<br>
"...[F]or all of its excesses and bad features, the Internet does
invite a robust multi-way conversation that I think is already
beginning to serve as a corrective for some of the abuses of the
mass media persuasion campaigns that brought us the invasion of
Iraq and the ignoring of the climate crisis and the other serious
mistakes that we‘ve been making over the last few years."<br>
(4:44-5:15)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb-uKbJ9gDE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb-uKbJ9gDE</a> (Part 1)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/5doTtYGviPw">http://youtu.be/5doTtYGviPw</a> (Part 2)<br>
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