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<font size="+1"><i>October 21, 2017</i></font><br>
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</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/climate/epa-climate-change.html">EPA
Scrubs Climate Change Website of 'Climate Change'</a></b><br>
Among the now-missing pages are those detailing the risks of climate
change and the different approaches states are taking to curb
emissions. Also edited out were examples of statewide plans to adapt
to weather extremes.<br>
An E.P.A. spokesman said the original pages have been archived and
remain available by searching through the agency's web archive, a
link to which is at the top of its energy resources page.<br>
The analysis, from the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative,
which monitors changes to federal environmental agency websites,
described the amount of removed data as "substantial." The energy
resources website is the first site to which the E.P.A. has returned
a large portion of material since pages dealing with climate science
were removed from public view on April 28.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/climate/epa-climate-change.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/climate/epa-climate-change.html</a><br>
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<b><a
href="https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/have-climate-denier-over-coffee">Have
a Climate Denier Over for Coffee?</a></b><br>
A researcher explains the psychological foundation of climate
skepticism—and offers a strategy for chipping away at it.<br>
If climate deniers won't respond to the plainly stated facts, what
will they respond to? How on earth are we supposed to reach them?<br>
I recently posed these questions to Renee Lertzman, a psychologist
who studies the thought processes behind climate denial and whose
research suggests the emergence of new and better ways of breaking
through to skeptical minds. <br>
For many climate skeptics, Lertzman says, "denial is a defense
mechanism: It's people trying to protect themselves, to keep
themselves from experiencing the stress that goes along with coming
to terms with our situation." The first mistake their would-be
persuaders make, she says, is in thinking that facts can change
minds all by themselves. Instead, she says, the way to break through
is to employ facts as part of a larger effort that also involves
listening and, as hard as it can be sometimes, empathizing.<br>
Skepticism and even outright denial aren't always based on politics
or ideology, Lertzman stresses. In fact, she says, they're often
manifestations of cognitive dissonance, the clinical term for the
psychological tension that results from the holding of two (or more)
conflicting beliefs simultaneously. People may really care about
protecting the planet and keeping it habitable for future
generations . . . but they also can't imagine their lives without
the benefits that have come with industrialization and fossil fuels.
When we point out that we simply can't continue down this familiar
path, they can feel like they are being personally criticized.
"Until we acknowledge that cognitive dissonance," she says, "we'll
continue to get resistance."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/have-climate-denier-over-coffee">https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/have-climate-denier-over-coffee</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102017/california-wildfires-global-warming-drought-wind-climate-change-fire">4
Questions About Climate Change and the California Fires</a></b><br>
Rising temperatures can make the U.S. West dangerously combustible.
We saw it this year in California wine country.<br>
<b>What's the link between fires & climate change?</b><b><br>
</b><b>Why didn't the wet winter and spring help?</b><b><br>
</b><b>Why did the wine country fires spread so fast?</b><b><br>
</b><b>Will these extremes get worse with climate change?</b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102017/california-wildfires-global-warming-drought-wind-climate-change-fire">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/18102017/california-wildfires-global-warming-drought-wind-climate-change-fire</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-fema-trump_us_59df75d5e4b00abf3646c751">These
Volunteer Nurses In Puerto Rico Fear FEMA Is Failing</a></b><br>
"These people are going to die. The help is not really there for
them."<br>
WASHINGTON - Water is rationed. Scabies is spreading. Grocery stores
are lined with empty shelves, if they're open at all. People are
fainting as they wait in lines for hours in sweltering heat, because
they have to check into a FEMA hub to get small amounts of food and
supplies being guarded by armed officers. That's if they can even
make it to FEMA.<br>
...she's met people who haven't had much access to drinking water
for weeks, so they keep filling up containers from rivers or
mountain streams. But that water isn't clean and can cause bacterial
diseases, including leptospirosis, which is spread by animal urine.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said Wednesday that at least 10
people have suspected cases of leptospirosis, and four deaths may be
tied to it.<br>
"Who tells them that they cannot drink this water?" asked Schwartz.
"We had to stop people on the side of the road to Utuado, one of the
places where water rushes by, and stop people from getting water
there and teach them how to disinfect water."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-fema-trump_us_59df75d5e4b00abf3646c751">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-fema-trump_us_59df75d5e4b00abf3646c751</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/puerto_rico_hurricane_maria_laid_bare_existing_inequalities_and_injustices">PUERTO
RICO: HURRICANE MARIA LAID BARE EXISTING 'INEQUALITIES AND
INJUSTICES'...</a></b><br>
More than three weeks after Hurricane Maria...about 85 percent are
without electricity, and President Trump is raising anxieties
further as he tweets threats to end federal assistance that aid
workers on the ground say has been slow to reach hard-hit areas if
it has reached them at all.<br>
With no electricity, some people are <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-fema-trump_us_59df75d5e4b00abf3646c751">using
car batteries </a>for power. Others are relying on propane from
rapidly depleting tanks to boil what water they are able to find. It
becomes a survival calculation, said Roberto José Thomas Ramírez,
general coordinator of the Eco-Development Initiative of Jobos Bay
in southern Puerto Rico.<br>
"Every day, I visited at least three or four stores looking for
bottled water, and I didn't get any, so every night I try to do the
math to be able to boil water and not use enough gas to be able to
also cook," Ramírez said.<br>
One of the most sought-after commodities in big box stores are
generators strong enough to power an air conditioner. They sell for
around $6,000—nearly one-third the median annual household income.<br>
Twenty-three days after Maria made landfall, outbreaks of
leptospirosis, a deadly bacterial disease, scabies and
conjunctivitis have been reported, as well signs of an uptick in
Zika and chikungunya, mosquito borne diseases that were present on
the island before the hurricane. In Yabucoa, where the median
household income is just $15,600, the mayor said food distributions
aren't going far enough and people are going hungry.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/puerto_rico_hurricane_maria_laid_bare_existing_inequalities_and_injustices">http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/puerto_rico_hurricane_maria_laid_bare_existing_inequalities_and_injustices</a><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://theconversation.com/world-hunger-is-increasing-thanks-to-wars-and-climate-change-84506">World
hunger is increasing thanks to wars and climate change</a></b><br>
Around the world, social and political<span> </span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343316663032" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">instability</a><span> </span>are
on the rise. Since 2010, state-based conflict has increased by 60
percent and<span> </span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022343311431598" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">armed conflict within countries</a><span> </span>has
increased by 125 percent. More than half of the food-insecure people
identified in the U.N. report (489 million out of 815 million) live
in countries with ongoing violence. More than three-quarters of the
world's chronically malnourished children (122 million of 155
million) live in conflict-affected regions...<br>
At the same time, these regions are experiencing<span> </span><a href="https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/publications/bulletin-of-the-american-meteorological-society-bams/explaining-extreme-events-from-a-climate-perspective/" style="color: rgb(85, 117, 133); text-decoration: underline; outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">increasingly powerful storms, more frequent and persistent drought and more variable rainfall</a>
associated with global climate change. These trends are not
unrelated. Conflict-torn communities are more vulnerable to
climate-related disasters, and crop or livestock failure due to
climate can contribute to social unrest.<br>
In the past two decades the world has come together to fight hunger.
This effort has produced innovations in agriculture, technology and
knowledge transfer. Now, however, the compounding crises of violent
conflict and a changing climate show that this approach is not
enough. In the planet's most vulnerable places, food security
depends not just on making agriculture more productive, but also on
making rural livelihoods diverse, interconnected and adaptable.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://theconversation.com/world-hunger-is-increasing-thanks-to-wars-and-climate-change-84506">https://theconversation.com/world-hunger-is-increasing-thanks-to-wars-and-climate-change-84506</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20171019/herald-tribune-to-host-first-hurricane-recovery-expo">Herald-Tribune
to host first 'Hurricane Recovery Expo'</a></b><br>
As storm season winds down, panel discussions to focus on recovery,
mitigation and preparation<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20171019/herald-tribune-to-host-first-hurricane-recovery-expo">http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20171019/herald-tribune-to-host-first-hurricane-recovery-expo</a></font><br>
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<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.tbo.com/news/perspective/perspective-people-love-to-live-in-places-that-are-at-risk-for-disasters/2341714">Perspective:
People love to live in places that are at risk for disasters,
'and this is what happens'</a></b><br>
<b>What's unfolding nationally is a race between vulnerability and
preparedness.</b><br>
California was burning and emergency management officials in
Sacramento, Calif., were listing the latest statistics about the
fires, the firefighters, the acres burned, the fatalities, the
missing people, the number of tanker planes and helicopters
deployed, and so on. To one side, in a suit and tie, stood the
governor, Jerry Brown.<br>
When he took the microphone, he offered the long view of this
extraordinary year of natural disasters in the United States.<br>
"It's just part of the facts of a highly developed society, is that
you have a lot of people and a lot of assets in the face of floods
and hurricane and fires," Brown said at that briefing. "And this is
what happens."<br>
That might have sounded detached and cerebral while in the middle of
a crisis, but it's what everyone in the emergency management
business knows to be true. As a people, we are consistently stepping
into the path of destruction. "Natural" disasters have a heavily
engineered element...<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tbo.com/news/perspective/perspective-people-love-to-live-in-places-that-are-at-risk-for-disasters/2341714">http://www.tbo.com/news/perspective/perspective-people-love-to-live-in-places-that-are-at-risk-for-disasters/2341714</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/theres-a-dangerous-bubble-in-the-fossil-fuel-economy-and-the-trump-administration-is-making-it-worse">There's
a Dangerous Bubble in the Fossil-Fuel Economy, and the Trump
Administration Is Making It Worse</a></b><br>
By Carolyn Kormann<br>
In the past several years, investors have increasingly recognized
the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-new-economics-of-climate-change">long-term
instability of high-carbon industries</a>. Many of their concerns
were first summed up in a 2011 report by the Carbon Tracker
Initiative, a project started by the financier and environmentalist
Mark Campanale. The report identified a significant problem with the
way in which fossil-fuel stocks were priced. It began with the idea
that humanity has a finite "carbon budget"—that if we are to avoid
the most catastrophic effects of climate change, we must limit our
emissions such that the world's average temperature rises <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v458/n7242/full/nature08017.html">no
more than two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels</a>.
(This was the same target agreed upon in Paris.) Campanale looked at
the planet's known fossil-fuel reserves—its savings account,
basically—and calculated how much carbon would be released if they
were burned. The resulting figure, 2.8 trillion tons, was five times
greater than Earth's carbon budget for the next forty years. If
civilization as we knew it were to survive, as much as eighty per
cent of all remaining oil, gas, and coal needed to stay in the
ground. Campanale called it "unburnable carbon."<br>
...The Carbon Tracker Initiative's analysis depends, of course, on
the premise that climate change is real, and that it will inexorably
shape the future of the world financial system. For policymakers to
safely deflate the carbon bubble, they must face these
facts—something that Trump, Pruitt, and their industry allies appear
categorically unwilling to do. Trump himself has said that climate
change is "bullshit." Pruitt has claimed, falsely, that there is
"tremendous disagreement" among scientists about its causes.
Kathleen Hartnett White, whom Trump nominated last Friday to lead
the White House Council on Environmental Quality, has called fossil
fuels "the wellsprings of mankind's greatest advance" and carbon
dioxide "the gas of life." In a recent interview with "PBS
NewsHour," Robert Murray expressed a degree of climate denialism
that was nearly Dadaesque. "I listen to four thousand scientists,
who tell me that mankind is not affecting climate change," he said.
"The Antarctic ice field is larger than it has ever been right now.
The Earth has cooled for the last nineteen years. It's a natural
cycle."<br>
...."that we have reached a tipping point within the investment
community in the recognition of climate risks." The following month,
Norway's nearly trillion-dollar sovereign-wealth fund declared that
it would require some of its partners to disclose what influence
their lending practices have on carbon emissions.<br>
Elsewhere around the world, countries are insulating themselves from
the carbon bubble. Britain, China, France, and India all recently
set deadlines for the elimination of gas and diesel cars from their
roads. In August, South Korea announced that it will no longer give
licenses to build or run coal plants. And just last week, the Dutch
government pledged to close all coal-fired power stations by 2030.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/theres-a-dangerous-bubble-in-the-fossil-fuel-economy-and-the-trump-administration-is-making-it-worse">https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/theres-a-dangerous-bubble-in-the-fossil-fuel-economy-and-the-trump-administration-is-making-it-worse</a></font><br>
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<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/19/global-pollution-kills-millions-threatens-survival-human-societies">Global
pollution kills 9m a year and threatens 'survival of human
societies'</a></b><br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/19/global-pollution-kills-millions-threatens-survival-human-societies">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/oct/19/global-pollution-kills-millions-threatens-survival-human-societies</a></font><br>
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<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/">This Day
in Climate History October 21, 2008</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
October 21, 2008: PBS airs the "Frontline" special "Heat,"
chronicling<br>
the 20-year effort to reduce worldwide carbon emissions, an effort<br>
stymied by the fossil fuel industry.<font size="-1"><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/</a></font><br>
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