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<font size="+1"><i>September 2, 2017</i></font><br>
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</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="Hurricane+Irma+is+a+Mighty+Storm%E2%80%94But+Where+is+It+Heading?">Hurricane
Irma is a Mighty Storm—But Where is It Heading?</a></b><font
size="-1"><br>
Hurricane Irma rapidly intensified into a Category 3 hurricane
with 115 mph winds at 5 pm EDT Thursday, becoming the earliest
storm on record to become a major hurricane east of 35°W. Irma is
the second major hurricane of this active Atlantic hurricane
season, along with Hurricane Harvey, and it has arrived more than
a month before the usual October 3 date for the season's second
major hurricane. Irma could potentially impact the islands of the
Caribbean next week, and the mainland U.S. or Canada the following
week, but uncertainties in its track at such long ranges are quite
high.<br>
Both Harvey and Irma were rapid intensifiers, bursting from
tropical-storm to major-hurricane strength in less than 36 hours.
Irma pulled off this feat in just 12 hours, one of the fastest
such leaps on record. Very low wind shear at or below 5 knots
allowed Irma to develop a large, robust structure remarkably
quickly. Overnight, Irma leveled off in intensity, as it began
moving over somewhat cooler sea-surface temperatures, and began an
eyewall replacement cycle (ERC.) As of 11 am EDT Friday, Irma had
weakened to a top-end Category 2 hurricane with sustained winds of
110 mph.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-irma-mighty-storm-where-it-heading">https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/hurricane-irma-mighty-storm-where-it-heading</a><br>
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USA TODAY NETWORK</font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2017/08/31/zello-app-emerges-lifesaver-during-hurricane-harvey/105163662/">Zello
app emerges as lifesaver during Hurricane Harvey</a></b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/08/31/zello-app-helping-harvey-rescue-efforts/619924001/">From
Cajun Navy to Houston midwives, Zello is go-to app for Harvey
rescues</a><br>
How the simple push-to-talk app has become the 'go-to' tool for the
Cajun Navy and other volunteer rescuers in Texas. <br>
As rescue efforts continue in and around Houston following Hurricane
Harvey, one communications app is proving to be a lifesaver.<br>
Zello is basically a walkie talkie in your pocket. Users push and
hold a button to talk immediately with others on radio-style
channels.<br>
As rescuers and storm victims seek assistance during the aftermath
of Harvey, Zello is among the go-to tech tools. Zello has seen 20
times as many new users in Houston on the app compared to the
previous week.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/08/31/zello-app-helping-harvey-rescue-efforts/619924001/">https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2017/08/31/zello-app-helping-harvey-rescue-efforts/619924001/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2017/08/31/zello-app-emerges-lifesaver-during-hurricane-harvey/105163662/">https://www.usatoday.com/videos/tech/2017/08/31/zello-app-emerges-lifesaver-during-hurricane-harvey/105163662/</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://zello.com/app">Zello
walkie-talkie app</a><br>
Zello is a free push-to-talk application for smartphones, tablets,
and PCs. It's lightweight, easy to use and extremely fast. Better
yet, it's free and will remain free for personal use. Over 65
million. That's how many times users have downloaded Zello. Try it
on your Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, PC or a mix!
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Features: <br>
Fast - Zello conversations are almost as fast as face-to-face
conversations and faster than online communications.<br>
Easy to use - Just push the button to talk. You most likely won't
have to configure anything to start using Zello.<br>
One-to-many - Zello supports channels where you can talk to one
person on up to 1,000 people from all over the world … at the same
time.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://zello.com/app">https://zello.com/app</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://zellowork.com/">ZelloWork </a>
Instant voice for teams - Push-to-talk for any device or network.<br>
Unlike two-way radios, Zello works with any data or Wi-Fi network.
... button options allow users to simply press and talk without
fumbling through app screens.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://zellowork.com/">https://zellowork.com/</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/01/harveys-wake-drifts-north-as-battered-coast-left-with-lingering-perils-and-staggering-recovery/"><b>Harvey
flooding will lead to 'massive, massive cleanup process,' Texas
governor says</b></a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/01/harveys-wake-drifts-north-as-battered-coast-left-with-lingering-perils-and-staggering-recovery/"><b>
(+videos) </b></a><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/01/harveys-wake-drifts-north-as-battered-coast-left-with-lingering-perils-and-staggering-recovery/"><br>
</a>BEAUMONT, Tex. - A week after Hurricane Harvey slammed into
Texas as a Category 4 monster, millions of people across the Gulf
Coast struggled Friday with the unfathomable misery left behind as
tens of thousands were left without drinking water, forced from
homes or trapped in cities transformed into islands.<br>
Federal officials kept up a tense watch at a storm-ravaged chemical
plant east of Houston, where some of the volatile organic peroxides
stored there had ignited a day earlier..<br>
Beaumont had issued a voluntary evacuation order for its 118,000
residents. But for many of those still in the city, there was no way
out with murky floodwaters blocking roads in every direction. Police
said some people tried to leave anyway, only to discover that this
was impossible and turn back, driving the wrong way on Highway 90.<br>
"When you take water out of the picture, people start to panic a
bit," said Halley Morrow, a police spokeswoman.<br>
"That's a game changer for us," she said. "We have medical supplies,
we had food, we had staff. But we never dreamed we would lose water
supply.".<br>
"We didn't anticipate having six feet of water in our plant,"
Richard Rennard, president of Arkema's acrylic monomers division,
had told reporters on Thursday.<br>
The loss of control of dangerous materials, coupled with the
ignition of these chemicals, have spread anxiety beyond the area
around the plant, which has been evacuated.<br>
An estimate released by the National Weather Service said that more
than 28,000 square miles were covered in at least 20 inches of rain.<br>
.<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/01/harveys-wake-drifts-north-as-battered-coast-left-with-lingering-perils-and-staggering-recovery/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/01/harveys-wake-drifts-north-as-battered-coast-left-with-lingering-perils-and-staggering-recovery/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/new-york-state-blocks-valley-lateral-pipeline">New
York State Blocks the Valley Lateral Pipeline!</a></b><br>
In a victory for all New Yorkers, the state has blocked a natural
gas pipeline that would have threatened upstate residents' health,
water quality and communities, citing climate change concerns.<br>
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) denied
the water quality certification to the Valley Lateral Pipeline
today, a 7.9 mile, 16-inch diameter fracked gas pipeline that would
have connected the existing Millennium Pipeline to the highly
controversial 650-megawatt gas-powered CPV Valley Energy Center in
Orange County, New York. To support its denial, DEC explained that
the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to
consider climate change impacts in its environmental review of the
pipeline. Without this key certification, the pipeline cannot move
forward in New York State.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/new-york-state-blocks-valley-lateral-pipeline">https://www.nrdc.org/experts/new-york-state-blocks-valley-lateral-pipeline</a><br>
.https://twitter.com/BobbyHertz/status/903378938378022917<br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/politics/bernie-sanders-climate-change-harvey-cnn-tv/index.html">Sanders:
It's 'pretty dumb' not to ask about climate change after Harvey</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/politics/bernie-sanders-climate-change-harvey-cnn-tv/index.html">http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/31/politics/bernie-sanders-climate-change-harvey-cnn-tv/index.html</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2017/09/01/climate-change-already-impacting-wheat-rice-corn-soybean-yields-worldwide/">Climate
Change Already Impacting Wheat, Rice, Corn, Soybean Yields
Worldwide</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2017/09/01/climate-change-already-impacting-wheat-rice-corn-soybean-yields-worldwide/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2017/09/01/climate-change-already-impacting-wheat-rice-corn-soybean-yields-worldwide/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082017/climate-change-georgia-peach-harvest-warm-weather-crop-risk-farmers">In
Georgia's Peach Orchards, Warm Winters Raise Specter of Climate
Change</a></b><br>
Three generations of Robert Lee Dickeys faced a failed crop after an
unusually warm winter. They talk about it as weather rather than
climate change.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082017/climate-change-georgia-peach-harvest-warm-weather-crop-risk-farmers">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082017/climate-change-georgia-peach-harvest-warm-weather-crop-risk-farmers</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfd4vd26H2I">Texas TV
Meteorologist: Why Harvey Stalled</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfd4vd26H2I">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfd4vd26H2I</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiA-_iQjdU&t=76s">Dr
Jennifer Francis - Arctic Sea Ice, Jet Stream & Climate
Change</a></b><br>
Dr. Jennifer Francis who is one of the leading scientists in the
U.S. studying the relationship between Arctic warming and changes in
the jet stream, says: <br>
"The Arctic is generally very cold and the areas farther south are
warm and that difference in area between those two areas is really
what fuels that vast river of weather moving high over our head that
we call the jet stream. <br>
The jet stream in turn creates the weather that we feel all around
the northern hemisphere and the middle latitudes, so anything that
affects this jet stream is going to affect weather patterns. So as
the Arctic warms up much faster than the areas farther south, we're
seeing this temperature difference between these two regions get
smaller. This means the force that drives those winds in the jet
stream are getting smaller and that means the winds themselves in
the jet stream are getting weaker.<br>
When that happens, the jet stream tends to take a wavier path as it
travels around the northern hemisphere and those waves are actually
what create the stormy patterns [and] the nice weather patterns. As
those waves get larger because of this weakening of those winds of
the jet streams, they tend to move more slowly from west to east.
That means it feels like the weather patterns are sticking around
longer, because those patterns are moving much more slowly and this
then makes it more likely to have the kind of extreme events that
are related to persistent weather patterns."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiA-_iQjdU&t=76s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiA-_iQjdU&t=76s</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/future-hurricanes-will-be-worse-than-harvey">Future
Hurricanes Will Be Worse Than Harvey</a></b><br>
Research on Superstorm Sandy yields grim projections about global
warming and extreme weather in the decades to come.<br>
By Eric Roston August 31, 2017<br>
How powerful would Hurricane Harvey have been in 1880? How much
stronger might it be in 2100?<br>
A single Hurricane Harvey has been more than anyone can bear. But to
better prepare cities for future storms, researchers are preparing
to re-watch Harvey thousands of times. They've already been studying
earlier storms, and their conclusions don't bode well for the
decades to come. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/future-hurricanes-will-be-worse-than-harvey">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/future-hurricanes-will-be-worse-than-harvey</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/harvey-has-your-eyes-this-week-but-climate-change-needs-your-emaction-em/"><br>
Harvey has your eyes this week, but climate change needs your
action</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/harvey-has-your-eyes-this-week-but-climate-change-needs-your-emaction-em/">http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/harvey-has-your-eyes-this-week-but-climate-change-needs-your-emaction-em/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/08/31/donald-trump-is-one-of-the-biggest-threats-facing-humankind-50-nobel-laureates-on-what-keeps-them-up-at-night/">(video)
Donald Trump is one of the biggest threats facing humankind: 50
Nobel laureates on what keeps them up at night</a></b><br>
Trump is a major threat to humanity, according to some of the
smartest people in the world <br>
In a survey that solicited the views of almost one-fourth of all
living Nobel Prize winners, Times Higher Education discovered that
many felt President Donald Trump was among the greatest existing
threats to humanity.<br>
The editor of Times Higher Education, John Gill, explained that
"this survey offers a unique insight into the issues that keep the
world's greatest scientific minds awake at night." <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.salon.com/2017/08/31/donald-trump-is-one-of-the-biggest-threats-facing-humankind-50-nobel-laureates-on-what-keeps-them-up-at-night/">http://www.salon.com/2017/08/31/donald-trump-is-one-of-the-biggest-threats-facing-humankind-50-nobel-laureates-on-what-keeps-them-up-at-night/</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oreskes-supran-exxonmobil-20170901-story.html">Op-Ed
Yes, ExxonMobil misled the public</a></b><br>
Geoffrey Supran: about my and Naomi Oreskes's study last week of
Exxon's history of climate communications (sorry for any
cross-posting you experience). I just wanted to update you that
today we've <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oreskes-supran-exxonmobil-20170901-story.html">published
an op-ed in the LA Times in rebuttal to Exxon's statements </a>about
our paper: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oreskes-supran-exxonmobil-20170901-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oreskes-supran-exxonmobil-20170901-story.html</a>
<br>
More broadly, given today's post-truth world, we also hope that this
may serve as a helpful piece to point people to when the need arises
-- unfortunately -- to explain the difference between peer-reviewed
research and opinion.<br>
P.S. Tweetables:<br>
1) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/GeoffreySupran/status/903594063877869570">Exxon
is baselessly attacking us & our *peer-reviewed* work showing
it misled on climate chg. We debunk in @latimes </a><br>
2) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/GeoffreySupran/status/903605268487045120">Exxon
is attacking us with a straw man, a lie, cherry-picking, &
character assassination. We debunk in @latimes:</a><br>
3) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/GeoffreySupran/status/903601411333791744">We
showed Exxon has a track record of disparaging peer-reviewed
science. So now they're disparaging our work too.</a><br>
4) <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="Exxon%20is%20now%20misleading%20the%20public%20about%20its%20history%20of%20misleading%20the%20public.%20Q.E.D.%20Me+@NaomiOreskes%20in%20@latimes:">Exxon
is now misleading the public about its history of misleading the
public. Q.E.D. Me+@NaomiOreskes in @latimes:</a><br>
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by Naomi Oreskes and Geoffrey Supran<br>
In late August, we published the first academic analysis of
ExxonMobil's 40-year history of communications on climate change. We
published our findings in an open-access, peer-reviewed journal and
made our method and evidence transparent and auditable by publishing
121 pages of supplementary materials. The result: a systematic
discrepancy between what ExxonMobil scientists communicated in their
scientific articles and internal reports, and what the company told
the public in "advertorials" - advertisements in the New York Times
masquerading as editorials. In other words, our study showed that
ExxonMobil misled the public about climate science and its
implications for decades.<br>
<blockquote>Reviewing 187 ExxonMobil documents, we found that 83% of
peer-reviewed papers authored by ExxonMobil scientists and 80% of
the company's internal communications acknowledged that climate
change was real and human-caused. In contrast, only 12% of
ExxonMobil's advertorials directed at the public did so, with 81%
instead expressing doubt.<br>
How did the world's largest publicly traded oil and gas company
respond? With a straw man, a falsehood, cherry picking and
character assassination.<br>
<b>The straw man: </b>ExxonMobil claims that we accused them of
hiding or suppressing climate science research, but to quote
verbatim from our study, "We stress that the question is not
whether ExxonMobil 'suppressed climate change research,' but
rather how they communicated about it." What our analysis does say
- and show - is that ExxonMobil misled the public. On this point
the company remains silent.<br>
<b>The falsehood: </b>ExxonMobil says we "have admitted" that our
previous "allegations that the company hid its climate science
research were wrong." That's not true. One journalist asked where
he could find the link to the allegations; the answer is he
couldn't because we never made them. ExxonMobil has put words in
our mouths and then claimed we retracted them.<br>
<b>Cherry picking:</b> ExxonMobil argues that a handful of
sentences within two advertorials undercut our analysis of 187
documents. But those two advertorials were included in our study.
This is the kind of cherry picking of which ExxonMobil has
repeatedly accused others.<br>
<b>Character assassination: </b>ExxonMobil says we are in it for
the money. The fact is, Naomi Oreskes did this work as a Harvard
professor, with no additional payment from any source. She has
never been on the payroll of any NGO or activist organization.
Geoffrey Supran did two months of this work on a postdoctoral
salary paid by the Rockefeller Family Fund and 11 more months on
his own dime, in parallel with other, funded research projects.
And who do you think gets paid more, an oil industry executive or
a postdoc?<br>
We did begin our research with views on ExxonMobil and its climate
communications, just as most solar cell engineers have views on
renewable energy and most medical researchers have views on public
health. Objectivity doesn't mean having no opinions. It means
using objective methods and being willing to revise your views in
light of evidence. The point of our new study was to read the
documents that ExxonMobil claimed would exonerate them.<br>
In sum, ExxonMobil is now misleading the public about its history
of misleading the public. This is just the latest round in a long
and troubling record of doubt-mongering and misdirection by the
fossil fuel industry and libertarian think tanks in response to
the scientific evidence of climate change.<br>
It's become a familiar pattern. We published science, ExxonMobil
offered spin.<br>
Separating the two is peer review. The idea is simple: Every
scientific claim - unlike every company press release - is vetted
by independent analysis. At minimum, peer reviewers look for
mistakes in data gathering, analysis and interpretation. Usually
they go further, addressing the quality and quantity of data, the
reasoning linking the evidence to its interpretation, the
mathematics or computer simulations used to analyze and interpret
the data, and even the prior reputation of the claimant. If the
person is thought to do sloppy work, has previously been involved
in spurious claims or has not disclosed potential conflicts of
interest, he or she can expect to attract tougher scrutiny.
Scientific authors are required to take reviewers' criticisms
seriously, and to fix any mistakes that have been found. (We did
this with our paper.)<br>
The reviewers must be experts and they must be independent. They
can be as tough as they need to be, because they are anonymous.
Editors spend considerable time finding reviewers who meet these
criteria.<br>
People have gone to the moon, cured diseases, invented new
materials, spliced the gene and split the atom - all on the basis
of peer-reviewed science. It's how you knew when and where to
watch the solar eclipse.<br>
ExxonMobil has a track record of disparaging peer-reviewed climate
science. Now they are disparaging peer-reviewed social science
too. We think that makes it pretty clear who can be trusted - and
who can't - when it comes to facts about the past and decisions we
need to make about our future.<br>
<i>Naomi Oreskes is professor of the history of science at Harvard
and co-author of "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of
Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to
Global Warming." Geoffrey Supran is a postdoctoral fellow in the
department of the history of science at Harvard and in the
Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at MIT.</i><br>
</blockquote>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oreskes-supran-exxonmobil-20170901-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oreskes-supran-exxonmobil-20170901-story.html</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theoutline.com/post/2202/climate-change-denial-should-be-a-crime">(opinion)
</a><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theoutline.com/post/2202/climate-change-denial-should-be-a-crime">CLIMATE
CHANGE DENIAL SHOULD BE A CRIME</a></b><br>
In the wake of Harvey, it's time to treat science denial as gross
negligence-and hold those who do the denying accountable.<br>
CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL CAN AND WILL LEAVE PEOPLE DEAD.<br>
But it's high time to start taking this pointed refusal to prepare,
this refusal to observe the basic tenets of science seriously - and
call it what it is: Negligence. Criminal negligence, even.<br>
According to the Texas penal code, "A person acts with criminal
negligence, or is criminally negligent… when he ought to be aware of
a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the circumstances exist or
the result will occur. The risk must be of such a nature and degree
that the failure to perceive it constitutes a gross deviation from
the standard of care that an ordinary person would exercise...."<br>
One of the earliest cases of negligence in the U.S. was built on
sinking ships.<br>
In 1947, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company leased a barge to ship
U.S.-owned flour from the New York Harbor on the Anna C. It was
docked when the Carroll Holding Company sent one of its tugs to
retrieve another barge. Anna C was accidentally cut loose and sunk,
and the U.S. sued the CHC for negligence.<br>
The judge ruled in favor of the United States: "Since there are
occasions when every vessel will break from her moorings, and since,
if she does, she becomes a menace to those about her; the owner's
duty, as in other similar situations, to provide against resulting
injuries is a function of three variables: (1) The probability that
she will break away; (2) the gravity of the resulting injury, if she
does; (3) the burden of adequate precautions," he wrote.<br>
The decision yielded the Hand Test for determining negligence, and
would be a standard used for some time: "If B < PL, then there
will be negligence liability for the party with the burden of taking
precautions," according to Cornell Law, where:<br>
B = burden of taking precautions <br>
P = probability of loss <br>
L = gravity of loss (gravity of the personal loss, not social loss)<br>
In the case of climate change, which just so happens to be breaking
many vessels from their moorings, B is perhaps not granting
unrestrained development, while pursuing policies like reducing
carbon emissions and preserving green spaces. P is near certitude. L
is truly massive. B < PL.<br>
Denying that human activity is warming the globe has been treated in
our media and general discourse as a reasonably valid, if crude,
political opinion - not an outright, immediately disqualifying
falsehood contrary to mountains of scientific evidence accrued over
decades of painstaking inquiry. Not a poisonous fiction that sits
contrary to a robust body of science that contributes to our
understanding of the physical world, and contrary to a field that is
crucial to adapting to a meteorologically hostile future. Not a lie
that kills people.<br>
that's one reason more and more people will keep dying in them. We
refuse to hold the negligent accountable. We refuse to strike back
with adequate force at the toxic climate denial that corrupts our
public policies. There's hope-a coalition of flooded homeowners sued
Houston in 2016, alleging negligence. More should follow suit after
Harvey.<br>
The burden of precaution may at times be made to seem high-it may
seem expensive and time-consuming to engage and heed scientific
guidance, but it's nothing compared to the probability and gravity
of coming loss. B < PL. It's not even close.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theoutline.com/post/2202/climate-change-denial-should-be-a-crime">https://theoutline.com/post/2202/climate-change-denial-should-be-a-crime</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/H9mWZZ2U6EQ">This Day in Climate History
September 2, 2005 </a>- from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
September 2, 2005: Climate scientist Stephen Schneider appears on
"Real Time with Bill Maher" to discuss climate change's role in<br>
Hurricane Katrina.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/H9mWZZ2U6EQ">http://youtu.be/H9mWZZ2U6EQ</a></font><br>
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