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<font size="+1"><i>October 23, 2017</i></font><br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/zt8EUMu6S7c"><br>
(video) On Contact: Climate Crisis with James Hansen</a></b><br>
RT interview by Chris Hedges <br>
Dr. James Hansen, former director of NASA's Goddard Institute and
Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's Earth Institute,
discusses the urgent need to radically change our relationship with
the planet. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the
accelerating pace of climate change. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/zt8EUMu6S7c">https://youtu.be/zt8EUMu6S7c</a>
27mins<br>
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<b><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/22/gagged-epa-scientists-forbidden-to-speak-on-climate-research/">Gagged.
EPA Scientists Forbidden to Speak on Climate Research</a><br>
</b>October 22, 2017 NYTimes:<br>
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled the
speaking appearance of three agency scientists who were scheduled to
discuss climate change at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://nbep.org/the-state-of-our-watershed/bay-watershed-workshop/">a
conference on Monday in Rhode Island</a>, according to the agency
and several people involved.<br>
John Konkus, an E.P.A. spokesman and a former Trump campaign
operative in Florida, confirmed that agency scientists would not
speak at the State of the Narragansett Bay and Watershed program in
Providence. He provided no further explanation.<br>
Scientists involved in the program said that much of the discussion
at the event centers on climate change. Many said they were
surprised by the E.P.A.'s last-minute cancellation, particularly
since the agency helps to fund the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://nbep.org/">Narragansett Bay Estuary Program</a>,
which is hosting the conference. The scientists who have been barred
from speaking contributed substantial material to a 400-page report
to be issued on Monday.<br>
The move highlights widespread concern that the E.P.A. will silence
government scientists from speaking publicly or conducting work on
climate change. Scott Pruitt, the agency administrator, has said
that he does not believe human-caused greenhouse gas emissions are
primarily responsible for the warming of the planet.<br>
"It's definitely a blatant example of the scientific censorship we
all suspected was going to start being enforced at E.P.A.," said <a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://web.uri.edu/gso/john-king/">John
King</a>, a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode
Island who chairs the science advisory committee of the Narragansett
Bay Estuary Program. "They don't believe in climate change, so I
think what they're trying to do is stifle discussions of the impacts
of climate change."<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://web.uri.edu/rinsfepscor/2015/10/13/rose-martin-2/">Rose
Martin,</a> a postdoctoral fellow at the same E.P.A. laboratory
and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://ci.uri.edu/meet/emily-shumchenia/">Emily Shumchenia,</a>
an E.P.A. consultant, were scheduled to speak on an afternoon panel
entitled "The Present and Future Biological Implications of Climate
Change."<br>
"The report is about trends. It's kind of hard not to talk about
climate change when you're talking about the future of the
Narragansett Bay," Mr. King said.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/22/gagged-epa-scientists-forbidden-to-speak-on-climate-research/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/22/gagged-epa-scientists-forbidden-to-speak-on-climate-research/</a></font><b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://nbep.org/about/"><b>Narragansett
Bay Estuary Program </b></a></b> <font size="-1"><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://nbep.org">http://nbep.org</a>
</font><br>
Welcome to the Narragansett Bay Estuary Program where our mission is
to protect, restore, and preserve Narragansett Bay and its
watershed. The Narragansett Bay watershed is over 1 million acres in
area and is home to over 2 million residents from Rhode Island and
Massachusetts. The Narragansett Bay Estuary Program is made up of
numerous partners from both States who work to conserve and restore
natural resources, enhance water quality, and promote community
involvement.<b><br>
</b>The Narragansett Bay Estuary Program is one of 28 programs
designated as estuaries of national significance under the National
Estuary Program. The program helps protect and restore the water
quality and ecological integrity of the Narragansett Bay itself as
well as the million acre Narragansett Bay watershed. In 2015, the
Estuary Program celebrated 30 years of protection and restoration of
the Narragansett Bay watershed.<br>
Serving as a catalyst in the Narragansett Bay watershed, the
Narragansett Bay Estuary Program works to attract and direct federal
and other resources to local needs, build needed scientific and
watershed information, inform the public and policy makers, convene
collaborative work-groups around key issues, and support local and
grassroots-level organizations. Using its skills in science, policy,
and management, the Estuary Program seeks to address and advance key
issues in the Narragansett Bay watershed.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nbep.org/about/">http://nbep.org/about/</a></font><br>
see also: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://nbep.org/the-state-of-our-watershed/bay-watershed-workshop/">http://nbep.org/the-state-of-our-watershed/bay-watershed-workshop/</a><b><br>
Panel Discussions<br>
Panel 1 – Reduction of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loadings and the
Future Implications of Rising Temperatures and More Intense
Precipitation<br>
Panel 2 – The Present and Future Biological Implications of
Climate Change<br>
</b>more: <b><br>
Rhode Island NSF EPSCOR<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://web.uri.edu/rinsfepscor/2015/10/13/rose-martin-2/">The
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research</a><br>
</b>"let it grow " <br>
URI graduate researcher discovers benefits of invasive marsh grass<br>
Having powered through her doctoral work in three years, newly
minted University of Rhode Island Ph.D. Rose Martin credits her
Rhode Island EPSCoR graduate fellowship as the most productive year
of her research.<br>
<i>Phragmites australis,</i> an invasive grass that often inundates
salt marshes, is the target of costly and difficult eradication
efforts. However, the research work of a Rhode Island EPSCoR
graduate fellow finds that we may be better off leaving the grass
alone.<br>
"I think it's fair to say that the take home message is that the
presence of the plant may contribute to the marsh's function of
greenhouse gas uptake," said Rose Martin, a University of Rhode
Island doctoral student who recently gave her dissertation on the <i>Phragmites</i>
role in carbon dioxide and methane emission and uptake in coastal
marshes.<br>
<i>Phragmites</i> is known to drive changes in carbon cycling of
salt marshes, moving gases from the atmosphere through its above
ground plant structure and root system below the soil. The grass
also has the ability to change the soil it invades.<br>
<b>Grasses and greenhouse gases</b><br>
"One of the services coastal marshes provide is that they store or
sequester abundant carbon dioxide," explained Martin. "If carbon
dioxide is stored in the soil of the marsh, it's not entering the
atmosphere in forms of greenhouse gases that cause climate change."<br>
Salt marshes, in particular, are extremely efficient in carbon
dioxide uptake, according to Martin. When marsh plants die, they
decompose slowly and the material becomes part of the soil that
builds up, trapping the carbon.<br>
In the final experiment of her research, Martin simulated climate
change under projections for the year 2100, with elevated
temperatures and the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. She
measured the greenhouse gas fluxes that would result from both <i>Phragmites</i>
and native vegetation, and found that with the amount of carbon
dioxide Phragmites could take up, there was a good chance the grass
could balance out the increased amount of methane emitted.<br>
"It's interesting to think about the idea, that the effect could be
a mixed bag," said Martin. "The results of my dissertation show that
although <i>Phragmites</i> is associated with negative
consequences, there is potential for its presence in marshes to
maintain or even enhance the service of GHG (greenhouse gas)
uptake."<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://web.uri.edu/rinsfepscor/2015/10/13/rose-martin-2/">http://web.uri.edu/rinsfepscor/2015/10/13/rose-martin-2/</a></font><br>
<br>
<b><br>
</b><b><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://youtu.be/iXkrS1u5fl8">(dramatic
video) Erosion causing island in Canada's north to disappear</a></b><br>
The erosion taking place on Pelly Island in Canada's north may be
the most dramatic in the country, but it is happening all along
coastlines and is having a severe impact on some communities.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://youtu.be/iXkrS1u5fl8">https://youtu.be/iXkrS1u5fl8</a>
7:21<br>
<b>The National</b> is the flagship news and current affairs
program of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's public
broadcaster.<br>
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<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/22/trump-voters-hit-by-storms-conflicted-on-climate/">Trump
Voters, Hit by Storms, Conflicted on Climate</a><br>
</b>The White House said Monday that President Donald Trump has not
altered his views on climate change, despite scientists' warnings
that Hurricanes Irma and Harvey, which recently ravaged portions of
the United States, are evidence the warming global climate is making
extreme weather worse.<br>
"I don't think think that's changed," White House Press Secretary
Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Monday at the daily
presidential briefing....<br>
As the downpour from Hurricane Harvey stretched into its second day,
with no end in sight, Joe Evans watched from the window of his home
in the Jefferson County seat of Beaumont, and an unexpected sense of
guilt overcame him: "What have we been doing to the planet for all
of these years?"...<br>
Evans isn't sure if the disastrous run of weather will cause climate
change to become a bigger priority for residents here, or if as
memories fade talk of this issue will, too.<br>
"I haven't put so much thought into it that I want to go mobilize a
bunch of people and march on Washington," he said. "But it made me
think enough about it that I won't actively take part in denying it.
We can't do that anymore."<b><br>
</b>"I think Mother Nature can come back, but there's a point to
where, if we just keep on and keep on, I don't know if she can come
back."<b><br>
</b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/22/trump-voters-hit-by-storms-conflicted-on-climate/">https://climatecrocks.com/2017/10/22/trump-voters-hit-by-storms-conflicted-on-climate/</a></font><b><br>
<br>
</b><b><font size="-1"><br>
</font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.dailycal.org/2017/10/22/coping-with-tragedy/">Coping
with tragedy</a><br>
</b><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">The
Daily Californian</strong>: Are there specific psychological or
cognitive processes that occur when a person encounters a tragedy?<br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">Aaron
Fisher</strong>: There is a theory in psychology … of the
allostatic load … The idea is that psychologically, physiologically,
biologically, you can only handle so many demands above the normal
demands of just being alive — that's demanding in and of itself.<br>
(This) has a lot of layers because it starts with whether people
register this as stressful. … Is someone even attending to what's
going on? To the degree that they're attending to what's going on,
does it register as stressful? … (Then) it's dependent on your prior
experience: how close this feels to you, how threatening it feels to
you, the degree to which its affecting your daily life. … (It's) the
accumulation of them together, especially when … there's the daily
stress of the president of the United States and his level of
dishonesty and his level of malice that he brings to his job.<br>
So, that's kind of a background noise, and then you build on top of
that another mass shooting (and) a political body that doesn't seem
motivated to address an ongoing threatening situation (like in
Puerto Rico). (Essentially) you have multiple natural disasters that
are affecting us nationally, and then again there's those political
layers of inaction. If you pay attention to that, it's upsetting. We
go from the world figuratively feeling as if it's on fire, and then
suddenly the world is literally on fire.<br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">DC</strong>:
What are the expected responses to this inundation?<br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">AF</strong>:
You're going to be distracted, even if just at an attentional level.
(It's) what we call "functional impairment," which is just a fancy
way of saying not getting your stuff done … not being able to study
well just out of pure distraction. There will be sleep disturbance,
fatigue, exhaustion. For someone who genuinely is facing a kind of
stress overload … they could have heart palpitations, they could
have nausea, sweating or dizziness. I mean, these things all come
from a hyper-arousal of the physiological stress response … That
would sound like some serious stuff, but if you're really
accumulating a lot of stress and if you're not getting enough sleep,
that's exactly the kind of stuff you might expect to happen...<br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">DC</strong>:
How would you recommend that students take care of themselves
psychologically in light of recent events?<br>
<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">AF</strong>:
The one thing that I would encourage people to do is engage in
self-care. Take time … to do things that give you pleasure, spend
time with people that give you joy and comfort. I think that's the
most important thing. Don't be so consumed with the problems of the
world that it is the only thing you pay attention to.<br>
Of course, it is something we should pay attention to. We should
advocate that Black Lives Matter, we should advocate that Puerto
Rican Americans are Americans, we should fight the fires in the
North Bay, we should give food and time — we should do so many
things. … But we should also give each other hugs, and we should
watch romantic comedies, and we should eat gelato.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.dailycal.org/2017/10/22/coping-with-tragedy/">http://www.dailycal.org/2017/10/22/coping-with-tragedy/</a></font><b><br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8nMgY5dkTs">TEDxYYC - Dr.
Megan McElheran - Trauma Change Resilience</a><br>
</b>Dr. Megan McElheran discusses "Trauma Change Resilience" at the
2011 TEDxYYC. <br>
As Canada begins to assimilate its soldiers from Afghanistan, Dr.
Megan McElheran's undertaking is an important mission. The
Stanford-educated doctor of psychology is one of a team of 13 at the
federally-funded CareWest Operational Stress Injury (OSI) Clinic
tasked with diagnosing and treating psychologically-injured soldiers
returning from the fields of battle in Afghanistan, as well as
previous conflicts and peacekeeping missions.<br>
Megan's work also includes addressing the burgeoning awareness of
the impact of operational stress-related injuries on current serving
and veteran members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.<br>
<font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8nMgY5dkTs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8nMgY5dkTs</a></font><b><br>
</b>-<br>
<b><b><a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/22/mindfulness-jon-kabat-zinn-depression-trump-grenfell">Master
of mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn: 'People are losing their
minds. That is what we need to wake up to'</a></b><br>
</b><font size="-1"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/22/mindfulness-jon-kabat-zinn-depression-trump-grenfell">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/22/mindfulness-jon-kabat-zinn-depression-trump-grenfell</a></font><b><font
size="-1"><br>
</font></b><br>
<br>
<b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/289379/142179/217944/0/">'Geostorm'
is a very silly movie that raises some very serious questions.</a></b><br>
The technology in the movie "Geostorm" is laughably fantastical. But
the idea of technologies that might be used to "geoengineer" the
climate is not.<br>
Geoengineering, also called climate engineering, is a set of
emerging technologies that could potentially offset some of the
consequences of climate change. Some scientists are taking it
seriously, considering geoengineering among the range of approaches
for managing the risks of climate change—although always as a
complement to, and not a substitute for, reducing emissions and
adapting to the effects of climate change.<br>
These innovations are often lumped into two categories. Carbon
dioxide removal (or negative emissions) technologies set out to
actively remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. In contrast,
solar radiation management (or solar geoengineering) aims to reduce
how much sunlight reaches the Earth.<br>
For example, early studies using computer models indicated that
injecting particles into the stratosphere to cool parts of Earth
might disrupt the Asian and African summer monsoons, threatening the
food supply for billions of people. Even if deployment wouldn't
necessarily result in regional inequalities, the prospect of solar
geoengineering raises questions about who has the power to shape our
climate futures, and who and what gets left out.<br>
Other concerns focus on possible unintended consequences of
large-scale open-air experimentation—especially when our whole
planet becomes the lab. There's a fear that the consequences would
be irreversible, and that the line between research and deployment
is inherently fuzzy.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/289379/142179/217944/0/">http://newsletters.dailyclimate.org/t/289379/142179/217944/0/</a><br>
<br>
<br>
<font size="+1"><b><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp">This Day
in Climate History October 23, 2007</a> - from D.R. Tucker</b></font><br>
October 23, 2007: Dr. Julie Gerberding of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention addresses a US Senate committee regarding the
health risks of climate change. Her testimony was extensively edited
by the Bush White House to dramatically downplay the severity of the
risks. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/10/23/17139/gerberding-global-warming/">http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/10/23/17139/gerberding-global-warming/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2007/10/24/the-censored-testimony-of-cdc-director-julie-gerberding/">http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2007/10/24/the-censored-testimony-of-cdc-director-julie-gerberding/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/24cnd-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print">http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/25/science/earth/24cnd-climate.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/08/174078/burnett-cheney-boiling/">http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2008/07/08/174078/burnett-cheney-boiling/</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp">http://www.c-span.org/video/?201698-1/HumanImp</a><br>
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