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<font size="+1"><i>October 20 , 2017</i></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/19/climate-change-at-work-weather-service-calls-for-third-straight-mild-winter/">Climate
change at work? Weather Service calls for third straight mild
winter.</a></b><br>
For the third time in as many years, the nation - on balance -
should expect warmer-than-normal temperatures, according to the
National Weather Service, which released its winter outlook on
Thursday.<br>
The Weather Service favors warmer-than-normal conditions for the
southern two-thirds of the Lower 48, including the Mid-Atlantic.
Only a sliver of the Northern Plains and Pacific Northwest is
expected to experience colder-than-normal temperatures...<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/19/climate-change-at-work-weather-service-calls-for-third-straight-mild-winter/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/19/climate-change-at-work-weather-service-calls-for-third-straight-mild-winter/</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/oh-no/543390/">Insects
Are In Serious Trouble</a></b><br>
Between 1989 and 2016, the average weight of insects that were
caught between May and October fell by an astonishing 77 percent.
Over the same period, the weight of insects caught in the height of
summer, when these creatures should be at their buzziest, fell by 82
percent...<br>
This is, to put it mildly, a huge problem.<br>
Insects are the lynchpins of many ecosystems. Around 60 percent of
birds rely on them for food. Around 80 percent of wild plants depend
on them for pollination. If they disappear, ecosystems everywhere
will collapse. But also, insects are the most diverse and numerous
group of animals on the planet. If they're in trouble, we're all in
trouble.<br>
There's a debate about whether the Earth is in the middle of a sixth
extinction - an exceptionally severe period of biological
annihilation of the kind that has only happened five times before. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/oh-no/543390/">https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/oh-no/543390/</a><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809">More
than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect
biomass in protected areas - PLOS</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809">http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0185809</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/10/19/climate-liability-oil-industry-intimidation/">Climate
Liability Plaintiffs Brace for Industry’s Retaliation Tactics</a></b><br>
"It would be almost unthinkable that a fossil fuel company,
represented by lawyers from the nation’s largest and most
prestigious law firms, would file a lawsuit accusing a municipal
government of civil conspiracy for seeking damages for climate
impacts," Burger said. "Then again, how many times have we had to
say ‘That’s unprecedented!’ in recent years?"<br>
the fossil fuel industry is increasingly turning to state
legislatures to go to bat for them.<br>
"Exxon and other companies will go to friendly state legislatures
and state governments and try to head off completely legit
litigation by that political root," Muffett said.<br>
He cited a bill introduced in the Texas House of Representatives
early this year that proposed to bar a defendant’s "theories,
beliefs or statements on climate change or global warming" from
being used as evidence in a fraud case.<br>
If the bill had passed, it could have barred Exxon from having to
disclose evidence in climate liability cases, according to the
Austin American Statesman. The bill stalled in committee...<font
size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/10/19/climate-liability-oil-industry-intimidation/">https://www.climateliabilitynews.org/2017/10/19/climate-liability-oil-industry-intimidation/</a></font><br>
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BBC Science and Environment<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41671770">A
brief history of the Earth's CO2</a></b><br>
Climate change has been described as one of the biggest problems
faced by humankind. Carbon dioxide is is the primary driver of
global warming. Prof Joanna Haigh from Imperial College London
explains why this gas has played a crucial role in shaping the
Earth's climate.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41671770">http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41671770</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/19/climate-change-hollywood-new-supervillain-geostorm-blade-runner-2049-downsizing">(opinion)
Is climate change Hollywood's new supervillain? | Film | The
Guardian</a></b><br>
Eco-thriller Geostorm, with Gerard Butler as a weather-busting
scientist, is the latest movie to battle the environment. From Blade
Runner 2049 to Alexander Payne's Downsizing, film are turning up the
heat on the big screen.<br>
Previously, we looked to the multiplex to vicariously experience the
catastrophic aftermath of freak super-storms and monster tsunamis;
now we see these images appear with increasing and distressing
regularity in the news.<br>
Perhaps that is why climate change is a common theme across a broad
range of movies this year, either as an obvious baddie or a
subtextual spectre. The forthcoming eco-thriller Geostorm
optimistically suggests that we could circumvent the cataclysmic
heavy weather caused by climate change if only we tasked someone
like scientist-astronaut Gerard Butler to invent a network of
weather-controlling satellites. But when that system malfunctions,
the planet reaps the whirlwind (not to mention mega-storms and tidal
waves). Director Dean Devlin, who produced Independence Day with
Emmerich, seems keen to outdo his old partner in terms of on-screen
mass obliteration, with cities such as Dubai, Tokyo and Moscow in
his apocalyptic sights. Whether global audiences will be excited by
such destruction after recent natural disasters in Mexico, Sierra
Leone, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, remains to be seen.<br>
Postapocalyptic sci-fi will always be a popular film playground, but
increasingly it seems as if we are being invited to look at worlds
worn out rather that instantly shattered. Before it blasted into
space, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/nov/05/interstellar-review-christopher-nolan-matthew-mcconaughey">Christopher
Nolan's Interstellar</a> painted a plausible portrait of the US as
a parched, crop-free dustbowl beyond resuscitation. Earlier this
year, Logan presented a harsh, scrappy near future that looked as
exhausted as its ailing hero, a planet teetering towards a more
relatable kind of collapse than the apocalyptic threats of superhero
cinema.<br>
A shared anxiety about how we have abused our planet and how it
might ultimately retaliate has seeped into recent cinema in other
intriguing ways. Darren Aronofsky's densely allegorical <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/05/mother-review-jennifer-lawrence-horror-darren-aronofsky-javier-bardem">Mother!</a>
encourages any number of environmental interpretations, with
Jennifer Lawrence as a barefoot earth mother whose Edenic dream home
is invaded by selfish, rapacious squatters - an intensifying
nightmare that leaves her traumatised but mostly bewildered. Despite
its surreal, disorientating escalations, the central message is
consistent: what is wrong with these people? How can they do this?<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/19/climate-change-hollywood-new-supervillain-geostorm-blade-runner-2049-downsizing">https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/19/climate-change-hollywood-new-supervillain-geostorm-blade-runner-2049-downsizing</a>..<br>
In the forthcoming <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/30/downsizing-review-alexander-payne-matt-damon-venice-film-festival-2017">Downsizing</a>,
Oscar-winning writer-director Alexander Payne imagines a near future
where eco-conscious Norwegians have developed a sci-fi shrink-ray
that can zap people, such as stressed everyman Matt Damon, down to
just five inches in height. Everything about this growing community
of nu-Lilliputians is smaller - particularly their carbon footprint.
In the film, the procedure is marketed as a quasi-altruistic
lifestyle choice that doubles as a lottery win, suggesting
participants will improve the planet's sustainability as well as
artificially extending their savings.<br>
Payne's movie is a sociocomic parable that has the reassuring
presence of Damon at its centre, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/oct/01/the-martian-review-matt-damon-ridley-scott">an
actor audiences have seen surviving in tough environments</a>. But
with the shrinking process irreversible, Downsizing seems to make a
subtle but important point, one arguably as frightening as any
large-scale disaster movie where a catastrophe annihilates humanity.
Any real-world solution to our inescapable climate change problem is
likely to be similarly and uncomfortably extreme - an even more
inconvenient truth. Until we overcome our indifference to this
monumental problem, the outlook is only going to get worse.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/19/climate-change-hollywood-new-supervillain-geostorm-blade-runner-2049-downsizing">https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/oct/19/climate-change-hollywood-new-supervillain-geostorm-blade-runner-2049-downsizing</a></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://dailyreview.com.au/geostorm-movie-review-climate-change-disaster-palooza-bad-good/67059/">Geostorm
movie review: a climate change disaster-palooza so bad it's good</a></b><br>
"To appreciate this film, which I suppose can be rationalised in the
context of a guilty pleasure, one needs to be on the same page as it
- which is to say, somewhere semi-illiterate."<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/EuOlYPSEzSc">(video)GEOSTORM
- OFFICIAL TRAILER 2 </a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/EuOlYPSEzSc">https://youtu.be/EuOlYPSEzSc</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://dailyreview.com.au/geostorm-movie-review-climate-change-disaster-palooza-bad-good/67059/">https://dailyreview.com.au/geostorm-movie-review-climate-change-disaster-palooza-bad-good/67059/</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://youtu.be/BUBbLbMbvfc">This Day in Climate History
October 20, 2012</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
October 20, 2012: On MSNBC's "Up," Chris Hayes condemns President
Obama, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and CNN's Candy
Crowley for remaining silent on climate in the most recent
presidential debate.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/BUBbLbMbvfc">http://youtu.be/BUBbLbMbvfc</a></font><br>
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