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<font size="+1"><i>October 2, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b>Trump Administration Moves to Bail Out Coal & Nuclear: </b>The
Department of Energy announced Friday it has requested that the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission enact changes that would
ultimately boost compensation for coal and nuclear power--a move
that could potentially create the biggest change to electricity
markets in decades. <br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://energy.gov/articles/secretary-perry-urges-ferc-take-swift-action-address-threats-grid-resiliency">Secretary
Perry Urges FERC to Take Swift Action to Address Threats to Grid
Resiliency</a></b><br>
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry
formally proposed that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
(FERC) take swift action to address threats to U.S. electrical grid
resiliency. Pursuant to his authority under Section 403 of the
Department of Energy Organization Act, the Secretary urged the
Commission to issue a final rule requiring its organized markets to
develop and implement reforms that would fully price generation
resources necessary to maintain the reliability and resiliency of
our nation's grid.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://energy.gov/articles/secretary-perry-urges-ferc-take-swift-action-address-threats-grid-resiliency">https://energy.gov/articles/secretary-perry-urges-ferc-take-swift-action-address-threats-grid-resiliency</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/09/why-extremes-are-expected-to-change-with-a-global-warming/comment-page-5/">Why
extremes are expected to change with a global warming</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/09/why-extremes-are-expected-to-change-with-a-global-warming/comment-page-5/">http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2017/09/why-extremes-are-expected-to-change-with-a-global-warming/comment-page-5/</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/29/climate-change-may-make-phoenix-uninhabitable-2050/">
Climate Change May Make Phoenix Uninhabitable By 2050</a></b><br>
Phoenix requires two things not found naturally in the area -
electricity and water. Without both, the Phoenix of today would
never have happened. Despite its abundant sunshine, Arizona has
depended for decades on electricity generated by burning coal.
Utilities companies in Arizona have been slow to transition to
renewables, although lower prices are driving them to look in that
direction.<br>
A study by Climate Central finds that Phoenix will likely be three
to five degrees hotter in the summer months by 2050. The average
number of 100 degree days will increase from 40 a year today to more
than 132 a year. To put that in some perspective, New York City
currently experiences two 100 degree days a year. <a
href="http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/hot-take-phoenix-summer-temps-could-approach-kuwait-citys-by-2100-new-study-says-8478722">Climate
Central </a>expects that number to increase to 15 a year by 2050.<br>
In 2012, the Department of the Interior released a climate change
study that warns of a precipitous drop in the amount of water
available from the Colorado River in coming years. <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/29/climate-change-may-make-phoenix-uninhabitable-2050/">https://cleantechnica.com/2017/09/29/climate-change-may-make-phoenix-uninhabitable-2050/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/our_hydra_headed_meta_delusions">OUR
HYDRA-HEADED META-DELUSIONS...</a></b><br>
This second essay in a series introduces another key concept that
explains why all of us in the USA are failing to address the climate
crisis, ignoring ecological and population overshoot, shutting our
eyes to the coming collapses attendant to massively excessive
resource extractions, and related issues.<br>
The reader is invited to answer to what extent delusions are
operating in their own lives, and the lives of their families.
Subsequent essays will examine the "Boomerang Effect" and related
aspects of psychological reactance-additional individual responses
to information that contradicts convenient world-views.<br>
The premise of these essays is that the path we are now on -
represented by our social, political, economic, and moral systems,
both here in the USA and worldwide - will mean complete catastrophe.
Our current pathways mean the end of civilization, the loss of most
of the Tree-of-Life, and the elimination of most of the human
population, if not the extinction of the human race. The exhaustive
information that documents this series of looming catastrophes will
not be presented at the outset, in the hope of making the
information considered readable, and avoid the most extreme examples
of the Boomerang Effect and psychological reactance for the reader.<br>
...the necessary precondition to responding effectively to the
coming catastrophes is understanding and accepting their
inevitability.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/our_hydra_headed_meta_delusions">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/our_hydra_headed_meta_delusions</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.science.su.se/om-oss/nyheter/gordon-goodmans-minnesf%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning-2017-kevin-anderson-1.341328">(video
lecture) Gordon Goodman's Memory Lecture 2017 - Kevin Anderson</a></b><br>
Kevin Anderson is Professor of Energy and Climate at the University
of Manchester. He is one of Britain's most recognized and acclaimed
climate researchers and has long experience of communicating climate
science to decision makers, business, civil society and the media.
He himself, for environmental reasons, has not flown in 12 years.<br>
Kevin Anderson has paved the way for and established research on
so-called carbon dioxide budgets and the conversion of different
sectors of society to acceptable levels of emissions based on
politically agreed targets.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.science.su.se/om-oss/nyheter/gordon-goodmans-minnesf%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning-2017-kevin-anderson-1.341328">http://www.science.su.se/om-oss/nyheter/gordon-goodmans-minnesf%C3%B6rel%C3%A4sning-2017-kevin-anderson-1.341328</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/28/tropical-forests-used-to-protect-us-from-climate-change-a-new-study-says-theyre-now-making-it-worse/">Tropical
forests used to protect us from climate change. Now, scientists
say, they're making it worse</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/28/tropical-forests-used-to-protect-us-from-climate-change-a-new-study-says-theyre-now-making-it-worse/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/09/28/tropical-forests-used-to-protect-us-from-climate-change-a-new-study-says-theyre-now-making-it-worse/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/poll-americans-climate-change-responsible-hurricanes">Poll:
Majority Says Climate Change Responsible For Severity of
Hurricanes</a></b><br>
The Weather Channel<br>
Researchers are still trying to understand the link between global
warming and intense hurricanes, but the risk to low-lying areas and
the deadly ...<br>
Fifty-five percent of Americans say climate change impacted the
intensity of hurricanes this season.<br>
That's a significant departure from 2005, when only 39 percent
believed there was a link.<br>
Scientists maintain that finding a link between global warming and
intense hurricanes is complicated.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/poll-americans-climate-change-responsible-hurricanes">https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/poll-americans-climate-change-responsible-hurricanes</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/snl-alec-baldwin-reveals-clown-presidents-crisis-management-plan/"><br>
SNL: Alec Baldwin Reveals Our Clown President’s Crisis
Management Plan</a></b><br>
In yet another moment of crisis, Alec Baldwin returns to Saturday
Night Live as the president whose incompetence and laziness -
ordinarily a sort of blessing - has become a terrible curse on the
suffering people of Puerto Rico. So learns San Juan Mayor Carmen
Yulin Cruz (Melissa Villasenor) when she places a desperate call for
help to the Oval Office, only to have a whining Trump hang up on
her.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/7e4vFMJmBIc">Saturday
Night Live video</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/7e4vFMJmBIc">https://youtu.be/7e4vFMJmBIc</a><br>
Published on Sep 30, 2017<br>
President Donald Trump (Alec Baldwin) speaks with Sarah Huckabee
Sanders (Aidy Bryant), Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (Melissa Villaseñor)
of San Juan, Jeff Sessions (Kate McKinnon) and Senator Chuck Schumer
(Alex Moffat).<br>
Sadly for Puerto Rico, the White House confusion is all part of his
plan: "The more chaos I cause, the less people can focus." Trump’s
chicken-fried press secretary, the durable Sarah Huckabee Sanders
(Aidy Bryant), "no nonsense but all nonsense," is ever eager to
amplify the deception. So is ultra-loyal Attorney General Jeff
Sessions (Kate McKinnon), the country’s cutest white nationalist,
who pleads: "Don’t tweet on me again!"<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/snl-alec-baldwin-reveals-clown-presidents-crisis-management-plan/">http://www.nationalmemo.com/snl-alec-baldwin-reveals-clown-presidents-crisis-management-plan/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/X3ZCsFYE4Q8">(video)
Weekend Update on Hurricane Maria - SNL</a></b><br>
Saturday Night Live Published on Oct 1, 2017<br>
Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che tackle the week’s
biggest news, including President Donald Trump’s poor response to
Hurricane Maria. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Kate McKinnon)
stops by.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/X3ZCsFYE4Q8">https://youtu.be/X3ZCsFYE4Q8</a></font><br>
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<a
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/09/communicating-climate-change-through-poetry/"><b>(audio)
Communicating climate change through poetry One poet is using
metaphor to inspire reflection and action.</b></a><br>
In his new book, Hawk on Wire, several poems portray a world
transformed by global warming, while others capture glimpses of
nature that Starbuck hopes everyone can relate to and appreciat<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/09/communicating-climate-change-through-poetry/">https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/09/communicating-climate-change-through-poetry/</a></font><b><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/01/how-science-is-done/">(Video
Satire) How to Science </a></b><br>
How a hypotheses becomes a theory. Required for new students.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/DQaF4YXCXsc">Mr.
Show - The Limits of Science</a> <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/DQaF4YXCXsc">https://youtu.be/DQaF4YXCXsc</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/01/how-science-is-done/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/01/how-science-is-done/</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/5qhox5P_jCg">This Day in Climate
History October 2, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font></b></font><br>
October 2, 2008: Vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Sarah<br>
Palin spar over climate and energy issues in their lone debate,<br>
moderated by Gwen Ifill.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/5qhox5P_jCg">http://youtu.be/5qhox5P_jCg</a><br>
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