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<font size="+1"><i>August 23, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/largest-wildfire-1.4257021">Hundreds
of firefighters battling largest wildfire ever recorded in B.C.</a></b><br>
19 wildfires have merged to create massive fire burning in the
province's Interior<br>
Hundreds of firefighters and dozens of aircraft are working to
contain the largest wildfire ever recorded in British Columbia's
history.<br>
Nineteen wildfires have merged in the province's Interior, creating
a single blaze that's estimated to be more than 467,000 hectares in
size, according to fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek with the
B.C. Wildfire Service.<br>
The massive Plateau fire, which stretches 130 kilometres from one
end to the other, is located on the Chilcotin Plateau, 60 kilometres
west of Quesnel and 60 kilometres northwest of Williams Lake.<br>
Skrepnek says crews are making good progress on the fire, but
because of its size, it's expected to continue burning for some
time.<br>
"Just given the sheer scale of this fire, you know it is going to be
active for some time to come and it's going to be quite some time
before we would be even close to calling it contained or calling it
under control."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/largest-wildfire-1.4257021">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/largest-wildfire-1.4257021</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://globalnews.ca/news/3585284/b-c-wildfires-map-2017-current-location-of-wildfires-around-the-province/">B.C.
remains under a state of emergency as 138 wildfires continue to
burn across the province.</a></b><br>
This season is now B.C.'s worst fire season in history and it is far
from over.<br>
Approximately 4,400 British Columbians remain out of their homes and
about 21,000 remain on evacuation alert.<br>
In addition, the provincial state of emergency has now been extended
until Sept. 1.<br>
The B.C. Wildfire Service has provided a map of where the fires are
located (it may not load in high traffic times so you might need to
be patient).<br>
B.C. wildfires map 2017: Current location of wildfires around the
province<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://emergency-maps.lightship.works/#/map/vHJGzBFIShqqPPRimUmS7Q/details">https://emergency-maps.lightship.works/#/map/vHJGzBFIShqqPPRimUmS7Q/details</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/22/solar-energy-passes-eclipse-test/">Solar
Energy Passes Eclipse Test</a></b><br>
The sun may have gone into eclipse mode Monday but the California
electric grid did not.<br>
Power system officials across the state reported no major
reliability issues, even though solar power took a dramatic dip as
the moon obscured a large portion of the sun Monday morning.<br>
That provided a real challenge for California grid operators, given
that Monday marked the first eclipse seen throughout the contiguous
United States since 1979, when solar power represented just a blip
on the nation's energy landscape.<br>
The California Independent System Operator oversees the operation of
about 80 percent of the state's electric power system, transmission
lines and electricity market and the CAISO control room was ground
zero Monday to see how the power system would react.<br>
As it turned out, no news was good news.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/22/solar-energy-passes-eclipse-test/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/22/solar-energy-passes-eclipse-test/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/climate-change-study-ocean-fish-size/">Climate
Change May Shrink the World's Fish - National Geographic</a></b><br>
A new study suggests warming sea temperatures could result in
smaller fish sizes.<br>
Warming temperatures and loss of oxygen in the sea will shrink
hundreds of fish species - from tunas and groupers to salmon,
thresher sharks, haddock and cod - even more than previously
thought, a new study concludes.<br>
Because warmer seas speed up their metabolisms, fish, squid and
other water-breathing creatures will need to draw more oxyen from
the ocean. At the same time, warming seas are already reducing the
availability of oxygen in many parts of the sea.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/climate-change-study-ocean-fish-size/">http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/climate-change-study-ocean-fish-size/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/22/climate-change-could-shrink-fish-by-30-percent-study.html">Climate
change could shrink fish by as much as 30 percent, new study
claims</a></b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/22/climate-change-could-shrink-fish-by-30-percent-study.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/22/climate-change-could-shrink-fish-by-30-percent-study.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/08/22/dakota-access-trump-greenpeace-racketeering">Trump
Attorney Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access in $300 Million
Racketeering Case</a></b><br>
By Steve Horn Tuesday, August 22, 2017 <br>
Energy Transfer Partners, owner of the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/energy-transfer-partners-bakken-oil-pipeline-through-iowa">Dakota
Access pipeline</a>, has filed a $300 million Racketeer Influenced
and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against Greenpeace and
other environmental groups for their activism against the
long-contested North Dakota-to-Illinois project.<br>
In <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Energy%20Transfer%20v%20GP%20-%20Complaint%20NDakota%2017cv173.pdf">its
187-page complaint</a>, Energy Transfer alleges that "putative
not-for-profits and rogue eco-terrorist groups who employ patterns
of criminal activity and campaigns of misinformation to target
legitimate companies and industries with fabricated environmental
claims and other purported misconduct" caused the company to lose
"billions of dollars." <br>
In the case, Energy Transfer is represented by lawyers from the firm
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, one of the namesakes of which is <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/marc-kasowitz-trump-russia/528147/">Marc
Kasowitz</a>. Kasowitz is a member of the legal team representing
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/donald-trump">President Donald
Trump</a> in the ongoing congressional and special counsel
investigation of his 2016 presidential campaign's alleged ties and
potential collusion with Russian state actors. The <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/energy-transfer-files-federal-lawsuit-against-greenpeace-international-greenpeace-inc-greenpeace-fund-inc-banktrack-and-earth-first-for-violation-of-federal-and-state-racketeering-statutes-300507851.html">press
release announcing the filing </a>of the lawsuit details that
Kasowitz attorney <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.kasowitz.com/professionals/xpqProfDet.aspx?xpST=ProfessionalDetail&professional=22d56dda-130b-4201-a604-f305f6a8de58&op=ceA&ajax=no">Michael
J. Bowe</a> is leading what the firm describes as an ongoing probe
into the environmental groups' "campaign and practices."...<br>
Greenpeace, though, sees the lawsuit as an act of "bullying" and in
the category of "Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation," or
SLAPP.<br>
"This is the second consecutive year Donald Trump's go-to attorneys
at the Kasowitz law firm have filed a meritless lawsuit against
Greenpeace," Greenpeace USA General Counsel Tom Wetterer said in a
press statement. "They are apparently trying to market themselves as
corporate mercenaries willing to abuse the legal system to silence
legitimate advocacy work. This has now become a pattern of
harassment by corporate bullies, with Trump's attorneys leading the
way."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/08/22/dakota-access-trump-greenpeace-racketeering">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/08/22/dakota-access-trump-greenpeace-racketeering</a></font><br>
more: -<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/energy-transfer-files-federal-lawsuit-against-greenpeace-international-greenpeace-inc-greenpeace-fund-inc-banktrack-and-earth-first-for-violation-of-federal-and-state-racketeering-statutes-300507851.html">Energy
Transfer Files Federal Lawsuit Against Greenpeace International,
Greenpeace Inc., Greenpeace Fund, Inc., BankTrack And Earth
First! For Violation Of Federal And State Racketeering Statutes</a></b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/energy-transfer-files-federal-lawsuit-against-greenpeace-international-greenpeace-inc-greenpeace-fund-inc-banktrack-and-earth-first-for-violation-of-federal-and-state-racketeering-statutes-300507851.html">http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/energy-transfer-files-federal-lawsuit-against-greenpeace-international-greenpeace-inc-greenpeace-fund-inc-banktrack-and-earth-first-for-violation-of-federal-and-state-racketeering-statutes-300507851.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.post-gazette.com/news/environment/2017/08/22/michael-mann-climate-change-antropogenic-global-warming-extreme-weather-penn-state-geophysical-research-letters/stories/201708220125">Study:
Earth's temperature record was broken three years in a row, and
you can thank humans for that</a></b><br>
"I think it is fair to say that that there is considerable worry
among scientists.," Mr. Mann said. "[Mr. Trump] has appointed a
dream team of climate change deniers to run his administration and
we have seen an agenda of disenfranchising government climate
scientists, pulling out of international agreements,canceling
government climate reports. It's pretty much a worst case scenario
as a far as executive action on climate change is concerned."<br>
Mr. Mann said that while it's important to note, track and
understand global temperature averages, it's the extreme weather and
conditions that result from those temperature increases that are
most likely to impact humans and the natural world.<br>
"Extremes can take many forms," he said. "In this case, we're
showing that extremes as measured by successive record global
temperatures, are strongly impacted by global warming. But other
types of extremes - extreme weather events like heat waves,
thousand-year floods, extended summer drought, are also becoming
more frequent as a result of climate change."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.post-gazette.com/news/environment/2017/08/22/michael-mann-climate-change-antropogenic-global-warming-extreme-weather-penn-state-geophysical-research-letters/stories/201708220125">http://www.post-gazette.com/news/environment/2017/08/22/michael-mann-climate-change-antropogenic-global-warming-extreme-weather-penn-state-geophysical-research-letters/stories/201708220125</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/22/climate-change-doctors/">Doctors
must respond to changes in the politics of climate change</a></b><br>
We call on medical professionals to redouble their efforts to keep
the health effects of climate change front and center in the
national debate over budgeting priorities...<br>
Public health research is one of the casualties of the recent
partisan policy debates on climate science and the war over
international agreements. Because mortality and morbidity estimates
show dire connections with climate change indicators like heat
waves, episodes of unexpected flash flooding, extreme storm events,
and the like, this retreat from the climate reality is a critical
mistake that will cost this country lives and billions of dollars...<br>
Clinicians can be on the front lines of the resistance by making it
known to their patients and the public that climate change is an
enormous risk to the future of public health. By continuing their
own education on the growing climate-related health risks by keeping
up with current literature and current events and by tracking
climate-related health issues in their own offices, they can educate
themselves and their patients about their personal climate-related
risks and about the even more dangerous, irresponsible, and
politically driven national risks of negative action on climate
change emanating from Washington. Informing patients, one by one, of
the health risks of a changing climate is surely one of the simplest
and most valuable ways that clinicians can take productive action...<br>
The combined medical community can play a pivotal role in opposing
efforts to dismiss or ignore the value of rigorous climate-change
science. Speaking up against climate denial isn't just
scientifically accurate. It is essential for promoting and
protecting the health of all Americans, today and in the future.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/22/climate-change-doctors/">https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/22/climate-change-doctors/</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/truth-or-lies-separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the_us_599c6cf0e4b0ac90f2cbaa21">Truth
or Lies? Separating Fact from Fiction in the Age of Fake News</a></b><br>
In their insightful essay, The World at Our Fingertips, Stuart Pimm
and Jeff Harvey offer a set of basic guidelines to assess what we
hear and read:<br>
- Follow the data. Is the statement supported by evidence or does
the data trail go quickly cold?<br>
- Follow the credentials. Have the authors/speakers done any
research or other work to establish expertise in the subject? Do
they cite peer-reviewed sources?<br>
- Follow the language. Do the authors/speakers substitute personal
attacks and sweeping statements for data and analysis?<br>
Follow the money. Who is paying for that statement; what may they
have to gain by doing so?<br>
It may be comforting to believe human activities are not warming the
planet or that polar bears are not threatened with extinction. But
the evidence shows both claims are false.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/truth-or-lies-separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the_us_599c6cf0e4b0ac90f2cbaa21">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/truth-or-lies-separating-fact-from-fiction-in-the_us_599c6cf0e4b0ac90f2cbaa21</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/one-good-turn/">ORION
Magazine One Good Turn</a></b><br>
by KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE<br>
The morning of October 11, 2016...<br>
It took all the strength they had to crank the heavy wheels on the
valves. But when they had closed the valves on all five pipelines,
the entire flow of crude oil from Canadian tar sands came to a
stop....the entire flow of crude oil from Canadian tar sands came to
a stop.<br>
The shutdown was an act of moral necessity, the Valve Turners
explained. Global warming caused by burning fossil fuels is a
desperate emergency, so shutting the emergency valves was exactly
the right response - an act of sanity in a dangerously surreal
world...<br>
Not only that, it was also a call to conscience against an industry
that has shown itself willing, for the sake of enormous profit, to
take down the natural systems that support life on Earth. Those five
pipelines carry 2.9 million gallons of crude each day. This amounts
to 15 percent of US daily fossil fuel consumption - as it happens,
about the percentage by which fossil fuel use must be reduced each
year in order to prevent runaway climate catastrophe...<br>
The action was "the biggest coordinated move on US energy
infrastructure ever undertaken by environmental protesters," Reuters
News Agency said, an action that "shook the North American energy
industry."...<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://orionmagazine.org/article/one-good-turn/">https://orionmagazine.org/article/one-good-turn/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thediplomat.com/2017/08/climate-change-and-migration-in-pakistan/">Climate
Change and Migration in Pakistan</a></b><br>
Aymen Ijaz is a researcher at a think tank in Islamabad.<br>
Islamabad needs to start working on proper plans to handle the human
impact of climate change.<br>
Climate change is an inexorable and contemporary threat with drastic
impacts on the survival and living patterns of mankind. Pakistan
ranks seventh among the most adversely affected countries by climate
change on the Global Climate Risk Index 2017. Pakistan has suffered
the devastating impacts of natural disasters and climate change in
the recent years, witnessing an earthquake in 2005 and heavy floods
in 2010. Climate change have rapidly increased in Pakistan, causing
and exacerbating disasters, forcing people to flee their homes and
seek shelter elsewhere, thus leading to a climate-induced
migration....<br>
The population near the Indus delta have witnessed large scale
migration due to sea-intrusion, coastal floods and rainfalls.
Climate change is also affecting agriculture and business sectors in
Pakistan's semi-arid regions, resulting in migration of farmers and
others from rural to urban areas. Unfortunately, very little
literature is available on climate-induced migration and
environmental refugees in Pakistan...<br>
Climate change is an inevitable threat and can trigger large-scale
climate-induced migration in environmentally fragile areas in
Pakistan. The government would be wise to formulate relevant
policies and strategies to deal with climate-induced migrants and
environmental refugees. The humanitarian capacity to deal with the
displacement of people must be improved. The socio-economic and
health problems faced by climate refugees and climate-induced
migrants in Pakistan must also be addressed.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thediplomat.com/2017/08/climate-change-and-migration-in-pakistan/">http://thediplomat.com/2017/08/climate-change-and-migration-in-pakistan/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-furthest-apart-on-climate-views-are-often-the-most-educated/">People
Furthest Apart on Climate Views Are Often the Most Educated</a></b><br>
For attitudes on global warming, political identity is a more
important signal than academic acumen or scientific literacy<br>
...researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found that respondents
with the most education and the highest scores on scientific
literacy tests had the most polarized beliefs.<br>
On climate change, the researchers found that political identity was
a more important signal of where respondents stood than their
academic acumen or scientific sophistication.<br>
"For example, there's no political polarization on climate change
with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives
global warming," he wrote in an email. "Similarly, a number of
studies have found that telling people about the 97% scientific
consensus on human-caused global warming has a neutralizing rather
than polarizing effect."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-furthest-apart-on-climate-views-are-often-the-most-educated/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-furthest-apart-on-climate-views-are-often-the-most-educated/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120129225919/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/">This
Day in Climate History August 23, 1971</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
August 23, 1971: Attorney and future Supreme Court Justice Lewis F.
Powell Jr. writes a memo to the US Chamber of Commerce urging a
greater special-interest pushback against public-interest groups.
The memo becomes the template for efforts by the fossil-fuel
industry to generate faux-outrage over, and ginned-up opposition to,
efforts to regulate greenhouse gases.<br>
<blockquote>"One of the bewildering paradoxes of our time is the
extent to which the enterprise system tolerates, if not
participates in, its own destruction.<br>
The campuses from which much of the criticism emanates are
supported by (i) tax funds generated largely from American
business, and (ii) contributions from capital funds controlled or
generated by American business. The boards of trustees of our
universities overwhelmingly are composed of men and women who are
leaders in the system.<br>
Most of the media, including the national TV systems, are owned
and theoretically controlled by corporations which depend upon
profits, and the enterprise system to survive."<br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20120129225919/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/">http://web.archive.org/web/20120129225919/http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/The-Lewis-Powell-Memo/</a>
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