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<font size="+1"><i>July 11, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/franken-climate-deniers-quack-doctors/">(video)
Al Franken Says Climate Deniers Are Like Quack Doctors</a></b><br>
#EndorseThis: Now that Senator Al Franken (D-MN) has decided that
it's safe to be funny again, he's back with a vengeance. He's
published a new book that's hilarious -- and he's making a series of
videos on climate change. In the kickoff, he offers an insulting
analogy between quack doctors and climate-denialists, both of whom
would tell a very sick patient what he wants to hear instead of what
he needs to hear.<br>
With a weird David Letterman cameo as a bonus. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/franken-climate-deniers-quack-doctors/">http://www.nationalmemo.com/franken-climate-deniers-quack-doctors/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jul/10/conservatives-are-again-denying-the-very-existence-of-global-warming">Conservatives
are again denying the very existence of global warming</a></b><br>
The best efforts to undermine the established climate science behind
the Endangerment Finding are pathetically bad<br>
As we well know, climate myths are like zombies that never seem to
die. It's only a matter of time before they rise from the dead and
threaten to eat our brains. And so here we go again - American
conservatives are denying the very existence of global warming.<br>
Working backwards from a politically-motivated conclusion<br>
The claim is based on what can charitably be described as a white
paper, written by fossil fuel-funded contrarians Joseph D'Aleo and
Craig Idso along with James Wallace III. Two months ago, D'Aleo and
Wallace published another error-riddled white paper on the same
website with fellow contrarian John Christy; both papers aimed to
undermine the EPA's Endangerment Finding.<br>
The Endangerment Finding concluded that the scientific research
clearly shows that carbon pollution endangers public health and
welfare via climate change impacts, and therefore according to the
US Supreme Court, the EPA must regulate carbon pollution under the
Clean Air Act. Conservatives who benefit from the fossil fuel status
quo and oppose all climate policies have urged the Trump
administration to go after the Endangerment Finding.<br>
Both papers are rife with flaws because they start from a desired
conclusion - that the science underpinning Endangerment Finding is
somehow wrong - and work backwards trying to support it. In this
paper, the contrarians try to undermine the accuracy of the global
surface temperature record, which has been validated time and time
again. They don't bother trying to hide their bias - the paper
refers to "Climate Alarmists" and speaks of invalidating the
Endangerment Finding....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jul/10/conservatives-are-again-denying-the-very-existence-of-global-warming">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jul/10/conservatives-are-again-denying-the-very-existence-of-global-warming</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/07/09/watch-the-solution-for-reversing-global-warming-is-educating-girls-and-family-planning/">WATCH:
The solution for reversing global warming is educating girls ...</a></b><br>
Project Drawdown examines 100 solutions to reverse global warming by
2050<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/07/09/watch-the-solution-for-reversing-global-warming-is-educating-girls-and-family-planning/">http://www.salon.com/2017/07/09/watch-the-solution-for-reversing-global-warming-is-educating-girls-and-family-planning/</a><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link">Just
100 companies responsible for 71% of global emissions, study
says</a></b><br>
A relatively small number of fossil fuel producers and their
investors could hold the key to tackling climate change<br>
Just<b> 100 companies have been the source of more than 70% of the
world's greenhouse gas emissions since 1988</b>, according to a
new report.<br>
The <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://b8f65cb373b1b7b15feb-c70d8ead6ced550b4d987d7c03fcdd1d.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/cms/reports/documents/000/002/327/original/Carbon-Majors-Report-2017.pdf?1499691240">Carbon
Majors Report (pdf) </a>"pinpoints how a relatively small set of
fossil fuel producers may hold the key to systemic change on carbon
emissions," says Pedro Faria, technical director at environmental
non-profit CDP, which published the report in collaboration with the
Climate Accountability Institute.<br>
Traditionally, large scale greenhouse gas emissions data is
collected at a national level but this report focuses on fossil fuel
producers. Compiled from a database of publicly available emissions
figures, it is intended as the first in a series of publications to
highlight the role companies and their investors could play in
tackling climate change.<br>
The report found that more than half of global industrial emissions
since 1988 - the year the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
was established - can be traced to just 25 corporate and state-owned
entities. The scale of historical emissions associated with these
fossil fuel producers is large enough to have contributed
significantly to climate change, according to the report.<br>
ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and Chevron are identified as among the
highest emitting investor-owned companies since 1988. ..<br>
A <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.carbontracker.org/report/stranded-assets-danger-zone/">Carbon
Tracker study</a> in 2015 found that fossil fuel companies risked
wasting more than $2tn over the coming decade by pursuing coal, oil
and gas projects that could be worthless in the face of
international action on climate change and advances in renewables -
in turn posing substantial threats to investor returns....<br>
But for many the sums involved and pace of change are nowhere near
enough. A research paper published last year by Paul Stevens, an
academic at think tank Chatham House, said international oil
companies were no longer fit for purpose and warned these
multinationals that they faced a <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/05/oil-firms-environment-energy-climate-change">"nasty,
brutish and short</a>" end within the next 10 years if they did
not completely change their business models.<br>
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href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link">https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change?CMP=share_btn_link</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/10/ny-magazine-publishes-7000-words-on-how-a-global-warming-apocalypse-may-come-sooner-than-you-think/">NY
Magazine Publishes 7000 Words On How A Global Warming Apocalypse
May Come 'Sooner Than You Think'</a><br>
"It is, I promise, worse than you think," New York Magazine writer
David Wallace-Wells began his more than 7,000-word article on how
global warming could make Earth "uninhabitable," possibly by "the
end of this century."<br>
"If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of
sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what
terrors are possible, even within the lifetime of a teenager today,"
Wallace-Wells wrote in his doomsday essay.<br>
"Indeed, absent a significant adjustment to how billions of humans
conduct their lives, parts of the Earth will likely become close to
uninhabitable, and other parts horrifically inhospitable, as soon as
the end of this century," Wallace-Wells wrote.<br>
Wallace-Wells punctuates the urgency of his apocalyptic warning by
giving sections of his essay titles, like "Doomsday," "Heat Death,"
"Climate Plagues," "Permanent Economic Collapse" and "Poisoned
Oceans."<br>
Of course, Wallace-Wells says this catastrophe can be mitigated by a
societal overhaul away from current consumption patterns, namely
ditching fossil fuels that make up 80 percent of world energy
consumption.<br>
Some climate scientists are optimistic this will happen, the essay
argues. Wallace-Wells says "climate scientists have a strange kind
of faith: We will find a way to forestall radical warming, they say,
because we must."<br>
Wallace-Wells's piece is just the latest in a recent string of dire
predictions on global warming.<br>
Former United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres co-authored
an article in late June calling for governments and businesses need
to pony up $1.3 trillion a year by 2020 for "climate action."<br>
Figueres and her co-authors warned that humanity only had three
years left to stave off dangerous global warming.<br>
A few days later, famed physicist Stephen Hawking told BBC News
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the
Paris climate accord could doom civilization.<br>
"We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes
irreversible. Trump's action could push the Earth over the brink, to
become like Venus, with a temperature of two hundred and fifty
degrees, and raining sulphuric acid," Hawking said.<br>
Climate scientists pushed back against Hawking's claims that Earth
would become like Venus, but United Nations officials used it to
push their case for keeping the Paris climate accord.<font size="-1"
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/10/ny-magazine-publishes-7000-words-on-how-a-global-warming-apocalypse-may-come-sooner-than-you-think/">http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/10/ny-magazine-publishes-7000-words-on-how-a-global-warming-apocalypse-may-come-sooner-than-you-think/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html">(video) A
call to Life: Variation on a theme of Extinction </a></b><br>
Written and performed by Kathleen Dean Moore and Rachelle McCabe<br>
A powerful call to action on global warming and mass extinction, "A
Call to Life" is a collaboration between concert pianist, Rachelle
McCabe, and writer/philosopher, Kathleen Dean Moore. Harnessing a
formidable piece of music to address formidable global issues,
McCabe performs Sergei Rachmaninoff's "Variations on a Theme from
Corelli," giving voice to humanity's grief and ferocious hope. Moore
weaves words between the variations, creating a work of art that
opens people's hearts without breaking them. <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.riverwalking.com/images/call-to-life/Discussion%20Guide%20for%20A%20Call%20to%20Life.pdf">
Discussion Guide</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html">http://www.riverwalking.com/a-call-to-life.html</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://bit.ly/2sIfko9">http://bit.ly/2sIfko9</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-224_1_global-warming-issue">This
Day in Climate History July 11, 1990</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
<blockquote> <font size="+1">J</font>uly 11, 1990: The Los Angeles
Times observes that President George H. W. Bush seems to have
dissociative identity disorder when it comes to climate:<br>
"The tension is often explained as a dispute between Bush's
strong-willed chief of staff, John H. Sununu, who is deeply
suspicious of environmentalists, and his Environmental Protection
Agency chief, William K. Reilly.<br>
"That explanation, however, is an inaccurate characterization,
Administration officials say. Although Reilly has advocated a
stronger environmental policy, he has neither the clout nor the
access to Bush to challenge Sununu, the officials say. In fact,
Reilly has been conspicuous by his absence from the economic
summit, virtually the only senior Administration official with an
interest in the summit issues whom Bush left in Washington.<br>
"Instead, the disputes within the Administration reflect Bush's
own ambivalence about the issues. Throughout his Administration,
he has been pulled in opposite directions on the environment,
tugged between his desire to placate environmentally-conscious
voters on the one side and his instinct to protect business people
from government regulation on the other."<br>
The Times also notes:<br>
"Bush's top aides are unanimous in believing that the scientific
evidence is shaky on all aspects of global warming--the problem's
dimensions, its potential effects and its causes."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-224_1_global-warming-issue">http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-11/news/mn-224_1_global-warming-issue</a></font><br>
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