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<font size="+1"><i>September 29, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/september-heat-wave-noaa-ca21143e97e1/">Late-September
heat wave leaves climate experts stunned</a></b><br>
"Never been a heat wave of this duration and magnitude this late in
the season," reports NOAA<br>
SEP 27, 2017<br>
Century-old records across the Midwest and East Coast are being
shattered by a monster late-September heat wave - the kind of
extreme weather we can expect to get much worse thanks to President
Donald Trump's policies to undermine domestic and global climate
action.<br>
"There has never been a heat wave of this duration and magnitude
this late in the season in Chicago," the National Weather Service
reported Tuesday evening.<br>
From Wednesday through Tuesday, for example, Chicago sweltered
through "the only occurrence on record of 7+ consecutive 90 degrees
F days entirely within September." Every day of the heatwave was 92
degrees F or above, and every one set a new record high for that
date.<br>
"It's perhaps obvious that global warming means more frequent and
intense heat waves," climatologist Michael Mann noted in an email to
ThinkProgress. "But what is less obvious is how climate change may
be impacting the behavior of the jet stream in way that causes more
persistent weather extremes, giving us even more extreme and
longer-duration heat waves than we would otherwise expect."<br>
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chart showing this very effect.</span><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://thinkprogress.org/september-heat-wave-noaa-ca21143e97e1/">https://thinkprogress.org/september-heat-wave-noaa-ca21143e97e1/</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://slowmoney.org/blog/a-conversation-with-daphne-miller/">The
True Cost of Food</a></b><br>
Daphne Miller: These days I'm focused on the true cost of food. We
have the cheapest food in the world. Food purchases make up
something like 8% of our GDP. But when you start to factor in all
the chronic diseases and environmental impacts-the health footprint
of food-then all of a sudden we have the most expensive food in the
world. Not 8% but 25% or higher. How is it we have something that is
so cheap but so expensive?..<br>
People are getting so sick because they aren't connected to a
healthy food system. Medicine is putting out fires, it gets to
people way too late. We need to work upstream, outside the medical
model.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://slowmoney.org/blog/a-conversation-with-daphne-miller/">https://slowmoney.org/blog/a-conversation-with-daphne-miller/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170926/lane-does-officials-global-warming-denial-harm-storm-prep">(Opinion)
Does officials' global warming denial harm storm prep?</a></b><br>
By Mark Lane <br>
Can Florida be resilient when "sea-level rise" and "global warming"
are phrases that shouldn't be spoken?<br>
The first step in dealing with sea-level rise is for state and local
governments to acknowledge it exists.<br>
The second step is for elected officials to acknowledge it exists.<br>
The problem is sea-level rise can most easily be explained as an
effect of global warming. And it is an article of faith among
conservative politicians that global warming is a hoax manufactured
by environmental extremists or the Chinese or People Who Hate
America.<br>
In 2015, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection started
censoring the terms "climate change" and "global warming" from
official communications and reports, according to a Florida Center
for Investigative Reporting news story. The governor's office has
denied that it has such gag rule. But clearly, he'd rather people
stop using the phrase in his presence, especially at press
conferences.<br>
"I'm not going down that path," House Speaker Richard Corcoran said
when asked about global warming at the start of hurricane season.
And he hasn't since then.<br>
If so much of officialdom is denying the cause, can they deal with
the effect? Possibly.<br>
Instead of fighting global warming and sea-level rise denialists,
many Florida cities are studying "resiliency." Miami has an "Office
of Resilience." It's politically awkward to talk about sea-level
rise but resilience? Who can be against that?<br>
And what does resiliency entail? Not allowing building in
flood-prone areas. Better stormwater systems with upgraded pumps.
Moving and elevating roads, upgrading infrastructure, hardening
power systems, keeping hurricane-strength building codes and doing
something about sewer systems that dump into waterways during
storms.<br>
Coastal Florida always has been a bet against nature. Now that more
Floridians are coast dwellers, it's a higher stakes bet than it used
to be.<br>
And it appears the odds in that bet have shifted. Which makes it
only prudent to hedge that bet more than in the past. Even if state
and local planners know better than to say the words "global
warming" until there's some political climate change. That shows
resiliency, too.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170926/lane-does-officials-global-warming-denial-harm-storm-prep">http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/20170926/lane-does-officials-global-warming-denial-harm-storm-prep</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/27/right-wing-media-could-not-be-more-wrong-about-the-15c-carbon-budget-paper">Right-wing
media could not be more wrong about the 1.5 degrees C carbon
budget paper</a></b><br>
As usual, conservative media outlets distorted a climate science
paper to advance the denialist agenda<br>
Last week, Nature Geoscience published a study suggesting that we
have a bigger remaining carbon budget than previously thought to
keep global warming below the 1.5 degrees C aggressive Paris climate
target. Many scientists quickly commented that the paper's
conclusion was based on some questionable assumptions, and this
single study shouldn't be blindly accepted as gospel truth.<br>
Conservative media outlets did even worse than that. They took one
part of the paper's analysis out of context and grossly distorted
its conclusions to advance their anti-climate agenda.<br>
1.5 degrees C might indeed be a geophysical impossibility<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/sep/27/right-wing-media-could-not-be-more-wrong-about-the-15c-carbon-budget-paper">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/sep/27/right-wing-media-could-not-be-more-wrong-about-the-15c-carbon-budget-paper</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/09/28/465946.htm">Study
Says Climate Change Could Lead to Rougher Roads</a></b><br>
Insurance Journal<br>
...Transportation infrastructure is built to last decades, but
engineering protocols in the United States assume climate
stationarity, which may result in accelerated degradation and,
consequently, increased costs," a study out from academics at ASU
states.<br>
According to the study, if the standard practice for material
selection is not changed to adapt to rising average temperatures, it
could add up to $21.8 billion to pavement costs by 2070 under the
same moderate global warming scenarios that predict average global
temperature increases of 1.8 C.<br>
The standard practice for selecting materials to build roads is
based on average temperatures from 1966 to 1995, which differs from
averaged based on data studied from 1985 to 2014, according to Shane
Underwood, an assistant professor of civil engineering at ASU and
one of the authors of the study....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/09/28/465946.htm">http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2017/09/28/465946.htm</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/energy-environment/exxon-methane-leaks.html">Exxon
Aims to Cut Methane Leaks, a Culprit in Global Warming</a></b><font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/energy-environment/exxon-methane-leaks.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/business/energy-environment/exxon-methane-leaks.html</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-window-is-closing-to-avoid-dangerous-global-warming/">The
Window Is Closing to Avoid Dangerous Global Warming</a></b><br>
There's a 50 percent chance that temperatures will rise 4 degrees
Celsius under a business-as-usual scenario<br>
Deadly climate change could threaten most of the world's human
population by the end of this century without efforts well beyond
those captured in the Paris Agreement.<br>
"These studies are a wake-up call ahead of U.N. Climate Week - we
must not only zero out CO2 emissions by 2050, but also rapidly limit
superpollutants like HFCs and methane, and even undertake
atmospheric carbon removal," said Bledsoe, a former Clinton White
House climate adviser.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-window-is-closing-to-avoid-dangerous-global-warming/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-window-is-closing-to-avoid-dangerous-global-warming/</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_climate_swerve_reflections_on_mind_hope_and_survival_with_robert_jay_lifton_and_bill_moyers">THE
CLIMATE SWERVE: REFLECTIONS ON MIND, HOPE AND SURVIVAL WITH
ROBERT JAY LIFTON AND BILL MOYERS...</a></b><br>
The renowned psychiatrist and historian makes a case for hope for
humanity's grasp of the dangers of climate change...<br>
Robert Jay Lifton was born 91 years ago. Living through the
catastrophes of the 20th century - world war, tyrannical regimes,
genocide, the nuclear bomb, terrorism - he grappled with their
terrible impact on human beings. His work as a psychiatrist,
historian and public intellectual forged his reputation as one of
the world's foremost thinkers. Among his 20 books are such seminal
award winners as Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima (1967); The
Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986);
and Witness to an Extreme Century: A Memoir (2014).<br>
Now he has turned to climate change, which, he says, "presents us
with what may be the most demanding and unique psychological task
ever required of humankind." In The New York Times three years ago,
he wrote that "Americans appear to be undergoing a significant
psychological shift in our relation to global warming." Borrowing a
term from Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt to
describe a major historical change in consciousness, he called this
shift a climate "swerve." Lifton plunged into studying the
phenomenon further and has just published a new book, The Climate
Swerve: Reflections of Mind, Hope, and Survival.<br>
Here is my interview with him....(<i>snippets)</i><strong
style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong><br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </strong><strong
style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moyers: To the two forces we've
already discussed,<span> </span><em style="box-sizing:
border-box;">experience</em><span> </span>and<span> </span><em
style="box-sizing: border-box;">economics</em>, you add third
one that's converging to create the climate swerve:</strong><br
style="box-sizing: border-box;">
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong> <strong
style="box-sizing: border-box;">You write: "The swerve toward
awareness of global warming was leading people to feel it was
deeply wrong, perhaps evil, to destroy our habitat and create a
legacy of suffering for future generations. Their consciences were
being stirred. They were being energized." This was three years
ago. Do you still think that force is as powerful today as it was
then?</strong><br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lifton:</strong><span> </span>I
think it still is, even though now with President Trump and his
administration you have ethnonationalism, which combats exactly what
we're talking about. What we're describing is a recognition that
there's something wrong with endangering ourselves as a species and
perhaps even eliminating ourselves and our civilization. There's
something wrong with what we are bequeathing to the next generation.<br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lifton:</strong><span> </span>There's
more and more recognition that a carbon economy is dangerous to us
economically. And there is increasing recognition that renewable
fuels have economic value as well as obvious value for our health
and our well-being and our survival. In fact, as you know, the
economic revolution in renewable fuels has been impressive. It
really had not been anticipated. In any case, you have the symbolism
and active significance of members of the Rockefeller family and two
of the Rockefeller foundations recognizing this - withdrawing from
fossil fuels in terms of their investments, divesting themselves -
and recognizing a new kind of economic possibility. So the economic
side is making itself felt. Unfortunately, it's still in a sense an
impasse because there are lots of people who continue to defend
those stranded assets with what I call stranded imagination or
stranded ethics. They insist they have a fiduciary duty in terms of
their corporation to serve investors by making use of those stranded
assets. But there's more and more pressure against them and more and
more of what I call "species awareness" that condemns this pattern
of stranded ethics. <br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moyers: I want to believe
you, but it still seems to me that powerful capitalist
organizations such as ExxonMobil, libertarian oligarchs like the
Koch brothers, and superrich right-wingers like the Mercer family
are not going to want to leave all that buried treasure in the
ground.</strong><br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lifton:</strong><span> </span>Most
of them will do their damnedest to bring it out of the ground and
see themselves as even doing good in the process by creating jobs
and by enhancing the economies of the developing world and other
such rationalizations, yes. But there's more and more of a
recognition against it, again as embodied by the Paris accord. It's
of some significance Donald Trump tried to withdraw from Paris,
never quite succeeded, and now seems to be looking for a way to stay
in the treaty. Of course, he's declaring all kinds of victories
because he says we're renegotiating the treaty, which means
renegotiating with yourself, since you set the standards that one
agrees to for reducing carbon emissions. But the fact that he
couldn't finally take us completely out of the Paris accord and that
when he tried to there was a rallying by individual states, led by
California and by others in the world, reasserting the principles of
Paris we're all in this together - well, you can't deny the power of
climate swerve - this new global awareness about climate danger....<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_climate_swerve_reflections_on_mind_hope_and_survival_with_robert_jay_lifton_and_bill_moyers">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/the_climate_swerve_reflections_on_mind_hope_and_survival_with_robert_jay_lifton_and_bill_moyers</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://billmoyers.com/story/dangerous-case-donald-trump-robert-jay-lifton-bill-moyers-duty-warn/">The
Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: Robert Jay Lifton and Bill
Moyers on 'A Duty to Warn'</a></b><br>
There will not be a book published this fall more urgent, important,
or controversial than The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, the work
of 27 psychiatrists, psychologists and mental health experts to
assess President Trump's mental health. They had come together last
March at a conference at Yale University to wrestle with two
questions. One was on countless minds across the country: "What's
wrong with him?" The second was directed to their own code of
ethics: "Does Professional Responsibility Include a Duty to Warn" if
they conclude the president to be dangerously unfit?<br>
As mental health professionals, these men and women respect the
long-standing "Goldwater rule" which inhibits them from diagnosing
public figures whom they have not personally examined. At the same
time, as explained by Dr. Bandy X Lee, who teaches law and
psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, the rule does not have a
countervailing rule that directs what to do when the risk of harm
from remaining silent outweighs the damage that could result from
speaking about a public figure - "which in this case, could even be
the greatest possible harm." It is an old and difficult moral issue
that requires a great exertion of conscience. Their decision: "We
respect the rule, we deem it subordinate to the single most
important principle that guides our professional conduct: that we
hold our responsibility to human life and well-being as paramount."<br>
Hence, this profound, illuminating and discomforting book undertaken
as "a duty to warn."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://billmoyers.com/story/dangerous-case-donald-trump-robert-jay-lifton-bill-moyers-duty-warn/">http://billmoyers.com/story/dangerous-case-donald-trump-robert-jay-lifton-bill-moyers-duty-warn/</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/EnergyIssues3">This
Day in Climate History September 29, 2000</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
September 29, 2000: In an apparent effort to convince moderate
voters<br>
not to support Democratic opponent Al Gore, GOP presidential
candidate<br>
George W. Bush delivers an energy speech implying that he will
pursue<br>
efforts to reduce carbon pollution as president. Bush would go on to<br>
abandon this implied promise during his tenure in the White House.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/EnergyIssues3">http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/EnergyIssues3</a></font><br>
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