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<font size="+1"><i>August 29, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsIVxY6YoCw">(video) ABC
News Greater Houston remains paralyzed as Harvey rages</a></b><br>
ABC News Published on Aug 28, 2017<br>
Neighbors and strangers are pitching in to help rescue those still
stranded and trapped due to the storm's torrential rain.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsIVxY6YoCw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsIVxY6YoCw</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/biXHG4RLn8s"><b>(video)
As Catastrophic Flooding Hits Houston, Fears Grow of Pollution
from Oil Refineries & Superfund Sites</b></a><b><br>
</b><font size="-1">A catastrophic storm has hit Houston, the
nation's fourth-largest city and home to the largest refining and
petrochemical complex in the United States. The crisis began on
Friday when Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Rockport, Texas. It
was the most powerful hurricane to strike the state in more than
50 years. Much of the damage has been caused by the massive
rainfall, with parts of Texas already receiving 30 inches of rain.
That could top 50 inches in the coming days. Entire highways in
Houston are now underwater. The storm has caused five reported
deaths, but the death toll is expected to rise. Thousands of
people are still stranded in their homes, waiting to be rescued.
Meanwhile, the city of Dallas prepares to turn its convention
center into a mega-shelter to host 5,000 evacuees. The National
Weather Service released a statement on Sunday saying, "This event
is unprecedented and all impacts are unknown and beyond anything
experienced." We speak with Bryan Parras, an organizer for the
"Beyond Dirty Fuels" campaign with the Sierra Club in Houston,
Texas. He helped found the environmental justice group t.e.j.a.s.<b><br>
</b>Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs
weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through
Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://democracynow.org">https://democracynow.org</a><b><br>
</b></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://youtu.be/biXHG4RLn8s"><font size="-1"
color="#666666">https://youtu.be/p6TG3bB4wvg</font></a><b><br>
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</b><b><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik5R5stYC6c">(video)
"This Is the New Normal": How Climate Change Is Fueling
Massive Storms like Harvey</a><br>
</b></b><font size="-1">Hurricane Harvey has already dumped more
than 9 trillion gallons of water on Texas - enough water to fill
the Great Salt Lake in Salt Lake City twice. Meteorologists
project another 5 to 10 trillion gallons of water could be dumped
on the region in coming days, potentially making this the worst
flooding disaster in U.S. history. We speak with David Helvarg,
executive director of Blue Frontier, an ocean conservation
organization, about how climate change is fueling massive storms
like Hurricane Harvey.</font><b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik5R5stYC6c">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik5R5stYC6c</a></font><b><font
size="-1" color="#666666"><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/tR1uU804PZo">(video)
Climate & Extreme Weather News #59 (Hurricane Harvey &
Houston Flood Update)</a></b><br>
Climate & Extreme Weather News #59 (Hurricane Harvey &
Houston Flood Update)<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/tR1uU804PZo">https://youtu.be/tR1uU804PZo</a></font><br>
<b>.</b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/08/28/hurricane-harvey-climate-change-impacts/">Hurricane
Harvey: Climate Change's Staggering Human and Economic Toll on
Display</a></b><br>
"So Harvey was almost certainly more intense than it would have been
in the absence of human- caused warming, which means stronger winds,
more wind damage, and a larger storm surge," said [Dr Michael] Mann.<br>
Dr. Gabriel Vecchi, a professor of geosciences at Princeton
University.... said these factors all need to be addressed when
assessing future risk.<br>
"We need to consider that as we evaluate how exposed we are to
natural events," said Vecchi. "It may be that the records over the
last hundred years aren't a reliable estimate of what our true risk
is going forward. We need to have an accurate assessment of what our
true risk going forward is in order to make good decisions."<br>
Burger said the threat of liability could prompt better decisions.<br>
"Hopefully advances in attribution science will persuade reluctant
politicians and regulators to move forward with climate mitigation
and adaptation efforts," said Burger. "But if they don't believe in
the basic science of climate change it's hard to believe they'll put
their faith in the more complex, and more contentious, science of
attribution."<br>
Vecchi said we have a rare opportunity to protect the planet for
future generations - if we act now.<br>
He said that while over the next 20 years or so climate change is
"baked into the system" by the greenhouse gases already in the
atmosphere, what we do today will determine what happens after that.<br>
"What we can change is how much warming is going to happen after
that point," he said, adding that our actions today have the
potential to provide the generation being born into right now and
subsequent generations with a livable planet.<br>
"It's rare when such an obvious heritage to a future generation is
possible," he said.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/08/28/hurricane-harvey-climate-change-impacts/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/08/28/hurricane-harvey-climate-change-impacts/</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/28/katharine-hayhoe-successful-in-raising-evangelical-climate-awareness/">(text
and videos) Katharine Hayhoe Successful in Raising Evangelical
Climate Awareness</a></b><br>
Approximately one-quarter of Americans identify as evangelical
Christians, and that group also tends to be more resistant to the
reality of human-caused global warming. As a new paper by Brian Webb
and Doug Hayhoe notes:<br>
<i>a 2008 study found that just 44% of evangelicals believed global
warming to be caused mostly by human activities, compared to 64%
of nonevangelicals (Smith and Leiserowitz, 2013) while, a 2011
survey found that only 27% of white evangelicals believed there to
be a scientific consensus on climate change, compared to 40% of
the American public (Public Religion Research Institute, 2011).</i><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/btiMY9cLVwE">Katharine Hayhoe Interview on
Christian Broadcasting Network Raises a Ruckus</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/btiMY9cLVwE">https://youtu.be/btiMY9cLVwE</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/eRbPHpc5Xhc">Katharine Hayhoe on Climate
Science and Faith</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/eRbPHpc5Xhc">https://youtu.be/eRbPHpc5Xhc</a><br>
<a href="https://youtu.be/fgiS8aUPbBc">Katharine Hayhoe on Climate
and the Choices we Make</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/fgiS8aUPbBc">https://youtu.be/fgiS8aUPbBc</a><br>
Facts matter – especially when they come from trusted sources<br>
There's been some debate among social scientists about how much
facts matter in today's politically polarized society. Some have
warned about the "smart idiots" effect, in which people who are more
knowledgeable are often less persuadable, essentially because they
have more tools with which to reject information they find
inconvenient. However, other research has shown that
climate-specific knowledge does increase peoples' acceptance of
human-caused global warming. The question then becomes how to arm
people with that climate-specific knowledge.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/28/katharine-hayhoe-successful-in-raising-evangelical-climate-awareness/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/08/28/katharine-hayhoe-successful-in-raising-evangelical-climate-awareness/</a></font><br>
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<span style="font-family:helvetica
neue,helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climatenexus.org/"><strong>50 Ways to Censor
Science</strong></a><br>
<font size="-1">There are a lot of ways that former presidents
have allegedly censored science or the public in the past.
Usually, though, they spread it out a little so as not to be
obvious. Not Trump. You can explore the different shades of
censorship during his eight-month tenure using just examples
from last week.<br>
<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=6f29e7de62&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Last
Sunday, we learned</a> that Trump disbanded an advisory group
charged with helping policymakers and the private sector
incorporate the findings of the National Climate Assessment. The
group pledged to keep meeting without official White House
blessing, giving us hope that the public won't be cut off from
vital climate info. This is the <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=90139dc330&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">third
scientific advisory board</a> to be disbanded by the Trump
administration.<br>
The next day, it was reported that <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=a21b8a6041&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Trump
halted funding</a> for a study on the health impacts of
mountaintop removal mining, killing an attempt to understand the
threats facing those coal miners he loves so much.<br>
On Wednesday, the <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=f559cee221&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Bay
Journal announced</a> that it was losing its EPA funding,
putting the future of the 27 year old Chesapeake Bay-focused
paper in jeopardy. Pruitt has made assurances that the EPA still
cares about cleaning up the Bay, but apparently it doesn't care
about keeping the public informed. Also <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=9199b05955&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">on
Wednesday, it was reported</a> that the National Institute of
Health scrubbed the term "climate change" from its site.<br>
Then on Thursday came a triple-whammy. <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=97814bf307&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">As
explained by Vox</a>, Energy Secretary Rick Perry's grid study
showed how political editing can censor out inconvenient facts,
and how politicians can ignore the findings and say whatever
they want about the study.<br>
Meanwhile, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's "<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=501b9da0d9&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">sham
review</a>" of national monuments showed how easy this
administration finds censoring the public. There were literally
millions of comments that were opposed to the administration's
plan of shrinking or eliminating monuments, but Zinke wrote them
off as part of a "<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=542ef1457c&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">well-organized
national campaign.</a>" Instead of listening to the public,
Zinke chose to do what he wanted in the first place, and used a
handful of pro-industry comments as justification for shrinking
protected lands.<br>
Thursday's third example came in a simple tweet: "<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=4c5a60249e&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">This
is what censorship looks like</a>". It looks like that in
order to meet the president's budget language restrictions, some
scientists are being asked to remove the words "climate change"
from the abstracts of grant proposals. <br>
Then Friday, in addition to <a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=4db47656c7&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">Vice
publishing the FOIA'd details</a> about the climate scientists
who weren't allowed to meet with Mark Zuckerberg, a small blurb
<a
href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=7d4a98e643&e=95b355344d"
style="word-wrap: break-word;-ms-text-size-adjust:
100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color:
#709ab9;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: underline;">in
Politico's Morning Energy</a> reported that EPA leadership has
decided employees can't use social media except for a specific
business purpose.<br>
We'd put an ask out on Facebook and Twitter about how staff
members feel about this, but apparently only Trump is allowed to
use social media while at work.<br>
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href="http://climatenexus.org/">http://climatenexus.org/</a>
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</b><b> </b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/28/how-climate-change-is-death-sentence-afghanistan-highlands-global-warming">How
climate change is a 'death sentence' in Afghanistan's highlands
</a></b><b><br>
</b><b> </b>Global warming should be taken as seriously as fighting
insurgents, say those witnessing the savage impact first-hand<br>
On a recent visit, the Guardian trekked from freshwater lakes
surrounded by jagged massifs at 4,500 metres down to villages at the
receiving end of erratic weather, a common result of global warming.
Warmer temperatures melt the mountain snow earlier, resulting in an
increased flow of water before farmers need it.<br>
These are irregularities that farmers living at the margins of
economic sustainability cannot afford. "People are surviving," says
Andrew Scanlon, country director for the UN Environment Programme
(UNEP). "[But] their ability to bounce back is almost zilch."<br>
Farmers say unanimously that temperatures have risen over the past
decades. Rain is scarcer and more unpredictable. "People know about
climate change even if they don't call it that," says Fatima Akbari,
the UNEP's country assistant. "They know all about change in water
and weather."<br>
Despite 15 years as one of the world's biggest receivers of
international aid, much of it to agriculture, Afghanistan remains
woefully underdeveloped and largely defenceless against jolts from
nature. Western donors primarily poured money into short-sighted
programmes such as heavy engineering and cash-for-work schemes,
designed for "quick impact", Scanlon says.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/28/how-climate-change-is-death-sentence-afghanistan-highlands-global-warming">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/28/how-climate-change-is-death-sentence-afghanistan-highlands-global-warming</a></font><br>
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</b><br>
(Department of Musical Irony<i> - (thnx EH)</i><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wlup.com/2017/08/27/stevie-ray-vaughans-death-27-years-ago-today/">Stevie
Ray Vaughan's Death: 27 Years Ago Today</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wlup.com/2017/08/27/stevie-ray-vaughans-death-27-years-ago-today/">http://www.wlup.com/2017/08/27/stevie-ray-vaughans-death-27-years-ago-today/</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/UtLwuPCUEdg">(music
video) Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood - A Celebration of Blues
and Soul</a></b><b><br>
</b>Stevie Ray Vaughan performs "Texas Flood" live with Double
Trouble and Jimmie Vaughan at the Washington Convention Center for
the Presidential Inaugural Concert in 1989.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/UtLwuPCUEdg">https://youtu.be/UtLwuPCUEdg</a><b><br>
</b><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/for-they-that-sow-the-win_b_6396.html">This
Day in Climate History August 29, 2005 </a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
August 29, 2005: In a Huffington Post piece, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
notes the irony of Hurricane Katrina assaulting the Gulf Coast just
a few years after the Bush administration decided to give
preferential treatment to the fossil fuel industry with regard to
energy policy.<br>
"For They That Sow the Wind Shall Reap the Whirlwind”<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/for-they-that-sow-the-win_b_6396.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/for-they-that-sow-the-win_b_6396.html</a>
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