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<font size="+1"><i>October 19, 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html">New
Talks on Paris Climate Pact Are Set, and That's Awkward for US</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/climate/trump-paris-accord.html</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/oct/16/the-war-on-coal-is-over-coal-lost">The
war on coal is over. Coal lost.</a></b><br>
Coal can't compete with cheaper clean energy. The Trump
administration can't save expensive, dirty energy.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/oct/16/the-war-on-coal-is-over-coal-lost">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/oct/16/the-war-on-coal-is-over-coal-lost</a></font><br>
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</b><b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ecological-armageddon-after-dramatic-plunge-in-insect-numbers">Warning
of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect
numbers</a><br>
</b>Three-quarters of flying insects in nature reserves across
Germany have vanished in 25 years, with serious implications for all
life on Earth, scientists say<br>
Insects are an integral part of life on Earth as both pollinators
and prey for other wildlife and it was known that some species such
as butterflies were declining. But the newly revealed scale of the
losses to all insects has prompted warnings that the world is "on
course for ecological Armageddon", with profound impacts on human
society.<br>
The new data was gathered in nature reserves across Germany but has
implications for all landscapes dominated by agriculture, the
researchers said.<br>
"The fact that the number of flying insects is decreasing at such a
high rate in such a large area is an alarming discovery," said Hans
de Kroon, at Radboud University in the Netherlands and who led the
new research.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ecological-armageddon-after-dramatic-plunge-in-insect-numbers">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/18/warning-of-ecological-armageddon-after-dramatic-plunge-in-insect-numbers</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109191412.htm">Insects
feel the heat: Scientists reveal rise in temperature affects
ability to reproduce</a></b><br>
Even a mild rise in temperature damages insect's ability to
reproduce, new research indicates. Insect populations in high
latitude countries are the worst affected. Identifying genes linked
to increased and decreased reproduction may help understand how
insects cope with climate change and controlling insect pests,<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109191412.htm">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170109191412.htm</a></font><br>
<a class="nuEeue hzdq5d ME7ew" target="_blank"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/10/18/this-is-very-alarming-flying-insects-vanish-from-nature-preserves/"
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text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(59, 120, 231); font-size:
14px; line-height: 20px; transition: color 0.2s ease-in-out;">This
is very alarming!': Flying insects vanish from nature preserves</a><br>
"The windscreen phenomenon is probably one of the best illustrative
ways to realize we are dealing with a decline in flying insects,"
said Caspar Hallmann, an ecologist at Radboud University in the
Netherlands. Hallmann is part of a research team that recently waded
through 27 years' worth of insects collected in German nature
preserves.<br>
Between 1989 and 2016, according to a report published Wednesday in
the journal PLOS One, the biomass of flying insects captured in
these regions decreased by a seasonal average of 76 percent.<br>
"The whole fabric of our planet is built on plants and insects and
the relationship between the two.<br>
From WitsEndNJ blog 2012 "Really? I saw it 5 years ago." <b><br>
</b><b><a
href="http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/02/little-things-that-rule-world-from.html"
class="enhancr_card_9218505121">The Little Things That Rule the
World - from secretive insects to mysterious whales</a></b><br>
<b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif;
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!important; float: none;"><span> </span>I started to google and
straight away came a host of links, the first from the UK<span> </span></span><a
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/scientists-set-out-to-discover-if-insects-are-disappearing-from-britain-542297.html"
style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); text-decoration: none;
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255);"><span style="color: blue;">Independent</span></a><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Georgia, serif;
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initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">, all the way back in 2003.
Scientists were already concerned that insect eating birds were
dying off because the source of their food was dwindling away,
and had even constructed a <b>"</b>splatometer<b>"</b> to
attach to the hood of cars, to measure a baseline and then
periodically track the trends. I will have to get in touch with
them and the other scientists I found later, to see what the
latest evidence has revealed.<br>
<b>"Experts believe falling insect numbers explain a decline in
some bird species"</b><br>
</span></b>"'Anecdotal evidence pointing to the decline of British
insects abounds," said Dr George McGavin, acting curator of
entomology at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. "Most
people over the age of 50 talk of seeing many more species of moths,
butterflies and other insects when they were children.'"<br>
"With a colleague, Dr McGavin in 2000 examined insect records in
Warwickshire from 100 years ago and the present day, and found that
about 20 per cent of the species surveyed (including beetles, bees,
dragonflies and butterflies) had disappeared or were in marked
decline. A closer examination showed that 394 beetle species alone
had been lost, a decline of 24 per cent."<br>
"Britain's best insect records are kept by Rothamsted Research, the
former government agricultural research station at Harpenden in
Hertfordshire. Rothamsted supervises a network of 16 insect suction
traps around Britain, which have been emptied daily, with the
insects kept, for more than 30 years. This year a pilot project for
English Nature assessed how much change there had been in the total
weight of insects caught in four traps since 1970."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/02/little-things-that-rule-world-from.html">http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012/02/little-things-that-rule-world-from.html</a><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/10/corporate-bullies-are-using-rico-laws-to-go-after-greenpeace/">"Corporate
Bullies" Are Using RICO Laws to Go After Greenpeace</a><br>
</b>"It's a clear attack on free speech and democracy."<br>
REBECCA LEBER<b><br>
</b>On Monday, a federal judge in California dismissed a case from
Resolute, the giant logging and newsprint company, against
Greenpeace and other environmental activists. This is good news for
the international environmental organization that had $300 million
at stake if it lost the lawsuit. But the nature of the case worries
First Amendment advocates. <br>
Increasingly, Greenpeace has become the target of major corporations
that have argued its aggressive campaigning, which sometimes
involves taking over oil rigs and raising protest banners on
skyscrapers, constitutes "illegal enterprises" better suited to
prosecution under a law that's known for going after the Mafia. The
environmental group has charged that the lawsuits constitute a
threat to free speech and civil disobedience that are fundamental to
the very existence of many activist groups - not just Greenpeace -
meaning that billions of dollars could ultimately be at stake. <br>
Resolute Forest Products used the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organization Act (RICO) to accuse Greenpeace of "fraudulently"
inducing people all over the world "to donate millions of dollars
based on materially false and misleading claims about its purported
environmental purpose and its 'campaigns' against targeted
companies." They argued that "soliciting money, not saving the
environment, is Greenpeace's primary objective, it has demonstrated
time and time again that it will do anything to drive donations,
including fabricating evidence."..<br>
On Monday, a federal judge in California dismissed a case from
Resolute, the giant logging and newsprint company, against
Greenpeace and other environmental activists. This is good news for
the international environmental organization that had $300 million
at stake if it lost the lawsuit. But the nature of the case worries
First Amendment advocates. <br>
Increasingly, Greenpeace has become the target of major corporations
that have argued its aggressive campaigning, which sometimes
involves taking over oil rigs and raising protest banners on
skyscrapers, constitutes "illegal enterprises" better suited to
prosecution under a law that's known for going after the Mafia. The
environmental group has charged that the lawsuits constitute a
threat to free speech and civil disobedience that are fundamental to
the very existence of many activist groups - not just Greenpeace -
meaning that billions of dollars could ultimately be at stake. <br>
Resolute Forest Products used the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organization Act (RICO) to accuse Greenpeace of "fraudulently"
inducing people all over the world "to donate millions of dollars
based on materially false and misleading claims about its purported
environmental purpose and its 'campaigns' against targeted
companies." They argued that "soliciting money, not saving the
environment, is Greenpeace's primary objective, it has demonstrated
time and time again that it will do anything to drive donations,
including fabricating evidence."<b><br>
</b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/10/corporate-bullies-are-using-rico-laws-to-go-after-greenpeace/">http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/10/corporate-bullies-are-using-rico-laws-to-go-after-greenpeace/</a></font><b><br>
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</b><b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/oct/18/clifi-a-new-way-to-talk-about-climate-change">Cli-Fi
- A new way to talk about climate change</a><br>
</b>...What makes a Cli-Fi novel good? Well in my opinion, it has to
have some real science in it. And it has to get the science right.
Second, it has to be fun to read. When done correctly, Cli-Fi can
connect people to their world; it can help us understand what future
climate may be like, or what current climate effects are.<br>
As I write this, we are getting a steady stream of stories out of
Puerto Rico the island was devastated by Hurricane Maria. It is hard
to imagine the devastation, what life is like without electricity,
food, or water. What is life like on an island of 3 million people,
each fending for themselves, just trying to survive.<br>
Another thing that is hard to imagine is the future. What will the
world be like decades from now when Earth temperatures have
continued to rise? What will agriculture be like? What will coastal
communities be like? What will international relations and armed
conflict be like?It is also hard to imagine what living a
subsistence agriculture life is like, today. What happens to lives
and communities when the rains change, or don't come at all? What
would that world look like?<br>
<b> </b>Salman Rushdie recently said that in the present day the
country is so filled with lies and fantasy and fiction surrounding
the truth, that it might require the fiction writer to plainly lay
out what is reality and what is not. I think Ashley's book fits that
notion.<br>
So, take a look at this new (newish?) form of literature.
Particularly if you want a break from the usual genres. If you find
something you like that I didn't mention, please send it to me.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/oct/18/clifi-a-new-way-to-talk-about-climate-change">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/oct/18/clifi-a-new-way-to-talk-about-climate-change</a></font><b><br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/_kudos_to_amazon_s_jeff_bezos_and_their_new_headquarters_location_team_s_brilliant_location_selection_criteria">(opinion)
AMAZON'S NEW HEADQUARTERS LOCATION SELECTION CRITERIA?</a></b><br>
<font size="-1">BY DAVID PIKE OCTOBER 17, 2017</font><br>
In this age of global warming dominated extreme weather events, any
rational company would not want to move their headquarters to a
location that will be regularly disabled by global warming
aggravated catastrophes like the hurricanes of Harvey, Irma and
Marie or the wildfires of northern California and the west coast.
Unlike many of our climate denying politicians, Amazon and a rising
number of other companies appears to understand that businesses must
plan future infrastructure only where the consequences of the global
warming emergency will be minimized.<br>
One could say that global warming has already become the greatest
disrupter of the 21st-century and that failing to plan for the
escalating consequences of global warming is a plan to fail. Because
global warming is this great disruptor, the minimal new due
diligence criteria for all long term infrastructure investments are:<br>
<b> 1. Do not locate in any millennial floodplains. </b>Millennial
floodplains are the newly calculated floodplain maps that many
insurance agencies are rapidly creating and adapting to replace the
no longer useful 100 year floodplain maps. We are now looking at new
super storms and flooding and other severe weather events and
anomalies that used to occur only several times per thousand years,
which will now occur numerous times every decade. This means that
insurance companies will be raising rates for many of their expanded
millennial floodplain customers or canceling others altogether.
These new millennial floodplain maps will also radically affect real
estate property values once they become public.<br>
<b>2.) Do not locate in areas projected for global
warming-intensified extended droughts </b>because of stifling
heat, water shortages and crop failures.<br>
<b>3.) Do not locate in areas with extensive and near surrounding
forests</b> because of increasing wildfire and smoke danger due to
the escalating temperatures and atmospheric turbulence (higher
winds,) of global warming.<br>
<b> 4.) Do not locate in areas projected to have regular "rain
bombing" </b>where a month's or week's worth of rain falls in a
single day or several days and seriously floods inland areas never
previously flooded this way.<br>
<b>5.) Do not locate less than 25 feet above sea level.</b> ...This
means that if you are planning any piece of infrastructure near sea
level that you want it to last longer than 2050, for the minimum
level of safety, it would need to be at 10 feet above sea level,
plus the height of the king tides and storm surges normal to that
area, plus an extra safety measure to insure your infrastructure
will be around for more than 50 years. (It is important to also note
that several times in Earth's geologic history after significant
climate tipping points were crossed, sea levels have risen by 10
feet or more in as little as two decades.)<br>
<b>6.) Do not fail to locate significant infrastructure investments
in areas near or above the 45th parallel north.</b> Ever
increasing heat, security and other global warming consequences will
continue to occur creating an eventual mass "climagee" (climate
refugee,) migration from the expanding global warming crisis zones
below the 45th parallel north....Any company that locates in zones
that will be inundated with hundreds of millions of desperate
climagees will not be able to maintain the minimum safe environment
for their employees, production, or distribution activities.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/_kudos_to_amazon_s_jeff_bezos_and_their_new_headquarters_location_team_s_brilliant_location_selection_criteria">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/_kudos_to_amazon_s_jeff_bezos_and_their_new_headquarters_location_team_s_brilliant_location_selection_criteria</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/are_we_in_for_an_unbreakable_cycle_of_global_warming">ARE
WE IN FOR AN UNBREAKABLE CYCLE OF GLOBAL WARMING?</a></b><br>
Soil heated by global warming could trigger the release of high
levels of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere. This feedback
mechanism may increase global warming effects even more and in the
process prompt massive new carbon releases in a cycle that could be
hard, if not impossible to break...<br>
In simple terms, this is how the cycle works: plants absorb gaseous
carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) to make food through
photosynthesis; herbivores eat plants and utilize carbon for growth
(through protein) or energy (through carbohydrates). Carbon gets
passed around when carnivores eat herbivores. The cycle is completed
when carbon gets released back into the atmosphere as plants,
animals and other living things emit carbon dioxide as a byproduct
of their metabolism.<br>
Soil, one of our planet's three major natural resources, alongside
air and water is a large reservoir of carbon. In fact, soil contains
two to three times more carbon than the atmosphere and plays a big
part in the carbon cycle and, in an unexpected way, global warming.
Soil contains not only decaying leaves and other parts from plants,
it also harbors bacteria, fungi and other microorganisms that feed
on this dead organic matter. All these components release gaseous
carbon (as in carbon dioxide form) into the atmosphere.<br>
The team calculated that the soil lost 17% of its stored carbon.
While this may not be universally true as soils around the world are
not the same, the study is out to prove one thing: as global warming
warms the soil, the soil could potentially make global warming worse
over time.<br>
"This self-reinforcing feedback is potentially a global phenomenon
with soils, and once it starts it may be very difficult to turn
off," Mellilo said in an interview with Newsweek. "It's that part of
the problem that I think is sobering."<br>
But fret not, according to experts. This effect can be mitigated
without even touching atmospheric warming itself. The key lies in
taking good care of the soil by implementing techniques like
planting cover crops, keeping the soil cool and using nanoparticles
to protect soil structure. "People like me, our goal is to put
carbon back in the soil and protect it from decomposition," says
Ohio University soil scientist Rattan Lal, who is not affiliated
with the study. "Therefore, we focus on the management."<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/are_we_in_for_an_unbreakable_cycle_of_global_warming">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/are_we_in_for_an_unbreakable_cycle_of_global_warming</a></font><br>
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<b><a
href="https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2016/12/clean-power-plan-b-why-minnesota-will-be-climate-leader-trump-s-america"><br>
Xcel will reach milestone with new South Dakota wind farm</a><br>
</b>It is on track to be the first U.S. utility to surpass 10K
megawatts of wind-energy generation. <br>
Xcel Energy said Wednesday it plans to build another new large wind
farm in South Dakota, adding to a slew of wind projects it has
announced within the last year.<br>
Minneapolis-based Xcel, the nation's largest wind-energy utility for
more than a decade, is planning a 300-megawatt wind farm in Grant
and Codington counties in northeast South Dakota. The project is
expected to go online in 2021.<br>
A year ago, Xcel unveiled plans for eight to 10 new wind farms
totaling 1,550 megawatts, a $2 billion investment. (A megawatt is 1
million watts). With the South Dakota wind-energy plant announced
Wednesday, Xcel said it's on track to become the first U.S. utility
to surpass 10,000 megawatts of wind-energy generation, more than
enough to power every home in Minnesota and Wisconsin.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2016/12/clean-power-plan-b-why-minnesota-will-be-climate-leader-trump-s-america">https://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2016/12/clean-power-plan-b-why-minnesota-will-be-climate-leader-trump-s-america</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://investors.xcelenergy.com/">http://investors.xcelenergy.com/</a></font><b><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.retaildive.com/news/target-unveils-climate-change-program/507565/">Target
unveils climate change program</a></b><br>
Target on Tuesday introduced a new climate policy and sustainability
goals, aiming to reduce its absolute scope one (direct) and scope
two (indirect, from consumption of purchased electricity, heat or
steam) greenhouse gas emissions by 25% below 2015 levels by 2025;
the retailer also plans to source 100% renewable energy in its
domestic operations in the coming years and promote water
conservation, which has already saved more than 22 million gallons
through outdoor irrigation systems at 176 stores.<br>
The retailer is also developing a scope three plan to decrease
emissions generated through the manufacturing and distribution of
products, business travel, guests using its products and other
indirect sources, the company said in a blog post.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.retaildive.com/news/target-unveils-climate-change-program/507565/">http://www.retaildive.com/news/target-unveils-climate-change-program/507565/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://corporate.target.com/article/2017/10/climate-policy-and-goals">https://corporate.target.com/article/2017/10/climate-policy-and-goals</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/poorest-countries-suffer-most-from-global-warming-1.3260531">Poorest
countries suffer most from global warming</a></b><br>
Martin Wolf: The linked challenges of climate and development will
shape humanity's future<br>
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in
power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what
they must."<br>
This sentence from the History of the Peloponnesian War by
Thucydides is the philosophy of Donald Trump's administration. Thus,
two of his advisers, HR McMaster and Gary Cohn, wrote in May that:
"The world is not a 'global community' but an arena where nations,
non-governmental actors and businesses engage and compete for
advantage."<br>
This amoral perspective has serious implications. In no area are
global spillovers more significant and co-operation more vital than
climate. The failure to act ensures that the poor would indeed
suffer.<br>
This is the conclusion of a chapter on the economic impact of
weather shocks, in the International Monetary Fund's latest World
Economic Outlook. The largest negative impacts of the shocks being
made more frequent by global warming are on tropical countries.<br>
Nearly all low-income countries are tropical. Yet these countries
are the least able to protect themselves. Thus they are innocent
victims of changes for which they bear no responsibility....<br>
If little or no action is taken, average temperatures could rise by
4°C, or more, above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
Aware of the lengthy lead times needed if effective action is to be
taken, both to mitigate climate change and adapt to it (where
inescapable), rational people would act now.<br>
The main obstacles to such action are three. First, specific
economic interests, notably in the fossil fuel industry, are
understandably opposed to action and, not infrequently, to the
science that suggests it is necessary.<br>
Second, free-marketeers, who despise both governments and
environmentalists, reject the science, because of its (to them)
detestable policy implications. Third, few wish to inconvenience
themselves, let alone threaten their standard of living, for the
sake of the future, or people in poorer countries.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/poorest-countries-suffer-most-from-global-warming-1.3260531">https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/poorest-countries-suffer-most-from-global-warming-1.3260531</a></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57897#.WehE7lu3xph">At
UN event in Rome, Pope Francis urges action on climate change,
conflicts to end global hunger</a></b><br>
Address by His Holiness Pope Francis. World Food Day Ceremony, FAO
Headquarters <br>
16 October 2017 - Food security for all requires tackling climate
change and ending conflicts, His Holiness, Pope Francis, stressed
Monday at an official ceremony for World Food Day held at the Rome
headquarters of the United Nations agriculture agency.<br>
"It is clear that wars and climatic change are a cause of hunger, so
let's not present it as if hunger is an incurable disease," the
Pontiff said during his key note address marking the Day at
headquarters of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).<br>
Under this year's theme 'addressing migration through investing in
food security and rural development,' Pope Francis called for
governments worldwide to collaborate to ensure voluntary and safer
migration; for a disarmament commitment; and to protect the planet
while using its resources - producing and consuming food.<br>
Noting that it was unfortunate that some countries are moving away
from the Paris Agreement on climate change, Pope France underscored"
"What is at stake is the credibility of the whole international
system."...<br>
"I saw their wounds with my own eyes and I heard their stories with
my own ears. They were frightened, hungry and malnourished after
enduring a nightmare that most people cannot even imagine. If we are
truly going to end hunger, we must stop this kind of inhumanity," he
said...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
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Tucker</b></font><br>
October 19, 1993: President Clinton announces his Climate Change
Action Plan.<br>
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