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<font size="+1"><i>September 14, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/index.ssf/2017/09/eagle_creek_fire_size_containm.html">Columbia
gorge fire now 13% contained; I-84 in Oregon remains closed</a></b><br>
Updated on September 13, 2017 at 7:51 PM Posted on September 13,
2017 at 8:46 AM<br>
A wildfire burning in the Columbia River Gorge now covers an
estimated 37,500 acres, which is a jump of over 1,900 acres from
Tuesday's acreage.<br>
...the timeline for reopening the interstate's westbound lanes
between Troutdale and Hood River has been held up by fire activity
and that workers continue to remove trees from along the eastbound
interstate.<br>
The agency is hoping to open the interstate's westbound lanes first,
he said. The Historic Columbia River Highway, which is closed
between East Larch Mountain Road and Ainsworth State Park, is
expected to be closed for a long time.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/index.ssf/2017/09/eagle_creek_fire_size_containm.html">http://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/index.ssf/2017/09/eagle_creek_fire_size_containm.html</a><br>
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href="https://www.wired.com/story/photo-of-the-week-a-hellish-vision-of-portland-oregons-famous-gorge-in-flames/">PHOTO
OF THE WEEK: A HELLISH VISION OF PORTLAND, OREGON'S FAMOUS GORGE
IN FLAMES</a><font size="-1" color="#666666"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.wired.com/story/photo-of-the-week-a-hellish-vision-of-portland-oregons-famous-gorge-in-flames/">https://www.wired.com/story/photo-of-the-week-a-hellish-vision-of-portland-oregons-famous-gorge-in-flames/</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.ft.com/content/a2616a52-988b-11e7-a652-cde3f882dd7b">Big
investors take aim at banks over climate change risk</a></b><br>
Investment managers write to chief executives about compliance with
Paris accord<br>
A coalition of institutional investors managing more than $1tn in
assets is demanding that 60 of the world's largest banks take action
to protect the world from the threat of catastrophic damage due to
climate change.<br>
Letters have been sent to the chief executives of banks including
HSBC, Lloyds, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and
Deutsche Bank to demand more information about their exposures to
climate-related risks and their plans to ensure compliance with the
landmark agreement to tackle global warming reached by governments
in Paris in December 2015.<br>
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href="https://www.ft.com/content/a2616a52-988b-11e7-a652-cde3f882dd7b">https://www.ft.com/content/a2616a52-988b-11e7-a652-cde3f882dd7b</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/13/insurance-climate-change-hurricane-irma-harvey/">Two
Climate Disasters Put Insurance Industry in the Crosshairs</a></b><br>
The insurance industry is facing a staggering set of numbers from
the country's two latest disasters. Hurricane Irma will likely cause
$20 billion to $40 billion in insured losses for homes, businesses
and industrial properties, according to the risk modeling firm AIR
Worldwide. Hurricane Harvey left behind an estimated $10 billion in
insured losses from wind, flood and storm surge in Texas, AIR said,
but estimates including uninsured losses reach as high as $75
billion in property destroyed. <br>
The overall economic damages are even higher. AccuWeather founder
Dr. Joel N. Myers said Harvey will become the costliest U.S. weather
disaster with a $190 billion price tag and Irma could top $100
billion.<br>
The two hurricanes aren't just drawing attention for their
devastating financial toll. Irma and Harvey highlight a Category 5
problem slamming the insurance industry: how to manage the emerging
climate-related risks for homes, businesses and governments as
global warming fuels bigger and more costly catastrophes. <br>
The insurance industry, which is responsible for managing society's
risks, has been vocal in acknowledging the threat of climate change.
But two reports issued last December by a group of the world's
largest insurers also concede that they remain largely unprepared to
address climate risks in the communities they serve. <br>
The annual difference between the economic losses and the insured
portion, dubbed "protection gap," has ballooned from $23 billion to
$100 billion since the 1980s, according to insurance giant Swiss Re.
The losses connected to natural disasters have grown five-folds to
about $170 billion worldwide during the same period. Most of the
flood-prone properties in Texas and Florida aren't insured, the
Associated Press reported.<br>
"The role that ecosystems play in climate change adaptation is a bit
of a blind spot," Goldstein said. "There are only a handful of
companies using ecosystems in their climate risk management
strategies."<br>
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href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/13/insurance-climate-change-hurricane-irma-harvey/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/09/13/insurance-climate-change-hurricane-irma-harvey/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/k5_zpjerQFo">Video
This is all just a part of a natural cycle, right?</a></b><br>
Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe<br>
Published on Sep 13, 2017<br>
All this worry about warming when it's just a natural cycle. The
climate is always changing and today's no different -- right?<br>
Global Weirding is produced by KTTZ Texas Tech Public Media and
distributed by PBS Digital Studios. New episodes every other
Wednesday at 10 am central. Brought to you in part by: Bob and Linda
Herscher, Freese and Nichols, Inc, and the Texas Tech Climate
Science Center.<br>
"Sometime in the next few thousand years was another Ice Age , that
is until that long slow cooling trend stopped and then abruptly
reversed just about two hundred years ago the Sun, volcanoes and
natural cycles.... they all have an alibinow it's time to look for a
new factor that might be causing the planet to warm. And it turns
out that scientists have known about such a factor for over a
hundred and fifty years. The heat-trapping gases we produce
whenever we burn coal or gas or oil as well as from deforestation
land-use change in agriculture these gases are wrapping an extra
blanket around our planet this blanket is trapping heat inside the
climate system that would otherwise escape to space that's why we're
warming for the first time in the history of our planet it's us"<br>
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href="https://youtu.be/k5_zpjerQFo">https://youtu.be/k5_zpjerQFo</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://world.einnews.com/article/403506204/D20PxwpVONSdFV0o">Microsoft,
Disney among companies calculating carbon footprints - report</a></b><br>
Sep 12, 2017 - Reuters<br>
NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Microsoft , Walt
Disney Co. and General Motors are among hundreds of companies
calculating how much they spend on carbon emissions to show
investors they are concerned about global warming, a study said on
Tuesday. More than 700 other businesses around the world plan by
2018 to introduce so-called carbon pricing, said the report by the
U.S.-based Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES).<br>
The findings come amid efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to
scale back climate change-related regulations on grounds they are
burdensome to the economy.<br>
Putting a monetary value on carbon dioxide emissions helps limit the
burning of fossil fuel, which contributes to global warming, and
signals to investors that companies are aware of the financial risks
posed by global warming, the study said.<br>
Some 500 companies, including 80 in the United States, reported
using carbon pricing, it said, drawing on an array of previous
research.<br>
According to the World Bank, 42 governments have or plan to have a
way to tax carbon emissions or have a cap-and-trade system that
allows industries with low emissions to sell their unused permitted
capacity to larger emitters.<br>
The United States is not among them.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://world.einnews.com/article/403506204/D20PxwpVONSdFV0o?lcf=1aJfg1NLu5CktHcOSRxN9dHlGRfTkPOMONqIMF_3EZk%3D">http://world.einnews.com/article/403506204/D20PxwpVONSdFV0o</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversationus.cmail19.com/t/r-l-jldjkikd-hrkivktld-k/">The
mental health impact of major disasters like Harvey and Irma</a></b><br>
J. Brian Houston, University of Missouri-Columbia; Jennifer First,
University of Missouri-Columbia<br>
After the storm is over, it's time to rebuild - and natural
disasters can affect survivors' health for years to come.<br>
When major disasters like Hurricanes Harvey and Irma hit, the first
priority is to keep people safe. This process can involve<span> </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/volunteers-rescue-hurricane-harvey-victims-evacuation-centers-fill-49506790" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">dramatic evacuations, rescues and searches</a>.<br>
However, after the initial emergency passes, a much longer process
of recovering and rebuilding begins. For individuals, families and
communities, this can last months or even years. This work often
begins at the same time as the<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699012456022" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">national media starts packing up</a><span> </span>and
public attention shifts to the next major news story.<br>
At the University of Missouri's<span> </span><a href="http://dcc.missouri.edu/" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Disaster and Community Crisis Center</a>,
we study disaster recovery, rebuilding and resilience. Much of our
research shows that natural disasters can have a meaningful impact
on survivors' mental and behavioral health. These issues typically
emerge as people try to recover and move forward after the
devastation.<br>
<b>Health and disasters</b><br>
Immediately after a natural disaster, it's normal to experience
fear, anxiety, sadness or shock. However, if these symptoms continue
for weeks to months following the event, they may indicate a more
serious psychological issue.<br>
The disaster mental health problem<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291707001353" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">most commonly studied</a><span> </span>by
psychologists and psychiatrists is post-traumatic stress disorder,
which can occur after frightening events that threaten one's own
life and the lives for family and friends.<br>
Following a disaster, people might<span> </span><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/hurricane-katrina-s-psychological-scars-revealed-1.18234" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">lose their jobs or be displaced from their homes</a>.
This can contribute to<span> </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100610387086" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">depression</a>,
particularly as survivors attempt to cope with loss related to the
disaster. It's not easy to lose sentimental possessions or face
economic uncertainties. People facing these challenges can feel
hopeless or in despair.<br>
<a href="https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/trauma/disaster-terrorism/disasters-substance-abuse.asp" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Substance use</a><span> </span>can
increase following disasters, but usually only for individuals who
already used tobacco, alcohol or drugs before the disaster. In a<span> </span><a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2009.01136.x" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">study</a><span> </span>of
Hurricane Katrina survivors who had been displaced to Houston,
Texas, approximately one-third reported increasing their tobacco,
alcohol and marijuana use after the storm.<br>
There's also evidence that<span> </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/09/disaster-domestic-abuse/501299/" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">domestic violence increases</a><span> </span>in
communities experiencing a disaster. After Hurricane Katrina,<span> </span><a href="https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/wpallimport/files/iwpr-export/publications/D492.pdf" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">another study</a><span> </span>found
that, among women in Mississippi who were displaced from their
homes, domestic violence rates increased dramatically. Perpetrators
may feel a<span> </span><a href="http://www.newstribune.com/news/news/story/2011/dec/22/abuse-victims-joplin-struggle-find-housing/555565/" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">loss of control</a><span> </span>following
the disaster and turn to abusive behavior to try to gain that
control back in their personal relationships.<br>
<b>Disaster recovery</b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
While many disaster survivors show resilience, studies have shown
mental and behavioral health issues cropping up<span> </span><a href="http://www.nj.gov/humanservices/dmhas/initiatives/disaster/" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">weeks, months and even years after a disaster</a>.<br>
Rebuilding can be a long process, with a series of ups and downs.
Survivors may bounce back after a few months, or they may experience
ongoing stressors, such as financial issues or problems finding
permanent housing. Disaster anniversaries or other reminders - like
a heavy rainstorm months after a hurricane - may also trigger
reactions.<br>
In addition, early disaster recovery efforts often focus on physical
reconstruction. Psychological recovery may end up on the back
burner.<br>
Individuals and organizations working to help disaster survivors
need to remember that disasters can affect many aspects of
survivors' lives. As a result, several different community systems
need to be working together as part of recovery efforts.<br>
Researchers sometimes call the multi-agency disaster response and
recovery network that is needed to help individuals cope with a
disaster a<span> </span><a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-015-0647-0" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">"system of care."</a><span>
</span>A disaster system of care will include disaster groups like
FEMA and Red Cross. It<span> </span><a href="http://dcc.missouri.edu/doc/Disaster_Displacement_Manual_v1_2009_Final.pdf" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">should also involve</a><span> </span>agencies
representing public health, mental health, schools, local
government, social services, local businesses and workforce
development, faith-based organizations and local media.<br>
For example, combating domestic violence after a disaster will
require<span> </span><a href="http://dcc.missouri.edu/doc/dcc_domestic_violence_and_disasters.pdf" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">collaboration</a><span> </span>among
disaster organizations, domestic violence groups, law enforcement,
local media and more. Resources intended to help women and families
experiencing domestic violence - such as legal aid or transportation
assistance - should be included in disaster response programs.<br>
Communities should also help disaster survivors get reconnected: to
their friends and family, to new people in the community and to the
place they may be temporarily staying while displaced.<span> </span><a href="https://theconversation.com/recovering-from-disasters-social-networks-matter-more-than-bottled-water-and-batteries-69611" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Social capital and support</a><span> </span>may
be the most important resources for individuals coping with
disasters. Community events, such as neighborhood dinners, might
help foster connections.<span> </span><a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12092" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Social media platforms</a><span> </span>can
help bring together neighbors who are displaced and waiting to
return home.<br>
Finally, a<span> </span><a href="http://dcc.missouri.edu/doc/dcc_community_mh_response_factsheet.pdf" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">variety of mental health interventions</a><span>
</span>- such as<span> </span><a href="http://www.nctsn.org/content/psychological-first-aid" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">psychological first aid</a>,<span> </span><a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/dtac/ccp" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">crisis counseling</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://cbitsprogram.org/" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">cognitive behavioral therapy</a><span>
</span>- can help those who have experienced a disaster. These
programs can be delivered through many community systems, including
mental health agencies, schools and more.<br>
If you're in the U.S. and seeking help, a free<span> </span><a href="https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Disaster Distress Helpline</a><span> </span>is
available for disaster survivors.<br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/09/13/534966/Pentagon-defies-Trumps-order-on-global-warming">Pentagon
still preparing for global warming despite Trump's order to stop</a></b><br>
The Pentagon continues to take measures for protection of its bases
against impacts of global warming although US President Donald Trump
rescinded all climate-related federal agency actions directed by
former President Barack Obama, a report says.<br>
The initiatives that Trump killed in March included one that
stipulated the Pentagon to be ready for extreme whether in the
future operations, Military Times reported on Tuesday.<br>
"A changing climate will have real impacts on our military and the
way it executes its missions," the Defense Department concluded in a
2014 report, dubbed a "climate change roadmap," issued in the wake
of Obama's order. "The military could be called upon more often to
support civil authorities … in the face of more frequent and more
intense natural disasters."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/09/13/534966/Pentagon-defies-Trumps-order-on-global-warming">http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/09/13/534966/Pentagon-defies-Trumps-order-on-global-warming</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/winton-capital-sets-up-climate-change-prediction-market.html">Winton
Capital sets up climate change prediction market</a></b><br>
Under the plan, scientists and experts from around the world will be
able to trade contracts based on the atmospheric concentration of
carbon dioxide and how far temperatures increase, going decades into
the future. Winton will act as a market maker and subsidise trading,
rather than taking a cut or skewing the odds in its favour.<br>
Winton's market, which will be based in the UK, will be one of only
a few prediction markets and is believed to be the first dedicated
to climate issues.<br>
In Winton's market, bets will settle every year, using temperature
data from the UK's Hadley Centre, and the annual average of the
concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide as measured by the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration monitoring station
on Mauna Loa, Hawaii.<br>
The hedge fund will initially target professionals in the climate
field to participate, though it will be open to anyone in the UK. It
is being run internally at Winton, with employees able to place
notional bets rather than using real money. Mr Roulston said they
are hoping to launch it externally later this year to universities,
and will open it to the public sometime next year.<br>
Mark Boslough, a physicist and adjunct professor at the University
of New Mexico, said he hopes Winton's climate prediction market will
lay the groundwork for a more developed way of betting on the future
of the environment.<br>
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href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/winton-capital-sets-up-climate-change-prediction-market.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/12/winton-capital-sets-up-climate-change-prediction-market.html</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a
href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-09-13/climate-science-emissions-scenarios/">(audio)
Climate Science: Emissions Scenarios</a></b><br>
By Chris Nelder, originally published by Energy Transition Show<br>
September 13, 2017<br>
Modeling the future of our climate is a complex task that not too
many people understand. What do we know about how the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC) modeling
actually works? Why has the modeling community decided to model
emissions separately from socioeconomic scenarios? When we hear that
the RCP8.5 emissions scenario is considered a "business as usual"
scenario, what assumptions are we making about all that business?
And are those assumptions reasonable? Is there a climate scenario
that represents an optimistic view of energy transition over the
coming decades? And if so, what does it assume about the energy
technologies that we will switch away from, and switch to?<br>
These and many other questions are answered in this two-hour
discussion on emissions modeling by an expert climate modeler from
the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), who co-chairs
the working group on future scenarios for impacts, adaptation and
vulnerability indicators of the International Committee On New
Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios. It's a wonktastic
deep dive into an esoteric subject… and it just may leave you
feeling a lot more hopeful about the prospects for energy
transition, and for our planet.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-51-climate-science-part-6-emissions-scenarios/">https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-51-climate-science-part-6-emissions-scenarios/</a></font><br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-09-13/climate-science-emissions-scenarios/">http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-09-13/climate-science-emissions-scenarios/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09112017/climate-change-sea-level-rise-fossil-fuel-exxon-chevron-bp-study">How
90 Big Companies Helped Fuel Climate Change: Study Breaks It
Down</a></b><br>
A new study connects climate change impacts to the emissions from
Exxon, Chevron and other large oil, gas and cement companies and
their products.<br>
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that nearly two-thirds of historical greenhouse gas emissions came
from the products and operations of just 90 companies-mostly
fossil fuel producers, plus a few cement companies.</span><br>
Using models, they calculated that the greenhouse gas emissions of
these 90 companies accounted for around 42 to 50 percent of the
global temperature increase and about 26 to 32 percent of global sea
level rise over the course of industrial history, from 1880 to 2010.
Since 1980, a time when global warming was first getting wide
attention, their emissions have accounted for around 28 to 35
percent of rising temperatures and around 11 to 14 percent of rising
seas.<br>
While some of the companies are huge-Chevron, Saudi Aramco,
ExxonMobil, Gazprom-even the biggest of them weren't blamed for more
than about 1 or 2 percent of the rising tides or temperatures.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09112017/climate-change-sea-level-rise-fossil-fuel-exxon-chevron-bp-study">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/09112017/climate-change-sea-level-rise-fossil-fuel-exxon-chevron-bp-study</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2017/09/climate_change_hurricane.html">If
Republicans acknowledged climate change, then they'd have to
change | Opinion</a></b><br>
When NPR asked Rep. Pete Olson of Texas how his celebration of
America being pulled out of the Paris climate accord with the record
breaking rainfall that just submerged Houston, Olson predictably
said that it was the wrong time to have a discussion about climate
change. Olson also played what he must have believed was his trump
card. In 1900, he said, Galveston was wiped out by a hurricane that
killed 8,000 people.... <br>
But as Olson's allusion to 1900 Galveston illustrates, "there's
nothing to see here" has become a mantra of Republicans in power.
Why is that? It's not like Republicans are less vulnerable to a
changing climate. It's not like rising sea levels and more powerful
storms will single out Democrats. So how come so many are so adamant
that nothing's happening?<br>
In a Monday piece for The Intercept, writer Naomi Klein argues that
Republicans deny climate change because to admit its existence would
mean they'd have to change their entire political ideology. Klein
notes that when Hurricane Irma reached Category 5 strength in the
Atlantic - the first storm ever known to reach that strength that
far out -- President Donald Trump considered it the perfect time to
gather his cabinet to hammer out a plan to cut taxes.<br>
It's important to link the Category 5 storm and the Republicans'
push for lower taxes, Klein writes, because denying climate change
helps Republicans argue against the need for more taxes.<br>
As Klein puts it, "if climate change is driving the kinds of
catastrophes we are seeing right now -- and it is -- then it doesn't
just mean Trump has to apologize and admit he was wrong when he
called it a Chinese hoax. It means that he also needs to junk his
whole tax plan, because we're going to need that tax money (and
more) to pay for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels. And it
also means he's going to have to junk his deregulatory plan, because
if we are going to change how we power our lives, we're going to
need all kinds of regulations to manage and enforce it." Trump and
the climate-denying Republican governors around the country "would
have to junk an entire twisted worldview holding that the market is
always right, regulation is always wrong, private is good and public
is bad, and taxes that support public services are the worst of
all."...<br>
Accepting the reality of climate change "detonates the ideological
scaffolding on which contemporary conservatism rests. To admit that
the climate crisis is real is to admit the end of their political
and economic project."<br>
The novelist Upton Sinclair wrote, "It is difficult to get a man to <a
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pointer;">understand</a> something, when his salary depends upon
his not understanding it."...<br>
The same idea seems to apply here. Surely Republicans in Louisiana
and Texas and Florida can see the effects of a changing climate. But
admitting its reality would mean that so many of the things that
they've championed are contributing to the damage<br>
You can listen to Emmanuel's NPR interview here: "<a
href="http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/09/01/climate-change-harvey"
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Climate Helped Shape Harve</a>y"<br>
You can read Klein's column here: "<a
href="https://theintercept.com/2017/09/11/irma-donald-trump-tax-cuts-climate-change-republican-ideology-capitalism/"
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101, 192); text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;">Irma Won't
'Wake Up' Climate-Change Denying Republicans. Their Whole Ideology
Is On The Line</a>."<br>
Jarvis DeBerry is deputy opinions editor for NOLA.COM | The
Times-Picayune. He can be reached at<span> </span><a
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color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/350399-stevie-wonder-anyone-who-doesnt-believe-in-global-warming-must">Stevie
Wonder: Anyone who doesn't believe in global warming 'must be
'blind'</a></b><br>
Stevie Wonder struck a political note at a concert to raise money
for hurricane relief late Tuesday, saying anyone who does not
believe in global warming "must be blind." <br>
"Anyone who believes that there's no such thing as global warming
must be blind or unintelligent," the musician said during the "Hand
in Hand" telethon.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/350399-stevie-wonder-anyone-who-doesnt-believe-in-global-warming-must">http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/350399-stevie-wonder-anyone-who-doesnt-believe-in-global-warming-must</a><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b>This Day in Climate History September 14, 1989 -
from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
September 14, 1989: Reviewing Bill McKibben's book "The End of
Nature," Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman observes:<br>
"It is not a doomsday diatribe, although his reflections have the
conceptual power of Jonathan Schell's 'Fate of the Earth.' From his
home in the Adirondacks, McKibben doesn't chart the end of the
world, but of the natural order.<br>
"In some ways that has been the moral message of the ecology
movement. Limits. Restraints. We learned to stop using DDT, and we
are learning to do without chlorofluorocarbons, and we must stop
releasing carbon dioxide. More profoundly, as McKibben writes, 'Deep
ecology suggests that instead of just giving better orders we learn
to give fewer and fewer orders -- to sink back into the natural
world.'<br>
"Nature is already pushed back to prairie museums, zoos, national
parks, protected endangered species. Now, in McKibben's work, there
is another late reminder that if we don't limit our numbers and our
habits, all we'll have of nature will be the videotapes."<br>
<font size="-1" color="#666666"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8137848.html">http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-8137848.html</a>
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