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<font size="+1"><i>September 26, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/09/25/how-a-hurricane-could-paralyze-the-u-s-government-and-jeopardize-national-security/">How
a Major Hurricane Could Paralyze the Government and Jeopardize
National Security</a></b><b> <br>
or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love Preparedness</b> <br>
Last week, Rolling Stone Magazine's Justin Nobel wrote a lengthy
article that asks a question not many people are asking: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/what-happens-when-a-superstorm-hits-dc-w504341">What
Happens When a Superstorm Hits D.C.?.</a> Center for Climate and
Security Advisory Board Member, Brigadier General Gerry Galloway,
U.S. Army (retired), one of the nation's premier experts on flood
risks to critical military and civilian infrastructure, was
interviewed for the story. From the article:<br>
When the big storm hits D.C., the resulting disaster may not kill as
many as Katrina, or flood as much physical real estate as Harvey,
but the toll it takes on American institutions will be unfathomable.
The storm will paralyze many of the agencies that operate and defend
the nation, raising the specter of national-security threats.
Imagine, says Gerald Galloway, a disaster and national-security
expert at the University of Maryland who served 38 years in the
military, "the world waking up some morning to see an aerial
photograph of Washington, D.C., with everything from the Lincoln
Memorial to the grounds of the Capitol under-water - that certainly
does not speak well for the United States' preparedness."<br>
As the U.S. emerges from the destruction of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma,
and Maria, prescient news articles from before the storms, like the
vulnerability of Houston, Texas to flooding, add another element of
concern. Storms happen and there is always an element of surprise
and uncertainty, but there are also basic preparations that can be
put in place well in advance. Making sure these plans reach
decision-makers and those who are key to implementing them is also
critical. Take the Washington, D.C. levee system for example,<br>
Washington's defense begins with a little-known levee system. "There
probably aren't 10 people in Washington," says Galloway, "who even
know this levee exists." The Potomac Park Levee System is operated
by the National Park Service and consists of an earthen berm that
begins near the Lincoln Memorial and runs along the National Mall,
passing just below the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Constitution
Gardens to the Washington Monument. At 17th Street, a busy
thoroughfare that cuts right through the berm, a 140-foot-wide gap
marks the levee system's greatest point of vulnerability. For the
city to be protected, this must be manually patched.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/09/25/how-a-hurricane-could-paralyze-the-u-s-government-and-jeopardize-national-security/">https://climateandsecurity.org/2017/09/25/how-a-hurricane-could-paralyze-the-u-s-government-and-jeopardize-national-security/</a><br>
Click<span> </span><a
title="center-for-climate-and-security_military-expert-panel-report"
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/center-for-climate-and-security_military-expert-panel-report2.pdf"
style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144); text-decoration: none;">here</a><span> </span>for
the full report.</font>
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initial;"><font size="-1">Click<span> </span><a
title="center-for-climate-and-security_military-expert-panel-report_brochure"
href="https://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/center-for-climate-and-security_military-expert-panel-report_brochure.pdf"
style="color: rgb(12, 83, 144); text-decoration: none;">here</a><span> </span>for
a summary of the report.</font></p>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/what-happens-when-a-superstorm-hits-dc-w504341">What
Happens When a Superstorm Hits D.C.?</a></b><br>
A major hurricane could paralyze the government and jeopardize
national security. Why is the capital so unprepared?<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/what-happens-when-a-superstorm-hits-dc-w504341">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/what-happens-when-a-superstorm-hits-dc-w504341</a></font><br>
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<b> potholer54 video</b><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIpTqbLR5Y">Response to
Patrick Moore's "What They Haven't Told You about Climate
Change"</a></b><br>
"I have shown the titles and authors of papers very clearly in the
video to save me a lot of time copying and writing them down here.
If you have trouble reading the titles and the authors off the
screen, get a friend to help you. It's really not that hard. "<br>
<b><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIpTqbLR5Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XIpTqbLR5Y</a></b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/koch-money-to-take-or-not-to-take"><br>
<b>(PRI Radio) Koch Money: To Take or Not to Take?</b></a><br>
Arts critic Philip Kennicott: "Anxiety about the climate is not an
issue that is miles and miles and miles away from what happens
inside museums and opera houses." Jun 28, 2017<br>
The Public Theater stirred up quite a controversy with their recent
production of "Julius Caesar" that featured a very Trump-like
Caesar, and in response, some of their corporate funders <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/11/arts/delta-airline-trump-public-theater-julius-caesar.html">withdrew
their sponsorship. </a>Some critics shouted "censorship!" but if
we're concerned about the strings attached to corporations
donations, then maybe some of that money shouldn't be accepted to
begin with. That's the argument made by <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://twitter.com/PhilipKennicott">Philip Kennicott,</a>
The Washington Post art and architecture critic, in his recent
article, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/with-the-planet-in-peril-arts-groups-can-no-longer-afford-the-koch-brothers-money/2017/06/05/3e0307b4-4a07-11e7-a186-60c031eab644_story.html?utm_term=.a82a8d0f615b">"With
the planet in peril, arts groups can no longer afford the Koch
brothers' money."</a> Kurt talks with Kennicott about art,
climate, stewardship, and ethics. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wnyc.org/story/koch-money-to-take-or-not-to-take">http://www.wnyc.org/story/koch-money-to-take-or-not-to-take</a><br>
</font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article175073351.html">Slimy
green blob invades the Columbia River in Tri-Cities</a></b><br>
He pointed to an enormous greenish-brown basketball-sized blob of
slimy jelly. They got it into a fishing net and hefted the 40- to
45-pound mass onto the shore. It had a translucent body with many
star-like blooms along the outside. It could be easily broken into
smaller clusters<br>
What he found is called <i>Pectinitella magnifica</i> - a huge
colony of micro-organisms called magnificent bryozoans.<br>
According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the local sighting
comes on the heels of an increasing number of reports in the region
of this amazing creature.<br>
Each gelatinous blob can reach several feet in diameter and will
turn a dark purple with shiny white spots. Each mass is actually
formed out of hundreds to thousands of individual feeding organisms,
which extend tiny non-stinging tentacles from the edge of the blob
into the water to feed.<br>
While they are as slimy as they come, they don't sting, are
non-toxic, and are not dangerous, although they are capable of
causing water outtake pipes to clog.<br>
Scientists think that the increased occurrence in our area may be
directly related to climate change and global warming. The warmer
waters increase the availability of suitable habitat for the
magnificent bryozoan.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article175073351.html">http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article175073351.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfn9Llg0DWPL4xCLFIKRKzaJ8tU04xZkd">(Video
list) Science in Action: Working in Extremes</a></b><br>
This playlist features short movies that show how scientists are
studying the rapid changes occurring in the Earth's frozen regions,
from looking at crabs in Alaska to using drones to study the melting
of the Greenland Ice Sheet.<br>
1. Guilt Trip - Salomon TV [Full Movie]<br>
SalomonFreeskiTV<br>
2. Science in an extreme environment - Horizon: Ice Station
Antarctica - BBC Two<br>
3. SWERUS-C3 – an expedition to the Arctic Ocean<br>
Stockholm University<br>
4. Drone in Greenland - Fast Forward Science 2017<br>
Guillaume Jouvet<br>
5. Alive and Well: Microbes Add to Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet<br>
YaleClimateConnections<br>
6. SWARP 12 minutes movie<br>
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center<br>
7. Kodiak Fisheries Research Center sian proctor<br>
8. Arctic Report Card 2016 NOAAPMEL <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfn9Llg0DWPL4xCLFIKRKzaJ8tU04xZkd">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfn9Llg0DWPL4xCLFIKRKzaJ8tU04xZkd</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/DKfP63NH4DM">Polar
Film Fest Selects "This is Not Cool" Vid</a><br>
Thanks to the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists, sponsors
of the online Polar Film Festival, for selecting the above feature
for the Science in Action category.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfn9Llg0DWPL4xCLFIKRKzaJ8tU04xZkd">Youtube
playlist of all selections here.</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/09/25/climate-change-imagination-miles-howard">(Commentary)
How To Fight Climate Change: Our Imaginations</a></b><br>
It might seem strange to devote an entire essay to such an obvious
conclusion. But America is experiencing a strange chapter of history
in which common sense is dangerously vulnerable to partisan dogma. I
refer not only to the modern Republican Party - a cabal of immovable
climate change denialists which Noam Chomsky rightly called the
"most dangerous organization on earth" - but also the once-bold
Democratic Party, which has embraced the sucker's conclusion that
"pragmatism" means not rocking the boat too much. Even as the
Democrats trepidatiously move to the left of Hillary Clinton's
centrist campaign failure with economic proposals like the "Better
Deal" and Bernie Sanders' single-payer health care bill, the issue
of climate change has yet to catch fire in a game-changing,
galvanizing way. The solutions that we are offered - buy LED light
bulbs, buy solar panels, buy a composting bin, buy an electric car -
are mostly individualistic. It's a sort of green self-betterment
program in which the burden of fighting climate change is placed on
regular people, as opposed to the industries, entities and
structures of commerce that have contributed to our environmental
crisis.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/09/25/climate-change-imagination-miles-howard">http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2017/09/25/climate-change-imagination-miles-howard</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/09/21/why-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma-wont-lead-action-climate-change">Why
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma Won't Lead to Action on Climate
Change</a></b><br>
Thursday, September 21, 2017 <br>
This fits the historical pattern: Clustered disasters might sharpen
our senses to the risks in our midst and even disturb our
complacency, but they will not necessarily lead directly to new
legislation or personal ideological shifts. Strong commitments to
land use, profits and real estate development have historically
militated against calls for caution, restraint and mitigation, even
though these types of laws make Americans safer from disasters. This
dynamic will not be altered by two hurricanes, no matter how
terrifying their effects.<br>
Better indicators of change, drawing from history, have proven to be
events that cluster over much larger stretches of time. A "slow
disaster" frame allows civil society and scientific researchers to
build a case for change that is strengthened by disaster events. For
example, the red alert about the toxicity of DDT raised by Rachel
Carson in 1962 had immediate effects, but that was only one early
step in a series of events that followed. It should be seen as part
of a much more impactful and slower process of reform that led to
the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and a
wave of environmental regulations that took effect in that decade.<br>
<font size="-1"> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/09/21/why-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma-wont-lead-action-climate-change">https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/09/21/why-hurricanes-harvey-and-irma-wont-lead-action-climate-change</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-oreilly-no-spin/">This
Day in Climate History September 26, 2004</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 26, 2004: In an apparent attack on his own bosses at the
Fox<br>
News Channel, Bill O'Reilly tells CBS News's Mike Wallace:<br>
"[The] government's gotta be proactive on [the] environment. Global<br>
warming is here. All these idiots that run around and say it isn't<br>
here? That's ridiculous!"<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-oreilly-no-spin/">http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-oreilly-no-spin/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/ZD39QY8ew3c">http://youtu.be/ZD39QY8ew3c</a></font><br>
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