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<font size="+1"><i>September 6, 2017<br>
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</i></font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/before.html">Before
a Hurricane </a></b> <br>
Even if there's no risk of a hurricane right now, it's important to
be safe and plan ahead. Get tips on how to stock up on supplies and
plan for emergencies.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/plan.html">Make a
Plan</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/supplies.html">Get
Supplies</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/preparedness.html">Get
Your Family, Home, and Car Ready</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/preparedness.html">Evacuate
or Stay at Home</a><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/">Hurricanes and
Othter Tropical Storms</a></b> <br>
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href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/">https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/hurricanes/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/index.asp">Featured
App: FEMA "Know Before You Go"</a></b><br>
With hurricane season continuing through November 30, the FEMA app
is an essential tool to help your family weather the storm,
nationwide.<br>
Receive weather alerts from the National Weather Service for up to
five different locations anywhere in the United States.<br>
Learn what to do before, during and after emergencies with safety
tips<br>
Download the free app today<br>
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href="https://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/index.asp">https://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/index.asp</a>
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CDC.gov <b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/social_media.html">Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention Natural Disasters and Severe
Weather</a></b><br>
Social Media <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www2c.cdc.gov/podcasts/player.asp?f=9889">Podcasts Beat
the Heat </a><br>
Public Service Announcements (PSAs) <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/heatwave.asp">Keeping
Cool in a Heat Wave</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/heatwave.asp">http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/heatwave.asp</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/outdoorheat.asp">Stay
Healthy and Safe in Hot Weather</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/outdoorheat.asp">http://emergency.cdc.gov/disasters/psa/outdoorheat.asp</a><br>
Videos <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/how_to_stay_cool_video.html">How
to Stay Cool in Extreme Heat</a><br>
A message from Robin M. Ikeda, MD, MPH, (RADM, USPHS), CDC Director
of the Office of Noncommunicable Diseases, Injury, and Environmental
Health (ONDIEH) on how you can prevent heat-related illnesses and
deaths by staying cool, hydrated and informed.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/cooling_centers_video.html">CDC's
Tracking Program: Making Missouri Cooling Centers Easy to Find </a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/cooling_centers_video.html">https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/cooling_centers_video.html</a><br>
CDC's Environmental Public Health Tracking Network connects people
with vital public health information. See how the Missouri Tracking
Program worked with local health officials to create an interactive,
dynamic online map that makes cooling centers easy to find.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/social_media.html">https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/social_media.html</a></font><br>
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Globalchange.gov<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/heavy-downpours-increasing">(Interactive)
Heavy Downpours Increasing</a></b><br>
Heavy downpours are increasing nationally, especially over the last
three to five decades, with the largest increases in the Midwest and
Northeast. Increases in extreme precipitation are projected for all
U.S. regions.<br>
Explore extreme precipitation.<br>
The chapter presents 12 key messages about our changing climate,
together with supporting evidence for those messages. The discussion
of each key message begins with a summary of recent variations or
trends, followed by projections of the corresponding changes for the
future. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/heavy-downpours-increasing">http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/our-changing-climate/heavy-downpours-increasing</a><br>
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Elizabeth Kolbert <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/hurricane-harvey-and-the-storms-to-come">Hurricane
Harvey and the Storms to Come</a></b><br>
In the leadup to the historic flood, Texas Republicans abetted
Trump's climate-change delusions.<br>
Politicians from New York and New Jersey have been quick to say that
they will not mess with Texas the way that Texans messed with them.
"I'll vote 4 Harvey aid," Representative Peter King, a Republican
from Long Island, tweeted during the storm. Lawmakers from the
Northeast should vote for aid to Houston, but with conditions. In
the place of spending cuts, they should demand that Texas lawmakers
and the President face up to the facts. The earth is warming,
fossil-fuel emissions are the major cause, and the results are going
to be far from "beneficial." The U.S. needs to radically reduce its
carbon emissions and, at the same time, prepare for a future in
which storms like Harvey, Sandy, and Katrina increasingly become the
norm. <font size="-1" color="#666666"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/hurricane-harvey-and-the-storms-to-come">https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/11/hurricane-harvey-and-the-storms-to-come</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/05/peabody-coal-california-climate-change-lawsuit/">Coal
Giant Says Bankruptcy Shields It From California Climate Suit</a></b><br>
The coal giant Peabody did not dispute its product's impact on the
environment in its court filing, just that its bankruptcy deal
precludes them being held accountable. <br>
Three coastal California communities suing fossil fuel companies
over their role in climate change are now heading to a bankruptcy
court to stop the largest coal producer in the country from claiming
it can't be held accountable.<br>
Peabody Energy emerged from bankruptcy on April 3 with a
court-approved plan to reorganize the company. In a motion filed
last week, the company argued that the plan protects it from
lawsuits that deal with its operations before April 3.<br>
"They are trying to avoid responsibility for their action by hiding
behind the bankruptcy," said Vic Sher, a partner in Sher Edling, the
San Francisco law firm representing the three communities<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SMC-Endorsed6_2017-07-17-SMCO-Complaint-5bFINAL-ENDORSED5d.pdf">The
California lawsuits </a>said Peabody and other companies were
negligent in their business practices by generating an enormous
amount of emissions and failing to disclose the risks and impacts.<br>
The California plaintiffs haven't specified how much money they are
seeking through the lawsuits. They will be asking for compensations
to deal with the impacts of climate change from the past and into
the future, Sher said.<br>
"The key concept is that even if the emissions ended now, the
impacts from the emissions that already occurred will continue to be
severe and in fact will grow," he said. <font size="-1"
color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/05/peabody-coal-california-climate-change-lawsuit/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/05/peabody-coal-california-climate-change-lawsuit/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SMC-Endorsed6_2017-07-17-SMCO-Complaint-5bFINAL-ENDORSED5d.pdf">(PDF
of filing) FIRST CAUSE OF ACTION</a></b><br>
(Public Nuisance on Behalf of the People of the State of California)<br>
(Against All Defendants)<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SMC-Endorsed6_2017-07-17-SMCO-Complaint-5bFINAL-ENDORSED5d.pdf">https://www.sheredling.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/SMC-Endorsed6_2017-07-17-SMCO-Complaint-5bFINAL-ENDORSED5d.pdf</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ewn.co.za/2017/09/05/here-s-why-climate-change-is-dividing-the-highly-educated">Here's
why climate change is dividing the highly educated</a></b><br>
New research shows that education and facts don't prevent climate
change deniers from cherry picking evidence to support their own
beliefs. <br>
World Economic Forum <br>
Many people concerned about climate change assume that eventually,
the growing weight of facts will persuade those who dismiss humans'
role in the problem to think again. Surely, the theory goes, the
plentiful evidence will eventually make any naysayer understand the
severity of the situation.<br>
But political ideology has a powerful effect, and new research shows
that education and facts don't prevent climate change deniers from
cherry picking evidence to support their own beliefs.<br>
A study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences showed that among the most educated, there's actually a
deep divide in beliefs about controversial scientific issues.<br>
The researchers analyzed public opinions on six topics, stem cell
research, the big bang, human evolution, climate change,
nanotechnology, and genetically modified foods, based on more than
6,500 responses from the General Social Survey (a national survey
conducted once every two years). Overall, they found that education
level was "at best weakly related" to acceptance of the scientific
consensus.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://ewn.co.za/2017/09/05/here-s-why-climate-change-is-dividing-the-highly-educated">http://ewn.co.za/2017/09/05/here-s-why-climate-change-is-dividing-the-highly-educated</a><br>
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</font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/global-shapers-survey-2017-5-things-we-learned">5
things we learned from one of the world's biggest surveys of
young people<br>
</a></b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/global-shapers-survey-2017-5-things-we-learned">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/08/global-shapers-survey-2017-5-things-we-learned</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/31/global-warming-doubles-growth-rates-of-antarctic-seabeds-marine-fauna-study">Global
warming doubles growth rates of Antarctic seabed's marine fauna
– study</a></b><br>
Experiment in the Bellingshuan Sea reveals temperature rise has more
alarming implications for biodiversity in polar waters than
previously thought<br>
Until recently, most of the coverage of temperature rises has
focused on the north pole, where the shrinking of arctic ice has
been most visibly dramatic. But concerns are growing about the
impact of global warming on the far bigger southern ice cap.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/31/global-warming-doubles-growth-rates-of-antarctic-seabeds-marine-fauna-study">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/aug/31/global-warming-doubles-growth-rates-of-antarctic-seabeds-marine-fauna-study</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/can-business-save-world-climate-change">Can
business save the world from climate change?<br>
</a></b>In recent years, a number of initiatives and
collaborations have sprung up around the world focused on private
sector action on climate change. With Trump's withdrawal from the
Paris agreement, these initiatives have raised an intriguing
question: In the absence of political action, can business save the
world from devastating climate change?<br>
"While many of the oil majors are publicly supportive of climate
action and the Paris agreement, some of them are still proposing
future energy and emissions scenarios in which there are very high
levels of carbon capture and storage deployment - levels way higher
than the current level of investment suggests is plausible," Topping
said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.greenbiz.com/article/can-business-save-world-climate-change">https://www.greenbiz.com/article/can-business-save-world-climate-change</a><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://grist.org/article/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-deal-with-climate-change/">How
I learned to stop worrying and deal with climate change</a></b><br>
By Eve Andrews "A reader recently wrote me to say she has given
up. She is done."<br>
How do you keep from being driven to despair when the ones you are
disagreeing with are the ones you're trying, specifically, to
protect? How do you deal with resistance to a threat that, to you,
is urgent?<br>
His answer surprised me, honestly: He's patient. The projects he's
developing - a food-sovereignty initiative, a land-grant system -
will be entrusted to younger members of the tribe, those who
understand climate change and are passionate about fighting it.<br>
"I've accepted the fact that some of these ideas may not come into
fruition in my lifetime," he says. "But we've got to plant these
seeds, and some of them will sprout. They need to be watered and
nourished.<br>
"That's my hope in my work.<br>
You feel what you feel, you do what you can, and you try not to
carry the weight of every errant carbon molecule on your shoulders.
Everyone else is carrying that weight, too, whether they've dealt
with it or not - and most are just as lost as you are. You help them
figure out their thing that they can do, rather than tell them what
they should be doing. You try to be patient.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://grist.org/article/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-deal-with-climate-change/">http://grist.org/article/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-deal-with-climate-change/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/sep/05/denying-hurricane-harveys-climate-links-only-worsens-future-suffering"> Denying
Hurricane Harvey's climate links only worsens future suffering</a></b><br>
The variables in the climate change formula are <b>mitigation,
adaptation, and suffering</b>. Denying the problem loads up on the
suffering.<br>
There will be some of each, but the more we mitigate the problem by
cutting carbon pollution, the less we will have to adapt to and
suffer from the consequences of climate change. However, even
adaptation takes action. We can take some steps to adapt to rising
sea levels, but denying the problem by rolling back regulations
aimed at doing just that shifts us further toward the suffering part
of the equation. Economic growth has many benefits, but by itself
does not move us in the direction of climate mitigation or
adaptation.<br>
In short, to minimize the suffering caused by climate change, we
need to be smarter about addressing the problem and adapting its
consequences. Right now we're instead becoming stupider, and that
will only lead to increased suffering. If we want to minimize the
suffering caused by future Harveys, we need to talk about how
climate change is making them worse, and we need to do something
about it.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/sep/05/denying-hurricane-harveys-climate-links-only-worsens-future-suffering">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/sep/05/denying-hurricane-harveys-climate-links-only-worsens-future-suffering</a><br>
</font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-two-decade-crusade-by-conservative-charities-fueled-trumps-exit-from-paris-climate-accord/2017/09/05/fcb8d9fe-6726-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html"><br>
A two-decade crusade by conservative charities fueled Trump's
exit from Paris climate accord</a></b><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-two-decade-crusade-by-conservative-charities-fueled-trumps-exit-from-paris-climate-accord/2017/09/05/fcb8d9fe-6726-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-two-decade-crusade-by-conservative-charities-fueled-trumps-exit-from-paris-climate-accord/2017/09/05/fcb8d9fe-6726-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://climateinvestigations.org/washington-post-exxon-koch-big-coal-cash-begat-trump-climate-denial/">Washington
Post: Exxon, Koch, and Big Coal Cash Begat Trump Climate Denial</a></b><br>
Q: What does spending tens of millions of dollars supporting climate
denial organizations over a twenty year period buy you?<br>
A: Donald Trump, abdication of U.S. leadership on climate and
increased risk of damage from climate change.<br>
The Washington Post's Bob O'Harrow just penned the most complete
treatment to date on what has happened over the past year and the
past twenty years starting in 1997, resulting in the June 2017 Rose
Garden party to ditch the Paris Climate Agreement. This story
contains a sequence of key events and history, ending in the Trump
Whitehouse.<br>
This story boils down to the legacy of climate denial funding by
ExxonMobil, the Koch brothers, coal companies and conservative
foundations, which has supported and paid for the salaries,
campaigns, programs and rent at dozens of non-profit organizations
who have opposed sensible climate policy.<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://climateinvestigations.org/washington-post-exxon-koch-big-coal-cash-begat-trump-climate-denial/">http://climateinvestigations.org/washington-post-exxon-koch-big-coal-cash-begat-trump-climate-denial/</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/902164491651006464">Predatory
Delay is the blocking or slowing of needed change, in order to
make money off unsustainable, unjust system in the meantime. </a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/902164491651006464">https://twitter.com/AlexSteffen/status/902164491651006464</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/debate-trolling-and-predatory-delay-47881ea6c6b7">Debate
Trolling and Predatory Delay – Alex Steffen – Medium</a></b><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/debate-trolling-and-predatory-delay-47881ea6c6b7">https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/debate-trolling-and-predatory-delay-47881ea6c6b7</a><br>
May 3, 2016 - Debate Trolling and Predatory Delay. Ten years ago
this month I wrote a piece, "The Debate Is Over" (you can read it
below). It caused a stir.<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/debate-trolling-and-predatory-delay-47881ea6c6b7">https://medium.com/@AlexSteffen/debate-trolling-and-predatory-delay-47881ea6c6b7</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8d3iW2yxM">(video) How
to Deal With A Crisis of Meaning</a></b><br>
Many of us are regularly thrown off course by what we might term
'crises of meaning'; periods when what we are up to seems not to
connect up with anything purposeful or properly dignified. It's at
such moments that we need to lean on a bigger theory of what
meaning is, where it comes from, and how our lives relate to it. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8d3iW2yxM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8d3iW2yxM</a><br>
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<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/905070513961271296/photo/1">Assessing
the damage: How @GOP looks at</a> #HoustonFloods, #climate, and
disasters
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/9/5/1696029/-Cartoon-Assessing-the-damage">https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/9/5/1696029/-Cartoon-Assessing-the-damage</a>
… @JenSorensen #SciComm #Cartoons<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/905070513961271296/photo/1">https://twitter.com/A_Siegel/status/905070513961271296/photo/1</a></font><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes/"><br>
<br>
</a><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes/">This
Day in Climate History September 6, 2011 </a>- <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://youtu.be/7qLiEB4Ed_E">(+
video) </a> from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
September 6, 2011: On MotherJones.com, investigative journalist Brad
Friedman posts audio from a secretive June 2011 conference in
Colorado hosted by climate-change-denying libertarian billionaires
Charles and David Koch. In one clip, Charles Koch compares President
Obama to Saddam Hussein. That evening, Friedman discusses the
conference on MSNBC's "The Ed Show."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes/">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/09/exclusive-audio-koch-brothers-seminar-tapes/</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/7qLiEB4Ed_E">http://youtu.be/7qLiEB4Ed_E</a><br>
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