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<font size="+1"><i>September 20, 2017<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/20/hurricane-maria-takes-aim-at-puerto-rico-with-force-not-seen-in-modern-history/">Hurricane
Maria hammers Puerto Rico with force not seen in 'modern
history'</a></b><i><br>
</i>SAN JUAN - Hurricane Maria roared ashore on Puerto Rico on
Wednesday as the strongest storm to strike the island in more than
80 years while panicked residents fled to high ground and huddled in
shelters hoping to withstand powerhouse winds that have already left
death and devastation across the Caribbean.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/20/hurricane-maria-takes-aim-at-puerto-rico-with-force-not-seen-in-modern-history/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/09/20/hurricane-maria-takes-aim-at-puerto-rico-with-force-not-seen-in-modern-history/</a></font><font
size="+1"><i><br>
</i></font><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/19/hurricane-maria-category-5-caribbean-live-updates">Hurricane
Maria: category 5 storm batters Caribbean – live</a></b><br>
<i>(</i>Caribbean faces fresh devastation as category 5 Hurricane
Maria hits<br>
Dominica's prime minister charts 'merciless' Maria on social media<br>
Hurricane Maria's impact will probably lead to a "total collapse of
the energy system in Puerto Rico."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/19/hurricane-maria-category-5-caribbean-live-updates">https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/19/hurricane-maria-category-5-caribbean-live-updates</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/climate/what-is-climate-change.html">Climate
Change Is Complex. We've Got Answers to Your Questions.</a><br>
</b>By JUSTIN GILLIS <br>
We know. Global warming is daunting. So here's a place to start: 17
often-asked questions with some straightforward answers...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/climate/what-is-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/climate/what-is-climate-change.html</a></font><br>
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<b><b><br>
<a
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/19/16324926/avoiding-catastrophic-climate-change">Good
news! Avoiding catastrophic climate change isn't impossible
yet. Just incredibly hard.</a><br>
</b></b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/19/16324926/avoiding-catastrophic-climate-change">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/19/16324926/avoiding-catastrophic-climate-change</a><b><b><br>
</b>.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/18/new-climate-calculations-could-buy-the-earth-some-time-if-theyre-right/?utm_term=.85e0204acf03">New
climate change calculations could buy the Earth some time - if
they're right</a></b><br>
"What this paper means is that keeping warming to 1.5 degrees C
still remains a geophysical possibility, contrary to quite
widespread belief," Millar said in a news briefing. He conducted the
research with scientists from Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Austria,
Switzerland and Norway...<br>
That's what makes the new result so surprising: It finds that we
have more than 700 billion tons left to emit to keep warming within
1.5 degrees Celsius, with a two-thirds probability of success.
"That's about 20 years at present-day emissions," Millar said at the
news briefing.<br>
"Nonetheless, even with the new revision, the latest research finds
that keeping warming below 1.5 degrees C will be quite hard. "Even
with the largest estimates of the remaining carbon budget, this path
is extremely challenging, starting reductions immediately and then
reducing emissions to zero over 40 years," Millar said at the press
event.<br>
Overall, the dispute raises questions about how widely the
carbon-budget concept has proliferated - and just how much we
actually understand it.<br>
"It goes to show, this carbon-budget approach is still much more,
let's say, immature scientifically than what we often assume,"
Peters said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/18/new-climate-calculations-could-buy-the-earth-some-time-if-theyre-right/?utm_term=.85e0204acf03">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/18/new-climate-calculations-could-buy-the-earth-some-time-if-theyre-right/?utm_term=.85e0204acf03</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/global-climatechange/rise-in-global-warming-triggered-by-pacific-flip-uk-met-office-idUKL5N1LZ3PS">Rise
in global warming triggered by Pacific "flip" - UK Met Office<br>
</a></b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://uk.reuters.com/article/global-climatechange/rise-in-global-warming-triggered-by-pacific-flip-uk-met-office-idUKL5N1LZ3PS">https://uk.reuters.com/article/global-climatechange/rise-in-global-warming-triggered-by-pacific-flip-uk-met-office-idUKL5N1LZ3PS</a><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-harvey-irma-insurance-industry-climate-change-20170919-story.html">Don't
expect the insurance industry to protect you from climate change</a></b><br>
$ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-harvey-irma-insurance-industry-climate-change-20170919-story.html">http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-harvey-irma-insurance-industry-climate-change-20170919-story.html</a><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://jackson.yale.edu/kerry-initiative/yale-climate-conference/conference-schedule/">Leonardo
DiCaprio Speaks at Yale Climate Change Conference</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://jackson.yale.edu/kerry-initiative/yale-climate-conference/conference-schedule/">http://jackson.yale.edu/kerry-initiative/yale-climate-conference/conference-schedule/</a><br>
</b>The conference moderator will be former U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry, who graduated from the university in 1966...<br>
Leonardo DiCaprio spoke at a Yale climate change conference hosted
by the Kerry Initiative. <br>
The conference at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale
University kicked off on Monday and continued on Tuesday.<br>
The conference moderator is former U.S. Secretary of State John
Kerry, who graduated from the university in 1966.<br>
Panelists and speakers include former U.S. Secretary of State James
Baker, California Governor Jerry Brown, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo,
General Electric Chair of the Board Jeffrey Immelt and actor
Leonardo DiCaprio. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Leonardo-DiCaprio-to-Speak-at-Yale-Climate-Change-Conference-445555003.html#ixzz4tAbFxPee">http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Leonardo-DiCaprio-to-Speak-at-Yale-Climate-Change-Conference-445555003.html#ixzz4tAbFxPee</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://jackson.yale.edu/kerry-initiative/yale-climate-conference/conference-schedule/">http://jackson.yale.edu/kerry-initiative/yale-climate-conference/conference-schedule/</a><br>
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<b><a
href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/mainstream-us-climate-strategy-has-failed-miserably-so-what-now">(opinion)
Mainstream U.S. Climate Strategy Has Failed Miserably: So What
Now?</a></b><br>
Environmentalists and climate activists have never tried to agree on
a coherent, common campaign.<br>
By Ken Ward / AlterNet<br>
September 18, 2017, 11:30 PM GMT<br>
...Like any other consumer product, climate change activism has been
marketed under several different brands. If you like your climate
action with a hefty dose of capitalism, buy Environmental Defense
Fund. If you appreciate a veneer of science, there's Natural
Resources Defense Council and Union of Concerned Scientists. If you
enjoy a bit more honesty in the problem statement, but still want
that upbeat sunny feeling, you've got the Sierra Club. If you are
comfortable in a crowd, go with cap and trade. If you like a bit of
policy dash, choose the carbon tax. <br>
U.S. environmentalists and climate activists have never tried to
agree on a coherent, common campaign; we don't even have a
coalition. We've never had a national meeting. Why? Because it is
not in our organization's interests. <br>
Almost everyone I know who is fully engaged in trying to craft a
pragmatic climate strategy that is grounded in both geophysical and
political realities, is prepared for, and driven by the climate
change impacts we see unfolding around us, and aims for the truly
transformational, does so on the cheap, sleeping on other people's
couches, dependent on the kindness of friends for meals and to cover
mobile phone charges. We have no offices, no IT department, no
staff, no salaries and no paid vacations. <br>
Ten years ago, a small group of us formed the Bright Lines network
and crafted such an alternative, which went nowhere. Interviewing me
for his book What We Are Fighting For Now Is Each Other: Dispatches
from the Front Lines of Climate Justice, Wen Stephenson asked me why
the Bright Lines effort was unsupported. I answered that "there was
no felt need." <br>
Perhaps there is a felt need now. <br>
Here's a good first step: Stop contributing to the organizations and
underwriting the strategies that got us into this mess in the first
place. Instead, let's turn those resources toward the woefully
under-supported-and hugely cost-effective-efforts at the margins,
which are going head-to-head with the fossil fuel monolith.<br>
Climate activist Ken Ward is a co-founder of ShutItDown. <font
size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.alternet.org/environment/mainstream-us-climate-strategy-has-failed-miserably-so-what-now">http://www.alternet.org/environment/mainstream-us-climate-strategy-has-failed-miserably-so-what-now</a></font><br>
<b><a
href="http://www.shutitdown.today/cataclysm_today_there_is_no_third_path">(exhortation)
Cataclysm Today: There Is No Third Path</a></b><br>
I've spent decades horrified by the systemic ecological collapse we
are experiencing. Yesterday was the first time I could palpably feel
so many of my friends experiencing at least some of this horror. It
is indescribably sad, and on some level I feel fortunate to have had
so much time to anguish over, and thus emotionally prepare, for what
is happening all around us.<br>
It is a fatal misconception that we have any time at all to address
climate chaos (or any of the other ecological limits we are
violating). Fires like the ones currently raging through the forests
of the West ARE the feedback loops that put climate change
irreversibly on course to get worse and worse. We are not at the
brink of the cliff. We have plummeted over it. What we can try to do
now is ecologically analogous to grasping a rock outcrop while
already falling, like in a movie.<br>
If you haven't before, and you're one of my friends from outside of
the tiny circles where people are trying desperately to stop the
world from ending, perhaps take this moment, when normal life seems
to have decisively halted, to consider whether it isn't time for you
to put some effort into halting global collapse.<br>
If you think there's a big climate movement and it's kicking ass, if
you think renewable energy is on the rise and that should take care
of it, if you think the Paris Agreements mean anything, you're
woefully wrong and everything you love is threatened by this
misconception.<br>
We desperately need people, money, energy. We are tired. We are
hungry. We wake up every morning completely overwhelmed by the scope
of the task, the lateness of the hour, and the capacity almost
everyone around us has to pay attention to something other than the
apocalypse. Please come help us.<br>
If this sounds preachy, I'm not sure what tone other than a
religious one is suitable for the end of the world. We are in the
final and decisively losing moments of a war for life on earth. We
have the choice of abandoning our current trajectories to
desperately struggle against the ecological crisis, or abandoning
our current trajectories to struggle against fire, floods and each
other. There is no third path.<br>
<font size="-1"><i>Arnold Schroder began working against ecological
collapse in the forest defense movement of the 1990s, halting
industrial logging with administrative appeals and direct action
alike. In 2011, after binge reading scientific papers on the
subject, began devoting the majority of his activist energies to
climate change. Since that time, he's reconciled himself to
abandoning his purely scientific ambitions, and has been on a
journey that has taken him to tar sands equipment blockades on
the frozen desert highways of East Oregon, the oil and coal
laden rail lines of Washington, the burning barricades on North
Dakota State Highway 1806, and beyond. At large for over a year,
he claims to be settling in Olympia, WA. </i></font><font
size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.shutitdown.today/cataclysm_today_there_is_no_third_path">http://www.shutitdown.today/cataclysm_today_there_is_no_third_path</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.shutitdown.today/a_conversation_with_wen_stephenson">A
Conversation with Wen Stephenson</a></b><br>
Join the Valve Turners and author Wen Stephenson as they discuss
climate direct action in this time of both monumental hope and
profound doom. We'll also be following up with the valve turners
about recent legal proceedings.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.shutitdown.today/a_conversation_with_wen_stephenson">http://www.shutitdown.today/a_conversation_with_wen_stephenson</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/909982720561999872">(techno-graffiti)
Sierra Club lit up the Trump Hotel- and Maura Cowley would love
for you all to share the image</a></b><br>
For those that don't know me- I've recently started leading the
Sierra Club's National Resistance campaign, which is a new campaign
with the goal of resisting the Trump Administration's attacks on
science, climate action, and environmental justice while working to
build an even stronger grassroots movement against Trump.<br>
Last night we lit up Trump Hotel- and would love for you all to
share the image.<br>
Here are some tweets- please retweet:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/909982720561999872">https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/909982720561999872</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/bellvisuals/status/909947659821223939">https://twitter.com/bellvisuals/status/909947659821223939</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/909959652758228993">https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/909959652758228993</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/909966330635448320">https://twitter.com/SierraClub/status/909966330635448320</a><br>
Maura Cowley <br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/13/epa-to-announce-carbonlimitsonnewpowerplants.html">This
Day in Climate History September 20, 2013</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 20, 2013: The Obama administration proposes new EPA
regulations intended to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from new
power plants in the US.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/13/epa-to-announce-carbonlimitsonnewpowerplants.html">http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/9/13/epa-to-announce-carbonlimitsonnewpowerplants.html</a><br>
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