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<font size="+1"><i>October 10, 2017</i></font><b><br>
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California Is Burning</a></b><font size="-1"><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/10/09/80000-acres-in-18-hours-damage-from-historic-california-wine-country-wildfires-comes-into-focus/">80,000
acres in 18 hours: Damage from historic California wine country
wildfires comes into focus</a></b><br>
Monday marked the latest chapter in a book of unforgettable Octobers
for California residents and firefighters alike, right next to the
especially devastating fall months in 2003 and 2007.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/10/09/80000-acres-in-18-hours-damage-from-historic-california-wine-country-wildfires-comes-into-focus/">http://wildfiretoday.com/2017/10/09/80000-acres-in-18-hours-damage-from-historic-california-wine-country-wildfires-comes-into-focus/</a></font><b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ocregister.com/2017/10/09/brush-fire-burning-25-acres-in-anaheim-hills/">Canyon
Fire 2 has destroyed 6000 acres and 24 structures, threatening
another 5000</a><br>
</b>The biggest fire to hit Orange County in nearly a decade
destroyed at least 24 structures Monday and threatened hundreds
more, forcing several thousand people to evacuate dozens of
neighborhoods in Anaheim, Orange and Tustin.<br>
The so-called Canyon Fire 2, named because flames scorched dry,
rugged hills just to the west less than a month ago, burned more
than 6,000 acres and by late evening was less than 10 percent
contained.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ocregister.com/2017/10/09/brush-fire-burning-25-acres-in-anaheim-hills/">http://www.ocregister.com/2017/10/09/brush-fire-burning-25-acres-in-anaheim-hills/</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41559875">(BBC)
California fires: Deadly wildfires sweep through wine country</a><br>
</b>Mass evacuations have been announced as several others are
reportedly missing.<br>
About 20,000 people have fled from Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties
after fires broke out across the area renowned for its vineyards.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41559875">http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41559875</a></font><b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.governing.com/topics/finance/sl-wildfires-states-budget.html">Wildfires
Strain State Budgets</a><br>
</b><font size="-1"><span class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><span
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.governing.com/topics/finance/sl-wildfires-states-budget.html">http://www.governing.com/topics/finance/sl-wildfires-states-budget.html</a></span></span></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiRo-ecjubWAhWIjlQKHUu0B2QQqQIIJSgAMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2Fsections%2Fthetwo-way%2F2017%2F10%2F09%2F556659194%2Fepa-chief-announces-reversal-of-obama-era-curbs-on-coal-plants&usg=AOvVaw3-6znl1PYAtdIsGx_CgFyD">EPA
Chief Announces Reversal Of Obama-Era Curbs On Coal Plants</a><font
size="-1"><br>
</font></b>"The EPA and no federal agency should ever use its
authority to say to you we are going to declare war on any sector of
our economy," Pruitt ...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/09/556659194/epa-chief-announces-reversal-of-obama-era-curbs-on-coal-plants">http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/09/556659194/epa-chief-announces-reversal-of-obama-era-curbs-on-coal-plants</a><b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.npr.org/2017/10/10/556795221/trump-white-house-reverses-obama-era-curbs-on-coal-plants">(Audio)
Trump White House Reverses Obama-Era Curbs On Coal Plants</a><br>
</b>Rachel Martin talks to former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,
who helped finalize the Clean Power Plan. She talks to Rachel Martin
about the Trump administration's moves to scrap that rule.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.npr.org/2017/10/10/556795221/trump-white-house-reverses-obama-era-curbs-on-coal-plants">http://www.npr.org/2017/10/10/556795221/trump-white-house-reverses-obama-era-curbs-on-coal-plants</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/09/global-warming-since-1850-in-2-minutes/">Global
Warming Since 1850. In 2 Minutes</a><br>
</b>October 9, 2017<br>
The estimable Robert Rohde of Berkeley Earth has an updated graph.<br>
The man who hired him, Richard Muller, you may remember, is a PhD
physicist who made a splash a few years back as a self styled
climate skeptic, said a bunch of pretty inexcusable things about
climate scientists, and scored a big grant from the Koch Brothers to
restudy global temperature records from the ground up.<br>
To his credit, Dr. Muller hired some smart people, did an honest
job, and came up with the same answer that everyone else has for the
last 50 years or so. Still no apologies to the good men and women he
slandered, but at least, as you see below, he's telling. the story
straight.<br>
data from Berkeley Earth <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://berkeleyearth.org/global-warming-2016/">http://berkeleyearth.org/global-warming-2016/</a><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/09/global-warming-since-1850-in-2-minutes/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/09/global-warming-since-1850-in-2-minutes/</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/our_changing_climate_mind_set">OUR
CHANGING CLIMATE MIND-SET...</a></b><br>
By ROBERT JAY LIFTON OCT. 7, 2017 <b><br>
</b>Climate images have never been able to convey our full planetary
danger until now. The extraordinary recent four-punch sequence of
hurricanes - Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria - threatened the lives of
millions of people, obliterated their homes and has raised doubts
that some places will ever recover. The rest of us have a newly
immediate sense of catastrophes of biblical proportions. As
meaning-hungry creatures we search for explanations. No wonder some
have embraced the apocalyptic narrative of total destruction by an
angry deity. And no wonder that climate-change rejecters like
President Trump have increasing difficulty defending their
position...<br>
But does this mean that we attribute this menace to global warming
and to human contributions to that warming? My answer here is yes
and no and yes again.<br>
Yes: Scientists warn that hurricanes are made worse by the warming
of the atmosphere and the oceans and by the increased storm surge
caused by higher sea levels. Climate change can thus amplify
disasters into catastrophes.<br>
No: There are still voices ridiculing this conclusion. About the
record-breaking intensity of Hurricane Irma, Mr. Trump said that
"we've had bigger storms than this." And Scott Pruitt, the
administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, took righteous
exception to discussing the "cause and effect of these storms" as
"very, very insensitive to the people in Florida." Both were
engaging in climate rejection rather than denial. Because with
climate truths so widely disseminated and accepted, both know in
some part of their minds that global warming is real and
threatening.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/our_changing_climate_mind_set">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/our_changing_climate_mind_set</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-americans-want-climate-change-policies/">Most
Americans Want Climate Change Policies</a><br>
</b>But in a new poll, half say they would not pay more on their
electric bill to help lower emissions<br>
The poll suggested the public knows little about specific energy
issues, with money driving people's views more than health or
environmental considerations.<br>
Most respondents said they would support policies to lower
emissions, but half said they would be unwilling to pay even $1 more
on their electric bill to do so. If climate policies cost an extra
$10 per month, 60 percent of respondents said they would oppose
them.<br>
Political leanings-more than income, education or geographic
location-were the biggest indicator of whether someone would pay a
modest fee to combat climate change.<br>
Other studies have also suggested politics has more to do with
attitudes toward climate policy than with economics.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-americans-want-climate-change-policies/">https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/most-americans-want-climate-change-policies/</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/10/08/chris-werle-science-religion-arent-opposition-when-comes-climate-change/733635001/">
Chris Werle: Science, religion aren't in opposition when it
comes to climate change</a></b><br>
Scriptural passages can be found that apply to nearly any challenge
we might encounter, and the need for environmental stewardship is no
exception. Consider Genesis 2:15: "Then the Lord God took the man
and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it." Or Leviticus
25:23-24: "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is
mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants. Throughout the land
that you hold, you shall provide for the redemption of the land."
These passages and many others like them provide a clear directive
for maintaining a clean and healthy environment.<br>
And when we consider the increasingly important, yet politically
unpopular topic of man-made climate change over the past decade,
almost every major Christian religion has made public pronouncements
of support for climate action:<br>
<b>- Anglican, 2011:</b> "The scriptures call humanity to a careful
stewardship of creation. Man-made climate change is given urgent
priority for reflection, study and action. We press government,
industry and civil society on the moral imperative of taking
action." (A Statement on Climate Change by the Primates of the
Anglican Communion, following the Primates' meeting in Dublin,
Ireland)<br>
<b>- Episcopal, 2012:</b> "The 77th General Convention calls on the
church to work for the transformation of the world's energy away
from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, and to support the
implementation of solutions to climate change." (The Acts of
Convention of the Episcopal Church, Resolution 2012-B023. General
Convention, Journal of the 77th General Convention of the Episcopal
Church, Indianapolis)<br>
<b>- Judaism, 2008:</b> "The Jewish community is united in its
belief that climate change is occurring, and we affirm our
responsibility to address this planetary crisis. We support
aggressive climate change legislation to reduce carbon
concentrations by 80 percent by 2050, and reduce emissions by 25-40
percent by 2020. The United States should lead by example to
facilitate the global transition to a low-carbon economy." (Jewish
Community Priorities for Climate and Energy Policy, from the
Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life)<br>
<b>- Presbyterian, 2010: </b>"We affirm that science should inform
our policy, especially concerning emergent environmental issues such
as global climate change." (Presbyterian Church USA, Call to Restore
the Creation, the 219th General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church)<br>
<b>- Roman Catholic, 2010:</b> "Climate change is at the center of
the environmental challenges facing our nation and the world. Urgent
action that both addresses the growing impact of climate change and
acts to protect the poor and vulnerable is needed." (United States
Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Global Climate Change)<br>
<b>- Southern Baptist, 2008: </b>"Global climate change is among
the current era's challenges that require a unified moral voice. To
abandon these issues to the secular world is to shirk from our
responsibility to be salt and light. The time for timidity regarding
God's creation is no more. Therefore, in the face of intense concern
and guided by the biblical principle of creation stewardship, we
resolve to engage this issue without any further lingering over the
basic reality of the problem or our responsibility to address it.
Humans must be proactive and take responsibility for our
contributions to climate change." (A Southern Baptist Declaration on
the Environment and Climate Change)<br>
<b>- United Methodist, 2008:</b> "We call on our members to reduce
human-related outputs of greenhouse gases; to learn about and make
their congregations more aware of the issue of global warming; to
call on the nations of the world to require reductions in
emissions." (The United Methodist Church, Resolution on Global
Warming, Resolution #1031, 2008 Book of Resolutions)<br>
<b>- Unitarian Universalist, 2006: </b>"We are called to halt
practices that fuel global warming, to instigate sustainable
alternatives, and to mitigate the impending effects of global
warming with ethical responses." (Threat of Global Warming/Climate
Change, 2006 Statement of Conscience)<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/10/08/chris-werle-science-religion-arent-opposition-when-comes-climate-change/733635001/">http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/10/08/chris-werle-science-religion-arent-opposition-when-comes-climate-change/733635001/</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/sKR3e0fhiKQ"><br>
<b>(video) Inside the Experiment: Abrupt Change and Ice Cores </b></a><br>
Oct 3, 2017<br>
Jorgen Peder Steffensen, of Denmark's Niels Bohr Institute, is one
of the most experienced experts in ice core analysis, in both
Greenland and Antarctica. Dr. Steffensen explained to videographer
Peter Sinclair his concerns about possible abrupt climate changes.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/sKR3e0fhiKQ">https://youtu.be/sKR3e0fhiKQ</a><br>
</font><br>
<br>
<b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5NyFcmvVI">(Video)
Betsy Hartmann: Optimism is Essential for Social Change</a></b><br>
We're told to "be the change we want to see"-but what if we can't
see it? Tracing our nation's fixation with doomsday from the
Puritans to the present, author and Hampshire College professor
Betsy Hartmann argues that fatalism and apocalyptic thinking is a
curse on the American mindset that restricts our capacity to imagine
social change. Her latest work, The America Syndrome: Apocalypse,
War and Our Call to Greatness, presents an optimistic perspective
that feels custom made for many of us in the current cultural
moment: we have more control over the future than we think. Instead
of imagining our doom, Hartmann helps us envision a better tomorrow.<br>
Thanks to Seattle Town Hall and University Book Store<br>
Recorded, 6/26/17<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5NyFcmvVI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF5NyFcmvVI</a></font><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/107928/retrans-blackouts-during-disasters-hurt-all"><b>(media
ethics opinion) Retransmission Blackouts During Disasters Hurt
All</b></a><br>
To allow station blackouts in the middle of a retrans fight when
hurricanes or other disasters loom as Lilly Broadcasting and Hearst
did is not too smart. In addition to possibly depriving viewers of
access to vital information, it gives retrans foes more ammunition
in their fight against this valuable second revenue stream.<br>
Don't be stupid, broadcasters.<br>
When a hurricane approaches, make sure that cable and satellite
operators serving subscribers in its path are able to carry your
signals even if you are in the middle of an ugly retransmission
consent fight.<br>
You're always talking about how vital your local news is to public
safety. You can't just disappear then when the communities you serve
are faced with devastation and death.<br>
You would think that this would go without saying. But we learned
again this week that it doesn't.<br>
With the people of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands still shaken
badly by Hurricane Maria last Saturday night, Lilly Broadcasting's
news and weather cable service, One Caribbean Television, went dark
on the Dish Network because of a retrans/carriage fee standoff also
involving Lilly's stations in Erie, Pa.; Honolulu; and Elmira, N.Y.<br>
Dish immediately raced out a press release blasting Lilly for
abandoning it responsibilies.<br>
"Lilly is further blinding the citizens of Puerto Rico and the U.S.
Virgin Islands at this time, showing an unbelievable lack of
compassion," said Dish EVP Warren Schlichting in the release.
"During this humanitarian crisis, it's critical for people to have
access to more information, not less, whether one home or 10,000 can
access these stations."<br>
It stopped short of blaming the Lilly family for whipping up the
storm itself.<br>
On Monday morning the American Cable Association, which has been
waging a never-ending campaign to win retrans relief in Washington,
jumped in to make sure everybody on its email list was aware of what
had happened.<br>
The next day, citing the blackout, it asked FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to
ban broadcasters from withholding signals during disasters, implying
that in their avarice broadcasters could not be trusted.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/107928/retrans-blackouts-during-disasters-hurt-all">http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/107928/retrans-blackouts-during-disasters-hurt-all</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2017/oct/09/beautiful-light-projections-on-the-tasman-glacier-highlight-global-warmings-impact-video">Beautiful
light projections on the Tasman Glacier highlight impact of
climate change – video</a></b><br>
A short film shot by Heath Patterson captures photographer Vaughan
Brookfield and Tom Lynch's journey to a New Zealand glacier equipped
with hundreds of kilograms of gear and a light projector. Their plan
was to project images on to the rapidly receding Tasman Glacier.
Brookfield says: 'We want to remind people of the effects humans are
having on the environment' <br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2017/oct/09/beautiful-light-projections-on-the-tasman-glacier-highlight-global-warmings-impact-video">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2017/oct/09/beautiful-light-projections-on-the-tasman-glacier-highlight-global-warmings-impact-video</a></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11kerrygraham.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">This
Day in Climate History October 10, 2009</a> - from D.R.
Tucker</b></font><br>
October 10, 2009: In a New York Times opinion piece, Senators John<br>
Kerry and Lindsey Graham express confidence that bipartisan<br>
climate-change legislation will receive 60 votes in the Senate.
Graham<br>
would later disavow support for such legislation, setting the stage<br>
for its demise in 2010.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11kerrygraham.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/opinion/11kerrygraham.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0</a></font><br>
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